Jay Leno Fidel Castro: Castro's Communism isn't Working in Cuba Video

This week a journalist reported Fidel Castro told him over a lunch of fish, salad, good bread and good red wine that the "Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore." The "Cuban model," of course, refers to Communism. Jay Leno didn't let it lie. See the video blow.

Today, we hear that the journalist "misunderstood" what Castro mumbled between dipping and munching. Immediately, the AP characterized the comment as a "joke," even before Castro claimed journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg "misunderstood."

Goldberg invited Julia Sweig to accompany him for lunch with the dictator. Sweig is a "leading Latin American scholar at the Council on Foreign Relations. Dis Sweig misunderstand also? Yesterday, Goldberg posted a rebuttal at The Atlantic. Castro said the following:

Castro said he meant "exactly the opposite" of what was understood by Jeffrey Goldberg, who was interviewing him for The Atlantic...

On Friday, Castro said he was correctly quoted, but that, "in reality, my answer meant exactly the opposite of what both American journalists interpreted regarding the Cuban model. My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system no longer works for the United States or the world," he said. "How could such a system work for a socialist country like Cuba?" 

Goldberg's response:

...I think the expression, "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore" means, "The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore."

Fidel says that his answer meant "exactly the opposite" of what Julia Sweig and I heard him say. Just as a language experiment, here is what the opposite of his statement would sound like: "The Cuban model works so well for us that we want to export it."

We know one thing for certain, Castro was not joking. He validates his own words and notes nothing jocular about them. But...what about the AFP? They created an excuse for Castro before Castro said anything about Goldberg's report.

Was Castro setting him up, pulling his chain, joking? See the AFP screen shot in top right corner. Leno takes Castro's words seriously, and makes the point perfectly in this video. This post updated 9-12-10 at 4:10 CDT.

Jay Leno on Fidel Castro's Cuban Model Isn't Working (video)

Fidel Castro Obama Will Avoid Nuclear War

Fidel Castro is back at the podium after four years out of the limelight. Brother Raul Castro sat on the sidelines where he will likely be relegated until Fidel's next hospitalization. The chamber of the National Assembly of People's Power adored him, cheered wildly, and sent kisses his way. The "comandante" took the opportunity to tell the people he is certain Barack Obama is man-enough to avoid a nuclear showdown with Iran, and that a nuclear war rests solely on Obama's shoulders.

Fidel Castro

Since you haven't heard from Fidel for a few years now, let me provide the latest:

`One man alone will have to make the decision: The president of the United States,'' Castro said, because Iran will not bow to U.S. and Israeli demands to halt its nuclear program.

If Obama approves an attack on Iran, he added, he will trigger a war that will spread through the Middle East and Asia and cause ``the instantaneous death of hundreds of millions people, among them an incalculable number of people in his own country.''

The ``established order of the planet ... will inevitably collapse, the reigning social order will disappear abruptly'' and all currencies will be worthless, he added.

Castro noted that ``as luck would have it, ,'' Obama's father was Muslim and his mother was Christian and added he hoped the U.S. president will become conscious of the threat to world peace.

In comparison, he called Richard Nixon a ``cynic,'' branded Ronald Reagan and Harry Truman as ``ignorant'' and called Jimmy Carter ``a decent person.''

How about "The National Assembly of People's Power" in a country where the people have zero power.

Glenn Beck Revolutionary Holocaust Video

 I am grateful that videos like this one are available to us at no cost, so ignore the commercial cheerfully.  If you missed the hour-long Revolutionary Holocaust session on Glenn Beck today, the following will give you a good idea of what you missed. Who do you know that you can pass this onto?

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought ~ Etienne Gilson

Glenn Beck The Revolutionary Holocaust (video)

Raul Castro Reels-In America's Left

Holger Awakens has some excellent commentary on Raul's latest comments.

