Saturday, November 2, 2013

President Obama will host President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia at the White House on Tuesday, December 3 -- Why the Colombian President is a Great Failure, a Lame Duck and next year can witness his poltical ruin and demise

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Americans like success and don't love failure. This President Juan Manuel Santos is cursed with failure !


JMS promised in his presidential campaign of 2010 to be strong and tough against the FARC Narco Kidnappers, but has done exactly the opposite giving Heaven and Earth to these Bombers that kill Children, Women and the Old with Land Mines, practice Bomb Terrorism in Commercial Centers and kidnap citizens for ransom in highways.


The Plan of Santos is to populate the Colombian Congress with FARC terrorists, using CONSTITUTIONAL fraud and shortcuts, and deceiving the electorate by all possible means, using dirty tricks like "Special Districts" that are fake constituencies to force FARC into that Congress.

JMs says former President Alvaro Uribe's Government was very CORRUPT, but he was the "star minister" and heir, he was one of the main recipients of power during that Government and destroyed Uribe's legacy of Security and Victory over the Terrorist FARC.


The White House says : 

"The visit will highlight our longstanding partnership with Colombia and our continuing support for the Santos Administration’s efforts to achieve peace and to build a more democratic society."

Certainly I believe that the USA and Colombia are allies for very strong reasons in these fields of consideration : Military, Defense, Geopolitical, Economic, Cultural. And I believe that the friendship will grow and each nation will consider the other more important in the future.

But there is something wrong in the White House Statement.

Vicente Duque

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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Learn something about President Obama by watching a guy that has the opposite personality and character. The President of Colombia JM Santos, a weak guy, pusillanimous, lacking courage and resolution to face enemies

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Obama fights to preserve the Constitutional Order and Integrity of the USA, for Rationality and Sanity against Republicans entrenched in Electoral Districts gotten by Despicable Gerrymandering and secure for reelections : "captive fiefdoms", "rotten boroughs" : decayed and pocket electorates : Racists in the Old South.

Obama fights for Democracy, Freedom, Honor and Dignity and for Respect to the USA.

Juan Manuel Santos is the opposite pole, he surrenders to Narcos, Kidnappers, Murderers.

He first knelt before Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro and Daniel Ortega. He has been resigned to the loss of 75,000 thousand square kilometers of Colombian Seas stolen by Nicaragua without doing nothing effective except talking a lot of nonsense and spending millions of dollars in American Lawyers.

After an "operation turtle" to press him JM Santos gave an increase of 4,000 dollars a month to Colombian Congressmen, even if they already earn 12,500 a month and have lots of free benefits like cars, free air travel, free houses, meals, etc ... paid by the taxpayer

And he is going to place the FARC terrorists in the Colombian Congress by a Scam, Fraud  and Chicanery of  nonexistent "Special Districts" ... FARC regularly kidnaps Americans and Foreigners and JM Santos is going to give them TOTAL IMPUNITY and PERFECT AMNESTY !

Vicente Duque

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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Computer Simulations of Terrorism and the Spread of Castro-Chavo-Communism in Colombia and South America - Can the USA lose the Southern Caribbean and even more ?? - Horrible Scenarios for American Foreign Policy

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I have seen the most beautiful Computer Simulations of Life and Evolution - Life forms are born, reproduce and die on the screen, they eat each other according to rules. Many life structures and species are created

President JM Santos of Colombia is going to force brutally the inclusion of FARC Narco Terrorists and Murderers in the Colombian Congress and Mayors of Cities

This should be computer simulated by CIA, NSA, etc ....

What is the effect of these prizes and encouragement to Terrorists - According to Santos White Doves of Peace will fly over Colombian and all Narco Terrorists and Kidnappers will cease their evil actions immediately.

I think that life is not so simple and I would bet that all bad guys will be encouraged by the big prizes that Genocide Murderers are going to get with such a foolish president.

If you follow American Foreign Policy for Latin America then you can see crazy dictators creating trouble for the USA, specially in Nicaragua, Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia.

I would not say that Brazil and Argentina are great and faithful allies of the USA.

But the Colombian Case is very grave, Colombian has been deemed the best ally of the USA in the Region and has two oceans Atlantic and Pacific right next to Panama and its canal.

Fortunately for Colombia and the USA, Colombia is a close ally ( but not a member ) of NATO. It would be a nice idea for the Western Nations to have a close watch on what happens in Colombia, and continue in the existing NATO-Colombia alliance.

Vicente Duque

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Monday, August 26, 2013

Colombia shows that Girls Skin is the greatest enemy of COMMUNISM - In areas where Girls wear Bikinis, Hot Pants, or show cleavages, the "FARC Agrarian Strike" is non existent, now in August 2013

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Whereas in more primitive areas of Colombia where Women wear Men Hats and girls never show skin the Violence appears

Rock, Rap and Blue Jeans also exorcise the violent Communist FARC guerrillas : The areas with great Sea Harbors or Airports and with surrounding industries and agro-industry for Export have no riots in this month of August

The protest is concentrated in very small areas : Boyaca, Cauca, Nariño, where people are more indigenous and folkloric in their attire - That is at most 5% of Colombia and they are the most backward, primitive and rural areas

Castro-Chavo-Communism is defeated by Girls Skin, that is by MODERNITY

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Thursday, August 15, 2013

The coming Global Challenges and Confrontations between the USA, Canada, NATO on one side and China, Russia, others on the other side - Why things are going for the worst, not only in the Middle Eat but in Latin America

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Sorry to worry and disturb you, but the following decades do not look as very peaceful and lacking in Confrontation and Conflict.

You know how stressful things are in the Middle East !

But how about Latin America ??, where some crazy filo-communist dictators constantly cause trouble for the USA, and they are supported by China, Russia and their weapons.

These Castro-Chavo-Communists pick on Colombia, an important ally of the USA, Canada and NATO that cooperates in defense with these Super Powers. They are successfully stealing the seas, islands and lands of that beleaguered nation.

And the President of Colombia is a super fool, a "Tropical Neville Chamberlain" kneeling before the brutal dictators and giving heaven and earth to the NARCO KIDNAPPERS, terrorist murderers of Children, Women and the Old : Enter the FARC guerrillas to rule the country ! - Like Pablo Escobar ruling Colombia or the Zetas ruling Mexico.

Colombia is very useful for USA and its friends because of its location at the heart of Latin America and next to the Panama Canal. It is vital to keep peace in the Southern Caribbean.

Perhaps you are informed of the Nicaragua Canal that China is going to build and probably occupy with many ships, airplanes, etc ...

And Venezuela has been buying weapons from Russia and China at fast speed. An Arms race in the Caribbean.

And Cuba is sending weapons to North Korea via Panama or so they say. Probably the destination was South America to attack Colombia.

According to informations of the National Review, the Chinese Premier has visited the Azore Islands and China is very interested in bases in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean.

Sorry if this is very pessimistic. Perhaps Realistic ??

Vicente Duque

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

The Great Political Tragedy and Degradation of Latin America : The sickness is particularly acute in Venezuela and Colombia. - In Venezuela Chavismo has ruined the Economy and established a repugnant dictatorship. In Colombia the President ruins the country

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In Colombia the President says that the FARC should not be humiliated, but he humiliates the whole nation by giving heaven and earth to the Terrorists and Murderers of Children, Women and the Old.

