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"Se que no existe el consuelo
que no existe
la anhelada tierrra de mis suenos
ni la desgarrada vision de nuestros heroes.
Pero
te seguimos buscando, patria,..." - Reinaldo Arenas
Belarus' Nadezhda Ostapchuk competes to win the women's shot put final at the athletics event of the London 2012 Olympic Games. (AFP Photo / Franck Fife)
There's no evidence that blood-boosting drugs give cyclists like Lance Armstrong an advantage in races like the Tour de France, a Dutch research team has found. The accounts of super-powers from athletes, coaches and trainers don't stand up to the scientific rigors of a controlled study, the team says, something the researchers propose to do themselves.
Artificial versions of erythropoietin, often called EPO, are used to treat people with anemia by stimulating the body to produce more of its own red blood cells. These extra cells carry more oxygen from the lungs to the allow the body to do more work, such as riding a bike uphill.
EPO-stimulating drugs are banned by sports authorities, and Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour titles because of evidence of his use of EPO and other drugs. More >>
Pero si se aprueba un proyecto de ley que han redactado legisladores oficialistas, es posible que en un futuro el Estado que encabeza Mujica deba regular la producción y venta de esa droga a consumidores.
Si bien el mandatario asegura que "era más bien contrario" a esa legalización, él mismo terminó impulsando la idea de legislar.
"Lo de México me sacudió el alma", indica Mujica en alusión a la violencia desatada en ese país por los carteles del narcotráfico.
En una entrevista con BBC Mundo en la chacra donde vive en las afueras de Montevideo, afirma que incluso en Uruguay, un país de 3,3 millones de habitantes con menores índices de violencia que sus vecinos, han aparecido fenómenos "como el ajuste de cuentas" vinculados al negocio de la droga.
"Lo que me asusta es el narcotráfico, no la droga", sostiene. "Y por la vía represiva es una guerra perdida: se está perdiendo en todas partes".
Mercado regulado
Legisladores opositores uruguayos han expresado su rechazo a la legalización de la marihuana.
El proyecto de ley, que este martes fue presentado a la bancada de diputados del gobernante Frente Amplio y el jueves se presentará a la oposición, propone que el Estado uruguayo regule la producción, distribución y venta de cannabis en el país.
También admite que particulares lo cultiven para su propio consumo, según redactores del texto.
Mujica dice que su intención es evitar que los consumidores de marihuana traten con vendedores que los inducen a probar pasta base de cocaína, una droga que, asegura, "está pudriendo a la muchachada común y corriente y la más pobre".
"Además me envenena, porque cada vez tengo que gastar más plata en policía, en cárceles y en las consecuencias. Y no tengo plata para atender a los enfermos", le comentó a BBC Mundo.
Su idea respecto a la marihuana, cuenta, es identificar "cuando el tipo se pasa de la raya y decirle: 'm'hijo, usted se tiene que internar o hay que cuidarlo'. Y no tenerlo en el mundo clandestino y tratar como a un delincuente a un tipo que tiene una adicción y en el fondo tiene una enfermedad. No le puedo regalar enfermos al narcotráfico".
"País pacato"
Pero admite que su propuesta genera resistencias en la sociedad uruguaya.
"Uno le dice a la gente 'regularizar la marihuana' y te empiezan a mirar, ¿no? Como (si fuera) una cosa del diablo""
José Mujica, presidente de Uruguay
"Uruguay es un país pacato, de viejos. La mayoría somos viejos y de tendencia conservadora. Uno le dice a la gente 'regularizar la marihuana' y te empiezan a mirar, ¿no? Como (si fuera) una cosa del diablo".
"Es todo una exageración. En realidad el cannabis tuvo que ver con el descubrimiento de América. El cannabis se usaba para hacer las velas (y) para hacer estopa de tapar las hendijas de los barcos. Ha acompañado toda la epopeya en el Nuevo Mundo. Merece que lo tratemos con más respeto y conocerlo mucho más", dijo.
"Estamos luchando contra el prejuicio", indica. "Esto tampoco se puede instrumentar pasándole por arriba al país".
Legisladores opositores han expresado su rechazo a la iniciativa oficialista, que sin embargo podría ser aprobada con los votos del gobernante Frente Amplio, una coalición de izquierda que tiene mayoría parlamentaria.
Hasta ahora la ley uruguaya permite el consumo de marihuana pero prohíbe su comercialización.
