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Along with deciding the future of the presidency and the makeup of both houses in Congress, voters in some states will have the ability to act as lawmakers themselves during next week's election.
Thirty-eight states have ballot measures that will be in play on Nov. 6 and though many deal with issues such as taxes and administrative issues, other states will decide on hot-button national topics.
Here are 10 ballot measure issues to look out for during this election season.
1. States reacting to 'Obamacare'
Six states have ballot measures dealing with health care, likely a response to the passage and Supreme Court affirmation of the Affordable Care Act. Alabama, Florida, Missouri, Montana and Wyoming all have proposals countering the act known as Obamacare. Likewise, Louisiana has a proposal to protect the state Medicaid trust fund for the elderly from budget cuts. Arizona has a pending amendment that would allow voters to reject federal actions, such as an individual mandate on health insurance, via referendum.
2. Marijuana: Legalize it?
Washington, Oregon and Colorado all have proposed amendments to make marijuana legal for recreational use. All three states currently allow for the use of cannabis for medical purposes and Colorado and Oregon both have removed jail time for possessing small amounts of marijuana. Massachusetts and Arkansas have proposed amendments to allow marijuana use for medicinal purposes, which could add them to the other 17 states that allow the use of medical marijuana. Meanwhile Montana is seeking to repeal its medical marijuana law in exchange for a new system.
3. Same-sex marriage
Maine voters will have the opportunity to overturn the state's ban on gay marriage. Maine has a referendum that would allow gay couple to obtain a civil marriage license and Washington has a similar referendum addressing gay marriage. Maryland has a question on its ballot to approve civil marriage licenses for gays. Minnesota has a proposed amendment banning gay marriage.
4. Swing states topics
All but four swing states (North Carolina, Iowa, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania) will have initiatives on their ballots on Nov. 6, but some could prove to be more influential in motivating voter turnout. As previously stated, Colorado has proposed amendments to legalize marijuana for recreational use, but it also has an amendment to prohibit corporate contributions and expenditures in elections, both of which could draw liberal voters.
Florida has proposed amendments to prevent penalties for not purchasing health care, to prevent public funding for abortions and to repeal the ban on public dollars for religious funding, appealing to Christian conservatives.
New Hampshire has a proposed amendment banning increases on income tax, which also could appeal to conservative voters.
5. Three strikes, you're out
California has a proposal to modify it's "Three Strikes" policy which requires repeat criminals to serve 25-years to life in prison after their third conviction. The initiative calls for the policy to be implemented only on criminals that have committed a "violent or serious" crime or for those who are previously convicted of rape, murder or child molestation.
California also has a measure calling for the end of the death penalty.
6. Sticking to their guns
A handful of solidly red states are attempting to bolster their second amendment rights through the use of ballot measures. Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nebraska and Wyoming all have amendments solidifying hunting and fishing rights and/or gun rights.
7. Issues of race and immigration
The topics of race and immigration have manifested in a variety of ways on ballots across the country, some of which touch on the issues of immigration and voter identification that have been brought up time and again during the presidential campaign.
Maryland has a proposal to allow illegal immigrants to be charge in-state tuition for public universities.
Montana has a proposal that would require citizens to show proof of citizenship when seeking state services and Minnesota has a proposed voter identification law.
Oklahoma has a proposal to ban affirmative action in the state thus prohibiting special treatment based on race or sex in public employment, education and contracts.
8. Rules for redistricting
Three states are re-examining their redrawn congressional districts that were passed by their respective state legislatures after the 2010 Census report. California and Ohio are looking at the option outside groups drawing the new districts.
California already has this system and made use of it last year, the ballot measure is essentially asking voters if they want this format to stay intact. Meanwhile, Ohio voters will decide if they want the state to set up citizen's commission to draw the districts.
Maryland voters will have the chance to approve or disapprove of their state's redistricting plan.
9. Death with dignity
Massachusetts has a proposal to allow terminally ill patients to request their doctors to administer lethal drugs. The patient must be a mentally competent adult with a prognoses of six months or fewer to live by two doctors. Patients must make the request twice verbally and once through writing before the lethal medicine can be administered.
This is the eighth time a state has had an initiative for assisted suicide. Voters were in favor of death with dignity three out of the previous seven times.
10. Consent for abortion
Women's health reproductive health issues have been another common theme in campaigns across the nation. Along with Florida's proposal to ban the use of public dollars for abortions, Montana has a proposal that would require parental or legal guardian notification before girls under 16 can an abortion.
This is the tenth time a state has proposed a law such as this. Four out of the previous nine initiatives were passed.


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Set up a treasure hunt around the house, yard, park, or any space you're familiar and comfortable with. It can be done outdoors or indoors. The action is similar to a scavenger hunt, except instead of eggs, the hunters are looking to uncover a succession of clues leading them ultimately to the hidden treasure. This can be done a few ways, depending on age-appropriateness: an adult can design the treasure hunt for the children, or the children can design the treasure hunt for an adult, or children can design the treasure hunt for each other. In all instances, the activity engages the interpretive and creative thinking skills of the child, whether by concocting the clues or by solving them.
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This activity focuses on observation and description, as well as creative interpretation. Whether children write out the clues themselves or decipher clues provided by others, they are compelled to examine their surroundings in close detail, and to open their imaginations to visualizing their world in new and diverse ways. Deciphering the clues challenges their language comprehension skills, and by devising their own clues, children engage in innovative analysis of objective reality. Also, the process of articulating their observations into clues is an exercise in artful wordplay.

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Attendees are provided with down-to-earth advice on how to become a financial success. The Independence Project meetings are held every Monday, with the main service being at 7.30pm (we also have meetings at 7am, 10am and 3pm). The business meetings are held every other Monday at 9.30pm in our headquarters in Finsbury Park.
They say that sickness develops when you are old, but this ideology could not be further from the truth. We are seeing a range of people of all ages and backgrounds becoming sick. The Tuesday meetings specifically aim to help those who have any type of sickness and want to be free. With free advice and prayers available, we believe you can live a life without sickness. The meetings are held every Tuesday at 7.30pm (also at 7am, 10am and 3pm). For more information please call 020 7686 6000.
It has been said that the only way to keep a relationship alive is to continually work and invest in it. The Wednesday meetings are an opportunity to invest in your relationship with God and learn how to grow spiritually. With in-depth studies of the Bible, this meeting will leave you inspired and strong in your faith. The main meeting is held at 7.30pm, but meetings are also held throughout the day at 7am, 10am and 3pm. If you would like more information, please call 020 7686 6000.
If there is anyone we can rely on in this world, it is our family. Through the good times and bad, our families are a source of support and love that many of us rely on. Unfortunately, many people do not have this family support. Instead they suffer with problems like family conflict, separation and addiction. The goal of the family meeting is to bring families together. No family is perfect, but they can be free from any hate, separation and other underlying issues. Join us every Thursday to see a great change in your family. Meetings take place at 7am, 10am, 3pm and 7.30pm.
In addition, every Thursday at 8pm we host the Love Therapy Live seminars at our main headquarters at the Rainbow Theatre. If you want to learn how to attract the right person, or learn how to invest in improving your relationship, this meeting is packed with down-to-earth practical advice and real life stories of how people managed to succeed in their love lives, it's just too good to miss!
