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Judging by how well this McCarthyism mash-up (via The Huffington Post and comprised of McCarthy-era footage and claims that Obama and company are a band of Communists from the likes of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh) plays, I'd say we're a stone's throw away from Congressional hearings.
Don't think so? At around the 6:05 mark, footage taken from the Chris Matthews helmed Hardball (from last October) features Congresswoman Michele Bachmann laying out what she would like to see occur:
"What I would say is that the news media should do a penetrating expose and take a look, I wish they would, I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and take a look at whether they are pro-America, or anti-America. I think people would love to see an expose like that."
Here's the full clip:
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Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez has developed quite a following in the US for her blog Generacion Y. Apparently now she can count President Obama among her fans. Sanchez managed to submit seven question to the President, which he answered this week and she posted on her blog. Obama congratulated her on her work:
Your blog provides the world a unique window into the realities of daily life in Cuba. It is telling that the Internet has provided you and other courageous Cuban bloggers with an outlet to express yourself so freely, and I applaud your collective efforts to empower fellow Cubans to express themselves through the use of technology. The government and people of the United States join all of you in looking forward to the day all Cubans can freely express themselves in public without fear and without reprisals.
The questions focused on US-Cuba relations and the possibility of future dialogue. Obama kept the door open to dialogue with Cuba's government but said it would have to come with the chance to "create opportunities to advance the interests of the United States and the cause of freedom for the Cuban people." Sanchez also asked him specifically about the role of the internet in Cuban lives.
QUESTION 6: YOU STRONGLY SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES. BUT, CUBANS CONTINUE TO HAVE LIMITED ACCESS TO THE INTERNET. HOW MUCH OF THIS IS DUE TO THE U.S. EMBARGO AND HOW MUCH OF IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT?
My administration has taken important steps to promote the free flow of information to and from the Cuban people particularly through new technologies. We have made possible greater telecommunications links to advance interaction between Cuban citizens and the outside world. This will increase the means through which Cubans on the island can communicate with each other and with persons outside of Cuba, for example, by expanding opportunities for fiber optic and satellite transmissions to and from Cuba. This will not happen overnight. Nor will it have its full effect without positive actions by the Cuban government. I understand the Cuban government has announced a plan to provide Cubans greater access to the Internet at post offices. I am following this development with interest and urge the government to allow its people to enjoy unrestricted access to the internet and to information. In addition, we welcome suggestions regarding areas in which we can further support the free flow of information within, from, and to Cuba.
Vanguard's Adrian Baschuk was in Cuba earlier this year and though he was unable to meet with Yoani Sanchez, found that internet access for her, possibly Cuba's best-known blogger, was achieved by sneaking into hotels and uploading her posts.
Vanguard: Cuba Waiting For A Revolution (Video)
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I was watching Obama's town hall meeting with students in Shanghai last night. As he wrapped up his prepared remarks, stepped away from the podium, and began to explain the format of the town hall portion I realized that this might be absolutely foreign to many of these students. Here is a country's President, a very famous and powerful man, asking them to raise their hands and ask him a question. Whatever they asked him, he'd answer. We obviously take this sort of thing for granted - heck our most recent town halls seem to have devolved into purely shouting at our elected officials. But I couldn't shake the feeling that Obama, who was not joined on stage by any major Chinese official, had smuggled a little democracy into the PRC.
This video of his introducing the concept is from CNN and their anchor, predictably, talks all over him, but you can hear the second half. If anyone can find a clean video - I'll replace this one with it.
He also, and this was the headlining remark, asserted the American position that it's okay for everyone to use Twitter.
President Barack Obama pointedly nudged China on Monday to stop censoring Internet access, offering an animated defense of the tool that helped him win the White House and suggesting Beijing need not fear a little criticism....
"I think that the more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable," Obama told students during his first-ever trip to China. "They can begin to think for themselves."
If the President's goal was to sneak a little democracy into the People's Republic, it seems to have not reached too many citizens. The event was not broadcast nationally - only on local Shanghai stations - and the live feed from the White House web site was reportedly choppy and hard to watch in China.
