Another reason to throw a brick throw the boob tube
– July 14, 2010Posted in: Media
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Watch Cold Case: Stealing Home on CBS tonight
– April 12, 2009Posted in: Defection, Friends of Cuban Freedom, Media
Tonight, CBS will air a special episode of their police drama series Cold Case. The episode, titled “Stealing Home,” is about the murder of a baseball player who defected from Cuba. It airs at 9PM eastern, please watch it.
I’ve been told by a good friend that this episode will show the truth about Cuba, as opposed to the whitewashed tropical paradise the mainstream media would have you believe Cuba is under the Castros. That’s why it’s imperative for as many of us to watch it.
One of the stars of the show–Danny Pino–is a Cuban-American and I understand he helped write the script for tonight’s episode. I also understand Steven Bauer, another Cuban-American actor, will be on the show.
In case you’ve never seen it, Cold Case is about a fictional unit in the Philadelphia Police Department that, as the show’s name suggests, focuses on solving cold cases. The show is one of the few TV shows I watch and enjoy, and that’s before I knew Danny Pino’s background or that this episode would be shown at all.
Cuban baseball defection
– March 16, 2009Posted in: Defection, From Other Blogs, Media
No, it wasn’t a baseball player. But Babalu Blog is reporting that an editor with Cuban TV who was traveling with the baseball team has indeed defected.
Another one reaches freedom. Wonder when the remianing 11 million will reach freedom. Best of luck to the defecting editor, Yuri Boza.
Cuban baseball slavery
– March 16, 2009Posted in: Cuban Slavery, Defection, From Other Blogs, Hunger Strike, Media
Babalu Blog has a blogburst today about the World Baseball Classic and Cuba’s sadly enslaved baseball team. The post is pegged to the top of the page and it includes a song parody of “Take Me Out To The Ball Game,” a special graphic and this:
Cuba is one of the few countries in the world that prohibits its citizens from leaving without government permission, a violation of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Because Cuba’s athletic teams compete internationally the participants are constantly shadowed by members of Cuba’s state security apparatus. The primary objective of Cuban state security is to prevent defections which embarrass the Castro regime and deplete the country of athletic talent. In Democratic countries like the United States this presents a perverse situation where Cuban athletes are basically deprived of their rights to move freely.
As Babalu Blog notes, the MSM could care less about this. Pretty ironic about how the left and the Castro regime whines loudly about a US prison–Guantanamo–on Cuban soil while nobody seems to give a rat’s behind about a Cuban prison that travels the world.
A Country Without Liberty
– February 20, 2009Posted in: Cuban Dissidents, Media
Argentina’s Canal 5 Noticias (Channel 5 News) has done an excellent series of reports on the lack of freedom in Castro’s Cuba. They interviewed a variety of dissidents, including Dr. Hilda Molina–whose son lives in Argentina and the reporter was warned specifically not to go visit by Cuban authorities, despite having been promised by the same that she’d have “complete freedom of movement”–Yoani Sánchez, the famous and brave Cuban blogger; Las Damas de Blanco, or Ladies in White; Vladimiro Roca; Martha Beatriz Roque; and others.
The first video includes a segment where Cuba’s police harasses the reporter, as well as an interview of Dr. Molina. That video is below; links to the seven remaining videos (the series was broken into eight pieces) are further below. Sorry, all the videos are in Spanish. But you can still see what goes on, including the reporter getting harassed by Castro’s thugs. Too bad you’ll never see video like this on BBC or CNN.
A Country Without Liberty (part 2)
A Country Without Liberty (part 3)
A Country Without Liberty (part 4)
A Country Without Liberty (part 5)
A Country Without Liberty (part 6)
A Country Without Liberty (part 7)
A Country Without Liberty (part 8 )
Hat tip to Enrique Artalejo.
All’s quiet on the North Korean front
– October 20, 2008Posted in: Castro's Fellow Travelers, Media
Yesterday, we posted that a Japanese newspaper was reporting that North Korea was set to make an “important announcement” today, which the scuttlebutt had that it could possibly be Kim Jong Il’s death or a coup d’etat.
Well, today, South Korea is reporting that everything in North Korea appears to be (ab)normal, as usual:
There was no unusual activity in North Korea on Monday, South Korean officials said, despite reports that Pyongyang was poised to make an announcement amid speculation about the health of its leader, Kim Jong Il.
and…
On Sunday, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency published typical propaganda dispatches praising Kim’s regime and criticizing the South Korean government. There were no articles indicating any imminent government announcement.
