Cubans & Cars A.R.C.

You can go ahead and accuse me of placing the cart before the horse. But I don't care because I'll take a car any day. So the Mercedes 300D has a rusty fuel tank that keeps on clogging up my fuel filters. I came to the conclusion the she was not going to get me through the winter so I broke down and bought another car. I picked it up on craigslist.com for $900. What a deal! For those of you still stuck in Fidel's island jail for the past 50 years, craigslist.com is a website where you can buy or sell anything and there is no advertising cost. Sure my '91 Toyota with 150K on it needed front hub bearings but that's all except for a few cosmetic issues. This was not even the best deal but I did not jump on the even better deals fast enough so I missed out. But finding these little mechanical treasures that will provide me with transportation for years to come for only $900 is a rush! That kind of money just about everybody in the USA earns in a week or two. If you look on the right hand side of the main craigslist page you will see all the countries where you can use this site, even China and Vietnam. Sadly, Cuba is not one of them. It is because the current government is run by liars, thieves and scoundrels. So these types of web transactions are not practical because Castro must get his cut of the action and that could be any percentage. The only rule of law in Cuba is the law of the jungle and Raul always gets to be the lion with the accompanying share.

Fortunately, Raul's time in charge may just be a matter of weeks. Once he's out of the way all kinds of goods can flood into Cuba especially cars. What I want to do is locate my family in Cuba then give them a car. But even giving a car away now would be stupid in Raul's Cuba because he'd steal it. That won't help my relatives in the slightest. So continue to do as little as possible for the tyrant, sabotage whenever possible, and steal anything you can get your hands on for your family. When they announce Fidel is dead then go into the streets peacefully but refuse to leave until Raul and gang leave the country.

Oh yeah! My Mercedes I will convert to bio-fuel. Hey, maybe I'll give that to my kin? With the warm weather in Cuba you could run the car exclusively on vegetable oil. How many cars will come into Cuba A.R.C. (After Raul Castro)? How many Cuban exile families are there around the world? We are all planning to do just this sort of thing because for God's sake people - you've got to have a car! So let's ALL get rolling! You continue to do nothing until you are free and I'll get going putting my bearings in. Cuba libre amigos!!!

Che What?

It's a Che aim...

Sen. John Cornyn's Remarks

Via Joseito:

Remarks of Sen. John Cornyn (R, Texas) in support of the Cuban people, and against their oppressive regime.

U.S. Senate
November 1, 2007

I wanted to commend my distinguished friends and colleagues from New Jersey and Florida for this statement of solidarity with the Cuban people. I couldn't agree more that it's important, certainly now as much as ever, that we stand arm-in-arm, shoulder-to-shoulder, opposed to oppressive and regimes that really govern by fear.

I have to say just briefly, my friend from Florida, Senator Martinez, I know his personal history being a refugee from Cuba when he was 16 years old, part of an effort to bring young Cubans to America so they could have a better life. He also shared with me recently a movie, which while a work of fiction, I think gave me a very emotional sense of what people in Cuba and Havana, in particular, must have experienced with the Cuban people being oppressed by Fidel Castro, and I have to tell you that it is a bleak, bleak existence that these people who are seeking nothing more than the most bake of human rights have under such a heartless regime and a dictator like Fidel Castro.

I just wanted to express a few words both thanks and words of solidarity for my colleagues from New Jersey and Florida to reiterate that all of us, all of the American people, stand in solidarity with those in Cuba who seek change, who seek what we perhaps too often take for granted, our freedom to speak, live, to worship as we see fit. We ought to do everything we can possible to support them.

Our Ladies in White

Lord please bless them...

Cuban Creditors Worried

From Larry Daley"

To all:

Inferences taken from news reports suggest that Cuban government’s
creditors are worried that a Cuban transition to democracy may result in
losses of their investments.

