Cuban Capitalism On Track To Protect Next Elite

     Fabulous, headlined, Former Cuban officials get prison terms for corruption, By Marc Frank, Reuters reports three former vice ministers in Cuba’s Basic Industry Ministry plus nine nickel industry executives have been sentenced to long prison terms for corruption, Cuban state media said on Tuesday. The officials and a former head of negotiations for Cubaniquel, the state-run nickel company, received sentences ranging from six to 12 years for “crimes associated with corruption during the negotiation, contracting and execution of the expansion of the Pedro Soto Alba (nickel) plant,” in eastern Cuba, according to the Communist Party newspaper Granma. The plant, the largest of three nickel processing plants in Holguin province, is a joint venture between the government and Canadian mining company, Sherritt International Corporation.

     There was no mention of Sherritt in the report and company officials were not immediately available for comment. How convenient. Cubaniquel and Sherritt are also partners in a Canadian refinery in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, where output from the Pedro Soto Alba plant is shipped for processing, then marketed by another joint venture between them.

     Meaning another set of books for the same business. Once again, on the surface no matter how corrupt the convicted are, they were trained to move finance around and, as happens in capitalist countries, could it possibly be someone with more Cuban financial pull wants their money too?

     The case, undertaken by President Raul Castro since he took over for his ailing brother Fidel in 2008, is one of a number of high level corruption probes, covering just about every sector of the Cuban economy. From street vendors to the already established elite, the capitalism that never was is being shaken and stirred for what benefit? Is the money that these newly minted convicts possibly stole going to filtrate through the economy now? Probably not. Capitalist Cuba always found a way to separate the elite from the population and will continue to play capitalists defending socialism, just as the world’s capitalists condemn that institution until as in the American Medical Insurance System, all the hands in the till have the doctors’ money.

     Several foreign companies doing business in Cuba have been shut down and their top executives detained or jailed in the campaign against corruption, which is so extensive on the island that Castro has termed it a threat to the socialist system. Entrepreneurial initiative will be judged corrupt until whose friends are in control? Well, at least Cuban power is learning the tricks of the game Cubans tried learning on their own without Big Brother’s help. And without the two party system in control bickering with each other enough that the general population can act on its’ own – when the people can get away with it.

     The Cuban nickel industry has been the subject of a number of investigations over the last few years as output declined, Reuters reports without diagnosing scapegoatism.

     Two years ago police dragged several officials involved in the scandal away in handcuffs from their offices in Havana, causing consternation among employees. Soon afterwards, police began arresting nickel executives in Moa, Holguin, heart of the nickel industry.

     The three vice ministers included Alfredo Rafael Zayas Lopez, who served in that capacity from 2004 to 2007, Ricardo Gonzalez Sanchez (2001-2004) and Antonio Orizon de Los Reyes Bermudez (1980-1999). Respectively, they received sentences of 12 years, 10 years and eight years. And judging by the years they reigned, whatever was going on was business as usual they now have to pay for while the judicial system no doubt has a few friends who could, maybe, quite possibly, start cleaning up from the scraps. What had always slipped through the cracks that government enforcement wants filled with – what? The next generation working at marginal rates decided by the government. Ha! No, the next guys will share and share alike for a time under sanctioned practices.

     Great Raul. Fine job once you get your commercialized prison system running well too, because no doubt that’s going to cost a bundle if you make the mistake of caring for the prisoners properly. But commercialized, the Americans might grow to love you as your rule becomes more like ours where the weak know their place. It’s all capitalism, Raul. All socialism. You know what your problem is? If the lawyers are paid well enough for all this law enforcement, you’re doomed. And the only thing that will work is the legal facade that was once called socialism, that face it, wasn’t really tried if doctors made close to nothing and you and your brother sat around smoking fat cigars which is how your legacy now reads no matter how much capitalist corruption is uncovered. Go get em Raul. Make the United States pay for defending mobsters’ right to exploit you. Teach the world what socialism never really was, capitalism as ran by two brothers sitting around comfortably smoking fat, smelly cigars. I’m being redundant? So are you.

