Well, yeah, when people have no money, live in 3rd world conditions, sure, that’s great!
(Daily Caller) The New York Times has published a story bemoaning how American companies looking to do business in Cuba could threaten the country’s “pristine†environment that’s the product of decades of communist dictatorship.
“The country is in desperate need of the economic benefits that a lifting of the embargo would almost certainly bring,†the Times article reads. “But the [embargo], combined with Cuba’s brand of controlled socialism, has also been protective, limiting development and tourism that in other countries … have eroded beaches, destroyed forests, polluted rivers, damaged coral reefs and wreaked other forms of environmental havoc.â€
Cuba came under communist rule in 1959 after Fidel Castro successfully overthrew the Batista government. For decades, Castro ruled as a dictator and ally of the Soviet Union, imposing a harsh communist regime on the Cuban people that stymied economic growth and people’s standards of living, leaving much of Cuba’s environment untouched.
“Already, American corporations are poised to rush into a country only 90 miles from Florida’s shores,†the Times article warned, but not without noting the despair faced by many Cubans who suffer from a lack of prosperity.
“Despite modest economic advances in the last 15 years, much in Cuba can seem frozen in time, crumbling Havana buildings and old Chevys and Ladas serving as markers of how far the country has been left behind,†the Times reported. “But that has also meant that much of Cuba’s more than 3,500 miles of coastline has remained undeveloped.â€
Yes, their environment is great. And, I’ll agree that over-developing the coastline is a blight. I have to wonder how many who work at the NY Times will forgo their own trips to the beach, either down at the Jersey Shore or along the Long Island coastline. Oh, and they forget about the deplorable environmental conditions in other Communist countries, such as the Soviet Union and China. They also do not seem too concerned over the environmental degradation caused by “green” companies like Solyndra.
Cuba’s centralized economic system means frequent shortages of food and other basic products. The Economist noted in 2010 that Cuba’s farms barely produced 20 percent of the country’s food needs, and even with recent agricultural reforms under Raul Castro there are still shortages.
Reuters reported last year that the “communist-run country still encounters chronic shortages†and that “Cubans have come to consider shortages normal, providing both a source of frustration and humor.â€
Well, at least it wasn’t caused by “climate change”. Over to the NY Times
Cuba’s green sensitivities evolved as much out of necessity as ideology.
The collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1991 and the continued isolation by the United States forced the country to fend for itself. With the tools of big agriculture — fuel for heavy machinery, chemical fertilizers, pesticides — out of reach, farming moved away from the increased sugar production that characterized the Soviet era, turning more to organic techniques and cooperatives of small farmers. Oxen replaced tractors, and even today, a farmer walking behind his plow is a common sight in the countryside.
Huh. So, they were kinda forced to live like it’s a couple hundred years ago. Much in the same way Warmists/Enviroweenies want to do everywhere else for Other People.
Get control of colleges and universities and then gain control of major publishing and newspapers and television outlets.
They have done a fine job. The Columbia School of Journalism filled with declared and avowed Communist professors keeps churning them out for the main newspapers and television outlets to pick up, put on their payrolls and to continue the communist bullshit coming.
There was a day when America was terrified of communism and rightly so……Its a horrific system of government…..but the brainwashing that has gone on for the last 50 years are finally taking its toll.
We are a few years away from our own communist revolution and perhaps even more terrifying another civil war.
Yes Liam isn’t it a shame that the right wing abandoned teching as a profession because of its low pay.
Why not consider changing your job to teaching and work in an inner city school instead of just saying everything is the fault of the lefties?
What’s the more immediate and dangerous threat – the coming communist takeover or the coming Heinrich event?
And it’s the climate realists who are all doom and gloom, lol?
What’s the more immediate and dangerous threat – the coming communist takeover or the coming Heinrich event?
And it’s the climate realists who are all doom and gloom, lol?
The Communist threat is already upon us. Ridiculing the poster is a way to deflect. The former USSR used it very effectively when conducting arms talks with the USA….they always ridiculed the USA for fearing the loving and compassionate communist states in the world.
When forces that are hostile to socialism try to turn the development of some socialist country towards capitalism, it becomes not only a problem of the country concerned, but a common problem and concern of all socialist countries.
This is why the radical left went Ape-shit nuts when the USA invaded Iraq. We cant have democracy. It is why they stand toe to toe against helping any of the middle eastern nations.
Its the Breznev doctrine. Its why the left is shouting for joy over the normalization of relations with COMMUNIST CUBA…….another nation who might have influence over the USA and its slow but steady march to Socialism…..which we all know the goal of socialism is communism.