Call me crazy but I wouldn't trust a communist thug such as Raul Castro (and even more so, his fleabag brother) as far as I could throw his old body. And it's my view that today's big, earth-shattering announcement by the communist dictator of Cuba, that has all of the leftist media in the U.S. salivating and wetting their big boy pants, is nothing but a ploy - it's a set up, it's a stage set to prove just how weak and inexperienced Barack Obama actually is. Here's my contention: Raul Castro has NO intention whatsoever of reviewing ANY of the practices of his thuglike regime in Cuba ... he simply wants to see just what the new American administration will give away in some sort of Let's Make A Deal round table. Here's some of the crap that Castro spewed today that all of the naive Left is eating up by the shovel full, from the story at CNN:

The Cuban government, long the object of a U.S. economic blockade, is prepared to meet with the Obama administration, Cuba's leader said. "We've told the North American government, in private and in public, that we are prepared, wherever they want, to discuss everything -- human rights, freedom of the press, political prisoners -- everything, everything, everything that they want to discuss," Cuban President Raúl Castro said Thursday at a summit of leftist Latin American leaders in Venezuela. The response came days after President Obama lifted all restrictions on the ability of American citizens to visit relatives in Cuba as well as to send them remittances.

Okay, did you see what I highlighted there in that quote? This piece of shit, Castro, WON'T EVEN REFER TO OUR COUNTRY AS THE UNITED STATES or AMERICA! "North American government" - holy shit people, if that doesn't send the signal that this guy is as defiant as he was 20 years ago, what does? Here's more, this time from Obama: Continue reading at Holger Awakens.

How McCain Can Beat Jimmy Obama

Dan Calabrese from North Star Writers Group says today: "The Democrats are about to nominate Jimmy Obama." Calabrese lays out two issues that will allow McCain to gain sufficient votes from Hillary supporters to claim the White House for the GOP. (Related: Calabrese broke Hillary Clinton conspired to violate the U.S. Constitution. Jim Simpson at Truth and Consequences - two important posts: Homegrown Terrorists: Part 1 and Homegrown Terrorists for President: Part II.)

How McCain Can Win Hillary’s Voters, and Defeat Jimmy Obama By Dan Calabrese May 22, 2008

Barack Obama is so amazing, he gets closer to clinching the Democratic presidential nomination every time Hillary Clinton creams him in a primary – as she did on Tuesday in Kentucky. It’s too late, of course, for these huge wins in predominantly white, working-class states to help Hillary. But if John McCain is paying attention, Hillary may be doing him the favor of all favors – with a huge assist from Obama himself, of course. Obama’s recent policy statements, viewed in the context of demographic trends in Democratic primaries, point the way to a McCain victory. White working-class voters, as well as older voters, have gone for Hillary in huge numbers. That’s why she’s won states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia so handily. If Michigan’s primary had been a real contest, the result may very well have been the same. Let’s look at three of those states. Ohio’s 20 electoral votes barely went for President Bush in 2004. Pennsylvania’s 21 and Michigan’s 17 went for John Kerry. If McCain holds Ohio in the red category and manages to steal either Pennsylvania or Michigan, he probably wins the election. If he holds Ohio and steals both Pennsylvania and Michigan, McCain wins without a doubt. Here’s how he can do it: Obama has recently made two astoundingly wrongheaded statements. First, he opined that Iran is not really much of a threat to the United States. Second, he said the following to a group of environmentalists in Oregon: “We can't drive our SUVs and, you know, eat as much as we want and keep our homes on, you know, 72 degrees at all times, whether we're living in the desert or we're living in the tundra, and then just expect every other country is going to say OK, you know, you guys go ahead keep on using 25 percent of the world's energy, even though you only account for 3 percent of the population, and we'll be fine. Don't worry about us.” So, to recap, Islamic radicals who openly vow the destruction of Israel and are aggressively pursuing the development of nuclear weapons are not much of a threat. And American prosperity is no longer possible because “other countries” won’t accept it. The Democrats are about to nominate Jimmy Obama. Remember when Obama’s campaign slogan was “Yes, We Can!”? Apparently that didn’t refer to the continuation of the American dream in any practical sense. We can’t. Other countries say so. Presumably, then, “Yes, We Can!” refers to allowing apocalyptic-minded nutcases to gain control of the most dangerous weapons in the world. In fact, Obama is even willing to go personally meet with these lunatics – without pre-conditions. Why will the world’s thugs need Jimmy Carter anymore? Hugo Chavez and Kim Jong Il won’t need to settle for a disrespected former president from a generation ago when they can get an audience with the current occupant of the White House. If McCain hammers these two themes, he will win enough of Hillary’s voters to win the White House: 1. We can drive SUVs, eat the food we want and heat our homes to our hearts’ content, if we unleash America’s ability to create wealth, make wise use of its resources and empower individuals to improve their own lives. It has nothing to do with “other countries.” We have to do some things better and smarter, but there is no reason in the world that America has to resign itself to austerity, and certainly not because other countries aren’t going to “say OK.” Good grief. Remember when John Kerry said he wanted to submit America’s foreign policy decisions to other countries in the form of a “global test”? Remember how that went over? Obama wants to do the same thing with our domestic policies! 2. America has to take serious threats seriously, and not give away its strategic positioning or its international prestige to thugs who don’t deserve it. Read more here.

