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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

CNN’s Alisyn Camerota: Americans should wear headscarves in solidarity with Muslims

CNN’s Alisyn Camerota: Americans should wear headscarves in solidarity with Muslims

FBI can’t confirm that hate letters sent to mosques actually came from outside Muslim community

FBI can’t confirm that hate letters sent to mosques actually came from outside Muslim community

OSU jihadi one of 98,799 Somali Muslim refugees admitted to US since 9/11

OSU jihadi one of 98,799 Somali Muslim refugees admitted to US since 9/11

German left planning to disarm “right-wing extremists,” “Brexiteers,” Trump supporters

German left planning to disarm “right-wing extremists,” “Brexiteers,” Trump supporters

Kick off the Christmas Season with a Gift to AFDI

Kick off the Christmas Season with a Gift to AFDI

Catholic Charities helped Ohio State University jihadi resettle in U.S.

Catholic Charities helped Ohio State University jihadi resettle in U.S.

Islamic State claims responsibility for Ohio State University jihad attack

Islamic State claims responsibility for Ohio State University jihad attack

White House warns against blaming Islam for OSU jihad attack

White House warns against blaming Islam for OSU jihad attack

Germany: Muslim intel officer arrested for jihad plot to bomb his own agency HQ

Germany: Muslim intel officer arrested for jihad plot to bomb his own agency HQ

Turkey gathers boats to ship Muslim migrants to Greece in revenge over EU talks freeze

Turkey gathers boats to ship Muslim migrants to Greece in revenge over EU talks freeze

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Germany: Court determines “Sharia Patrol” is legal

Germany: Court determines “Sharia Patrol” is legal

OSU jihadi Abdul Artan lived in Pakistan before coming to US as “refugee,” used car registered to Mohamed Ali

OSU jihadi Abdul Artan lived in Pakistan before coming to US as “refugee,” used car registered to Mohamed Ali

OSU jihadi Abdul Artan: “I’m a Muslim, it’s not what the media portrays me to be”

OSU jihadi Abdul Artan: “I’m a Muslim, it’s not what the media portrays me to be”

OSU jihadi: “America! Stop interfering with other countries … [if] you want us Muslims to stop carrying lone wolf attacks”

OSU jihadi: “America! Stop interfering with other countries … [if] you want us Muslims to stop carrying lone wolf attacks”

OSU jihadi: “By Allah, I am willing to kill a billion infidels”

OSU jihadi: “By Allah, I am willing to kill a billion infidels”

Why Mitt Romney’s “establishment” position on Islam/Mideast should disqualify him from Trump’s team

Why Mitt Romney’s “establishment” position on Islam/Mideast should disqualify him from Trump’s team

“THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND CUBA:

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“THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND CUBA:
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MODERATOR:         Jaime Suchlicki, Director, Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, and Emilio Bacardi Moreau Distinguished Professor at the University of Miami.  He is also editor of “Cuban Affairs”, a quarterly electronic journal published by ICCAS and the author of Cuba: From Columbus to CastroMexico: From Montezuma to the rise of PAN, and Breve Historia de Cuba.  Dr. Suchlicki is a highly regarded consultant to the public and private sector in the U.S.

PANEL:                      Ambassador Otto Reich, President of Otto Reich Associates, LLC of Washington, D.C. served as U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela, from 1986 to 1989.  In the 1980’s, Reich received three appointments from President Ronald Reagan: As special Advisor to the Secretary of State from 1983 to 1986, he directed the Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean, which received the department’s Meritorious Honor Award.  From 1981 to 1983, he was Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in charge of U.S. economic assistance to Latin America and the Caribbean. He was the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs from 2001 to 2002.  He then became President Bush’s Special Envoy for Western Hemisphere Initiatives, reporting to Dr. Condoleezza Rice in the National Security Council.  He left government service in June 2004.

                                    Jose Azel, Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami.  He was one of the founders of Pediatrix Medical Group, the nation’s leading provider of pediatric specialty services.  Dr. Azel was an Adjunct Professor of International Business at the School of Business Administration, Department of Management, University of Miami.  Azel holds a Ph.D. in International Affairs from the University of Miami. He is the author of the book “Manana in Cuba.”

