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1029 “En mi opinión” Agosto 20, 2015
“IN GOD WE TRUST” Lázaro R Gonzalez Miño Editor
Lázaro
R González Miño para alcalde de Miami Dade
AMENPER: HILLARY DICE '¿CON UN TRAPO O ALGO?' CUANDO SE
LE PREGUNTÓ SI ELLA LIMPIÓ EL SERVIDOR
La candidata presidencial demócrata, Hillary Clinton respondió a una
pregunta sobre si ella trató de limpiar su servidor con "¿qué, como con un
trapo o algo?" dijo este chiste Durante una conferencia de prensa el
martes. Pero me parece que ella sabe que no es una cosa de chiste.
A Hillary se le preguntó si ella trató de limpiar todo el servidor
para que no hubiera ningún email en él. ¿Ella contestó, "bueno,
mis e-mails personales son mi negocio personal, correcto? Así, yo, así que nos
fuimos a través de un proceso laborioso de 55.000 páginas para determinar algo
que pudiera ser relacionado con el trabajo. Bajo la ley, esa decisión es hecha
por el funcionario. Yo era el oficial.
Hice esas decisiones. Y lo que acabo de decir, más de 1.200
en los correos electrónicos han sido considerados como no relacionadas con el
trabajo.
Ahora, sólo puedo decirle es, en retrospectiva, cuando preguntan si
había usado una cuenta de gobierno, y dije, ' sabes, vamos a soltar todo. Vamos
a dejar ver a todo el mundo en Estados Unidos pueda ver los
e- mails de durante cuatro años, y tenemos los mismos
argumentos.'"
Se preguntó otra vez si ella trató de limpiar todo el servidor, a lo
que Clinton dijo: "no tengo ni idea, por eso lo entregamos –.Lo
obvio es que si había limpiado los otros aparte de los 1200, entonces si tenía
idea de lo que estaba haciendo, nosotros somos lo que no podemos tener ninguna
idea de lo que había en los
e-mails limpiados.
Preguntada de nuevo, si había limpiado el servidor, ella contestó,
"¿qué, como con un trapo o algo?" Además mantiene que ella no sabe
cómo el servidor "trabaja digitalmente." Si antes dice que
tuvo un proceso laborioso examinando 55,000 páginas entonces tenía que saber
cómo trabajaba el servidor.
Otra vez cuando se le volvió a preguntar si ella intentó limpiar el
servidor, Hillary afirmó, "he tratado de ser tan cooperativa como sea
posible, hemos entregado el servidor. (Después de limpiarlo)
Pueden hacer lo que quieran con el servidor para averiguar lo
que hay o lo que no existe. Ese es el trabajo de la gente que lo investigando,
eso es lo que tienen que tratar de averiguar. Pero sobre todo lo que estaba
relacionado con el trabajo, cada cosa fue entregado. Cosas personales, no lo
entregamos. No teníamos ninguna obligación de hacerlo y no lo hice.
Las contradicciones son tan evidentes, que todo es un chiste, no sólo
el chiste del trapo.
En resumen, limpió los E Mails que ella dice que eran privados, si no
lo son o lo son ¿Cómo se va a averiguar si ya están limpiados'?
¿Se podrá salir con las suya? Es posible cuando los que la
investigan realmente no quieren encontrar lo que no conviene..
Esto es muy conveniente, quizás Obama está limpiando también el
teleprompter con un trapo, para que lo que ha dicho no aparezca en el record de
sus discursos en su legado.
Aquí el problema es de trapos, y los trapos sucios hay que sacarlos.
AMENPER: HILLARY
SAYS ‘WITH A CLOTH OR SOMETHING?’ WHEN ASKED IF SHE WIPED SERVER
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton
responded to a question on whether she tried to wipe her server with “What,
like with a cloth or something?” During a press conference on Tuesday.
Hillary was
asked if she tried to wipe the entire server so there would be no personal or
work emails on it. She answered, “Well, my personal emails are my personal
business, right? So, I — so we went through a painstaking process and turned
over 55,000 pages of anything we thought could be work-related. Under the law,
that decision is made by the official. I was the official. I made those
decisions. And I just said, over 1,200 over the emails have been deemed not
work-related. Now, all I can tell you is, in retrospect, if I had used a
government account, and I had said, ‘You know, let’s release everything. Let’s
let everybody in America see what I did for four years, we would have the same
arguments.'”
She was asked again
if she tried to wipe the whole server, to which Clinton said, “I have no idea,
that’s why we turned it over –.” Asked again, she answered, “What, like with a
cloth or something?” She further maintained that she doesn’t know how the
server “works digitally at all.”
Asked if she tried to
wipe the server, Hillary stated, “In order to be as cooperative as possible, we
have turned over the server. They can do whatever they want to with the server
to figure out what’s there or what’s not there. That’s for the people
investigating it to try to figure out. But we turned over everything that was
work-related, every single thing. Personal stuff, we did not. I had no
obligation to do so, and I did not.”
Adulterers in the White House
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Source: Washington Examiner
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by: Pete Kasperowicz
Hundreds of email
addresses from the Obama White House and key federal agencies have been
uncovered in a leaked list of clients who use Ashley Madison, the website that
encourages people to sign up for a chance to cheat on their spouse.
Hackers broke into the cheating website, and late Tuesday, Wired.com reported that information on 32 million users was posted on a "dark" website used by well-known hackers. The data includes much of the personal information of the alleged users, and one link made available breaks the data down into how many clients come from various government websites.
According to that link, thousands of members of the U.S. military appear to be clients of Ashley Madison. But there also appear to be hundreds of users from other key agencies, including the White House.
The list says there are 44 emails registered on the Ashley Madison site with a "WhiteHouse.gov" address. Source: Washington Examiner
Hackers broke into the cheating website, and late Tuesday, Wired.com reported that information on 32 million users was posted on a "dark" website used by well-known hackers. The data includes much of the personal information of the alleged users, and one link made available breaks the data down into how many clients come from various government websites.
According to that link, thousands of members of the U.S. military appear to be clients of Ashley Madison. But there also appear to be hundreds of users from other key agencies, including the White House.
The list says there are 44 emails registered on the Ashley Madison site with a "WhiteHouse.gov" address. Source: Washington Examiner
‘Good God He’s Stupid’: Ann Coulter
Blasts Bill O’Reilly in Defense of Donald Trump
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Conservative commentator Ann Coulter has held nothing
back over the past couple of days in her unwavering defense of Donald Trump
and, specifically, his plan to mass-deport illegal immigrants if elected
president.
Trump defended his immigration plan during an appearance
on O’Reilly’s Fox News show Tuesday night, saying that he would be allowed to
deport so-called “anchor babies” because they aren’t really U.S. citizens under
the 14th Amendment.
But at the end of the interview, O’Reilly fired back
at Trump.
“If you’re born here you’re an American. Period.
Period,” the Fox News host said.
Coulter, who was apparently traveling at the time the
interview aired, later took to Twitter and blasted O’Reilly over his comment.
“Just got off a plane and my email feed is exploding with
denunciations of Bill O’Reilly for interview w/ @realDonaldTrump on ‘THE
FACTOR,’” she tweeted.
Hillary Clinton’s Lawyer Confirms Her
Email Server Was Wiped Clean
Story by the Associated Press; curated by Kaitlyn
Schallhorn.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton’s personal lawyer has told a
Senate committee that emails and all other data stored on her computer server
were erased before the device was turned over to federal authorities.
In a letter sent last week to Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of the
Senate Homeland Security Committee, David Kendall said the server was
transferred to the FBI on August 12 by Platte River Networks, a Denver firm
hired by Clinton to oversee the device. Federal investigators requested custody
of the server to learn whether the data stored on it was secure. The Senate committee made Kendall’s letter
public on Tuesday.
MIAMI FL JULY 31: Former First Lady and Secretary Of
State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a campaign stop at Florida
International University on July 31, 2015 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Uri
Schanker/WireImage)
In exchanges with reporters earlier this week, Clinton said she was not
aware if the data on her server was erased. Forensics experts told The
Associated Press this week that many emails and other data can still be
extracted from servers even after they are expunged.
Kendall, Clinton’s long-time personal lawyer, also said that both he and
another lawyer had been given security clearances by the State Department to
handle a thumb drive containing about 3,000 emails that Clinton later turned
over to the agency. Kendall said the thumb drive, which has also been since
given to authorities, was stored in a safe provided in July by the State
Department. Kendall did not say when he was given his clearance from State. The
GOP-dominated Senate Judiciary Committee has separately asked Kendall if he had
any access to Clinton’s emails before he was given his security clearance.
