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* what is a developing hindu? - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/f6e5c2ca9fc6e9aa
* Illegals/Amnesty = Modern Day Slavery in the U.S. - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/5f29a1268a937658
* . El basurero de la historia There are 17 messages in this issue. - 1
messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/ce23deb48b8b3e0b
* The game played by big boys...in Asia. - 2 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/3873fe4998efd80d
* Italian Philosopher Honored in Cuba - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/7341f1ac23e4f34f
* Engraved On America's Tombstone? - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/c7d319e169c99e3e
* Dobbs: President, Congress defying people's will - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/97a4172f57399af7
* Iran plans 'war games' - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/6b0bba95363bd28b
* IRAN PLANS 'WAR GAMES' IN THE PERSIAN GULF........ - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/42726506b667902e
* Start Integrating Muslims Aggressively - Stop Villifying Them - 1 messages,
1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/2420b4de0f7f556a
* 'Let the prisoners pick the fruits' - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/e942e9fbba5d132
* POLL (ENCUESTA DE LA NBC) - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/99d8ed7463bfbb48
* "Greek Cypriots' violence against their own fellow" - 1 messages, 1 author
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* NO a la SUBVERSIÓN en IBEROAMERICA - 1 messages, 1 author
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* HOY, a tres años del encarcelamiento masivo de opositores en Cuba, - 1
messages, 1 author
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* ISRAEL manda en Washington - 1 messages, 1 author
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* My Recent Trip to London - 1 messages, 1 author
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* FBI: Hezbollah Terrorists Busted in Mexican Smuggling Operation - 1 messages,
1 author
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* International Stuff - 1 messages, 1 author
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* Australians top the world when it comes to crime - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/c0316e20ba3f0bdc
* property problem in cyprus - 1 messages, 1 author
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* Jeans especially designed for Muslims. - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/59d827c3507d6aad
* Notice, no bruthas in that Ask.com "man-apes" commercial. - 1 messages, 1
author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/a1b418f80ad7c448
* Pakistan: Terror Workshop of the World - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/91c948fc45a53c60

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TOPIC: what is a developing hindu?
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/f6e5c2ca9fc6e9aa
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Thurs, Mar 30 2006 10:08 pm
From: "Mohd Kaffir"

You are talking to yourself? :)

harmony wrote:
> good post, a great refreshing change from the caste stuff indians always
> beat themselves with to exhaustion.
> usa has no choice but to help the hindus - ok, the developing hindus (dh) -
> now that usa is dancing with india. the dh are the kind who mind their own
> business, for whom politics or public-affair is a dirty word, not realizing
> they need to show awareness to the environment that helps them stay focussed
> on their business.
>
>
> "are we on same page?" <sayhello@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:PoVWf.8844$9h5.192@dukeread09...
> > the hindu world is a big world, nearly 800 mils across the globe. they are
> > shrinking in numbers, however ; scarily so witin india. now, just like the
> > whole planet is divided in 3 broad categories - for ease of
> understanding -
> > the hindu world also needs to be categorized accordingly.
> >
> > thus, the true hindus are the first world which has the vision to make the
> > world one peaceful propserous place with equal opportunity for all in
> total
> > freedom. the second is the commies (with hindu names) world along with
> > pseudosecularists who are beyond help where freedom must be brought by
> > defeating them. the third is "developing" 3rd world hindus, who would
> > instinctively want to do the right thing but can't bring themselves to it
> > for myriad reasons which merit discussion. but this 3rd worlders are the
> > wild card as it applies to the world peace since they taken in by commie
> > sloganeering, and let the mummudism grow under their feet, thus
> debalitating
> > their environment and themselves. the third worlders badly need help of
> the
> > well intetentioned free world led by usa. however, usa itself is misled,
> and
> > has no clue about the hindu 3rd worlders, and is itself often misled by
> > hindu commies. what a tragedy!!!! the world future depends on recognizing
> > this very serious puzzle and solving it.
> >
> > (the above categorization is not necessarily geographic; and doesn't need
> to
> > be so in this fast paced world rendered small because of hi tech. eg,
> nearly
> > all hindu professors in american universities teaching non-technical
> > courses, like history etc are commie-hindus like they exist in india's
> > "prestigious" commie infested nehru university in delhi.)
> >
> >

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TOPIC: Illegals/Amnesty = Modern Day Slavery in the U.S.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/5f29a1268a937658
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 31 2006 12:20 am
From: Just another American

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 21:43:59 -0800, "Robert" <sabu77@comcast.net> wrote:

>
>"Just another American" <abc@def.net> wrote in message
>news:h5ep221k5i805gmjl0eivr58qd3jpa4tdj@4ax.com...
>> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606530/posts?q=1&&page=151
>>
>> In the old way of slavery, the slaves' 'wages' went to their
>> previous owners and their overseers.
>>
>> They also went to their housing, meals, etc. Modern-day slavery
>> has eliminated the initial outlay for purchasing and transporting
>> your slaves. They now come to you.
>>
>> The elimination of this initially large outlay has opened the doors
>> for smaller businesses to take advantage of modern slavery. No
>> longer are the financial resources of a large plantation required to
>> finance purchasing of new laborers when you've worked the old ones
>> to death.
>>
>> Overhead such as housing and overseers has also been eliminated.
>> Slaves now 'care' for themselves, finding small shelters where they
>> pack as many of themselves inside as possible for shelter from the
>> elements so they can save drastically on housing costs.
>>
>> This also gives modern day slave owners the formerly unheard of
>> ability (under the old pre-1860s slavery) to trade in their weaker,
>> sick, or lazy slaves for new ones who've just arrived at no expense.
>>
>> This then allows modern-day slave owners to split up the money that
>> would have otherwise been spent on these ongoing expenses to pay
>> ridiculously small 'wages' to their slaves, who then send much of
>> that money home to keep their families alive.
>>
>> And that, folks, is the replacement for the whip-wielding overseer.
>> Work for me, as long and hard as I tell you, for whatever I feel
>> like paying you, or your family will starve. In some ways, modern
>> slavery is worse than what we abolished 150 years ago.
>>
>Then why do these "slaves" enter the US illegally if things are so bad?

The problem is with the degradation of US sovereignty, rule of law,
and the enrichment of the elitist slave owners to the detriment of
American workers.

See my sig below..

--
"The elite class in America is becoming a ruling class and they've made
enough money by hiring cheap illegal labor that they think they also
have some kind of a right to cheap servants to manicure their nails
and their lawn, for example."

"So this ruling class, this new ruling class of America, is expanding
a servant class in America at the expense of the middle class of
America, the blue collar of America that used to be able to punch a
time clock, buy a modest house and raise their families. ... Those
young people are cut out of this process." Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa)

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/print?id=1787765

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TOPIC: . El basurero de la historia There are 17 messages in this issue.
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 31 2006 1:10 am
From: "PM"

Topics in this digest:

1. Reprimen a Bibliotecario Independiente luego de ser visto por TV
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
2. Cadena de ayunos en solidaridad con Farinas
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
3. Acusado opositor por carteles frente a biblioteca
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
4. Inauguran biblioteca independiente en Santa Clara
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
5 . El basurero de la historia From: PL
<pl.nospam@pandora.be>
6. Sin restablecer servicio telefonico a disidente
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
7. La resistencia armada contra el totalitarismo (III)
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
8. Conceden libertad condicional a periodista encarcelada
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
9. Demolida una casa en la que vivio el Che
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
10. El Arco Progresista invita al gobierno la disidencia y el exilio a
una jornada de dialogo
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
11. The Economist Cuba es el pais con peor clima empresarial de
Latinoamerica
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
12. PP defendera manana en Congreso propuesta a favor presos cubanos
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
13. IU ICV impide Congreso reclame Cuba liberacion presos politicos
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
14. No shift in view on sanctions Rep Lincoln Diaz Balart says
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
15. Catholic church in Cuba strives to reestablish the faith
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
16. Ex aide airs Castros dirty laundry
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
17. Cuba slaps back at Canadian bank
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:49:24 +0200
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
Subject: Reprimen a Bibliotecario Independiente luego de ser visto por TV

Reprimen a Bibliotecario Independiente luego de ser visto por TV

Por Mario Torres González / Noti-Libre

Bitácora Cubana, 28 de marzo de 2006 - La Habana -

El opositor José Antonio Eiras Oviedo, director de la Biblioteca
Diosdado Aquit Manrique y fuente de esta información, fue rodeado por la
policía en un operativo en las afueras de su vivienda luego de apoyar en
las afueras de las oficinas de Refugiados a los 14 balseros cubanos que
viajan próximamente a los EE.UU., en busca de Libertad, y de ser
televisado por la prensa que asistió.

Relata Oviedo que tres agentes, luego de identificarse, lo mandaron a
sentar al parque del frente de su casa para "aconsejarle" -como uno
dijo- que desistiera de sus actividades, que estaban cansados de ver su
cara y que se estaba acercando a cuatro años de prisión por
peligrosidad, que buscara trabajo en el cementerio de Colón y que se
alejara de los que dicen llamarse Dirigentes.

http://www.bitacoracubana.com/desdecuba/portada2.php?id=1701

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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:50:05 +0200
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
Subject: Cadena de ayunos en solidaridad con Farinas

Cadena de ayunos en solidaridad con Fariñas

Bitácora Cubana, 28 de marzo de 2006 - La Habana

El jueves 23 de marzo comenzó una cadena de ayunos en la ciudad central
de Santa Clara en solidaridad con el periodista independiente Guillermo
Fariñas Hernández, en huelga de hambre desde el pasado 31 de enero en
reclamo del acceso libre de todos los cubanos a la red internacional de
redes, la Internet.

Idania Yánez Contreras, coordinadora del frente femenino Marta Abreu,
dijo a este reportero que 5 mujeres de su organización comenzaron la
demostración pacífica, que se está haciendo en la sede de cada
organización, siendo relevadas por miembros del movimiento Maceísta por
la Dignidad el viernes 24, del Partido Liberal de Cuba el sábado 25, el
Partido pro Derechos Humanos de Cuba el domingo 26 y el Movimiento
Democracia, este lunes 27 de marzo, al cierre de esta información.

Por otra parte Niurvys Díaz Remond, periodista de la agencia Cubanacán
Press que dirige Fariñas, dijo que el comunicador en huelga de hambre se
mantiene en la sala de terapia intensiva del hospital Arnaldo Milián
Castro de Santa Clara en deterioro constante de su ya precaria salud al
comienzo de la protesta cívica con extrema delgadez, pérdida de más de
18 kilos, cefalea y calambres en las articulaciones, señalando como
novedosa la detección, después de un hemocultivo realizado, de un
estafilococo, posible causante de la sepsis urinaria que le provocó
fiebre alta la semana anterior.

http://www.bitacoracubana.com/desdecuba/portada2.php?id=1696

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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:50:56 +0200
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
Subject: Acusado opositor por carteles frente a biblioteca

Acusado opositor por carteles frente a biblioteca

Por Roberto Santana Rodríguez

Bitácora Cubana, 28 de marzo de 2006 - La Habana

- Miguel Ángel López Herrera, opositor pacífico, fue detenido por 3
agentes de la seguridad del estado cubana el pasado 23 de marzo en las
cercanías de su casa, sita en calle Moncada e/ 11 y 12 sur, en la ciudad
de Guantánamo, al extremo oriente de la Isla, acusado de ser el autor de
carteles pidiendo la libertad de los presos políticos aparecidos en la
Biblioteca Estatal Policarpo Pineda, informó Marielis Castro, delegada
en la localidad del Partido Democrático 30 de Noviembre, Frank País.

Marielis señaló que el disidente fue conducido en un auto Lada a la sede
de la Seguridad en Guantánamo, ubicada en la carretera al municipio el
Salvador siendo interrogado por el oficial Juan González, el que le
amenazó con un acto de repudio y con la cárcel porque como le aseguró,
"el pueblo revolucionario" estaba muy indignado por la aparición de los
carteles, cargos que fueron negados por el opositor pacífico.

Según la fuente en marzo de 2005 López Herrera sacó carteles en el
parque principal de la ciudad de Guantánamo pidiendo la libertad de los
presos políticos, hecho que provocó fuera detenido y posteriormente
expulsado de su trabajo como profesor de computación.

http://www.bitacoracubana.com/desdecuba/portada2.php?id=1697

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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:51:30 +0200
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
Subject: Inauguran biblioteca independiente en Santa Clara

Inauguran biblioteca independiente en Santa Clara

Por Roberto Santana Rodríguez

Bitácora Cubana, 28 de marzo de 2006 - La Habana

La Biblioteca Independiente Mahatma Gandhi fue inaugurada el pasado 23
de marzo en la vivienda de su director, Miguel Cabrera Cabrera, sita en
calle Alejando Om # 51 e/ Alemán y Río en la ciudad de Santa Clara,
provincia central de Villa Clara.

Cabrera dijo a este reportero que la nueva Institución Cultural
Alternativa cuenta con 160 libros y 12 revistas de diversos temas, entre
los que señaló el cristiano, político, económico, novela, cuento y poesía.

"Nos proponemos crear un espacio en esta comunidad para llevar y debatir
información sin censura", indicó.