He is going to place the FARC inside Congress by means of Fraud and the Constitution is disregarded.

The USA is the favorite punching bag for Communist leaning Governments of Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and never forget Cuba that is the Orchestra Director and Maestro of the Cacophony of insults.

Colombia was greatly insulted when it approached and was well received as a friend ( but not a member of course ) of NATO ( North Atlantic Treaty Organization ).

I am somewhat pessimistic and I think that Communism ( and Imbecility ! ) is going to make great inroads in Latin America. Specially if China continues in economic growth, and buys its entrance in Latin America.

The fools are there ready to create trouble for the USA, its ally Colombia and for the Western World in General, including Europe and NATO.

Vicente Duque

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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Future Decades : I expect a lot of bad things in the Military field, like challenges from China to USA in Central America ( Nicaragua ), the Southern Caribbean ( Venezuela ) and the Central and South Atlantic ( Azores ? )

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Those are bad things for the USA and bad for the best and most democratic countries of Latin America.

What is good for the American Economy is good for Defense.

I sincerely believe that Medicaid Expansion is good for the U.S. Economy

I also believe that the U.S. Economy will gain a lot with the Immigration Reform, and all that people that may become citizens and will also defend the American nation.

Look at the growing tide of insults against the USA from Venezuela, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Bolivia, and never forget Cuba ....

They may seem despicable, but there is a growing story of an Arms Race, especially in Venezuela.

Colombia has been approaching NATO ( North Atlantic Treaty Organization ) and has been well received by that Organization, training air operations with them in USA 2012, Canada 2013 and a micro Training with the Canadian Air Force in July, Colombia 2013

But those Latin American nations insulted Colombia, USA and NATO for that friendship and alliance.

Vicente Duque

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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

VIDEO : Cenk Uygur : "Michele Bachmann Wants to Spank Obama's Magic Wand" - Bachmann is Topmost in Crazyness and Ridiculous Ideas - It is hard to defeat Michele in Right Wing Fantasies : That Obama is going to create 12 million new voters for the 2014 elections

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Conspiracy Theory to scare fools over the Senate Immigration Bill :


Published on Jul 16, 2013

"Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) warned Monday that Republicans are in danger of losing control of the House of Representatives in 2014 if they let President Obama "wave his magic wand" and allow newly legal immigrants to vote. And as the congresswoman explained to conservative website WorldNetDaily, the only way to prevent this from happening is for Congress to give the president a "spanking" on immigration."*

Does Michele Bachman have any idea how funny she is? Really. Amid her factually-challenged rant against President Obama and immigration, she noted how the president had a "perpetual magic wand" which she'd like to "steal" and "spank." You make it too easy for us, Michele. Cenk Uygur breaks it down.


Michele Bachmann Wants to Spank Obama's Magic Wand



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Saturday, July 13, 2013

House Republicans just passed a farm bill that included about $195 billion in subsidies to "farmers" (read: agribusiness) over 10 years, while eliminating food stamps and nutrition programs from the bill as "extraneous."

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From "Republicans Nix Food Stamps: This Is Who They Are" by Robert L. Borosage, Huffington Post


Excerpts :

Conservative Republicans have turned the farm bill -- normally a bipartisan grotesquerie of agribusiness subsidies and excess -- from legislation to identity politics. They wanted to make a statement, even though they knew it couldn't survive the Senate or the White House veto. They passed it anyway -- without one Democratic vote -- to proclaim this is who we are.

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Forty-seven million Americans receive food stamps. Nearly half are children under 18; nearly 10 percent are impoverished seniors. Food stamps are often the difference between hunger and survival. Republicans famously seem intent on being a party of white sanctuary, writing off all people of color, yet more whites receive food stamps (over one-third of all recipients) than blacks or Hispanics.

This is how they choose to be identified. They will bring the government to a halt to defend against any tax hikes on millionaires, or to fend off the closing of corporate tax shelters. They will vote in lockstep to take the sequester cuts entirely out of domestic programs -- education, clean water, pre-school -- in order to protect a Pentagon budget that remains the biggest source of waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government.


Huffington Post
Republicans Nix Food Stamps: This Is Who They Are
by Robert L. Borosage
July 12, 2013


Republicans Nix Food Stamps: This Is Who They Are

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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

The Wall Street Journal’s conservative editorial board, a voice of institutional conservatism, said Boehner’s responsibility is to silence the voices of the shrillest anti-immigration Republicans." The Journal, which supports the pathway to citizenship, says House Republicans should be "willing to debate and vote" on that plan

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Another problem for the Republican Party is the Great Gerrymandering of year 2011 as a result of the Republican triumph in the 2010 midterm elections, this redrawing of Districts to favor Republicans will paint them into a corner and backfire in a few years, as Demographies that vote for the Democratic Party grow in other districts where the Democrats will never lose

Gerrymandering is famous for leading to undesired consequences for the parties that practice it in several countries, because they divide the people, produce segmentation that later people resent

Excerpt from POLITICO.COM :


"The dumbest strategy is to follow the Steve King anti-immigration caucus and simply let the Senate bill die while further militarizing the border," the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page wrote on Wednesday, referring to King, an Iowa Republican. "This may please the loudest voices on talk radio, but it ignores the millions of evangelical Christians, Catholic conservatives, business owners and free-marketers who support reform. The GOP can support a true conservative opportunity society or become a party of closed minds and borders."


POLITICO.COM
Immigration reform 2013: GOP leaders say House must act
By JAKE SHERMAN, SEUNG MIN KIM and JOHN BRESNAHAN
July 10, 2013



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Friday, July 5, 2013

Competition of insults against "U.S. Imperialism" and Spain in Cochabamba Bolivia - Demented Dictators use Grossness, Vulgarity, and lack of Taste against Democratic Nations, including some European Countries

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Bolivia's President Evo Morales urged European nations to "free themselves" from USA.

Venezuela's Controversial President Nicolas Maduro said about Spain's President "Mariano Rajoy is undignified" - "we can now take him off his own plane to look for the Euros which he has robbed."

Maduro  : The United States is afraid of Erich Snowden - "The imperialist force has driven itself crazy over this 29-year-old man", "The USA thinks that Latin America is their slave".

"The USA dominates Europe".

The dictators were demanding apologies from USA and Europe.

The presidents of Colombia, Chile and Peru, who have strong ties to the U.S., were not attending.

I am sure that many people in Latin America feel extremely embarrassed and ashamed of this vulgar and gross behavior of the best enemies of Free Speech, Separation of Powers, Democracy, Liberties, etc ... in the subcontinent.

Unfortunately, I have to tell you what I think : there is going to be a lot of trouble in Latin America in the future, probably including military challenges and confrontations.


Vicente Duque

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Thursday, July 4, 2013

Jonathan Chait in New York Mag : "Small, Unnecessary Piece of Obamacare Delayed". - The employer mandate that the Obama administration is delaying is not a central part of the law. You could repeal it without any functional changes to the guts of the law


Excerpts :

This is not the sort of headline Republicans are looking for. So they are instead conflating the employer mandate with the whole law.

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So, the bill to repeal the whole law would fail, the bill to repeal the problematic employer mandate would pass, and then the law would be better, which is the opposite of what Republicans want.

