OFFICIAL end of year LatAm forum "Some people say ..." thread.

[Mika]

Here it is DU LatAm forum abusers - the OFFICIAL end of year "Some people say ..." thread.


This is THE thread to post your semi hard truthy "facts", innuendo, rumors, hearsay, 3rd person stories, and unsubstantiated anti Bolivarian swill heard/read almost daily.

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Here's mine.

Some people say that Castro is getting all touchy-feely in his old age.

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[Bacchus39]

1. some people say if repression happens in Cuba but it isn't confirmed by the Cuban goverment

1. ...it isn't true.

2. some people say they are leaving the USA for Ecuador where they can exchange their "fake green bills" (US dollars) for the same fake green bills they use in Ecuador (US dollars).

3. Some people say all you need is $20 a month, be able to read, and have free health care and you have attained true happiness.

4. Some people say that the US is planning to invade Venezuela.


5. Some people say Chavez makes sense.

6. Some people say that that Chavez, or Correa, or Morales are addressing corruption in their countries.

7. some people say ALBA is relevant.

8. Some people say Prensa Latina is objective.

9. some people say that Obama should listen to Chavez. (actually do what he says)

10. some Chavistas and Castro-philes even say they are Democrats!!!

[Mika]

8. That's a very good list, B39.

Very truthy.

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[Bacchus39]

11. thanks, it was fun. I could go on but keep them wanting more n/t

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[Judi Lynn]

2. Some people say it's time to bring back the Dirty War for ALL Latin America and the Caribbean.

Some people say Operation Condor didn't go far enough!

Some people say it right here!

http://bookreviewsbybobbie.files.wordpress.com.nyud.net:8090/2009/08/troll.jpg

[Judi Lynn]

3. By the way, kick and rec.

:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :woohoo:

http://www.dartmouth.edu.nyud.net:8090/~news/releases/2007/03/images/pilobolus.jpg

http://www.dartmouth.edu.nyud.net:8090/~vox/0607/0402/images/pilobolus.jpg http://www.americandancefestival.org.nyud.net:8090/community/images/Kids/Pilobolus_trevi.jpg

Pilobolus Dance Theater

[Peace Patriot]

15. LOL! nt

[EFerrari]

4. Some say Micheletti is very popular in Honduras!

[Mika]

7. Well, the election results put that to rest.

:P

[Judi Lynn]

5. Some people said Castro was dead in 2006. Some idiots maintain he's dead now.

Florida Abuzz With Talk Castro May Be Near Death
By SARAH GARLAND, Staff Reporter of the Sun | December 15, 2006

http://www.blogbat.us.nyud.net:8090/8_22_080106_castro_miami01.jpg

Wilfredo Lee / AP

A woman holding a sign in Spanish that translates to ‘Liberty for
Cuba,’ joins revelers as they cruise the streets of Hialeah, Fla.,
in August after hearing the news about Fidel Castro’s health.

Speculations whipping around South Florida that the Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, is near death reached fever pitch this week as federal emergency officials ran "post-Castro" drills in preparation for the death announcement.

Officials described how the demise of the communist dictator could spark their worst nightmares — either a flood of Cuban refugees heading in makeshift boats toward Florida's beaches or a flotilla of Cuban exiles taking off to help liberate Cuba. Anti-Castro Cuban-Americans began planning champagne parties, while local police prepared to close thoroughfares in the event people began to dance in the streets.

The expectation of Mr. Castro's imminent death has been building for months, ever since the Cuban leader, who is 80, underwent abdominal surgery for an undisclosed condition in July and missed two separate parties celebrating his own birthday. All Cubans have seen of him is a handful of photographs and snippets of video footage. A detective in the Miami-Dade County Police Department, Nelda Fonticella, said officers are fielding dozens of phone calls each day with people asking, or offering tips, about the timing of Mr. Castro's death.

"It seems like every other week we get a frenzy of them," she said. "Now, it's increasing. We're constantly checking with the feds."

On Tuesday, the day of the "post-Castro"drill, a popular anti-Castro radio host in Miami, Ninoska Perez, told listeners to call in about what they planned to do at the moment the death was announced.

http://www.nysun.com/foreign/florida-abuzz-with-talk-castro-may-be-near-death/45247/

[Mika]

9. He is dead.

It must be true. http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=1785

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[Zorro]

6. Some people say there's a US military buildup in South America

Some people say that Zelaya had no intention to change the Honduran constitution illegally to allow him to run for re-election.

Some people say that FARC is not a narcoterrorist organization.

Some people say there was an attempt to assassinate Morales that was funded by the US.

Some people say that Cuban doctors in South America on humanitarian missions are not spying for Havana.

Some people say Chavez' praise for Carlos the Jackal is OK because Carlos was a freedom fighter.

[EFerrari]

10. You forgot the golf course atrocity.

lol

[Mika]

12. I must admit .. All true.

Some people do say those things.


