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• The Shakedown in Chicago

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  Less than a week ago Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel proved he is a Chicago thug politician in the truest sense. He began a lean on the banks in Chicago. Not a lean in the sense that you might see on a home that is in the rears on mortgage [...]

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• Cuba’s Chief Spy in the U.S. making the rounds

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  Jose Ramon Cabañas Rodriguez

  Cuba Confidential reports on Jose Ramon Cabañas Rodriguez, the Castro dictatorship's new head of their Cuban Interests Section in Washington D.C. and for all intents and purposes the regime's Chief Spy in the U.S., who is busy making the rounds in the D.C.:

  First stop, an "unannounced" [...]

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• Amnesty International calls for action regarding imprisoned independent journalist in Cuba

  Via Amnesty International:

  Document - Cuba: Independent journalist detained in Cuba: Calixto Ramón Martínez Arias

  UA: 25/13 Index: AMR 25/001/2013 Cuba Date: 30 January 2013

  URGENT ACTION INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST DETAINED IN CUBA Independent journalist Calixto Ramón Martínez Arias has been detained since September 2012 in Cuba in relation to his work. Amnesty [...]

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• Cuba Travel ‘Reform’: Two very different dissidents, two very different results

  Last night, Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez happily tweeted a photograph of her brand new Cuban passport that will now hopefully allow her to travel freely in and out of Cuba. As the recipient of many awards for her critical writings of the Castro regime, Yoani should now be able to [...]

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• From Russia With Love

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  From ABC Spain:

  Vladimir sends get-well card to his friend Hugo

  Russian president Vladimir Putin has sent a letter to Caracastan in which he wishes a “quick and complete recovery” to Hugo Chávez, stressing the bond that “has intensified between our countires” in the past few years.

  Venenozuelan vice-president Nicolás “Saddamito” Maduro [...]

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• Cuba’s Proganda Schools disguised as Medical Schools

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  If you are wondering why there is legislation being presented in Tallahassee to address this issue, Reganista has the answer for you:

  Castro’s med school used as indoctrination tool inside and outside Cuba

  When Florida state legislators Senator Rene(cito) García (R-Hialeah) and Represenatative Manny “El Bueno” Díaz (R-Miami Lakes) each [...]

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• Castro dictatorship cracks down on dissidents celebrating Martí’s birthday in Cuba

  The writings and life of Cuba's father of independence José Martí embody everything that the Castro dictatorship abhors: Freedom and Human Dignity. Still, through the use of propaganda, lies, and selective editing, the Cuban dictatorship, since its beginning, has mounted an all out effort to distort, twist, and many times [...]

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• Yoani Sanchez Gets Passport and Will Travel Out of Cuba

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  Update to Alberto's previous post.

  (Reuters) - Cuba's best-known dissident, blogger Yoani Sanchez, received a passport on Wednesday under the island's new, freer travel law and said she would go abroad soon, after years of being denied that right.

  Sanchez' case was viewed as a test of the Cuban' [...]

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• The U.N.I.P.C.C.’s Warm and Fuzzy “Climate Change” Data

  Eh ... I mean, "What difference does it make?", huh?

  A preliminary draft of a report by the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was leaked to the public this month, and climate skeptics say it contains fresh evidence of 20 years of overstated global warming.

  The report -- which is [...]

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• Sen. Rubio meets with new Commander of SOUTHCOM, Gen. John Kelly

  For Immediate Release

  Wednesday, January 30, 2013

  RUBIO MEETS WITH NEW COMMANDER FOR U.S. SOUTHERN COMMAND, GENERAL JOHN KELLY

  Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, the Ranking Member of the Senate’s Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, met today with General John Kelly, who was recently installed as the commander for U.S. Southern [...]

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