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Glenn Beck Unveils ‘American Dream Labs’

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Tiffany Gabbay

Each day this week, Glenn Beck will lay out a new component of his plans for a venture that encompasses various areas of technology and innovation dubbed The American Dream Labs. Inspired by legendary American innovators, Beck said he plans to build a network that changes the face of new media in a transformative way.

“This is not just about the future of TheBlaze, not just the future of the entire TV industry,” he stated.

On his Monday evening broadcast, Beck talked about his plans for the Dream Labs, which includes locations in Dallas, Salt Lake City and New Zealand, where the enterprise will explore projects on energy, education, high-tech, entertainment and even foster collaboration with Tesla Motors. On his Beck also provided viewers with insight into the future of TheBlaze itself, which is now slated to open satellites in three separate countries outside the U.S.

“If you believe in not only thinking outside the box but in shattering the box all together, you’ve come to the right place,” he said.

“Believe it or not, revolutionizing how the news is delivered and how a network is run is the smallest of our many, many dreams… I do that knowing that some will mock, others will dismiss. But that’s OK. Every era of change has those who are resistant to it and those who like the comfort of the status quo or those who wish to spend their free time or their creative time mocking. It’s time to stop worrying about what others are doing and wonder why are we here.”

Beck said that the scope of what he plans to do with his new Labs is “enormous” and that he hoped his viewers would take a leap of faith and join him on the journey. With the support of his audience, according to Beck, the Dream Labs could change the fabric of “information, technology, entertainment, and more.”

Each evening this week, Beck will focus on a different area of innovation that the American Dream Labs is slated to address. On Tuesday, he will tackle global news and information as well as “research and development” and the rest of the week will follow suit in kind.

Watch below for the first glimpse into the enterprise Beck has been speaking about since 2012 and stay tuned this week for more:

Al Jazeera/Al Gore TV Launches Campaign to Promote Hamas

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Do you know what America needs more of? News networks that support terrorists. And I don’t just mean terrorists who claim to be innocent or terrorists who claim to want to negotiate peace deals. I mean 100 percent unfiltered homicidal non-stop killing machine terrorists.

Do you know what America really needs? A news network that favors Hamas and Al Qaeda.

Although Al-Jazeera incites Muslim masses around the world to revolt against “repressive regimes,” while calling for “democracy,” “pluralism,” and the ousting of totalitarian rulers, Qatar itself does not hold elections, has no political parties, has no democratic institutions, and its citizens have no political or social rights. What Qatar does have, with the help of Sharia [Islamic religious law], is a strong, family-run system of enforcing internal security and suppressing opposition. Al-Jazeera is the well-oiled and well-funded machine of a family employing armed mercenaries who call themselves “media personnel”: Propaganda warriors who use cameras and microphones as weapons.
Recently Al-Jazeera seems to have decided to topple the Palestinian Authority [PA], and transfer to Hamas — Al-Qaeda’s ideological and practical brother-in-arms — the international recognition that the PA received from the UN in September, and to make Hamas sovereign in the West Bank as well as the Gaza Strip. To that end, it airs biased programs that are disproportionately favorable toward Hamas, and covers Hamas’s “achievements,” such as its “heroism” in firing rockets at Israeli civilians.
Al-Jazeera is now embarked on a campaign glorifying Hamas at the expense of the PA… It recently cast suspicion on the PA as having collaborated with Israel in “poisoning Arafat,” and broadcast a biased and exaggerated report of the alleged “tortures” inflicted on Hamas prisoners in PA jails, including claims of rape, threats toward female members of Hamas under interrogation and other horrors – all of which are meant to represent the “crimes” committed by the PA in collaboration with, and at the behest of, Israeli intelligence.
Other Al-Jazeera initiatives aimed at toppling the PA include spreading rumors of a third intifada, and encouraging Hamas in the West Bank to hold marches and carry cardboard models of Qassam rockets.

Now coming to America. Courtesy of Al Gore and Current TV.

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Al-Jazeera Buys Al Gore’s Current TV

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Al-Jazeera, the Pan-Arab news channel that struggled to win space on American cable television, has acquired Current TV, boosting its reach nearly ninefold to about 40 million homes. With a focus on U.S. news, it plans to rebrand the left-leaning news network that cofounder Al Gore couldn't make relevant.

The former vice president confirmed the sale Wednesday, saying in a statement that Al-Jazeera shares Current TV's mission "to give voice to those who are not typically heard; to speak truth to power; to provide independent and diverse points of view; and to tell the stories that no one else is telling."

