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• ** BREAKING ** Alan Gross to be released?

  
  
  

  From the Jerusalem Post via The Real Cuba

  A little-known Cuban dissident who launched a hunger strike seeking freedom for jailed US aid contractor Alan Gross said on Friday he began eating again because Cuban officials told him Gross will be released soon.

  Angel Enrique [...]

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• Soylent… brown?

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  Hope you had lunch a while ago 'cause this is a pretty shitty story:

  Somehow this feels like a Vonnegut plot-line: population boom equals food shortage. Solution? Synthesize food from human waste matter. Absurd yes, but Japanese scientists have actually discovered a way to' [...]

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• Cuéntame cómo fue aquel Revolú

  
  
  

  The trailer for Guamá's new movie: Cuéntame cómo fue aquel Revolú

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• Thought of the Day

  
  
  

  Antonio Gramsci in Granta (my translation):

  Indifference is in reality the most powerful means of history, but in reverse. What happens is that the bad that comes down on everyone and the possible good that an act of general valor can engender is not only [...]

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• Castro regime publishes new Che Diaries!–”and they’re completely unedited- HONEST! Cross-my-heart- and hope-to- die!” (Aleida claims.) ” “Have we ever lied to you before?”

  
  
  

  
  "Just gave CNN, AP and the BBC Havana "news" Bureaus...Come on Che, try to control yourself, chico!..People are watching."

  This week Castro’s propaganda ministry published another portion of Che Guevara’s “diaries.” These passages, composed by Ernesto “Che” Guevara between 1956-58, [...]

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• ‘Voices from Mariel’ wins another film award

  
  
  

  We congratulate our friends at NFocus Pictures for winning the Jury Award for Best Caribbean Film at the Aruba International Film Festival (AIFF) on June 13, their second consecutive international film award.

  Voices From Mariel Wins Second International Award

  The documentary Voices From [...]

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• I’ll bet the inspector was a Dem…

  
  
  

  Nanny state? You betcha!

  You can make a fortune selling parking spots outside the US Open, but don't even dream of setting up a lemonade stand.

  A county inspector ordered the Marriott and Augustine kids to shut down the stand they set up on Persimmon Tree' [...]

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• Obama Turns Up The Heat

  
  
  

  The only energy Obama is willing to tap into is the massive reserve of deception he uses on this country everyday.

  In May, as the summer travel season opened to at or above $4/gallon gasoline, unemployment was rising, not falling, and Obama's' [...]

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• A powerful reminder that nothing has changed

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  This essay, "We Hated Reagan," beautifully dissects the rabid and irrational ignorance always on display from the left when faced with a candidate/office holder that stands on principles and guts. Today, the left's hatred of Sarah Palin -- in my opinion the only candidate [...]

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• Another Cuban American Senator? Ted Cruz is the real deal

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  George Will profiles Texas Republican candidate for the senate and Cuban American Ted Cruz. In Will's opinion, Ted Cruz is "as good as it gets." His impressive resume, exceptional communication skills, and long list of accomplishments makes him the real deal and a frontrunner to [...]

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