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I actually don't remember where I was when I found out that the Berlin Wall fell twenty years ago. Strange because I have such clear memories of other 1980s landmarks like the Challenger explosion. What I do remember most clearly about the reunification of East and West Germany was from German class a few years later. Our textbooks were a few years old, still in good condition, but completely outpaced by the movement of history. Everyday there would be a new page we would read with an outdated cultural reference to a divided Germany. It was the first I'd ever really learned about East Germany - and it sounded terrible.
Share your memory of the fall of the Berlin Wall with us.
A few sites with some great anniversary coverage:
German magazine Der Spiegel has a collection of articles worth reading.
On Tumblr, Best of Life is posting some gripping images out of the Life magazine archives of the Wall throughout its infamous life.
And Magnum has a picture essay of years in East Germany.
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FP Passport asks the question: Why is Obama playing telephone with Castro?
Obama reportedly asked the Spanish President to ask the Spanish Foreign Minister to tell the Castro regime to "take steps to reform and improve human rights." It seems a convoluted way to deliver a message that is surely not new news to the Cuban government. What's Obama's aim here?
This surely isn't the strangest chapter in the strained relationship between the two close neighbors. As a part of his investigation into Cuba and its potential for a new revolution, Vanguard's Adrian Baschuk spoke to a veritable gaggle of Cuba watchers. This is one of the web extras from the show - a deeper look at US-Cuba relations.
Vanguard Web Extra: U.S. and Cuba's Rocky Relationship (Video)
Tune in again this Wednesday at 10pm for Vanguard's new episode: Forest of Ecstasy, as Adam Yamaguchi travels to the Cambodian rainforest to investigate how the club drug is deforesting the Cardamom Mountains.
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Tonight is the second episode of Vanguard's new season: "Cuba: Waiting for a Revolution".
Cuba: Waiting for a Revolution (Promo)
Join us on Current TV at 10pm ET and then again at 10pm PT!
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Tomorrow night Vanguard will premiere the second episode in their new season: Cuba: Waiting for a Revolution.
Cuba: Waiting for a Revolution Promo (Video)
But before you travel to Cuba tomorrow night with Adrian Baschuk, how about a little background on where the country stands.
An overview of Cuba: Past, Present and Future: Adrian gives some historical perspective on the battle for Cuba, inside and outside.
Jorge Moreno on being Cuban-American and seeing the real Cuba: Musician Jorge Moreno guest blogs on the Vanguard blog with his personal perspective on visiting Cuba as a Cuban-American.
Freedom: Adrian writes about what freedom means in the context of our neighbors just across the Florida Straits.
Cuba at 50: The Current.com group with all your most recent Cuba news.
Otherwise, all you need to get ready for tomorrow night is make sure your television is tuned to Current TV!
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That's the question Adrian Baschuk of the Vanguard team went down to Havana to find the answer to. And that's the subject of next week's episode.
Cuba: Waiting For A Revolution - Promo (Video)
Cuba was under the rule of Fidel Castro for pretty much all of the last 50 years, but now with Fidel's brother Raul in charge and a new American President talking reconciliation, a lot of Cuba-watchers are wondering if big change is in the works. There are plenty of little changes happening that give cause to their interest. For example, The Economist reported this week on a small change in the country's lunch policy.
THIS month staff at four government ministries in Havana had to make new arrangements for lunch. The ministries’ free canteens were shut down and workers given a wage increase of 15 pesos ($0.60) a day in compensation. Since that raises their salaries by more than half in return for losing an often poor-quality lunch, on this occasion Granma, the daily newspaper of the ruling Communist Party, may have got it right when it headlined the news, “Giving, more than taking away”.
And today the Miami Herald reports that Cuba has just given the US access to meet with jailed dual-citizens. This in addition to the recent relaxing of travel restrictions for American citizens of Cuban descent.
Possibly significant changes - but do they herald a coming revolution in Cuba? Is Communism on the island approaching its end? Tune in next week to Vanguard and find out what Adrian learned.
Things you can do while you wait for next week's episode of Vanguard:
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- Watch The Oxycontin Express (and exclusive extras from the show)That's the question Adrian Baschuk of the Vanguard team went down to Havana to... more
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NewLeftMedia posted a pretty down-the-middle (excluding the final end slate) video interviewing DC protesters from last weekend. Kudos to the interviewer for his informed prep work - especially on the history of 'czars' in the White House.