                                    Pedro Roig, Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami. Historian and attorney, is the author of several books including “The Death of a Dream: A History of Cuba” published by ICCAS in 2009 and “Marti: The Cuban Struggle for Freedom.”  Former director of the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB) – Radio & TV Marti, a veteran of the Brigade 2506.


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IF YOU WANT TO PRAISE HELL, THEN GO LIVE IT...





Those nationally prominent figures who diminish our country and attack it's culture constantly, should be boycotted, banned from any lucrative position and shunned for life, and if possible, exiled or deported, to a communist or islamic state, so they can suffer first hand the nightmarish and brutal dictatorships they so praise. They don't deserve the blessings of living in a free society, but the penalty of living, in their own flesh, sweat and blood, in the hell holes of extreme misery and filth...



By: Eduardo E. Rodríguez

Castro, Obama, and the Prisoner’s Dilemma

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Commentary on Cuba's Future, U.S. Foreign Policy & Individual Freedoms - Issue 50
 

 

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The prisoner’s dilemma is the best known strategic theorem in social science. It helps us understand what influences cooperation and competition with the paradoxical outcome that, under certain conditions, individuals will not cooperate, even when it is in their best interest to do so.
Let’s use the prisoner’s dilemma game theory insight to examine the latest example of non-cooperation by Cuba in its relationship with the United States and the U.S. response or lack of it.  General Castro and President Obama are partners in negotiation analogous to the partners in crime of the prisoner’s dilemma. Public opinion is our prosecutor.

The prisoner’s dilemma was developed by scientists at the RAND Corporation and later formalized by a Princeton mathematician. Its applications in economics, business, politics, and social science are extremely sophisticated including the modeling of behavior between nuclear powers and national rivalries. 

The prisoner’s dilemma entered popular culture with the film “A Beautiful Mind” based on the life of John Nash, who won a Nobel in Economics for his work on game theory.

In the simplest version of the dilemma, two criminals are interrogated in separate rooms and offered a choice of testifying against the other or remaining silent.  Testifying means a lighter sentence for the testifying criminal if the other one refuses to testify and remains silent. The testifying criminal will receive the favorable treatment of a state’s witness. The non testifying criminal will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

However, if they both decide to testify against each other, the prosecutor will be able to ask for the harshest sentence for both of them. The best outcome for both is when they cooperate with each other by staying silent, thus denying the prosecutor the ability to convict them.

And yet, because each prisoner is unable to know what the other will do, each can improve his personal situation by testifying against the other. In this simple prisoner’s dilemma, testifying- that is, betraying the other- is the dominant strategy for each. Paradoxical, when each prisoner follows a purely logical thought process and seeks to improve his own situation, both prisoners find themselves in a worse situation.

It was recently reported that an unarmed U.S. Hellfire missile was somehow mistakenly shipped to Cuba from Europe in 2014. This happened just as the Obama administration and Cuba were negotiating what ended up being the current rapprochement between the countries.

 At a minimum, the administration should have conditioned negotiations concerned that Cuba would share the missile’s advance targeting technology with potential U.S. adversaries such as Russia, China, and North Korea. Quite likely, Cuba’s espionage capabilities were involved in this mysterious “mis-shipment.”

The Castro regime refused to return the missile and incredibly the administration did not make its return a non-negotiable condition for the reestablishment of diplomatic relations, which took place 13 months after it was known the missile was in Cuba.

It is hard to conceive a more graphic example of a failure to protect U.S. national security interests. Just as troubling, the administration kept this information from Congress and withheld it from any public discussion of the new U.S. - Cuba policy.

If General Castro had any interest in cooperating with the United States to maximize the possibilities of a good relationship between the countries, he would have immediately returned the missile to a friendly administration committed to accommodating his demands.

Instead, the General, as modeled by the prisoner’s dilemma, betrayed his negotiating partner-in-crime and pursued his own self interest. What is irrational is that the administration broke faith with the national security interest of the United States by failing to vigorously condemn the unlawful behavior of the Cuban regime.

In this example, Cuba, the non-cooperative betraying criminal, received the favorable treatment of being rewarded with diplomatic relations. And, the accommodatingly silent Obama administration ought to be harshly sentenced in the court of public opinion for its failure to act in the best interest of the United States to get the missile back.

History will witness how the prisoner’s dilemma works out in this instance.  

