The former head of Radio Marti has left his delusions on the pages of the Miami Herald. He describes Cuba's government as "a train to where". He unfortunately doesn't realize that he himself has a seat in the actual train to nowhere, the one which the extremist circles of South Florida have commandeered for decades, chugging along to the brink of irrelevance.
He refers to the very real changes that are occurring in Cuba as being empty. As is typical for the anti-Cuba crowd in Miami, only by ignoring the people of the island, can he claim that the train is empty. A great number of people have been experiencing the positive changes that have been adopted, but of course to Mr. Roig, any changes must be ignored if they don't include a re-establishment of the semi-colonial type of government which was overthrown in 1959.
His description of Cuba as a Jurassic Park is better suited for those groups that meet yearly in Miami at the Bay of Pigs Museum to pay homage to the most quickly defeated group of mercenaries that the hemisphere has ever known. Sure, Cuba has a long way to become a fully developed country, but its advancements in many fields is quite impressive and its gestures of true international solidarity is well documented and praised world wide. The same can't be said of the groups sipping cafecitos on Calle 8 plotting ways to destroy what good people have built.
Having headed a radio station named after Jose Marti, a station created by the empire bent on crushing the dreams of the Cuban revolutionary, it's hard to understand how he claims that revolutionary Cuba is morally bankrupt. Not only was he a paid lackey of the U.S. government, whose job was to propagate nonsense to the island of Cuba, but his time in that position was embarrassingly useless and cronyism plagued the tax payer funded radio station. He was, as the station itself still is, a parasite industry which serves no purpose other than tickling the bellies of the anti-Cuba crowd as they enrich themselves at the expense of the American people.
"But the tragic show must go on. It is obvious that we Cubans have difficulties for profound meditation and logical analysis." These are Mr. Roig's words. They don't describe the people on the island, but the people within his small group of associates. He is doing his best to prove himself correct!
Showing posts with label government waste. Show all posts
Showing posts with label government waste. Show all posts
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Monday, September 19, 2011
Carlos Montaner, the Economist?
The "free market", if there ever really was one, offers no answers for anything. The fact that corrupt politicians in so-called democracies, depend on so many contributions from the powerful industries, therefore skewing the Keynesnian ideology, doesn't mean that it isn't better than what ,let's say Milton Friedman proposes. If the working public has to sit around starving while they wait for the market gods to bless the business cycle with an upswing, what happens to them? Free marketeers will say that people will become creative and that is incentive to start a new business. How many people will actually start a new business? Some, but not the majority. The rest just have to imagine that aid will come from the goodness of people who are more fortunate and wait.
I wish that the ex-president you dined with had a name to go with his admitted corruption. I'm sure he was friendly with the governments of the world that partake in the plundering of the public's wealth. When a person is elected and chooses to try and do right for his people, Evo Morales for example, and doesn't go along with the status quo allowing the public's wealth to be syphoned off by the usual suspects, the industrialized world cries foul. Why? Because the most entrenched systematic corruption can be found in the halls of the capitols of Washington and European nations. With all of the power possessed by the hypocritical supporters of the free market system and democracy, They, along with people like you Mr. Montaner, exert a tremendous amount of pressure through economic blackmail and violence to try to ensure that a president who you call a friend can be reinstalled in the place of the honest man.
I'm sure that your "opinion" has more to do with the political drama of the United States than it does with other countries, but your support for regimes that rob from their people flies in the face of any argument you might have in opposition to the Keynesnian ideology. Over the past thirty years the transfer of wealth from workers to the elite, thanks in large part to the trickle down theory made famous by Reagan, has left people in the US in an extremely weak situation. It is long overdue, but the politicians of both political parties have almost abandoned any ideas based on Keynes. Unless of course we want to speak about the highly profitable military industrial complex, which is an unfortunate example that would help prove Keynes theory correct. If only half, if not more of what is spent on an industry that thrives on death and destruction, were to be spent on projects that build instead of destroy, there would be numerous examples to help prove Keynesnian theory much more sound than the hopeful free market religion. When the public's money is invested properly in the economy, it is the first domino in a line of businesses that compliment the original expenditure. It is not hard to comprehend.
