If there were an image which would tell a million words, it would be this one here. The Millions of Cubans in Cuba are represented here in this image and the harsh reality which constantly ignored by the Mainstream media. A chair awarded to a fighter of Human Rights in Cuba, with a Cuban flag [...]
Arthur Mazza was a 28-year-old firefighter assigned to Engine 159 on Staten Island. Calls of a plane crash sent him and his colleagues racing to Miller Army Airfield. There, as smoke billowed from between the trees, he saw two bodies lying naked and unidentifiable. Their impact had painted wide, red circles in the snow.The memory [...]
Review “Greg Gutfeld is the funniest person on TV. Read this book immediately and see for yourself.” -Ann Coulter “Greg Gutfeld is a brilliantly funny writer and social commentator. This is the first time anyone has asked me to write a “blurb” for their book. It’s even less fun then I thought it would be.”-Jim [...]
A novel kind of fission reaction observed at the CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva has exposed serious weaknesses in our current understanding of the nucleus. The fission of mercury-180 was expected to be a “symmetric” reaction that would result in two equal fragments but instead produced two nuclei with quite different masses, an “asymmetric” [...]
THE Chinese used to call dollars mei jin, which means “American gold”. Buying black-market dollars was considered the safest way to protect one’s savings. Yet in June when Tim Geithner, America’s treasury secretary, told students at Peking University that China’s official holdings of Treasury bonds were safe, the audience laughed. Faith in the greenback is [...]
El Mas Loco (“The Craziest One”), the head of La Familia drug cartel, died in a hail of gunfire with Mexican authorities. While Mexico touts the killing as another drug kingpin taken care of, Guatemala, Mexico’s neighbor to the south, is worried about what this success might mean for its own safety. The country fears [...]
STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s domestic intelligence service will investigate two explosions that hit the heart of Stockholm’s central shopping district on Saturday, killing one man and injuring two other people, as “an act of terrorism,” authorities said Sunday. But the country’s prime minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, stopped short of connecting the bombs to an e-mail that a [...]
Seventeen Cuban migrants who were discovered at sea in homemade boats over the previous seven days were returned to Cuba Saturday, among them up to a half-dozen who were saved from a sinking raft and got to spend a night aboard the luxury cruise ship Monarch of the Seas. An 18th would-be migrant was being [...]
HAVANA — A newly released confidential U.S. diplomatic cable predicted Cuba’s economic situation could become “fatal” within two to three years, and detailed concerns from other countries’ diplomats – including China – that the communist-run country has been slow to adopt reforms. The cable was written last February, months before Cuban President Raul Castro announced [...]
Thursday’s network newscasts and Friday’s morning shows all ignored the report that an unidentified Democratic House member muttered, “F**k the President” during a closed door meeting on a compromise over taxes. Yet, many journalists professed outrage when Congressman Joe Wilson yelled “You lie” at President Obama in 2009. ABC’s The Note website on Thursday afternoon explained, [...]
President Lula said the internet publication of secret US cables had “exposed a diplomacy that appeared untouchable”. He also criticised other governments for failing to condemn the arrest. Mr Assange was detained in the UK on Tuesday over alleged sex offences in Sweden. “They have arrested him and I don’t hear so much as a [...]
Charles Mingus was a giant in the world of Jazz. His unrivaled ability to play the Bass was actually considered to be, may I say, weak, when compared to his genius ability to compose music. I personally love his music but it gets complicated, you see, hundreds of Jazz music listening hours are involved to [...]
By Cuba Archive Friday, December 10, 2010 Summit, New Jersey. December 10, 2010. Today marks the anniversary of the United Nations’ General Assembly’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. As the world celebrates the primacy of human rights, Cuba ignores their most basic and universally accepted standards. Among the long list of [...]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Dec. 8, 2010 (Reuters) — A privately owned company put a spacecraft into orbit and brought it back safely on Wednesday in a groundbreaking test flight NASA hopes will lead to cargo runs to the International Space Station after the space shuttles are retired next year. The NASA-backed mission was designed to [...]
Representative Ron Paul, Texas Republican and author of “End the Fed,” will take control of the House subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve. House Financial Services chairman-elect Spencer Bachus, an Alabama Republican, selected Paul, 75, to lead the panel’s domestic monetary policy subcommittee when their party takes the House majority next month, the committee chairman [...]
A rapidly growing industry in China—dairy farming—is also a major new source of greenhouse-gas emissions. But Huishan Dairy in northeast China is trying to change this by installing the world’s largest system for generating electricity by collecting methane gas emitted by fermenting cow manure. The Chinese have not, historically, been big milk drinkers, but decreasing [...]
Cape Town – The government’s decision to write off R1.1-billion of debt owed by Cuba raised questions about the priorities and objectives of the Zuma administration, the Democratic Alliance said on Wednesday. The gesture was however applauded by the National Union of Mineworkers of South Africa (Numsa). Democratic Alliance foreign affairs spokesperson Kenneth Mubu said: [...]
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives passed legislation Wednesday to give hundreds of thousands of foreign-born youngsters brought to America illegally a chance at legal status, a fleeting victory for an effort that appears doomed in the Senate. The so-called Dream Act, which passed the House 216-198, has been viewed by Hispanic activists and immigrant [...]
I was born in Havana, Cuba, and lived there until 1999, when I emigrated to the United States. Currently I live and work in Miami, Florida. As a child I would spend long hours drawing. At 16, a professor of Art saw some of my paintings and decided to help me further my career by [...]
Advocates of unconditionally “normalizing” relations with the Castro regime are now — predictably — arguing that the imprisonment (for over one-year without any charges or due process) of U.S. development worker Alan Gross is the fault of USAID’s democracy programs — not of the Cuban dictatorship. They argue that regardless of the fact that Mr. [...]