[VIDEO] American University Students Prefer Castro Over Trump, ‘Made Endless Possibilities for the Cuban People’
Posted: November 29, 2016 Filed under: Education, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Politics, The Butcher's Notebook | Tags: American University, Barack Obama, Center for a Free Cuba, college, Communism, Cuba, Cubans, Cultural Marxism, Donald Trump, Fidel Castro, Havana, Justin Trudeau, Marxism, Miami, propaganda, Raúl Castro, Socialism, useful idiot Leave a commentJustin Holcomb reports: Some students at American University would prefer Fidel Castro over President-elect Donald Trump and were not afraid to let their voice be heard on at the liberal elite school.
Fidel Castro’s firing squad, fatally enforcing long-term favorability
“I mean, right now I don’t think Donald Trump is very good, and I know that Fidel Castro has done some good things for the world so I’d say he’s proven himself at least in the long term to be more favorable.”
Raud Castro, preparing a Cuban citizen for a personal introduction to Marxist utopia
“I mean, right now I don’t think Donald Trump is very good, and I know that Fidel Castro has done some good things for the world so I’d say he’s proven himself at least in the long term to be more favorable,” one student said…(read more)
Social justice warrior Fidel Castro, displaying his instrument for enforcing endless possibilities.
American University students. Risk of being shot by Trump firing squad: 0%
‘His Schedule Doesn’t Permit it’
Posted: November 29, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Global, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Barack Obama, Canada, Cuba, Cuban Revolution, Cubans, Donald Trump, Fidel Castro, Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, United States Leave a comment
Outrage and mockery about Trudeau’s fond words for Castro has threatened to end the Liberal leader’s long honeymoon.
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Andrea Hopkins reports: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will not attend the funeral of Fidel Castro, his office said on Monday, days after Trudeau’s warm comments about the late Cuban leader sparked a backlash.
Trudeau referred on Saturday to Castro as a “remarkable leader” and expressed his sorrow at the death of “Cuba’s longest serving president.”
Trudeau acknowledged on Sunday that Castro had been a dictator as political opponents called on him to boycott the funeral.
Outrage and mockery about Trudeau’s fond words for Castro, who had been an honorary pallbearer at the funeral in 2000 of Trudeau’s father, former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, has threatened to end the Liberal leader’s long honeymoon.
Noting the “many questions” about whether Trudeau would attend the funeral, spokeswoman Andree-Lyne Halle said in an email the prime minister would skip the event. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Ralph Peters: ‘Trudeau Has the Intellectual Heft of Cotton Candy’
Posted: November 28, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Diplomacy, Education, Health and Social Issues, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Canada, Cotton Candy, Fidel Castro, Justin Trudeau, media, news, Ralph Peters, video Leave a comment
Justin Trudeau Backtracks, Explains
Posted: November 27, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Diplomacy, Humor, The Butcher's Notebook | Tags: Canada, Communism, Death of Fidel Castro, Dictatorship, Fidel Castro, Justin Trudeau, Left Wing, Marxist Sympathizer, Mass murder, One Party Rule, Prison, Socialism, Torture, Tyranny Leave a comment
Heartache for the Global Left: The Great Man Progressives Loved to Love
Posted: November 26, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, History, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Belgium, Canada, Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, Cuba, Cuba–United States relations, Cuban exile, Cuban Missile Crisis, Cuban Revolution, Donald Tusk, European Union, Fidel Castro, Havana, Jean-Claude Juncker, Jeremy Corbyn, Justin Trudeau, Miami, President of Cuba, President of the European Commission, Prime Minister of Canada, Raúl Castro Leave a comment
CNN mourns: Fidel Castro Ruz, the political personality, has died. Fidel Castro, the historical persona, has been born. He passes from the present into the past, to serve as an enduring historical subject of debate and dispute, about whom dispassion will be impossible for years to come. Fidel Castro was not a man about whom one is likely to be neutral.
NRO‘s Andrew Stuttaford writes:
Fidel is a metaphor. He is a Rorschach blot upon which to project fears or hopes. A prism in which the spectrum of colors refracted out has to do with light that went in. He is a point of view, loaded with ideological purport and political meaning. A David who survived Goliath. A symbol of Third World intransigence against First World domination.
But it is also possible to discuss the historical “essences” of Fidel Castro. He emerged out of a history shaped by a century of Cuban national frustration, heir to a legacy of unfulfilled hopes for national sovereignty and self-determination, aspirations that put Cuba on a collision course with the United States. Read the rest of this entry »
Fidel Castro Inspired Millions with His Promises of Justice and Progress but Presided Over an Oppressive State
Posted: November 26, 2016 Filed under: Global, History, Politics, Religion, Terrorism | Tags: Barack Obama, Cuba, Cuba–United States relations, Donald Trump, Fidel Castro, Hillary Clinton, Justin Trudeau, Miami, Raúl Castro, United States 1 Comment
With Fidel now dead, many believe Raul will move more quickly toward reforms.
