The Devil's Devil

I'm posting Chavez's UN speech for your reading disgust.

Two things come to mind.

1) Who wrote this? Howard Dean? Did he do the Dean Screech at the end?

2)This is the best our enemies can do? put a clueless clown up there with a Noam Chomsky book to preach fire and brimstone.

PRESIDENT CHAVEZ DELIVERS REMARKS AT THE U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

"Representatives of the governments of the world, good morning to all of you. First of all, I would like to invite you, very respectfully, to those who have not read this book, to read it. Noam Chomsky, one of the most prestigious American and world intellectuals, Noam Chomsky, and this is one of his most recent books, 'Hegemony or Survival: The Imperialist Strategy of the United States.'" [Holds up book, waves it in front of General Assembly.]
"It's an excellent book to help us understand what has been happening in the world throughout the 20th century, and what's happening now, and the greatest threat looming over our planet. The hegemonic pretensions of the American empire are placing at risk the very survival of the human species. We continue to warn you about this danger and we appeal to the people of the United States and the world to halt this threat, which is like a sword hanging over our heads. I had considered reading from this book, but, for the sake of time," [flips through the pages, which are numerous] "I will just leave it as a recommendation.
It reads easily, it is a very good book, I'm sure Madame [President] you are familiar with it. It appears in English, in Russian, in Arabic, in German. I think that the first
people who should read this book are our brothers and sisters in the United States, because their threat is right in their own house. The devil is right at home. The devil, the devil himself, is right in the house.
"And the devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the devil came here. Right here."
[crosses himself]
"And it smells of sulfur still today."
Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.
I think we could call a psychiatrist to analyze yesterday's statement made by the president of the United States. As the spokesman of imperialism, he came to share his nostrums, to try to preserve the current pattern of domination, exploitation and pillage of the peoples of the world.
An Alfred Hitchcock movie could use it as a scenario. I would even propose a title: "The Devil's Recipe."
As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And we cannot allow them to do that. We cannot allow world dictatorship to be consolidated.
CHAVEZ (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): The world parent's statement -- cynical, hypocritical, full of this imperial hypocrisy from the need they have to control everything.
They say they want to impose a democratic model. But that's their democratic model. It's the false democracy of elites, and, I would say, a very original democracy
that's imposed by weapons and bombs and firing weapons.
What a strange democracy. Aristotle might not recognize it or others who are at the
root of democracy.
What type of democracy do you impose with marines and bombs?
The president of the United States, yesterday, said to us, right here, in this room, and I'm quoting, "Anywhere you look, you hear extremists telling you can escape from poverty and recover your dignity through violence, terror and martyrdom."
Wherever he looks, he sees extremists. And you, my brother -- he looks at your color, and he says, oh, there's an extremist. Evo Morales, the worthy president of Bolivia, looks like an extremist to him.
The imperialists see extremists everywhere. It's not that we are extremists. It's that the world is waking up. It's waking up all over. And people are standing up.
I have the feeling, dear world dictator, that you are going to live the rest of your days as a nightmare because the rest of us are standing up, all those who are rising up against American imperialism, who are shouting for equality, for respect, for the
sovereignty of nations.
CHAVEZ (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): Yes, you can call us extremists, but we are rising up against the empire, against the model of domination.
The president then -- and this he said himself, he said: "I have come to speak directly to the populations in the Middle East, to tell them that my country wants peace."
That's true. If we walk in the streets of the Bronx, if we walk around New York, Washington, San Diego, in any city, San Antonio, San Francisco, and we ask individuals, the citizens of the United States, what does this country want? Does it want peace? They'll say yes.
But the government doesn't want peace. The government of the United States doesn't want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war.
It wants peace.
But what's happening in Iraq? What happened in Lebanon? In Palestine? What's
happening? What's happened over the last 100 years in Latin America and in the
world? And now threatening Venezuela -- new threats against Venezuela, against
Iran?
He spoke to the people of Lebanon. Many of you, he said, have seen how your homes and communities were caught in the crossfire. How cynical can you get? What a capacity to lie shamefacedly. The bombs in Beirut with millimetric precision?
CHAVEZ (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): This is crossfire? He's thinking of a western, when people would shoot from the hip and somebody would be caught in the crossfire.
This is imperialist, fascist, assassin, genocidal, the empire and Israel firing on the people of Palestine and Lebanon. That is what happened. And now we hear, "We're suffering because we see homes destroyed.'
The president of the United States came to talk to the peoples -- to the peoples of the world. He came to say -- I brought some documents with me, because this morning I was reading some statements, and I see that he talked to the people of Afghanistan, the people of Lebanon, the people of Iran. And he addressed all these peoples directly.
And you can wonder, just as the president of the United States addresses those peoples of the world, what would those peoples of the world tell him if they were given the floor? What would they have to say?
And I think I have some inkling of what the peoples of the south, the oppressed
people think. They would say, "Yankee imperialist, go home." I think that is
what those people would say if they were given the microphone and if they could
speak with one voice to the American imperialists.
And that is why, Madam President, my colleagues, my friends, last year we came here to this same hall as we have been doing for the past eight years, and we said something that has now been confirmed -- fully, fully confirmed.
CHAVEZ (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): I don't think anybody in this room could defend the system. Let's accept -- let's be honest. The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It's worthless.
Oh, yes, it's good to bring us together once a year, see each other, make statements and prepare all kinds of long documents, and listen to good speeches, like Abel's (ph) yesterday, or President Mullah's (ph). Yes, it's good for that.
And there are a lot of speeches, and we've heard lots from the president of Sri Lanka, for instance, and the president of Chile.
But we, the assembly, have been turned into a merely deliberative organ. We have no power, no power to make any impact on the terrible situation in the world. And that is why Venezuela once again proposes, here, today, 20 September, that we re-establish the United Nations.
Last year, Madam, we made four modest proposals that we felt to be crucially important. We have to assume the responsibility our heads of state, our ambassadors, our representatives, and we have to discuss it.
The first is expansion, and Mullah (ph) talked about this yesterday right here. The Security Council, both as it has permanent and non-permanent categories, (inaudible) developing countries and LDCs must be given access as new permanent members. That's step one.
CHAVEZ (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): Second, effective methods to address and resolve world conflicts, transparent decisions.
Point three, the immediate suppression -- and that is something everyone's calling for -- of the anti-democratic mechanism known as the veto, the veto on decisions of the Security Council.
Let me give you a recent example. The immoral veto of the United States allowed the Israelis, with impunity, to destroy Lebanon. Right in front of all of us as we stood there watching, a resolution in the council was prevented.
Fourthly, we have to strengthen, as we've always said, the role and the powers of the secretary general of the United Nations.
Yesterday, the secretary general practically gave us his speech of farewell. And he recognized that over the last 10 years, things have just gotten more complicated; hunger, poverty, violence, human rights violations have just worsened. That is the tremendous consequence of the collapse of the United Nations system and American hegemonistic pretensions. Madam, Venezuela a few years ago decided to wage this battle within the United Nations by recognizing the United Nations, as members of it that we are, and lending it our voice, our thinking.
Our voice is an independent voice to represent the dignity and the search for peace and the reformulation of the international system; to denounce persecution and
aggression of hegemonistic forces on the planet.
CHAVEZ (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): This is how Venezuela has presented itself. Bolivar's home has sought a nonpermanent seat on the Security Council.
Let's see. Well, there's been an open attack by the U.S. government, an immoral attack, to try and prevent Venezuela from being freely elected to a post in the Security Council.
The imperium is afraid of truth, is afraid of independent voices. It calls us extremists, but they are the extremists.
And I would like to thank all the countries that have kindly announced their support
for Venezuela, even though the ballot is a secret one and there's no need to
announce things.
But since the imperium has attacked, openly, they strengthened the convictions of many countries. And their support strengthens us.
Mercosur, as a bloc, has expressed its support, our brothers in Mercosur. Venezuela, with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, is a full member of Mercosur.
And many other Latin American countries, CARICOM, Bolivia have expressed their support for Venezuela. The Arab League, the full Arab League has voiced its support. And I am immensely grateful to the Arab world, to our Arab brothers, our Caribbean brothers, the African Union. Almost all of Africa has expressed its support for Venezuela and countries such as Russia or China and many others.
CHAVEZ (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): I thank you all warmly on behalf of Venezuela, on behalf of our people, and on behalf of the truth, because Venezuela, with a seat on the Security Council, will be expressing not only Venezuela's thoughts, but it will also be the voice of all the peoples of the world, and we will defend dignity and truth.
Over and above all of this, Madam President, I think there are reasons to be optimistic. A poet would have said "helplessly optimistic," because over and above the wars and the bombs and the aggressive and the preventive war and the destruction of entire peoples, one can see that a new era is dawning.
As Sylvia Rodriguez (ph) says, the era is giving birth to a heart. There are alternative ways of thinking. There are young people who think differently. And this has already been seen within the space of a mere decade. It was shown that the end of history was a totally false assumption, and the same was shown about Pax Americana and the establishment of the capitalist neo-liberal world. It has been shown, this system, to generate mere poverty. Who believes in it now?
What we now have to do is define the future of the world. Dawn is breaking out all over. You can see it in Africa and Europe and Latin America and Oceanea. I want to emphasize that optimistic vision.
We have to strengthen ourselves, our will to do battle, our awareness. We have to build a new and better world.
Venezuela joins that struggle, and that's why we are threatened. The U.S. has already planned, financed and set in motion a coup in Venezuela, and it continues to
support coup attempts in Venezuela and elsewhere.
CHAVEZ (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): President Michelle Bachelet reminded us just a moment ago of the horrendous assassination of the former foreign minister, Orlando Letelier.
And I would just add one thing: Those who perpetrated this crime are free. And that other event where an American citizen also died were American themselves. They were CIA killers, terrorists.
And we must recall in this room that in just a few days there will be another anniversary. Thirty years will have passed from this other horrendous terrorist attack on the Cuban plane, where 73 innocents died, a Cubana de Aviacion airliner.
And where is the biggest terrorist of this continent who took the responsibility for
blowing up the plane? He spent a few years in jail in Venezuela. Thanks to CIA
and then government officials, he was allowed to escape, and he lives here in
this country, protected by the government.
And he was convicted. He has confessed to his crime. But the U.S. government has double standards. It protects terrorism when it wants to.
And this is to say that Venezuela is fully committed to combating terrorism and violence. And we are one of the people who are fighting for peace.
Luis Posada Carriles is the name of that terrorist who is protected here. And other tremendously corrupt people who escaped from Venezuela are also living here under protection: a group that bombed various embassies, that assassinated people during the coup. They kidnapped me and they were going to kill me, but I think God reached down and our people came out into the streets and the army was too, and so I'm here today.
But these people who led that coup are here today in this country protected by the American government. And I accuse the American government of protecting terrorists and of having a completely cynical discourse.
CHAVEZ (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): We mentioned Cuba. Yes, we were just there a few days ago. We just came from there happily.
And there you see another era born. The Summit of the 15, the Summit of the Nonaligned, adopted a historic resolution. This is the outcome document. Don't worry, I'm not going to read it.
But you have a whole set of resolutions here that were adopted after open debate in a transparent matter -- more than 50 heads of state. Havana was the capital of the
south for a few weeks, and we have now launched, once again, the group of the
nonaligned with new momentum.
And if there is anything I could ask all of you here, my companions, my brothers and sisters, it is to please lend your good will to lend momentum to the Nonaligned Movement for the birth of the new era, to prevent hegemony and prevent further advances of imperialism.
And as you know, Fidel Castro is the president of the nonaligned for the next three years, and we can trust him to lead the charge very efficiently.
Unfortunately they thought, "Oh, Fidel was going to die." But they're going to be disappointed because he didn't. And he's not only alive, he's back in his green fatigues, and he's now presiding the nonaligned.
So, my dear colleagues, Madam President, a new, strong movement has been born, a movement of the south. We are men and women of the south.
With this document, with these ideas, with these criticisms, I'm now closing my file. I'm taking the book with me. And, don't forget, I'm recommending it very warmly and very humbly to all of you.
CHAVEZ (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): We want ideas to save our planet, to save the planet from the imperialist threat. And hopefully in this very century, in not too long a time, we will see this, we will see this new era, and for our children and our
grandchildren a world of peace based on the fundamental principles of the United
Nations, but a renewed United Nations.
And maybe we have to change location. Maybe we have to put the United Nations somewhere else; maybe a city of the south. We've proposed Venezuela. You know that my personal doctor had to stay in the plane. The chief of security had to be left in a locked plane. Neither of these gentlemen was allowed to arrive and attend the U.N. meeting. This is another abuse and another abuse of power on the part of the Devil. It smells of sulfur here, but God is with us and I embrace you all. May God bless us all. Good day to you.