40 gramos mensuales
Mujica alega que la vía represiva es una guerra perdida.
El proyecto de ley plantea crear un organismo que regularía el mercado local de cannabis y definiría con el gobierno si dará licencias al Estado o a particulares para producir, distribuir y vender la droga, dice el diputado oficialista Sebastián Sabini a BBC Mundo.
El texto prevé un máximo de venta de 40 gramos mensuales por adulto registrado para comprar y también admite el cultivo para consumo individual en casas (hasta seis plantas por hogar) y clubes (con hasta 15 miembros y hasta 90 plantas).
Mujica sostiene que sería posible "hacer trazabilidad" de la marihuana que venda Uruguay para evitar que el producto sea exportado a otros países.
"Yo le puedo vender a usted equis cigarrillo y si eso aparece en Brasil yo a usted lo hago responsable", señala Mujica.
"No queremos joder a los vecinos (...) ni puedo permitirme el lujo de que vengan los pichicateros (drogadictos) de por ahí a dársela acá. ¡No, estamos fritos con eso, porque sería de nunca acabar!"
Behind the riders, the drugs and the secrets there were the women.
And they made choices, too, choices that may have set in motion the
unraveling of the greatest doping scandal in the history of sport.
In 2004, Lance Armstrong's most trusted teammate George Hincapie wrote
an email to the man who used to be Armstrong's closest friend on the
bike circuit, Frankie Andreu.
It said: "I cannot understand how you can just sit around and let betsy try and take down the whole team."
It was a reference to Andreu's wife, Betsy, who had started doing
something no one on the drug-tainted team had apparently ever done
before. She started questioning what was going on and even speaking out.
"In the beginning, I was scared," said Betsy Andreu from her home in
Dearborn, Mich. "But I thought this is bull and something has to be done
about it. I had to get the truth out."
The U.S. Anti Doping Agency case against disgraced Tour de France
champion Lance Armstrong is filled with sworn affidavits, statement
after statement by riders admitting their drug use on the bike.
The case includes stories of wives being in on the scandal. Armstrong's
ex-wife Kristin is said to have told people they called the blood
booster EPO "butter" because they kept it with the butter in their
refrigerator.
According to the USADA file: "Later at the World Championships at
Valkenberg in the Netherlands the U.S. riders arrived at their tent near
the start of the race to find that Armstrong had asked his wife Kristin
to wrap cortisone tablets in tin foil for him and his teammates.
Kristin obliged. ... One of the riders remarked 'Lance's wife is
rolling joints.'"
The Andreus had been close friends with the Armstrongs, often dining together and socializing between races.
They were neighbors in Europe and spent huge amounts of time together.
Betsy Andreu grew uncomfortable as she started to hear more and more
talk of drug use and says she asked Kristin Armstrong about it.
"It's a necessary evil," Armstrong's then wife said according to the case file. More >>
El informe de la USADA contiene numerosos testimonios del dopaje generalizado. Los más relevantes del escándalo:
“Ahora no puedes escribir un libro sobre la EPO”.
Durante la Vuelta a España de 1998, Vaughters, compañero de equipo del
texano, fue a su habitación para utilizar su ordenador portátil. Delante
de él, Armstrong se inyectó con una jeringuilla usada para inyecciones
de EPO, diciendo: “Ahora que tú también utilizas EPO, no puedes escribir
un libro sobre ello”.
“La mujer de Armstrong está liando porros”. Durante
un Mundial en Holanda, explica el informe de la USADA, los ciclistas
estadounidenses llegaron a la carpa del equipo cerca de la salida de la
carrera para encontrarse con que Armstrong le había pedido a su mujer
Kristin que enrollara en papel de plata tabletas de cortisona para él y
sus compañeros. Uno de los corredores subrayó, “la mujer de Lance está
liando porros”.
Del Moral: “¡Qué lío!”. Armstrong se vistió de
amarillo tras la prólogo del Tour de 1999. Días después, su equipo fue
informado de que había dado positivo por un corticoesteroide. Según
testigos presenciales, cuenta el informe de la USADA, el ciclista no
tenía entonces una autorización médica para usar cortisona. Tyler
Hamilton recuerda "muchos tacos de Lance y Johan [Bruyneel, director del
equipo] y al doctor Del Moral repitiendo 'qué lío'. Del Moral, según la
documentación y los testigos aportados por la investigación, habría
solucionado el problema falsificando una receta, con fecha previa al
positivo, para una crema con cortisona.
