castro « WordPress.com Tag Feed

recap central: san francisco, california.

soopahvi — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:31:09 +0000

friday, october 2nd
stopover in new york and it happens to be the day they’re having a party for jetblue all-you-can-jet passengers! woohoo! lots of free food. good thing an all-you-can-jetter who was sitting next to me tipped me off on it. fucking score. free alcohol too, and people kept tossing their extra drink tickets to my table for some reason. i didn’t drink, though.

unfortunately, the guy who tipped me off to the event had stinky breath… i could smell his breath through his exhale of his nose. blah!!! talked with jason? mike? someone else? while at the free food thing. jason is a dude from portland who works for idealist, another guy is this kinda older, cocky rich guy who does real estate in florida… ex-navy, talks about being rich and how once you make a certain amount of money you can never go back to getting mediocre money (he said something like $100,000 was not enough a year because of what he was used to). he WAS a consultant, after all.

anyway, off to san francisco after that. parents pick me up and then get into some ridiculous argument action about a detour and driving. stupid. go to bed asap.

—

saturday, october 3rd
eat breakfast at denny’s with the godparents and then nap. putz around. i have a note here that says “moon day” but i’m not sure what that means. watch “zombieland” with my brother and roxanne, and then eat japanese food for dinner at sakura with the rentals.

a church family owns the restaurant so we got massif free foodages.

continue to putz around, and then bart to sherry’s. relax.

—

sunday, october 4th
go to church with sherry and tin-win. it’s whatevers, the pastor is pretty funny and amusing, and he certainly has charm, but as always, i don’t agree with the bs he spews. go to korean lunch (soondooboo! they actually have veggie soondooboo!) with one of their friends, and then i go muni to the castro st. fair.

view from sherry and tin-win’s fancy apartment.

hilarious back massager ;x is that REALLY what it is? can’t tell.

i was expecting more, unfortunately, but it was really quite tame.

this guy was dancing up a storm, though.

really awful mash-up band.

look at that stomach.

so awesome!

met up with jesse and his sister shortly thereafter and went to this really super cute tea house called salmovar that had a $65 pot of tea!!!!

<img src="“>
this is a tray of cookies we got. karla met up with us but it took her a while to get there. right when jesse was taking off, actually. too bad!

ate pizza buffet with sherry and tin-win for dinner, and then putzed around! it was good, but there weren’t much veggie selections, so when the workers found out i was vegetarian they kept bringing me everything ad nauseum. really nice of them!

—

monday, october 5th
explored san francisco by myself, particularly the mission district.

… is it just me or does that not look like michael??

lotsa murals in the mission district.

<img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_RqrWKVC07xM/SttvGlLPz-I/AAAAAAAAVno/lnFJ0waqk8Q/s720/DSC_0068.JPG"

this one particular alley had shitloads of murals!

my favorite.

found a neat market and bought this amazing! beets drink! so delicious!

went to the ferry building shortly thereafter to meet up with jesse.

found this amazing soap. i want i i want it i want it i want it. unfortunately, i broke the bottle of beets juice before i got to finish it all :/ i want more, though. someone get me some.

as i was standing in the ferry building, waiting for jesse, i caught a glimpse of the back of some girl wearing green, and she walked like jean-claire so i thought it was maybe jean-claire, so i texted jean-claire, and it WAS her, which is really weird, because if i hadn’t been looking in her direction or had looked in her direction literally five seconds later, i wouldn’t have seen her. not to mention… i met her in peru, and she’d lived in portland up until that point. so what the fuck. it was weird and random.

jesse and i went to eat mexican food and then he went back to work.

after this, i didn’t take notes, so it’s all a blur. teehee!

100,000 signatures strong for Cuba travel

kubainfo — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:12:46 +0000

Yahoo: A cyberspace petition started by the Orbitz travel site to open Cuba to American tourists now

U.S. Travel to Cuba May Open up

kubainfo — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:09:25 +0000

Since the 1960s, by US law, they have been off limits to American citizens. But, on Capitol Hill thi

Generación Y

midiascelebridades — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:51:41 +0000

Não é só escândalos e talentos musicais que se tornam sucesso através da rede. A blogueira Yoani Sánches ficou reconhecida mundialmente por usar a internet para protestar contra o regime ditatorial que governa Cuba. O blog GENERACIÓN Y, reprimido pelo governo cubano dos irmãos Castro, relata o cotidiano miserável da população da ilha e, contrariando o sistema político que censura a internet, abre espaço, através da WEB, para uma discussão que há muito tempo perdura no mundo. A questão é: Até quando o governo ditatorial, imposto por Fidel Castro, conseguirá se manter no poder? Em entrevista ao Fantástico, Yoani, que está proibída de deixar seu país diz que chegou a hora de argüir seus governtantes sobre o regime ditatoral e suas ações, que há muito tempo impedem o desenvolvimeto econômico e social do povo cubano. Além disso, a blogueira marcou uma entrevista com o presidente americano Barack Obama, que já disse ter interesse em estreitar relações com Cuba. O governo cubano, quando cogitado para participar de uma entrevista, não se manifestou.

Yoani relata sofrer repressões por manter um blog na internet. Porém, mesmo para um regime político em que a censura é muito forte, impedir que a liberdade de expressão se manifeste através da WEB é muito difícil. Para postar informações em um blog basta um computador com internet via satélite, o que atualmente é muito fácil conseguir.

Mi Nieto

amgene — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:51:27 +0000

….lo estoy sosteniendo en mis brazos, su cuerpecito erguido y su cabeza sobre mi hombro. Tiene apenas tres meses y ya es toda una personalidad. Y mientras el dormita seguro y placido me dejo ir en el pensamiento…..

Su abuela paterna es de Arroyo Arenas, de donde salió con dos años de edad rumbo a California. El abuelo paterno es de Chicago donde creció en “Foster Homes”; padre centroamericano y madre irlandesa. La “abuela” materna es de Ciudad de México. El abuelo paterno es de Cojímar.

Su padre es de Chicago, pero se refiere a si mismo como cubano-americano. Su mama nació en Moscú y en los “résumés” establece su origen nacional como “cubana”. Ninguno de los dos conoce Cuba, físicamente, aun cuando si conocen Norte y Centroamérica, y buena parte de Europa. Sin embargo, de todas las opciones que tienen para establecer su identidad han escogido ser cubanos.