Cabrera dijo que los vecinos del lugar recibieron con beneplácito la
fundación de la biblioteca alternativa y que ya habían tomado prestados
los libros "Contra toda esperanza", de Armando Valladares y "El poder de
los sin poder", de Vaclav Hável.

"También queremos hacer cine debates, tertulias y concursos para los
niños", precisó

http://www.bitacoracubana.com/desdecuba/portada2.php?id=1698

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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:53:12 +0200
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
Subject: El basurero de la historia

SOCIEDAD
El basurero de la historia
Jaime Leygonier

LA HABANA, Cuba - Marzo (www.cubanet.org) - Los libros son una pasión.
Un lector los ama. Su librero no es un mueble, sino el rincón más
valioso de su hogar, un joyero que acaricia avaro.

Los libros son también peldaños de ambiciones lícitas. El lector cree
-con razón o sin ella- que cada libro lo capacita para mejor desempeño
profesional, incluso para llegar a jefe.

Arrojar la biblioteca personal a la basura es un crimen pasional, con
rasgos de suicidio y autoexorcismo. Un grito de "¡He desperdiciado buena
parte de mi vida! ¡Me traicionaron!"

Desde que los vientos de la perestroika soplaron en Cuba a mediados de
los 80 hasta que llegaron a huracán tropical en los 90, tales ráfagas
arrojaron a la basura literatura que se podría considerar había pasado
"la fecha de vencimiento". Fue un plebiscito de lectores.

Recuerdo en 1991, en la Avenida del Puerto, un contenedor desbordado de
flamantes obras completas de Lenin. Algún transeúnte cogía un tomo, lo
hojeaba, lo pensaba un instante y lo devolvía al contenedor.

A los montones de basura de las esquinas fueron arrojadas toneladas de
marxismo y revistas soviéticas. Rara vez dentro de la basura misma, casi
siempre junto a ella, quizás por piadoso deseo de que lo aprovechara
otro, quizás algún estudiante sin libro para el examen. Otras veces por
exhibicionismo vengativo, gesto de amante herido por la traición que
arroja a la calle, desnuda, a la traidora.

Desde 2000 ya no se ve esto. Ya todo el mundo botó sus libros
desfasados. Quien los necesita para examinar marxismo-leninismo los
conserva. Los estudiantes los buscan a veces en vano en las librerías de
libros de uso, pues desde los 90 estas librerías dejaron de comprarlos.
No se vendían y la gente los llevaba allí en grandes cantidades.

Qué suplicio estudiar marxismo como quien estudia solfeo o latín, sin
gusto y sin creer en las recetas para explicarlo todo que esa teología
sin Dios prodiga. ¡Pobres estudiantes! Obligados por la hipocresía justo
a la edad de la franqueza.

Cuando yo era joven e intelectual, ocurría igual, pero fui de los pocos
a quienes les gustaba ese catecismo alemán. ¡Qué ganga para mis 17 años!
¡La vida explicada en libros infalibles por tipos geniales!

Compañeritos más listos y prácticos que yo sufrieron la mar, pero yo fui
de los totalmente estafados.

En los 80 mis conocimientos me permitieron comprender que Castro era
castrista, no marxista como proclamaba.

En los 90, siguiendo a Lenin que decía que "la práctica es el criterio
de la veracidad" y que "los hechos son más obstinados que los hombres"
-dos máximas que sospecho no inventó Lenin, sino que las cogió de algún
refranero- llegué a la conclusión "materialista-dialéctica" apropiada al
hundimiento del campo socialista y la URSS y de la revelación de sus
mentiras y horrores: Quedó marxistamente demostrado que el marxismo no
servía. Y su aplicación emborraba de sangre y miseria.

Limpié mi librero.

Escrito este comentario porque hoy un amigo, lector compulsivo, me
avisó: "En tal esquina botaron junto a la basura un montón de libros".

"Pues vamos allá. ¿Están fuera del latón o adentro".

"Afuera".

"Entonces, vamos, porque a mí me gustan los libros, pero no tanto como
para bucear en el tacho".

Cuando llegamos, aquella "feria del libro" había atraído ya a varias
personas. Una mulata con aspecto de maestra o dirigente del Comité de
Defensa se llevaba unos cuantos.

No la conozco, pero le dije festivamente: "¿Qué? ¿Una piñata literaria?".

Me contestó algo indignada: "Es un desperdicio, quien lo hizo debió
donarlo a la biblioteca". Pensé que por qué donar a la biblioteca lo que
alguien juzga sin valor.

Me acuclillé a revisar. Una pareja de señores revisaba también. Todos
serios como en una tienda.

Aquello era el grito de "me estafaron", protesta del lector anónimo que
esperó a 2006 para botar su biblioteca. O del heredero que se deshizo de
tal lastre.

Era un viaje en el tiempo: Folletos de congresos anunciados en su
momento como hitos gloriosos y que hoy están olvidados porque no
sirvieron para nada, libros de marxismo, de discursos, con dedicatorias
de final de curso o de felicitación por el premio en la emulación
socialista.

Dentro de un libro, una banderita de papel, ya amarillenta, guardada
como recuerdo de alguna concentración "histórica y trascendental".

Recordé las ceremonias obreras en que regalaban libros que el
homenajeado no conseguía leer por pesados, pero que eran
revolucionarios, baratos y bien encuadernados.

Recordé los años 60 y 70, en que tanta gente creía que leyendo aquellos
libros indigestos y trabajando horas extras iba a prosperar el país, y
el lector podía llegar a jefe -"cuadro de la evolución"- y pronunciar
discursos.

"¡Mira esto! Kim Il Sung". Era uno de aquellos cuadernos coreanos que
nadie leía y regalaba la embajada a las escuelas. En eso de inundar a
Cuba de lectura "ilegible", la China de Mao Tse Tung fue la campeona.

Recuerdo una frase que Castro empleaba mucho en los discursos, y que ya
desechó -como la gente desechó los libros políticos. Castro repetía que
el capitalismo, la burguesía, fulano de tal, sus contrarios. "irían a
parar al basurero de la Historia, mientras la revolución ascendería a
las cimas del futuro luminoso."

Ahora fui yo quien, exactamente de un basurero de esquina del barrio de
Santos Suárez, salvé un clásico de Historia de Cuba que no merecía estar
allí, y los libros más antigubernamentales que censuran en las
bibliotecas cubanas: cuadernos con discursos viejos. de Fidel Castro.

http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y06/mar06/28a9.htm

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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:54:23 +0200
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
Subject: Sin restablecer servicio telefonico a disidente

REPRESION
Sin restablecer servicio telefónico a disidente

CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba - 27 de marzo (Abel Escobar Ramírez /
www.cubanet.org) - Waldímar Parra Santana Presidente de la Liga de
Campesinos Independiente denunció este 21 de marzo que todavía no ha
podido lograr que la Empresa de Tele Comunicaciones de Cuba (ETECSA) le
restablezca su servicio telefónico suspendido desde el pasado 9 de
febrero, en el municipio San Luis, provincia Santiago de Cuba.

Según comentó Parra telefónicamente al periodista independiente Luis
Esteban Espinosa, el corte tuvo lugar después que el presidente
Municipal de los Comités de Defensa de la Revolución, de apellido
Castillo, visitara a su mamá Carmen Santana González, mostrándole una
grabación hecha de una llamada a Radio Marti donde se escuchaba la voz
de él en un programa radial. El funcionario lo acusó diciendo que usaban
el teléfono para "hacer contrarrevolución".

Parra Santana dijo a Esteban Espinosa que en varias ocasiones que han
acudido a ETECSA, los funcionarios le dicen que no pueden hacer nada,
pues su servicio fue suprimido "por órdenes del gobierno".

Waldimar Parra Santana reside en la Calle Céspedes # 206 % General
García y Máximo Gómez, San Luis, Santiago de Cuba.

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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:53:51 +0200
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
Subject: La resistencia armada contra el totalitarismo (III)

HISTORIA
La resistencia armada contra el totalitarismo (III)
Raúl Soroa

LA HABANA, Cuba - Marzo (www.cubanet.org) - Los golpes sufridos en 1961,
que incluyeron la captura, muerte o salida del país de los principales
jefes anticastristas, no lograron desmoralizar a la resistencia interna.
El 22 de octubre un grupo de exiliados es capturado en un intento de
dinamitar las Minas de Matahambre en Pinar del Río, y el 28 otro grupo
desembarcado es capturado mientras preparaba un grupo de sabotajes.

En octubre de 1962 la Crisis de los Misiles puso al mundo al borde de
una catástrofe nuclear, y culminó con la aceptación por parte de la URSS
de retirar sus misiles nucleares de Cuba, a cambio de lo cual obtuvo el
compromiso por parte de Washington de no invadir a Cuba.

El Frente Unido Occidental (FUO), fundado en 1962, operó en la provincia
de Pinar del Río bajo el mando de Esteban Márquez Novo y llegó a nuclear
cientos de hombres. Esta organización anticastrista pervivió hasta 1964.

Durante el año 1962 el esfuerzo fundamental estuvo dirigido a
reorganizar y estructurar el frente clandestino interno, incrementando
la capacidad operacional de los grupos y las posibilidades de éstos de
apoyar a las guerrillas rurales.

El MRR, grupo que había aportado la mayor cantidad de hombres al
proyecto invasor, por lo que muchos de sus miembros, entre ellos Manuel
Artime, se encontraban presos, comenzó a reorganizarse. Así renacieron
otros grupos: el DRE, el MDC, el M-30-11 y el MRP. El objetivo en esta
etapa, según nos refiere una fuente anónima, era establecer coordinación
y apoyo con los grupos guerrilleros, e incorporarlos e una alianza
nacional. Se sostienen contactos con los grupos alzados, principalmente
los que actuaban bajo la dirección del MRR. Así se crea una coalición
llamada Frente de Unidad.

Para el 30 de agosto de 1962 el Frente Anticomunista de Liberación (FAL)
contacta con los grupos más importantes, y preparan un alzamiento. El
plan contempla el ataque de cuarteles de milicias y estaciones de
policía, así como propiciar el alzamiento de las ciudades de La Habana y
Santiago de Cuba. Plan que aborta por la captura de la mayoría de los
dirigentes.

Luis David Rodríguez González asume por esa fecha la dirección del MRR.
La jefatura de David le imprime de nuevo dinamismo al MRR, y trabaja en
la creación de un frente único que se llamó Resistencia Cívica
Anticomunista (RCA). Luis David Rodríguez logró acuerdos importantes de
cooperación con el jefe de las guerrillas campesinas del Escambray,
Tomás San Gil. En reunión efectuada con éste se planificó la esperada
insurrección nacional.

Tomás San Gil muere en combate el 28 de febrero de 1962, y días después
muere en La Habana Luis David Rodríguez González. Capturado mientras
preparaba el ajusticiamiento del tirano, le dan muerte.

En 1962 surge la organización Alpha 66, dirigida por Antonio Venciana y
con Eloy Gutiérrez Menoyo como jefe militar. Será una de las
agrupaciones anticastristas más activas durante el período. Se
especializó en realizar ataques marítimos, estructurada en comandos que
actuaban con mucha efectividad. Tuvo bases de operaciones en Bahamas.

En diciembre de 1964 Eloy Gutiérrez Menoyo desembarcó en Cuba con el
objetivo de abrir un frente guerrillero en el extremo oriental del país,
cerca de Guantánamo. En el grupo venía un agente de la Seguridad cubana,
por lo que apenas un mes después el grupo fue capturado.

A mediados de 1964 se funda la Representación Cubana en el Exilio
(RECE), auspiciada por Pepín Bosch, que tuvo en sus filas, como editor
de su boletín, a Jorge Mas Canosa.

Fue una de las organizaciones más importantes de este período.
Estableció alianzas con otros grupos para la preparación de una invasión
que no llegó a efectuarse. Realizó ataques contra el gobierno de Castro
en alianza con Alpha 66 y los Comandos L.

Felipe Rivero crea en 1964 el Movimiento Nacionalista Cubano. Rivero,
descendiente de una familia perteneciente a la oligarquía cubana, dueños
del Diario de la Marina, miembro de la Brigada 2506, hizo un llamado a
declarar una Guerra por los Caminos del Mundo al régimen de La Habana.

En esta línea se mueven los grupos Frente de Liberación Nacional Cubano
(DLNC), surgido en 1973, el Comando de Organizaciones Revolucionarias
Unidas (CORU), creado en 1976, que unificó a varias organizaciones
anticastristas dirigidas por Orlando Bosch. Grupos opuestos al proceso
de coexistencia pacífica generado en el exilio, que se mostraba a favor
del diálogo con el gobierno cubano, celebran un congreso en 1973, el
Congreso contra la Coexistencia, en Puerto Rico.

Comandos 0 y Omega 7 llevan a cabo múltiples acciones en contra de los
grupos favorables al diálogo, además de una serie de importantes
atentados contra instituciones y funcionarios cubanos en varios lugares
del mundo. En 1981 fueron detenidos algunos de sus más importantes
dirigentes, y desarticulada la organización, su jefe, Eduardo Arocena,
fue condenado a más de cien años de cárcel en Estados Unidos.

http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y06/mar06/28a10.htm

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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:54:53 +0200
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
Subject: Conceden libertad condicional a periodista encarcelada

PRISIONES
Conceden libertad condicional a periodista encarcelada

LA HABANA, Cuba - 27 de marzo (Leonel Alberto Pérez Belette /
www.cubanet.org) - La periodista independiente Lamaciel Gutiérrez Romero
salió de prisión, bajo libertad condicional, este 22 de marzo.