     Because the Cubaniquel executive, Cristobal Saavedra Montero, was sentenced to six years in prison, when if the enterprise is under state direction why wasn’t it fixed before having to go through this. You’re not even running for office, Raul, and making scapegoats of an entire nation all over again. As the eight other executives received sentences of up to eight years, Granma said.

     That’ll teach them. What?

8/21/2012

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Cuban Capitalism On Track To Protect Next Elite

8/21/2012 concluded: Because the Cubaniquel executive, Cristobal Saavedra Montero, was sentenced to six years in prison, when if the enterprise is under state direction why wasn’t it fixed before having to go through this. You’re not even running for office, Raul, and making scapegoats of an entire nation all over again. As the eight other executives received sentences of up to eight years, Granma said.

     That’ll teach them. What?

Sept. 26 - Dec. 3, 2019

Truth-like

     It's somewhat surmise-able that however much system Cuba has, the leveraged decisions of personal relationships have control. The same difference between countries for the people and the autocratic ends that compromise the ideal of a thriving independence. How Cuba faces this, as usual, may, very well, depend upon whether the United States of America can. 

     Presently, racked by confusion, America's constant is its being overwhelmed by the political playbooks, from which analysis is chain-riddenly replicated, employing the tactic of exploiting facilitated ignorance, perhaps? Such that the claim to not play is the worst usage of all. 

     Imagine all the uses for which Public Relations is known, as vapid wastes of intellectual skill? When having a strategy is 99.9% of answering accusations. When admissions of truth are just parceled out numbed experiences. The best social manipulation money can buy can't possibly be the best of all possible world's reasoning? 

     Because! What if controlled public dialogue's only how discontent's steered away from violence? Especially when legitimate protest shouldn't resort to that particular brand of contesting the state. Usually provocateurs of all stripes are the instigators when violence ensues. Volunteering martyrdom is an idea, when the actual fact's usually not compulsion but compelled. 
     Imagery. Yes, so much about the world to see is real. While humanity's found space within all our minds to have shared existences loosely defined as culture. And the pretending to be on top of all our expanding heritages is what haunts all our lives.

VOYAGE

     Capitalism's nothing without the oh so many aspects of life that are done for each other for free. Right down to accomplishments by those clearing millions an hour, minute, or day even. Perhaps seconds. Nor is capitalism not socialism's driving force. Because Economics is a much broader mechanism than politically portrayed. No one admitting it's convenience of thought that circumvents everyone from imagining anything's possible. There's no traction. Just the images of maintaining positions. When neither's absolutely true, everything's fabricated and hardly the method by which humanity faces the future by facing the past. 
     Juggernaut of rhetoric, no? 

Getting Away With It

     Despotic dalliances. Taunting denials. Theatrical political performance smudged across the, ongoing, current, political plain. Or, perhaps, as accurate to suggest, political plane. Because jet-set thought's substitution for substantiation on the playing fields of divided spoils seems just a foregone conclusion. The admit nothing Roy Cohn Code. Ba dump bump. 

     Heard a commentator, on that radical radio station, WBAI, (The Golden Age of Radio), mention the Kurds' territories had no significance to American interests when the president has no (at the moment) hotels in the vicinity.  If it looks like a skunk and any analogy is past use now. The public over-burdened by the political publicists pizzazz. 
     Stalin had Trotsky labelled "The Opportunist." I think however much either were, current contemporary history finds them both outdone. Unless, of course, as the plan seems to control historical thoughts imbalanced balance is the best we're going to get. I am not amused.  

Myopic world view for everybody. Good grief.  

to conclude

Enjoyment of Spectacle  

     Spectacle more important than detail is what we're reduced to, or have been, for a very, very very, very long period of time.  