(APPLAUSE)

Time for another tax cut?

It's trickling down................

US Treasury Sets New 1-Day Tax Receipt Record Of $85.8 Billion

Tuesday September 19th, 2006 / 0h04

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. government recorded record-high overall and corporate tax receipts on Sept. 15, which was a quarterly deadline for tax payments, the Treasury said Monday. Total tax receipts were $85.8 billion on Friday, compared with the previous one-day record of $71 billion on Sept. 15 of last year, the Treasury said. Within the overall figure, corporate tax receipts Friday were $71.8 billion, up from $63 billion in September of last year. Treasury Undersecretary for Domestic Finance Randal Quarles said Friday's numbers provided a "continuing demonstration of the strength of the U.S. economy." "In fact, Friday's gross receipts were the largest in a single day in the nation's history - 20% higher than receipts on the same quarterly tax payment date last year," Quarles said in a statement.
-By Benton Ives-Halperin, Dow Jones Newswires;
202-862-9255; Benton.Ives-Halperin@dowjones.com

Voo-Doo Economics or the Robin Hood Model?

Ecomics is not an exact science. Economists are social scientists that make inferences on economic behavior of markets based on models.

Supply side economics, that is to say stimulating the Economy by increasing production and thereby the amount of the discretionary income of consumers, by lowering taxes, for example, has been a hotly debated theory since Ronald Reagan ran for the presidency in 1980. At that time, one of his opponents , George H. Bush called Reagan's economics theory "Voo-Doo Economics". Reagan was also ridiculed by Democrats and the media for saying that ultimately the average consumer would benefit by lowering the upper tax rates because of "trickle down" effect.

Democrats who are proponents of progressive taxes, that is to say a tax structure where those at higher incomes are taxed at progressively higher rates as their incomes increase, call any tax cuts that are equally distributed to all tax payers a tax cut to the rich because since the rich pay more taxes, they get a larger tax cut. Gusano likes to call Bush's tax cuts the "No Millionaire Left Behind" tax plan.

The point of the long, boring Macro-Moneterist, insomnia curing soliloquy above is to say that given the current economy, supply side ecomics and stimulating the economy through tax cuts is a model that works and ,in fact it works so well, that by cutting taxes the government can increase its revenues.

Below is the proof. So next time you hear that they should increase the tax rates for the rich to raise revenues a la Robin Hood, You tell them Zorro says that the Kensyan model doesn't work.

Federal Deficit Running 14% Lower Than Last Year, Treasury
Says

Wednesday, September 13,
2006


WASHINGTON : The federal budget deficit, helped by a surge in government revenue, is running 14.1 percent below the pace of last year, the government reported Wednesday.

The Treasury Department said that with just one month to go in the budget year, the deficit totals $304.3 billion, down from $354.1 billion during the same period a year ago.

The Congressional Budget Office is forecasting that the deficit for the entire year will be $260 billion, which would mean that September will see a sizable surplus.

The administration is somewhat less optimistic, forecasting a deficit of $295.8 billion for the current budget year, which ends Sept. 30.

However, both the CBO and the administration are expecting an improvement from last year's deficit of $319 billion, the third highest amount of red ink in history. The record deficit in dollar terms was $413 billion set in 2004.

Even with the improvement, Democrats point to CBO forecasts that the deficit over the next decade will total $1.76 trillion as evidence that President Bush's emphasis on tax cuts has put the country on an unsustainable fiscal path.

The administration counters that Bush's first term tax cuts helped to lift the country out of the 2001 recession and provided support for a strong economic rebound that has resulted in the gusher of revenues this year.

For August, the deficit jumped to $64.6 billion, up from $51.3 billion in August 2005. The federal government has run a deficit in August every year since 1954.

Through the first 11 months of the current budget year, revenues have totaled a record $2.12 trillion, up 11.5 percent from the same period a year ago.

Government spending is also at record levels so far this budget year, totaling $2.43 trillion, an increase of 7.6 percent from the same period a year ago.

The faster growth in revenues than in spending has meant that the 11-month deficit of $304.3 billion is 14.1 percent below the red ink run up during the same period a year ago.

Copyright 2006 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights
reserved

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ALL ABOARD!!

Here’s a link to a L.A. Times article reprinted in the Sun-Sentinel.

“From the ground up ... Cuba is falling apart”

Finally someone in the MSM is spreading the thruth of the “decrepitude” of Cuba, in the LA times, no less.

HOWEVER…………… the writer, Carol J. Williams, seems to sugar coats the “decrepitude” in a way that deflects responsibility away from the tyrant…….maybe.

Ms Williams writes:

“Even as its economy booms thanks to a thriving tourism industry, brisk nickel exports and cheap oil from ideologically aligned Venezuela, the social benefits are difficult to see at street level.”

HMMM? She doesn’t come out and say that this is because the nomenklatura skims from the top and the rest of the money is reinvested in the repression of the Cuban People, but if the economy is “booming” and the things don’t change at street level……. She even lets one of the captives speak for the people:

"The problem is that the government owns everything, and people only take care of what is their own," says another moonlighting cabdriver, Arturo”

She adds:

“Some blame the decrepitude on the U.S. economic embargo that has blocked travel and the flow of goods to the island for nearly 45 years in an effort -- through nine U.S. administrations -- to starve Cuba into abandoning what Washington sees as a ruinous adherence to communism.

Few Cubans will talk openly about what might be wrong with a political and economic system that even in boom times can't keep the wheels of public transportation turning or the lights on -- especially since President Fidel Castro turned over power to his brother six weeks ago for surgery deemed a state secret. But they complain quietly that there is more to their urban squalor than the embargo or the loss of Soviet aid 15 years ago can explain.”

Yes, they know firsthand that socialism doesn’t work!

She then goes on to describe a society that has reduced its citizens to thievery in order to “resolver” a la Les Miserables and the apathy that communism breeds:
“

Decades of stoically making do with shortages and dysfunction have engendered a paralyzing passivity among Cubans, at least about the quality of their administrators and the political system that guides them.” (that’s actually a by-product of the repression)

Ms. Williams has this to say about the Miami Mafia:

“While Cubans succumb to the daily demands of resolving their food, shelter and finance problems, their former countrymen across the Florida Straits say they
expect to be called on to help when the next leadership takes on the massive
task of reconstruction.”

And this:

“Cubans have been taught to fear economic overtures from the exile community in Miami, where some who lost property to the revolution nurture hopes of reclaiming it after the Castro regime comes to a close and -- they believe -- a more democratic and free-market society emerges.

But with every third family thought to have relatives among the 1.2 million Cuban exiles in the United States, the younger generation has expectations of cross-straits
collaboration.”