Bidones de agua con hielo y EPO. Según el testimonio
de Vaughters, el doctor Celaya “distribuiría EPO en bidones de agua
rellenos con viales de EPO apretados entre hielo. En la botella vendrían
el nombre del corredor y el número de dosis”. “Por ejemplo”, declaró
Vaughters; “yo podría recibir uno en el que pusiera, Jonathan 5x2, lo
que significa que contenía cinco viales de EPO con 2000 unidades
internacionales en cada uno”.
Zabriskie: “Nos daba tiempo de bajar nuestro nivel de hematocrito antes de los controles”.
“Johan \[Bruyneel, director del equipo\] siempre parecía saber cuándo
vendrían los inspectores antidopaje”, declaró Zabriskie, ex compañero de
Armstrong. “\[...\] Parecía que había un increíble sistema de aviso.
Como norma, solíamos saber cuándo serían con una hora de antelación.
Había tiempo de sobra para usar un suero salino para rebajar nuestro
nivel de hematocrito”, explicó el ex ciclista.
Tests consistentes con dopaje sanguíneo en 2009 y 2010.
Tras examinar cinco muestras de sangre de Armstrong recogidas durante
el Tour de 2009 y dos correspondientes al de 2010, un experto consultado
por la USADA concluyó que contenían un número “inusualmente bajo” de
reticulocitos. Al compararlos con otras muestras del ex ciclista, el
investigador dedujo que la posibilidad de que esos valores fueran
naturales era menor que una entre un millón. Pese a esos datos, la UCI
decidió no abrir expediente al estadounidense.
Joseph Farah is founder, editor and CEO of WND and a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate. He is the author or co-author of 13 books, including his latest, "The Tea Party Manifesto," and his classic, "Taking America Back,"
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I’m not trying to think about that debate last week. I just can’t stop thinking about it.
And the more I think about Barack Obama’s performance, or lack
thereof, the more I think Rush Limbaugh’s analysis is right on target.
“Al Gore said the problem with Obama is he was too high. Others said
nope, he was too mellow. (Well, the attitude, too high.) I had people
telling me he was on Valium. I had people telling me Obama was on Valium
because he’s suffering anxiety and they rolled the dice; they gave him
some Valium. A headline by a guy in the New York Times, Charles Blow,
called him “President Xanax.” Xanax is in the same family as Valium, I
guess. It’s a sedative or whatever. There are actually people who
believe Obama was on Valium because he’s so, so wired and so anxious.
They had to tamp that down, and they just gave him too much.”
I admit it. I was thinking about that as I watched that so-called debate.
It seemed to me Obama was on something – or maybe off something he is usually on.
Which raises a very old, lingering question: Why has Obama refused to
release – among many other things like a non-fraudulent birth
certificate, student transcripts, college and university records, law
school writings, passport and travel records, a legit Social Security
number, etc., etc., etc. – his health records?
What is he hiding there?
What deep, dark secrets could one of America’s youngest and most
physically active occupants of the White House in history be so
concerned about?
We know about his admissions to being a major cocaine user back in
his wild days. He told us all about that – or his ghostwriter did – in “Dreams From My Father.” (You should read it if you haven’t already. Also, be sure to see Joel Gilbert’s amazing and bestselling documentary “Dreams From My Real Father.”)
While I have my doubts about the veracity of much of what was written
in that book, it’s hard to imagine he or Bill Ayers would make up
something like that knowing Obama had political ambitions.
However, maybe making such an admission was an acutely astute move –
if you wanted to immunize a future politician against concerns about
drug use: “There, it’s all out as a matter of public record. I did it. I
smoked pot and I snorted cocaine.” For most people, that would be the
end of it.
But what if his drug use continued?
That would be one obvious reason for withholding medical records.
Or maybe Obama is on some prescription drugs for a condition we don’t know about.
That would be another obvious reason for withholding medical records.
But, if you are a healthy young presidential pretender, what other
justifications would there be for hiding medical records from the
public?
Does he just like to withhold any and all information about his past and present?
Normally, people who want to be president are not privacy freaks.
Why does he take so much time off? Why so many vacations? Why so many
golf outings? Is he as healthy as he appears – or, at least as he
appeared before last Wednesday night?
Because I’ve seen high school debaters – bad ones, in fact – give better performances than what I saw last week from Obama.
So, once again, Obama himself has raised the ugly specter of personal
health issues – a matter he has steadfastly kept guarded from the
American taxpayers he supposedly serves.
