Fidel Castro's Death & Cuba

#castro #cuba Cuba announced the death of Fidel Castro this morning. The Government of the United States of America has noted that fact.

Castro can not be forgiven for the theft of his people’s liberty for over 50 years, since 1959. History will not regard him kindly. Even in his death as his censors became busier, he still feared his people, and the minimal good they gained under him, literacy. Marxism is an evil crime against humanity. It is an unforgiving reverse through minority rule to neo-feudalism. The party ruling in the people’s name, becomes a corrupt minority oligarchy, a feudal political estate, nominally controlled by a Secretariat.
None welcome Castro, nor Marxism. Praising him, damns the liberty and humanity of Cuba’s neighboring democracies, with their hopes, gains and social solving pragmatic governments. Cuba had no economy save rationing and black-marketing. Marxists betrayed the trust of her people, and the friendship of the people of the United States of America which helped her to independence in 1898.
Let the Cuban people chose by ballot or by insurrection. Let them choose now at that angry hating man’s final death. One wishes them the rather speedy happiness of Romania’s overthrow of Ceaucescu; and of Germany’s willful and open march to democracy and reunification; and Gorbachev-Yeltsin & Putin’s free Mensheviki Russia (along with 17+ other freed nations).

Do not prolong the unchaining. Do not wait nor waste any more time. March and Free Cuba Now.
The Free World, and entry into a fully democratically governed Western Hemisphere will welcome the Republic of Cuba. Cuba is the new world’s only dictatorship. The Castro brothers as survivors of that dictatorship’s leadership, would face criminal human rights charges. The decision of the Cuban people to retire them, may stay that. But remove them to segregated pension, prison, or death, by Court or mob.
No human being’s life belongs to another to set aside … that life belongs to any and every individual. Heaven grants life, individuality and liberty. Retain those gifts.

Barnes & Noble & THE FINANCIAL TIMES

The paper, as always is outstanding, but the B&N subscription process? Barnes & Noble have a bait & switch problem, which is basically a consumer fraud.  Instead of continuing a subscription at a monthly rate, the subscription is discontinued after a correctly paid & billed month, then swapped for a budget busting annual pre-subscription.  They now do the same things with the New York Times, also.  Either B&A have lost their rate, or their publishers prefer another device.  Consumers should have THAT communication of business terms.

VOLCANO TSUNAMI ALERT as received by this Blogger Att n Area of VOLCANO KICK-EM JENNY Caribbean

VOLCANO TSUNAMI ALERT as received by this Blogger

 

 

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[Tsunami Message - IOC] Statement on Kick-em-Jenny Volcan

Potential Kick ’em Jenny Activity (Orange Alert) and the Associated Tsunami Threat
Statement from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and US National Tsunami Warning Center

Kick 'em Jenny is an active submarine volcano or seamount on the Caribbean Sea floor,
located 8 km (5 mi) north of the island of Grenada and about 8 km (5 mi) west of Ronde
Island in the Grenadines at roughly 12.30° N, 61.64° W.  Its summit is approximately
200 m (600 ft) below the surface of the ocean.

What?
The Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the University of the West Indies has issued an
Orange Alert for the underwater volcano Kick ’em Jenny1.  An Orange Alert means
“Highly elevated level of seismic and/or fumarolic activity or other unusual activity.
Eruption may begin with less than twenty-four hours notice.”

Why?
Instruments monitored by SRC recorded strong, continuous seismic activity from the
volcano between 1:25 am and 3:00 am, local time, July 23, 2015 suggesting than an eruption
could occur with less than 24-hours notice.
Signs of elevated seismicity (earthquakes) began on July 11th and continue to the present.

What is the tsunami threat?
An undersea volcanic eruption can displace the overlying seawater, generating tsunami
waves. 
The amplitude of the waves and area threatened depends upon many factors including the 
size, depth, and nature of the eruption.
Should a tsunami occur, waves would reach Grenada within just a few minutes.  If the
tsunami were large enough to expand further, it would reach St. Vincent within 10 minutes,
Martinique and Tobago within about 30 minutes, and Barbados within about 40 minutes.  A
very large tsunami could reach the northern coast of Venezuela to the south and the
Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico within an hour and a half.
Any tsunami hazard would be confined to the Caribbean region.

