'Diet Coke' Muslim Discrimination Passenger Has Ties to Radical Imams

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Ahmad (center) with terror-connected Imam Suhaib Webb (left), Facebook

by Jordan Schachtel

A Muslim woman who claimed over the weekend–in a social media post that has since gone viral–that United Airlines discriminated against her because of her faith, has a history rife with deep connections to the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Imams.

31-year-old Tahera Ahmad, who serves as the Muslim chaplain at Northwestern University, claimed over the weekend that she was discriminated against because a United Airlines flight attendant allegedly refused to give her a full can of unopened Diet Coke. When asked for an explanation as to why she had been refused her unopened Diet Coke, the flight attendant allegedly told her that the Coke can could be used as a “weapon on the plane,” Ahmad stated in a Facebook post. After she complained, a passenger told her, “You Moslem you need to shut the f—k up,” according to Ahmad’s recounting of what happened on board. Ahmad’s Facebook page was taken down this afternoon.

Without any evidence (but for her firsthand account) that the incident ever occurred, many in the mainstream media have taken to reporting on Ahmad’s account as a case of “Islamophobia.”

Islamic supremacist groups such as CAIR (Council on American-Islamic relations) have condemned United, telling Al Jazeera that they have taken an interest in filing a lawsuit on behalf of Ahmad.

Ahmad’s claims of discrimination have not been corroborated by any passengers, and United Airlines rejects that any wrongdoing or acts of discrimination occurred.

United Airlines released a statement that the flight attendant “attempted several times to accommodate Ms. Ahmad’s beverage request.” However, her post has since gone viral, with many calling for a boycott of United Airlines due to its alleged mistreatment of Ahmad.

Ahmad has shown to have an affinity for radical Islamist groups that seek to employ deceptive tactics in order to advance Sharia law, Breitbart News has found. Ahmad has attended and participated in multiple conferences over the past couple years which were hosted by alleged Muslim Brotherhood front groups. She has also proudly written about, and has happily posed in photos with radical Imams.

In late December, Ahmad attended the MAS-ICNA (Muslim American Society- Islamic Circle of North America) conference, which featured prominent leaders within the global Muslim Brotherhood network.

One month earlier, Ahmad posted a picture to Facebook of her standing next to Suhaib Webb, who is the Imam of the Islamic Society of Boston, an outfit run under the same umbrella organization as the mosque attended by Boston Marathon bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and a plethora of other convicted terrorists. Webb has a demonstrated history of radical connections, including him being a close confidant of Al Qaeda mastermind Anwar al Awlaki prior to the 9/11 attacks.

Ahmad is “well-known” to Yasir Qadhi, a cleric who she has frequently invited to speak to the student body at Northwestern. An audio tape of one of Qadhi’s sermons revealed that he once called for Muslims to wage holy war against non-Muslims. During his speech, Qadhi went on to discuss how he did not believe that the Holocaust had ever occurred.

In April 2014, Ahmad joined an MPAC (Muslim Public Affairs Council) delegation of American Muslim women, who partnered with the White House “to host a historic forum recognizing the contributions of American Muslim women.” MPAC, like the MAS and ICNA, was originally founded by members of the Muslim Brotherhood. The group has in the past endorsed a paper that rejects the designations of Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations. In 2009, the group hosted a protest where demonstrators called for the annihilation of the State of Israel. 

In 2013, she recited the Quran at the annual ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) convention. Declassified FBI documents found that the Bureau regarded ISNA as a Muslim Brotherhood front group. The FBI also found that ISNA was founded by prominent members of the global Muslim Brotherhood organization. Ahmad’s bio states that she has “supported leadership for premier Muslim organizations including [ISNA].”

Although she has an extensive record of supporting radical Islamist groups, Ahmad was recognized by the Obama White House as a leading “Muslim female in the United States,” according to a release from her University. She is a frequent Ramadan dinner attendee at the White House, according to the report.

From Communists to Progressives, the Left's Takedown of Family and Marriage

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By Paul Kengor

As the Supreme Court considers rendering unto itself the right to redefine marriage -- that is, to arrogate to itself something heretofore reserved to the laws of nature and nature’s God -- it’s a good time to have something that liberals always insist we have: a conversation. And given liberals’ constant calls for “tolerance” and “diversity,” they ought to be willing to sit back and join us in a civil, healthy dialogue.

To that end, I invite them to consider something so crucial and yet so neglected that I wrote a full book on it, released just in time for this national conversation on marriage. It’s titled, Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage, and I sincerely wish liberals would lend it their professed toleration and open-mindedness.

Before I share my thesis, I should clarify my own stance.

I support the natural-traditional-biblical definition of marriage that has been Western civilization’s standard for multiple millennia. My position echoes my Roman Catholic faith. Basically, in a nutshell, my position is Pope Francis’ position (properly understood). Though Piers Morgan marvels at my position as “extraordinary,” it’s merely the one held by your grandparents, great grandparents, great-great grandparents… great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents and the ongoing long line of ancestors who preceded them. Even the ancient Greeks and Romans, long viewed as the models of perversity, never broached the unthinkable prospect of same-gender people marrying. That simply has never been marriage. What millions of Americans are rushing to do right now is completely unprecedented.