Republican senators on both committees are pressing to see whether any
emails sent or received by Clinton on the private server while she was
secretary of state contained any sensitive or secret information that should
have been only exchanged on secured, encrypted government communications
portals. An inspector general for the State Department said recently that
several emails sent to Clinton did include such classified material – signaling
that the transmission of those emails risked violating government guidelines
for the handling of classified material.
Clinton campaign officials on Tuesday sought to show that the
information contained in those emails did not risk spillage of classified data
at the time they were sent to the former secretary of state.
DAILY EVENTS FEATURED STORY
Is Hillary Above the Law?
Clinton Comments on Questions Over Emails
Hillary Clinton decided when she took the office of Secretary of State
that she was above the law.
Hillary knew that she was supposed to use a secure government controlled
server for email and other communications, but she believed that she was part
of an elite class of people who are not subject to the same laws as average
Americans.
The Clintons are the political equivalent of royalty and Bill proved that he
was above the law.
The Daily
Mail put together an
excellent time line of events in this developing scandal. A Romanian hacker
named ‘Guccifer’ exposed screen shots of Clinton’s longtime confidant Sidney
Blumenthal’s AOL email account in March of 2013 that contained emails from the
Secretary of State.
Since that date, evidence is mounting of a Clinton cover up.
According to the Daily Mail time line, in June of 2013, Hillary shifted
control of email domain to IT contractor and sent her original server hardware
to a data center facility in New Jersey where it was erased. Erasing, or
wiping, the hard drive shows that Hillary did not want anybody to
second-guessing the way she handled her email that likely contained, what most
people would consider, classified information.
The Associated
Press reported on June 30,
2015, “senior Obama administration officials knew as early as 2009 that Hillary
Rodham Clinton was using a private email address for her government
correspondence.” This implicates others like former White House Chief of Staff
Rahm Emanuel and Obama confidant David Axelrod.
According to the AP “the newly released emails show Clinton sent or
received at least 12 messages in 2009 on her private email server that were
later classified ‘confidential’ by the U.S. government. Those emails were
censored because officials said they contained activities relating to the
intelligence community, or had discussed the production and dissemination of
U.S. intelligence information. At least two dozen emails were also marked
‘sensitive but unclassified’ at the time they were written, including a
December 2009 message from top Clinton aide Huma Abedin about an explosion in
Baghdad that killed 90.” This is strong evidence that Hillary is lying about
her emailing of sensitive information.
Hillary can claim that this information was not clearly marked as
“classified,” yet it defies logic that her official emails about an explosion
in Baghdad was anything but communication that should be shielded from our
enemies. The purpose of classifying information is to prevent exactly the types
of communications that were conducted by Hillary on a daily basis on her
private home brew email server. Only a person who believes they are above the
rules of everybody else would even consider a private email server for State
Department correspondence.
Just look at the language Hillary has used to dodge questions about her
official email.
Breitbart has a fact checking post where they break down the Clinton dodges. One
is “I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email. There is no
classified material.” Is she saying that it was not designated classified by
her own State Department or is this some other dodge? Clinton’s wiggle room in
her excuses is expanding as this scandal explodes.
The new parsing of words is that Hillary now argues that she did not
email any material “marked” as classified – “I never sent classified material
on my email and I never received any that was marked classified.” So, it is
possible that Hillary received classified information on her personal email
that did not have a stamp of classified on the document.
Yet, as CNS News reported, On July 24, Intelligence Community Inspector
General Charles McCullough and State Department Inspector General Steve Linick issued
a joint statement stating that four
emails out of a limited sampling of 40—of the 30,000 that Clinton turned over
to the State Department—included classified information.” If these two
Inspector Generals are to be believed, Hillary is lying.
Press conference yesterday, Hillary was beside herself and argued that
she didn’t have to turn over any personal emails, even though nobody asked her
to turn over her private correspondence. She made believe that she didn’t know
what “wiping” a computer meant. He was obstinate and cranky when asked specific
questions. Hillary acted like she had something to hide.
Hillary Clinton clearly believes she is above the law. I almost expect
her to declare at her next presser the following:
“No more questions about my personal email server
while I was Secretary of State. Do you know who I am? Do you think I am a liar?
How dare you use that tone with me! Even asking that question is sexist. Why do
you hate women? You are aware that this is an organized Republican attack to
prevent me, the first woman President, from taking office. Now can we please
talk about the Republican war on women?”
I am starting to believe my friends who say that Hillary is not going to
be the Democratic nominee for President this time around.
Calzon en Univision esta noche. Hoy
en la Noche.
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From: frank.calzon@cubacenter.org
Subj: Calzon en Univision esta noche
Subj: Calzon en Univision esta noche
En noticiero de Univision hoy en la noche Frank Calzon sobre los
últimos acontecimientos en Washington y La Habana.
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What Are Palestinians Doing With U.S.
Money?
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Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah did not tell
the visiting U.S. Congressmen that the $4.5 billion the Americans invested in
promoting Palestinian democracy went down the drain or ended up in secret Swiss
bank accounts. Nor did he tell the Congressman that the Palestinians do not
have a functioning parliament or a free media under the PA in the West Bank or
under Hamas in the Gaza Strip. And, of course, Hamdallah never told the
Congressman that for Palestinians, presidential and parliamentary elections
remain a remote dream.
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The refusal of the international community back then to hold Arafat
accountable was the main reason a majority of Palestinians were driven into the
open arms of Hamas. Palestinians saw no improvement in their living conditions,
mainly as a result of the PA's corruption. That is why they turned to Hamas,
which promised them change, reform and an end to financial corruption.
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The Americans and Europeans are therefore responsible for Hamas's rise
to power.
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One does not have to be an expert on Palestinian affairs to see that the
billions of dollars have neither created democracy for the Palestinians nor
boosted the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The "investment" in
Palestinian democracy and peace with Israel has been a complete failure because
of the refusal of the U.S. Administration to hold the Palestinian Authority
fully accountable.
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Unless Western donors demand that the PA use their money to bring
democracy to its people and prepare them for peace, the prospects of reviving
any peace process will remain zero.
During the past 20
years, the U.S. has invested $4.5 billion in promoting democracy among the
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and boosting the
Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
This is what Palestinian
Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah revealed during a meeting in
Ramallah this week with Congressman Kevin McCarthy, Majority Leader of the U.S.
House of Representatives.
Hamdallah said that
the money was also invested in projects in various Palestinian sectors.
The $4.5 billion that
Hamdallah talked about does not include the billions of dollars poured on the
Palestinian Authority (PA) since its creation in 1994. Palestinian economic
analysts estimate that the PA has received a total of $25 billion in financial
aid from the U.S. and other countries during the past two decades.
One does not have to
be an expert on Palestinian affairs to see that the billions of dollars have
neither created democracy for the Palestinians nor boosted the
Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Twenty years later,
the Palestinians still have a long way to go before they ever see real
democracy in the West Bank or Gaza Strip.
To begin with, the Palestinian Authority, which was
born out of the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the PLO, was never a
democratic regime. On the contrary; what the Palestinians got from the start
was a mini-dictatorship run by Yasser Arafat and his PLO and Fatah cronies. It
was a corrupt regime, was directly funded and armed by the U.S., Europe and
several other countries.
Those who were
funding Arafat's autocratic regime back then never cared about either democracy
or transparency. They were pouring billions of dollars on the PA without
holding its leaders accountable.
The result was that
the Palestinians got a regime that not only deprived them of most of the
international aid, but that also cracked down on political opponents and
freedom of speech. The Palestinian Authority was actually a one-man show called
Yasser Arafat; he and his cronies were the main benefactors of American and
European taxpayers' money.
At the time, the
assumption in the U.S., Europe and other countries was that a corrupt and
repressive Arafat would one day make far-reaching concessions for the sake of
peace with Israel.
Because he was on the
payroll of the Americans and Europeans, the thinking went, Arafat would never
be able to say no to any offer -- such as the generous proposal he received
from then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak at the botched Camp David summit in
the summer of 2000. But when Arafat was finally put to test at Camp David,
which was sponsored by President Bill Clinton, he walked out of the summit,
accusing the U.S. of trying to force him to make concessions that no
Palestinian would ever accept.
The billions of
dollars that Arafat received between 1994 and 2000 from the Americans and the
international community failed to convince him to accept the most generous
offer ever made to the Palestinians by an Israeli prime minister. Even worse,
the first seven years of the peace process resulted in the second intifada,
which erupted in September 2000 -- a few months after the collapse of the Camp
David summit.
The refusal of the
international community back then to hold Arafat accountable was the main
reason a majority of Palestinians were driven into the open arms of Hamas.