The reason that people are tired of government spending is that so much of it is done as favors for powerful contributors. The allocated money is not well planned and often wasted. The people loss faith, not in an economic theory, but in the ability of the elected officials to make rational use of the public's money. People often curl into a sort of survival mentality and would, out of emotional frustration, rather the government stop spending. People are easily tricked into believing things like social security is a wasteful Ponzi scheme by either dishonest politicians playing on their fears.
Why is it that the Social Security fund has enough money that it can be lent to the general budget yet it is the target of fiscal irresponsibility? Wouldn't the general budget, the one from which the actual money is passed to the fat cat contributors be a more logical example of where government waste can be eliminated? If the public had a better understanding of the situation, the demands of the government would be different. But as an extension of the "free market", the corporate media is the main source of information for the rightly disgruntled public. We somehow confuse free press with honest reporting, and although much reporting is honest, it is what is left out of the conversation that causes the lack of an informed public. Of course the corporate media has a an agenda, its own. It needs rating for for advertising dollars and so on and so on. There is no reason for a corporate media to go against its interests and explain the whole situation to the public. The public would react in ways that are likely to chip away at the powers that the giant political donors enjoy, the media conglomerates included.
So once again Mr. Montaner, you use your pulpit to argue against the truth. This time about economic theory instead of the usual misrepresentations and slanders against Cuba, Venezuela, and other nations that won't follow the dictates of the self-proclaimed rulers of the hemisphere.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/19/2415273/keynes-and-corruption.html#ixzz1YS55dF8c
I wish that the ex-president you dined with had a name to go with his admitted corruption. I'm sure he was friendly with the governments of the world that partake in the plundering of the public's wealth. When a person is elected and chooses to try and do right for his people, Evo Morales for example, and doesn't go along with the status quo allowing the public's wealth to be syphoned off by the usual suspects, the industrialized world cries foul. Why? Because the most entrenched systematic corruption can be found in the halls of the capitols of Washington and European nations. With all of the power possessed by the hypocritical supporters of the free market system and democracy, They, along with people like you Mr. Montaner, exert a tremendous amount of pressure through economic blackmail and violence to try to ensure that a president who you call a friend can be reinstalled in the place of the honest man.
I'm sure that your "opinion" has more to do with the political drama of the United States than it does with other countries, but your support for regimes that rob from their people flies in the face of any argument you might have in opposition to the Keynesnian ideology. Over the past thirty years the transfer of wealth from workers to the elite, thanks in large part to the trickle down theory made famous by Reagan, has left people in the US in an extremely weak situation. It is long overdue, but the politicians of both political parties have almost abandoned any ideas based on Keynes. Unless of course we want to speak about the highly profitable military industrial complex, which is an unfortunate example that would help prove Keynes theory correct. If only half, if not more of what is spent on an industry that thrives on death and destruction, were to be spent on projects that build instead of destroy, there would be numerous examples to help prove Keynesnian theory much more sound than the hopeful free market religion. When the public's money is invested properly in the economy, it is the first domino in a line of businesses that compliment the original expenditure. It is not hard to comprehend.
The reason that people are tired of government spending is that so much of it is done as favors for powerful contributors. The allocated money is not well planned and often wasted. The people loss faith, not in an economic theory, but in the ability of the elected officials to make rational use of the public's money. People often curl into a sort of survival mentality and would, out of emotional frustration, rather the government stop spending. People are easily tricked into believing things like social security is a wasteful Ponzi scheme by either dishonest politicians playing on their fears.
Why is it that the Social Security fund has enough money that it can be lent to the general budget yet it is the target of fiscal irresponsibility? Wouldn't the general budget, the one from which the actual money is passed to the fat cat contributors be a more logical example of where government waste can be eliminated? If the public had a better understanding of the situation, the demands of the government would be different. But as an extension of the "free market", the corporate media is the main source of information for the rightly disgruntled public. We somehow confuse free press with honest reporting, and although much reporting is honest, it is what is left out of the conversation that causes the lack of an informed public. Of course the corporate media has a an agenda, its own. It needs rating for for advertising dollars and so on and so on. There is no reason for a corporate media to go against its interests and explain the whole situation to the public. The public would react in ways that are likely to chip away at the powers that the giant political donors enjoy, the media conglomerates included.
