TeleSUR vs. Satellite Dishes
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An old-fashioned TV antenna projects from the window, but it’s just a masquerade, a simulation. The television signal actually comes through a cable running across several roofs and one street. The illegal tendon brings several families a selection of cartoons, soap operas and musicals for some ten convertible pesos a month (a little more than ten dollars U.S.). Only the owner of the satellite dish can decide what can be viewed at any moment. Remote control in hand, he has the power to change the channel and to decide what all the clients on his network will have access to. He avoids political topics to stay out of trouble, and favors reality shows. The final result is escapist TV, something to get away from the daily grind, a collection of little cultural value but a lot of fun.
As a rival to this “entrepreneur’s program schedule,” as of this Sunday, we have TeleSUR, the Venezuelan channel sent via satellite to Cuban State TV. For years Cubans have had access only to three hours of the programming offered by this multi-country channel. Now we will have 13 and a half hours of live broadcasts, with content ranging from the informative to the educational; from crime reporting to professional sports. A novelty, indeed, that won’t lack a big dose of ideology. TeleSUR takes after the productions of our Cuban Institute of Radio and Television in its broadcasting axiom: the ALBA countries are as close to paradise as the rest of the world is to hell.
Fortunately we don’t have to choose only among these two options. The “leaked” satellite TV or the biased vision of TeleSUR are not, today, our only choices. For months now the alternative market offerings have been widening, with collections that join documentaries and series. A kind of on-demand television, a programming for every taste, distributed on digital media such as hard drives and USB flash memories. If the national production doesn’t diversify and expand, it will lose a part of its audience to these new competitors. And it will end up being a collection of programs borrowed or pirated from other broadcasters, an overlapping of unattractive audiovisual material without its own personality.
Enero 25th, 2013 at 10:25
Right you are Damir…. and I agree too that is a fair proposition!
Enero 25th, 2013 at 07:49
The Man, do not forget who we are dealing here with: the ignorants from the usa. They are the last and the only country still living in the cold war era. Their paranoid fear feeds the irrational hatred against everyone who they do not understand.
That is why they shoot at each other every day. they are so confused and so unable to identify with anything that everyone on the street is an enemy. Hell, they have even laws that confirm and reinforce that paranoia: “patriotic” act, the latest “internet” act, the list is too long to mention here.
One day BBC is friendly propaganda outlet, the next is a socialist propaganda machinery.
It all depends on what they hear on fox, itn or cnn. And from Alex Jones… Yes, the black real estate lady is the nail into the eye to the team “yoani”. When I was in Cuba last September, I saw some ads in the newspapers that made me dizzy. Remembering that ONLY CUBANS can buy Cuban properties, I saw ads for properties with asking prices up to 1.2 MILLION Convertible Cuban Pesos.
And the did NOT last long either. There are many rich people in Cuba and many of them are NOT in the government or the party.
I have met quite a few through my host family there. The life in Cuba, as that inept copy and paste “genius” confirmed him/herself asome 18 months ago, is
G O O D
And those rich people understand that. And they are NOT for teh system change. Just for Castros to bow and leave.
That is a fair proposition.
Enero 25th, 2013 at 07:18
Well actually I talked about this doc couple of months ago when I came back here… and was told off that it is BBC socialist propaganda… In the UK the BBC is known more for being a gay citadel not a socialist place..which should sit OK with the right-wing apologists here NOW.. they prefer gay to socialists as seen!…
Now can any of the apologist here tell me what is going to become of the guy who started a VIP burger joint that charges an arm and a leg for a burger, but that aside, what’s going to happen to his little happy burger shop… when American capitalism.. creeps in?? Oh yeah those market forces that kill the little guy and leave McDonalds after McDonalds in their wake…that no one talks about… that is the happy democracy Cuba will inherit cos it shouldn’t be built by any one in their right mind!
The best in the doc for my money… was the black woman from the countryside that came to Havana, she was saying that she is an estate agent now matching expensive property with rich clients…. that she has new shoes which she loves… She looked really happy and in tune with capitalism.. and thing my generation never had even after so much bs-communism that we had!
Enero 25th, 2013 at 03:58
Damir, have you told your employers what you do all day at your desk?
Enero 25th, 2013 at 03:50
The documentary Damir, you watched is the same one I talked about a few days ago. It was shown on Australian TV so I guess you saw it here too. Once again you give yourself away where you live while pretending to live in Europe. The BBC reporter actually talked about the fear people have of their roofs falling in while they sleep, their houses collapsing, the dreadful conditions, the pathetic rations, the oppressive regime, the collapsed sugar industry, etc. etc.
Enero 25th, 2013 at 03:47
The program you mentioned Damir is the one I talked about a few days ago. It was shown on Australian tv so I guess you watched the same program. He actually talked about the fear people have living in their slums, with the roofs falling in, the house collapsing while they sleep, the lousy rations, the general bad conditions, the oppressive regime, the collapsed sugar industry and on it went. Cuba is always ”
seductive” for tourists, sunshine, cheap cocktails, great music. This is not what Cubans live on. Once again, you give yourself away where you live, while pretending to live in Europe. Get over yourself.
Enero 25th, 2013 at 02:21
I forgot again that you are no computer-able dongs. That you scavenge somebody’s else internet from your cozy sewerages of miami.
Here, the link of Simon Reeves’ Cuba documentary with great food, great people, optimism, incoming prosperity. Made by BBC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNhr3UezgQM
Eat your shift, losers!
Enero 25th, 2013 at 02:17
Watched a documentary about Cuba on TV last night, Simon Reeves, filmed 2012. About how the food is great, how the country is in s swing of things and people are optimistic and happy, despite some problems still lingering. People proud of their country and happy.
Unlike the “documentaries” the “anonimous” “friendly translator” is watching in her dreams, this one is for real, and you can even find it on internet. Do yourself a favour and see how a british reporter, from BBC, not even knowing dismantles one lie after another the team “yoani” are pushing here, motivated with their delusional brainwashing ideology.
His own enthusiasm and surprise is infectuous. He’s a capitalist scum, but he was sincerely impressed with Cuba.
I liked especially his statements, in no particular order:
1. great food
2. WORLD CLASS MEDICAL SERVICES
3. people are free
4. positive changes
5. the most seductive country in the world (he started the BBC doco with this one)
Your time is over imperialist scum. Take your domestic raitor with you and leave.
Enero 24th, 2013 at 16:49
I GET THE FEELING THAT THE NEXT CASTRO ON THE THRONE IS MARIELA, DAUGHTER OF RAUL CASTRO! SHE HAS BEEN TAKING A WORLD TOUR LATELY IN ODER THAT WORLD COMMUNITY GETS TO “KNOW” HER! WHAT DO YOU THINK The Man? Cuba Libre(La mentirita)??
THE ECONOMIST: “All talk” - The Cuban government fails to promote new leaders—even though hard times loom
RAÚL CASTRO, Cuba’s 81-year-old president, has long said his country should have a younger leadership. During the island’s most recent Communist Party congress he proposed ten-year term limits for future presidents. Rather pointedly, given that his brother Fidel served for 49 years, he called Cuba’s failure to groom a new political generation “an embarrassment”.
But Raúl has done little to promote political renewal either. During that same congress, he chose two ageing party veterans to fill vice-presidential positions. Most senior officials are still “históricos”, who fought with the Castro brothers before the 1959 revolution—originally known for the vigorous youth of its leaders.
But the meeting will also remind Cubans that some of the regime’s most familiar faces are leaving the stage. Ricardo Alarcón, the president of the Assembly for the past 20 years, will not attend—not because he is 75, but because of suspected tensions with Raúl. His assistant, Miguel Álvarez, was arrested last year and is being held on suspicion of corruption and spying. In 2008 a video of Mr Alarcón struggling in a question-and-answer session with students was leaked to the foreign press. His justification of Cuba’s travel restrictions—because more travel would lead to too many planes in the skies—was ridiculed.
Any young hopefuls might prefer to wait and see how the regime handles what could be the island’s hardest test since 1991. Hugo Chávez, the Castros’ closest ally, has spent the past month in Havana receiving treatment for cancer, missing his own inauguration for a third six-year term as Venezuela’s president. Cuba now gets almost all the oil it needs from Venezuela, in exchange for sending doctors.
Even while treating Mr Chávez, the Cubans may be looking at back-up plans in case he or his subsidies fail to survive. During the past few years, representatives of oil-rich nations have been generously feted in Havana. Sonangol, Angola’s state oil company, is exploring for oil and gas near the island’s shores. Lavish homes in the capital have been reserved for Angolan officials. In November Cuba awarded a contract to invest in and manage sugar production, which has long been off-limits to foreigners, to Brazil’s Odebrecht. The firm is also part of an $800m project to build a container port at Mariel, just outside Havana, and is looking at making ethanol.
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE ARTICLE!
http://www.economist.com/news/.....m-all-talk
Enero 24th, 2013 at 16:26
You live in a country where, although you are desperately poor, which sucks, you are eligible for food bank programs, medical care through the Medicaid system, free vaccine programs for kids, free schooling because there is a public school program, and the right to a free attorney if you are accused of a crime.
OR
You live in a country where there are no medical programs and no vaccines available for your child, no free food banks therefore kids routinely starve to death, kids routinely die because of a lack of simple antibiotic and vaccines, there is no transportation to medical clinics, and there are no schools.
So, is poverty the same everywhere? Don’t be silly, Man.
Enero 24th, 2013 at 16:22
Cuba Libre said: “Humberto, can you show at least the minimum of compassion for a man who is leading the battle of his life?”
