No 982 “En mi opinión” Junio 23, 2015
“IN GOD I TRUST” Lázaro R González Miño Editor
AMENPER: Hillary Clinton Presidente de una América Marxista
Hillary Clinton dijo en un discurso reciente que ella
prefiere una sociedad que "estemos todos juntos en esto, todos
iguales", donde "gobierno puede ofrecerle más trabajo para todos los
americanos," con "oportunidad para todos y privilegios
especiales para ninguno."
Esto puede ser aterrador. ¿Si en el mundo que prefiere
Hillary, una persona logra un éxito mayor que otro con una igualdad de
oportunidades, el resultado del éxito constituye un privilegio especial que
debe ser negado a los más exitosos? ¿Hay que quitarle sus privilegios y lo que
logró para repartirlo entre los otros?
Esto me suena como marxismo, pero tenemos que recordar
que Hillary es
más un marxista doctrinal que Obama, en el mismo sentido que el Raúl y el Che
Guevara eran más marxistas que Fidel.
Fidel y Obama utilizan su ideología del marxismo para
su beneficio personal y no admiten compartir para beneficios del partido, algo
si este algo les quita autoridad.
Me temo que realmente una presidencia de Hillary Clinton sería mucho más peligrosamente
socialista que el mandato de Obama. El narcisismo incesante de Obama y la
negativa a trabajar con los líderes de cualquiera de las partes se ha
presentado haciéndolo mucho menos eficaz y peligroso de lo que él pudo
haber sido de lo contrario. Pero Hillary no sufre de ese problema. Ella se
prestará lista a forjar alianzas, trabajar con ambos lados y acribillar
enemigos políticos para conseguir lo que quiere, y lo que ella
quiere es una América Marxista.
Desde 1971, cuando tenía un veinte tres año y era estudiante de derecho
de Yale, Hillary Diane Rodham sirvió como interna para lo que era en ese
entonces, el grupo de abogados más comunista de la nación, Treuhaft,
Walker y Burnstein. Este despacho nunca ocultó sobre su la conexión al partido
comunista. Defendieron los comunistas del partido e incluso a miembros del
grupo militante, Panteras Negras.
Algunos cercanos partidarios políticos
de Hillary
están preocupados acerca de su tiempo en el bufete. Por supuesto tratan de
mantener esta historia que muestra su radicalideología
marxista lo más oculta posible del público.
En un discurso de 2007 en el tema de la "moderna
progresividad visión de prosperidad compartida", la entonces senadora Hillary Clinton dijo, "es el momento para un
nuevo comienzo, para poner fin al Gobierno de unos pocos, por unos pocos y para
unos pocos, el tiempo para rechazar la idea de una "en su propia “sociedad
y reemplazarlo con responsabilidad compartida para la prosperidad compartida.
Yo prefiero una sociedad compartida y que "estemos todos en esto
juntos".
Esto no era una idea aislada, es su doctrina, en
más o menos las mismas palabras las repitió con este pensamiento en un discurso
de campaña presidencial recientemente
¿Ahora me pregunto, está América listo para
esta "Visión progresista" de Hillary?
Y no nos olvidemos de le radical lazos islámicos yihadista.
Mientras que era Secretaria de Estado Hillary Clinton
su diputado y jefe de personal, Huma Abedin mantenía y todavía
mantiene estrechos lazos con la Hermandad musulmana.
No sé hasta qué punto los candidatos republicanos
tengan las agallas para denunciar el marxismo de Hillary sin pelos en la
lengua.
Se lo deben a la nación, si no lo hacen y el pueblo
vota por Hillary estará votando por unos Estados Unidos marxistas, si lo hacen
a sabiendas, es su derecho, pero al menos que no nos digan
"arrepentidos" después que no sabían que Hillary era comunista.
AMENPER: LA VERDAD LOS HARÁ LIBRES.
En estos tiempos en que vemos
cómo los militantes ateos atacan a las religiones de una manera absurda,
clamando que se sienten “ofendidos” en sus creencias ateas.
Pero lo absurdo del hecho es que
el ateísmo no es una creencia, es exactamente la falta de creencia, y de hecho
del que no cree, no tiene por qué sentirse molesto de lo que otros crean, mucho
menos sentirse emocionalmente afectados.
Sin lugar a dudas los militantes
ateos de hoy son realmente un movimiento político disfrazado de una religión
que usa el ateísmo cómo excusa para avanzar su ideología política. El comunismo
fue la primera ideología que estableció el ateísmo como doctrina y sus
derivados son los que vemos ahora como los ateos militantes.
El problema es que a mi pensar el
ateísmo realmente no existe, es una condición escapista con la que la persona
trata de auto-sugestionarse para excusarse de la responsabilidad de una
creencia.
La historia que me hacían los
compañeros de estudios que habían sido veteranos de la guerra de Corea,
testificaban el hecho que durante el combate, en las trincheras no había
ateos. Todos se sentían cerca de un ser superior por la cercanía de
la posibilidad del final de su existencia en este mundo y trataban de comunicar
su sentimiento por la oración.
Lo que más cerca viví y vi en mi
juventud realmente fuel el agnosticismo, que muchos confunden con el ateísmo,
pero que es
la opinión que los valores de la verdad son relativos, especialmente con
respecto a afirmaciones religiosas tales como si Dios, cosas divinas
o sobrenaturales que puedan que existen o no existen, que pudieran
existir pero es algo desconocido que no podemos negar ni afirmar, pero que no
podemos afirmar tampoco que Dios no existe como dicen los ateos.
En un sentido del término, un
agnóstico es alguien que no cree ni deja de creer en la existencia de Dios,
mientras que un ateo declara que no cree que exista un Dios
Pero según pasa la vida del
individuo y adquiere más experiencias durante su existencia, más
consciente se hace de que no está formado de carne y huesos solamente, que hay
algo que lo hace diferente a los animales, y que eso es el espíritu que es lo
que lo hace racional y consciente y razona de que alguien puso ese
espíritu en su cuerpo, por ende tiene que haber un ser superior, racionalmente
tiene que existir un Dios, y esta es la conclusión a la que en cualquier
momento dado piensa el 98% de la humanidad.
Hay muchos conceptos de Dios,
pero hay una aceptación por una gran mayoría de que existe un Dios.
Cualquier cosa menos Dios no es
racional, algo más que Dios no es posible, por eso es racional hablar a través
del espíritu con Dios, pero no es racional hablar a través de otra persona que
se autoproclame un Dios en la tierra.
En primer lugar, es esencial que
la idea de Dios deba de ser concebida como el poder más profundo en el universo
y segundo, él debe ser concebido bajo la forma de una personalidad mental, no
algo físico como uno de los llamados “representantes" de Dios o con un
Dios con los atributos de un carácter con los defectos humanos.
Una cosa es la religión para
propagar la idea de Dios, que debe de ser la razón de la existencia de las
instituciones religiosas, y otras es crear doctrinas y crear un Dios como un
perro de presa para controlar la vida de otros a nombre de Dios.
Un Dios que puede saborear y
complacerse con esas superfluidades del horror no es ningún Dios con el que un
ser humano puede realmente o se deba sentir atraído.
La arrogancia, la vanidad de
sentirse adorado, el horroroso castigo al que no lo reconoce, esto no puede ser
realmente un Dios. En otras palabras el "absoluto Dios" con los
propósitos y carácter humanos que se le atribuyen sería un hombre, pero así es
como visualiza a Dios la gente común por las enseñanzas
de las religiones. No importa que el cristianismo predique desde sus
orígenes al verdadero Dios de amor y perdón a su creación, los “representantes”
del cristianismo “castigan” ponen penitencias y hasta han llegado a asesinar a
otros en nombre de Cristo. Y que vamos a decir de religiones como el
Islam o el Judaísmo con creencias de un Dios que les ha otorgado una supremacía
racista, que les da autoridad para castigar a los que no son de su raza o esas
religiones de magia negra que hacen “trabajos” para eliminar a sus enemigos.
El problema es como enseñaba Aristóteles en su
búsqueda de la verdad, hay que buscar la verdad en uno mismo, mundo y la
experiencia no pueden nunca interrumpirse para un análisis totalmente objetivo,
solamente y nada más que la mente del observador puede encontrar la verdad y el
simple acto de observación o enseñanza externa afecta el resultado de cualquier
aproximación empírica a la verdad la verdad llega por la mente y sus
experiencias, y la naturaleza y la búsqueda de la verdad son inseparables.
Decían Platón y Aristóteles que hay que encontrar la
verdad por eliminación, haciéndose preguntas mentales y eliminando las
preguntas por la posibilidad en las respuestas, hasta llegar a la verdad.
