Video: Is Obama the Next Fidel Castro? Here are some of the gruesome photos.

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CUBA: Castro v. the Church Monday, Aug. 22, 1960
Fidel Castro last week lashed out at the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in Cuba as “scribes and Pharisees,” “peons of the American embassy” and “Franco Fascists.” Castro’s rage was aroused by a pastoral letter* condemning “the growing advance of Communism in our country.” He shouted that whoever “condemns the revolution betrays Christ” and is “capable of crucifying Christ again.”

The Infamous Firing Squad  (see complete from the real cuba)

Thousands of Cubans have died in front of Castro’s infamous firing squad. There was no discrimination, as far as the firing squad was concerned. Young and old, black and white, rich and poor were sent to ‘el paredón’ (the wall).

Many of those who helped Castro gain power, like Comandantes Ernesto Sori Marin and William Morgan, an American, were among the thousands who were shot.

Here are some of the gruesome photos.

Fidel Castro questioning a Cuban farmer who was later executed. The woman behind Castro is Celia Sánchez and sitting next to him is Camilo Cienfuegos.

Celia Sanchez & Fidel Castro at Work & Relaxation

 The above photo was taken in March of 1964, five years after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution that ousted the U. S.-backed Batista dictatorship. It shows Celia Sanchez hard at work on the couch and Fidel Castro relaxing barefooted in his rocking chair. Cuban insiders consider this a very appropriate photograph because Celia was the primary decision-maker in Cuba from January of 1959 till her death from cancer on January 11, 1980, at age fifty-nine. Fidel, as the recognized upfront leader of Cuba, always fully supported whatever decisions Celia rendered, even if he initially disagreed with her. Irate over terrorist acts from Florida that continually targeted her beloved peasants, Celia, without consulting Fidel, sent a cable to Moscow requesting nuclear missiles on Cuban soil.

Camilo Cienfuegos As An

Immigrant In U.S.

BY RAFAEL SIERRA

Pathfinder Press recently released a new edition of Ernesto Che Guevara’s Episodes of the Cuban Revolutionary War – 1956-58. “Pages from Cuba’s Revolutionary History,” a weekly series aimed at promoting this book, features articles by and about combatants of the July 26 Movement and Rebel Army, which led the revolutionary war that overthrew the U.S.-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista and opened the socialist revolution in the Americas.

This week’s installment is about Camilo Cienfuegos, one of the principal Rebel Army commanders. Before he joined the Cuban revolutionary forces, Cienfuegos was a worker and political activist in the United States. Cienfuegos’s first stay in the United States ended with his deportation by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). The second ended when he went to Mexico to volunteer for the Granma expedition being organized by the July 26 Movement, led by Fidel Castro, to begin the revolutionary armed struggle against the Batista regime.

Even before the triumph of the Revolution, Castro and his gang were prone to murder those who disagreed with them.

In the photo below, taken while still in the Sierra Maestra mountains, Fidel Castro’s brother, Raul, is seen getting ready to shoot a young rebel soldier who disobeyed orders.

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HOW SHOULD WE APPROACH POLICY TOWARD CHINA?

I watched the debate tonight and when I heard this come out of Romney s mouth, I gave a big FYou and it just gave me more reason not to vote.

 

It’s pretty sad when Romney is worried about the 20 thousand and quickly changed his words to  20 Million unemployed Farmers, coming to the city looking for work in China and not the unemployed in the country he lives.

 

Why aren’t they talking about this and how can anyone in their right mind see past what was said and still support him?  

 

 

 