Palestinians lost faith not only in the peace process, but also in the
Palestinian Authority and its leaders. Palestinians saw no improvement in their
living conditions, mainly as a result of the PA's corruption.
That is why they
turned to Hamas, which promised them change, reform and an end to financial
corruption. The Americans and Europeans are therefore responsible for Hamas's
rise to power.
Until 2007, the
Palestinians had only one corrupt and undemocratic regime, called the
Palestinian Authority. Since then, the Palestinians have earned another regime
that is even more ruthless and repressive: Hamas.
So if $4.5 billion
brought the Palestinians two corrupt and undemocratic regimes, what would have
happened had the U.S. and Europe invested a few more billion dollars in
promoting Palestinian democracy? The Palestinians would most likely have seen
the emergence of a few more dictatorships in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Of course, the Palestinian
Authority prime minister did not tell the visiting U.S. Congressmen that the
$4.5 billion the Americans invested in promoting Palestinian democracy went
down the drain or ended up in secret Swiss bank accounts. Nor did he tell the
Congressman that the Palestinians do not have a functioning parliament or a
free media under the PA in the West Bank or under Hamas in the Gaza Strip. And,
of course, Hamdallah never told the Congressman that for Palestinians,
presidential and parliamentary elections remain a remote dream.
But, like most
Westerners who visit Ramallah, Congressman McCarthy obviously did not ask harsh
questions, especially regarding the Palestinians' responsibilities toward
democracy and the peace process. The Congressman was undoubtedly glad to hear
that the U.S. has invested $4.5 billion in Palestinian democracy and boosting
the peace process. But did he and others ever ask whether and how the
Palestinian Authority used those funds to advance these two goals?
One does not need to
ask Palestinian Authority officials about the way they spent the American aid
money because the reality on the ground is too obvious. The PA took the
billions of dollars and continues to operate as a corrupt and undemocratic
regime. Democracy is the last thing the Palestinians expect to see from the PA
or Hamas.
And what has the
Palestinian Authority done with the billions of dollars to advance the cause of
peace with Israel? Has the PA leadership used this money to promote peace and
coexistence with Israel? The answer, of course, is no. Instead of using
American financial aid to further this cause, the PA has done -- and continues
to do -- the exact opposite. In addition to inciting its people against Israel
on a daily basis, the Palestinian Authority leadership has been using these
funds to wage a massive campaign in the international community with the
purpose of isolating and delegitimizing Israel and turning it into a pariah
state.
The
"investment" in Palestinian democracy and peace with Israel has been
a complete failure because of the refusal of the U.S. Administration to hold
the Palestinian Authority fully accountable.
Unless Western donors bang on the table and demand
that the Palestinian Authority use their money to bring democracy to its people
and prepare them for peace, the prospects of reviving any peace process in the
Middle East will remain zero.
Jorge Alberto Villalón Y.
POLITICS
EXCLUSIVE: Special
Operations Vets Call For Kerry To Strip Hillary Of Security Clearance
A group of special operations veterans and intelligence community officials
have formally asked Secretary of State John Kerry to strip former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton of her security clearance along with three of her top
aides, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
The
organization, called the Special Operations Educational Fund, wrote Kerry August 5 asking that he “immediately suspend the
security clearances” because of Clinton’s use of a private unsecured email
server and domain name that contains classified information. SOF is a 501 (c) 4
nonprofit group.
The group
also asked Kerry to administratively suspend the security clearances of Clinton
and aides Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin and Jake Sullivan.
The SOEF
demands could significantly escalate the email crisis that has engulfed
Clinton’s campaign for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination in recent
weeks.
The SOEF
previously criticized the Obama administration for leaking sensitive national
security information concerning the operation that resulted in the death of
al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
Mills is
a long-time Clinton aide who was White House counsel to President Clinton
during his impeachment. She was also chief of staff to Secretary Clinton at the
State Department.
Abedin
was deputy chief of staff to Secretary Clinton. Abedin became the focus of
controversy when it was learned earlier this year that she was pocketing
multiple salaries while working for Clinton, including a government salary and
benefits, as well as earned income from the Clinton Foundation and a firm
created by a former official of the foundation.
Sullivan
was one of Clinton’s point people on Iran. Politico called him Clinton’s “secret Iran man.”
Secretaries of State typically retain national security clearances for an indeterminate
time after leaving office. It permits them to examine classified documents
and provide assistance to their successors.
The SOEF
was founded by Scott Taylor, a former Navy SEAL who serves in the Virginia
House of Delegates. He is a Republican.
The SOEF
claims, “there is ample evidence that this private server was inadequately
protected from foreign intelligence penetration and malicious ‘hacking.'”
They also
charged that the operation of the email system “is a serious breach our
nation’s diplomatic, operational and strategic security.” They urged Kerry to
“exercise its administrative authority to suspend any existing security
clearances of these four individuals.”
Michael
Gregg, CEO of Superior Solutions, a cybersecurity firm that conducts penetration
assessment of computer systems, told TheDCNF that Clinton’s server was “very
vulnerable. There is a 98 percent certainty that that server was breached
somehow.”
To
emphasize Clinton’s vulnerability, Gregg noted that the Romanian hacker
“Guccifer,” whose real name is Marel Lazar Lehel, was the first to disclose
that her emails were on a private server.
Guccifer
is known for hacking political figures and celebrities. He was indicted in June
2014 in absentia by a federal grand jury for hacking activities in the United
States.
Gregg
said that Clinton’s server was working with a 2008 version of Windows. “It
wasn’t even the latest version,” he said. “My main concern as a security
professional was simply the amount of information that could be potentially
leaked or exploited.”
The
Inspector General for the Intelligence Community has confirmed that classified
material was on the Clinton server which reportedly contains 30,000 emails.
Clinton
and her attorney David Kendall surrendered the server and a backup server along
with three thumb nail drives to the FBI.
Intelligence
officials are currently combing through the emails at the State Department
after it was determined that classified material resided on the server, some of
which were “Top Secret.”
The State
Department did not reply to a DCNF inquiry regarding the SOF request.
Are Trump
and Cruz Allied?
by: Tim Mak
Donald
Trump and Ted Cruz’s mutual admiration is turning into a conservative
bromance—one that could have a huge strategic payoff for the Texas senator’s
presidential campaign.
Behind the scenes, Cruz has been methodologically developing Trump’s support. The two candidates have met in person at least five times and talk by phone occasionally. And in the future, they may even hold events together.
The two campaigns privately discussed a possible joint event this year in Washington, D.C., and Cruz was invited to join Trump’s infamous trip to the Mexico border, though a scheduling problem prevented him from attending, sources told The Daily Beast.
“In terms of Trump’s civility, if you’re nice to him, he’ll be nice to you. And Cruz has been nice. Cruz is playing the long game and hopes that if he survives and Trump doesn’t, the billionaire will swing to him. He’s the second choice for a lot of Trump voters,” said a source familiar with the inner workings of the Trump campaign. Source: The Daily Beast
Behind the scenes, Cruz has been methodologically developing Trump’s support. The two candidates have met in person at least five times and talk by phone occasionally. And in the future, they may even hold events together.
The two campaigns privately discussed a possible joint event this year in Washington, D.C., and Cruz was invited to join Trump’s infamous trip to the Mexico border, though a scheduling problem prevented him from attending, sources told The Daily Beast.
“In terms of Trump’s civility, if you’re nice to him, he’ll be nice to you. And Cruz has been nice. Cruz is playing the long game and hopes that if he survives and Trump doesn’t, the billionaire will swing to him. He’s the second choice for a lot of Trump voters,” said a source familiar with the inner workings of the Trump campaign. Source: The Daily Beast
Here's What Iran Is Planning
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by: Michele Hickford
Well I suppose it’s a
darn good thing the U.S. has signed that “deal’ with Iran in order to prevent
war, because if the rhetoric and imagery coming from that nation is any
indication of what we’re getting WITH the deal, we’d be in really big trouble
without it.
Here’s what I don’t get. We believe Iran when they say they’re not interested in stockpiling nukes, but we DON’T believe them when they say they’re going to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. Perhaps this video will change some minds.
Via Gateway Pundit, the Investigative Report on Terrorism reports the Islamic Revolution Design House, a media company associated with Iranian hardliners released an animated video this week of Al-Quds special forces on a hill outside Jerusalem preparing for battle.It shows a soldier putting on a Revolutionary Guard patch, and then a Qassam Brigades headband, followed by a ski mask and a Palestinian scarf around his neck, while arming himself with a machine gun and a pistol. As he puts on a helmet, we see him looking over Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, home of the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa mosque. The image pulls back, showing the soldier amid a sea of conquering troops.