This is why full disclosure is important. This is why transparency by
public officials is important. This is why the issue of constitutional
eligibility is important. This is why we say that “the public’s right to
know” is important. This is why a free, vigilant watchdog press is
important. This is why opposition parties that actually challenge
leaders are important.
And this is what we don’t have, for the most part, in America today.
During
the second and final presidential debate on June 10, the three main
candidates in the Mexican election discussed how they would move forward
in the continuing drug war. All three pledged a different strategy to
that which has been carried out by current president Felipe Calderón,
who has focused on using the armed forces as the main form of attack
during his tenure. This has led to
a death toll "which has spiraled out of control during Mr. Calderón's
six-year tenure." Each candidate has mentioned reducing the body count,
although the manner in which they plan to achieve this differs.
Below is an overview of the three candidates' strategies for combating the violence in Mexico.
The three candidates:
Enrique Peña Nieto: The current front-runner, for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), stated recently in an interview with the New York Times that
The
adjustment in the strategy is to focus on decreasing violence [as
opposed to reducing drug trafficking]. And that means that the whole
Mexican state, jointly between the three levels of government‚ - state,
federal and municipal‚ - should really focus its efforts on combating
homicide and the impunity that is a given in many of the homicides
committed, as with kidnapping and extortion.
Peña Nieto's promises include:
Bringing more police
to less populated areas. "There are too few police, sometimes without
equipment, without weapons, and organized crime . . . ends up easily
getting there and taking over these places with small populations."
Focusing on
"combating homicide and the impunity that is a given in many of the
homicides committed, as with kidnapping and extortion" primarily through
cutting corruption.
While Peña Nieto says he will continue to work with the United States, he has made clear that Mexico should not be "subordinate to the strategies of other countries."
Peña
Nieto has said he would hire former Colombian police chief, Oscar
Naranjo, as a security advisor. A move which could mean continued strong U.S.-Mexican cooperation, according to the Washington Post.
One question
being asked is whether Mr. Peña Nieto really would be a new leader for
the PRI or simply a return to the old guard which ruled the country for
71 years and which many allege allowed the cartels to exist in return
for benefits for the government.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador:
AMLO, as he is often known, represents a leftist, three-party coalition
called the Progressive Movement. He is a returning candidate who
narrowly lost the 2006 election to current president Calderón. López
Obrador has had to change his campaign strategy for this election and
distance himself from his failed attempt at the presidency, although his
attitude towards the drug war has not changed hugely.
AMLO's promises include:
A holistic strategy he has dubbed "Abrazos, no balazos," or "Hugs, not bullets," which focuses on reducing unemployment and fostering economic growth to end the drug war.
A new federal police force to replace the army in the streets, though he has not elaborated on how this would be organized.
He has not ruled out legalizing drugs, but will consult with experts and local governments.
On
collaboration with the U.S.: Rather than increased or continued U.S.
military aid, AMLO argues that Mexico would benefit more from receiving economic credits that could be used for social programs.
Although polls present differing views of how close the election is currently, López Obrador is generally agreed to be in second place.
Josefina Vázquez Mota:
Vázquez Mota is the first female presidential candidate fielded by a
major political party in Mexico, representing the Partido Acción
Nacional or PAN, the party of current president Calderón.
Her promises include:
A return to law and order by establishing a well paid, well-trained police force from within the community.
A four-pillar approach focusing on security, well-being, productivity, and a sustainable Mexico.
On collaboration
with the U.S.: "We have to continue strengthening our relationship with
the United States" in an effort to move forward with the drug war.
This
is markedly different from Calderón's increased use of the army in an
attempt to tackle corruption within the police force. Although Vázquez
Mota was second in the polls at one point, in the past month she has slipped down to third place behind López Obrador.
The election outcome
Only
one of these candidates will have the opportunity to take their
proposed policies forward past the July 1st election. Although polls currently suggest Peña Nieto is the favorite to win, there has been some indication that the Yarrington scandal,
in which President Calderón has accused a former governor and member of
the PRI for alleged links with drug cartels and corruption, has damaged
the perception of Peña Nieto by association. With just under two weeks
remaining, it remains to be seen if he can hold his lead.