La verdad es lo que lo puede llevar a uno a una
creencia saludable, de no buscarla, de aceptar lo que otros te digan que es la
verdad, te puede hacer adoptar una creencia que te hará esclavo de la mentira.
Verdad es la función de las
creencias que empiezan y terminan con el razonamiento.
LA
VERDAD OS HARÁ LIBRE. Evangelio de Juan 8:31
ESPAÑA ES UNA SIMPLE PROVINCIA
DEL IMPERIO BILDERBERG: BILDERBERG ESCRIBE EL GUIÓN
Eduardo Madina fue la apuesta
de Bilderberg para las primarias del partido socialista del verano pasado. Ganó
Pedro Sánchez, pero el club tiene sus ojos puestos en Pablo Iglesias, que
incluyó en el programa de Podemos una reclamación histórica del lobi de los
poderosos: la creación de un gobierno único mundial.
La Corona. Según Martín Jiménez, el rey «pasó un cásting» frente
al club Bilderberg antes de ser elegido por Franco para sucederle, y su
abdicación fue también dictada por el club. Se la pidieron a la reina Sofía en
la reunión del 2012 y le exigieron que no esperara al otoño pasado, que
eran los planes del Rey.
Henry Kissinger. Es el factótum del club Bilderberg, el
‘Maquiavelo del siglo XX’. Se le asigna la planificación de no pocos golpes de
Estado y el apoyo a dictaduras en todo el planeta. Suya es la frase: «Una
España fuerte es peligrosa». A
sus 93 años, la temporada pasada publicó un libro de elocuente título: ‘Orden
mundial’.
Ana Patricia Botín. El poder económico español ha mantenido
estrechos vínculos con Bilderberg. Aparte de la presidenta del Santander,
también han asistido a las reuniones César Alierta, José María Entrecanales,
Juan María Nin o Juan Luis Cebrián. Este último es hoy el único representante
español en el equipo directivo del club.
El triunfo de Felipe. Bilderberg bendijo su promoción como
candidato a la presidencia del Gobierno después de que varios miembros del club
se reunieran con él en 1977. Desde entonces fue uno de sus alumnos aventajados:
comunicó al cónclave el sí a la OTAN antes de anunciarlo a los españoles y
aceptó la orden de desmantelar la siderurgia española.
¿Y si la historia no fuera como nos la contaron? ¿Y si detrás de
los grandes acontecimientos ocurridos en Occidente en los últimos 60 años no
estuvieran la fatalidad o el viento de los tiempos, sino una oscura mano que
diseña a conciencia el devenir de los países? El misterio que rodea al club
Bilderberg -exclusivo cónclave que reúne cada año a algunas de las grandes
figuras del poder político, económico y militar del planeta para mantener
conversaciones cuyo contenido jamás trasciende-, alimenta las tesis de quienes
ven en esta elitista camarilla al verdadero gobierno del mundo en la sombra.
Hasta el punto de considerar que son ellos, y no el devenir de la historia,
quienes quitan y ponen gobiernos, relevan a reyes en los tronos y eligen a los
líderes que la gente luego vota en las urnas. ¿También en España?
Coincidiendo con la reunión anual del club Bilderberg, que tuvo
lugar la semana pasada en un hotel de lujo de la localidad austriaca de Telfs,
la periodista sevillana Cristina Martín Jiménez, considerada una experta
mundial en este intrigante lobi, acaba de publicar Los planes secretos del Club Bilderberg para
España (Temas
de hoy), un libro
donde establece conexiones directas entre algunos de los acontecimientos más
decisivos de nuestra historia reciente y ciertas reuniones de este grupo de
poder. Sus fuentes son los archivos desclasificados del servicio secreto
norteamericano, que le llevan a hacer una afirmación inquietante: «El club
Bilderberg guionizó la primera transición política española y ahora está
guionizando la segunda».
Viajemos en el tiempo. Los libros de Historia se fijan en hitos
conocidos, pero hay quien prefiere leer el devenir de los hechos situando el
foco en sucesos menos publicitados. Desde este otro punto de vista, la
democracia española pivota sobre una fecha:18 de diciembre de 1973. Ese
día, Henry Kissinger, secretario de Estado del Gobierno norteamericano y principal
figura de Bilderberg desde la fundación del club en 1954, viaja a Madrid y se
reúne con Franco y el entonces príncipe Juan Carlos de Borbón, y le suelta a
Laureano López Rodó, ministro de Exteriores: «Cualquier país que ataque a
Estados Unidos pagará un alto precio».
Al día siguiente, Luis Carrero
Blanco, presidente del Gobierno, saltaba por los aires en un atentado de ETA.
«Cuesta creer que la CIA no supiera nada de una bomba que estalló a 100 metros
de su embajada», señala Martín Jiménez. Dos meses antes, Carrero había negado a EEUU
el permiso para usar las bases en la guerra del Yom Kippur. «A Kissinger, autor
de la frase ‘una España fuerte es peligrosa’, le preocupaban los planes
nucleares de Franco y prefería otro futuro para España. Incluso Suárez dijo:
‘No sé si ETA cobra en rublos o en dólares’», añade la investigadora.
Según los documentos desclasificados de la CIA y la Agencia de
Seguridad Nacional norteamericana, mucho antes de ser designado por Franco para
legarle, Juan Carlos se reunió con
miembros de Bilderberg en Estados Unidos y recibió las bendiciones del selecto
clan para ser él quien pilotara el futuro de España.
España y la OTAN
Esta misma situación volvió a repetirse una década más tarde con Felipe González. «Él y Luis
Yánez viajaron a Washington en 1977 y se reunieron con Rockefeller y otras
figuras destacadas del club. A su vuelta, González se presentó como alternativa fiable al
poder», señala Martín Jiménez, quien asegura que el líder socialista comunicó a
figuras destacadas de Bilderberg su intención de aceptar la permanencia de
España en la OTAN antes de anunciarlo al país y se comprometió a desmantelar la
industria siderúrgica española como pago por el apoyo otorgado por el club a la
democracia española.
Desde que el emisario del Rey, Manuel Prado y Colón de Carvajal,
se convirtió en un fijo en las reuniones, son muchos los políticos y
empresarios de España que han asistido a las sesiones de Bilderberg: Zapatero,
Fraga, Almunia, Rato, Dolores de Cospedal, Ana Patricia Botín… «Pero no hay
constancia oficial, aunque a esos debates hayan acudido ministros, cargos
públicos y la propia reina Sofía», denuncia la investigadora.
En su opinión, hay coincidencias temporales que hablan por sí
solas. «Llama la atención que poco
después de que Javier Solana asistiera a la reunión de 1985, fue nombrado
secretario general de la OTAN. En el 2012, a escasos días de que Soraya
Sáenz de Santamaría fuera invitada a la cita de ese año, España solicitó el
rescate financiero», observa Martín Jiménez, para quien la UE, el euro, la
crisis y las políticas de austeridad son «creaciones puramente Bilderberg».
Este club, que toma su nombre del hotel holandés donde celebró su
primera reunión, nació para reforzar los lazos entre Estados Unidos y Europa
frente a la URSS, pero ha devenido en un opaco cónclave que en opinión de
muchos tiene más poder del aparente. El político y jurista Antonio Garrigues
Walker, amigo personal de Rockefeller, lo define como «el cerebro del mundo». Y
España parece ser uno de los asuntos predilectos de ese puente de mando
planetario en la sombra.
«Nuestra situación geoestratégica nos convierte en una pieza muy
valiosa para Bilderberg», advierte la periodista. Esa fijación por España llega
a nuestros días. Según Martín Jiménez, la mano del club está detrás de la
abdicación del Rey. «A la reina Sofía le dijeron en la sesión del 2012 que el
Rey estaba descontrolado y convenía pensar en el relevo, que se produjo el año
pasado, mientras la reina estaba de nuevo reunida con el club. Juan Carlos
pensaba abdicar en otoño, pero Bilderberg creía que se avecinaba una guerra con
el Estado Islámico y prefería tener resuelto antes el tema español. Ellos
eligieron la fecha», asegura Martín Jiménez.
No siempre aciertan en sus apuestas. Según la investigadora, el
candidato elegido por el club para dirigir el partido socialista en las
primarias del verano pasado era Eduardo Madina, no Pedro Sánchez. Pero no hay
peligro: en su opinión, estamos en puertas de que se repita con Pablo Iglesias
la misma historia que con Felipe González. «La inteligencia de este club se
mide tanto en su capacidad para elegir a los líderes como en su habilidad para
atraer a los demás. Lo único que no varía es el objetivo: tener bien atado el
poder y caminar hacia la instauración de un gobierno único en el mundo. Y en
esa hoja de ruta -concluye Martín Jiménez-, España es una simple provincia del
imperio Bilderberg».