A concluding message invokes Ayatollah Khomeini’s threat that Israel must be wiped off the map and promises that day is coming soon. Source: Allen B West
Here’s what I don’t get. We believe Iran when they say they’re not interested in stockpiling nukes, but we DON’T believe them when they say they’re going to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. Perhaps this video will change some minds.
Via Gateway Pundit, the Investigative Report on Terrorism reports the Islamic Revolution Design House, a media company associated with Iranian hardliners released an animated video this week of Al-Quds special forces on a hill outside Jerusalem preparing for battle.It shows a soldier putting on a Revolutionary Guard patch, and then a Qassam Brigades headband, followed by a ski mask and a Palestinian scarf around his neck, while arming himself with a machine gun and a pistol. As he puts on a helmet, we see him looking over Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, home of the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa mosque. The image pulls back, showing the soldier amid a sea of conquering troops.
A concluding message invokes Ayatollah Khomeini’s threat that Israel must be wiped off the map and promises that day is coming soon. Source: Allen B West
Pentagon
About To Impose Transgenders on the Military
·
by:
Jacqueline Klimas
The
working group tasked with looking at whether transgender troops can serve
openly will meet for the first time Wednesday afternoon, a Pentagon spokesman
said.
The group will include civilians and military representatives from all four branches, plus the Coast Guard, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Staff, Matthew Allen said. The working group is expected to submit its recommendations and findings by January.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced the formation of the working group last month, calling the ban on transgender service members "outdated" and saying it distracted from the military's "core missions."
"At my direction, the working group will start with the presumption that transgender persons can serve openly without adverse impact on military effectiveness and readiness, unless and except where objective, practical impediments are identified," Carter said in a statement. Source: Washington Examiner
The group will include civilians and military representatives from all four branches, plus the Coast Guard, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Staff, Matthew Allen said. The working group is expected to submit its recommendations and findings by January.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced the formation of the working group last month, calling the ban on transgender service members "outdated" and saying it distracted from the military's "core missions."
"At my direction, the working group will start with the presumption that transgender persons can serve openly without adverse impact on military effectiveness and readiness, unless and except where objective, practical impediments are identified," Carter said in a statement. Source: Washington Examiner
Georgina
López: CARTA DE UN MEDICO CUBANO AL PAPA FRANCISCO
Federico
R. Justiniani,
M.D.610 Valencia Ave. Apt.
304Coral Gables, FL 33134,
USA Miami,
Papa Francisco
00120 Ciudad Vaticano'[
Su Santidad:
Como Ud. visitará Cuba el mes entrante, me decido a escribirle
> esta carta para trasmitirle algunos datos sobre el régimen
> imperante durante los últimos 56 años en mi patria de
> origen, que considero son de importancia vital que Ud.
> conozca. No tengo ninguna duda de sus buenas intenciones y
> su deseo de aplicar las enseñanzas del Evangelio a las
> difíciles circunstancias del mundo actual. Pero me preocupa
> cuáles son sus fuentes de información, y que sus palabras
> en defensa de los pobres sean utilizadas en su favor por los
> regímenes socialistas dictatoriales que desafortunadamente
> abundan en Latino-América. Debo
> iniciar esta misiva identificándome. Soy un médico
> internista jubilado, de 86 años, nacido en La Habana en
> 1929. Estudié en colegios religiosos (Hnos. Maristas y La
> Salle). Me gradué de médico en la Universidad de La Habana
> en 1954, me entrené en Medicina Interna en el Hospital
> Universitario “General Calixto García”, ejercí la
> medicina en La Habana hasta que, en 1964, tomé la difícil
> y penosa decisión de abandonar mi patria, mis sueños,
> proyectos y planes para un futuro, cuando me convencí que
> no podía vivir en el asfixiante medio que la revolución
> había creado. En los Estados Unidos tuve que volver a
> servir una residencia de medicina de 4 años, para poder
> tomar y pasar el examen que me calificó como internista en
> este país. He tenido una larga y exitosa carrera
> académica, alcanzando el grado de Profesor de Medicina de
> la Universidad de Miami asignado al Hospital Monte Sinaí de
> Mami Beach. Estoy jubilado desde Julio de 2010.
> esta carta para trasmitirle algunos datos sobre el régimen
> imperante durante los últimos 56 años en mi patria de
> origen, que considero son de importancia vital que Ud.
> conozca. No tengo ninguna duda de sus buenas intenciones y
> su deseo de aplicar las enseñanzas del Evangelio a las
> difíciles circunstancias del mundo actual. Pero me preocupa
> cuáles son sus fuentes de información, y que sus palabras
> en defensa de los pobres sean utilizadas en su favor por los
> regímenes socialistas dictatoriales que desafortunadamente
> abundan en Latino-América. Debo
> iniciar esta misiva identificándome. Soy un médico
> internista jubilado, de 86 años, nacido en La Habana en
> 1929. Estudié en colegios religiosos (Hnos. Maristas y La
> Salle). Me gradué de médico en la Universidad de La Habana
> en 1954, me entrené en Medicina Interna en el Hospital
> Universitario “General Calixto García”, ejercí la
> medicina en La Habana hasta que, en 1964, tomé la difícil
> y penosa decisión de abandonar mi patria, mis sueños,
> proyectos y planes para un futuro, cuando me convencí que
> no podía vivir en el asfixiante medio que la revolución
> había creado. En los Estados Unidos tuve que volver a
> servir una residencia de medicina de 4 años, para poder
> tomar y pasar el examen que me calificó como internista en
> este país. He tenido una larga y exitosa carrera
> académica, alcanzando el grado de Profesor de Medicina de
> la Universidad de Miami asignado al Hospital Monte Sinaí de
> Mami Beach. Estoy jubilado desde Julio de 2010.
Hasta aquí mi presentación, que
creo es importante para que Ud.sepa quién le
escribe.
Mi propósito, muy humildemente,
es el de suministrarle alguna información sobre la historia y los logros de la
Revolución Cubana, como le digo al inicio de esta carta.
Fidel Castro llegó al poder después de derrotar el
régimen
> corrupto y despótico de Fulgencio Batista en 1959. Al
> llegar triunfalmente a La Habana, en un discurso histórico,
> Castro aseguró que esta era una revolución nacionalista,
> que él personalmente no quería ninguna posición de poder,
> y que celebraría elecciones en 6 meses. Nombró un primer
> gabinete integrado por personalidades de prestigio, que
> pronto renunciaron cuando conocieron “al monstruo desde
> sus entrañas”. La revolución comenzó con un gran
> número de fusilamientos sin un juicio equitativo, entre
> corrupto y despótico de Fulgencio Batista en 1959. Al
> llegar triunfalmente a La Habana, en un discurso histórico,
> Castro aseguró que esta era una revolución nacionalista,
> que él personalmente no quería ninguna posición de poder,
> y que celebraría elecciones en 6 meses. Nombró un primer
> gabinete integrado por personalidades de prestigio, que
> pronto renunciaron cuando conocieron “al monstruo desde
> sus entrañas”. La revolución comenzó con un gran
> número de fusilamientos sin un juicio equitativo, entre
> ellos muchos jóvenes que murieron en el paredón de
> fusilamiento gritando “¡Viva Cristo Rey!”. Pronto el
> gobierno decidió “nacionalizar”, léase incautarse, de
> todas las empresas extranjeras, principalmente
> norteamericanas, sin ofrecer compensación alguna. Más
> tarde “nacionalizaron” todas las empresas y negocios
> cubanos, grandes, medianos y pequeños. Esto pasaba de ser
> una revolución nacionalista a ser un Estado que se
> apoderaba de todas las riquezas y recursos de la nación, en
> detrimento de la gran clase empresarial cubana, que había
> invertido toda una vida trabajando arduamente para crear sus
> propios negocios. Debo subrayar aquí, que la mayor parte de
> estos negocios se fueron a pique cuando la revolución los
> puso en manos de “compañeros” totalmente incapacitados.
> De esta forma se destruyó un inmenso aparato productivo,
> fruto del trabajo de los cubanos. Y así comenzó el éxodo
> de cubanos y el empobrecimiento de la nación. La
> revolución, lejos de quitarles a los ricos para darles a
> los pobres, igualó a toda la población a un nivel de
> pobreza, con excepción de la clase privilegiada dirigente,
> que vive con todos los lujos y privilegios.