Brian Palmer of Slate reports that cocaine prices have dropped significantly in the past three decades due to economies of scale. As drug traffickers have become more organized (in processing, transport, and retail networks), the price of cocaine has plunged:
Since [the end of the 1980s], the price has dropped more slowly, down to approximately $140 for a gram of pure cocaine in 2007. (That’s almost 80 percent less than it cost in 1982.) Some of the continued decline is attributable to increased production and softening demand, but a large component likely has to do with changes on the retail end. According to figures compiled by Jonathan P. Caulkins of Carnegie Mellon University and Peter Reuter of the University of Maryland, around 33 percent of the price of cocaine went toward compensating smugglers and dealers for the risk of violence in 1990.
Technology is another factor in reducing transaction costs, and Palmer writes that “enforcement of drug laws has added substantially to the cost of street drugs, but those increases haven’t been enough to outpace efficiency gains in the industry.”
Randy Keeper is sick of building coffins. A wiry fellow who looks younger than his 49 years, Keeper is proud of his job as a carpenter and crew leader, saying he’s built 25 houses from scratch over 17 years in Pikangikum, the reserve in northwestern Ontario where he has lived his whole life. But when it comes to the wooden boxes he builds for Pikangikum’s dead, he draws a blank. “I don’t count them,” he says from his daughter’s dining room table. He remembers the last ones, though. They were in December. “I had to make two in one day, one for an elder and one for a younger person.”
The dreams started a couple of weeks after that. In one, he’s lying face up in a freshly dug grave, watching as a coffin is slowly lowered toward him. He doesn’t know if there’s anyone inside, but he recognizes his handiwork: 100 lb. of plywood, treated pine and nails, a simple enough thing that takes him no more than 90 minutes to build. In the dream he’s alive but can’t move as it comes down on his chest, smothering him. Then he wakes up. “The elders told me to stop making them,” he says, “but I have no choice because I work for the band. I get nervous, shaky. Once the dreams happened I’d say yes out of respect for chief and council, but sometimes I don’t show up.” More >>
"The CIA is a state-sponsored terrorists
association. You don't look at people as human beings. They are nothing
but pieces on the chessboard." -- Verne Lyon, former CIA agent in
revealing documentary "Secrets of the CIA"
Secrets of the CIA is a
revealing 45-minute Turner Home Entertainment documentary available for
free viewing at the link below. In this riveting exposé, five former
CIA agents describe how their initial pride and enthusiasm at serving
their nation turned to anguish and remorse, as they realized that they
were actually subverting democracy and killing innocent civilians all in
the name "national security" and promoting foreign policy agendas.
A
Notre Dame football star, an aerospace engineering senior at Iowa
State, an attractive high school graduate, a young patriot, and an
Olympic shooting champion all were recruited by the CIA at a young age.
These five brave individuals risk retaliation in revealing the story of
their gradual disillusionment and finally defection from the CIA, as
they eventually became convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that they
were serving neither democracy, nor the people of their country.
The
Olympic shooting champion describes being put in charge of overthrowing
the democratically elected government of Guatemala. The patriot relates
his deep remorse for his direct responsibility in the deaths of
numerous innocent people for which he can never make amends. The pretty
high school graduate describes how her initial addiction to power and
intrigue turned to disgust and horror. This powerful documentary is a
rare and remarkable look at the results of unbridled secrecy and the
lengths to which some elements in government will go to achieve
questionable foreign policy goals.
A soldier guards boilers at an outdoor clandestine methamphetamine laboratory discovered in Chiquilistlan, Mexico, on December 7.
By F. Brinley Bruton, msnbc.com
The number of methamphetamine “super labs” seized by Mexican authorities has rocketed in the last five years but shipments of the drug across the border have also continued to grow, according to government statistics.
The increase highlights how Mexico’s cartels have diversified beyond their traditional focus of exporting cocaine, heroin and marijuana by transforming their operations to also make methamphetamines on an industrial scale.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has noted “a sustained upward trend in Mexican methamphetamine availability in U.S. markets.” Research by the U.S. government also shows that methamphetamine prices are falling and that the purity level of seizures is rising.
According to information from Mexico’s Secretariat of National Defense, 22 methamphetamine labs were seized in 2007. That number increased to 206 in 2011.
The vast majority of these were classed as super labs – in contrast to smaller operations that characterize much of the production in the United States, a secretariat official confirmed to msnbc.com. The official asked for anonymity for security reasons.
"Methamphetamine seizure rates inside the United States and along the U.S.-Mexico border have increased markedly since 2007," according to a U.S. Department of Justice report.