Coming crisis of spending and national
debt
By The Joplin Globe,
A report released
this week puts front and center an issue that few politicians -- including
presidential candidates -- are discussing. Yet this issue dwarfs the
significance of anything else that has overtaken the national conversation.
We're talking about federal spending and the national debt, which is now at $18
trillion.
Currently, the debt held by the public is at 74 percent of the nation's
gross domestic product. That is money that is borrowed on the open market from
domestic and foreign investors and is owed back. The rest of the national debt
is internal debt, meaning it is money our government has borrowed from itself,
such as when it raids Social Security's trust fund. But that, too, is money
collected from the public in the form of taxes with the promise that it will be
there when needed.
Unless something changes, the national debt will exceed the gross
domestic product by 2040, according to projections from the Congressional
Budget Office. That may sound a long way off, but given that it has taken us
decades to get into this mess, 25 years is a short time frame to make a
difference. One-third of that time -- eight years -- could be consumed by the
next person elected president.
A recent Concord Coalition analysis determined: "Achieving the same
level of debt relative to the economy by 2040 as we have now would require a
$210 billion cut in spending or increase in revenues -- about $1,450 per person
-- every year for 25 years from the levels assumed in current projections. To
reduce the debt to its 50-year average (38 percent of GDP) would require a $480
billion cut in spending or increase in taxes every year."
--By the end of the next president's second term -- should he or she
have one -- "the major health and retirement programs, along with interest
on the debt, will account for over two-thirds of total spending -- up from 58
percent of spending in 2017."
--"In 2017, when the next president takes office -- the nation will
spend $331 billion just in interest payments on that debt, an amount that grows
to more than $800 billion by the end of the next president's possible second
term."
Just so you know, the interest payment on all that debt will be more
than the current federal spending on defense, education, transportation and
medical research combined.
No matter where the candidates stand on other issues, none of it will
really matter unless they can stand up to runaway federal spending. In the end,
it's even less about the candidate than it is about each of us. What choices,
commitments and sacrifices are we willing to make in order to avoid the coming
national debt crisis? Are we willing to demand that our next president make spending
and debt the top priority?
Black GOP Senator Just Destroyed Obama’s
Response to Church Shooting With This One Burning Question
“I
think the president is off base on this one to be honest with you.”
Sen. Tim
Scott, R-S.C., appeared on Fox News Channel’s The
Kelly File Friday to
share his reaction to the
recent mass shooting in his state. He began by offering some perspective to
those quick to pin any certain label on shooting suspect Dylann Roof.
“We have
a man who committed a heinous crime,” he said, “and it seemed like his heart
was completely filled with hate and it scrambled his mind.”
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Instead
of attempting to diagnose him any further at this point, however, Scott said he
is more interested in tending to “a community that is suffering because of his
actions.”
As for
Barack Obama’s knee-jerk reaction in calling for addition gun control
legislation in the aftermath of the shooting, Scott shared his disapproval.
“I think
the president is off base on this one to be honest with you,” he said.
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He went
on to pose a question to those who advocate gun control as a way to prevent
violence.
“What
type of gun law would have made this situation not occur?” he asked. “Frankly,
he was already breaking gun laws that currently exist when he went into a
church with a gun.”
Scott
went on to explain that many of the gun control measures endorsed on the left
would have had no impact on this shooting anyway.
“He had a
handgun,” he noted, “which is not an automatic weapon, so there is really no
conversation to be had that somehow the gun laws we have are not working.”
Scott
concluded: “Laws are created for a just society. This guy was not trying to be
a part of a just society.”
Obama uses the
N-word
If it’s not ok for a white guy to say it than it is
not ok for a black guy to say.
Check it out:
Check it out:
President Barack Obama did not mince words in
discussing race in a recent interview, going so far as to use the N-word in
talking about America’s complex racial history when speaking to Marc Maron on
the comedian’s “WTF” podcast in Los Angeles last
week.
“The legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in
almost every institution of our lives, you know, that casts a long shadow, and
that’s still part of our DNA that’s passed on. We’re not cured of it,” Obama
said in the interview, posted in full on Monday. “And it’s not just a matter of
it not being polite to say ‘n——-’ in public. That’s not the measure of whether
racism still exists or not. It’s not just a matter of overt discrimination. …
Societies don’t overnight completely erase everything that happened 2-300 years
prior.”
Addressing last week’s attack at a historic black
church in Charleston, South Carolina, Obama reiterated his point that “no other
advanced nation on Earth … tolerates multiple shootings on a regular basis and
considers it normal.” In Australia, Obama noted, there was a mass shooting in
Tasmania that was “so shocking” that the country changed its gun laws.
Read more at http://conservativebyte.com/2015/06/obama-uses-the-n-word/
Read more at http://conservativebyte.com/2015/06/obama-uses-the-n-word/
Boom:
The Supreme Court Just Issued A Decision In Favor Of A Church Battling
Government
Rob Crandall / Shutterstock.com
Associate Justice
Clarence Thomas offered the court’s opinion.
The United States
Supreme Court overturned a law Thursday which prohibited an Arizona church and
other religious institutions from displaying advertisements for events.
In Reed v. Gilbert, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of
Pastor Clyde Reed and the Good News Community Church in Gilbert, Ariz., which
challenged a town ordinance placing restrictions on “directional
signs” advertising events for religious organizations. The
restrictions mandated that signs be limited to six square feet in size and
could only be put up within 14 hours of an event. Political signs and others,
however, could be displayed for several months. Western Journalism’s B. Christopher Agee
gave background on the case last year:
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Two lower courts found that the town is within its
rights to impose differing rules on sign placement based on the parties
involved, provided the regulations are not based on the sign’s content.
Associate Justice
Clarence Thomas offered the court’s opinion. “The Town has offered no reason to
believe that directional signs pose a greater threat to safety than do
ideological or political signs,” wrote Thomas. “If anything, a sharply worded
ideological sign seems more likely to distract a driver than a sign directing
the public to a nearby church meeting.”
A sign ordinance narrowly tailored to the challenges
of protecting the safety of pedestrians, drivers, and passengers—such as
warning signs marking hazards on private property, signs directing traffic, or
street numbers associated with private houses — well might survive strict
scrutiny.
The signs at issue in this case, including political
and ideological signs and signs for events, are far removed from those
purposes. As discussed above, they are facially content based and are neither
justified by traditional safety concerns nor narrowly tailored.
Try telling the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that you lost some tax documents and then magically found them again once legal pressure was applied. What do you think the end result would be for you if you tried to operate this way? Judicial Watch is succeeding in court in its effort to remind the Obama IRS that it isn't above the law. But it's clear to us after reviewing a seven-page court filing the IRS finally submitted in response to a court order that the tax agency is working to stonewall our efforts.
Last week, just to review, I told you how Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia granted a Judicial Watch request to
issue an order requiring the IRS to provide answers by
June 12, 2015, on the status of the Lois Lerner emails the IRS had previously
and falsely declared lost. Judicial Watch raised questions about the IRS' handling
of the missing emails in a June 2 court filing, demanding answers about Lerner's emails,
which had been recovered from backup tapes. Judge Sullivan agreed that Judicial
Watch deserved answers and issued the court order on June 4, 2015.
So, late last Friday President Obama's recalcitrant
IRS agency finally complied with Judge Sullivan's June 4 order requiring the
agency to provide answers to Judicial Watch. Contrary to previous agency claims
that the emails were lost and unrecoverable, the IRS finally admits that it has
as many as 6,400 new Lerner emails but won't promise to turn them over to us
just yet. Even though the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
(TIGTA) already identified and removed emails that are duplicates, the IRS is
in "the process of conducting further manual deduplication of the
6,400" emails, rather than reviewing them in response to Judicial Watch's
Freedom of Information Act requests that are more than two years old now.
Our lawyers went back to the court right away and blew
the whistle on this continued obstruction. On Monday (June 15), our attorneys filed another response with the court. We said the IRS
should stop stonewalling and turn over the records it says it now has:
Judicial Watch respectfully requests
that the Court order the IRS to start producing any non-exempt, responsive
emails contained within the 6,400 emails immediately and disclose whether they
are all or a subset of the recovered emails from the 1,268 backup tapes.
And we highlighted that the Obama IRS has no response
to our well-founded accusations that it lied to Judicial Watch, the court, and
to Congress. In addition to withholding key information about Lerner's
"lost and found" emails, the Obama IRS:
does not refute in its seven-page
Response that the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
("TIGTA") was able to locate the Lois Lerner backup tapes within one
day of its investigation or that the IRS never requested the backup tapes from
its technicians before declaring that the emails were lost forever.
