No 953 “En mi opinión” Mayo 19, 2015
“IN GOD
WE TRUST” LAZARO R GONZALEZ MIñO EDITOR
"El presupuesto debe equilibrarse, el
Tesoro debe ser reaprovisionado, la deuda pública debe ser disminuida,
la arrogancia de los funcionarios públicos debe ser moderada y controlada y la ayuda a otros países debe eliminarse para que Roma no vaya a la bancarrota.
La gente debe aprender nuevamente a trabajar, en lugar de vivir a costa del Estado." Año 55 antes de CRISTO
Esta frase tiene 2065
años... Y PLENA VIGENCIA ACTUALMENTE . CITA
DE MARCO TULIO CICERON.
AMENPER: "Es el soldado, no el periodista, que nos ha dado libertad de prensa.
Es el soldado, no el poeta, que nos ha dado libertad de expresión. Es el
soldado, no el organizador comunitario, el que nos ha dado la libertad para
demostrar. Es el soldado, que saluda a la bandera, que sirve bajo la bandera, y
cuyo féretro está cubierto por la bandera, que permite el manifestante a quemar
la bandera”
Es muy inusual para altos funcionarios militares de Estados Unidos hablar
en contra del comandante en jefe. Sin embargo, las
políticas anti-militares del Presidente Barack Obama son tan
peligrosas para el mundo que no pueden mantener silencio
Fue hace sólo unas semanas que un altamente condecorado General cuatro estrellas
de la infantería de Marina irrumpió fila para manifestarse contra las
políticas vergonzosas sobre las fronteras de Obama, que permiten
ilegales (y enfermedades peligrosas) inundar en América. Ahora, otro general
apunta sus miras a Obama sobre otra cuestión.
Como fue publicado en el Wall Street Journal, el jefe del estado mayor
general del ejército Ray Odierno dijo que el plan de Obama para reducir
fuertemente el número de personas inscritas en el ejército podría plantear
amenazas a la seguridad a los Estados Unidos por la manera que el estado
islámico (ISIS) está creciendo rápidamente en tamaño mientras que Moscú está
actuando como si quisiera volver a encender la guerra fría. Sus palabras son
escalofriantes:
"El mundo está cambiando delante de nosotros. Hemos visto la agresión
rusa en Europa, hemos visto ISIS, hemos visto aumentar la estabilidad en otros
lugares", dijo el general Odierno. "Así que ahora tengo preocupación
si rebajar las fuerzas armadas por debajo de 490.000 es lo correcto a hacer o
no, por lo que veo en el horizonte es potencialmente peligroso."
Agregó que el ejército no tiene el dinero para evitar nuevas reducciones de
la fuerzas y que ha hecho repetidas llamadas para que el
Congreso derogue el mandato de reducciones de gasto.
Sus comentarios vinieron en una conferencia de prensa durante la reunión
anual de la Asociación del ejército de Estados Unidos, un grupo sin fines de
lucro que aboga por el ejército.
Obama apoya la política exterior típica apoyada por la izquierda: un montón
de esfuerzos humanitarios a los enemigos, dejando a militares tan débiles que
no pueden enfrentarse a los enemigos que desean hacer daño a América.
Para un presidente que quiere hacer crecer al gobierno, es patético que el
único lugar en que está dispuesto a hacer cortes es donde debilitará los
esfuerzos de seguridad de Estados Unidos en todo el mundo.
¿Es eso lo que quiere, militares tan débiles que no serán capaces de luchar
contra su hermandad islámica?
Es muy aterrador tener un Presidente no que no muestra ningún
signo de preocupación sobre si estamos protegidos o no. Y no apoya a nuestras
tropas.
Tal parece cómo que todo esto fuera un plan.
¿Conocemos realmente a nuestro Presidente?
Está empezando a parecer que los terroristas tienen uno de sus propios
líderes en la presidencia de nuestro país.
Cambió a un traidor por peligrosos terroristas que con seguridad volverán
al campo de batalla para matar nuestros soldados. Y cuando se trató de uno de
nuestros marinos que erróneamente cruzó la frontera con México y fue tomado y
mantenido en prisión, nuestro presidente se mantuvo sentado detrás de su
escritorio planeando sus próximas vacaciones.
Ahora él está tratando de recortar nuestra seguridad militar.
¿Qué pasará después de esto?
Inmigrantes ilegales están cruzando nuestras fronteras y no sabemos
si son miembros de ISIS preparándose para atacarnos-
¡Aquí sólo debe de haber un sólo corte militar, el comandante en jefe!
AMENPER: El Imperialismo Yanqui
Tuve que sufrir la falta de compresión sobre mi filosofía
conservadora., tuve que sufrir el socialismo económico-social y el
anti-yanquismo en los años cincuenta, preludio de Fidel, y me decían, “¿Si
tanto te gustan los Estados Unidos, por qué no te vas a vivir allá?
Pero el punto era no que yo quisiera vivir en Estados Unidos, Cuba era
mi patria y quería vivir en Cuba, sino
que yo quería que las políticas económicas y sociales en Cuba fueran como los
Estados Unidos.
Quería que hubiera una legítima democracia representativa, no que no
hubiera corrupción, porque corrupción hay en todas partes, pero que la
corrupción no fuera institucionalizada, aceptada y no castigada. Que no hubiera tantas regulaciones de
tipo socialista, como regulación de precios, regulaciones de horarios de cierre
obligatorio, regulaciones de alquileres, sindicalización
obligatoria y sindicatos cuasi-gubernamentales que interferían con las
operaciones de las empresas afectando la producción del producto bruto, todo
eso lo había en la Cuba republicana.
Pero lo que más había era el odio al imperialista Yanqui, al poderoso
vecino del norte.
Y llegó de momento lo que se había estado cocinando
por años, llegó el mesías redentor, llegó Fidel Fidelísimo el orgullo de
latinoamérica para librarnos del imperialismo Yanqui, ya no eramos más
una colonia americana éramos unas violetas rusas.
Eso era y es la manera de pensar en la mayoría, y quizás todos los
países del Latinoamérica, incluyendo Puerto Rico, el odio al Americano,
resultado de la envidia y las percepciones distorsionadas de la historia.
Todavía entre los que estamos aquí, culpan a los Estados Unidos de la
situación en Cuba, y ahora pueden tener razón, pero en el pasado hay que mirar
los sucesos colocándose en los zapatos de cada lugar.
Como cualquier país, los Estados Unidos tienen que pensar en lo mejor
para ellos, en cualquier momento, nosotros debíamos haber pensado en que era lo
mejor para nosotros, no escoger a un aventurero comunista como máximo
líder.
Si debiera haber convenido a los Estados Unidos derrocar a Castro, lo
cual yo también creo, y me hubiera gustado, eso
lo podemos reclamar como americanos, porque consideramos que no es bueno
para Estados Unidos el tener un enemigo como los Castros a 90 millas. Es
nuestro derecho reclamar esto como ciudadanos de esta nación, porque estamos
hablando de los intereses de esta nación.
Pero no lo podemos hacer como cubanos cómo cubanos, no tenemos derecho
ni razón para reclamar como otra nación considera lo mejor para ella.
Lo mejor para los cubanos tenemos que lograrlo como cubanos, cómo actúan
los americanos debe de ser lo que sea mejor para los intereses de Estados
Unidos.
Mary Anastasia O´Grady es una periodista del Wall Street Journal.