     So while riding over the bridge, to work, some minutes before the, above, picture, of the Bernie Sanders rally in Queensbridge Park, was taken by The New York Times photographer, I passed two huge humongous, exuberantly waved, flags from the lower level pedestrian/bike lane, in an immersively involved delirium. The radiating smile of the blonde flag holder bowled me over. Hence the title's lament that America's succumbed to spellbinding catastrophe. (Yeo, hope that's not how this ends.) Oh yeah, so you have to wonder what happened for the flag waivers to not appear in this picture. Strong arm convincing? Isn't there some type of free speech that's in violation? The sacredness of one's own martyrdom, perhaps? 

Still most upset about having to take a side. 

Ruling Money Not Circulating the World

  

Bill Gates needs ad revenue touting alcohol too! To his fellow losers - ALL-OVER-THE-WORLD! !!! !!! !!! 

    Pictured above are the two computers maintaining my hold on expressing myself as any loyal American would when facing the xcontrolling maladjusted best interests of America's CONGESTED Financial Circulation as elatedly applied  everywhere against the whole world's interests. 

    Obviously diddly for brains people STILL dictate the nation's wealth is established to mean its RESENTMENT as I described to Malcolm Forbes as the biggest problem the world faces in 1989. THE CREATORS OF THE RESENTMENT? GOD knows exactly who you are. I see how ideas could work and if people work themselves out, like in the resentment and IDIOT FAKE (REPUBLICcase) rEPUBLIVCAN issue of the US SUPREME COURT AND CO-CONGRESS? I believe are against the interests of our WHOLE COUNTRY! 

    MADE FORTUNES RAMMING THE FARCE DOWN THE COUNTRY'S Throats. DEPORT RUPERT MURDOCH TO AUSTRALIA'S Mar-aLago Penitentiary for the Diagnosed Socially ILL. 

    Atop APPLE is fine and dandy, and ours as people not to judge. But presiding as if a private life is so sacred, the imagery of remaining so solitary is the Message of Predatory no matter how PRIVACY is upheld.  BAD as heterosexuals bound for where, as well, Mr. Cook? 

    And I'm just preparing for a phone call because in the computer, last night. Don't want everything downloaded so I meticulously transfer the necessary little by little. Huh? However provided as USER-FRIENDLY, apparently I don't have a chance of finding out what this assigned PASSWORD is that I was given without the opportunity to completely realize what it could possibly be. 

    Still under the aura of I missed something or naively hit WRONG THING. I also know the wrong thing is NOT feeling as USER FRIENDLY an experience as Steve Jobs was dedicated to providing. JOBS himself probably told Gates he knew shriveling money and his dying young are coincidences! That mean trained by your father YOU ARE BIG MONEY supported your entire life as trained in the kitchen by your trained to lawyer-us-to-death-father. 

    Another DEADBEAT head JUST HANGING AROND UNWILLING TO FACE INFAMY. Warren BUFFET, cousin in infamy with the Jimmy one in the article above I'll read to SLICE MAUREEN DOWD more for her DADDY"S CAPITAL: POLICE ALLOWING THEMSELVE to be sliced off at the throat, JANUARY ^ dance on the tombstone too WITCHERY . Owned by the thieves you so delightedly paged for years ago from a family so destined to exaggerate what AMERICA REALLY MEANS TO ITSELF bitch.  Another what's TIM COOK playing with image menagerie. BRAGGER of smoking pot with another who controlled facets of the ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY in bed. Maureen Dowd SMOKES ROGER STONE'S "dog-eat-dog world" embers PIPE.

    AND he and the Tim Cook possible Menagerie among them have the money toundevaste the destruction their wealth already financed just for their as the BIBLE predicted luxuriated HELL. _sshole IDIOTS! 

THESE EYES? SEE CHECK MATE! IDIOTS! !!! 

