We can expect new President Obama to lift the absurd ban on Cuba, or at least make the attempt through Congress. He will surely allow Americans to fly to that abused island and bring some relief from the oppressive communist regime. The island "celebrated" 50 years of Fidel's take over without fanfare from the bulk of the population. Their economic and political conditions have remained fixed in time during that half century as if a Pinoy Tv Latest Video gigantic time machine had remained stuck in 1959.
While nobody in Cuba dies of hunger and almost everybody can read and write (their literacy rate is among the highest in the world), one can readily ask "what for?" There is no freedom of any kind except to laud the virtues of the great leader, or, as it is called in another Pinoy Tv Latest Video, our Beloved Great Leader (North Korea).
Cuba and North Korea are two examples of massive brainwashing, although much more so in China's neighbor. Cuba has the "luck" of having the United States next door, and the superpower's influence, in spite of the blockade, has been the difference among the population. Cubans still retain some contact with the mainland, whether clandestinely or openly through American family Pinoy Tv Latest Video.
While working in Mexico, I had the chance to Pinoy Tv Latest Video talk to Cubans living in that country; some had to return to the island, while others had migrated permanently. Understandably, because all had family living under the Castro regime, their comments were made "off the record". A surgeon told me that her monthly salary was the equivalent of $30, but she added that everybody received free education (considered one of the best the world), and that the food was heavily subsidized, as was rent (no private property allowed), and health care.
I could nevertheless perceive an undertone of profound dissatisfaction in their comments regarding the total absence of freedoms and choices. The surgeon talked about the first time she entered a supermarket in Monterrey, Mexico; her Pinoy Tv Latest Video widened with shock. She had never seen so many goods and so many choices on the shelves.
Very few Cubans have their own landline phone (9%) and even less have a cell phone (1%). Although many have televisions (70%), who wants to listen to Fidel's endless tirades (he loved to listen to himself when he was still in control) of up to 3 hours? Who wants to watch the official government's propaganda machine? Only a few revolutionary diehards still support the communist regime and the "exalted" memory of the Pinoy Tv Latest Video Che Guevara, a psychotic physician who shot anybody who disagreed with him.
China, the giant communist regime, had the wisdom to transform its totalitarian dogmas to allow some token of capitalistic market. It is now well on its way to become an economic and military superpower. Cuba is only beginning to understand, under Fidel's brother's control, that people have an innate drive to own something. Raul Castro has even invited the Cuban people to voice their criticism of the government, a step that received very little response as people doubt seriously that the regime would actually act upon the Pinoy Tv Latest Video.
The lack of opportunities in Cuba is particularly hard on youth. The island has one of the highest suicide rates in the world. Again, what's the point of having free education all the way to college if the government tells you what to study and if there are no outlets for your skills? The word apathetic is the adjective most commonly heard when speaking of young Cubans. In spite of occasional desertions among athletic teams who travel to other countries, most young Cubans do not want to abandon their island. What they want is more freedom to come and go as they please and to have the chance to Pinoy Tv Latest Video voice their concerns.
President Obama has already expressed his desire to initiate negotiations with the Cuban government. He should ignore the extreme faction of Cuban-Americans from Miami who want no contact with the Caribbean island. The ridiculous blockade should be eliminated for two important reasons: Cubans already receive Pinoy Tv Latest Video goods through third parties (European countries), and an open trade with Cuba would be the best way to topple that odious dictatorship.
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
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NEW YORK (AP) - A con man named Louis Martin "Marty" Blazer III may have failed in his scheme to make low-budget movies with money swiped from pro athletes, but he has now succeeded in stealing part of the spotlight in a Pinoy Tv Online Videos scandal that has shaken college basketball to its core.
Federal authorities revealed this week that Blazer was the wily informant - referred to in criminal complaints only as CW-1 "cooperating witness-1" - who played a central role in a federal bribery investigation of assistant coaches at Pinoy Tv Online Videos four top-tier basketball schools.
"I'm aware of people who are willing to do this," federal prosecutors say Blazer told authorities in 2014 when he agreed to wear a wire and buddy up to coaches who took covert payments in exchange for encouraging top-flight NBA prospects to Pinoy Tv Online Videos choose a particular school, agent or financial adviser.
FILE - In this April 8, 2013, file photo, Louisville players and head coach Rick Pitino celebrate after defeating Michigan 82-76 in the championship of the Final Four in the NCAA college basketball tournament in Atlanta. Louisville announced Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, that they have placed basketball coach Rick Pitino and athletic director Tom Jurich on Pinoy Tv Online Videos leave amid an FBI probe. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)
Blazer, 46, posed as Pinoy Tv Online Videos an experienced - and corrupt - financial adviser and business manager while helping the FBI make hundreds of recordings, a ruse resulting in a case charging 10 people, including assistant coaches from Auburn, Southern California, Arizona and Oklahoma State.
