Castro Loves A Good Sale

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Huffington Post's Eat The Press   |  Rachel Sklar
First Posted: 09-22-07 07:50 PM   |   Updated: 03-28-08 02:45 AM

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Huffington Post's Eat The Press:

We just received this AP photo of Castro holding Greenspan's book, forwarded by HuffPost reporter Max Follmer. So! We shall see what Perez has to say about that. But also, look closer: There's a 30% off sticker on the cover. Castro loves sales! Capitalist sales! Viva la Cuba libre -- and other things for libre, too! This may be the best photo of Castro taken ever. We can't wait to see what Perez Hilton draws on it

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I heard a funny thing said by Garrison Keillor regarding Fidel Castro. Evidently Castro has indicated that he is attempting to outlive Chimpy's presidency. Keillor said something to the effect of, "Welcome to the club, Fidel."

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:52 PM on 09/23/2007

Exposingcommunists you know damn well that the refugees from Cuba "risking their lives" is for ECONOMIC reasons not for fear of persecution.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:36 AM on 09/23/2007
- marko77 I'm a Fan of marko77 32 fans permalink

Holy Shit!! and Aye Carumba on steroids. A little mention of Castro - who's about ready to keel over anyway - and Exposing Communists goes absolutely apeshit!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:55 AM on 09/23/2007

Exposingcommunist I bet you love Bush, from daddy to sons, as much of your rightwinged Batista loving cohorts here in Miami do.

Fascism is in your blood.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:53 AM on 09/23/2007

Being a native (born and raised) in Miami, I can tell you that it has been and is run by the Batista mob .

Just look at Miami. It is the first fascist city in the US. The rest of the country is catching up to what we have experienced for years.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:48 AM on 09/23/2007

Well please move to Cuba and tell those who are risking their lives, in shark infested waters, that Miami "is run by the Batista mob." You could save them from fascism comrade. Do your internationalist duty today.

How many innertubes do you and your family need? Hurry because Bush is about to declare himself President for Life!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:27 AM on 09/23/2007
- meandmagoo I'm a Fan of meandmagoo 2 fans permalink

What's hilarious is how all the wingers on the forums are not only saying that Castro's the mastermind behind the liberal movement,but they're all claiming Greenspan's a 'New York Liberal Elite".

Con's are funny.

And they smell like cabbage farts.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:00 AM on 09/23/2007
- Podewumun I'm a Fan of Podewumun 32 fans permalink

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    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:34 AM on 09/24/2007
- Zapatista I'm a Fan of Zapatista 20 fans permalink
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Hey ExposingYourself ...

Adolf Bush created the Homeland Security Dept.

The literal Russian translation of "Department of Homeland Security" is Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti = (KGB)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:25 AM on 09/23/2007
- HumeSkeptic I'm a Fan of HumeSkeptic 1568 fans permalink
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Good to see Fidel doing better healthwise.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:08 AM on 09/23/2007
- Marichu I'm a Fan of Marichu 16 fans permalink
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The Cubans in Cuba who are not members of the Communist Party have to scrounge around for the basic necessities. Most staples are rationed including sugar and tabacco, which are two of its major exports.
If a Cuban is lucky to have relatives in the United States, these relatives send food, clothing, household items, and dollars to Cuba. The Cuban government takes these dollar remittances by allowing the Cuban citizens to shop in state run "dollar stores" which sell needed items at a high mark-up averaging 240% over face value. The government makes a substantial profit from these transactions.
Cuba has been sited for human rights violations. Freedom of speech is allowed at their own peril. The government controls the press. The government also restricts freedom of religion. Due process is routinely denied to its citizens.
Many Cubans find this tyrannical government so oppressive that they risk their lives by leaving Cuba on rafts hoping that the currents take them to the United States.
No government is perfect, but some are better than others. And as imperfect as our government is, ours is one of the better ones.
On the plus side the Cubans do have univeral health care.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:49 AM on 09/23/2007

Marichu--Gosh, it sure sounds awful. What's amazing is that lots of people love Cuba. I'm one of them. Did you know Cuba offered to send more than 1500 fully-equipped doctors trained in disaster relief to the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina and Bush turned them down? I guess you feel Bush did the right thing. The Cubans were "commies." It would be better to suffer and die than to receive medical care from a commie, wouldn't it? Survivors of the hurricane shouldn't have a chance to decide for themselves whether to accept help from Cubans, right? Only Bush has the right to make a decision like that.