Now, it's easy to take some video from a protest like this and cut it to make people look unintelligent and uninformed. I was impressed that this video didn't seem to do that. It didn't focus on the most incendiary signs or the folks with the most outrageous opinions. Instead, in most circumstances, the interviewer speaks at a normal decibel level with pretty normal-seeming people. And many of them are just woefully underinformed. (The czars beat illustrates this the best.)
How do we as a society based on the decision-making power of an informed populace combat this problem? And if you're someone who supported the protests - what is the well-informed line being towed here?
Get involved in the discussion on Current News over here.
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A 90 minute lecture on the most prevailing Order in the World, The Sun Order, and how they are finalizing their New World Agenda. http://www.jordanmaxwell.com/A 90 minute lecture on the most prevailing Order in the World, The Sun Order, and how... more
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Under a warm Californian sun, Thousands of Cubans and many of our Latin American neighbours and Americans gathered in the name of freedom. I saw Cuban, American, Salvadorian, Mexican, Venezuelans, Honduran flags.
I imagined that our Apostle Marti was watching us proud. All united for the freedom of Cuban political prisoners. Gathered in the name of those who have no freedom of expression, or right to gather to ask for their rights. United for the Ladies in White, so they can continue to march for the freedom of their love ones, without being mistreated or imprisoned.
United in one voice for the world to listen and not be an accomplice to so much violence against a peaceful dissidence and a people that can take no more.
We marched for those we left behind, for the thousands dead at the hands of the Castro dictatorship, for all the mothers who mourn their sons and daughters, for what we lost and for what we hope for. We marched for a better future for future generations.
Sadly, just moments before the schedule speakers arrived, I received a message from Facebook about the critical condition of Guillermo Farina who is on hunger and thirst strike. I remember that shared it with a man who started to cry. Many of us had tears in our eyes during the march and I can't blame them-it's been five decades of waiting for a change that never came.
At the start of the presentation, there was an announcement that they had received news from Cuba that Reina Tamayo, mother of murdered political prisoner Orlando Zapata, had been heckled today, by a mob of Castro sympathizers. There is no honor in torturing a mother in mourning.
Present at the event were Andy Garcia, Perez Hilton, George Lopez, Maria Conchita Alonso, Steven Bower, Huber Matos, among others.
There were scream of down with Fidel, freedom, Zapata lives and in spite of Andy and Conchita's reminders that we could accomplish more in silence, we found difficult to stay quiet. The word silence is not in the Cuban dictionary.
Aproximately at four in the afternoon, we started walking and I have to say it was overcomed by the long line of people, dressed all dressed in white, united by the love of the our country of birth and the admiration of those inside Cuba, who are sacrificing their lives, to leave their children a better future.
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Shocking Audio: Rep. Dingell Says ObamaCare Will Eventually ‘Control the People’
Congressman John Dingle, Democrat, Michigan admits they want to control the people with Obamacare.
Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), the Dean of the House of Representatives for being the longest serving member of the body (he was first elected in 1955, succeeding his father, Rep. John Dingell, Sr.), made an amazing admission during a live telephone interview with Detroit WJR News/Talk 760 radio talk show host Paul W. Smith on Smith’s show Monday morning, March 22, 2010. The night before, Dingell had been a featured speaker at the Democrat Congressional leadership victory press conference after Obamacare passed the House.
In response to a question posed by Smith, Dingell said:Shocking Audio: Rep. Dingell Says ObamaCare Will Eventually ‘Control the People’…We The Lemmings…http://ctpatriot1970.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/shocking-audio-rep-dingell-says-obamacare-will-eventually-%E2%80%98control-the-people%E2%80%99-we-the-lemmings/Shocking Audio: Rep. Dingell Says ObamaCare Will Eventually ‘Control the... more
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On March 24th 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero was murdered after denouncing the US-backed military dictatorship's brutality.On March 24th 1980, Archbishop Oscar Romero was murdered after denouncing the... more
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This is the story of the machines they created, and how the technologies intended to boost Communism played a key part in toppling the Soviet state. Building digital computers in Soviet post-war Russia was a dangerous business. To protect himself and his staff from criticism that could end in them being sent to labour camps, Russian computer pioneer Sergei Lebedev of the Kiev Electro-Technical Institute declared that the computers they wanted to build would carry out only ideologically correct calculations. .. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/free-stuff/274-secrets-of-communist-computingThis is the story of the machines they created, and how the technologies intended to... more
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – Thousands rallied across Russia Saturday to denounce government economic policy and demand more freedom in a new challenge to the Kremlin reflecting increasing disillusionment and a growing potential for protests.