SEE CHECK MATE! IDIOTS! !!! Translated -

... Humanity, I and You

When the people that own the soap run that way, leaving people left bitter "they're chiseling" their fellow chiselers? Heck, I'm barely writing this stuff. About how greed financed GREED throwing it all away shooting for threes, when they DREW THE FOULEST LINE "they," GOD KNOWS, could conceive. Even the Literature Business knows BEZOS corkscrewed FINANCE. Because idiots designed his megalomaniacal destructiveness. THEY knew what 2008 would do and designed BEZOS to do the same thing. LEHMAN BROTHERS EXECS got their money out before? As with Putin, the money's about undermine the INTEGRITY of any and everything possible. I delivered to Lehman the day before and a lower-down grinned "oh you don't know?" EHEN I AMONG MANY PREDICTED IT! RIGHT.

BEZOS promised 

(FRONTLINE) 

Wall Street they could fake finance a trust further dissolving world economies. Write a book? UNDERSTAND WHAT'S BEEN DOCUMENTED A LONG, LONG, TIME. Courts and Congress don't step in when EXECUTIVES execute dissolving both wholesalers and RETAILERS. TREK has to buy into NEW YORK CITY Bicycle Shops when those shops bought their AMERICAN MADES. Now imported because sliced and diced money was solutions for EXECUTIVES tossing themselves across MONEY"S TOP. Where Witch Nancy and Warlock Ronnie hiss deformed nightmares within the schematic of harboring belief in SEF-IDOLATRY. Basically.

And no one admits knowing! !!! KNOWING how resentful Bin Laden was manufactured into and OPERATIVES fed him weapons in Afghanistanknowing everything that needed known about him.

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What Is There To Possibly Hope For In The Show Trial of Aleksei Navalny?

Other Than The Eternal Wish Justice Improves?

Imagine this board's meaning to a Defendant or a King?

On the first day of trial in Kirov, Russia, the initial BBC report stated that, after pleading innocent, Aleksei Navalny stood before the court and denounced his embezzlement trial as politically motivated. BBC even included the following positive picture of Mr. Navalny wearing a pre-trial demonstration smile.

While the RT headline above the picture below was, 

Opposition leader Navalny goes on trial, claims case 'politically motivated'

Nice how the world's commercial freedom allows our witnessing as straight forward and honed press coverage as any in the Stalinist Era, so to speak. Prosecutors had public support then too. An especially clear parallel when, after polishing off the details of the state's case, RT explains, with complete commercial callousness, that a survey basically found enough folks aren't aware justice isn't being served to care if the country's professionals can't afford principles. The craft of controlling public opinion is not Free Speech, yet world's great substitute.

Heck. The Russian legal culture is intact. Lawyers vs. lawyers, to a degree, kind of, sort of. Mr. Navalny is a lawyer. In the US, unless caught holding the smoking gun, a potential political hotshot is left alone so as to not raise the assumption of political impropriety. Imagine your country so weak there's no test for political propriety?  

A last Sunday editorial, A Blogger on Trial, by Bill Keller, in The New York Times, excellently summed up the Russian legal system's low trajectory toward a more complete openness. The following in italics was my comment on Mr. Keller's essay, finished just after the public comments were closed on 4/22/13 at 53. 

Amnesty for Everyone if no one is Innocent of Corruption? Sounds as ludicrous as President Putin, or anyone, being in a position to change Russian greed. How far America's relationship with corruption has evolved is always on trial every day. It must seem to Russians, fair trials are fairy tales, just as Americans know justice can be. This is Russia’s president’s cue to not turn his head and smile and say the courts aren’t his problem unless seen as another Stalin is his legacy? Then, for now, everything remains the same. Celebrities on trial and variations on martial law.

RUSSIA BEYOND THE HEADLINES covers the President's Popularity, and a March 23rd essay in The New York Times concerns Russia's wealth management. I just hope everything works out for everyone. Far be it from me to complain about  Russian politics, ... 