Fascist anti-Cubans make me sick and they made a lot of Hurricane Katrina survivors sick too.

Since you're so mad for capitalism, you must be in seventh heaven living in the USA under a dictator like George Bush.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:38 AM on 09/23/2007
- Blah I'm a Fan of Blah permalink

How do you associate criticizing the government of Cuba with being anti-Cuban? I don't know Marichu's or your (wars4profit) beliefs, but isn't it possible to be critical of Castro and Bush?

You just seem to be making a lot of assumptions here.

PS-I'm not looking for a fight. I just don't see how you make the connection that being critical of Castro means you are an anti-Cuban Bush lover.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:03 AM on 09/23/2007

Do you remember when Dorothy poured a pale of water on the Wicked Witch of the West? She said she was sorry because she was afraid of her goons? Then the Witch's goons said, "The Wicked Witch is dead" and the PARTY STARTED?

FIDEL IS THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST AND HE'S A FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT! He enslaved a whole country. Remember the Mariel Boatlift? When the borders were open, HOW MANY PEOPLE FLED TO CUBA? NONE AND THAT SAYS IT ALL COMRADES! Here is was that the borders were open and the Americans that supported CASTRO could be free to travel to PARADISE AND NONE DID? I DON'T GET IT!

HISTORY WILL REMEMBER THE BERLIN WALL AND WHICH WAY THE PEOPLE FLED. HISTORY WILL REMEMBER CASTRO IN THE SAME LIGHT!

Can anyone tell me the difference between Cuba and Alcatraz? Cuba and any prison society are the same! THEY ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR A WAY OUT!

HUGO IS NOW SAYING HE WANTS TO CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION TO LET HIM BE PRESIDENT FOR LIFE and his assembly will approve it or else. His takeover of businesses, schools, media, are just the beginning of his CASTRO-LIKE rule. Hillary and most of the top Dems will SOCIALIZE AMERICA LIKE FIDEL AND HUGO HAVE TO THEIR COUNTRIES.

Vietnam and Loas? Our American Communists aided the Soviets and Chinese in their takeover and mostly by using the Communist Party USA AND THEIR PEACE GROUPS. "U.S. OUT OF VIETNAM" SO THE SOVIETS/CHINESE COULD TAKE IT OVER. Look how great those two countries turned out. GREAT BASTIONS OF FREEDOM? You just need to look at NORTH KOREA AND SOUTH KOREA TO SHOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN COMMUNISTS TAKE OVER A COUNTRY!

Anyone who supports Communism has never lived under Communism! A few Huffpo wackos will say they have but they were probably in the Party and recieved the perks while their prized "workers" had to stand in line for hours to get a loaf of bread!

FREE INNERTUBES ANYONE? NORTH KOREA IS GREAT. VIETNAM IS BETTER. OOOOHHHH LAOS. LIVE IN PARADISE!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:03 PM on 09/22/2007
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Exposing Yourself,

Why not use one of your inner tubes and sail down the Potomac and meet your dear fuhrer on the White House lawn?

I'm sure your fascist leader has a job for you somewhere in the fourth reich government. Heil Bu$h!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Fuhrer

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:15 PM on 09/22/2007
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ExposingCommunists-

I invite you commrade to an afternoon of borsch,vodka, poetry by Anna Akhmatova and some Dostoevsky­.I'm particularly fond of The Idiot.

If all goes well we can enjoy an evening at the Bolshoi Ballet,some beluga caviar and more vodka.

R.S.V.P.

1 Red Square
Stalingrad,Mother Russia
KGB123

Please note - your response will be monitored.

P.S. I have Cuban cigars.

P.P.S Don't forget to bring your manifesto.