Posteriormente ocurre la Invasión de Bahía de
Cochinos. Los invasores eran cubanos jóvenes idealistas, hijos de familias de
clase media y media-alta, apoyados por el gobierno norteamericano,
pero no mercenarios como el régimen les ha enseñado a los
escolares posteriormente. Además de los que murieron en el
combate, otros murieron cuando eran trasladados a La Habana
en un vehículo cerrado, sin ventilación, muriendo
asfixiados. Después del derrocamiento de la brigada
invasora, Castro decidió que ya era hora de quitarse la
careta y declaró que la revolución era comunista. Hasta
> entonces cuando se le preguntaba si la revolución era
> comunista, respondía negándolo enfáticamente y diciendo
> que la revolución era verde como las palmas. El pueblo de
> Cuba, que siempre ha usado lo que llamamos “el choteo”,
> tirarlo todo a broma, decía que la revolución era como el
> melón, verde por fuera y roja por dentro. En resumen,
> Castro había mentido y traicionado vergonzosamente al
> pueblo cubano.
pero no mercenarios como el régimen les ha enseñado a los
escolares posteriormente. Además de los que murieron en el
combate, otros murieron cuando eran trasladados a La Habana
en un vehículo cerrado, sin ventilación, muriendo
asfixiados. Después del derrocamiento de la brigada
invasora, Castro decidió que ya era hora de quitarse la
careta y declaró que la revolución era comunista. Hasta
> entonces cuando se le preguntaba si la revolución era
> comunista, respondía negándolo enfáticamente y diciendo
> que la revolución era verde como las palmas. El pueblo de
> Cuba, que siempre ha usado lo que llamamos “el choteo”,
> tirarlo todo a broma, decía que la revolución era como el
> melón, verde por fuera y roja por dentro. En resumen,
> Castro había mentido y traicionado vergonzosamente al
> pueblo cubano.
El siguiente paso fue “nacionalizar” todas las
escuelas
> privadas de la nación, una gran parte religiosas, y
> expulsar forzosamente en un barco hacia España, a la gran
> mayoría del clero de la isla. Esto trajo pánico entre los
> matrimonios jóvenes con hijos de edad escolar, que no
> querían que sus hijos fueran adoctrinados por el comunismo.
> Muchos, en la imposibilidad de conseguir la salida del
> país, mandaron a sus hijos solos, en lo que se llamó el
> Programa Peter Pan, donde la Iglesia Católica en Miami
> jugó un papel crucial en la protección y ulterior
> asignación de estos niños a familias que los alojaron. No
> tengo que subrayar, Su Santidad, el enorme sacrificio y
> sufrimiento de estas familias. En otros casos, las familias
> pudieron salir del país con sus hijos, para llegar sin un
> centavo a estas tierras de libertad, con tal de evitar el
> adoctrinamiento de sus pequeños. Esta es solo una parte de
> las tantas dolorosas experiencias que ha sufrido el
> cubano.
> privadas de la nación, una gran parte religiosas, y
> expulsar forzosamente en un barco hacia España, a la gran
> mayoría del clero de la isla. Esto trajo pánico entre los
> matrimonios jóvenes con hijos de edad escolar, que no
> querían que sus hijos fueran adoctrinados por el comunismo.
> Muchos, en la imposibilidad de conseguir la salida del
> país, mandaron a sus hijos solos, en lo que se llamó el
> Programa Peter Pan, donde la Iglesia Católica en Miami
> jugó un papel crucial en la protección y ulterior
> asignación de estos niños a familias que los alojaron. No
> tengo que subrayar, Su Santidad, el enorme sacrificio y
> sufrimiento de estas familias. En otros casos, las familias
> pudieron salir del país con sus hijos, para llegar sin un
> centavo a estas tierras de libertad, con tal de evitar el
> adoctrinamiento de sus pequeños. Esta es solo una parte de
> las tantas dolorosas experiencias que ha sufrido el
> cubano.
El sistema ha abolido todas las libertades
individuales: no se
> puede opinar y mucho menos actuar en contra de la
> revolución. Se creó el delito de “peligrosidad”, de
> modo que los ciudadanos pueden ser enjuiciados (si a esos
> juicios con final predeterminado se les puede llamar
> enjuiciamientos) y condenados a la cárcel sólo con la
> sospecha de que pudieran incurrir en actividades
> contra-revolucionarias, antes de que estas ocurran. No hay
> libertad de expresión, ni de prensa. La dictadura escoge
> qué noticias los ciudadanos deben recibir y cuáles no. La
> imposibilidad de expresarse libremente lleva a la doble
> moral: se piensa una cosa y se dice otra, a expensas de
> perder el trabajo, hacer a los hijos ciudadanos de segunda
> clase en las escuelas, o cuando no, terminar en la cárcel.
> Dios dotó al hombre de libre albedrío, y por consiguiente
> es innato en el ser humano el expresarse y poder determinar
> su futuro libremente. La dictadura usa la desinformación
> como un arma poderosa para mantenerse en el poder. Por eso
> el acceso a internet y los medios sociales no está al
> alcance del ciudadano. En estos momentos históricos de la
> reanudación de las relaciones entre Cuba y Estados Unidos,
> la represión persiste o quizás se ha incrementado.
> Disidentes pacíficos como Las Damas de Blanco, mujeres que
> se reúnen en una manifestación los domingos después de
> Misa, portando como toda arma gladiolos, y gritando
> consignas de libertad, son aporreadas, vejadas, y
> encarceladas. No hay libertad de viajar, y el gobierno
> decide quién puede y quién no puede entrar o salir del
> país.
> puede opinar y mucho menos actuar en contra de la
> revolución. Se creó el delito de “peligrosidad”, de
> modo que los ciudadanos pueden ser enjuiciados (si a esos
> juicios con final predeterminado se les puede llamar
> enjuiciamientos) y condenados a la cárcel sólo con la
> sospecha de que pudieran incurrir en actividades
> contra-revolucionarias, antes de que estas ocurran. No hay
> libertad de expresión, ni de prensa. La dictadura escoge
> qué noticias los ciudadanos deben recibir y cuáles no. La
> imposibilidad de expresarse libremente lleva a la doble
> moral: se piensa una cosa y se dice otra, a expensas de
> perder el trabajo, hacer a los hijos ciudadanos de segunda
> clase en las escuelas, o cuando no, terminar en la cárcel.
> Dios dotó al hombre de libre albedrío, y por consiguiente
> es innato en el ser humano el expresarse y poder determinar
> su futuro libremente. La dictadura usa la desinformación
> como un arma poderosa para mantenerse en el poder. Por eso
> el acceso a internet y los medios sociales no está al
> alcance del ciudadano. En estos momentos históricos de la
> reanudación de las relaciones entre Cuba y Estados Unidos,
> la represión persiste o quizás se ha incrementado.
> Disidentes pacíficos como Las Damas de Blanco, mujeres que
> se reúnen en una manifestación los domingos después de
> Misa, portando como toda arma gladiolos, y gritando
> consignas de libertad, son aporreadas, vejadas, y
> encarceladas. No hay libertad de viajar, y el gobierno
> decide quién puede y quién no puede entrar o salir del
> país.
Como expresión dramática del estado desesperado que
vive el
> cubano, está la inmensa emigración del pueblo a todas
> partes del mundo. La horrible decisión de salir del país
> en embarcaciones pobremente construidas con llantas de
> automóviles y otros materiales similares, es otra
> expresión de la frustración y el desespero del ciudadano.
> Ud. ha vivido una situación similar con los pobres
> inmigrantes de África tratando de llegar a tierras de
> libertad en el sur de Italia, con la consecuente enorme
> pérdida de vidas. ¡Dios sabe cuántas vidas de cubanos
> desesperados se han perdido en el Estrecho de la
> Florida!Como esta carta se va haciendo larga,
> trataré de sintetizar algunos puntos que considero
> relevantes para entender el desastroso sistema imperante en
> Cuba:
> cubano, está la inmensa emigración del pueblo a todas
> partes del mundo. La horrible decisión de salir del país
> en embarcaciones pobremente construidas con llantas de
> automóviles y otros materiales similares, es otra
> expresión de la frustración y el desespero del ciudadano.