Yesterday evening, Judge Sullivan indicated that he
was not satisfied with the IRS' non-response to his court order. He ordered a comprehensive report from the IRS by June 29:
The IRS shall file a supplemental
report, setting forth any new information regarding: (1) TIGTA's recovery of
emails from the backup tapes; (2) TIGTA's production of emails to the IRS; (3)
the IRS's review of emails and production to the plaintiff; and (4) the status
of the TIGTA investigation.
And he also ordered the IRS into his court for a
hearing on July 1 to discuss the notices.
We are pleased that the court is demanding
answers. Our attorneys battling the IRS in several federal courts are doing
more than Congress, the media, or the Justice Department to hold the Obama IRS
to account for its outrageous conduct and lies. Barack Obama and his
corrupt allies in Washington may think using the IRS to harass, audit, and
intimidate Obama's opposition so he can steal an election is no big deal.
Judicial Watch is happy to remind the Obama gang, which is still running and abusing the power of the IRS, the rule of law
still applies to them.
The
Obama IRS isn't the only agency on the radar of Judicial Watch and, again,
Judge Sullivan....
Revelations that Hillary Clinton used a secret email
account to conduct official business while serving as secretary of state has
led to more decisive action today by U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan.
Judge Sullivan issued a decision to reopen a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking records about Huma Abedin, the
former deputy chief of staff, to Hillary Clinton.
This is actually the second Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit that has
been reopened because of Hillary Clinton's hidden email records. Judicial
Watch is aware of no prior instances of closed FOIA cases being reopened by
federal courts.
Judge Sullivan ruled that the "changed
circumstances" of the discovery that Hillary Clinton and members of her
State Department staff used secret email accounts to conduct government
business warranted "reopening" the lawsuit.
In asking Judge Sullivan to reopen the lawsuit, Judicial Watch cited a
federal court rule (Rule 60(b)(3)) that allows a party to reopen a case due to
"fraud (whether previously called intrinsic or extrinsic),
misrepresentation, or misconduct by an opposing party":
The State Department had an obligation
under the Federal Records Act to properly preserve, maintain, and make
available for retrieval records of its official functions. In fact, it is the
obligation of the head of every federal agency to do so. Secretary
Clinton plainly violated her own legal obligations. Doing so was misconduct.
The State Department originally agreed with Judicial
Watch's request but later changed its mind and asked the Court to reopen the
lawsuit because of "newly discovered evidence." In today's
ruling, Judge Sullivan simply reopened the case, rather than "spilling
ink" on whether Hillary Clinton and the State Department committed fraud,
misrepresentation or misconduct.
Huma Abedin left the State Department in February
2013, and in May 2013, Politico reported
that, since June 2012, she had been double-dipping, working as a consultant to
outside clients while continuing as a top adviser at State. Abedin's outside
clients included Teneo, a strategic consulting firm co-founded by former Bill
Clinton counselor Doug Band. According to Fox News, Abedin
earned $355,000 as a consultant to Teneo, in addition to her $135,000 SGE
compensation. As JW's chief investigative reporter Micah Morrison documents:
Teneo serves as a kind of private-enterprise
satellite to Clinton Inc. Doug Band, Mr. Clinton's right-hand man for many
years, is a Teneo founder. Huma Abedin, Mrs. Clinton's right-hand woman for
many years, was a senior advisor to Teneo at the same time she held a top
position as part of Mrs. Clinton's inner circle at the State Department. Bill
Clinton was both a paid adviser to Teneo and a client.
Secretary of State Clinton's former Economic Envoy to Northern Ireland, Declan
Kelly, is a Teneo co-founder and CEO.
JW was first to disclose the State Department's sham approval of Bill Clinton's
"arrangement" with the Teneo sham operation.
It was on March 2, 2015, that The New York Times reported then-Secretary Clinton used at least one
non-"state.gov" email account to conduct official
government business during her entire tenure as the secretary of state. It also
was reported that Clinton stored these records on a non-U.S. government server
at her home in Chappaqua, New York.
When the scandal came to light there were nearly 20
lawsuits and about 160 Judicial Watch FOIA requests affected by the Clinton
email cover-up. In our various FOIA lawsuits, our lawyers have informed
attorneys for the Obama administration that Hillary Clinton's account and any
other secret accounts used by State employees should be secured, recovered and
searched.
Since the scandal broke, we filed two dozen FOIA
requests on the email issue alone. By my count, we filed eight new
lawsuits just to get Hillary Clinton's hidden emails and details about how they
were illegally hidden from the American people, the courts, and Congress.
Our most recent lawsuit (the ninth!) is against John Kerry,
Hillary Clinton's successor as secretary of state, to try to force him to
follow the law and retrieve the government email records purloined by Clinton.
It is now apparent that Hillary Clinton's massive
email cover-up is unraveling. We welcome Judge Sullivan's decision to reopen
this lawsuit. Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration concealed records
and lied to obstruct federal courts and Judicial Watch from finding out about
the secret emails. The court battle to get to the truth about Huma
Abedin's "special government employee" (SGE) privileges at State is
underway. The reopening of this case brings Judicial Watch one step closer to
forcing the State Department to ensure that the government records in Hillary
Clinton's "secret" email system are properly preserved, protected and
recovered as federal law requires.
Given Huma Abedin's key role in the Clinton's cash
raising operation, and even the Benghazi scandal, this resuscitated lawsuit
could not be timelier.
Establishment
Washington goes through a memory wipe for favored, often leftist, politicians.
Bill Clinton's record of sexual depravity and assault is verboten. Every
once in a blue moon, the Big Media will remind us that he has had some problems
in this area. Vanity Fair did an expose on the issue back in 2008,
though more to help Barack Obama, the then-leftist favorite.
At one time or another, Judicial Watch represented
many of the female victims of Bill Clinton and his enablers - like Hillary
Clinton and George Stephanopoulos. So you can imagine we don't have much
patience for the joking manner of sloughing off credible allegations of rape
against Bill Clinton by Juanita Broaddrick. Or the sexual assault and
abuse as described by Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey. Or the terrifying
threats and intimidation recounted by Dolly Kyle and Gennifer Flowers.
So we take seriously the concerns about Bill Clinton's
trips to the Caribbean hideaway of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. One
question we want answered is simple: how much are taxpayers wasting on
Secret Service protection for Bill Clinton's dubious travel? Simple
question, but the Obama administration is in cover-up mode for Michelle Obama's
putative successor.
So, on June 15, 2015, we filed a Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) to obtain records of all expenses incurred to provide
"security and other services" to the former playboy president. Flight logbooks show that former President Clinton took
more than a dozen flights on Epstein's private jet. That's what was first
reported by Gawker.com. On at
least one of these trips, Clinton was accompanied by four Secret Service
agents.
The logbooks also show Clinton flew alongside a
woman who prosecutors believe procured underage girls to service Epstein and
others. We filed the FOIA lawsuit after DHS failed to comply with a
January 15, 2015, FOIA request to the U.S. Secret Service, seeking the
following:
Any and all records reflecting expenses
incurred to provide security and/or other services to former President Bill
Clinton and any companions for trips to the Caribbean island owned by Jeffrey
Epstein known as Little St. James from 2001 to the present date.
The scandal involving Epstein's Boeing 727, dubbed the "Lolita Express,"
and his private Caribbean island of Little Saint James first came to light in
December 2014, when Virginia
Roberts - now a married, 31-year-old mother of three - filed an affidavit in a Florida federal court charging that
at age 15 she was procured by socialite Ghislaine Maxwell to satisfy the sexual
needs of Epstein and his friends. Flight logs show that Clinton shared
Epstein's plane with Maxwell and Sarah Kellen, Epstein's former assistant, on at least 11 flights in 2002 and 2003.
New York Magazine reported that, in 2002, Clinton
recruited Epstein to make his plane available for a week-long anti-poverty and
anti-AIDS tour of Africa with Kevin Spacey, Chris Tucker, billionaire Ron
Burkle and Clinton confidant Gayle Smith (who now serves on Barack Obama's
National Security Council). The
logs from that trip show that Maxwell Kellen and a woman
named Chauntae Davis joined the entourage for five days. Davis is a soft-core
pornography movie actress, who appeared in Epstein's address book under an
entry for "massages." Clinton allegedly severed his connections
with Epstein once allegations over the millionaire sex offender's illegal
behavior surfaced and he was arrested back in 2005.
Just to show you the kind of company Bill Clinton is
keeping these days, Epstein is registeredas a
"Tier 1" sex offender with the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of
Justice. He served 13 months in jail after signing a plea agreement with the
U.S. government in 2008. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is said to
have identified about 40 potential victims of the former investment banker. Is
Bill Clinton innocent of anything inappropriate or illegal? Read closely
this New York Post story and judge for yourself.
