Posted on 12/19/2014 4:41:43 PM PST by Starman417
President Obama is being applauded by his pandering members of the left's publicity machine for poking a stick in the eye of the GOP and its likely 2016 Presidential candidates. The economic geniuses at the NYT pretend that there is suddenly a long line-up of American corporations running for their executive jets ardently anxious to unwrap the supposed Christmas present being handed to them and awaiting them in Cuba.
We're excited to sell average Cubans a couple of Chevys? Or perhaps three of four Teslas? How? Cubans are broke. Fifty cars were sold in Cuba during the past 6 months. The Castros and the military hold all the money. The Castro family has been filling its personal bank accounts with plunder since the revolution. At the same time it has used government funds to agitate mobs clamoring for communism in Central and South America, to finance and support existing dictatorships, and to finance terrorism against the United States.
The Castros accumulated so much cash offshore in 50 years that now they'll perhaps spend a few of those hard-earned Dollars, (not the "Cuban Convertible Pesos - CUC," or the lowly "Cuban Pesos - CUP") on a tractor or two, . . . umm, oh hang on, America is already a principal supplier of products to Cuba. So what gives? Easy: Banking and credit. The bankers are looking for direct access to the Castro generals, rather than having to circumnavigate around sanctions through European or Canadian banks. While it is entirely possible that Obama is looking for a pretext to close Guantanamo before he leaves office and turn over the land to Castro, the banks don't much care -- they have their eyes on cash.
Increasing "business" and "financial" ties with these military dictators will make these thugs richer, increase their power, broaden their influence, and accomplish absolutely nothing of substance for the Cuban citizenry. We cannot change their mindsets and their ideologies, and certainly cannot change their relationships to the forceful acquisition of personal wealth.
The apologetic MSM is confused, so it pretends that sanctions did not work and therefore any change will be an improvement. The MSM was as surprised as everyone else to Obama's startling Cuba announcement yesterday. The MSM suggests this may have been a move against Putin's plans to establish a base in Cuba -- of course the fact that Putin and his Russia are now in very serious financial trouble with a rubble crashing worse than the price of oil probably means Putin regrets his recent waving of Cuba's $32 billion debt. Putin has more critical problem than placing a base in Cuba. Are we witnessing a race to see who kisses Castro most effectively?
Obama's teleprompter gibberish spewed more inane idiocies which had nothing to do with his real agenda. The confused international community looking for rationale cannot find any because it doesn't understand who and what Obama is, stimulating the guessing to flow in abundance.
Obama claimed of his Castro deal, "Where we disagree, we will raise those differences directly." Really? When? Why were those differences not raised prior to an agreement? Why was there no qui pro quo? Why NOTHING on freedom, on voting, on elections, on release of confiscated property, etc., etc. The speech was full of embarrassing clichés ensuring that we heard Obama believed in motherhood and apple pie, however, he could not help betray his feelings toward America when he told Castro, "Today I want to be honest with you. . . . let us leave behind the legacy of both colonization and communism . . . " There it is. The single most telling word to waft across the airwaves from his teleprompter, "colonization." He continues to harbor the sentiments which drove his father to become an activist against America. In his mind these are two truths, . . . America spreads colonization, while Cuba is a communist nation. He doesn't grasp that only one of those is almost a fact.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
In Communist countries, the avg citizen must get a visa to visit his country of choice just like Americans do. However, the avg citizen must also get a visa to EXIT his home country - that’s much more difficult to obtain. It will be just like that in Cuba.
Investing: Ever heard of permits? Communist countries are infested with government workers who keep inventing new permits (its ok if you want to call them payoffs) before Company X can build their supermarket, their hotel or their whatever.
Corporate Structure: In some Communist countries (perhaps all) the Board of Directors must include one member of the host country (and that individual must, of course, be approved by the government). Additionally, all Board of Director votes must be unanimous, i.e., the government has a veto.
Need to import equipment? - You can already figure this one out.
Need to do anything else? - You can also figure that out.
Everything’s a setup to extract $ from the Capitalist pigs.
Let me guess..he’s welcoming Cubans to further color the nation brown and drain its pocketbooks, resources, and nationality...
