californiainthemiddle wrote:
ip address wrote:What percent of Cuba has daily Internet access? Anyone know?
google it
Why would you trust a corporation like Google (Alphabet) about Cuba?
californiainthemiddle wrote:
ip address wrote:What percent of Cuba has daily Internet access? Anyone know?
google it
Why would you trust a corporation like Google (Alphabet) about Cuba?
californiainthemiddle wrote:
ip address wrote:What percent of Cuba has daily Internet access? Anyone know?
google it
I can't google it. I am living in Cuba.
Any day a commie dies is good day! Let freedom ring. In Trump we Trust.
Total dirt bag!
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I can't google it. I am living in Cuba.
Which is why you the time to hang out on LetsRun/
I worked on a biography in college on another communist leader and I found it extremely difficult to find unbiased sources. Same thing for Castro. What effect on Cuba's economy did the international trade barriers have? I would think that a country whose natural trading partner was immensely larger and only 90 miles away would have done a lot better with trade and tourism with that country, and others. If you deny that, then why would you support the trade barriers? If you say just to remove him from power, they sure didn't succeed at that in 54-57 years, did they?
Been to Cuba? wrote:
If you been there, Cuba is the most stable country in NA outside USA & Canada. Everyone can read and write, and do artihmetic. Everyone looks solid and are very healthty.
Then why are tens of thousands Cubans fleeing an island paradise to go 90 miles to FL on makeshift boats or rafts each year?
In his words...
Armando Valladares receives the 2016 Canterbury Medal
I am not an extraordinary man, and I am quite ordinary. But God chose me for something quite extraordinary.
When I was 23 years old I refused to do something that at the time seemed very small. I refused to say a few words, “I’m with Fidel.†First I refused the sign on my desk at the postal office that said that, and after years of torture and watching many fellow fighters die, either in body or in spirit, I still refused to say those words.
If I just said those three words, I would have been released from prison.
My story is proof that a small act of defiance can mean everything for the friends of liberty. They did not keep me in jail for 22 years because my refusal to say three words meant nothing. In reality those three words meant everything.
For me to say those words would constituted a type of spiritual suicide. Even though my body was in prison and being tortured, my soul was free and it flourished. My jailers took everything away from me, but they could not take away my conscience or my faith.
Even when we have nothing, each person and only that person possesses the key to his or her own conscience, his or her own sacred castle. In that respect, each of us, though we may not have an earthly castle or even a house, each of us is richer than a king or queen.
The Little Sisters of the Poor know this. They may be called the Little Sisters of the Poor, and yet they are rich in that they live out their conscience, which no government bureaucrat can invade. They know what my body knows after 22 years of cruel torture: that if they sign the form, the government demands they will be violating their conscience and would commit spiritual suicide. If they did this they would forfeit the true and only wealth they have in abandoning the castle of their consciences.
And so I salute the Little Sisters of the Poor for their seemingly small act of defiance!
I am here to tell you that every little act counts. No man or woman is too small or simple to be called to bear witness to the truth. I’m here to remind you that each of you possesses great wealth in the sacred domain of your conscience. And I’m here to tell you that each of you is called to stay true. I am also here to tell you that when you make that choice, from that moment forward, even if you are naked, in solitary confinement for 8 years, you are never alone because God is there with you.
For many of you, particularly the young people, it may seem I come from a faraway land from a long time ago. Young friends, you may not be taken away at gunpoint, as I was for staying true to my conscience, but there are many other ways to take you away and to imprison your body and your mind. There are many ways you can be silenced, in your schools, your universities, in your workplace.
I warn you: Just as there is a very short distance between the US and Cuba, there is a very short distance between a democracy and a dictatorship where the government gets to decide what to do, how to think, and how to live. And sometimes your freedom is not taken away at gunpoint but instead it is done one piece of paper at a time, one seemingly meaningless rule at a time, one small silencing at a time. Never allow the government–or anyone else–to tell you what you can or cannot believe or what you can and cannot say or what your conscience tells you to have to do or not do.
As I look around this room I am heartened. And I want to applaud each of Becket’s clients for, in staying true to your conscience and in standing up for religious liberty, each of you protects this exceptional country of ours. A country that is not perfect but nevertheless still allows us to live in a society where we can hold a different view from each other and a different view from the government.
Thank you for this award. I accept it in the name of the thousands of Cubans that used their last breath to express their own religious freedom, by shouting, as they faced execution: “Long Live Christ the King.†I accept it in the name of those who still suffer in Cuba–a country that in the last two years alone has destroyed more than 300 churches and houses of worship persecuting Baptists, Methodists, Anglicans and confiscating their Bible and crosses while beating their pastors and parishioners. I accept it in the name of the Jewish community in Cuba who, even at such small numbers, is also still persecuted. Finally, I accept this award in the name of my wife. It is really her that deserves it, not me. All of you have heard the story of Penelope, who waited 20 years for Ulysses. Martha is a real life Penelope. But she didn’t stay home knitting. She traveled all over the world campaigning for my release. She waited for me. She always hoped and trusted in God that we would both be reunited Against All Hope.
Thank you.
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Castro was not only a dictator, he helped spread dictatorism around the world. Truly a visionary.
History books always have one sided stories, written by white privileged individuals; totally biased!
Obama must be in mourning since his personal hero died
Cuba is mostly Black/Semitic. Little Havana (Miami) is mainly White. The Cuban Revolution was about ending apartheid and Jim Crow.
Zero trust wrote:
californiainthemiddle wrote:google it
Why would you trust a corporation like Google (Alphabet) about Cuba?
Yahoo! It!
im responding to sn earlier post. colonialism in america resulted in the death, enslavement, etc of over 100million native americans. castro was no saint, but holy hell the pro american bias by some posters here is astounding. this country was founded on slave labor and horrebsous atrocities to the natives. but sure, lets call it freedom. oh yeah and at this very moment the goverbment is reading everything were typing. texting. fb messaging, etc and looking at you through your webcam. sure. youre free :(
youre right he did a lot of bad things. no doubt. spme thoughts to ponder.
the us has more people imprisones than any other nation, were currently bombing 6 countries every day. were supporting and have supported all sorts of nasty regimes.
cuban health care is ranked 39, us is 37...also the level of care for poor people is muxh worst than for rich people in us. you know that though.
basically youre being hypocritical by bringing up so many things xastro did,vilifying him, while being pro american. weve done the same stuff. all of it is wrong and i wish it would all improve. i want peace for all.
Maybe they were too smart? Or maybe they had other priorities? I mean it's not like it's the politicians who are in the battlefield fighting the wars they made up while sipping tea and playing Xbox together.
One person's response to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau praising Fidel Castro:
"Today we mourn painter and animal rights activist, Adolf Hitler. His death also highlights the need for suicide awareness"
LIBERALS = CALL TRUMP A NAZI AND ANYONE HE APPOINTS A NAZI, KKK, ETREEEEEEEEEEEEEMISTT!
LIBERALS = CELEBRATE AND MOURN THE LIFE OF CASTRO......