What is being done?
Kick 'em Jenny activity is being closely monitored by the SRC and further updates will
be issued by SRC as more information becomes available.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and US National Tsunami Warning Center are also following
the situation closely and will be monitoring seismic and sea level data from the nearest
seismic and coastal sea level gauges.  Should an eruption be confirmed and/or tsunami be
detected they will issue appropriate messages to their respective areas of responsibility
in the Caribbean region.
Citizens are reminded to follow all instructions from their local emergency management.
Some rules for tsunami safety and response can be found at:
       http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/Tsunami/
SRC recommends that vulnerable communities be advised of evacuation routes and transport
be put on standby.
SRC indicates that local radio stations in Grenada, St. Vincent, Barbados and Trinidad have
been placed on alert.
SRC recommends that the public listen to their local radio continuously for updates and visits
the Seismic Research Center website if possible..
SRC instructs that shipping vessels should stay outside of the first exclusion zone - 1.5 km
from the summit of Kick ’em Jenny and that non-essential shipping, such as pleasure craft,
should stay outside of the secondary exclusion zone – 5 km clear of the summit.

He LIVES

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Israel's Gaza Demilitarization Policy

Israel's terror risk from Gaza's tunnels is low, and Israel knows it. Thanks to Israeli use of modern listening technology, a terrorist infusion from them is Israel's lowest risk.  The HAMAS militants use the tunnels to site and run away after rocket launches  A subterfuge to destroy terrorists tunnels as rocket launcher access with no minimus in civilian noncombatant collateral damge is Israel's inhumane policy in occupied and subordinated areas. Israel's policy is reminiscent of anti insurgent NAZI policies in NAZI-occupied territories and it always has been. 

That is Israel's conundrum - how to be a "different-way" HUMANE  Israel, and stop a  military capacity.  Reserving the Iron Dome for population risks and accepting structural damage in Israeli areas is one method.  Spot aversion targeting without site destruction  is also capable. Twenty-five (25) + Israeli deaths balanced against a modern militarists' slaughter of 3000+ is unacceptable.

A better campaign aims at world influence to HAMAS politics : the victims will not stand for their shielding a front line with access through the near equivalent of a park or modern apartment complexe's access ways .. ie tunnels. 

The other good Israeli conscientious policy is to close down Netanyehu's Likud I II III governments and do so permanently, and put an end to the voting management of newer post Soviet Israelis and their cultivated populist paranoia.

Windows 8/8.1 Refresh/Recovery/Reset

Windows 8 & Windows 8.1 users/owners who installed that operating system before last fall; may have a difficulty when Refreshing, Recovering or Resetting (Factory Reset) their OS. Windows 8 is re-installed and requires some 100 + security updates which preclude a fast re-install. When using, unless your PC permits a System Restore at the latest possible date, do the REFRESH or RECOVERY, DO NOT install the update s( it will attempt to install all of them). Instead use this link : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40098 first. It will UPDATE all you need to go to the Windows Store and download the WINDOWS 8.1 version of the OS. Again, if your machine came with Windows 8, the restore/refresh functions will return you to Windows 8 even if you had update prior with Windows 8.1. Without the security update at the link noted, you will be unable to download the Windows 8.1 version from Windows Store immediately. NB too there will be an update for 32 & 64 bit systems.

D Day

Men and women will gather tomorrow to collect their memory and recall their history of the great event which began the liberation of Europe from militarism and genocide the 6th of June 1944. Few living persons ever have the experience modernly to know and endure their countrymen and their country in a state of conquest and subjugation. Whether placed now, proximate to the great distant cause of some other nation's plight or their own national ground, the effect is the same. To acquiesce would be to destroy and to eliminate a national language, a culture, to forfeit the ground on which they lived or were born. Just as in an ancient time when an avaricious zealous uniter of China would kill, expel and assimilate by the sword and womb all alien in creating and planting a new race by empire, so was the NAZI Reich of Germany. The cost of our defeat, opponents' victory, unendurable, and too costly to allow. National leaders described the alternative, as the death of civilization - their civilization of the arts, and democratic republican governments, of liberty, their way of life. American Minutemen emboldened by their united efforts in arms on the North American continent took the contest of their values and their property to arms. Arms borne against their own countrymen when they fought for independence. The same spirit rejoined to carry their bearing of arms for the liberty of strangers from slavery and other inhuman, in-humane conditions - that they would share their values as one people - of many roots races and faiths. D DAY - a code phrase for debarquation day represented that spirit of triumph of men and women in arms today. Whereby a force equipped and trained, instilled of liberty and aiming for the return or grant of it would prevail against all other human forms of organization, and endure. Let us remember in a short time here, a precious pause incomparable to any breadth of time in the heat of battle, our ancestors who did that here on this day; that which they did in so many other theaters in that Great War with allies and friends, so that this day could arrive and lives endure. And we pray that none of our living generations nor our sons and daughters ever have to weigh a balance of subjugation and racial and ethnic elimination from this planet; yea though that they ever did, they would call upon their spirit, our spirit and that of their makers, the aid of the same tools and fortitude of restoration. D Day is a great anniversary in the saga, the secular religion called freedom - the domaine, the dominion of the free. Amen