Today’s leftists should understand that they are the new One Percenters. They stand against the literal 99%-plus of humans who ever bestrode the planet, who never conceived of marriage as anything beyond man and woman.

As for those who disagree with me, and no longer support marriage as reserved to one man and one woman – a redefinition which will ultimately open the door to numerous new configurations -- I’d like to address you politely with a point I’m sure you haven’t considered. Do I expect to change your mind or those of Elena Kagan or Ruth Bader Ginsburg or the wider culture? No, I don’t. America has entered a protracted phase of post-Judeo-Christian thinking, where individualism and relativism reign supreme, fostered by a steady stream of incredibly naïve parents who marched their children in wide-eyed cadence through the educational system at giant costs both financial and moral. Nothing short of a major religious revival will save it. This culture and country will redefine marriage, either this month or in the months and years ahead.

That said, I would like to inform gay-marriage supporters of something they haven’t considered. Here it goes, a brief summary of what I detail over a couple hundred pages in Takedown:

Efforts to fundamentally transform family and marriage have been long at work, but never (until now) accepted and pushed by the mainstream. In the past, these efforts were spearheaded by the most dangerous leftists. For two centuries, leftist extremists made their arguments, from the 1800s to the 1960s, beginning with the Communist Manifesto, where Marx and Engels wrote of the “abolition of the family!” Efforts to revolutionize family and marriage continued from socialist utopians like Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, and Albert Brisbane, to cultural Marxists in the Frankfurt School such as Herbert Marcuse and Freudian-Marxist Wilhelm Reich, to 20th-century leftists and progressives ranging from the Bolsheviks -- Lenin, Trotsky, Alexandra Kollontai -- to Margaret Sanger, Betty Friedan, Kate Millett, and ‘60s radicals like Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Mark Rudd. When Tom Hayden and Robert Scheer ran a “Red Family” colony in near Berkeley in the 1960s, they were merely following the footsteps of socialist-utopian colonies in the 1800s in places like Oneida, New York and New Harmony, Indiana.

Were these “ideological colonists” (to borrow an apt description by Pope Francis) supporting gay marriage? Of course, not. No group of radicals, no matter how unhinged, ever contemplated that. The mere fleeting contemplation, the mere momentary notion, the slightest passing fancy of a man legally marrying another man in the 1850s or 1950s would have been scoffed at as incomprehensible. Such proponents would have been deemed certifiably insane. Public authorities might well have hauled them away as menaces to society.

These fundamental transformers did, however, seek to break down natural-traditional-biblical boundaries for family and marriage. They sought every means to reshape and redefine. They did so to the point that now, today, the Communist Party USA, the People’s World, and even Castro’s Cuba, not to mention leftist groups like the Beyond Marriage campaign, have picked up their mantle and embraced gay marriage as the vehicle to achieve what their leftist forbears were unable to achieve.

For the far left, gay marriage is the Trojan horse to secure the takedown of marriage it has long wanted, and countless everyday Americans are oblivious to the older, deeper forces at work. And even more delicious for the left, gay marriage is serving as a stunningly effective tool in attacking what the far left has always hated most: religion.

In a telling moment about a year ago, I received an email from a reader who once had been part of the “gay left.” He told me that even most gay people, who are either not political or nowhere near as political as the extreme left, have no idea how their gay-marriage advocacy fits and fuels the far left’s anti-family agenda, and specifically its longtime take-down strategy aimed at the nuclear family. The emailer is exactly right (and inspired me to begin collecting the material that led to this book).

Indeed, most of the gay people I have known are Republicans. Generally, I have had no problem easily dialoguing with them, though it is getting more difficult, as liberals have done their usual excellent job convincing an entire group that I as a conservative hate them. Even when socially liberal -- and, even then, mainly on matters like gay rights -- the gay people I’ve met have been economic conservatives, not to mention pro-life on abortion. But in signing on the dotted line for gay marriage, they have also, whether they realize it or not, enlisted in the radical left’s unyielding centuries-old attempt to undermine the family. The same is true, ironically, for “conservatives” who support gay marriage, for libertarians who worship a golden calf of “freedom” that is fully separated from faith, and for the “moderates” swimming (as they usually do) with the cultural tide.

Unlike the communists who ripped marriage as “bourgeois claptrap,” as a form of “slavery” and “vile patriarchy,” as a system of “captive housewives,” and who forcibly collectivized children into full-time nurseries in order to deliberately undermine the traditional family, the vast majority of today’s proponents of same-sex marriage have friendly motives. Their goal is not to tear down but to “expand” marriage to a new form of spousal partner. They do this with the intent of providing a new “freedom” and “right” to a new group of people. I get that. Unfortunately, there’s so much that they are not getting.

Today’s advocates of same-sex marriage need to be aware of the quite insidious deeper historical-ideological forces they are unwittingly serving. Sure, that knowledge still will likely not change their minds, but it’s something that a well-informed, thoughtful person should at least be willing to learn before urging the unprecedented action that our culture and court may be about to take.

Elian Gonzalez: "Quiero darle mi amor al pueblo estadounidense"

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Mas de 100 esbirros de la "Suciedad" Civil del regimen participaran en las actividades paralelas de la Cumbre de las Américas

asi lo informa CiberCuba;

''Más de un centenar de representantes de la sociedad civil cubana, actores sociales, jóvenes, intelectuales, campesinos, cooperativistas, empresarios y académicos cubanos estará presente en los foros y actividades paralelas de la VII Cumbre de las Américas, un evento al que Cuba asistirá por vez primera como resultado del sólido y unánime consenso de la América Latina y el Caribe'.