The Man!! IM JUST A MILD MANNERED EDITOR/EDUCATOR HERE DEAR! CAN YOU SHOW ME WHERE I HAVE WISHED THE DEATH OF HUGO CHAVEZ?? AWW, FORGET THAT IS YOUR ATTEMPT AT VILIFYING ME! I GET IT!! NOW FOR SOME CUBA AND CUBAN ISSUES! LETS SEE HOW QUICKLY THE ORDINARY CUBAN CITIZEN WILL BE ABLE TO ACCESS THE WORLDWIDE WEB, BUT MOST IMPORTANT IS WHAT IT WILL COST THEM! HIGH PRICES ARE THE WAY THE CASTROFASCISTS TRY TO CONTROL AND CENSOR INFORMATION INTO THE ISLAND JAIL OF CUBA! ON THE UPSIDE, THE CASTROFASCISTS CANNOT BLAME THE “EMBARGO” ANYMORE FOR INTERNET ACCESS!
BBC NEWS: Cuba first high-speed internet connection activated - Cuba has been connected to the global internet for the first time with a high-speed cable, state telecoms company Etecsa says.
The company has already warned that high-speed browsing is unlikely to become widely accessible overnight.
Investments will first have to be made in Cuba’s infrastructure, Etecsa says, so that access can be increased “gradually” and for “social purposes”.
Government and research institutions are expected to be the first beneficiaries of the new connection.
Despite a number of obstacles and restrictions, a blogging community of both dissidents and government supporters is flourishing in Cuba.
Dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez rose to prominence when she wrote about life in Cuba, emailing her blog entries to friends abroad to publish online.
Her writing led to her arrest in October last year as she prepared to cover the trial of politician Angel Carromero.
The high-speed Alba-1 cable is a joint project between the state-owned telecommunications companies of Venezuela and Cuba.
Although it arrived in in eastern Cuba in 2011, the state telecom company had kept quiet about it until now.
The government in Havana blamed the US trade embargo for preventing a link-up to existing American underwater cables.
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE ARTICLE!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl.....a-21190066
Enero 24th, 2013 at 15:43
THE CABLE IS WORKING, THE CABLE IS WORKING! THAT’S WHAT THE CUBAN PEOPLE ARE SHOUTING! BUT YOU KNOW THAT THEY WONT GET A PIECE OF THAT INTERNET PIE UNLESS THEY FORK OUT HALF A MONTH’S SALARY FOR ONE HOUR OF USE! AND THAT’S EVEN A “MAYBE”!! IN CUBA SOME PEOPLE ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS! AND The Man! THANKS FOR ALL THAT ATTENTION DEAR! LOVE YA!
MIAMI HERALD: Cuba confirms undersea cable carrying data traffic
HAVANA — Cuban government telecom ETECSA is confirming that the island’s first hard-wired Internet connection to the outside world has been activated.
ETECSA says the ALBA-1 fiber-optic cable has been operational since last August and initially carried international voice calls.
A company statement published Thursday in state-run media says it has been used for tests of Internet traffic since Jan. 10.
ETECSA says more investment must be made in infrastructure to increase Internet access.
The ALBA-1 arrived on the island from Venezuela in February 2011. But officials soon fell silent about the cable amid rumors about mismanagement and corruption involving the project.
Its status was unknown until this week, when U.S. Internet analysis firm Renesys reported faster data traffic to Cuba and concluded that the cable had been switched on.
http://www.miamiherald.com/201.....rying.html
Enero 24th, 2013 at 13:16
[...] Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez writes that for many years, Cubans have only had access to three hours of TV per day from Cuban [...]
Enero 24th, 2013 at 09:02
Cuba Libre @108… unless you would be talking the long line of Pinochets, Batistas right-wing dictators and their sponsors, don’t expect any sympathy from a right wing apologist parrot like Humberto..
He cannot see beyond his right-wing rhetoric which dictates that enemies are bad and ugly so they deserve whatever and he is the good and pretty and nice one… Humberto cannot even recognize what is an American law…ie the Cuban Act… let alone to recognise democracy in places they want petrol from or where a man alleviated poverty and shifted the balance of power and survived at least a sonsored coup.
Most right winger cannot see that poverty is poverty everywhere … Ghana Cuba and USA poverty has the same effect face and consequences in its extreme … apparently if you could watch American tv in North Korea you would be less poor…
Enero 24th, 2013 at 07:55
Cuba Libre, you vile hypocrite. On a post about the hunger striker Coco Farinas, you made a comment that he should just “die already.”
And now, when one of your dictator heroes is ill, you claim that “health and death have nothing to do with politics”? Too late.
Hypocrite.
Enero 24th, 2013 at 07:51
By the very same token that “the man” complains that others should not be told what to think, he tries to impose his worldview on what he thinks Yoani should do, should address, should write about, what she doesn’t do enough of, who she is associated with, where is her husband (WTF?), etc.
Who are you to judge what Yoani’s objectives should be? She started a blog to write about what HER LIFE in Cuba is like. She doesn’t have to answer to you about what she should be doing and how she should be doing it. Get over yourself.
You obviously have an agenda that she does not, so what? And stop whining about everyone’s voices being shut down here. Absolutely no one keeps anyone else from posting here. Everyone here must endure the most vile and insane invective from the most ignorant of posters here. It’s called free speech, something that they don’t have in Cuba.
Admit it, you love to come here and spar with those who do not necessarily agree with you. You insincerely ask people not to comment on your posts, when you constantly do that very thing to try to prove your “moral superiority.”
Do you really think that Americans care what you think about them?
Enero 24th, 2013 at 07:01
Great to know there is a committee of ‘elders’ that gives ‘awards’ @103… how much more American this blog can be than to mention ‘an award’ for something… So there we have open confirmation and collusion there is clique here that capitalises on meaning and what we should do and say here - which was long evident…
Pity that others as seen time an again feel discouraged to comment and drop out very quickly - people of other nationalities I mean and people of other mentality than this clique proposes… And a very self-serving mentality it is nothing is more self deluded than an American who is ‘called to be’ the policeman of the world since other are not worthy…!!! We’ve seen it a lot and it seem that the ‘Americanly correct’ police is working under cover here tooo… No nicks but lots of ethos in distorting other opinions.. Probably so, 2 or 4 or these quarter-anonimos can put together a word that the ‘elders’ approve of…The other alternative is to get mileage on the browser scroll looking at what the Humberto parroted daily from the US media.
Since normal Cubans in Cuba apparently cannot comment on this blog though they could have benefited from true anonimity …and though the same BBC film quoted @100 showed they even do rap in Cuba on good computers that are connected to the world and America … not to mention private initiative is on the rise both in the countryside and city… I would have appreciated comments from recent Cuban migrants to the US… but those guys do not comment here… probably they work very long hours or cannot be bothered since they know what the ‘elder’ Americans are up to… being apologist for their past shady deeds…and apologists for their hatred… More so I would have appreciated comments from Cuban that live in South America… and do have Internet access and freedom to speak and freedom ‘to give the system away’. Evidently they are discouraged too to comment here and engage! Which all in all proves other and more in touch Cubans - than the ones here - do see things differently.
I didn’t start here with idea that MsY is wrong in her quest… I actually thought she was a step in the right direction however a step that is used and propped by the West. The American clique here that stops everyone ‘different in their views’ from saying what they feel believe think and expect have convinced me that many fold…
MsY’s position is as corruptible if not as corrupt as Cuban gov and sustained by very little in terms of valid objectives, true reconciliation, and a good opportunity to address inequality in Cuba in an effective way… As a small example I am also sure if ‘gun crime’ existed in Cuba… MsY would have deplored it a lot as the regime’s fault.. In 1 year here MsY posted 1 and only 1 item related to violent death in Cuba… as opposed to the USA where I can set my clock on how often a violent shooting occurs… Guantanamo being on Cuban soil is another topic forever forgotten by MsY… So implicitly if not explicitly MsY is doing her best to avoid controversy in the West and refrains from exposing what is unjust and fits a larger pattern that extends beyond her island..
So I thank the ‘elder clique’ for putting me down for an award … if nothing else it comes from cheap people - cheap in methods and purpose…ie. people who do not put their mouths where their ’cause’ is but are keen to stop others from thinking and saying what they thing… When you get some rum and cigars at least… do consider me… until then stay withing your avarice where you have forgotten what Cuban hospitality is…
In case I am not here next year when you vote again and if you decide to get sum Cuban rum and cigars to the winner… and in case I win …please print this speech again.. I dare you..since I am sure it will still stand true!!
Enero 24th, 2013 at 06:53
Cuba Libre, you have to be kidding. I’ve checked out your Princessa del Mar at Varadero on their website and google earth. It’s a pretty fancy place by anyone’s standards, several hundred dollars a night. And this is the “Cuban way of life” is it? I hope you think of them while you’re lying on your sun lounge by the pool and stuffing your face with food the locals can only dream about. Do not tell us again about the “stress free life in Cuba”.
Enero 24th, 2013 at 06:18
BBC documentary entitled “Cuba”. Video on demand expires in 13 days.
http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand....._term=cuba
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 23:53
THE CHAVISTAS FASCISTAS ARE EITHER GETTING READY TO FRAME SOME IN THE OPPOSITION TO GET THEM OUT OF THE WAY OR PLAYING THE BOOGIEMAN, BAD OLD U.S.A. CARD OR BOTH! OR JUST PLAIN DOING IT TO SHIFT FOCUS FROM THE FACT THAT THEY CANNOT PROVIDE VIDEOS OF HUGO CHAVEZ RECUPERATING THAT THE WORLD WILL BELIEVE!
WASHINGTON POST: Venezuela vice president says plot uncovered, travels to Cuba to see Hugo Chavez
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s vice president said Wednesday that the government has uncovered a plot to attack him or another senior leader of President Hugo Chavez’s party.
The purported plot involved “groups that have infiltrated the country,” Vice President Nicolas Maduro said in a speech to government supporters. He added that the authorities believe the unidentified groups intended to attack him or National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello, and then “try to blame one or the other.”
After announcing the alleged plot, Maduro traveled to Cuba to see the ailing Chavez, who underwent cancer surgery more than six weeks ago. Cuban state television showed Maduro arriving in Havana on Wednesday night and being greeted by Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez.
In a speech to supporters in Caracas on Wednesday afternoon, Maduro didn’t provide any evidence of the plot or say what sort of attacks the authorities believed to have been planned. The vice president also didn’t mention any arrests, but said: “Don’t be surprised by the actions that will be taken in the coming days.”
