C'mon, let's be grateful here compañeros!!!
El comandante en Jefe kagasstro is giving you rice enriched with animal protein and you're complaining!!!!!!
The next one who complains will have to leave for Miami!!!

At least they can identify the source of protein, unlike some in my family who never could figure out the origin/makeup of the famous canned Carne Rusa (Russian Mystery Meat) on the rare occassions it was available. And then, they were grateful to have it.

Nitza Villapol: Where are you now, when your people need your creative cooking skills?

And now a bulletin from CNN: One million people are reported to have stormed the offices of the US Interest Section in Havana today when fidel castro announced that anyone complaining about worms in their rice would have to leave for Miami. The spokespersons at the US Interest Section said that the Cubans were all shouting, "tenemos gusanos aqui, pero queremos ser gusanos alla," whatever that means. Film at 11.

Well there are people in the U.S. who think that Cuba is the future in the "post peak oil world"

Absolute must read, Val.

This is what happens when American "scientists" study Cuba and travel there

http://www.communitysolution.org/pdfs/NS2.pdf

A quote: (Don't you wanna move there yet?)

(Cuba), a vision is presented of a world that lives as though all people matter – a world with a sense of community, morality and values. This is a sustainable world, one without agricultural poisons and machine toxins, and a world where people are living in harmony with each other and the earth, rather than in constant competition based on the principles of capitalistic industrialism.
It has given us hope to learn how Cuba quickly moved from dependence on oil in this industrial age to a modern decentralized agrarian society. It is not easy for Cubans and many additional difficulties come from the U.S. embargo against the country.
Mostly the people are not dour or bleak. They are discovering (or maybe they always knew) the importance of community and community values. They told us that things were very difficult but they also told us what they were proud of – quality
education, free health care with a focus on prevention, long life expectancy.

[Unable to post. Emptying vomit bucket.]

Not that they'd need to advertise, but here's a slogan,
Arroz Gorgojo, porque al gusano lo cojo

The dolts that wrote the tripe discussed here should be encouraged to go to Beijing and attempt to sell the Chinese on this concept, that is: "Repent and return to your Neanderthal-ancestors' pure ways!" The Chinese, being anything but stupid, will no doubt quickly machine-gun the whole, deranged, loony lot into the nearest irrigation ditch. No doubt they'll be buried without the use of machinery.

One machine they definitely don't hate is the computer. I don't see them spreading their nonsense using parchment and quills.

But seriously, one thing that always kills me is: why do they always want their utopias forced on someone else? What's keeping them from buying a farm in Montana and living without oil and machines?

I lived in Belize for two years. Every idiot tourist I met said the same thing: "oh is so bad they are going to build highways and power lines and housing and we are going to lose this quaint untouched corner of the world, etc" - Hey moron, did you bother to ask the people who have to live here? Those who are so happily drinking Coca Cola? Because they think all you gringos are crazy.

By the way, those "camellos" they praise? Burn diesel like it's going out of fashion. Nothing like bicycling behind one of those when the engine backfires and getting a mouthful of black smoke. No agricultural poisons? Agricultural land in Cuba is one of the most polluted with the indiscrimated use of DDT and whatever unregulated fertilizants where produced in socialist block countries. "Harmony with the earth"? take a swim in the Almendares river or Havana's harbor, see how long you survive. Enviromentalism and conservationism is nonexistent in Cuba.

I just read the paper on Cuba and had to send an email. I think the worst part, the part that scares me the most is how the wool can be pulled over someone's eyes so easy. I would really be more confortable if they just came out and said "yes, we are communist and we know the shit hole that is Cuba today and we still think it is a better system." This way at least I would know that its not the fact these people are so stupid.

This is the email I sent:

Hi,
I just read your paper on the situation in Cuba and I must say that it is very irresponsible of you to be printing this type BS. The reality in Cuba is one of complete failure on the part of its 'Government'. There are many solutions to our ever present and growing energy problems. The idea of community-based solutions is, in my opinion the best way to address these problems. However with that said, you cannot use as an example the situation in Cuba, which is a direct result of the mismanagement by a political system bordering on flat out slavery. Merit should not be given to the government of Cuba for the ingenuity of its people. Those are two different and separate things. The Cuban people, who left that political system, also carried with them the same ingenuity, which has been put to use everywhere an enterprising Cuban happens to land. I do not know anything about your organization, for all I know you could be part of the Cuban propaganda machine. Actually if I had to guess this is most likely the case. I just cannot believe that in this day in age some people still swallow that crap about the free medical system in Cuba. I really wish some of the folks who wrote this article would spend a month living the reality that is Cuba.
No need to respond, or even read this for that matter. This is just the opinion of someone who actually can voice his opinion, which by the way, if you were in Cuba and voiced such an opinion you would promptly be introduced to the incredibly advanced prison system on the island.

Thanks, Oscar

I love these fucking "professors". "Peak Oil". What a quaint little sobriquet, and an EXCELLENT way to get a grant from the USA government to do some rum drinking in Cuba.
I wonder if the esteemed professors got back to the USA, and emulated what they saw in Cuba. No AC, no TV, no transportation, no elevators. Nothing to eat read or even wipe your ass with.

