Centralization, as we have in Cuba, one big government machine controlling all business, all production all facets of life, is impossible to be controlled efficiently.

This is why socialism doesn´t work wherever is implemented, this is the craziness of the return of socialism, the craziness of trying to implement socialism in America.

The impossibility of helping Cuba while under the communist system.

The following is a simple explanation of this fact in the words of Friedrich Hayek

This argument (centralization) is based on a complete misapprehension of the working of competition.

Far from being appropriate only to comparatively simple conditions, it is the very complexity of the division of labor under modern conditions which makes competition the only method by which such coordination can be adequately brought about. There would be no difficulty about efficient control or planning where conditions so simple that a single person or board could effectively survey all the relevant facts. It is only as the factors which have to be taken into account become so numerous that it is impossible to gain a synoptic view of them, that decentralization becomes imperative.

But once decentralization is necessary, the problem of coordination arises a coordination which leaves the separate agencies free to adjust their activities to the facts which only they can know, and yet brings about a mutual adjustment of their respective plans. As decentralization has become necessary because nobody can consciously bearing on the decisions of so many individuals, the coordination can clearly the effected not by “conscious control” but only by arrangements which convey to each agent the information he must possess in order effectively to adjust his decisions to those of others. And because all the details of the changes constantly affecting the conditions of demand and supply of the different commodities can never be fully known, or quickly enough be collected and disseminated by any one center, what is required is some apparatus of registration which automatically records all the relevant effects of individual actions and whose indications are at the same time the resultant of, and the guide for, all the individuals decisions.

This is precisely what the price system does under competition, and which no other system even promises to accomplish. It enables entrepreneurs, by watching the movement of comparatively few prices, as an engineer watches the hands of a few dials, to adjust their activities to those of their fellows.

The important point here is that the price system will fulfill this function only if competitions prevail, that is if the individual producer has to adapt himself to price changes and cannot control them.

The more complicated the whole the more dependent we become on that division of knowledge between individuals whose separate efforts are coordinated by the impersonal mechanism for transmitting the relevant information know by us as the price system

It is no exaggeration to say that if we had had to rely on conscious central planning for the growth of our industrial system; it would never have reached de degree of differentiation complexity, and flexibility it has attained. Compared with this method of solving the economic problem by means of decentralization plus automatic coordination, the more obvious method of central direction is incredibly clumsy, primitive and limited in scope.

Jorge A Villalon: This is how USA treats the only ally it has in that region, my personal point of view

Wendy Sherman undersecretary of state for political affairs and the head of the American negotiation team to the nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers and Susan Rice, president Obama’s National Security Advisor, said they were disconnecting their contacts with Israel’s National Security Council.
Meanwhile US House Speaker John Boehner said that the White House might have tried to crush his plan to have Israeli’s prime minister speak to Congress if it had known of the invitation. And that helps explain why Boehner made the offer to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu without letting the White House know in advance.

A volunteer Jewish guard was shot dead when shots were fired at the largest synagogue in central Copenhagen where a Bat Mitzvah was underway a little after midnight Saturday. The Jewish victim is Dan Uzan, 37, whose father is Israeli and mother is Danish. Copenhagen police shot dead a man who had opened fire on officers early Sunday morning. They say the man was likely the perpetrator of the attack. The Danish prime minister vowed to protect the Jews. Meanwhile Prime Minister Netanyahu called on Sunday morning for the massive immigration of European Jews to Israel following the shooting. Netanyahu said at the start of a Cabinet meeting. “Jews deserve security in every country, but we say to our Jewish brothers and sisters, Israel is your home.”

The Samaria Settlers Committee published a video accusing Israeli left wing NGOs of receiving “millions of euros from Europe” to smear Israel in the press. The animated video, which is called “The Eternal Jew” (like a Nazi propaganda video from 1940) presents a German named Herr Stürmer (named after an anti-Semitic newspaper) reading a newspaper called “Hasmol” (“The Left”) and summoning a hooked-nosed Jew who passes him slanderous information about the IDF and Israel in exchange for money. The outrage against the video came for both left and right . Head of center left camp Issac Hertzog said in response that it reminded him of the right wing’s incitement against former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. Likud MK Yuval Steinitz said he was disgusted by the video clip.