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So, conservatives can rest assured that their fears about the delayed employer mandate wreaking havoc with Obamacare are based on a lack of factual understanding, and enjoy their holiday weekend.


New York Magazine
Obamacare Still Not Collapsing
By Jonathan Chait
July 3, 2013

Obamacare Still Not Collapsing
 
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Monday, July 1, 2013

NATO Website : NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow said about Colombia : "As an Alliance of democracies, we are gratified when countries sharing similar values reach out to us" - "Global challenges require Global Solutions"

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Colombia closer and closer to NATO - This country has been training with NATO Air Forces in May June 2012 ( Texas and Nevada ) and in Alberta, Canada, May June 2013


"By signing this accord, NATO and Colombia stress their shared interest in consultation and cooperation. The Security of Information Agreement does not formally recognize Colombia as a NATO partner but constitutes a first step for future cooperation in the security field.  It will facilitate the participation of Colombia in a number of NATO activities. Colombia has already participated in the 2011 NATO Conference on Building Integrity, which was held in Monterey, California. “Colombia’s expertise in enhancing integrity in the military is precisely the kind of substantive contribution that exemplifies the added value of cooperation"



NATO Website
NATO and Colombia open channel for future cooperation
June 25, 2013



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Friday, June 28, 2013

The Immigration Reform will be decisive and strengthen the USA, this nation won't be weaker but stronger and more powerful. - It is very important to have labor for many U. S. corporations and the next prosperity

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Obamacare and Medicaid Expansion will also help the American Economy, the Domestic Social Strength and Political Stability.

It will improve the image of the USA in foreign lands, specially in Latin America.

It will strengthen the U. S. allies in Latin America.

And talking about Latin America, we see a lot of dark clouds that announce a gathering storm.

Vicente Duque

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Latin America is in a process of big degradation - Communists use their base in dictatorships of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Ecuador to create havoc in the more democratic nations - This is helped by the "useful idiots" everywhere

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There are too many dictators in Latin America and too many leftist extremists, helped in Internet by Crazy Europeans that write in Spanish or languages that are easily understood by Latin Americans like English, Portuguese, French and Italian.


The Victim of Choice :

There is a constant attack against the weak government of President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia, that has made the great mistake of going into a disastrous "Peace Process" with the FARC Narco Terrorists.


Colombia is surrounded by hostile nations ( except Panama and I have many doubts about Brazil ) : Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador ( in order of danger ! )

The President is being saddled and mounted by the FARC murderers of Children with land bombs and other terrorist bombs

But he has done two good things : to sign a "Defense and Cooperation Pact" with NATO ( North Atlantic Treaty Organization ) in Brussels and to receive Henrique Capriles, leader of the opposition in Venezuela

And Colombian planes have flown in air formation with the US Air Force in "Red Flag" operation, over Texas and Nevada, May and June 2012

And with the Canadian planes in Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada during May and June of 2013

Who is going to defend Panama and its Canal ??, surrounded by brutal pro-communist or communistoid dictatorships ??.

Vicente Duque

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Very important Law Journalist Lyle Denniston is somewhat concerned about the "Victory" of Minorities in the U. S. Supreme Court decision about "Arizona Voters Registration Law" - There is a poison pill inside ( prepared by Scalia ?? )

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I have great trust and confidence in what Expert Lyle Denniston writes, he seems very concerned for this "Liberal Victory" because it opens the door for some Republican and Conservative Mischief

But it is important to remark that Justice Samuel Alito wrote a dissent and put most of the emphasis on a different way to read the federal voter registration law at issue, and spent considerable effort arguing that the road map the majority had laid out for states that want to impose a proof-of-citizenship requirement would not work in practice.

That offers some hope to a Liberal Heart


Some excerpts :

Justice Scalia’s opinion had the full support of Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., and Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sonia Sotomayor.   Justice Kennedy joined all parts of the opinion except the refusal to apply the “presumption against preemption” to state election laws.

Justices Samuel A. Alito, Jr., and Clarence Thomas each filed a dissenting opinion, speaking only for themselves individually.

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Justice Thomas’s dissent was mainly devoted to arguing that the Constitution gives Congress no role in judging who may register to vote, and that this is a power given exclusively to the states.



This decision, in plain English:

The Constitution divides up the power to determine who will be allowed to vote between state governments and Congress.  The states have the basic power to decide who is eligible to vote but, so far as state laws are aimed at who gets to vote for President or Congress, the Constitution gives Congress a back-up power to change or even to override those state laws.

The Supreme Court on Monday made a significant effort to try to sort out how to divide up this power, in the context of deciding whether a state may require would-be voters to show proof that they are U.S. citizens — both to register and to actually vote.  That proof requirement was challenged by various advocacy groups, because Congress in 1993 had passed a law designed to expand the ranks of voters, and a federal agency acting under that law has specified a form that voters may use to register.

The argument before the Court was that the federal law must control, because Congress had specified that, in filling out a federal form, all would-be voters had to do was to swear they are U.S. citizens, while Arizona went further and required an actual piece of official paper to prove citizenship.   The challengers argued that the two approaches cannot co-exist, so the state proof requirement had to yield.

On the one hand, the Supreme Court agreed that, for now, Arizona’s proof requirement must yield to the federal form’s approach — that is, it is enough to register, using that form, if the would-be voter swears that he satisfies the citizenship requirement.

On the other hand, however, the Court also ruled that Arizona can seek permission from federal officials to impose its proof-of-citizenship requirement.  If it fails with that request, it can go to court and argue that it has a constitutional right to make proof of citizenship a binding requirement for all voters.

It was the kind of mixed decision that can sometimes baffle lay readers and, in this instance, maybe even lawyers and judges, too, because the two parts of the ruling did not seem to be reconciled easily.


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Scotus Blog
Analysis of Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona
Opinion recap: One hand giveth
By Lyle Denniston Reporter

Analysis of Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona

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Friday, June 21, 2013

Surprise ! : Justices Scalia, Kennedy and Roberts side with the Liberals in the U. S. Supreme Court and strike down Arizona's voter registration law - Conservatives Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented

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Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the court's majority, found that federal law "precludes Arizona from requiring a federal form applicant to submit information beyond that required by the form itself".

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Arizona was appealing a decision of the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals, which said that the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which doesn't require documentation to prove US citizenship, trumps Arizona's Proposition 200.

Arizona voters approved Proposition 200 in 2004, requiring more specific proof of citizenship. During the next three years, more than 30,000 people were turned away for failing to provide documentation, according to civil rights groups. About 20% of those blocked were Latino.

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British Guardian Newspaper
US supreme court strikes down Arizona's voter registration law
Justice Scalia writes in majority opinion that states cannot require proof of US citizenship before allowing people to vote

By Karen McVeigh in New York
Monday, June 17, 2013




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Monday, June 17, 2013

Venezuela's "Long March" towards COMUNIST Famine : Tropical Mao Tse Tungs are leading this nation towards Food Shortages, Scarcity, Rationing and Starvation - History of China and the Reality of Venezuelan Mismanagement

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Great Chinese Famine 1958-1961, referred to by the Communist Party of China as the Three Years of Natural Disasters or Three Years of Difficult Period

According to Chinese government statistics, there were 15 million excess deaths in this period, 20 to 43 millions according to scholars

Brutal collectivization, abolishing of private property, War against Entrepreneurs and Private Initiative

Encyclopædia Britannica estimates 7 million deaths in Stalin's Famine 1932-1933, 5 million in Ukraine, 1 million in Northern Caucasus, 1 million elsewhere

And I am not counting the Great Russian Famine of year 1921

Maduro is preaching fattening chicken for every household, working your vegetables in your backyard ( if any ! )

This is like Mao Tse Tung, The Great Leap Forward and his little red book of thoughts

Ideology can cause the ruin of nations !