'In the business of making money'
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials said they could not comment specifically on statistics released by the Mexican government, but acknowledge that the cartels have adapted and changed since President Felipe Calderon declared his war on drugs in December 2006. More >>
The story about President Barack Obama’s bi-sexual past will not go away. Now, in an exclusive interview with The Globe, Norma Jean Young, the 76-year old mother of the late Trinity United Church of Christ choir director Donald Young, has spoken out and declared that persons trying to protect Obama murdered her son at the height of the 2007 Democratic presidential primary to protect Obama from embarrassing revelations about his homosexual relationship with her son. Donald Young’s bullet-ridden body was found in his Chicago apartment on December 23, 2007, in what appeared to be an assassination-style slaying.
Norma Jean Young revealed to The Globe that her son Donald, who was openly gay, was a “close friend” of Obama. Mrs. Young also believes the Chicago Police Department has not placed a high priority on finding the killers of her son. Mrs. Young, who is, herself a former employee of the Chicago Police Department, told The Globe that, “There is more to the story,” adding, “I do believe they are shielding somebody or protecting someone.”
The Globe’s revelations are consistent with information obtained by WMR during a May investigation conducted in Chicago. On May 24, WMR reported:“President Obama and his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel are lifetime members of the same gay bath house in uptown Chicago, according to informed sources in Chicago’s gay community, as well as veteran political sources in the city.” The report added, “WMR spoke to several well-placed sources in Chicago who reported that Jeremiah Wright, the pastor of Obama’s former church of 20 years, Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC) on Chicago’s south side, ran what was essentially a matchmaking service for gay married black professional members of the church, including lawyers and businessmen, particularly those with children. The matchmaking club was called the ‘Down Low Club’ but references to it over the phone and email simply referred to the group with the code phrase ‘DLC.’ The ruse, according to our sources, was to make anyone who was eavesdropping on the communications [FBI wiretaps in the Rod Blagojevich case likely contain such references] believe that the references were to the Democratic Leadership Council, also known as the DLC . . . Among the members of the gay ‘DLC’ were Obama and TUCC’s choir director, Donald Young, an openly gay man who reportedly had a sexual relationship with Obama. Two other gay members of the church were Larry Bland and Nate Spencer. Young and Bland were brutally murdered, execution style, in late 2007. Bland was murdered on November 17, 2007 and Young on December 24, 2007. The latter was killed by multiple gunshot wounds. Spencer reportedly died on December 26, 2007, official cause of death: ‘septicemia, pneumonia, and HIV.’”
Larry Sinclair, the gay man who claimed to have had two sexual encounters with Obama in Chicago in 1999, wrote a book, “Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder,” in which he states that Obama was linked to Young’s murder. Sinclair wrote that he was in contact with Young shortly before his murder and Young revealed his relationship with Obama. At the time of his revelations about Obama at a National Press Club news conference, WMR doubted the veracity of Sinclair’s story due to the absence of corroborating evidence coupled with a bizarre news conference. However, since that time, WMR has received corroboration from a number of sources in a number of locations, including Chicago, Alabama, Georgia, and Washington, DC. WMR has received information that various competing camps, including the Hillary Clinton and John McCain campaigns, attempted to co-opt Sinclair and his revelations for their own political purposes. Sinclair, it should be noted, has not deviated from his original story or charges against Obama.
On June 19, 2008, WMR reported: “WhiteHouse.com held a news conference following Sinclair’s at which a video of Sinclair’s polygraph was to be shown. After experiencing technical difficulties with the video presentation, Parisi abruptly canceled the news conference and took no questions.” The aborted news conference was as bizarre as Sinclair’s. Sinclair was arrested by Washington, DC police following his news conference based on a warrant from Delaware issued by Vice President candidate Joseph Biden’s son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden. The Delaware charges against Sinclair were later dropped.
Sinclair’s book is now the subject of a defamation lawsuit [Daniel Parisi, et al v. Lawrence W. Sinclair a/k/a "Larry Sinclair," et al] brought by Dan Parisi, the proprietor of the website, Whitehouse.com, who is mentioned in Sinclair’s book with regard to his involvement in polygraphs administered to Sinclair after he made his allegations against Obama public during the 2008 presidential campaign. The lawsuit is being handled by the politically powerful Patton & Boggs law firm, the same firm that represented George W. Bush’s top political adviser Karl Rove in the Valerie Plame Wilson/CIA leak, and has been filed against Sinclair, his publishing company, and distributors, including Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Sinclair is currently a resident of Florida.