Lamaciel, quien es periodista de la agencia Nueva Prensa Cubana, había
sido detenida y enjuiciada por las autoridades de la Isla el pasado 11
de octubre. Posteriormente, fue condenada a siete meses de privación de
libertad por el presunto delito de desobediencia y resistencia.

Lamaciel Gutiérrez es esposa del también preso político Rolando Jiménez
Posadas, el cual lleva casi tres años tras las mazmorras del régimen.
Éste fue acusado de delitos de desacato, revelación de secretos
concernientes a la seguridad del estado y propaganda enemiga.

La periodista cuenta con animo para continuar la lucha por la
democratización y la defensa del noble oficio de la pluma, a pesar de
verse limitada por la hija menor que el matrimonio tiene en común; la
cual quedaría desamparada de ir otra vez a prisión. De hecho, esto
último ha sido la principal amenaza que el gobierno ha esgrimido contra
ella.

http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y06/mar06/28a1.htm

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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:56:24 +0200
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
Subject: Demolida una casa en la que vivio el Che

Demolida una casa en la que vivió el Che

La zona donde se encontraba la vivienda, en la provincia argentina de
Córdoba, es una de las más cotizadas y la de mayor preferencia de
constructoras e inmobiliarias.

Agencias
martes 28 de marzo de 2006 12:25:00

La antigua casa en la que Ernesto Che Guevara vivió entre 1943 y 1947 en
la ciudad argentina de Córdoba (713km al norte) fue demolida y en su
lugar se construirá un complejo habitacional, informó este lunes la
comuna provincial, según AFP.

La vivienda de dos plantas fue ocupada por la familia Guevara Lynch
luego de que ésta decidiera radicarse en la provincia serrana suponiendo
que el clima benigno de la montaña aliviaría los problemas respiratorios
que tenía Ernesto, quien padecía de asma.

La zona donde se encontraba la vivienda, llamada Nueva Córdoba, está muy
próxima al centro de la capital de la provincia homónima y es una de las
más cotizadas y la de mayor preferencia de constructoras e inmobiliarias
para vender o arrendar viviendas, en su mayoría lujosos edificios de
varias plantas.

Muy pocos edificios y casonas de gran valor arquitectónico y cultural
han podido resistir la acción de las empresas de demolición, que
despejan los terrenos para dar paso a edificios de altura.

El padre de Guevara llegó a la vieja casona de la calle Chile en mayo de
1943, días antes de comenzar a trabajar en un estudio de arquitectura, y
la familia la ocupó hasta finales de 1947.

Hasta finales del año pasado vivió en ella una familia de apellido
Rodríguez Leguizamón, que la vendió para comprar otra propiedad.

La vivienda fue entonces adquirida por una empresa constructora para
demolerla. La alcaldía de Córdoba intentó comprarla para mantenerla en
pie, pero su valuación de 190.000 dólares fue considerada excesiva para
las arcas de la comuna.

El inmueble de Nueva Córdoba está citado en los libros de los
principales biógrafos del Che.

En otra vivienda que ocupó la familia entre los años 1930 y 1940, en la
localidad serrana cordobesa de Alta Gracia, funciona desde 2001 un museo.

URL:
http://www.cubaencuentro.com/es/encuentro_en_la_red/cuba/noticias/demolida_u
na_casa_en_la_que_vivio_el_che

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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:57:11 +0200
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
Subject: El Arco Progresista invita al gobierno la disidencia y el exilio a
una jornada de dialogo

El Arco Progresista invita al gobierno, la disidencia y el exilio a una
jornada de diálogo

El objetivo del evento, previsto para noviembre, es 'contribuir en la
construcción de la reconciliación nacional en Cuba', según los
organizadores.

Agencias

martes 28 de marzo de 2006 12:28:00

El grupo de organizaciones socialdemócratas de izquierda que integran el
Arco Progresista invitó este lunes al gobierno cubano, a grupos de la
disidencia interna y del exilio a una jornada de reflexión y diálogo
sobre el futuro de la Isla, informó la AFP.

En un comunicado, el opositor Arco Progresista dijo haber invitado a
funcionarios del Consejo de Estado de Cuba, de la Asamblea Nacional del
Poder Popular, y del gobernante Partido Comunista, al diálogo.

La participación de esos representantes del gobierno "colmaría nuestras
expectativas", dijo la coalición opositora.

"Es un evento para intentar reflexionar sobre las distintas maneras en
que se puede ver el diálogo en Cuba", afirmó Manuel Cuesta, portavoz del
Arco Progresista, citado por EFE.

En este ejercicio de reflexión, añadió, "intentaremos que participen
personalidades e instituciones tanto cubanas como extranjeras que de
alguna manera puedan aportar a este asunto de cómo ver el diálogo en
Cuba, que es todavía una asignatura pendiente".

La actividad, convocada bajo el título Jornada de Reflexión. Diálogo
entre cubanos: el futuro de la Nación, está prevista para noviembre
próximo en La Habana, aunque el comité organizador no descarta que las
autoridades pongan obstáculos a su realización.

"El gobierno no ha autorizado. Vamos a ver si se puede hacer", dijo a la
AFP Cuesta Morúa.

"Dadas las circunstancias particulares de la situación actual en Cuba y
de los posibles obstáculos por parte de las autoridades que puedan
impedir su presencia, agradeceríamos en todos los casos nos haga llegar
su ponencia a fin de que su perspectiva enriquezca estas jornadas de
reflexión", advirtió el Arco Progresista en uno de los documentos
destinado a los invitados del evento.

La convocatoria, realizada por el Grupo Diálogo y Reconciliación del
Proyecto Nuevo País -que integra el Arco Progresista-, señala que la
actividad pretende "contribuir en la construcción de la reconciliación
nacional en Cuba mediante el diálogo permanente y pluralista".

Cuesta Morúa explicó que la invitación es también extensiva a
organizaciones del exilio en Estados Unidos. "Incluye a cualquiera que
en Miami esté dispuesto a presentar su opinión por el diálogo y su
opción", dijo.

A su juicio, esta iniciativa es diferente a la organizada en mayo del
pasado año por la Asamblea para Promover la Sociedad Civil porque "en
aquella ocasión se pretendía discutir sobre la transición propiamente
dicha, y ahora se trata de legitimar socialmente el diálogo".

URL:
http://www.cubaencuentro.com/es/encuentro_en_la_red/cuba/noticias/el_arco_pr

ogresista_invita_al_gobierno_la_disidencia_y_el_exilio_a_una_jornada_de_dial
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Message: 11
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:59:15 +0200
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
Subject: The Economist Cuba es el pais con peor clima empresarial de
Latinoamerica

The Economist: Cuba es el país con peor 'clima empresarial' de Latinoamérica

Agencias
martes 28 de marzo de 2006 14:36:00

Cuba ocupa el puesto 81 en una lista de 82 países analizados por el
grupo editorial británico The Economist para elaborar un ranking sobre
el clima empresarial entre 2006 y 2010. El estudio tiene en cuenta más
de 90 factores; entre ellos, el atractivo de las naciones estudiadas
para las inversiones, el contexto político y económico y la estabilidad
macroeconómica.

El estudio también se ocupa de las oportunidades del mercado en los
países incluidos, las políticas hacia las empresas privadas, el sistema
fiscal, el mercado de trabajo y el desarrollo de infraestructuras,
informó EFE.

La mayoría de los países latinoamericanos analizados han retrocedido
puestos con respecto a períodos anteriores.

La Economist Intelligence Unit, división de análisis del grupo
editorial, atribuyó ese descenso a que el "entusiasmo" de esos países
hacia la inversión extranjera "será más selectivo que antes debido al
desencanto de sus poblaciones" con muchas de las reformas liberales.

Además, la falta de competitividad es un "problema creciente" en muchas
economías de la zona, de acuerdo con el informe, según el cual "muchos
de los países de la región se enfrentan a posiciones políticas
complicadas que no permitirán fácilmente las reformas".

El mejor país latinoamericano clasificado, Chile, con una puntuación de
7,81, pierde dos posiciones, al pasar del puesto 20 al 22 en el periodo
2001-2005, también analizado.

También pierden posiciones México, que retrocede del puesto 40 al 42 y
tiene una puntuación de 6,88 puntos; Brasil, que pasa del 42 al 45, con
una puntuación de 6,74, y Costa Rica, que pasa del 46 al 49 y obtiene
6,43 puntos.

Mayores son los retrocesos registrados por Colombia, que pasa de la
posición 51 a la 55, y El Salvador, que pasa del 47 al 56.

Argentina y la República Dominicana, en cambio, se mantienen en los
puestos 57 y 66, respectivamente, mientras que Perú retrocede del 55 al 59.

Los países latinoamericanos peor clasificados son Ecuador, que pasa del
puesto 65 al 72 para 2006-2010; Venezuela, que retrocede del 70 al 77, y
Cuba, que pasa del 80 al 81.

La Economist Intelligence Unit aplicó su evaluación a las 82 economías
que reúnen más del 98% de la producción global, frente a las 60
analizadas en el periodo anterior.

De acuerdo con los resultados, Dinamarca será el país con mejor clima
empresarial entre 2006 y 2010, con una puntuación de 8,82 puntos.

El segundo lugar del ranking lo ocupa Finlandia, que escala desde la
posición sexta a la segunda, seguido por Canadá, Singapur, Holanda,
Irlanda y el Reino Unido.

El informe destaca las disparidades registradas en la zona euro, que
cuenta con algunos de los países con mejor clima empresarial del mundo
desarrollado, como Finlandia (puesto 2) e Irlanda (6), pero también con
algunos de los peores clasificados, como Grecia (44) e Italia (38).

Estados Unidos cae desde la quinta posición hasta la octava, debido,
entre otros factores, a las preocupaciones por su estabilidad
macroeconómica.

URL:
http://www.cubaencuentro.com/es/encuentro_en_la_red/cuba/noticias/the_econom
ist_cuba_es_el_pais_con_peor_clima_empresarial_de_latinoamerica

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Message: 12
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:06:01 +0200
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
Subject: PP defendera manana en Congreso propuesta a favor presos cubanos

españa-cuba 27-03-2006

PP defenderá mañana en Congreso propuesta a favor presos cubanos

El Pleno de Congreso debatirá mañana una proposición no de ley del PP en
la que se pide al Gobierno que exija al régimen de Fidel Castro la
puesta en libertad de los presos políticos cubanos.

La propuesta del grupo popular reclama también que se condene el
'recrudecimiento de la represión' y el aumento del número de presos de
conciencia en Cuba, así como 'el fin del acoso a la oposición política y
a los defensores de los derechos humanos' en este país.

El PP considera que el régimen de Castro es 'una dictadura que vulnera
los derechos humanos, incluidos los derechos civiles, políticos,
económicos, sociales y culturales'.

En su moción, el grupo popular lamenta que el Gobierno del PSOE
decidiera cambiar la política exterior respecto a Cuba tras el triunfo
en las elecciones del 14 de marzo de 2004.

Según el PP, el que no se hayan liberado a presos de conciencia y, en
cambio, hayan aumentado las detenciones pone de manifiesto que 'los
resultados de ese cambio han sido nulos'.

El grupo popular solicita que el Ejecutivo dé instrucciones a la
Embajada de España en La Habana para que 'plantee el problema de los
derechos humanos a las instituciones cubanas'.

Pide además que se hagan gestiones para que puedan salir del país y
visitar el Parlamento Europeo las 'Damas de Blanco', colectivo formado
por mujeres familiares de 75 disidentes cubanos que recibió el premio
Sajarov de los Derechos Humanos 2005 que entrega la Eurocámara.

Terra Actualidad - EFE
http://actualidad.terra.es/nacional/articulo/pp_congreso_defendera_propuesta
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Message: 13
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:07:15 +0200
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
Subject: IU ICV impide Congreso reclame Cuba liberacion presos politicos

españa-cuba 28-03-2006

IU-ICV impide Congreso reclame Cuba liberación presos políticos

El veto de IU-ICV a una enmienda transaccional pactada entre PSOE, PP,
CiU y ERC impidió hoy que el Congreso pudiera aprobar una Proposición no
de Ley sobre Cuba que, entre otras cuestiones, reclamaba la liberación
de los presos políticos y de conciencia encarcelados por el régimen cubano.

PSOE, PP, CiU y ERC habían acordado el texto de una enmienda
transaccional a la Proposición presentada inicialmente por el PP, aunque
no pudo ser votada por el pleno, ya que para ello es necesario el visto
bueno de todos los grupos parlamentarios e IU-ICV lo impidió con su veto.

La propuesta apostaba por continuar la interlocución con las autoridades
cubanas con la participación de la UE, impulsando avances en materia de
derechos humanos ante el 'nuevo deterioro de la situación' y reclamaba
la liberación de todos los presos políticos y disidentes detenidos.

La iniciativa instaba también al Gobierno a reforzar la labor
humanitaria que desarrolla la Embajada de España en Cuba, con especial
atención a los familiares de los presos de conciencia.