Vicente Duque

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Friday, June 14, 2013

Great Obama Victory : Arizona will expand Medicaid to cover nearly 300,000 poor residents next year -- Gov. Jan Brewer (R) passed it through the state legislature on Thursday. The Governor campaigned aggressively for the Expansion

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Excerpts :


Brewer, a conservative and avowed foe of President Barack Obama's health care reform law, announced her support for the Medicaid expansion in January, but faced stiff resistance from fellow Republicans in Arizona's House and Senate. During a marathon session that began Wednesday afternoon and stretched into the wee hours of Thursday morning before culminating in a final vote late Thursday afternoon, a handful of Republicans joined Democrats in the House and Senate to pass the Medicaid expansion.

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The Arizona governor aggressively promoted the Medicaid expansion since taking her surprising public stand earlier this year. Brewer assembled a coalition of health care interests and business groups and worked alongside Democratic legislators in addition to campaigning across the state in service of extending health coverage to hundreds of thousands of poor Arizonans using Obamacare funding.


Huffington Post
Arizona Medicaid Expansion Advances After Jan Brewer Forces Lawmakers' Hands
By Jeffrey Young

June 13, 2013

Arizona Medicaid Expansion Advances After Jan Brewer Forces Lawmakers' Hands

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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

According to Jonathan Chait of New York Mag : Immigration Reform has good winds to sail : Republican senators that opposed it have decided to stand aside and not oppose the bill in strong terms

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And in the House of Representatives John Boehner is willing to help by not opposing it. For me Jonathan Chait is like an oracle.


Some excerpts :

The Senate has voted on the "motion to proceed" on immigration reform by an 82-15 vote.

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Republican senators today faced a choice to position themselves as fundamentally opposed to the entire process, and most of them decided to stand aside.

Of course, the major obstacle remains the House, but here the news remains positive. This morning, George Stephanopoulos interviewed John Boehner and asked the key question of the entire debate: Will he let a bill come to a vote without a majority support of his own party? Passing a bill through the House with 218 votes is not very hard, if Boehner is willing to let Democrats supply most of those votes. The question is whether he’ll stop that vote from happening. This answer does not sound like “no”:


New York Magazine
Senate Okays Immigration-Reform Debate 82-15
By Jonathan Chait
June 11, 2013


Senate Okays Immigration-Reform Debate 82-15


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Saturday, June 8, 2013

What a pain to watch the VIDEOS of Cuba and see a Communist Oligarchy that kills, tortures and opresses. They put good people in jail without any trial or open democratic process. And the Chavistas want to turn Venezuela into

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And the Chavistas want to turn Venezuela into

a Cuba without singer Celia Cruz and the "Sonora Matancera" tropical band

Venezuela now : Blackouts, Rationing of Foods, Medicines, and Electric Energy, shortages, scarcity. And jail for those that don't kneel before

an Idiotic MAUSOLEOCRACY !

Rationing Cards very soon in Venezuela !



Vicente Duque

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Friday, June 7, 2013

The "flowery" photo album and VIDEOS of Vicepresident Joe Biden that the Furious Chavistas don't want you to see. Because they are anti-NATO, anti-Colombia, anti-USA

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Mr Biden and his wife Jill ( married in 1977 ) and their two beautiful granddaughters Naomi and Maisy, some visits to Flower Farms for Exports in Colombia

http://www.politico.com/gallery/2013/05/biden-in-colombia/001056-014943.html

There are many VIDEOS in YouTube about Mr Biden looking Roses, Carnations and others in Colombia

Chavistas are mad because Colombia is approaching the USA in military matters and wants to share information and technology with NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Thousands of insults have rained on Colombia from Venezuela's High Officials and from the Client Nations that receive oil and money from Venezuela

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

The U. S. Department of State defends Colombia against the recent verbal aggressions of Venezuelan Dictators Nicolas Maduro and Diosdado Cabello - Declarations of Roberta Jacobson, assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs

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The USA defends Colombia against the aggressive and violent speeches of Venezuela and its paid poor ( beggar ) client countries in Latin America :

"Our goal is certainly to support Colombia as being a capable and strong member of lots of different international organizations, and that might well include NATO" said Roberta Jacobson

"It is not all that surprising that the Colombians are interested in where else they would be able to interact" Jacobson said

This has a powerful logic, everybody understands ( minus the communist dictators in Latin America ) that full membership in NATO ( North Atlantic Treaty Organization ) is not possible. But there are many ways of friendship, cooperation and common work between Colombia, the USA and its allies of NATO.

These developments take years if not many decades. Politics is the Art of the Possible, but it is also the art of waiting for political developments, in the domestic front and in the international front.

Vicente Duque

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Sunday, June 2, 2013

What was given to Mr Juan Manuel Santos ( Colombian President ) in his coffee ??? - He did two good things lately : to receive Henrique Capriles and asking a place in NATO : North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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The President and Congress of Colombia receive with great enthusiasm and friendship Venezuela's opposition leader Henrique Capriles. And are gravely insulted by the dictators of Venezuela !

Colombia should not ask alms from Chaplinesque Victimita ( Little Victim ) dictators of Venezuela.

ALBA and UNASUR are clubs of beggars.

Better to be in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO :



This will take many years or decades. It is necessary to be realistic, with feet on the ground. But it is the best imaginable move.

So, these communist dictators : Ortega, Fidel, Raul and the Zombis of Venezuela don't steal more seas and islands from Colombia

Colombia is Decency ! -- Arise !

Vicente Duque

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Friday, May 31, 2013

Orders from Cuban Dictators Castro for Nicolas Maduro, Communist Zombie : Blame everything on Imperialism, for a variation kick Colombia and the bogeyman Alvaro Uribe, Anti-Christ and Beast 66

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Treat the president of other country as another Red Shirt Idiot of Venezuela

Lie, be a Hypocrite, Cynic, Twisted and Crook Scoundrel, False, Farisee

Continue giving support to FARC Narco Terrorists

Arm the Populace for a Civil War

Lots of Militarism, go to Military Bases with the stupidity of Missiles and Robot Drone Airplanes

Cover yourself for a Military Coup from young officers


Vicente Duque

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Colombia : Where Pablo Escobar failed in dominating the State, FARC Narco Traffickers triumphed and the Colombian Government kneels before Terrorist Criminals of Kidnapping, Murder, Bombs that kill innocents and Land Mines that kill peasant Children

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 FARC is a great provider of drugs ( Cocaine and Morphine ) for the Mexican and Central American Cartels , USA and Europe - This is the Greatest Triumph of Bombs, Land Mines, Murder and Kidnapping.

The Violence in Colombian Fields is not the product of a spontaneous and popular uprising of peasants against a despotic and unpopular government. The peasant obeys because FARC imposes TERROR. They are equal to the Paramilitary. There is Zero Difference.