The acquisition lifts Al-Jazeera's reach beyond a few large U.S. metropolitan areas including New York and Washington, where about 4.7 million homes can now watch Al-Jazeera English.

Al-Jazeera, owned by the government of Qatar, plans to gradually transform Current into a new channel called Al-Jazeera America by adding five to 10 new U.S. bureaus beyond the five it has now and hiring more journalists.

Al-Jazeera spokesman Stan Collender said there are no rules against foreign ownership of a cable channel — unlike the strict rules limiting foreign ownership of free-to-air TV stations. He said the move is based on demand, adding that 40 percent of viewing traffic on Al-Jazeera English's website is from the U.S.

"This is a pure business decision based on recognized demand," Collender said. "When people watch Al-Jazeera, they tend to like it a great deal."

Al-Jazeera has long struggled to get carriage in the U.S., and the deal suffered an immediate casualty as Time Warner Cable Inc., the nation's second-largest cable TV operator, announced it is dropping Current TV due to the deal.

"Our agreement with Current has been terminated and we will no longer be carrying the service. We are removing the service as quickly as possible," the company said in a statement.

Previous to Al-Jazeera's purchase, Current TV was in 60 million homes.

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Time Warner Cable Drops Current TV Upon Sale To Al Jazeera

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NEW YORK –- Time Warner Cable pulled the plug on Current TV just hours after news of the cable channel's sale to Al Jazeera became official.

"This channel is no longer available on Time Warner Cable," read an on-screen message where Current TV used to be found.

Al Jazeera took a major step into the U.S. cable market Wednesday by acquiring beleaguered Current TV and announcing plans for a U.S.-based news network to be called Al Jazeera America. But while the new channel will soon be available in 40 million households, Al Jazeera faced a setback when Time Warner Cable -- which reaches 12 million homes -- announced it was dropping the low-rated Current, which occupied a spot that could have been switched to Al Jazeera America.

Joel Hyatt, who co-founded Current TV with former Vice President Al Gore, told staff in a Wednesday night memo that Time Warner Cable "did not consent to the sale to Al Jazeera."

"Consequently, Current will no longer be carried on TWC," Hyatt wrote. "This is unfortunate, but I am confident that Al Jazeera America will earn significant additional carriage in the months and years ahead."

A Time Warner Cable spokesman said in a statement that "our agreement with Current will be terminated and we will no longer be carrying the channel."

Some media observers interpreted the move as motivated by politics.

Piers Morgan: Time to Amend the Bible

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How The Media's Fiscal Cliff Hype Could Backfire Massively

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Joe Weisenthal 

In theory, all of the media hype about how the US will go down into a canyon of flames on January 1 if we hit the Fiscal Cliff should help lawmakers come together to hammer out a deal.

Today's New York Post cover is an overdramatized version of what most media are doing with their countdown clocks and so forth.

The problem becomes: What happens if there's no insta-tragedy on January 2, when everyone comes back to work and the market opens?

What if the market doesn't budge?

What if life for most people seems totally normal?

The problem then is that you have the debt ceiling fight coming up soon thereafter, and there there's a real likelihood that failure to raise it would result in catastrophe.

Even in 2011, there were a fair number of people who thought that not lifting the debt ceiling wasn't a big deal, and that everyone was just spinning scare stories. If we go over the Cliff and nothing happens, the skeptics will multiply this time. There'd be no credible pressure from anyone.

This isn't a first order worry. The big worry is austerity via lower spending and higher taxes. But in terms of addressing a real issue, all this hype isn't helping.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-medias-fiscal-cliff-hype-could-backfire-massively-2012-12#ixzz2GGqTEfAl

End of an era: Farewell, Newsweek

Mark Whitaker, CNN

February 17, 1933

Editor's note: Mark Whitaker is executive vice president and managing editor of CNN Worldwide. Whitaker worked at Newsweek for 25 years and was the editor from 1998 to 2006. Newsweek's final print edition publishes this week.

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(CNN) -- When people ask me if there's anything I miss about my old job at Newsweek, it's an easy answer. Besides the amazingly talented colleagues I worked with there, I miss picking the cover.

The cover is the calling card of any magazine, but it was particularly true for newsmagazines, since we put out a new issue every week and the range of subjects we had to choose from was so broad. In my era, as competition from more instant news on cable TV and the Web became ever more intense, it was also the one area where our slowpoke frequency could work in our favor.

Make a smart call on the cover, and it stayed on newsstands and coffee tables for an entire week for readers to admire and discuss. It's why, for instance, I still hear people talk about the cover story that I asked Fareed Zakaria, my former colleague at Newsweek (and now at CNN), to write after 9/11 called "Why They Hate Us."