Por lo general los periodistas americanos por muy informados que estén
de la situación en Latinoamérica siempre tienen una visión foránea de nuestra
cultura que los hace siempre temen un punto de vista subjetivo foráneo.
Pero esto no sucede con Mary Anastasia, su conocimiento del área es tan
completo que puede enseñar las virtudes y defectos de los pueblos
latinoamericanos y su gente a nosotros mismos.
Este escrito, analizando al Papa Francisco como el primer Papa
latinoamericano, y para más importancia Argentino, cubre una serie de puntos
sobre nuestro carácter y el de algunos de nuestros próceres que han llevado a
Latinoamérica a combatir esa
institución que llaman “El imperialismo Yanqui”
Se los paso en español e inglés
Detrás
abrazo del Papa de Castro
Especulación supone:
o un plan de caballo de Troya a América Latina
o un caso de antipatía
a los Estados Unidos
Por MARY ANASTASIA O ' GRADY
17 de mayo de 2015
5:42 PM ET
La cálida recepción y hospitalidad que Papa Francis mostró a Raúl Castro en el
Vaticano la semana pasada ha desconcertado a muchos católicos y por buenas
razones. El dictador fue a Roma para un impulso de RP,(relaciones públicas) Y
el Pontífice lo complació..
Durante su encuentro con Castro se burló de la fe con un
chiste acerca de regresar a la iglesia si el Papa se seguía comportando bien..
También se burló de todos los refugiados cubanos, vivos o muertos, dando nada
menos que al Papa, de todas las personas, una obra de arte que representa a un
migrante en oración.
El Papa
Francis dio al dictador una copia de su exhortación apostólica 2013 titulada
"La alegría del Evangelio," en el cual él critica agudamente la
libertad económica. Hablar de predicar a los conversos.
Como Raúl dijo, "el Pontífice es un jesuita, y de
alguna manera, somos parecidos. Estudié en colegios jesuitas". No es
broma.
Siempre es posible que papa Francis tenga la esperanza de
acercarse al régimen para cambiarlo. Tal vez tiene en mente una versión
espiritual de un caballo de Troya que una vez dentro de las puertas del
infierno cubano desatará un ejército de Ángeles.
Para Dios todas las cosas son posibles. Pero sospecho que
este acercamiento papal con Castro tiene raíces más mundanas.
El santo padre es oriundo de la Argentina del siglo XX,
definida ideológicamente por el nacionalismo, socialismo, corporativismo y el antiamericanismo.
No sería sorprendente ver que esto influye en sus
opiniones hacia los Estados Unidos y la isla de 90 millas de sus costas.
Cuando la dictadura cubana perdió su papito soviético en
la década de 1990, casi se derrumbó. Problemas profundos económicos el año
pasado otra vez parecía como si podría obligar a cambiar. Como los subsidios de
petróleo venezolano a la Habana se redujo, el sistema podrido se tambaleó al
borde del colapso.
Fue una oportunidad para la iglesia mostrar solidaridad
con el pueblo cubano impotente — o al menos cautivo. En cambio el Vaticano
intervino para ayudar a los Castros. En diciembre fue que nos enteramos de que
el Papa Francisco fue el que negoció el desgueki Obama-Castro, que aunque es
poco probable que sirva para impulsar mejoras en los derechos humanos ya está
generando interés en invertir con el gobierno militar.
Algunos católicos han tratado de disculpar al Papa por la
hostilidad hacia la libertad económica que presenta en "La alegría del
Evangelio" con el argumento de que creció en una economía estatal corrupta
y probablemente él la confundieron con un sistema capitalista. Esto es una
tontería. Estatismo argentino denuncia explícitamente la economía de mercado.
No hay otra explicación más plausible de por qué el Papa
muestra desdén en la exhortación "una cruda e ingenua confianza en la
bondad de aquellos con poder económico y en el funcionamiento del sistema
económico imperante sacralizado." Se encuentra predicando en un sentido de
superioridad cultural argentina sobre los capitalistas avaros del norte y fe en
el estado para protegerlo.
El historiador mexicano Enrique Krauze sobre esto traza
una reacción intelectual contra los Estados Unidos después de la derrota
española en la guerra hispanoamericana. Los ejemplos que cita en sus libro 2011
"redentores" incluyen el poeta nicaragüense Rubén Darío y el
historiador Paul Groussac, quienes pintaron a los americanos como bestias
incivilizadas del franquismo.. Según el Sr. Krauze, el cono sur, especialmente
Argentina — también habían importado la idea de un "socialismo que luchó
para mejorar el nivel económico, cultural y educativo de los pobres, generando
un estado nacionalista".
En 1900 el uruguayo José Enrique Rodó publicó
"Ariel", que pone énfasis en "la superioridad de la cultura
latina sobre el mero utilitarismo defendido" por el norte. Rodó fue
"el primer ideólogo del nacionalismo Latinoamericano", y su
influencia se extendió por toda la región. "Latinoamericanismo,
especialmente en el sur, fue también anti-Yanquismo" escribe el Sr.
Krauze.
Un avance rápido de 115
años y Cuba es otra vez un símbolo de la lucha entre el norte y el sur. Muchos
intelectuales latinoamericanos no les gusta la dictadura de los
Castro, pero ellos detestan poder y la prosperidad de Estados Unidos.
Ellos saben que un colapso total de Cuba es probable que traería de vuelta los
americanos. Es por eso que toleran el status quo.
Sólo puedo especular acerca de las vistas de Cuba el
santo padre. Pero está ganando una reputación política dudosa.
En agosto de 2014, levantó la prohibición de la iglesia
29 años sacerdote Maryknoll Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann y le dio autoridad para
celebrar misa. El clérigo comunista que una vez sirvió como Ministro de
relaciones exteriores nicaragüense para los Sandinistas marxistas fue degradado
por el Papa John Paul II por negarse a salir de la política.
Después de la prohibición fue levantada, el padre
d'Escoto se apresuró a denunciar al pontífice polaco amado por "un abuso
de autoridad".
También declaró que Fidel Castro es un mensajero
del Espíritu Santo en "la necesidad de la lucha" para establecer
"el Reino de Dios en esta tierra que es la alternativa al Imperio".
La semana pasada fue el Reverendo Gustavo Gutiérrez, el
peruano quien lanzó la teología de la liberación, al Vaticano. Dijo a los
periodistas que la iglesia nunca condenó su marca de pensamiento y elogió a
vistas de papa Francis en la pobreza. No mencionó la brusca caída de la pobreza
peruana desde legisladores echaron sus ideas. Tal vez el papa quiere hablar de
ello en su viaje de septiembre a Cuba.
Escriba a o ' Grady@wsj.com
Behind
the Pope’s Embrace of Castro
Speculation
runs from a Trojan horse plan to Latin American antipathy of the U.S.
By MARY ANASTASIA
O’GRADY
May 17, 2015 5:42
p.m. ET
The warmth and
hospitality that Pope Francis showed to Raúl
Castro at the Vatican last week has baffled many Catholics—and for good reason.
The dictator went to Rome for a PR boost. The pontiff obliged him.
During their
encounter Castro mocked the faith with a quip about returning to the church if
the pope behaved. He also mocked every Cuban refugee, dead or alive, by giving
the pope, of all things, a piece of art depicting a migrant at prayer.