The Greatest Triumph of NARCO CRIMINALS in World History. This is like Hitler being appointed as Chancellor of the German Reich by Otto von Hindenburg.

General Erich Ludendorff told Hindenburg :  "I solemnly prophesy that this accursed man will cast our Reich into the abyss and bring our nation to inconceivable misery. Future generations will damn you in your grave for what you have done."


And Colombia is a fast train to  :


TERRORCRACY


Vicente Duque

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Friday, May 24, 2013

The Great CASTRATION and FAILURE of Latin America has been MILITARISM, during 200 Years. And Venezuela has been the most militaristic country in the subcontinent. The adoration of MILITAROTES ( the bad Military )

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"COMANDANTE SUPREMO ETERNO"

Supreme is only God.

ETERNO ?? - a famous song in Spanish says that "nothing is ETERNAL in the World, even if it has a heart" ! - This song has been the favorite of Great Capos of Narcotics like Pablo Escobar.

If Chavismo can hold on to power then it will cause Great Damage : Economic, Financial, etc ... but the worst is the Moral Harm to the Honor and Dignity of that Nation, tormented by a brutal and violent dictatorship that kills and tortures students and young people.

A Venezuelan general and an American Movie maker have been abusively in jail, among other political prisoners in Venezuela.

The "Pacific Alliance" of Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru and Chile and soon Guatemala is a better option of Freedom Countries with Market Economies.

The ALBA is a great Swindle and Fraud and it has these countries : Venezuela that pays the bills, Cuba, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina with corrupt Cristina as President.

ALBA has a Castro-Chavo-Communist Ideology of the Past..

Vicente Duque

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

May 21, 2013, The U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee passed the Immigration Reform Bill 13-5, largely intact, to the full Senate for a vote. This bill includes a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants

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Some excerpts from ABC News :

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., indicated he wouldn't stand in the way of the immigration bill coming to the floor of the Senate after getting out of committee.

"With regard to getting started on the bill, it's my intention, if there is a motion to proceed required, to vote for the motion to proceed so we can get on the bill and see if ... we're able to pass a bill that actually moves the ball in the right direction," McConnell said today at the Ohio Clock stakeout. "I think the 'Gang of Eight' has made a substantial contribution to moving the issue forward. So far, I'm told that the Judiciary Committee has not, in any fundamental way, undone the agreements that were reached by the eight senators. And so I'm hopeful that we'll be able to get a bill that we can pass here in the Senate."



ABC News
Immigration Reform Bill Moves to Full Senate
By JIM AVILA and SERENA MARSHALL
May 21, 2013


Immigration Reform Bill Moves to Full Senate

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Monday, May 20, 2013

VIDEO : Super Big Spy Game : Venezuela-Gate : An audio tape is published where the most important Chavista TV Anchor of Venezuela speaks with the Chief of Cuban Counter-Intelligence and tells him about total corruption in VNZLA

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Here you see how Cuba dominates Venezuela :


Today, Monday May 5, 2013 -- There is now a big scandal inside the Venezuela Dictatorship, showing a great Division between the two main dictators : Nicolás Maduro y Diosdado Cabello.


Venezuelan Most Important Chavista TV Anchor Mario Silva speaks in a secretly recorded audio with the Chief of Cuban counter intelligence and tells him about the Total corruption of Diosdado Cabello, his family and associates, with dollars, currencies, the economy, etc ...

Venezuelan Dictators are proceeding with great violence and terrorism against the Population, torturing and beating students and producing several deaths. In the National Assembly they almost killed several opposition deputies send 11 of them to the Hospitals. They are not paying their salaries, and returning to that parliament is risking their lives.



Published on May 20, 2013

Visite: http://www.ntn24.com - El diputado opositor venezolano Ismael García anunció este lunes en una rueda de prensa que tenían en su poder una grabación entre el teniente Coronel del G2 de Cuba Aramis Palacios y Mario Silva, que entre otros hechos, evidencia claras irregularidades y diferencias dentro del chavismo.

Conversación revelada por la oposición entre Mario Silva y Coronel del G2 de Cuba - Pa





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Sunday, May 19, 2013

VIDEO of Tortures : The Venezuelan "National Guard" is torturing students and young people. - Venezuela is now a Brutal Dictatorship and even in the "National Assembly" deputies of the opposition were almost killed by Brutality

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Dozens of students and the Young have been killed by the Coward Dictators of Venezuela : Nicolas Maduro and Diosdado Cabello. - This last scoundrel organized a riot to beat savagely the opposition inside the Venezuelan Parliament

The Opposition Deputies of the National Assembly are forbidden to speak by the Thug and President Cabello and they are not paid their salaries by order of this Dictator.


TORTURAS de la Guardia Nacional Bolivariana en Venezuela


 Published on May 18, 2013

TORTURAS de la Guardia Nacional Bolivariana a los Ciudadanos, en el Gobierno de Nicolás Maduro en Venezuela. Increíble lo que está pasando, mentiras, desabastecimiento y TORTURAS.
Este video no me pertenece lo público con el fin de informar y lo hago sin fines de lucro.


TORTURAS de la Guardia Nacional Bolivariana en Venezuela




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Monday, May 13, 2013

Most Brutal and Violent Dictatorship in Venezuela : imprisons an American Film Maker and a Venezuelan General without any valid reason - This Tyranny has been performing incredible unbelievable acts of cruelty

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For many weeks American Artist of Documentaries Timothy Tracy has been in jail without the smallest motive, he is based in California and is accused of being a spy and agent of "American Imperialism".

A Venezuelan General Antonio Rivero has been in jail for many weeks and his life is in danger because of a hunger strike. His Crime : telling sincerely that the country is in the wrong path.

This Venezuelan despotism has passed all limits of Decency and is now the most revulsive and repulsive bunch of demoniacs, energumens, coward thugs

Inside the Venezuelan National Assembly the Government thugs beat up the opposition and send them to the hospitals. The Opposition is forbidden to speak in this Parliament and their salaries are not paid by the Brutal Thug in charge of this chamber.

Demonstrators in the streets have been killed.

I am not Venezuelan but I feel sick with all this Brutality and Violence.

Vicente Duque

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Saturday, May 11, 2013

VIDEO Texas GOP Vote : Grover Norquist : "Immigration reform increases the dating pool for young people." -- Recently, Americans for Tax Reform founder, Grover Norquist, testified before the Senate about the pending legislation and why immigration reform

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Grover Norquist opened his testimony with the statement in the U. S. Senate, "People are an asset, not a liability."

Interview with Bob Price.

This week, Norquist sat down with TexasGOPVote to expand on his thoughts on immigration reform and I asked him about this comment and what it means in the context of immigration reform.


Published on May 9, 2013
Bob Price

Interview with Grover Norquist on Immigration Reform



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Thursday, May 9, 2013

Coward thugs have taken over in Venezuela ! - Venezuela is now a reign of Government Violence, Terror, Beatings in the National Assembly to opposition deputies. They are forbidden to speak by a brutal MILITAROTE ( despicable military man, a simple lieutenant )

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The Colombian Parliament has shown Dignity, Worthiness, Decency and Honesty. They voted overwhelmingly to receive Maria Corina Machado, one of the leaders of the Opposition to the Venezuelan Tyrants, Despots and Brutal Violent Dictators, She spoke before both Chambers : the Colombian House and Senate.