Little JP no entiende de orígenes nacionales aun, todo es nuevo para el. Le queda un largo camino en esto de conformar su identidad, libremente. Y yo me emociono en pensarlo caminando las calles de mi ciudad, tomado de la mano, ir de Galiano a Neptuno, en dirección hacia el Parque Central. Entonces Paseo del Prado, bajando hacia la Bahía…., disfrutando la vista y la gente, lentamente, como solía hacer su abuelo en un tiempo ya ido.

Tendrá entonces él algún pensamiento para los que desterraron tres generaciones de su familia?

Eugene.

Spanish Marxist causes losses to Mexican billionaire Emilio Azcarraga and TV network, Televisa

perezstuartjosea — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:09:52 +0000

PORTFOLIOS

* WHEN TO WITHSTAND YOUR PARTNER Emilio Azcarraga MARXIST?

* HOW MUCH DO YOU REPRESENT TELEVISA MEDIAPRO LOSSES?

* THE “PEOPLE BASTKETBALL” Zapatero seems to sink

OF JOSE A. PEREZ STUART

It seems that Mexican businessman of television, Emilio Azcarraga Jean, will take strong measures in the coming days that could redefine their society with a Spanish Marxist group that embarked on a costly adventure that can lead to Televisa, the world leader in television Hispanic headache wit

h some investors.

So far, management conducted by the consortium TELEVISA Azcarraga Jean, has been impeccable. Not only has preserved what he inherited from his father, but has even increased it received. He has made some interesting operations that have allowed diversification and, therefore, lower exposure to risks arising from having everything put in one basket. Certainly the bulk of the revenue remains the same, but no doubt it has been known to drive with two middle brilliance turbulence:

* The alternation of power in Mexico, which means they restructure the relationship with the real factors of power in that country, where the president no longer enjoys the privileges meta decades ago, and

* Successive economic crises resulting from financial mismanagement in New York: first, the severe blow to international investors on discovery of accounting scandals that began with the famous Enron case, and secondly, the recession triggered by the injection funds in high-risk mortgages that became unaffordable, and reason for the technical bankruptcy of the U.S. financial system.

However, the only point of concern is the dual society that has established a curious business groups, significantly linked to the Spanish Socialists, now experiencing serious problems.

A) The first was with today endeudadísimo Grupo Prisa, the late Jesus de Polanco, from a minor league contract for the operation of the company that gave rise to TELEVISA: XEW radio station, known as the Voice of America America from Mexico. The Socialist tendencies of the Prisa Group and, therefore, their SER radio division, has given several headaches Emilio Azcarraga Jean, before handling biased ideologizing with which it has been at times to manage the hotline and comments. Another of the ballast with which it has struggled Azcarraga Jean is Antonio Navalon, very disreputable character in Spain, for his involvement in an explosive case of just handling of public funds during one of the socialist governments of that country.

B) But the second case was the association of Televisa, in 2006, with the so-called Group Mediapro, which in Spain has been linked publicly with the still politically from that country’s socialist president, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

TELEVISA Spanish entered the television market with a not inconsiderable 40% of shares in the channel called La Sexta, a firm that according to the initial public comment, due to ties of its main backer Spanish, the picturesque Trotskyist Jaume Roures, with Spanish socialist officials could get some juicy profits. This, however, has not worked. For the sake of those unfamiliar with the Hispanic social ExtraMED, we say that such Roures, who runs the television station La Sexta, a character who seems to emerge from the picaresque

* Roures is called in Spain “The People Basketball Zapatero.

* Roures Mediapro Group owns, operates as a holding company under whose umbrella they operate, for example, the open television channel La Sexta and declared a small newspaper of communist leanings called Public.

* The latest reports indicate that this group reported has a “financial gap of 3.140 billion euros, that is deepening every day because daily newspaper lost 50,000 euros and the Televisa network [which Televisa owns 40% of the shares], 350.000. 350,000 euros a day …!

* As if that were not enough, says the company “will have six years pay EUR 2.583 million for broadcasting rights. A huge number, because it is 25 times greater than the equity of the company and 80 times its operating profit” as Digital Journalist discusses just this past 21 November 2009. The numbers therefore do not add up.

* The worst of it all, and mainly for the smart Emilio Azcarraga Jean, is that they have two completely opposite philosophies. Emilio, in effect, recognizes the social function of television show, but also clearly stated in seeking business profitability, as it has hundreds of thousands of shareholders in the world who should be held accountable satisfactory. Instead, the picturesque Roures, defined itself as Marxist, says: “I make money to serve my ideas.” He adds: “I do not work, I was active.

Go partner to put into the hands of Emilio Azcarraga …! A Marxist activist who apparently affected the prestigious defined by the psychiatrist Otto Kernberg, as T ISORDERS Narcissistic Personality, “just looking to make money for autodeleitarse. And so lost 350,000 euros a day in La Sexta! Total, s nly happens to TELEVISA account …

The words I quoted from the picturesque Marxist Jaume Roures are copied from an interview he gave the French Communist newspaper Liberation, that any idle can be found at the website of the Paris daily.

Roures, the picturesque Marxist who spent several years in prison during the Franco regime not because of his ideas but his Trotskyite militant subversive as stated, even has a daughter who was born in Nicaragua during the Sandino-Communist revolution.

With the resources we got, they say in Spain, thanks to the business which was provided by its relations with the socialist leaders of his country, has produced films pro-Communist, as performed by Oliver Stone in which he praises Fidel Castro.

One thing is the words and other figures. You can say outrageous and a half, but the numbers do not lie. Let’s see how you represent the loss of MEDIAPRO TELEVISA And how long will support the Mexican television group which Roures continue having fun with other people’s money …

For now, Roures already had to cut staff in its daily paper Publico, which appeared last week without signatures in protest of drafting such a measure taken to address the crisis in the newspaper.

And to make matters worse, the Spanish Socialist government seems to water:

* The farmers took to the streets to protest the lack of support they enjoy.

* The Socialist government itself was discredited by the way they “solved” the hijacking of the vessel Alakrana: gave money to the pirates made a pact with them.

* Unemployment is rising, reflecting the strategy of raising taxes, worsening the crisis.

The political support Roures therefore also seem to sink. The ship then sinks.

PD is said that behind all these investments that some Mexicans like Carlos Slim and Emilio Azcarraga been made in Spain, Curiously, significantly with “businessmen” not typically Marxist and capitalist, is the hidden hand of Felipe González. Is it?

* The photograph corresponds to Jaume Roures.

Marxista español provoca pérdidas al millonario mexicano Emilio Azcárraga y al consorcio de TV, Televisa

perezstuartjosea — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:54:28 +0000

mailto:perezstuart@gmail.com

PORTAFOLIOS

* ¿HASTA CUANDO SOPORTARÁ EMILIO AZCARRAGA A SU SOCIO MARXISTA?

