Posted on 01/20/2018 5:36:30 AM PST by Kaslin
A Scarlet Letter (A) once marked a harlot (OK, OK!… by Puritan New England 1650 standards!) In 1944-45 a French woman with a shaved head meant she was guilty of much the same –but with the added onus of having “slept-in-sin” with the enemy (Germans.)
(Please, amigos! Let’s argue about the morals and merits of these designations another time! My point is that these “brands” were a way to let the world know—easily and without going into a long inquiry--what these women had been up to.)
Well, without a long inquiry, all you really need to know about a news network’s propensity for lying and creating fake news is whether they were bestowed a Havana bureau by Cuba’s totalitarian regime. It’s that simple. Nothing to it.
Unsurprisingly, The New York Times, CNN, ABC and Time magazine (President Trump’s Fake News Award Winners) were all bestowed Cuba “press” bureaus by the totalitarian regime long ago. They’ve also been among the most historically mendacious news outfits “reporting” on-- and from-- totalitarian Cuba. It’s no exaggeration to call their reporting one long list of harlotries on behalf of their John and pimp—the Castro regime.
“No reporter can actually write about what really goes on in Cuba –he can only hint at it. The Castro regime assigns 20 security agents to follow and monitor every foreign journalist. You play the regime’s game and practice self–censorship or you’re gone.” (Vicente Botin, reporter for Madrid’s El Pais who was promptly booted from Cuba for refusing to succumb to the same journalistic harlotries as The New York Times, CNN, ABC, Time, etc. every time they file a “story” from totalitarian Cuba.)
Retired U.S counter-intelligence officer Chris Simmons also explains the issue: “The vetting procedure starts the minute the Cuban regime receives a (journalist) visa application,” says the man long-regarded as America’s top Cuba spycatcher. “When those smiling Cuban “guides” greet you at the airport they know plenty about you, and from several angles.” (Chris Simmons, the Defense Intelligence Agency’s top Cuban spycatcher, now retired.)
In brief, you’re not getting and keeping a Cuban journalist visa (much less a Havana Bureau) unless you shamelessly (and genuinely) collude with Cuba’s KGB-founded and mentored ministry of propaganda—i.e. unless you create Fake News. This isn’t rocket science, amigos.
And it didn’t start with the Trump administration—not by a LONG SHOT! Let’s take President Trump’s top prize winner The New York Times:
“This is not a Communist Revolution in any sense of the term. In Cuba there are no communists in positions of control. Fidel Castro is not only not a Communist, he is decidedly anti-Communist.” (Herbert Matthews, New York Times, July 1959.)
(Fidel Castro, by the way, had seriously “colluded” with KGB agent Nikolai Leonev and his Cuban KGB colleague Osvaldo Sanchez since 1955 when they seriously “colluded” in Mexico City. These “collusion” sessions involved setting the stage for the future Stalinization of Cuba.)
“Fidel Castro has strong ideas of liberty, democracy, social justice, the need to restore the Constitution….but it amounts to a new deal for Cuba, radical, democratic and therefore anti-Communist.” (Herbert Matthews, New York Times, February 1957.)
Leaving no stone unturned, The New York Times also embraced Ernesto “Che” Guevara as an unimpeachable liberty-lover and truth-teller:
“I am not a communist and have never been a communist…It gives me great pain to be called a communist,” (Ernesto “Che” Guevara –who had a KGB handler since 1956– as eagerly and trustingly quoted by The New York Times, January 4th, 1959.)
And speaking of Fake News:
“One Thousand Killed in 5 days of Fierce Street Fighting!” read a New York Times headline on Jan 4, 1959 about the “battle” of Santa Clara in central Cuba where Ernesto “Che” Guevara earned much of his enduring (and utterly bogus) martial fame. “Commander Che Guevara appealed to Batista troops for a truce to clear the streets of casualties,” continues The New York Times article. “Guevara turned the tide in this bloody battle and whipped a Batista force of 3,000 men.”
A year later, Che’s own diaries revealed that his forces suffered exactly one casualty during this Caribbean Stalingrad, as depicted by The New York Times. Your humble servant interviewed several eye-witnesses (on both sides) to this “battle” and their consensus came to about five casualties total for this Caribbean Gettysburg/Verdun, as depicted by The New York Times.
True to New York Times-form, during this “battle,” the paper didn’t have a reporter within 300 miles of Santa Clara. Instead, it relied on trusty Cuban Castroite “correspondents.”
And true to Che Guevara-form, the genuine bloodbath in Santa Clara came a week after the (utterly bogus) “battle,” when Che’s opponents (real and imagined) were utterly defenseless. That’s when Che sent his goons to drag men and boys from their homes and set his firing squads to work in triple shifts.
But absolutely nothing appeared in the trusty New York Times on the genuine bloodbath at Santa Clara. True to Castroite practice, only when “Peace was Given a Chance,” only when their enemies were utterly defenseless, did the bloodbath crank into high gear.
And true to (proud Walter Duranty employer) practice, The New York Times helped cover-up yet another communist atrocity.
Excellent analysis. They are all Communist totalitarian sympathizers, if not outright Communists themselves.
I just returned from Cuba after a week long trip. It is ludicrous to think, let alone write such nonsense. All Means of Production are owned by the State while only some are licensed to individuals. All labor wages are dictated by the State. The AVERAGE monthly wage is the equivalent of US$21. Maybe that's a couple reasons why refugees are not fleeing to this Worker's Paradise.
***Fidel Castro is not only not a Communist, he is decidedly anti-Communist.”***
I remember Castro saying he was “Not a communist” on the Ed Sullivan Show years ago. A year later he was so close to Nikita Khrushchev you could not have gotten a sheet of paper between them.
Confirmation from a contemporary witness: there was no four days battle or a thousand casualties as a result at Santa Clara. The last hope for the Batista Government was an armored train with 400 soldiers and loaded with armaments that were sent as reinforcements. Colonel Rosell, Batista military chief sold the train and contents to the rebels for a sizable amount of money (some say that like a million pesos) and left on a boat for USA. By January 1, 1959 the garrison has surrendered and against the promised terms the rebels started executing military leaders like Casillas Lumpuy, Rojas, Garcia Olayon and many more; maybe by January 4, they have reached the figure of 1,000 killed but the history of a battle is pure fiction.
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