> Ud. ha vivido una situación similar con los pobres
> inmigrantes de África tratando de llegar a tierras de
> libertad en el sur de Italia, con la consecuente enorme
> pérdida de vidas. ¡Dios sabe cuántas vidas de cubanos
> desesperados se han perdido en el Estrecho de la
> Florida!Como esta carta se va haciendo larga,
> trataré de sintetizar algunos puntos que considero
> relevantes para entender el desastroso sistema imperante en
> Cuba:
1. El embargo
norteamericano (llamado
> bloqueo por la dictadura): ha sido ineficiente en derrocar
> al régimen, pero le ha servido a éste para echarle la
> culpa al “bloqueo” del fracaso económico de la
> revolución. Mientras tanto, el régimen ha podido comerciar
> con todos los países del resto del mundo, y especialmente
> con Canadá, México y algunos países de Europa. El
> problema es que Cuba no tiene los recursos económicos para
> pagar sus deudas. El fracaso económico de la revolución se
> evidencia en el hecho de que Cuba sobrevivió en los
> primeros 20 o 30 años, como un satélite económico de la
> Unión Soviética. Cuando ésta desapareció, el pueblo
> cubano sufrió lo que eufemísticamente la dictadura llamó
> “el período especial”, con carencia absoluta de lo más
> elemental, incluyendo alimentos nutritivos, y desatándose
> una “epidemia” de una enfermedad ocular por carencia de
> vitamina B1. Posteriormente, cuando Hugo
> Chávez surge en el poder en Venezuela, Cuba
> pasó a ser una dependencia económica del petróleo de
> Venezuela, que pagó con trabajadores de la salud enviados a
> servir en los lugares más inhóspitos de Venezuela por un
> salario mísero. Este comercio de médicos y enfermeras se
> ha extendido a otros países, convirtiendo a estos
> profesionales en esclavos del régimen. En estos casos el
> régimen se beneficia quedándose con una buena parte del
> salario pagado por la nación anfitriona. El levantamiento
> del embargo le privaría a los hermanos Castro de usar el
> llamado bloqueo como una excusa para el fracaso económico
> de la revolución. Los Estados Unidos han permitido el
> envío de granos, y otros alimentos, pero con pago por
> adelantado. Levantado el embargo, podría haber comercio sin
> pago previo, con el subsiguiente alto riesgo dado la pobre
> historia crediticia de Cuba y la falta de garantías por la
> carencia de un sistema judicial
> independiente.
> bloqueo por la dictadura): ha sido ineficiente en derrocar
> al régimen, pero le ha servido a éste para echarle la
> culpa al “bloqueo” del fracaso económico de la
> revolución. Mientras tanto, el régimen ha podido comerciar
> con todos los países del resto del mundo, y especialmente
> con Canadá, México y algunos países de Europa. El
> problema es que Cuba no tiene los recursos económicos para
> pagar sus deudas. El fracaso económico de la revolución se
> evidencia en el hecho de que Cuba sobrevivió en los
> primeros 20 o 30 años, como un satélite económico de la
> Unión Soviética. Cuando ésta desapareció, el pueblo
> cubano sufrió lo que eufemísticamente la dictadura llamó
> “el período especial”, con carencia absoluta de lo más
> elemental, incluyendo alimentos nutritivos, y desatándose
> una “epidemia” de una enfermedad ocular por carencia de
> vitamina B1. Posteriormente, cuando Hugo
> Chávez surge en el poder en Venezuela, Cuba
> pasó a ser una dependencia económica del petróleo de
> Venezuela, que pagó con trabajadores de la salud enviados a
> servir en los lugares más inhóspitos de Venezuela por un
> salario mísero. Este comercio de médicos y enfermeras se
> ha extendido a otros países, convirtiendo a estos
> profesionales en esclavos del régimen. En estos casos el
> régimen se beneficia quedándose con una buena parte del
> salario pagado por la nación anfitriona. El levantamiento
> del embargo le privaría a los hermanos Castro de usar el
> llamado bloqueo como una excusa para el fracaso económico
> de la revolución. Los Estados Unidos han permitido el
> envío de granos, y otros alimentos, pero con pago por
> adelantado. Levantado el embargo, podría haber comercio sin
> pago previo, con el subsiguiente alto riesgo dado la pobre
> historia crediticia de Cuba y la falta de garantías por la
> carencia de un sistema judicial
> independiente.
2. El cuidado
de la salud: este es uno de
> los llamados logros de la revolución. Estos regímenes
> totalitarios son los campeones en la propaganda, y le han
> vendido al mundo, el gran triunfo del sistema de salud, en
> el que el sujeto recibe cuidado médico sin costo alguno. La
> realidad, desgraciadamente es triste. En Cuba existe un
> sistema de apartheid en el cuidado de la salud. Hay dos
> sistemas funcionando paralelamente: uno, que tiene todos los
> recursos más modernos y que atiende a los jerarcas del
> régimen y a los extranjeros que pagan en dólares. El otro
> sistema paralelo, es el de la atención del ciudadano
> común: una carencia absoluta aún de los recursos más
> elementales. Los hospitales donde ingresan los ciudadanos
> “de a pie” carecen de medicamentos, el paciente tiene
> que llevar sus sábanas y almohadas y a veces la comida, y
> sufren de una higiene y mantenimiento deplorables. Estos son
> datos concretos que he obtenido de personas que han sufrido
> en su propia carne o en la de sus familiares esta penosa
> situación. Desde Miami y otras ciudades de los EEUU se
> envían regularmente medicinas a Cuba, que el enfermo
> carecería sin ese aporte, incluyendo una
> simple aspirina. Por supuesto, que los visitantes
> extranjeros son llevados a observar los hospitales de los
> privilegiados, vendiéndolos como el estándar del cuidado
> de la salud en Cuba. De nuevo…son los mejores en hacer
> propaganda, basada en la mentira y el encubrimiento de la
> realidad del pobre cubano común.
> los llamados logros de la revolución. Estos regímenes
> totalitarios son los campeones en la propaganda, y le han
> vendido al mundo, el gran triunfo del sistema de salud, en
> el que el sujeto recibe cuidado médico sin costo alguno. La
> realidad, desgraciadamente es triste. En Cuba existe un
> sistema de apartheid en el cuidado de la salud. Hay dos
> sistemas funcionando paralelamente: uno, que tiene todos los
> recursos más modernos y que atiende a los jerarcas del
> régimen y a los extranjeros que pagan en dólares. El otro
> sistema paralelo, es el de la atención del ciudadano
> común: una carencia absoluta aún de los recursos más
> elementales. Los hospitales donde ingresan los ciudadanos
> “de a pie” carecen de medicamentos, el paciente tiene
> que llevar sus sábanas y almohadas y a veces la comida, y
> sufren de una higiene y mantenimiento deplorables. Estos son
> datos concretos que he obtenido de personas que han sufrido
> en su propia carne o en la de sus familiares esta penosa
> situación. Desde Miami y otras ciudades de los EEUU se
> envían regularmente medicinas a Cuba, que el enfermo
> carecería sin ese aporte, incluyendo una
> simple aspirina. Por supuesto, que los visitantes
> extranjeros son llevados a observar los hospitales de los
> privilegiados, vendiéndolos como el estándar del cuidado
> de la salud en Cuba. De nuevo…son los mejores en hacer
> propaganda, basada en la mentira y el encubrimiento de la
> realidad del pobre cubano común.
3. La
educación: tan cacareada como uno
> de los logros de la revolución. Ha sido una herramienta
> poderosa en el adoctrinamiento revolucionario. He visto
> cartillas para enseñar a leer con ejemplos como “F de
> fusil o de Fidel”. La educación está totalmente
> politizada y en la misión y objetivos de las instituciones
> de enseñanza superior, se señala la producción del
> ciudadano revolucionario que siga fielmente los designios
> del Partido Comunista Cubano. Es lo que llaman la creación
> del “hombre nuevo”, que tiene como objetivo primordial
> crear un sujeto que siga fielmente, sin cuestionar, los
> mandatos del régimen, aún en detrimento del bien personal
> o familiar. En este sentido, la revolución ha sido otro
> fracaso. El “hombre nuevo” es uno que tiene que ocultar
> su verdadero modo de pensar, lo que le lleva a la doble
> moral y al uso de la mentira y la simulación. Es cierto que
> el nivel de alfabetización del país ha sido incrementado
> notablemente, así como el número de graduados
> universitarios. Pero cuando estos graduados tratan de
> encontrar trabajo en sus respectivas disciplinas, solo
> encuentran la posibilidad de una remuneración muy pobre, de
> alrededor de US$20.00 mensuales como máximo. De modo que uno se encuentra en Cuba, ingenieros, maestros, y otros
> profesionales trabajando como taxistas, o en empresas
> relacionadas al turismo que les facilita el acceso a los
> dólares, o tristemente como prostitutas, llamadas
> “jineteras”. En la desesperación y desilusión, muchas
> de estas jóvenes tratan de lograr casarse con algún
> extranjero, casi siempre viejo, y casi siempre de España o
> de Italia, para una vez llegadas a estos países comenzar a
> pasar trabajo cuando son rechazadas por sus adinerados
> maridos.
