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Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and the Crusade for Freedom In Cuba

https://elamerican.com/luis-manuel-otero-alcantara-freedom-crusade/

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“May my death be the continuity to the spark for the freedom of Cuba.” One of the last messages shared on the Facebook page of Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, independent artist and leader of the San Isidro Movement (MSI), gives a measure of the epic battle for freedom that a group of young Cubans is waging in the streets of the island.

On April 25, Otero Alcántara went on a hunger strike to protest the Cuban government’s violation of constitutional rights, as the communist regime continues to open criminal cases, impose forced house arrests, and psychological torture on its citizens.

Have Biden and the Democratic Party, now in power, forgotten the repressive strategy of a tyranny that has been humiliating its people for more than 60 years? The Castro’s and their front men believe they are the absolute owners of the life and death of all Cubans, eliminating the slightest glimmer of freedom and hope.

And those who, like Luis Manuel, try to evade or confront the repressive machinery of the regime are persecuted, imprisoned, dispersed, infiltrated, discredited, and then murdered or resurrected according to their degree of servility or abjection to the regime. Repression is the fundamental method of control to maintain total command in the hands of Castroism. Their level of compassion is inversely proportional to any request for freedom and justice.

Castro and his henchmen gained power with blood on their hands and maintain it by killing. Their mafia codes are incompatible with the values of the rule of law and a democratic and civilized government.

The conflict between freedom and dictatorship is taking place today in many countries under the tutelage of communist regimes. And the most moving aspect of this challenge is the integrity and courage of people like Otero Alcántara, Maykel Osorbo, Iliana Hernández, Katherine Bisquet, or Esteban Rodríguez — just to name a few — who risk their lives every day in defense of democracy and respect for the rights of their people.

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Freedom, another reason Trump needs to be restored as the rightful president ASAP.

The Love Song of Bill and Melinda
Is it the end of the Gates Foundation and its tyranny?

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/05/love-song-bill-and-melinda-daniel-greenfield/

Excerpt:

...In 1993, Bill proposed to Melinda: an executive at his company. In 1994, they were married. In 1995, Melinda debuted Microsoft Bob. Microsoft Bob treated computer users like idiots who were too stupid to be allowed to use their computers without a lot of handholding.

Condescending handholding was also what the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation offered the world as one of the industry’s most notoriously miserable human beings decided to become a philanthropist and save the world from all the people who weren’t running it properly.

In 2000, Gates stepped down as CEO of Microsoft, left his day-to-day role in 2008, and departed as chairman of the board in 2014. He also jettisoned 8 million shares of the company.

Forget CEO of Microsoft, Bill would use his vast wealth to become the CEO of the world.

...Ever since Bill and Melinda got away from making bad software and began building a bad non-profit, the country and the world have been treated to the thoughts and wishes of the godmother of Microsoft Bob. The only thing more infuriating than having to endure the hectoring of a soulless nerd who thinks he can solve the world’s problems is taking it from his trophy wife.

In 2019, Melinda released the obligatory feminist tract that female dot com tycoons were putting out at the time, titled, “The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World.”

There was no sense of irony in a woman who was only rich, famous, and powerful because she had caught the eye of an obnoxious tech tycoon writing about empowering women.

...Empowering.

The happy couple, Bill and Melinda (not the Microsoft employee and her potential rapist and killer), spent some $53 billion from Bill’s wealth obtained by chaining companies and users to a bad operating system and its bad satellite software on their ‘philanthropy’. When people think of philanthropy, they imagine money going to people, but a lot of the Gates fortune went into policy. Instead of funding people, they funded assorted political agendas up their alley.

A ton of money from the college dropout tycoon and his trophy wife went into education where the duo managed to trash everything from K-12 schooling to the SATs. Meanwhile politicians, the experts they funded, and the media hailed them as visionaries even though they had no idea what they were doing. And what they did do was make American education even worse.

...That momentary admission that they had no idea what they’ve been talking about for two decades after upending the country’s education system didn’t stop them from continuing to push their preferred policies anyway.

Only a massive divorce might be able to do that.

...Bill and Melinda claimed that they were already focusing on separate monogrammed issues: “climate change” for him and “gender equity” for her.

Considering Bill’s massive estates, including a $43 million oceanfront beach house in San Diego County, and Melinda’s fortune by way of marriage and then divorce, global warming and gender equity seem like the perfect causes for them to virtue signal their hypocrisy.

A cockeyed optimist might hope for a wake-up call in which Bill and Melinda finally realize that they can’t run their own lives, or Microsoft, and so they probably shouldn’t be running the world.

There’s also a lesson in humility there for their younger peers like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of the industry in which college dropouts make a fortune from a product, and decide that hitting a niche at the right time makes them superior beings qualified to run the world.

The Gates divorce may be bad news for the couple, but it’s good news for local communities, parents, and reformers who actually want to be able to run their own school systems. And everyone in any field, from health care to education to energy, who was tired of being dictated to by a power couple and their vast organization and fantastic wealth, is breathing a sigh of relief.

The divorce is likely to weaken the Gates machine. It won’t destroy its hold over our daily lives, but as the two sets of lawyers circle each other, it may give us some breathing room.

And that’s a good thing.

Microsoft Bob went away, but it spawned the Comic Sans font. Like Bob, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is likely to be history, but it will continue to haunt us anyway.