> he’s not interested in anything but “looking good” ,,and getting back at whitey.
he thinks he’s succeeding,,,,
He and Jarrett have been giving more than half of the population “payback” daily for the past 6 years. I wouldn’t want to be him when he leaves office. Newton’s 3rd Law is going to be a blotch when its time to pay the piper.
> Could be. He’ll rake in so much from POTUS pardon bribes on the way out in Jan ‘17 that he’ll be pretty well off.
I would guess more than $1B when he leaves office and that won’t include the Soros payoff bonuses...
Look her up on Wikepedia. Her biography, as a white cop killer wanted by the FBI, and as a ‘Black Liberation Army’ (related idealogy to Black Liberation Theology) is what is on display with the protesters and the Michael Brown ‘Hand up Don’t Shoot’ playing out across the country in cities like NYC/LA.
She is Tupac Shekur (rapper) Aunt, and in the early 1970s part of the radical left, Marxists. The Weather Underground, Bill Ayers. She is BLACK PANTHER MUSLIM and possibly the first woman on the FBIs most wanted list. She got asylum in Cuba from Castro.. There is no doubt in my mind that she will be a hero to the Black Protesters. In fact that ‘Hands UP’ originated in her arrest, and part of her defense but she was convicted and then escaped in 1979.
There is the possibility that she is a friend of Joanne Newman, who is in “Birther” Conspiracy Theories the mother of Obama by Malcolm X (Black Panther Leader). NO DOUBT in my mind that Bill Ayers, and wife Bernadette Dorn want her back in USA..she was also a radical in their circles, Dorn killed a cop and was never brought to trial. The group known as Black Liberation Army killed about 16 cops in early 70s.
This whole ‘Michael Brown’ “Hands up” thing is going to get bigger and she is going to add to it’s fire. If Obama has not already bought her release from Cuba with the third man he gave them, then there will be something else to trade Castro, but it won’t be to put her in prison for the rest of her life here in USA< it will be to pardon her before the election in Nov, 2016.
Research her by her Real name Joanne Bryon Cheridan or her alias Assita Shekur....there are still some unknowns about her associates and friends..She killed the cop in NJ but was born in Queens, NC< I think. This whole scenario will play out in the next 18 months.
‘Mumia Abu Jamal’....look up that name in reference to Joanne Cheridan as well, since he helped with a book she published in 1993....he is name coming up with this black revolution issue too...This is a continuation of the 1960s-70s revolution to destroy ‘Imperialist America’, and the Black Panther Muslims (violent) of that era along with the Marxists whites and domestic terrorists like Bill Ayers are all connected.
He was shortsighted in His youth, as He is now the King of the USA ...
All hail Our Glorious Leader and King for Life ...
And a place where bounty hunters won’t find him ...
SecDef?
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/19/assata_shakur_what_does_new_us
In this interview the “Hands UP” Joanne Cheridan was shot in the back information is mentioned and there are other articles at the website on her.
That is where the Michael Brown ‘Hands up” and he was shot in the back defense was born...in her book, it was a tie in to this woman, to get the movement started...ONE BLACK DEATH BY A WHITE COP was all they needed...correct or not, it was the spark to give them what they needed to move forward. This will run as long as it has momentum from the black communities and leaders like Al Sharpton.
Okay, you should have enough to find everything from the 60s, 70s, 80s and today’s protests.
Well, Cuba would be a big pool of cheap, captive labor
good catch
He probably wants to free Elena Belen Montes
the Piper must and will be paid.
obie’s aged quite a bit visibly lately...and that trend is going to accelerate rather dramatically over the next two years.
ZERO appears to be wanting to impress the far left, especially the black far left.
This is hugh. Two classic freeperisms in half a sentence in a very insightful article, unless they're puns.
I’d find a lack of easy fishing to be surprising in a protein-starved nation.
It was by accident, but thanks.
From the same NYT that convinced the Kennedy Administration that Castro was going to have a Democracy?
Well, at least their batting average is unchanged.
Thank you. That helps a lot, as I’ve never heard of her.
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