* ¿CUANTO LE REPRESENTAN A TELEVISA LAS PERDIDAS DE MEDIAPRO?

* EL “BASTKETBALL PEOPLE” DE ZAPATERO PARECE HUNDIRSE

DE JOSE A.PEREZ STUART

Todo parece indicar que el empresario mexicano de la televisión, Emilio Azcárraga Jean, tomará medidas enérgicas en los próximos días que pueden replantear su sociedad con un grupo marxista español que lo embarcó en una costosa aventura que le puede ocasionar a TELEVISA, líder mundial en televisión hispana, algún dolor de cabeza con los inversionistas.

Hasta ahora, el manejo realizado por Azcárraga Jean del consorcio TELEVISA, ha sido impecable. No sólo ha conservado lo que heredó de su padre, sino que incluso ha multiplicado lo recibido. Ha realizado algunas operaciones interesantes que le han permitido la diversificación y, por lo mismo, la menor exposición a riesgos derivados de tener todo metido en una sola canasta. Ciertamente el grueso de los ingresos sigue siendo el mismo, pero no cabe la menor duda de que se ha sabido manejar con brillantez enmedio de dos turbulencias:

* La alternancia del poder en México, que le significó reestructurar las relaciones con los factores reales de poder en ese país, donde el Presidente ya no goza de las prerrogativas metaconstitucionales de décadas atrás, y

* Las sucesivas crisis económicas derivadas de los malos manejos financieros en Nueva York: primero, el severo golpe a los inversionistas internacionales con motivo del descubrimiento de fraudes contables que empezaron con el famoso Caso Enron, y en segundo lugar, la recesión detonada por la inyección de fondos en créditos hipotecarios de alto riesgo que se convirtieron en impagables y motivo de la quiebra técnica del sistema financiero estadunidense.

Sin embargo, el único punto de preocupación es el de la doble sociedad que ha establecido con grupos empresariales curiosa, significativamente ligados a los socialistas españoles, que hoy atraviesan por serios problemas.

A) El primero de ellos fue con el hoy endeudadísimo Grupo Prisa, del ya fallecido Jesús de Polanco, a partir de un contraro para la operación de la empresa que dió origen a TELEVISA: la estación de radio XEW, conocida como La voz de América Latina desde México. La filiación socialista del Grupo Prisa y, por lo tanto, de su división radiofónica SER, le ha dado varios dolores de cabeza a Emilio Azcárraga Jean, ante el manejo tendencioso, ideologizante con que se ha llegado en ocasiones a manejar la línea informativa y de comentarios. Otro de los lastres con los que ha tenido que cargar Azcárraga Jean es Antonio Navalón, personaje muy desprestigiado en España, por su involucramiento en un explosivo caso de manejos de fondos públicos precisamente durante uno de los gobiernos socialistas de aquél país.

B) Pero el segundo de los casos fue la asociación de TELEVISA, en el 2006, con el llamado Grupo Mediapro, que en toda España públicamente se le vincula políticamente con el aún Presidente socialista de aquél país, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

TELEVISA entró al mercado español de la televisión con un nada despreciable 40% de las acciones del canal denominado La Sexta, firma que de acuerdo a los comentarios públicos iniciales, debido a los vínculos de su principal promotor español, el pintoresco trotskista Jaume Roures, con los funcionarios socialistas españoles, podría obtener algunos jugosos beneficios. Esto, sin embargo, no ha resultado. Para mayor abundamiento de quienes desconocen el extramado social hispano, hemos de decir que el tal Roures, quien maneja la televisora La Sexta, es un personaje que pareciera surgir de la picaresca:

* Roures es llamado en España “El Basketball People de Rodríguez Zapatero“.

* Roures es propietario del Grupo Mediapro, que opera como holding y bajo cuyo paraguas operan, por ejemplo, el canal de televisión abierta La Sexta y un periodiquito de declaradas tendencia comunista llamado Público.

* Los últimos informes divulgados indican que tal Grupo presenta un “agujero financiero de 3,140 millones de euros, que se ahonda cada día porque el diario pierde diariamente 50,000 euros y la cadena televisa [de la que TELEVISA posee el 40% de las acciones], 350,000″ . ¡350,000 euros diarios…!

* Por si ello fuera poco, se dice que la compañía “deberá abonar el seis años 2,583 millones de euros por derechos audiovisuales. Una cifra enorme, porque es 25 veces mayor que los fondos propios de la compañía y 80 veces su resultado de explotación“, según analiza Periodista Digital apenas el pasado día 21 de este noviembre de 2009. Los números,pues, no cuadran.

* Lo peor de todo ello, y principalmente para el inteligente Emilio Azcárraga Jean, es que ambos tienen dos filosofías completamente opuestas. Emilio, en efecto, reconoce la función social de TELEVISA, pero también ha señalado en forma clara que busca la rentabilidad de los negocios, dado que tiene cientos de miles de accionistas en el mundo a los cuales debe rendir cuentas satisfactorias. En cambio, el pintoresco Roures, autodefinido como marxista, dice: “Yo hago dinero para servir a mis ideas“. Y añade: “Yo no trabajo, yo milito“.

¡Vaya socio que le pusieron en bandeja a Emilio Azcárraga…! Un militante marxista que al parecer afectado del definido por el prestigiado psiquiatra Otto Kernberg, como “Trastorno Narcisista de la Personalidad“, sólo busca hacer dinero para autodeleitarse. ¡Y por eso pierde 350,000 euros diarios en La Sexta! Total, sólo le pasa la cuenta a TELEVISA…

Las palabras que he entrecomillado del pintoresco marxista Jaume Roures están copiadas de una entrevista que ofreció al periódico comunista francés Liberation, que cualquier ocioso puede encontrar en la página web de dicho diario parisino.

Roures, el pintoresco marxista que estuvo varios años en prisión durante el régimen franquista debido no a sus ideas sino a su militancia subversiva como troskista declarado, incluso tiene una hija que hizo nacer en Nicaragua, durante la revolución sandino-comunista.

Con los recursos que consiguió, dicen en España, gracias a los negocios que se le facilitaron por sus relaciones con los dirigentes socialistas de su país, ha producido películas procomunistas, como la realizada por Oliver Stone en la que se ensalza a Fidel Castro.