Pope Francis gave the
dictator a copy of his 2013 apostolic exhortation titled “The Joy of the
Gospel,” in which he sharply criticizes economic freedom. Talk about preaching
to the converted. As Raúl put it, “The pontiff is a Jesuit, and I, in some way,
am too. I studied at Jesuit schools.” No kidding.
It’s always possible
that Pope Francis is hoping to get close to the regime in order to change it.
Maybe he has in mind a spiritual version of a Trojan horse that once inside the
gates of Cuban hell will unleash an army of angels.
With God all things
are possible. But I suspect that this papal rapprochement with Castro has more
mundane roots.
The Holy Father is a
native of 20th-century Argentina, ideologically defined by nationalism,
socialism, corporatism and anti-Americanism. It wouldn’t be surprising to learn
that this influences his views toward the U.S. and the island 90 miles from its
shores.
When the Cuban
dictatorship lost its Soviet sugar daddy in the early 1990s, it nearly
crumbled. Last year deep economic troubles again looked as if they might force
change. As Venezuelan oil subsidies to Havana slowed, the rotting system
teetered on the edge of collapse.
It was an opportunity
for the church to show solidarity with the powerless Cuban people—or at least
stand back. Instead the Vatican stepped in to help the Castros. In December we
learned that Pope Francis brokered the Obama-Castro thaw, which while unlikely
to spur improvements in human rights is already generating new interest in
investing with the military government.
Some Catholics have
tried to excuse the pope’s hostility toward economic freedom in “The Joy of the
Gospel” by arguing that he grew up in a corrupt state-run economy and probably
mistook it for a capitalist system. This is nonsense. Argentine statism
explicitly denounces market economics.
There is another more
plausible explanation for why the pope shows disdain in his exhortation for “a
crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in
the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.” It lies in an
Argentine sense of cultural superiority over the money-grubbing capitalists to
the north and faith in the state to protect it.
Mexican historian
Enrique Krauze traces this to an intellectual backlash against the U.S. after
the Spanish defeat in the Spanish-American war. Examples he cites in his 2011
book “Redeemers” include the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío and the
Franco-Argentine historian Paul Groussac, who both painted Americans as
uncivilized beasts. According to Mr. Krauze, the southern cone—especially
Argentina—also had imported the idea of a “socialism that fought to improve the
economic, cultural and educational level of the poor, while generating a
nationalist state.”
In 1900 Uruguayan
José Enrique Rodó published “Ariel,” which emphasized “the superiority of Latin
culture over the mere utilitarianism espoused” by the North. Rodó was “the
first ideologue of Latin American nationalism,” and his influence spread
throughout the region. “Latin Americanism, especially in the South, was also
anti-Yankeeism,” Mr. Krauze writes.
Fast forward 115
years and Cuba is again a symbol of struggle between the North and the South.
Many Latin American intellectuals don’t like the dictatorship but they loathe
U.S. affluence and power. They know that a full-blown collapse of Cuba would
likely bring back the Americans. That’s why they tolerate the status quo.
I can only speculate
about the Holy Father’s Cuba views. But he is earning a dubious political
reputation. In August 2014, he lifted the church’s 29-year ban on Maryknoll
priest Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann’s right to celebrate Mass. The communist
cleric who once served as Nicaraguan foreign minister for the Marxist
Sandinistas was demoted by Pope John Paul II for refusing to get out of
politics.
After the ban was
lifted, Father d’Escoto rushed to denounce the late beloved Polish pontiff for
“an abuse of authority.” He also declared Fidel Castro a messenger of the Holy
Spirit in “the necessity of struggle” to establish “the reign of God on this
earth that is the alternative to the empire.”
Last week Rev.
Gustavo Gutierrez, the Peruvian who launched liberation theology, was back at
the Vatican. He told journalists that the church never condemned his brand of
thinking and praised Pope Francis’ views on poverty. He didn’t mention the
sharp drop in Peruvian poverty since policy makers threw out his ideas. Maybe
the pope will talk about it on his September trip to Cuba.
Write to O’Grady@wsj.com
AMENPER: Los servicios de salud sexual que el Medicaid cubre... para hombres
La política sobre la decisión de la administración Obama que
exige a las compañías de seguro médico cubrir el control de la natalidad como
cuidados preventivos continúa a buen ritmo, incluso después de ex senador Rick
Santorum (R -PA) declaró que es "una licencia para hacer las cosas en el
ámbito sexual que va en contra de cómo deben ser las cosas", y su mayor
donante Foster Friess que sugirió que las mujeres sólo tenían
que "poner [una aspirina] entre sus rodillas y esto no es tan
costoso".
El hecho del asunto es que Medicaid cubre toda clase de "cosas en el
ámbito sexual que va en contra de cómo las cosas deben de ser.”
Los hombres siguen teniendo sexo por razones no procreativas a pesar de
condiciones que de lo contrario lo impediría. La mayoría de esto es
en realidad más caro que los anticonceptivos hormonales,o dispositivos
intrauterinos de las mujeres y que son pagadas por el Medicaid, y mucho más
caro que un simple condón..
1. drogas disfunción eréctil
De la Viagra al Cialis, si un hombre tiene problemas para conseguir o
mantener una erección (una ocurrencia común con la edad o con ciertas
enfermedades), una compañía farmacéutica tiene una pastilla de $15 para eso. Y,
en muchos casos, el Medicaid paga la cuenta.
2. Dispositivos de aspiración al
vacío para erección
Famosamente cubiertos por Medicare (así como algunas compañías privadas de
seguros), hombres con disfunción eréctil que no o no puede ir por el camino de
la píldora tienen esta otra opción. Aunque primero levantó las cejas en Austin
Powers y es mejor conocido como un asistente de masturbación, erección por
aspiradora al vacío los dispositivos funcionan según lo previsto y costarán al
Medicaid de $300 a $500
3. Implantes
Si un hombre tiene una disfunción eréctil disfunción que no puede ser
mitigada con fármacos o dispositivos de vacío, hay todavía otro método que el
Medicaid pagará los hombres afectados, esto son: los implantes de pene. Aunque
la mayoría de los urólogos tienden a usar modelos inflables más modernos, que
requieren los usuarios inflar manualmente sus propias erecciones, algunos
urólogos prefieren ceñirse a los más viejos modelos semi-Rigidos a pesar de sus
posibles complicaciones. De cualquier manera, el costo de $10.000-$20.000 por
los implantes y a menudo están cubiertos por Medicaid-
Bueno ya saben a dónde van sus impuestos, es algo confortante saber que
todas estas personas pueden tener una vida sexual agradable con el dinero que
ustedes pagan al gobierno
Iran Navy Fires at
Singapore Ship in International Waters
Coastguard
vessels from the UAE came to the ship’s aid after hearing its cry for help. The
Iranian patrol boats gave up the fight shortly thereafter.
Mon,
May 18, 2015
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An Iranian
ship fired warning shots across
the bow of a ship from Singapore in the Persian Gulf in the third such
aggressive incident by Tehran against commercial vessels in recent weeks.
An Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps patrol boat
fired across the bow of the Alpine Eternity, an
oil tanker manned by 22-23 crew members. The ship was sailing in international
waters near the coast of the United Arab Emirates when it was attacked.
According
to U.S. officials, coastguard vessels from the UAE came to the ship’s aid after
hearing its cry for help. The Iranian patrol boats gave up the fight shortly
thereafter.