Those "some people" are .. well .. curious. :crazy:

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[Vogon_Glory]

23. Some people say that the ABC islands are bases for US aggression against Venezuela n/t

[roody]

13. Some people say there are US students on full

scholarships in Cuba, studying to be doctors.

http://www.ifconews.org/MedicalSchool

[rabs]

14. Someone in this week's edition of Newsweek is saying (wishful thinking?)

in its Predictions for 2010 that:

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Fidel Castro has been ailing for years, and 2010 looks to be his last year on earth.

Within short order, and perhaps by year’s end, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will announce a plan to normalize relations with Cuba by the year 2013.

http://2010.newsweek.com/top-10/world-predictions/castro-dies-us-relations-improve.html

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Chávez Faces Another Coup

The military steps in to depose Chávez and restore order, as 21st-century socialism spins toward the familiar 20th-century tableau of scarcity, poverty, and chaos.
http://2010.newsweek.com/top-10/world-predictions/chavez-faces-another-coup.html

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Brazil: A surging economy will turn Brazil into the “new China”.

Article from Mercosur on the predictions:

http://en.mercopress.com/2009/12/25/newsweek-predicts-death-of-fidel-castro-and-coup-in-venezuela

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The prediction of Castro's death reminded me of Oppenheimer's



which is now selling for $1.99 from Barnes & Noble :rofl:

[Peace Patriot]

16. Some people, who never read the resolution that Manuel Zelaya actually proposed

for an advisory vote of the Honduran people, say that he was trying to lift his own term limit.

Some people, who find no fault with a country--Colombia--where the military and its death squads have slaughtered thousands of union leaders, peasant farmers, human rights workers, teachers and others--say that Chavez (who has harmed no one) is a "dictator."

Some people, who say that Chavez is a "dictator," say that Chavez is not dictatorial enough when it comes to street crime, inflation, corruption and other problems. (If he's a "dictator," why doesn't he "dictate" deflation and good behavior?)

Some people say that there is no U.S. military buildup in South America. :rofl:

Some people say that the Colombian government/military is not a narcoterrorist organization. :rofl:

Some people say that the USAID/CIA is not larding multi-millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars on rightwing groups all over South America, including the military coup leaders in Honduras, the white separatists who tried to secede from Bolivia, and numerous coup and assassination plotters in targeted democratic countries.

Some people say that Cuban doctors in South America on humanitarian missions are spying for Havana but they don't say WHY.
(Think about this. They're invited to, say, Bolivia, to help staff new medical clinics for the poor--in a friendly alliance between the two countries, Bolivia and Cuba--and Cuba would SPY on Bolivia...why? Spy on WHAT? To what advantage for Cuba, or disadvantage to Bolivia? This is a new one, to me, so I'm trying to figure it out--although figuring out rightwing 'talking points' is sometimes a useless exercise. They often don't make sense. Bolivia kicked the U.S. ambassador and the DEA out of the country, for colluding with the white separatists who tried to secede from Bolivia last year, so there's not much U.S. activity in Bolivia for Cuba to spy on. Doctor spies, wow. Spying on high cholesterol and gum disease in Bolivia? Spying on the talent in the barrios that might make it to the national soccer team, to give Cuba's national soccer team an unfair advantage? Nope, I don't get this one.)

Some people say that President Barack Obama kills more people every week than Carlos the Jackal killed in his whole life, but "we need to look forward not backward"--from week to week, forgetting what has been done in our name last week, by a President whom we elected to end Bush's wars.

Some people say that Carlos Jackal is in prison because he supports the PLO, and Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are not in prison because...um..."we need to look forward not backward"???

Some people say that they should let Carlos the Jackal out of prison because what he did was IN THE PAST, and, "looking forward," how can we jail someone for PAST actions?

Some people say that we should let all prisoners out of prison for this reason--what they were convicted of was IN THE PAST, and "we need to look forward, not backward."

Some people say that Barack Obama is a leftist revolutionary because of this, however, some other people say that, until he applies his new rule of law--"looking forward not backward"--to poor prisoners, and not just to super-rich, super-powerful, truly heinous criminals--he is a counter-revolutionary.

Some people say that the Forever War will never end. The "cannon fodder" on their way to Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Colombia, and other points north, south, east and west, would probably agree.

[Bacchus39]

17. some people say Colombia is going to build a "fake" base in Venezuela

place corpses dressed in FARC attire within the fake base in Venezuelan territory and then bomb it. The plot would include construction of huts in Venezuelan territory. Colombia will then claim that Venezuela is harboring and supporting the FARC by means of this plot to then presumably justify a military invasion by Colombia and, of course, the United States.



I realize this sounds incredibly stupid but some people say this and some people actually believe it!!!!

[ChangoLoa]

18. Some people even say that Venezuela entered Mercosur

[Billy Burnett]

19. Some people say that ...

.. it's New Years Day every day that Hugo Chavez is President of Venezuela.



This picture is for you, Mika. :) :hi:

[EFerrari]

20. Some say Hugo Chavez can see you when you're sleeping and he knows when you're awake.

[Mika]

21. Some people say that Hugo Chavez ..

.. is a Somali pirate on the weekends.




Here he is on a mission discussing pirateering tactics.

[EFerrari]

22. OMG. Hugo Chavez IS the Dread Pirate Roberts!

:rofl: