Mussolini Italy's Nightmare

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This documentary reviews the career and personal life of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. He quickly became one of Italy's most intelligent and menacing young Socialists. He broke with the Italian Socialist Party after advocating intervention in World War 1. In 1922, he became prime minister, and by 1925, he had established himself as dictator. His rule saw an official totalitarian system; the establishment of the Vatican state; the annexation of Abyssinia and Albania; and the formation of the Axis with Germany. His declaration of war on Britain and France was followed by a series of defeats in Africa and in the Balkans. Following the Allied invasion of Sicily, his supporters deserted him, and he was overthrown and arrested. Rescued from imprisonment by German paratroopers, he was placed in charge of the puppet Italian Social Republic, but in 1945 he was captured by the Italian Resistance and executed.

#Cuba: Los Cipayos Cada Vez Mas Solos/ Espinaxiones

 

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¿No cree, Compañero Raúl, que ya va siendo hora de comenzar a pensar en el Pueblo como la única vía para salvar esta Revolución y quitarnos de encima el Armagedón de la guerra civil?

Rectificar es de sabios, aunque en ocasiones pueda confundirse con debilidad o sensibilidad ante el costo social de las acciones emprendidas. Ninguno de mis familiares, amigos o conocidos estuvo de acuerdo con los Decretos firmados por Raúl Castro hace pocos meses, todos sin excepción pensamos que había colocado los bueyes detrás de la carreta; era absolutamente absurdo mandar a la calle a millón y medio de personas a ganarse la vida por cuenta propia, sin antes haber creado las condiciones mínimas necesarias para que los emprendimientos, que estos ciudadanos debía comenzar, tuvieran la menor posibilidad de éxito; menos aún atándolos a una medieval lista de actividades “autorizadas” (ninguna realmente productiva, creadora de riquezas) y desangrando los ingresos familiares con leoninos gravámenes.
Por ese camino solo se podía llegar a una explosión social una vez desandado el camino experimental de ese Capitalismo “cacharrero” que nos quieren imponer. El hambre ha sido históricamente la causa fundamental de los levantamientos populares más sangrientos.
Muchos vimos detrás de ese invento la mano negra de la alta burocracia empeñada en transitar hacia un Capitalismo de Partido único al estilo asiático y no estábamos lejos de la realidad, los hechos nos daban la razón:
-La creación del corredor industrial Artemisa-Mariel con capital chino y brasileño, donde se pretendía (¿se pretende aún?) crear una franja de maquiladoras de productos chinos con los costos de producción y los salarios más bajos del planeta y el más brutal impacto social y medioambiental asociado a este tipo de “desarrollos acelerados” jamás conocido por los cubanos (ejemplos sobran en todo el planeta).
-Unido a la creación de los nuevos enclaves de gran turismo y zonas exclusivas, campos de golf incluidos y otros “proyectos” que nunca fueron revelados.
Todo en manos de los Nuevos Empresarios capitalistas nacionales (burócratas de alto rango, generales y delfines) libres de las ataduras constitucionales que les impide la explotación asalariada a gran escala (por gracia del “decretismo” discrecional) y beneficiados con “los permisos especiales” que los liberaría de cumplir con la “lista autorizada de actividades cuentapropistas” que se impone, cual yugo, al resto de los ciudadanos; la Nueva Oligarquía se encamina hacia la reproducción ampliada (acelerada) del Capital, asistimos al parto inducido de los nuevos millonarios tropicales…
Ese era el marco (lo es aún) en el que se pretende desarrollar el VI Congreso del Partido Comunista de Cuba, cual “Senado Romano” controlado por el César, donde darle legitimidad al engendro y socializar la culpa del desastre anunciado.
Y ahí está la esencia de los Lineamientos del VI Congreso que han sido “debatidos” en reuniones controladas por los Custodios de la Fe; confusos, enrevesados,maniqueos y ambiguos, en el mejor de los casos; en el peor, parte de un Plan elaborado para jodernos a todos y dar el cambio de timón hacia ese Capitalismo de Partido único, manteniendo los privilegiados Clanes en el Poder, con el jamón garantizado en la mesa.