Ridicule gets you no where Jeffery. Its only a pathetic attempt to cover up your communist origin and roots. Your a communist who is positioning himself to CASH IN when the coup arrives……You don’t care about blacks, gays, lesbians, Muslims, women or children….you only care about your own little communist nirvana you have carved out for yourself in the coming collapse of America.
Heinrich event? It might or might not happen in your liftime or mine….See the difference between a paid AGW truther and a real scientist is that the science is not settled on a lot of things and AGW is one of them….but of course we both know that your a communist who is only using AGW as a means to an end…..the end of capitalism.
PEOPLE….COMMUNISM SUCKS!! You think your life is miserable now….wait till the Jefferies and John’s of the world take over…….they cant wait to lock you up in their gulags and throw away the key. Its who they are and what they stand for.
Liam,
You smoked us out. American communists have bought millions of acres in Central America (a small piece of Costa Rica was closed to us) which will serve as our gulag. Once Komrade Obama declares martial law in the lead up to the election in 2016 we’ll start transporting the worst of the worst conservatives by train to our prison camps there. In looking over the list of illegal aliens in the US, your name pops up. You will be close enough to your winter home in Costa Rica to see it from your cell. You’re welcome.
The rest of the population will either be consigned to temporary re-education camps or will be monitored at home (the NSA network allows complete government monitoring of all communications – even whispers at night). Snowden was right.
Many of your operatives dont realize they are communist lackeys…..Their narrow interests of saving whales or saving the planet from evil fossil fuels or making sure the 3 percent of the USA get more rights then the rest of us………
Many of your groups who vote for the communists running the democratic party may not even know they are actually aiding and abetting the Communist agenda…..
That is by design…..
But
at
least
Jeffery
acknowledges that HE IS A COMMUNIST.
He even acknowledges that he has been smoked out even though he veils his admission in ridicule. He even points out how it is the plan to re-educate the people…obviously intended to deflect once again the communist agenda of re-educating the masses and he talks again of gulags and prision camps for the right.
People he is not being funny….Hide the truth in plain sight…..put it on stage and then make fun of it…..people laugh and walk away not realizing that….hey that was the real truth.
Hillary Clinton…..Email scandal……..how is she handling it? Making fun of it, laughing at the right for thinking its a problem….they put it on stage and then make fun of it…….
its how they work….Its how Jeffery works at his Astro-turfing job.
and you notice the only ones up in arms over this is the right….the left quietly snickers to themselves saying…..we beat that bastard bush over the head with this but now that we got our man in place…..we can keep tabs on those evil righties and when the time comes….we will know who they are…….
The right is livid over this…..they in fact tried to hold up the patriot act renewal it was the left decrying the rights want to destroy Americas ability to prevent terrorism based upon some ridiculed position of……….the constitution.
The IRS scandal. The IRS destroyed emails purposely after being subpeona’d by congress. They just laugh at the laws of the land…..knowing full well that the communist MSM will defend them and tell us how evil the Koch Brothers are and how Fox News is evil for reporting on the shennigans of the left.
Burn emails, burn evidence….flaunt the law….flaunt the constitution….flaunt the rule of law and then put it on stage…..make fun of it and bait and switch the rights indignation for the laws they just broke and make the right the bad guys rather then the lefties who are willingly breaking the law.
the people dont care….the left is giving them free stuff….and the communist main stream media is covering for the high crimes and misdemeanors that have occured during this presidents administration.
Liam,
My apologies for mocking you. You’re obviously passionate about your beliefs and it’s insensitive of me and I don’t want to push you over the edge to violence.
And it’s not all your fault. Right-wing blogs (including this one) fantasize that even pragmatic policies to reduce the impact of global warming is a communist plot.
But I’m serious in asking you to explain what you mean. All mocking aside.
Let me list liberal/progressive positions that most people would not label as Communist and get your take on each, thanks. Almost all would be subsidized and managed by government but not exclude private programs. Almost all are redistributive, meaning the objective to help level the playing field, and obviously to reduce income and wealth inequality.
old age pensions
health care insurance for all
progressive taxation at all levels
environmental regulation including policies to reduce CO2 emissions
corporate regulation including policies to reduce rewarding corporations for eliminating labor unions, manufacturing outside the US
reduce the role of “big money” in politics
Liam,
My apologies again. I understand now. You use “communist” as a slur, like Nazi, nigger, fascist, fag, cracker, teabagger, spic, mick, muzzie, thug, wop, southerner, dago etc.