A large contingent of police and troops with rifles stood guard while Maduro spoke at an outdoor rally.
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE ARTICLE!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 22:47
Help, #77
Yes, the recipients of this year’s awards well deserve the recognition. They’ve earned it. The committee struggled with what to do with _man comes around_, but decided to defer the decision till next year. Not that he hasn’t impressed us by reaching the same depths of absolute nonsense as the other candidates. The committee wants to see if he can do any worse. It’s become a race to the bottom and no one knows where it will end.
How about that admission by Damir that he works for a multinational corporation?! Hence his super powers that allow him to track the IP addresses of everyone who posts here. Damir is a closet capitalist working for a multinational corporation. He declared it with such pride!
Here’s what he said at #81:
“My ability comes from the work I do for a multinational company thagt [sic] also gathers the data on teh [sic] net and runs a number of analysing [sic] programs through the data in order to create marketing strategies and plans for its’ clients.”
Really? Marketing strategies and plans for clients? Damir, forgive me, but that sounds really capitalistic. You take advantage of information other people don’t readily have to exploit the masses of workers who are toiling away earning an honest wage so you can take it from them, just because you know how to “create marketing strategies and plans for [your] clients.”
Damir, when are you moving to Cuba to introduce some of your pragmatic capitalism there?
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 18:20
LIFE in Cuba sucks and I can tell you that from experience. Its no wonder people jump into the Atlantic Ocean to escape the oppressive Regime.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 17:07
I wonder if Damir’s employers know how much time he spends at his desk, spewing a lot of bile on this site. An evil, multi-national company wouldn’t be happy about that.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 16:47
Watched a BBC documentary last night on TV on Cuba. Much talk about people living in fear of their houses collapsing, the roofs falling in while they sleep, the pathetic rations, the poor quality of food, the oppressive regime etc. etc. etc. But according to Cuba Libre it’s a wonderful way of life.
And Damir, you mor.n, there are several anonimos here and it’s so much fun watching you get all het up trying to figure out who is who. LOL.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 16:37
NOW, LETS HEAR FROM THE EVERY DAY CUBAN AND THEIR REALITY WHICH IS NOT WHAT THE MAJORITY OF TOURISTS SEE!
YOUTUBE: DOCUMENTARY: “Cuba and the Elephants” - Full version w / English Sub-titles: A Look at Cuba, in reality beyond its tourist attractions. A documentary that takes us to reflect on the achievements of the socialist system and how truly the common Cuban people live. A production of the Political Institute of Peru for Liberty. DOCUMENTAL: Cuba y los Elefantes - Versión completa w/ English Sub-titles :Una mirada a Cuba, a su realidad más allá de sus atractivos turísticos. Un documental que nos lleva a reflexionar sobre los logros que se pregonan del sistema socialista y lo que verdaderamente vive el pueblo cubano. Una producción del Instituto Político para la Libertad Perú
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....ce=message
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 16:27
re #49 Cuba Liar wrote:
“Leaving Saturday January 26 for a two week stay at the Paradisus Princesa del Mar in Varadero. …I envy the Cuban way of life. Stress free and easy going, nothing compared to the heptic every day life in Canada or US.”
Has it ever occurred to you that the “Cuban way of life” is not what you see on the resorts?
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 15:20
ITS NICE TO TALK ABOUT CUBA AND CUBAN ISSUES ON THIS COMMENT SECTION! THAT BAD OLD USA TOPIC GETS OLD, REPETITIVE AND IS OFF THE MARK HERE!
MIAMI HERALD: Cuban human rights group: Number of political prisoners has doubled - Its rise in political prisoners ‘reaffirms’ Cuba as the leader in the Western Hemisphere for the number of people sent to prison for their beliefs. - By Juan O. Tamayo
The number of prisoners held on political charges in Cuba doubled to 90 in the past 10 months despite the government’s preference for short-term detentions to control dissent, a Havana human rights group reported Tuesday.
About 30 of the new prisoners are leaders and members of the Cuban Patriotic Union (UNPACU), a dissident group that has achieved a surprisingly active presence in the eastern part of the island since it was founded in mid-2011.
The number of jailings is evidence that police “are ready to repress with the utmost force in order to paralyze the visible advances of UNPACU,” founder José Daniel Ferrér Gárcia said by phone from his home in the eastern town of Palmarito de Cauto.
Ferrer was one of the 120-plus political prisoners freed in 2010 and 2011 as part of an agreement between Cuba ruler Raúl Castro and Cardinal Jaime Ortega. He had been in prison since a 2003 crackdown on 75 dissidents known as Cuba’s “Black Spring.”
The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation noted in its report that the number of Cubans convicted or awaiting trials on political crimes had risen from 45 in March of last year to 90 as of last week.
LINK FOR ENTIRE ARTICLE!
http://www.miamiherald.com/201.....umber.html
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 14:39
From Damir:
“Now, I can open the visits site log from where I am and I can see the IP address of “anonimo”. My ability comes from the work I do for a multinational company thagt also gathers the data on teh net and runs a number of analysing programs through the data in order to create marketing strategies and plans for its’ clients.”
Damir, YOU work for a “multinational company”? Do you mean an “evil capitalist corporation”?
They “mine” people’s internet data in order to figure out how to market to them? How very capitalist of them.
The hypocrite fest continues.
Sorry, Humberto, I’ll stop feeding the fat trolls.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 13:49
I THINK WE HAVE FED THE TROLLS ENOUGH FOR THE WEEK! NOW LETS GET INTO SOME CUBA AND CUBAN ISSUES AND SKIP OVER THAT OLD AND TIRED “BAD OLD USA” PLOY THAT The Man AND OTHERS ARE SO FOND OF IN ODER TO SHIFT FOCUS AND CONVERSATION!
GLOBAL POST: Cuba’s ‘resale’ economics - The island’s halfway capitalism has trapped Cubans between private business and the state economy. - Nick Miroff
Cracker Man, as he’s known in the neighborhood (“el Galletero”), sells his product for about $1 a bag. He doesn’t make the crackers, but buys them from the state-owned bakery.
He’s what Cubans refer to as a “revendedor,” a reseller who buys scarce state-subsidized items from government stores to sell at a mark-up.
Raul Castro’s recent reforms — the government calls them “updates” — have provided a place for market forces to exist alongside the centrally planned, state-controlled economy. Cubans have been granted new opportunities to become tradesman, DVD vendors, pizza makers and licensed small-scale retailers whose tiny shops and stalls have bloomed along Cuba’s main streets and thoroughfares.
Other entrepreneurs navigate pushcarts through the streets as itinerant peddlers, hawking goods under the hot Caribbean sun.
The government wants the private commerce to stimulate Cuba’s moribund economy and substitute costly imports. But experts say the authorities have yet to take the next necessary step: allowing entrepreneurs to innovate and manufacture their own products.
“We still haven’t created the mechanisms for a productive economy,” says economist Julio Diaz Vazquez, a Soviet-trained expert on China and Vietnam’s so-called market socialism. He criticizes the government for wanting to encourage entrepreneurship while tightly controlling it through an obtuse bureaucratic regulatory system.
He believes that’s a lost cause. “You can’t play games with the market,” he says.
The authorities say they want to sharply reduce the number of Cubans working in low-paid, unproductive government jobs by moving them into cooperatives and small-scale private businesses.
They’re setting up pilot programs to convert state-run enterprises into worker-managed cooperatives, and have expanded the range of occupations for which Cubans are allowed to obtain self-employment licenses.
But the list remains very small, with fewer than 200 officially sanctioned professions from which Cubans can choose, including obscure jobs such as “party planner” and “palm-tree pruner.”
Not the kind of thing to lift millions out of poverty or free Cuba from having to import soap, snack foods and other bare necessities on which the government spends billions of dollars abroad while its own state-run manufacturing sector withers.
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE ARTICLE!
http://www.globalpost.com/disp.....te-economy
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 13:24
It’s interesting how when a Jewish person, Aaron Swartz in this case, fits into the agenda of certain posters, no derogatory emphasis like “Zionist, jew, media controllers,” etc. is ever mentioned.
But when they don’t the usual suspects of derogatory terms rears its ugly head.
Hypocrites.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 13:19
And what is the Romanian hug for lonely housewives and househusbands? Tell me, is there TV in Romania, shopping?
Or is America the only place with TV and shopping? LOL.
Oh, are there kids in Romania?
Hugs, baby.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 12:51
Since MsY is in tune with the Internet revolution she could thank in part to Aaron Swartz and side with the view he was killed by the US government… You don’t get that kind of truth too often told… but that I bet would upset her darling publisher up north and the phone will stop ringing!
See link below @83 Keiser Report on Aaron Swartz
In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the closing of the American mind, as intellectual troublemakers like Aaron Swartz are locked up for decades instead of being free to innovate. They look at the two-tiered justice system under which people like Swartz are persecuted, while political benefactors on Wall Street are allowed to commit an endless array of financial crimes without any fear of prosecution.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 12:48
Obviously someone needs at least a hug… oh the American hug for lonely housewives… Probably tv, kids and shopping still leave some libido that rears its ugly head even in the happiest of gun societies that is the USA!…
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 11:23
Really, stop making a fool of yourself. I know that, as does everyone else, because when The Man Comes Around ceremoniously announced his return, he put UnSoricel at the bottom of that message, just to let everyone know who he was.
It took a real rocket scientist to figure that one out. Duh.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 11:15
While the “anonimous” “friendly translator” is raging over her long lost cycles and it is all Castros’ fault, let me continue with pointing out the lies concocted in cia basements:
“For months now the alternative market offerings have been widening, with collections that join documentaries and series. A kind of on-demand television, a programming for every taste, distributed on digital media such as hard drives and USB flash memories.”
If they cared to ask around, they would find out that these are also available on DVD’s from hundreds of street vendors in Cuba. Nothing underground about these documentaries and series. They are on the steet and freely. So are in Italy where I live, and os are in Chile where I was a number of times, or in Argentina, Greece, Spain, to mention a few countries where I saw them.