The expanding ramifications of the probe were felt Wednesday when Louisville announced it was putting basketball coach Rick Pinoy Tv Online Videos on unpaid leave in response to a related scheme alleging agents promised the family of a Louisville prospect it would get $100,000 from Adidas if he signed with the Adidas-sponsored school.
Authorities won't discuss their arrangement with Blazer in Pinoy Tv Online Videos. And his attorney, Martin Dietz, declined to comment.
But a guilty plea to securities fraud and other charges that could buy him leniency shows that his cooperation played off a pattern of deception dating to 2000, when prosecutors say he began paying college athletes to get them to retain his company as a Pinoy Tv Online Videos adviser or business manager.
In that case, Blazer expanded his fraudulent portfolio using a Pittsburgh-based firm, Blazer Capital, which he billed as a "concierge" financial advisory firm that catered to the needs of professional athletes, entertainers and other rich people, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Instead of helping them, he repeatedly dipped into Pinoy Tv Online Videos his clients' accounts between October 2010 and January 2013 to fund movies and other ventures.
An SEC lawsuit accused Blazer of bilking five clients of $2.35 million, in part to invest in two films: "Mafia the Movie" and "A Resurrection," a horror movie that was filmed in Pittsburgh and released in 2013. Authorities said Blazer took an Pinoy Tv Online Videos in the movies after meeting an actor and producer in 2009.
When a former pro athlete client of Blazer refused to back his investments, Blazer took $550,000 from the athlete's account and invested it in the movie projects, forging documents to make it appear the transfers were sanctioned, the Pinoy Tv Online Videos said.
The client found out and threatened to sue, causing Blazer to return the money by draining another client's account, the SEC said. He then took an extra $100,000 from the second client - a current professional athlete - to fund a project by a Pinoy Tv Online Videos country music management company, it said in its 2016 filing.
The Ponzi scheme unraveled in 2013 when the SEC contacted the athlete, who notified the agency that he had never authorized transfers from his accounts or an investment in the music venture. At the time, Blazer had moved the majority of clients he advised to a firm that had 21 clients and about $15 million in assets under management, the Pinoy Tv Online Videos said.
Last month, the SEC announced a financial judgment requiring Blazer to disgorge $1.8 million plus Pinoy Tv Online Videos and pay a $150,000 civil penalty while agreeing never again to work in the industry.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported in May 2016 that retired NFL running back Kevan Barlow filed a complaint against Blazer with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, in 2011, seeking $4 million in compensatory and $12 million in punitive damages. The case settled in 2012. A message left with Barlow's lawyer wasn't returned. The Tribune-Review also reported that a New Jersey-based bank sued Blazer in 2013 and 2014 for a series of unpaid loans he had signed as a guarantee on behalf of a former college basketball player and two former Pinoy Tv Online Videos players.
After switching sides, Blazer's work as a cooperator in the basketball case included recording and videotaping a meeting with former NBA star and Auburn assistant Chuck Person and others in late 2016 at a restaurant near the university in which Person agreed to accept $50,000 in bribes to steer college athletes to his firm, court papers said. The documents describe how a few weeks later, the pair exchanged chummy text messages about whether Person was being wired $5,000 or $10,000 as an Pinoy Tv Online Videos.
As the payments from Blazer rolled in, Person bragged in a recorded exchange about how their illicit deal was a win-win, according to Pinoy Tv Online Videos the papers.
"I got some great great, I mean great great ball players," the coach said. "I'd like to get these players to you and then, if I can supplement myself, that'll be good for both of Pinoy Tv Online Videos."
Federal authorities revealed this week that Blazer was the wily informant - referred to in criminal complaints only as CW-1 "cooperating witness-1" - who played a central role in a federal bribery investigation of assistant coaches at Pinoy Tv Online Videos four top-tier basketball schools.
"I'm aware of people who are willing to do this," federal prosecutors say Blazer told authorities in 2014 when he agreed to wear a wire and buddy up to coaches who took covert payments in exchange for encouraging top-flight NBA prospects to Pinoy Tv Online Videos choose a particular school, agent or financial adviser.