The lawsuit against Sinclair has been assigned to Judge Richard Leon, the Republican deputy chief minority counsel on the House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, aka, the Iran-contra scandal. From 1988 to 1989, he served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General and from 1992 to 1993 was the Republican chief minority counsel on the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s October Surprise Task Force investigating the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign’s secret dealings with Iran to ensure the defeat of President Jimmy Carter. Leon Leon was nominated for the federal bench by President George W. Bush on September 10, 2001. Leon’s involvement in so many high-level cover-ups of White House misconduct makes him an illogical choice to hear a case involving serious allegations against President Obama.
Note: Blagojevich’s defense in his federal corruption trial is slated to begin today in Chicago. Judge James Zagel has denied the defense’s request for all the government’s wiretaps to be played. The tapes, as previously reported by WMR, contain some earthy references to Obama’s and his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s homosexual habits.
Sinclair has told WMR that he believes the Obama White House is trying to have his book withdrawn from circulation to avoid any further embarrassments about Obama’s homosexual past and the possible involvement of his top lieutenants in Young’s murder. The Globe reported in May 2008 that a top Chicago private detective said he believed Young was “rubbed out” because of his relationship with Obama. Sinclair has echoed the private eye’s beliefs about Young and Obama. The Globe reports that before his death, Young was planning to flee to Africa to teach. The information was provided to The Globe by Young’s mother, who also now fears for her life and plans to leave her Peoria, Illinois home for a secret location. Mrs. Young said the Chicago police have warned her that her life is in danger.
¨Saturno jugando con sus hijos¨/ Pedro Pablo Oliva
Seguidores
Carta desde la carcel de Fidel Castro Ruz
“…después de todo, para mí la cárcel es un buen descanso, que sólo tiene de malo el que es obligatorio. Leo mucho y estudio mucho. Parece increíble, las horas pasan como si fuesen minutos y yo, que soy de temperamento intranquilo, me paso el día leyendo, apenas sin moverme para nada. La correspondencia llega normalmente…”
“…Como soy cocinero, de vez en cuando me entretengo preparando algún pisto. Hace poco me mandó mi hermana desde Oriente un pequeño jamón y preparé un bisté con jalea de guayaba. También preparo spaghettis de vez en cuando, de distintas formas, inventadas todas por mí; o bien tortilla de queso. ¡Ah! ¡Qué bien me quedan! por supuesto, que el repertorio no se queda ahí. Cuelo también café que me queda muy sabroso”. “…En cuanto a fumar, en estos días pasados he estado rico: una caja de tabacos H. Upman del doctor Miró Cardona, dos cajas muy buenas de mi hermano Ramón….”. “Me voy a cenar: spaghettis con calamares, bombones italianos de postre, café acabadito de colar y después un H. Upman #4. ¿No me envidias?”. “…Me cuidan, me cuidan un poquito entre todos. No le hacen caso a uno, siempre estoy peleando para que no me manden nada. Cuando cojo el sol por la mañana en shorts y siento el aire de mar, me parece que estoy en una playa… ¡Me van a hacer creer que estoy de vacaciones! ¿Qué diría Carlos Marx de semejantes revolucionarios?”.
Quotes
¨La patria es dicha de todos, y dolor de todos, y cielo para todos, y no feudo ni capellanía de nadie¨ - Marti
"No temas ni a la prision, ni a la pobreza, ni a la muerte. Teme al miedo" - Giacomo Leopardi
¨Por eso es muy importante, Vicky, hijo mío, que recuerdes siempre para qué sirve la cabeza: para atravesar paredes¨– Halvar de Flake[El vikingo]
"Como no me he preocupado de nacer, no me preocupo de morir"- Lorca
"Al final, no os preguntarán qué habéis sabido, sino qué habéis hecho" - Jean de Gerson
"Si queremos que todo siga como está, es necesario que todo cambie" - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
"Todo hombre paga su grandeza con muchas pequeñeces, su victoria con muchas derrotas, su riqueza con múltiples quiebras" - Giovanni Papini
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans" - John Lennon
"Habla bajo, lleva siempre un gran palo y llegarás lejos" - Proverbio Africano
"No hay medicina para el miedo"-Proverbio escoces "El supremo arte de la guerra es doblegar al enemigo sin luchar" -Sun Tzu
"You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother" - Albert Einstein
"It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office" - H. L. Menken
"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented" -Elie Wiesel
"Stay hungry, stay foolish" - Steve Jobs
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert , in five years ther'ed be a shortage of sand" - Milton Friedman
"The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less" - Vaclav Havel
"No se puede controlar el resultado, pero si lo que uno haga para alcanzarlo" - Vitor Belfort [MMA Fighter]
Liborio
A la puerta de la gloria está San Pedro sentado y ve llegar a su lado a un hombre de cierta historia. No consigue hacer memoria y le pregunta con celo: ¿Quién eras allá en el suelo? Era Liborio mi nombre. Has sufrido mucho, hombre, entra, te has ganado el cielo.