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Muere Vázquez Raña amigo y propagandista de Castro y exdirigente del COM

leer en espn >>

una nota de Ichikawa >> sobre sus dialogos con la historia, donde pone su pluma e influencias al servicio del dictador.

Cuba usa a Maradona para decir que Fidel Castro está "vivo"

el idiota con una zurda en la cabeza, no puede ocultar su frustracion al compreder que lo cogieron pa'l trajin. fue for lana y salio trasquilado.

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a continuacion el siniestro mental incapaz de expresarse por si mismo, revela que tampoco es capaz de leer fluentemente un par de oraciones:

Cuba Hoy

 

Entrevista a Fernando Rodriguez sobre su biografia de Armando Capiro

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Cubadebate "explica" porque Fidel no "reflexiona" sobre las negociaciones Obama-Castro 2.0

por boca de un plumifero "gallego" asentado en bolivia, empleaducho ademas de cubadebate, este semioficial portal del regimen dictatorial de la'bana, trata de tranquilizar a la opinion publica por la ausencia de pronunciamientos de la bestia de biran, en torno a las negocianes castro 2.0 - obama. 

observese que el intento de manipulacion de la opinion publica que puede leerse aqui >>, y donde se da por cerrado el asunto con el argumento lacayuno, acojonante y despreciativo de la ciudadania concluye con un "Acaben de entender que Fidel es Fidel".

la chachara no se realiza desde ningun medio de comunicacion oficial, ni se han producido expresiones en tal sentido por un kuadrazo de la nomenklatura, sino se que lanza desde un sitio semioficial por un extranjero radicado en un tercer pais.

no cabe dudas que el cagalistroso en jefe en algun momento nos endilgara alguna de sus reflexiones sobre el asunto, donde concluira que gracias al cambio climatico y la teoria de la relatividad, se han producido estos historicos acontecimientos, donde una vez mas y ahora definitivamente, el heroico pueblo ha vencido al imperialismo. a lo mejor hasta le envia a obama un pitillo de moringa para que se apresure en enviar turistas y creditos comerciales, que afiancen las posiciones de los pingalistas de biran.

Pope Francis' Disturbing Cuban Manipulation

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By Ben Shapiro

On Wednesday, President Barack Obama announced that the United States would be changing its policy toward Cuba, opening a Havana embassy and expanding travel. “Through these changes, we intend to create more opportunities for the American and Cuban people and begin a new chapter among the nations of the Americas,” President Obama explained.
The president negotiated the deal between the United States and Cuba over the course of 18 months. Pope Francis apparently initiated the negotiations himself. The Vatican released the following statement:

[T]he Holy Father wishes to express his warm congratulations for the historic decision taken by the governments of the United States of America and Cuba to establish diplomatic relations, with the aim of overcoming, in the interest of the citizens of both countries, the difficulties which have marked their recent history.

Raul Castro thanked Pope Francis personally for the deal.
Pope Francis’ casual embrace of a communist regime contrasts sharply with the approach of Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict. Pope John Paul II’s visit to Poland in 1979 famously helped launch the solidarity movement that led to the collapse of communism in the nation.
When Pope John Paul II visited Cuba in 1998, he blasted the Castro regime by routinely using the language of freedom, and implicitly criticizing the Castros:

The Church in Cuba has always proclaimed Jesus Christ, even if at times she has had a scarcity of priests and has had to do so in difficult circumstances. I wish to express my admiration for so many of the Cuban faithful for their fidelity to Christ, to the Church and to the Pope, as also for the respect they have shown for the more genuine religious traditions learned from their elders, and for the courage and persevering spirit of commitment demonstrated in the midst of their sufferings and ardent hopes.

Pope Francis, then an assistant archbishop, apparently wrote a book about the visit, which he joined. The tract, titled Dialogues Between John Paul II and Fidel Castro, slammed “the spirit that has driven capitalism – using capital to oppress and subject people.”
Pope Benedict visited Cuba in 2012 and slammed the American embargo against Cuba, but also stated in Havana’s Revolution Square:

The truth is a desire of the human person, the search for which always supposes the exercise of authentic freedom… [some] wrongly interpret this search for the truth, leading them to irrationality and fanaticism; they close themselves in ‘their truth,’ and try to impose it on others.