Obama Adviser Podesta’s Main Regret: Not Disclosing the UFO Files

By Sandy Fitzgerald

Outgoing Obama adviser John Podesta says he has one major regret about the past year: not telling Americans the truth about UFOs.
In a tweeton Friday, Podesta, whose fascination with UFOs and government investigations has been well-documented for years, named his regret over the secrecy his “number one” issue, reports Yahoo News.
The UFO tweet was one of a series of messages Podesta postedFriday to tell followers of his 10 favorite memories, but the only tweet in which he expressed a regret. The others instead listed what he considers high points during his latest White House service.
Podesta didn’t say whether he plans to follow his fascination for UFOs now that he’s leaving the White House, like he did after his four years as President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff.
Back in 2002, Yahoo News reports, Podesta spoke at a press conference that was organized by the Coalition for Freedom of Information, about the importance of sharing the information the government has about UFO investigations, saying “it’s time to find out what the truth really is that’s out there…we ought to do it, really, because it’s right. We ought to do it, quite frankly, because the American people can handle the truth. And we ought to do it because it’s the law.”
And on Friday, The Washington Postrecalled when Podesta told one of its reporters in 2007 that “the truth is out there,” concerning UFOs, echoing the tagline for the TV show, “The X-Files.”

Flight 77 Pilot’s Sister: Obama Thinks Media Overreacts To Terrorism

Debra Burlingame thinks Obama likens the coverage to local fires and crime.

Debra Burlingame is the sister of American Airlines Flight 77 pilot Charles “Chic” Burlingame III; Flight 77 was flown into the Pentagon during the September 11, 2001 attacks by Al Qaeda terrorists. Ms. Burlingame in an outspoken critic of Islam who issued a press release in 2010 denouncing President Barack Obama for supporting the “Ground Zero Mosque.” Based on her efforts and others, the International Freedom Center was barred from being located at the World Trade Center site, resulting in the abandonment of the project by its sponsors.

I watched excerpts from the VOX interview with President Obama in which he was asked, “Do you think that the reaction to all the recent events of terrorist attacks in various places throughout the world – do you think this is an overreaction?” And our president said yes. And he likened the coverage to local news where you have fires, fire coverage and local crime, and he used the phrase, “If it bleeds, it ledes.” And it was at that point that I knew, however much I disagreed with this president on so many issues, it was at that point that I knew that we were really on our own in this fight.

RETALIATION: Egypt Bombs the Cr*p out of the Islamic State in Response to the Beheadings of Coptic Christians

Keep bombing them.

Egypt hit back Monday with airstrikes aimed at ISIS-affiliated jihadists in Libya who are believed to have killed 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians, including about a dozen whose beheadings are featured in the organization’s latest video.

Egyptian F-16 jets took off in the early hours of Monday to bomb ISIS camps, training areas and weapons depots in Libya, the Egyptian military said.

“Avenging Egyptian blood and punishing criminals and murderers is our right and duty,” it said in a statement broadcast on state television.

According to accounts from a McLean, Virginia resident, the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia are on lockdown for an unknown reason.

Photos provided to Breitbart News show the entrance from the road barred and police tape around the perimeter. Patrol cars were reportedly on hand as well. The local resident also stated that the rear entrance to the facility was also blocked.

The details are complicated but here’s the truth: If “Net Neutrality” is passed, for the first time ever, the Internet will be under the rule of an antiquated regulation designed for land line telephones. President Obama wants to take something that’s working just fine, and tie it up in red tape–sound familiar? We’ve seen this movie before–it’s called ObamaCare.