Yes. We are one people. And the younger generation realizes it.

Though the author doesn’t come right out and point to the regime as the cause for all of Cuba’s social and political evils, She spares us the usual MSM dribble about the healthcare and education systems, she doesn’t claim that the Miami Mafia wants to go back and claim was stolen from them and admits that the Cuban Captives realize that there’s more to their plight than the big bad USA and the embargo.

Maybe the light of thruth is finally dawning on the MSM. Maybe the train is leaving the station bound for a free and democratic Cuba and they want to get on before it leaves. ALL ABOARD, I say!

ABAJO FIDEL.. DOWN WITH CASTRO/CHAVEZ/EVO: THE MIAMI HERALD SAGA CONTINUES

ABAJO FIDEL.. DOWN WITH CASTRO/CHAVEZ/EVO: THE MIAMI HERALD SAGA CONTINUES

Law and Order Totalitarian Style

Form Reuters:

World leaders need little policing in Castro's
Cuba
16 Sep 2006 16:01:19 Source: Reuters

By Christian Oliver
HAVANA, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Impenetrable cordons of gun-toting police and soldiers mark most meetings of world leaders, but only handfuls of nonchalant, lightly-armed cops patrol the non-aligned nations summit in laid-back Havana.

Read the rest here

Gee let me think about this. All the enemies of freedom and mankind are gathered in one place. There are no real dangers of terrorism. Why would that be?!?
First: It's a TOTALITARIAN country, NOT LAID BACK! Anyone who the government even remotely suspected of being capable of protesting was jailed under an Orwellian law called "peligrosidad" that gives them the legal cover to arrest anyone they like. Not that they need any laws, they do whatever they please with their captives.
Second: Why would any terrorists attack their funders, supporters and role models?

I can't believe the tone of this article. The facts are obvious, yet the reuter's "reporter" "reaches" to find a positive consequence to the repressive , totlitarian police state that the Cuban people are subjected to.

Castro Klaus?

From the fair and balanced news network:

SEOUL, South Korea — Cuban President Fidel Castro has offered a gift to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the North's official news agency reported Monday.

The gift was handed over to the North's No. 2 leader, Kim Yong Nam, on Sunday as he was in Havana for a summit of the Nonaligned Movement, the North's Korean Central News Agency said.

Article here

Now, if Castro could only get his people some toilet paper.

Why we are still in Iraq

Ever wonder why after three years we're still playing games in the Iraqui Dessert?

Here's why :

HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com Section: National
Sept. 13, 2006, 5:34PM

Test nonlethal weapons on U.S. citizens, official says
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Nonlethal
weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before they are used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday.

Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions in the international community over any possible safety concerns, said Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne.

"If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation," said Wynne.

"(Because) if I hit somebody with a nonlethal weapon and they claim that it injured them in a way that was not intended, I think that I would be vilified in the world press."

The Air Force has funded research into nonlethal weapons, but he said the service isn't likely to spend more money on development until injury issues are reviewed by medical experts and resolved.

Nonlethal weapons can weaken people if they are hit with the beam.

Some of the weapons can emit short, intense energy pulses that also disable some electronic devices.

SOMEBODY PLEASE GET MICHELLE A CLUE AND A SET OF BALLS!

Cuban - Armenian Connection

Former Hiller and current Cuban-American Democratic US Senator from New Jersey Bob Menendez making waves in D.C. :

www.defacto.am News/News 2006-09-13

ANCA
WELCOMES MENENDEZ "HOLD" ON THE HOAGLAND NOMINATION

"I believe that the United States, Armenia, and all who are committed to human rights should support an Ambassador to Armenia who recognizes the genocide that took place there more than 90 years ago."
-- Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ).

The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) today welcomed the
"hold" placed by Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) on the confirmation of Richard
E. Hoagland as the next U.S. Ambassador to Armenia based on his opposition to
the Bush Administration's refusal to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

According to the information DE FACTO received at the ANCA, Ken
Hachikian, Chairman of the ANCA stated, ‘’We join with Armenians from New Jersey and throughout the United States in thanking Senator Menendez for his principled
stand in blocking the Hoagland nomination". "The Senator's hold represents a
victory for our nation's standing on human rights and genocide-prevention", he
added.

In blocking the Hoagland nomination, Sen. Menendez stressed that, "as a
leader and defender of democracy, it is our nation's responsibility to speak out
against injustice and support equality and human rights. But if the Bush
Administration continues to refuse to acknowledge the atrocities of the Armenian
Genocide, then there is certainly cause for great alarm, which is why I am
placing a hold on this nominee." He added that, "I will continue to work with my
colleagues in the United States Senate to make strides toward ensuring that all
people, regardless of race, religion, or ethnicity, receive protection from
policies of discrimination and hate that lead to genocide."

Since February of this year, the ANCA has led nationwide efforts to demand answers concerning the recall of Ambassador Evans and, later, to educate Senators about the adverse impact of sending an envoy to Armenia that has called into question the genocidal character of Ottoman Turkey's systematic destruction of its Armenian population.

Copyright © «De facto» Information-Analytics Agency

Just how much coinage is Jesus Bosbaly and his family dropping into Bobby's re-election campaing coffers?!?

The Marine Animal of Peace

Why no Vigilanteism agaisnt Islamofacists?

I know where they're all hanging out these week.
From the AP via FOXNEWS (fair and balanced)

Stingrays Being Killed, Possible Revenge for Irwin's Death
Tuesday , September 12, 2006

SYDNEY, Australia — At least 10 stingrays have been killed since "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin was fatally injured by one of the fish, an official said Tuesday, prompting a spokesman for the late TV star's animal charity to urge people not take revenge on the animals.

Irwin died last week after a stingray barb pierced his chest as he recorded a show off the Great Barrier Reef.

Stingray bodies since have been discovered on two beaches in Queensland state on Australia's eastern coast. Two were discovered Tuesday with their tails lopped off, state fisheries department official Wayne Sumpton said.

Sumpton said fishermen who inadvertently catch the diamond-shaped rays sometimes cut off their tails to avoid being stung, but the practice was uncommon. Stingrays often are caught in fishing nets by mistake and should be returned to the sea, Sumpton said.

Michael Hornby, the executive director of Irwin's Wildlife Warriors conservation group, said he was concerned the rays were being hunted and killed in retaliation for Irwin's death.

"It may be some sort of retribution, or it may be fear from certain individuals, or it just may be yet another callous act toward wildlife," he said.

He said killing stingrays was "not what Steve was about."

"We are disgusted and disappointed that people would take this sort of action to hurt wildlife," he said.

Stingrays are usually shy, unobtrusive fish that rummage the sea bottom for food or burrow into the sand.

They have a serrated spine up to 10 inches long on their tails, which they can lash when stepped on or otherwise frightened.

The spines emit toxins that can kill many small creatures and cause excruciating pain in humans.

Few people have died from the poison, but the spines can badly tear flesh and the wounds are prone to infections, including tetanus.
Hornby said people should treat stingrays with caution, but "there is still no need to ... kill or mutilate these important animals

Dinner is Served at "Beggars Banquet"

From Cuba's official Ministry of Propaganda and Tall Tales:


Condemning terrorism in all its manifestations is included in the draft final declaration of the 14th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit underway in Havana, said Abelardo Moreno, Cuban vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, in a press conference on Monday.

Five years after the 9/11 attacks against the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon, the summit's spokesperson said NAM explicitly rejects all types of terrorism. (I wonder if the guy was able to keep a straight face?)

Moreno said the fight against terrorism can not be dictated by dates, but by attitudes, policies and actions. For that reason, NAM will denounce all forms of terrorism, "independent of where it originates," he added. (read: the US's Liberation of Iraq and Afgahnistan will be condemmed as terrorism)

The Non-Aligned Movement, or NAM, is an international organization of over 100 states which consider themselves not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. The purpose of the organization as stated in the Havana Declaration of 1979 is to ensure "the national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of non-aligned countries in their struggle against imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism, apartheid, racism, Zionism, and all forms of foreign aggression, occupation, domination, interference or hegemony as well as against great power and bloc politics". NAM focuses on national struggles for independence, the eradication of poverty, economic development and opposing colonialism, imperialism, and neo-colonialism. They represent 55% of the planet's people and nearly two-thirds of the United Nation's members. In other words : It's an anti-American , anti-Israeli organization.

In Cuba we have Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Pakistanian President Pervez Musharraf, Vietnamese President Mguyen Minh Triet, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. What a place to get hit bt a Homicide Bomber. Oh never mind what I am I thinking?!? Why would they want to blow up their biggest fans and supporters?

Beggar's Banquet

Rocking Charlie Bravo's sardonic take at the misaligned summit in La Habana this week is a pisser.

http://www.killcastro.com/blog/2006/09/beggars-banquet.html

The "Z" factor at The Herald?

Ah, the Miami Herald just fired a bunch of Cubans!

Basically, they were accused of being a bunch of biased unethical journalists because they (gasp!) took money from the US Government.(read Bush's Regime).

The Miami Herald, liberal rag and birdcage liner extraordinaire, has just purged itself of some of miscreants. An Ethnic Cleansing. A Stalinist ideological purge.

