Rock is liberty

"El rock te da libertad para escribir lo que piensas", afirma Carajo.

Desde su aparición en la es­cena argentina, la agrupación "Carajo" ha dado forma a una carrera ascendente hasta ubicarse en la primera di­visión del rock latino, y especialmente en la escena del new metal

Autor: Michel Hernández | michel@granma.cu

17 de abril de 2015 22:04:44

Carajo. Foto: Cortesía del grupo

Una noche del 2001 el Salón Rosado fue un campo de batalla. La banda inglesa Asian Dub Foundation debutaba en Cuba y no lo pensó dos veces para ofrecer un show que más que un concierto fue una violen­ta sa­cudida a ritmo de reggue, drum and bass, y rock and roll. 

La imagen de La Tropical, cin­co años después, parecía una co­pia al cal­co de aquel momento.

Carajo, un power trío de Ar­gen­tina, que tenía entre sus credenciales la presencia de Mar­celo 

“Cor­va­ta” Corva­lán, exbajista y compositor de los históricos A.N.I.M.A.L, se transformó en un monstruo de energía para despachar un tremendo concierto que cumplió con los re­clamos más exigentes de los ca­si 1 500 me­taleros reunidos en la meca de la salsa cubana. (See URL).

Spain: Global Capital of "Financial chanchullo"

La imagen es de un excelente fotógrafo del diario español "El País". Supongo que hará historia.
El nombre del agente es secreto.
El detenido, aún presunto delincuente, es Don Rodrigo Rato. Rato, entre otras relevantes posiciones
fue vice presidente con
Don José María Aznar (PP).
Gracias Bernardo. Chapó agente. 

FBI: Anthrax Investigation "a sham" (and shame)

Head of the FBIs Anthrax Investigation Says the Whole Thing Was a Sham

By Washington's Blog

Global Research, April 17, 2015

Url of this article:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/head-of-the-fbis-anthrax-investigation-says-the-whole-thing-was-a-sham/5443516

Agent In Charge of Amerithrax Investigation Blows the Whistle

The FBI head agent in charge of the anthrax investigation Richard Lambert has just filed a federal whistleblower lawsuit calling the entire FBI investigation bulls**t:

In the fall of 2001, following the 9/11 attacks, a series of anthrax mailings occurred which killed five Americans and sickened 17 others. Four anthrax-laden envelopes were recovered which were addressed to two news media outlets in New York City (the New York Post and Tom Brokaw at NBC) and two senators in Washington D.C. (Patrick Leahy and Tom Daschle). The anthrax letters addressed to New York were mailed on September 18, 2001, just seven days after the 9/11 attacks. The letters addressed to the senators were mailed 21 days later on October 9, 2001. A fifth mailing of anthrax is believed to have been directed to American Media, Inc. (AMI) in Boca Raton, Florida based upon the death of one AMI employee from anthrax poisoning and heavy spore contamination in the building.

Executive management at FBI Headquarters assigned responsibility for the anthrax investigation (code named AMERITHRAX) to the Washington Field Office (WFO), dubbing it the single most important case in the FBI at that time. In October 2002, in the wake of surging media criticism, White House impatience with a seeming lack of investigative progress by WFO, and a concerned Congress that was considering revoking the FBIs charter to investigate terrorism cases, Defendant FBI Director Mueller reassigned Plaintiff from the FBIs San Diego Field Office to the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters and placed Plaintiff in charge of the AMERITHRAX case as an Inspector. While leading the investigation for the next four years, Plaintiffs efforts to advance the case met with intransigence from WFOs executive management, apathy and error from the FBI Laboratory, politically motivated communication embargos from FBI Headquarters, and yet another preceding and equally erroneous legal opinion from Defendant Kelley all of which greatly obstructed and impeded the investigation.

