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‘¿Que bolá Cuba?’ Obama Tweets from Havana Hours After Regime Detains Dissidents for Rights Protest
Cybercast News Service ^ | March 20, 2016 | 6:09 PM EDT | Patrick Goodenough

Posted on 03/20/2016 10:00:21 PM PDT by Olog-hai

President Obama landed in Cuba on Sunday afternoon, hours after dozens of dissidents from the Ladies in White movement were detained during a post-Mass, pro-democracy march, in what has become a weekly ritual of protest and arrest over almost a year.

“Obama, traveling to Cuba isn’t fun,” read a banner carried by the demonstrators. “No to human rights violations.”

Any hopes that this week’s demonstration, on the eve of Obama’s arrival, would be tolerated were quickly put to rest, as police handcuffed and bussed away dozens of the protesting women, and a handful of men. Ladies in White was established more than a decade ago by wives and relatives of political prisoners. …

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Cuba; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: castros; cuba; cubavisit; humanrights; ladiesinwhite; obama; obola; quebola
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To: GOP Poet; Pollster1
Thanks to both of you for your explanations!

But, actually, my question had been rhetorical, and I'm sorry to have bothered you.

1. I don't own a cell phone and don't really understand what a "tweet" is.

2. I didn't actually think that it was even possible to insert special symbols (Greek letters, mathematical symbols, letters with umlauts) into "tweets." I thought that, instead, everyone just used "u" for "you," "r" for "are," etc.

Regards,

21 posted on 03/21/2016 8:30:14 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Olog-hai

My thought has been that Obama sent Rahm down there to pave the way. The deal is to give Guantanamo to cuba and Cuba will then lease it to a Rat led development team that will establish the guantanamo tropical Paradise Resort and Casino.

Obama will have a penthouse suite

But, the cubans backed out knowing Trump could actually develop a resort not on the old base.


22 posted on 03/21/2016 8:35:59 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump.)
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To: alexander_busek

u r welcome!! :D lol. The latter completely intentional. I understand. Yeah the social media world and the ‘smart’ phone world’s are truly world’s onto themselves. I think it is lovely you don’t know what a tweet is and don’t own an iPhone. But you know enough where I probably don’t have to tell you the the thinking process of many is so declining that most eventually won’t understand the complexity of (and underlying sarcastic humor) of rhetorical. Best to you FRiend!


23 posted on 03/21/2016 8:44:56 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: GOP Poet

make that worlds.


24 posted on 03/21/2016 8:45:33 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: alexander_busek

A Day in Infamy - Barack Obama’s Cuban Pact

Canada Free Press ^ | 12/20/14 | Obie Usategui

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3239237/posts

I consider Obama’s renewed relations with the communist island as one of the most despicable political acts I have ever been a witness to. Inherent evil of Barack Obama and his administration For the most part of the Cuban-American community residing in Miami, Florida, the day of Wednesday, December 17th, 2014, will—more likely than not—go down in their history books as a day in infamy, much the same as did December 7th, 1941, for all Americans. The former, when Barack Obama announced the U.S. restoring full relations with Cuba, including the opening of an embassy in the island—a bold move...

“Just saying, Cuba has never had the heft/ability of the USSR or Communist China to inflict pain on the U.S. or any other country.”

I wonder in what planet you have been living. Inflicting pain is the cornerstone of communism, and the main victim has been the Cuban people.

In October 1961 there were nuclear missiles in Cuba and Castro and the Che pushed Nikita Khrushchev to nuke New York and Washington.

In November 1961 the FBI aborted a Castro’s plan as deadly as 9/11 by detonating on Black Friday after Thanksgiving bombs in New York main department stores and the Central Station.

Denotes supine ignorance to affirm that Cuba never had the ability to inflict pain to any country. Rivers of blood left Che Guevara and his Cuban thugs around Africa in Cuba’s failure campaign to impose communism in that continent. Latin America still suffers the scourge of the communist guerrillas trained and financed by Cuba.

It is beyond believe to think that any American mentally sane could support Obama’s rescue of the Cuban terrorist regime that is at the border of total collapse. Venezuela will not be able to continue maintaining Castro’s regime afloat and Obama wants that the American taxpayers assume the “sugar daddy” responsibility, the same role that previously was played by the Soviet Union and later Venezuela pushing both countries to their bankruptcy. It seems to me that Obama is seeking Castro’s help to reach his goal, the bankruptcy of U.S.

Castro is a very generous man, he will pay for the American companies confiscated by the communist regime with the American taxpayers monies that the magnanimous Obama will donate to the regime.

So you are saying that Cuba has or had as much military capability ... on their own ... as USSR or Communist China? And you ask what planet I live on? What decade are you living in? The world has moved on since 1961. Perchance...you could join the rest of us?