Many participants in the rallies, dubbed the "Day of Wrath" by the opposition, demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
About 1,000 people rallied in St. Petersburg holding placards "Putin's team must resign!"
Police didn't intervene with the St. Petersburg protest, but they barred protesters chanting anti-Putin slogans from holding a rally on a downtown Moscow. City police spokesman Viktor Biryukov said 70 people had been detained for taking part in the protest which hasn't been authorized by authorities.
Opposition activists have insisted they need no special permission from authorities to hold rallies because the Russian constitutions guarantees the right of assembly.
The authorities allowed an earlier protest of about 1,000 in another section of the Russian capital to demand a reform of the Russian traffic police, which has been widely criticized for corruption and inefficiency.
An opposition rally in the far eastern port of Vladivostok drew about 1,500 people, and similar protests were to be held in many other cities throughout Russia on Saturday.
Several thousand demonstrators gathered in the Baltic city of Kaliningrad despite an earlier decision by the opposition leaders to cancel the protest. They chanted "Government should resign!" and called for the ouster of the provincial governor, the Interfax news agency reported. Police didn't intervene.
The organizers said that about 5,000 people attended the protest, while police said about 3,000 took part, Interfax said.
A January rally in Kalinigrad attracted about 10,000 in the largest anti-government protest in years, and the government was clearly worried. Putin has criticized the main pro-Kremlin party, saying its empty promises had fed public discontent.
Putin moved into the prime minister's seat in 2008 after eight years as president but retains much of his power. The opposition has accused him of rolling back many of the democratic achievements of the 1990s.
"Nothing will change until Putin stays at the helm," Olga Kurnosova of the United Civil Front, an umbrella group uniting several opposition parties and movements, said at St. Petersburg's rally. "We don't want him to continue ruling."
Some protesters criticized Putin's Cabinet for failing to compensate a rise in utility tariffs that has affected living standards.
"I'm worried about growing gas and electricity prices," Vyacheslav Ivanov, a 71-year old retiree. "The prices are growing, and we are getting poorer."
Many others blamed the government for red tape and rampant corruption that has stifled business.
"I came to this rally because it's impossible to develop small business in this country," said the 58-year old Yelena Balikina. She said she had to close her business venture because of official restrictions.
"They stamp small business out with taxes and inspections," Balikina said. "And you have to pay bribes on every step."
In Vladivostok, where many residents draw their incomes from trading in cars imported from nearby Japan, demonstrators protested the latest restrictive measures against foreign vehicles introduced by the authorities in a bid to protect local car makers.
Some also carried political placards, such as "Freedom of speech, freedom of elections!"ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – Thousands rallied across Russia Saturday to denounce... more
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as always, china following usa only 10 years behind, our bubble burst in 2000, will theirs in 2010? if their depression cherry popped, would those outsourced jobs come back to the US (i hope)?
March 17 (Bloomberg) -- China is in the midst of “the greatest bubble in history,” said James Rickards, former general counsel of hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management LP.
The Chinese central bank’s balance sheet resembles that of a hedge fund buying dollars and short-selling the yuan, said Rickards, now the senior managing director for market intelligence at McLean, Virginia-based consulting firm Omnis Inc.
“As I see it, it is the greatest bubble in history with the most massive misallocation of wealth,” Rickards said at the Asset Allocation Summit Asia 2010 organized by Terrapinn Pte in Hong Kong yesterday. China “is a bubble waiting to burst.”as always, china following usa only 10 years behind, our bubble burst in 2000, will... more
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If you were worried about the U.S. Government keeping track of you....Well, now they have the support of Israeli citizens. Free Speech? Think Again! Your opinion might get you in trouble. You are now a virtual Anne Franke in the internet attic with nowhere left to hide.
Alert the Government!