On July 6, 2006, Plaintiff provided a whistleblower report of mismanagement to the FBIs Deputy Director pursuant to Title 5, United States Code, Section 2303. Reports of mismanagement conveyed in writing and orally included: (a) WFOs persistent understaffing of the AMERITHRAX investigation; (b) the threat of WFOs Agent in charge to retaliate if Plaintiff disclosed the understaffing to FBI Headquarters; (c) WFOs insistence on staffing the AMERITHRAX investigation principally with new Agents recently graduated from the FBI Academy resulting in an average investigative tenure of 18 months with 12 of 20 Agents assigned to the case having no prior investigative experience at all; (d) WFOs eviction of the AMERITHRAX Task Force from the WFO building in downtown Washington and its relegation to Tysons Corner, Virginia to free up space for Attorney General Ashcrofts new pornography squads; (e) FBI Directors Muellers mandate to Plaintiff to compartmentalize the AMERITHRAX investigation by stove piping the flow of case information and walling off task force members from those aspects of the case not specifically assigned to them a move intended to stem the tide of anonymous media leaks by government officials regarding details of the investigation. [Lambert complained about compartmentalizing and stovepiping of the investigation in a 2006 declaration. See this, this and this]

This sequestration edict decimated morale and proved unnecessary in light of subsequent civil litigation which established that the media leaks were attributable to the United States Attorney for the District of the District of Columbia and to a Supervisory Special Agent in the FBIs National Press Office, not to investigators on the AMERITHRAX Task Force; (f) WFOs diversion and transfer of two Ph.D. Microbiologist Special Agents from their key roles in the investigation to fill billets for an 18 month Arabic language training program in Israel; (g) the FBI Laboratorys deliberate concealment from the Task Force of its discovery of human DNA on the anthrax-laden envelope addressed to Senator Leahy and the Labs initial refusal to perform comparison testing; (h) the FBI Laboratorys refusal to provide timely and adequate scientific analyses and forensic examinations in support of the investigation; (i) Defendant Kelleys erroneous and subsequently quashed legal opinion that regulations of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) precluded the Task Forces collection of evidence in overseas venues; (j) the FBIs fingering of Bruce Ivins as the anthrax mailer; and, (k) the FBIs subsequent efforts to railroad the prosecution of Ivins in the face of daunting exculpatory evidence.(See URL)

Corona y coleta

Fotografía original de EFE. Publicada por "El País".

The Cat Power

For the E.E.U.U. (dear) People

Making History for Peace and  Mutual Respect.
Yes, We Can.

Cuba va

Medalla XX Aniversario. Cuba. Se ruega no reproducir sin autorización.

LA HABANA con información de la Associated Press (AP) — "Estados Unidos y Cuba iniciarán negociaciones sobre dos fugitivos estadounidenses de los más buscados, como parte de un nuevo diálogo sobre cooperación judicial que fue posibilitado por la decisión del presidente Barack Obama de retirar a la nación caribeña de la lista de países patrocinadores de terrorismo, anunció el miércoles el Departamento de Estado norteamericano.

Funcionarios y ciudadanos comunes se mostraron alborozados en Cuba por la exclusión de la lista, apuntando que Obama repara una afrenta de décadas al orgullo nacional y despeja el camino para restaurar rápidamente las relaciones diplomáticas.

Jeff Rathke, vocero del Departamento de Estado, dijo que Cuba aceptó las negociaciones sobre los fugitivos, incluida Joanne Chesimard, alias Assata Shakur, a quien Fidel Castro otorgó asilo después de que ella escapó de una prisión estadounidense donde estaba cumpliendo una sentencia por matar a un policía estatal de Nueva Jersey en 1973. Estados Unidos y Cuba discutirán además el caso de William Morales, un nacionalista puertorriqueño buscado en relación a atentados con explosivos en Nueva York en la década de 1970.

"Vemos el restablecimiento de relaciones diplomáticas y la reapertura de una embajada en La Habana como los medios a través de los cuales seremos capaces de presionar más efectivamente al gobierno cubano sobre asuntos judiciales como el de fugitivos. Y Cuba ha aceptado entrar a un diálogo judicial con Estados Unidos que funcionará para resolver estos casos", señaló Rathke. Se prevé que el diálogo aborde además la cooperación sobre delitos más rutinarios, dijeron funcionarios".