americanthinker.com - 10/23/2009
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In wistful moods, I often wonder what Cuba, might look like today if talk radio, Fox News and the web had been around to mount a counterattack against Castro's media propagandists.
faustasblog.com - 10/29/2009
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faustasblog.com —
In order to “save the earth” apparently we
must all give up basic sanitation. Last year it...
was the Manhattan couple that stopped using toilet paper . Ugh. This year it’s the fool feeling guilty about taking hot showers . After deluging us with statistics about how ...
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Green and dirty
jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com - 10/26/2009
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jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com —
Well, there's at least one sane member of
the Castro family.THE younger sister of Fidel and Raul...
Castro, Juanita Castro, collaborated with the US Central Intelligence Agency against her brothers' rule in Cuba before going into exile in Miami in 1964, she said today.Juanita Castro, 76, who has ...
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Castro's Sister Worked for CIA
breitbart.com - 10/26/2009
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breitbart.com —
Oscar-winning actor and political activist Sean Penn flew
to Cuba hoping to interview its revolutionary icon Fidel...
Castro, entertainment news website TMZ reported Sunday. "Sean (Penn) is going to the land of Fidel as a journalist, writing a story ...
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Sean Penn heads to Cuba to interview Fidel Castro: report
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... bringing Castro to power?"
Mr Smith: "The State Department played a large part in bringing Castro to power. The press, other Government agencies (CIA), members of Congress are also responsible...There was no question that there was Communist control of (Castro's) movement....yet we refused to sell arms to a friendly government (Batista) and we persuaded other friendly governments not to sell arms to Cuba."
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