So once again Mr. Montaner, you use your pulpit to argue against the truth. This time about economic theory instead of the usual misrepresentations and slanders against Cuba, Venezuela, and other nations that won't follow the dictates of the self-proclaimed rulers of the hemisphere.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/19/2415273/keynes-and-corruption.html#ixzz1YS55dF8c
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Political Refugees from Cuba?
There is a lot of controversy here in the United States about the fact that so many Cubans who have taken advantage of the chance to be given political asylum often travel back to Cuba. The idea of granting political asylum to people is based on the assumption that they were persecuted in their country. This is something that can be granted to anyone from anywhere if the US believes that the claim of persecution is true. Sometimes it is.
But a special situation has been given to Cubans arriving in the US without going through the visa process. Because of the US' insistence that Cuba is a repressive country along with the strong anti-Cuban lobby here in the US, this policy has been maintained even though it is found to be baseless by the fact that Cubans are welcomed to travel freely to the country that supposedly had been persecuting them. Certainly if the persecution really existed, these people wouldn't be so quick to travel back worry free.
Now there are congress people who want to prevent these Cubans from travelling to Cuba without obtaining their US citizenship first, which would mean that they would have to wait years before visiting their families. Do the anti-Cuba politicians really want to prevent these visits? Of course they do. They want everyone to cut personal ties with their families on the island. They would much rather do this than address the real issue of the refugee status. Why?
The reason the issue of refugee status won't be addressed is because when we find out that almost none of those who took advantage of the purely political "refugee" advantage given to Cubans and Cubans only, then what? The US would be left trying to explain its way out of the situation that it has almost created by itself.
This is a policy that exists for the sole purpose of creating the myth of extreme persecution in Cuba. In the past, there were certain times of persecution and the leaders of Cuba have admitted this. There was a time where anything that questioned or opposed the Revolution was quickly accused of being counter-revolutionary. At times those "counter-revolutionaries" were in fact working for foreign governments and other times they were simply not. It is an unfortunate thing that happens in one way or another in every country, not only in Cuba. The US is no exception.
There is no reason to grant asylum to most people coming from Cuba. Our government knows this well. The people we hear about, from the Ladies in White to the hunger strikers who are heralded in our press as heroes are all working in conjunction with either the officials at the US Interests Section or their support groups with ties to Washington in Miami. This is not propaganda, but a fact that has been revealed by wikileaks and undercover Cuban agents who have infiltrated the ranks of these people.
If the US seriously would like the "civil liberties" aspect of Cuba to improve even more than it has already, it wouldn't continue with its expensive and wasteful projects that don't respect the sovereignty of Cuba. As I said above, when a public feels threatened by a foreign menace, it unfairly lumps entire groups of people together and targets them. The US spies on its own citizens and always has to one degree or another. The CIA and NYPD have recently been exposed for working together to infiltrate mosques and monitor street vendors and cab drivers simply because of their religion. Is that program not supposedly justified here because of the War on Terror? Many individuals are unfairly being targeted for having a particular religion.
So by maintaining this wet-foot/ dry-foot policy and granting a special political asylum to Cubans, the United States is trying to create facts. Statistically we can show how many people request political asylum from Cuba, but in reality it is hard to explain the lack of persecution when they are more than happy to return to visit family on the island. They are welcomed to return and can do so whenever they'd like.
By saying that the persecution issue is blown tremendously out of proportion doesn't mean that I'm saying that life is perfect or easy on the island for everyone. I'm simply stating that in the absence of the Soviet influence excuse and the "exporting revolution" excuse, the US is stuck trying to rationalize its embargo against Cuba. The democracy issue is a subjective opinion, not an objective one. No country has figured out how to actually implement true democracy, so each country finds a form of it that it feels works best for its particular circumstance. An argument can be made that a parliamentary system like many European countries have is more democratic than a representative republic in which there is no recourse for an unpopular representative, except to wait for the next scheduled election to vote in a new person. There are many views of democracy which are not limited to either this or nothing. So the excuse is now "a lack of democracy" in Cuba, as if the US is the final judge as to what constitutes democracy. That is why the US sticks with the incorrect wet-foot/ dry-foot policy and is helpless to prevent the reality of the false political persecution from being exposed by the Cuban immigrants to this country themselves.