First, let’s talk about anti-Cubanism, the "Z" factor, the Ethnic Cleansing. There’s something like quatrillion Cubans in South Florida. “They’re like Roaches, They’re everywhere”. And they have a lot of nerve. They don’t know their place. They don’t understand that “migrants” (we used to be refugees, now were migrants) are supposed to be seen and not heard. They’re supposed do the work that Americans won’t do. They’re supposed to pick tomatoes and clean houses and mow lawns. They’re not supposed to take over and own everything and run the place and love it so much! They’re not supposed to have political or economic power and make every white guy running for national office go to Little Havana and grovel for their votes. They’re like a damned Mafia. A Cuban Mafia. Where have we heard that before? Is this disregard from the natives earned? Maybe. Is it normal? Of course it is. It’s happened to every immigrant group. One thing Cubans are great at is taking it in stride, using it as motivation and actually having some fun with it. It’s the art of “JODER”

Then, there’s the ideological disagreement. Cuban political dogma revolves around Cuba and Castro. Cubans, having once lost freedom and their political voice are now zealous about exercising it in their adopted Homeland. Cubans were Neo-Cons before the term even existed. Social programs? No Problem. Cuba, before Castro, was more progressive in social safety net programs than the US. (assignment: please read Humberto’s Fontova’s many essays on the subject). Foreign policy wise, that’s where the real ideological difference comes in. Cubans by and large are pro-US. They don’t come here and blame the US for their problems (although they could), but no, they understand that the US is the difference in the world. Freedom simply would not exist if it wasn’t for the US. Nowhere. They believe America should stay strong and safeguard freedom and defend itself, at all costs, against its enemies. Cubans understand that the enemies of America are a real threat and that they have chosen the path of evil and tyranny and that, no, it is not George Bush’s fault that they are murderous, maniacal thugs. They love the US of A. The self-centered liberal MSM, now run by a bunch of wasted brain leftover hippies from the sixties, cannot conceive of a world where every single evil or problem wasn’t caused by the spread of the American free market system. These flower children’s ideal foreign policy would be one that would guarantee that everyone “likes us”. Cubans were noticeably absent from the recent immigration protests. Why? Are Cubans anti immigrant? No, it’s because the protests were anti-American, anti-free enterprise and run by far left organizations (commies),(I know, we see commies everywhere, silly Cubans). That’s the first Ideological scasm. Cubans actually have a Pro-American world view.

Secondly, we’re a bunch of right wing extremist, intransigent, closed mined, reactionary, loudmouthed Anti-Castro obsessed Zealots. This is a real problem for the Herald. They feel it is their mission to open up our minds and see all the good that can come by trying to understand Fidel Castro Ruz’s “regime” and all the good things he has brought to the World. So we’ve got this guy in Cuba who cons a whole country into thinking he’s going to restore democracy, and then proceeds to murder thousands upon thousands of his countrymen, steals ALL private property, tries to start a thermonuclear war, forces twenty percent of the population into exile, holds the rest on the island captive under inhumane conditions and somehow we’re crazed in head because we’re trying to get rid of him. BUT, He can’t be all that bad, after all he’s anti-Miami Mafia Just like the Miami Herald.

The Miami Herald doesn’t like Cuban-Americans. They resent their political power, their financial influence, their social outspokenness and their ideological independence. They cannot come out and call us names because their political correct hypocritical ethics won’t allow them to. They can only attack our ideas. That’s why they will take absurd and indefensible positions because they know that what is near and dear to our hearts is what hurts us the most.

The Herald can fire and hire anyone they like. It’s a free country and WE LOVE IT THAT WAY. But to insinuate that any reporter that contributes to the efforts of TV/Radio Marti to bring the Truth to the captive Cuban people, is partaking in an unethical sellout is wrong. TV/Radio Marti is providing the Cuban people with a balanced source of news and commentary. Is it too Capitalistic? Perhaps, but the point here is to provide the captive Cubans another perspective form the propaganda and lies that are fed to them by the Castro regime 24/7. The reason that this is a Federally funded program it's precisely to keep it as objective and as balanced as possible. (a privately owned enterprise would have the Miami Herald call it “Radio/TV Miami Mafia) Let’s not forget, the US in is kindness, is just trying to provide “real” news to people who can only get the “official” news. That is a public service that the US is providing to the captive Cuban population. The “official” news concept may sound appealing to the MSM, but it doesn’t to freedom loving people. Thanks America! Would any Miami Herald reporter have been fired if they had gotten a part-time job at NPR or PBS as a political pundit? Well, not if they spewed the usual anti-American Venom.

The Miami Herald is a company. Here’s the way to get back at the Miami Herald. First, don’t buy or advertise on the Herald. Buy corncob for the bottom of you birdcage, tacaño.

Second let’s all donate $5.00 to the “Buy the Miami Herald Fund”. We’ll buy the paper and re-name it “Periodico Marti”.
Why do you ask? PA JODER , I say!

El ZORRO

Thanks, Governor

the Governator says:

"I mean Cuban, Puerto-Rican, they are all very hot," the governor says on the
recording. "They have the, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of
the Latino blood in them that together makes it."

The Austrians they have German-Nazi blood mixed there with your French-Coward blood mixed there with your Neanderthal blood making them underendowed, racist cowards who run off at the mouth with their ignorant and provincial evolutionary theories only to run to the nearest microphone and say their sorry. Come on Arnie,be a man, stand by your beliefs. Us hot blooded types would have a lot more respect for you.

Well I'm hot blooded, check it and see

I got a fever of a hundred and three

Come on baby, do you do more than dance?

I'm hot blooded, I'm hot blooded

You don't have to read my mind

To know what I have in mind

Honey you oughta know

Now you move so fine

Let me lay it on the line

I wanna know what you're doin' after the show

Now it's up to you,

we can make a secret rendezvous

Just me and you,

I'll show you lovin' like you never knew

That's why I'm hot blooded,

check it and see

I got a fever of a hundred and three

Come on baby, do you do more than dance?

I'm hot blooded, hot bloodedIf it feels alright

Maybe you can stay all night

Shall I leave you my key?

But you've got to give me the sign

Come on girl, some kind of sign

Tell me, are you hot mama?

You sure look that way to me

Are you old enough?

Will you be ready when I call you bluff?

Is my timing right?

Did you save your love for me tonight?

Yeah I'm hot blooded, check it and see

Feel the fever burning inside of me

Come on baby, do you do more than dance?

I'm hot blooded, I'm hot blooded, I'm hot

Now it's up to you,

can we make a secret rendezvous?

Woah, before we do,

you'll have to get away from you know who

Well I'm hot blooded, check it and see

I got a fever of a hundred and three

Come on baby, do you do more than dance?

I'm hot blooded, I'm hot blooded

Hot blooded, every night

Hot blooded, you're looking so tight

Hot blooded, now you're driving me wild

Hot blooded, I'm so hot for you child

Hot blooded, I'm a little bit high

Hot blooded, you're a little bit shy

Hot blooded, you're making me sing

Hot blooded, for your (hot blooded) sweet sweet thing

Did you hear what I said?

© 1978 Somerset Songs / Evansongs Ltd. / WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)

The "Z" Factor

So here you have it folks, Bob Menendez, loyal, life-long, party line toting Democrat, House Minority Whip, stupendous fundraiser, Cuban-American. Bob, “Bobby” as we called him on “The Hill” was passed over to run for the Senate seat vacated by his friend and mentor Robert Torricelli. Hmm..why was that? The Democratic machine gave the spot on the ballot to Lautenberg the Dinosaur.

When Corzine resigned to become governor, again hemming and hawing.. hmm.. wonder why? Well, the Democrats with all their talk about how they love minorities, really don’t specially Cubans. Eventually the Dems relented and appointed him to the vacated senate seat , but only after Menendez threatened to run as an independent anyway. Menendez is running against and-old republican dynastical candidate Tom Kean (the 17th or something like that). And now, in a state that is totally controlled by Democrats, that votes like 105% Democratic,( depending on how many voters are called to leave their graves to show up at the polls), He’s behind in the polls. How can that be? In Jersey all you have to do to get elected is have a D next to your name!

Here we have the reason:

Form USA Today:

"I'll be blunt. It's not a nice thing to say about New Jersey, but being a Latino may be costing him in some parts of the state," says David Rebovich, a political scientist at Rider University.

Even so, some Hispanic voters think pro- and anti-immigrant feelings will play a role in the campaign. Rick Perez, a Cuban-American who lives in West New York, says many voters in New Jersey's diverse Hispanic community will vote for Menendez because of "the Z factor," referring to the last letter of many Hispanic surnames.

Read the article here.

Jersey is not the only State where people have “reservations” about voting for a Hispanic. If you recall, when Mel Martinez was elected to the senate in the red State of Florida, He received a few percentage points less than George Bush. Which means that some folks were splitting tickets because of the “Z” factor.

El Zorro

Churchill, Father Ed and Me

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

Winston Churchill

In today’s homily Father Ed was telling us about faith and hypocrisy when he took an unexpected swipe at communism. He told a story of how a visitor to old communist Poland was asked if he was a Catholic, the Pole replied “I believe but I don’t practice” as the visitor continued on his official tour he asked the pole if he was a communist to which the Pole replied “I practice but I don’t believe”.

This, of course, immediately made me think of Cuba.

Recently, people here in US have been clamoring for Cuba’s oppressed populace to rise up and go up against the Cuban military and get slaughtered. For the ordinary Cuban, everyday life is an unimaginable struggle. They go up against this totalitarian system everyday to survive. It’s hard to survive when every single institution in your world exists to subjugate and crush your will, to tear your family apart, to dictate what you must do every single minute of your day and to terrorize you into submission.

They live and breathe the gospel of envy. They suffer the hunger and destruction brought about by the philosophy of failure. They are bombarded by constant hate-filled propaganda that comes from the creed of ignorance and they quietly share their misery with each other.

But these already brave people who keep fifty year old automotive relics running, who make homemade satellite dishes, know how to survive. They know how to bide their time. And when the time is right, they will surprise the world. They have been practicing something that they don’t believe in. Soon they will practice what they believe and make believers out of the rest of the world.

Revolucion?

