Breaking & World News! III NO DISCUSSION!!

Take this article with a grain of salt since it is from the New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/w...p-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=1



I will now get back to bottling my Malbec

 

Marco Rubio: Alan Gross Release Put 'A Price on the Head of Every American Abroad'

I will now get back to bottling my Malbec

 

I wonder what else the Admin gave away? Since 1959 the Us has been sending Checks to the Cuban government to pay our lease on Guantanamo rent in 59, was a steal ( I am sure even our more pro Castro members would agree) at about $4,085.00 there is no word on if they ever adjusted for inflation but if I do my math Right assuming they cash the 2015 year check and all the old ones thats a $232,845.00 (188714.19 Euro) pay day for Fidel and Raul.
Now the Dollar today is not the Dollar of 1959 if we adjust for inflation that $4,085.00 becomes $32,941.36. now we punch that in and we still have a bargain at $1,877,657.52 (1521171.15 Euro) or the money stuck in the cushions of Bill Gates Couch. Of course that's only if the Admin has not negotiated a Dictators Ransom for the new rent.

 

The rent for Gitmo was agreed in the lease agreement between US and the US installed puppet regime of 1903. Cuba wants an end to the occupation and has sent the money back each year from when it became independent in 1959.

 

I read from wiki (everyone agrees that wiki is not so reliable source) that the new government of Cuba accept the check once that the US government claims the agreement is still valid. The Cuban government later on cut water and electricity supplies and also prohibit its citizens to work in Guantanamo.

 

I read some forty years ago that Cuba sent back the four thousand dollars from 1959. As for the the US claiming that the agreement was still valid - they would say that, wouldn't they. The Cuban story is that there was a revolution on Cuba against Spanish colonial rule that had already nearly succeeded when the Maine blew up in the harbor of Havana which was the excuse used by US to invade and install its puppet regime. At the negociations in Paris that gave Cuba its "independence" that regime was not even represented. There was no opportunity for the Cuban government of 1959 to think the agreement was legitimate.
Btw it is thought that the Maine blowing up was a bunker explosion: bunker coal outgasses and an explosive gas mixture existed due to insufficient ventilation.

 

Delft No one knows what blew up the Maine it was so long ago that no real investigation could ever be run.

What ever the situation regarding Gitmo it's boiler plate. much to do about something that won't change any time soon. best Havana could get is a new treaty with a new rent.

Cuban American relations have been stabilizing since about 2002 when the US gave exemptions to Agricultural and Medical suppliers to sell to the Cubans today the US is already one of the top exporters to Cuba and there is already regular flights and irregular tourism/ However it's not something to be proud of The Cuban regime is still a very very deeply ingrained police state. but it's one that has to face financial reality. It's economy has functioned parasitically off the Soviets then the Bulivar Venezueliens today neither state are in any condition to aid them. They have defaulted on or been Forgiven loans from the Russian Federation and USSR, Japan, the PRC, US, France, UK, Canada and a few more. there scrapping the bottom of the barrel.

 

Interpol is seeking for an initiative murderer, a murder case that shocks the whole country of Cambodia.



The murder scene was filmed by a security camera and spread thru Facebook. (Cambodian people go very insane about Facebook)
Warning: graphics video

 

NO DISCUSSION, except that the wreck of the Maine was cleared and the location of the explosion was determined. There was no evidence of a sabotage caused explosion but no evidence is no proof. There is also no evidence of a conspiracy against the Maine but that too is no proof. But that US papers accused without evidence some party in Havana of destroying the ship and that those papers wanted a war against Spain to get Puerto Rico, Guam and especially the Phillipines and to install a puppet regime in Cuba is well documented. The expression "Yellow journalism" is used to descibe this kind of journalism.

 

are you talking the 1898 bombing in Breaking News thread? LOL
(I noticed because I use the
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