Here is an example, in which despite its irate tone, is written in perfect
if vulgar English. In addition, only the most trusted of Cuban officials
is allowed such wide access to the internet. Such could be taken to
suggest that the author 71.101.58.229 is either a highly trained Castro
government official or a English speaking foreign investor.
This is taken from the Wikipedia Cuba talk page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cuba#A_somewhat_less_than_flattering_note

and entitled "A somewhat less than flattering note"

the exchange is given below


Larry

The exchange reads:

(El Jigue writes) Just receive a somewhat less than flattering note
apparently from 71.101.58.229 to my talk page at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:208.65.188.149&diff=cur
the note reads:


• The above comment is more garbage by the ultra-right fascists of Miami.
To: El Jigue: You are a comemierda. That is the reason you can not go to
Cuba. Your brothers and sisters inside the island reject you. Stay in
Miami, you piece of SCUM. —Preceding unsigned comment added by
71.101.58.229 (talk) 21:44, 1 November 2007 (UTC)


It appears that the lady/gentleman in question is referring to:

"One of the matters in discussion in official circles in Washington DC is
when, after the Castros leave the scene, will the succeeding Cuban
government be responsible for the Castros' vast foreign debts (in excess
of 40 billion dollars). One of the factors is that if the Castros' can be
considered foreign agents (e.g. given Raul Castro's training in the
Eastern Block countries, and Fidel Castro's speech at the funeral of Fabio
Grobart etc) then the 1898 Treaty of Paris applies, and the Cuban people
are thus absolved of any responsability for this debt. El Jigue 11-24-06"
El Jigue208.65.188.149 22:47, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Main Stream Media & The Election

Sure Cubanos...you hate the main stream media. Because we know the real story about Cuba we realize that the media either distracts people away from the Cuban genocide or they outright lie in support of it. But did it ever occur to you that the MSM could also be lying to you about our presidential election? Could they be trying to manipulate you into voting for one of the big media candidates?

Sure Ron Paul favors free trade - with the Cuban people. Sure Ron Paul favors lifting the embargo, that doesn't really exist, but for regular Cubans not Castro and his gang. However, whether you favor intervening militarily in Iraq and every other place in the world except Cuba like all of the other Main Stream Big Media candidates, if you will watch this short montage of "news" clips you will so obviously see how you are being manipulated by the MSM. I don't know about all of you - but I hate being manipulated! I even changed my affiliation from Libertarian to Republican just so I could vote for Ron Paul in the Primary. I won't tell you who to vote for but I could never support one of the wet foot/dry foot Main Stream Media candidates. Frankly, I don't understand how any Cuban could hold their nose and vote for one of these politicos that act as Castro's posse rounding up escaped Cuban slaves to be returned to his island plantation.

Cuban Weather Propaganda

If you think it appears that all of the news sources found below are using the same writer you'd be correct. All of the identical cut and paste stories come from the Cuban government and no one else. They make sure to state that the tourists areas were not affected nor the mines. Plus the happy youth were picking coffee beans for the fatherland. How quaint? While countries having a free press right next door admit death and destruction but all's well in Cuba. Right!!!

The government controls the release of all information in Cuba even the weather reports. If they lie about the weather what about the starving political prisoners and the missing free health care?

These "news" providers should do their job and quit being the shills for the Cuban government. Oh by the way - the tourists facilities and hotels were wrecked real good! Have a nice vacation.


Prensa Latina

Other measures were shoring-up of buildings in danger of collapse, protection of people and economic resources in risk zones, and revision of fuel reserves available.

CBC NEWS

In Cuba, the government said about 1,000 homes had suffered damage, 2,000 people had been evacuated from low-lying areas and schools were closed for several thousand students.

USA Today

In Cuba, the government said about 1,000 homes had suffered damage, 2,000 people had been evacuated from low-lying areas across the island and schools were closed for several thousand students.'

News Flash

In Cuba, the government said about 1,000 homes had suffered damage, 2,000 people had been evacuated from low-lying areas, and schools were closed for several thousand students.

YAHOO NEWS UK

There were no immediate reports of deaths or major damage in Cuba, but authorities canceled classes for more than 13,000 students and prepared shelters for possible evacuations.

FOX News.com

In Cuba, the government said about 1,000 homes had suffered damage, 2,000 people had been evacuated from low-lying areas, and schools were closed for several thousand students.

YAHOO NEWS CANADA

There were no immediate reports of deaths or major damage in Cuba, but authorities cancelled classes for more than 13,000 students and prepared shelters for possible evacuations.

AZ CENTRAL.COM

In Cuba, the government said about 1,000 homes had suffered damage, 2,000 people had been evacuated from low-lying areas, and schools were closed for several thousand students.

The Conservative Voice

In Cuba, the government said about 1,000 homes had suffered damage, 2,000 people had been evacuated from low-lying areas, and schools were closed for several thousand students.

MCCLEANS.COM

There were no immediate reports of deaths or major damage in Cuba, but authorities cancelled classes for more than 13,000 students and prepared shelters for possible evacuations.

The World

There were no immediate reports of deaths or major damage in Cuba.

KATC

In Cuba, the government said about 1,000 homes had suffered damage, 2,000 people had been evacuated from low-lying areas, and schools were closed for several thousand students.

Environmental News Network

The storm knocked down trees on the coast of neighboring Camaguey, a beach resort hotel receptionist said, as it swept along Cuba's north coast. Forecasters warned of storm surges.

Cuba evacuated about 10,000 people from inland areas threatened by floods and mudslides or rivers that could burst their banks. The evacuees included 3,000 students picking coffee in the hills of Santiago province. Tourists at coastal resorts were not affected.

Reuters

The storm knocked down trees on the coast of neighboring Camaguey, a beach resort hotel receptionist said, as it swept along Cuba's north coast. Forecasters warned of storm surges.

Cuba evacuated about 10,000 people from inland areas threatened by floods and mudslides or rivers that could burst their banks. Tourists at coastal resorts were not affected.

Cuba's nickel mining, its major export industry located at Moa, was not affected by the storm, which crossed Cuba farther inland than expected, an industry source said. "It's sunny in Moa today," the source said.

In the nearby hills of Holguin province, more than 3,000 students working in the coffee harvest were sent home for fear of flooding. Thousands of cattle were herded to higher ground in Camaguey, Cuba's main cattle-raising province.

LA Times

There were no immediate reports of deaths or major damage in Cuba, but authorities canceled classes for more than 13,000 students and prepared shelters for possible evacuations.

Gardian Online

Cuba evacuated about 10 000 people from inland areas threatened by floods and mudslides or rivers that could burst their banks. Tourists at coastal resorts were not affected.

Cuba's nickel mining, its major export industry located at Moa, was not affected by the storm, which crossed Cuba farther inland than expected, an industry source said. "It's sunny in Moa today," the source said.

In the nearby hills of Holguin province, more than 3 000 students working in the coffee harvest were sent home for fear of flooding. Thousands of cattle were herded to higher ground in Camaguey, Cuba's main cattle-raising province.

If these lazy news sources are going to only print Castro's version of the weather and everything else they should be made to have a warning label like:

WARNING - ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED HERE IS FROM A BRUTAL DICTATORSHIP THAT BEATS, IMPRISONS AND KILLS ANYONE WHO DOES NOT AGREE WITH THIS INFORMATION WHICH ALMOST ASSUREDLY IS A BOLD FACE LIE.

Castro Starves Political Prisoners

CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONER, ANTONIO VILLARREAL ACOSTA,

IN CRITICAL STATE

Pablo Rodríguez Carvajal - PayoLibre

October 29, 2007

Family members of Cuban prisoner of conscience, Antonio Augusto Villarreal Acosta, are extremely worried because the prisoner has lost 60% of his body weight. This report came from his son, Antonio Villarreal (‘Tony’), who lives off the island.

Presently, Villarreal Acosta weighs around 78 pounds. “He has lost his appetite, and he’s looks very gaunt as if he were in a World War II concentration camp,” his son noted. He received the information via telephone from Silvia Aguado Alfonso, the prisoner’s wife.

According to the prisoner’s family members, they do not know if so much weight loss is because of too little or contaminated food, an undiagnosed illness, or even an illness which doctors of the regime have not told the prisoner or his family members about.