Dasvidania

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:52 PM on 09/22/2007

You are right some places are hellish. Take a ghetto in America. Wow that stinks Maybe Jena. whose is free there. I have been in communist countries. What I saw in China was incredible progress. And I could ask questions I would be afraid to ask in America. And you don't need an inner tube to get to Cuba. Just buy an aiplane ticket. Of course you have to go via a different country but hey that's American freedom for you. And for your information - Castro opened the jails and the insane asylums. I know that. A friend was interviewing the refugees. Yesiree - lots of good stuff in Cuba that just ain't in America. They may not be rich and they may have to keep their mouths shut about some things but they live and would do a lot better but for the vindictive embargo against Cuba because it is communist and not against China because well I really don't know why. I only know China is communist and it pretty well can sink the US any time it wants to sell its US bonds. Funny thing how now that the wall is down American companies have run away to use almost slave labour, no unions and way of making money by ignoring all environmental controls. It does seem to me that I read about the v.pv. of Mattel kowtowing and accepting the blame for the toxic toys produced in China and sold in America for a huge profit for Mattel.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:10 AM on 09/23/2007
- Zapatista I'm a Fan of Zapatista 20 fans permalink
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“It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some blood to suck. Capitalism used to be like an eagle, but now it’s more like a vulture. It used to be strong enough to go and suck anybody’s blood whether they were strong or not. But now it has become more cowardly, like the vulture, and it can only suck the blood of the helpless. As the nations of the world free themselves, the capitalism has less victims, less to suck, and it becomes weaker and weaker. It’s only a matter of time in my opinion before it will collapse completely­.”

~ Malcolm X

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:26 AM on 09/23/2007
- Zapatista I'm a Fan of Zapatista 20 fans permalink
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My Response to your drivel ...


www.youtube.com/v/6PDKcX0Ji90


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    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:52 PM on 09/22/2007

I'LL GIVE FREE INNERTUBES TO ANYONE WHO WILL BE THE FIRST TO FLOAT TO PARADISE!

BUSH IS A MURDERER? What that actually means is that he is ordering murder of innocents in Iraq but the ones committing the murder are the soldiers so when you say you "Support the troops" you are actually SUPPORTING MURDERERS?

CHE ACTUALLY SHOT AND KILLED PEOPLE AND IS A REAL MURDERER AND YOU SUPPORT HIS CAUSE AND MURDER TO ACHIEVE IT?

CHINA? We're causing the downfall of the biggest country on Earth using Capitalism. They are in the MIDDLE of a massive expansion in many areas including their military. The ANTI-CHINA MOVE HAS BEGUN. Toys, food, and now baby cribs are just the beginning of the end. Many in the MAIN STREAM MEDIA are reporting on Americans who will not buy Chinese products. I will not buy any tool or metal product from China but there are so many products that are made there, that it is impossible not to buy Chinese but TIMES ARE CHANGING.

Is it possible that some Chinese are like Zapatista and Crozier and would do anything to aid in their internationalist agenda AND THEREFORE POISON THAT "EVIL IMPERIALIST EMPIRE?"

ZAPATISTAS MURDERED FOR THEIR CAUSE TOO. It should also be reported that Sub-Commanante is actually SEBASTIAN GUILLEN VICENTE, A WELL-KNOWN MARXIST FROM MEXICO CITY and that is the reason many AMERICAN COMMUNISTS/MARXISTS legitimize their murders! When the Central Americans signed peace treaties, our COMMUNISTS AIDED MARCOS which was a part of their larger revolution that was to take root from Panama to Mexico. REAGAN STOPPED THAT ONE DIDN'T HE?

But our die-hard DUPES had to continue and they are the Zapatista, Castro, Chavez, SUPPORTERS AND YET THEY STAY IN THE "BIGGEST TERRORIST NATION LED BY A TERRORIST?" THEY SHOULD MOVE FROM THE BIGGEST CAPITALIST "EVIL IMPERIALIST EMPIRE AND MOVE TO A COMMUNIST COUNTRY WHERE THEY WILL BE HAPPY!