Una vez que se conocieron los lineamientos y que claramente se dijo que, como siempre, eso era todo lo que se podría discutir, que no era “el momento para otras cosas”, muchas voces se levantaron en protesta; “¿cómo que esto es lo único que podemos discutir, si lo más importante lo han dejado fuera?”; la respuesta “rápida” no se hizo esperar y las cabezas comenzaron a rodar sin importar los años sacrificados al Partido o el historial intachable de muchos compañeros.
Pero no son los años 60, hoy Cuba es otro País muy diferente, el Mundo es un lugar muy diferente y Raúl no es Fidel; el bloque partidista exteriormente monolítico pero interiormente fraccionado hace mucho, comenzó a mostrar sus fisuras al aire; la izquierda internacional “pensante”, que mantenía su fidelidad aún después del impacto sufrido por los escándalos mediáticos (y reales) y las innecesarias muertes provocadas por intolerancia y corrupción, empezó a marcar su raya; “eso no es Socialismo dirían muchos”, “jamás lo ha sido decían otros”… y el General comenzó a quedarse solo, con su séquito de cortesanos y burócratas oportunistas cada vez más diezmado y una bandada de aves de rapiña, revoloteando sobre su cabeza en espera del momento para lanzarse sobre las ruinas de la Nación.
Pero, no se dejen engañar los que desde otras playas o la comodidad de su buró, a resguardo sus billetes en algún banco extranjero, esperan el momento de la “solución natural” para regresarnos al lugar de dónde partimos sin haber ganado siquiera el derecho a la Vida; tras estos sainetes burócrata-burgueses hay un Pueblo, soñoliento pero no dormido, donde millones de personas que aún creen en la Utopía, están dispuestos a dar la batalla por una Revolución que les ha dado un sentido de realidad a sus vidas, a pesar de toda esta burocracia corrupta; de la misma forma que otros solo esperan el momento para zarpar allende los mares, lejos de las penurias; a otros no les importa un pepino el futuro y solo viven el hoy, el ahora y en dónde conseguir los billetes; y otros solo esperan el momento en que alguien, no importa quién, le pague lo que “le deben” de la forma que sea, mejor aún si es con sangre.
El escenario para la batalla final está servido, la gran olla social, hirviendo el caldo del odio adobado con intransigencia a fuego vivo, inflamando los sentidos, quemando la razón… Unos matarán por rencor, por odio, por despecho; otros matarán pensando que alzarán de las cenizas una Revolución nueva, justa y sin burócratas, matando al “enemigo” (cualquiera que este sea); algunos matarán solo por “diversión” o por encargo (mercenarios, esbirros y dementes hay en todos lados); hermanos contra hermanos, padres contra hijos…
Y en medio del escenario alcanzamos a ver a nuestro General/Presidente acercándose a paso lento, pero seguro, a la gran hoguera con un cubo lleno de gasolina en las manos…
¿No cree, Compañero Raúl, que ya va siendo hora de la razón dominando los sentidos y amarrando de pies y manos los intereses personales y de grupos que solo quieren llevar agua a sus propios molinos a costa de lo que sea, incluso la vida de miles, quizás millones?
¿No cree, Compañero Raúl, que ya va siendo hora de comenzar a pensar en el Pueblo como la única vía para salvar esta Revolución y quitarnos de encima el Armagedón de la guerra civil?
Por eso decimos que rectificar es de sabios; no hay mejorlugar ni momento que el VI Congreso para decidir nuestro futuro (de hecho, hagan lo que hagan, allí se sellará nuestro destino), así lo dicta la mismísima Constitución que ahora pende, cual espada de Damocles, sobre su propia cabeza.
Si sigue empecinado en sus lineamientos, sin importar cuánto dilate su aplicación y realizan el Congreso bajo esos preceptos,habrá lanzado el cubo de gasolina a la hoguera y mucho más temprano de lo que se imagina el fuego devorará hasta los cimientos de lo que pudo ser y nunca ha sido, llevándose de paso la ilusión “iluminada” del siglo XX y regresándonos a finales del siglo IXX, intervención norteamericana incluida (mírese en el espejo de Libia, justo hoy comenzó el ataque “francés” a las tropas de el Gadafi y CHINA SE ABSTUVO EN EL CONSEJO DE SEGURIDAD, para que siga creyendo en los pececitos con ojos rasgados)
Si, como dicta la razón (hablo del cerebro PENSANTE, no de si tenemos o no la “razón”), propone un alto a los trabajos preparatorios y analiza con seriedad y celeridad otras Propuesta que se han lanzado desde los más diversos lugares y posiciones, lo más probable es que el Pueblo entienda y lo apoye sin tildarlo de “pusilánime” como algunos se han apurado en acusarle; por supuesto que el Pueblo, todos nosotros, no esperará otros 50 años a ver qué se le ocurre a Usted o sus herederos, el tiempo apremia y la paciencia escasea y no está subsidiada.