Fidel Castro burst on the world scene in 1959, spawning the very image of a revolutionary with his scruffy beard, rifle and cigar, ruling Cuba for a half-century while rankling 11 U.S. presidents and helping bring the world to the brink of nuclear war.
Mr. Castro, who was suffering from undisclosed illnesses, died at 90 years old, his brother, President Raul Castro, announced Friday.
Mr. Castro, nicknamed the “guerrilla prince” by one of his many biographers, animated millions in Cuba and across the world with his promises of democracy, social justice and economic progress. Early in his reign, Mr. Castro forged an anti-Washington stance, allying with the Soviet Union and supporting guerrilla movements from Latin America to Africa.
But by the time he formally resigned in 2008 as Cuba’s president and handed power to his younger brother, Raúl, he had come to embody all the contradictions of his movement.
Mr. Castro pursued egalitarian ideals of free health care, housing and education, while outlawing free speech, jailing dissidents and banning fair elections. He played world politics with the skill of a grandmaster, but embraced an ideology that ultimately failed. He overthrew one dictator in 1959 only to become Latin America’s longest-ruling one, 49 years.
He sought to free Cuba of its dependence on sugar and make it a wealthy country, only to bankrupt the island and make it dependent first on the largess of the Soviet Union, and then of Venezuela. But Venezuela’s economic crisis has curtailed aid to Cuba.
When Mr. Castro stepped down, many had hoped the more pragmatic Raul would quickly launch economic and political overhauls to ease Cuba into the global economy and introduce a more democratic system. But he has only taken a few hesitant steps in that direction. Instead, the elder Castro developed a second career as a Cassandra-like commentator, raging against the U.S. and frequently predicting an inevitable nuclear war. Read the rest of this entry »
Open ‘Safe Places’ in Seattle, King County for Heroin Use, Task Force Says
Posted: September 15, 2016 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, U.S. News | Tags: British Columbia, Canada, Carfentanil, Dow Constantine, Drug overdose, Emergency medical services, Government of Canada, Heroin, Justin Trudeau, Kentucky, King County, King County Executive, Seattle, The Seattle Times, University of Washington, Vancouver, Washington Leave a comment
A task force is recommending the creation of sites in King County to provide medical supervision for people using illegal drugs like heroin, which would be the first in the U.S.
Vernal Coleman reports: The task force formed to help fight a heroin epidemic in the Seattle area has recommended the opening of public, supervised sites where addicts can use heroin.
The sites, supported by both King County Executive Dow Constantine and Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, would be the first of their kind in the country.
“If it’s a strategy that saves lives … then regardless of the political discomfort I think it is something we have to move forward,” Constantine said during a Thursday news conference.
Murray said he would support establishing the sites if it can be done “in a way that reduces the negative impacts” on neighborhoods.
The recommendations released Thursday call for a pilot program to establish two “community health-engagement locations” in targeted areas where users can inject heroin under medical supervision as an alternative to public restrooms, alleys and homeless encampments like The Jungle.
[Read the full story here, at The Seattle Times]
The committee called for putting one site in Seattle, and another outside of the city in an area where a high number of heroin overdoses have been recorded.
“One of the driving ideas behind this is creating a safe space where we can get people the medical, prevention and treatment services already provided elsewhere,” said Brad Finegood, committee co-chairman and assistant director of the King County Behavioral Health and Recovery Division. Read the rest of this entry »
BREAKING: Justin Trudeau Headed for Victory in Canada
Posted: October 19, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Global, Politics | Tags: Canada, Canadians, Conservative Party (UK), Democratic Party (United States), Justin Trudeau, Liberal Party of Canada, New Democratic Party (Canada), Stephen Harper, Thomas Mulcair Leave a comment
Mr. Trudeau has unseated the Conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, according to a projection Monday night by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp….(read more)
Source: The New York Times
Canada Participates in Just 3% Coalition Airstrikes Against ISIL in Iraq and Syria
Posted: August 11, 2015 Filed under: Diplomacy, Space & Aviation, War Room | Tags: Canada, Canadian Forces, Economy of Canada, Elizabeth May, Freedom of information laws by country, Justin Trudeau, Michael Fallon, Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), New Democratic Party (Canada), Saanich—Gulf Islands, Stephen Harper, Syria, Thomas Mulcair, United Kingdom, United States Secretary of Defense Leave a comment
Fight Doesn’t Match Tory Rhetoric: Canadian military aircraft have flown 1,320 sorties, or individual missions, over Iraq and Syria since last year. That accounts for 2.7 per cent of the 47,705 total sorties flown by coalition aircraft since the war against ISIL started.