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There is a root to every problem. No issue can be dealt with permanently without removing its root. Every Friday, strong prayerful support is provided for anyone who is facing a problem that is influenced by negativity. You can be temporarily relieved from any problem, but the root has to be cut off for you to experience complete freedom. Let us help you live a more positive and fulfilled life. Our main meeting is held at 7.30pm, but meetings are also held throughout the day at 7am, 10am and 3pm.
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Have you ever looked at a problem or situation and thought, 'this is impossible, there is no solution to this?' If so, you are wrong. Nothing is impossible and at our meetings every Saturday at 7am, we fight to prove that. So if you are not willing to give up on your situation and want to see the 'impossible become possible', join us every Saturday at 7am.
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In light of the recent directions from the government, the Universal Church has restructured its daily meetings to stream online, until further notice.
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A problem shared is often a problem halved. Recognising this, the UCKG HelpCentre runs a 24-hr helpline, seven days a week, all year round, to provide a caring, listening ear and help callers find the solutions they need. So, whether it is simply information you want or you desperately need someone to talk to, we are here for you! Before you give up, give us a call. You can always pop in to any of our HelpCentres and attend one of the four daily sessions at the time that best suits you, or if you just want to pop in for a chat, do just that – pop in! An adviser will be at hand to listen, guide and point you in the right direction.


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International Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) play an increasingly influential role in shaping global policies. Global public opinion surveys show higher trust in NGOs than in government and business. At the same time the non-profit sector is coming under closer scrutiny, both from those who want it to flourish and those who seek to curtail NGO activities.
A group of international NGOs, including Greenpeace International, have come together to demonstrate that they deeply value public trust, do not take it for granted and are committed to sustaining and deepening it by ensuring transparency, and accountability for their operations. In June 2006 the NGO's publicly launched and endorsed the first global Accountability Charter for the non-profit sector.
The Accountability Charter sets out core values and operating principles for international NGOs. The Charter covers the areas of good governance and management; and fundraising and multi-stakeholder engagement. It also makes specific reference to respect for universal principles (such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), independence, responsible advocacy, effective programmes, non-discrimination, transparency and ethical fundraising.
This initiative builds on individual, national and sectoral initiatives taken to set standards of NGO accountability and codes of conduct. All NGOs are subject to national regulations within the countries in which they operate. The International Non-Governmental Organisations Accountability Charter is the first such initiative to set out international, cross-sector standards for the non-profit sector.
All international NGOs - across different sectors - are invited to sign-up to the Accountability Charter. The organisations that, at present, actively endorse the Charter:
The Accountability Charter is only the first step. Next steps will involve putting in place a robust system for reporting and review of the Charter so that it can be improved and updated in light of experience.
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Memorandum for the Attorney General, January 27, 1947
I have been advised by Mr. Tamm of his conference with you on January 23rd concerning the disposition to be made of the Gregory Case. You requested that I furnish to you my views as to a recommended course of action with consideration given to the possibility of (a) the Bureau continuing the investigation of this case as an intelligence operation, (b) the Bureau or a Federal grand jury interrogating a selected number of the subjects, or (c) that the Department furnish to the employing departments the basic data concerning the activities of the individual subjects of this case in order that the employing departments might take administrative action against these employees who were participants in the operation of the intelligence ring.
As to the first possible course of action; that is, the Bureau continuing its investigation of this case as an intelligence operation, I am of the opinion that in view of the unfortunate publicity given to this case by a Departmental source, it will be impossible to continue the investigation on an intelligence basis. In this regard, information reaching us from our coverage of the activities of these subjects indicates they are now all very security conscious and that a practical coverage of their activities is impossible. Collaterally, I might point out, for your confidential information, that as a result of this premature and ill-advised publicity, the Bureau's key informant has [redacted] and absolutely refuses to continue to cooperate with the Bureau. It is needless to point out that without the cooperation of this informant a real coverage of this case is impossible.
Relative to the second suggestion, namely, that the Bureau or a Federal grand jury interrogate a selected number of the subjects, I must point out that this program would appear impractical at this time for the same reasons that I have enumerated above as applying to the first proposal.
I believe that the publicity originating in the Department has placed each of the subjects on notice of the Bureau's knowledge of his activities and that consequently any attempt to interrogate them, either by Bureau agents or before a grand jury, would produce nothing. Obviously, this situation leaves only the third alternative; that is, that the Department furnish to the employing departments the basic data concerning the activities of the individual subjects as a possible means of concluding the case. It is assumed, of course, that the employing departments will take administrative action against the subjects who are employed in these departments. If you desire to follow this course of action, I will arrange to have Bureau supervisors prepare appropriate summaries in such form that you may transmit them to the interested government departments. It will, of course, be necessary to exercise some care in the preparation of this material in order that the bureau's sources of information and modus operandi in this case will not exposed and the Bureaus' coverage of future cases thereby jeopardized.
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With its collections of ancient, modern and contemporary art, the Musée de Grenoble offers you a chance to traverse the history of western painting from the 13th to the 20th centuries. Included are major masterpieces of classical Flemish, Dutch, Italian and Spanish painting; one of 20th century Europe's richest collections; and all the great post-1945 contemporary art trends, right up to the most recent artworks of the 2000s.
Joan Miró developed his poetic and fantastic world from 1923 on, in contact with Surrealist writers and artists. His strictly Surrealist period lasted no longer than two years, between 1925 and 1927, but during that span of time, Miró gave free rein to the invention and evocation of a symbolic and marvellous world, creating his Dream Paintings (Peintures de rêve or Peintures oniriques). These canvases marked a decisive stage in his oeuvre at a moment when, in his own words, he "freed himself from all pictorial conventions". On wide monochrome backgrounds unusual signs and forms appeared, drawn from the unconscious. The drawing Personnage au rectangle blanc, dated 1928, which is as enigmatic in its form as descriptive in its title, is in the direct line of those dreamlike paintings. On an ochre ground, an ambivalent figure, half-human half-animal, drawn with deliberate lines, fills the whole space of the composition. The face in profile presents a disproportionate eye seen head on, and, in the guise of a nose, a muzzle which lends it a grotesque look. The shoulders with their rectilinear outlines are flanked by rectangular surfaces, one white, the others black, whose presence is as strange as that of the figure 5, decoratively written with its solids and upstrokes. The seeming spontaneity of the work is contradicted by the existence of a preparatory drawing, with pencil on white paper (held in the Miró Foundation in Barcelona), which already records all the elements of this composition, whose form is not very removed from certain automatic drawings produced by the Surrealists. Made during a period of intense research, this drawing reveals the tension at work in the art of Miró, who was keen to "kill painting" without robbing it of its visual and plastic qualities.
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Kin; relative. The connection of two individuals, or their situation with respect to each other, who are associated, either by law, agreement, or kinship in a social status or union for purposes of domestic life, such as Parent and Child or Husband and Wife.
