Posted on 05/05/2015 2:54:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The Obama administration approved the first ferry service in decades between the United States and Cuba on Tuesday, potentially opening a new path for the hundreds of thousands of people and hundreds of millions of dollars in goods that travel between Florida and Havana each year.
Baja Ferries, which operates passenger service in Mexico, said it had received a license from the Treasury Department. Robert Muse, an attorney for Baja Ferries, said he believed that other ferry service petitions had also been approved. The Treasury Department said it could not immediately confirm that, but Florida-based Havana Ferry Partners told the Sun-Sentinel newspaper that their request for a license had also been approved.
Muse said Baja had yet to request approval from Cuba, but added that he was optimistic the service would allow a significant increase in trade and travel between the two countries. …
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That and the ability to slip Communist operatives into South Florida.
Well, thats lesser evil for ya.
Iv’e heard it said that Obama knows a great deal about ferries!!
idiot's checklist
Get Iran the bomb
Kick Israel to the curb
Renew ties with worthless third world communist dictatorship
Make relations with Russia even worse
Make Middle East ten times worse
Turn back on allies
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“...approved the first ferry service...”
Fooled you guys, it’s just a misspelling .... he’s sending some of his fairy “friends” down there to start a bathhouse!
Where’s our Republican Congress?
Congress? Theres a congress? Whats a congress? What does it do? /s
And Cuba can make money selling us tickets for tours of active political prisons! See...it’s good for everyone involved. (sarc)
Because we absolutely, positively *HAVE* to get more immigrants into the country. Oh, and Coddle dictatorial communist states. That's an absolute must!
The media has been abuzz today at the prospect of Russian nuclear bombers being stationed in Cuba if the US goes ahead with plans for missile defense bases in Eastern Europe.
The story has riled the US enough that a US general has been wheeled out to tell the world’s press that any Russian attempt to build another nuclear base in Cuba would cross US “red line”.
The story broke earlier this week, when Russian newspaper Izvestia quoted an un-named source from within the Russian military. He told the Russian daily:
“While they are deploying the missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, our strategic bombers will already be landing in Cuba.”
The quote hasn’t been independently confirmed, but the Russian Defense Ministry added fuel to the fire when they refused to comment on the story.
The prospect of Russian nuclear forces being stationed in Cuba - which is, after all, only 90 miles from the US coast - would bring back some rather unpleasant memories for the US of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, where the Soviet Union under Nikita Kruschev launched an audacious and foolhardy bid to station nuclear missiles on the Caribbean island.
http://www.siberianlight.net/2008/07/23/russian-nuclear-bombers-cuba/
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Russia to help Cuba modernize weaponry, train military
September 18, 2009
HAVANA, September 18 (RIA Novosti) - Modernization of the Soviet-made military equipment and training of Cuban military personnel will be the focus of Russian-Cuban military cooperation in the near future, the chief of the Russian General Staff said on Friday. Gen. Nikolai Makarov arrived on a working visit to Cuba on Monday, met with Cuban President Raul Castro and the country's military leadership, and visited a number of military installations.
"During the Soviet era we delivered a large number of military equipment to Cuba, and after all these years most of this weaponry has become obsolete and needs repairs," Makarov said.
"We inspected the condition of this equipment, and outlined the measures to be taken to maintain the defense capability of this country...I think a lot of work needs to be done in this respect, and I hope we will be able to accomplish this task," the general said.
Makarov said the Cuban request for assistance with training of military personnel will also be fully satisfied.
Although the Cuban leadership has repeatedly said it has no intention of resuming military cooperation with Russia after the surprise closure of the Russian electronic listening post in Lourdes in 2001, bilateral military ties seem to have been improving following the visit of Russian Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin to Cuba in July last year.
A group of Russian warships, led by the Admiral Chabanenko destroyer visited Cuba in December last year during a Caribbean tour.
Well you know...he’s a giver. Not exactly in a tooth fairy sorta way but the fairy part...sure.
Fairies for Cuba...
so when does the migration begin??
You aren't the only one though. Some guy just posted an article about how Netflix discriminates against women, and he didn't post “SATIRE” either. /s
Obviously it’s just like the National People’s Congress in China.
“Where’s our Republican Congress?”
You kidding? They love the idea. Especially if a buck can be made off it.
A fairy approving a ferry...how appropriate.
Pure speculation on my part: Probably lining up campaign donations from companies that want licenses to transport people and goods between the US and Cuba.
We’re exchanging fairies now?
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