Posted on 04/14/2002 4:04:40 PM PDT by Diogenesis
Uh, small correction(s). Moscow remains the only country to send commercial passengers into space. Many of our own astronauts are civilian.
They do have a commercial niche because they sell their product cheap. Unlike here, Russian aero engineers/workers live like welfare recipients here, in old state housing on the Khrunichev grounds, with meager pay.
The US just invested huge capitalization into EELV.
And the most exciting exploration missions on the boards are still US or US teamed with partners.
The photos of the people begging for bread is an old tactic for manipulating the journalists. This was taught to the PLO Police by Castro goons who learned it in the Soviet Union and from the East German Secret Police.
Even on an American, very pro-Castro site, it is confirmed that when foreigners are around, the Cuban masses are alert for the police and their secret signals and secret instructions: Afrocubaweb, chismes
(4/19/99 The crackdown in Cuba continues. People say "we have gone back to the 1980 days of autocensura," autocensoring. Even senior people are afraid to be seen in public with foreigners, especially Americans. The police have ingenious ways of signalling Cubans when they want to talk with them so that foreigners remain unaware that their Cuban companions are being hailed by the cops. The Cubans then simply excuse themselves and go talk to the police without revealing what is happening. Being with a foreigner per se is not illegal, but leads to a lot of harrassment on the part of police who investigate, ask for papers, etc.)
Hundreds of Palestinians received training in Cuba during the 1970s to promote their objective of national liberation, i.e., Israels obliteration. From Myles Kantor's article
I don't know where this phrase came from, but this is great! I think we should all quit referring to those who strap bombs on their bodies as "HOMOCIDE BOMBERS," not "suicide bombers."
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