Of course, the opposite was also true. Make a dumb call and you had to live with it for a whole week. A crudely Photoshopped cover of Martha Stewart emerging from behind a curtain after her brief prison stint for obstruction of justice and making false statements to investigators comes to mind.

For decades, the cover was also how the fierce competition between Newsweek and Time was defined. In the 1960s, Newsweek became a "hot book" after three decades as a distant also-ran, thanks largely to its forward-looking covers on civil rights, Vietnam and the women's movement (not to mention Twiggy and LSD). In the 1970s, it was the cleverness of its cover designs as well as the depth of its reporting that wowed everyone who followed Newsweek's coverage of Watergate.

When both magazines put a young Bruce Springsteen on the cover in the same week in 1975, it became conventional wisdom that we tried to copy each other. But the opposite was true: We were always looking to win the cover war, and we exulted when we did.

One of those moments came for me the weekend that Princess Diana died in 1997. We held the presses, threw out the issue we had just put to bed and came back into the office in the wee hours to publish a new one. I wanted a striking image for the cover and remembered a black and white photo of a short-haired Diana that had been taken by the fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier.

One of my photo editors, a friend of Demarchelier's, went to his apartment, woke him up and persuaded him to give us the negative. When I saw a wire service photo several hours later of Time's cover, a standard news shot of Diana, I knew our issue would crush theirs on the newsstand. And it did, selling well over a million copies.

Some weeks, like that one, the thrill was in "crashing" a cover at the last minute when a big story broke close to our Sunday deadline. John F. Kennedy Jr. would perish in a plane accident, or Saddam Hussein would get captured in Iraq, and we'd switch covers and have the satisfaction of looking nimble and newsy on Monday.

Details, however, could sometimes get overlooked in the rush. In 1990, when I wrote a Sunday story on Nelson Mandela's release from prison, we put the word "Free!" on the cover. We never stopped to think that people would assume we were giving away the magazine for nothing.

On slower news weeks, the satisfaction was in posing a pressing or provocative question about the economy, or race relations, or gay rights, or the fight to improve our health or save our schools. Or it was in deciding which icons deserved covers when they died, and what new cultural figures were worth highlighting on the way up. As proud as I was of putting a newly elected senator from Illinois named Barack Obama on our year-end cover in 2004, I was just as proud of selecting Jon Stewart in 2003.

Then there was the sheer creative fun of coming up with the designs and words for the cover. I'll never forget election night 2000, when the race between George W. Bush and Al Gore went into overtime. We were closing a special issue, and we had prepared separate covers declaring each man the winner. But what to do now?

At about 3 in the morning, my art director walked into my office with an image that her staff had concocted of the two faces melded into one. "That's genius!" I said, and we put it on the cover with the headline "The Winner Is..."

Decades from now, when people have forgotten most of what they read inside the pages of Newsweek, they'll still remember the visual impact of covers like that one. And those of us who were lucky enough to work there will remember those late nights, crowded in the editor's office, competing to see who could come up with the best cover line.

It sure was heaven while it lasted.

'Hate speech' targets 2nd Amendment supporters

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Michael Carl

“If this hate speech leads to hate crimes, people like Piers Morgan and Chris Matthews will be partly responsible.”

That’s the word from Second Amendment Foundation Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb on the issue of the vitriol that is being directed both at gun owners and firearms rights organizations in the aftermath of the Connecticut school shooting tragedy.

Gottlieb said the hostile tone against gun owners may lead to actual “hate crimes,” and some of the communications that have come into his office have been “vulgar.”

“We have received some vulgar e-mails from people that want us to vanish for the sake of a civilized world,” Gottlieb said. “This kind of rhetoric does not contribute to any rational discussion.”

He said the level of dialogue is only heightening a violent atmosphere.

“Vitriol like this only promotes hate, but apparently it’s OK to perpetuate bigotry so long as you are an anti-gunner, and a liberal. If anyone is harmed as a result of this hate campaign, we expect them to be prosecuted under the hate crimes laws,” Gottlieb said.

The Examiner reported Texas Democratic Party leader John Cobaruvvias tweeted that NRA supporters should be shot.

“Can we now shoot the NRA and everyone who defends them?” he asked.

Cobaruvvias is not the only one to post an angry tweet. From a Democratic Party Twitter feed came “Murder every NRA member” and another too vile and violent to reproduce here.

Ironically, the NRA reports that in the days following the Connecticut school shootings, the gun group gained membership. One report said that the NRA has gained 8,000 new members each day since the Connecticut shootings.