> de los logros de la revolución. Ha sido una herramienta
> poderosa en el adoctrinamiento revolucionario. He visto
> cartillas para enseñar a leer con ejemplos como “F de
> fusil o de Fidel”. La educación está totalmente
> politizada y en la misión y objetivos de las instituciones
> de enseñanza superior, se señala la producción del
> ciudadano revolucionario que siga fielmente los designios
> del Partido Comunista Cubano. Es lo que llaman la creación
> del “hombre nuevo”, que tiene como objetivo primordial
> crear un sujeto que siga fielmente, sin cuestionar, los
> mandatos del régimen, aún en detrimento del bien personal
> o familiar. En este sentido, la revolución ha sido otro
> fracaso. El “hombre nuevo” es uno que tiene que ocultar
> su verdadero modo de pensar, lo que le lleva a la doble
> moral y al uso de la mentira y la simulación. Es cierto que
> el nivel de alfabetización del país ha sido incrementado
> notablemente, así como el número de graduados
> universitarios. Pero cuando estos graduados tratan de
> encontrar trabajo en sus respectivas disciplinas, solo
> encuentran la posibilidad de una remuneración muy pobre, de
> alrededor de US$20.00 mensuales como máximo. De modo que uno se encuentra en Cuba, ingenieros, maestros, y otros
> profesionales trabajando como taxistas, o en empresas
> relacionadas al turismo que les facilita el acceso a los
> dólares, o tristemente como prostitutas, llamadas
> “jineteras”. En la desesperación y desilusión, muchas
> de estas jóvenes tratan de lograr casarse con algún
> extranjero, casi siempre viejo, y casi siempre de España o
> de Italia, para una vez llegadas a estos países comenzar a
> pasar trabajo cuando son rechazadas por sus adinerados
> maridos.
El restablecimiento de las relaciones diplomáticas con
los
> EEUU ha sido un gran triunfo de David contra el gigante
> Goliat. Las negociaciones, si a esto se le puede llamar
> negociaciones, han consistido en el gobierno del Presidente
> Obama accediendo a varios de los reclamos de Cuba, sin haber obtenido nada en retorno. Al contrario, Raúl Castro se ha
> jactado de que nunca Cuba cambiará su sistema, de que no
> permitirá la injerencia de EEUU en los asuntos cubanos,
> así como de exigir una serie de condiciones como que le
> devuelvan la base militar de Guantánamo, y que los EEUU
> reparen económicamente los daños causados por tantos años
> de “bloqueo”. Entre las concesiones que el Presidente
> Obama ha hecho está la liberación de 4 espías cubanos
> condenados por un tribunal, y cuya condena fue ratificada
> por un tribunal de Apelación, en relación con delitos
> graves, incluyendo el asesinato de los pilotos de
> “Hermanos al Rescate”, a cambio de la liberación de
> Allan Gross, un norteamericano condenado por el horrible
> delito de distribuir teléfonos celulares a la pequeña
> colonia de judíos existente en Cuba. Los espías cubanos
> fueron recibidos con honores de héroes en Cuba. La otra
> concesión fue la de quitar a Cuba de la lista de países
> terroristas, a pesar de que en Panamá descubrieron un buque
> que supuestamente cargaba sacos de azúcar de Cuba para
> Corea del Norte, y que llevaba debajo de esa carga, piezas
> de aviones de guerra y otros materiales
> bélicos.
> EEUU ha sido un gran triunfo de David contra el gigante
> Goliat. Las negociaciones, si a esto se le puede llamar
> negociaciones, han consistido en el gobierno del Presidente
> Obama accediendo a varios de los reclamos de Cuba, sin haber obtenido nada en retorno. Al contrario, Raúl Castro se ha
> jactado de que nunca Cuba cambiará su sistema, de que no
> permitirá la injerencia de EEUU en los asuntos cubanos,
> así como de exigir una serie de condiciones como que le
> devuelvan la base militar de Guantánamo, y que los EEUU
> reparen económicamente los daños causados por tantos años
> de “bloqueo”. Entre las concesiones que el Presidente
> Obama ha hecho está la liberación de 4 espías cubanos
> condenados por un tribunal, y cuya condena fue ratificada
> por un tribunal de Apelación, en relación con delitos
> graves, incluyendo el asesinato de los pilotos de
> “Hermanos al Rescate”, a cambio de la liberación de
> Allan Gross, un norteamericano condenado por el horrible
> delito de distribuir teléfonos celulares a la pequeña
> colonia de judíos existente en Cuba. Los espías cubanos
> fueron recibidos con honores de héroes en Cuba. La otra
> concesión fue la de quitar a Cuba de la lista de países
> terroristas, a pesar de que en Panamá descubrieron un buque
> que supuestamente cargaba sacos de azúcar de Cuba para
> Corea del Norte, y que llevaba debajo de esa carga, piezas
> de aviones de guerra y otros materiales
> bélicos.
En resumen, el régimen comunista ha empobrecido
materialmente al país, pero lo que es más triste, y será más difícil
> de corregir cuando esta pesadilla termine, es el
> empobrecimiento moral y ético del ciudadano, que para poder
> “resolver” o sea subsistir en un régimen asfixiante
> como ese, tiene que decir lo que no piensa, considerar
> totalmente legítimo robar en su lugar de trabajo, vender y
> comprar en bolsa negra, o prostituirse. Una juventud que en
> su mayor parte, ante la realidad en que vive, considera
> salir del país como la única solución a su triste y
> desesperada situación.
> de corregir cuando esta pesadilla termine, es el
> empobrecimiento moral y ético del ciudadano, que para poder
> “resolver” o sea subsistir en un régimen asfixiante
> como ese, tiene que decir lo que no piensa, considerar
> totalmente legítimo robar en su lugar de trabajo, vender y
> comprar en bolsa negra, o prostituirse. Una juventud que en
> su mayor parte, ante la realidad en que vive, considera
> salir del país como la única solución a su triste y
> desesperada situación.
Su Santidad, le pido excusas por lo extensa de esta
carta, pero
> creí mi deber contribuir a informarle de la triste
> situación existente en Cuba. Desgraciadamente no hay
> sistema político perfecto, pero el sistema comunista ha
> sido un fracaso en la historia de la humanidad. En el caso
> de Cuba, la ha empobrecido a niveles nunca antes
> soñados.
> creí mi deber contribuir a informarle de la triste
> situación existente en Cuba. Desgraciadamente no hay
> sistema político perfecto, pero el sistema comunista ha
> sido un fracaso en la historia de la humanidad. En el caso
> de Cuba, la ha empobrecido a niveles nunca antes
> soñados.
Con todo mi respeto, le deseo éxitos en su misión en
Cuba, y
> espero que le permitan reunirse con disidentes, para que le
> den la versión opuesta a la oficial. Me temo que su
> presencia en Cuba sea aprovechada para la legitimación de
> este horrible régimen.
> espero que le permitan reunirse con disidentes, para que le
> den la versión opuesta a la oficial. Me temo que su
> presencia en Cuba sea aprovechada para la legitimación de
> este horrible régimen.
Respetuosamente,
Federico R. Justiniani,
> M.D.
> M.D.
Obituary - must read....COMMON SENSE
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This is excellent!
Obituary printed in the London Times.....Absolutely Brilliant!!
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
- Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
- Why the early bird gets the worm;
- Life isn't always fair;
- And maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.
It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims and everything was politically correct.
Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death,
-by his parents, Truth and Trust,
-by his wife, Discretion,
-by his daughter, Responsibility,
-and by his son, Reason.
He is survived by his 5 stepbrothers;
- I Know My Rights
- I Want It Now
- Someone Else Is To Blame
- I'm A Victim
- Pay me for Doing Nothing
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone
Obituary printed in the London Times.....Absolutely Brilliant!!
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
- Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
- Why the early bird gets the worm;
- Life isn't always fair;
- And maybe it was my fault.
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.
It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims and everything was politically correct.
Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common Sense was preceded in death,
-by his parents, Truth and Trust,
-by his wife, Discretion,
-by his daughter, Responsibility,
-and by his son, Reason.
He is survived by his 5 stepbrothers;
- I Know My Rights
- I Want It Now
- Someone Else Is To Blame
- I'm A Victim
- Pay me for Doing Nothing
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone
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BREAKING: Trump Just Got Stunning News That
Will Make Hillary’s Head Spin
For the very first time...
Pundits, pollsters and politicians said it could never happen — Donald
Trump could never sustain the excitement, maintain his momentum, and become a
serious candidate for President of the United States. Okay, they conceded, even
if the flamboyant billionaire could win over enough Republicans to be a real
contender in the primaries, he wouldn’t have sufficient appeal or be taken
seriously enough to have a shot at the nomination, much less prove to be a
powerhouse when the real rubber meets the road in November, 2016. Well, so much
for conventional wisdom; so much for the naysayers.