Antonio Augusto Villarreal Acosta, 57, was sentenced to 15 years of prison during the wave of repression in March, 2003, in Cuba. At the time of his incarceration, he was president of the Independent Democratic Front. He resides at Calle Libertad #48-B entre

Narciso López y Luis Córdoba, Coralillo,Villa Clara, Cuba.

Translation from http://www.payolibre.com/noticias/noticias2.php?id=2170 by the Coalition of Cuban-America Women Tanya S. Wilder / tswilder@suddenlink.net

www.coalitionofcubanamericanwomen.blogspot.com

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EN CRÍTICO ESTADO EL PRESO POLÍTICO VILLAREAL ACOSTA
Pablo Rodríguez Carvajal - PayoLibre

http://www.payolibre.com/noticias/noticias2.php?id=2170

28 de octubre de 2007

Los familiares del prisionero de conciencia Antonio Augusto Villarreal Acosta se encuentran sumamente preocupados por la pérdida de casi un 60% de su peso corporal, informó Antonio Villarreal ‘Tony’, hijo mayor del reo que vive en el exterior.

En la actualidad Villarreal Acosta pesa alrededor de 78 libras, “ha perdido el apetito y se ve muy demacrado, como si fuera un concentrado de la segunda guerra mundial”, apuntó el hijo del prisionero de conciencia, quien a su vez recibió la información de Silvia Aguado Alfonso, esposa del prisionero, por vía telefónica.

“Antes de caer en prisión, Villarreal (mi papá), pesaba 182 libras, es decir, ha perdido más de la mitad del peso corporal”, dijo Tony.

Según los familiares del reo, no se sabe si tanta pérdida de peso es por la poca o mala alimentación o por alguna enfermedad no diagnostica, o no notificada al afectado o familiares por los doctores del régimen.

Antonio Augusto Villarreal Acosta, de 57 años de edad, fue condenado durante la ola represiva de 2003 a 15 años de prisión. Al ser encarcelado presidía el Frente Democrático Independiente, y reside en Calle Libertad #48-B, e/ Narciso López y Luis Córdoba, Coralillo, Villa Clara, Cuba.

- Thanks Joseito for sending me this. How does the world stand by and let Castro starve a 182 pound down to 78 pounds? That's exactly what Hitler did...

More Stabbings In Havana

Some people are just dying to go to Cuba.

Thanks for sending me this link Fantomas!

Social Engineers

I just hate 'em. Well...hates is such a strong word but I hate what they do. These busy-body do gooders along with greedy selfish exploiters see no aspect of our lives that they do not wish to micro manage for fun and profit. It makes them feel important and they can garnish a tidy living at it as well. The main weapons in their arsenal are fear and violence. First they scare you with their statistics that usually are half truths to outright lies. Then they bring out the guns and kill you if you don't want to live your life under their rule. I'm not talking about public actions either. I'm talking about private personal beliefs and decisions. I'm talking about your personal thoughts and private actions. They make rules about what air vibrations can emanate from your vocal cords and I'm not talking about harmful speech like screaming fire in the theater either. Adults around the world have a bevy of rules on proper penis usage and there are a good deal more for the vagina. These rules include genital mutilation and even removal of the offending organ in extreme cases. The teetotalers have an ever growing infinite list of banned chemicals and or plant combinations that will get you imprisoned or killed if you ignore their rules. Fresh from the front lines of these busybody's successes against tobacco usage, including huge tax windfalls for these tyrants to spend and outright bans for smoking on private property, they now hope to tax fats and sugars as well as ban private usage in restaurants. Where does it end amigos...where does it end?

I tell you where it ends. It ends in a place that looks and feels a lot like Havana, Cuba does today. And you must remember that Havana was not always like this. Sadly, I cannot think of even one culture the world around that is not now on the road to Havana serfdom. Surely, America and some other democracies around the world are much farther away from that last stop on the Havana line than others who are rolling into the last stops on the line before that final destination. But Costa Rica gives me hope. The internet too might be our last best hope to stem the tide of tyranny.