You’re not using the term in an economic sense. A communist is anyone who disagrees with you. Got it.
It is you who seems to be pretty familiar with all the racial slurs.
Have you seen me use them even once? No it is you the communist who loathes these people but they are necessary to get our agenda passed. Its evident that you would be willing to use these slurs openly in an attempt to bait me into a discussion of the vile and pathetic use even if trying to make a point.
With each passing post your attempts at ridiculing me are becoming lamer and lamer. Because you say it does not make it so….but I will grant you one thing…..you certainly know all the slurs and are not afraid to use the N word in a post if you think it will make a point.
Whose the real racist here? I think we both know his name starts with Jeffery.
I forgot “nigger lover”. That’s what I was called as a kid in grade school in southern Missouri.
And it’s not all your fault. Right-wing blogs (including this one) fantasize that even pragmatic policies to reduce the impact of global warming is a communist plot.
“In a moment of refreshing candor, the co-chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group III told the truth about the global warming scare. The real point, according to Dr. Ottmar Edenhofer, is to “redistribute the world’s wealth.â€
However, the real core of 350.org’s mobilization is more bluntly stated in a cover article Klein wrote for the November 2011 issue of The Nation
“It is true that responding to the climate threat requires strong government action at all levels. But real climate solutions are ones that steer these interventions to systematically disperse and devolve power and control to the community level, whether through community-controlled renewable energy, local organic agriculture or transit systems genuinely accountable to their users. Arriving at these new systems is going to require shredding the free-market ideology.
UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres laments U.S. democracy is ‘very detrimental’ in war on global warming — Lauds one-party ruled China for ‘doing it right’ on climate change
Motl: ‘The actual goal of the climatism is to liquidate democracy, freedom, and prosperity in the world.
130 Environmental Groups Call For An End To Capitalism
By Michael Bastasch Environmentalists have declared that global warming can’t be stopped without ending the “hegemonic capitalist system,â€
Following the Copenhagen fiasco, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Yvo de Boer of the Netherlands, resigned in frustration. He had, he said in a 2013 interview with Bloomberg Business, lost his faith in climate diplomacy. “The only way that a 2015 agreement can achieve a 2-degree goal is to shut down the whole global economy,†he said.
So does Naomi Klein have it right? Is climate protection doomed to failure so long as the world continues to pursue growth?………..She believes that growth is inevitably linked to destruction of nature and that the climate can only be protected by curbing economic activity.
As proof of the irreconcilability of capitalism with environmental goals, economists like to cite the “rebound effect,†which holds that all efforts to increase efficiency are negatively offset by increasing demand.
I could go on and on and on and on…..there are so many people on record denouncing consumerism, capitalism and consumption as evil that the AGW movement is caught red handed with their hands in the cookie jar…..
AGW is about ending capitalism and being replaced with a socialist/Fascist economic system that plays into the hands of communists……In that case….ask Russians how their pensions are faring.
I forgot “nigger loverâ€. That’s what I was called as a kid in grade school in southern Missouri.
oh and of course the obligatory…I love black people post and heres why when accused of being a racist….perhaps I should state that I once shared an elevator with a black man and didnt die…..
would that put me in your club?
You commies and your patronizing use of any group opposed to conservativism is so thick with irony as to only succeed if you keep the voters in the dark about your true aims.
When the people finally wake up to a world in which there is NO more…..and lines for stuff….that end in riots and people being killed because of frantically trying to get the 1 tv that a 1000 people want….when those days start……
The Communists in this country will rue the day they ever thought about worshipping Lenin, Stalin and Karl Marx.
And I’m the one criticizing all the constructive things you type – so much so that you’ve stopped typing constructive things, lol!
I was lucky to attend an integrated public grade school in the late 50s early 60s in the Missouri Ozarks. In the 6th grade a group of us got into a spot of trouble for getting into a loud argument with Brenda, whose dad attended a local bible college and had taught his daughter (very pretty and I had a crush on her!) that Negroes were inferior and that the Bible claimed they were destined to be slaves. We all met in the principal’s office – her parents, principal S___, and we students. Mr. S___ confirmed that’s what the Bible said. No punishments were meted to us, but I think some lifelong white progressives were created that day. Our friends, with whom we played softball, ate lunch, and walked home each day were inferior and destined to be slaves? It didn’t ring true, even to 12 yr olds.
The primary target of Brenda’s bigotry was R____, whose mom was our Cub Scout leader. R___’s dad was a disabled WWII vet and died the year we were in the 6th grade.