A Great Fighter for Freedom, Liberty and Democracy !

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Bravo Maria Corina y Bravo por el Parlamento Colombiano que votó abrumaduramente por recibir a Maria Corina en sesiones plenarias de Cámara de Representantes y de la otra cámara llamada Senado.

Por fin una rama del poder público en Colombia hizo algo decente y honesto acerca de Venezuela,  en este caso la rama legislativa, pero también el Procurador General de la Nación Colombiana recibió a Maria Corina

Hubo Votación abrumadora por recibir a Maria Corina ... Es un Gran Honor para Colombia recibir esta Mujer Valiente !

Vicente Duque

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Monday, May 6, 2013

No Medicaid expansion in Florida means businesses will pay : Uninsured workers must either get health insurance from their employers, or they can turn to a federal health exchange to purchase insurance. If they use a federal exchange, their bosses will be penalized

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Excerpts from Tampa Bay Times :


A story in today's paper deals with one of the ripple effects of the Legislature's inability to reach a deal on Medicaid expanion this session. Roughly 1 million uninsured Floridians would have received coverage if a deal had been reached. Many of them work for businesses that now must provide that insurance or face hefty federal fines.


An excerpt:

Either way, the Legislature's inaction will saddle many businesses with additional costs that could reach, in total, close to $150 million next year.

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"If you do not do Medicaid expansion, or something similar to that, there is a very real penalty imposed upon the employers of the state of Florida," said Sen. David Simmons, R-Altamonte Springs, who had pushed some compromise.

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Part of the law that remained in place requires businesses with more than 50 full-time employees to provide health insurance coverage to anyone working more than 30 hours a week. Many people in agriculture, tourism and hospitality would have been eligible for an expanded Medicaid program.


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Tampa Bay Times
No Medicaid expansion means businesses will pay
By Tia Mitchell, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau
Sunday, May 5, 2013


No Medicaid expansion means businesses will pay

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Friday, May 3, 2013

The dictatorship and tyranny in Venezuela has to fall and is falling every minute. The Violence and Brutality of Nicolas Maduro and Diosdado Cabello is very similar to the movie 1900 ( Il Novecento ) of Bernardo Bertolucci, this film was finished in 1976, and shows the violence, brutality and intimidation of the Italian Fascists

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I repudiate communism but I know that Marx knew the dangers of the "Lumpen", that is the class of violent rabble and riff-raff that was so important in Italy and Germany in 1920-1945. .... The human material that went to support the two dictators were the envious, the haters, the human failures of Italy and Germany.

That is what you see in the brutal VIDEOS that come from Venezuela. A stupid woman of the rabble called Nancy Ascencio assaults a Great Lady Maria Corina Machado by the back and using a hard object to produce multiple fractures in the face.

Those treacherous attacks by the back are the "seal of quality" of the most degraded canaille and lumpen, like the Government of satraps Maduro and Cabello.

A Government by the Rabble and the Riff-Raff !


Vicente Duque

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Harvard University's Austerity promoting Economists have been proved totally wrong by other researchers. Their answer : They are making U-Turns on a dime - Those reckless, careless and sloppy researchers were the basis for Paul Ryan's preachings on austerity

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Excerpt from the Huffington Post :

In the years since its publication, that paper has been cited by many politicians, from Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to George Osborne of the U.K., to justify harsh belt-tightening programs despite deep, widespread economic pain in the U.S., U.K. and Europe.


Huffington Post
By Mark Gongloff
Reinhart, Rogoff Backing Furiously Away From Austerity Movement
May 2, 2013



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Many hospitals fear financial ruin without the Medicaid expansion. Business groups say the huge influx of federal money would be a financial windfall. In anti-Obamacare States, the people left out will likely be fast food employees, grocery store cashiers, construction workers and other very-low-wage earners


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Washington Post
In several states, Medicaid expansion remains in limbo as time runs short
In the closing days of state legislative sessions, lawmakers in more than a dozen states are struggling with whether or not to expand Medicaid under the federal health-care law,

By Sandhya Somashekhar
Thursday, May 2, 2013

In several states, Medicaid expansion remains in limbo as time runs short

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

VIDEO in detail : Venezuela, National Assembly, Deputy Nancy Ascencio brutally attacks Maria Corina Machado, the most beautiful lady of the opposition is savagely beaten and kicked on the floor by the Chavista Madwoman

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This Deputy Nancy Ascencio of the Populace and the Rabble shows her vileness, grossness, vulgarity, coarseness, commonness acting with the greatest violence and brutality. It is not necessary to say that she is Chavista.

Maria Corina Machado is the Great Beautiful Lady of Venezuela fighting against Dictatorship, Tyranny and Despotism.


(Detallado) Diputada oficialista atenta contra Maria Corina Machado.
Ennzo Perez Ennzo Perez·1 video


Published on May 1, 2013

En la asamblea nacional de Venezuela, los diputados oficialistas intentan asesinar a los diputados de la oposición, en éste video detallado podemos observar como una diputada del gobierno atenta contra Maria Corina Machado.

(Detallado) Diputada oficialista atenta contra Maria Corina Machado.

 


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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Houston Chronicle, Texas, April 29, 2013 : "Republicans in Austin have little to fear in the short-term in their opposition to Medicaid expansion. However, national Republicans, ...., may take a different perspective". - Maps of Texas for Hispanics, the Uninsured, and Vote Margin 2012

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The counties on Texas South are strongest for these three statistics :


Excerpts :

Waco-based economic research firm The Perryman Group joined Texas Democrats in urging Texas to accept Medicaid expansion. Ray Perryman, the firm’s president, said the main reason for his support is to improve the overall quality of life for many in Texas.

“It will partially defuse a demographic time bomb that could have notable negative consequences for Texas,” Perryman said in an email exchange.

Perryman said the large uninsured population in Texas will create negative economic results in the long-term, just as increased coverage would cause the reverse. Perryman argued that while the state will have to increase its Medicaid budget, the economic boost to having a healthier population will more than compensate.


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Houston Chronicle
Texas on the Potomac
Washington news with a Texas accent

Texas Latinos have most to gain from Medicaid expansion, while GOP counties have little to gain
Monday, April 29, 2013



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Monday, April 29, 2013

Robert Kuttner : Austerity is Killing Europe : Spain and Greece : 30 percent unemployment. -- Britain : 0.3 percent growth. Even Germany, the prime sponsor of these austerity policies, is on the edge of recession. -- It is time to throw out Austerity ideology in the Middle of a Recession !

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Robert Kuttner in the Huffington Post tells us how the stubborness, intransigence, obstinacy and fanaticism of conservative economists is doing great harm to European Economies. That absurd austerity is what congress republicans have been preaching in the USA.


Some excerpts :

One nation after another is challenging German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the European Central Bank, the two lead purveyors of economic pain as the cure for fiscal sin. The governments of France, Italy, Spain and Portugal are pressing Merkel to relent, and EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, the ultimate weathervane, now says the EU needs to focus on growth instead of belt-tightening. The International Monetary Fund, usually one of the sponsors of fiscal masochism, says Europe is imposing too much pain.