“Propaganda dispatches praising Kim’s regime and criticizing the South Korean government.” Yep, that sounds like what passes for normal in North Korea on any given day.
Kim Jong Il dead?
– October 19, 2008Posted in: Castro's Fellow Travelers, China, Media
Is Castro’s North Korean buddy Kim Jong (Mentally) Il dead? Or is something else going on in North Korea?
Either way, the police state and Castro ally is set to make some sort of “important announcement” tomorrow, according to Sky News’ website:
The Sankei newspaper said there was speculation within Japan that the announcement could be about Kim’s death or a change in government brought about by a coup.
The 66-year-old Kim disappeared from public view in mid-August and failed appear on two important national holidays, leading to speculation that he was seriously ill.
United States and South Korean officials said he had suffered a stroke and had undergone brain surgery, but North Korea has denied that he is unwell.
Quoting unidentified sources at Japan’s defence ministry, the Sankei said Tokyo had information that “there will be an important announcement on (October) 20th”.
Very, very interesting.
Ho hum, in other obvious news,
– May 5, 2008Posted in: Human Rights, Media, Raul Castro
night follows day, the sun rises in the east, water is wet and Cuba’s leader tells another whopper:
As a practical matter, it is impossible for this or any other newspaper to set the record straight every time the Cuban government tells a whopper. Orchestrating lies is the specialty of police states. Anyone who has ever listened to Radio Havana or watched a Cuban TV ”news” program knows that Cuban leaders lie to their own people and lie to the outside world. They even lie to each other. But sometimes the lie is so blatant, so malign, so far removed from the painful reality of life in Cuba that it must be refuted, for the sake of common decency if nothing else.
That’s the case with Raúl Castro’s recent claim that there has not been ”one sole case of torture” in Cuba. Even by Cuba’s standards, this is an astonishing falsehood, a lie of such outsized proportions that even Raúl Castro should have been ashamed to utter it.
The “C” in “CNN” stands for “Castro”
– February 20, 2008Posted in: Castro's Fellow Travelers, Media
It sure looks that way after finding out, via The Natural Truth, the “news” agency sent its on-air staffers an e-mail yesterday with the following talking points on the “Castro resigns” story (my comments in parentheses):
-Please note Fidel did bring social reforms to Cuba – namely free education (you mean indoctrination) and universal(ly awful) health care, and racial integration (yep, now EVERYBODY gets treated like a slave, regardless of skin color).
-Some analysts would say the US embargo was a benefit to Castro politically – something to blame problems on (Castro never missed an opportunity to blame the US for Cuba’s problems, nor did CNN), by what the Cubans call “the imperialist,” meddling in their affairs.
-While despised by some (Some? Try millions!), he is seen as a revolutionary hero, especially with leftist in (the CNN newsroom) Latin America, for standing up to the United States.
Yep, brought to you by the network that spiked stories about Saddam Hussein’s atrocities.
BREAKING: Fidel Castro resigns UPDATE: More blog reactions
– February 19, 2008Posted in: Castro Is Dead, From Other Blogs, Media, Politics, Raul Castro
File this one in the “a half century late, a few billion dollars, thousands executed and imprisoned and millions of Cubans tormented short” category: Fidel Castro has resigned as dictator of Cuba:
An ailing, 81-year-old Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba’s president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term when parliament meets Sunday.
The end of Castro’s rule—the longest in the world for a head of government—frees his 76-year-old brother Raul to implement reforms he has hinted at since taking over as acting president when Fidel Castro fell ill in July 2006. President Bush said he hopes the resignation signals the beginning of a democratic transition.
“My wishes have always been to discharge my duties to my last breath,” Castro wrote in a letter published Tuesday in the online edition of the Communist Party daily Granma. But, he wrote, “it would be a betrayal to my conscience to accept a responsibility requiring more mobility and dedication than I am physically able to offer.”
For those who think this means change and freedom in Cuba, it doesn’t. Not until the entire Castro cabal is out. Sure, there will be some so-called “reforms” under Raul, but they will be nothing but meaningless window dressing, as they have been since Fidel “temporarily” handed power to his brother.
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