According to Lennon and MacCartney:

Revolution

You say you want a revolution

Well, you know

We all want to change the world

You tell me that it's evolution

Well, you know

We all want to change the world

But when you talk about destruction

Don't you know that you can count me out

Don't you know it's gonna be all right all right, all right

You say you got a real solution

Well, you know We'd all love to see the plan

You ask me for a contribution

Well, you know We're doing what we can

But when you want money for people with minds that hate

All I can tell is brother you have to wait

Don't you know it's gonna be all right

all right, all right Ah ah, ah, ah, ah, ah...

You say you'll change the constitution

Well, you know We all want to change your head

You tell me it's the institution

Well, you know You better free you mind instead

But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao

You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow

Don't you know it's gonna be all right all right,

all right all right, all right, all right all right, all right, all right

According to Wikipedia:A revolution is a drastic change that usually occurs relatively quickly. The word revolution means "a turn around." This may be a change in the social or political institutions over a relatively short period of time, or a major change in its culture or economy. Some revolutions are led by the majority of the populace of a nation, others by a small band of revolutionaries, a so-called palace revolution only touches the ruling elite.

According to Castro: The never ending story.

My whole life I’ve been hearing about the Cuban “Revolution”. The Cuban Revolution started back in 1956 when Fidel Castro and a group of Marxists landed in Cuba on a yacht called Granma. These men took to the Cuban hills, “The Sierra Maestras” and started a guerrilla war against the Dictator in charge at the time, Batista. Batista was a corrupt thug who had taken over in a military coup and suspended elections. The revolutionaries in the hills proceeded to revolutionize revolutions. They conducted kidnappings harassed the peasants in the mountains and committed acts of terrorism in the cities. The U.S. who wasn’t too keen on having its citizens kidnapped and or blown up asked Sergeant Batista to vacate the premises. He did so on January 1, 1959 thus creating a power vacuum. Having been canonized as the next great thing by the New York Times, the Fidel , cigar in hand and white dove on shoulder, and his bearded followers came down from the hills and took over. What followed was a brutal orgy of executions and imprisonment designed to terrorize the population into submission or exile. It worked, which is why I'm writing this in English. Castro and his band of companeros then set out to plan the Cuban economy and transform it into the a shinning example of socialist efficiency and productivity, which in English means run it into the ground.

That there should have been the end of the “revolution” since a total change in the political, economic and social instutitions in Cuba , but NO, it has been going on for 47 years and counting. The Marxists dinosaurs are still revolutionizing and changing things. They keep going from bad to worse to worser to worsest.

Estar Woarz

Ten signs you're a Cuban Jedi
10. you say "Que la force be with jou, acere."
9. you have to constantly tell the other Jedis "It's not a raft, it's an X-wing fighter!"
8. Darth Vader says to you "Socio, if only jou knew the power of el comunismo."
7. Your unpronounceable Jedi name is Acere Monina Santo-Antonio-Come Cable.
6. You have a bumpersticker on your X-wing with a picture of Cuba and the words: "No Castro, No Problem"
5. You pronounce Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back, "Estar Woarz: Umpire Estrik-Ba!"
4. Your droid's name is "Arturito."
3. Darth Castro, Sith Master.
2. Darth Chavez, his apprentice.
1. Your other droid’s name is 13-PEO (trece PEO) and he keeps bitching, "Chico, esto no pasa en Cuba!"

But they have FREE healthcare

In today's Sun Sentinel:

When the Cuban government does something that benefits mankind, it makes news! Why is that? Because they are tyrannical barbarians, that's why. But... they have free health care and public education.

Want to get U.S. and Cuban governments talking? Just mention the weather

By Laura Wides-MunozAP Hispanic Affairs WriterAugust 31,
2006, 10:24 AM
EDT
MIAMI -- The U.S. and Cuban governments may avoid talking politics or religion, but as with every strained relationship, the weather is always safe ground.For decades, the two countries have quietly worked together to track tropical storms and hurricanes in hopes of saving their citizens' lives.Earlier this week, eight U.S. Air Force C-130 planes crossed into Cuban air space to track Tropical Storm Ernesto's wind speed, center and other information.In an unusual public acknowledgment Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center recognized the communist island for its
assistance.

``Special thanks to the government of Cuba for permitting the recon aircraft (to) fly right up to their coastline to gather this critical weather data,'' senior hurricane specialist Stacy Stewart wrote in an advisory.Cuba has long pumped funds into meteorological research.

In 1900, Cuban meteorologists tried to warn U.S. weather officials of the danger of
a hurricane that was moving into the Gulf of Mexico. Their predictions were dismissed by Americans and the storm killed at least 8,000 people in Galveston,
Texas, according to Erik Larson, author of ``Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and
the Deadliest Hurricane in History.''

Read the rest here :
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-831weather,0,6063085.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

Gracias fidel, pa alente ni pa cojer impulso ("muelando" en castellano)

Desda la Nueva Cuba nos viene el siguiente articulo:

ESTUDIO REVELA QUE200,000 ESPAÑOLES VIAJAN ANUALMENTE A CUBAPARA HACER"TURISMO SEXUAL"

Alrededor de 200.000 españoles, hombres y mujeres, viajan cada año a Cuba para hacer turismo sexual, según afirmó hoy el catedrático de Análisis Geográfico de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Guillermo Morales Matos. Según el catedrático, el turismo heterosexual, que en el caso español se dirige básicamente hacia Cuba, República Dominicana y Brasil, mientras que los alemanes viajan expresamente a Bahía, mueve cifras globales poco significativas, pero mucho mayores que el turismo orientado a la pedofilia. Morales, que dirige en Laredo un seminario enmarcado en la programación de los cursos de verano de la Universidad de Cantabria, señaló que 'hay otro turismo hasta hace poco estigmatizado, como es el homosexual, que en estos momentos está siendo mimado por las agencias de viaje y los tour operadores de una forma soterrada, porque mueve a un sector de altísimo nivel adquisitivo y, en consecuencia, hacen políticas comerciales ex profeso para ellos'. En relación con el turismo pedófilo, indicó que Costa Rica, el último país que se ha incorporado a este mercado, recibe al año a 10.000 visitantes. Para Morales, este es el mercado 'más abyecto y todos tendemos a perseguirlo'. 'Es un turismo perverso que hay que combatir, sobre todo en los países que acogen este tipo de prácticas, como Tailandia y Birmania', añadió.
Terra ActualidadEuropa PressMadridEl Correo GallegoEspaña Infosearch:Máximo TomásDept. de InvestigacionesLa Nueva CubaAgosto 29, 2006

Arroz con Mango

When I was a teenager.....a long,long, time ago, I began to get involved in anti-castro activities. In the mid-70's, while in college in the northeast, I became even more involved. I realized that one of our most important duties as exiles was to fight the leftist propaganda and debunk the castro myth. No easy task given the pro castro propaganda that even to this day, permeates the mainstream media outlets.

Within my own school, because of my demeanor, name, political views, friends and musical tastes I wasn't considered Cuban enough. That is heart-piercing. Sometimes in discussions I was also labeled a commie by family. Equally as heart-piercing. In 1980, while helping to organize a benefit for the people at the Peruvian embassy in Cuba, I became convinced that because of our inability to get along with each other, that we would never succeed in 1. Getting the American public to take our position seriously or 2. topple castro's totalitarian tyranny, because we were our own worst enemies. Sadly, At the end of that day, Cuba sank into the Caribbean for me.

A few events, like the downing of the Brothers to the Rescue cessnas, castro's visit to the UN, and the Elian saga , however, proved that at least younger Cubans were becoming more media-savvy, inclusive and unified. Hope.

About two years ago, some guy was in the papers all bent out of shape because the Burlington Coat Factory had an add where they were advertising shirts with the likeness of an Argentine mass murderer. Apparently this guy had something called a "blog". I typed in the address. Oddly enough we once had a pekingnese named "babalu" . I found a place where this guy railed against castro (no caps!), communists and democrats (hard to defend my party these days) . Gotta love it! Add to my favorites. To the right of the posts there are links. WOW! More zany guys. Some of these guys are definitely into Led Zep. Another add to Favorites. One guy has pictures that actually made me cry that show the complete and utter devastation that have resulted from the revolting "revolution" that started over 50 years ago and has only accomplished death destruction and despair. He should really put a warning on his pics as they are very upsetting. But they provide the best ammunition possible when some well meaning American who gets all of their knowledge from the Today Show or 60 Minutes gives you the tired line about free healthcare and education (read indoctrination). Another add to Favorites.

All these sites, all different yet with an unmistakable and undeniable common theme that binds them: CUBA LIBRE.

To me and the thousands of Cubans that visit ALL these blogs MANY times a day, It doesn't matter who was born here or got the scoop first or who got more hits. What does matter is that EVERYONE is working towards the common goal: CUBA LIBRE. What matters is all the great information and comments and different points of view. These bloggers don't blog for their own health the blog for the readers. Readers like me. So to steal a page out of KILLKASTRO:

Come Together

Here come old flattop he come grooving up slowly
He got joo-joo eyeball he one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker he just do what he please

He wear no shoeshine he got toe-jam football
He got monkey finger he shoot coca-cola
He say "I know you, you know me"
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
Come together right now over me

He bag production he got walrus gumboot
He got Ono sideboard he one spinal cracker
He got feet down below his knee
Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease
Come together right now over me

He roller-coaster he got early warning
He got muddy water he one mojo filter
He say "One and one and one is three"
Got to be good-looking 'cause he's so hard to see
Come together right now over me

Then , there were eight. (Pluto Kaputo)

I'ts all been a pack of lies! Bastards!