Apply the Reagan Doctrine in Libya

Marc Thiessen writes in today’s WaPo:
The administration is positioning military assets in the Mediterranean but seems unwilling to use them. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has expressed deep reluctance about establishing a no-fly zone over Libya, and he recently gave an address at West Point in which he warned that “any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should have his head examined.”

Would the Gipper support the opposition in Libya?

From his days as deputy CIA director during the Reagan administration, Gates knows there are options for removing a dictator short of sending in “a big American land army.” In the 1980s, U.S. policymakers figured out a way to roll back Soviet expansionism without committing American ground forces to every flashpoint around the world. There were motivated people willing to fight their own wars of liberation. They did not want American soldiers to fight for them. They wanted America to provide weapons, training, intelligence and other support so they could fight and win those wars themselves. By providing such assistance, America helped resistance fighters in places such as Nicaragua and Afghanistan liberate their countries. It was called the “Reagan Doctrine,” and the time has come to apply it in Libya.

Be sure to read the whole thing.

 Apply the Reagan Doctrine in Libya

Corrupcion: ¿Quién vive en esta casa?

¿Quién vive en una casa como ésta? Pronto el mundo lo sabrá...

Imagine, ¿Quién tendrá tan exquisito gusto para vivir en semejante opulencia? ¿Quizá un billonario americano? ¿O un Príncipe árabe, o Luis XIV de Francia?   Observe bien estos cuadros, luego recorra la página hacia abajo para ver quien es el dueño de esta exquisita obra de Arte.

 



 


 
Esta mansión está en Harare y pertenece a:    
The  President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe

Mientras su pueblo muere de hambre, sin comida ni asistencia médica.
Y mientras a nosotros se nos pide ayudar a su pueblo una y otra vez,
Él y su familia vive así...    Su AVARICIA está matando a su pueblo...

Stalin a 58 anos de su muerte/ Video

Note to dictators: It's the job market, stupid

CHRYSTIA FREELAND There’s nothing like a few revolutions to focus the mind. The lesson the world’s smartest authoritarians are drawing from Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution and its neighbourhood copycats is simple: It’s all about jobs.

“The leadership in China is always worried about how do you stay ahead of the growth to create enough jobs,” says Dominic Barton, the global managing director of consulting firm McKinsey, who has lived in Asia for much of the past decade. “They have to create over 30 million jobs a year. … They know that if they don’t and there are disruptions and the people don’t have jobs, there will be revolution.”

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Note to dictators: It's the job market, stupid

Reino Unido dice que Gadafi podría haber abandonado el país

Reino Unido dice que Gadafi podría haber abandonado el país

Fuentes diplomáticas del Gobierno venezolano, no obstante, niegan que el mandatario libio esté viajando hacia su país.

Lukashenko indifferent to EU criticism

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Saturday said he does not care about the criticism which came form the European Union following the conviction and sentencing of Belarusian opposition representative Vasily Parfenkov.

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Lukashenko indifferent to EU criticism over imprisonment of opposition activist

Kim Jong Il and heir apparent make rare appearance

Kim Jong-il celebrates 69th birthday

North Korean senior party, army and state officials attend a national meeting to celebrate the birthday of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES

According to North Korean lore, Kim Jong-il's birth was foretold by a swallow and heralded by a glorious double rainbow and the appearance of a new star.

Photo: REUTERS

By Malcolm Moore, Shanghai and Peter Foster in Beijing 11:30AM GMT 16 Feb 2011

His official biography says he was born on White-Headed Mountain, the highest peak on the Korean peninsula. On top of the mountain sits the volcanic Heaven Lake.

However, a set of grey and prosaic Soviet Union records say Kim was born in 1941 in the remote Siberian fishing village of Vyatskoye, where his father was commanding a scraggly army battalion made up of Chinese and Korean exiles.

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Kim Jong-il celebrates 69th birthday

Ron Paul: Making Mubarak a puppet dictator our mistake

America's attempts to spread its ideals around the world should not be achieved by force or money, believes US Congressman Ron Paul, who says Washington's efforts to buy influence in countries like Egypt have failed and will always fail.

Where this guy come from???
 

Mubarak address to the nation

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Report: Mubarak to Meet Protesters' Demands

Egyptian President Mubarak to Step Down

A senior Egyptian official confirms to Fox News that President Hosni Mubarak will step down shortly and transfer authority to the Egyptian Higher Council of the Armed Forces as Egypt's state TV says Mubarak will address the nation Thursday evening.