Asimismo, el texto instaba al Ejecutivo a realizar las gestiones
necesarias con las autoridades cubanas con el objetivo de reabrir el
Centro Cultural Español y para que el gobierno de Fidel Castro permita
la salida del país de las Damas de Blanco.

Las Damas de Blanco es un colectivo formado por mujeres familiares de 75
disidentes cubanos que recibió el premio Sajarov de los Derechos Humanos
2005 otorgado por el Parlamento Europeo, aunque por el momento no ha
podido viajar a la Eurocámara para recoger el galardón.

Durante el debate de la iniciativa, la diputada de IU Isaura Navarro
reconoció que el sistema cubano 'es mejorable' pero apostó por colaborar
en la modernización de Cuba 'sin injerencias', al tiempo que acusó al PP
de no estar preocupado por los derechos humanos sino 'por el
socialismo', 'defendiendo los intereses mesiánicos de EEUU'.

Apoyó esta postura el diputado del BNG Francisco Rodríguez, quien
destacó 'el silencio' del PP hacia la violación de derechos humanos en
Guantánamo.

Por su parte, el diputado del PP Jorge Moragas constató el
'recrudecimiento de la represión indiscriminada' en Cuba y el 'fracaso'
de la política llevada a cabo por el gobierno español en los dos últimos
años.

Desde el PSOE, Rafael Estrella recordó que el gobierno español 'da la
misma importancia a la defensa de los derechos humanos en Cuba que a
nuestra oposición a las sanciones' en una política 'constructiva' frente
a Cuba, frente a la política de 'confrontación' practicada en su día por
el PP.

La portavoz de ERC Rosa Bonás, recordó que según Amnistía Internacional
hay decenas de países de América en los que se producen violaciones de
los derechos humanos, incluido EEUU, aunque exigió que se respete la
libertad de opinión y reunión en Cuba y cese la represión de los opositores.

Toda vez que el veto de IU-ICV no permitió que se votara la enmienda
transaccional pactada por los grupos mayoritarios, el pleno votó el
texto inicial de la Proposición no de Ley presentada por el PP, que fue
rechazada por 127 votos a favor, 163 en contra y 16 abstenciones.

Terra Actualidad - EFE
http://actualidad.terra.es/nacional/articulo/iu-icv_congreso_cuba_806732.htm

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Message: 14
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:12:18 +0200
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
Subject: No shift in view on sanctions Rep Lincoln Diaz Balart says

Posted on Tue, Mar. 28, 2006

HELMS-BURTON LAW
No shift in view on sanctions, Rep. Lincoln Díaz-Balart says

BY PABLO BACHELET
pbachelet@MiamiHerald.com

Under fire from some Cuban exile quarters, Miami Republican Rep. Lincoln
Díaz-Balart is saying that he never proposed ''unilateral'' changes in
the Helms-Burton law that regulates the U.S. embargo on Cuba.

Díaz-Balart told The Miami Herald in a recent interview that while he
supports the law, he would favor lifting some of the sanctions if Havana
freed all political prisoners, legalized opposition parties and promised
free elections -- regardless of who rules Cuba.

The Miami Herald stands by its story, and Díaz-Balart has not requested
a correction or clarification.

But the comments by the Cuban-American lawmaker, long known for his
hard-line opposition to Cuban leader Fidel Castro, raised concerns among
some Cuban exiles that they might signal a change in U.S. policy toward
the communist-ruled island.

Jorge Mas, chairman of the Miami-based Cuban American National
Foundation, Monday sent President Bush a letter asking if the
administration had changed its position on Helms-Burton.

The letter criticized Díaz-Balart's statements, saying CANF members ''do
not consider it beneficial to alter or suggest altering Helms-Burton now
or at any time in the future.'' It added that the Castro brothers should
leave Cuba if they are serious about a transition to democracy.

Díaz-Balart issued a statement Monday saying that his views on
Helms-Burton had been misrepresented, restating his key conditions and
saying that CANF could have saved itself the time by telephoning him for
his comments.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/americas/14201442.htm

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Message: 15
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:15:44 +0200
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
Subject: Catholic church in Cuba strives to reestablish the faith

Issue Date: March 31, 2006

Catholic church in Cuba strives to reestablish the faith

Part 1 of 2 on Cuba
Part 1 looks at daily life as Cubans experience it, 47 years after the
revolution, from free baseball to frequent blackouts.
Part 2 of 2 on Cuba
The Catholic church, suppressed for decades, is undergoing a slow
revival in Cuba in recent years. While it still exists under
restrictions and its numbers have dropped, it is able, as one bishop
said, "to humbly put forward . that faith is an indispensable ingredient
for good."

By DAVID EINHORN
Havana

Even in the worst of times, Maritza Sánchez never stopped attending
church. José Luis Torres, raised in a secular family and in schools that
deemed religion counterrevolutionary, didn't even start attending until
times had changed. Today both are helping the Catholic church work its
way back into Cuba's public consciousness, Sánchez as director of the
aid group Cáritas and Torres as coordinator of youth programs in Havana.

Once one of Cuba's seminal institutions -- even President Fidel Castro
attended Jesuit high schools -- the Catholic church suffered three
decades of repression and reprisal following the socialist revolution in
1959. Most churches stayed open, but anyone who openly declared
religious faith was prohibited from certain studies or careers. More
than 400 Catholic schools were closed and confiscated.

After having long maintained that churches were fronts for subversive
political activity, the government reversed course in 1992, amending the
constitution to characterize the state as secular instead of atheist.
Religious liberties further expanded following a visit by Pope John Paul
II in 1998.

Cuba today, however, is still no bastion of religious liberty. The
government delays immigration and residence permits for priests, denies
the church access to the Internet, and still prohibits religious
schools. The U.S. State Department charged in 2005 that worshipers
across the religious spectrum are still subject to state surveillance,
although Catholic church officials maintain that direct repression and
reprisals have all but disappeared.

The church remains cautious in dealing with the authorities out of
concern that policies to allow more religious freedom could just as
easily be reversed. The focus instead is on religious belief as a
personal responsibility that transcends the institutional status of the
church.

"We cannot alter the life process of a country in order to aggressively
impose faith," said Bishop Juan de Dios Hernández Ruiz, auxiliary bishop
of Havana. "The church's strategy is not so much to regain ground lost
over time, but to humbly put forth what we are convinced of: that faith
is an indispensable ingredient for good."

The number of people identifying themselves as Catholics has declined
over many years to less than half the Cuban population. At the Our Lady
of Carmen Parish in central Havana, for example, Fr. Teodoro Becerril
estimates weekly attendance at 2,000 worshipers -- which seems
considerable until he notes that the number was 7,000 in 1958, the year
the 70-year-old priest took up his post.

Aside from problems with the government, reasons for the decline include
the growth of Protestant denominations and the numerous exoduses from
the island. One high-ranking church official noted that the fear that
persists in the public mind about declaring faith is as much an obstacle
today as the actual consequences of doing so.

"We are emerging from a period when the transmission of faith from
generation to generation was cut," said Becerril. "The situation has
improved, but people are still cautious. They want to see where this
train is going to stop before they commit themselves."

After a boom following the constitutional change and papal visit, church
attendance has leveled off. Of the indicators used to measure church
participation in Cuba's largest archdiocese of Havana, only the number
of baptisms exceeds numbers in a comparable U.S. diocese. And though
Havana's 34,000 baptisms in 2004 represented a sizable number, Becerril
noted the special circumstances.

"Most people who bring their children for baptism are not practicing
Catholics. They say to me, 'I don't want what happened to me to happen
to my child.' They want to be ready if there is another period of
repression."

The problem is that only 10 percent of baptized Catholics in Cuba are
believed to attend Mass regularly, and, as the priest added, "the older
they get, the less they participate." The number of confirmations bears
him out: only 740 in all of Havana in 2004, this in an archdiocese of 85
parishes spanning three provinces with a population of over 3 million.
The city's 413 Catholic marriages in 2004 was the lowest since 1993.

Becerril said keeping the faith is difficult because "the average young
person today wants to leave the country. In Cuba, if you don't accept
the career offered you by the state, you have no future. Some say they
might go to the United States. So they are in a position of choosing to
participate in a future that is uncertain."

Torres, 31, coordinator of archdiocese youth programs for the past seven
years, agreed that the church can expect stops and starts in the years
ahead. As much as three-fourths of the population has never known any
government other than the current regime.

"In Cuba today, religion is still something relatively new. So despite
its long history, the church in a sense is just starting out." Torres
said he first came to church as a young adult, out of curiosity.

Torres runs youth programs such as an interparish soccer league that has
23 teams and 200 participants. Most are not Catholics, however, so the
church treads softly. "The league enables us to open a dialogue with
young people about virtues and values. But we don't pray at the games
because they take place in public and we don't want to have any
problems," Torres said.

Outreach beyond traditional religious boundaries to address social
issues also is no easy task in Cuba. With an annual budget of only
$400,000, Cáritas provides social services through a parish-level
network of volunteers. But unlike the situation in other countries,
Cáritas in Cuba is prohibited from importing goods, is required to make
all purchases at exorbitant retail prices, and is restricted to
accepting donations from state-approved funding sources.

"What I can tell you is that we are tolerated," explained Sánchez, 49,
director of Cáritas since it opened in 1991. "It is difficult to develop
any programs that involve collaboration between the church and
government. The problem is the ideology that no one can be the
protagonist in these matters except the state."

Despite the ubiquitous role of the state in Cuban life, other factors
affect the Catholic church in this diverse nation of 12 million people.
The church must address issues confronting societies across the globe,
such as materialism, the breakdown of families, and changes in cultural
values fueled by mass media.

"It is a mistake to think that just because we are an island we are
somehow separated from worldwide trends," said Bishop Hernández. "Some
trends might get here a little later than other places, but they get here."

David Einhorn is a freelance writer based in Washington.
New Cuba bishop speaks out

Juan de Dios Hernández Ruiz became the auxiliary bishop of Havana Jan.
14. The 57-year-old Jesuit priest is a native of Holguín in eastern
Cuba. "I love this country and I love Jesus Christ and the church," he
said. "These are the three loves that define my life." Below are
excerpts from an interview with the bishop just days after he took office.

"It is impossible to explain the Catholic church in Cuba or anywhere
else from anything other than the perspective of faith. It's true that
its temples and its social and educational institutions allow for its
visible manifestation. But faith as a culture transcends institutional
elements, and the more profound reality of the church can only be
experienced through that tool. Faith is the only way to access and fully
comprehend the mystery -- that is to say, the spirituality -- that is
the church.

"At any given moment, a religious institution anywhere might find itself
facing direct or indirect forms of repression. But when faith is
culture, even in Cuba, which has faced enormous problems in holding onto
its enormous reserve of Christianity, faith endures despite all of these
difficulties.

"Without a doubt, religious freedom was directly and sometimes violently
infringed upon for many years in Cuba. There were times when it was very
difficult for people to attend church. Thank God, there are fewer such
problems today: Direct challenges by state institutions to the very
right to religion have all but disappeared. We are free to publicly
express our faith, and every diocese today has some kind of newsletter
or magazine. This is what gives us hope that times are indeed changing."

-- David Einhorn

National Catholic Reporter, March 31, 2006

http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2006a/033106/033106o.php

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Message: 16
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:17:20 +0200
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
Subject: Ex aide airs Castros dirty laundry

Ex-aide airs Castro's dirty laundry
Underwear burned: Heftier 'secrets' also give insight into Cuba and its
leader

Oscar Corral
Knight Ridder Newspapers

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

MIAMI - As part of Fidel and Raul Castro's inner circle, Delfin
Fernandez learned many titillating secrets -- from why the Cuban leader
incinerates his dirty underwear to his cravings for pricey Spanish ham.

Fidel's former gofer confirms the heftier "secrets" that Cuba experts
have talked about for years: how the brothers assemble dossiers on
foreign businessmen who want to invest in Cuba, for instance.

But it's Mr. Fernandez's knowledge about Fidel Castro's dirty laundry --
literally and figuratively -- that has made him a cause celebre. No
detail about the Castro brothers seems too small to share with the world.

For example, he claims Fidel's chief of bodyguards, Bienvenido "Chicho"
Perez, told him the aging Cuban leader has his underwear burned to foil
any assassination plots with chemicals during laundering.

And he knows Fidel's capricious appetite for serrano hams, having been
sent to Spain to bring $2,900-worth of the delicacy back to Havana.

He knows well the Castro brothers' doctors and children, having
vacationed with them at lavish oceanfront homes on the island. He also
claims to have carried suitcases stuffed with cash out of Cuba for the
family.

So what does a man with such sensitive information -- a fixer of sorts
-- do once he goes into exile? Why, he gets a steady, if unpaid, gig on
a Spanish-language TV show in Miami, after having been a bodyguard to
international stars, among them, Antonio Banderas.

"I was assigned to take care of the people closest to Fidel," Mr.
Fernandez said. "So that they don't lack anything and don't feel
threatened by anything inside or outside of Cuba ... When I tell about
these things on television, people see me and I start making a name for
myself."

He defected on a trip to Europe in 1999 to drop off Raul's daughter
Mariela Castro Espin in Italy to visit her father-in-law and pick up a
Rottweiller in Germany for Fidel.

After five years living in Spain, he moved to Miami last year to
reconnect with friends and live in a place that reminded him of Cuba,
but without Fidel on TV every night.