Here's a snippet:
According to Virginia Roberts, who
claims to have been one of Epstein's many teenage sex slaves, Clinton also
visited Epstein's private Caribbean retreat, known as "Orgy Island."
"I
remember asking Jeffrey, 'What's Bill Clinton doing here?'" Roberts said
in 2011. The former president, she added, was accompanied by four young girls
during his stay - two of whom were among Epstein's regular sex partners.
"And [Jeffrey] laughed it off and said, 'Well, he owes me a favor.' He
never told me what favors they were."
Beginning with his misuse of state troopers when he
was Arkansas governor, Bill Clinton has a long record of abusing his
taxpayer-funded security details to facilitate and cover-up his illicit sexual
activities. (By the way, if you think the Secret Service would never allow its
officers to be used this way, you should track our website more closely. For instance, clickhere for our Corruption Chronicles report on new documents we released
about an obscene abuse of Secret Service resources to help out a
"friend"/administrative assistant of the former Secret Service
director.)
If there is nothing to hide in the Epstein scandal,
then why is the Obama administration breaking federal transparency law rather
than giving us information about his travels? That we've now had to go to
federal court to try to get this Secret Service information speaks volumes.
Until next week...
Until next week...
Tom Fitton
President
Republican
Support for Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty Shows Their True Colors
Congressional Republicans really showed their true colors this past Friday.
Even though the bill did not pass, 191 house GOP members sided with President
Obama and voted to grant him fast track authority over the Trans Pacific
Partnership Treaty. As you may well know, this fast track authority would have
given the president the power to negotiate any trade deal with any nation,
without congressional approval of any kind. This is a scary proposal as for
weeks we have heard report after report of congressmen having to be escorted
into the basement of the capital building just to view the bill. Even though
many have not read it, they still supported it because of its alleged “free
trade” proponents. The most disappointing aspect of Friday’s vote is knowing it
was Nancy Pelosi, who will always be remembered as saying “we have to pass it
to see what’s in it” when it came to Obama care, is the one who ultimately
killed the bill. It is highly likely that Pelosi’s actions are motivated by the
fact that the unions were strongly opposed to this trade agreement. Whatever
the case may be, the Republicans support for this trade authority proves beyond
a reasonable doubt that there are very few in Washington who are truly working
for the American people and that most support the money powers, even the
President.
President Obama easily won the 2008 presidential election because many
Americans saw the actions of the Republican Party being motivated by “corporate
greed.” Liberals have accused the conservatives of caring about nothing but
profits and corporate power. This tactic endured throughout the duration of
Obama’s presidency and was successful in bringing the Republican Party into
alignment with many of the Presidents goals. The support for fast track
authority and the Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty not only proved the liberals
making these accusations were right; it also brings into question the true
motivations and loyalties of President Obama. While many liberals have fallen
for the false notion that Obama is about protecting the poor and middle class,
his actions have consistently proven otherwise. President Obama has proven over
and over again that he is a stooge for big corporate power and that his
policies actually do more to redistribute wealth from the poor and middle
class to the wealthy elite he conditions you to hate. The best example is how
he enabled Jeffrey Immelt, president of G.E, to pay
no taxes and ship jobs overseas while serving as his “jobs czar.” This action alone
should have shown the liberals who Obama really is. While the Republican
establishment may support this kind of corporate greed, real
conservatives certainly don’t. Unfortunately, the Republican Party is stacked with
those that pose as conservatives and support this type of corporate power under
the guise that it grows the economy.
Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are two Republican Presidential contenders who
were in favor of granting fast track authority to Obama. As I mentioned in my
article “The
Application of Social Science through a Ted Cruz Presidential Run,” Ted Cruz’s wife is an
executive at Goldman Sachs, who would obviously have a big interest in seeing
this trade agreement finalized. Rubio and others support the bill because it
expands on the nation’s H1-B
visa program. This program allows companies to bring in foreign workers who have
degrees in high tech fields and hire them on a temporary basis. This actually
displaces American workers as those motivated by higher profits are firing
current employees and hiring foreigners, mostly from India, to
do the work at less than half the cost. Even Disney is in on the action.
Does this sound like something that a politician who has America’s best
interest at heart would support?
The Guardian.com released a damning report citing the amount of money U.S. senators
received to support the Fast Track Authority and Trans Pacific Partnership
Treaty. According to the report, a total of $1,148,971 was given to the senate.
Of that amount, the average senator that voted yea to support the bill received
$17,676.48. Breaking it down further, the average Republican, that includes Ted
Cruz and Marco Rubio, were paid a total of $19,673.00 while Democrats only
received $9,689.00. Well, at least Republicans held out as long as they could.
As it stands right now there are
a whopping 92, 898,000 Americans who are not participating in the labor force. This is the
highest number in over 37 years according to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics. In the seven years since Obama took office over 12 million American
workers have left the work force and that number continues to grow despite the
claims that the economy is improving. According to the Center
of Immigration Studies the number of jobs held by immigrants whether legal or illegal has
increased since 2007, while the number of jobs held by American citizens since
that time has actually decreased. This essentially means that much of the job
growth in the United States has gone to immigrants while American workers
continue to drop from the labor force. From The Center of Immigration Studies-
The BLS
reports that 23.1 million adult (16-plus) immigrants (legal and illegal) were
working in November 2007 and 25.1 million were working in November of this year
— a two million increase. For natives, 124.01 million were working in November
2007 compared to 122.56 million in November 2014 — a 1.46 million
decrease.
Although
all of the employment growth has gone to immigrants, natives accounted for 69
percent of the growth in the 16 and older population from 2007 to 2014.
The
number of immigrants working returned to pre-recession levels by the middle of
2012, and has continued to climb. But the number of natives working remains
almost 1.5 million below the November 2007 level.
More
recently, natives have done somewhat better. However, even with job growth in
the last two years (November 2012 to November 2014), 45 percent of employment
growth has gone to immigrants, though they comprise only 17 percent of the
labor force.
America does not this
treaty. It is due time to put American workers first and stop these insane
policies that enable corporations to seek the cheapest labor possible. There is
a point where it is no longer excusable to claim the cost of paying labor is
“too expensive” and that point is when you sell out your own country in order
to fatten your own wallet.
For those Americans who find themselves enamored with false conservatives
like Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, it is time to do some real soul searching. They
are the establishment that is selling out your children’s future with their
support for big corporate policies. In fact, it is safe to say the vast
majority of people sitting in the halls of the people’s government are voting
for their own interest, not yours. This vote for fast track authority and the
Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty proves that. Forty
four house Republicans voted against the trade vote on Friday, of which I
am proud to say my representative, Congressman Jim
Bridenstein is one of them, and
for that he deserves a thank you from his constituents, as do all of those that
voted no. It is a safe bet that this fight is not over. There is little chance,
seeing the amount of money that was paid to the senate, that the big corporate
players will just let this fall to the wayside. Watch closely America and don’t
let them get away with selling out your children’s future so big corporations
can profit a few extra dollars.
Read more at http://patriotupdate.com/articles/republican-support-for-trans-pacific-partnership-treaty-shows-their-true-colors/
Read more at http://patriotupdate.com/articles/republican-support-for-trans-pacific-partnership-treaty-shows-their-true-colors/
Mark Meadows to Fight GOP House Leadership: ‘Sometimes You Have to Make
Changes to the Coach’
A conservative House
lawmaker angry at “a culture of punishment and fear” created by Speaker John
Boehner and his leadership team has had enough.
“For the last six
months they have doled out small punishments in a variety of forms,” said Rep.
Mark Meadows of the conservative House Freedom Caucus.
“I personally have
received those. I have not gone public until now—because they went pulic first.
The leadership team wants to create a culture of punishment and fear without a
culture of debate and dialogue. But there is no honor in bowing to a bully.
There is only honor in fighting a good fight—win or lose. This is not a fight I
will back down from.”
Meadows, R-N.C., was
greeted in his Capitol Hill office last Thursday by Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the
House Oversight and Government Reform chairman, and given a lose-lose choice.
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He could resign as
chair of the Government Operations subcommittee or be removed from the role.
His misdeed?
Meadows, bucking
party leaders intent on giving trade powers to President Obama, was one of 34
Republicans to vote against a normally routine procedural vote that allowed a
vote on Trade Promotion Authority to occur.
Last week, in a
similar show of force against its own party, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise,
R-La., removed Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Steve Pearce of New Mexico and Trent
Franks of Arizona from the GOP vote-counting (whip) team.
In response to this
“trend” of retribution, conservative lawmakers planned a phone call for Monday
tonight to discuss how to respond.