The doctrine of relation is the principle by which an act performed at one time is deemed, through a legal fiction, to have been performed at a prior time. For example, in the conveyance of real property, the final proceeding that completes the transfer of property is considered, for certain purposes, to have become effective by relation as of the day when the first proceeding took place. Relation, in essence, is the legal term for retroactive effect.
relation(Connection), noun affiliation, affinity, alliance, analogy, applicability, appositeness, apposition, association, bearing, bond, closeness, cognation, connation, connaturalness, connexion, correlation, correspondence, homology, indentification, interrelationship, liaison, likeness, link, mutuality, nearness, nexus, pertinence, propinquity, reference, relative position, relevance, resemblance, similitude, tie, tie-in
relation(Kinship), noun blood relative, blood tie, common ancestry, common descent, common lineage, common stock, consanguinity, family connection, family tie, kin, kindred, kinsman, propinquus, relationship, coniunctio, connecting link, consociation, correlation, interconnection, interdependence, interrelation, interrelationship, involvement, likeness, link, linkage, nearness, pertinence, rapport, reciprocity, relation, relevance, relevancy, tie, unification, union, unity
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See also: affiliation, affinity, analogy, association, attribution, bloodline, chain, collation, connection, contact, correlate, delineation, disclosure, kinship, mention, narration, narrative, nexus, privity, proportion, recital, reference, relationship, relative, relevance, report, representation, statement, story
RELATION, civil law. The report which the judges made of the proceedings in
certain suits to the prince were so called.
2. These relations took place when the judge had no law to direct him, or when the laws were susceptible of difficulties; it was then referred to the prince, who was the author of the law, to give the interpretation. Those reports were made in writing and contained the pleadings of the parties, and all the proceedings, together with the judge's opinion, and prayed the emperor to order what should be done. The ordinance of the prince thus required was called a rescript. (q.v.) the use of these relations was abolished by Justinian, Nov. 125.
RELATION, contracts, construction. When an act is done at one time, and it operates upon the thing as if done at another time, it is said to do so by relation; as, if a man deliver a deed as an escrow, to be delivered by the party holding it, to the grantor, on the performance of some act, the delivery to the latter will have relation back to the first delivery. Termes de la Ley. Again, if a partner be adjudged a bankrupt, the partnership is dissolved, and such dissolution relates back to the time when the commission issued. 3 Kent, Com. 33. Vide 18 Vin. Ab. 285; 4 Com. Dig. 245; 5 Id. 339; Litt. S. C. 462-466; 2 John. 510; 4 John. 230; 15 John. 809; 2 Har. & John. 151, and the article Fiction.


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Months after Bob Filner stepped down as San Diego's mayor amid a sexual harassment scandal, the county grand jury is proposing a change that would make it easier to remove elected officials from office.
According to U-T San Diego, the grand jury issued a report Thursday recommending a ballot measure that would allow voters to amend the city charter.
There is no specific charter provision for removal of a mayor or council member other than death, resignation or recall. The jury wants the city to specifically add a misdemeanor or felony conviction involving moral turpitude as cause for removal.
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Welcome back, everyone, to the Emmy-winning "Amazing Race." And a special hello to our host, the Emmy-denied Phil, with his fabulous pointing finger and arched Eyebrow of Foreshadowing.
Since this is the first episode, we are overwhelmed with teams and the names of the people on those teams. We have two Robs, two Jameses plus one Jaymes, an Abbie, Amy, and Abba, and twins named Natalie and Natalya. Can even a veteran recapper such as myself keep them straight? Well, yes, yes I can, because I cheat.
I'll try to stereotype — oops, I meant summarize — and nickname real fast. Young dating couple from Texas, Trey and Lexi, call them Team Texi. The Twins who were born in Brooklyn but raised in Sri Lanka (and can dance a mean Bollywood). Former White Lion rocker and his brother, they both have long hair and beards so they are Team Rock On! Male partner city boys turned Team Goat Farmer. Dating couple Amy and Daniel, she lost her legs to bacterial meningitis and looks like a blonde Kristin Stewart, Team Legs for now. Team Blonde, token best friends. Team Lumberjack, because he is one. Team Superfan, substitute teachers who have applied seven times, they also have a seventeen-inch height difference! Another dating couple, he jokingly wants world domination so they're Team Dominate. Some married Monster Truckers. And finally, Jaymes and James, Chippendales performers (I don't think they said "Don't call us strippers," but they did point out that it's a shirtless production show, not so much a strip show). I'm calling them Team Chipp.
The pack heads to China, where a Double Roadblock has one team member playing table tennis against a Chinese junior champion, and another team member eating a delicious dessert of frog fallopian tubes. A lot of fallopian tubes. Then they are sent to find a woman using an abacus. You know what's wrong with everyone these days? They don't know what an abacus is. If you, dear reader, don't know what an abacus is, you'd best look it up right now, because one day that knowledge could win you a million dollars. Which you could count, using your abacus.
And the winner of the first team to bicker is…
The twins! They are loud talkers anyway, and they talk over each other a lot, so maybe it's just their style. But when one of them was playing table tennis and not winning, the other one shouted "You should have let me do this one!" It's ever so early in the game to be pulling out that phrase, right? That's for late-stage, possible elimination, sleep-deprived arguments. Unless of course the other twin is a master at table tennis.
The first team to fail at reading the clue is…
Team Trucker! He was supposed to eat his fallopian tubes using only chopsticks, but he picked up the dish and slurped them all in. Instead of getting penalized at the Pit Stop, he was denied the next clue until he ate another serving properly. Mmm, double-serving tubes.
Evil always wins: I already mentioned that no one knows what an abacus is, so they don't recognize when they walk right past it. Team Rock On! wanders into a jewelry store asking about one. Team Lumberjack asks a hotel concierge and gets directed to the Bank of China. Sigh.
The twins find it, and then lie when Team Monster Truck asks about it. Team Superfan also finds the abacus and lies to Team Chipp about finding it. They are superfans, they know they have to weed out the strong teams!
Good is dumb: There are two flights to China, and the first seven teams get the first flight. Josh of Team Goat Farmer politely lets another team ahead of him in line, thus bumping them to the later flight. "Josh messed up," says Brent. "Are you going to be like this the whole flight to China?" asks Josh. "Maybe." "Then I'm going to get a sleeping pill somewhere."
Team Legs finds the abacus first and starts walking to the Pit Stop. They run into Team Dominate and point them in the direction of the abacus. Suddenly it becomes a foot race to the Pit Stop. Amy has bionic legs, but for whatever reason her team runs out of speed. Team Dominate gets points for politeness since they apologize as they pass by and take first place.
By the way, Phil is wearing what might be a Chinese cowboy hat at the mat. I wonder if local hats are going to be his thing this season?
Quote of the week: "I won a sporting event! I've never won a sporting event!" —Team Goat Farmer, after defeating the Chinese junior champion at table tennis.
My favorite team didn't get eliminated: This is a big deal, I think at least half the time I lose my favorite in the first episode. I've fallen in love with Team Chipp. No, not because of their waxed chests and bowties. It happened during table tennis, when James (or Jaymes) revealed his Southern accent and sassy commentary. "Taking down little Chinese kids? This is horrible!" Or when the opponent used a clipboard instead of a paddle, "She's like, 'I'm gonna play you with the paper side, I'm not even gonna use the flat side!'" After slurping up fallopian tubes off the tablecloth: "Everything my mama told me about how to eat, I let go out the window."
Once I discovered my favoritism, my anxiety kicked in. Team Chipp wasn't finding that abacus very quickly. They followed the Blondes to the Pit Stop, but turned around real quick when they saw Phil. They wandered and wandered. Then Team Texi got directed by a helpful local, and Texi passed on the goodwill to Chipp (clearly falling into the good spectrum, maybe they'll change their ways after talking to Team Legs or Team Superfan). Team Lumberjack had just recovered from their Bank of China detour and found the abacus, and they were walking to the Pit Stop. Team Chipp knew where to find Phil and passed Team Lumberjack with about fifteen seconds to spare. Too close, Team Chipp! I want you not only for your body but also for your accent, don't worry me like that again!
