Thanks, Fidel, but you're 50 years too late - Telegraph

Article in the UK telegraph asks why Fidel didn't share what he knows to be true years ago, that the Communist model doesn't work for people. As an American of Cuban ancestry, I must say Americans do not wish ill on Cubans. We love the Cuban people, and Cuba should be the jewel of the Carribean. It would prosper so well, and we would love to see that. But like an alcoholic uncle, you can't always help those you wish to. They have to agree to work with you to help them, they have to admit their problem before recovering. When people are arrested for merely growing a few vegetables and selling them to their neighbors, giving them aid is not going to fix the problem. The Cuban people don't need foreign aid, they need a government that allows them to live free and use their talents.

Thanks, Fidel, but you're 50 years too late - Telegraph

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Hmm. Sounds very much like a “rejection of the Revolution” to me. And if indeed it was, then it must come pretty close to being a historical first. Did Mao ever express any regrets about the 20 million who died during his Great Leap Forward? Was Stalin ever moved to tears over the millions more who were shot in the back of the head by his secret police or froze and starved in his Gulags? Of course not. That’s the thing about Leftist ideologues. Whether they’re major league mass murderers such as Pol Pot or simply pathological destroyers of economies like Gordon Brown, they usually remain in a state of blissful self-delusion right to the bitter end.
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Generation Y » Inside the Neighborhood, Outside the Heart

I really like the Generation Y blog of Yoani Sanchez. She is courageous, and is saying what needs to be said about systems that destroy the beautiful aspirations of individuals.

Generation Y » Inside the Neighborhood, Outside the Heart

“You must turn in your passport!” So they told him on arriving in Caracas, to prevent him from making it to the border and deserting. In the same airport they read him the rules: “You cannot say that you are Cuban, you can’t walk down the street in your medical clothes, and it’s best to avoid interacting with Venezuelans.” Days later he understood that his mission was a political one, because more than curing some heart problem or lung infection, he was supposed to examine consciences, probe voting intentions...

Putting our economy in the hands of Chavez fans

This article gives three great viewpoints on how much of a farce the global warming conference is, and how insidiously the 'movement' is being used as a global political campaign to promote socialism, and destroy capitalism. The shame in it all, aside from the fear that the lunatics and corrupt will hold any ground, is that it hurts the cause of responsible environmental policy. There's an appalling lack of leadership from the Western powers. Washington, Churchill, and Thatcher would be sick to their stomach to see such corruption go unopposed.


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These maniacs in Copenhagen are voting on your future:

President Chavez brought the house down.

When he said the process in Copenhagen was “not democratic, it is not inclusive, but isn’t that the reality of our world, the world is really and imperial dictatorship…down with imperial dictatorships” he got a rousing round of applause.

When he said there was a “silent and terrible ghost in the room” and that ghost was called capitalism, the applause was deafening.

But then he wound up to his grand conclusion – 20 minutes after his 5 minute speaking time was supposed to have ended and after quoting everyone from Karl Marx to Jesus Christ - “our revolution seeks to help all people…socialism, the other ghost that is probably wandering around this room, that’s the way to save the planet, capitalism is the road to hell....let’s fight against capitalism and make it obey us.” He won a standing ovation.

Atlas Flexes His Muscles - MoneyShow.com

Atlas Flexes His Muscles - MoneyShow.com

Great to see that others are still reading, still keeping the mind alert. We need more young voters to understand the principles Ayn tried to convey. Collectivism is not their friend, it is their doom.

If you take the time to re-read Atlas Shrugged, you’ll find it eerily predicted events that are actually happening in our country today. Did you ever think government would own a majority of General Motors, and have the power to name its chairman or chief executive officer? Did you ever believe we’d have a “pay czar”—setting compensation levels for corporate executives?

Globalism: the final assault on the individual

Globalism: the final assault on the individual

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Very scary stuff, but it is what it is. Global Warming is just the latest opportunity for those that want more power, to grab more power. They more they do, the less you, as an individual, have. An excerpt from the article linked above:

Speaking of the 2009 Copenhagen Treaty, Lord Christopher Monckton, former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, said, “I read that treaty. And what it says is this, that a world government is going to be created. The word “government” actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity. The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to third world countries, in satisfaction of what is called, coyly, “climate debt” – because we’ve been burning CO2 and they haven’t. We’ve been screwing up the climate and they haven’t. And the third purpose of this new entity, this government, is enforcement.”