But the rhetoric on television and in columns has been strident.

One of the clearest examples of the tone in the dialogue is the exchange between Gun Owners of America Executive Director Larry Pratt and CNN host Piers Morgan.

In the interview Pratt said, “I think we need to ban gun control laws that keep people from being able to protect themselves. The problem is not going to go away if we ban this or that gun. We’ve tried that. That doesn’t work. Doesn’t even work in England. You have mass murders there all over Europe. There have been mass murderers.”

The dialogue:

Morgan: “You’re talking complete and utter – you are talking complete and utter nonsense. ”

Pratt: “The solution is for people to be able to defend themselves at the point of the crime and not wait for 20 minutes for the police to come after everybody is dead.”

Morgan: “What you’ve just said, Mr. Pratt, was an absolute lie. The gun murder rate in countries like Britain or Germany or Australia, who’ve all suffered massacres many years ago, similar nature, have – there are 35 people killed a year. Your country has 12,000.”

Pratt: “Your murder rate has – your murder rate is lower than ours, that is true. Your violent – ”

Morgan: “Lower? It’s 75 against 12,000 in Australia. ”

Pratt: “Your violent crime rate – ”

Morgan: “They had a massacre. And they got rid of these assault weapons.”

Pratt: “Your violent crime rate is higher than ours as is the violent crime rate in Australia. America is not the Wild West that you are depicting. We only have the problem in our cities, and unhappily, in our schools where people like you have been able to get laws put on the books that keep people from being able to defend themselves.

“I honestly don’t understand why you would rather have people be victims of a crime than be able to defend themselves. It’s incomprehensible. ”

Morgan: “You’re an unbelievably stupid man, aren’t you?”

Pratt: “It seems to me that you’re morally obtuse. You seem to prefer being a victim to being able to prevail over the criminal element. And I don’t know why you want to be the criminal’s friend. ”

Morgan: “What a ridiculous argument. You have absolutely no coherent argument whatsoever. You don’t – you don’t actually give – ”

Pratt: “You have no – ”

Morgan: You don’t give a d—, do you, about the gun murder rate in America? You don’t actually care. All you care about – ”

See the exchange:

Salon editor Jacob Sugarman contributed to the tone by his report on Pratt’s interview with Chris Matthews. Sugarman compared Pratt to a snake in his article.

“The reptilian executive director of Gun Owners of America, last seen telling gun control advocates that ‘they have the blood of little children on their hands,’ argued that we are less free without automatic rifles and need to stay prepared,” Sugarman wrote, inserting the quote from Pratt.

“Does this mean that the Gun Owners of America’s 300,000 members are preparing to revolt?” Sugarman also wrote.

Citizen’s Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Communications Director Dave Workman says the current atmosphere isn’t helping the situation and that his group wants to open a real dialogue.

“We want to really study the issue of what causes violence in America. We want to examine the issue of mental health in America and take a hard look at violent video games and television shows,” Workman said.

Workman says his group’s interest is to bring the discussion back to the factors that really cause violence.

SAF President Joseph Tartaro said focusing on guns alone “to the exclusion of possible other causative factors is doomed to failure.”

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/hate-speech-targets-2nd-amendment-supporters/#dWdoH22vMflROh8x.99

Represion y Lucha No Violenta Activa

mientras la Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa [SIP] que representa a 1,300 agencias del continente da a conocer la carta  enviada a Raul Castro exigiendole respeto a la integridad de Yoani Sanchez y su familia; la Comision Interamericana de Derechos Humanos [CIDH] condena  la ola de detenciones "arbitrarias" de defensores de derechos humanos e instó al gobierno de Raúl Castro a tomar medidas para "prevenir" y "erradicar" el hostigamiento contra quienes ejercen el derecho de reunión.

y si bien estos pronunciamientos internacionales que no siendo ineditos son importantes, lo que marca un giro es la reaccion de un grupo heterogeneo  de disidentes [que cubre un amplio diapason desde un escritor como Angel Santiesteban hasta un opositor encarcelado durante la Primavera Negra como Angel Moya] de protestar frente a la Unidad policial de Acosta en el municipio 10 de octubre de La Habana, por el arresto arbitrario de Antonio Rodiles, quien se encontraba en esta unidad, porque eso es "Lucha no violenta activa".

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OBAMA ADMITS MISTAKES... CBS CUTS

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It’s an undisputed fact that the American people have a high level of distrust for the mainstream media — just look at the startling Gallup numbers released last week. A recent decision by CBS News to omit a portion of an interview with President Barack Obama in which he admitted mistakes and blunders in campaign ads is likely to add to the lack of public confidence in mainstream outlets.