Oh, and farewell, Team Lumberjack, I hope you have a nice wedding.
The big twist: Did you hear that this year the prize is $2 million? Well, that's kind of a lie. Phil told the teams that they could double their money, but only if the winning team also wins the first leg of the Race. Basically, Team Dominate will have to dominate. Stay tuned.
Welcome back, everyone, to the Emmy-winning "Amazing Race." And a special hello to our host, the Emmy-denied Phil, with his fabulous pointing finger and arched Eyebrow of Foreshadowing.


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They came, they spied, they typed on their computers. But they never intended to make the contents of their floppy disks public. Indeed the idea of that happening was perhaps their worst nightmare, one that came true on September 12, 1998, as they slept in their various apartments in Broward and Miami-Dade counties. FBI agents arrived very early that morning to swat down ten members of a group that called itself the Wasp Network. The FBI rattled them from slumber, charged them with spying for the Cuban government, and seized many of their possessions, including hundreds of computer diskettes. Even before the arrests, FBI agents had been stealthily reading and copying the files during surreptitious visits to the defendants' homes. As specialists decoded the documents, they began to piece together a detailed narrative revealing the group's surveillance of Cuban exile groups and U.S. military installations.
Antonio Guerrero typed mostly about the Boca Chica Naval Air Station in Key West, while Ramon Labañino and Fernando Gonzalez concentrated on ways to infiltrate the U.S. Southern Command in west Miami-Dade. Rene Gonzalez wrote about several Cuban exile groups he had easily joined. Gerardo Hernandez reviewed their notes, critiqued them, expounded on them, and sent them along to the Directorate of Intelligence in Havana. Five other members also composed but not with the same dedication.
U.S. Justice Department lawyers soon drafted something else: a lengthy indictment charging the ten arrested members of the Wasp Network with various crimes related to espionage and, in the case of the 34-year-old Hernandez, conspiracy to murder four men killed when Cuban MiGs destroyed two Brothers to the Rescue planes in 1996. The five less-devoted scribes pleaded guilty and received sentences from three and a half to seven years.
When the five who pleaded innocent finally went on trial this past December 6, federal prosecutors had organized 1400 pages of the secret messages into a three-volume set of thick three-ring binders. Jurors in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard now peruse the clandestine files five days a week. When an attorney puts a page on the overhead projector, it appears simultaneously on two big monitors oriented toward the jury and five smaller ones stationed in front of each defendant. Everyone, including relatives of the four dead pilots, reads them together: the instructions from Havana, the detailed stories for their false identities, the counts of F-14s and A-10s at the Boca Chica base, the lack of jobs at the U.S. Southern Command, the rants about anti-Castro exile groups and their "pigheaded" and "senile" leaders. Messages in uppercase and lower, in first person and third, in varying tones of candor, sarcasm, bravado, and viciousness, but always in the proper socialist register required of the loyal revolutionary: "Greetings and a hug, brother," Labañino begins a memo to Guerrero. "Our regards and best wishes for this new year of battles and victories right in the enemy's bosom in this year of historic deeds, 1998. This year that is just beginning places greater goals and missions in our hands and in our future. We know you would give each one that special seal of quality and total dedication that you always give each task that the revolution assigns you." And there are many more missives where that one came from. The FBI estimates there are about 15,000 additional pages that prosecutors are not using to make their case.
To three voracious readers -- assistant U.S. attorneys David Buckner, Caroline Heck Miller, and John Kastrenakes -- the messages they are using tell this story: Labañino, Guerrero, Hernandez, and Fernando Gonzalez conspired to gather U.S. defense information and pass it to a foreign government, in this case Cuba. In addition, they conclude, Hernandez conspired to murder the four Brothers to the Rescue pilots. Rene Gonzalez, age 44 (no relation to Fernando), is accused of illegally gathering intelligence for a foreign government after infiltrating various Cuban exile groups, such as Brothers to the Rescue and the Democracy Movement (Movimiento Democracia).
The five defendants, however, are hoping their recently published writings will find sympathetic readers in the jury. Sure they assumed fake identities with fraudulent birth certificates, social security cards, driver licenses, and passports. But each, through his court-appointed lawyer, has admitted to spying for a good reason: to protect the lives of people in Cuba from extremist elements of the exile movement. From people who might be crazy enough to bomb hotels in Havana, assassinate Fidel Castro, or even invade the island -- it has been known to happen. In fact three of the men about which the Wasp Network was worried -- Luis Posada Carriles, Guillermo Novo Sampoll, and Gaspar Jimenez Escobedo-- currently are under arrest in Panama for a plot to kill Castro during last November's Ibero-American Summit.
To emphasize their clients' position, the defense team has cited exchanges like this one, dated July 28, 1997, which Fernando Gonzalez, using the code name Oscar, wrote to Guerrero, whose code name was Lorient. Gonzalez had recently assumed responsibility for supervising Guerrero. "Brother: When you read this file, we will have already met each other in person, which makes me proud because of the political, operational, and human quality of the comrades who, like yourself, are carrying out missions in enemy territory so that our families and our people in general can rest easy."
The full story of the Wasp Network cannot yet be told. Judge Lenard's gag order on defendants, lawyers, and witnesses precludes that. Moreover the messages the FBI has released are riddled with omissions. But enough missives have emerged to add an absurd little chapter to cold war history.
It would take just one pilot determined to fly southward from Opa-locka, open a window over Havana, and drop some kind of secret weapon on an oil refinery to spark a very messy international incident. But really, what are the odds of that? Cuban officials were not about to take any chances. They made that clear when Cuban MiGs shot down two Brothers to Rescue planes on February 24, 1996, killing four exile pilots.
While the jury is out on whether Hernandez should bear responsibility for those deaths, the Wasp Network's writings clearly indicate the spies planned to sting Brothers to the Rescue and its leader, José Basulto. After all, Basulto was one of numerous Cubans who returned to Cuba legally in 1961 to prepare for the Bay of Pigs invasion. In the deadly debacle that ensued, he escaped to Guantánamo. But he would not quit. A year later he and six other exiles traveled from Marathon Key to the coast of Havana in a heavily armed boat and fired a small cannon at an oceanside hotel. For years he advocated the assassination of Castro but eventually backed away from the violent struggle, publicly at least, and became a luxury-home builder. In 1991, as an alarming number of Cubans began fleeing their homeland in rafts, he cofounded Brothers to the Rescue. The group flew hundreds of missions to pull rafters out of the dangerous seas.
In 1995 Basulto shifted gears; he began flying over Cuba and dropping anti-Castro leaflets, to the annoyance of some Cuban government officials. That earned him a top slot on the Wasp Network's list of targets.
The Wasp Network's penetration of Brothers to the Rescue was one of its notable successes. Two of its operatives were well inside. One was Rene Gonzalez, whose code names were Castor and Iselin. The other was Juan Pablo Roque, whose code names were Venecia and German (pronounced hare-mahn). They lived in the Miami area and reported to Capt. Gerardo Hernandez, who had an apartment in North Miami Beach.
