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• "My vote is for sale" signs in the U.S. Congress: How much are you willing to give me for my vote in favor of continuing the Cuba embargo?

  
  Cuba Journal — Authority: 429
  More transparency would shine light on power of special-interest contributions Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:03 PM PST Nov. 24 Daily News editorial Lobbyists and other apologists for the current money-driven system of funding political campaigns often dismiss critics with the counterintuitive claim that big ...
  3 days ago

• The Cuba embargo: The answer my friend is laying in the wind

  
  Cuba Journal — Authority: 429
  How can the current executive branch leadership of the United Sates continue to enforce the Cuba embargo/blockade? Are they myopic or just plain stupid? How can they arrogantly ignore the wishes of 187 civilized countries at the United Nations? For 18 years in a row the General Assembly has condemned, by big margins, ...
  3 days ago

• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
  4 days ago

• Two Ladies

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 169
  Pssst, the Nine embargo breaks tomorrow. **
  4 days ago

• Video: Debating US travel ban to Cuba

  
  Politics Live — Authority: 124
  In the United States, the Congress debated lifting the five-decade long travel embargo for American citizens to Cuba. Watch now: Watch more breaking news now: Bookmark Politics Live and drop back whenever you need to watch the U.S. political scene.
  6 days ago

• Yoani Sanchez gets reply from Obama

  
  Fausta's Blog — Authority: 143
  Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez submitted seven questions to pres. Obama and to Raul Castro. Only Obama replied. You can read her post here . The Miami Herald reports, Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez gets answers — from President Obama A spokesman for the U.S. State Department’s Western Hemisphere department ...
  1 week ago

• Wasting the honeymoon:So far Bush has a better record for closing Guantanamo

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  By the looks of things at Guantanamo no one is shutting the place down. McDonalds this month has advertised a job opening at Gitmo: an assistant manager willing to relocate to the fast-food chains only outlet on the communist island of Cuba, and one within sight of the razor-ribbon guarding the terror detainees camp ...
  1 week ago

• Palin mag cover a cheap shot

  
  RedEye — Authority: 627
  I am reluctant to side with Sarah Palin. Despite her obvious "by golly" charm and snappy, rehearsed one-liners, Im no fan of the politico-turned-author. When it comes to numerous public policy issues, Alaskas finest and I do not see eye-to-eye. That is, except on one thing: Her now infamous Newsweek cover. Next ...
  1 week ago

• Who seriously wants the trade embargo?

  
  The South Chicagoan — Authority: 124
  I got a kick out of reading the results of a new poll taken of the Cuban people (as in the ones still living on the island, not the exile community centered spiritually around Miami). For it seems that this particular survey shows the bulk of the island’s population is ready to see the United States as their ...
  1 week ago

• Tear Down This Wall … between the U.S. and Cuba

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 731
  The House Foreign Affairs Committee is holding a hearing today on the almost 50 year old ban on travel to Cuba. The ban is part of a broader economic embargo in place since the early 1960s that was supposed to bring about change in the island’s oppressive, communist regime. Instead, the embargo and travel ...
  1 week ago

• ... And Still the Same U.S. Policy [Updated]

  
  Mambi Watch — Authority: 453
  H uman Rights Watch (HRW) has just released an new 123-page report on Cuba focused on its systematic (and often violent) repression of dissent inside the island. In sum, the report calls for a multilateral policy towards Cuba, rejecting the U.S. embargo, and placing maximum pressure on the Cuban government for the ...
  1 week ago

• U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, faithfull servant of Miamis Cuban Mafia

  
  Cuba Journal — Authority: 429
  Cuba cites nonpartisan report in attacking Menendez stance on embargo By The Jersey Journal November 17, 2009, 7:20PM Cuban officials attack U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez for receiving the most campaign contributions from a PAC that supports the embargo against the islands government. Since the report by the ...
  1 week ago

• Message to Barack Obama

  
  Cuba Journal — Authority: 429
  Has anyone noticed the similarities between Tweedledee (George W. Bush) and Tweedledum (Barack Obama)? The guy who promised us "change you can believe in" is giving us "more of the same old crap" on the Cuba issue. He fooled me once; he wont fool me again in 2012! Everyone should start considering writing-in ...
  1 week ago

• How the U.S.-Cuba Democracy PAC buys the votes of corrupt politicians in the U.S. Congress

  
  Cuba Journal — Authority: 429
  Money affects Cuba policy A new report suggests a connection between campaign contributions and votes on sanctions against Cuba. WASHINGTON - Supporters of the U.S. embargo against Cuba have contributed nearly $11 million to members of Congress since 2004 in a largely successful effort to block efforts to weaken ...
  1 week ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  1 week ago

• Marco Rubio: Populist or Conservative?

  
  race42008.com — Authority: 640
  I remain in a state of hypovolemic shock over the love affair between the conservative pundocracy and the image portrayed by the Rubio Senate campaign.  What is becoming obvious, is that fact and reality is absent from the conservative movements quest to discover a generation-x Ronald Reagan. Florida has ...
  2 weeks ago

• "This hostility must seem perfectly sensible if you’re an old man who has your secretary find and..."

  
  Leftover Takeout — Authority: 432
  “This hostility must seem perfectly sensible if you’re an old man who has your secretary find and print up Web pages on your behalf. But here’s a pro tip, Rupert: Old media doesn’t instant message those pages to your assistant’s Twitter, via Blogger, on AOL. She just does what your newspaper reporters and ...
  2 weeks ago

• A review of Cheapflights.coms "Travelnomics: Calling on Cuba" guide

  
  Gadling — Authority: 702
  Filed under: Learning , Stories , Cuba , Hotels and Accommodations , Airlines , Transportation , Budget Travel , Internet Tools , Travel Deals , Caribbean Change is upon Cuba, and American travelers are especially eager to capitalize on the end of the travel embargo. In anticipation of the easing of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Around Town …

  
  Jason Poblete — Authority: 405
  U.S. Citizen Sentenced for Illegal Exports of Controlled Aircraft Parts to Iran .  Last week the Department of Justice announced that the “director of Monarch Aviation Pte, Ltd. (“Monarch”), a Singapore company that imported and exported military and commercial aircraft components for more than 20 years, was ...
  2 weeks ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  2 weeks ago

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