Posted on 01/16/2016 6:04:52 AM PST by Kaslin
Obama's lucky that next to nobody pays attention to his Cuba policy. He's made such a mess of domestic matters that nobody has the time. He's even luckier that the media, academia, Hollywood and Castroite agents of influence (but I repeat myself) have rendered most Americans so pathetically clueless on the Castro regime that poll after poll shows a majority favor Obama's relentless groveling and surrender to it. (i.e. "rapprochement.")
Even Donald Trump seems semi-duped. "I think its fine. I think its fine, but we should have made a better deal," Trump added. "The concept of opening with Cuba is fine." For all his vaunted business acumen and street-smarts The Donald sure seems naive about how the Castros operate. Their "Art of the Deal" is simply: "We win, you lose."
Speaking of which: amazingly enough, at one time Ronald Reagan thought along the same lines about Cuba. In fact, he probably went further than most Democratic Presidents seeking a deal with Castro. In early 1982 he actually sent his Sec. of State Alexander Haig to meet in person with Castro's "Vice. Pres." Carlos Rafael Rodriguez in Mexico City. Then he sent his personal envoy Vernon Walters to Havana to actually meet with Fidel Castro.'
Castro, as usual, turned on the charm but Walters returned telling President Reagan that it would be Castro's way or no way. "He wins, we lose," in other words.
"We'll see about that," Reagan probably concluded. A few months later the 82nd Airborne stormed Cuba-occupied Grenada and Castro almost sh*t his pants.
Speaking of which, the slogan "Make American Great Again" wasn't exactly a Trump invention.
Obama's especially lucky that writers for shows like SNL and The Tonight Show are utterly oblivious to the nature of the Castro regime as are most Hollywood scripters. Granted, even if they were completely aware of the Castro brothers’ shameless steamrolling of Obama's negotiators, scripting an Obama character combining Steve Martin's the Jerk, Jerry Lewis' The Patsy and Bozo the Clown would be immensely challenging.
Historically speaking, only a nation that has been conquered and occupied (say, France during WWII, Czechoslovakia, Poland after WWII) would put up with the thefts, threats, insults and humiliations that Obama's U.S. suffers from Castro's Cuba. Lest we forget; Castro stole $7 billion (in current dollars) from U.S. citizens at Soviet gunpoint, while torturing and murdering a few Americans who resisted.
You'd never guess it from the media or your professors but this mass theft and selective murder of U.S. citizens was the reason for the so-called U.S. embargo. To date not a single U.S. citizen has been compensated as much as a penny. And I'm not talking about the billions upon billions more in property and savings stolen from Cubans who are now U.S. citizens. I'm referring to the mass burglary of people who were U.S. citizens in 1960.
Instead Raul Castro is pulling a Moe Green and insisting that we owe him billions upon billions. You want to laugh, but at the rate things are going who's to say Obama won't put out?
Later Castro sent his agents to torture and murder U.S. POW's in North Vietnam. According to the book Honor Bound the tortures of U.S. POWs by Castro's agents were "the worst sieges of torture any American withstood in Hanoi." (Full documentation here.)
Came 1996 and Castro murdered four more Americans in international airspace. The Cuban spy, Gerardo Hernandez, who was serving two life sentences for facilitating these murders by passing flight plans to Cuban MIGS was released by Obama last year as part of his grovelings.
But some of the FBI's most wanted terrorists and murderers (against Americans) continue to live like celebrities in Castro's fiefdom. Any request by U.S. "negotiators" for a revocation of this in-your-face style of "asylum" 90 miles from our shores as tens of thousands of smiling Americans spend their dollars in Cuba gets short thrift from Castro's KGB-trained apparatchiks. The topic is "off the table," they snicker. And that settles that.
"'I gave the order,†(for the MIGS to shoot down unarmed Cessnas and murder U.S. citizens in international airspace) boasted Raul Castro to U.S. Rep James McGovern (D-MA.) two years ago. Mc Govern was genuflecting before Castro during a visit to Havana while preparing for Obama's "diplomatic opening" to Stalinist Cuba. "I'm the one responsible[for giving the order to shoot down the U.S. planes]," Raul Castro doubled down with his boast.
Not only did Raul Castro get away with the murders, he also got his terrorist spies back and had Obama shaking hands with him last year during that Panama summit. A few weeks later Obama removed Cuba from the list of terror-sponsors and furtherloopholed the so-called embargo to a point where the annual cash-flow (mostly from travel expenses and remittances) from the U.S. to Cuba nowadays exceeds annual Soviet subsidies during the 1980's. Actually, Obama had started the travel and remittance to Cuba loopholing the minute he got in office.
Consequently the fat happy Stalinist regime has unleashed a wave of repression on the Cuban people unlike anything seen in decades—even under Fidel. Cubans are risking their lives to flee Cuba at a rate unseen for decades. In a stinging rebuke to their (self-proclaimed) U.S. benefactors, Cuban dissidents have even taken to wearing Obama masks while peacefully demonstrating against the ever-increasing repression in Cuba.
"It's his (Obama's) fault, what is happening," stressed Cuban dissident and former political prisoner Angel Moya. "The Cuban government has grown even bolder. That's why we have this (Obama) mask on. Because it's his fault."
Meanwhile, the Castro regime keeps snickering and stonewalling over any settlement of the $7 billion in property stolen at Soviet gun-point from U.S. citizens (and the torture and murder of a few who resisted.) Meanwhile some of the FBI's most-wanted terrorists (against U.S. citizens) and cop-killers (of U.S. cops) who were granted (much-needed) asylum in Castro's terror-sponsoring fiefdom remain in Cuba, snickering and living like celebrities.
And just to make sure that no U.S. "negotiator" retained a smidgeon of self-respect—just to make sure their humiliation was total and overwhelming—in the very midst of the "negotiations" Castro's spies stole a sophisticated U.S. Hellfire missile from a NATO training exercise in Spain, dangled it in our faces. Castro refuses to even discuss its return.
I realize this sounds like something out of the Twilight Zone, Alice in Wonderland or a Pink Panther movie but here's the details as we reported at Townhall last week.
Obama crowed that pursuant to his "opening" with Cuba's Stalinist regime back in December 2014 Castro graciously freed 53 political prisoners. Obama (and his media lackeys) didn't say that most of these Cubans had already served most of their sentences and were due for release anyway. Now he (and his media lackeys) aren't telling you that half of these Cubans have been rearrested and re-imprisoned.
So Castro again laughs in our faces. "The world is laughing at us!" Donald Trump laments from his campaign stump as the crowds roar approval of his truism. But actually nobody has been laughing at us louder or longer than the Castro brothers. If only that crowd knew half the reason for the Castro brothers snickers and guffaws.
Republican US presidential front-runner Donald Trump is apparently "honored" that Russian President Vladimir Putin considers the real-estate magnate a "flamboyant" and "very talented" man.
"It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond," Trump said in a statement, according to Politico.
He continued: "I have always felt that Russia and the United States should be able to work well with each other towards defeating terrorism and restoring world peace, not to mention trade and all of the other benefits derived from mutual respect."
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Russia's push into Ukraine has put many on edge. But less known is that Russia is also strengthening its military links south of the Rio Grande and re-establishing itself as a power in the region.
Vladimir Putin has been strengthening military links here, and Russia is now the largest arms dealer to governments in Latin America, surpassing the United States.
Russia has even floated the possibility of building new military bases in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, and putting its warships permanently in the Caribbean.
In the midst of the Ukraine crisis, Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov recently visited Cuba, Peru, Chile, and Nicaragua, where he announced that Russia would also pour money into the new Central American canal project. ..."
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/140508/russian-arms-military-trade-latin-america
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BY: Bill Gertz
February 20, 2015
Russia agreed to provide military training for three leftist regimes in Latin America and increase military visits and exercises following a visit last week to the region by Moscow's Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu, Pentagon officials said.
Shoygu met with defense and military leaders in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua and signed several agreements on warship visits and military training during the visit, which ran from Feb. 11 to 14. It is not clear whether any new arms deals were completed during the visit.
Defense officials said the Russian leader is seeking bases in the region for strategic bomber flights that Shoygu recently promised would include flights over the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russia-boosts-arms-training-for-leftist-latin-militaries/
"Trump's relationship with Russia goes far back. In 1987, before the collapse of the Soviet Union, he was meeting with Soviet officials and negotiating the building of "luxury hotels" in Moscow and Leningrad.