But what is more damning for the stupid id**ts (still not working for me anonimous liar) is that while the team “yoani” are calling Cuban TV a thief for showing “scavenged” shows, when they themselves sell or exchange the same shows, that is an “alternative”.
What happened to good old hypocrisy?
Absolutely nothing. The team “yoani” are still at it as if there’s no tomorrow.
Well, there isn’t one for them, that’s for sure.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 11:07
Or, if that is not to your liking, how then about this one:
“The person that uses the nick “man comes around” is the same person who used to use the nick “Un Soricel,” and he stated those “personal details” in one of his posts.”
And how do you know THAT?
UnSoricel said that too? Or was it the man? Or, was it our “anonimo” shift-scared loser whoever she is?
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 11:06
Like I said, paranoia and stupidity know no bounds. Damir’s conspiracy theories keep getting more bizarre.
Could some of you regulars, who do not post under the name Anomino, type the test word “idiot” into your responses and expose this fool for the nut that he is?
IDIOT.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 11:01
Another mistake “friendly translator”:
I cannot write the word id**t and have my post published. It is on the list of “banned” words”. It just doesn’t work for me. Now, since I am using a proxy, my IP cannot be blocked for it changes all teh time. So, it is not IP-specific. Which means that ANYONE>/b> who writes the word id**t, will not have their post published.
Yet, the post 84 contains the word in full.
How do you do that?
You unblock the word so that you can post your garbage, an then ban it again.
I have just tested it and it worked just fine: I only rote the post with that one word, id**t, and it did not go through.
“anonimo” is “friendly translator” elderly granmother. Obviously biter and disenfranchised, probably by having a crush on some Cuban in the past, and it all ended up badly.
Or, which is more likey, she is a cia handler-coordinator for this site.
Despite the fact that she doesn’t even speak Spanihs!!!!
Laughable id**ts cia and their domestic traitors.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 10:32
“We all know here in Europe and Easter Europe in particular abotu the closing of the American mind… and the ’surpise’ to find out it wasn’t on the par with the promises it makes! the least to say!”
LOL. And how many times have you been to America? Armchair “intellectuals” are hilarious.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 10:28
Oh My Goodness, I am ROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING MY AS* OFF!!!
Damir, you FREAKING IDIOT.
The person that uses the nick “man comes around” is the same person who used to use the nick “Un Soricel,” and he stated those “personal details” in one of his posts.
NO SUBTERFUGE INVOLVED AND I AM NOT THE “FRIENDLY TRANSLATOR.” Even the bumbling Inspector Clouseau would have fired you after one day. Wow, your stupidity knows no bounds.
Has anyone ever heard of “Hide Your As*”? It’s one of many proxy services that let you hide your IP address, Damir has even admitted that he uses one in one of his previous rants. I use it all the time.
Don’t worry, the big bad wolf can’t see your IP addresses, he’s just huffing and puffing.
LOLOLOL.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 10:18
Or maybe since MsY is in tune with the Internet revolution could thank in part to Aaron Swartz and side with the view he was killed by the US government… You don’t get that kind of truth too often told… but that I bet would upset her darling publisher up north and the phone will stop ringing!
Check out the Keiser Report on Aaron Swartz
http://rt.com/programs/keiser-.....ax-keiser/
In this episode, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the closing of the American mind, as intellectual troublemakers like Aaron Swartz are locked up for decades instead of being free to innovate.
We all know here in Europe and Easter Europe in particular abotu the closing of the American mind… and the ’surpise’ to find out it wasn’t on the par with the promises it makes! the least to say!
Since MsY doesn’t write about shootings ‘and expose in her view society for her evils’… which would be all Castro’s fault…that should teach him to play daddy to MsY… Obviously there are no likely shootings in Cuba… As I recall MsY showed indignation towards ONE violent episode and only one in my one year here!
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 09:31
And the brainless “anonimo” “friendly translator”, in her endless simplicity committs the same old mistake in the post 80, answering her own question about her identity.
Here’s Damir’s (this will inflame that other loser hank/help duplicity issue person)explanation YET AGAIN, although I know only too well that even if I repeat it 100 times, the IQ deprived empty skull will never be able to grasp it.
How does “anonimo” know who is the person under the nick “The man comes around… ”
On internet there’s only
ONE WAY
Anonimo can see the site’s visit log and can then trace to some extent the user and comparing the comments, with a bit of luck anonimo could get a grasp on the person.
For “anonimo” to see the visit log, “anonimo” has to be on the admin side of the site.
The “friendly translator” is on the right side.
And with abundant help from their cia white “gods” masters, it is even easier to gather more information about the person behind the nick.
There’s no other way for “anonimo” to know personal details of someone otherwise.
Unless they are personally acquainted and they both know that the other writes occasional coment here.
Now, I can open the visits site log from where I am and I can see the IP address of “anonimo”. My ability comes from the work I do for a multinational company thagt also gathers the data on teh net and runs a number of analysing programs through the data in order to create marketing strategies and plans for its’ clients.
So, for me to see the IP of every single person here is a child’s play.
And, lo and behold, anonimo’s is strangely similar, should I say identical, to the site’s IP address. So, even if it is not the old granny “friendly ranslator” (and it has to be for only a woman would get hysterical and comment first on my comment about her age - that MUST HAVE HURT, eh, granny?), it is definitely someone from the team “yoani”, who is trying hard, within their very limited intellectual capacities and gifts, to do their best to conceal their identity.
Who knew…?
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 09:08
And now…. for more news unrelated to Cuba on a Cuban blog:
Young man, proud to be Romanian but lives in the UK, wants a baby but is too dumb to figure out how to earn enough money to accomplish this unusual goal.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 09:04
I’m merely stating the facts. It does happen around the world, no matter what spin you try to put on it. Seems like Finland has quite a problem as well, but I don’t see you disparaging Finland on this forum. Hmmm……
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 08:58
…the fifth school shooting to date in the US since the beginning of 2013…
At least three shot at Texas college
http://rt.com/usa/news/shot-te.....cials-529/
a US apologist always an apologist… it works everywhere the same… you either say that this happens somewhere else too (as if) or you try to minimise this is important for the ‘topic’ of democracy..
To their credit a good apologist really believes that whatever evil around it is the evil that exists somewhere else too.. hence it is small!.. the bigger evils are always abroad and only reported!
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 08:09
Hank,
The champions deserve their awards.
The entity Damir actually said “the food in Cuba is great” so he’ll be hard to dethrone.
But don’t forget _man comes around_ , he actually said there are no shootings in Cuba because Granma doesn’t publish them.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 07:49
Loved this video about “El Che”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPnwZs_TV8k
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 07:16
Here are just a few mass shooting incidents (there are others), that occured NOT IN THE UNITED STATES:
July 22, 2011: At least 80 people are killed at a summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utoya. A man arrested also is suspected in a blast earlier the same day in downtown Oslo that killed seven.
April 30, 2009: Farda Gadyrov, 29, enters the prestigious Azerbaijan State Oil Academy in the capital, Baku, armed with an automatic pistol and clips. He kills 12 people before killing himself as police close in.
Sept. 23, 2008: Matti Saari, 22, walks into a vocational college in Kauhajoki, Finland, and opens fire, killing 10 people and burning their bodies with firebombs before shooting himself fatally in the head.
Nov. 7, 2007: After revealing plans for his attack in YouTube postings, 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen fires kills eight people at his high school in Tuusula, Finland.
April 26, 2002: Robert Steinhaeuser, 19, who had been expelled from school in Erfurt, Germany, kills 13 teachers, two former classmates and policeman, before committing suicide.
April 28, 1996: Martin Bryant, 29, bursts into cafeteria in seaside resort of Port Arthur in Tasmania, Australia, shooting 20 people to death. Driving away, he kills 15 others. He was captured and imprisoned.
March 13, 1996: Thomas Hamilton, 43, kills 16 kindergarten children and their teacher in elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland, and then kills himself.
Dec. 6, 1989: Marc Lepine, 25, bursts into Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique college, shooting at women he encounters, killing nine and then himself.
Aug. 19, 1987: Michael Ryan, 27, kills 16 people in small market town of Hungerford, England, and then shoots himself dead after being cornered by police.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 06:53
Maybe MsY should/could write about this ‘daily-almost’ occurrence in the land that sells freedom by the gun, in her trip up north… it could be the Cuban future to come if the apologist here get their daddies on board…
…the fifth school shooting to date in the US since the beginning of 2013…
At least three shot at Texas college
Suppose democracy means one can publish pics about another terrible incident in the land of the free… more like land of the free to kill each other in the name of the 2nd amendment….
In Cuba presently we cannot publish pics of such incident so no democracy there the apologist here would argue - but then again such incidents do not occur in Cuba that I suppose is not relevant to them who grew up with violence part of their daily tv lives.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 06:18
Man, darling, I’m afraid you have your “Anomino’s” mixed up.
It’s quite amusing watching you, and Damir, flail about blindly though.
Damir has delusions that I am the “friendly translator” and you have mistaken me for the person who just posted several times under “Anomino.”
LOL.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 05:59
Damir… we have Madonna amongst us… same gaga ‘pretences’ same vocal talent… like Madonna it is more like she is begging that we want to know her?… … I suggested obliquely she should get a boyf and stop chasing me… but it didn’t register she is not so subtle … I see she’s hitting on you trying to ‘prove’ her wit!… another dead horse she’s flogging… do we want to ride it??? NOT!
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 04:08
Excuse me Damir, f…wit, you know nothing about me, you do not know my age, so where do you get the right to call me a grandmother? You don’t even know if I’m male or female. And just get this Damir, I’ve been to Cuba 6 times. So pull you head in ou demented twat.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 03:54
The food in Cuba is great. Only a loser who has never been there can say the rubbish that the “anonimous” “friendly translator” is peddling here. What a shame for an elderly woma, who should be caring for grandchildren and teaching kids love and respect, is lying so shamelessly when she has never been in Cubsa, while I have been there for the best part of the last and this decade.