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This article was originally published in English in the Miami Herald and in Spanish in El Nuevo Herald.
 
José Azel, Ph.D.
José Azel left Cuba in 1961 as a 13 year-old political exile in what has been dubbed Operation Pedro Pan - the largest unaccompanied child refugee movement in the history of the Western Hemisphere.  

He is currently dedicated to the in-depth analyses of Cuba's economic, social and political state, with a keen interest in post-Castro-Cuba strategies as a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS) at the University of Miami and has published extensively on Cuba related topics.

In 2012 and 2015, Dr. Azel testified in the U.S. Congress on U.S.-Cuba Policy, and U.S. National Security.  He is a frequent speaker and commentator on these and related topics on local, national and international media.  He holds undergraduate and masters degrees in business administration and a Ph.D. in International Affairs from the University of Miami. 

Dr. Azel is author of Mañana in Cuba: The Legacy of Castroism and Transitional Challenges for Cuba, published in March 2010 and of Pedazos y Vacios, a collection of poems he wrote as a young exile in the 1960's.

José along with his wife Lily are avid skiers and adventure travelers.  In recent years they have climbed Grand Teton in Wyoming, trekked Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Machu Pichu in Peru.  They have also hiked in Tibet and in the Himalayas to Mt. Everest Base Camp.

They cycled St. James Way (
El Camino de Santiago de Compostela) and cycled alongside the Danube from Germany to Hungary. They have scuba dived in the Bay Islands off the Honduran coast. 

Their adventurers are normally dedicated to raise funds for causes that are dear to them. 
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Books by Dr. José Azel
Mañana in Cuba is a comprehensive analysis of contemporary Cuba with an incisive perspective of the Cuban frame of mind and its relevancy for Cuba's future.
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President-Elect Trump Statement on the Passing of Fidel Castro





Today, the world marks the passing of a brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for nearly six decades. Fidel Castro’s legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

While Cuba remains a totalitarian island, it is my hope that today marks a move away from the horrors endured for too long, and toward a future in which the wonderful Cuban people finally live in the freedom they so richly deserve.

Though the tragedies, deaths and pain caused by Fidel Castro cannot be erased, our administration will do all it can to ensure the Cuban people can finally begin their journey toward prosperity and liberty. I join the many Cuban Americans who supported me so greatly in the presidential campaign, including the Brigade 2506 Veterans Association that endorsed me, with the hope of one day soon seeing a free Cuba.

WaPo: Farewell to Cuba’s Brutal Big Brother

at 10:23 PM

By Yale Prof. Carlos Eire in The Washington Post:

Farewell to Cuba’s brutal Big Brother



One of the most brutal dictators in modern history has just died. Oddly enough, some will mourn his passing, and many an obituary will praise him. Millions of Cubans who have been waiting impatiently for this moment for more than half a century will simply ponder his crimes and recall the pain and suffering he caused.

Why this discrepancy? Because deceit was one of Fidel Castro’s greatest talents, and gullibility is one of the world’s greatest frailties. A genius at myth-making, Castro relied on the human thirst for myths and heroes. His lies were beautiful, and so appealing. According to Castro and to his propagandists, the so-called revolution was not about creating a repressive totalitarian state and securing his rule as an absolute monarch, but rather about eliminating illiteracy, poverty, racism, class differences and every other ill known to humankind. This bold lie became believable, thanks largely to Castro’s incessant boasting about free schools and medical care, which made his myth of the benevolent utopian revolution irresistible to many of the world’s poor.

Many intellectuals, journalists and educated people in the First World fell for this myth, too — though they would have been among the first to be jailed or killed by Castro in his own realm — and their assumptions acquired an intensity similar to that of religious convictions. Pointing out to such believers that Castro imprisoned, tortured and murdered thousands more of his own people than any other Latin American dictator was usually futile. His well-documented cruelty made little difference, even when acknowledged, for he was judged according to some aberrant ethical code that defied logic.

This Kafkaesque moral disequilibrium had a touch of magical realism, for sure, as outrageously implausible as anything that Castro’s close friend Gabriel García Márquez could dream up. For instance, in 1998, around the same time that Chile’s ruler Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London for his crimes against humanity, Cuba’s self-anointed “maximum leader” visited Spain with ample fanfare, unmolested, even though his human rights abuses dwarfed those of Pinochet.