Be true to your ideals, stop living a lie, and move to Cuba. FREE INNERTUBES ANYONE?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:35 PM on 09/22/2007

Oh, and take plenty of toilet paper! They don't have soap, toothpaste, Q-tips, deodorant, and you won't miss them since everyone stinks like hell there and you'll get used to it. But living without toilet paper will get to you sooner or later. But hey, you're living in PARADISE!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:41 PM on 09/22/2007

I'd rather be a stink Cuban Doctor or Engineer than a sweet smellin DUMB American!! Nothing more vile to humankind than STUPIDITY and IGNORANCE!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:16 PM on 09/22/2007
- Zapatista I'm a Fan of Zapatista 20 fans permalink
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---> HEY ExposingYo­urself2Kid­s


My Response to your drivel ...


www.youtube.com/v/6PDKcX0Ji90


;o)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:50 PM on 09/22/2007
- Zapatista I'm a Fan of Zapatista 20 fans permalink
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---> HEY ExposingYo­urself2Kid­s


My Response to your drivel ...


www.youtube.com/v/6PDKcX0Ji90


;o)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:51 PM on 09/22/2007

ExposingHimself--It would be fun to drive you from the airport on the Venezuelan coast to Caracas. You go through the mountains and then as you approach the city you see a huge--and I mean huge--billboard high up that reads RUMBO AL SOCIALISMO BOLIVARIANO (On the way to Bolivarian Socialism.­)

Socialism is POPULAR is Venezuela. Wouldn't that be awful? Socialism is almost as bad as communism.

A guy like you has no idea how lucky he is to be living in the citadel of world capitalism. In Venezuela they'd think you were a nutcase! But here in the USA, you blend right in. Here you're just a normal guy.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:01 AM on 09/23/2007

Yea, in Venezuela I'd be labeled a "counter-r­evolutiona­ry" and I would soon disappear.

Hugo will now arm wrestle his assembly to make him President for Life. Hillary is watching closely.

"Socialism" is just the POLITICALLY CORRECT way to say AND MEAN COMMUNISM!

POPULAR? He paid off/BRIBED the campesinos to vote for him. He also went to Nicaragua and bought the vote for Comrade Ortega.

Closing down media outlets? That was real "popular."

HUGO IS TURNING VENEZUELA INTO A COUNTRY RULED BY THUGS! "Popular" discourse is not allowed is it? THE THUGS ARE ON EVERY CORNER! He's learning well from Fidel.

It would be fun to fly you into an airport on the coast of New York. You go through the mountains of buildings and then as you approach the city, you see a huge-and I mean huge-statue, THE STATUE OF LIBERTY!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:30 AM on 09/23/2007
- Zapatista I'm a Fan of Zapatista 20 fans permalink
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HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE !

CASTRO will forever be a shining example to the 3rd world ... of how one man ... can stand up to an evil imperialist empire.


"HISTORY WILL ABSOLVE ME" ~ FIDEL

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:24 PM on 09/22/2007
- Crozier I'm a Fan of Crozier 69 fans permalink

I agree with you. Dr. Fidel Castro was Harvard-trained and a scion of the Cuban elite. The success of his revolution against fascist dictator Battista and the evil fascists who supported him...the Mafia, and Murder Inc...was predicated upon the hope by these elitists that Castro would again betray the average Cuban. He did not, but rid the nation of the fascist and right wing enablers.

When I usually meet Cuban exiles, I hear how wealthy and secure they were....ho­w luxurious their lives, the number of servants etc.... and how they hate Castro and longingly remember Battista.

Long live Cuba and the Revolution. Long live Chavez and the Venezuelan People.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:32 PM on 09/22/2007
- Crozier I'm a Fan of Crozier 69 fans permalink

I just can't wait for the usual Pavlovian responses. The bell is ringing. You hate communism and Cuba....an­d yet everything you eat, wear or otherwise consume is made in Communist China or Communist Indo China like Vietnam or Laos.

Hypocrisy covered in both ignorance and arrogance.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:34 PM on 09/22/2007
- Zapatista I'm a Fan of Zapatista 20 fans permalink
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Also ... don't forget the heroic Che Guevara ... without whom the revolution would not have been possible.


"Che was the most complete human being of his age." ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:41 PM on 09/22/2007

Fidel & Hugo Chavez will always be heroes to the people of the Caribbean, Latin & South America! Why, because they never betrayed their people.

I always love how America couldn't do business with Cuba, but they worship China! The worst part is that you can't even explain that logic to the average DUMBED-DOWN American!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:14 PM on 09/22/2007
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