Pluto Is No Longer A Planet
The International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of its planet status because it's too small.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Pluto has been stripped of its planet status. The International Astronomical Union made the decision today at a meeting in Prague.
Pluto's been a planet since it was discovered in 1930. Astronomers say their new guidelines for a "classic planet" boots the furthest rock from the sun out. They say Pluto is too small -- smaller even than the Earth's moon -- and it has an eccentric orbit.
The change is expected to cost millions for schools who will need to get updated textbooks with the new eight planet solar system included.

It must be snowing in Miami

As everyone knows, Elian is a sore subject for Cuban-Americans. Sending a little boy back to a totalitarian island prison was, and still is an inconceivable act to us. It's nothing personal agaisnt Americans but it just showed how sheltered and out of touch most of them are when it comes to freeing policy and geo-political ideological struggles. Maybe that's a good thing, I don't know. For me, sending Elian back meant that the US acquiesced to a calculating, sadistic enemy who once relished the thought of vaporizing America by bringing about a thermonuclear showdown between the US and Russia. It meant raising the tyrant's terrorist regime up to the same moral level as the United States. It meant that at some level Americans didn't understand what a gift America is to the world and what an incredible honor and privilege it is to live here. It meant that they didn't see America as the best, a placeworth dying and sacrificing for and a place many of my brothers and sisters have died to get to. I don't know if it's humility or the result of being spoiled or what. I'll never forget a sign that a woman had made during the Elian demonstrations Miami that said "America: Wake up, Sleeping Beauty"

I came across the following article in a great Web Page : http://www.therealcuba.com/ about Elian.

My guess is that when the bearded one dies and Elian goes on Oprah, He will say "What were you thinking!?!"

Rethinking Elian Gonzalez
by Tony Zizza

With stories and photos of Fidel Castro's "personal health" bombarding us 24/7, I have given some second serious thought into my own involvement in the infamous Elian Gonzalez case. Once you hear the name "Elian", how can you ever forget this six year old boy and the media rampage that started in late 1999, and came full circle more than six years ago?

Looking back, I have come to realize that in my advocacy to advance the concept of fathers' rights, I forgot to understand that young Elian was the wrong boy and the wrong case to champion in the name of American fathers' rights. We can properly state over and over and over again that fathers, and subsequently their children, are victimized far more often in family courts across this country, than mothers are. This must stop. However, you don't start to bring media attention to a noble cause with the wrong case. I'm speaking for myself, and understand a million and one divorced fathers will come down on me. So be it.

Now, on the surface, there should not have even been a debate about returning Elian, once found floating on an inner tube in the Florida Straits, to his father. Elian's mother was deceased, and his biological father Juan Miguel Gonzalez was his last living parent. Here's the rub. Elian was not being returned to his father in Boston or Cleveland. He, a six year old boy with his whole life ahead of him, was being returned to a totalitarian regime. A Communist dictatorship that has been ruled by the same brutal man for almost a half century. For crying out loud! Personally, but without intending to do so, I was putting a social agenda above common sense and liberty. I regret this. Terribly. I should have known better.

You see, parental rights do not exist in Cuba because human rights do not exist. According to Richard Grenier, author of the April 14, 2000 worldnetdaily.com article, titled: "Holding Hands With Fidel", "The law on "parenting" under Cuba's present day totalitarian constitution affirms that a child's mother and father have some rights indeed, but "only so long as their influence does not go against the political objectives of the state." Children in Cuba, furthermore, are conscripted at a young age to serve in a kind of children's boot camp where the principles of the socialist state are thoroughly instilled. It is a form of youthful indoctrination previously employed by both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany."

I am at a lost for words for not realizing at the time of writing columns advocating for Elian to go back home with his father, that Elian was really going home to a monster by the name of Fidel Castro. The very term "fiercely" anti-Castro in reference to many of Elian's relatives now seems silly. What other way can a person who loves America address Castro? With appeasement? With sympathy? With awe? With treating a young boy like a small fish that according to Attorney General Janet Reno, "had to be returned to his father"? Perhaps Janet "Waco" Reno and Bill Clinton could have been stronger, and not caved in to Castro. Certainly, they have no earthly idea of how to act on the best interests of the child - when given an opportunity.

If Elian's father was not being used as a puppet by Castro (not in the interest of young Elian) - then why would he want Elian to live under Castro, rather than live under the American flag? Is this what a "good" parent does? Choose totalitarianism over democracy? Isn't this in and of itself, a form of child abuse? Also, why couldn't there be some form of shared custody worked out? Why couldn't Elian live here during the school year so he didn't have to be indoctrinated with Communism, and perhaps spend summers with his father in Cuba? The real question, however, and the ultimate solution, would have been for Elian's father to live with his son Elian - in America. No matter how you look at this case, there was some kind of alternative out there for Elian, rather than sending him back to Cuba where he now shares his birthdays with Fidel Castro. How sad. How wrong. How disgusting.

I don't understand why one of Elian's relatives could not apply for political asylum for him and our government could have made it stick. Elian Gonzalez deserved political asylum! The hearing on this in Atlanta in May of 2000 was a huge media event. As a fathers' rights activist, I kept thinking that the right thing to do was advocate for a boy to live with his father, no matter what. Again, I should have asked myself why was it such a stretch for his father and his family to come live in America. There were many questions about who really signed Elian's asylum papers, and is he old enough, but this is just a game of words.

The real issue at hand was, and is this: Does Elian deserve a chance to live in freedom or do fathers' rights and immigration law as constructed in America, mean he must live in a totalitarian regime - because this is where his father wants to live, and since Elian was only six years old at the time, only his biological father could sign political asylum papers? How can you call yourself a loving parent when you insist on a SWAT raid to pick your child up? Is that we call a Father of the Year in 2000? It's hard to even believe. If I believed in sleeping pills (aids) like Ambien, I'd take one so I could sleep at night.

I don't think anyone will ever forget that picture of Reno's boys in action doing the work of, well, a dictator named Castro. At that moment, we lost a piece of our soul. Ann Coulter was proven right once again by stating Elian Gonzalez was "the only immigrant liberals ever wanted to deport." Coulter writes further in "How To Talk To A Liberal" about the Elian Gonzalez case, "Elian Gonzalez was the only child liberals believed needed a father. Liberals believe that Elian's mother should have been able to abort Elian without input from the father, but that she could not give him freedom without the father's consent." The more I think about it, I believe Elian's father knew at some level where his son was going on that fateful November day. From what I understand, Elian's father knew the Miami relatives before all of this happened.

Again, no one is saying that fathers' rights to this day don't need to be better actualized and - enforced. It's just that the plight of American fathers was not the point in the Elian Gonzalez case. These days, you have to be careful what you align yourself with for what purpose, and what the consequences could be. Agenda isn't everything. Common sense is the most important currency we have to deal with each other. I made a mistake as a fathers' rights activist, (but being a fathers' rights activist in and of itself is certainly not a mistake), to try and say we were Juan Miguel Gonzalez, and he was one of us.

This doesn't hold water and is not truthful. It reminds me of the stark extremism that's out there when we talk about Andrea Yates murdering all five of her children. The issue was never justice for five murdered children (as it should have been), but rather, and only one of these two truths: Either a subjective mental illness is 100 percent to blame for the murders, or the drugs that Andrea took from time to time are 100 percent to blame. As far as agenda's go, I see some similarities between the media hoopla surrounding the Yates case and the Gonzalez case. It's not right. And when a CNN Talk Back Live survey stated the majority of Americans said Elian should be returned to his father, they should have been truthful and said: returned to his father, yes, but - under a totalitarian regime.

When I marched in Atlanta for Elian to be reunited with his father at the time of Elian's political asylum hearing on May 11, 2000, I thought that Elian's father's wishes were the only issue at hand. I thought like many fathers who were writing about Elian and his father. Archie Wortham wrote a piece for fathermag. com titled: "Elian Gonzalez: Fathers' Fight to be Important in America Continues." According to Wortham, "His father is the only one who should be making this decision. Yet, America is attempting to drive another stake in every man who is or happened to be a father. The boy should go home! A son needs his father." This is correct thinking for American fathers and their American children facing daily bias in American courts. It does not apply to a Communist tool like Elian's father, and an innocent child like Elian who now must shout "Fidel! Fidel!" during his youth, when instead, he could have lived in America.

When you punch "Elian Gonzalez" into an internet search engine, there are many articles and pictures to view. My heart sank when I checked out this web site: http://www.therealcuba.com/elian_gonzalez.htm Everyone had an opinion about this case, and charges of all sorts when back and forth between all the parties. Again, it was an unbelievable media circus, and I just didn't "get it" at the time. I thought I did. I really did. It did not even cross my heart or mind that it was a real possibility young Elian would have to live under a totalitarian regime that people try to escape from all the time. I didn't think that through. Now, I am. Back then, I should have asked myself: "How many times do we see people from America risking their lives in inner tubes to reach - Cuba?

No, this would have messed up my belief that the only issue at hand was that since Elian's mother was deceased, he must live with his father.

And Castro.

"El Manisero" ya viene llegando

Interesting stuffessess from the Killcastro.

http://www.killcastro.com/blog/2006/08/scooping-press.html

So much for Mr. Peristroika

Not that this is any great surprise for us "gusanos" but it is evidence that will hold up in a court of law that Raul Castro-Ruz is a bloddy murderer.

this from yesterday's El Nuevo Herald:

BROTHERS TO THE RESCUE SHOOTDOWN Tape suggests Raúl Castro ordered Brothers shootdown.

A recording purportedly of Raúl Castro suggests he gave direct orders
for the shootdown of Brothers to the Rescue planes.

