powerlineblog.com - 12/28/2008
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Raul Castro talks economic sense :
Cuban President Raul Castro called on Saturday for austerity measures including fewer subsidies for workers and stricter management to pull the country out of an economic morass aggravated this year by three hurricanes and the global financial crisis. ...
reuters.com - 12/28/2008
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reuters.com —
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro called
on Saturday for austerity measures including fewer subsidies for...
workers and stricter management to pull the country out of an economic morass aggravated this year by three hurricanes and the ...
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Raul Castro calls for harder work, fewer ...
spectator.org - 12/31/2008
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spectator.org —
"If there is no struggle, there is no
progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never...
did and it never will." -- Frederick Douglass December marks the 60 th anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human ...
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Cuba's Hidden Heroes
babalublog.com - 1/2/2009
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babalublog.com —
The Miami Herald reports here that authorities in
Santiago de Cuba banned locals from attending a 50th...
anniversary of the revolution "celebration" scheduled for today. Some sad but telling quotes from locals worth reading (emphasis mine). SANTIAGO DE ...
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Cubans Not Allowed
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This ought to leave a mark - It’s sad to say, but there are many in Congress and even some in the administration who could take a lesson from Castro’s realism. Alas, even aimed straight and true a la Politeness Man’s Platinum Hankie, right at the average Congresscritter’s noggin, it probably won’t make a dent. Is it an evolutionary event that ostensibly homo sapient creatures within the beltway have transformed the cranium and its contents into vestigial appendages?
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