In the mean time amigos...mind your own business! If you are living properly then one life with family and friends is more than enough to occupy all of your time and then some. If you feel the urge to micro manage the lives of others than you are a hollow, shallow person searching for a reason to live. My advice...get a life!

Anti Tyranny Blogs

No need to search the world wide web looking for the rat bastards of the world. All your modern day thugs are found right here in the Anti-Fidel blogs. Jose Reyes has compiled this list of blogs that expose the tyrants that the main stream media appears blind to seeing. Check it out. The list keeps getting bigger.

Cubanazos

Artie
&
Omar

Reuters is Castro's Shill

Reuters Uses Havana Correspondent Who Wrote for Communist Daily

By Greg Sheffield | August 17, 2006 - 03:38 ET

First Reuters had a photo scandal to face. Now Go Pundit Go has discovered that Reuters is currently employing a former writer for the People’s Daily World, a Communist Party USA publication. And it turns out his propagandistic tendencies haven't left him, as he recently wrote a glowing review in the Financial Times on how Cubans are dealing with their leader's poor health:

"Cuba remained calm on Sunday as people engaged in voluntary work, cleaned neighborhoods and donated blood in Mr Castro’s honour." You can see Marc Frank's latest Reuters work here.

Says Go Pundit Go:

Havana-based Reuters correspondent Marc Frank is a former writer for the People’s Daily World, a Communist Party USA publication. In Frank’s little-known 1993 book, “Cuba Looks to the Year 2000,” he admits having written over 1,000 articles for the communist publication as their Havana-based Latin American correspondent during a five year period in the 1980’s. According to its website, the publication (which has since changed its name to the People’s Weekly World) shares a “special relationship” with the Communist Party USA:

The PWW is known for its partisan coverage. We take sides — for truth and justice. We are partisan to the working class, racially and nationally oppressed peoples, women, youth, seniors, international solidarity, Marxism and socialism. We enjoy a special relationship with the Communist Party USA, founded in 1919, and publish its news and views.

Mr. Frank, whose recent articles on the decline of Fidel Castro’s health have been picked up by Reuters affiliates across the world, has been harshly critical of US policy towards Cuba in the past. In his book he accused the CIA of waging “biological warfare” on Cuban agriculture and suggests the US media knew about it but said nothing:

His piece praising Cubans who are coping with the crisis was written for Sunday's Financial Times. Cuba remained calm on Sunday as people engaged in voluntary work, cleaned neighborhoods and donated blood in Mr Castro’s honour. Throughout the leadership crisis, people have gone about their daily business and enjoyed summer holidays, though there is an unmistakable undercurrent of anxiety over the future without Fidel - the only leader most Cubans have ever known.

What explains Reuters' use of Marc Frank?

Reuters is either unaware of Marc Frank’s decidedly pro-communist past or believes the 1,000 articles he wrote as the Havana-based correspondent for the communist People’s Daily World have little to do with his current reporting of communist Cuba, which he once accused the United States of “terrorizing…while trying to starve them into submission.”

Thanks to my amigo Clem for sending me this great bit of truth on how the tyrant spreads lies, damn lie and Cuban statistics.

Noel, Noel

Just what eastern Cuba needs - more rain. Those counter clockwise winds will force water to hammer the northern tourist beach areas. More of the already dilapidated tourist facilities will be damaged or destroyed. But you ostrich tourists planning to go to Cuba to stick your head in the sand will be left with your asses hanging out. The Cuban government isn't going to bother informing you that the hotel room you booked washed out into the Caribbean. But not to worry travelers! Raul will find some snake infested shack to stick you and the fam' in then remind you that this is the Cuban experience.... Of course enlightened minds the world around know it as "the royal shaft."

I suppose if you go to Cuba and give Raul Castro your money so he can hold onto power over the helpless Cuban people then you will get the treatment that you so royally deserve. But do us both a favor. Go to Mexico instead. They've got ancient Aztec ruins, volcanoes, beautiful beaches, great prices and water that is just as bad as Cuba's Poopeeay. However, in Mexico you can buy all the bottled water you like while in Cuba it is probably re-bottled Havana tap water.
Don't go to Cuba!!!

