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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: John Kerry wants free speech "hammered out of existence"
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On 20/10/2024 9:04 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 07:29:06 -0700, john larkin wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 16:48:25 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
>> <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 08:56:14 -0700, john larkin wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 21:10:58 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
>>>> <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Speaking at a WEF meeting (Globalism Central) among like-minded
>>>>> cronies,
>>>>> Kerry says he wants independent media and dissent "hammered out of
>>>>> existence" and that means the First Amendment has to go. This is
>>>>> blatant,
>>>>> out-and-out totalitarianism reminiscent of the darkest Soviet times.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRwP4Krvreo
>>>>
>>>> Basically by definition, the Left wants to control everything; it's a
>>>> power lust thing.
>>>>
>>>> Since they assume that they understand social and economic systems, no
>>>> matter how complex, and control everything, it makes sense that they
>>>> would define dissenting theories as "disinformation" and make such
>>>> illegal.
>>>>
>>>> That dynamic is one reason that centrally-controlled economies do so
>>>> badly, and tend to kill millions.
>>>
>>> Quite. I just do *not* understand how this kind of warped thinking can
>>> take root so deeply in Western countries where one would assume we'd
>>> have learned from the horrors of Soviet Russia and Communist China and
>>> the nightmares of the 1934 famine-by-design and the family-shattering
>>> public denunciations of the Cultural Revolution. And you have people
>>> like Kerry coming right out in public and admitting that they hold such
>>> views - on the record in front of TV cameras! Unabashed Marxists and
>>> Maoists like Kerry, Harris and Hitlary espousing this vile doctrine and
>>> essentially admitting they want *total* control over the dissemination
>>> of information and dissenting views "hammered out of existence."  That's
>>> the kind of bonkers PoV that only some contemptible individual who
>>> detests freedom, like Bill Sloman, would endorse.
>>
>> Cuba now imports sugar.
> 
> Seriously?? Jeez....

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68935247

The American economic embargo has wrecked the productivity of even the 
Cuban sugar industry.

"There's not enough trucks and the fuel shortages mean sometimes several 
days pass before we can work,"

They can still grow it, but half the sugar processing plants aren't 
working any more, and without enough trucks even the ones that are still 
working can't get all the cane the could process.

John Larkin is basically crowing about the effectiveness of the 
long-running US economic embargo on Cuba. Trump actually ramped it up 
when he was in  power.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney