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Thursday, September 9, 2010

News Morning News

Posted by on Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:02 AM

It's not just a drug war anymore: Secretary Clinton calls it an "insurgency."

Rahm Emanuel for mayor of Chicago?: Obama asks him to stay until the midterm elections are over.

"Extraordinary rendition" lawsuit denied: A federal court in SF says "state secrets" prevent a torture case against a subsidiary of Boeing from moving forward.

It only took you 50 years: Castro admits that the Cuban economy "doesn't even work."

And about the ills of capitalism?: Justice Department brings slavery "forced labor" suit against an LA-based company with farms in Hawaii and Washington State.

That's ballsy: Seattle burglary suspect steals a police car while still handcuffed, and drives it... wait for it... home. Where he's caught. Again.

Has this been on Slog already?: Seattle woman robbed of $310 identifies attacker by the words shaved into his head and tattooed on his hands: "GET MONEY."

Film in a box: Sundance hit Buried takes place entirely in one coffin.

 

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oh_man 1
I believe Castro meant that the cuban model is not applicable anymore, and not exportable to other countries. He didn't say plainly that it "doesn't even work"...

Geee people get your shit/facts together.
Posted by oh_man on September 9, 2010 at 9:26 AM
Fifty-Two-Eighty 2
Oh really, "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore." That's the exact quote.
Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty http://www.nra.org on September 9, 2010 at 9:38 AM
3
Please, are we griefing Hilary Clinton for characterizing Mexico's cartels as insurgents?

That's a polite way of putting it. They are rogue governments.

Posted by Chapo Guzman on September 9, 2010 at 9:42 AM
rob! 4
The Globe and Mail:

Fidel Castro takes blame for 1960s gay persecution

Former Cuban president says wave of homophobia happened because he was distracted by U.S. threats

Reuters Published on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 2:43PM EDT
Last updated on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010 2:45PM EDT

Fidel Castro took the blame for a wave of homophobia launched by his revolutionary government in the 1960s,
but said it happened because he was distracted by other problems, in an interview published on Tuesday in a
Mexican newspaper.

The former Cuban president told La Jornada the persecution of gays, who were rounded up at the time as
supposed counterrevolutionaries and placed in forced labor camps, was a “great injustice” that arose from the
island’s history of discrimination against homosexuals...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/worl…
Posted by rob! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZBdUceCL5U on September 9, 2010 at 10:06 AM
gloomy gus 5
Well, that is a better apology than I would expect, rob! I do wish Reinaldo Arenas had been privileged to live so long that he could hear Castro's apology, and to make what I'm sure would be a heartfelt retort.
Posted by gloomy gus on September 9, 2010 at 10:21 AM
rob! 6
Indeed, Gus. And thanks for an interesting link. How odd, on the face of it, that Reinaldo Arenas incurred the scorn of "the Latin American leftist intelligentsia" and the praise of Mario Vargas Llosa.
Posted by rob! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZBdUceCL5U on September 9, 2010 at 10:52 AM

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