The FCC plans to vote on Feb. 26th on whether or not the government should take their usual heavy handed approach to controlling the Internet or do the right thing and leave it alone.

Let’s get this straight–technology has progressed because it has been driven by a free and open Internet–not because of DC bureaucrats. This latest attempt to regulate the web threatens to interrupt that positive innovation, set the market back, and kill jobs.

A free, flourishing Internet is as important as anything man has ever created. But those freedoms are under assault.

“The House has done their job under the Constitution,” said Boehner. “It’s time for the Senate to do their job.”

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The Homeland Security funding bill passed by the House on Jan. 14 also includes language undoing the president’s executive actions on immigration. Senate Democrats say they want a “clean” funding bill that doesn’t defund Obama’s orders.

Boehner defended combining the efforts to fund Homeland Security and to stop the president’s “overreach,” saying that “the House acted” because “Congress just can’t sit by and let the president defy the Constitution and defy his own oath of office.”

“The House has acted to fund the department, and to stop the president’s overreach when it comes to immigration and his executive orders,” said Boehner.

Boehner said Senate Democrats are “blocking the ability to even debate the bill.”

Last week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters the House legislation was “stuck” in the Senate, unable to overcome the 60 votes needed to end a Democrat-led filibuster.

“I think it’s clearly stuck in the Senate, we can’t get on it, we can’t offer amendments to it,” said McConnell. “And the next step is obviously up to the House.”

Boehner said McConnell is “doing a great job as the new majority leader,” but insists that “the House has done its job” and acted to fund Homeland Security. The next move, he said, is up to the Senate.

“Senate Democrats are the ones standing in the way, they’re the ones jeopardizing funding,” said Boehner. “Why don’t they get on the bill and offer an amendment, offer their ideas, let’s see what the Senate can do.”

With only four legislative days left until the Republican Homeland Security Shutdown, Speaker Boehner made it clear that he has no plan to avoid a government shutdown that would threaten the safety of the American people. With every House Democrat now cosponsoring clean legislation to fund DHS, it is clear that the votes are present to pass a bill now if only Speaker Boehner would get out of the way.

Dan Holler, communications director at Heritage Action for America, the sister organization of The Heritage Foundation, questioned the priorities of Senate Democrats on blocking the House legislation.

“Republicans must stand firm and force Senate Democrats to answer one simple question: Why are they willing to deny Border Patrol agents paychecks to protect Obama’s plan to grant illegal immigrants Social Security numbers?” said Holler.

Boehner reiterated his position that Senate Democrats must make the decision to fund DHS on Twitte.

Netanyahu Urges Jews to Move to

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday urged European Jews to move to Israel after a Jewish man was killed in an attack outside Copenhagen’s main synagogue.

“Israel is your home. We are preparing and calling for the absorption of mass immigration from Europe,” Netanyahu said in a statement, repeating a similar call made after attacks by Islamic extremists in Paris last month that killed 17 people, including four Jews.

Two police officers were also wounded in Sunday’s attack, one of two fatal shootings in the normally peaceful Danish capital on the weekend.

In the first attack on Saturday a 55-year-old man was killed at a panel discussion about Islam and free speech attended by a Swedish cartoonist behind controversial caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

“Extremist Islamic terrorism has struck Europe again… Jews have been murdered again on European soil only because they were Jews,” Netanyahu said in the statement.

The Israeli prime minister said his government was to adopt a $45 million (39.5 million euro) plan “to encourage the absorption of immigrants from France, Belgium and Ukraine”.

“To the Jews of Europe and to the Jews of the world I say that Israel is waiting for you with open arms,” Netanyahu said.

He had made a similar call after three days of bloodshed in Paris that started with the January 7 attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo where 12 people were gunned down, followed the next day by the shooting death of a policewoman just outside the city.

On January 9, the gunman who killed the policewoman took hostages at a kosher supermarket in Paris and four Jews were killed during a police commando raid.

The bodies of the four were later flown to Israel where they were buried.