Student of Pakistan in Cuba - Condition of the students in Cuba:

The students in Cuba are all agitated for what they have been seeing for the last 7 months. Although they have protested a lot, yet the higher authorities do not pay any serious attention towards their problems.

LOCATION:

The state in which the students are living in Cuba can be imagined from the fact that they are living in a building that is surrounded three sides by thick jungle of sky high wild bushes, and on the forth side there is a road where one can hardly see any means of transport or even a living being. On the other side of the road, there is another range of the same thick bushes.

LIVING ROOMS:

Now talking about the interior of the building, the living rooms seem to be a herd of sheep. The dimension of the room is (26 X 9) feet. In this small chicken block, 8 or 9 boys are accommodated along with their luggage and 9 almirahs (cupboards). These 8 or 9 boys have got only 4 small sized table fans whose air cannot cross the 9 feet of the width of the room.

LABORATORY:

The MEDICAL school lacks the all essential requirement, the laboratory. The students don'’t have any access to quench their scientific thirst.

LIBRARY:

A medical student requires a sufficient bank of knowledge in the form of books. A school that has a strength of more than 350 own a library with only 30 chairs and 7 small tables. The books are not to be seen in the so-called library.

Sent via Larry Daley. Thanks amigo!

My BBC Question

As I watched the BBC this morning, telling me how the Cuban government was renovating Havana to its former grandeur I contemplated how anyone could believe such a silly notion. By any objective measure Havana is architecturally in rapid decline. The modus operandi of Raul is to allow homes to crumble into the earth so the Cuban families have to move in with relatives in other dwellings. Then Raul renovates a small percentage to suit his tourist apartheid needs. I'm sure he'd love to fix every single building in Havana but he doesn't have the resources. He never will. Cuba is a communist country. This Utopian delusion has been tried the world over. The architecture looks the same...dreary and in rapid decline. Why doesn't the BBC see this?

I believe it is out of sheer ignorance on the part of the BBC reporters and producers driven by the human capacity to ignore what suits strongly held beliefs. Most people of the world are stumbling children who have not taken it upon themselves to grow the hell up! Unsaid by the masses is their desire to be cared for like when they were children and they always hope for a nice mommy and daddy government to bring home the bacon and cuddle them. Sadly, these kids in suits running around with microphones in front of cameras have no clue about economics. Since they have never contemplated even the most basic economic questions like where does wealth come from or how is wealth best distributed throughout an economy, they are easily manipulated.

This morning's BBC reporters, while perhaps very nice chaps, are undeniably ignorant about Cuba. Castro knows how easily people can be manipulated on an emotional level. Every BBC reporter in Cuba has a dossier on them that would choke a horse. Raul's agents are cajoling and finessing reporters as well as providing them with plenty of sex if that is effective in achieving compliance. Naturally this leads to blackmail as well. But never underestimate the sexiness of being next to power for many of these reporters. Finally, because they are thick about economics, Raul Castro blames everything on the US and the reporters don't have the enlightenment to dispute him nor the emotional maturity to insulate against Cuban government manipulation. So they can view crumbling buildings everywhere but see a couple being spruced up for their new tourist occupiers and see progress along with the naive belief that this failed economic system will one day triumph.


Then another BBC news story pops up on the tele' reminding me about the Cuban missile crisis anniversary. They showed the crumbling missile silos now overgrown with Cuban jungle. Naturally, they said the crisis ended when the US agreed to remove some of our missiles from Turkey. They never aired the well documented actual reason that Khrushchev quickly remove Soviet missiles from Cuba. Nikita knew Castro was crazy and blood thirsty. Fidel demanded the missiles be launched from the second they were installed on Cuban soil. He even tried to make up false assertions to spook the Soviets into pushing the button. Fortunately the USSR's KGB knew better and Khrushchev withdrew the missiles. The facts are all there boys and girls of the BBC if you would do your job. Check out what Khrushchev's son wrote on the topic as well as your poster boy Che. I guess it's easier to believe today's Cuban government "statistics," drink mojitos and smoke cigars than to work for a living.