Here is the U.S., the first quarter numbers were lousy. The economy grew at a rate of just 2.5 percent, less than forecasters projected, and not enough to improve the unemployment rate or raise wages. Analysts across the spectrum correctly blamed the slowdown on the sequester, which cut the budget by $85 billion this year, on top of the January deal that raised taxes, mostly on workers, by another $200 billion.

You don't promote growth by slashing demand. Supposedly, fiscal tightening improves business confidence. But if some entrepreneur somewhere decided to break ground for a new factory because the president and Congress at last cut the budget, nobody could find such a person.


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Huffington Post
Reality 1, Austerity 0
Robert Kuttner
April 28, 2013


Reality 1, Austerity 0


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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Standard & Poor’s "sovereign debt" credit ratings : Australia, Canada, Germany, Northern Europe, and United Kingdom AAA, United States and France AA+, China and Chile AA-, Russia, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Panama are BBB

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India and Spain are BBB-

Those already mentioned are graded as Investment Possibility and Not Speculative. The As are superb investments in "sovereign debt". Note that India and Spain are below some Latin American Nations.

Zambia, Zimbabwe and Venezuela are B+ considered non investment grade and highly speculative. Only the Chinese are happy lending to Venezuela.


Argentina is a miserable B- , and is considered super speculative and most dangerous.

Perhaps that is the reason why the President Cristina Fernandez de Kirtchner is so Chavista and her nation owes many millions of dollars to oil rich Venezuela.

Other Venezuelan Clients : Cuba and Nicaragua are considered the worst of the worst for Sovereign debt. .... Bolivia and Ecuador are considered very poor and dangerous risks.

So you see how being chavista is not good for your credit ratings and your credit worthiness.

Note :

I corrected Colombia, a nation that was upgraded recently. I think that Turkey is going to become "investment grade" very soon or has already been upgraded. I will continue upgrading my list.


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Source :

TradingEconomics.com
Credit Ratings


Credit Ratings


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Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said the Immigration bill cannot slip by with 60 votes in the Senate because the House would feel less pressure to take it up. Others in the negotiating group have said they think the bill could win at least 70 Senate votes

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Excerpts from POLITICO.COM, article By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN, April 25, 2013 :

The senators said they support amending the immigration overhaul bill to address shortcomings in the system that led to the Boston Marathon bombings.

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"I think it is doable," Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.

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POLITICO.COM
70+ votes for immigration reform?
By CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN
April 25, 2013 :

70+ votes for immigration reform?


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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

FARC Colombian Guerrilas has kidnapped and murdered thousands of Colombian Nationals, also American Citizens, Europeans and Japanese, by the dozens. !! - These nations should care about TOTAL IMPUNITY. --- FARC poisons American Youth with cocaine and morphine

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The Plan of Colombian President Santos is TOTAL IMPUNITY without shame for FARC, giving them seats in the Senate and House of Representatives without any election. The soldiers that fought with bravery against FARC are starving and will continue starving.

For FARC Drug Production and exports is their main business and source of income. President Santos is a Fool if he believes that criminals are going to abandon this beautiful business. FARC leaders do not control their many troops scattered in many disjoint locations. Many won't accept demobilization.

Those nations like the USA, European Countries and Japan should care about this TOTAL IMPUNITY. Their nationals have been kidnapped, tortured and murdered. Their corporations have suffered extortion.

Both the Paramilitary and the Guerrillas are TERRORISTS and MURDERERS.

But most TERRORIST bombs that kill many civilians are planted by FARC ( almost 100% ) and Land Mines that kill or maim children ( even in this year 2013 ) are 100% sowed by FARC.

Some FARC madmen have killed dozens of their own peasant fighters in a single massacre, because of suspicion and paranoia about betrayal.

This TOTAL IMPUNITY is more absurd and foolish if we consider advances in technology like Global Positioning System and Drone Robot Airplanes. FARC has suffered incredible defeats in the last 8 years, all due to GREAT AMERICAN TECHNOLOGY !.

The Pope forgave his would be assassin but he did not appoint him as cardinal !


Vicente Duque

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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Texas has 1.65 million undocumenteds, Romney won Texas by just under 1.3 million votes - Arizona has 400,000 undocumenteds and Romney won by 212,000 votes. - Georgia has 425,000 undocumenteds and Romney won by 308,000 votes

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As things go now with the "Gang of Eight" the DREAMERS and Agricultural Workers will be American Citizens in five years.

Republicans made the grave mistake and sin of choosing Mitt Romney as candidate, an ass-kisser to Racists, Nativists and Ethnic Extremists. Can they repent and repair their fault ??



The One Million Dollar Question :

Can Republicans improve their standing among Latinos if they actively participate in the immigration reform process. ??

Will Latinos be psychologically harmed or wounded by Republicans during the Process of the "Migra" reform in Congress ??

And if the Reform is sunk by strong opposition will that undoubtedly and inevitably have some ethnic or racist component ??

If there is no Immigration Reform during Obama's Second Term then the Problem of the Undocumented Population may grow and grow.

It all depends on the Mental Flexibility and Agility of the Republican Party, so that the party is not forever anchored in the past.

Republicans can do nothing and subject themselves to the Trial and Verdict of History. Or they can examine their conscience and change their morals and standing against "The Other" and "The Otherness".


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More Information here :

POLITICO.COM
Immigration reform could be bonanza for Democrats
By EMILY SCHULTHEIS
April 22, 2013


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Monday, April 22, 2013

Paul Krugman : Our exaggerated fear of debt creates a catastrophe. It’s ruining many lives, and at the same time making us poorer and weaker in every way. And the longer we persist in this folly, the greater the damage will be

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Excerpts from Paul Krugman in New York Times :

The shadow of long-term unemployment means that  austerity policies are counterproductive even in purely fiscal terms. Workers, after all, are taxpayers too; if our debt obsession exiles millions of Americans from productive employment, it will cut into future revenues and raise future deficits. 

 
My Comment :

Observe that unemployment is always higher for Minorities and Very Young People in general. This should have political consequences.







The New York Times
The Jobless Trap
By PAUL KRUGMAN
April 21, 2013


The Jobless Trap

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Sunday, April 21, 2013

Texas AFL-CIO President Becky Moeller goes to San Antonio and Austin events with the "Nuns on the Bus" in support of Medicaid Expansion. - See 33 photos of the rally in Austin on Facebook. - Links here to both sites

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"The Texas AFL-CIO has a long history of working with religious leaders on issues of mutual concern", said Moeller

Texas Unionists hand in hand with Catholic Nuns rooting for Medicaid Expansion for Texas, the state that has the record of inunsured citizens in the USA. Many of them located in the Southern Part of Texas and in Counties with a Hispanic Population.

The nuns are not confrontational but treat Governor Rick Perry with a lot of Christian Charity and Love :

"We understand that Gov. Perry is moderating his position (on Medicaid) as he sees the needs of real Texans," said Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of NETWORK, a national Catholic social justice group. "We just have to give him enough room so he can save face and he'll do the right thing."

The Population is Texas has a big proportion of Catholics, higher than in other states.



Texas AFL-CIO
America's Unions
'Nuns on Bus' Urge Medicaid Expansion at Texas Capitol
Wednesday April 17, 2013




 
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VIDEO : Bill Maher, Amy Holmes, Nicholas Kristof, Salman Rushide - Bill Maher against Filibuster and the injustice of Senator Diane Feinstein having 7.5 million votes, whereas others from tiny states go to the U. S. Senate with a few thousand votes

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The USA has Car Control, but not Gun Control .... Cars are subjected to millions of controls, licenses for drivers, inspections, etc ....