Despite Conservative warnings about the “horrific” threat posed by the ISIL, new figures show Canadian military aircraft have conducted less than three per cent of all coalition missions in Iraq and Syria.
“Comparing Canada’s contribution to other allies is difficult because each participating country reports differently. But defence expert David Perry of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute says Canadian aircraft flew about six per cent of all coalition missions during the war in Libya, and about 10 per cent in Kosovo.”
The war against ISIL figured prominently on the campaign trail Monday as Prime Minister Stephen Harper used a stop in Markham, Ont. to pledge that a re-elected Conservative government would provide more assistance for religious minorities and refugees in the Middle East.
Harper went on to criticize Liberal leader Justin Trudeau and NDP leader Tom Mulcair for promising to end Canada’s participation in the U.S.-led bombing campaign against ISIL, saying that humanitarian aid alone won’t solve the crisis.
“What is happening in the areas controlled by (ISIL) is really something we have not seen in millennia. It’s just beyond horrific,” he said, adding, “We are a country that can contribute militarily and in the humanitarian sense, and we are doing both.”
But a Citizen analysis raised questions about whether Canada’s military contributions in the fight against ISIL match Harper’s warnings.
Defence Department figures show Canadian military aircraft have flown 1,320 sorties, or individual missions, over Iraq and Syria since last year. That accounts for 2.7 per cent of the 47,705 total sorties flown by coalition aircraft since the war against ISIL started.
Comparing Canada’s contribution to other allies is difficult because each participating country reports differently. But defence expert David Perry of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute says Canadian aircraft flew about six per cent of all coalition missions during the war in Libya, and about 10 per cent in Kosovo. Read the rest of this entry »
Cameron Gray: Something Remarkable is Happening in Canada that will Change the Future of News Media
Posted: March 10, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Censorship, Mediasphere | Tags: @TheRebelTV, Cameron Gray, Canada, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, crowdfunding, CTV Television Network, Ezra Levant, Justin Trudeau, Postmedia Network, Quebec, Ricochet, Sun News Network, TheRebel.media 2 CommentsDon’t Like the News? Crowdsource Your Own
They are crowdfunding cameras, crowdfunding reporters, even crowdfunding Red Bull and pizza for the staff…
[read the full text here, at Ricochet]
Ezra Levant, with a crowdfunding update:
For Ricochet, Cameron Gray reports: On Feb. 13, Sun News Network went dark, as did the jobs of about 200 employees, including very talented people like Ezra Levant, Brian Lilley, and Faith Goldy. Sun News was often called Canada’s Fox News, featuring reporting and analysis from a conservative point-of-view, and serving as a balance to very liberal Canadian news outlets.
“All of this should scare the heck out of the mainstream media, in any country. Here in America, we are seeing the dinosaur media with record low viewership, while alternative online news sources are thriving…”
The shutdown was not unexpected. Sun’s eventual downfall started in August 2013, just two years after the network debuted. Unlike it had for the CBC and CTV, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) denied it a spot on basic cable TV packages nationwide.
“…No longer do people have to rely on the traditional gatekeepers of media. And as The Rebel in Canada is showing, people will help pay for quality, accurate journalism. This is a fantastic thing that should, and will, be replicated, a lot.”
This severely limited the amount of viewers Sun could attract. From the Globe and Mail’s Steve Ladurantaye:
The unprofitable (and controversial) channel won’t get any financial help from Canada’s broadcast regulator, throwing its future into doubt just two years after it went to air with a promise of “hard news and straight talk.”
The controversial all-news channel hoped to be forced onto basic digital television subscriptions across the country, but the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission rejected its application….(read more)
The next nail in Sun’s coffin occurred in October 2014. From Huffington Post Canada’s Sunny Freeman:
The struggling Sun News Network suffered another blow this week after Canada’s broadcast regulator ruled against it in a payment dispute with Rogers, the country’s largest cable company….(read more)
After years of uphill battles and unsuccessful negotiations to sell the network, Sun set.
But out of the ashes of Sun News Network, a phoenix is rising.
It all started with a tweet:
Sun News was beautiful, but it’s gone. See what @ezralevant is doing next: http://t.co/QFeSNfnJg7 #cdnpoli #tcot #roft
— The Rebel (@TheRebelTV) February 14, 2015
And a YouTube video by Ezra Levant called: “Help us crowdfund TheRebel.media”
And with that, The Rebel was born.
A true rebel. A rebel not started by a major media conglomerate or Fortune 500 business. Read the rest of this entry »