00:00:00 WE HAVE TO REMAIN VIGILANT, AS I JUST SAID.
00:00:04 WITH RESPECT TO CHINA, CHINA IS BOTH AN ADVERSARY BUT ALSO A POTENTIAL PARTNER IN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IF IT’S FOLLOWING THE RULES.
00:00:15 MY ATTITUDE COMING INTO OFFICE WAS THAT WE ARE GOING TO INSIST THAT CHINA PLAYS BY THE SAME RULES AS EVERYBODY ELSE.
00:00:23 I KNOW AMERICANS HAVE SEEN IT.
00:00:26 JOBS BEING SHIPPED OVERSEAS, BUSINESSES AND WORKERS NOT GETTING A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD WHEN IT CAME TO TRADE.
00:00:35 THAT IS THE REASON WHY I SET UP A TRADE PASS — TASK FORCE TO GO AFTER CHEATERS WHEN IT CAME TO INTERNATIONAL TRADE.
00:00:44 THAT IS WHY WE HAVE BROUGHT MORE CASES AGAINST CHINA FOR VIOLATING TRADE RULES THAN THE OTHER — THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION HAD DONE IN TWO TERMS AND WE WON JUST ABOUT EVERY CASE THE FILE THAT HAS BEEN DECIDED.
00:00:58 RECENTLY, STEEL WORKERS IN OHIO AND THROUGHOUT THE MIDWEST ARE IN A POSITION NOW TO SELL STEEL TO CHINA BECAUSE WE WON THAT CASE.
00:01:06 WE HAD A TIRE CASE WHERE THEY WERE FLOODING US WITH CHEAP CHINESE TIRES.
00:01:13 WE PUT A STOP TO IT.
00:01:15 AS A CONSEQUENCE, SAVED JOBS THROUGHOUT AMERICA.
00:01:19 I HAVE TO SAY THAT GOVERNOR ROMNEY CRITICIZED ME FOR BEING TOO TOUGH IN THAT CASE, SAID THIS WOULD NOT BE GOOD FOR AMERICAN WORKERS.
00:01:29 I TELL YOU THOSE WORKERS DO NOT FEEL THAT WAY.
00:01:31 THEY FEEL AS IF THEY HAD — FINALLY THE ADMINISTRATION WAS GOING TO TAKE THIS ISSUE SERIOUSLY.
00:01:39 OVER THE LONG TERM FOR US TO COMPETE WITH CHINA, WE ALSO HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE ARE TAKING CARE BUSINESS AT HOME.
00:01:46 IF WE DO NOT HAVE THE BEST EDUCATION SYSTEM IN THE VAULT, IF WE DO NOT CONTINUE TO PUT MONEY INTO RESEARCH — SYSTEM IN THE WORLD, IF WE CANNOT CONTINUE TO PUT MONEY INTO RESEARCH, THAT IS HOW WE LOSE THE COMPETITION.
00:02:00 UNFORTUNATELY, GOVERNOR ROMNEY’S BUDGET AND HIS PROPOSALS WOULD NOT ALLOW US TO MAKE THOSE INVESTMENTS.
00:02:06 >> GOVERNOR PIERRE >> IT IS NOT A GOVERNMENT THAT MAKES BUSINESS SUCCESSFUL.
00:02:12 — >> GOVERNOR.
00:02:15 >> IT IS NOT A GOVERNMENT THAT MAKES BUSINESS SUCCESSFUL.
00:02:19 THE GREATEST NATIONAL THREAT IS A NUCLEAR IRAN.
00:02:23 LET’S TALK ABOUT CHINA. CHINA HAS AN INTEREST VERY MUCH LIKE OURS.
00:02:26 THAT IS THEY WANT TO — THEY WANT A STABLE WORLD.
00:02:32 THEY DO NOT WANT TO SEE THE WORLD BREAK OUT INTO VARIOUS FORMS OF CHAOS BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO MANUFACTURE GOODS AND PUT PEOPLE TO WORK.
00:02:41 THEY HAVE 20 MILLION PEOPLE COMING OUT OF FORMS EVERY YEAR.

There Are 100 Million Working Age Americans That Do Not Have Jobs 

The unemployment crisis in America is much worse than you are being told.  Did you know that there are 100 million working age Americans that do not get up in the morning and go to work?  No wonder why it seems like there are so many people that do not have jobs!  According to the federal government, there are 12.6 million working age Americans that are considered to be “officially” unemployed, but there are another 87.8 million working age Americans that are not working either. 

00:02:44 COMING INTO THE CITIES, NEEDING JOBS. More from C-Span

CherH, 10/12/2012 03:54 PM

I, too, had been part of the long-term unemployed. People who didn’t know me assumed I wasn’t looking or wasn’t trying ‘hard enough.’  I wasn’t rusty, my skills weren’t outdated. As one honest HR person said, “We’re trained to avoid people with job gaps. We can’t just change that all at once.” The long-term unemployed have had four years to adjust to a new reality. It’s time business caught up.

Between Federally owned land and Illegals in Arizona Dem's will do all they can for the Latino Vote.

Arizona House votes to demand return of federally owned lands

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona lawmakers on Monday passed legislation demanding the U.S.government relinquish to the state millions of acres of federal territory, in the latest rekindling of a "sagebrush rebellion" over control of public lands in the West.

Without debate, the Republican-dominated Arizona House of Representatives easily passed a measure seeking the return of roughly 48,000 square miles of government-owned acreage in the Grand Canyon state by 2015.

The bill, approved on a 35-15 vote, now goes to the state Senate for final passage. Republican Governor Jan Brewer would then have five days once the bill reaches her desk to sign or veto it. Otherwise, the measure becomes law automatically.