In an interview for “60 Minutes,” Obama surprisingly contended that some of his campaign ads and contentions “go overboard” and have errors, but these admissions were omitted from the final interview that aired.

While the network left this portion of the president’s dialogue with Steve Kroft out, CBS did post it on its web site. Still, conservative critics are wondering why such a noteworthy admission was left out of the final interview.

After all, a candidate’s claim that he has put out misleading campaign advertisements that have “gone overboard” is certainly not something that would generally be cut from a broadcast interview — particularly when it’s a candidate who has prided himself on truth and transparency.

Titled, “False Advertising in the Presidential Race,” the clip appears on the CBS web site with an intriguing description: ”President Obama says some of his campaign ads might ‘go overboard’ or contain mistakes, but most of them simply highlight the differences between him and Gov. Romney.”   More >>

Hija de Paya responde a periodista extranjero

La autora, hija de Oswaldo Payá, responde a un artículo del corresponsal de la BBC en Cuba.

Fernando Ravsberg, corresponsal de BBC en La Habana. (VISORONLINE.BLOGSPOT.COM)

Fernando Ravsberg ha publicado en estos días una extensión de las tergiversaciones, manipulaciones y falacias con las que los medios de prensa oficiales cubanos han pretendido confundir al pueblo cubano y al resto del mundo por ya más de medio siglo. Lo ha hecho desde su propio blog. Al parecer, las cuatro páginas del día de Granma, órgano del Partido Comunista, ya estaban saturadas.

Esta vez, a las falsedades literalmente copiadas de la Mesa Redonda y a la reiteración del absurdo carácter accidental que la Televisión Cubana se empeña en dar a la muerte de mi padre y de Harold Cepero, Ravsberg añade algunos enredos de su propia invención, como que Ángel Carromero y Aron Modig viajaban por la Isla haciendo proselitismo y repartiendo dinero.

Harold Cepero recientemente había escrito: "los que tienen el coraje y la libertad de plantearse la opción política pacífica para sus vidas, saben que se exponen a la soledad poco menos que absoluta, a la exclusión laboral, a la persecución, a la prisión o a la muerte. Y su vida y su muerte son la confirmación sincera y radical de su pensamiento".

Sin embargo, Ravsberg, decide no mencionar que la mayoría de los disidentes en Cuba pierden su trabajo, y ellos y sus familias son tratados como apestados sociales y condenados a la miseria, principalmente fuera de La Habana, donde en no llega la prensa extranjera acreditada y, en muchos casos, ni le interesa llegar.

En lugar de esto, Ravsberg intenta resaltar el hipócrita debate moral sobre si la oposición debe o no recibir apoyo material, como si en la mayoría de las luchas de los oprimidos en el mundo entero —y la historia de Cuba es fiel ejemplo— no se hubiese necesitado de la ayuda de simpatizantes y exiliados.

Me pregunto cuántos países del mundo conocerá Ravsberg donde los miembros de la oposición no puedan viajar libremente por el territorio nacional porque sus nombres están circulados en todas las estaciones y aeropuertos. En qué otros oscuros rincones del planeta la Seguridad del Estado impide las reuniones de los opositores con chantajes, amenazas, golpizas, detenciones o "accidentes". Esta es la razón por la que jóvenes simpatizantes extranjeros que vienen a conocer a mi padre le facilitan en ocasiones el transporte. Hecho que dista mucho de la versión que el corresponsal de la BBC y el Gobierno cubano se empeñan en sostener.

Fernando Ravsberg sabe que miente, porque él conoció muy bien a mi padre y sabe que nadie podía darle órdenes, y menos aún pretender organizar el MCL, un movimiento con 24 años de historia, cuyo jóvenes tenemos muy claro que hacer. Mi padre gozaba de un tipo de libertad que probablemente Fernando Ravsberg nunca ha experimentado, a pesar de venir de un país democrático: la libertad de vivir responsablemente, en coherencia con sus principios, pensamientos y sentimientos, a la luz de su fe.

El señor Ravsberg emplea el más cínico de los tonos colonialistas para hablar de las preocupaciones de mi pueblo, minimizándonos, como si para nosotros, "los cubanitos", con que mejorase o apareciese la comida o las guaguas, fuese suficiente. Sutilmente se suma a esta orgía de la mentira, que pretende entretener a la opinión pública con unas sosísimas y mal implementadas reformas económicas, que son la fachada de ese cambio-fraude que mi padre tantas veces denunció.