I know exactly how bad is in Cuba and I know that the lies the team “yoani” are trying to make look like truth here, are nothing but disgusting lies of imperialist nazist gulag usa.
The warmongering murderous criminals.
Every member of their government should be exterminated. Just as they are doing to other governments around the world. Iraq, Libya, now Siria, Chile, Guatemala, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay, unsuccessful putch in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia.
How is that ok?
And since that IS ok, then what I suggest is also ok. I have had usanian nazist gulag’s murderers pointing their guns in my own country, when they were helping incompetent croat rebels to take the power and ethnically cleanse all Serbs from croatia, and all leftists.
So, I have every right to say that they should all be exterminated.
They tried to do that to me in my own country, it is okay for me to want the same to happen to them.
If they want to destroy Cuba, just because it is a socialist country, then it is okay to want them dead.
If they gave themselves the right to try to kill Fidel over 35 times, then it is okay to want them all dead too.
They do not have the right to decide who does what and when, or who dies, how and when.
Careful.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 03:39
Where was “anonimous” “friendly translator”, whe the 1 and a half pioner of their support brigade were calling for Castros to be killed, and were threatening that “when we win, Castros will pay with their lives”. Similar threats are daily posted on spanish side of this distasteful kying site.
The “anonimous” “friendly translator” is nowhere to be seen there.
Careful.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 01:47
“Liar” is also a very strong word Damir. I have been to Cuba many times and the food is crap. Even worse for the Cubans. Everything is overloaded with sugar. Worst muck I’ve eaten.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 01:28
Exterminate is a very strong word Damir. Careful.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 01:26
And the “friendly” translator shooting themselves all in the space beteween the eyes with the post 64:
“The food in Cuba is probably the worst I’ve eaten anywhere in the world.”
That is a lie on a number of levels:
1. The old semi-retired cia co-ordinator of this site has NEVER been to Cuban to start with. She is an usanian nazist gulag citizen. They are forbidden form traveling to Cuba.
2. The 1 and a half pioneer of the team “yoani” keep telling us that the usa is the “biggest” exporter of
FOOD
to Cuba, so if the deranged liar “friendly translator” had even been there, the reason for the food to be the worst in the world by default results from it being usanian garbage. In a way that also is telling us that the usanian nazist gulag is probably trying to poison Cubans thorugh food, since they always know best, those terrorists and criminals who pretend to be “democracy” chimpanzees.
3. I have been visiting Cuba for a number of years now, and the food there is
EXCELLENT
And even more than that. It is all almost exclusively, courtesy of those nazist gulag’s economic sanctions and blockade, ORGANIC.
Excep the garbage, as now confirmed by the “friendly translator”, made in usa nazist gulag, which isaccording to that genous,
THE WORST IN THE WORLD
But, just watch the twists and the turns now while the brain-defficient losers try and turn around these facts into their advantage somehow.
These spin-makers always find a vay to make a truth against them sound as if it is on their side.
In my world, we call that - LYING.
Which is what the team “yoani” are doing and their on-site jinetera is undersigning the lies so that she can repair her “house” and live in absolute luxury while authorising rubbish about her country.
As jineteras do.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 01:14
Seriously, I am amazed EVERY single time the 1 and a half pioneers brigade make a comment, with their enormous delusional fantasies.
There’s nothing that the liar jinetera could defend herself from when it comes to her interview to Dr. Salim Limrani. She had a hard time given to her form her cia handlers for being THAT stupid and they had to write a “rebuke” for her.
However, and that only tells us how stupid you all are, Dr. Salim Limrani had recorded the interview, so he has the evidence that he had changed
NOTHING
and that makes it for further proof that jinetera and dpomestic traitor is just that. And a cia apparatchik in Cuba.
After all, she herself had, in her immense stupidity, said as much in the interview. When Dr. Limrani asked her how did he manage to reach obama, and we today know THAT TOO IS A LIE for it was the spy in Swiss Embassy where the nazist gulag usa has a little office called “Interests section”, she said she had friends who had access to obama.
Yeah, so an ordinary Cuban from the island has friends who have direct access to obama !!!!!
One MUST be a mo**n to believe this shift.
A spy, on the other hand, while not having the access to obama, for they never had it, did write the “answers” in the name of obama.
In itself that is a crime even in the nazist gulag usa. It is called impersonation. And of a president of some country no less. And by another diplomatic representative.
But, since the nazist gulag usa has laws and agencies for “installing” “democracy” to Cuba, which also is a top level crime and it is better known as state-sponsored terrorism, we are not surprised that teh culprits are still free and probably have been ordained with a medal of similar shift from the nazist gulag usa nigga presidente. The same one even the 1 and a half pioneer here were insulting and calling a socialist and other stuff when the peon won the fiorst term in the nazist gulag’s presidency office.
So, get off that moral horse for it is a mule and it is a bad one too. It makes you look even more a herd of warmongering criminals that should realy be judged by the usanian nazist gulag’s laws and exterminated, in accordance with the se “democratic”, you say, laws.
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 00:49
Why don’t we all go to Varadero for a couple of weeks and sit around drinking mohitos with Mike, Damir and The Man. Wouldn’t that be fun??!!
Enero 23rd, 2013 at 00:43
Cuba Libre, what a joke. Spending two weeks at a luxury hotel at Varadero? I’m sure the way of life FOR YOU is just fine. Do you think Cubans can enjoy such an existence? You’re ridiculous. And so is Damir saying you’ll enjoy fine food etc. The food in Cuba is probably the worst I’ve eaten anywhere in the world.
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 23:29
Awards season has once again arrived here on the English language comments section of Yoani’s blog! This is a festive time of year, one we take seriously. Voting this year was, to be honest, not very close because the candidates were outstanding. So, without further ado, let’s get to the awards!
There were a couple of clear stand-outs — two actually.
I’m pleased to announce that for the first time we have a winner who has swept all three of the major categories — an unprecedented feat. These categories are Village Idiot; Biggest Conspiracy Theorist; and Least Able to Convey a Rational Thought.
Readers who follow this blog closely may have already guessed it, but the winner is “the entity that refers to itself as Damir.” Congratulations, Damir! We don’t look forward to your next rant, but I’m sure you won’t disappoint!
The only remaining award category is Comment Section Buffoon. This award is a close relative of Village Idiot, but the awards committee thought it was especially important to recognize and distinguish this year’s recipient for his consistent hypocrisy and homophobia.
Mike from Montreal, aka, Cuba Libre, is the winner! Congratulations CL!
As a side note, the awards committee is considering hand delivering the aluminum foil plaque to Mike (which can also be worn on his head to facilitate radio transmissions via his fillings) to his winter retreat in Varadero — but that would entail then having to run away as fast as possible so as not to have to sit and debate with Mike the stunning failures of the Cuban debacle. What an unbelievable waste of time that would be!
Congratulations to the winners! And to the losers, there’s always next year!
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 23:11
WOW! I DONT KNOW MY OWN FUACATAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! STRENGTH! TAKE A DEEP BREATH Damir! IT WILL WEAR OFF IN A FEW DAYS!
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 22:13
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Still no response to my questions from Team Yoani.
Yawn.
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 22:11
SORRY Help! HAD TO FEED THE TROLL Damir! HE LOOKED HUNGRY AND NEEDY FOR ATTENTION!
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 21:54
ON THE TOPIC OF THE Salim Limrani INTERVIEW, I DONT NEED TO DEFEND LA YOANI! SHE CAN DO IT WITH HER OWN WORDS Damir DEAR!
YOANI SANCHEZ BLOG ENTRY: The Other Interview - Abril 16th, 2010
I don’t enjoy going through life defending myself against attacks, perhaps because I have spent most of it in the crossfire of criticism. I’ve learned that at times it is better to digest the insult and move on, because denigration sullies the one who does it more than the victim. Everything, however, has its limits. It is a very different thing to put words in my mouth that I did not say, as has happened with the interview published by Salim Lamrani in Rebelión. As I started to read it I didn’t note much distortion, but by the second part I couldn’t recognize myself. It’s true that in the introduction he tries to generate an aversion for me in his readers, but it is the right of any interviewer to describe how he sees the object of his questions.
The big surprise has been noted, in the way in which he presents the text: enormous omissions, distortions and even invented phrases attributed to me. It would have been just another attempt, among many thousands, to attribute to me positions I don’t share and declarations I never made, if it weren’t for the fact that the official Cuban media was prepared to quickly echo the rearranged interview. Yesterday, when I saw the presenter of the most boring program on official television refer, without ever mentioning my name, to a series of questions that had “stripped me naked,” I began to understand everything. The reason for the adulteration was not haste in transcription nor the desire of the journalist to prove his hypothesis at all cost, even distorting the words of the interviewee to do so. Something major is brewing with this semi-apocryphal text, and I now make a stop along the way in my blog to warn of it.
I have a very vivid memory of that afternoon almost three months ago - curiously Mr. Lamrani has waited all this time to publish our conversation - and of the words we exchanged. I remember his stereotypical questions, at times uninformed about our reality, and with very little resemblance to those, as documented, that he has reworked to appear to be a specialist. I would not characterize myself as one who responds in monosyllables, and I had a hard time finding myself among so much parsimony. As our interchange at the Hotel Plaza advanced, I could sense the sympathy he had for my position growing. In the end, I felt that all the barriers had fallen and he understood that we were not opponents, simply people who saw the same phenomena from different viewpoints. A final hug on his part confirmed it. But, evidently, his discipline for “the cause” was stronger than his journalistic ethics, and the professor from the Sorbonne ended up - visibly in the second part of the interview - falsifying my voice. On his painfully hip iPhone my moderate phrases must have been like a computer virus, eating away at the stereotypes, a call to end the confrontation that people like him prefer to feed.
http://www.desdecuba.com/generationy/?p=1657
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 21:21
Here’s more of the lies of the team “yoani” and their domestic traitor and a jinetera to her white “gods”.