Una cosa son las palabras y otras las cifras. Se puede decir barbaridad y media, pero los números no mienten. Vamos a ver cuánto le representan a TELEVISA las pérdida de MEDIAPRO Y hasta cuándo soportará el grupo mexicano de la televisión el que Roures siga divirtiéndose con el dinero de otros…

Por lo pronto, Roures ya tuvo que hacer recorte de personal en su diario Público, que apareció la semana anterior sin firmas como protesta de la redacción ante esa medida tomada frente a la crisis que sufre el periódico.

Y para colmo, el gobierno socialista español parece hacer agua:

* Los agricultores salieron a la calle a protestar por la falta de apoyo que les otorga.

* El mismo gobierno socialista quedó desprestigiado por la forma en que “solucionó” el secuestro de la embarcación Alakrana: dio dinero a los piratas; pactó con ellos.

* El desempleo va en aumento como reflejo de que la estrategia de subir impuestos, empeora la crisis.

Los apoyos políticos de Roures, pues, parecen también irse a pique. El barco, pues, se hunde.

P.D. Se dice que detrás de todas estas inversiones que algunos mexicanos como Emilio Azcárraga y Carlos Slim han realizado en España, curiosa, significativamente con ”empresarios” marxistas y no típicamente capitalistas, está la mano oculta de Felipe González. ¿Será?

* La fotografía corresponde a Jaume Roures.

Un marxista español produce pérdidas al millonario mexicano Emilio Azcárraga y a la cadena de TV, Televisa

perezstuartjosea — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:52:23 +0000

mailto:perezstuart@gmail.com

PORTAFOLIOS

* ¿HASTA CUANDO SOPORTARÁ EMILIO AZCARRAGA A SU SOCIO MARXISTA?

* ¿CUANTO LE REPRESENTAN A TELEVISA LAS PERDIDAS DE MEDIAPRO?

* EL “BASTKETBALL PEOPLE” DE ZAPATERO PARECE HUNDIRSE

DE JOSE A.PEREZ STUART

* Roures es llamado en España “El Basketball People de Rodríguez Zapatero“.

Y para colmo, el gobierno socialista español parece hacer agua:

* Los agricultores salieron a la calle a protestar por la falta de apoyo que les otorga.

* El mismo gobierno socialista quedó desprestigiado por la forma en que “solucionó” el secuestro de la embarcación Alakrana: dio dinero a los piratas; pactó con ellos.

* El desempleo va en aumento como reflejo de que la estrategia de subir impuestos, empeora la crisis.

Los apoyos políticos de Roures, pues, parecen también irse a pique. El barco, pues, se hunde.

* La fotografía corresponde a Jaume Roures.

Un Marxista, socio incómodo del millonario mexicano Emilio Azcárraga Jean y Televisa

perezstuartjosea — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:48:59 +0000

mailto:perezstuart@gmail.com

PORTAFOLIOS

* ¿HASTA CUANDO SOPORTARÁ EMILIO AZCARRAGA A SU SOCIO MARXISTA?

* ¿CUANTO LE REPRESENTAN A TELEVISA LAS PERDIDAS DE MEDIAPRO?

* EL “BASTKETBALL PEOPLE” DE ZAPATERO PARECE HUNDIRSE

DE JOSE A.PEREZ STUART

* Roures es llamado en España “El Basketball People de Rodríguez Zapatero“.

Y para colmo, el gobierno socialista español parece hacer agua:

* Los agricultores salieron a la calle a protestar por la falta de apoyo que les otorga.

* El mismo gobierno socialista quedó desprestigiado por la forma en que “solucionó” el secuestro de la embarcación Alakrana: dio dinero a los piratas; pactó con ellos.

* El desempleo va en aumento como reflejo de que la estrategia de subir impuestos, empeora la crisis.

Los apoyos políticos de Roures, pues, parecen también irse a pique. El barco, pues, se hunde.

* La fotografía corresponde a Jaume Roures.

Pobres Criaturas

aaronwpress — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:41:22 +0000

Así como Cristo dividió y repartió el pan entre sus discípulos y seguidores, Fidel Castro -en su papel de dictador y manipulador- hizo siempre lo mismo con sus colaboradores más cercanos. Pero antes que pan distribuyó maldad, demagogia y odio. Y entre sus preferidos siempre estuvieron los periodistas y demás encargados de controlar la opinión pública. Recordemos que en Sierra Maestra fue más decisiva la labor de Radio Rebelde que las propias acciones militares en contra del régimen anterior.

Y de aquellos polvos hoy se recogen lodos. La camada de jóvenes cubanos dedicados al periodismo digital da pena y denota una ausencia de valores que denigra la propia profesión. La mediocridad y la sumisión al sistema los hace ser uniformes y superficiales. No sienten rubor en mentir o en defender razones que ni ellos mismos creen. He leído muchos escritos de la plataforma Blogcip buscando al menos un atisbo de dignidad profesional o personal y ha sido en vano. Todo es lo mismo, a veces con lindas palabras o con alguna cita simpática o lúcida, pero el fondo es el mismo de negro y miserable. Decenas de periodistas y cientos de panfletos dirigidos todos a defender o cuando menos justificar las atrocidades de aquella dictadura. La mención de los problemas diarios de la sociedad cubana, que por evidentes e insoportables no pueden ocultar, son tratados por estos periodistas “revolucionarios” con hilaridad y sin buscar ni por asomo las causas y mucho menos los verdaderos responsables.

Una escribe sobre las botellas de plástico usadas una y otra vez por los cubanos para las más disímiles y absurdas tareas. Se limita a burlarse de esa realidad sin insinuar siquiera la miseria que semejante acción representa y menos aún sobre el perjuicio que sobre la salud pueda acarrear.
Otro, que se las da de simpático, relata la penosa situación de una gran avenida de la capital en clave de “humor”, sin denunciar lo serio y peligroso que resulta para sus propios conciudadanos y obviando un análisis de las causas, los responsables, las posibles soluciones, etc.

Así son estos periodistas cubanos, pura bazofia y pura vergüenza. Una de ellas me dijo alguna vez que antes que periodista era revolucionaria. Pensé entonces, antes que periodista es una mala persona, una mediocre, una lacaya del sistema.

El privilegio de tener un ordenador personal y acceso a Internet les tiene engreídos y en deudas con el Sistema. Y así viven cada día “engañados a gusto” y “engañando porque les gusta”.