Arizona would be the second state in the nation to enact such legislation. Last month, Utah Governor Gary Herbert signed a bill seeking to reclaim some 30 million acres of federally owned land in his state, shrugging off warnings from state attorneys that the measure was likely unconstitutional and would lead to a protracted yet futile legal battle.

The moves cap years of rising indignation among political conservatives in big Western states over that fact that vast tracts of their land mass are owned by various federal agencies, much of it by the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management. In Arizona, the U.S. government controls 42 percent of the land mass, compared with some 60 percent in Utah.

Proponents of the Arizona bill have complained that federal control puts too much land off-limits to commercial development such as mining, logging and livestock raising -- limiting the state's potential tax base for schools and other public services.

They see the government as too closely aligned with environmental groups, which largely oppose efforts by the so-called sagebrush rebels to loosen federal controls. Conservationists say less federal management would lead to degradation of the land and its wildlife while allowing a virtual giveaway of publicly owned natural resources.

"All of these federal agencies have been infiltrated by extreme environmentalists and have almost killed off what Arizona was built on - lumber, mining and ranching," said Republican state Senator Al Melvin, the bill's chief sponsor. "It's wrong and it's happening all over the West. We are bound and determined to put it to an end to this."

Under the bill, the state would seek title to most of the state's federal acreage, including national monuments, national forests and national wildlife refuges. Military bases and national parks would be exempt, as would Indian reservations.

Arizona’s illegal-immigration law heads to Supreme Court. Will justices strike it down?

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed the country's toughest illegal-immigration bill into law two years ago, setting off a long legal battle with the Obama administration and inspiring half a dozen states to emulate Arizona and pass similar laws. On Wednesday, the federal government and Arizona will face off at the Supreme Court, where Justice Department lawyers will try to convince the court that the law is an unconstitutional invasion into the federal government's turf.

A federal judge blocked four major aspects of the law before they ever went into effect, including the provision that local police officers check the immigration status of people during stops if they have reason to suspect they lack legal status. Provisions making it a state crime for illegal immigrants to seek work, or for any immigrant to fail to carry immigration papers, were also blocked. Last year, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's decision and shot down most of the law.

Although public opinion polls showed that most Americans supported the law's provisions after it passed, the minority opposition was passionate, and it set off a national debate about illegal immigration that has permeated the presidential elections. Opponents argued that the law would encourage racial profiling and branded Arizona the "show me your papers" state. More than 100 different parties, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and dozens of states, have filed friend-of-the-court briefs weighing in on the law.

Three interesting twists are likely to make this case even more high-profile—and political—than it already has been. First of all, Mitt Romney and other Republican candidates for the presidency have blasted the Obama administration for suing Arizona in the first place, using it as a way to paint the president as soft on illegal immigration and intrusive on states' rights. Secondly, a familiar face will represent Arizona's case: Paul Clement, the lawyer who argued against Obama's health care law before the Supreme Court earlier this month, will once again take center stage. Lastly, Justice Elena Kagan has recused herself from the case because she was solicitor general when the government first filed suit against Arizona.

Democrats plan to force vote on Arizona immigration law if it’s upheld by court

Senate Democrats are making plans to force a floor vote on legislation that would invalidate Arizona’s controversial immigration statute if the Supreme Court upholds the law this summer.

Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) will announce the fallback legislation at a hearing on the Arizona law Tuesday, a day before the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a suit to determine whether Arizona had the authority to enact the 2010 state crackdown.

The legislation would have little chance of passing in a stalemated Senate or being approved by a GOP-held House, but it would allow Democrats to push their electoral advantage with Latino voters just as the presidential campaign heats up in July.

The plan is to allow Democrats a route to express displeasure with the Arizona law if the court allows it to stand, and it would force Republicans to take a clear position on the law during the height of the presidential campaign. The immigration law is deeply unpopular with Latino voters,

“If the court upholds the Arizona law, Congress can make it clear that what Arizona is doing goes beyond what the federal government and what Congress ever intended,” Schumer said in an interview.

He called the Arizona law an “assault on the domain of the federal government” that Congress will need to address if the court allows it to stand.

U.S. Supreme Court immigration case weighs states' powers

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A clash over immigration law will go before the U.S. Supreme Court this week, pitting the state ofArizona against President Barack Obama in a case with election-year political ramifications for him and Republican rival Mitt Romney.

In its second-biggest case this term, the court - fresh from hearing the Obama healthcare overhaul case - will consider on Wednesday whether a tough Arizona immigration crackdown strayed too far into the federal government's powers.

A pro-Arizona decision would be a legal and political setback for Obama, who has criticized the state's law and vowed to push for immigration legislation if re-elected on November 6.

A decision against Arizona would deal a blow to Romney, who has said the government should drop its challenge to the law.