Even worse, whenever Castro traveled abroad, many swooned in his presence. In 1995, when he came to New York to speak at the United Nations, many of the leading lights of that city jostled so intently for a chance to meet with him at media mogul Mort Zuckerman’s triplex penthouse on Fifth Avenue that Time magazine declared “Fidel Takes Manhattan!” Not to be outdone, Newsweek called Castro “The Hottest Ticket in Manhattan.” None of the American elites who hobnobbed with Castro that day seemed to care that he had put nuclear weapons to their heads in 1962.

If this were a just world, 13 facts would be etched on Castro’s tombstone and highlighted in every obituary, as bullet points — a fitting metaphor for someone who used firing squads to murder thousands of his own people.

●He turned Cuba into a colony of the Soviet Union and nearly caused a nuclear holocaust.

●He sponsored terrorism wherever he could and allied himself with many of the worst dictators on earth.

●He was responsible for so many thousands of executions and disappearances in Cuba that a precise number is hard to reckon.

●He brooked no dissent and built concentration camps and prisons at an unprecedented rate, filling them to capacity, incarcerating a higher percentage of his own people than most other modern dictators, including Stalin.

●He condoned and encouraged torture and extrajudicial killings.

●He forced nearly 20 percent of his people into exile, and prompted thousands to meet their deaths at sea, unseen and uncounted, while fleeing from him in crude vessels.

●He claimed all property for himself and his henchmen, strangled food production and impoverished the vast majority of his people.

●He outlawed private enterprise and labor unions, wiped out Cuba’s large middle class and turned Cubans into slaves of the state.

●He persecuted gay people and tried to eradicate religion.

●He censored all means of expression and communication.

●He established a fraudulent school system that provided indoctrination rather than education, and created a two-tier health-care system, with inferior medical care for the majority of Cubans and superior care for himself and his oligarchy, and then claimed that all his repressive measures were absolutely necessary to ensure the survival of these two ostensibly “free” social welfare projects.

●He turned Cuba into a labyrinth of ruins and established an apartheid society in which millions of foreign visitors enjoyed rights and privileges forbidden to his people.

●He never apologized for any of his crimes and never stood trial for them.

In sum, Fidel Castro was the spitting image of Big Brother in George Orwell’s novel “1984.” So, adiós, Big Brother, king of all Cuban nightmares. And may your successor, Little Brother, soon slide off the bloody throne bequeathed to him.

N.Y. Post Editorial: Castro’s Rotting in Hell, But Cuba’s Not Free Yet

at 10:16 PM

From The New York Post's Editorial Board:

Castro’s rotting in hell, but Cuba’s not free yet



The dancing in the streets of Miami tells you all you need to know: The people who knew Fidel Castro best, and are free to express their opinion, are ecstatic that he’s burning in hell.

He led a revolution promising liberty in the island nation — then instead transformed it into an island prison. Along with the rest of his inner circle, he lived a life of luxury — 20 homes, including a private island, Cayo Piedra, that his former bodyguard called a “millionaire’s paradise.”

He jailed, tortured and “disappeared” countless thousands of his people, including many who’d helped lead the revolution. His utter denial of basic human rights — freedoms of speech and assembly, for starters — drove more than a fifth of Cuba’s population into exile.

Castro deceived from the start, and fools around the world chose to believe the lies long after the truth was obvious. He took power claiming to be a nationalist, then came out as a fervent Communist — with firing squads for any who complained.

Yes, he removed US influence over his country — and sold it to the Soviet Union. His bid to host a Soviet atomic arsenal on the island brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

He outlawed not only private enterprise, but also labor unions, and put gays in concentration camps.

His policies impoverished what had once been the most prosperous nation in Latin America. The regime blamed the US embargo, without ever noting that the rest of the world hadn’t joined in: The problem was that Castro’s Cuba had next to nothing to export — beyond mercenaries, terrorism and secret police.

By the 1990s, he was even bragging about Cuba’s legions of prostitutes, who served the tourist trade he’d been forced to embrace to replace the subsidies he lost with the fall of the USSR.

In 2006, ill health forced him to hand power over to younger brother Raul, who continues the oppression.

So, while you cheer the death of one of history’s bloodiest tyrants, temper your joy: Cuba is not yet free.