At the time, human rights activists criticized Benedict for not meeting with dissidents.
Francis has gone further than both of his predecessors. He didn’t merely criticize the embargo – he attempted to broker an end to it with explicitly political maneuvering. According to his biographer, Austen Ivereigh, Francis “saw the paralysis that resulted from the embargo, which had a deeply damaging impact on Cuban politics, psyche and economics.”
And unlike both John Paul II and Benedict, Francis’ critique of communism has been tepid at best. In October, Francis complained that “land, housing and work are increasingly unavailable to the majority of the world’s population,” and warned, “If I talk about this, some will think that the Pope is a communist.” Instead, Francis explained, “love for the poor is at the center of the Gospel…it’s the social doctrine of the church.”
In June, Francis actually suggested that communism had cribbed from Catholicism: “I can only say that the communists have stolen our flat. The flag of the poor is Christian… Communists say that all this is communism. Sure, twenty centuries later. So when they speak, one can say to them: ‘but then you are Christian.’”
In December 2013, Francis said at the United Nations that economic progress could be achieved through “the legitimate redistribution of economic benefits by the state, as well as indispensible cooperation between the private sector and civil society.” He has tweeted, “Inequality is the root of social evil” – a notion that would certainly come as a shock to many religious people who believe that mistreatment of others is the root of social evil.
In October 2013, Francis went so far as to tell a prominent Italian interviewer, “Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is Good…Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.” This seeming moral relativism is unsettling coming from the most powerful voice for traditional Biblical religion on the planet.
Pope Francis’ perspective on the Cuban embargo is nothing new to the Vatican. His active involvement in negotiations, however, is. And given his rhetorical differences with his predecessors on the evils of communism, that activism should cause nervousness among more traditional Catholics in the mold of John Paul II and Benedict.

Cuba: Ejercicio de la critica y la autocritica constructiva en la UNPACU

similar mecanismo se aplica en el partido comunista cubano y en el resto de las organizaciones e instituciones que constituyen el aparato del poder politico del regimen cubano. emplear las mismas tecnicas al kubiche promedio, arroja siempre los mismos resultados constrictivos en la conducta humana, independientemente de orientaciones politicas e ideologicas.

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De la adulonería histórica del cubano: Las perlas de Nelson Domínguez y Virulo

realmente la conducta de nelson dominguez rebasa la adulacion servil como la define la real academia espanola de la lengua, para convertirse en una maricona guataqueria fratricida kubiche, componente intrinseco de un sector de la cultura nacional.
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Café Fuerte

El pintor Nelson Domínguez

Por Carlos Cabrera Pérez

La adulonería del notable pintor Nelson Domínguez con Fidel Castro, llamándole el Adonis de la revolución, ha levantado las justas iras de buena parte del exilio y el inxilio, pero no es una novedad en la historia cubana aunque muchos crean lo contrario.

Domínguez ha marcado quizás la nota del año en sus recientes declaraciones para el diario provincial El Artemiseño a propósito de una exposición de cuadros y fotos de Fidel Castro, descrita por el cronista oficioso como “soberbio acontecimiento cultural”. Según el pintor, “dibujar al hijo de Birán es dibujar  la Historia; dibujar al hermano de Raúl y Ramón, es dibujar la belleza”. Y remató ante los presentes, con una frase para todos los tiempos: “Si Miguel Ángel estuviera vivo, no hubiera hecho un David, sino un Fidel”.

Para Domínguez, “Fidel Castro debe ser recordado por su belleza física también, como el más grande Adonis de todos los jóvenes hermosos” que ha tenido el proceso político cubano de los últimos 55 años, eso que alguna vez se llamó revolución.

Guataquería de Virulo

Las declaraciones de Domínguez han servido a la vez para opacar la guataquería del ocurrente humorista Alejandro García, Virulo, que dice tener dos límites en su humor: Fidel y Raúl Castro Ruz, en una postura oportunista e innecesaria, pues aunque lo hayan dejado expatriarse, nunca más confiarán en él.

Obviamente, Domínguez y Virulo están en todo su derecho de expresar su amor hacia los hermanos Castro. Los cubanos que no comparten ese amor deben respetar el criterio de ambos creadores y tienen el mismo derecho a expresar su desamor hacia los ídolos del humorista y el pintor amorosos.

Pero lo que realmente subyace en esta estupidez sin sentido es una arraigada tradición cubana de guataquería con el poderoso de turno, magnificada por la prolongación en el poder del castrismo.

Gerardo Machado Morales, al que muchos cubanos llamaron y llaman “el asno con garras” sufrió un percance en la Universidad de La Habana, al quedarse su automóvil  sin gasolina. La reacción de los estudiantes fue la de solicitar al entonces presidente, “el honor de empujar el vehículo con sus propias manos desde la colina universitaria hasta el Palacio Presidencial”, según el testimonio de Herminio Portell Vilá.

En 1957; tras el ataque del Directorio Revolucionario al Palacio Presidencial, las fuerzas vivas del batistato y una parte de la burguesía  promovieron un movimiento de desagravio a Batista, que culminó con la ya famosa cena de la ternera y un acto de masas en la Avenida de las Misiones, congregando a 257 mil cubanos de la época, según las crónicas periodísticas.

Recibiendo al Comandante

Dos años más tarde; muchos cubanos recibieron alborozados a Fidel Castro y demás barbudos de Sierra Maestra, en su entrada a La Habana, el 8 de enero de 1959. Es probable que algunos de los 257 mil cubanos que fueron a desagraviar al general Fulgencio Batista acudieran a saludar al Comandante y su tropa. Tal vez el veterano comentarista radial Armando Pérez Roura, quien acudió al desagravio batistiano y luego estuvo en primera línea junto a los interventores de la CMQ, en 1960, nos ayude a recordar algunos nombres vinculados a ambos pasajes.

En el castrismo solo han sobrevivido los más guatacas, los más abyectos y siempre dispuestos a obedecer sin rechistar al Comandante en Jefe, aunque cambiara de opinión sobre un mismo tema en 15 minutos; aquellos que han discrepado o cuestionado una decisión han sido mandados a la ECOTRA (Empresa Consolidada de Otras Tareas Revolucionarias), aunque luego la vida les diera total o parcialmente la razón.