A statement issued through Singapore’s Maritime and
Port Authorityread, "Such interference with navigational rights is
a serious violation of international law. The freedom of navigation and free
flow of commerce are of critical importance to Singapore and other maritime and
trading nations."
As with
the other incidences, Iran claimed to have a legal dispute with the Alpine
Eternity and its parent company. In late March, the Singapore ship accidentally
hit an Iranian oil platform. Although Iranian officials demanded reparations,
to date, the shipping company has not paid Iran any compensation.
On April 28, Iran
seized control of ship in 
the Straits of Hormuz flying the flag of the Marshall
Islands after firing warning shots across its bow and ordering the ship to sail
into Iranian waters. Iran again claimed that there was a financial
dispute over goods that had not been delivered. The ship was release more than
one week later.
the Straits of Hormuz flying the flag of the Marshall
Islands after firing warning shots across its bow and ordering the ship to sail
into Iranian waters. Iran again claimed that there was a financial
dispute over goods that had not been delivered. The ship was release more than
one week later.
After
that incident, the U.S. navy accompanied ships bearing the U.S. flag through
the Straits for a week’s time.
A few days previously, a ship bearing the U.S. flag was
intercepted and surrounded by
four patrol boats of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards navy. After following the
ship on its course for some time, the aggressive action ended when the patrol
boats pulled away.
“Iran is playing a game that is apparent to those it’s
playing with but conducted under legal pretense,” said
Afshon Ostovar, a
senior analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses and adjunct professor at Johns
Hopkins University’s Kreiger School who expertise is in Iran. “The
Iranians have done their homework. They knew which ship to attack and how to
justify their action.”
The
posturing comes amidst the final stages of negotiations with the U.S. and other
Western world powers over Iran’s nuclear aspirations as well as tensions with
Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States who are supporting Yemini President Abd
Rabbuh Mansur Hadi against the Iranian-backed Houti rebels who are fighting to
take over Yemen.
The
Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz are the two key conduits for petroleum
traded by sea. About 20% of the world's petroleum, and close to 35% of the
petroleum traded by sea, passes through the strait.
Iranian
muscle-flexing in these key waterways Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz can be read
as a warning ahead of a key shipment of alleged humanitarian aid Iran is
planning to ferry to Yemen during a five-day humanitarian cease fire. Iran has
vowed to send the shipment to the port city of Hodeida in defiance of the
American-Saudi coalition that has designated the city of Djibouti as the
distribution point for all humanitarian aid. An Iranian naval escort
will accompany the ship.
American
is closely monitoring the vessel and has pointedly questioned why a naval
escort is necessary for an aid ship. The ship is scheduled to arrive in Yemen
on May 20.
In an
embarrassing incident last April, an Iranian convoy of ships on route to Yemen
turned around when confronted with U.S. naval ships tracking its course.
“The
return of the convoy was very embarrassing, and it was very public,” Ostovar
said. “The leadership had to respond.”
Scott
Lucas, an Iran analyst and professor of international relations at UK’s
Birmingham University, commented that another confrontation could disrupt the
nuclear talks. “If we have a major confrontation over an Iranian cargo ship,
then there’s no way you are going to insulate the talks,” he said.
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AMENPER: Marlins anoint GM Dan Jennings
as new manager
Miami Florida.-AP*.-Miami Marlins are scheduled
to introduce Dan Jennings, their current general manager, to be their new
manager, a high-ranking Marlins official confirmed to USA TODAY Sports.
Jennings, who has been in professional baseball
since 1986 as a scout and front office official, last managed or coached at
Davidson High School in Mobile, Ala., after he graduated from college in the
mid-1980s.
While there have been several recent hiring’s of
managers who have no experience, such as Craig Counsell of the Milwaukee
Brewers, Mike Matheny of the St. Louis Cardinals, Brad Ausmus of the Detroit
Tigers and Walt Weiss of the Colorado Rockies, but they all had extensive
playing careers.
Asked by the press why was Jennings anointed
manager? Marlin’s president of
baseball operations Michael Hill (who is African American) said.
Don’t you know the answer? Then you are a white
person as dumb as Jennings.
The reason we named Jennings manager was because
he is cheap and he is white.
My choice was Dusty Baker but he was not
selected because he is expensive and African American.
There are rumors of a massive demonstration in
front of Marlins Stadium tonight, organized by African American leaders Al
Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, to protest for the anointment of a white man to a
position that should go to an African American.
Owner Loria is trying to avoid this situation.
People close to him said that the solution could
be to have Jennings pass as black.
Loria thinks that with Jennings managerial
experience at Davidson High School he will be able to take the team to a new
level.
*AP does not refer to a news agency but to the initials of the writer.
P.S. I am so glad I didn´t renew my box this year. Somebody up
there is looking for me.
USA: State Department Refuses Help to Christians
because They Are Christians
They are not worth helping even though the
State Department has used tax funds to help others, including possibly ISIS
members.
We often posted about how terrorists sponsored
and “stimulated” by State Department and Pentagon policy have persecuted Christians. But Barack Obama and
others in our pagan Federal Government are absolutely committed to pretending
there is no religious persecution where Christians are the target. The
President would rather talk about outliers like the Army of the Lord in Africa
rather than deal with the rampant persecution of Christians.
But now the Philos Project has written about a new level of
calculation and self-aware repudiation of Christians that is on display at the
State Department.
Evidence suggests that within the administration not
only is there no passion for persecuted Christians under threat of genocide
from the Islamic State, there is no room for them, period. In fact, despite
ISIS’ targeting of Iraqi Christians specifically because they are Christians,
and, as such, stand in the way of a pure, Islamic Caliphate in the Middle East
(and beyond), the U.S. State Department has made it clear that “there is no way
that Christians will be supported because of their religious affiliation.”
An Anglican bishop revealed that this policy position
presented to him in his most recent interaction with State’s Bureau of
Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM). The Rt. Rev. Julian M. Dobbs, bishop
of the Diocese of CANA East (Convocation of Anglicans in North America) is an
advocate for persecuted people worldwide. On this occasion, Dobbs was appealing
on behalf of a group of Assyrian Christians desperately in need of rescue from
northern Iraq.
The report goes on to document how bad it
is for Christians in some places in the Middle East. The dire situation is
reflected in the fact that Christian leaders, who have typically exhorted
Christians to stay in their homes in order to not empty those places of all
Christian witness, have started exhorting them all to leave!
So how has the State Department responded
to this?
Dobbs, accompanied to the State Department by
humanitarian Sir Charles Hoare, 9th Baronet Hoare of Annabella, County Cork,
informed State Department officials of a plan by one well-known Christian
international aid agency to provide safer housing for Iraqi Christians.
Christians are trying to survive in unfinished concrete buildings – such as
shopping malls – in the Christian enclave of Ankawa rather than in the UNHCR
camp with the other refugees, because they are even threatened by some of the
Muslim refugees.
The organization purchased used military tents from
British troops in Afghanistan to set up on land that had been provided by the
local authorities.
[…]
But the tents need to be transported from Afghanistan
to Iraq. Unfortunately, neither the British nor American government was willing
to provide transportation. The State Department told Dobbs, “We would have to
refigure an entire military aircraft” to move the tents. So instead, the group
is working to raise some $778,000 to transport the tents to Iraq by land. Dobbs
revealed that the State Department advised him against setting up emergency
housing for Christians in the region, saying it was “totally inappropriate.”
