Venezuela “Just Says Freaking NO!” to Hugo

 Venezuela “Just Says Freaking NO!” to Hugo  Castro Is Dead, Castro's Fellow Travelers, Chavez - Venezuela, Politics  Comments Off
Dec 032007
 

In case you missed it, Fidel Castro’s hand-puppet Hugo Chavez got punked at the ballot box by Venezuelans who voted against a proposal that would’ve made him dictator president dictator nearly for life. The proposal would’ve also given a “full-steam ahead” to a number of socialist measures.

The proposal was narrowly beaten. Surprisingly, Chavez admitted defeat. Close results like the ones for this proposal (51-49) usually give leftists an excuse to claim election fraud and the like. In fact, Chavez himself had threatened that if the U.S. had tried to meddle in the election, he would cut off oil supplies to us. What a moron.

Anyway, my Dolphins may have lost yesterday but at least so did Hugo!

Oh, and in other dictator-ish, sham election news, Fidel Castro was nominated as a candidate for Cuba’s joke of a National Assembly. This is just a pro forma move by the communist government to show it follows its own “rules” (whatever they may be) in re-perpetuating and regurgitating Castro’s dictatorship.

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New pic of Castro and Chavez

 New pic of Castro and Chavez  Castro's Fellow Travelers, Chavez - Venezuela  Comments Off
Oct 152007
 

Castro and Chavez

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Castro, Chavez shat?

 Castro, Chavez shat?  Castro's Fellow Travelers, Chavez - Venezuela, Media  Comments Off
Oct 142007
 

Oh, they said “chat.” I got a little confused. You see, it seems every time Castro or Chavez fart, the MSM is all over them like flies on, well, you know:

Castro, Chavez Chat in Live Broadcast
Castro Chats With Venezuelan Leader in First Live Appearance on Cuban Airwaves Since Illness

Fidel Castro made his first live appearance on Cuban airwaves since falling ill 14 months ago, sounding lucid and in good humor as he exchanged praise and jokes Sunday with the Venezuelan president.

You guys forgot to mention Castro also received praise from the jokes in the MSM. What a load of… you know what.

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Nazis returning to Germany?

 Nazis returning to Germany?  Castro's Fellow Travelers  Comments Off
Oct 062007
 

It sure seems that way:

German diplomats have backed away from inviting Cuban dissidents to the same party as Havana officials, ending friction that began in 2003, the German news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday. Beginning in 2003, the German ambassador to Havana had sent invitations to both groups when throwing a German Unity Day party every October 3, Germany’s national day.

Revolutionary leader Fidel Castro’s government responded by boycotting the elaborate annual reception.

Um, hello Germany, is a boycott by Castro’s regime a bad thing? I think not!

At least one German has a brain, though:

Volker Beck, the Greens parliamentary whip, accused Berlin of “kowtowing to Fidel Castro” and demanded an explanation of any changes to Germany’s human-rights stance.

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‘Cuban espionage regaining pre-Iraq war strength’

 ‘Cuban espionage regaining pre-Iraq war strength’  Castro's Fellow Travelers  Comments Off
Oct 052007
 

That’s the title of an eye-opening editorial in yesterday’s Miami Herald. Here’s a little teaser:

Cuba’s high-risk adventurism occurred on the heels of detailed revelations of Ana Montes’ espionage, including her efforts in the late 1980s to kill U.S. and Salvadoran soldiers during the war against the FMLN, the Salvador guerrilla movement. Cuba arrogantly assumed it could again put the lives of U.S. military personnel at risk without any consequences. This strategic blunder made a major U.S. response a fait accompli.

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MSM’s appalling coverage of Castro’s Cuba

 MSM’s appalling coverage of Castro’s Cuba  Castro's Fellow Travelers, Cuban Dissidents, Media  Comments Off
Sep 282007
 

Castro farts in a new video, the MSM is all over it.

The Cuban delegate to the Useless Nations acts like a petulant child during President Bush’s speech, that gets coverage like crazy.

Dissidents–21 of them–get arrested in Cuba, and you’re lucky to find a handful of buried headlines. If that.

The MSM apparently is either sympathetic to Castro, lazy (accepting the Castro regime’s numerous “news” dispatches as gospel without doing any digging for truth) or more concerned with the phony “prestige” of having a Havana bureau than it is with having journalistic ethics.

It should be a mark of pride for journalists to get kicked out of Cuba for coverage that lets the world know of the Castro regime’s outrages. One such reporter–Gary Marx–is set to receive an award for his truthful coverage of Cuba. Ironically, it’s coming from Columbia University (yes, THAT Columbia University).

Marx is receiving the award–the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for outstanding reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean–for “reporting [that] was devoid of the ideological side-taking that often taints journalistic stories about Cuba.”

How much coverage do you think Mr. Marx is getting for his award? I did a search of Yahoo! News and came up with just one hit.

Pathetic.

UPDATE:

The numbers arrested in yesterday’s government crackdown on dissidents in Cuba is not clear, but it’s estimated to be between 21 and 40. Most, if not all of the arrestees appear to have been released–notice we said released, because nobody who lives in Cuba is truly free.