But I DOUBT it. Like every single intellectual I have ever heard, their diatribe is full of hypocrisy and doom spewing bullshit. The worst it sounds the more money they make.

Without being a "professor" you can quickly figure out that it will take approximately 100 years to get to the point they so quaintly describe as "Peak Oil" from there it would be another 200 years before we run out of fuel.
So these two assholes are equating Cuba (favorably no less) with world wide doom happening in 300 years.
So KaSStro has been able to do in 46 years what ALL the countries in the world will take 300 years to accomplish, that is go back to the middle ages.
Hell of an accomplishment, god damn it. Cuba, the ant colony of the world.

These pricks fail to point out that it took less than 7 years to come up with cars that produce 70 MPG and light bulbs that use a fraction of the electricity they did just a few years ago. How transparent their motives are!.

These two idiots ignore that the rest of the world IS DOING SOMETHING to avoid "Peak Oil" whereas their successful example of Cuba is just a blatant bunch of lies hidden behind propaganda and wrapped around a wall of terror.
That 46 years of complete and utter mis management brought about that misery
I wonder what the fuck hospital THOSE pictures where taken, because I can tell you they are NOT from any Hospital in La Habana (open to Cubans that is)
Pricks!

BTW - Arent "worms" a good source of protein ?
There you ARE ! Rice AND worms in one package!
A full balanced meal in one.
oy vey!

Oh and BTW - those "rice cookers" there are like 3 types of them and MOST of the country is getting some piece of iron that weighs like 20lb and looks like it already has been used...
So again ... KaSStro fucks the cuban people with a smile on his face.

KillCastro (ahh how this types well!), I got an email from Moa telling me that since they got those rice cookers electricity is off for 8 hours and more in the evening... every day.

I don't know if rice cookers fry easily, but I guess we'll find out soon.

Yeah, with the agrarian way of life they don't tell you about the tyranny, or the lack of food, or the lack of hygine, or the lack of real medicine.

The simple life ain't that simple!

Val, am telling ya, there is a special place in hell...for these people...and it's deep down if you know your Dante.

The seventh level?

Eleqqua -
A recent arrival (June 25) from La Habana tells me the "apagones" are lasting up to 3 day (THREE DAYS) in one particular instance.
I can just see what happened. In his inimitable way of fucking up everything he touches KaSStro bought some rice cookers he THOUGHT would save energy , and the Chinese shipped whatever the fuck they had laying around that they don’t use anymore. Probably one of those old coil burning things that pull more voltage than a god damn 20,000 BTU Air Conditioner.
If there is a way to fuck up.. Man, he WILL!
Like the last 5 Million the used to buy buses from Chile and they got buses that were 12 years old and already retired from use for more than 5 years.
I tell you the man is a GENIOUS when it comes to foreign trade.
And THAT boys and girls Cuba is the shithole it is.. cause the Supremo HIJO DE PUTA
“se la sabe to’a”
Watch this whole arrocera thing go away like Ubre Blanca did.

Sadly, the worms are probably their best source of protein. And I wish I was being fascetious.

Well KillCastro, it's deja vu all over again as they say.

In the "good old days" it was the sugar against oil deal with the Soviets.

Now it's the doctors against oil deal. And he's producing the "doctors" the same way he did with sugar.

Centralize it, baby. And of course the Chinese sell him crap! And what is he importing from Venezuela? Canned fish!

Cuba is an island for crying out loud! Cuba should have megatonnes of fish to EXPORT.

And these professor moonbats see Cuba as a model. A good example as anyone to prove that people don't learn anything when they "go and see for themselves". You go with your ideology, you return with it.

Oh well it's the bloque, of course. In their heads.

And what is he importing from Venezuela? Canned fish!

Cuba is an island for crying out loud! Cuba should have megatonnes of fish to EXPORT.

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AY DIOS MIO!!!!!

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te la comistes Eleggua. I needed a good laugh today man.

Glad I could help...
It's good to read your blog, Val, it makes me remember that I'm not living in a manicomio.

Well Cuba IS importing Sugar from Brasil .. so
hey come to think about what the FUCK is Cuba producing? just "slave labor"?

No wonder there are no condoms in Cuba Kasstro needs to increase the productivity of those mass produced "doctors".

I didnt know about the canned fished!
Didnt we use to use shrimp as bait?
Can ANYONE imagine that !
There was so much sea food in Cuba we used SHRIP as bait!

The people who wrote this peak oil agrarian bit actually do live in a rural area, in Ohio. They did another trip to Cuba in 2004, to study "Sustainable Communities" and are making a film on what they "learned" in Cuba.

I would laugh like crazy at this if it weren't so sad, because they actually do believe all this. To me it shows two things: one, a romanticization of poverty, which they equate with a more harmonious civilization, and two, a lack of empathy for the Cuban people who aren't living in those air-conditioned hotels and eating the tourist cuisine.