Para Raul Castro
Cuba ocupa el penultimo lugar en el mundo en libertad economica solo superada por Corea del Norte.
Cuba ocupa el lugar 147 entre 153 paises evaluados en "Democracia, Mercado y Transparencia 2007"
Cuando vinieron a buscar a los comunistas, Callé: yo no soy comunista. Cuando vinieron a buscar a los sindicalistas, Callé: yo no soy sindicalista. Cuando vinieron a buscar a los judíos, Callé: yo no soy judío. Cuando vinieron a buscar a los católicos, Callé: yo no soy “tan católico”. Cuando vinieron a buscarme a mí, Callé: no había quien me escuchara.
Un sitio donde los hechos y sus huellas nos conmueven o cautivan
CUBA LLORA Y EL MUNDO Y NOSOTROS NO ESCUCHAMOS
Donde esta el Mundo, donde los Democratas, donde los Liberales? El pueblo de Cuba llora y nadie escucha. Donde estan los Green, los Socialdemocratas, los Ricos y los Pobres, los Con Voz y Sin Voz? Cuba llora y nadie escucha. Donde estan el Jet Set, los Reyes y Principes, Patricios y Plebeyos? Cuba desesperada clama por solidaridad. Donde Bob Dylan, donde Martin Luther King, donde Hollywood y sus estrellas? Donde la Middle Class democrata y conservadora, o acaso tambien liberal a ratos? Y Gandhi? Y el Dios de Todos? Donde los Santos y Virgenes; los Dioses de Cristianos, Protestantes, Musulmanes, Budistas, Testigos de Jehova y Adventistas del Septimo Dia. Donde estan Ochun y todas las deidades del Panteon Yoruba que no acuden a nuestro llanto? Donde Juan Pablo II que no exige mas que Cuba se abra al Mundo y que el Mundo se abra a Cuba? Que hacen ahora mismo Alberto de Monaco y el Principe Felipe que no los escuchamos? Donde Madonna, donde Angelina Jolie y sus adoptados around de world; o nos hara falta un Brando erguido en un Oscar por Cuba? Donde Sean Penn? Donde esta la Aristocracia Obrera y los Obreros menos Aristocraticos, donde los Working Class que no estan junto a un pueblo que lanquidece, sufre y llora por la ignominia? Que hacen ahora mismo Zapatero y Rajoy que no los escuchamos, y Harper y Dion, e Hillary y Obama; donde McCain que no los escuchamos? Y los muertos? Y los que estan muriendo? Y los que van a morir? Y los que se lanzan desesperados al mar? Donde estan el minero cantabrico o el pescador de percebes gijonese? Los Canarios donde estan? A los africanos no los oimos, y a los australianos con su acento de hombres duros tampoco. Y aquellos chinos milenarios de Canton que fundaron raices eternas en la Isla? Y que de la Queen Elizabeth y los Lords y Gentlemen? Que hace ahora mismo el combativo Principe Harry que no lo escuchamos? Donde los Rockefellers? Donde los Duponts? Donde Kate Moss? Donde el Presidente de la ONU? Y Solana donde esta? Y los Generales y Doctores? Y los Lam y los Fabelo, y los Sivio y los Fito Paez? Y que de Canseco y Miñoso? Y de los veteranos de Bahia de Cochinos y de los balseros y de los recien llegados? Y Carlos Otero y Susana Perez? Y el Bola, y Pancho Cespedes? Y YO y TU? Y todos nosotros que estamos aqui y alla rumiando frustaciones y resquemores, envidias y sinsabores; autoelogios y nostalgias, en tanto Louis Michel comulga con Perez Roque mientras Biscet y una NACION lanquidecen? Donde Maceo, donde Marti; donde aquel Villena con su carga para matar bribones? Cuba llora y clama y el Mundo NO ESCUCHA!!!
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