Cuba moves to clamp down on hard currency control after oil find

[Judi Lynn]

Time is GMT + 8 hours
Posted: 31 December 2004 0453 hrs

Cuba moves to clamp down on hard currency control after oil find



HAVANA : Cuba made a surprise move to tighten the government's grip on hard currency, on the heels of an oil find that breathes new life into President Fidel Castro's communist rule.
"Next year, there will be a considerable increase in financial in-flows from abroad," thanks to deals with China, Venezuela and an oil exploration and production deal with Canada's Sherritt, explained the note, signed by bank chief Francisco Soberon.
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Castro, 78, announced on December 25 that oil reserves of at least 100 million barrels had been found off the north coast near Santa Cruz del Norte, east of Havana, which is to be developed by a Cuban state firm in cooperation with Sherritt.
(snip)

Now, the new find -- Cuba's first since 1999, and cleaner than other homegrown crude, according to Castro -- catapults Havana toward energy self-sufficiency.
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Copyright © 2004 Agence France Presse. All rights reserved.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world_business/view/124982/1/.html

[starmaker]

1. energy self sufficiency

always thought if al gore had campaigned on the environment
things might be different now bushco are having too many pipedreams

[mike_c]

2. hey, isn't Castro a ruthless dictator with untold numbers of WMD...?

Did you say oil?

[drhilarius]

5. A future Rumsfeld Press Conference:

Rummy: As you can see, we have several photographs pointing out the locations of WMD's. The time to attack is now!

Brave Reporter: Um, sir, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't those pics dated 1962?

Rummy: (eyes dart about)No they're not.

Reporter: Yes they are.

Rummy: No. They're not. As I was say-

Reporter: Yes. Yes they are. You're trying to pass off pics from the Cuban Missile crisis as recent evidence of WMD's.

Rummy: That's preposterous!

Reporter: So then I assume the note on the edge of the picture, "For President Kennedy's eyes only", you put that there?

Rummy: I will not...you...he...snu...this press conference is over!!!

[omulcol]

8. Excellent !!!

:toast:

[Judi Lynn]

11. It could happen!

They'll say anything they think we can't see through!

[Boosterman]

16. LMAO awesome pic of Rummy

He looks like a giggling minion of the joker or something

[Judi Lynn]

17. Nasty looking thing, isn't it?

Just the image to stand with Wolfowitz while he licks his comb!

If you ever want to find it quickly, it's on page #1 of Google images, under Donald Rumsfeld. Can't miss it!

[jdj]

7. Cuba was singled out in tsunami coverage as a nation comparable

with those hit in the sense that it would be one of the few able to withstand a disaster like this with much less damage to buildings, because of the building codes.

[burrowowl]

3. Good for Cuba!

When they get things up and running, JeB Bu$h the next monarch will invade.

[omulcol]

4. maybe they've already anticipated

this happening. This story emerged recently and the jig-saw seems to be fitting into place - especially upon reading this news of Cuban Oil.

I've deleted a lot of info' here but the entire document can be viewed at ;

http://www.vialls.com/myahudi/greatsatan.html


quote:

Copyright Joe Vialls, 22 December 2004

Based on received intelligence, it seems likely that the Island of Cuba will soon be used as 'point man' in a grand plan to deny American warships and other vessels safe transit through the Gulf of Mexico. Quite apart from thoroughly humiliating New York and Washington, such a move will have a far more devastating effect if tankers are denied access to the southern American oil terminals. Without oil imported through its critical southern oil terminals, and also possibly facing denial of access to underwater oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico, America will collapse in less than six months.
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To do this we must first circle the globe, picking up seemingly random pieces of the operational jigsaw on the way, until the last piece slips neatly into place less than 200 miles south of Florida Keys.
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On 10 November 2004, the India Daily reported that, "Russian President Putin is taking a lead role in the most powerful coalition of regional and superpowers in the world. The coalition consists of India, China, Russia and Brazil. This will challenge the superpower supremacy of America." É "He wants to establish a long-term Russian footprint in Latin America in order to expand Moscow's geopolitical influence in the region. Brazil is very open to the coalition concept where these large countries support each other in term of trade, economics, international politics and defense."
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America is already desperately short of energy, and it can only get worse. Iraq is producing nothing at all as usual, and the Republican Guard will ensure it stays that way. OPEC will slow down production in January because it actually has to. If the OPEC countries keep pumping at their present outrageous rates to please America, they will eventually destroy their own economies by terminally damaging their producing wells. This leaves the largest single oil producer in the world, Russia, to increase or decrease world oil production to suit its own (or its new coalition's) global agenda.
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The New Russia-China-India-Brazil coalition really means business, and it would be wise to remember that after reforms at the United Nations, all four will have permanent seats on the Security Council. But that is after the likely confrontation in the Gulf of Mexico, designed to either make America withdraw completely from the rest of the world and become relatively poor, or face devastating and total economic ruin. It has been suggested to me that the choice willÊ probably be left to the American people, if they can terminate a few dozen Zionists fast enough.

[TahitiNut]

6. Our 100 µsec/gal economy "collapse in less than six months"?

Impossible. All we'd have to do is invade Latin America with all our SUVs. :silly:

[IndianaGreen]

9. "breathes new life into President Fidel Castro's communist rule"

I love the way the capitalist press cannot refrain itself when it spouts the standard anti-Cuba propaganda line. How about saying this instead: A significant find of oil within Cuban waters means that the Cuban people will no longer have to suffer the effects of the American embargo.

[Judi Lynn]

10. Isn't it strange? You probably won't see any articles which don't refer

to Cuba as the "Communist ruled island" or the "Communist government," although occassionally someone breaks with the pattern and claims Cuba is the "socialist ruled island" or "socialist government."

Since it happens EVERY TIME you know there is a threat hanging over the head of a news organization which forgets to include the political undertow.

Hateful sneakiness, for sure.

[Mika]

12. Repetition is the foundation for propaganda

The bigger the lie, the more believable it is.

_____


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[VegasWolf]

13. Judi, you mean like Iraqi "insurgents" and "US freedom fighters"

[Judi Lynn]

15. Exactly! They hit the ground running with those terms, didn't they?

It's as if they had already prepared the war journalism vocabulary before they started bombing Baghdad, so that the first words we would read concerning his bogus war would already be highly charged, politically loaded, with derrogatory sentiment (hatred) against the Iraqiis.

Everything is so tightly controlled, and yet so many idiots have never noticed. It simply is beyond them. They read this crap and fall in line without every thinking about it.

It's going to get creepy soon, as _Bush starts his moves against Latin America (which is largely not impressed by _Bush and his plots against humanity).



Reagan's, Bush's, and Bush's
little propaganda meister for
Latin American affairs, Otto
(bless his heart) Reich.



Ka-BOOM! Otto! Take it easy! Otto needs to go on a diet!


"Otto Reich,White House special envoy for the Western Hemisphere,answers
questions during a news conference in Panama City, Panama, in this Jan. 21,
2004,file photo.KansasSen. Pat Roberts says Reich, who has ties to the Iran
-Contra scandal, is not the right man for the job."



Lay off the sauce, Otto! Just say "no."

[pinerow]

14. That would be wishful thinking...

nt