End North Star Writers Group article. Posted by Maggie Technorati Tags:Senator John McCain, Senator Barack Obama, Senator Hillary Clinton, Energy, President Jimmy Carter, 2008 Elections, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez,

Fred Thompson Messages Michael Moore

Trackback URL for this entry: http://haloscan.com/tb/maggiesnotebook/3380398683236931914 Breitbart.tv Exclusive: The confrontation over Cuba continues. Michael Moore has challenged Fred Thompson to a health care debate. At issue Moore's trip to Cuba and Thompson's criticism of that trip. Moore noted Thompson's evident favor for Cuban cigars as a possible violation of the trade embargo. Now, Thompson responds. Cigar in hand. Trackposted to Perri Nelson's Website, The Random Yak, DeMediacratic Nation, Adam's Blog, Shadowscope, Webloggin, The Amboy Times, Leaning Straight Up, Colloquium, Pursuing Holiness, Rightlinx, sissunchi, third world county, The World According to Carl, Pirate's Cove, Blue Star Chronicles, The Pink Flamingo, Planck's Constant, and thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe. Technorati Tags: Fred Thompson, Michael Moore, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Freedom of Speech , Free Press

Venezuelans Fight the Loss of Free Press

Freedom across the globe dwindles as Danny Glover steps-in and cozies-up with Chavez, snatching the Bolivars right out of the hands of the people.

Venezuelans are in the streets fighting for free press. Their dictator, Hugo Chavez, has taken-down the most popular television station there, and replaced it with a state-sponsored station.

Glover thumbed his nose at Venezuelan liberties (he need not worry, American troops are protecting his) and aligned himself with deep pockets and dictators, revealing his true lack of concern for freedom, for the poor and the down-trodden.

Glover snagged his $20-$30 Million (depending on whose reporting you believe) before Venezuelan actors, anchors, agents, writers, camera crews, and grips lost their jobs. Three thousand people out of work and a station operating for 53 years is gone. Glover will make two movies in Venezuela, but no, the jobs for those in television will not be replaced by Glover's ventures. On Glover's love of America:

Glover was a signatory to "The Conscience of the World," a public letter signed by 160 artists which condemned the War in Iraq, and pledged support for the Communist dictatorship of Cuba. He also supports the Maoist group Not In Our Name (NION), which "pledges resistance to endless war, detentions and roundups, [and] attacks on civil liberties," and is directed by members of the Revolutionary Communist Party.

As Glover attempts to add legitimacy to dictatorships, Chavez controls the military, the legislature, the courts, most private industry, including our American oil companies - he also controls former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

For thoughts on loss of free speech in Russia, read Russians Mourn the Loss of Free Press

This a day to remember just how precious are our freedoms and to fiercely battle back against those who would hastily feed the gators, hoping they will eat him last.

A closing thought on how we make freedom ours:

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. Clarence Darrow