A message from Havana to Hernandez in November 1995 outlines Operation Picada (Spanish for "bite" or "sting"), which was aimed at sabotaging Brothers to the Rescue and discrediting Basulto. Among the "actions to be developed" for the operation was "the possibility of burning down the warehouse of this counterrevolutionary organization and affect[ing] its planes, making it seem like an accident, negligence, or self-damage, keeping in mind that this place may be secured, and that in cases like these, investigations are performed. Rumors will leak that Basulto and his people caused the damage themselves to collect the insurance and get more money from their contributors." Because he is expected to testify, Basulto is barred from speaking to the press about the case. But he has previously told reporters of incidents in which he discovered that steering cables of Brothers to the Rescue planes were severed. Another possible sting would be "to disable their equipment and transmission antennae on land, the ones they use to communicate with during their missions, making it seem like negligence."
One of special agent Rene Gonzalez's assignments was to inform Hernandez "when the Brothers to the Rescue planes will be taking off, who is in them, and if they are going to land at a specific place." He would type up an encoded report, save it on a disk, and pass it to Hernandez.
At the time Gonzalez was on a roll. It had been five years since the Cuban Air Force veteran flew a crop-dusting plane from Cuba to the Boca Chica air base near Key West in 1990 and announced his defection. Now he was not only one of the Brothers' esteemed pilots but an assistant director of the Democracy Movement's air command as well. He also belonged to PUND (the Democratic National Unity Party), several of whose commandos promptly were captured while making two raids on Cuban soil in 1994 and in 1996.
Roque, though, might have been losing his edge. He was eager to return to Cuba. One report to Havana suggests such eagerness may have started to taint his ability to reason about certain things. The message was apparently written by Albert Manuel Ruiz, one of the alleged spies who escaped. It states that the two met at 9:00 a.m. on November 27, 1995, at the McDonald's restaurant at 3200 S. Dixie Hwy. in Coconut Grove to exchange information on Brothers to the Rescue. Roque informed Ruiz about an idea Basulto had to seek permission from the Cuban government to make flights to Havana to deliver humanitarian aid to political prisoners. In his report Ruiz refers to himself in the third person as A-4, one of his code names. "German [Roque] seemed to think these flights might be authorized by Cuba. He even described with enthusiasm how good it would be if they would take place, and he would go with Basulto, land in Cuba, and say, That's it for me,' and what he referred to is how much of an impact it would have for one of the pilots of Brothers to the Rescue to stay. In regards to this, A-4 [Ruiz] hinted that the idea was a bit of a fantasy because it was quite obvious that the Cuban government would not accept that."
Roque also was becoming paranoid. He thought Basulto was growing suspicious of him, as Ruiz reported a few days later after another secret meeting with his comrade at the Pollo Tropical on Le Jeune Road and NW 36th Street.
On the other hand, Roque had gathered an intelligence gem regarding Basulto. In a message dated November 27, 1995, Ruiz informs Havana about it: "German stated that he had many and very good things. He said that Basulto had told him about plans he has with a secret weapon' that was very effective during the Second World War and has not been manufactured anymore even though it is not very costly. He said that weapon could be introduced in Cuba to be used by counterrevolutionary groups and to promote actions against the government. A-4 insisted that he give more details about that weapon,' but he said that he didn't know anything else. He said it was an anti-personnel weapon but has not been able to find out anything else."
About three months later, on February 22, 1996, Gonzalez found out about an upcoming Brothers to the Rescue mission that Basulto was keeping secret. As part of his cover, the Cuban agent had been plotting to get his wife and daughter out of Cuba. He met that day with Basulto to discuss how to send a letter to the State Department via two Cuban-American U.S. representatives, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Lincoln Diaz-Balart. "As we were talking," Gonzalez typed to Hernandez, "he received a call from Carlos Costa, apparently inquiring about an operation that was going to take place in the future. Basulto told him that the entire fleet would be used, although he did not give any more details." But Gonzalez had a hunch: The Brothers to the Rescue leader was planning a flight that was to take place two days later to coincide with a conference of a dissident group. "He is evidently being very discreet," Gonzalez observed.
It will never be known what Basulto would have done had he flown over Havana two days later, because he didn't. As his plane buzzed toward Cuba that morning, two MiGs shot down two Cessnas that had departed from Opa-locka Airport and were flying near him. Indeed the most chilling verbiage of the trial has come not from the defendants' writings but from prosecutor David Buckner's opening statement: "On February 24, 1996, Operation Scorpion was brought to its deadly conclusion ... leaving only wreckage on the water." Four Brothers to the Rescue pilots were killed: Pablo Morales, Armando Alejandre, Mario de la Pena, and Carlos Costa, the pilot who had called Basulto while Gonzalez was in his office.
In reading other messages, assistant U.S. attorneys Buckner, Kastrenakes, and Miller saw evidence that Cuba was plotting to lure Basulto's planes in for a shootdown. One shortwave message from Havana to its Miami operatives on January 29 said that "superior headquarters" had approved Operation Scorpion "in order to perfect the confrontation" with Brothers to the Rescue. In a message dated February 13, 1996 -- eleven days before the downing -- Hernandez instructed Gonzalez to "pinpoint in more detail everything related to new incursions by Brothers to the Rescue to be carried out in our country." Among the details he asked for were:
"Very clear and precise specifications that will allow us to know whether Marisol is flying or not. [Marisol is a code name for Basulto.]
"Whether the activity is to drop leaflets or to violate the air space.
"Whether you are flying or not."
His message ends with this warning: "If they ask you to fly at the last minute without being scheduled, find an excuse and do not do it. If you cannot avoid it, transmit over the airplane's radio the slogan for the July 13 Martyrs and Viva Cuba.' If you are not able to call, say over the radio: Long live Brothers to the Rescue and Democracia.'"
Prosecutors also have referred to another shortwave message the Directorate of Intelligence broadcast to its Miami operatives on February 18. The lawyers say it contains instructions regarding how Rene Gonzalez was to respond to Roque's relocation to Cuba. "When Venecia's [Roque's] return is made public, Castor's [Gonzalez's] first response should be incredulity and then condemnation." Roque sneaked off to Cuba the day before the shootdown and afterward denounced the group on Cuban government television, to the shock of many Miami exiles, including his unwitting Cuban-American wife. Roque was indicted in absentia, along with the others who escaped: Ricardo Villareal, Remijio Luna, and Albert Manuel Ruiz.
If there is a smoking message in the decrypted documents, it is this text from shortwave radio the Directorate of Intelligence sent its Miami operatives a week after the shootdown: "Our profound recognition for Operation German. Everything turned out well....We have dealt the Miami right a hard blow, in which your role has been decisive."
The Wasp Network soon was contemplating other incredible, and not-so-credible, counterrevolutionary developments and how to counteract them. Would the most powerful Cuban exile group organize a mercenary force to invade Cuba? Would it finance urban terrorists bent on planting bombs in Havana hotels? Would its leader fake a terminal illness to shore up his sagging political capital?
Several months after the Brothers to the Rescue shootdown, the chief of the Directorate of Intelligence, Edgardo Delgado Rodriguez, sent a long message to Hernandez. He warned that "violent actions against Cuba should increase in the short term," adding facetiously, "as a result of the extreme euphoria prevailing in Miami after the 24th of February." He instructed the Wasp Network to watch for various groups and individuals who had pulled off armed attacks inside Cuba. Many were the usual suspects -- old-timers such as Luis Posada Carriles, Orlando Bosch, and Ramon Orozco Crespo -- whom Havana has long tried to link to the Cuban American National Foundation. But he also relayed to Hernandez an astounding new tip: CANF was organizing a new paramilitary group. According to Delgado the report originated from a comrade who said a U.S. National Guardmember named Andres Alvariño was working "to form a group of 40 men with professional military experience, persons on active duty in the military ... or ex-military personnel, for the execution of paramilitary missions against Cuba. It would be a force of mercenaries without ties to any counterrevolutionary Cuban groups, which they consider have been penetrated and are vulnerable. They would be paid per mission, and they would have life insurance policies of $100,000 for their families. [CANF board member] Roberto Martin Perez will be in charge of this project.... One of the financial promoters will be Enrique Casas, a Cuban millionaire and ex-U.S. Army officer who has a boat company and arms deposits in Honduras that belonged to the Nicaraguan contras." The message added that the CIA also was participating "indirectly" and that Alvariño and a sergeant in the National Guard already had begun recruiting the men. The recruits would be subjected to a "rigorous investigation" and operate in cells of four.
Delgado also included CANF's board of directors, "who rely on renowned terrorists, including the brothers [Guillermo and Ignacio] Novo Sampoll, Gaspar Jimenez Escobedo, Felix Rodriguez, Ramon Orozco Crespo, and Luis Posada Carriles." Delgado reported that in late November 1995, Jimenez Escobedo "suggested" to CANF's board of directors the "convenience" with which explosives of the kind Timothy McVeigh used in the Oklahoma City bombing could be used against Castro. "Although we do not know how the proposal was received," Delgado continued, "a reliable source gave information that in subsequent weeks Jimenez Escobedo himself, Orozco Crespo, and Posada, independently, will try to acquire through different avenues type C-4 explosives [for use] against our country. This information has not yet been corroborated."
A year later Posada told two New York Times reporters, who interviewed him in an undisclosed location in the Caribbean, that he coordinated six Havana hotel bombings from August to September 1997 in which eleven people were injured and one man was killed. The type of explosive he used: C-4. He is awaiting a sentence of death by firing squad. Posada, who received military training alongside the late CANF founder Jorge Mas Canosa at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1963, also told the reporters the foundation had financed the bombing operation but later retracted the statement.
This past November Panamanian police arrested Posada, now age 70, for planning to detonate C-4 explosives in an attempt to kill Castro while he was in Panama for the Ibero-American Summit. The Cuban government wants to try him for various crimes, including the bombing of a Cuban jet that crashed shortly after takeoff from Barbados on October 6, 1976, killing 73 people. The CANF has always denied any connection to Posada's activities. The group has publicly dismissed Wasp Network intelligence as "fantasy."
But "CANF terrorists" are an elusive bunch and besides the Wasp Network had many other duties concerning the Mas Canosa organization. Among them: monitoring his political and material fortunes, plotting a few measures to discredit this enemy, and drafting scads of messages to Havana.
For example in a May 24, 1996, message Hernandez writes: "The old rivalry between Mas Canosa and [former Miami Herald publisher] David Lawrence has been re-ignited. Mas Canosa spoke on the radio to defend himself and has insulted Lawrence. It would be a good idea to make a threatening call to Lawrence and the Herald."
In the spring of 1997, the Wasp Network gathered some unexpected intelligence on CANF. It came from a reliable source: Ramon Saul Sanchez, the leader of the Democracy Movement. Rene Gonzalez, who had penetrated Democracy, had received the information at a meeting of the group's senior members. Gonzalez met Hernandez at the Piccadilly Restaurant at NW 23rd Avenue and West Flagler Street to pass him the diskette containing his report. Hernandez would then relay it to Havana along with his own conclusions. Dated March 27, 1997, Gonzalez's message read: "A bit of news was given which Saul asked to be kept secret. It is about Mas Canosa, who has terminal cancer, and, according to Saul, they don't think he will make it to the end of the year." Gonzalez added that another Democracy member, Marcelino Garcia, told him that as a result of the illness, there was conflict among Roberto Martin Perez and other senior CANF members over who would take charge.
Gonzalez was ever wary of exile trickery, though. "I took this news with some reservations, besides the goodness it would do to humanity if a guy like Mas Canosa would disappear," he said. Gonzalez suggested that Mas Canosa might be faking the illness as part of a stratagem in which he would undergo a miraculous healing to rally political support. "In doing that they could gain sympathy among the people," he explained, "who would see God's hand and the power of prayer, et cetera, et cetera." Hernandez found his comrade's hypothesis a little far-fetched and told Havana so. He suspected Mas Canosa truly was sick. "Castor [Gonzalez] said that maybe this was pig head's' propagandistic strategy, being tremendously sly. I gave him my opinion that one cannot doubt anything coming from Mas Canosa, but I don't think he's going to get into a story of that kind. And I actually think that if there is smoke, it's because there is fire." But he noted they were in agreement about one thing: "We united our faith' in a brief mental prayer' that the news about the cancer is true, and we hope it cuts him in four pieces as soon as possible. Amen."
When Mas Canosa died eight months later, it was time to target CANF members with one of Havana's own secret weapons: a flyer. It read as follows.
Who are you voting for as Chairman of the CANF?
For Jorge Mas Santos?
He isn't interested in politics.
His mother doesn't want him to assume leadership of the CANF.
He doesn't have his father's charisma.
He's not fluent in Spanish
For Dr. Alberto Hernandez?
His extramarital relations don't allow him any time for politics.
His most valuable distinction is that he was Jorge Mas' doctor.
His health is deteriorating.
For Pepe Hernandez?
He's a loser.
He's under FBI surveillance because he's sloppy.
He's not accepted by members of the CANF. He has no leadership charisma.
Has prostate cancer.
For Diego Suarez?
Conversationalist (even with the enemy)
He has little life left
For Domingo Moreira?
Don Domingo Moreira has prestige but you can't inherit that.
He doesn't have charisma to direct the powerful CANF.
Who should you vote for? Vote for Finado
[Finado is Spanish for dead person']
The Wasp Network also reflected on ways to thwart Ninoska Perez, the CANF spokeswoman and host of a local AM radio show on which she rails against Castro and takes calls from listeners who rail some more. Hernandez was especially incensed about some right-wing high jinx: She'd phone Havana, sweet-talk a government official for a moment, and then excoriate him or her for supporting a brutal dictator. "On a couple of occasions, I sent my evaluations on how ... one could do harm [to] or neutralize in some way the counterrevolutionary actions that originate here," Hernandez typed to the Directorate of Intelligence. "I am referring specifically to the telephone calls made by the radio stations to talk to the dissidents' from over there and the calls from Ninoska Perez trying to be funny.... She's gotten a lot of publicity here for making fun of many incidents as well as government agencies, including [former foreign minister Roberto] Robaina." Hernandez suggests that when Cuban officials are interviewed by Miami-based media, they note that the Cuban government earns money from phone calls originating in the United States. "We might be able to create a negative state of opinion about this fat son of a bitch [gorda h.p., in the original Spanish]. We might not be able to stop the calls, but we could cause some long-range or medium-range damage." He then writes he was pleased to hear rival Miami radio talk show host Francisco Aruca make the point on his show. "To my satisfaction [he] said that he had listened to two of Ninoska's calls that must have left the government of Cuba with $200, and that if he were Fidel Castro, he would tell all of his officials to talk a whole lot with that woman."
Hernandez's analysis of the counterrevolutionary prankster, though, led him to a radical idea: The guardians of the revolution could stand have more of a sense of humor. He informed his bosses that on this side of the Florida Straits, Cuban officials come across as "serious, schematic, and dogmatic, who are easy to make fun of and don't make fun of anyone. I think a little good humor and spark on the part of some of our comrades at the time of sparring, especially with the media in Miami, would go a long way."
But Gerardo Hernandez didn't find it very funny when he ran into a former CIA agent and "CANF terrorist" one day. Hernandez had been in the process of buying a VCR at the Costco supermarket on Biscayne Boulevard in North Miami Beach and was wheeling a shopping cart along when he came face to face with none other than Felix Rodriguez, the man credited with killing Che Guevara.
Like Basulto and Posada, Rodriguez was one of Castro's wiliest foes in the early years of the revolution. After Cuban government troops crushed the April 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, Rodriguez escaped to the Venezuelan embassy. He then joined the CIA and helped Bolivian troops track down Che in 1965 in Bolivia, where the Argentine doctor and Cuban revolutionary hero was killed shortly after his capture. In 1985 Rodriguez fought Castro indirectly on another battlefield, supervising secret supply flights to the Nicaraguan contras, an operation directed by White House aide Lt. Col. Oliver North. One of the men who helped Rodriguez was Luis Posada Carriles.
"Upon crossing each other's path, we looked at each other, and I knew it was him," Hernandez wrote in a message to Delgado, the intelligence chief in Havana. "He was wearing a green jacket, the kind photographers or journalists wear.... Since I was on my way to the cash register at the time when we crossed each other, I didn't want to continue walking around inside the store, because all the references we have about this person is that he is pretty shrewd and furthermore somewhat paranoid. For that reason I paid for what I had bought, and I went to the part of the building where the food court area is located, which is exactly in front of the registers, and one can see everybody when they are coming to pay on their way out." Hernandez noted that six minutes later, Rodriguez appeared in a checkout line.
"It took me a couple of minutes to finish my ice cream, and I left heading toward some telephone booths that are at the entrance to the left. I pretended to be talking on the phone with the beeper in my hand, as if I was answering a page." He observed Rodriguez exit with his shopping cart and push it to a gray Mercedes-Benz with tinted windows. "He placed the things he had bought inside the trunk. And immediately he did something which seems to me was a sign of countersurveillance. Usually people [after emptying their shopping cart] leave it right there, or maybe the more conscientious people take the cart a little bit toward the building. Nevertheless he did the opposite. What he did was to take it further away (about five meters) in the opposite direction of the store with no logical justification at all. He did it in such a way that, on his way back, he had the entire panoramic view in front of him, with complete control of the view of the entrance of the store along with the view of all the people who could have come out behind him. I had to have been in this view since I was at the telephone booths." Hernandez noted the license plate number.
The message continues with Hernandez's analysis of the encounter. "The subject was alone. Nevertheless we must emphasize that because of the characteristics of the jacket he was wearing, it is perfectly possible that he could have been armed." He concludes that Rodriguez didn't suspect him because of the way he drove off. "He could have made a turn, even though it's a little illogical, allowing him to not show the back part of his car (including the license plate) toward the area where I was.... This is all for now. You can imagine what it feels like to have a guy so close who is such an SOB and who owes us such a big debt."
Intelligence on the Democracy Movement and its leader, Ramon Saul Sanchez, required more copious writing than was needed for other exile groups and forced the Wasp Network to stretch the limits of its training. In the past Sanchez had advocated violence against the Castro government; in the early Eighties he led the Organization for the Liberation of Cuba, which supposedly ran missions to the island. But after spending four and a half years in prison for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating the assassination of a Cuban diplomat in New York, Sanchez adopted a strategy of peaceful protest.
According to the Wasp Network files, Havana was particularly concerned about Sanchez's potential to bring his unique brand of anti-Castro propaganda to Cuban shores. In a message dated February 25, 1997, special agent (and Democracy member) Gonzalez reviewed a flotilla that had taken place a day earlier to Cuban waters to commemorate the victims of the Brothers to the Rescue shootdown a year earlier. Fifteen planes accompanied the boats. Basulto, Sanchez, and Gonzalez were among those who had flown. Everything had gone smoothly. "The atmosphere was full of optimism and satisfaction," he reported after a meeting of Democracy leaders at the group's office in a strip mall at SW Eighth Street and 81st Avenue. But he had some vexing new intelligence. A call from someone in Cuba had come into the office. It was Lazaro Cabrera, a member of a group called the Alianza Republicana de Cuba, who had been arrested for activities on the island that coincided with the flotilla. "He painted a very upbeat picture, saying that everything had gone perfectly in Cuba," Gonzalez began. "He said that all the masses took place and that people had gone to the Malecón to throw flowers [into the sea]. He said the people's morale was very high and that everyone knew about what Democracy was doing, that Democracy was the strongest sounding force in Cuba."
It became more unsettling. Cabrera then said that while in detention he was visited by Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage. "He said Lage told him ... that the Cuban government understood that Democracy was a movement of decent people, but that they were wearing down the government at a time when the country was trying to survive. According to Lazaro, Lage practically begged him to understand." Gonzalez said the Democracy leaders concluded that the Cuban government might want to hold a dialogue to discuss the flotillas. He seemed befuddled: "This will be all regarding what Lazaro said. You should know if he's crazy, looking for a visa, or is one of us."
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Several months later, however, Gonzalez was reporting intelligence more to his liking. In September Democracy was considering leasing a cruise ship that would steam along the northern shore of Cuba just before Christmas. The cruise would feature a Willy Chirino concert and a laser show sending messages of peace into the sky.
He suggested a novel form of sabotage: "We could begin filling out and sending back forms expressing an interest in going, which in turn would exceed all expectations." Gonzalez suggested to Hernandez the Wasp Network could fax in 200 forms, with each one pledging three bogus participants committed to paying for the cruise. "Perhaps names could be taken from the phone book at random and used to fill out the forms," he continued. Then, as the day of the cruise approached and Democracy leaders attempted to collect money from the participants, they would realize they didn't have enough to fill the ship and would have to cancel. Hernandez rejected his comrade's proposal, saying it would require too much work, and the faxes could be traced. The cruise, as it turned out, never took place.
In a November 1997 report to Hernandez, Gonzalez reported "discord" and "demoralization" in the Democracy Movement. Gonzalez provided details from a meeting led by Sanchez and attended by about twenty people at the Democracy office. The organization also was in financial trouble, he wrote. It had to remove one of its boats from a marina because it couldn't make dockage payments. A woman who had sold the group a boat was threatening to sue because it had not yet paid her. A two-hour dispute over the validity of an election three months earlier of the group's executive board pushed the meeting past midnight.
"This is where the movement currently stands. These people have no goals, without definite objectives, and no concrete plans," agent Gonzalez concluded. "Even though one cannot underestimate Saul's perseverance, the Democracy Movement is wounded and can die if urgent measures are not taken, which I'm not really sure Saul will [provide], given his behavior at the meeting. He appears to be very susceptible to what anyone says. This prevents him from using his leadership at times such as these." Gerardo Hernandez added his analysis, describing Democracy as "largely geriatric and senile," and he sent the intelligence to Havana.


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In the past, I have made the case that President Obama was NOT a Christian, based both on his own words about what he believes and just as important, his actions. You can go to the Liveprayer.com homepage and watch a very compressive video that outlines exactly why President Obama lies when he claims to be a Christian. The fact is, I can claim to be a giraffe, but that doesn't make me a giraffe!!!