Fernando Ravsberg goza de los privilegios que significan vivir en Cuba como un extranjero, por encima de las desventajas de todos los cubanos. Sus hijos pueden entrar y salir del país, mientras hacen sus vidas en España, pero a mi hermano no lo dejan ir de visita a conocer a sus tíos a Madrid. Me pregunto si Ravsberg habrá tenido que esperar 5 años para visitar a su hijo médico, porque eso es lo que sufren los doctores de mi país cuando deciden salir de la Isla, quizás también para reunirse con su familia en el exterior.

Ravsberg está tan acostumbrado a caminar sobre esas desventajas que se atreve a sugerir que a los cubanos no les interesan los derechos humanos. ¿Cómo se atreve a despreciar de esa manera racista al pueblo del que ha vivido durante tantos años?

Gracias a Dios hoy son muchas las iniciativas en el campo cultural, político y social que ponen de manifiesto la inconformidad de los cubanos y la promoción de los cambios pacíficos. Le recuerdo a Ravsberg que la iniciativa de ley que constituye el Proyecto Varela está avalada por más de 25.000 firmantes, y continúa vigente porque lo que pretende es un cambio en la ley, no en la Constitución, para hacer realidad derechos elementales que aún debemos conquistar.

Miles firman en este período el Proyecto Heredia, que busca dar a las personas el derecho a salir y a entrar libremente a Cuba, a residir en cualquier parte del territorio nacional y, con ello, detener las humillantes deportaciones internas, así como buscar la garantía de igualdad de oportunidades sin exclusiones de tipo ideológico, y el acceso libre y económicamente justo a internet.

Las anteriores son iniciativas independientes y autóctonas que recogen las aspiraciones y demandas de muchísimos ciudadanos. Los cubanos, de dentro y de fuera necesitamos los derechos para diseñar y edificar la Cuba que queremos. El ingenio, la laboriosidad y las capacidades que se ha demostrado aun en tiempos de crisis, garantizan la prosperidad, a pesar del destrozo legado por más de 50 años de comunismo. Y me atrevo a asegurarle a Ravsberg que la comida y las guaguas aparecerán cuando los cubanos ganemos por el precio justo de nuestro trabajo y tengamos verdaderas oportunidades económicas, políticas y sociales de participación en la construcción de nuestro futuro.

Para ello necesitamos los derechos, esa es la liberación que estamos proclamando. Estamos cada vez más cerca de lograrla, porque hasta ésos que nos persiguen, esos a los que Ravsberg parece servir, son nuestros hermanos, son cubanos y se beneficiarán con la democracia.

Fernando Ravsberg, que tantas veces ha estado en mi casa y ahora finge hasta no recordar cómo se escribe el nombre de mi padre —técnica que debe haber aprendido de la Mesa Redonda—, ha utilizado su nombre para suplantar la verdad, ofendiendo su memoria, a mi familia, a la oposición y a todos los cubanos. Lo cual resulta demasiado bajo, incluso para un corresponsal de la Mesa Redonda.

El dueno de Univision y sus ataques contra el exilio cubano

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¿QUIEN ES EL DUEÑO DE UNIVISION Y EL PORQUE DE SUS ATAQUES CONTRA EL DESTIERRO CUBANO?

*Si usted no ha entendido la conducta nada profesional de Jorge Ramos en su agresiva e irrespetuosa entrevista al senador cubanoamericano Marco Rubio, ni los arbitrarios cambios realizados en "Radio Mambi" de Miami, ni los indiscriminados ataques contra el exilio cubano en ese medio noticioso, aqui tienen la respuesta y la foto del siniestro personaje.

La gran mayoría de personas cree que la cadena de TV mas grande de habla castellano en EEUU es de capitalistas originarios de países latinoamericanos. Quien asi piense esta totalmente equivocado. Fue asi en un tiempo, hoy ya no lo es.

El verdadero dueño y dictador de la politica editorial y noticiosa de esa empresa es Haim Saban, un egipcio de origen judio, que nació en 1944 y emigró con su familia a Israel a los 12 años, exactamente en 1956.

Expulsado de un colegio israelí por ser considerado “problemático”, vino a EU en la década de los 80s y se hizo ciudadano americano.

Músico profesional, pronto se inmiscuyó en el ambiente del mundo del entretenimiento de California y eventualmente se convirtió en productor de música y videos. El mismo se ha descrito como un “verdadero izquierdista” y sus políticas lo demuestran ampliamente.

Entre 2001 y 2002, Saban donó en exceso de $10 millones de dólares al partido demócrata, lo cual lo convirtió en el donante principal en todo el país.