Meadows, in an interview
with The Daily Signal, hinted that the response would be aggressive.
“My punishment has
nothing to do with job performance,” said Meadows, adding that his vote against
the procedural rule on trade was the first time he had voted against such a motion.
“I was given the
option of resigning. But I felt like resigning would be admitting that I did
something wrong, when all I did was vote with my conscience. This is designed
to intimidate and humiliate me and I wear that as a badge of honor. It is a badge
of honor to stand for freedom.”
Added the normally
mild-mannered Meadows:
There
has been a suggestion that I should keep quiet and mind my manners for several
months and then I will be given an opportunity to receive some of the benefits
leadership allows. But if we allow ourselves to be bullied in the House of
Representatives, how will we stand for Americans being stripped of their
freedoms?
This past weekend, in
an interview with Politico,
Chaffetz, using a sports reference, compared his action against Meadows to how
a coach “needs to make a change on the field.”
Today, Meadows turned
that reference around—directing his ire at Boehner.
“The number one thing
[to fight back] is changing legislation,” Meadows said. “If leadership won’t
allow that, the next course of action is to be clear that the consequences of
leadership’s actions are felt here in Washington, D.C. Just like Chaffetz said
sometimes you have to make changes to the team, sometimes you have to make
changes to the coach. Speaker Boehner is not allowing all of the members of his
team a chance to compete.”
Josh
Siegel
Josh
Siegel is the news editor for The Daily Signal.Send an email to Josh.
More Hillary Clinton Benghazi Emails Revealed
There’s new evidence
that the investigative record has long been incomplete on the administration’s
actions surrounding the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks on the U.S. compounds
in Benghazi, Libya.
Only now—more than
two-and-a-half years after the attacks—has the House Select Committee investigating
Benghazi finally obtain additional, related emails exchanged through former
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private server.
Ironically, it is
longtime Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal who provided the emails.
Blumenthal, who The
New York Times has reported had business aspirations in Libya, turned over his
email exchanges with Clinton as part of a committee document request prior to
his deposition last week.
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A statement issued
Monday by the Republican-led committee stated that the emails “should have
been, but were not, [previously] turned over in response to committee requests.”
“Once again the
Benghazi Committee uncovers information that should already be part of the
public record but was not made available to the American people or
congressional investigators,” said Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. “These
emails should have been part of the public record when Secretary Clinton left
office and at a bare minimum included when the State Department released
Clinton’s self-selected records on Libya.”
In yesterday’s
statement, Gowdy asked the State Department to provide the House their copies
of the emails by the end of the day, if they have them. The State Department
had earlier claimed it already passed onto the committee all Benghazi-related
emails from Clinton’s private server, as required under a court order.
It’s unclear as to
whether Clinton failed to provide the emails at issue to the State Department,
or whether the State Department withheld them from the committee.
The Benghazi
Committee’s lead Democrat, Elijah Cummings of Maryland, criticized Monday’s
public release of the Blumenthal-Clinton emails.
“Before today,
Chairman Gowdy had not officially released a single email from a single witness
in this entire investigation, which has lasted more than a year. Now, he has
apparently decided that this one witness is so critical that his emails—and his
alone—must be released,” said Cummings in a statement.
Blumenthal is a
former aide to President Bill Clinton and a one-time reporter for The
Washington Post, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. Part of the reason for the
controversy over his role in possibly advising Secretary Clinton via her
private server is that the White House had reportedly barred him from working
for the State Department. At the time, Obama officials were said to blame
Blumenthal for negative stories about Barack Obama when he faced Clinton in the
Democratic primary.
Excluded from the
State Department, Blumenthal was hired by the Clinton Foundation and
communicated with Secretary Clinton through her private server as he allegedly
positioned himself to develop business relationships with the government of
Libya after the ousting of dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Some of the emails
indicate that Clinton received intelligence and advice from Blumenthal. The
emails were not turned over previously in response to congressional requests or
Freedom of Information Act requests.
The emails show that
Clinton was not just a passive
recipient of memos or that she did not read them. They include an excerpt in
which Clinton asked Blumenthal for information before official meetings with
foreign officials. In another email, Clinton responds to a memo Blumenthal sent
by stating, “This strains credulity based on what I know. Any other info about
it?” And in other emails, Clinton prods Blumenthal to “keep ‘em coming,”
referring to intel memos and information Blumenthal had passed along.
According to the
Benghazi Committee, Blumenthal also “[planted] stories regarding the
secretary’s role in Libya policy and the aftermath of the attacks in Benghazi.”
One email from
Blumenthal advises Clinton, “When Qaddafi himself is finally removed, you
should of course make a public statement before the cameras wherever you are,
even in the driveway of your vacation house … The most important phrase is:
‘successful strategy.’”
Other emails read,
“H: Got done and published. Sid” and “H: Got all this done. Complete refutation
on Libya smear. [Hillary Clinton adviser] Philippe [Reines] can circulate this
links. Sid”
“It is significant
our top diplomat was directly receiving unvetted intelligence information,
which may have come from sources with financial interests in Libya,” said
Gowdy. “It is clear from these emails Secretary Clinton encouraged Mr.
Blumenthal to send them in some instances calling into question her previous
characterization of them as ‘unsolicited.’”
Clinton’s unusual use
of a private server for some government business at the State Department means
that independent sources are unable to search it for any public emails and
documents. After the private server was exposed last year, Clinton gave the
State Department 30,000 emails that she determined were official in nature. She
admitted deleting and then wiping her server of more than 30,000 other messages
that she says were private in nature.
Nota: esto es
bochornoso hasta donde la necesidad llega que hay que robar para poder
“resolver” como se llama allá al verbo de las penurias, nunca pensé que la Cuba
que yo nací se convirtiera en un pueblo tan humilde, ¡nunca Cuba fue así!
JORGE A VILLALON: Vandalizan
obras de la Bienal de La Habana
Si este evento, que termina hoy, pretendía invitar a «sentir la ciudad y su
gente», sin duda alguna alcanzó sus objetivos
lunes, junio 22, 2015
| Ernesto Pérez Chang
LA HABANA, Cuba. – Si la duodécima Bienal de La Habana, según han expresado
sus organizadores, pretendía invitar a «sentir la ciudad y su gente», sin duda
alguna alcanzó sus objetivos.
Al menos los actos de vandalismo que han arruinado muchas de las obras y
que en varios casos han motivado el retiro de piezas e instalaciones
importantes, de manera irónica demuestran la verdadera utilidad práctica del
arte para algunos cubanos.
Después de casi un mes de exhibición, lo que fuera una inmensa galería de
arte a cielo abierto ha terminado convertida en un muestrario de calamidades.
José Sierra, una de las personas encargadas del cuidado de las obras emplazadas
en el Malecón habanero, nos comenta sobre lo que ha sucedido:
“Los primeros días la gente más o menos se paraban a mirar, algunos
tocaban, sobre todo los niños, había policías en todas partes pero ya después
ha sido un desastre. (…) No solo porque el mar y la lluvia han hecho lo suyo
sino porque la gente te vigila, te juega cabeza o vienen bien tarde, por la
madrugada y arrancan pedazos. Todo lo que sea de utilidad se lo llevan. Hasta
se han robado las manijas de la pirámide de gaveteros [se refiere a la
obra Secreter, de Lina Leal]. (…) Hace unos días yo vi cómo, al
descaro, dos tipos sacaban los clavos de unos tablones. Estaban sentados en el
piso dando martillazos como si estuvieran en el patio de su casa. Ya ni la
policía les dice nada. Esto es como un “sírvase usted”. (…) Más allá de que
sean incultos o no, lo cierto es que hay mucha necesidad”.
Moraima Cobas, también celadora, nos da una idea de los destinos de los
fragmentos de algunas piezas:
“Ayer le oí decir a un hombre que la gente se lleva los trozos [de una obra
que simula un pastel gigante] porque, como es de colores vivos y de un material
como de plástico, lo cortan en pedacitos, los rebajan, les dan forma y hacen
collares, pulsos, y cosas de artesanía. La gente no respeta nada. (…) Han
tenido que acordonar el caldero [Delicatesen, de Roberto Fabelo] para
que no se pierdan los tenedores. ¿Tú te imaginas que, en vez de tenedores, esa
cosa la hubieran llenado de pollo o de carne? (…) Los 150 pesos [6 dólares como
único pago mensual] que nos dan por cuidar no pagan todo el trabajo que pasamos
toreando a la gente. Hay que tener mil ojos porque aquí en Cuba la gente se ha
convertido en magos. Si los custodios del Capitolio se quedaran dormidos, ahí
no queda ni la zapata”.
