Did The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Harvest, Steal Human Organs in Haiti? By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem ---- March 20, 2010 …. . At first, most of the educated public in the democratic world would respond with a resounding "no". While many of us who live in Israel and those of us who had actually been in Haiti would choose not to dignify the question with an answer. I was sitting at an outdoor restaurant yesterday in Ra'anana, a sleepy, northern suburb of Tel Aviv with my 9-year-old daughter. We had just participated in the Ra'anana 3k Annual...
A familiar mistrust descends. hopes that Mr Obama and his Cuban counterpart, Raúl Castro, would end a 50-year freeze in relations between their countries have proved wildly premature. Mr Obama began with some gestures. The latest round of talks took place in late February. They were overshadowed by familiar rows. The American officials demanded the release of Alan Gross, who was working under contract to USAID and was arrested in Havana in December. His family says he was helping Jewish groups in Cuba ... Four days after the talks Orlando Zapata, an imprisoned dissident, died in custody in a Havana...
When Raúl Castro became president of Cuba in 2006, he raised hopes, at home and abroad, that he would usher in a new era of reform. His brother, El Comandante Fidel, was struck with some sort of intestinal illness and rendered incapable of governing. So in stepped Raúl with promises to undertake "structural" change in the country. He distributed parcels of idle land to farmers. He encouraged young people, many of whom feel restive about their country's system, to "fearlessly debate" the country's problems. He decreed that Cubans could finally buy cell phones and computers, and could stay at tourist...
I have looked over the Penn State University’s report issued yesterday, “RA-10 Inquiry Report: Concerning the Allegations of Research Misconduct Against Dr. Michael E. Mann, Department of Meteorology, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences”. Below are eight points addressing my initial impressions...
infoenglish@zenit.org Havana Archdiocesan Paper Sounds Warning on Economy Priest-Economist Analyzes Castro Policy HAVANA, Cuba, FEB. 2, 2010 (Zenit.org).- According to Father Boris Moreno, a priest of Havana with a master's in economics, the Cuban economy under Raúl Castro is near collapse. This was the analysis Father Moreno offered to "Palabra Nuevo," of the Archdiocese of Havana, in its latest edition. He suggested that the cause of the dire economic situation is to a large extent the ideology followed by Castro's government. The government's economic policy "has been marked by a lack of definition both of perspective as well as means,...
Year one of the Obama administration ends Wednesday. Another era may come to an end the day before, when Massachusetts voters choose a senator to fill the three years remaining in the term of Edward Kennedy, who held the seat for 47 years. If Republican Scott Brown wins that election -- and he seems to have an excellent chance to do so -- that election will mean the end, after just seven months, of the Democrats' 60-seat Senate supermajority. That era began in July, when Al Franken was seated after protracted litigation over the result in an election in which...
The joy of rebuilding November 26, 2009Fred Hutchison, RA analyst Conservatives will soon have one of the great joys of this life: the joy of rebuilding with like-minded comrades. I happen to believe that the time for rebuilding is coming soon. First, consider the following facts that convince me that this is so. Subsequently, I shall portray rebuilding as a time of special blessing for united groups of like-minded people. The suburbs in revolt The recent election victories can be credited to moderate and independent suburban voters who are swinging away from liberals and Democrats and voting for conservatives and...
Juanita Castro, sister of Cuban rulers Fidel and Raúl Castro, cooperated with the CIA in the 1960s -- a time when the U.S. agency was plotting to assassinate Fidel and overthrow his revolution -- according to an exclusive Univisión-Noticias 23 report on her newly published book. The report also revealed that Juanita, who broke with her brothers' revolution in 1964, hid government opponents in her home; that Fidel refused to visit her because the house was ``surrounded by worms;'' and that their mother often intervened with Raúl to help Castro critics, jailed or fugitive. Described as the Castro family's best-kept...
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