Cuban designs on Africa

Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, February 12, 2002 | Roger Fontaine

[GeronL]

lol

can I finish these thick tomes first?? =o)

[nopardons]

Oh, which movie was it ; the one with Sir Alec Guiness as King Charles ?

[nopardons]

Certainly , dear friend. LOL

[GeronL]

oh darn, I don't know... got a pic of that guy? I'll tell ya.

[nopardons]

You don't read the credits, at the end of the movies you watch ?

Being an HTLM moron, who , as a lowly webbie , can't post anything on here anyway, it would be futile , for me to even go looking for a picture. : - (

[GeronL]

YUP, thats the movie I saw

[GeronL]

This film is based on the true story of the Puritan leader Oliver Cromwell and the beginning of the English Civil War against the Stuart king Charles I (1625-1649). The king had dissolved Parliament for 11 years (1629-40) and with his Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud had imposed English episcopacy on the Scottish Presbyterians (Bishops War 1639). The Puritan movement in England opposed the authority and catholicity of Laud's Church of England, and the absolutism of the Stuart monarchy. The Civil War began in 1642 and Cromwell rose to leadership, winning the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644 with his army of Ironsides, and the decisive Battle of Naseby in 1645. By 1648, several civil wars raged in England: royalists vs roundheads, Scots vs English, Presbyterians vs Independents. Charles I was beheaded 1649 and Cromwell ruled his Commonwealth until 1653, replacing it with a military dictatorship with himself as Lord Protector. After his death in 1658, Cromwell was briefly succeeded by his son, but in 1660 Charles II restored the monarchy, now in the shadow of a much stronger Parliament

blah blah... man we have gone WAY off topic

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Goodbye to all that.

With Castro and Khadafy in Zimbabwe and Mandella, a communist, being hailed a near God,
I don't think Fidel and Raul Castro's communist designs on Africa (not to mention the Americas) are over.

[JohnHuang2]

Bump!

[nopardons]

Yes, we did; however , it is a great movie !

Did you know that Cromwell, was responsible for single handedly doing away with the secular celebration of Christmas, in England, and even held Parliment on Christmas day ? The " fum & games " part of Christmas, wasn't restored, until after Christmas of 1843, when Dickens published " A CHRITSMAS CARROL ".

[GeronL]

well, he might have overdone the Christmas thing =o), I'm sure he wanted some kind of separation from church and Parliament...

So, Scrooge was because of Cromwell? interesting

[nopardons]

Exactly so. You are always so perspicuous.

[nopardons]

Got it in one ! Good for you. : - )

[GeronL]

In a perfect world they would have had a more democratic Parliament (even if just the property owners voted back then) and made Cromwell Minister of Defence or something.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Now you've got me digging around in the dictionary before I've finished my tea!
Thank you for the compliment nopardons, but I can't match you for presage.

[backhoe]

Good golly! Where to start?

Castro, the Carribean, and Terrorism

(C)old War Ghost- Cubans in Angola

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An overview of the whole bloody subject:

ICT - Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism

TERRORism

Algeria:

Algerian Crisis - Crise Algerienne - Isl...

ERRI Terrorism HotSpot Report on Algeria

100,000 victims of terrorism in Algeria

Terrorism: Peru and Algeria

A little historical perspective:

The Ambassadors REVIEW - Spring 1998

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executed	18,000
extrajudicial assassinations	1,000
disappeared	250
died in prison for lack of medical attention	50
murdered in prison by guards (brutality)	500
extrajudicial assassinations of women, for different causes	150
Sub-total for extrajudicial killings	20,400
political prisoners who reportedly committed suicide in prison	200
died at sea attempting to flee "balseros" - estimate based on Coast Guard estimates of casualties	83,000
Cubans killed in "internationalist-solidarity" wars in Africa	10,000
Total	113,600

The above numbers don't include deaths caused by Batista regime, documented by Armando Lago at 2,500, of which 2,200 are deaths in military battles in the Sierra Maestra, mostly soldiers, and 300 were murdered by Batista security forces.

To put these numbers into some context, note that all deaths reported during the entire Pinochet regime in Chile totaled no more than 3,100, a figure which includes the disappeared.

Nota Bene: Following the journalistic code of reporting by the Voice of America (VOA), two independent sources are used to confirm report of incident.

Photo credit: Juan Clark, Ph.D. Cuba: Exodus, Living Conditions and Human Rights.

 

Lest we forget, this list is a few years old, you can increase it by the number of deaths in the Straits (The Killing Waters), by the number of deaths in the Tugboat 13 de Marzo Massacre, and the murdered Brothers to the Rescue pilots.

Luis

6 Posted on 07/31/2001 14:42:21 PDT by Luis Gonzalez

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Excuse the wierd html; it's from an old format that doesn't translate well but the links still work. I'll cross-link this.

[GeronL]

bump

[Cincinatus' Wife]

BUMP for backhoe and his cataloguing.

[nopardons]

No such thing as a " perfect " world. But, I do like your idea. : - )

[nopardons]

Oh ... another tea person ? : - )

It's a lovely word, and fits you to a " T " . LOL We're having our early morning , mutual admiration society, I see.