Sr. Gonzalez
España

real estate basement show

brightmarks — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:46:11 +0000

Last night, sitting in my pajamas, doing homework, playing the same Real Estate cd over and over and gorging myself on pasta- a phone call saved my life. Down to North Beach I went to check out an art show, mingled with friends and promptly left for a basement show on the other side of the City. Chillin’ in the Castro waiting for the 24 (which never comes) I almost decided to call the night quits and walk home. Thank God I did not. Arriving at the show, I obviously had missed the tall can in brown bag memo for the second time of the night. My friend and I were standing awkwardly in the corner while her boyfriend, I am sure was trying to justify inviting us. The last band was about to go on, and as sad as I was to leave the Santa Claus doppelgänger to guard the stairs by himself, I hurried on inside to at least get warm.

The music began to play, a smooth mixture of psychedelic beach indie pop if there is such a thing. I quickly found myself enjoying the music and wishing I could move closer. As the first song ended and the second began, I knew I had heard the music before, I leaned to my friend Chrissy’s bf and asked if he knew the name of the band, as I was asking if it was Real Estate, he leaned in and whispered I think they are called Real Estate. CRAZY SHIT!!! I am in love. The music was beautiful, their energy was just great, they looked as stoked to be there as I was to witness this miraculous event ha. As a firm believer in fate, I feel as though the fate gods really stepped up their game last night.

Cuba to hold military exercise to deter the empire

kubainfo — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:23:05 +0000

Press TV: Cuba warns that the island is holding a military exercise next week to boost preparedness

Tettleges támadás érte az Obama által dicsért kubai blogger férjét

kubainfo — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:11:20 +0000

MTI: Kormánypárti tüntetők támadtak rá pénteken Havannában az amerikai elnök által nemrég méltatott kubai ellenzéki blogger, Yoani Sánchez férjére.

A szintén internetes naplót vezető férj, Reinaldo Escobar elmondta, találkozóra hívta az állambiztonsági szervek ügynökeit a kubai főváros egyik kereszteződésébe, hogy egy “szópárbajban” kérdőre vonja őket felesége két héttel ezelőtti előállítása és bántalmazása miatt, és miközben a helyszínen újságíróknak nyilatkozott, megjelent egy néhány száz fős szervezett csoport, amely Fidel Castro volt elnököt és a kubai forradalmat éltető jeszavakat kezdett skandálni.

A tüntetők és Escobar jelen lévő mintegy húsz támogatója összeszólalkoztak, majd dulakodás kezdődött köztük, amelynek során a 62 éves ellenzéki férfit is bántalmazták. “A hajamat cibálták, cipővel ütöttek, elszakították az ingemet, elvették tőlem a táskámat a benne lévő könyvekkel együtt. Eltűnt a szemüvegem is” – mondta el a férfi a brit hírügynökségnek.

Felesége, aki nem volt vele, a Twitter internetes mikroblog-hálózatban azt írta az eset kapcsán: “Meddig fog még az erő, az intolerancia és a mások véleményével szembeni tiszteletlenség nyelve uralkodni ebben az országban?”

A kubai kommunista vezetés gyorsan reagált Escobar vádjaira, e-mailben küldve el külföldi újságíróknak azt a cikket, amely a laRepublica.es honlapján jelent meg, “A kubai embereknek elegük van Yoani Sanchezből” címmel. A weboldal, amely magát mint “A tájékozott polgárság szabad újságját” emlegeti, azt állítja, hogy Escobart az állambiztonsági ügynökök mentették ki a távozását követelő fiatalok kezei közül. Utóbbiak a lap szerint kongadobok hangjának kíséretében azt skandálták: “Ez az utca a forradalom híve” és “Le az árulókkal”.

Barack Obama amerikai elnök a héten válaszolt a havannai kormányt gyakran bíráló, ismert kubai blogger, Yoani Sánchez hozzá intézett kérdéseire, kifejtve, hogy a kubai kormánynak kell lépéseket tennie, ha normalizálni akarja a közel ötven éve fagyos kapcsolatokat Washingtonnal. Obama válaszait Sánchez csütörtökön tette közzé Generación Y nevű internetes naplójában.

Írásában Obama arra is kitért, hogy csalódott, amiért a kubai kormány októberben nem adott engedélyt Sáncheznek, hogy New Yorkba utazzon egy újságírói díj átvételére. Idén már ez volt a második alkalom, hogy a fiatal bloggernek – akit az amerikai Time magazin nemrég a világ száz legbefolyásosabb személyisége közé sorolt – nem engedték elhagyni az országot.

www.kubainfo.net – Kuba utazás, varadero all inclusive

Retired US official and wife admit spying for Cuba

kubainfo — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:25:35 +0000

BBC News: A retired US state department official and his wife have admitted spying for Cuba for near

Cuba: ¿Quiere RC desmantelar "paternalismo"?

cubaout — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:22:05 +0000

La prensa oficial cubana intenta vender en estos días el proyecto del general Raúl Castro de desmant

ijp — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:14:06 +0000

Learning HTML:A Report on the Evaluation of

Three Educational Resources

Description of Audience

The audience for this resource evaluation is represented by a college-educated person who wants to learn basic Web design, in particular HTML and CSS. The person has no prior experience whatsoever with Web design or coding for the Web. Rather than attempt to learn Web design through software like Adobe Dreamweaver, this person wants to learn the fundamentals of Web design, i.e. creating Web sites from scratch. Although her main goal is not to become a professional Web designer, this person wants to become proficient enough to put these skills on her resume.

Resources Evaluated

http://www.w3schools.com

Castro, E. (2007). HTML, XHTML & CSS. Visual quickstart guide. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press.Online Course, e.g. University of Washington – INFX 503

Evaluation

Quick Summary of Pros and Cons of the Three Resources

Resource #1: http://www.w3schools.com

Cons: The Web pages are a little cluttered with extra text, which can be distracting when you are trying to learn. The description of concepts in HTML are sometimes too sparse and fail to give enough context for the learner to gain a full appreciation of the interrelationship of concepts.

Resource #2: Castro, E. (2007). HTML, XHTML & CSS. Visual quickstart guide. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press.

Pros: The book provides a comprehensive introduction to (X)HTML and CSS in an accessible format and layout at a relatively low price.Cons: Because it is a paper book, it doesn’t have the same interactivity and concomitant benefits as the W3Schools Web site. Also, it will go out of date, whereas Web sites will be updated.

Resource #3: Online Course, e.g. University of Washington – INFX 503

Pros: The HTML course is the most accessible and interactive resource and, for most learners, would be the most effective resource for learning HTML.

Cons: The course is by far the most expensive resource and would require significant justification to spend thousands of dollars.

Evaluation Criteria

1) Is the resource accessible to a beginner? (Accessibility)

This criterion encompasses a number of components of the resource, including the level of language used (i.e. lay speak or technical jargon) and the design of the information presented (e.g. page layout in the book and on the Web site).

