Michael Moore demonstrates State Department and media collude to misinform about Cuba.

[EFerrari]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=33106

LOL

[Judi Lynn]

1. I must be having trouble with my computer, it's won't get that URL you posted.

Was it this story? I put "Michael Moore" Cuba State Department in a search and got this story immediately. Wow!

WikiLeaks cables: Michael Moore film Sicko was 'not banned' in CubaFilm-maker says diplomats made up the story to discredit film that showed healthcare was worse in US than Cuba
David Batty guardian.co.uk, Saturday 18 December 2010 15.26 GMT

American diplomats made up a story that Cuba banned Michael Moore's 2007 documentary, Sicko, in an attempt to discredit the film which painted an unflattering picture of the US healthcare system, the film-maker said today.

A confidential US embassy cable released by WikiLeaks claimed that Castro's government banned the Oscar-nominated film because it painted such a "mythically" favourable picture of Cuba's healthcare system that the authorities feared it could lead to a "popular backlash".

But Moore said that far from being supressed by Havana, the film – which attempted to discredit the US healthcare system by highlighting what it claimed was the excellence of the Cuban system – was shown on national television.

The film-maker said on his blog that the diplomatic cable, dated 31 January 2008, was "a stunning look at the Orwellian nature of how bureaucrats for the state spin their lies and try to recreate reality (I assume to placate their bosses and tell them what they want to hear)".

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/18/wikileaks-us-diplomats-story-cuba-banned-sicko-film

On edit, I finally got your link, after restarting my computer. The problem was with me, not your link. Sorry!

[EFerrari]

2. Oh, good.

Isn't this perfect, Judi Lynn? Where's Mika and Billy?

This is exactly what we all keep trying to point to and that often gets discounted.

I admit, I :rofl: when I read this piece. :)

[Judi Lynn]

5. Absolutely heavy handed crappola, wasn't it? Just the way you'd imagine

it would have been treated in a totally repressive country, like Uzbekistan, _{George W. Bush's} pet country where they boil their political prisoners for Islam Karimov, friend of the State Department and Pentagon.

Love that article! Too good. :rofl: He must have laughed until he cried.

[naaman fletcher]

3. This wouldn't surprise me...

But do we have any verification on this besides "because Michael Moore said so"?

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[Judi Lynn]

6. What's going to be fantastic is what will happen to Marta Beatriz Roque's attitude

when she learns what the people at the Interests Section think of her and her crew! Woo hoo.

http://www.cubasocialista.cu.nyud.net:8090/imagen/disidentes/foto07.jpg

Marta Beatriz Roque making a statement
with former U.S. Interests section head,
James Cason looking on from the doorway.

http://www.cubaencuentro.com.nyud.net:8090/var/cubaencuentro.com/storage/images/blogs/el-tono-de-la-voz/media/martha-beatriz-roque3/1368317-1-esl-ES/martha-beatriz-roque.jpg

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk.nyud.net:8090/media/images/41334000/jpg/_41334529_roque_ap_203.jpg http://www.voltairenet.org.nyud.net:8090/IMG/jpg/beatriz-roque.jpg http://www.cubaverdad.net.nyud.net:8090/images/dissidents/beatriz_roque_01.jpg

http://media3.washingtonpost.com.nyud.net:8090/wp-dyn/content/photo/2006/09/10/PH2006091001089.jpg http://www.terrorfileonline.org.nyud.net:8090/es/images/Santiago_%C3%81lvarez_Fern%C3%A1ndez_Magri%C3%B1a.jpg

Terrorist "exile" Santiago Alvarez, Marta's friend, patron in Miami,
a personal friend to Luis Posada Carariles, mass murderer/CIA/bomber.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090/_1QfuM0R-rVE/S6POylE6c7I/AAAAAAAARDs/jzdLTPAX1wo/s400/Laura+y+Martha+Beatriz.jpg

Marta coaching her women in white.

http://cache.daylife.com.nyud.net:8090/imageserve/04O3aWOcUg9Im/610x.jpg
http://cache.daylife.com.nyud.net:8090/imageserve/0cqH0Uh4IE2uB/610x.jpg
http://cache.daylife.com.nyud.net:8090/imageserve/03SI5x9gKocqH/610x.jpg

Marta and company chillin' at the Interests Section.

You may find this site from some "exile" group in Tampa interesting, showing Marta and her cronies having a public dissent meeting.
http://www.militaramilitar.com/Comunicados_Asamblea_Fotos.htm
Here's one photo from the site:



Dissidents put a message sent by President George W. Bush the Cuban people in a DVD.

[Judi Lynn]

7. I forgot to include a photo of Marta with the guy who has done 26 hunger strikes,

and picked up the Nobel Prize.

Do you think we could get Nobel Prizes if we threw fits and went on hunger strikes if our government doesn't install free computers and service in our homes, which Guillermo Farina demanded once from the Cuban government before he did one of his famous strikes?

http://cache.daylife.com.nyud.net:8090/imageserve/0eW1gBTb3Heal/610x.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090/_p0Ky0eMmXNo/ShSwLNNHuxI/AAAAAAAANMw/YxOmTDPoRhE/s320/cason.jpg

James Cason, former Interests Section head for _{George W. Bush} talking
to AP Cuba reporter, Anita Snow, who does MANY of the AP's Cuba articles.

[Mika]

8. 26 hunger strikes? LOL. Marta has to have been eating NASA food too.

From our gubmint to their mouths. ;)

Here's a picture of her doing a US voter registration ad made by the US interests section for use on Cuban exiles in the US.



She voted McCain. :rofl:

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