Los viejos comunistas (PSP), acostumbrados al cabildeo con Grau, Prío y Batista a cambio de participar en el reparto del jamón, se prestaron para que el núcleo duro del Ejército Rebelde se impusiera sobre el Directorio y el Movimiento 26 de Julio urbano. Incluso consintieron la destrucción de una de sus mejores obras -el movimiento obrero- a manos de una dictadura del proletariado.

José Lezama Lima tuvo que sufrir el alejamiento de su amigo y compañero Cintio Vitier, en los primeros años de la revolución, porque el poeta católico desconfiaba de la simpatía inicial de Lezama con el castrismo y después ya sabemos cómo acabaron uno y otro respecto del régimen.

Una fórmula simplista

Poetas y narradores silenciados durante años se han conformado con la fórmula simplista de Ambrosio Fornet del “quinquenio gris”, cuando muchos de los que suscriben esa tesis acomodaticia estuvieron hasta 17 años sin poder publicar, apartados por no compartir las tesis del realismo socialista, por católicos y por homosexuales, como Virgilio Piñera, una excepción cuando avisó en el temprano 1961 que tenía miedo, mucho miedo… y nadie escuchaba.

Antón Arrufat aprovechó su reconocimiento justo y tardío con el Premio Nacional de Literatura para arrojar luz sobre los acontecimientos que lo llevaron durante años a la oscura biblioteca de Marianao y César López, al recibir igual distinción, reclamó un espacio para los creadores cubanos del exilio.

Cuando la conocida como “guerra de los emails”; un grupo de cobardes oportunistas pretendió hincar el diente en la carne flácida de Jorge  “Papito” Serguera, Luis Pavón y Armando Quesada, porque alguien tuvo la ocurrencias de mostrarlos en la televisión. Ni uno solo de los guerreros del éter cubano reconoció que eran tres funcionarios que cumplían órdenes de Fidel y Raúl Castro.

Cuando, más tarde, el propio Fidel Castro se responsabilizó de la persecución de homosexuales, lesbianas y creyentes en una entrevista con el diario La Jornada, ni un solo pensador o jinetero cultural de los tantos que padecemos aprovechó la oportunidad para ofrecer su testimonio.

¿Quién se atreve a romper su espada?

Durante los traumáticos procesos del verano de 1989 (Causa I y II) no trascendió una sola discrepancia del ámbito militar o civil con la decisión del tribunal de condenar a pena de muerte a cuatro altos cargos militares con méritos abundantes; esta vez no hubo un Federico de Capdevila que rompiese su espada ante un tribunal.

¿Cuántos diputados han votado en contra o se han abstenido en una votación en la Asamblea Nacional? Parece que Mariela Castro y porque ella misma lo contó, porque la prensa cubana no se enteró de su voto particular en el tema del reconocimiento de los derechos de homosexuales y lesbianas.

Curiosamente, cuando la oposición o el exilio discrepan sobre determinadas cuestiones como el embargo económico norteamericano o la estrategia política frente a la dictadura, no faltan las voces que destacan lo dividido que está el anticastrismo, las mismas voces que ponderan la unanimidad de 11 millones de cubanos en torno a Fidel, Raúl y la revolución. ¿En qué quedamos?

Nelson Domínguez y Virulo no son la excepción, sino “deficiencias que aún subsisten” en un país con escasa tradición de discrepancia serena, respetuosa y coherente. Ymuy dado al oportunismo de ese grito de guerra que retrata a buena parte de la sociedad cubana: “Pa lo que sea, Fidel, pa lo que sea”.

Cámbiese el Fidel por el nombre que más os guste, del pasado o el futuro, para seguir en combate contra nosotros mismos.

“Aldeano” Aldo niega haber recibido dinero de la USAID

Martí Noticias

"Los espías" del HipHop en Cuba

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No sean mal pensados: Acreditan a 14Ymedio al Festival de El Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano

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REDACCION. — El periódico independiente 14Ymedio fue acreditado en el Festival del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana. Es primera vez que el diario, que dirige Yoani Sánchez, es autorizado a cubrir un evento oficial.

Anteriormente, el reportero Reinaldo Escobar trató de obtener la acreditación para cubrir la visita del canciller de España, José María García Margallo, pero miembros de la Seguridad del Estado no le permitieron llegar al Centro Internacional de Prensa.

Esta vez, para acreditarse en el Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, la periodista de 14Ymedio, Luz Escobar, envió su solicitud a la página digital del Festival, siguiendo el proceso establecido, pero no le respondieron.

En consecuencia, Escobar se presentó personalmente en las oficinas del Festival, en el Hotel Nacional, portando su solapín de 14Ymedio, y solicitó (de nuevo) que la acreditaran como periodista.

Al tratar de pagar en CUC , la funcionaria a cargo del proceso le aclaró a la periodista que solo la prensa extranjera pagaba en CUC. Luz Escobar abonó 45 pesos cubanos (aproximadamente 2 dólares), y le fue entregada la acreditación para cubrir todas las actividades del 36 Festival.