Americans generally support immigration laws like Arizona's and are ambivalent about the federal and state roles at the core of the case, a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll found.

About 70 percent of those surveyed favored state laws that let police check a person's immigration status and make it a crime for an illegal immigrant to work in the United States; about 30 percent opposed such measures.  

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Executive Order — National Defense Resources Preparedness Released March 16, 2012

For Immediate Release

March 16, 2012

Executive Order — National Defense

Resources Preparedness

EXECUTIVE ORDER

NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2061 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

PART I  –  PURPOSE, POLICY, AND IMPLEMENTATION

The National Security Council and Homeland Security Council, in conjunction with the National Economic Council, shall serve as the integrated policymaking forum for consideration and formulation of national defense resource preparedness policy and shall make recommendations to the President on the use of authorities under the Act.

(b)  The Secretary of Homeland Security shall:

If anything this article proves to the masses just who controls the MSM and Good For you President Sarkozy!

Israeli Prime Minister Is a Liar, French President Sarkozy Tells Obama

This was the text with the Picture: French President Nicholas Sarkozy and Barack Obama re-learned a lesson about foreign diplomacy: speak softly and make sure your microphone is turned off before you bad-mouth Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and call him “a liar.”

French President Sarkozy called Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahua liar in a conversation with President Obama caught on an open mic at last week’s G-20 summit.

“I can’t look at him [Netanyahu] anymore, he’s a liar,” Sarkozy toldObama, the French media website Arret Sur Images reported.

“You’ve had enough of him, but I have to deal with him every day,” Obama is said to have responded.

The private conversation happened last Thursday in the southern French city of Cannes, heard by half a dozen journalists whose headphones were still receiving audio from the presidents’ wireless microphones.

The handful of reporters included one from the Reuters news agency who confirmed the quotes.

“By the time the team from the Elysee [presidential palace] realized, it must have been three minutes,” one of the journalists told Arret Sur Images.

Reporters who overheard the remarks decided not to report them because they were intended to be private, but the news leaked out on the Internet nonetheless.

“We didn’t record anything and using them [the comments] would admit that we cheated,” an anonymous reporter told the website.

It also quoted another member of the media saying, “there were discussions among the journalists there who decided not to do anything. It’s a sensitive subject: it’s annoying to not publish this information, but at the same time we have agreed to precise ethical rules and printing these sentences would mean violating them.”

Netanyahu’s office declined ABC News’ request for comment and the White House has yet to respond.

Sarkozy and Obama were discussing the recent admission of Palestine to UNESCO, part of its bid to get recognition at the United Nations. The U.S. opposes the Palestinian efforts and Obama was reportedly chiding Sarkozy for not telling him France would vote in favor of Palestine in the UNESCO vote. The U.S. later withdrew its funding for the cultural body which amounts to $70 million annually.

The conversation then turned to Netanyahu, which is when Sarkozy is said to have called him a liar.more

The new dreadlocked, hungry, poverty-stricken Muppet ‘Lily’ to appear on “Sesame Street”

- A new poverty-stricken Muppet will highlight the issue of hunger struggles on an episode of “Sesame Street”, the show said in a statement on Tuesday.

Pink-faced Muppet Lily, whose family deals with food insecurity, will join Big Bird, Elmo and other favorites on a one-hour prime-time special featuring country star Brad Paisley and his wife Kimberly Williams Paisley called “Growing Hope Against Hunger,” to air Oct 9.

The new Muppet will bring awareness to the ongoing hunger struggles that families face in the United States, the show said.

“Food insecurity is a growing and difficult issue for adults to discuss, much less children,” the Paisleys said in a statement.

“Sesame Street” is seen in either the U.S. or local TV versions in more than 140 nations and has won multiple awards for its educational content for pre-schoolers.

I’m adding some of my favorite readers comments:

FedUp: This muppet must of voted for Obama…

Brian:  I’ll file for benefits on that muppet’s behalf. It was created here in the USA and as such is as much a person as a corporation is.

America Unchained: You think Lily is hungry now, wait until next year when we unplug all your Free Obamaphones. Lily’s mom and dad are going to have to get jobs.

Duke:  They are also introducing Wally the Wall Steet Banker muppet ~ he gets the crap kicked out of him each episode. Now that would be sweet!

The special will see children tell personal stories of their families struggling with hunger, and will also show how some families find innovative and community-driven solutions, including food drives and assistance programs.

Recent U.S. Department of Agriculture data estimates that 17 million American children have limited or uncertain access to food. And 9.6 million of these children are under the age of 6, which prompted Sesame Workshop, the non-profit organization behind “Sesame Street,” to launch a “Food For Thought: Eating Well on a Budget” initiative.see source for more

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