But a special situation has been given to Cubans arriving in the US without going through the visa process. Because of the US' insistence that Cuba is a repressive country along with the strong anti-Cuban lobby here in the US, this policy has been maintained even though it is found to be baseless by the fact that Cubans are welcomed to travel freely to the country that supposedly had been persecuting them. Certainly if the persecution really existed, these people wouldn't be so quick to travel back worry free.
Now there are congress people who want to prevent these Cubans from travelling to Cuba without obtaining their US citizenship first, which would mean that they would have to wait years before visiting their families. Do the anti-Cuba politicians really want to prevent these visits? Of course they do. They want everyone to cut personal ties with their families on the island. They would much rather do this than address the real issue of the refugee status. Why?
The reason the issue of refugee status won't be addressed is because when we find out that almost none of those who took advantage of the purely political "refugee" advantage given to Cubans and Cubans only, then what? The US would be left trying to explain its way out of the situation that it has almost created by itself.
This is a policy that exists for the sole purpose of creating the myth of extreme persecution in Cuba. In the past, there were certain times of persecution and the leaders of Cuba have admitted this. There was a time where anything that questioned or opposed the Revolution was quickly accused of being counter-revolutionary. At times those "counter-revolutionaries" were in fact working for foreign governments and other times they were simply not. It is an unfortunate thing that happens in one way or another in every country, not only in Cuba. The US is no exception.
There is no reason to grant asylum to most people coming from Cuba. Our government knows this well. The people we hear about, from the Ladies in White to the hunger strikers who are heralded in our press as heroes are all working in conjunction with either the officials at the US Interests Section or their support groups with ties to Washington in Miami. This is not propaganda, but a fact that has been revealed by wikileaks and undercover Cuban agents who have infiltrated the ranks of these people.
If the US seriously would like the "civil liberties" aspect of Cuba to improve even more than it has already, it wouldn't continue with its expensive and wasteful projects that don't respect the sovereignty of Cuba. As I said above, when a public feels threatened by a foreign menace, it unfairly lumps entire groups of people together and targets them. The US spies on its own citizens and always has to one degree or another. The CIA and NYPD have recently been exposed for working together to infiltrate mosques and monitor street vendors and cab drivers simply because of their religion. Is that program not supposedly justified here because of the War on Terror? Many individuals are unfairly being targeted for having a particular religion.
So by maintaining this wet-foot/ dry-foot policy and granting a special political asylum to Cubans, the United States is trying to create facts. Statistically we can show how many people request political asylum from Cuba, but in reality it is hard to explain the lack of persecution when they are more than happy to return to visit family on the island. They are welcomed to return and can do so whenever they'd like.
By saying that the persecution issue is blown tremendously out of proportion doesn't mean that I'm saying that life is perfect or easy on the island for everyone. I'm simply stating that in the absence of the Soviet influence excuse and the "exporting revolution" excuse, the US is stuck trying to rationalize its embargo against Cuba. The democracy issue is a subjective opinion, not an objective one. No country has figured out how to actually implement true democracy, so each country finds a form of it that it feels works best for its particular circumstance. An argument can be made that a parliamentary system like many European countries have is more democratic than a representative republic in which there is no recourse for an unpopular representative, except to wait for the next scheduled election to vote in a new person. There are many views of democracy which are not limited to either this or nothing. So the excuse is now "a lack of democracy" in Cuba, as if the US is the final judge as to what constitutes democracy. That is why the US sticks with the incorrect wet-foot/ dry-foot policy and is helpless to prevent the reality of the false political persecution from being exposed by the Cuban immigrants to this country themselves.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Ileana's Misguided Representation
The fact that Cuba in partnership with foreign oil companies will soon be drilling in its territorial waters is one that the United States cannot prevent. The historical coincidence that it will be done in an area closest to the district of Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is somewhat ironical. Many Florida politicians have fought hard against drilling for oil off the coast of their state and to a certain extent it makes sense. Florida depends on its beaches as popular tourist destinations and are enjoyed also by the people living there. Any chance of an oil spill that can ruin these beaches would be a terrible blow to the state and its ecosystem. But Florida politicians do not represent Cuba. They have determined policies for decades that deal with the relations between Cuba and the U.S. but as much as they have tried to subvert Cuba they have only accomplished restricting the rights of Americans and caused unnecessary pain to the people on the island.
