October 21, 2005
CNN hurricane propaganda
CNN is up to its old tricks again, writing admiringly of castro's hurricane evacuation efforts, intoning that the U.S. has something to 'learn from' them and repeating truisms that benefit only fidel castro. Case in point, this passage here:
The communist government prides itself on saving lives during frequent hurricanes that belt or zip by the island, and its civil defense plans have been praised by the United Nations as a model for other nations.
The praise these CNN creeps are making was made in 2004!!!! That's at least two hurricanes ago. Jan Egeland, the UN official who berated the West in the hours after the Asian tsunami as 'stingy' was at various conferences, more than a year ago and heaped praise on castro and his supposed hurricane preparedness. And it is true that there were only minor casualties on Cuba (that we know about) in the wake of Hurricane Ivan. One major reason is it didn't hit Cuba all that hard!
But what has ol' Jan said about castro since? He's had plenty of opportunity to speak - after all, Hurricane Dennis slammed Cuba in July of this year. The answer is: nothing! Egelund has been mysteriously silent! No praise for castro in this new era of making political hay against President Bush on hurricanes! Not one thing! Jan has completely steered clear!
Why has he since said nothing? Because relations are very different between Egeland's UN and castro right now. Egeland offered castro aid in the wake of Hurricane Dennis and castro turned it down, unable to trust even an accredited anti-American like Egeland!
Relations are really rotten between the UN and castro these days. The UN has said nothing good about castro's hurricane efforts, and privately, their people are shocked at the breakdown of castro's civil defense system in the wake of Dennis. It was a total failure with many people killed. The praise the UN handed out to castro and his minions awhile back is very old compared to what they think now.
How come the news media doesn't bother to ask Egeland's office what they think of castro's hurricane efforts now? How come? Egeland's people are very cordial and the always answer the phone or return calls for the media. I'm sure they'd be happy to talk to them. But not one has called them to ask them their current opinion of castro's relief efforts. Or if they have, they've decided it wasn't as 'newsworthy' as year-old conference remarks! Uh huh. It goes to show that all they want to do is praise castro using any old, tired stale unrevised means that they can.
Posted by Mora at October 21, 2005 08:00 AM
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I asked someone in Cienfuegos last month about the hurricane evacuations and he laughingly answered "what evacuations?" He said that he only knew of the hurricane through weather reports and that he was not evacuated nor told of any evacuation. I told him that the tourists were evacuated and he said that he wasn't surprised.
Keep in mind that the eye hit Cienfuegos. I wonder if CNN(Communist News Network) would like to report this? The general sentiment is that if there were an evacuation the people don't trust those who would evacuate them as they would probably go into their houses and steal what they could. What a mess!!!
Posted by: pototo at October 21, 2005 11:05 AM
Those of us who know how things are in Cuba would never pay attention to this comments like this...
and those who don't know how things are in Cuba sometimes seem to forget that they ONLY hear what castro wants them to hear....
...because what truely goes on never gets reported in the first place!!!
Posted by: nurian at October 21, 2005 01:42 PM
You might find this post at LGF interesting. Well, irritating actualyy, but worth a look:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=17944_Moonbats_Over_Havana#comments
Posted by: Retread at October 21, 2005 01:54 PM
The death toll for Dennis (including U.S. casualties) was 71; of the 71 only 16 was from Cuba.
Posted by: Carl Muhammad at October 21, 2005 05:20 PM
So where did the 16 come from. castro's reports?
Have you seen Cuba since the hurricane? I have and the power outages have increased and the relocated Cubans are living in even worse places as they are herded like animals. Make sure that you check with Cubans before you believe what you hear from castro apologists unless of course you are one then the truth never matters.
Posted by: pototo at October 21, 2005 11:18 PM
Maybe cagastro evacuated everyone to a regugee center called el Regimen de Boniato.
Posted by: Murel Bailey at October 23, 2005 09:43 AM
The info comes from many different sources, one of which is Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_dennis#Caribbean
"In Cuba, Hurricane Dennis left 16 people dead and $1.4 billion in damages when it roared through the island, flattening houses and downing trees and powerlines. Relayed reports from Cuban meteorologists stated that a gust up to 149 mph (239 km/h) was detected at Cienfuegos, 85% of the power lines were down and extensive damage to the communications infrastructure had occurred. Dennis was the worst hurricane to strike Cuba since Flora in 1963."
Sorry to disappoint you.
Posted by: Carl Muhammad at October 24, 2005 11:26 AM