Yoani Sánchez es de la opinión que quizás no les acreditaron anteriormente a otros eventos porque no lo solicitaron. Otra explicación, según Sánchez, podría ser que el gobierno no tiene establecidos los filtros de la Seguridad para la prensa independiente. Yoani agregó que, de todas maneras, en 14Ymedio lo están celebrando, “pero no sabemos si es una apertura o no”

Chinese government gaining a foothold on US campuses, scholars say

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China's authoritarian government is gaining a foothold on American campuses by funding dozens of institutes that project a rose-tinted view of the Asian nation that compromises the academic integrity of U.S. universities, a congressional hearing was told Thursday.

Scholars of China testified that these state-funded Confucius Institutes teach nonpolitical subjects like Chinese language and culture but suppress discussion on sensitive topics like Tibet and the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown on democracy protesters.

The hearing was chaired by House Republican Rep. Chris Smith, an arch critic of Beijing, who questioned whether American education was "for sale."

Students from China now make up 31 percent of all international students in the United States. Last year, Chinese students in U.S. colleges and universities contributed $8 billion to the U.S. economy, according to the Commerce Department.

U.S. colleges such as New York University are also opening campuses in China, hoping to tap into the country's enormous, growing pool of students.

The Chinese Embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Perry Link, a China expert and chancellorial chair at the University of California at Riverside, said independent scholar-to-scholar exchanges with China should be encouraged.

But he said the Communist Party of China opposes the exchanges and prefers to negotiate campus-to-campus cooperation. He said inexperienced U.S. academic administrators, eager for funding, reach protocols with party officials that allow authorities in Beijing to choose teachers and set curricula that provide a rosy "cameo" of China.

Thomas Cushman, a professor in social sciences at Wellesley College, said the Chinese government's effort to forge ties with U.S institutions is part of a more general "soft power" strategy toward the West.

There are now about 90 Confucius Institutes in the U.S., part of an expanding network of more than 400 worldwide.

There has been some push back from scholars and colleges in the U.S. In June, the American Association of University Professors called on universities to cancel their current agreements with Confucius Institutes, and this fall the University of Chicago and Penn State ended their relationships with the institute.

The Chinese state-funded outreach comes amid growing restrictions on scholars at home as President Xi Jinping's government has tightened controls over a wide range of society since he took power early last year.

"For decades, the primary strategy of the CPC in censoring its own people has been to induce self-censorship," Link said, referring to the Communist Party of China. "Now the CPC, stronger and wealthier than before, is looking to project these battle-tested methods onto the world stage."

Cushman said U.S. scholars of China are careful what they say in public so they can keep visiting. He said that leads to a "beautified" version of China that avoids the realities of repression.

Link said he's been blacklisted since the mid-1990s and gets two or three inquiries per month from younger scholars wanting to know what they should avoid saying in order not to be barred.

Cushman also contended that professors on U.S. campuses may avoid discussing sensitive tops about China in their classes out of fear of negative evaluations by the growing number of Chinese students.

Xi Jinping obligará a los artistas a vivir en el campo y las minas para que hallen 'inspiración socialista'

Diario de Cuba

El Gobierno de China ha ordenado que los artistas del país vivan un mes como mínimo en comunidades rurales y zonas de producción minera con el fin de que hallen "inspiración" para sus obras, informa la agencia oficial de noticias Xinhua.

La medida, que forma parte de la campaña del dictador Xi Jinping para que la cultura represente "los valores del socialismo", se concretará en viajes trimestrales organizados por la Administración de Prensa, Publicaciones, Radio, Cine y Televisión, que informó sobre la campaña en un comunicado, reporta EFE.

Dentro de esta iniciativa la citada administración, que también se encarga de aplicar la censura en el país, enviará además equipos de rodaje a distintas zonas rurales de China para que "convivan con las masas" y creen cinco películas y series de televisión con temáticas dictadas por el Gobierno.

Por otro lado, un centenar de periodistas, presentadores y directores de programas televisivos serán llevados a trabajar a zonas habitadas por minorías étnicas, a las fronteras o a "áreas que contribuyeron a la victoria en la guerra revolucionaria".

La administración estatal señaló que estas medidas, a largo plazo, "ayudarán a que los artistas se formen un correcto punto de vista en el arte y creen más obras maestras".

En la Revolución Cultural (1966-1976) miles de artistas, entre otros muchos intelectuales, fueron enviados al campo para "reeducarse", en la mayor parte de los casos durante años, y algunos de ellos fallecieron víctimas del hambre o las enfermedades.

La campaña se produce dos meses después de que el presidente chino, Xi Jinping, señalara en un encuentro a artistas del país que deberían centrarse en crear obras "que sirvan al pueblo y presenten los valores clave del socialismo".

Xi señaló entonces, en un muy comentado discurso, que los artistas no deben ser "esclavos del mercado" y su trabajo no ha de seguir "el olor del dinero".

Paralelamente, este año se han producido sonadas detenciones de artistas, especialmente actores, por consumo de drogas y contratación de prostitutas, en lo que también se percibe como una campaña contra la relajación de costumbres en los círculos artísticos nacionales.

Entre los detenidos destacaron el actor Jaycee Chan, hijo de la estrella de las artes marciales Jackie Chan, o el director de cine Wang Quanan (galardonado en 2007 con el Oso de Oro de Berlín).

