The Seabreacher Y personal submarine:
Are ‘capitalist’ indulgences
like this a sign that the West is
incapable of addressing the dangers
of the modern
world?
JuventudeRebelde, Cuba
Fidel Castro: ‘Marvels of Capitalism’ Do Nothing
to Relieve the World's Peril
Are people in
the capitalist countries being inundated with trivia while the world hurtles
toward catastrophe? In one of his less verbose commentaries, former Cuban
dictator Fidel Castro, in the pages of the state-run JuventudeRebelde, makes it clear the neither he nor his
policies are responsible for the trivialization of the danger manacing the world
thanks to modern capitalism.
Former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro: Love him or hate him, he is a man that has had an impact on history and continues to have a lot to say about his old adversary the United States and current events in general.
The search for political truth will always be a difficult
task, even in our time, when science has put such a great body of knowledge in
our hands. One of the most significant breakthroughs was to learn about and investigate
the fantastic power of the energy contained in matter.
The discoverer of this energy and its potential use was a
peaceful, good-natured man who, despite his repudiation of violence and war,
sought its development in the United States [reference to Albert Einstein].
This was during the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, a well-known anti-fascist
and leader of a capitalist country in profound crisis who had earned the hatred
of the extreme-right of his own class by helping to save his country. Today
this state is imposing the most brutal and dangerous tyranny that our fragile
species has ever known.
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by Worldmeets.US
Cables from the United States and its NATO allies refer to crimes
committed by them and their accomplices. The most important cities in the
United States and Europe are witnessing a continuous string of pitched battles
between protesters and well-trained and well-fed police equipped with armored
cars and body armor. The police deliver punches and kicks and fire tear gas at
women and men, handcuffing young and old alike, and displaying before the entire
world acts committed against the rights and lives of citizens in their own
countries.
How much longer will such barbarities go on?
Not to belabor the point, given that such tragedies will increasingly
by presented on television and the press in general, and will not succeed in
putting bread into the mouths of those who are least fortunate, I will cite just
one
report issued today by a major Western news agency:
“Much of Japan's Pacific coast could be inundated by a
tsunami more than 112 feet high if a powerful earthquake hits offshore,
according to revised estimates by a government panel.
“The panel of experts says any tsunami unleashed by a
magnitude-9.0 earthquake in the Nankai trough, which
runs east of Japan's main island of Honshu to the southern island of Kyushu,
could top 34 meters at its highest.
“An earlier forecast in 2003 put the potential maximum
height of such a tsunami at less than 66 feet.
“The Fukushima plant was designed to withstand a 20-foot
tsunami, less than half the height of the surge that hit it on March 11, 2011.
But there is no cause for concern. Another cable dated two
days ago, March 30, can serve to reassure us. It comes from a very well-known
news source. I will summarize:
"If you were a footballer, Arab sheik, or manager of a
large multinational corporation, what type of technology would you yearn for?
"Recently, a well-known luxury store in London opened
an entire wing for technology lovers with bulging wallets.
"Televisions that cost a million dollars, Ferrari video
cameras and personal submarines are just a few of the fetishes to delight the
millionaire. But the million-dollar television is the jewel in the crown.
"In the case of Apple, the company is delivering new products
to stores the day they are released on the market.
"Let us suppose we leave our mansion and are weary of
prowling around in our yacht, limousine, helicopter or jet. We still have the
option of purchasing a submarine for one or two."
“The options continue with rust-proof, stainless-steel cell phones
with 1.2 GHz processors with eight gigabytes of memory and NFC technology for
making payments by phone. There are even video cameras made by Ferrari."
Oh yes, compatriots, capitalism is really marvelous! Perhaps
we are guilty of preventing all citizens from having personal submarines at the
beach.
It is they, and not I, who have put Arab sheiks and managers
of huge multinational corporations in the same bag as football players. At
least the latter entertain millions of people and are not enemies of Cuba. I
must clarify that.