In the section “Los premios internacionales, el blog y Barack Obama”, of the interview Dr. Salim Limrani did with the cia spy in Cuba, we can read the following:
YS: Hablemos del premio Ortega y Gasset del periódico El País que suscita más polémica. Lo gané en la categoría «Internet». Algunos dicen que otros periodistas no lo han conseguido, pero yo soy una bloguera y soy pionera en este campo. Me considero como una figura de Internet. El jurado del premio Ortega y Gasset se compone de personalidades sumamente prestigiosas y no diría que se prestaron a una conspiración contra Cuba.
As I have already demonstated yesterday on “What will be” page, the “gasset y ortega” “prize” is anything but “prestigious.
It was created in 1984 yet the first prize” was given only in 2000, and to an usanian “journalist”!!!
The “category internet” never existed, until the 2008, when it was “given” to the team “yoani”.
And what is even more telling is that the “prestigious prize gaset y rtega” has then
CEASED TO EXIST SUDDENLY
I have posted the link to their page yesterday in the previous page, “What will be”, and as everyone can see, it says VERY CLEARLY that the page DOESN’T EXIST
Now, THAT I call “prestigious”!!!
What a load of bullshift by the nazist conservative imperialists!!!!
The “prestigious prize” that had been established in 1984, simplydisappeared in 2008, after giving the money to a troll and a domestic traitor who is bent (over for white “gods” that come to Cuba for their “fun” with money) on destroying her own country.
Serves them right for giving the money to cia apparatchiks!!!
Not that the “prize” was ever a prestigious one.
Every single “winner” was a person with extreme right wing political views of the world, in case of usanian “winners”, or were cia operatives in their respective countries, in case of non-usanian “winners”.
The right wing giving the money openly to their terrorist operatives and domestic traitors!!!
So why would then be wrong for the left wing to take up the arms and prizes and whatever esle the nazists are doing to bolster their own?
Why is it wrong to do so ONLY when the left does it? Why it is a “human rights” crime to shoot at conservatives who are trying to enslave people and empoverish those they did not manage to kill with nuclear and other Weapons of Mass Destruction?
More importantly, why is it NOT a “human rights” crime to shoot at progressive left who are trying to free people empoverished by conservatives. The same ones who are trying to kill anyone who disagrees with them with nuclear and other Weapons of Mass Destruction?
Is THAT what these cre**s who hate Cuba for being a socialist country, call a “democracy”?
It seems to be so.
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 20:59
Let me refresh the memory of those who wish some things have never been said for they keep coming to bite them now:
In the interview to Dr. Salim Limrani, the pin-up granny had said many things that today we know to be a blatant lie. For example, she had obscured that her ill-ended trip to “europaradise capitalism” did start in Germany first, and she had also obscured that she left Switzerland too for Spain, before she had to admit her life in “europaradise capitalism” was a total failure for there there is NO free medical if you do not work, NO free education just because you have children, NO free food just because you are unemployed and NO free home to live in just because you have no money to pay for one.
Suiza y el regreso a Cuba
SL: En 2002, usted decidió emigrar a Suiza. Dos años después regresó a Cuba. Resulta difícil entender por qué dejó el «paraíso europeo» para regresar al país que usted describe como un infierno. La pregunta es sencilla: ¿por qué?
YS: Es una pregunta muy buena. Primero, me gusta nadar a contracorriente. Me gusta organizar mi vida a mi manera. Lo que es absurdo no es irse y regresar a Cuba sino las leyes migratorias cubanas que estipulan que toda persona que pasa once meses en el exterior pierde su estatus de residente permanente. En otras condiciones yo podría estar dos años en el exterior y con el dinero ganado, podría regresar a Cuba para reparar la casa y hacer otras cosas. Entonces no es el hecho de que decida regresar a Cuba lo que es sorprendente sino las leyes migratorias cubanas.
http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=104205
NOT A SINGLE WORD ABOUT GERMANY AND SPAIN!!!!!!! Just some garbage about missing the family… Yeah right… And that is why she went from one side of Europe to the other!!! She missed her mami!!!
If you lie, at least lie convincingly.
But wait!!!
There’s more.
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 20:49
GUESS #49 IS THE NEW #48 ACCORDING TO Damir!
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 20:46
Post 49, Cuba Libre, I congratulate you on your frankness and openess. Let those “democracy” chimpanzees boil in their envy and hatred for NOT being able to join you for they are too under usanian nazist sanctions. They are explicitly PROHIBITED to travel to CUBA by their nazist usanian dictatorship.
I have been myself to Cuba so many times that I know that you will have a great time, great food and that you will be able to share it with your Cuban friends, just as my wife and our children do with our friends.
Only those rats from sewerages of miami have their minds in the SEWERAGE and think that all foreigners go there for some sordid sex tourism.
There is a LOT more to Cuban people than that disgusting insinuation.
These “demcoracy” chimpanzees pretend to “defend” Cuban people, yet as soon as one mentions that he or she is going to Cuba, they talk about sex tourism.
I wonder HOW DO THEY KNOW THAT in the first place… Probably for they are doing that themselves and think just because many usanians are mentally disturbed, so should be the rest of the world…
Sadly for them 4 1/2 million of tourists already just last year beg to differ. There are many, many foreigners that go there for holidays, to see Cuba with their own eyes and enjoy everything these liars here tell us that doesn’t exist in Cuba:
peace, tranquility, top food, excellent beaches that are open to Cubans as well so we all share the beaches and the boats for hire and get to know each other.
And of course the people, who think less about the system change than these cia-financed mentally deranged losers would like them to be.
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 20:40
PC MAGAZINE: Censorship Isn’t What’s Slowing Cuba’s New Internet Connection - By Max Eddy
“We believe it is likely that Telefonica’s service to ETECSA is, either by design or misconfiguration, using its new cable asymmetrically,” wrote Doug Madory on the Renesys blog. “In such a configuration, ETECSA enjoys greater bandwidth and lower latencies (along the submarine cable) when receiving Internet traffic but continues to use satellite services for sending traffic.”
Cuba actually has two data systems: a state-run intranet and limited access to the international Internet. Renesys’ work focuses on the latter.
What researchers are not seeing is a comprehensive filtering mechanism, like the Great Firewall of China. Speaking to the BBC, Madory said that countries with highly censored connections display daily patterns of latency. In these situations, latency increases throughout the day as more and more users wake up and come online.
“When looking at the distributions of these [Cuban] latencies over time,” said Madory, “I see no diurnal pattern.”
Reporters Without Borders, which maintains a country by country list of censorship, echoed Renesys’ conclusions on their website: “the regime does not have the means to set up a systematic filtering system, but it counts on several factors to restrict Internet access.” These include high fees for hourly access, and national data infrastructure problems.
Those infrastructure problems may at least be a part of why ALBA-1 has taken so long to show signs of life. It also may come from uncertainty within the country about what to do with the new access, once it was available. It may also be possible that the Cuban government is far more concerned with information traveling out of Cuba, from dissident bloggers for example, than information flowing into the country.
Whatever the reason, Cuba appears to be at a crossroads for how the entire country will interact digitally with the rest of the world. What that will mean is yet to be seen.
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http://securitywatch.pcmag.com.....connection
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 20:35
Still no response on my questions from the team “yoani”. The fear and panic have already set in and are eating them away. Will they EVER respond on any of them? Hardly. They have no interest in admitting the trugh. They are liars and discussing their lies would take them nowhere.
Take this post above as an example. From the first letter to teh last, the paost is bursting with lies.
I’ll be un-ortodox and start at the end. The very last sentence, which will prove my argument perfectly:
“…it will end up being a collection of programs borrowed or pirated from other broadcasters, an overlapping of unattractive audiovisual material without its own personality.”
These are selfengranding randmised statements that the authors count on you and I not having seen the Cuban TV program, and so how would we know these statements to be truth or lie?
And since cia and usanian nazist gulag have been working for years to build up credibility to this personality (that doesn’t exist) and make the name sound as some kind of “democracy promoter” in Cuba, whatever we read here must “surely” be true!!!
Well, it is NOT!!!!
The cia cre**s write for their local brainwashed and fear-filled population, forgetting that the rest of the 6 biullion of people in the world do NOT live in that fear they had managed to install into their own subjects!!!
And
WE DO TRAVEL FREELY TO CUBA
And
WE CAN SEE WITH OUR OWN EYES CUBA THE WAY IT IS, INCLUDING LOCAL TV PROGRAM
Like it or not, it is a very refreshing commercial propaganda-free channels where you watch a documentary or a series, or a film uninterrupted with garbage food, poisonous “insect repellants”, insurance that no one should need in a trully democratic society. And there are many children educational programs, science documentaries about the development of science in Cuba, documentaries about young people and students learning the skills for the future. To make the agriculture, medicine, science in general better and use it to develop the country despite the brutal economic embargo and blockade by the nazist gulag usa, the big fat bully up north that is jealous of Cubans for having their own pride and determination to die rather than to succumb to nazist imperialism, the cia through their useful id**t jinetera domestic traitor called “some kind of pragmatic capitalism”.
And let me underline and highlight this single point too:
when Dr. Salim Limrani asked the traitor what sort of society would she want for Cuba, she said this “some kind of pragmatic capitalism”!!!!
There is no need for a better proof of that person being a deranged servant of her white “gods”, as she herself called them here a few years ago.
See, capitalism does NOT mean automatically a democracy!!!
It only means a system change. From something she despises, being a deranged loser, to soemthing she prefers, being a deranged loser.
She never responded that she wanted, first and foremost DEMOCRACY.
The deranged loser only said: “some kind of pragmatic capitalism”!!!!!!!!
So, whatever the cia writers tell you here that this domestic traitor and a ghost is supposedly writing about turning Cuba into a “democratic” society, is nothing more than a lie of these nazist dictators from the north of Cuba.
They only want to see Cuban system change from socialism into capitalism.
There was never and there IS no “democracy” as the main goal in that policy.