Coincidentally, in a record 4 hour and 47 minute televised Q & A, the president is accused, without quotes, of saying he’d personally ordered the general prosecutor’s office to approach the Navalny case objectively. Yes please, indeed sir, I'd appreciate some more fine-tune adjusting of those rose colored glasses.

This History Repeated Is Unpaid Attention To News

October 2, 2012 - Prison Reform - 

Letters written by New York State prisoners sent to New York Civil Liberties Union over several months vividly detail the psychological effects of long-term solitary confinement.

As free people the worst punishment imaginable is the loss of the freedom to decide where to go. I’ve spent two separate nights in jail and know you become complacent accepting your waiting in the cell. But when you know you’re out soon, the level of hope has to be much greater than for those rotting in prison. A world away from cooling your heels for a night.

I just feel having your liberty taken away is punishment enough. How is our anger mollified if their entire lifestyle reflects our anger with them on a continuous basis? Sure bunks in a cell is efficient, but we’ve found so many ways to make that experience expensive, what’s the difference giving them a little space? I remember a European documentary describing a prison operated like a dormitory with rooms and the basic conveniences of modern life that didn’t seem so much like punishment. The person could go to work, but not where they wanted.

The New York Times reports on an aspect of how much punishment is enough, under the title Prisoners’ Letters Offer a Window Into Lives Spent Alone in Tiny Cells By MOSI SECRET. The Times describes how – The handwritten letters arrived by the dozens, from men who described in flawed but poignant language what it was like to lose their minds.

One man wrote, “I feel like I am developing some kind of skitsophrinia behaviors. I hear voices echoing as I try to fall asleep.” Another said his mind “rots” with “thoughts that are uncommon or unnatural and you wonder where the hell did that come from?”

Continuing The Times states – They are prisoners in New York’s state prison system and were convicted of a range of crimes, including selling drugs and murder. The men were ordered out of the general prison population and into solitary confinement— or, in their parlance, “the box”, where they lived in tiny, elevator-size cells cut off from almost all human contact. The reasons varied: fighting, smoking, testing positive for drugs. But often for more serious crimes, like stabbing other inmates, trying to escape or attacking guards.

The Times draws a vivid picture. – Having been held captive to their imaginations for weeks, months or, occasionally, years on end, the men, many already struggling with mental illness, brought their paranoia, rage, anxiety and hope to life on the page, with descriptions that were sometimes literary and other times nearly impossible to decipher. More than anything, they conveyed a grisly awareness that their identities were unraveling, a feeling so disconcerting for some that they tried to take their own lives.

The Times prints – The trove of letters from more than 100 inmates to the New York Civil Liberties Union, which corresponded with the men to bolster its attempts to curtail the practice of solitary confinement, gives new insight into a closed-off world usually viewed only one person at a time. The letters may add fuel to the national debate over whether holding prisoners in extreme isolation amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. Many states have recently shifted away from the practice, which was the subject of federal hearings this summer, but it remains widespread in New York.

I’d imagine anywhere two politicians could rubbed together is sufficient to go through the farce of portraying the defense of law and order, no matter how vindictive the punishment actually appears. Apparently when authority withholds wielding extreme amounts of power it can’t feel the heft of its own weight. So like corporations the Supreme Court grants individual rights, so too must we respect the right to punish to the full extent of the law whether it’s just for punishment’s sake or not. So I can assume their individual prison cells don’t lock? We control prisoners to a degree like children their supervisors are responsible for. So why not just make them stay in their rooms/cells? Miss that hour a day walk that, too a degree, is cruel and inhuman punishment too.

The Times calculates – Nearly 4,500 prisoners in the state are held in segregated housing on any given day, about half in solitary confinement and half in cells with another inmate, according to the N.Y.C.L.U., which planned to publish a 72-page report on its findings on Tuesday, a copy of which was provided in advance to The New York Times.