Did the Muslim terrorist need USSR or China military capability to put New York in his knees? The must the world change the more it remains the same. Cuba still has 50 miles from Havana a sophisticate Chinese electronic spy base to intercept every U.S. communication and a beach head for cyber warfare against U.S. Russia is reopening another spy base in the outskirts of Havana. Obama have bended to Castro, but the Castros’ hatred for U.S. has not diminished a bite over half a century.

Unquestionable that Cubans deserve to be free. Their fight for freedom has been long and bloody. More Cubans in the quest for freedom were murdered by the regime right after the triumph of the revolution that Germans killed by Hitler in the first 3 years of Nazi Germany. There were more political prisoners in communist Cuba that during Stalin terror period.

Obama have offered that the American taxpayers will finance unconditionally the Cuban regimen. Raul Castro daughter made it clear that Cuba will remain a close repressive Stalinist regime.

If Cubans were allowed to travel freely, U.S. should be ready to receive 11 million Cubans (Mariel II). But Obama has a brilliant mind; he decided to extend U.S. welfare rolls to the 11 million Cubans on the island at American taxpayers’ expense.

Unfortunately, Obama’s largesse will not go to benefit the enslaved Cuban people, but to grease the repressive apparatus and enrich even more, Fidel Castro, with $900 million wealth, he is one the richest chief state in the world while the Cubans live in abject misery.

Obama is not trying to help the Cuban people but to condemn then to eternal damnation under a Stalinist regime.


25 posted on 03/22/2016 10:07:06 AM PDT by Dqban22
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Denotes supine ignorance to affirm that Cuba never had the ability to inflict pain to any country.

Maybe: sublime ignorance?

Regards,

26 posted on 03/23/2016 10:45:37 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

Breaking: US Enemy Cuba Caught Stealing Ultra-Sophisticated US Missile Technology for Sale to Other US Enemies

Humberto Fontova | Jan 08, 2016

Actually that’s not the title of yesterday’s blockbuster report in the Wall Street Journal. Here’s the WSJ title: “Missing U.S. Missile Shows Up in Cuba.”

“An inert U.S. Hellfire missile sent to Europe (Spain) for training purposes was wrongly shipped from there to Cuba in 2014,” continues the WSJ, “a loss of sensitive military technology that ranks among the worst-known incidents of its kind. The unintended delivery of the missile to Cuba has confounded investigators and experts who work in a regulatory system designed to prevent precisely such equipment from falling into the wrong hands… Investigators are unclear if the incident was an error or the result of espionage. For more than a year, amid a historic thawing of relations between the U.S. and Cuba, American authorities have tried to get the Cuban government to return the missile.”

“Cuban officials are reportedly convulsed in guffaws very similar to their guffaws in response to the request by Obama officials for the return of some of the FBI’s most-wanted criminals who live like celebrities in Cuba. The hilarity displayed by Cuban officials in the face of sweating Obama administration officials reportedly also caused spittle to actually splatter the shaken U.S. officials when they meekly inquired about the return of the $7 billion Castro stole at Soviet gunpoint from U.S. citizens in 1960.

“All of this hilarity and truculence by Cuban officials in the face of Obama’s officials comes despite the flood of U.S. dollars to Cuba resulting from Obama’s recent “rapprochement” with the Castro regime. This U.S. economic lifeline was estimated at over $5 billion last year— which amounts to more than what the Soviets pumped into Castro’s fiefdom annually at the height of their sponsorship.

“Better still, Obama threw the Castro brothers this economic lifeline in the very nick of time—just as their subsidies from Venezuela threatened to dry up. None of these factors stopped Castro’s apparatchiks from openly laughing in the faces of Obama’s groveling officials—indeed they made the guffaws all the louder. ”

Ok, Ok, the WSJ story obviously didn’t contain the second, third and fourth paragraphs above. But any semi-sane Cuba-watcher can easily visualize the incident.

The formerly missing missile, known as a Hellfire is a laser-guided, air-to-surface missile often fired from Apache attack helicopters and Predator Drones and has become “ an important part of the U.S. government’s antiterrorism arsenal,” according to the WSJ. In other words, it’s a hot item to get their hands for everyone from ISIS to Iran and from Syria to the Taliban.

Let’s play a fun game and see if you concur with my choice for article title. The game is called “Connecting Da Dots.” Here’s some of the dots:

THE REST OF THE HISTORY
http://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2016/01/08/breaking-us-enemy-cuba-caught-stealing-ultrasophisticated-us-missile-technology-for-sale-to-other-us-enemies-n2101765/page/full


27 posted on 03/23/2016 12:32:50 PM PDT by Dqban22
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