A raíz de estas detenciones, el Gobierno chino prohibió a las televisiones y otros medios del país que emitieran canciones, películas y otras producciones de artistas implicados en casos de drogas o prostitución.

Venezuela Reveals 'Socialist Barbie' Just in Time for the Holidays

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By Frances Martel 

Just as he did last year, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is starting off the holiday season early to distract from the massive failures of his socialist regime. This time, Maduro is kicking off the holiday season with a "socialist Barbie," which is the same Barbie all children know and love, reduced to a tenth of retail value.

According to Spanish newspaper ABC, Maduro is using the government's hand to force toy vendors to sell Barbies—the Mattel brand doll, not off-brand imitations—at a tenth of their retail price, in order to entice Venezuelans to invest in the OPEC nation's fledgling market. The price reduction, which allows mothers to buy one doll for the equivalent of $2.50, has left stores depleted of their Barbie supply in "minutes." The initiative is part of something Maduro calls "Happy Christmas." The "integral plan" was launched in October and will include, according to the President, "national security, culture, and music."

Maduro has added in announcing the Happy Christmas Plan that reducing the prices of the doll is an attempt to prevent "speculators" from "ruining the holiday." Mexican publication El Financiero notes that Barbie is just the latest product to fall under strict price regulation from the government. Eggs, milk, flour, and other essentials have long been under strict price controls that have significantly damaged the Venezuelan economy, so much so that, earlier this year, Maduro imposed rations on the products preventing individuals from buying more than their allotted supply. Necessarily, goods have become so scarce in this socialist economy that President Maduro has had to resort to rationing even water.

Many have noted that using the Barbie doll to launch this initiative appears a strange move for the socialist President. Barbie has been for decades one of the most identifiable icons of American industry-- the "Empire" that Maduro claims to so loathe. Hugo Chávez himself was often critical of the doll, as have been many leftist "feminists" for claiming that the doll imposes unreasonable beauty standards on small children.

The move also appears to be doing little to curry favor among Venezuela's poor. Andrea Alberto, a woman interviewed by the Mexican Editorial Organization, said of Maduro as she bought a doll: "he is the reason we are in this mess to begin with, but I guess I have to admit I am benefitting from Chavism at the moment," with a shrug.

Last year, Maduro celebrated the holiday season by releasing a "socialist" Christmas carol in which he and a chorus literally sung his own praises.

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¿Y cómo le llamamos a tres negros encerrados en un hotel de Miami escribiendo una Constitución para la Cuba del futuro? (Del público gritan: “¡charlatans, swindlers!”)

¿Y cómo le llamamos a un grupúsculo de cubanólogos reunidos con Duany en FIU para compadrear sobre la Transición Española? (“¡charlatans, swindlers!”)

¿Y cómo le llamamos a los igualitarios de Mariela Castro en el CENESEX? (Un grupo de estibadoras corea desde el fondo: “¡charlatans, swindlers!”)

¿Y cómo le llamamos a los compinches del ex-funcionario comunista Juan Antonio Blanco reunidos en el Miami Dade College para rumiar sobre la Democracia en América Latina? (“¡charlatans, swindlers!”)

¿Y cómo le llamamos a los expertos de la Mesa Redonda de la TV CUBANA conducida por los periodistas de extracción social muy pero muy humilde Randy Alonso y Rosa Miriam Elizalde? (“¡charlatans, swindlers!”)

¿Y cómo le llamamos a los oradores de la Fundación Nacional Cubano Americana en el evento Tropicana 2020? (“¡charlatans, swindlers!”)

¿En qué quedaron los amortizados oportunistas de la campaña “Zapata Vive”? (“¡En charlatans, swindlers!”)?

¿Qué son los escritores cubanos que se dicen perseguidos por el Gobierno de Evo Morales y los miembros del Tea Party de la Calle 8 que se dicen acosados por el Gobierno de Obama? (Desde una mesa de dominó sueltan: “¡Charlatans, swindlers!”)

¿Y cómo le llamamos a los delegados de LASA que son visados por la Oficina de Intereses de EEUU en La Habana? (“¡charlatans, swindlers!”)

¿Y cómo le llamamos a los delegados de LASA que no son visados por la Oficina de Intereses de EEUU en La Habana? (“¡charlatans, swindlers!”)

¿Y cómo le llamamos a los académicos y abogados de migración sin clientela que han usado la libertad de Los Cinco como un pretexto para viajes y congresos? (“¡charlatans, swindlers!”)

¿Cómo les llamó el New York Times a los seguidores de ASCE, el Cuba Study Group, Center for Free Cuba, UNPACU, CCDHRN, Cubanet, etc.?

“¡Charlatans, swindlers!”

¿Cómo?

“¡Charlatans, swindlers!”

¡No se oyeeeeee!

“¡Charlatans, swindlers!”

¡Que se repita!

“¡Charlatans, swindlers!” “¡Charlatans, swindlers!” “¡Charlatans, swindlers!”