To understand the incredible (and
murderous) double standard that the State Department is practicing, consider
the difference between what they do with our tax money for potential
Islamic terrorists to what they allow private donors to do for Iraqi
Christians:
Donors in the private sector have offered complete funding
for the airfare and the resettlement in the United States of these Iraqi
Christians that are sleeping in public buildings, on school floors, or worse.
But the State Department – while admitting 4,425 Somalis to the United
States in just the first six months of FY2015, and possibly even accepting
members of ISIS through the Syrian and Iraqi refugee program, all paid for
by tax dollars, told Dobbs that they “would not support a special
category to bring Assyrian Christians into the United States.”
The United States government has made it clear that
there is no way that Christians will be supported because of their religious
affiliation, even though it is exactly that – their religious affiliation –
that makes them candidates for asylum based on a credible fear of persecution
from ISIS. The State Department, the wider administration, some in Congress and
much of the media and other liberal elites insist that Christians cannot be
given preferential treatment.
The only reason Christians in Iraq are
facing any life-threatening persecution is because we overthrew the secular
regime in that country, replaced it with much weaker Islamic government, and
then financed and empowered Al Qaeda affiliated terrorists in Libya and Syria.
Now we are making sure that the Christians die in the execution chamber that we
constructed around them.
Welcome to the land of Liberal tolerance
and human rights. We are in the grip of a sociopathic, pagan ruling elite that
wants to let Christians die while pretending it isn’t happening. They will
share cells in eternity with Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin, and all the other killers
of humanity.
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Una dictadura con rascacielos. por Carlos Alberto Montaner
Raúl Castro viajó al
Vaticano y se encontró con el papa Francisco. La conversación, a puerta
cerrada, aparentemente fue muy satisfactoria para el dictador cubano. Declaró
que, si el papa seguía por ese camino, “yo volveré a rezar y volveré a la
Iglesia”. Al fin y al cabo –agregó–, “siempre estuve en escuelas de jesuitas”.
Pese a esa
oportunista promesa de recuperación de la fe, en realidad se trataba de la
reunión entre dos jefes de Estado, no entre correligionarios.
Raúl es el Presidente
de una nación comunista –una de las pocas que quedan en el mundo–, y el papa,
al margen de su condición de cabeza del catolicismo, es el monarca de un
minúsculo Estado cuya independencia fue reconocida por Benito Mussolini. Desde
el punto de vista político, no hay duda de que se trata de dos fenómenos
excéntricos diferentes, pero con algún parecido formal.
El papa, en su
condición de Jefe de Estado, es una especie de rey dotado de poderes absolutos,
elegido por un pequeño número de cardenales, todos ellos varones célibes,
generalmente de edad madura.
Raúl, impuesto por su
hermano Fidel, es un Presidente, también provisto de poderes absolutos,
supuestamente seleccionado por el Consejo de Estado, un minúsculo grupo de diputados
compuesto en gran medida por militares pertenecientes a la Asamblea Nacional
del Poder Popular, cuyos miembros son escogidos en unos comicios de partido
único.
En rigor, la
autoridad que ostentan los dos Jefes de Estado nada tiene que ver con los procesos
plurales y abiertos de la democracia liberal. Ello acaso explica la tradicional
frigidez del Vaticano ante la falta de libertades. Por eso Roma pudo firmar
concordatos con la España de Franco en 1953, o con el sanguinario Trujillo de
República Dominicana en 1954. A ninguno de estos dos países el papa Pío XII les
exigió un cambio de conducta para firmar acuerdos. Los objetivos de la Iglesia
eran de otra índole.
¿Cuáles son esos
objetivos? Concretamente, la Iglesia católica se dedica a tres funciones básicas:
difundir el evangelio, educar, y participar activa y públicamente en el debate
moral de la sociedad. A todo ello agrega un claro énfasis en el ejercicio
masivo de la caridad, actividad que funciona como la gran misión terrenal de la
institución y como un cohesivo que la mantiene unida.
Las tres tareas están íntimamente ligadas, pero para
desarrollar cualquiera de ellas la Iglesia necesita, cuando menos, la
neutralidad del Estado, lo que tradicionalmente la inclina a sostener una
actitud complaciente con el poder, surgida desde el siglo IV, tras el Edicto de
Tesalónica dictado por el emperador Teodosio –el iniciador del cesaropapismo–,
acto que transformó a la Iglesia de perseguida ocasional en perseguidora
frecuente y le concedió un inmenso poder político sobre “la cristiandad”.
Desde entonces, la
Iglesia ha sido el Estado, parte del Estado, o se ha colocado junto al Estado,
a veces en labores viles, como las tareas inquisitoriales, o a veces en
actitudes valiosas, como cuando fundó universidades, pero casi nunca se ha
enfrentado al Estado, aunque éste sea manifiestamente criminal. No es su
talante. Su reino, dice, no es de este mundo.
Es cierto que el papa
Francisco tiene la buena intención de ayudar a los cubanos a solucionar muchos
de sus problemas materiales, pero, a juzgar por el júbilo con que Raúl Castro
ha acogido su mediación y respaldo, el régimen de La Habana ve esa conducta de
la Santa Sede como un factor muy ventajoso para su proyecto político de
consolidar una dictadura neocomunista de partido único y economía mixta,
variante del experimento chino, pero aún más conservadora.
Es posible que a la jerarquía de la Iglesia en Roma (o al
cardenal Jaime Ortega en Cuba), pese a no ser marxistas, arrastrados por esa
tradición cesaropapista no
le preocupen excesivamente el fortalecimiento en la Isla de un modelo
neocomunista dentro de la cuerda ideológica China, pero me temo que puede
afectar muy negativamente a quienes aspiran a un cambio democrático en el país
similar al que ocurrió en Europa del Este.
En efecto, esos
cubanos que quieren una transición a la democracia liberal, y no a una
dictadura capitalista de partido único como la que hay en China o Vietnam, se
sienten profundamente defraudados. No aspiran a una dictadura con rascacielos,
sino a una sociedad en la que se respeten los derechos humanos y las libertades
individuales, convencidos de que ésa, además, es la mejor receta para disminuir
la pobreza y alcanzar la prosperidad.
Al papa, en cambio, un destino chino para los
cubanos parece contentarlo. Su reino, al fin y al cabo, no es de este mundo.
Para quienes tienen que vivir en el otro, en el real, esto no es un consuelo,
sino una irresponsabilidad total de la Iglesia
Newly Released Documents Indicate Key
Hillary Clinton Claim on Emails Was Not True
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Emails published
by the New York Times Monday indicate that
Hillary Clinton used more than one private email address during her time as
secretary of state, contradicting previous claims from the Democratic
presidential contender’s office.
Multiple emails show Clinton used account
“hrod17@clintonemail.com” while serving in the Obama administration as secretary
of state.
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Clinton’s attorney, David Kendall, had previously told
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) that that particular address had not “existed during
Secretary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State.”
Another statement from Clinton’s office said she only
used one address during her time at the State Department.
“Secretary Clinton used one email account during her
tenure at State (with the exception of her first weeks in office while
transitioning from an email account she had previously used),” it said. “In
March 2013, Gawker published the email address she used while Secretary, and so
she had to change the address on her account.”
Clinton served as secretary of state from January 2009
to February 2013. The emails she sent through “hrod17@clintonemail.com” were
sent in 2011 and 2012, according to the documents released by the Times.