1. Pro-terrorist and antisemitic content on the web poses a serious threat. Much of this content can be found on areas like Facebook, YouTube, Blogger, Wordpress, Wikipedia, etc.
This content is often against these ISP's own terms. For example, Facebook's terms state:
One cannot "upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available any content that we deem to be harmful, threatening, unlawful, defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory, harassing, vulgar, obscene, fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable"
Also, one cannot "upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available content that would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party, or that would otherwise create liability or violate any local, state, national or international law"
2. Despite a massive campaign to report these groups to Facebook and to the Media, Facebook barely made a dent in removing them. However, we do give them credit for removing 106 problematic groups impacting over 125,000 people active in them (due to our concentrated effort of reporting groups.)
3. There are hundreds more which have not been deleted despite thousands of complaints. There are also many more new groups created daily, so the problem is spiraling out of control.
4. Therefore hatred and cyber jihadists continue to grow stronger despite operating against Facebook's terms, and in some cases against international and regional laws.
5. We do not understand why. Perhaps this excerpt from a popular blog about Facebook might explain:
"Recently Shimon Peres suggested that Israelis and Jews worldwide use Facebook to fight anti-semitism in addition to inviting Mark Zuckerberg to Israel. I asked him about his thoughts on Facebook as a tool to fight anti-semitism and if Facebook would take proactive measures to fight against it. Mark believes that Facebook need to focus on building useful communication tools and that the users can use these tools to connect and generate more worldly perspectives. As such Facebook does not need to be proactive about it. When asked about whether he will visit Israel next year, he said maybe."
6. Politicians know that the future is in the hands of the younger generation. Let them know your concerns by writing. Please ask them to do whatever they can to help combat the serious problems of pro-terrorist and other hate groups all over Facebook (and the web.) Let them know that you feel much of the activity happening here might be illegal (since there are groups actively promoting illegal terrorist groups here) and that a proper government investigation should be considered.
7. We believe the following steps are now necessary:
-Contact the White House here: Contact the President!, Contact the Vice President!
-Contact your Attorneys General by State: http://www.naag.org/ag/full_ag_table.php
-Contact your Senators: http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index_by_state.cfm
-Contact your State Reps: https://forms.house.gov/wyr/welcome.shtml
-Contact any other local law enforcement agencies as needed.
-Keep it simple. Make sure you use your name, age, where you are from, and let them know that seeing all of this on Facebook is not making you feel comfortable online and that you would like to see our government doing more about it as you see this as another important front in the war which you feel is being neglected. Make sure you provide them a link which will take them to the most problematic material:If you were worried about the U.S. Government keeping track of you....Well, now they... more
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Personal note: Federal control of state and private waters. Communist? Socialist?
The Obama administration has ended public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.
This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is "fluid" and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force still hasn't issued its final report on zoning uses of these waters.
Fishing industry insiders, who have negotiated for months with officials at the Council on Environmental Quality and bureaucrats on the task force, had grown concerned that the public input would not be taken into account.
"When the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) completed their successful campaign to convince the Ontario government to end one of the best scientifically managed big-game hunts in North America (spring bear), the results of their agenda had severe economic impacts on small family businesses and the tourism economy of communities across northern and central Ontario," said Phil Morlock, director of environmental affairs for Shimano.
"Now we see NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and the administration planning the future of recreational fishing access in America based on a similar agenda of these same groups and other Big Green anti-use organizations, through an Executive Order by the President. The current U.S. direction with fishing is a direct parallel to what happened in Canada with hunting: The negative economic impacts on hard-working American families and small businesses are being ignored.
"In spite of what we hear daily in the press about the President's concern for jobs and the economy and contrary to what he stated in the June order creating this process, we have seen no evidence from NOAA or the task force that recreational fishing and related jobs are receiving any priority."
Unless more anglers speak up to their Congressional representatives so their input will be considered, it appears the task force will issue a final report for "marine spatial planning" by late March. President Barack Obama then could possibly issue an Executive Order to implement its recommendations.
Led by NOAA's Jane Lubchenco, the task force has shown no overt dislike of recreational angling. As ESPN previously reported, WWF, Greenpeace, Defenders of Wildlife, Pew Environment Group and others produced a document entitled "Transition Green" shortly after Obama was elected in 2008.