The arrests took place apparently to keep the dissidents from joining a protest demanding better treatment for Cuba’s political prisoners. My guess is that once the damage was done (that is, the dissidents were prevented from making the political prisoner protest larger and more embarrassing for the Castro government), Raul Castro decided to release the arrested dissidents to prevent Myanmar-like condemnation on him. The Castros are evil, but they’re not stupid. You can read more about this situation at Marc Mas Ferrer’s blog, Uncommon Sense.

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Picture of Fidel Castro with Angola’s President

 Picture of Fidel Castro with Angola’s President  Castro's Fellow Travelers  Comments Off
Sep 232007
 

Castro and Angola’s President

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More on the death (or apparent lack thereof) of Fidel Castro

 More on the death (or apparent lack thereof) of Fidel Castro  Castro Is Dead, Castro's Fellow Travelers, Media  Comments Off
Sep 232007
 

With a new video out on the tyrant Fidel Castro (I wonder if the folks who made Osama’s video made Fidel’s), everyone’s scrambling.

Castro’s supporters–and I include many in the MSM–are gloating over the fact that he’s apparently still alive. Many of the headlines proclaimed that Castro appeared “stronger” in the video. Shyeah, stronger than death maybe? If these folks who wrote about Castro glowingly knew a lick of Spanish they’d know that Castro, like Bin Laden, rambled incoherently. Or maybe they do know Spanish (or they’ve hired interpreters), but are willing accomplices in the Castro government’s propaganda blitz.

I found an interesting comment in a posting on the Castro dead/alive issue on Babalu Blog. The comment was made by Tomas Estrada-Palma, great grandson of the first president of Cuba:

Lets face facts…Fidel is either dead or brain dead.

Now, the brain dead hypothesis might not be exactly right, but I think there’s something there. Castro rambles incoherently and he appears to have Alzheimer’s on the video, yet if I’m not mistaken, he hadn’t shown any symptoms of the disease before his surgery last year for an intestinal ailment.

So, I’m going to guess here, maybe he came across as incoherent because he was doped up heavily on pain medication–precisely because it would have been the only way they could’ve gotten him on video. In other words, my guess is he had one foot in the grave but the communist government of Cuba wanted to poke its enemies in the eyes one more time, not to mention keep the masses under control. And with the willing help of the MSM saying Castro appeared “stronger” and “healthier,” the regime’s job is made easier.

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Defending the indefensible

 Defending the indefensible  Castro's Fellow Travelers, Useful Idiots  Comments Off
Sep 192007
 

Here’s a clue: the cause of catastrophic consequences IS socialism:

By pointing out Cuba’s contradictions, our desire is for the revolution to avoid the catastrophic consequences of similar contradictions in former socialist regimes.

That, my dear friends, is the subheadline of a piece (of crap) published in the so-called “Palestine Chronicle.” It’s written by a–surprise, surprise–college professor in the U.S. In short, a useful idiot who takes the freedoms he enjoys for granted, but relishes the imposition of totalitarianism on the “little people.”

In the piece, the good professor defends an earlier essay he penned in which he adulates Castro’s dictatorship while pointing out a few minor criticisms. Ironically, he is defending the earlier piece against… Fidel Castro. Gotta love it when these fellow travellers attack each other. But then again, if the good professor truly knew his subject, he’d know that Castro thinks of himself and no one else, it’s never beneath Castro to bite the hand that feeds him, and Castro and his gang of thugs are very thin skinned.

As I’ve noted before on this blog, if there were any justice in this world, these useful idiots would actually have to live in the conditions they’d impose upon others.

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“Moore” MSM lovefest with Castro’s “healthcare”

 “Moore” MSM lovefest with Castro’s “healthcare”  Castro's Fellow Travelers, Cuba's Healthcare System  Comments Off
Sep 182007
 

Another MSM outlet, this one from Europe, chimes in on how “wonderful” Cuba’s healthcare system is under Castro. They even manage a two-fer, including a plug for Michael Moore-on’s sick flick, Sicko:

Michael Moore’s documentary, Sicko, holds up Cuba as a model. Whether it is a consultation, dentures or open-heart surgery, citizens are entitled to free treatment. As a result this impoverished Caribbean island has better health indicators than its much wealthier neighbour 144km across the Florida straits.

“There’s a reason Cubans live on average longer than we do,” Moore told Time magazine. “I’m not trumpeting [Fidel] Castro or his regime. I just want to say to fellow Americans, ‘C’mon, we’re the United States. If they can do this, we can do it.’”

Other outsiders such as Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary general, a United Kingdom parliamentary select committee, and an array of NGOs have also lauded Cuban healthcare. Even some senior US officials, between bouts of Castro-bashing, have ceded some plaudits.

Naturally, buried in the article, you’ll find this admission (emphasis mine):

The communist government is not transparent, some statistics are questionable and citizens have reason to muffle complaints lest they be jailed as political dissidents.

Yes, but for THAT minor detail, Cuba is a paradise, right? So, how do the Castro brothers manage to accomplish medical miracles amid a blockade from the U.S.?

There is no mystery about Cuba’s core strategy: prevention.

Ahhhhhh, prevention, indeed. You know, like preventing birth defects and childhood illnesses by pressuring expecting mothers whose unborn children show the potential for such, into having abortions.

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