The Filibuster paralyzes the USA decisions, and the U. S. Senate with two senators for each state is unjust and absurd. Because tiny states with few people have the same power as New York, California, Florida or Texas.




April 19th, 2013

Regular viewers of Bill Maher's show are well aware that one of the issues that gets Maher most fired up is the equal apportionment of senators to each U.S. state. Amidst discussion of the Boston bombings and gun control tonight, Maher went on a small rant against the Constitution and how every state does not deserve the same number of senators. He found it ridiculous that a small state like Wyoming gets as many senators as a huge state like California.

The panel was discussing gun control and why it failed in the Senate this week. Maher found it ridiculous that background checks, something supported by 90 percent of the people, failed to pass the Senate. He slammed the filibuster as a "silent coup" but also went after the Constitutional designation of two senators per state.

Maher pointed out that senators from small states are being elected by, and therefore represent, less people, so there should be proportional representation, like in the House of Representatives. "The Founding Fathers could not have foreseen AK-47s, they also could not have foreseen Wyoming and Montana. They could not have foreseen fifty states where we have this horrible situation..."

Salman Rushdie railed against the idea that the Second Amendment allows for unrestricted individual access to whatever weapons they want. Conservative pundit Amy Holmes questioned Maher wanting to reconstitute the Senate, and Maher shot back that the Constitution was not "brought to us by Jesus" and that the Founders themselves wanted it to be amended every so often.

Rushdie said that the United States is the only western democracy in which there are amendments to the basic idea of a simple majority win. When Nicholas Kristof brought up how conversations like these alarm people in North Dakota, Maher asked, "Why do we need two Dakotas to begin with?"

Maher also spoke out against the constant threat members of congress face of being primaried which forces them to lean ideologically way over to one side.


Bill Maher Rants Against Filibuster - It Is a Silent Coup (279)





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Saturday, April 20, 2013

How do you protest against the Witches that are flying over your town, and having sex with he Devil ?? --- And against adultery, abortion, perversions, lewd and obscene people, and "gay marriage". How do you protest against Pervs ?? - Medieval Europe

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Enter Cacerolazos ( Skimmingtons ), loud noise with pots, pans, ladles, spoons, casseroles, are not a modern Latin American Invention. They were strongly practiced in the USA and Britain. They go as far as Medieval Europe : against Witches, Adultery, Lewd or Obscene People

Cacerolazos or better "casseroles" has been popular in modern time in Canada ( Quebec ) :


In 2012 in Québec citizens were using cacerolazo after the adoption on 18 May of Bill 78, an act which restricts rights to assemble after violent riots erupted in Montreal and Victoriaville. Bill 78, aimed at restoring access to education for peaceful students and at protecting businesses and citizens from violence by some student protesters, has been criticized by the United Nations, the Quebec Bar Association, Amnesty International, and others. Court challenges against the bill are underway.




Skimmington
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

William Hogarth's engraving "Hudibras Encounters the Skimmington", 1822




 

A skimmington, or skimmington ride, is a rowdy parade with effigies of a victims or people dressed up to represent them, to make a public demonstration of moral disapproval of the individual or individuals. The form of the demonstration, and the reasons for it, varied between different places, but the general intent was public humiliation of the victim(s). In some cases the individual(s) themselves were forced to participate. Skimmingtons were typically noisy affairs, with rough music made by the clattering of pots and pans.

Contents

    1 Origins, history and form
    2 In art and literature
    3 See also
    4 References
    5 External links

Origins, history and form

Skimmingtons, are recorded in England as far back as the 17th century,[1] and the practice is also recorded in colonial America from around the 1730s on.[2][3] The term is particularly associated with the West Country region of England, and although the etymology is not certain, it has been suggested that it derived from the ladle used in that region for cheesemaking, which was perceived as a weapon used by a woman to beat a weak or henpecked husband. The rationale for a skimmington varied, but one major theme was disapproval of a man for weakness in his relationship with his wife. A description of the custom in 1856 cites three main targets: a man who is worsted by his wife in a quarrel; a cuckolded man who accepts his wife's adultery; and any married person who engages in licentious conduct.[4] To "ride such a person skimmington" involved exposing them or their effigy to ridicule on a cart, or on the back of a horse or donkey. Some accounts describe the participants as carrying ladles and spoons with which to beat each other, at least in the case of skimmingtons prompted by marital discord. The noisy parade passed through the neighbourhood, and served as a punishment to the offender and a warning to others to abide by community norms; Roberts suggests that the homes of other potential victims were visited in a pointed manner during a skimmington.[4] According to one citation, a skimmington was broken up by the police in a village in Dorset as late as 1917.[5]

The antiquary and lexicographer Francis Grose described a skimmington as: "Saucepans, frying-pans, poker and tongs, marrow-bones and cleavers, bulls horns, etc. beaten upon and sounded in ludicrous processions" (A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1796).

In Warwickshire, the custom was known as "loo-belling", and in northern England as "riding the stang".

During the Western Rising of 1628–31, which was a rebellion in south-west England against the enclosure of royal forest lands, the name "Lady Skimmington" was adopted by the leader of the protest movement.[6] According to some sources the name was used by a number of men involved with the Western Rising, who dressed in women's clothes not only as a method of disguise, but also in order to symbolise their protest against a breach of the established order.[7]
In art and literature

    The Late Lancashire Witches, a play by Thomas Howarth and Richard Brome, features a horseback skimmington ride prompted by a woman who seeks greater independence.

    In Samuel Butler's Hudibras, the central character encounters a skimmington in a scene notably illustrated by William Hogarth.

    A skimmington is depicted in a plaster frieze in Montacute House, which dates from the Elizabethan era, and shows a man mounted on a pole, carried on the shoulders of others[8].

    A skimmington forms a well-known scene in Thomas Hardy's 1884 novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. Effigies of the mayor and Lucetta, a former lover, are paraded through the streets on a donkey by a noisy crowd when rumours of their prior relationship surface. Lucetta, now respectably married to Henchard's rival Farfrae, collapses in distress and humiliation, miscarries her baby and dies.

    :"They are coming up Corn Street after all! They sit back to back!"

        "What--two of 'em—are there two figures?"
        "Yes. Two images on a donkey, back to back, their elbows tied to one another's! She's facing the head, and he's facing the tail."
        "Is it meant for anybody in particular?"
        "Well--it mid be. The man has got on a blue coat and kerseymere leggings; he has black whiskers, and a reddish face. 'Tis a stuffed figure, with a falseface." (...)

    The numerous lights round the two effigies threw them up into lurid distinctness; it was impossible to mistake the pair for other than the intended victims.

        "Come in, come in," implored Elizabeth; "and let me shut the window!"
        "She's me—she's me—even to the parasol—my green parasol!" cried Lucetta with a wild laugh as she stepped in. She stood motionless for one second—then fell heavily to the floor.

    —Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge

    The Skimmity Hitchers are a Scrumpy & Western band from the West Country of England. They took their name from the Skimmington (known as Skimmity in Dorset)to reflect their music and stage show which s a mix of rough music, parody, drunkeness and audience humiliation.


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