2) Does the resource facilitate hands-on learning/interactivity? (Interactivity)Since learning to hand code Web sites requires hands-on training, it’s imperative that educational resources include an interactive component. Although it would seem the book would surely fail in this regard, this criterion doesn’t necessarily preclude the book from a positive evaluation.

3) How much does the resource cost? (Cost)

A simple cost-benefit analysis of these resources in the context of our audience’s desired goals is essential to a thorough evaluation.

Resource #1: http://www.w3schools.com

Quick Evaluation Summary

Pros: The W3Schools are quite accessible to the beginner and, since they are Web pages, they provide a number of interactive features for learners of HTML. In addition, they are free of cost, which makes them a very good value for what they provide.Cons: The Web pages are a little cluttered with extra text, which can be distracting when you are trying to learn. The description of concepts in HTML are sometimes too sparse and fail to give enough context for the learner to gain a full appreciation of the interrelationship of concepts.

Detailed Evaluation

Accessibility

The HTML section on the W3Schools Web site begins with a very brief, but plain-spoken introduction to what HTML is and how it works. The writing throughout the site is clear and concise and appears to be without grammatical errors. In fact, the HTML tutorial keeps descriptive text, or body copy, to a minimum and uses “Try It Yourself” in-browser HTML text editors (see Interactivity section of Evaluation). There could be a negative aspect to the sparse description on the site. More description of the concepts could provide useful context and help the learner gain a more comprehensive understanding of HTML concepts.The W3Schools HTML tutorial layout is simple and functional (one would hope so, since the whole point is to teach Web design). One negative aspect of the Web page layout is a disorienting amount of text that surrounds the main body of the Web pages where the tutorial information is located. Although the navigation menu on the left, under the heading “HTML Basic” is useful, the banner advertisements and those on the left hand side of the screen are distracting. Also, the links to other tutorials for CSS, XML, Javascript and more are not needed. It would be easier to focus on learning HTML if superfluous text were removed.

Nonetheless, if the user focuses on just the tutorial information, the Schools have created a logical, step-by-step process to gradually familiarize the reader with HTML and related concepts. The Web site’s pages are short and the user can utilize the navigation menu on the left hand side of the page for links to other parts of the tutorial, as well as buttons that are present on every page labeled “<<Previous” – to go to the previous page of the tutorial – or “Next Chapter>>” – to go to the next page in the tutorial. Furthermore, within each page, the Schools have utilized easy-to-read headings, such as “What is HTML?” “HTML Documents = Web pages” and “What You Need,” which contextualize the text that follows and aid the reading process. Overall, the site follows a simple formula: it briefly introduces a concept in HTML and then provides a “Try It Yourself” text editor to apply the concept. Although coding jargon is used on other parts of the site, if the user follows the step-by-step process through the tutorials, it explains the terminology well.

Interactivity

First, the most useful and often used interactive component of the HTML tutorial is the “Try It Yourself” in-browser text editor. Once the user clicks the “Try It Yourself” link, he is shown a page such as the one below. The user then edits the text in the left hand box and clicks “Edit and Click Me>>” and the box on the right displays how the markup would look in a browser.

This text editor is extremely useful because it gives the user a tool for the concept in question and see the result. Of course, there could be improvements. For example, there are no recommendations on the page for alternatives or supplements to the simple concept that the user is practicing. In the example image above, it might be useful if the page provided a quick tip on how to make horizontal lines extend only 75 percent across the page. In any event, the ability to see one’s markup instantly rendered is a very useful educational tool.Although the in-browser text editors are the most important interactive component, the Web site also has other useful functions by virtue of its status as a Web site. The functionality of hyperlinks to quickly take the user to another site for information is an important component of a Web page’s interactivity. In addition, the navigation menus mentioned earlier allow the user to jump back and forth to different parts of the tutorial with ease.

Cost

The W3Schools are completely free, because they were created by individuals in the non-profit organization the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Because they are free and provide useful tools like the text editor, not to mention that the Schools were created by the governing body for Web standards, this is an invaluable resource that should be at least one part of an educational toolkit.

Resource #2: Castro, E. (2007). HTML, XHTML & CSS. Visual quickstart guide. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press.

Quick Evaluation Summary

Detailed Evaluation

Accessibility As the title suggests, this book is a “visual quickstart guide” to learning HTML and related concepts. As such, the language of the book and the visual design of the book’s pages both create an accessible resource for beginning learners.

First, Castro spends a number of pages in the introduction to the book explaining very broad concepts like the histories of the Internet, the World Wide Web, Web browsers, and HTML. Even for those who have spent a lot of time on the Web, this is useful background information that provides context to the more technical content that follows. In addition, the level of the language is well within the reach of a college educated person. Furthermore, the book also has a section entitled “How This Book Works.” All of this background information on the topic of the book as well the book itself is useful for a beginner.

Second, the main body of the book is well organized in a logical manner from chapter to chapter, and even within chapters. Chapter 1 begins with the very rudimentary concepts of HTML like what is an element, a tag, and an attribute, among others. Chapter 2 explains how to begin writing an HTML document, how to save it, and how to upload it to a server. These are crucial aspects of Web page creation that weren’t covered as much in the W3Schools site. The subsequent chapters continue to unveil important concepts. Here, I want to note a design aspect of the book that distinguishes it from the W3Schools. Whereas the W3Schools separates the tutorials for HTML and CSS, Castro intermingles HTML and CSS as she discusses concepts like tables, lists and forms. This choice reflects Castro’s methodology for Web design, a methodology in accordance with current Web standards created by the W3C. Current standards state that HTML should only be used for rudimentary page structure, while Style Sheets should be used for style and page layout. For a beginner, this is a difficult concept to understand; suffice it to say, this is a positive attribute of this book, in my estimation.

Finally, I want to examine the accessibility of the book on the level of the book page. The book’s pages are relatively uniform in design and layout. For the most part, there are two columns per page. Imagine the graphic below is the book laid open on a table; the center line is the spine of the book.

Written Description of Concept and Description of Usage

Images and Visual Display of Concept and Usage

Written Description of Concept and Description of Usage

As shown, the page is horizontally symmetrical. The written content on the far left and right side describes the concept and its application with words; the columns adjacent to the two text columns show images and visuals of the textually described content. In other words, visual and textual learners are accommodated. Since the point is to learn written languages, i.e. Hypertext Markup Language and Cascading Style Sheets, it is important to have a textual component as well as a visual one.

In summary, the language and layout of the book enables the beginner to access the book without fear of drowning in terminology and inane details. I will highlight a few interactive features next; it’s important to note that these features also contribute to the book’s accessibility.