Many voices have been reasonable as they have expressed the intelligent position of working with Cuba and the companies that will be drilling there. Common sense would lead people to the conclusion that cooperation in planning for an emergency in the event of an oil spill would be the right course of action. Alot is said to cause fear that an accident in Cuban waters could cause oil to harm the coastline of Florida. This is true. But instead of Rep. Ros-Lehtinen taking a position that would be proactive in helping to preserve the beaches of the Florida Keys, she instead finds herself allowing her extremist anti-Castro views preventing her from helping to protect her constituents. She chooses irrationally to instead attempt to punish all those involved in doing business there. She chooses to stand in the way of people trying to do there best to provide support for protecting the environment that happens to be her own district. She has shown that the only people she chooses to represent are the group of people in South Florida whose agendas are nothing more than trying to cause harm to Cuba. In doing this she alienates the people of the Keys who would only benefit from the U.S. cooperating with Cuba on this issue. She chooses to instead smile and pose for pictures with people who have violent pasts and some are even terrorists or calling people to create spectacles in congress to try to further her cause of slandering Cuba. A cause that is tiring the American people whose right are restricted by the policies she supports. Americans are quite cynical and understand the hypocrisy of the policies towards Cuba and are ready for this chapter to be closed. She is doing a terrible job of protecting the interests of Americans and in this case, the people of her own district. Perhaps sooner than later she will lose her relevance as she has already her credibility and will retire from her job as misguided representative to go join her partners and reactivate one of the many violent groups working to hurt the Cuban people. That is where this hateful person fits best. There she can try to enrich herself with the American tax dollars allocated for "democracy programs" as part of a pseudo industry created by the extremists in Miami for themselves.
Many voices have been reasonable as they have expressed the intelligent position of working with Cuba and the companies that will be drilling there. Common sense would lead people to the conclusion that cooperation in planning for an emergency in the event of an oil spill would be the right course of action. Alot is said to cause fear that an accident in Cuban waters could cause oil to harm the coastline of Florida. This is true. But instead of Rep. Ros-Lehtinen taking a position that would be proactive in helping to preserve the beaches of the Florida Keys, she instead finds herself allowing her extremist anti-Castro views preventing her from helping to protect her constituents. She chooses irrationally to instead attempt to punish all those involved in doing business there. She chooses to stand in the way of people trying to do there best to provide support for protecting the environment that happens to be her own district. She has shown that the only people she chooses to represent are the group of people in South Florida whose agendas are nothing more than trying to cause harm to Cuba. In doing this she alienates the people of the Keys who would only benefit from the U.S. cooperating with Cuba on this issue. She chooses to instead smile and pose for pictures with people who have violent pasts and some are even terrorists or calling people to create spectacles in congress to try to further her cause of slandering Cuba. A cause that is tiring the American people whose right are restricted by the policies she supports. Americans are quite cynical and understand the hypocrisy of the policies towards Cuba and are ready for this chapter to be closed. She is doing a terrible job of protecting the interests of Americans and in this case, the people of her own district. Perhaps sooner than later she will lose her relevance as she has already her credibility and will retire from her job as misguided representative to go join her partners and reactivate one of the many violent groups working to hurt the Cuban people. That is where this hateful person fits best. There she can try to enrich herself with the American tax dollars allocated for "democracy programs" as part of a pseudo industry created by the extremists in Miami for themselves.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
The Pretenders
What is truly amazing about the ridiculous politics that the U.S. selectively employs when it takes its stand on the issue of Cuba is the outright dishonesty on the part of the government in Washington. Never mind the fact that if another nation acted in the same manner as the U.S. does with Cuba towards itself, even in the slightest way, it would find all kinds of justfications to use military actions against the perpetrators. Never mind that almost the entire world denounces the embargo of the island on a yearly basis. Nevermind the fact that in its policy towards Cuba it finds itself violating Americans' right to travel. Nevermind the fact that an angry mob with disproportional influence not only seems to direct Washington's policy from coffee shops in Miami where terrorists walk freely in the midst of an supposed "War on Terror." Nevermind the fact that many of the millions of dollars have enriched some undesirable people in Miami and some other parts at the expense of taxpayers.