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DEVELOPING: Egyptian President Mubarak to Step Down After 30-Year Reign

Egipto: La corte del faraón/ Eugenio Yáñez

Eugenio Yáñez, Miami | 09/02/2011

No basta el deseo de derribar a un dictador si no existe una correlación de fuerzas favorable para ello
La corte del faraón

Pro-Mugabe militias blamed as Zimbabwe violence erupts

• David Smith in Johannesburg



 

Pro-Mugabe militias blamed as Zimbabwe violence erupts

Analysts regard escalating violence as a warning sign that president is gearing up for elections and fear repeat of 2008 polls.

Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party is accused by MDC activists of 'running amok' in poor townships. Photograph: Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images

Violence has surged in Zimbabwe with reports of mob attacks, death threats, politically motivated arrests and at least one shooting ahead of possible elections, civil rights groups claim. The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) claims youth militias loyal to Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party are "running amok" in poor townships, and accuses the police of siding with the offenders. Full story on Pro-Mugabe militias blamed as Zimbabwe violence erupts

Egypt's Mubarak: From poverty to the presidency

Hosni Mubarak y Anwar El Sadat

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CAIRO –  President Hosni Mubarak came to power amid crisis three decades ago, a reassuring symbol of stability for many Egyptians as well as for Western leaders seeking a solid ally in the Middle East. Today, crisis again envelops Egypt, and Mubarak is widely seen as the root of the problem.

In the span of his presidency, Mubarak, a former pilot and air force general with a combative, stubborn streak, took tentative steps toward democratic reform but then pulled back toward the authoritarianism that, coupled with poverty and a culture of corruption, helped drive Egyptian protesters into the streets.

The prospect that Mubarak was grooming his son, Gamal, to succeed him left many Egyptians feeling that they were trapped in the past, deprived of the opportunity for change and renewal. Then, the uprising in Tunisia delivered an electrifying message: an old order can be ousted.

Mubarak, 82, announced in a televised address Tuesday that he will not seek another term, but rejected demands that he step down immediately. The halfway concession — an end to his rule months down the road — was derided by protesters massed in Cairo's main downtown square.

It was a stark departure from the praise Mubarak had once won for keeping Egypt free of the grip of Islamic extremism, and solidly allying with the West amid wave after wave of Mideast crises.

His ascent to power — he was sitting on a military viewing stand next to his predecessor, Anwar Sadat, when he was assassinated by Islamic militants — recalls the welcome legacy of his early years.

On the whole, his serious, cautious image reassured many Egyptians, including some of those who shout for his downfall in street protests. Even after looters roamed major Egyptian cities following deadly clashes between protesters and security forces, Mubarak sought to portray himself, and the military forces at his command, as the only obstacle to outright anarchy.

His political credibility, however, suffered irreparable damage. And that vulnerability, at least in hindsight, goes back decades. He lacked the charisma of his two legendary predecessors — the peacemaker Sadat and the great Arab nationalist, Gamal Abdel Nasser — and constantly served in their shadows.

He also struggled constantly with the problems that have bedeviled much of the Arab world through modern history: economic stagnation, choking corruption, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and fighting Islamic militancy at the expense of personal freedoms.

As the years went by, Mubarak also became more aloof, carefully choreographing his public appearances, and his authoritarian governing style appeared increasingly out of sync with a world focused on economic and political openness.

Resentment toward his regime built especially in recent years, as new press freedoms exposed brutal police tactics, and a spate of economic reforms trickled down to only a handful of Egyptians. He moved toward democratic reform in 2005 by launching the country's first contested presidential election, but retrenched sharply when opponents made gains — jailing both his main secular opponent, Ayman Nour, and leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Yet it was his young son's quick rise through the ruling party that caused the most domestic anxiety in recent years, in a country scornful of the prospect of a hereditary succession.

More seriously for the West, Mubarak oversaw the wane of Egypt's regional influence in recent years as the militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah and their patron, Iran, gained momentum and followers.

Yet throughout, Mubarak remained a strong ally of the United States, carving out a niche as a key negotiator on the Palestinian crisis, and bolstered by billions in U.S. aid because of his country's ties to Israel.

"It is a very tough job," Mubarak once told a television interviewer. "All you seem to do is wake up to trouble and sleep to trouble."

Mubarak was serving as Sadat's vice president when Muslim extremists gunned down the president in 1981, killing the world's best hope for Arab moderation.

