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• The weekend in Cuba news

  Cuban Reforms Take on 'Free' Health Care Cuba's system of free medical care, long considered a birthright by its citizens and trumpeted as one of the communist government's great successes, is not immune to cutbacks under Raúl Castro's drive for efficiency. The health sector has already endured millions of dollars in budget [...]
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• Forbes: “Isaac Could Rival Katrina”

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  I grabbed this off Face Book. The person who posted it said it was Isaac rolling into Key West. (BTW: Not sure that it is an actual photo of Isaac, but awesome just the same...)

  On August 24th, we warned on Forbes that Tropical Storm Isaac could pose a threat [...]

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• Dear People in The Swing State of Florida, You Just Happen to Be In The Way of God’s Wrath on The GOP

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  Yet another example of the leftist democrats' one-way street of "civility". Ever notice they would rather cancel the war than have the balls to actually fight one? They can't ... Not without fully revealing their ideology and their agenda to force it on all of us.

  Former democrat governor of the [...]

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• Band On The Run: Two ‘Pussies’ Flee From Putin’s Russia

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  I am finding this a bit funny (funny, "ha-ha"). No doubt Vlad Putin is trying to bring Russia into some neo-Soviet system for a 21st century version of his beloved USSR. But the punk band, and it's peers, are seemingly of a socialist/communist mind set as well. "Collective"? This [...]

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• Talk about class warfare….

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  Civil War Imminent in Venezuela, says Hugo Chavez.  (from the Spanish newspaper ABC)  read the whole article in Spanish here.

  Hugo Chavez has taken to copying the strategy of the Obama campaign, and of intensifying it.

  Castroite clone Hugo Chavez issued a stern warning on state-run Venezuelan television this past thursday : [...]

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• Repression update

  Cuban dissident Fariñas detained for 3rd time in a week  (From Fox News Lateeen-oh)

  Prominent Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas has been detained in the central city of Santa Clara for the third time in the past week, his family said.

  Prominent Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas has been detained in the central [...]

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• Crist endorses Obama

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  From Twitchy:

  ''Obama gets coveted orange vote endorsement; Charlie Crist endorses, surprising no one.''

  It makes me very happy that I voted against this deceptive, lying, [fill-in-the-blank with your favorite profanity or expletive] RINO in 2010.

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• Suspicion Surrounds Canadian Man’s Death At A Cuba Hotel

  What happens in Cuba stays in Cuba...

  A Mississauga family is seeking answers after 22-year-old Horace “Odaine” Lumley was found dead this week at a Cuban hotel.

  Lumley’s half-sister, Monique Lewis, said her family first heard of the death from friends Wednesday.

  Lumley, who was born in Jamaica and moved to Mississauga [...]

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• America is better then liberalism

  Let's move on. To better grammar.

  ''Liberals don't read, they don't know history, and they're stupid.'' --Ann Coulter

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• The Digital Controversy Has Said Goodbye to Its Readers…

  The 'Official' Cuban Blogger Elaine Diaz filed her last post and ended her blog The Digital Controversy.

  Translation:

  Since March 2008 I have maintained this space as a place for calm dialogue, individual expression and exchange of experiences. “The Controversy” overcame, in a few months, the anonymity and solitude that accompanies [...]

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