What is truly mindblowing is that Washington literally announces to the world that it seeks to give funds to so-called dissidents on the island and when those same so-called dissidents find themselves being targeted by the government of Cuba for working with the proclaimed enemy, it actually tries to fool the entire world that Cuba is not allowing dissent! As Americans, let's imagine for a moment that some group of people causing problems here in the United States were found to be payed by Iran, North Korea, or even Cuba. We would be whipped into a frenzy and public outrage would be fueled by our loyal "free" media. There would be calls for trials or maybe just to hide them down in our military base in occupied Guantanamo. There would be "nothing off the table" as they usually say in Washington as the Pentagon proposes all kinds of military interventions to wipe out those "trying to destroy America." Why is Cuba expected to sit on their hands and not do anything about these people working for, if not with, the enemy?
We know well that by creating these "dissidents" we are subjecting them to scrutiny at the least. We openly acknowledge that Cuba's security has penetrated the groups to a large extent, so large that we suspect that we have been handing over funds right to their intelligence service. what we also know well is that even though a large effort has been made to foment support for these groups, they remain virtually unknown in Cuba and aren't remotely close to achieving the goals of Washington, regime change.
The only thing that this crazy fantasy dissidence is capable of is being highlighted in our media and used as examples of repression on the part of the Cuban government. This is their sole purpose. They are creations to justify the wickedly immoral policies towards Cuba. How long does Washington imagine that such an obvious hypocricy be believed? More and more Americans have realized what the extremists in Miami haven't, that the policy must change. Many Americans are either indifferent to the socialist nature of Cuba or just flat out against the waste of their tax dollars in pursuit of such goals. Even some within the hardline "exile" community have called for a change in policy. More and more politicians from both parties have stated that the embargo should be changed or done away with.
But still we find ourselves with the group of "pretenders" who openly hand out money, advertise opportunities for money to try to subvert Cuba, disregarding its soveriegnty, and pretending that all this never happened, that the "dissidents" are just honest people trying to make their country better! Still they pretend that they have no idea about the connections they have created with some folks on the island who are just looking for a paycheck from Washington as they smile for the cameras and play their parts for the Miami press that just eats it up and then tries to say that they are "reporting." They can pretend all they would like but most people don't buy it anymore. They look like kids telling lies that only the kids themselves believe. It is a terribly embarassing situation that the self-proclaimed leaders of the free world aren't free enough to speak the truth. They just pretend to.
What is truly mindblowing is that Washington literally announces to the world that it seeks to give funds to so-called dissidents on the island and when those same so-called dissidents find themselves being targeted by the government of Cuba for working with the proclaimed enemy, it actually tries to fool the entire world that Cuba is not allowing dissent! As Americans, let's imagine for a moment that some group of people causing problems here in the United States were found to be payed by Iran, North Korea, or even Cuba. We would be whipped into a frenzy and public outrage would be fueled by our loyal "free" media. There would be calls for trials or maybe just to hide them down in our military base in occupied Guantanamo. There would be "nothing off the table" as they usually say in Washington as the Pentagon proposes all kinds of military interventions to wipe out those "trying to destroy America." Why is Cuba expected to sit on their hands and not do anything about these people working for, if not with, the enemy?
We know well that by creating these "dissidents" we are subjecting them to scrutiny at the least. We openly acknowledge that Cuba's security has penetrated the groups to a large extent, so large that we suspect that we have been handing over funds right to their intelligence service. what we also know well is that even though a large effort has been made to foment support for these groups, they remain virtually unknown in Cuba and aren't remotely close to achieving the goals of Washington, regime change.
The only thing that this crazy fantasy dissidence is capable of is being highlighted in our media and used as examples of repression on the part of the Cuban government. This is their sole purpose. They are creations to justify the wickedly immoral policies towards Cuba. How long does Washington imagine that such an obvious hypocricy be believed? More and more Americans have realized what the extremists in Miami haven't, that the policy must change. Many Americans are either indifferent to the socialist nature of Cuba or just flat out against the waste of their tax dollars in pursuit of such goals. Even some within the hardline "exile" community have called for a change in policy. More and more politicians from both parties have stated that the embargo should be changed or done away with.