A representative for Clinton’s office did not
immediately respond to a request for comment from TheBlaze.
Republican National Chairman Reince Priebus tweeted
Monday evening that the news proved Clinton “misled public about the use of
only one secret email address.”
Earlier this year, it was reported that Clinton may have violated federal rules by exclusively using a
personal email address to conduct all official government business while
serving as secretary of state.
Shock Claim:
Hollywood Celeb And Obama Buddy ‘Quietly’ Did This For Jailed Protesters.
Elena
Enriquez
In a series of tweets that were quickly deleted...
Norvell Rose May 18, 2015 at 10:49am
It’s certainly no secret that rap mogul Jay Z and his songstress wife Beyoncé are close friends and strong supporters of President Obama. During Obama’s 2012 run for a second term, the super-celebrity power couple set up a flashy fundraiser that reportedly brought in many millions of dollars for the president’s reelection campaign.
Now The Daily Mail reports that Jay Z and Beyoncé personally sent big money to defense funds in Baltimore and Ferguson to help bail out of jail protesters arrested in those two cities, according to an activist and author close to the couple. Dream hampton, who worked with Jay Z on his autobiography, Decoded, some five years ago (and spells her name in all lowercase), let the cash cat out of the bag in a series of tweets that were deleted not long after being posted — apparently because she was scolded for disclosing the information. Related Stories
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The website of hip-hop magazine Complex captured images of hampton’s Twitter messages (seen below) before they abruptly disappeared. Making no attempt to conceal its decidedly one-sided take on the protests in racially troubled hot spots, the Complex author wrote
Speaking on the current difficulties surrounding protests, hampton pointed to one of the most damaging wars being waged against black resistance — a financial stronghold. “Protest is literally punished with tariffs,” hampton tweeted.
In a series of tweets that were quickly deleted...
Norvell Rose May 18, 2015 at 10:49am
It’s certainly no secret that rap mogul Jay Z and his songstress wife Beyoncé are close friends and strong supporters of President Obama. During Obama’s 2012 run for a second term, the super-celebrity power couple set up a flashy fundraiser that reportedly brought in many millions of dollars for the president’s reelection campaign.
Now The Daily Mail reports that Jay Z and Beyoncé personally sent big money to defense funds in Baltimore and Ferguson to help bail out of jail protesters arrested in those two cities, according to an activist and author close to the couple. Dream hampton, who worked with Jay Z on his autobiography, Decoded, some five years ago (and spells her name in all lowercase), let the cash cat out of the bag in a series of tweets that were deleted not long after being posted — apparently because she was scolded for disclosing the information. Related Stories
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The website of hip-hop magazine Complex captured images of hampton’s Twitter messages (seen below) before they abruptly disappeared. Making no attempt to conceal its decidedly one-sided take on the protests in racially troubled hot spots, the Complex author wrote
Speaking on the current difficulties surrounding protests, hampton pointed to one of the most damaging wars being waged against black resistance — a financial stronghold. “Protest is literally punished with tariffs,” hampton tweeted.
FUNDING
HILLARY: Check Out Which Companies Paid to Get Hillary Clinton Where she is Now
You might want to change where you spend your money
after reading this list.
Almost a decade ago,
as Hillary Clinton ran for reelection to the Senate on her way to seeking the
presidency for the first time, the New York Times reported on her unusually close
relationship with Corning, Inc., an upstate glass titan. Clinton advanced the
company’s interests, racking up a big assist by getting China to ease a trade
barrier. And the firm’s mostly Republican executives opened up their wallets
for her campaign.
During Clinton’s
tenure as secretary of state, Corning lobbied the department on a variety of
trade issues, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The company has donated
between $100,000 and $250,000 to her family’s foundation. And last July, when
it was clear that Clinton would again seek the presidency in 2016, Corning
coughed up a $225,500 honorarium for Clinton to speak.
In the laundry whirl
of stories about Clinton buck-raking, it might be easy for that last part to
get lost in the wash. But it’s the part that matters most. The $225,500
speaking fee didn’t go to help disease-stricken kids in an impoverished village
on some long-forgotten patch of the planet. Nor did it go to a campaign
account. It went to Hillary Clinton. Personally.
The latest episode in
the Clinton money saga is different from the others because it involves the
clear, direct personal enrichment of Hillary Clinton, presidential candidate,
by people who have a lot of money at stake in the outcome of government
decisions. Her federally required financial disclosure was released to media
late Friday, a time government officials and political candidates have long
reserved for dumping news they hope will have a short shelf life.
Together, Hillary and
Bill Clinton cleared $25 million on the lecture circuit over the last 16
months, according to aHillary Clinton’s
personal financial disclosure required of
presidential candidates. A lot of the focus will naturally go toward the
political argument that Clinton’s wealth makes her out of touch. The US has had
plenty of good rich presidents and bad rich presidents. What’s more important
is whether they are able to listen to all of the various interests without
being unduly influenced by any of them.
Fmr. CIA Head On Hillary’s
Private Email Server: ‘Foreign Intelligence Services…Have Everything’
This
will be a tough claim for the Clinton campaign to brush off.
Former
deputy CIA director Michael Morell made a very disturbing comment on Friday
that could have major implications for America’s national security and may
cause new issues for a Hillary Clinton campaign already reeling from repeated
scandals. [Full video below]
Morell,
who was acting CIA director three times, made the comments while promoting
his new book on radio host Hugh Hewitt’s program Friday.
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When
asked whether foreign intelligence services had access to the contents of
Hillary Clinton’s private email server, Morell replied, “I think that foreign
intelligence services, the good ones, have everything on any unclassified
network that the government uses, whether that’s a private server or a public
one.”
“They’re
that good,” he continued. Regarding Hillary’s decision to use a private email
during her tenure as Secretary of State, Morell added, “I don’t think that was
a very good judgment. I don’t know who gave her that advice, but it was
not good advice.”
Retired
Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), made a similar statement to Megyn Kelly in early April.
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Kelly
asked Flynn whether he believed Mrs. Clinton’s claim of absolute security for
her private server on which all her State Department emails were supposedly
kept.
The top
intelligence official, who served for two years under Obama, said he did not
believe that claim and said it’s “likely” Mrs. Clinton’s email server
had been hacked, possibly by America’s enemies.
With two
high-level intelligence directors claiming with certainty that Clinton’s
private email server was compromised, it will be difficult for the Clinton
campaign to brush off these disturbing claims.
Listen
to the troubling exchange below:
Do you
think Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server was a security risk to
the United States? Let us know in the comments section below.
Mary
Anastasia O’Grady: Detrás del encuentro del Papa y Raúl Castro
Las
especulaciones sobre los motivos del pontífice van desde un plan de Caballo de
Troya a la antipatía hacia EE.UU.
La calidez y
hospitalidad que el papa Francisco le mostró a Raúl Castro en el Vaticano hace
unos días dejó atónitos a muchos católicos, y con razón. El dictador fue a Roma
para pulir su imagen y el pontífice le ayudó.
Durante el encuentro,
Castro se burló de la fe al bromear que si el Papa se portaba bien, él podría
regresar a la Iglesia Católica. También se burló de todos los refugiados
cubanos, vivos o muertos, al obsequiarle al Papa una pieza de arte que mostraba
a un migrante rezando.