Brian Latell, a former Central Intelligence Agency employee, now a
senior researcher at the University of Miami's Institute for Cuban and
Cuban-American Studies, said he spent several hours meeting Mr.
Fernandez in Miami recently as part of his academic research.

"A lot of the stories he told me were fascinating, and I found almost
all of them to be highly credible," Mr. Latell said.

The 44-year-old defector was code-named "Otto" when he reported to Cuban
counterintelligence's Department 11, assigned to the Castro brothers and
their closest foreign investment contacts, mostly from Spain.

He got the post as a trusted gofer in 1980 through his uncle, Rodolfo
Fernandez Rodriguez, chief of the Office of Special Affairs of the
Council of State and one of Fidel Castro's most trusted confidants.

While he worked for the Castro brothers, Mr. Fernandez witnessed the
tactics used by Cuba's leaders to monitor important foreign investors.
His disillusionment with the regime, he said, and his ambitions for a
better life compelled him to defect.

"The initial idea of Fidel was good. [Former Cuban ruler Fulgencio]
Batista was an assassin," he said.

"What happened was, the course he took with the revolution was wrong. It
has dissolved into this unstoppable, insatiable corruption without
limits, a vast lie. The people are in misery. Cuba's people have been
enslaved as cheap labour for foreign businessmen."

Mr. Fernandez said the Cuban leader always travels around Havana in a
six- or seven-car motorcade led by three nearly identical black
Mercedes-Benz 560s. The Castro brothers have as many as 300 cars for
them, their families, their bodyguards and official use.

Fidel Castro turns 80 this year, and he has become obsessed with his
health, Mr. Fernandez said.

The Castro brothers each have their own clinics and their own doctors in
Havana's Council of State Building and the Cimeq Hospital. Last year,
Fidel Castro built a multi-million-dollar clinic a few metres from his
front door within the grounds of his Havana estate, Mr. Fernandez said
he learned from his contacts on the island.

"So that if Castro has a heart attack or he dies, the only people who
will know about it will be his family, the guards working at the time,
and Raul," he said. "Fidel never cedes control, and will never cede power."

But Raul Castro, who runs Cuba's armed forces and by extension much of
its economy, is more practical and family oriented than his older
brother, Mr. Fernandez said, an analysis echoed by Mr. Latell in his
book After Fidel.

"Raul likes the money -- he has a transition plan. Fidel doesn't," Mr.
Fernandez said.

"I think Raul would want to lead an economic transformation, and
ultimately find a way to retire peacefully with his family with all the
money he has stolen from the Cuban people over the years and taken out
of the country."

As for Mr. Fernandez, he hopes to avoid Cuban death threats and get back
into the bodyguard business.

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=c54f5e49-ba67-4eba-b6a
7-2149aa31f422&k=89488

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Message: 17
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:18:11 +0200
From: PL <pl.nospam@pandora.be>
Subject: Cuba slaps back at Canadian bank

Cuba slaps back at Canadian bank
Diplomat upset U.S. rules apply to Scotiabank

Cuban account closed on `question of principle'
Mar. 28, 2006. 07:02 AM
OAKLAND ROSS
FEATURE WRITER

Just who is in charge of Canada's bankers?

That's what Gisela Garcia Rivera wants to know, and she may not be alone.

Garcia Rivera is Cuba's ambassador in Jamaica, and last Friday she
angrily closed all her government's accounts at a branch of the Bank of
Nova Scotia in the Jamaican capital, ending a business relationship that
had lasted a decade or more.

"It's a question of principle above all," the ambassador said in a
telephone interview with the Toronto Star yesterday. "Evidently,
Scotiabank is not a reliable bank for us."

Garcia Rivera was protesting a recent decision by the bank that appeared
to put compliance with domestic U.S. laws ahead of customer service in
Jamaica - or anywhere else in the world - at least if the customer in
question happens to be a card-carrying representative of the government
of Cuba.

"It's an injustice," she said. "They are applying an extra-territorial
law that makes no sense."

The Cuban diplomat was referring to a letter dated March 7 from
Barrington Chisholm, manager of the Scotiabank branch on Knutsford Blvd.
in Kingston, in which Chisholm said his bank is no longer willing to
handle U.S. dollar accounts for the Cubans or to carry out international
financial transactions on their behalf.

"The decision came from head office," Chisholm said in an interview
yesterday.

Frank Switzer, a Scotiabank spokesman in Toronto, told the Star the
company's new restrictions involving its dealings with Cuba apply not
only in Jamaica but anywhere the bank does business.

"Theoretically, this would apply to any of our branches," he said.

In his letter to the Cubans, Chisholm explained that the measure was
being taken "to comply with the dictates of the `US Patriot Act'
relating to US dollars transactions" - but he appears to have got hold
of the wrong American law.

Passed by the U.S. Congress in October 2001, immediately after the 9/11
terrorist attacks, the Patriot Act seeks to bolster America's response
to terrorist threats on many fronts, but it has little if anything to do
with Cuba.

Switzer conceded yesterday that the 2001 anti-terrorist law was possibly
not the appropriate statute to use in restricting business dealings with
the island.

`It's an injustice. They are applying an extra-territorial law that
makes no sense.'

Gisela Garcia Rivera, Cuba's ambassador in Jamaica

He said it might have been better to refer to a raft of other U.S. laws,
going back decades, that bar or impede commerce between the United
States and the Caribbean island, ruled since 1959 by Fidel Castro.

"All that stuff," he said.

But Switzer defended what he described as an across-the-board refusal to
conduct U.S. dollar transactions or to handle U.S. dollar accounts for
Cuban government agencies.

"Any transaction involving U.S. dollars has to be settled in the U.S.,"
he said, "so you have to be mindful of U.S. law."

He said the bank's policy is directed not only at Cuba but at any
country affected by U.S. economic sanctions.

In a subsequent email, he identified those countries as Iran, North
Korea, Sudan, and Myanmar.

"Generally, Cuba and Iran have the most exhaustive restrictions," he said.

Scotiabank's determination to follow U.S. trade laws even outside U.S.
territory does not appear to be shared by other Canadian banks.

Laureano Cardoso, the Cuban consul-general in Toronto, said yesterday
the consulate does its banking with the Canadian Imperial Bank of
Commerce, mainly because the CIBC has a branch located nearby.

"We don't have rules to be with one bank or another," he said. "We
haven't had any problems."

The Cuban consulate in Montreal maintains its account with the National
Bank of Canada, he said, and also reports no recent difficulties.

Myrna Drew-Lytle, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Bankers Association,
said she knows of no common position adopted by Canadian financial
institutions regarding U.S. sanctions against Cuba.

"These would be business decisions made by each bank based on their own
legal advice," she said.

Andrew Hannan, a spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade in Ottawa, said the federal government is not yet
prepared to make an official comment on the dispute in Jamaica between
Scotiabank and the Cuban Embassy.

"We are aware of the situation and are looking into it," he said.

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Su virtud inherente es la distribución igualitaria de la miseria.
El ejemplo mas convincente: La Cuba del 2006

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TOPIC: The game played by big boys...in Asia.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/3873fe4998efd80d
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 31 2006 2:30 pm
From: "Bad boy"

Afghanistan is an essential pawn in Bush's agenda
for world domination.

Bad boy.

"Feelers" <enjoylife488@hot.com> wrote in message
news:1143698503.869919@ftpsrv1...
> that's bush's agenda. resources are wealth and all it needs is extract
> them. the americans are in iraq cos of her resources but being unable to
> steal her oil is another thing. the heroic iraqi resistance is keeping
> america from stealing their oil.
> so afghanistan is rich in resources but also vital geographical location
> for the neocons in the plan to conquer the world..the ultimate prize -
> CHINA.
>
>
> "Bad boy" <badboy_sinland@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:442af984@news.starhub.net.sg...
>> Yes. Afghanistan may have abundant natural
>> resources.
>> But untapped resources are NOT wealth. Frank
>> Arthur was right when he claimed that Afghanistan
>> is poor.
>> In war torn Afghanistan, any resources will remain
>> a promise...it is like resources on the moon.
>> Look at Iraq,...the US troops are unable to keep
>> the oil flowing from the Iraqi oil fields...the pipe lines
>> were constantly bombed and production has halved.
>>
>> However, Bush has strong reasons to invade Afghanistan...
>> for the poppy land and for the containment of China.
>>
>> Bad boy.
>>
>>
>> "Feelers" <enjoylife488@hot.com> wrote in message
>> news:1143615746.332909@ftpsrv1...
>>> "Afghanistan resources include untold wealth
>>> War stymies search for copper, jewels
>>>
>>> By PAUL BASKEN
>>> Bloomberg Business News
>>>
>>> "WASHINGTON -- The first time geologist John Shroder saw the captured
>>> Soviet documents in 1985, he concluded that their description of
>>> Afghanistan's copper wealth was implausible.
>>>
>>> "A conversation three years later with a Soviet Foreign Ministry
>>> official persuaded him otherwise. The papers, taken by Islamic fighters
>>> from a military convoy during the Soviet occupation, indicated that
>>> deposits of the metal beneath war-ravaged Afghanistan might rival those
>>> of Chile, the biggest producer.
>>>
>>> "Not only copper lies under the feet of Afghans, said Shroder, a geology
>>> professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, who has studied the
>>> country for three decades. Afghanistan's natural riches, some still
>>> being tallied, also include natural gas, coal, emeralds and other
>>> gemstones. "
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/terror/front/1183615.html
>>>
>>>
>>> "Bad boy" <badboy_sinland@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>> news:442a2994$3@news.starhub.net.sg...
>>>>
>>>> "Frank Arthur" <Art@Arthurian.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:0RbWf.378$l6.306@bignews1.bellsouth.net...
>>>>>
>>>>> "Bad boy" <badboy_sinland@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:4428dc01@news.starhub.net.sg...
>>>>>> Yes. Bush's dream of world dominations ....so far
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you think the USA wants to inherit Afghan poverty?
>>>>
>>>> Nope. Afghanistan has no wealth.
>>>>
>>>> Afghanistan is located in the south west
>>>> flank of China. It is a vital pawn in the strategy
>>>> of containtment of China.
>>>> Beside, CIA wants a piece of the action in
>>>> the huge poppy land, ...more valuable than
>>>> diamond when converted to heroin. Under the
>>>> Taliban, poppy was wiped out....now under
>>>> the supervisor of CIA backed government,
>>>> Afghanistan is the largest producer of opium
>>>> and heroin in the world.
>>>>
>>>> Bush has two strong reasons to invade
>>>> Afghanistan.
>>>>
>>>> Bad boy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Thurs, Mar 30 2006 11:54 pm
From: "Feelers"

the next pawns are iran (and belarus) but this is getting very difficult for
the neocons. so the plans for global domination have encountered severe
ostacles.
iran is showing her resolve to fight to the death and belarus is getting
S300 and coming under mother russia's protection.. and american pawn georgia
is experiencing a 'breakaway' problems..

"Bad boy" <badboy_sinland@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:442ccc8c$1@news.starhub.net.sg...
> Afghanistan is an essential pawn in Bush's agenda
> for world domination.
>
> Bad boy.
>
>
> "Feelers" <enjoylife488@hot.com> wrote in message
> news:1143698503.869919@ftpsrv1...
>> that's bush's agenda. resources are wealth and all it needs is extract
>> them. the americans are in iraq cos of her resources but being unable to
>> steal her oil is another thing. the heroic iraqi resistance is keeping
>> america from stealing their oil.
>> so afghanistan is rich in resources but also vital geographical location
>> for the neocons in the plan to conquer the world..the ultimate prize -
>> CHINA.
>>
>>
>> "Bad boy" <badboy_sinland@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:442af984@news.starhub.net.sg...
>>> Yes. Afghanistan may have abundant natural
>>> resources.
>>> But untapped resources are NOT wealth. Frank
>>> Arthur was right when he claimed that Afghanistan
>>> is poor.
>>> In war torn Afghanistan, any resources will remain
>>> a promise...it is like resources on the moon.
>>> Look at Iraq,...the US troops are unable to keep
>>> the oil flowing from the Iraqi oil fields...the pipe lines
>>> were constantly bombed and production has halved.
>>>
>>> However, Bush has strong reasons to invade Afghanistan...
>>> for the poppy land and for the containment of China.
>>>
>>> Bad boy.
>>>
>>>
>>> "Feelers" <enjoylife488@hot.com> wrote in message
>>> news:1143615746.332909@ftpsrv1...
>>>> "Afghanistan resources include untold wealth
>>>> War stymies search for copper, jewels
>>>>
>>>> By PAUL BASKEN
>>>> Bloomberg Business News
>>>>
>>>> "WASHINGTON -- The first time geologist John Shroder saw the captured
>>>> Soviet documents in 1985, he concluded that their description of
>>>> Afghanistan's copper wealth was implausible.
>>>>
>>>> "A conversation three years later with a Soviet Foreign Ministry
>>>> official persuaded him otherwise. The papers, taken by Islamic fighters
>>>> from a military convoy during the Soviet occupation, indicated that
>>>> deposits of the metal beneath war-ravaged Afghanistan might rival those
>>>> of Chile, the biggest producer.
>>>>
>>>> "Not only copper lies under the feet of Afghans, said Shroder, a
>>>> geology professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, who has
>>>> studied the country for three decades. Afghanistan's natural riches,
>>>> some still being tallied, also include natural gas, coal, emeralds and
>>>> other gemstones. "
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/special/terror/front/1183615.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Bad boy" <badboy_sinland@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:442a2994$3@news.starhub.net.sg...
>>>>>
>>>>> "Frank Arthur" <Art@Arthurian.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:0RbWf.378$l6.306@bignews1.bellsouth.net...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Bad boy" <badboy_sinland@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:4428dc01@news.starhub.net.sg...
>>>>>>> Yes. Bush's dream of world dominations ....so far
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you think the USA wants to inherit Afghan poverty?
>>>>>
>>>>> Nope. Afghanistan has no wealth.
>>>>>
>>>>> Afghanistan is located in the south west
>>>>> flank of China. It is a vital pawn in the strategy
>>>>> of containtment of China.
>>>>> Beside, CIA wants a piece of the action in
>>>>> the huge poppy land, ...more valuable than
>>>>> diamond when converted to heroin. Under the
>>>>> Taliban, poppy was wiped out....now under
>>>>> the supervisor of CIA backed government,
>>>>> Afghanistan is the largest producer of opium
>>>>> and heroin in the world.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bush has two strong reasons to invade
>>>>> Afghanistan.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bad boy
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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TOPIC: Italian Philosopher Honored in Cuba
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/7341f1ac23e4f34f
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Thurs, Mar 30 2006 10:35 pm
From: "Miguel"

NY.Transfer.News@blythe.org wrote:
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> Italian Philosopher Honored in Cuba
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> Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
>
> Radio Havana Cuba
> http://www.radiohc.cu
>
> Italian Philosopher Gianni Vattimo Honored in Cuba
>

I thought the name of this philosopher was Nero.

