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• Power and Energy: One in The Same With These People…

  
  
  

  And we pay the price.

  Obama's DOJ AG Eric Holder is just out of control ... and his mind:

  I’m the guy who stopped Fast & Furious

  Defends Suing States Over Voter ID Laws Because They “Hurt Minorities”

  1st Amendment Allows Gov't to Force Catholics to Buy Sterilization-Contraception-Abortion' [...]

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• Hugo Chavez: ‘he lives, he lives not… he lives, he lives not…’

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  It is hard to get a handle on this Hugo Chavez cancer business...

  He lives...

  Chavez well after Cuba surgery

  He lives not...

  Hugo Chavez Will Die In "Less Than One Year" From Cancer, WikiLeaks Emails Say

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• Cuba, U.S.A.: Blogger Perspectives on the Embargo’s 50th Anniversary

  
  
  

  Yours truly in an interview with Janine Mendes-Franco from Global Voices regarding the 50th anniversary of the U.S. embargo against the Castro dictatorship:

  Cuba, U.S.A.: Blogger Perspectives on the Embargo's 50th Anniversary (Part 1)

  [...] Global Voices: The U.S. embargo on Cuba - probably the longest-running economic ban [...]

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• Are we getting old or what?!

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  Monkees singer Davy Jones dead at 66.

  Davy Jones, the lead singer of the pop group The Monkees, died Wednesday at the age of 66, his publicist confirmed to Fox News.

  Excuse me while I go and get some Metamucil...

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• Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart: Shameful memorial to a ruthless mass murderer

  
  
  

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
  February 29, 2012

  Shameful memorial to a ruthless mass murderer

  Washington, D.C. – Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) released the following statement in response to the plans by Galway’s City Council to erect a memorial to mass murderer Ernesto “Che” Guevara in Galway, Ireland.

  “Galway is a city [...]

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• Fidel’s Excuses

  
  
  

  Brian Latell from the UM Institute of Cuban and Cuban American Studies:

  Fidel’s Excuses

  Fidel Castro has again been pontificating about the perils of nuclear war. This has been a favorite theme during his retirement, one that has been reiterated often in his published “reflections.” But his hypocrisy [...]

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• How tourism brings democracy to Cuba

  
  
  

  Listening to the media and "Cuba Experts," American tourism will bring democracy to Cuba. A curious method of liberating an enslaved people made even more curiouser by the fact that the millions of tourists already visiting the island have done nothing but help the Castro dictatorship maintain [...]

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• Carlos Saladrigas: Working to save the Cuban dictatorship and the Castro revolution

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  For the most part, wealthy businessman and Pedro Pan child Carlos Saladrigas is portrayed by the media as a sensible Cuban exile. While the historic Cuban exile community is described as "ancient" and "out of touch" for holding firm to its dignity and commitment to justice, Saladrigas [...]

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• The spreading of Castro anti-semitism throughout Latin America

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  Via Capitol Hill Cubans:

  Anti-Semitism, Castro Style From the article "Why Jews Are Fleeing Venezuela" by Amb. Jaime Daremblum:

  The mass emigration of Jews from Venezuela is tragically similar to what happened in the Caribbean half a century ago. According to Cuba expert Irving Louis Horowitz, a [...]

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• Proposal for Che Guevara Monument in Ireland Should Be Rejected, Says Ros-Lehtinen

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  NEWS

  House Foreign Affairs Committee

  U.S. House of Representatives

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman

  For IMMEDIATE Release – February 29, 2012

  Proposal for Che Guevara Monument in Ireland Should Be Rejected, Says Ros-Lehtinen

  (WASHINGTON) – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement today [...]

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