El Akademico Oficial en Jefe de Cuba: Mas facil coger a un mentiroso que a un cojo

con el titulo de  Cuba: algunos resultados macroeconómicos visibles de la politica economica actual [II], el hoy asesor del centro de investigaciones de la economia mundial de cuba, continua su saga de laurear akademicamente las reformas economicas del neocastrismo sucesor de raul castro, desde su nuevo cargo de akademico oficial en jefe. pero mas facil se coge a un mentiroso que a un cojo continuan diciendo en la esquina de tejas.

jose luis quien antes de ser ministro [cargo en el que sustituyo a osvaldo martinez luego de las incontenibles deposiciones de heces fecales que el cargo le produjeran] fue 2do de osvaldo en el centro de investigaciones de economia mundial que produjo aquella aberracion en forma de libro que el moringuero en jefe obsequio a los jefes de estado y de gobierno en cierta cumbre de los paises no alineados y cuyos autores reales fueron los susodichos. a osvaldo se le quitaron las diarreas cuando lo nombran jefe de la comision economica del parlamento de focas amaestradas y jose luis mas equilibrado y de temperamento flematico ocupa la cartera de ministro de economia y planificacion. pero la verdadera sapiencia de jose luis y a la que le dedico decenas de anos es la realizacion de seminarios especiales de das kapital de carlitos.

jose luis sufre de afasia temporal prevaricosa, pues sostiene sus tesis en datos de la onie del ano 2011 [cuya metodologia de registro estadistico es fuertemente cuestinonada hasta por la "revolucionaria" cepal], ultimo en que las autoridades cubanas se dignaron a informar a la opinion pulbica, sin haber registrado nunca en el sistema de cuentas nacionales la deuda proveniente del subsidio sovietico.

sin recatos jose luis afirma que [se supone 2013] "Consecuentemente, se produjo una modificación sustancial en la balanza comercial al pasar de un déficit anual de 2 300 millones de pesos a un superávit de 2 991. - See more at: http://www.cubacontemporanea.com/noticias/11717-cuba-algunos-resultados-macroeconomicos-visibles-de-la-politica-economica-actual-ii#sthash.eVwigV4D.dpuf; cuando en realidad la informacion de la onie registra un saldo negativo de 9,423.5 [exportaciones: 5,283.1 menos importaciones: 14,706.6], con donaciones ascendentes a 185.4.

sin embargo este es el registro publico, pues el subsidio a los envios de petroleo venezolano y los creditos a 25 anos por mencionar lo mas significativo, solo se registran en el sistema real de cuentas nacionales de la rinconada. 
por otra parte, como la gente reproduce copy & paste mediante sin la mas elemental  referencia a la fuente original de esta informacion en 14ymedio, ya se ha convertido en un slogan mediatico que cuba destina el 4% del pib al servicio de la deuda. sin embargo, lo que dice jose luis sin citar las fuentes y con fuerte hedor a pasillo oficinesco es que: "Se calcula que Cuba ha venido pagando una suma equivalente al 4% de su PIB, lo cual representa un significativo esfuerzo por parte de la nación." - See more at: http://www.cubacontemporanea.com/noticias/11717-cuba-algunos-resultados-macroeconomicos-visibles-de-la-politica-economica-actual-ii#sthash.Ynm6FnoR.dpuf; es decir, "se calcula", sin hacer mencion al "calculador" algo indispensable en un akademico, toda vez que de la [des]informacion que brinda la onei no es posible arribar a tales conclusiones. 

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Allah in the Classroom — the ABC’s of Forced Conversion

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By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
NoisyRoom.net

Our children are our world as parents. They are the future of our nation. Most of us would gladly sacrifice all we have and our lives for our little ones. So, why do we so readily hand their learning and their care over to those that would abuse them and trick them into being part of the greatest evil the world has ever known? It figures that the young, innocent ones would be a prime target for Islam and are what they term, ‘fertile ground’ for their broken philosophy. Between such programs as Common Core, Connect All Schools and CSCOPE, CAIR has been ensuring that the textbooks that teach our children go out of their way to teach Islamic history and to have the children indoctrinated into Islam. CAIR has even gotten textbooks in private schools, charter schools and home schooling programs to include their revisionist history.

The Islamization of the curriculum and the school room itself in American schools is thoroughly covered by Pamela Geller at Atlas shrugs in her book: Stop the Islamization of America. Do buy and read the book and then home school your children after reviewing their ordered teaching materials. You should not be surprised either that Qatar is heavily vested in all this – they fund Connect All Schools and Common Core. On October 24th and 25th, hundreds of schools, leadership teams, and teachers from across the region gathered in Dubai, to learn about the Common Core State Standards, share curricula and best practices, and network with each other. Ask yourselves, why Dubai? Surely, Bill Gates and Jeb Bush know, since they are helping to fund it as well. They are very cozy with the Islamic states – all that money and power – motivation for selling out our children and country many times over.

Across America, in over 100 schools now, in Social Studies and World History classes, the proselytizing for Islam is being pushed and hard. It does not include the 1,400 year history of Jihadi wars, land appropriations, cultural genocide and enslavement, not to mention the extermination of the entire Jewish Banu Qurayza tribe of Arabia, as Pamela Geller puts it. What it does include, and what I find infuriating beyond words, is the Shahada and the Five Pillars of Islam. The Shahada is an Islamic creed declaring belief in the oneness of God and the acceptance of Muhammad as God’s prophet. It is recited to convert someone to Islam. That’s right… they are actively converting your children to their religion. Now, how do you feel about it? Then the little ones are forced to learn the Five Pillars of Islam.

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