Friday, February 08, 2008

Double-Cross Cuba's Bankers

Hugo Chavez is getting a taste of the international bank cartel's wrath. Exxon has successfully frozen assets formerly controlled by Hugo Chavez. As many of you know I really dislike the international bankers. Having said that, one has to admit that it is very enjoyable to witness the wolf taking a bite out of the fox's ass. When these type of incidents occur the eventual ramifications in the long run are not always obvious. But a 12 billion dollar chunk out of Hugo's ass really tears his regime a new one. When you cross the bankers they will crush you. This has been the pattern historically at any rate. So Hugo's days are numbered - maybe in days.

Cubans on each side of the Straits of Florida better know this fact. Petroleum products and currency will not be flowing from Venezuela to Cuba...not for free anyway. As this summer approaches the electric will stop flowing in Cuba as well meaning the lights go out at night. This compounded by an angry populace hungry for change will not be good for a regime that is too afraid today to keep a bunch of school kids from reading Alarcon the riot act.

I have told you what would happen so far with respect to the end of the Castro regime and I have been on the mark more than not. I have told you the truth even when you did not want to hear it. Eleven million Cubans who are hungry and tired is unsustainable. I do not know how many of you at the top, especially in the military, want to do the right thing by your countrymen. But I can tell you what that is. Number one I can tell you Fidel has lots of capital hidden away in secret bank accounts. You need to grab the information before the old codger dies and takes the pin numbers and account information with him to his grave. You should be following lil' Fidel, Raul and any other person who Fidel Castro may have entrusted with the bank info.

I'm warning you top guys! Don't let the bank info die with Fidel. The bankers will love that because the gold becomes theirs. These are the same bankers who turn out your lights with the freezing of Hugo's assets. Some of you military Ochoistas should do the right thing by your people and arrest Raul and Fidel and Alarcon and the rest of the crooks and at least try to get Cuba's gold back from the bankers. That wealth can be used to kick start Cuba's economy once again.

However, with only the slightest bit of direction combined with the high tech devices we will bring to Cuba along with plenty of emergency relief, I know the Cuban people will become economic tigers in no time at all. They will be able to easily provide for themselves and the needs of the nation if the best interests of Cubans is taken into account. That means implementing a monetary system based on gold and silver deposits held in vaults of banks forbidden to ever issue phony fiat inflated paper money. It also means never taxing human labor but rather, tax land location value to pay for the needs of the nation which should remain minimal. Also, Cuba should not become slaves to the international bankers and take loans from them. Cuba will stand on its own two feet when Cubans are allowed to freely introduce their labor into a free market then reap all the rewards of that human investment.

8 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Tomas, see I'm already making contacts:

I'm unable at this time to offer you may name, reasons will be apparent as I expand on the motives for contacting you, to the point: Most recently the Cuban government conducted "elections", you may not be familiar with their elections but at the risk of being perceived biased I should briefly state that 617 candidates were listed for voters in the general representative elections and 617 candidates were elected including the Castro brothers, these candidates are hand-picked communist party members, no one opposes them and no one is listed as a choice other than the one individual selected to run for a particular area so basically voters are coerced into showing up at the polls (or lose their jobs and meager benefits) and vote for the one candidate presented by the party in their geographical area, under such methods the elections are conducted with predictable outcome, as published by the government an incredible 98.7% of the electorate picked Fidel Castro as the representative in the one area where he run (I'm still questioning what other candidate received the remaining 1.3% votes since only he run for that area), sometime by February 24 the 617 elected representatives will meet and as usual and as it has happened since 1959 they will choose a Maximum Leader Chairman of the Party who for the last 50 years has been the same person, this one time there is expectations that in account of Fidel Castro's illness his brother Raul (now acting as the Provisional Leader) may be chosen for the post (no one really knows what ails Fidel Castro other than a mysterious intestinal decease per government press release since July 2006). We all know that it is impossible for one person satisfying the electorate for 50 years to the point of receiving 98.7% approval rating even if he is the only one listed from his area but typical of Stalinist regimes the government boldly states that those are the results and that the results demonstrate the peoples' satisfaction, well I should not engage in debating that but it is plain and well documented that over 2 million Cubans have exited and currently reside abroad because they were not happy with the system in place either for political or economical reasons and such we are sure there must be many others in island with the same feelings but unable to leave.
Myself and others in my confidence, in and outside of Cuba, have examined various electronic remote elections schemes including your protocol, while access to the Internet is rather restricted in the island most Cuban nationals residing abroad have access to the Internet. In a most simplistic approach lets just suppose that an independent voters registry is set up for a non-binding referendum of Cubans on the subject of what they want for their government, we view that it is of paramount importance that the Voters Registry have nothing to do with Cubans at all to guarantee absolute independence from influences and such obtain the greatest credibility possible, while independent the Registry must not be overly zealous on standards or it would burden possible voters beyond reach by that we mean that the Registry should initially require some proof of nationality such as a birth certificate or notarized copy of, a contact e-mail address and a contact telephone number, upon review of the document the registry may contact the applicant for voters registration via telephone for some verifications and then proceed to assign a unique code identifier to the voter that is then e-mailed to the voter for use in the actual electronic vote accomplished at day set for the referendum. Before the elections, the prospective voters may access a web site where where The Registry has securely posted the opposition parties positions, choices or platforms to expose their views and where even the current government may request the registry for postings if they so choose, after sufficient time elapse for voters registration (maybe a year or two) and equally sufficient time for candidates' or platform postings the elections are held during an agreed period (one week?) by the voters entering their unique identifiers at a secured web site they exercise their vote, votes are tabulated by the Registry and results are publicly announced by the same Independent Registry.
My questions to you please:
1) Is there an independent body today that we could contact for the elections that would help us set up our registry? mind you we are just common people with few or any funds for such an undertaking, we cannot levy taxes on our constituency to finance election boards and elections but we hope that some civic minded democratic institution would help us, by the same token we do not desire any official government involvement since that would taint the results, some critic would immediately insinuate foreign influence.
2) Do you know of any independent institution that would serve as the Registry?
3) Other than as described, what security and privacy issues do you foresee with our simple scheme? (should we adhere to your protocol) One thing to keep in mind is that Cubans are extremely suspicious of the Castro government penetration of institutions for coercive purposes, they exert a tremendous amount of influence over their relatives trapped in the island consequently many prospective voters may be afraid to offer personal documents or details to third parties they may be perceived as acting on behalf of the Cuban government,
4) How would the Cuban government hack our elections to tilt the results in their favor?
We realize your time is very valuable and we will be very grateful of any assistance or advise you can provide, the task at hand is monumental and who knows if historical, thank you so much.

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10:15 PM  
Blogger Tomás Estrada-Palma said...

How about we try to first get a response from the Cuba people about having an election? We should ask the Cuban people if they want elections first.

10:45 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes, go ahead and ask them, if they say no this is hopeless, like castro said: elecciones para que? elections, what for? 1959.

10:58 PM  
Blogger Tomás Estrada-Palma said...

The exiles tried to get the Cubans on the island to turn up their TVs and Radios recently to protest but I did not find out how that went. We can't hear from hear. But we can see Cuba from space. What if we ask the Cuban people to show they want elections by turning out all the lights on a predesignated evening - perhaps on February 24th? If they want elections they would turn off their lights.

11:04 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well lets ask for lights out on the 24th but only if we can monitor the satellite on that night, is that public access?

11:10 PM  
Blogger Tomás Estrada-Palma said...

I'm searching now. There is actually a web camera in Havana. Well there was one a couple months ago. Feedback is the important thing. If the Cuban people did turn out the lights we would need to verify it. It would be especially condemning on the regime if the Cuban people blacked out Cuba on the designated night.

11:24 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Keep im mind too that most eye detection of night time lighting is from street lamps, to start with that type illumination is poor at best in Cuba today and really not controllable by the average citizen, they have access to a wall switch for interior lights which you hardly detect reflection given by at 40000 feet, the normal cruising altitude for your commercial airliner never mind 120000 feet from a satellite.

11:26 PM  
Blogger Tomás Estrada-Palma said...

Actually I've seen satellite photos of North and South Korea at night- very stark difference. We would need to see what the average Havana night looked like. Then we could compare on the voting night.

12:07 AM  

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