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TOPIC: Engraved On America's Tombstone?
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/c7d319e169c99e3e
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 31 2006 12:36 am
From: / control /

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:06:16 -0600, SteveR <tex_driver@comcast.net>
wrote:

>In article <pJKdnX5-N65eg7HZRVn-jw@scnresearch.com>,
> "0:->" <pohaku.kane@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> SteveR wrote:
>> > In article <42um22hcavnl6beht8ddal7oemdktfqr3m@4ax.com>,
>> > / control / <control @remote.nul> wrote:
>> >
>> >> they can call in the notes.
>> >> Anytime they please.
>> >
>> > And we'll just hand it all over, even though it would collapse our
>> > economy.
>> >
>> > Sure, you bet.
>> >
>> > Any more deep theories concerning our imminent collapse?
>>
>> The first thing we would do, and they know it, is reduce our balance of
>> trade deficit. That would allow us in probably less than a year to
>> redeem all the notes held.
>>
>> But of course what would that entail, action wise?
>>
>> Why, NOT BUYING ANY MORE PRODUCTS FROM THEM FOR A YEAR.
>>
>> That would be the end of that story, PDQ.
>>
>> They no more want to call those notes than they want to have us balance
>> our trade with them.
>>
>
>
>The trouble with that scenario is that the left would start buying
>Chinese goods in greater numbers, just like the Arab boycott of Danish
>goods spurred the "Buy Danish" movement on the right.

Remember when the Repugs were high on their fascist oats and electric
kool-aid and were calling for "Freedom Fries" and boycotting French
wine and cheese? Looks like the French are still there and ...let's
see... there's thousands less US Servicemen to buy French products.
Heckuva job, Bushie! You sure showed those damned French how to lose
a war.

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TOPIC: Dobbs: President, Congress defying people's will
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/97a4172f57399af7
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 31 2006 6:40 am
From: "George"

Dobbs for President - 2008

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/30/dobbs.cancun/index.html

By Lou Dobbs
CNN

Thursday, March 30, 2006; Posted: 8:07 p.m. EST (01:07 GMT)

Thursday, March 30, 2006; Posted: 8:07 p.m. EST (01:07 GMT)

CANCUN, Mexico (CNN) -- We're reporting live this week from Cancun, where
the leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada are meeting in a
trilateral summit. And despite the contentious debate raging in the U.S.
Senate over illegal immigration and the guest-worker program, this summit
has a remarkably modest agenda.

U.S. President George Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian
Prime Minister Stephen Harper will only try to advance the discussion among
the three countries on economic integration, free trade, border and port
security, and, yes, illegal immigration.

President Bush began his summit itinerary today by spending some time
looking at the consequences of failed public policies. Although he only
spent a short time at the Mayan ruins at Chichen-Itza (remember his
decision not to see the Taj Mahal while in India for talks with Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh?), I hope it was enough to make an impression.

The United States is challenged as never before in the global war on
radical Islamist terror. And yet, our borders and ports remain insecure
four and a half years after the 9/11 attacks. Our lack of border and port
security is nothing less than a failure of the U.S. government and its
policies. While we spend hundreds of billions of dollars fighting the war
in Iraq, we spend next to nothing to protect our own borders.

President Bush, President Fox and Prime Minister Harper will discuss border
security in terms of the perimeter of our three nations -- regional
security perimeter, if you will. Such a concept, in my opinion, has no
merit whatsoever while the United States cannot defend its own borders.

And economic integration among the three countries? How integrated can we
be? Trade with Canada accounts for 52 percent of Canada's GDP and we have a
$50 billion trade deficit with Mexico. Remittances from Mexican citizens
living in the United States are the second -largest source of revenue for
the nation of Mexico.

The three countries, however, could not be more different economically.
Nearly 13 percent of Americans and 16 percent of Canadians live below the
poverty line, but in Mexico that figure is conservatively 40 percent. The
unemployment rate in the United States is just below 5 percent and about
6.5 percent in Canada. While the official unemployment rate in Mexico is
3.5 percent, the under-employment rate is as high as 25 percent.

I find it incredibly difficult to imagine how three economies with such
disparities in economic growth, income and labor forces could possibly
integrate any time soon. But far more troubling is there has been no
popular expression of the people's will in any one of the three countries
that any such integration occur.

For that matter, in the United States, this president and Congress seem
hell bent on defying the popular will. The American people, in poll after
poll and survey after survey, are revealed to be opposed to the direction
of the war in Iraq, illegal immigration, amnesty, a guest-worker program,
the outsourcing of jobs and certainly the outsourcing of our security. It
has become increasingly clear over the last several years that the least
represented constituency in either Congress or the White House is the
middle class, working men and women who are the foundation of our country.

And while these three leaders are meeting in Cancun, the Senate is debating
whether there should be a guest-worker program and whether there should be
amnesty for those already here. Guest worker programs never work anywhere
in the world. I firmly believe that we cannot significantly reform our
immigration policies unless we can control immigration. And the control of
immigration is impossible if our borders remain porous and vulnerable.

One of the things that frustrates many of us who care about our country and
the truth is the rampant barrage of misinformation, disseminated by such
vociferous special interests, whether they are ethnocentric social
activists, labor unions, the Catholic Church or Corporate America. The
truth is advocates of amnesty, guest-worker programs and open borders are
unconcerned about the 280 million American citizens, the men and women of
this country who work for a living and their families.

I hope these leaders will be far more direct and honest in their private
meetings this week. And I sincerely hope in the months ahead they'll share
that directness and honesty with the people they represent.

________________________

I'm not holding my breath.

George

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TOPIC: Iran plans 'war games'
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/6b0bba95363bd28b
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 31 2006 6:44 am
From: Pauldo

I like how threats is in double quotes, suggesting Iran, much like all
non-western countries with legitate concerns about having their
sovereignty encroached upon by western nations, is being aggressive
against its neighbours
fuck why i am responding to this pro-american drivel anyway

Moshe the Kosher Honey-baked ham loving Pig™ wrote:
> FROM THE WEBSITE www.news24.com/
>
> Iran plans 'war games'
> 29/03/2006 21:44 - (SA)
>
>
> Farhad Pouladi
>
>
> Tehran - Thousands of Iranian troops will on Friday start a week-long
> military manoeuvre in the Gulf to ready armed forces for warding off
> "threats", a senior commander announced on state television.
>
>
> The commander of the navy of revolutionary guards corps, Rear-Admiral
> Mostafa Safari, did not specify the nature of the threat although the
> manoeuvre comes amid increasing tensions with the West over Tehran's
> nuclear programme.
>
>
> "The revolutionary guards corps navy and air force in collaboration
> with (Iran's regular) army, navy, (the volunteer militia) Basij, and
> the Iranian police will start a manoeuvre from 31 March until 6 April
> in the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman," he said.
>
>
> Iran has two armed forces in which both have their own ground, naval
> and air force all under the command of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah
> Ali Khamenei.
>
>
> He added: "We hope ... We will gain the necessary and needed readiness
> to decisively reply to any kind of threats."
>
>
> "More than 17 000 soldiers and sailors will be used, along with 1 500
> different kind of vessels, in addition to the different sorts of jet
> fighter planes, choppers and different missiles," he added, but did not
>
> say whether Iran will use its ballistic missiles.
>
>
> Iran has medium-range Shahab-3 missiles with the capability of 2 000km,
>
> able of hitting arch-enemy Israel and US bases across the Middle East.
>
>
> "The exercise will cover an area stretching from the northern tip of
> the Persian Gulf all the way to the port city of Chah-Bahar in the Sea
> of Oman extending 40km into the sea," he said.
>
>
> In addition, the spokesperson of the manoeuvres, Rear-Admiral Mohammad
> Ebrahim Dehghan told state television that the strait of Hormouz will
> be one of the focal points of the exercise.
>
>
> "Some 80% of the Persian Gulf's oil is shipped out of this strait over
> which Iran has dominant and accurate control," he said.
>
>
> "If the enemy wants to make the area insecure, he should be rest
> assured that he will also suffer from the insecurity, since we know the
>
> location of their vessels," he added.
>
>
> On Wednesday, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov warned that any
> attempt at using force or coercion to resolve the standoff over Iran's
> nuclear programme would be counter-productive.
>
>
> "Any ideas about a coercive, forceful solution to the issue are highly
> counter-productive and cannot be supported," Lavrov told reporters in
> Moscow.
>
>
> Iran's defence minister, Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, said nearly two
> months ago that Islamic republic will give an "extremely quick and
> destructive response" to any attack against its nuclear facilities.
>
> ---0---
>

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TOPIC: IRAN PLANS 'WAR GAMES' IN THE PERSIAN GULF........
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 31 2006 1:29 am
From: "K Miller"

I'm not KNOCKING the People of Israel (and all who live there), I have very little doubt that they have as much Control
over their Politics as we do here in Canada. - Its just that the 'Newly Elected' has (or will have) a Politically
'Forced' Stance that "Wavering On An Upcoming Situation - Will Show Weakness." in the coming Days.

Their Actions will set the STAGE of the Next Few Years !!!

:- |

"facilitator" <tlmurray@juno.com> wrote in message news:1143782718.802339.39600@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> God bless the Jews. Bring peace to Jerusalem.
>

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TOPIC: Start Integrating Muslims Aggressively - Stop Villifying Them
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/2420b4de0f7f556a
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Thurs, Mar 30 2006 10:44 pm
From: "Frenchy"

Nusrat a écrit :

> On 30 Mar 2006 14:06:57 -0800, "Frenchy" <crumble@club-internet.fr>
> wrote:
>
> >Nusrat a écrit :
> >> On 30 Mar 2006 08:54:29 -0800, "Frenchy" <crumble@club-internet.fr>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Nusrat a écrit :
> >> >
> >> >> On 30 Mar 2006 04:37:47 -0800, "Frenchy" <crumble@club-internet.fr>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Bholu wrote:
> >> >> >> Muslim minorities living in largely non-Muslim countries like US, India
> >> >> >> and the UK are on the way to being represented in the political process
> >> >> >> and have a voice and a stake. This is largely a legacy of British
> >> >> >> liberal interpretation of a civil society. We need to continue that
> >> >> >> not only because it is humane but also because it makes us safe. Large
> >> >> >> Muslim minorities that have no stake in the society and are
> >> >> >> marginalized can be a powerful source of instability and terror. Not to
> >> >> >> mention a permanent underclass that drags the economy down. Integrated
> >> >> >> Muslims can be a source security and an example to the Arabs to reform.
> >> >> >> Muslims in these countries also need to reach out and give up any
> >> >> >> remnants of their ghetto mentality. It is a two way process of mutual
> >> >> >> reassurance.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Good examples of what marginalization can do is visible in France
> >> >> >> (North Africans) and to a certain extent in Germany (Turks) and
> >> >> >> mainland Europe. Idiotic policies and actions in Denmark and Holland
> >> >> >> will do little to enhance security or stability. Stay with the liberal
> >> >> >> Anglo model if you want to progress. There is a reason no one speaks
> >> >> >> French but all speak English.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Thanks buds
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Have you heard about a few bombings in London in July 2005 ? IIRC, they
> >> >> >were the work of perfectly integrated British Muslims, pure products of
> >> >> >this Anglo model you feel so confident in.
> >> >>
> >> >> The perpetrators of this horrendous acts have lived in the UK for 3
> >> >> generations.
> >> >> They spoke no other language than English knew no other culture than
> >> >> British.
> >> >
> >> >That's basically what I said.
> >> >
> >> >> Trust me they were and are not the only turn coat to your society,
> >> >> every single Muslim is.
> >> >
> >> >(sight) When I hear someone beginning an argument by "trust me", I know
> >> >he's going to say something stupid.
> >> >
> >> >> Unfortunately you guys are far too dumb to see
> >> >> this simple truth and the only way to awaken you to this impending
> >> >> disaster is only when her Majesty's ass gets blown away by these not
> >> >> so integrated subjects.
> >> >
> >> >Ahem. I'm French, as you might have guess from my pseudo. And even the
> >> >dumbest of us French are aware of the Islamic terrorism menace since at
> >> >least 1995, thank you.
> >>
> >> Implication is that something happened in 1995 to turn civilized
> >> Muslims into bomb throwing cut throats.
> >
> >Several bombings happened in France in 1995, yes. More info here, for
> >instance : http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/1349
>
> You memory has failed you miserably, Muslims started bombing Paris
> subway and other public places already in mid 80's. Only when the
> French Govt made peace with the Iranians did this killing subsided.