FILE - In this April 8, 2013, file photo, Louisville players and head coach Rick Pitino celebrate after defeating Michigan 82-76 in the championship of the Final Four in the NCAA college basketball tournament in Atlanta. Louisville announced Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, that they have placed basketball coach Rick Pitino and athletic director Tom Jurich on Pinoy Tv Online Videos leave amid an FBI probe. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)
Blazer, 46, posed as Pinoy Tv Online Videos an experienced - and corrupt - financial adviser and business manager while helping the FBI make hundreds of recordings, a ruse resulting in a case charging 10 people, including assistant coaches from Auburn, Southern California, Arizona and Oklahoma State.
The expanding ramifications of the probe were felt Wednesday when Louisville announced it was putting basketball coach Rick Pinoy Tv Online Videos on unpaid leave in response to a related scheme alleging agents promised the family of a Louisville prospect it would get $100,000 from Adidas if he signed with the Adidas-sponsored school.
Authorities won't discuss their arrangement with Blazer in Pinoy Tv Online Videos. And his attorney, Martin Dietz, declined to comment.
But a guilty plea to securities fraud and other charges that could buy him leniency shows that his cooperation played off a pattern of deception dating to 2000, when prosecutors say he began paying college athletes to get them to retain his company as a Pinoy Tv Online Videos adviser or business manager.
In that case, Blazer expanded his fraudulent portfolio using a Pittsburgh-based firm, Blazer Capital, which he billed as a "concierge" financial advisory firm that catered to the needs of professional athletes, entertainers and other rich people, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Instead of helping them, he repeatedly dipped into Pinoy Tv Online Videos his clients' accounts between October 2010 and January 2013 to fund movies and other ventures.
An SEC lawsuit accused Blazer of bilking five clients of $2.35 million, in part to invest in two films: "Mafia the Movie" and "A Resurrection," a horror movie that was filmed in Pittsburgh and released in 2013. Authorities said Blazer took an Pinoy Tv Online Videos in the movies after meeting an actor and producer in 2009.
When a former pro athlete client of Blazer refused to back his investments, Blazer took $550,000 from the athlete's account and invested it in the movie projects, forging documents to make it appear the transfers were sanctioned, the Pinoy Tv Online Videos said.
The client found out and threatened to sue, causing Blazer to return the money by draining another client's account, the SEC said. He then took an extra $100,000 from the second client - a current professional athlete - to fund a project by a Pinoy Tv Online Videos country music management company, it said in its 2016 filing.
The Ponzi scheme unraveled in 2013 when the SEC contacted the athlete, who notified the agency that he had never authorized transfers from his accounts or an investment in the music venture. At the time, Blazer had moved the majority of clients he advised to a firm that had 21 clients and about $15 million in assets under management, the Pinoy Tv Online Videos said.
Last month, the SEC announced a financial judgment requiring Blazer to disgorge $1.8 million plus Pinoy Tv Online Videos and pay a $150,000 civil penalty while agreeing never again to work in the industry.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported in May 2016 that retired NFL running back Kevan Barlow filed a complaint against Blazer with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, in 2011, seeking $4 million in compensatory and $12 million in punitive damages. The case settled in 2012. A message left with Barlow's lawyer wasn't returned. The Tribune-Review also reported that a New Jersey-based bank sued Blazer in 2013 and 2014 for a series of unpaid loans he had signed as a guarantee on behalf of a former college basketball player and two former Pinoy Tv Online Videos players.
After switching sides, Blazer's work as a cooperator in the basketball case included recording and videotaping a meeting with former NBA star and Auburn assistant Chuck Person and others in late 2016 at a restaurant near the university in which Person agreed to accept $50,000 in bribes to steer college athletes to his firm, court papers said. The documents describe how a few weeks later, the pair exchanged chummy text messages about whether Person was being wired $5,000 or $10,000 as an Pinoy Tv Online Videos.
As the payments from Blazer rolled in, Person bragged in a recorded exchange about how their illicit deal was a win-win, according to Pinoy Tv Online Videos the papers.
"I got some great great, I mean great great ball players," the coach said. "I'd like to get these players to you and then, if I can supplement myself, that'll be good for both of Pinoy Tv Online Videos."
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What happened to all the classic horror movies that many generations of people knew and loved? Well they are still out there somewhere, hidden in old movie sections of video rental stores, waiting to scare the crap out of people once more. Many original black and white Pinoy Tv Online Show have bee restored and digitized to DVD format, some remain in their original black and white form, while others have been colorized.
What was it about the classic horror movies that attracted so many audiences, again and again? It was the state of the art special effects back then, stop motion camera techniques, allowing you to see Lon Chaney Jr. transform from a normal human to the tortured soul of the wolf man. How many people watching this transformation in utter Pinoy Tv Online Show, even though they knew they were watching a movie?
