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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-01-06 02:33 PM
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The Re-Colonization of Cuba....
Edited on Tue Aug-01-06 02:34 PM by Joanne98
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=10571

The poor Cuban people. They don't don't what they're in for if Castro dies. The human scum privatizers and maggot contractors are ready to pounce.

The Bush Administration's "Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba," co-chaired by our Secretaries of State and Commerce, has presented a new report to our President this week. It's a lengthy and comprehensive plan, detailing the steps which US government and other "vital actors" will be taking to bring Cuba back into the family of overt US colonies, which now include some of the Pacific Islands, Puerto Rico, Kabul, and the Green Zone in Baghdad.

The Administration was roundly criticized for not having such a plan for Iraq after its conquests there. Some even claimed it was the reason for the failure of the occupation. One of the purposes of this Plan may be to forestall such criticism in Cuba's case.

Nevertheless this Plan is much the same as the one for Iraq (which was not publicly articulated beforehand.) By privatizing what used to be done publicly, it will bring Cuba into the modern, civilized world by creating a capitalist utopia where private entrepreneurs from the "international community" (mostly US corporations) and the "Cuban community abroad" (mostly US citizens), unencumbered by societal restraint, will unleash their full creative powers to save the long-suffering Cuban people from continuing poverty and tyranny, while incidentally benefiting themselves.

The recommendation for Cuba destabilization activities going on now is to continue or increase everything, especially the radio-TV projects illegally being forced on Cubans by US airplanes, denying hard currency to Cuba by tightening the blockade, i.e., fining foreign banks which deal in Cuba transactions, punishing and rewarding foreign governments which increase or decrease Cuba trade, and tightening and increasing punishment for the travel restrictions, the cost of which already triples what we spend trying to trace Al Qaeda funds.
The funding for this will be a new US slush fund of $80 million increased by $20 million per year, plus all the dirty destabilization money (unknown multimillions per year) now being funneled through AID, NED, the so-called NGO's in Florida, and the US Interests Section in Havana.

Under the Plan, in the future all Cuban communication, electric power, transport, mining, industry, agriculture, medical, and other productive enterprise will be privatized and the vital actors (US and its entrepreneurs) will build and create for Cuba a water and sanitation system, a health care system, an education system, a transportation system, a communication system, a shelter system (homes for everyone), a food security system (a chicken in every pot), all presumably similar to what we are doing for or to the Iraqi people. Much more, in fact, than we are willing to do for the people of New Orleans.

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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-01-06 02:35 PM
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1. I could very easily the the invasion and occupation of Cuba...
in fact, that's probably what Chimp and Jeb were up to yesterday. Watch, Chimp will be holed up at Camp David all weekend planning his next perfect little war.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-01-06 02:36 PM
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2. I don't think anybody expects what's about to happen.
If they don't have a government in place to settle property ownership, there are going to be people coming back to claim old homesteads, throwing the two or three families now living in them out on the street.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-01-06 02:37 PM
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3. The Cuban Revolution is not FIdel Castro
Invaders will get a rude awakening.
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Uppanotch Donating Member (50 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-01-06 02:44 PM
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4. I don't know who the "they" is you referred to, but Cuba HAS a Gov't now.
nt
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-01-06 03:06 PM
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8. By all means, correct me if I'm wrong, but...
Edited on Tue Aug-01-06 03:09 PM by The Backlash Cometh
I've lived in a latin American country, and "government," under a military dictatorship, is a very loose term, in the sense that the transition of power is going to be interesting..
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-01-06 02:44 PM
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5. Yep. They'll throw people out of their homes by the thousands.
Huge haciendas will appear overnight. Homeless children will have to beg big fat tourists for food as they waddle to the CASINOS. Child prostitution will rear it's ugly head. Can you believe, they're are people in Florida who actually want to do this to them. Shame.
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-01-06 02:45 PM
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6. It sounds like they're planning Iraq II
Only they don't think they'll have to use military force this time.

These guys are nuts. Neoliberalism has failed everywhere it has been tried and yet they still push it like it the solution to all that ails the world.

Sure, let's have free and fair elections in Cuba, so that there can be no doubt that the people's choice is a leader who will tell Bush and his rich cronies to go home.
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-01-06 02:48 PM
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7. They won't bomb it. (I hope) they'll just bulldoze it. Like Gaza.
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-01-06 03:12 PM
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9. What if Cubans reject what the US wants to give to them? What then?
Do we embargo Cuba some more?
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