Just-released results of a new poll from CNN/ORC show that Trump is now
“competitive in the general election.” For the first time in polling by this
group, the GOP front-runner is shown to be within striking distance of the
presumed Democrat nominee, Hillary Clinton.
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According to a report on the poll by CNN, the surprising
survey of a cross-section of voters “finds Democratic frontrunner Hillary
Clinton ahead of Trump by just 6 points, a dramatic tightening since July.
“He trailed Clinton by 16 points in a July poll, and narrowed that gap
by boosting his standing among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents
(from 67% support in July to 79% now), men (from 46% in July to 53% now) and
white voters (from 50% to 55%).”
The CNN/ORC poll finds that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker also trails
Clinton by 6 points among registered voters.
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·
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In addition to showing Trump gaining big ground on Clinton, the new
survey shows that Hillary’s troubles are not going away — issues and concerns
surrounding her email scandal continue to erode support for the former
secretary of state.
…positive impressions
of Clinton continue to fade. Among all adults, the new poll finds 44% hold a
favorable view of her, 53% an unfavorable one, her most negative favorability
rating since March 2001. A majority of women voters have a positive take on
Clinton, 52% view her favorably, and her support among women appears to be the
foundation for her general election advantages.
Just as, for the first time in this poll, Trump is now shown to be
solidly competitive in a general election matchup against Clinton, so, too, for
the first time, Hillary’s prospects for clinching her party’s presidential
nomination are tracking into dangerous territory.
“Overall, 47% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters say they
support Clinton for the party’s nomination. That’s down 9 points since July,
and marks the first time her support has dipped below 50% in national CNN/ORC
polling on the race,” reports CNN.
The new poll also finds that most Democrats want Vice President Joe
Biden to jump into the race. So far, there’s no definitive word from Biden or
his backers as to what the vice president might decide.
Watch: Donald
Trump Just Demolished Hillary In 15 Seconds: ‘It Does Matter’
The ad ends with her
infamous dismissal of those investigating the 2012 attack in Benghazi.
For all the
intraparty squabbling between Donald Trump and some of his fellow Republican
presidential candidates, the brash billionaire took on Democrat front-runner
Hillary Clinton in a short campaign ad heuploaded to Instagram Tuesday.
Following images depicting three major scandals – Benghazi, Whitewater and her private email server – that still plague her candidacy, the clip shows Clinton asking, “What does it matter?”
Following images depicting three major scandals – Benghazi, Whitewater and her private email server – that still plague her candidacy, the clip shows Clinton asking, “What does it matter?”
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In three words,
Trump’s campaign summed up what many Clinton detractors feel.
“It does matter,” a
caption reads.
The ad ends with her
infamous dismissal of those investigating the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya,
that left four Americans dead.
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·
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Compared Illegal Immigrants To Slaves, This Woman Stood Up With An Epic Message
“What difference at
this point does it make?” she wondered.
“Make a difference,”
another caption urges viewers before closing with Trump’s campaign message:
Trump: Make America Great Again!
Trump’s simple
message resonated with many Americans, as evidenced in the comments section of
a relevant article published by The
Right Scoop.
“Very clever,” one
fan wrote, adding that “nothing hurts more than having your own words used against
you.”
Another called the ad
“excellent,” noting that he predicted the final Clinton quote used “would come
back to haunt her.”
Hillary Managed To Tick Off Republicans And
Obama With Just Two Sentences
Many cited her
perceived credibility gap in questioning her commitment to the environment.
A recent Twitter post
apparently authored by Hillary Clinton has received flak from both sides of the
aisle. Her message, which touted the ostensible virtues of leaving America’s Arctic region
untapped, was an apparent reaction to the Obama administration’s recent
decision to allow limited oil drilling near the coast of Alaska.
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Earlier this week,
the U.S. Department of the Interior announced it is allowing Shell
to recover oil from the region, leading the company to shoot for a completed
well within the next couple of months. As Politico pointed out, Clinton’s tweet
seems to “represent one of her clearest breaks to date with the Obama
administration.”
Among the
environmentalist wing of her party, opposing new domestic oil drilling might
just earn her some additional support. It is clear by the responses to her
Twitter post, however, that there are plenty who feel she is totally wrong on
the issue.
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Many cited her
perceived credibility gap in questioning her commitment to the
environment.
At least one critic,
referencing evidence that the release of
methane is linked to climate change, offered an alternate goal in
Clinton’s mission to save the environment.
More than a few
social media users wondered why Clinton would buck the Obama administration on
this issue while keeping secret her position on the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
BREAKING:
Trump Just Got Stunning News That Will Make Hillary’s Head Spin
Pundits, pollsters and politicians said it could never happen — Donald
Trump could never sustain the excitement, maintain his momentum, and become a
serious candidate for President of the United States. Okay, they conceded, even
if the flamboyant billionaire could win over enough Republicans to be a real
contender in the primaries, he wouldn’t have sufficient appeal or be taken
seriously enough to have a shot at the nomination, much less prove to be a
powerhouse when the real rubber meets the road in November, 2016. Well, so much
for conventional wisdom; so much for the naysayers.
Just-released results of a new poll from CNN/ORC show that Trump is now
“competitive in the general election.” For the first time in polling by this
group, the GOP front-runner is shown to be within striking distance of the
presumed Democrat nominee, Hillary Clinton.
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According to a report on the poll by CNN, the surprising
survey of a cross-section of voters “finds Democratic frontrunner Hillary
Clinton ahead of Trump by just 6 points, a dramatic tightening since July.
“He trailed Clinton by 16 points in a July poll, and narrowed that gap
by boosting his standing among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents
(from 67% support in July to 79% now), men (from 46% in July to 53% now) and
white voters (from 50% to 55%).”
The CNN/ORC poll finds that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker also trails
Clinton by six points among registered voters.
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TRENDING STORIES
In addition to showing Trump gaining big ground on Clinton, the new
survey shows that Hillary’s troubles are not going away — issues and concerns
surrounding her email scandal continue to erode support for the former
secretary of state.
…positive impressions
of Clinton continue to fade. Among all adults, the new poll finds 44% hold a
favorable view of her, 53% an unfavorable one, her most negative favorability
rating since March 2001. A majority of women voters have a positive take on
Clinton, 52% view her favorably, and her support among women appears to be the foundation
for her general election advantages.
Just as, for the first time in this poll, Trump is now shown to be
solidly competitive in a general election matchup against Clinton, so, too, for
the first time, Hillary’s prospects for clinching her party’s presidential
nomination are tracking into dangerous territory.
“Overall, 47% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters say they
support Clinton for the party’s nomination. That’s down 9 points since July,
and marks the first time her support has dipped below 50% in national CNN/ORC
polling on the race,” reports CNN.
The new poll also finds that most Democrats want Vice President Joe
Biden to jump into the race. So far, there’s no definitive word from Biden or
his backers as to what the vice president might decide.
Dems Demanded Apology From Texas Official Over
‘Muslim World’ Post – Here’s What They Got
Even among those who
favor a strong response to Iran, many felt the meme went too far.
When Texas Republican
Sid Miller shared a controversial Facebook meme Sunday, it was answered by
widespread calls by members of the Democrat Party to apologize and denounce the
image’s message.
The post, which has
since been deleted, was captured by several social media users who later
uploaded it to their own accounts.
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Miller, agriculture
commissioner for the Lone Star State, did not personally share the image, said
spokesperson Todd Smith–though he declined to offer any further details as to
its origin. In any case, however, it is clear that Miller has run afoul of his
state’s Democrat leadership.
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Representing Texas
Democrats, Manny Garcia released a scathing response to Miller’s post:
It is unacceptable
for Republican Sid Miller to be promoting such disgusting rhetoric. Sadly, this
kind of racist, xenophobic hate speech qualifies you for higher office with
Republicans’ Tea Party fringe base. We hope Sid Miller shows some respect for
Texans and the responsibility of holding state office and issues an apology.
Another source close
to Miller concluded that the message was “inappropriate,” though he echoed
Smith’s insistence that the GOP official did not post it himself.
Miller is reportedly
in China and is not expected to return to his home state until Aug. 23. The
Blaze indicates he was on the international trip when the controversial post
was first published.
Beyond establishment
Democrat disapproval, the post elicited a mixed reaction from social media
users. Even among those who favor a strong response to Iran, many felt the meme
posted to Miller’s page went too far.
Smith, however, described it as a “powerful
post that caused people to stop and think about the current state of the
world.”
Was this Republican’s
reaction to Islamic terrorism inappropriate?
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