El papa Francisco le
dio al dictador una copia de su exhortación apostólica de 2013 titulada La
alegría del Evangelio, en la que critica duramente la libertad económica. Es
como predicarle a los devotos. Como dijo Raúl, “Él es jesuita y yo también fui
a una escuela jesuita”. En serio.
Siempre es posible
que el papa Francisco busque acercarse al régimen para cambiarlo. Tal vez tenga
en mente una versión espiritual del Caballo de Troya, que una vez que cruce las
puertas del infierno cubano despliegue un ejército de ángeles.
Con Dios todas las
cosas son posibles, pero sospecho que esta reconciliación con Castro tiene
raíces más mundanas.
El Santo Padre es un hijo de la Argentina del Siglo XX, definida ideológicamente por el nacionalismo, el socialismo, el corporativismo y el sentimiento antiestadounidense. No me extrañaría descubrir que estas tendencias influyen en sus opiniones sobre Estados Unidos y la isla a 144 kilómetros de sus costas.
El Santo Padre es un hijo de la Argentina del Siglo XX, definida ideológicamente por el nacionalismo, el socialismo, el corporativismo y el sentimiento antiestadounidense. No me extrañaría descubrir que estas tendencias influyen en sus opiniones sobre Estados Unidos y la isla a 144 kilómetros de sus costas.
Cuando la dictadura
cubana perdió a su mecenas soviético a principios de la década de los 90, casi
colapsó. El año pasado, los profundos problemas económicos volvieron a dar la
apariencia de que obligarían a un cambio. A medida que disminuyeron los
subsidios petroleros venezolanos a La Habana, el podrido sistema de la isla
quedó al borde del colapso.
Era una oportunidad
para que la Iglesia mostrara solidaridad con el indefenso pueblo cubano, o al
menos no tomar partido. En cambio, el Vaticano intervino para ayudar a los
Castro. En diciembre nos enteramos que el Papa Francisco negoció el
descongelamiento de las relaciones entre Obama y Castro, que aunque es
improbable que genere mejoras en los derechos humanos, ya está generando un
renovado interés en invertir con el gobierno militar.
Algunos católicos han
tratado de excusar la hostilidad del Papa hacia la libertad económica en La
alegría del Evangelio al argumentar que creció en una economía corrupta
dirigida por el Estado y, probablemente, la confundió con un sistema
capitalista. Es un disparate. El estatismo argentino explícitamente denuncia la
economía de mercado.
Hay otra explicación
más factible sobre por qué el Papa muestra su desdén en su exhortación por una
“cruda e ingenua confianza en la bondad de aquellos que poseen poder económico
y en el funcionamiento sacralizado del actual sistema económico”. Esta se
encuentra en la convicción argentina de superioridad cultural sobre los
capitalistas acaparadores de dinero del norte y su fe en el Estado para
protegerla.
El historiador
mexicano Enrique Krauze rastrea su origen en un rechazo intelectual a EE.UU.
después de la derrota española en la guerra hispano-estadounidense de finales
del siglo XIX. Los ejemplos que cita en Redentores, su libro de 2011, incluyen
al poeta nicaragüense Rubén Darío y el historiador franco-argentino Paul
Groussac, quienes caracterizaron a los estadounidenses como bestias
incivilizadas. Al mismo tiempo, según Krauze, el Cono Sur, y Argentina en
particular, importaron la idea de un “socialismo que lucha para mejorar el
nivel económico cultural y educativo de los pobres, a la vez que genera un
estado nacionalista”.
En 1900 el uruguayo
José Enrique Rodó publicó Ariel, en el que enfatiza la “superioridad de la
cultura latina sobre el mero utilitarismo patrocinado” por el norte. Rodó fue
“el primer ideólogo del nacionalismo latinoamericano” y su influencia se
extendió por toda la región. “El latinoamericanismo, especialmente en el sur,
también fue anti-yankeeismo”, escribe Krauze.
Cuba vuelve a ser,
115 años después, símbolo de la lucha entre el norte y el sur. A muchos
intelectuales latinoamericanos no les gusta la dictadura, pero detestan la
riqueza y el poder de EE.UU. Saben que un colapso completo de Cuba
probablemente traerá de regreso a los estadounidenses. Es por eso que toleran
el statu quo.
Sólo puedo especular
sobre las opiniones del Santo Padre sobre Cuba, pero se está ganando una dudosa
reputación política. En agosto de 2014 levantó la prohibición al padre Miguel
d’Escoto Brockmann, de la comunidad Maryknoll, para celebrar misa. El clérigo
comunista, que se desempeñó como ministro de Relaciones Exteriores del sandinismo
marxista, fue degradado por el papa Juan Pablo II por rehusarse a alejarse de
la política.
Después de levantar
la prohibición, el padre d’Escoto se apresuró a denunciar al querido pontífice
polaco por “abuso de autoridad”. También declaró a Fidel Castro mensajero del
Espíritu Santo en “la necesidad de luchar” para establecer “el reino de Dios en
esta tierra, que es su alternativa al imperio”.
La semana pasada, el
reverendo Gustavo Gutiérrez, el peruano que lanzó la teología de la liberación,
regresó al Vaticano. Le dijo a los periodistas que la Iglesia nunca condenó su
pensamiento y elogió las ideas del papa Francisco sobre la pobreza. No mencionó
la pronunciada caída de la pobreza en Perú desde que las autoridades tiraron
por la borda sus ideas. Tal vez el Papa hable de ello durante su viaje a Cuba
en septiembre.
Mary Anastasia O’Grady*
O’Grady@wsj.com
*Mary Anastasia O’Grady es editorialista de The Wall Street Journal y editora la columna “Américas” que se publica todos los viernes en el Wall Street Journal y se refiere a temas de política, economía y negocios en América Latina y Canadá. Es graduada del Assumption College y MBA de Pace University. En 1997, O’Grady fue premiada por la Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa por sus editoriales y en 1999 recibió una mención de honor en la categoría de premios de opinión, también de la SIP.
Mary Anastasia O’Grady*
O’Grady@wsj.com
*Mary Anastasia O’Grady es editorialista de The Wall Street Journal y editora la columna “Américas” que se publica todos los viernes en el Wall Street Journal y se refiere a temas de política, economía y negocios en América Latina y Canadá. Es graduada del Assumption College y MBA de Pace University. En 1997, O’Grady fue premiada por la Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa por sus editoriales y en 1999 recibió una mención de honor en la categoría de premios de opinión, también de la SIP.
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Hillary Received Memo Describing Benghazi As
Planned Terror Attack Within Hours
New documents obtained by Judicial Watch and made public Monday show
that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other senior officials under
President Obama were given intelligence within hours of the Sept. 11,
2012, Benghazi attack describing how it had been planned at least 10 days in
advance “to kill as many Americans as possible.”
A heavily redacted copy of a Sept. 12, 2012, Defense Intelligence
Agency memoto Clinton, then
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, the White House National Security Council
and the Joint Chiefs of Staff said “the attack was planned 10 or more days
prior on approximately 01 September 2012. The intention was to attack the
consulate and to kill as many Americans as possible to seek revenge for U.S.
killing of Aboyahiye ((ALALIBY)) in Pakistan and in memorial of the 11
September 2001 atacks on the World Trade Center buildings.”
The attack “was planned and executed by the Brigades
of the Captive Omar Abdul Rahman (BCOAR). BCOAR is also responsible for past attacks
on the Red Cross in Benghazi and the attack on the British Ambassador, they
have approximately 120 members.” Rahman is serving a life sentence in a federal
prison for his role in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center
which killed six people in New York.