Desde entonces, ha contribuido muchos millones adicionales. Su fortuna se calcula por Forbes Magazine en $3.5 billones ($3500 millones en español) y se le considera el 115 hombre más rico del mundo.

Compró Univisión en 2006 por $13.5 billones. Desde ese momento dejó Univision de ser “HISPANA,” También tiene varias fundaciones caritativas que contribuyen millones a causas ultra izquierdistas, principalmente el Center for Middle East Policy, afiliado con el notorio Think Tank izquierdista Brookings Institución.

Pero el peligro que presenta Saban es su involucramiento con entidades extremistas colectivistas radicales como La Raza en California y UNO en Illinois, ambas grandes contribuyentes a la agenda de la Izquierda Eterna de dominar el poder en EU mediante el registro de inmigrantes ilegales y legales como “clientes” y dependientes del partido demócrata... lo que han logrado en California y Illinois, y ahora quieren hacerlo en la Florida.

Esa es la nueva Agenda Secreta De Univisión. Lograr ese “sueño” de los colectivistas de la Izquierda Eterna. Socializar de una vez y para siempre este gran país y convertirlo en la Nueva Utopía de la Izquierda Eterna. (son los seguidores de Lenin... que dijo: Los Capitalistas nos van a vender la soga con la que los vamos a ahorcar”, y del Nikita Khrushchev... que en la ONU hizo la apocalíptica predicción que: “Vamos a enterrar el capitalismo y le entro a zapatazos al buro cuando vio que nadie le prestaba atencion...”

Hagamos un recuento de la Historia de Univision:

Para poder juzgar hay que conocer. Univisión comenzó como subsidiaria del Grupo Televisa, fundado en México por el multimillonario Emilio Azcárraga hace casi medio siglo. La Cadena primero tuvo una presencia importante en California , pero con los años, se ha convertido en la quinta cadena noticiosa más importante de EU, con acceso al 95% de la audiencia hispana en el país.

Sus oficinas generales están en New York , pero en realidad funcionan desde sus estudios Miami Dade , Florida en la ciudad del Doral. Lo que no se conoce mucho es que Univisión ya no está controlada por millonarios mejicanos. Para los millonarios, en resumidas cuentas, lo principal son sus utilidades, no importa que el grupo original de Televisa estaba muy influenciado por las ideas izquierdistas de los inmigrantes españoles que llegaron al país después de la Guerra Civil en España, muchos de ellos comunistas.

Pero los dueños de Televisa (y de Univisión) también eran “socios” del PRI, de manera que mientras eran dueños, no les interesaba mucho la ideología, sino las utilidades.

Eso cambió en la década de los 1990s en California . Un siniestro personaje, egipcio de nacimiento, pero judío emigrante de Israel , Haim Saban, comenzó su involucramiento en la política estatal entonces. Durante la reelección de Bill Clinton en 1996 se registraron más de un millón de ilegales mejicanos y centroamericanos en California, lo cual cambió desde entonces la política del estado y le proporcionó un control permanente al partido demócrata en California, (Esa es la verdadera razon... del motivo que el partido demócrata se opone a que se exija identificación con fotografía para votar)

Haim Saban contribuyó millones de dólares al partido y al registro de los ilegales. En 2006, fue más lejos. Compró la mayoría de las acciones de Univisión, y en 2008, aunque al principio apoyó a Hillary Clinton, luego contribuyó muchos millones más a la campaña de Obama, actual presidente.

Esta vez ha ordenado que Univision apoye a Obama y esperan registrar millones de nuevos votantes hispanos a los que intentan engañar y manipular para que voten a favor de las políticas ruinosas de estado socialista.
Haim Saban ordenó que combatieran la candidatura “de los cubanos”

Pero hay un gran problema. Nunca en 47 años observando la política americana, he encontrado con un caso de torpeza tal como los esfuerzos de Univisión, primero de derrotar a Marco Rubio en la elección senatorial de 2010, y ahora con los ridiculos y maliciosos intentos de extorsionar y desprestigiar a Rubio.

¿No entienden los ejecutivos de Univisión que Marco Rubio es, el politico mas poderoso de La Florida ? ¿No entienden que pase lo que pase, lo tienen que tolerar y lidiar con él por cinco años más?

Esa torpeza solo se puede explicar por el extremismo ideologico de Haim Saban, para quien con sus multi billones, es más importante perseguir una agenda política radical como él siempre ha sido, que los millones que deje de ganar.