Yes, in 1986, most notably rue de Rennes, just in front of the huge
Fnac bookstore where I used to go on a weekly basis. Who said otherwise
? I just wrote "even the
dumbest of us French are aware of the Islamic terrorism menace since
_at
least_ 1995", but maybe your understanding failed you miserably.

<snip>

> I do love your food, wine, people and principals your nation once
> stood for.

This "your/our country was proud and strong once, but this is a thing
of the past now" must be one of the oldest tune ever sung by Man. I
seem to recall Ovide wrote something along those lines, and I read
about a Sumerian scribe who already had some similar complaints about
the good ol'days of Gilgamesh. Nothing new here.

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TOPIC: 'Let the prisoners pick the fruits'
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/e942e9fbba5d132
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 31 2006 6:47 am
From: "George"

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/30/immigration.house.ap.ap/index.html

Thursday, March 30, 2006; Posted: 11:55 p.m. EST (04:55 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House conservatives criticized President Bush, accused
the Senate of fouling the air, said prisoners rather than illegal farm
workers should pick America's crops and denounced the use of Mexican flags
by protesters Thursday in a vehement attack on legislation to liberalize
U.S. immigration laws.

"I say let the prisoners pick the fruits," said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of
California, one of more than a dozen Republicans who took turns condemning
a Senate bill that offers an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants an
opportunity for citizenship.

"Anybody that votes for an amnesty bill deserves to be branded with a
scarlet letter 'A,'" said Rep. Steve King of Iowa, referring to a guest
worker provision in the Senate measure.

Their news conference took place across the Capitol from the Senate, where
supporters and critics of the legislation seemed determined to heed
admonitions from both Bush and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to conduct
a dignified, civilized debate.

The House has passed legislation to tighten border security, while the
Senate approach also includes provisions to regulate the flow of temporary
workers into the country and control the legal fate of millions of illegal
immigrants already here. Bush has broadly endorsed the Senate approach,
saying he wants a comprehensive bill.

It was the second day in a row that congressional Republicans aired their
differences on an issue that directly affects the fastest-growing segment
of the electorate. Under Bush's leadership, the Republicans have made
dramatic inroads among Hispanic voters, and party strategists fret that the
immigration debate could jeopardize their gains. (Watch Lou Dobbs analyze
the issue -- 12:50)

On Wednesday, leading GOP senators disagreed whether the legislation
amounted to amnesty.

There was no such debate at the news conference in the House, where not a
word was spoken in defense of the Senate bill and even Bush was not spared
criticism.

"I don't think he's concerned about alienating voters, he's not running for
re-election," said Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado. He said Republicans could
lose the House and Senate over the immigration issue, and he said of the
president: "I wish he'd think about the party and of course I also wish
he'd think about the country."

Referring to a wave of demonstrations in recent weeks, Rep. Virgil Goode of
Virginia said, "I say if you are here illegally and want to fly the Mexican
flag, go to Mexico and wave the American flag."

King analyzed the issue in class terms.

"The elite class in America is becoming a ruling class and they've made
enough money by hiring cheap illegal labor that they think they also have
some kind of a right to cheap servants to manicure their nails and their
lawn, for example.

"So this ruling class, this new ruling class of America, is expanding a
servant class in America at the expense of the middle class of America, the
blue collar of America that used to be able to punch a time clock, buy a
modest house and raise their families. ... Those young people are cut out
of this process."

Rep. J.D. Hayworth of Arizona and others said Republicans would pay a price
in the midterm elections if they vote for anything like the Senate
legislation. "Many of those who have stood for the Republican Party for the
last decade are not only angry. They will be absent in November," he said.

Rohrabacher said Americans should be able to "smell the foul odor that's
coming out of the U.S. Senate."

Asked a few moments later whether the same odor was emanating from the
president, he said, "I have no comment."

Rohrabacher, King and others stood at a podium decorated with a bumper
sticker reading "Say No to Amnesty," as the Senate slogged through a second
suspenseless day of debate.

The only vote of the day came on a proposal by Frist for a study of the
number and causes of deaths at the U.S.-Mexico border. It passed 94-0.

The more difficult choices lie ahead next week, when critics of the bill
are expected to try to strip out the guest worker provision and roll back
the provisions relating to 11 million illegal immigrants already here.

Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania, the chairman of the Judiciary
Committee, has said repeatedly he hopes to find a compromise that is more
broadly acceptable than the legislation that cleared his committee over the
objections of six Republicans.

"There's a movement afoot to find consensus," said Sen. Lindsey Graham,
R-South Carolina, who voted for the bill that cleared committee.

He said the president's statements "have been hugely helpful."

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TOPIC: POLL (ENCUESTA DE LA NBC)
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/99d8ed7463bfbb48
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 31 2006 1:31 am
From: "PM"

Do You Believe in God?

NBC this morning had a poll on this question. They had the highest
number of responses that they have ever had for one of their polls, and the
percentage was the same as this:

86% to keep the words, IN God We Trust and God in the Pledge of Allegiance
14% against.

That is a pretty 'commanding' public response.

I was asked to send this on if I agreed or delete if I didn't .

Now it is your turn .... It is said that 86% of Americans believe in God.
Therefore, I have a very hard time understanding why there is such
a mess about having "In God We Trust" on our money and having
God in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Why is the world catering to this 14%?

AMEN!

If you agree, pass this on, if not, simply delete .

In God We Trust
--
WINSTON CHURCHILL DIJO:
El socialismo es la filosofía del fracaso, el credo a la ignorancia,
y la prédica a la envidia.
Su virtud inherente es la distribución igualitaria de la miseria.

El ejemplo mas convincente: La Cuba del 2006

www.therealcuba.com

http://www.cubafotos.net/cubafotos1.htm

Noticuba Internacional
www.noticubainternacional.com
http://www.cubafotos.net/cubafotos1.htm
http://www.wisc.edu/arth/ah349/20c_01.html
http://www.chileblog.com/modules.php?name=Sections&op=listarticles&secid=15
http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2005/12/361336.php
http://www.juanperez.com/comerciales/tv.html

http://www.amigospais-guaracabuya.org

Sobre el ASESINO che:
http://members.aol.com/Guanabacoa/che.html
http://www.therealcuba.com/MurderedbyChe.htm
http://ernesto-el-che-guevara.piranho.de/

http://www.martinoticias.com/media/audio/M-001_051004.wma
http://www.martinoticias.com/MMtv.asp
Corrupcion_en_Cuba
http://www.cadal.org/libros/pdf/Corrupcion_en_Cuba.pdf

HAGA CLICK SOBRE ESTE TITULO >>>> URBANPHOTO -- Dos Días en La Habana

http://www.urbanphoto.net/havana/photo06.htm

http://imls.library.miami.edu/chcdigital/chc5017/ch
/ch

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TOPIC: "Greek Cypriots' violence against their own fellow"
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/eff3304c85e6c69e
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 31 2006 6:51 am
From: "June R Harton"

<nbatra@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:1142559687.661918.189720@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> The Turkish govt does not command their votes.

Silly. They follow exactly what the military tell them, and everyone knows
it.
That translates as the Turkish Government tried to take over the whole of
Cyprus by the Annan scam.

from: Spirit of Truth

(using June's e-mail to communicate to you)!

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TOPIC: NO a la SUBVERSIÓN en IBEROAMERICA
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/f005a62ace172bfc
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 31 2006 1:41 am
From: "PM"

Compatriotas, digámosle: SÍ a la LIBERTAD

SÍ a la DEMOCRACIA AUTÉNTICA

· NO al CASTROCHAVISMO

· NO a la CUBANIZACIÓN del URUGUAY

· NO a la SUBVERSIÓN en IBEROAMERICA

HOY, a tres años del encarcelamiento masivo de opositores en Cuba,

una vez más, pacífica pero firmemente,

REPUDIANDO AL TOTALITARISMO CASTROCOMUNISTA.

--
WINSTON CHURCHILL DIJO:
El socialismo es la filosofía del fracaso, el credo a la ignorancia,
y la prédica a la envidia.
Su virtud inherente es la distribución igualitaria de la miseria.
El ejemplo mas convincente: La Cuba del 2006

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TOPIC: HOY, a tres años del encarcelamiento masivo de opositores en Cuba,
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/5c7467c388ddb20
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 31 2006 1:41 am
From: "PM"

Compatriotas, digámosle: SÍ a la LIBERTAD

SÍ a la DEMOCRACIA AUTÉNTICA

· NO al CASTROCHAVISMO

· NO a la CUBANIZACIÓN del URUGUAY

· NO a la SUBVERSIÓN en IBEROAMERICA

HOY, a tres años del encarcelamiento masivo de opositores en Cuba,

una vez más, pacífica pero firmemente,

REPUDIANDO AL TOTALITARISMO CASTROCOMUNISTA.

--
WINSTON CHURCHILL DIJO:
El socialismo es la filosofía del fracaso, el credo a la ignorancia,
y la prédica a la envidia.
Su virtud inherente es la distribución igualitaria de la miseria.
El ejemplo mas convincente: La Cuba del 2006

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TOPIC: ISRAEL manda en Washington
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/2da8e4d08d14f204
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 31 2006 5:07 pm
From: "Ben Cramer" <[remove]bencramer7@gmail.com>

Non pasaran.

"Carlos_M_Santillan_H" <cmsahe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1143743905.322168.87260@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
ISRAEL manda en Washington

Milenio Diario, Sábado 25 de Marzo de 2006.

Panorama por Juan Gelman.

No todo lo idéntico es igual.

Un estudio de dos prestigiosos politólogos estadunidenses afirma que
la relación entre Estados Unidos y el Estado de Israel atenta contra
la seguridad de Washington y denuncia la importancia del lobby
proisraelí.

AIPAC es el segundo grupo de influencia en EU. sólo detrás de la
asociación de jubilados.

El lobby proisraelí ha logrado limitar la política exterior de
Estados Unidos

La relación de Washington con Tel Aviv atenta contra la seguridad de
Estados Unidos, y el lobby estadunidense pro-israelí, en particular el
Comité Estadunidense-Israelí de Asuntos Públicos (AIPAC por sus
siglas en inglés), ha contribuido a que la protección de Israel se
convierta en un aspecto clave de la política exterior de E.E.U.U. A
esta conclusión llegan los prestigiosos politólogos John J.
Mearsheimer y Stephen M. Walt en un estudio titulado "The Israel Lobby
and U.S. Foreign Policy" que puede consultarse en el web de la
Universidad de Harvard http://ksnotes1.harvard.edu/Research (13-03-06).
Desde luego, llueven los improperios sobre los autores y el trabajo: el
más gentil lo considera otro ejemplo de "los viejos libelos acerca de
que el pueblo judío controla de algún modo las políticas de la
nación más poderosa de la Tierra" (http://www.jnewswire.com,
23-03-06)

Walt, decano de la escuela de gobierno John F. Kennedy de Harvard y
Mearsheimer, codirector del programa de políticas de seguridad
internacional de la Universidad de Chicago y referente principal de los
conservadores, sin "neo", llamados realistas, inician el estudio así:
"El interés nacional de los E.E.U.U. debería ser el objetivo
primordial de la política exterior estadunidense. Sin embargo en las
últimas década, en especial desde la Guerra de los Seis Días, de
1967, el ejer de la política de E.E.U.U. en Medio Oriente ha sido su
relación con Israel. La combinación del sostenido apoyo estadunidense
a Israel y el designio concomitante de extender la democracia en toda
la nación han inflamado la opinión pública árabe e islámica y
puesto en peligro la seguridad de E.E.U.U."

"Esta situación no tiene antecedente en la historia política
estadunidense. ¿Por qué E.E.U.U. tiene que hacer a un lado su propia
seguridad para procurar por los intereses de otro estado?" Duro pero
cierto.

El Lobby, con mayúscula porque la merece, proclama que "los intereses
israelíes y estadunidenses son esencialmente idénticos" y "exagera la
capacidad de Israel", para contribuir a la "guerra antiterrorista",
dicen los autores. "Y lo más importante, agregan, es que E.E.U.U.
padece el terrorismo en buena medida por su estrecha alianza con
Israel, y no al revés...el apoyo incondicional a Israel facilita a los
extremistas una adhesión popular y el reclutamiento de voluntarios." Y
luego, Israel "no es un aliado leal:" sigue espiando en E.E.U.U. y
vende armas a China.