R____ and I usually walked home together, my house about 5 blocks from school, his about 10, in “niggertown”, as it was called then. It was during these walks that I was called a “niggerlover!”, and I would yell back, “white trash!”. R____ would laugh and tell me to let it go.
I guess what I learned as a child was that Black people were just people, too. Fortunately, in my town I experienced little outright racist incidents. My parents were traditionally racist as most whites were then, explaining to me about “niggers” and “good niggers”, but were not militant about it.
My grade school teachers were a mix of ancient and young. I recall our third grade teacher Mrs. A____ reading a letter that Joe D., a Black classmate, had written to his dad in the hospital (this was after his dad had passed away). It was how he was learning to do things around the house, carry in the wood, for example. Mrs. A____ was clearly a progressive communist trying to force us to care (oops, more snark that you will take seriously). It worked.
Perhaps your experiences were different. I was carjacked at gunpoint by a Black teenager some 20 years ago. He was caught and spent years in juvenile detention. But even that experience didn’t make me conclude that most Blacks are violent.
Kiss my ass, you bizarre whatever you are.
Kiss my ass, you bizarre whatever you are.
So because you like black people that gives you license to…. You use “communist†as a slur, like Nazi, nigger, fascist, fag, cracker, teabagger, spic, mick, muzzie, thug, wop, southerner, dago etc.
“Communist, Nazi and Facist is a form of government……the others you so conviently INSERT rea racial slurs or denigration of a particular group of people. Once again baiting and switching the argument and trying to turn it into a racial debate of course because you like black people the implication is 1. I hate black people and 2. You can take the moral high ground because you are an avowed progressive which gives you license to use racial slurs but if I were so much as to utter one even in quoting I would be relegated to the scrap heap of an avowed redneck, Confederate flag waving, White Sheet wearing Mass Murderer.
You attempted to equate my calling you a communist with the same thing as denigrating you with a racial slur which I did not do. I called you a communist which is a political form of government and has nothing to do with RACE…at all……period. Again pathetic debate tactics on your part. You really should return the the janitors closet and brush up on your debate tactics.
Communism, fascism and Nazism ARE forms of government. Types of government that you evidently don’t understand.
You calling someone a communist IS like using any other slur. You wield the word like a shillelagh to whack the opposition.
Did you ever correct your mistake regarding Krugman? Was it a mistake or were you spreading misinformation?
What other disinformation do you spread? And importantly, why?
Ahh Did poor Jeffery get caught with his hand in the racist cookie jar and cant figure a way out?
If your a communist and I call you a communist…..I have not called you a name. There are close to a billion communists in the world….Only in your world do you consider being called a communist a racial slur……bizarre and once again a lame attempt at baiting and switching a political form of government for a racial slur.
If a communist calls me a Capitalist I am proud…not offended…why would you a communist be offended at being called a communist?
So you then bring up Krugman….Congratsulations. You have proven yourself a liar because you told everyone you only read 2 or 3 lines of anything I write…..that disinformation was intentionally placed well down into the body of the text for humors sake….
We just can’t believe anything you write Jeffery….You claim one thing then do the opposite.
This is your specialty. Your an expert on all things….you should be able to point out all my disinformation and counter it with a scientific argument or at least a coherently logical rebuttal.
Uh huh. Sure. Take care, now.
Jeff,
You were car jacked, that is funny. And you had one experience with a black male and are an authority, that is funny. In fact, you are a joke. Now, I have had to fight off black gangs twice, they would prowl the college and attack only whites. Then I have been shot at twice (two different occasions) by a black with a hand gun. Then I have been pinned down by a black sniper who was killing and burning whites. Then several attempted to role me a few times in the past. Then I have been in the ER and seen blacks try to kill the patients and doctors, for no reason. Then the try to rob the ER of drugs. I have seen the numerous victims of black crime. I have had blacks attack me while I was trying to administer care to their loved ones simply because their emotions took off and they hate whites. I could go on, but just look at the stats here and world wide and you will see clear evidence of black hate and violence.
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Jeffrey wrote:
No, it prob’ly just made you pine for gun control, blaming the gun the teenager used rather than the criminal himself.
However, what you ought to consider are the aggregate statistics: if you were but one victim, what do the statistics which say that the violence in Chicago and Detroit and Philadelphia and Baltimore is primarily the actions of black criminals preying on primarily black victims mean? Does it never occur to you — and I have pointed it out to you, personally, several times — that there is a poisonous culture in our heavily black inner cities, a culture which leads to far lowered aggregate economic outcomes and far greater black incarceration rates?