When people are watch the horror movies of today, they take for granted that many of the special effects incorporated today were born from the classic horror movies of yesteryear. Stop motion photography, rubber masks and other add ons, make up techniques, were all unheard of before these movies came out. Special effects teams back in the day didn't have all the computer generated graphics back then and had to Pinoy Tv Online Show come up with everything literally from their own Hanggang Saan.
It wasn't just the special effects that made classic horror movies something to watch over and over, it was also the characters brought to life by actors who often put their hearts and souls into their works. Although the classic Dracula has been redone many times, just like Frankenstein, and spin offs of the wolf man, many of us will always remember Bella Lugosi, Boris Karloff, and Lon Chaney Jr. in these classic roles. Not only did they brilliantly bring these characters to life, they put heart and soul into these classic Pinoy Tv Online Show.
These actors also told the characters sad story in these classic horror movies, from the problems that Dracula had faced having to live forever, lonely, watching the world evolve around him while he didn't. Or Boris Karloff's portrayal of the innocent Frankenstein Monster, brought to like from pieces stolen from graves. You experienced his child like demeanor and his sad wonderment when he accidentally kills the child. You can almost see the question in his eyes while the villagers are attacking, 'why are you doing this to me?' These are the characters that many loved to hate, but were also the first ones with tears in their eyes when these poor creatures met their Pinoy Tv Online Show.
Many of the younger generation today watching scary movies of today are horrified by special effects. An while story lines may have changed, or some that don't even have a very good plot, 'slasher films' as they are often called, they just don't have the same engagement as the classic horror movies many have grown up with. It's all right though, because with modern technologies, these classic movies of yesteryear have been brought back from the dead once more. I guess you just can't keep a good monster down, which is perhaps a Pinoy Tv Online Show good thing in the 'end'.
The Cool Ghoul is a Horror Host in Northeastern Ohio. That's the Cleveland area, to you and me. His show was on the air, on a weekly basis, from 1970 to 1972 and from 1984 to 1986. George Cavender, (AKA The Cool Ghoul) is not only a Pinoy Tv Online Show huge fan of the classic horror movie genre, he is also an authority on the subject.
What was it about the classic horror movies that attracted so many audiences, again and again? It was the state of the art special effects back then, stop motion camera techniques, allowing you to see Lon Chaney Jr. transform from a normal human to the tortured soul of the wolf man. How many people watching this transformation in utter Pinoy Tv Online Show, even though they knew they were watching a movie?
When people are watch the horror movies of today, they take for granted that many of the special effects incorporated today were born from the classic horror movies of yesteryear. Stop motion photography, rubber masks and other add ons, make up techniques, were all unheard of before these movies came out. Special effects teams back in the day didn't have all the computer generated graphics back then and had to Pinoy Tv Online Show come up with everything literally from their own Hanggang Saan.
It wasn't just the special effects that made classic horror movies something to watch over and over, it was also the characters brought to life by actors who often put their hearts and souls into their works. Although the classic Dracula has been redone many times, just like Frankenstein, and spin offs of the wolf man, many of us will always remember Bella Lugosi, Boris Karloff, and Lon Chaney Jr. in these classic roles. Not only did they brilliantly bring these characters to life, they put heart and soul into these classic Pinoy Tv Online Show.
These actors also told the characters sad story in these classic horror movies, from the problems that Dracula had faced having to live forever, lonely, watching the world evolve around him while he didn't. Or Boris Karloff's portrayal of the innocent Frankenstein Monster, brought to like from pieces stolen from graves. You experienced his child like demeanor and his sad wonderment when he accidentally kills the child. You can almost see the question in his eyes while the villagers are attacking, 'why are you doing this to me?' These are the characters that many loved to hate, but were also the first ones with tears in their eyes when these poor creatures met their Pinoy Tv Online Show.
Many of the younger generation today watching scary movies of today are horrified by special effects. An while story lines may have changed, or some that don't even have a very good plot, 'slasher films' as they are often called, they just don't have the same engagement as the classic horror movies many have grown up with. It's all right though, because with modern technologies, these classic movies of yesteryear have been brought back from the dead once more. I guess you just can't keep a good monster down, which is perhaps a Pinoy Tv Online Show good thing in the 'end'.
The Cool Ghoul is a Horror Host in Northeastern Ohio. That's the Cleveland area, to you and me. His show was on the air, on a weekly basis, from 1970 to 1972 and from 1984 to 1986. George Cavender, (AKA The Cool Ghoul) is not only a Pinoy Tv Online Show huge fan of the classic horror movie genre, he is also an authority on the subject.
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