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 20:27
What, Cuba Libre, you’re not staying with your new best chumps, I mean buds?
Did the illegal real estate deal fall through, the one where you were taking advantage of a desperate Cuban couple?
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 20:25
Cuba Libre !! YOU KNOW THAT AFTER THE CASTROFASCITS LEAVE POWER YOU WONT BE ABLE TO ABUSE THE CUBAN PEOPLE AS YOU DO NOW! AND I CAN GUARANTEE THAT YOU WILL BE SEEN AS A PERSONA NON GRATA FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF THE CASTRO OLIGARCHY THERE!HERE WE TAKE ALL OF YOUR POSTS WITH A GRAIN OF SALT AS OF YOUR TRUE IDENTITY!
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 20:21
EXCELLENT!! YOUTUBE VIDEO: ESTADO DE SATS (Spanish & English): Academic exchange Legality and Human Rights in Cuba - Cuban independent lawyers With Flowers and Laritza Yaremis Diversent (Cubalex), Rene Gomez Manzano (Current Agramontista), Antonio G. Rodiles (mathematical physicist) and students of the School of Law, New York. Intercambio académico Legalidad y Derechos Humanos en Cuba - Con los abogados independientes cubanos Yaremis Flores y Laritza Diversent (Cubalex), René Gómez Manzano (Corriente Agramontista), Antonio G. Rodiles (Fisico matemático) y estudiantes de la Escuela de Derecho de New York.
El proyecto Estado de SATS desea crear un espacio plural de participación y debate, donde medie el intercambio abierto y franco. Los criterios vertidos por los autores y participantes expresan su visión personal y no necesariamente la del resto de los colaboradores. State of SATS project hopes to create a plural space for participation and debate, where open and frank debate is exchanged. The project sponsors panel discussions, forums and other events that are filmed and broadcasted on the Internet. Opinions or points of view expressed on this site by individual participants do not necessarily represent the position of the rest of contributors.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....r_embedded
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 19:54
Geronimo, post 32, do not expect to see any answers from those “democracy” and “free speech” chimps.
When you ask them a question that the answer would reveal full magnitude of their delirious and hypocritical brainwas, they get feral, hysterical and respond with a counterquestion. Which, as we can see never has to do anything with the subject or isse at hand.
That is all I need. They do my job much easier that way. Everyone who read my post knows that I was writing about ALEX Jones. There could be no mistake about that.
But, instead of addressing my questions, it is a lot LESS DAMAGING to try and divert the attention from the facts and from the issue I am discussing to a minor and irrelevant mistake in the name.
These liars do not want to discuss their own country and their own human rights abuse. The abuse and nazism that makes everything they complain about in Cuba a child’s play in comparison.
These are the cr**ns that dropped TWO NUCLEAR BOMBS ON JAPAN (which is why, I suspect, Japanese are now licking and sucking their front and back like there’s no tomorrow). They dropped tons and tons of depleted uranium bombs on Iraq, Bosnia and Serbia, yet they were hysterically warning anyne against doing so to usanian nazist soil for it would be a “crime agaisnt humanity”!!! Donald Rumsfeld said that after it came out that, yippie!!!, even usanian nazist soldiers were falling terminally ill as a result of the use of the nuclear Weapon OF MAss Destruction!!!!
http://stgvisie.home.xs4all.nl.....drome.html
Hypocrites and warmongereing criminals. Nuke them all, see how does that feel. Shi**y vermin that should be exterminated from the face of the earth.
And these manure eaters come here to lecture
CUA
about some “human rights”!!!
Let the pin-up jinetera come out and beat the shift and the bones out of her since Cuban police is way too lenient with her.
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 16:43
PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION BELOW AND SHARE IT ON YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA AND E-MAIL LISTS! THE PAYA FAMILY DESERVES TO KNOW THE TRUTH AND IT NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT!
ONLINE PETITION: On Sunday July 22nd 2012 Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas, founder and leader of the Christian Liberation Movement (Movimiento Cristiano Liberación), and Harold Cepero Escalante, member of this movement, lost their lifes in the Las Tunas-Bayamo road of the island of Cuba. With them in the car traveled also Ángel Francisco Carromero and Jens Aron Modig, a Spanish and Swedish citizen, respectively.
Due to the lack of credible information from official sources that allows the families of the deceased to know the true causes of the accident that took the life of Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero, we request, as the respect for truth requires, as well as the duty to consider the pain caused to the victims of this unfortunate event, an investigation and inform about the actual facts involved in this event.
According to Ofelia Acevedo, Oswaldo Payá’s widow, co-founder and current leader of the Movimiento Cristiano Liberación, the families of the two deceased dissidents are not looking for someone to blame, but for the truth. We join them in this request and demand that an international investigation is opened in order to find out the truth. Only in this way the doubts and contradictions that have produced by the death of Payá Sardiñas and Cepero Escalante from the beginning will be dissipated. We also request, that according to International Law and to the elemental duties of justice of every government in the world, that the process of investigation warrants the right of Ángel Francisco Carromero of a right to consular assistance and legal defense.
http://www.change.org/es/petic.....after_sign
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 16:10
YOUTUBE: Damas de Blanco celebran Te Literario bajo violencia policial - La Habana, 22 de Enero.- Ladies in White celebrated their literary tea under police violence - Havana, January 22. - In yesterday, Jan. 21, 42 women members of the movement Ladies in White Laura Pollan, participated in their literary tea activity number 116, this time dedicated to the figure of the African American leader Martin Luther King. The repressive regime mobilized its forces, and organized a repudiation rally involving uniformed soldiers of the National Police, the Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior, in addition to the paramilitary Rapid Response Brigades, which this time were accompanied by children and adolescents. The act of intimidation against peaceful civil movement, showed his usual violence through aggressive threats and inciting chants lynching. Starting at 1:10 minutes you can hear the fascist mob yell “machete que son poquitos” which tranlsate to “use a machete they are few” which is a death threat against the group!
En el día de ayer, 21 de enero, 42 mujeres miembros del movimiento Damas de Blanco Laura Pollán, participaron en su actividad del Te Literario número 116; esta vez, dedicado a la figura del líder afroamericano Martin Luther King. El régimen movilizó sus fuerzas represivas, y organizó un mitin de repudio en el que participaron militares uniformadas de la Policía Nacional, las Fuerzas Armadas y el Ministerio del Interior; además de las paramilitares Brigadas de Respuesta Rápida, que esta vez se hicieron acompañar por niños y adolescentes. El acto intimidatorio contra el movimiento civil pacífico, mostró su acostumbrada violencia a través de amenazas agresivas y cantos que incitaban al linchamiento
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9B05LGds5w
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 14:58
EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS OPTIC CABLE IS SOOOO MYSTERIOUS! GUESS THE CASTROFASCISTS CAN STILL TRYING TO USE THAT BAD OLD “EMBARGO” ARGUMENT FOR NOT ALLOWING IT’S CITIZENS ACCESS TO THE WORLDWIDE WEB!
WASHINGTO POST: Spain’s Telefonica says ‘no involvement’ with Cuba cable, as data speeds pick up even more
HAVANA — Spanish telecom Telefonica denied Tuesday that it has anything to do with an undersea fiber-optic cable between Cuba and Venezuela, even as an analyst who monitors global data traffic noted an additional uptick in data speed to and from the island — suggesting the cable is in full operation.
In a brief statement to The Associated Press, Telefonica SA acknowledged that it provides service to Cuba’s state-run phone company, ETECSA, but disavowed any connection to the ALBA-1 cable, which was completed in February 2011.
“Telefonica has no involvement with the submarine cable ALBA-1, which links Cuba with Venezuela,” chief press officer Miguel Angel Garzon said in the statement.
Telefonica was responding to a report by Internet intelligence firm Renesys, which noted faster data traffic to the island via Telefonica beginning last week, and concluded that it meant Cuba was finally using the fiber-optic cable.
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE ARTICLE!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....story.html
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 14:51
MORE INFORMATION ON THE FAMOUS OR “INFAMOUS” VENEZUELAN CABLE TO CUBA!
TIME MAGAZINE: Cuba Using Undersea Fiber-Optic Cable - By AP / Peter Orsi
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba apparently has finally switched on the first undersea fiber-optic cable linking it to the outside world nearly two years after its arrival, according to analysis by a company that monitors global Internet use.
In a report posted Sunday on the website of Renesys, author Doug Madory wrote that Cuba began using the ALBA-1 cable on Jan. 14.
“We believe it is likely that Telefonica’s service to ETECSA is, either by design or misconfiguration, using its new cable asymmetrically (i.e., for traffic in only one direction),” Madory wrote.
Cuban government officials and Telefonica did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday. Cuba has said in the past that it would prioritize the cable for usage deemed in the public interest and for social good.
Havana says about 16 percent of Cubans are online in some capacity, mostly through work or school, but often that’s limited to email and access to an island Intranet. Just 2.9 percent report having full Internet access, though analysts say it’s probably more like 5 or 10 percent due to underreporting of black-market resale of minutes.
“While the activation of the ALBA-1 cable may be a good first step to providing ETECSA a better link to the Internet, the lack of widespread public access to Internet service throughout the island will likely continue,” Madory wrote.
CLICK LINK FOR ENTIRE ARTICLE!
http://techland.time.com/2013/.....tic-cable/
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 13:03
These capitalist chewing Marxists have nothing better to do with their lazy bourgeois lives than sit behind their capitalist US-invented computers attached to their capitalist US-invented internet and spray their self-hatred on dissidents who risk their lives to bring equal rights and justice to all, even neuron-deprived communists.
Stop feeding the trolls, folks.
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 12:39
Wow, someone hasn’t progressed beyond the junior high school stage.
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 12:26
MsY is not prepared to visit any of the ‘hot spots’ where bloggers are worth their salt in the number of demos and protest they started and change they do suggest - maybe then she would notice in her trip up north some of the ‘issues’ apologist here brush over…
Increasing inequality in the United States has long been attributed to unstoppable market forces. In fact, as Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson show, it is the direct result of congressional policies that have consciously — and sometimes inadvertently — skewed the playing field toward the rich.