Egypt's parliament designated Mubarak the sole presidential candidate the next day and he was elected head of state on Oct. 13, 1981, with 98.5 percent of the vote.

Early on, Mubarak strongly put down the Muslim militant insurgency whose strength had been underestimated, and whose ranks had produced Sadat's assassins and some of the future leaders of al-Qaida.

Later in the 1990s, he fought back hard again against another resurgence of Muslim militants who attacked both foreign tourists and ordinary Egyptians.

Mubarak engineered Egypt's return to the Arab fold after nearly a decade out in the cold over its 1979 peace treaty with Israel, and carved himself a role as a major mediator in the Arab-Israeli peace process.

He also made moves that promised he would open up society and that won him considerable popularity at home — including freeing 1,500 politicians, journalists and clerics jailed during Sadat's last months in office.

But hopes for broader reform dimmed as, over the years, Mubarak was re-elected in staged, one-man referendums in which he routinely won more than 90 percent approval.

Mubarak had never appointed a vice president as the constitution required, though he did so last week in an effort to appease protesters demanding his ouster.

In early 2005, the Egyptian president — under pressure both at home and by the George W. Bush administration — surprised his country by saying he would change the constitution to allow Egypt's first multi-candidate presidential elections.

The vote was held that September and Mubarak defeated 10 other candidates amid charges of voter fraud and intimidation. In follow-up parliamentary elections, however, the Muslim Brotherhood — the country's main opposition group — stunned the government with a strong showing.

Perhaps because of that, Mubarak's regime began sharply pulling back: postponing planned local elections; jailing the activist Nour; and launching its harshest campaign of arrests in a decade against the Brotherhood.

Throughout, Mubarak remained uniformly hostile to the Brotherhood, contending it had no place in Egypt's secular government. But the group retains broad support among the poor and has vowed to continue fighting for change.

Mohammed Hosni Mubarak was born on May 4, 1928, in the village of Kafr el-Moseilha in the Nile delta province of Menoufia. His family, like Sadat's and Nasser's, was lower middle class.

After joining the air force in 1950, Mubarak moved up the ranks as a bomber pilot and instructor and then in leadership positions. He earned nationwide fame as commander of the air force during the 1973 Middle East war.

Mubarak, in military uniform and sitting on Sadat's right, escaped with only a minor hand injury on Oct. 6, 1981, when the group of Muslim extremists charged a Cairo reviewing stand during a military parade, killing Sadat and seven others. Seven days later, Mubarak was president.

CHAVEZ DESPUÉS DE 12 AÑOS EN LA PRESIDENCIA VENEZUELA / Especial de Globovision

The Egypt Unrest/ Intellingece report [Stratford]

Mubarak Dismisses Egypt's Government

#Belarus police arrest #protesters

As Alexander Lukashenko is sworn in, many opposition supporters stage protests.

Belarus' opposition supporters protest against President Alexander Lukashenko in downtown Minsk  [AFP]

A group of protesters have staged a demonstration outside Belarus' Palace of the Republic, just hours after the inauguration of long standing leader Alexander Lukashenko.

The president of Belarus had warned on Friday that no dissent would be tolerated as he took the oath of office for a fourth time in a ceremony that was boycotted by European Union ambassadors.
However, the protesters ignored his threats, some of the protesters were arrested by the police.
While holding a copy of the Belarusian constitution, protester Maxim Vinyarsky said he swore "never to recognise Alexander Lukashenko as a legitimate ruler."
"I put my hand on the Constitution, I hold it in my hand and I swear never to recognise him as president but consider him an usurper, illegally holding power in his hands," he said.
Lukashenko was re-elected last month in a vote widely seen as fraudulent and has since cracked down on the opposition, including jailing hundreds of opposition protesters and also seven candidates who ran against him in the 19th December poll.
Lukashenko also closed the office for the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe after its election observers called the vote flawed.
The 56-year-old president has accused Poland and Germany of plotting to overthrow him, claims both countries have rejected.

The EU has threatened to re-impose travel restrictions on Lukashenko and other top officials over the flawed elections and subsequent crackdown if 30 opposition activists, including four presidential candidates, are not released. Lukashenko, who appeared to rule that out on Thursday, ordered his government to prepare harsh retaliatory measures if the sanctions are applied.
The travel ban on Lukashenko and others had been lifted in 2008 as the country, once described by the United States as Europe's last dictatorship, made modest progress on rights issues.
Several EU member states and the EU's Foreign Affairs chief Catherine Ashton also have said they may reinstate the ban when EU foreign ministers meet in Brussels on 31st January.