Pretty much sums it up. Pelosi and her ilk live in statist luxury, like the elite in the movie "Elysium". Divorced from the peons, they've convinced themselves that they "care", but living in a cocoon, it's a well-honed illusion.
Posted on 02/20/2015 9:30:34 AM PST by jazusamo
We understand that Nancy Pelosi is married to a very successful businessman in California. We are very happy that the Pelosi family has enjoyed the fruits of capitalism. Of course, they've enjoyed those fruits because they live in a country that respects property rights and does not confiscate businesses.
This week, Rep Pelosi went to Cuba and stayed at the Hotel Saratoga. Let me share this from our good friends at Capitol Hill Cubans:
"The Hotel Saratoga is a beautiful neoclassical structure in Old Havana. It was purchased in 1939 by Blanco Lopez and Co., headed by Jose Blanco and Jose Lopez Blanco, who were also leaders of the Association of Cuban Hotels.
In 1959, The Hotel Saratoga was confiscated by the Castro regime.
Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union, Castro saw European and Canadian tourism as a means to salvage his dictatorship. Thus, he began seducing foreign investors to invest -- in minority partnerships with the Castro regime -- in order to reconstruct the island's hotels.
In 1999, a British company, Coral Capital Group Ltd., entered into a minority partnership with the Castro regime to transform (a then-dilapidated) Hotel Saratoga into a chic, modern, 5-star property.
Coral Capital invested over $75 million in its partnership with Castro.
In 2005, the Hotel Saratoga reopened as the swankiest hotel in Havana.
But, as always, Castro got greedy and wanted it all for himself.
Thus, in 2011, Castro confiscated Coral Capital's minority stake in the Hotel Saratoga.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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Many of these Cuban hotels were known to have hidden cameras and listening devices in order to spy on movie stars, heads of state, etc.
Castro and his cronies used to get their jollies watching movie stars make out with one another in what they thought was the “privacy” of their hotel rooms.
I heard Pope John Paul II had his room swept for bugs and cameras before he stayed in Cuba on an official visit.
Pretty much sums it up. Pelosi and her ilk live in statist luxury, like the elite in the movie "Elysium". Divorced from the peons, they've convinced themselves that they "care", but living in a cocoon, it's a well-honed illusion.
It wasn’t the refusal. They executed him because they thought they were friends and they wanted McClane to be hurt and broken. Maybe if he returned the detonators he’d have lived a bit longer but McClane knew they would both be dead.
Still an apt comparison.
Nazi Pelosi (pbuh)
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Exactly, tourism dollars support the Castro’s and commies. I can’t see why any sane person would visit Cuba as a tourist destination.
Good point. It’s been a while since I’ve seen the movie.
Thus to all corporate suits who think they are above antiquated concepts like patriotism and fidelity to the societies that made you wealthy in the first place.
Yep.
I knew someone who was planning to buy property and build a house in Mexico.
That person was crazy. They can decide at any time just to take your property, no questions asked, particularly if you aren’t a Mexican national.
I wouldn’t visit Cuba, but MANY of my fellow Canucks would. Of course Fidel was a good friend of Turd-owe Sr. I seem to recall that 20-30 years ago, vacations in Cuba were 1/2 the price of any other Caribbean destination or FL or CA. I don’t think so anymore. IF there was freedom in Cuba, I would be interested in visiting but not until.
Yes.
I have warned people against building in Mexico. Some listened, some didn’t.
I have a question. How can the uber-rich democrats guarantee their own billions/millions won’t be confiscated? (Is Oprah safe?) None of them are Muslims. It should be easy to find out who is favored by those who are doing the confiscating, no?
As if our proud Demonrats in congress didn’t know and share in the profits with their buddy Fidel, Hell it was most likely Pelosi’s Idea.
I can't imagine doing that.
Thanks, it looks like they keep the riffraff out. :-)
I’m sure it will be a long line.
Is Pelozi one of those Americans who are looking for a paramour in Cuba?
Aggressive new HIV strain detected in Cuba
upi.com ^ | Feb. 14, 2015 | Denise Royal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3257752/posts
”A new HIV strain in some patients in Cuba appears to be much more aggressive and can develop into AIDS within three years of infection. Researchers said the progression happens so fast that treatment with antiretroviral drugs may come too late. Without treatment, HIV infection usually takes 5 to 10 years to turn into AIDS, according to Anne-Mieke Vandamme, a medical professor at Belgium's University of Leuvan. According to the study, published in the journal EBioMedicine, Vandamme was alerted to the new aggressive strain of HIV by Cuban health officials who wanted to find out what was happening.”
Before Castro, the Cubans did not need visa to visit U.S. or establishing residence in this country. Cubans did not need before the triumph of the Cuban communist revolution to cross in make shift rafts the Florida Straits where 4 for every 5 Cubans lost their lives in their pursuit of freedom, they came by plane or ferry as tourists and students. There were not Cuban dreamers in quest of the American opportunities. In fact, before Castro, there were more Americans living in Cuba than Cuban living in United States. The living standard in Cuba in the 1950’s was second only to the United States.
About the much maligned portray of Cuba as an American playground and mafia enclave, it must noted that in Cuba before Castro, the mafiosi that created Las Vegas’ emporium, had only three casinos in Havana and the yearly income of those casinos together were less than the income of any single Las Vegas casinos in a week.
Before Castro an average of 200,000 American tourists visited Cuba, in 2014, it was over 650,000. But together with Americans, came also thousands of tourists from Europe and Latin American including many looking for sex with children. Now Cuba is now a Mecca for the most depraved pedophiles and pederasts that go there looking for sexual exploitation of children. In fact Havana is second only Bangkok in that abominable crime.
By 1995 the Italian travel magazine Viaggiare recognized Cuba as the “paradise of sexual tourism,” awarding it five stars for its “general erotic level.” According to the magazine, Cuba beat out such competitors as Brazil and Thailand. (Adams, p. 1A; Dalia Acosta, Culture Tourism: Cuba Brushes up its Tourist Image, Interpress Service, Sept. 19, 1997. Lexis-Nexis).
Those tourists who travel looking for unending bacchanals are aiding and abetting the most brutal murderous regime in the history of this hemisphere.
Renowned English historian, Hugh Thomas, who wrote an scholar “History of Cuba, The Pursuit of Freedom” from the Discovery to the beginning of Castro’s revolution, referring to Castro’s Cuba affirmed in The Spectator (7/12/1986): “The comparison must be with the account of Nazi concentration camps. Although there as yet no gas chambers in Cuba, there have been experiments of a criminal biological type designed to see how far an individual can survive starvation, beating, solitary confinement, and many various kinds of ill treatment. Valladares’ account of working in a stone quarry is not dissimilar to, and no more humane than, the many accounts extant of ‘life’ in Manthausen.”
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