Interactivity

Obviously, it is difficult for a bound, paper book to achieve the same interactivity as a hypertext Web page. Nonetheless, there are a few important components to the book that lend it an interactive dimension. These components allow the learner to interact with the book out of the sequence of the chapters.

The book has a series of reference sections in the back of the book. There is an (X)HTML and CSS Reference section. These are quick and useful references for someone who is in the process of creating her Web pages. Next to the referenced tag, attribute, property or value, the author has provided references to the appropriate pages where more detailed information can be found. Second, there is a list of special characters that require special coding in the HTML document. The author shows the character and how to put in the document. She also has a section on HTML tools and how useful she thinks they are. Finally, the inside back cover of book has sample colors and their hexadecimal code that is used in HTML documents.

Despite some very useful reference sections, finding content in a book can be more difficult than clicking on a link on a Web page. The functionality of the W3Schools site cannot be matched by this book.

Cost

The retail price of the book is $34.99, though it could be possible to get it used or on sale. Given the comprehensive treatment of the material by the author, $35 dollars is a good value.

Resource #3: Online Course, e.g. University of Washington Course – INFX 503

*Note: I am treating this course as an example of a beginning HTML course. There will be variations on course design depending on the instructor and the institution. I am currently enrolled in the course, which provides me access to the resources and the unique perspective of having experienced how the class design unfolds week to week.

Quick Evaluation Summary

Pros: The HTML course is the most accessible and interactive resource and, for most learners, would be the most effective resource for learning HTML.Cons: The course is by far the most expensive resource and would require significant justification to spend thousands of dollars.

Detailed Evaluation

Accessibility

First of all, the INFX course uses the two previous resources as parts of the curriculum. So, the online class, as a resource, is on a slightly different level from the other two.The INFX course has been very accommodating for beginners. Rather than having to code from scratch and perhaps get tripped up by small details, which is common in writing HTML, the course assignments for the first half of the quarter often require you to read already written HTML and correct mistakes. Then, later in the assignment for a particular week, the student might be asked to write a little HTML himself. This gradual introduction to the topic allows the student to wade into the shallow end before diving into the deep end, as it were. In short, the design of the class and how it unfolds from week to week is very conducive to learning. Rather than aimless learning, the class provides the student with direction and constraints that allow him to focus and learn more efficiently.

To examine a few of the particulars of the course design, I want to first look at the video lectures recorded by the instructor that the students are assigned to watch each week. The lectures consist of a slide presentation, sometimes with moving images, and a narration of the slides and content by the instructor. After reading the book chapters, and perhaps using the W3Schools site to apply some concepts, the lectures provide an extra layer of context as well as a slightly different take on the content. It’s always useful to compare how different sources describe a piece of content, because often the comparisons and contrasts can be illuminating and allow for a deeper understanding. On a practical side, the lectures directly deal with the content of the course’s assignments, which is important for meeting the requirements for the class.

The assignments for the course almost always include downloadable HTML files that are used for that week’s assignment. Again, the students would probably find it more accessible to deal with HTML that is already written than writing it from scratch. With these downloadable HTML files come downloadable worksheets in the form of PDFs that describe the steps to take for that week’s assignment. Overall, the tools for each week’s assignment are readily available and allow the student to focus on learning.

The class’s Web site is very well laid out and easy to use, as would be expected from a class on creating Web sites. The Web pages enable easy navigation to the desired content, and also have a Key Terms and Concepts box on every page that provides quick and useful definitions and recommendations related to Web design.

Although the class is exclusively online, i.e. there are no meetings in the “real world,” there is a social component to the class. First, every student is required to pair up with another student, or “study buddy.” In addition, the class uses the UW’s Catalyst Web Tools liberally, where there are discussion forums for asking and answering questions. This social component sets the class apart from the other two resources in this evaluation. Knowing that there are others out there who you can speak with and who have the same issues you have is a boon to a student struggling over a particular concept. This also contributes to the interactivity of the class (see next section).

All of these components to the class design make it perhaps the most accessible resource. The fact that you can talk to other human beings is the single most important aspect to its accessibility, and no other resource has that.

Interactivity

Many of the aspects of the class discussed in the Accessibility section also contribute to its interactivity. The video lectures, downloadable assignments and HTML documents, Catalyst Web Tools, and the class’s Web site are all interactive in nature. As discussed earlier, the ability to speak to other human beings about the content is invaluable and contributes to both its accessibility and interactivity.In addition, the class requires the student to complete a final project, i.e. a simple Web site. This component is extremely important because it allows the student to come away from the class with something tangible. Creating something new is perhaps the most interactive task a student can undertake. Overall, the class is the most interactive resource among the three.

Cost

If the class wins the accessibility and interactivity competition, it comes at a cost – literally. Because the class at the UW is acting as an example of a more general resource of online courses, it would be difficult to pin down one price for the class. But, suffice it to say, that any classes at a university or community college that last for a full quarter or semester are going to cost thousands of dollars. On the other hand, taking classes that progress toward a degree could have a long term benefit. Assuming the audience for this report has already completed college, it would be difficult to justify spending thousands of dollars unless it effected a promotion or change to a new job with a higher salary.

La invasión cubana llegó primero/ Cuban invasion came first

havanaluanda — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:04:38 +0000

“Instructores” cubanos en Benguela (1975), antes de la “invasión” sudafricana. La logística -mapas, uniformes, tiendas de campaña, raciones de alimentos, etc- fue proporcionada por los portugueses. Había instructores-combatientes cubanos desde 1965, ¿dónde estaban entonces los sudafricanos, los zairenses o la CIA?

“Instructors” Cubans in Benguela (1975), before the South Africa “invasion”. The logistics, maps, uniforms, tents, food rations, etc., was provided by the Portuguese. Cuban fighters-instructors since 1965, where were then the South Africans, the Zairian or the CIA?

Constellations of Insanity

docliptz — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:37:41 +0000

Sometimes I sit alone in the dark and wonder why I wasn’t allowed to try out for American Idol

Why War is Inevitable - John Kaminski

sakerfa — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:04:30 +0000

It always struck me as odd that just before all wars start, the people who have been asked to wage t

FashionLoo

createandsmile — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:15:32 +0000

if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget(‘6b4acc04-d0cf-476f-b999-0036b1c38520′);Get the Createandsmile’s Blog widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info)

ONG: Derechos humanos en la Cuba de Raúl, igual o peor

cubaout — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:49:02 +0000

Por WILLIAM C. MANN |The Associated Press La disidente cubana Martha Beatriz Roque, al centro, recib

Who Will Thank the Heroes?

normanjude — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:58:13 +0000

Pat Tillman

For nearly twenty years, a crowd has gathered at Fort Benning in mid-November to protest against the activities of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (formerly called the School of the Americas) and demand its closure.

