Former Cuban president, Fidel Castro, a drug lord?

Juan Reinaldo Sanchez, a former body guard of the former Cuban leader Fidel Castro wrote a book called "The Double Life of Fidel Castro: My 17 Years as Personal Bodyguard to El Lider Maximo." That double life of Fidel Castro was drug trafficking. Sanchez claims in his book that he overheard Castro and former Cuban Gen. Jose Abrantes discussing a drug trafficking delivery in the United States. Apparently this discussion was about a Cuban living in the United States that smuggles drugs in a boat that has been working with the Cuban government. Sanchez has also heard Castro making a lot of drug operations during his time as leader. Castro also tried covering up his drug trafficking incidents by the engineering trials in 1986 that led to the death of  General Jose Abrantes. Fidel Castro's mindset of drug trafficking was, "If the Yanks were stupid enough to use drugs that came from Colombia, not only was that not his problem … it served his revolutionary objectives in the sense that it corrupted and destabilized American society,” Sanchez wrote in his book. Does Fidel still do these operations since he's not the leader?


"Fidel Castro a Drug Kingpin? Ex-bodyguard Claims Cuban Leader Directed Illegal Operations." Web. 5 May 2015.

U.S Capitol...Too Much Partying?

This nation's capitol is one of the most protected buildings in the country. Being that the leaders of our nation have said the presidential oath there and the Capitol building is home to the United States Congress, it also has another side. A partying side surprisingly. Since 4th of July and Memorial weekend are creeping up, many concerts are being held on the Capitol grounds. The parties have gotten a little out of hand in the past years and the U.S Capitol police have had enough. They sent a letter to congress sometime in March calling for the big changes, such as paying attendees extra for coolers containing alcohol and to make the events more safe and try not to cause any embarrassment to Congress. The parties are hosted by lawmakers, U.S Capitol officials and concert organizer inside the Statuary Hall and on the upper balconies of the Capitol's west front. The number of people attending these concerts have grown each year which is causing people to venture into restricted areas in the historic building. It's making the police's job impossible to keep everyone safe.  The new changes would lower the number of people attending parties on the balconies and hopefully changing the venue to the Botanical Gardens. It's crazy how even our nation's capital building has a wild side.


Jones, Athena. "Boehner and McConnell Agree to Crack down on Drunken Parties at the Capitol - CNN.com." CNN. Cable News Network. Web. 22 Apr. 2015.

Rape Story Discredited: Phi Kappa Psi & Rolling Stone

In November, Rolling Stone magazine published a 9,000-word article describing a 2012 gang rape that happened to a freshman named 'Jackie' at the University of Virginia which was supposedly raped by a fraternity chapter called Phi Kappa Psi. The article also shows how the school mishandled the incident. This article had some importance since it got a lot of people talking about sexual assaults on college campus which definitely rose awareness in the subject. Phi Kappa Psi discredited the Rolling Stone article about the alleged gang rape at University of Virginia and "plans to pursue all available legal action against the magazine," the Virginia chapter of Phi Kappa Psi said. "The report by Columbia University's School of Journalism demonstrates the reckless nature in which Rolling Stone researched and failed to verify facts in its article that erroneously accused Phi Kappa Psi of crimes its members did not commit," Stephen Scipione, president of the chapter of Phi Kappa Psi, said in the statement. Rolling Stone's managing editor, Will Dana, reacted to review that Columbia University did to the article by saying that the Rolling Stone magazine is "committing ourselves to a series of recommendations about journalistic practices that are spelled out in the report." Could all of this be false?  A police investigation in Charlottesville,Virginia found that there is no proof that this 'gang-rape' occurred at the Phi Kappa Psi frat house. Another thing that was pointed out in the report is that the Rolling Stones committed an error of not reaching out to 'Jackie's' friends and also didn't ask for help of identifying the alleged attacker/s. 'Jackie's' friends had quotes in the Rolling Stone article that were never said in the first place. Also the review states that the Phi Kappa Psi members didn't get the chance to responded to these allegations.  The fact that this is happening, and that this 'gang-rape' could be false gives rape victims another reason to keep quiet. This a case of bad journalism.