A story at the time said Trump had met Soviet Ambassador Yuri Dubinin, who mentioned how much his daughter had admired the "opulent" Trump Tower in New York City. This led to an invitation to Trump to visit the USSR. The story said Dubinin wrote a letter to Trump, who hosted a meeting with Soviet officials in New York.
The invitation to Moscow was issued by Intourist, the giant Soviet in-country travel organization which operated all the hotels for foreigners in the Soviet Union.
Intourist was created in 1929 by Joseph Stalin and run by KGB officials. Intourist hotels were designed for wealthy foreigners, and virtually all the Intourist guides were KGB informers. In fact, one aspect of their jobs was the recruitment of foreigners. ..."
Follow Trump's Money to Moscow
Renew America ^ | December 25, 2015 | Cliff Kincaid
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/kincaid/151225
Trump is sounding more and more like that other billionaire nut job, Ted Turner...
CNN founder Ted Turner with then wife, "Hanoi Jane" Fonda
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Interview
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 
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O'REILLY: Fidel Castro, do you admire the man?
TURNER: Yes.
O'REILLY: Now he has murdered people. He's imprisoned people. There are political prisoners now. He won't let his people use the Internet. Nobody can use that. And you admire the guy?
TURNER: Well, I admire certain things about him. He's trained a lot of doctors, and they've got one of the best educational systems in the developing world. And you know, he's still popular with a lot of people down there. He's unpopular...
O'REILLY: But he's a killer. He's a killer. He's a guy who…
TURNER: But that has never, to my knowledge, that's never been proven. I mean...
O'REILLY: He's executed political prisoners. I mean, he enslaves people who don't see it the way he sees it. Come on. He's a dictatorship. If you admire him, then why wouldn't you admire Mussolini? I mean, what's the difference? Mussolini put people back to work. There was order. The educational system was fine. See, I'm not getting this. This is what I don't understand about it.
TURNER: Well, OK, well, if you don't see the difference between Castro and Mussolini, you know, then you know, I likened some aspects of FOX News to the Nazis, so, I mean, you know, it works both ways.
O'REILLY: But you just admitted to me that that wasn't a very good thing to do and wasn't accurate.
TURNER: Hey, listen, I didn't say I wanted to live in Cuba. And I didn't say that I was buddy buddies with Fidel Castro. I just said that I respected certain things that he's done.
O'REILLY: All right, well...
TURNER: What's wrong with that?
O'REILLY: Well, you said respect the man. And I just don't - I can't possibly see how you could do that, but…
TURNER: Of course not.
O'REILLY: Now I asked this question through one of my producers to Ms. Fonda. And I'm going to ask it to you because by reading your book, it struck me that the Vietnam experience changed you. I'm saying to myself, you know, Turner comes into the Vietnam era, conservative guy, pretty much traditional guy, it changes him.
TURNER: Yes.
O'REILLY: It changes him. And now he's a very liberal guy. So I asked Ms. Fonda, didn't it ever bother you that after all your activism and getting America out of Vietnam, which it subsequently did in the mid '70s, that 3 million human beings were slaughtered by the people that you were lionizing, the North Vietnam and the Khmer Rouge Communists who wouldn't have been slaughtered if we stayed. And their skulls were stacked on top of each other. And I never heard from you, Jane Fonda. And I never heard a word from Ted Turner about that. And that, to me, is a good question.
TURNER: You've got me. I didn't really think about it. You know, it didn't make the news very much.
O'REILLY: No, it didn't. And you had a vehicle that you could have had - the revisionist history is what I'm worried about here. I think America's a noble nation. I think we've made mistakes. I think we tried to have freedom in Vietnam for the South Vietnamese. Unfortunately, the government was corrupt. I don't think that was a venal, terrible thing to do. I think we were trying to protect people there.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,465124,00.html
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After coming to power when he was 28, Kim cemented his rule through a series of purges, including the execution of his uncle Jang Song Thaek.
"You've got to give him credit," Trump said. "How many young guys - he was like 26 or 25 when his father died - take over these tough generals, and all of a sudden - you know, it's pretty amazing when you think of it."
A tens of billions in investment in tourism infrastructure in Cuba will bury Cuban communism under a tidal wave of green-backs. Our ideology about capitalism isn’t just our ideology. It has worked everywhere that it has been tried for thousands of years.
Then why is the communist Castro government in favor of it?
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