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• Sen. Marco Rubio Discusses Immigration Reform on Limbaugh

  Sen. Marco Rubio is making the rounds on TV and radio to discuss his part in the Senate's immigration reform, just as illegal immigration is on the rise again. I did hear him on Limbaugh this afternoon and he sounds as if he is being very levelheaded and focused.' [...]

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• Occupy Wall Street Populated by the 1%

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  This is rich.

  According to a new study from sociologists at the City University of New York, more than a third of activists in the Occupy movement in New York City had household incomes above $100,000, placing them at the cusp of the top quintile of income distribution in America. [...]

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• Reports from Cuba: Dignity cannot be killed nor can it be caged

  By Angel Santiesteban:

  Dignity cannot be killed nor can it be caged

  The majority of human beings share with the animal kingdom a love of liberty and respect for our neighbors. But not everyone, evidently. Because if it were so, dictators wouldn’t exist, nor would other inferior spirits that – [...]

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• The streets are Cuba’s last chance to rid itself of the Castros

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

  The streets are Cuba's last chance to rid itself of the Castros I believe the struggle for democracy in Cuba moved backwards yesterday. From the moment Sebastian Piñera turns over the CELAC presidency to dictator Raul Castro, that struggle will take [...]

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• What Michael Moore won’t tell you about Cuba’s health care

  Via The Economist:

  Nip and tuck in

  Medicine is big business in Cuba

  SET in a former naval academy overlooking the Florida Straits, the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) is supposed to symbolise Cuba’s generosity. Founded by Fidel Castro in 1999, the school’s mission was to provide free training to medical [...]

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• “People to People” Student trips to Cuba= (KGB-trained apparatchik to air-headed students via their Pinko professor)

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  Univ. of Wisconsin student posing during recent "People to People" educational tour of Stalinist Cuba

  Univ. of Wisconsin students near Baracoa Cuba (I SWEAR I did not in any way photoshop their faces to accentuate a look of utter stupidity)

  Univ. of Wisconsin/Parkside professor Maria Martinez has been [...]

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• The Alchemist’s Brother

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  The humor of Santana at Café Fuerte:

  Translation:

  "Same shit."

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• Sounds like ‘dangerousness’ to me…

  A crackdown on 'irresponsible behavior'? Sounds like Orwellian double-speak, as in here and here. "Dangerousness" anyone?

  President Barack Obama pledged this morning in his weekly radio address to continue to crackdown on "irresponsible behavior."

  "Here in America, we know the free market is the greatest force for economic progress the" [...]

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• Canadian tourists in Cuba enthralled with their detention by Castro State Security

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  Here is an interesting story of two Canadian tourists in Cuba who were horrified when they were picked up by agents of Cuban State Security and held for hours for no apparent reason. The story is not interesting because foreign tourists were detained by Cuban State Security - Cuba is [...]

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• Quote of the day

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  Novelist, activist, and our good friend Zoé Valdés on the "diplomatic success" of Cuban dictator Raul Castro being named president of CELAC (my translation):

  "According to El Nuevo Herald, the fact that Castro II has been named the head of CELAC is a diplomatic success for Cuba. First of all," [...]

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