Pero... aqui en La Florida no es solo cuestión de dinero. La influencia de grupos ultra radicales de la Izquierda Eterna en este estado ya están siendo fuertemente combatidos. (No están tratando con pobres y analfabetos camisas mojadas)

Aquí hay un electorado bien informado, donde estos grupos no pueden lograr sus nefastos propósitos. Con Marco Rubio y su grupo de colaboradores como los representantes estatales López Cantero y Fresen, y la nueva estrella en Washington , el Congresista David Rivera (a quien Univisión y su socio el Herald en los dos idiomas también han atacado injustificada, pero fútilmente), parece que los cubanos estamos bien protegidos...

Después de la elección de 2012, casi seguro lo estaremos más. Mientras tanto, es necesario hacer lo posible por minimizar la influencia local de Univisión. En esta causa, la victoria de la justicia y la libertad, está asegurada, por lo menos aquí en la Florida .

¿Quiénes Haim Saban? Este es su perfil:

Haim Saban nació en Alejandría en el año 1944 en el seno de una familia sefardita, y pasó su infancia enEgipto. Cuando estalló la Guerra de Suez en 1956 , que enfrentó a Egipto con Israel , su familia, así como parte de la comunidad judía establecida allí, abandonó el país africano para instalarse en Israel .

En ese país comenzó su carrera en los medios como productor musical, aunque ese proyecto terminaría en bancarrota. Saban terminó desplazándose en 1975 a París, donde realizó cometidos similares como productor en series infantiles, junto a Jean Chalopin, y donde fundó la compañía Saban International Paris. En 1983 se desplazó a Los Ángeles, donde estableció su residencia.

En Estados Unidos fundó junto con Shuki Levy la compañía Saban Entertainment, que se dedicaba entonces a la distribución, doblaje y producción de bandas sonoras para series de animación.

A partir de la década de 1990, su compañía pasa a la producción. Saban logró hacer fortuna y darse a conocer mundialmente gracias, además de a la distribución de programas infantiles, a la adaptación de series tokusatsu japonesas a los gustos del público norteamericano, siendo su producción más famosa Power Rangers. La compañía también produjo VR Troopers, Masked Rider y Big Bad Beetleborgs entre otras adaptaciones.

En la década de 2000, Saban comenzó a realizar inversiones en otros medios de comunicación. En 1999 formó una sociedad con News Corporation para crear Fox Kids. En 2001 el empresario llegó a un acuerdo con Walt Disney Company para comprar Fox Family (actual ABC Family) en 2001, que a su vez supuso la venta y desaparición de Saban Entertainment a Disney, así como la venta de Fox Kids.

Agresion a opositor y bochornoso titular de Marti Noticias

pudiera ser un gazapo si no fuera por la desidia -aun espero no sea intencional- con que se aborda cada vez con mas frecuencia la tragedia cubana. si bochornoso aunque no sorprende por la catadura moral de la dictadura, la cobarde agresion al opositor pacifico jorge cervantes, no menos lo es el titular de  Martí Noticias:

'Lanzan eses fecales, chapapote y fango a la casa de opositor en Cuba'

solo un escalon por debajo, presentan al medico denunciante con el el estetoscopo en el cuello como si estuviera en consulta. posiblemente no pueda lamentablemente ni ejercer su profesion por ser opositor, pero igual lo ponen con el estetoscopo para que conste que es medico. les falto la batica y el recetario .

constato otra de las multiples razones que explican el marasmo kubiche, ante el cual las personas decentes de este mundo se hacen de la vista gorda, mientras la mayoria se burla abiertamente. no averguenza, indigna. 

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La radio del exilio se muere [de muerte natural]/ A La Intemperie

muchos intereses se han conjugado para arribar a esta situacion que beneficia al castrismo. en terminos de real politik el exilio historico no ha sido capaz de construir un proyecto portador de un mensaje congruente con las nuevas realidades, entonces no hay que darle una patada a la mesa que ya no es nuestra, sino construir nuestro propio torneo de ajedrez. dionisio esta clarisimo con el proyecto mariel.

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Coronel Alfonso Borges: "Mensajes para diferentes publicos"

neokaxtrizmo en accion: la maquinaria de propaganda y manipulacion del regimen francamente a la defensiva hacia lo interno, reacomoda sus directrices en medio de la crisis credibilidad que experimenta el mensaje "chocho-mentecato" incompatible con el nuevo paradigma social de lucha tu alpiste pichon pero sin embutirte.
constancia de ello las orientaciones del coronel rolando alfonso borges jefe del dpto. ideologico de elaborar "mensajes para diferentes publicos".

no por gusto le reservan un espacio a una intervencion especial a la zarina anti-corrupcion de los kaxtroz pa'bajo.