By WILFREDO CANCIO ISLAwcancio@elnuevo.com

Cuban Defense Minister Raúl Castro discussed plans for the 1996 shootdowns of two Brothers to the Rescue airplanes during a meeting with official journalists just weeks after the event, according to an audio tape obtained by El Nuevo Herald.
In the tape, a voice identified as Raúl's details the planning carried out during a
meeting of military officers around Jan. 13, 1996, the day Brothers aircraft
allegedly had overflown Havana to drop anti-government leaflets.
''I made it clear that [the decision to shoot] had to be decentralized if we wanted it to be effective, so we gave the power to five generals,'' the voice says. The Brothers
airplanes ``were going to escalate this, and we had no other recourse but to
make this decision.

''I told them [MiG pilots] to try to knock them down over
[Cuban] territory, but they [the Brothers aircraft] would enter Havana and go
away . . . Of course, with one of those missiles, air-to-air, what comes down is
a ball of fire that will fall on the city,'' the voice says. ``Well, knock them
down into the sea when they reappear. If not, consult with the people in
authority.''

The two Brothers Cessna C-337 were shot down by MiGs Feb. 24,
killing Armando Alejandre, Carlos Costa, Mario de la Peña and Pablo Morales.
Brothers to the Rescue has denied any violations of Cuban airspace.

The 11-minute recording was taped during a June 21, 1996, conversation at a Cuban
Communist Party office in the eastern city of Holguín between Castro, government
officials and journalists from the government's Radio Rebelde network.
The authenticity of the recording could not be independently confirmed. A telephone
call Sunday to the Cuban diplomatic mission in Washington went
unanswered.
RECORDING'S SOURCE

The recording was obtained by a Havana journalist who requested anonymity for his own security. Cubans in Miami who listened to it say they believe it is indeed Raúl's voice. The Holguín newspaper carried a report on Raúl's presence there the day after the meeting. The recording was delivered to El Nuevo Herald through Nueva Prensa Cubana, a Miami agency that represents several dissident journalists in Cuba.
On two occasions, the voice on the recording is heard warning the government
journalists to ``publish nothing about this.''

Cuban leader Fidel Castro told CBS News anchor Dan Rather in April of 1996 that he had given general orders that violations of Cuban airspace should be stopped, but that neither he nor Raúl had given the specific order for the Feb. 24 shootdown.
Fidel Castro temporarily ceded power to his younger brother three weeks ago after undergoing ''complicated'' intestinal surgery. He is reported to be recovering but has not been seen in public since although photos and a video have been
released.

Cuba has long maintained that the Brothers' Cessna 337 planes were
shot down within its territorial waters. But an investigation by the United
Nations' International Civil Aviation Organization concluded they were well
outside Cuban waters. The tape does not specify the names of the five
generals empowered to order the shootdowns. In August 2003, federal prosecutors
in Miami indicted three Cuban officers for the attacks: Gen. Rubén Martínez
Puente, then head of the anti-aircraft command, and MiG pilot-brothers Alberto
Lorenzo and Francisco Pérez Pérez.

ON FULL ALERT
In the recording, the voice says that Cuban military forces were put on full alert after Brothers airplanes allegedly violated Cuban airspace on July 13, 1995.
'One MiG-23 got behind them . . . `I have him, I have him,' he said. 'Let him go,' he was ordered,'' says the voice, adding later that the order to stop the incursions
remained in force as of the Holguín meeting. ``The order stays.''
In the tape, the voice also says that just before the Holguín meeting the speaker
ordered the emergency landing of a plane carrying Fidel Castro from central Cuba
to Havana because air force radars had detected ''several'' suspicious marks in
Havana province.
''I ordered that the plane land in Varadero,'' the voice says. 'It was necessary to say that the order was mine. `Make it land in Varadero!' and [Fidel] told them to obey it.''
José Basulto, president of Brothers to the Rescue, and relatives of the dead pilots have long insisted on bringing Raúl Castro before U.S. justice for the shootdowns.
''This is the type of proof we have been seeking from day one as confirmation that the murder was premeditated,'' said Maggie Alejandre Khuly, sister of pilot Armando
Alejandre.
Basulto, who was in another plane during the attacks, said the
tape ``points to Raúl Castro as the direct source of the decision to down the
airplanes . . . This is a record of the plans for the crime.''

Ok I was Wrong

I will admit it. I was 100% positively sure her family did it and got away with it. But take a look at this...

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sns-ap-jonbenet-ramsey,0,7697017.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines
Suspect Arrested in JonBenet Ramsey Case

By CATHERINE TSAIAssociated Press WriterAugust 16, 2006, 7:54 PM EDT
BOULDER, Colo. -- A former schoolteacher was arrested Wednesday in Thailand in the slaying of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey -- a surprise breakthrough in a lurid, decade-old murder mystery that had cast a cloud of suspicion over her own parents. Federal officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, identified the suspect as John Mark Karr, a 42-year-old American, and one law enforcement official told The Associated Press that Boulder police had tracked him down online. The Ramsey family's attorney in Atlanta pronounced the arrest vindication for JonBenet's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey. Patsy Ramsey died of ovarian cancer on June 24. "John and Patsy lived their lives knowing they were innocent, trying to raise a son despite the furor around them," Lin Wood said. "The story of this family is a story of courage, and story of an American injustice and tragedy that ultimately people will have to look back on and hopefully learn from." The attorney said the Ramseys learned about the suspect a least a month before Patsy Ramsey's death. "It's been a very long 10 years, and I'm just sorry Patsy isn't here for me to hug her neck," Wood said. Karr was a teacher who once lived in Conyers, Ga., according to Wood. The attorney said the Ramseys gave police information about Karr before he was identified as a suspect. Wood would not say how the Ramseys knew Karr. But JonBenet was born in Atlanta in 1990, and the Ramseys lived in the Atlanta suburb of Dunwoody for several years before moving to Colorado in 1991. A source close to the investigation said Karr confessed to elements of the crime. Also, a law enforcement source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the AP that Karr had been communicating periodically with somebody in Boulder who had been following the case and cooperating with law enforcement officials. District Attorney Mary Lacy said the arrest followed several months of work, but she said no details would be released until Thursday. Karr was being held in Bangkok on unrelated sex charges, authorities said. CBS reported he will be brought back to the United States this weekend. JonBenet was found beaten and strangled in the basement of the family's home in Boulder on Dec. 26, 1996. Patsy Ramsey reported finding a ransom note in the house demanding $118,000 for her daughter. The image of blonde-haired little JonBenet in a cowgirl costume and other beauty pageant outfits has haunted TV talk shows ever since, helping feed myriad theories about her killer, and the case became one of the most sensational unsolved murder cases in the nation. Over the years, some experts suggested that investigators had botched the case so thoroughly that it might never be solved. Investigators at one point said JonBenet's parents were under an "umbrella of suspicion" in the slaying. And some news accounts cast suspicion on JonBenet's older brother. But the Ramseys insisted an intruder killed their daughter, and no one was ever charged. In the months after the slaying, Patsy Ramsey went before the cameras, vigorously defending herself and her husband, chastising the media and blasting local law enforcement as incompetent. In a statement Wednesday, John Ramsey said: "Patsy was aware that authorities were close to making an arrest in the case, and had she lived to see this day, would no doubt have been as pleased as I am with today's development almost 10 years after our daughter's murder." The Ramseys moved back to Atlanta after their daughter's slaying. Wood lashed out at the frenzy that long surrounded the case, and he accused the media of "the most obscene false accusations." "I think the public's mind was so poisoned against this family that no one was able for too many years to look at the evidence," he said. Patsy Ramsey's sister, Pam Paugh, of Roswell, Ga., said the family was celebrating the news of the arrest. "We are elated. We are elated. If this is, in fact, the killer, then we have a very heinous killer off the streets to never harm another child," Paugh said. Lib Waters of Marietta, Ga., visited the gravesites of Patsy and JonBenet Ramsey in the Atlanta suburb immediately after hearing news reports about the arrest. Waters, who described herself as a longtime friend of the Ramsey family, taped a piece of notebook paper to JonBenet Ramsey's headstone that read: "Dearest Patsy, Justice has come for you and Jon. Rest in peace." In 2003, a federal judge in Atlanta concluded that the evidence she reviewed suggested an intruder killed JonBenet. That opinion came with the judge's decision to dismiss a libel and slander lawsuit against the Ramseys by a freelance journalist, whom the Ramseys had named as a suspect in their daughter's murder. The Boulder district attorney at the time said she agreed with the judge's declaration. "Today is additional vindication of the family," Wood said. Wood said he and the Ramseys "have been totally amazed and impressed with the professionalism of law enforcement" under Lacy's direction. Lacy became district attorney in 2001. Author Lawrence Schiller, who wrote the 1999 book "Perfect Murder, Perfect Town" about the case, said Wednesday he understood the man had been on a list of sexual offenders who were suspects for a long time. "There are a lot of facts about her actual death that the public does not know." Schiller said. "If he did confess to some facts of the murder, to reveal those facts of the case, that would finish the puzzle." Among the facts he said were not generally known was the murder weapon and what the killer did with it. Bob Grant, a former Adams County district attorney who worked on the case, said there was never enough evidence to convince him that any potential suspect could be successfully prosecuted. "I wasn't convinced it was an inside job, nor was I convinced it was an outside job," he said. "All the outside suspects were cleared after exhaustive investigation, and there were a whole lot of outside suspects." * __ Associated Press Writers Suzanne Gamboa and Lara Jakes Jordan in Washington contributed to this report.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch.......

This is just too funny. While Chavez was in la Habana kissing Castro's wrinkled butt...........

