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• Number 54033 (Part 1) / Cuban Legal Aid

  By Yaremis Flores:

  Number 54033 (Part 1) / Cuban Legal Aid

  The afternoon of November 7th I couldn’t imagine that I’d trade my name for a number. I went out at approximately two in the afternoon to take a serving of soup over to my father, who’d been admitted into a [...]

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• IDF: Boom! Boom! Out Go The Lights

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  Israel's IDF targeted and took out top Hamas commander Ahmed Jabri today, and the IDF is taking great pleasure in displaying the above photo and captions on their Twitter feed. The IDF has also kindly suggested no other Hamas operatives show their ugly mugs out of doors as [...]

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• Breaking free of the yoke of tyranny in Cuba one mojito at a time

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  When the Obama administration relaxed Cuba travel restrictions for American citizens nearly four years ago, the reasoning given was to engage in "cultural exchanges" with the Cuban people and help them finally break free of the yoke of tyranny imposed upon them by the Castro dictatorship. Just how those "cultural" [...]

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• About the ‘blockade’ and other rants

  Joan Antoni Guerrero Vall at Punt de Vista (my translation):

  About the "blockade" and other rants When people speak to me about the "blockade" (which is, in reality, only an embargo), I always think about a photograph taken of me in Havana back in 2009 during my last trip to the [...]

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• The Socialist Life — Lost Youth Edition

  From our friends at Guamá, the Lost Youth edition of the Socialist Life:

  Translation:

  "Damn, baby... I sure do feel like talking bad about the 'revolution.'"

  "Oh, baby, stop it. You're getting me hot!"

  See the rest in the series HERE.

  ' [...]
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• Cuba policy in a second Obama term

  Jose R. Cardenas at Foreign Policy magazine's Shadow Government:

  Cuba policy in a second Obama term

  Critics of current U.S. policy towards Cuba have already begun speculating what unilateral changes may be in store for that contentious relationship during President Obama's second term. By winning the state of Florida [...]

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• Time to Take This Seriously and Protect Yourself While You are Still in Control

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  The best medicine is critical thinking.

  As businesses are already taking measures to protect themselves against ObamaCare, some businesses that had inhaled the unicorn dust early on, we all need to sit down and seriously evaluate what will happen to our own medical comfort zones, and include a conversation [...]

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• Annual Joke: UN votes to condemn U.S. embargo againt Castro dictatorship

  It should not come as a surprise to anyone that the United Nations, the same international organization that just voted seven countries with despicable human rights records to their "Human Rights Council," has also voted to condemn the U.S. embargo against the Castro dictatorship. This annual exercise in futility [...]

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• “Father Doesn’t Have a Clue”

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  "Sorry Dad, but says here you guys are history."

  A long, long time ago in a place quite closeby Caucasian males with immense financial and familial responsibilities did most of the voting. Movies and commercials actually portrayed them as other than boobs and bumblers extraordinaire. And an immensely popular TV [...]

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• Meanwhile, back in the Old World, the surreal future of America unfolds in a mirror

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  Yeah.  And Che looms large in the streets of Paris, Madrid, Rome,  and Athens.

  This is what awaits the bankrupt United States.  Despite all of the turmoil in Europe -- which is the end result of the klepto-narcissistic economics of the left-- a plurality of American voters chose to travel [...]

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