But still we find ourselves with the group of "pretenders" who openly hand out money, advertise opportunities for money to try to subvert Cuba, disregarding its soveriegnty, and pretending that all this never happened, that the "dissidents" are just honest people trying to make their country better! Still they pretend that they have no idea about the connections they have created with some folks on the island who are just looking for a paycheck from Washington as they smile for the cameras and play their parts for the Miami press that just eats it up and then tries to say that they are "reporting." They can pretend all they would like but most people don't buy it anymore. They look like kids telling lies that only the kids themselves believe. It is a terribly embarassing situation that the self-proclaimed leaders of the free world aren't free enough to speak the truth. They just pretend to.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Response to Freedom House's Report on Cuba (June 9, 2011)Part 1
Due to the 40 pages or so of the report issued by Freedom House along with my own time constraints, I will write a reponse in a few parts. I will meticulously point out the problems that this report contains point by point as I feel it is necessary do so that people are not left with an incorrect impression as to the happenings in Cuba.
Freedom House has declined to accept it's share of the proposed $20 million for "democracy" programs and it is a good thing. Based on what they have to show for last years' allocations, it should be quite obvious to the American people that these funds could be used for something more productive right here at home.
The actual report can be found at http://freedomhouse.org/uploads/special_report/102.pdf for anyone interested at reading it.
Freedom House has declined to accept it's share of the proposed $20 million for "democracy" programs and it is a good thing. Based on what they have to show for last years' allocations, it should be quite obvious to the American people that these funds could be used for something more productive right here at home.
The actual report can be found at http://freedomhouse.org/uploads/special_report/102.pdf for anyone interested at reading it.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
The Props For the Show in Miami
Just a few short days ago, the mother of the hunger striker who died last year while serving a prison sentence arrived in Miami with her son's ashes. She shouted "Zapata vive" while holding her son's ashes in a wooden box to the crowd's delight. There was something ironic though about her statement which accused the Castro brothers of "brutally beating her son to death." Was he not a hunger striker? Did he not imagine that he might die? Did he refuse to eat the food given to him by the "Castro brothers"? Maybe she got carried away in the moment while being surrounded by members of the Cuban Democratic Directorate. From Miami, she promises to "relentlessly fight for the Cuban people's right to freedom and democracy which my son so much dreamed of.” She will fight, I imagine, just as the rest of the people in Miami "fight", with a detachment from the true hopes and desires of the people she decided to leave, just as the others in Miami. She now represents nothing more than another voice in the already over the hill part of the "exile" community as its political power within the U.S. is on the decline. These "fighters" have "fought" predominantly with the money of the American people and have managed to do nothing but discredit themselves in the Cuban people's eyes. Their support for the policies which were intended to make Cubans' lives as difficult as possible has forfeited their claim of trying to help. There is nobody on the island who appreciates these efforts and many of the more recent immigrants from Cuba don't support these "exile" leaders' policies either. She has thrown herself onto the side of the most disgusting characters in this unfortunate unfinished story of US-Cuba relations/tensions. This is a side that is being cornered due to the fact that their terrorist tactics, expensive government hand-outs are no longer as popular within the Washington political establishment. Couple that with the fact that many Americans find it offensive that they too are victims of this policy and the oil industry among others are making alot of noise as they are itching to do business with Cuba. She stated that she hopes to one day bring his ashes to rest in Cuba, which she took so much trouble to bring to Miami only to be used as a prop for the extremists in Miami. Really? Rest? Thanks mom.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Radio Marti New and Improved!
Fox News Latino has given us all a good reason to continue throwing our tax dollars at Radio Marti. At least that's what the folks at that abberation of a news agency thinks it has done. In reality the group of "conservatives" over there have excused another waste of tax dollars as they defend the hopelessly lost government project aimed at subverting reality in the hopes of causing damage to the sovereign country of Cuba. The "conservatives" rarely balk at such waste, as they can't resist the attempts to dominate other nations. If it comes to the well being of our own country though, according to them, well we shouldn't be doing anything. The market gods will figure that out. Unfortunately, the same can be said for much of the other party.
The honest people at Fox begin by telling us that this useless entity, Radio Marti, is "keeping pace with the times" having made a slick transition towards social media and other marvelous platforms. The new director has worked hard and is proud of the new tactics of propaganda being employed by this heroic organization whose results over the past thirty years have cost the American people around $500,000,000.