Sounds daunting to even crack the seam, but one can wonder how many in the prison system should have it assigned to them as required reading before they complain we don’t understand how much retribution the victims of the criminals deserve and how unworthy of our care criminals are.

Quoting – The civil liberties group – The Times – called both types of segregation “arbitrary, inhumane and unsafe,” arguing that corrections officials have too much discretion to send inmates to segregated housing for long periods, even for minor infractions.

Is it a wonder convicts, and inevitable convicts, see punishment in civilian life a reward in itself for themselves, after being molded into degenerates living out society’s extremes.

The Times says – The report does not call for abolishing solitary confinement but recommends that the state corrections department enact more restrictive regulations that reserve isolation as a punishment for the most violent offenders and that the state take a census of its cells to find out which inmates deserve to be there.

See, there goes politics. Chipping away at the status quo, prolonging just plain turning everything around.

The Times cites – A spokesman for the corrections department, Peter K. Cutler, who limited his comments in an interview on Monday because the report had not been released. Mr. Cutler said, “Disciplinary segregation is something that we take very seriously in our system.” Then The Times paraphrases, printing, – He said the factors guiding the department were inmate behavior and the safety and security of the prisons. “There is a process. It is not something that is done unilaterally.”

Sanitariums used to pick out the worst and give them lobotomies too. So?

Donn Rowe, president of the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association, said, “Inmates are absolutely entitled to rights, and should never be subjected to violence. But their anonymous complaints should also be met with an appropriate amount of skepticism, and the public must be reminded that New York’s prison system houses some of the most violent and troubled individuals in this country.”

So why try to teach them compassion? They’ll never learn so why be compassionate toward the worst of us? Our only option is tearing their ill will apart when that’s what made them who they are?

Maybe The Times erred in not giving authority the last word? But prints nonetheless – In the letters, the inmates, whose real names were not released by the N.Y.C.L.U. because the organization said they might suffer retribution from corrections officials, accepted responsibility for the crimes that they had committed on the outside but questioned whether their behavior on the inside deserved such treatment. They pointed fingers at the mental health officials, nurses and guards who they said brushed off complaints.

The efficacy of being damned to mortal punishment is all that can be seen from the inside of a prison?

Wrote a man who would try to commit suicide months later, “Please, somebody help. I need HELP!!!”

But the inmates are transferred to segregated housing after breaking the rules. One said he was cited for “wreckless eyeballing and stalking” after he looked at a female prison guard’s backside as she bent over to pick up her keys.

God forbid prison be at all similar to the real world outside, huh?

Most of the men ended up at one of the two state prisons dedicated entirely to isolation cells, Upstate Correctional Facility, in the town of Malone near the Canadian border, or Southport Correctional Facility, in Pine City. Monotony was the rule for 23 hours a day. They received their food through slots in the doors. For one hour each day, they exercised in a small metal cage called the “kennel.”

Shouldn’t there be a law protecting dogs’ rights not to have words associated with them demeaned?

Yes I would expect prison officials to know anyway but The Times, as usual to look informed, tattles on the prisoners printing – The men “fished,” or passed notes, books and magazines to each other using ripped sheets weighted by toothpaste tubes. But mostly they watched the walls.

One inmate wrote, quotes The Times, “The water from the sink is a milky color. It’s not white but its definitely not clear. Our shower is extremely hot and drips even after we cut it off — nonstop. Due to the moisture from the shower and the sink, we now are beginning to notice knats, also known as ‘fruit flies.’ The walls are marked with gang signs, demonic drawings, mucus, feces and rust. We are not allowed to disinfect our cells. There is toothpaste hard and flaky on my lights, walls, bed, ceiling, doors and vents. On my shower there is numerous stickers, mildoo, soap residoo, and what appears to be little spots of dried blood.”

Really? Are our paid employees being lazy about prisoner hygiene punishment enough? Or is it true we’ve figured out how to put all our slobs away for life?