"Phi Kappa Psi Plans to Sue Rolling Stone Over Discredited UVA Rape Article." NBC News. 6 Apr. 2015. Web. 7 Apr. 2015.

ISIS Terror- Hit List

This could be the first assault done by ISIS on the nation's military. The Islamic State Hacking Division leaked their "Hit list" of 100 American military personnel with their photos and personal addresses. The Pentagon has never seen this tactic being used before. The White House has confirmed a federal investigation on how credible this hit list is. White House Press Secretary, Josh Earnest, states that is seems that ISIS has gotten the personnel's personal information from social media. He also stated that the Obama administration is keeping in touch with the branches of the government to ensure the protection the personnel. The government can not do much at this point since the hit list isn't confirmed, but they do advise the personnel that are named of the list to delete personal information on social media. Since the hit list was posted on Twitter and YouTube, both social medias have agreed to take them down. A Navy official is staying in communication with the personnel's families to ensure their safety. There also seems to be a connection with the names on the hit list with the U.S lead air campaign over Iraq and Syria against ISIS because some of the personnel on the hit list were pilots in this air campaign. This means that these names were not picked at random by ISIS.  Just imagine living in complete fear and always checking behind your back because your on the 'ISIS Hit List'!

Herridge, Catherine. "Feds Investigating 'ISIS Kill List,' Military Spouse Says Families Warned to Be 'vigilant'" Fox News. FOX News Network, 23 Mar. 2015. Web. 23 Mar. 2015.

U.S Ambassador to South Korea Attacked

Mark Lippert, U.S Ambassador of South Korea was slashed in the right cheek and his hand by a 10 inch razor blade in Seoul, South Korea on Wednesday, March 4th 2015. A South Korean news agency reports that the suspect was opposed to the South Korea- U.S military drills. That suspect is called to be 55 years old with the last name "Kim." According to local police chief of Seoul, the event was organized by the Korea Council For Reconciliation and Cooperation, and "Kim,"the suspect in the attack was a member of the council. In July, 2010 "Kim" threw a piece of concrete to a Japaneses Ambassador of South Korea."Kim" must have something against any ambassadors to South Korea! The motive of the attack on the ambassador is under investigation. The State Department spokeswomen, Marie Harf, states, "We strongly condemn this act of violence. The ambassador is being treated at a local hospital. His injuries are not life threatening." The U.S Ambassador is now in stable condition.


"Ambassador Attacked in South Korea - CNN.com." CNN. Cable News Network, 4 Mar. 2015. Web. 5 Mar. 2015. <http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/04/politics/ambassador-attacked-south-korea/index.html>.

Terrorism: ISIS might be harvesting organs, Iraqi ambassador tells UN, amid reports of more hostages being burned alive

An Iraqi diplomat, Mohamed Alhakim, told top leaders that ISIS could be harvesting human organs in order to fund all of their terrorist actions. The Iraqi ambassador claims that not only do they harvest organs but they have done numerous of other heinous things such as beheading hostages, crucifying children and burning them alive. The ambassador also claims that bodies have been buried in big groups with surgical incisions indicating the bodies have missing organs. He asked the Security Council to investigate if ISIS is participating in selling and harvesting organs. This claim followed an unconfirmed report on February 17, 2015 that 45 people were captured and burned alive in Anbar Province of al-Baghdadi by the Islamic State. Also a twelve doctors have been executed in Mosul, Iraq for not wanting to participate in organ harvesting. Could ISIS be behind all of this?



"Figure in ISIS Mass Beheading Video Could Have US Ties, Linguistic Expert Says." Fox News. FOX News Network, 19 Feb. 2015. Web. 19 Feb. 2015. <http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/02/19/isis-reportedly-burns-alive-45-people-in-western-iraqi-town/>.