The annual event is more than just a protest. It is a gathering of the scattered fringes of the religious, political and cultural left who use the event as a platform to push ideas that range from drug legalization to abortion or even women’s ordination. Leftist Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois leads this gathering which includes a large collection of socialists, liberation theology advocates and anarchists. It is no surprise that the 71-year-old priest automatically incurred excommunication for openly opposing Church doctrine.

For nearly twenty years, both he and his protesters have resisted the Army’s efforts to “dialogue.” They reject outright the Army’s unconditional offers to open its doors to any who wish to review the school’s operation.

Nearly twenty years of protest calls to mind another twenty-year milestone – the fall of the Berlin Wall. In light of this commemoration, we offer some considerations.

East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, November 20th., 1961.

A Continued Danger

On the twentieth anniversary of fall of the Berlin Wall, we might be tempted to think that the world’s great military dangers have passed. However, that is not the case. We still live in a world of violence and uncertainties. Our enemies are no longer concentrated behind an Iron Curtain but are scattered about the world in the form of radical groups and rogue nations all too willing to threaten the peace.

With the fall of the Berlin Wall, one would hope that at least the outdated Marxist ideas that caused so much misery all over the world would be consigned to the dustbin of history. However, that is not the case. Guerrilla groups in Latin America like Colombia’s FARC still defend their outdated Marxist ideas through violence and bloodshed. There is still Stalinist North Korea, poverty-stricken Cuba and Communist China oppressing its people and trampling on human natural rights. There is Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela exporting his Bolivarian socialist revolution across Latin America – including the building of a nuclear program.

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it would be hoped that the terrors of our age might also fall. However, that is not the case. Terror or the threat of terror lives as the tactic of choice among Islamic radicals who can be found in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan or Palestine. Iran’s mullahs stand ready to develop nuclear arms. Suicide bombers strike terror into whole nations and put fear into the hearts of thousands who might become the next innocent victims.

Pacifists Do Not Keep the Peace

Now more than ever, we need the soldier to keep the peace.

We note, however, that it was not the pacifists that brought down the Berlin Wall. Theirs was a constant message of concession, “dialogue,” and defeat.

When the terrible wall came crashing down, these Marxists were nowhere to be found to condemn the massive misery that lay exposed in those communist countries. They did not renounce their adherence to this system which they fought so hard to impose upon the West.

We tend to forget that it was the soldier that helped bring about the fall of the Berlin Wall. The soldier took upon himself the thankless task of confronting evil by force of arms. It was the soldier that risked all to do his duty wherever he was called to go without hesitation or complaint. The American soldier and his counterparts all over the world stood down the Communist threat in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

His services are no less needed in our days.

Colonel John W. Ripley

Thank the Heroes

Thus, we need to thank – not protest – these heroes who put their lives on the line. These heroes guarantee the peace. We live freely because they made the greatest of sacrifices – even that of life.

We remember Medal of Honor heroes like Private First Class Ross A. McGinnis who distinguished himself by acts of gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty when he threw himself upon a fragmentation grenade and saved four soldiers from certain serious injury or death in Iraq in December of 2006. We remember Navy Seal Michael Monsoor, who likewise unselfishly gave his life, in order to save his fellow Seals on September 29, 2006.

We can also remember heroes like the late Col. John W. Ripley whose heroism in Vietnam was legendary. These and so many more make up those legions of heroes that deserve not our scorn but our gratitude.

Where Will They Turn?

There are those who protest against the soldier. They see his role as one buttressing structures of oppression and power. They are ready to label those who still fight against Marxism as murderers and assassins. They turn a blind eye to a ruthless enemy who breaks all rules and conventions as Marxists have always done. They would deny defenseless populations the training and tools needed to defend themselves against this enemy.

In the case of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, they ignore the fact that the overwhelming majority of its graduates have committed no crime save that of wanting to keep their country safe and free. They are prepared to amplify any alleged crime of a soldier to gigantic proportions while reducing to nothing the blatant abuses of Marxists in countries like Cuba, China, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

"Who will be there to defend them?"

We ask those who protest: When the fury of the terrorists turns upon them, who will they appeal to? When their freedom is taken away with the same disregard as Colombia’s FARC guerrillas take the freedom of their innocent hostages, where will they turn? When their right to protest is met with bullets and tanks like that of Tiananmen Square, who will be there to defend them?

They will turn to the soldier who defends even those who calumniate him.

A Call to Gratitude
The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) calls upon the public to thank the heroes.

Let us thank them for standing up to the Soviet menace that lurked behind the Berlin Wall that fell twenty years ago. Let us thank those who still fight and keep our nation safe and help other nations do likewise.

Let us, of course, censor any abuses, but let us also be consistent and condemn the systemic and widespread abuses that have come from Castro’s Cuba, the FARC guerillas and other leftist movements who still uphold the outdated and iniquitous Marxist ideologies that built the infamous Berlin Wall.

As Americans, let us be proud of our heroes as they continue to fight and train others to defend their nations against those who threaten the peace.

May God protect them and their families in their daily battles around the world.

Raúl Castro encarcela críticos y suprime disenso / Obama no devuelve Guantánamo

hljorge — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:04:35 +0000

19 de noviembre de 2009, 14:07México, 19 nov (PL) Todos los espacios informativos del día en México mantienen hoy como información cabecera la negativa del presidente estadounidense, Barack Obama, de cerrar la cárcel de la base naval de Guantánamo, ubicada en territorio cubano ilegalmente ocupado. prensa-latina.cu

Inicio

November 16-20

ibdogs — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:03:00 +0000

Monday: Begin notes on Castro’s domestic policies.

Tuesday: Notes on Castro’s economic policies.

Wednesday: Notes on Castro’s foreign policy.

Thursday: Section quiz on Castro. Discussion of Castro article “Was Fidel Good for Cuba”.

Friday: Begin background notes on Hitler’s rise. Assign Mein Kampf excerpt due Monday. This is the last section for this unit. Thus the last for this semester.

Con Kast-ro

sebastianpirana — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:37:29 +0000

A los pavos de mis creativos de la franja se les olvidó poner esta foto en el capítulo de hoy, pero bueno, yo la coloco acá para que no crean que le hago la desconocida al Viejo Pascuero.