What has happened since suggests that the task force has been in lockstep with that position paper, according to Morlock.
In late summer, just after the administration created the task force, these groups produced "Recommendations for the Adoption and Implementation of an Oceans, Coasts, and Great Lakes National Policy." This document makes repeated references to "overfishing," but doesn't reference recreational angling, its importance, and its benefits, both to participants and the resource.
Additionally, some of these same organizations have revealed their anti-fishing bias with their attempts to ban tackle containing lead in the United States and Canada.
Also, recreational angling and commercial fishing have been lumped together as harmful to the resource, despite protests by the angling industry.
Morlock's evidence of collusion -- the green groups began clamoring for an Executive Order to implement the task force's recommendations even before the public comment period ended in February.
On Feb. 12, the New York Times reported on that "President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities."
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Morlock fears that "what we're seeing coming at us is an attempted dismantling of the science-based fish and wildlife model that has served us so well. There's no basis in science for the agendas of these groups who are trying to push the public out of being able to fish and recreate.
"Conflicts (user) are overstated and problems are manufactured. It's all just an excuse to put us off the water."
In the wake of the task force's framework document, the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation (CSF) and its partners in the U.S. Recreational Fishing & Boating Coalition again voiced their concerns to the administration.
"Some of the potential policy implications of this interim framework have the potential to be a real threat to recreational anglers who not only contribute billions of dollars to the economy and millions of dollars in tax revenues to support fisheries conservation, but who are also the backbone of the American fish and wildlife conservation ethic," said CSF President Jeff Crane.
Morlock, a member of the CSF board, added, "There are over one million jobs in America supported coast to coast by recreational fishing. The task force has not included any accountability requirements in their reports for evaluating or mitigating how the new policies they are drafting will impact the fishing industry or related economies.
"Given that the scope of this process appears to include a new set of policies for all coastal and inland waters of the United States, the omission of economic considerations is inexcusable."
This is not the only access issue threatening the public's right to fish, but it definitely is the most serious, according to Chris Horton, national conservation director for BASS.
"With what's being created, the same principles could apply inland as apply to the oceans," he said. "Under the guise of 'marine spatial planning' entire watersheds could be shut down, even 2,000 miles up a river drainage from the ocean.
"Every angler needs to be aware because if it's not happening in your backyard today or tomorrow, it will be eventually.
"We have one of the largest voting blocks in the country and we need to use it. We must not sit idly by."Personal note: Federal control of state and private waters. Communist? Socialist?... more
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Santa Clara, 5 of March 2010.
To: Raúl Castro Ruz, Army General and President of the Councils of State and Ministers of the Republic of Cuba.
General, as you must know, as an old soldier, the ties between brothers in arms are relationships that go beyond ideologies and political positions. As should be reflected in the archives of the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, the undersigned was a combatant in the People's Republic of Angola and had I continued in the military life would now hold the rank of Colonel.
Three colleagues of mine, very close to you, have sent messages alerting me that you gave the necessary orders to let me die, following the international outrage for the murder of Orlando Zapata Tamayo and so the hunger strikes by a group of Cubans, will end.
I want to say that I consider myself a true patriot and I recognize that I was only a mercenary, when I was in the service of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics under which I served in Africa. The fact that you believe that my death is necessary for me is an honor, as one verse of our National Anthem states: "to die for the homeland is to live".
Under the present circumstances, in which my country and my brothers of struggle are living, I thank you for allowing me to die before the national and international public opinion, for my pro-democratic ideas and may God be with our land and your with soul.
Bachelor in Psychology
Guillermo Farinas Hernandez
Ex-Political Prisoner three times,
Librarian and Freelance Journalist.
http://sunriseinhavana.blogspot.com/2010/03/farinas-letter-to-raul-castro-ruz.htmlSanta Clara, 5 of March 2010.
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Last week's video of the week was definitely Former Soviet Union's trololololololololololo. Brett covered it as a lesson on Viral Video Film School.
Last night Kimmel referenced this video with Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz. In this clip he performs as 'Der Humpink' a German version of the Trololololololololololo guy.
But there is more on the Communist singing front. In this 1978 performance, a choir of young children belt out some beautiful jams. They're the 70s Soviet version of PS22 (who also have a great new video.)
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