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sfl-hveneortegaaug15,0,6857615.story?coll=sfla-news-nationworld

Chavez foe on the loose after jailbreak
Labor leader was convicted for
strike role

By Ian JamesThe Associated PressAugust 15, 2006
CARACAS ·
One of President Hugo Chavez's most threatening enemies is on the loose, and
many Venezuelans wonder what new plots he has in mind.Carlos Ortega, 60, escaped
from a military prison over the weekend, and troops and police were ordered to
guard ports, airports and embassies to prevent him from fleeing or seeking
asylum. But those who know Ortega think he might stay to revive anti-Chavez
protests before December's presidential elections."Carlos has always been a
fighting man," Edgar Zambrano, an opposition politician who recently visited him
in prison, said Monday. "I imagine if he decided to escape from prison, he's
doing it to stay in the country and, while in hiding, begin a frontal fight
against the regime."A union leader who led a crippling national strike against
Chavez and later became what many consider Venezuela's most prominent political
prisoner, Ortega slipped out of the Ramo Verde prison west of Caracas, where he
was serving a 16-year sentence for civil rebellion. Three convicted military
officers also escaped.Prison director Gustavo Busnego said 14 guards were being
interrogated, and investigators think some may have helped the men leave the
prison. He said guards reported the escape Sunday after checking one bunk and
finding only pillows under the sheet, arranged to look like a dozing
inmate.Zambrano's party, Democratic Action, released a typed letter, purportedly
written by Ortega from prison a week earlier. In it, he repeated a phrase he has
often used: "I know that we will soon see each other again -- and free."However,
he also said, "For now I am a political prisoner of a dictator who knows I am
dangerous in the streets and, therefore, I prefer to stay behind bars. That is
the best way of showing he fears me."Ortega wrote that voters should boycott the
presidential vote and called for street protests to "defend democracy." He
signed off saying, "We will see each other soon, friends!"Chavez has called
Ortega a criminal who has conspired against democracy with Venezuela's wealthy
elite.Ortega was convicted last December of civil rebellion and instigation to
commit illegal acts for his role in a 2002-03 general strike that aimed to
topple Chavez's government.The two-month strike virtually shut down oil
production in the world's No. 5 oil-exporting country and cost Venezuela an
estimated $7.5 billion, plunging the economy into recession. Chavez refused to
step down, and he regained control of the state oil industry by firing almost
half its work force.The government also has linked Ortega, the leader of the
million-member Venezuelan Workers Confederation, to an April 2002 coup that
briefly ousted Chavez before street protests helped restore him to power.Ortega
has eluded authorities before. He fled arrest and sought asylum in Costa Rica,
then chose to return to Venezuela in 2004, to "continue fighting this regime by
any means necessary."Ortega spent months in hiding before his arrest in March
2005 inside a Caracas bingo hall.Some of Ortega's allies, including his lawyer,
said his escape was justified because he was wrongly convicted by a biased
judicial system.But pro-Chavez union organizer Pedro Vargas called Ortega's
escape "part of the opposition's Plan B" to try to destabilize the government.
Attorney General Isaias Rodriguez theorized that the opposition could have
"sponsored this escape."The three military officers who disappeared with Ortega
include two brothers, Col. Jesus Faria and Col. Dario Faria, and their nephew,
Capt. Rafael Faria.Jesus and Rafael Faria were serving nine-year terms for
military rebellion after being linked to reputed Colombian paramilitaries
detained in 2004 for allegedly plotting to assassinate Chavez. Dario Faria was
arrested for theft in 2005 after a military assault rifle was found hidden in
his car's fender. All three maintained they were innocent.
Copyright © 2006, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

El Video

I was watching the Maria Elvira’s show last night and she played the Castro-Chavez video.

It was nauseating.

I’ve always hated Castro and could never stand the sight of him, but this Chavez guy is right there with him. I couldn’t believe the crap coming out of his mouth. At least Fidel is polished and articulate . It was like a bad Saturday night live skit or Beavis and Butthead. I have to confess, I haven’t paid too much attention to Chavez and certainly never heard him in Spanish before since I never watch the Spanish news because I prefer English.

Then, Chavez gives Castro Bolivar’s dagger and cup! Who does he think he is?!?

That would be like W going over to see a sick Tony Blair and giving Blair George Washington’s pipe and saber. Those are Venezuela’s national treasures that belong to all Venezuelans, not trinkets he can give to his friends. The audacity !

So I am telling my partner about this guy and it dawns on me that all the crap that he was spewing was just a way to prove that the video was shot on Castro’s birthday. Like a little kid who is told by his parents to say something and he just goes through his little script.

Castro at Clinton Fundraiser in Fort Lauderdale!

Hysterical History Challanged

I'm going to play the lottery. if i win, i'm going to use the money to get this guy fontova to do a documentary on castro. This guy is the bitbull of truth. He's funny, biting and full of facts. Check out thsi article:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/8/14/172147.shtml

Tremendo Papelazo

I'm no expert on photshopping, but that newspaper doesn't look right to me.

I asked a couple of teenagers. Who just laughed and pointed out all the reasons why they thought the pic was a fake.

But the biggest crock is that "absolved by history" bull. Once Castro is gone, and his legacy is finally exposed (again!) by objective anglos whose names don't end in a "Z" who didn't have a dog in the fight and they all let out a collective sigh while shaking their heads in feighned disbelief saying "we had no idea!" History will condemn him as well his maker.

Castro has no excuse for his evilness. He had the great fortune to recieve religious education from the jesuits. So he knows better. He chose to commit and serve evil, premeditatedly.

State Sponsered Terrorism?

He Has Serious Mental Problems Too

From Fox News:

U.S. State Department Officials Believe Castro Has 'Serious' Health Problems
Friday , August 11, 2006

WASHINGTON — The prolonged disappearance of Fidel Castro from public view indicates that the Cuban president is confronting "serious" health problems, a senior State Department official said Friday.
Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Shannon, briefing reporters, also said he believes that Castro's attempt to turn over power to his brother, Raul, is doomed to fail.
"The transfer won't work," Shannon said. "Ultimately, there is no political figure inside of Cuba who matches Fidel Castro."
He added that the key to Cuba becoming a "reliable partner" in the international community is democracy.
The comments of Shannon, and those of State Department Cuba transition coordinator Caleb McCarry, were the most extensive by the administration since Castro, citing intestinal surgery, temporarily transferred power to Raul, the defense minister, on July 31.
Neither of two has been seen in public since, and official information on the Cuban president's health has been scant.
Shannon acknowledged that the administration does not know how serious Castro's condition is.
"We don't know what the level of recovery is," he said. "We're not in a position to know what the result is going to be."
Shannon seemed to brush aside Cuba's stated policy of reinstating Castro to full powers once he recovers.
He said Cuba may be at a point of "regime hardening" in an effort to ensure that the planned succession to Raul is not derailed. But he suggested that that strategy was unsustainable.
"When a supreme leader disappears from an authoritarian regime, the regime flounders," he said. "It doesn't have the direction that it requires."
When such a leader is incapacited or dead, "everybody else is frozen," he said. "It's very difficult for them (Cuban officials) to make public statements, not only about the wellbeing of Fidel Castro but also the wellbeing of the regime."
Shannon said it is imperative that the international community demonstrate a "clear show of solidarity" in support of a democratic transition in Cuba.
He welcomed a recent statement by former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, a Nobel Prize winner, asserting that Cubans deserve a chance to choose their own leaders after 47 years of one-party rule.
Cuban spokesmen have given optimistic accounts of Fidel Castro's progress in conquering his illness. But his closest ally, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, said Thursday that the Cuban leader is in "a great battle for life." He also said he was confident that Castro would recover.
The United States spent $49 million last year on promoting a democratic transition and recently asked Congress for an additional $80 million.
If approved, McCarry said the funds will be spent on increasing the flow of independent information to Cuba as a means of countering the Cuban government's monopoly control over information flows.
Funds also will be spent on upgrading U.S. government radio and television stations tailored for Cuban audiences, he said.
In addition, the administration will work to permit Cubans to have uncensored access to the Internet and "to provide support for opening space for Cubans to define their own future," McCarry added

Castro&Raul

Let US Pray

chavez is an illiterate tagalong wannabe, so you can't take anything he says seriously...but let's hope its true.

Hugo Chavez: Fidel Castro in 'Great Battle for Life'
Thursday , August 10, 2006

MUNICIPIO INDEPENDENCIA, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez said Thursday his close friend and ally Fidel Castro is in a "great battle for life," but he also expressed optimism about the 79-year-old Cuban leader's recovery.
"From here, let's pray to God for Fidel and his recovery, and he's fighting a great battle," Chavez said in a televised speech from the eastern state of Anzoategui.
His statement was the most dire yet from a close Castro ally in describing the 79-year-old Cuban leader's condition.
Chavez said he had received a message from Castro on Wednesday "that filled me with more optimism, with more faith."
"Among other things Fidel told me ... 'I keep saying Chavez, God help Chavez and his friends,"' Chavez said.
"I wrote to him in my own handwriting last night, in the early morning, to send it with the messenger who was returning immediately: 'You are fighting a great battle every day, all these nights,"' Chavez said.
Castro said July 31 he was stepping aside temporarily, granting his powers to his brother Raul as head of the government and the Communist Party so he could recover from intestinal surgery.
Neither brother has been seen in public since then. Details of Castro's condition, his ailment and the surgical procedure he underwent are being treated as a "state secret."
Chavez said Thursday that in his letter to Castro, "I told him, 'Here we're with you every second, every minute, every hour, every day, every night of that great battle for life that you are fighting from your heart, from your soul."'
"It's a battle, and I know, Fidel, that we're going to win it, too. We are prevailing and we will prevail," Chavez said

Castro's a Dem!

Fidel Finally Found

Joe, Say it Ain't So

Well, now that Cuba is in "transition" and the EEUU's official position is "do not even think" of doing anything....We are going to need all the political help we can get here in the states. and Joe Lieberman looses his primary bid...we just can't seem to catch a break these days

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Do It

Come on Guys get back together!

You Can Do It!