By using Twitter and Facebook, theese guys claim to have been able to aid the flow of their message to the island. This is a great acheivement since what we have been paying for was easily blocked by the Cuban government and was nothing more than something to fan the flames of the extremists in Miami. It is actually interesting that in their excitement, they have admitted to having been a total waste in the meantime. But wait, that's not it. They seem to have exposed one of their own fantasies in this stunning admission. They contend that they are connecting with oh so many people through the use of the internet. What fantasy have they exposed? The one where they almost constantly accuse the Cuban government of denying people access to the internet. Well, I suppose that they won't worry about this minor detail from the story they have weaved. Remember guys, if you tell a lie, it gets bigger and bigger until you can't keep track of your own story. This game of contradicting themselves by the anti-Cuba crowd seems to be happening more often these days, as they feel the pressures of the real world pushing them into what will be almost total irrelevance . They are losing ground and credibility day by day as their excuses are becoming extinct. They seem to be the ones who are unable to adapt to things as they fight to bring back a past that is already long gone.
The newly renovated waste site, excuse me, web site touts between 600 to 4000 hits a day. That's one hell of a range! I wonder how many hits are in Miami and elsewhere and how many are on the island. At this point I'll just have to wonder, since that little bit of useful information wasn't brought up in the article. They admit that, just as in the case of the radio an television stations, it is very possible and likely that the Cuban government blocks the internet sites to. Sounds like we will continue to throw money into this new and improved bottomless pit for no reason other than to appease the powerful extremists in Miami. The budget for this garbage was decreased by four million dollars this year to just under thirty million dollars. This should make the conservative budget warriors a little more comfortable as they search for beneficial programs for the American people to cut. But despite this decrease in funding, the director assures the folks at Fox that the programming hasn't suffered, it actually has improved! (As if Fox News is concerned with the quality of broadcasting!) Enjoy the new website Miami. Tweet to your heart's content, but remember that these recent revolutions elsewhere in the world were not products of the wack jobs in an exile's paradise. They were homegrown and genuine, and the people in Cuba are moving on without you.
The honest people at Fox begin by telling us that this useless entity, Radio Marti, is "keeping pace with the times" having made a slick transition towards social media and other marvelous platforms. The new director has worked hard and is proud of the new tactics of propaganda being employed by this heroic organization whose results over the past thirty years have cost the American people around $500,000,000.
By using Twitter and Facebook, theese guys claim to have been able to aid the flow of their message to the island. This is a great acheivement since what we have been paying for was easily blocked by the Cuban government and was nothing more than something to fan the flames of the extremists in Miami. It is actually interesting that in their excitement, they have admitted to having been a total waste in the meantime. But wait, that's not it. They seem to have exposed one of their own fantasies in this stunning admission. They contend that they are connecting with oh so many people through the use of the internet. What fantasy have they exposed? The one where they almost constantly accuse the Cuban government of denying people access to the internet. Well, I suppose that they won't worry about this minor detail from the story they have weaved. Remember guys, if you tell a lie, it gets bigger and bigger until you can't keep track of your own story. This game of contradicting themselves by the anti-Cuba crowd seems to be happening more often these days, as they feel the pressures of the real world pushing them into what will be almost total irrelevance . They are losing ground and credibility day by day as their excuses are becoming extinct. They seem to be the ones who are unable to adapt to things as they fight to bring back a past that is already long gone.
The newly renovated waste site, excuse me, web site touts between 600 to 4000 hits a day. That's one hell of a range! I wonder how many hits are in Miami and elsewhere and how many are on the island. At this point I'll just have to wonder, since that little bit of useful information wasn't brought up in the article. They admit that, just as in the case of the radio an television stations, it is very possible and likely that the Cuban government blocks the internet sites to. Sounds like we will continue to throw money into this new and improved bottomless pit for no reason other than to appease the powerful extremists in Miami. The budget for this garbage was decreased by four million dollars this year to just under thirty million dollars. This should make the conservative budget warriors a little more comfortable as they search for beneficial programs for the American people to cut. But despite this decrease in funding, the director assures the folks at Fox that the programming hasn't suffered, it actually has improved! (As if Fox News is concerned with the quality of broadcasting!) Enjoy the new website Miami. Tweet to your heart's content, but remember that these recent revolutions elsewhere in the world were not products of the wack jobs in an exile's paradise. They were homegrown and genuine, and the people in Cuba are moving on without you.
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