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Cuba Getting Internet Upstream Via Venezuela
An anonymous reader writes "Seems like Cuba is working around the US internet embargo by teaming up with Venezuela: A confidential contract released yesterday on Wikileaks reveals Cuba's plan to receive internet upstream via an undersea cable to Venezuela, thus circumventing the enduring embargo of the US, denying Cuba access to nearby American undersea cables and overcoming the current limits of satellite-only connectivity. The connection, to be delivered by CVG Telecom of Venezuela, is to be completed by 2010 and will provide data, video as well as voice service for both the public and governmental services."
There, fixed that for you :-)
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We (the US) have some grand proclamation (I forget the name) that states "There will be no communists in our hemisphere. Stupid yuppies, get of our lawn and take your damn governmental ideas with you." That's a direct quote, I think.
Does this mean I'm going to start getting e-mails from someone who purports to be in Cuba and has thousands of cigars that they can export for a huge profit if only I front them the money to bribe some official and they'll split the take with me?
Hmm. I was afraid of that.
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Dave
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Ben
So the rest of the world has somewhere to vacation without running into Americans?
Warm weather, no Americans, armed thugs to keep the actual poor people at a safe distance, and you still get to come home with an undeserved smug sense of solidarity. Basically, it's heaven for Europeans.
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That's what is great about GWB.. He'll just come right out and tell you who the evildoers are. You don't have to worry about whether they are evildoers. He's got it all figured out. The plan is well into action, and everything will be rectified, justice will be served real soon now.
Exactly! Put a McDonald's in Havana and let nature take its course, just like what we did to the Soviet Union.
At the very least the overweight people will start to bankrupt their government run health care system.
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Thank you... That may be the most ironic (flag the def. of irony nazis) typo I've had. Especially since my post started with "I think you misspelled..."...
Damn you spell-checker that only knows the proper spelling of dictionary words and not what I meant to say!!!
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Within a few years, either the Cuban government will lighten up, or the people will throw them out when they realize how much better their lives could be. People are only willing to put up with repressive regimes if they don't know there's anything better out there, which is why countries like Cuba, Iran and North Korea limit the amount of information about the rest of the world that their people can get their hands on.
Actually, according to a Mr. Moore documentary that I saw not too long ago, it's the U.S. government that's limiting our access to know how good life is in Cuba. If I understood his statements correctly, part of the reason that the U.S. is cutting Cuba off is to keep the U.S. populace from learning how socialized health care turns Cuba into such a paradise and keeps us from demanding it.
Not trying to weigh in on socialized heath care, just trying to troll based on a complete BS Moore line implying that the US is trying to prevent it's citizens from learning about the beautiful life Cubans enjoy thanks to socialized health care. Cheers.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
So, if we help Cuba, we get weird tentacle porn, only with Spanish subtitles?
Well, he's a complete ass of a president, so I'd say things are pretty rectified by now...
If that's true, how come Bush got a second term?
I don't therefore I'm not.
I note you left "streaming reality TV" off your quoted list.
I imagine most people would prefer a repressive communist regime to streaming reality TV.
simon
Meanwhile in the news, officials from both Venezuela and Cuba indicated they are seeking Chinese firewall and human rights technology. Not to be undone, the Obama campaign has offered propaganda technology that calls for change.