Durante todos estos días, quienes recorren las zonas de exposición han
podido escuchar no solo frases de admiración o desconcierto de los espectadores
sino, además, los comentarios sobre los posibles usos de aquel “montón de
cosas” que, después de concluida la Bienal el próximo 22 de junio, pudieran ser
mucho más útiles a esos que, en medio de tanta miseria, resulta penoso
recriminarlos por su interpretación de este importante acontecimiento cultural
solo como un rotundo carnaval del despilfarro o un mercadillo de gangas.
Alrededor de obras tan atractivas como la playa improvisada, las atalayas
de madera o la “pista de hielo” ya se van alistando los hombres y mujeres que,
carretillas en mano, aguardan con desesperación la clausura de la duodécima
Bienal de La Habana para comenzar el acarreo de la arena, los hierros, los
palos y cuanto material les sea útil. ¿Quién negará entonces que, si no los
artistas, al menos sus obras terminarán integrándose a “las mecánicas de lo
cotidiano?”.
Jorge Alberto
Villalón Y.
(EMO)
“Cuba es un pais del septimo mundo” LRGM
Stella McCartney’s New “Anti-Cruelty”
Fashion Line Celebrates Fidel Castro and Che Guevara
Humberto Fontova | Jun
19, 2015
With a little help from her friendly Dad (Paul) Stella
McCartney has made quite a name for herself as an ultra-chic fashion designer.
This week she introduced her spring line on Manhattan’s Elizabeth Street with a
Cuba-themed garden party where Fidel Castro and Che Guevara featured among the
main props of the cheeky soiree.
The Stalinist mass-murderers were featured both as
mannequins and as live costumed humans who walked around posing for pictures
with the ultra-chic models and guests along with the delighted (and
scrupulously vegetarian) hostess.
In keeping with Stella Mc Cartney’s “anti-cruelty”
beliefs, the event featured strictly vegetarian foodstuffs. None of that musty
“generation-gap” stuff for Stella! That stuff is “SOOOO 60’s” after all.
Instead she’s a proud Daddy’s girl, and as such a proud vegetarian and PETA
spokesperson. Indeed, Stella ritually denounces many fellow fashion designers
as “heartless” should leather or-- heaven forbid!—fur show up in any of their
creations.
“The collection is a celebration of spring: new life,
color, hope, energy and fun!” gushed McCartney about her spring line. “It’s
about flowers and color and I love designing spring. Cuba is just to have some
fun. Fun on top of fun!”
In case any Saturday Night Live or Comedy Central writers are
perusing Townhall today, here's a few ideas for scripts and skits:
The main props to Stella Mc Cartney’s “Fun, Joy, Life
and Anti-Cruelty!”- themed garden party were inspired by her unabashed
adulation of a regime that jailed and tortured political prisoners at a higher
rate than Stalin’s during the Great Terror and more Cubans in his first three
years in power than Hitler’s murdered Germans during his first six. Her “Peace
& Love” icons also craved—and came closest of anyone in history-- to
wantonly igniting a world-wide nuclear war.
In the above process the props to Stella Mc Cartney’s
“Fun!” themed party converted a nation (Cuba) which had enjoyed a higher
per-capita income than half of Europe and a huge influx of immigrants into one
that now repels Haitians and boasts the highest suicide rate in the Western
Hemisphere.
Over twenty-times as many Cubans have died attempting to escape the “Fun!” Cuba
of Stella Mc Cartney’s garden party props as Germans died trying to escape East Germany. And
the Cubans died much more horribly; of exposure, thirst, drowning or from being
eaten alive by sharks. The lucky ones were machine-gunned to death much like
East Berlin escapees!
Fidel Castro and Che Guevara also made it a criminal
offense for their Cuban subjects to listen to Stella's Dad's music. During the
mid 60’s Castro and Che’s ever-vigilant STASI-trained secret police was very
scrupulous in ferreting out the counter-revolutionary crime of listening to the
Beatles. The hapless Cuban youths guilty of this heinous crime were herded into
forced labor camps at Soviet bayonet point (Full documentation for these
seemingly preposterous claims, including accounts by Cuban
torture-victims themselves can be found here.)
Among Stella's Dad's most famous quotes we find: "All
You Need is Love!"
Well, among the cheekiest quotes by her garden-party
props and icons (Fidel, Che) we
find these:
* “My
nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood!"
* “Crazy
with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any surrendered enemy
that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for
the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!”
*“I’d like to confess, papa, at that moment I
discovered that I really like killing.”
*“Hatred is
the central element of our struggle!... Hatred that is intransigent…Hatred so violent
that it propels a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him
violent and cold- blooded killing machine…We reject any peaceful approach.
Violence is inevitable. To establish socialism rivers of blood must flow. “
* If the nuclear missiles had remained (in Cuba) we
would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City. The
victory of socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!” (Full
documentation for all of the above quotes can be found here.)
Thus spoke the icons of flower-children, and
apparently of the daughter of one very famous flower child. Please note: had
Nikita Khrushchev not yanked the nuclear missiles from her garden party icon in
the nick of time on that fateful October 28th of 1962, the very site of
Stella Mc Cartney’s garden party would be radioactive.
The regime founded by Stella Mc Cartney’s fun-loving
party props jailed and tortured 35,150 Cuban women for political crimes, a
totalitarian horror utterly unknown—not only in Cuba—but in the Western
Hemisphere until her party icons assumed absolute power to world applause. Some
of these Cuban ladies suffered twice as long in Castro’s Gulag as Alexander
Solzhenitsyn suffered in Stalin’s.
Their prison conditions were described by former
political prisoner Maritza Lugo. “The punishment cells measure 3 feet wide by 6
feet long. The toilet consisted of an 8 inch hole in the ground through which
cockroaches and rats entered, especially in cool temperatures, when the rats
came inside the cells to seek the warmth of our bodies and we were often
bitten. The suicide rate among women prisoners was very high.” When suffering
their tortures most of these women were in their 20’s.
An estimated 16,000 Cubans were murdered by firing
squad by Stella Mc Cartney’s garden party icons. Here we see videos of Stella's
fashion icons putting their words into action. (Warning, graphic content.)
Murder on video hardly started with ISIS. The ones
above on the orders of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro date from 1959. Some of
Fidel Castro and Che Guevara’s murder victims were women much younger than
Stella Mc Cartney. On Christmas Eve of 1961 a young Cuban woman named Juana
Figueroa Diaz spat in the face of the executioners who were binding and gagging
her. Castro and Che’s Russian-trained secret police had found her guilty of
feeding and hiding “bandits” (Cuban rednecks who took up arms to fight the
Stalinist theft of their land to build Soviet –style Kolkhozes.) When the blast
from the Castroite firing squad demolished her face and torso Juana was
six months pregnant.
Thousands of Cuban women have drowned, died of thirst
or have been eaten alive by sharks attempting to flee the horrors imposed on
the Cuban people by Stella Mc Cartney’s “FUN(!)” party icons. This from a
nation formerly richer than half the nations of Europe whose citizens
considered the U.S. their “vacation playground.” Yes, in 1953 more Cubans vacationed in (then voluntarily returned home
from) the U.S. than Americans vacationed in Cuba.
Alas! The above item doesn’t appear in Godfather II so
it’s mostly unknown.
CUBA: EL PASTOR DA LA VIDA POR LOS LOBOS
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Por Armando F. Valladares. Miami, domingo 14 de junio de 2015.
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El cardenal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, a lo largo de sus 34 años al frente de la arquidiócesis de La Habana, se ha transformado en uno de los mayores y más indispensables defensores del régimen comunista. El 5 de junio pp., el cardenal Ortega, en entrevista a la emisora española Cadena Ser, afirmó que “en Cuba no quedan presos políticos” y que los indultados por ocasión de la visita de Benedicto XVI a la isla-cárcel, en 2012, ya eran simples “presos comunes” (Diario de Cuba, Jun. 07, 2015).
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Las declaraciones cardenalicias causaron consternación en los opositores cubanos. El ex preso político Ciro Alexis Casanova Pérez, que fue considerado “prisionero de conciencia” por Amnistía Internacional, declaró con indignación que esa afirmación del cardenal Ortega sobre la supuesta inexistencia de presos políticos en Cuba “es una total mentira”, y lo incriminó por dedicarse a “apoyar la dictadura de los hermanos Castro” (Diario de Cuba, Jun. 11, 2015).
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Desde Cuba, el periodista independiente Mario Félix Lleonart señaló: “Raya en lo enigmático cómo alguien en la posición de este hombre se preste a aseverar algo que nadie cree en lo absoluto, y que no le ha hecho ningún favor, ni a la Iglesia que representa, ni a sí mismo. Es obvio que tan desatinada declaración echa por tierra toda la doctrina social de la Iglesia que está llamado a respaldar y a practicar” (14 y Medio, Jun. 12, 2015).