The memo was labeled: “Information Report, Not Finally
Evaluated Intelligence.”
The DIA memo identified “Abdul Baset (AZUZ)” as
BCOAR’s leader. He was sent to Libya to Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, Ayman
al-Zawhari, “to set up Al Qaeda bases in Libya” and is not “a charismatic
leader, but rather just a violent radical.”
Most of BCOAR’s members are “under the age of 28 with
a large number between the ages of 17-21 years of age.” The DIA memo said BCOAR
had established a headquarters and training facility in Derna, Libya. “They
train in the mountains surrounding Derna where they have large caches of
weapons. Some of these weapons are disguised as feeding troughs for livestock.
They have SA-7 and SA-23/4 MANPADS, as well as unidentified missiles over two
meters in length,” the memo said.
Judicial Watch obtained the documents after U.S.
District Court Judge Katanji Brown Jackson ordered their release in response to the nonprofit watchdog group’s Freedom of
Information Act request to the Department of Defense was denied.
Clinton and other national security and diplomatic
officials appointed by President Obama claimed the Benghazi attack, which
killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, was a product of
spontaneous protests of an obscure YouTube documentary by an American producer
that lampooned Muslims.
Only later did the administration concede that the
attack was a terrorist operation.
A House of Representatives special committee headed by
Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy is investigating the Benghazi attack
and the response of the U.S. government in the aftermath of the assault.
Clinton has refused to submit to an on-the-record closed door interview with
the committee and has agreed to testify before the panel publicly only once.
Democrats' 'Progressive
Agenda' is Outright Communism
It must be so close
they can taste it.
It's never been a
secret that the Democrat agenda has been quietly driven by the philosophies of
Karl Marx and every radical socialist who ever lit a fuse against the United
States.
With a long line of
public figures who have idolized or modeled themselves after Alinsky, Mao, Lenin
or Castro, the Democratic Party has been home to the despicably anti-American
and their foolishly misguided followers.
Anybody who paid any
attention to the party's politics and had a modicum of historical knowledge
could spot the connections.
But leftists being
leftists, the DP leadership has always tried to pretend otherwise because their
hold on many of the low-information voters is all based on perceptions.
Which is what makes
it remarkable that the Progressive Agenda to Combat Income Inequality, a document put
together by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, so clearly patterns itself after Communist Party and Socialist Party doctrine.
Even more remarkable
is that de Blasio and others are trying to make this the official Democratic
Party platform for the 2016 presidential election.
The Democrats are
calling the Progressive Agenda their "Contract With America," which
is as frightening as it is insulting.
Newt Gingrich's
"Contract With America" was a stroke of political brilliance that
helped pull together congressional conservatives to pass important legislation
and help America get back on track.
The Progressive
Agenda is aimed at turning us into something just shy of the Soviet Union.
All the hallmarks are
there: hike the minimum wage (c'mon, if it's such a great idea, why not make it
$100 per hour, guys?); national paid family and sick leave; pass laws to make
it easier to force workers to unionize; "immigration reform" to
organize illegals; refinance student debt; expanding state brainwashing with
mandatory pre-kindergarten, after-school and child-care programs; increasing taxes
on "the rich"; etc.
De Blasio, who calls
President Obama "too conservative" to lead a Progressive economic
policy, said last week at the agenda's rollout, "It’s time to take that
energy and crystallize it into an agenda that will make a difference. We’ll be
calling on leaders and candidates to address these issues, to stiffen their
backbones, to be clear and to champion these progressive policies."
Democrat officials
had a variety of silly metaphors about cavalry and "meat on the
bones" to use in praise of de Blasio's manifesto. The most interesting
remark, however, came from Rep. Charles Rangel, who talked about
"revolution."
Buzzword alert.
The Revolution, of
course, was the crucible in which the United States was formed. But there's a
world of difference between the way the Founding Fathers meant it and the way
modern Regressives mean it.
The Founders meant to
take back something that never belonged to the King in the first place: our
independence. Regressives mean to assert everyone's dependence on government and take things from the
public treasury that never have belonged to them.
To facilitate the
fattening of their own purses, Progressive leaders will begin by taking away
your rights.
If you don't believe
that, then you are dangerously naive.
Look at history.
That's always how "progressive revolutions" begin.
It's already started
here. Obama was the warmup act. Now we've got closet socialist Hillary, open
socialist Bernie and B-string socialist Fauxcahontas (aka Elizabeth Warren),
all eyeing the Oval Office.
And leftists hope
their Communist Manifesto, er, Progressive Agenda will pave the way.
Lurking in the
background, supporting de Blasio's agenda, is Dan Cantor, executive
director of the Working Families Party and founder of the New Party.
The openly socialist
New Party, Chicago branch, once claimed a young Barack Obama as a member,
something his flying monkeys have denied for years.
De Blasio was
executive director of the New Party's New York branch.
The basis of his plan
was a report by Nobel prize-winning Columbia University economist Joseph
Stiglitz, who also held "teach-ins" at Occupy Wall Street.
Stiglitz has accepted
funding from billionaire George
Soros, the ex-Nazi
employee who helped fund
Obama's career and who has hosted fundraisers for Elizabeth Warren and
donated to Hillary Clinton's PAC.
Stiglitz also sits on
the boards of several Soros organizations, including one whose aim is to remake
the global economy.
You start to see how
the pieces fit together?
Who says there aren't
any real-life conspiracies to destroy America? Oh, right, mostly the people
involved in them.
Read more at http://godfatherpolitics.com/22451/democrats-progressive-agenda-is-outright-communism/#YxitjhJay8v438be.99
School
System Votes to Teach Students to Determine Their Own Gender
Hitler stated, “He
alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.” The premise is simple, the one
who is allowed to mold and shape the thinking of the children of a given society,
will rule that society in the future. It will be the ideas planted in the minds
of children that will rule the day. This lesson, though taught to us many times
through the twentieth century, has been ignored or forgotten. This lesson is
soon to be taught us again.
Fox reports:
One of the nation’s
largest public school systems is preparing to include gender identity to its
classroom curriculum, including lessons on sexual fluidity and spectrum – the
idea that there’s no such thing as 100 percent boys or 100 percent girls.
What the children of
Fairfax County, Virginia will be taught is that they, no matter their
biological and physical make-up, can be any gender that they choose. If a girl
suddenly decides that she is a boy, then she will be accepted as a boy until or
unless she chooses not to be a boy any longer. And even those who have no
“sexual confusion” are not ever completely one or the other because we are
never “100 percent anything.”
What exactly will
this look like in the classroom?
“Students will be
provided definitions for sexual orientation terms heterosexuality,
homosexuality and bisexuality; and the gender identity term transgender,” the
district’s recommendations state. “Emphasis will be placed on recognizing that
everyone is experiencing changes and the role of respectful, inclusive language
in promoting an environment free of bias and discrimination.”
And
“Individual identity
will also be described as having four parts – biological gender, gender
identity (includes transgender), gender role, and sexual orientation (includes
heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual).”
The district will
also introduce young teenagers to the “concept that sexuality is a broader
spectrum.” By tenth grade, they will be taught that one’s sexuality “develops
throughout a lifetime.”
Read more at http://patriotupdate.com/2015/05/school-system-votes-to-teach-students-to-determine-their-own-gender/
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