When asked why he was a Christian at a recent backyard campaign appearance, here is how President Obama answered the question,
"I'm a Christian, uh, by choice. Um, you know, my family didn't – frankly, they weren't, uh, folks who went to church every – every week. Um, my mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew, but she didn't, uh, raise me in the church. Uh, so I came to, to, uh, my Christian faith later in life, uh, and it was because the, the, the, precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead – being my brother's and sister's keeper, treating others as they would treat me … also understanding that Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we're sinful, and we're flawed, and we make mistakes, and that we achieve salvation through the grace of God. But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace. So that's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day. I think my public service is a part of that effort to express my Christian faith."
It is clear that without a teleprompter, President Obama's favorite word is "um." However, let's look at what he said in making his claim to be a Christian. The first thing that stands out is his claim that his mother was one of the most spiritual people he knew. President Obama's mother was a self professed ATHEIST! In past interviews, he has claimed his mother was in heaven, despite the FACT she had rejected faith in Christ and because according to President Obama, there was no such place called "hell."
He goes on to talk about how the precepts of Christ spoke to him in terms of the kind of life he wanted to lead, being his brother's and sister's keeper, and treating others as they would treat him. Sadly, that is what most Muslims say regarding Jesus, as well as people who follow Buddhism and other false religions, cults, and new age philosophies. Nothing he said here has anything to do with being a Christian.
The President stated he understands Jesus died for his sins and that humans are sinful and flawed. I was actually encouraged that he might actually get it, until he finished by saying that "we achieve salvation through the grace of God." Mr. President, that is only half correct. We achieve salvation through God's grace, PLUS, our faith! Again, as he has in many other interviews about being a Christian, at NO POINT has President Obama ever spoken of his personal faith in Jesus Christ and that moment when he made that personal commitment of faith through his freewill choice to surrender his life to Christ.
This is not a minor issue. The Bible says that without faith it is impossible to please God. We can't be saved because we go to church, or because our parents were Christians, or by writing a check, or doing enough good works. The ONLY way to be saved is by exercising our freewill choice to accept Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and Savior…BY FAITH!!! For my Catholic brothers and sisters, SOLA FIDES!
President Obama than distances himself even further from Biblical salvation by regurgitating that universalistic lie from hell he has spoken of over and over in past interviews on his faith, when he speaks of helping others "find their own grace." Excuse me? I am sorry, but grace by definition is God's unmerited favor. You don't help other people find God's grace, you help lead other people to saving FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST, since there is no other name by which men are saved!
Allah can't save you, Mohammed can't save you, Joey Smith can't save you, Scientology can't save you, Gandhi can't save you, Buddha can't save you, nothing can save you but faith in Jesus Christ!!!!! That is God's one and ONLY plan of salvation!
I love you and care about you so much. Please pray for President Obama and his family to make a personal choice to accept Jesus Christ by faith and give their lives to Him. Please share this with everyone you know, since sadly, in this time where the better percentage of two full generations have never been to church and those who do, for the most part, are in Biblically illiterate congregations.
People need to understand that simply going to church and calling yourself a Christian doesn't make you any more a Christian than standing on a runway makes you an airplane! You are a Christian because you have put your faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ, the ONLY ONE who died for your sins!!!
I would invite you to go to, http://www.liveprayer.com/plan.cfm . Pray to ask God to open your heart, read the words, watch the short video, pray the prayer, and accept God's free gift to you today of everlasting life!
***Please be in prayer for us today. I have been praying for the past few days for the Lord to send one or two people who can help us out of our current financial distress. To date, that person God is speaking to has not come forward. As I shared yesterday, we had a STOP PAYMENT put on a donation for $10,000 last week that has put us in some very dire straights with our operations account.
For those who have been able to help me during this crisis, thank you so much. I am asking God to send one person who can wire the $10,000 to our bank account today before 3pm ET, and several more who have the ability to help us make up our shortfall of $56,000 by the end of the week.
If you can help me today by wiring $5,000 or more, please contact me right away, and I will get you our wiring instructions. My email is firstname.lastname@example.com and my phone is 727-420-7005. Anything you can send is meaningful, since God is not looking at the size of your gift, but the heart that gives it!
It has been the obedience of many over the last 11 years that has allowed us to impact tens of millions of lives and see over 500,000 we know of come to faith in Jesus Christ, and it will be the obedience of friends like you today and tomorrow that will enable us to keep reaching the lost and hurting, and help lead this nation back to God and HIS Truth.
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Thank you for standing with me and for your love and prayers. Together, we are reaching and impacting lives, many for eternity that nobody else is reaching out to. The greatest mission field in the world in 2010 is right here in the United States. People are needlessly dying and going to hell for all eternity every day, the cast majority, simply because they never knew they could be saved through faith in Jesus Christ.
In His love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,
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In the days after Hurricane Matthew grazed the Florida coast, families of residents living in the deadly storm's track wondered if their loved ones in the Sunshine state were safe.
One Nebraska family, desperate for news of their grandmother who lives alone in Palm Coast, decided to get creative after attempts to reach her failed.
Eric Olsen of Omaha, Nebraska, hadn't heard from Grandma Claire Olsen for several days after the storm, according to NBC affiliate WBBH.
After calls to the local police department and sheriff's office in Flagler County went unanswered, the worried grandson thought of a way to get someone to check in on her, WBBH reported.
Lance Tyler was running deliveries at the only Papa John's pizzeria in Flagler County when Eric Olsen called in an order from Nebraska. The pizza, however, was destined for Grandma Claire's house on Parkway Drive.
Tyler told WBBH when he arrived in the neighborhood and looked at the receipt, there was a phone number and special instructions to call once he arrived at the house. Tyler said he assumed it was because the owner of the home "had some big dogs they needed to put away, or something."
But when Tyler called the number, a concerned Eric Olsen asked "Is she there? Is she OK?."
"The way that he answered the phone," Tyler said. "It sounded like he was worried."
Tyler knocked on Olsen's door, who was reluctant to answer.
"He said 'Delivery.' I said, 'I didn't order anything.' He says, 'Your grandson did,'" grandma Olsen said, according to WBBH.
Eric Olsen was finally able to speak to this grandmother, quelling his worries. Grandma Claire's pepperoni pizza was "fantastic" and much appreciated.
Tyler said connecting the two topped every tip he's ever received.
"Her expression was just priceless," he said. "The way she was like 'Whoa!'"


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Congratulations…dripped in acid
Bitter Bridget still isn't over it. As you know, Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen announced the birth of their son yesterday. It's Brady's second child. He and ex girlfriend Bridget Moynihan are the parents of little Jack. So Bridget felt compelled to release an acidic statement congratulating the couple on their baby:
"I wish [Tom and Gisele] the best with their baby. I'm sure my son will enjoy having a half-sibling."
That's about as cold and as detached as it gets. Half-sibling? Everyone knew from the get that it was a boy. But my favourite is the "I'm sure"? Like, why wouldn't he? Oh, right, because she'll bitch about it until he hates his younger brother.
I'm a petty person too. So I get it that she's single and he's not and he's happy and his wife is the gold standard of hotness. I get it. And I'd be plotting revenge fantasies all day too. But if that's the case, don't send out a f-cking press release sounding like a jealous hag. It's pathetic. And it only reinforces why she didn't end up being The One.
Poor poor POOR public relations management. These people pay other people to make sure this sh-t doesn't happen. Where are the professionals?
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