Robert C. Lieberman, Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, captured the breathtaking levels of inequality in the United States in an article in Foreign Affairs: “Income inequality in the United States is higher than in any other advanced industrial democracy and by conventional measures comparable to that in countries such as Ghana, Nicaragua, and Turkmenistan.”
Warren Buffet, the second wealthiest individual in the world, candidly admitted “there’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
Will American civil strife kill the Russia-US reset?
http://rt.com/politics/us-russ.....ation-422/
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 11:32
Man, you should take a trip to the United States sometime, so that you can see for yourself that the poorest people here do not compare with the poorest in countries like Ghana, Nicaragua, etc. Yes, there is income inequality here, as there is in all countries, even socialist ones, but you generally won’t see children who are suffering from malnutrition, who cannot get vaccines, who don’t have clean water to drink, etc. The poorest of the poor in the U.S. have access to medical care via the Medicaid system, as well as a system of food banks, free cell phone programs, etc.
Once again, you don’t know what you are talking about. It sucks to be poor anywhere, but you’re trying to compare apples to oranges.
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 11:22
Well my concern is MsY is not prepared to visit any of the ‘hot spots’ where bloggers are worth their salt in the number of demos and protest they started and change they do suggest - maybe then she would notice in her trip up north some of the ‘issues’ apologist here brush over…
Increasing inequality in the United States has long been attributed to unstoppable market forces. In fact, as Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson show, it is the direct result of congressional policies that have consciously — and sometimes inadvertently — skewed the playing field toward the rich.
Robert C. Lieberman, Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, captured the breathtaking levels of inequality in the United States in an article in Foreign Affairs: “Income inequality in the United States is higher than in any other advanced industrial democracy and by conventional measures comparable to that in countries such as Ghana, Nicaragua, and Turkmenistan.”
Warren Buffet, the second wealthiest individual in the world, candidly admitted “there’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
Will American civil strife kill the Russia-US reset?
http://rt.com/politics/us-russ.....ation-422/
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 10:40
Guess what fool, I NEVER claimed that there was no racism in the US. There is, along with every other single country in the world. I was merely exposing how ignorant the “cult of Che” is to dumb people who don the tee shirts, but don’t bother to look into who he really was. He was a power-hungry, blood-thirsty, racist psychopath.
So, now, Che’s racism was noble, to you, because it was an “honest expression?”
Dumbo. You have a really distorted view of a country that you have never even been to. You should get out of your altered state of reality more.
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 10:27
Well you can expect the US apologists are upset with Che for speaking how he felt about some of the ‘Papa Was a Rolling Stone’ patterns we all can see even today in rap!…
For a nation who ‘invented’ the N word and still is using it …they have all the right to patronise Che for speaking what he was thinking honestly… A quality lost in fake America… where they can only mutter the letter N.. so that they can claim racism doesn’t exist anymore or exists less! same with going hungry and having no medical insurance when you need the op!.. stay home don’t see it on tv.. it don’t exist!
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 08:37
a,
I must correct you. It’s not “you generally won’t see” it’s you’ll NEVER see a poor child in the USA.
But the propaganda artists of Fidel Inc aren’t interested in discussing reality.
You can tell them the world isn’t flat until you turn blue, they will keep repeating it is.
You see such people in Cuba sometimes. There are rich Marxist tourists who actually watch Mesa Redonda.
Thanks to the DVD and USB key, many Cubans get to watch US TV shows and movies. I don’t think TeleSUR will change their viewing habits.
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 07:33
Maybe these lovely quotes, straight from Che’s journals, are why they are so “popular.”:
“The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese.” (p. 161)
“The black is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.” (p. 161)
Man, you should take a trip to the United States sometime, so that you can see for yourself that the poorest people here do not compare with the poorest in countries like Ghana, Nicaragua, etc. Yes, there is income inequality here, as there is in all countries, even socialist ones, but you generally won’t see children who are suffering from malnutrition, who cannot get vaccines, who don’t have clean water to drink, etc. The poorest of the poor in the U.S. have access to medical care via the Medicaid system, as well as a system of food banks, free cell phone programs, etc.
Once again, you don’t know what you are talking about. It sucks to be poor anywhere, but you’re trying to compare apples to oranges.
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 06:21
Well then if MsY is not prepared to visit any of the ‘hot spots’ where bloggers are worth their salt in the number of demos and protest they attend and the change they do sugges - maybe she would notice in her trip up north some of the ‘issues’ apologist here brush over…But who know probably she would pick on kids wearing Che t-shirts and try to tell them they shouldn’t they should wear her face instead since (I have to give it to her) she at least writes better than Che…though Che’s journals will never be beaten by MsY in popularity.
MsY’s name being sort of Russian and her past being connected to Russia maybe this is a topic of personal interest too she can look at and let us know her take on this:
Will American civil strife kill the Russia-US reset?
http://rt.com/politics/us-russ.....ation-422/
Robert C. Lieberman, Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, captured the breathtaking levels of inequality in the United States in an article in Foreign Affairs: “Income inequality in the United States is higher than in any other advanced industrial democracy and by conventional measures comparable to that in countries such as Ghana, Nicaragua, and Turkmenistan.”
Warren Buffet, the second wealthiest individual in the world, candidly admitted “there’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 02:20
Geronimo, you are very bad mannered. I thought Damir was referring to a media commentator called Alan Jones. Mind your own business, I’ll ask my own questions. Now if you don’t mind, shut up.
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 02:02
Sorry Anonimo for misspelling your name. That also is not an issue of substance.
I want you to write something of substance here. I want you to answer what Damir has said.
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 01:59
@Antonimo … Who cares if Damir wrote “Alan” Jones instead of “Alex” Jones. That is not a substantive issue.
Do you have something substantive to write here? If you don’t, then shut up.
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 01:01
As usual Damir doesn’t answer questions but demands answers from everyone else. You keep giving yourself away as to where you live with your Australian references. You live in a country of abundance and freedom yet you want Cubans to remain in their squalor. Why is that? Are you afraid a change will spoil your cheap holidays in your cheap casa particular, your cheap 3 dollar cocktails and cheap whores?
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 00:53
Damir, again, who is Alan Jones and what does he have to do your argument??
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 00:51
This is the “freedom” of internet in the nazist gulag usa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMy2ZbPkyvw
according to the nsa, self-governing spy agency of the nazist gulag usa. Cuba is “violating” “human rights”, and nazist gulag usa is not?
Think agains. Do not just listen to what the team “yoani” and their cia handlers write here. What they serve here is just a blind hysterical ideological propaganda designed to confuse, instigate disorder and install fear.
Divide et impera.
In chaos, it is much easier to rule the frightened cows and sheep - that is you, as this guy, ex nsa spy, tells you.
“Fear in itself is control. It sends extraordinarilly chilling message: speak and this is what we’ll do to you…!!!”
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 00:45
Damir, which Alan Jones are you referring to??
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 00:32
In this clip known old warmongering human rights abuser, another juda, bzezinski, talks about the previously mentioned Council on Foreign Relationships, Trilateral COmmissino, Bilderberg etc. These are various power groupsthat have one thing in common: the members are teh same old washed out faces of right wing conserv ative criminals trying to control the world through the nazist gulag usa.
Thjis is what this criminal and murderer had to say in this clip:
“In any political system there are sort of over the table and under the table arrangements. As far as the organizations that you have mentioned, they’re all on top of the table organinzations. We know what they are. We know what they do. We probably exaggerate their influence in many cases. But most important of all THEY OPERATE OVERTLY.”
The “organisations’ mentioned are the above, then cia, nsa, fbi, usanian nazist ditatorship government and other think-tank and power-concentrating “private enterprises that essentially decide what will people around the world think and do.
All in order for these old fa**s to get richer while the people get poorer and more desperate.
It has come to the point where even the usanian far right had to turn away from these cre**s and senile id**ts. Just search for alan jones and his website to see what a far right message to these criminals is.
youtube.com/watch?v=VOk6ENxyAh0
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 00:21
I know better than to talk sense into an id**t, but my response to the nazist usanian poster of the post 20 is :
Has ANYONE ever bothered to explain Godwin’s Law to mie*da estadounidense?
(Put it this way, dude: Whenever you conservative nazists invoke fascism in a thread or blog post where fascism is not the explicit subject…the debate is over and you LOSE the argument. Automatically.)
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 00:18
I know better than to talk sense into an id**t, but my response to the nazist usanian poster of the post 20 is :
Has ANYONE ever bothered to explain Godwin’s Law to mie*da estadounidense?
(Put it this way, dude: Whenever you invoke fascism in a thread or blog post where fascism is not the explicit subject…the debate is over and you LOSE the argument. Automatically.)
Enero 22nd, 2013 at 00:14
Here are some examples of the REAL face of that “demcoracy” and “free speech”!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS9Y_6mhjxE
hillarious clinton (not a typo) saying that Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)is telling to the usanian nazist gulag dictatorship what should they be thinking and doing into the future.
CFR is the think-tank that actually creates usanina foreign policy. Not the government, not the “secretary of state” (that hillarious clinton, the CFR) has created a special long term policy on “Balkans” (former Jugoslavija, Greece, albania), Cuba, Iraq, Iran, Syria.
The CFR is the body composed of corporate managers, the owners of the top multinational companies in the usa nazist gulag.
The team “yoani”, their pin-up jinetera in Cuba and the few elderly losers here are the useful id***s, as officially known and called by cia, that are simply fulfilling these plans for Cuba.
These are no “democracy lovers”, freedom of speech defenders” and whatnot in their arsenal of bombastic and pompous but high;ly useless ideological paroles. I also liked what Ron Paul had to say.
These are the people who are telling us that Cuba is a “bad” country, hence “we” all have to mobilise around their useful id**ts and “fight off the eveil “reds”.
Well, the only evil reds sre the usanian ones (conservative “republican” party is called “the reds” in the usa nazist gulag).