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El ex preso político Daniel Ferrer, quien fuera declarado prisionero de conciencia por Amnistía Internacional, lamentó desde la isla: “Negar que en Cuba haya presos políticos es mentir cínicamente y un seguidor de Aquel que murió crucificado por salvar a la humanidad y defender a los humildes, discriminados y perseguidos, no debería comportarse de tal forma. El cardenal Ortega no resulta ser un ‘Buen Samaritano’ (S. Lucas 10, 25) cuando niega la existencia de presos políticos, cuando no condena abiertamente las flagrantes violaciones a los derechos fundamentales de los cubanos, incluyendo los derechos de los católicos, y cuando minimiza conscientemente la importancia de la labor de quienes luchan con amor por la libertad, la justicia y el bienestar de la nación” (Religión en Revolución, Jun. 2015).
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Una integrante del movimiento Damas de Blanco, Ada María López Canino, quien el domingo 7 de junio pp. fue agredida y lesionada en La Habana por turbas castristas, declaró: “Yo le pregunto al cardenal por qué (para citar dos ejemplos) Ángel Santiesteban está cumpliendo una larga condena, y por qué Danilo Maldonado está como preso político encarcelado. Yo quiero saber, si no son presos políticos, ¿qué son? Las Damas de Blanco marchamos pidiendo la liberación de los presos políticos en Cuba. Y esas fotos que nosotras presentamos, ¿de dónde las sacamos si no son las fotos de los presos políticos que están en las mazmorras castristas? ¿Qué pretende decir, que nosotras mentimos? Que me perdone, pero es un mentiroso, debiera llamarse Raúl Castro, no Cardenal Ortega” (Cubanet, Jun. 10, 2015).
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Por su parte, la Comisión Cubana de Derechos Humanos dijo que las declaraciones del Cardenal no tienen que ver con la realidad del país. "Ahora mismo, hay más de 50 presos políticos" (Radio Martí, Jun. 08, 2015).
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En realidad, es difícil saber el número de presos políticos en Cuba, porque el régimen constantemente detiene y condena a opositores muchas veces incriminándolos por delitos comunes, para ocultar que se trata de persecuciones políticas. Según la filosofía totalitaria del régimen y de acuerdo con las disposiciones de la Constitución y el Código Penal sobre las libertades de religión y de expresión, éstas solamente se toleran en la medida en que no se opongan a la ideología comunista. Se trata entonces de una isla-presidio cuyos 12 millones de habitantes podrían ser considerados como “prisioneros de conciencia”, subyugados por un implacable torniquete jurídico-político-policial.
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Recientes “excarcelaciones” de presos políticos de la isla están siendo amplificadas por grandes medios de comunicación, y por altos líderes políticos y religiosos como actos de liberalización del régimen. Sin embargo, los opositores ya han hecho notar que en el lenguaje “jurídico” cubano términos eufemísticos como “excarcelación” y “licencia extrapenal” significan “libertades condicionales”, cosméticas, que en la actual coyuntura sirven para facilitar las negociaciones con el presidente Obama y para no desacreditar al mentor de esas negociaciones, el pontífice Francisco. Algunos recientes “excarcelados” están siendo amenazados por los órganos de seguridad de que en cualquier momento pueden volver a la prisión para continuar pagando por sus “crímenes” contra el Estado comunista. A otros “excarcelados” se les ha retenido toda la documentación, y quedan en una especie de limbo jurídico, como parias dentro de la sociedad comunista (La Vanguardia – Europa Press, Enero 09, 2015).
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En realidad, todos esos fraudes y farsas castristas son conocidos por las embajadas en La Habana y por las cancillerías del mundo entero, especialmente por la secretaría de Estado de los Estados Unidos y por la secretaría de Estado del Vaticano. El mismo botox publicitario que ahora el régimen aplica nuevamente por ocasión de las negociaciones con los Estados Unidos, y en función de la próxima visita del pontífice Francisco, ya había sido aplicado en vísperas de las visitas papales de Juan Pablo II y de Benedicto XVI. No obstante, se mantiene un misterioso silencio sobre esas farsas del régimen cubano. Y el cardenal Ortega continuó y continúa, como si nada ocurriera, como Pastor del desdichado rebaño católico cubano.
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Tal vez nunca antes en la Historia tantos dirigentes mundiales convergieron para salvar del naufragio a una dictadura, como es el caso del régimen castrista. Los cubanos dentro y fuera de la isla que dedicamos nuestras vidas a luchar, en el plano de la ideas, por la libertad y dignidad de Cuba, estamos dispuestos a continuar desenmascarando las maniobras de la dictadura castrista y analizando públicamente las actitudes de sus altos protectores, esperando contra toda esperanza (Epístola a los Romanos, 4-18 y 19).
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En el caso del cardenal Ortega, por su larga trayectoria de décadas de actitudes procastristas, estamos ante un Pastor dispuesto a dar su vida por los propios Lobos, y no por el rebaño a él encomendado, que se encuentra indefenso, huérfano y desamparado.
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Es preciso decirlo: todo este drama cubano, de casi seis inimaginables décadas de injusticia, miseria comunista y sangre, se desarrolla ante la Indiferencia, con I mayúscula, de buena parte de la opinión pública mundial, así como ante la pertinaz y enigmática Colaboración, con C mayúscula, de considerable número de dirigentes y élites del mundo entero.
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Que el buen Dios, al que en este momento recurro clamando por Justicia, ayude al indefenso, huérfano, desamparado, maltratado y diezmado rebaño cubano y remueva la Indiferencia mundial hacia ese drama inimaginable.
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Armando Valladares, escritor, pintor y poeta, pasó 22 años en las cárceles políticas de Cuba. Es autor del best-seller "Contra toda esperanza", donde narra el horror de las prisiones castristas. Fue embajador de los Estados Unidos ante la Comisión de Derechos Humanos de la ONU bajo las administraciones Reagan y Bush. Recibió la Medalla Presidencial del Ciudadano y el Superior Award del Departamento de Estado. Ha escrito numerosos artículos sobre la colaboración eclesiástica con el comunismo cubano y sobre la "ostpolitik" vaticana hacia Cuba.
Puede leerse el más reciente de esos artículos, en español y en inglés, en los siguientes links:
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Francisco, el nuncio y el tirano
http://www.cubdest.org/1506/c1505castrorom.htm
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Francis, the nuncio and the tyrant
http://www.cubdest.org/1506/c1505castroromen.htm
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(este artículo puede difundirse libremente, en cualquier medio de comunicación; opiniones, pedidos de subs cripción, rem oción, etc. pueden enviarse a armandovalladares2012@gmail.com)
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Artist, writer and poet; he began to study painting at the School for Visual Arts in his hometown of Pinar del Rio, Cuba.
In 1960, while working in the Office of the Ministry
of Communications for the Revolutionary Government of Fidel Castro, he was
arrested for openly expressing his disapproval of communism. Without any
evidence or witnesses to accuse him, in less than a week he was sentenced to 30
years in prison; his only crime was having a different point of view and moral
conviction. Refusing to succumb to the indoctrination of the prison’s
political rehabilitation program, he was subjected to torture, kept in
isolation and in solitary confinement cells for long periods of time, even
years.
Written on cigarette papers, he was able to
clandestinely smuggle out his collection of poems so they could be published
outside of Cuba and his work be known by intellectuals worldwide. The PEN
Club of France honored him with the Freedom Prize, awarded to writers in
prison. In several European countries, Valladares Committees were
established to work on achieving his freedom. Amnesty International
adopted him as a prisoner of conscience. The worldwide campaign
spearheaded by his wife Martha resulted in French president François
Mitterrand’s personal petition to Fidel Castro, which resulted in his release
after 22 years in prison on October of 1982.
After his release, he wrote the international best
seller “Against All Hope”, his memoirs based on his time in prison, which has
been translated into 18 languages. After reading the book, President
Ronald Reagan named him U.S. Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Commission where
he demonstrated that in Cuba, as in all dictatorships, their exists torture and
human rights violations. President Reagan also honored him with the
Presidential “Citizens” Medal, the second highest award given to a civilian in
the U.S. He was also bestowed the Superior Award by the U.S. Department of
State.
He also has been honored with the Italian Prize for
International Journalism, the ISCHIA, and the Order of José Cecilio del Valle,
the highest distinction granted to a foreigner by the government of Honduras.
Many of his art pieces are held in private collections
in the United States, Central and South America, Spain and France. He has
also participated in numerous individual and collective art exhibitions.
“FREEDOM IS
NOT FREE”
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