La Casa Blanca a erigido a Israel en modelo democrático para la
región, donde ciertamente no escasean los regímenes autoritarios. Sin
embargo, no parece que ese modelo se cumpla para los palestinos, los
cristianos árabes y otros ciudadanos israelíes de segunda.
Mearsheimer y Walt cuestionan el concepto, raramente explicitado, de
que el sostén acrítico a Israel es una deuda por el genocidio de
judíos perpetrado por los nazis: señalan que el argumento no
justifica la expulsión de 700 mil palestinos en los años 1947-48, que
nada tuvieron que ver con la Shoah, ni el asesinato de civiles árabes
en el período 1949-1956, ni los que el ejército israelí sigue
cometiendo en territorio palestino ocupado. "En términos de
comportamiento real -subrayan- la conducta de Israel no se diferencía
moralmente de las acciones de sus opositores."

AIPAC es el segundo lobby en importancia en los E.E.U.U. -detrás de la
asociación estadunidense de jubilados AARP (por sus siglas en inglés)
y por delante de la Asociación Estadunidense del Rifle NRA y de la
poderosa central sindical AFL-CIO. cabildea ante legisladores y
funcionarios de gobierno para que mantengan posiciones políticas
pro-israelíes y también se encarga de ningunear a los críticos de
Tel Aviv calificándolos de antisemitas, su arma desacreditadora más
poderosa. "Israel goza practicamente de inmunidad en el congreso",
registra el estudio, y algunos sionistas cristianos como Dick Armey han
proclamado que "la prioridad número uno" de la política exterior
estadunidense es apoyar a Israel contra viento y marea. AIPAC invierte
grandes sumas de dinero en campañas electorales para derrotar a
candidatos con presuntas posiciones anti-israelíes, como ocurrió con
el ex-senador republicano Charles Percy.

El ex candidato republicano a la presidencia Pat Buchanan lo dijo a su
manera: "AIPAC, que es agente de facto de un gobierno extranjero,
domina el Congreso de E.E.U.U. No hay ahí debate abierto alguno sobre
la política estadunidense respecto a Israel." (Where The Right Went
wrong, 2004.)

Mearsheimer y Walt se refieren asi mismo al mito de que Israel es una
especie de David que se enfrenta al Goliat de los países árabes que
lo rodean. No es la opinión del coronel del ejército estadunidense
(R) Warner D. Farr, quien advierte que Israel es la quinta potencia
nuclear mundial y que en 1997 ya poseía 400 armas nucleares y de
hidrógeno (http://www.peaceheroes.com, 24-04-04), La modernidad ha
permitido cambiar ondas por bombas.

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TOPIC: My Recent Trip to London
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/a49283aa39753c71
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 31 2006 6:11 pm
From: "Neil Boss"

It would be good if you set an example and moved back to the mother or
father country back in Europe.

Lisa <mandotar@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:1143754649.231871.114230@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
> I think that, at this point in time, most Bostonians would love to pack
> up and leave.
>
> Lisa
>

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TOPIC: FBI: Hezbollah Terrorists Busted in Mexican Smuggling Operation
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/e023e5c005d3e232
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 31 2006 1:16 am
From: Just another American

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/30/223801.shtml?s=ic

Thursday, March 30, 2006 10:27 p.m. EST

FBI's Mueller: Hezbollah Busted in Mexican Smuggling Operation

FBI Director Robert Mueller said this week that his agency busted a
smuggling ring organized by the terrorist group Hezbollah that had
operatives cross the Mexican border to carry out possible terrorist
attacks inside the U.S.

"This was an occasion in which Hezbollah operatives were assisting
others with some association with Hezbollah in coming to the United
States," Mueller told a House Appropriations subcommittee during a
Tuesday hearing on the FBI's budget.

In a stunning revelation, Mueller admitted that Hezbollah had
succeeded in smuggling some of its operatives across the border,
telling the House committee: "That was an organization that we
dismantled and identified those persons who had been smuggled in. And
they have been addressed as well."

Hezbollah was responsible for the single most deadly terrorist attack
against the U.S. before 9/11 - the Oct. 1983 bombing of the Marine
barracks in Beirut, which killed 243 U.S. troops.

In November, an al-Qaida operative who was on the FBI's terrorist
watch list was captured near the Mexican border, housed in a Texas
jail and turned over to federal agents, according to Rep. John
Culberson, R-Texas.

"A confirmed al-Qaida terrorist, an Iraqi national, was held in the
Brewster County jail," Rep. Culberson told ABC Radio host Sean
Hannity. "He was captured in Mexico. This was within the last six
weeks. He was turned over to the FBI."

--
"The elite class in America is becoming a ruling class and they've made
enough money by hiring cheap illegal labor that they think they also
have some kind of a right to cheap servants to manicure their nails
and their lawn, for example."

"So this ruling class, this new ruling class of America, is expanding
a servant class in America at the expense of the middle class of
America, the blue collar of America that used to be able to punch a
time clock, buy a modest house and raise their families. ... Those
young people are cut out of this process." Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa)

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/print?id=1787765

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TOPIC: International Stuff
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/5d1b6b36a66fef20
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Thurs, Mar 30 2006 11:25 pm
From: "Frank Kalder"

marika wrote:
> Frank Kalder wrote:
>
> >
> > > > That's obviously a real annoying and ambiguous situation...
>
> it's not entirely ambiguous. They tried to rewrite the job so I could
> fit the qualifications, but they were not able to so I don't get the
> job. Instead they get to fill it with someone else and I will sit at
> less pay doing the same job til they fill it.
>
Very unfortunate...

>
> > >
> > > yeah and my old job in roanoke called today to figure out when i would
> > > be back. i wouldn't commit
> > >
> > > maybe july I said, which is when my lease expires anyway
> > >
> >
> > Thus, you are earmarked to return to Weiners & Co :)
>
> that's about the size of it
>
;)

No other cute and well-fitting jobs within or around DC?

> > ...
> > - it's on future ENERGY (1/ ASTHROS) and TRANSPORTATION (2/ RAILTAXI)
> > SYSTEMS (1+2 = ASTRAIL).
> >
> > >
> >
>
> that's the weirdest math I have ever seen
>

> 1/asthros
>
> so asthros/asthros = 1
>
> in the
>
> "Systems (1 +2) formula"
>
> this higher math really can't be accomplished after a number of vodkas
>
Oh, you thought [at "/"] it'd be a division. It meant "#"
[like "1)" or "1st"].
>

In other words: ASTRAIL is the combination of the "alternative energy
using and automatically calculating" module ASTROHS with the
"special rail-transportation system for electric cars (and so on)"
module RAILTAXI. - www.astrail.de [engineering by Christoph Müller]

> I actually had planned to do this event for some time. I actually took
> 20 minutes off from work today, rather than adding five hours to may
> work day
>
> We went to the Ukrainian embassy for a vodka tasting.
>
> We had quite a number of vodkas, my favorite turned out to be the Birch
> Vodka.
>
> Birch was the filter, you can find many links to this.
>
> We had the most incredible sumptuous feast prepared by the embassy
> staff
>
> varennyky (dumplings), holubtsi (stuffed cabbage), mushrooms, kovbasa
> (aka kielbasa as in not weiners or wieners as in bigger better and
> juicier), lots of salmon, lots of salmon roe
>
Wow, lovely - lecker, lecker! [yummy or delicious, luscious...]

You may enjoy this one perhaps, too:
http://groups.google.com/group/HAPLIF-BLOGGING_Deutsch/msg/7c95b1d95fca21eb

> I met the attache and his sfaff
> Some of them thought I was a native and I found that in spite of not
> practicing I can still really speak it. If I were exposed to it for a
> while longer I would pick up the accents again.
>
> It was fun.
>

O yeah :))

I'm glad you have that kind of good command of your ancestors' and
parents' mother-tongue.
>
> "he loves sausages. I struck a deal with him where I would give him
> sausages in exchange for the keys to the studio. That went on until
> his freezer couldn't hold any more sausages"--Rupert Lyddon of Grand
> National about Andrew Innes of Primal Scream
>
:)

Thanks for the feedback on Sharon Stone's Germany trip (particularly
about Berlin) which I posted at Tanja's blog as well as at the
Haplif.net -
http://groups.google.com/group/HAPLIF-BLOGGING_Deutsch/msg/116c51b521d05393

>

CU, Frank

--
www.haplif.de & www.haplif.de/61820.html [politics & economics]
http://groups.google.com/group/HAPLIF-GOVERNANCE [global vs. regional]
http://groups.google.com/group/HAPLIF-DESIGNER-FASHION [worldwide]
http://groups.google.com/group/HAPLIF-BLOGGING [international]

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TOPIC: Australians top the world when it comes to crime
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/c0316e20ba3f0bdc
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 31 2006 6:28 pm
From: "Neil Boss"

We do put a lot of work in trying to protect the "good" name of Australia.
It only takes one "report" a few lies for pigskins to damn other nations.
However this report is by the OECD a reputable organisation.

We forget the crimes Aussies commit overseas like child molestation, rape,
drug smuggling and I am sure there is even more.

With regards to your comments see below ....

artie morty <artiemorty@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
news:f85n221u1mkuc1b3pa39d631ehc8aapiq0@4ax.com...
>
> Spoke to many friends and we have narrowed it down to these:
>
> 1. Drugs.

Yes drugs in the community have increased, they question is why are Aussies
using drugs in a country where supposedly life is good, safe, great beaches,
etc.. what are these people running away from? Why does Australia have the
highest youth sucide rate in the world?

> 2. Organised Crime.

Most of this is oranganised by the mafia figures, middle-eastern and far
east asian gangs not to mention by "Aussies". Like for example rape,
domestic violence, thieft, company directors like the HIH directors all
"white" Aussies, Skases, Alan Bond, etc... ripped of billions.

Let us not forget the Federal government take the case of AWB food for oil
rip off, ministers leaving their jobs to take up position with companies
they delt with, etc.

> 3. Social Welfare taking away parents rights to discipline children.

I don't think so by enlarge most parents do try to do the right thing. Are
you saying most Aussies are on social welfare?

> 4. Massive breakdown in the family structure

Well is divorce a reason to excuse personal responsibilty a person has?

> 5. Credit - more people have more debt than ever before.

Well Australians have one of the highest amounts outstanding on credit
cards. Who's fault is that?

> Even so - Australia is still a very safe country, and I would suggest
> that one report offered by Mr Boss (who spends his life looking for
> shit like this) really means stuff all.

Well 20 shooting is Sydney is less then 3 months is far too hight because
this did not happen before. Look at Melbourne.

> It is after all - only one report.

Sure its only a report when you feel embrassed but pigskins do not hold back
when they use reports against others to dress them down do they? This is
just a taste of your own medicine. The gloss of Aussies is wearing off a bit
now isn't it?

> Artie...

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TOPIC: property problem in cyprus
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/f377487ec0fd62bf
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 31 2006 8:32 am
From: "Agamemnon"

"serhan" <serhan586@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1143743927.070816.198370@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> All the Geeks of these newsproups, read this below and gatse djehame if
> you don't like it gatse bano.
>
> Just let refugees stay where they are
>

You are obviously insane.

The property the Greek Cypriots were ethnically cleansed from by the Turks
is worth more than TEN TIMES the property of the Turkish Cypriots and the
Greek Cypriot land in the north is the most productive on the island.

Why should the Greek Cypriots give up their homes, land, hotels, shops,
factories and businesses and the income from them to the Turks that savagely
butchered them and their families in return for something worth ten times
less and ten times less productive and ten times less profitable.

Why should the Orthodox Church which owns 1/3 of the land give it all up. It
is never going to happen. No Greek Cypriot property owner will ever give up
their property rights.

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TOPIC: Jeans especially designed for Muslims.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/59d827c3507d6aad
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 31 2006 6:45 pm
From: "Neil Boss"

Is there a pocket to hide bombs and guns too?

Mirza Ghalib <mghalib01@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1143218526.737928.173880@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...

> http://www.alqudsjeans.com
>
> ROME - They're high around the waist, wide around the leg and have lots
> of pockets for holding watches, bracelets, glasses and other
> knickknacks.

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TOPIC: Notice, no bruthas in that Ask.com "man-apes" commercial.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/a1b418f80ad7c448
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 31 2006 2:31 am
From: Rich

On 30 Mar 2006 08:29:33 -0800, obbzerver@yahoo.com wrote:

>That commerical for Ask.com where it shows the internet cafe with the
>inhabitants all done up like apes - notice not a negroid in the bunch.
>Got at least one oriental that I can discern, but no darkies.
>
>I guess the PC police were on patrol, making sure they don't dast make
>any simian insinuations regarding the melanin-enhanced.

Would have needed less make-up, at any rate.
-Rich

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TOPIC: Pakistan: Terror Workshop of the World
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.usa/browse_thread/thread/91c948fc45a53c60
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Fri, Mar 31 2006 12:52 am
From: "Neil Boss"

Mortayee <mortayee@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1142984595.225736.55800@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Stupid Bush was fool to go after leftist Bathist Regime of Saddam, who
> had hated Islamist. The real culprit was and remains Pakistan.

The west has a need for the pigs, they are on a leash now but once they have
a need to increase indirect attacks against India they will let them lose.
Pakis are whores.

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