Why U. S. Citizens Are to Blame!!
A news article this week about Panasonic Lithium-ion batteries explained why neither the mainstream U. S. media nor the sanctimonious U. S. citizens have either the guts or the decency to react to a LEGAL 6-decade-old effort by the Batistiano-riven U. S. Congress to starve totally innocent Cubans on the nearby island. The London-based international news agency Reuters, which is far better than any U.S. news outlet, explained this week that Panasonic has ceased buying cobalt from a Canadian company, Sherritt International, because some of its cobalt...not much BUT a little bit...might have been mined in Cuba and possibly ended up in the Panasonic Lithium-ion batteries. Most of the cobalt used anywhere in the world comes from one troubled African nation, the Congo, and Panasonic gets most of its cobalt from a company in the Philippines. But, of course, no dictatorship in either the Congo or the Philippines ever got overthrown by a popular revolution and then quickly and permanently resurrected its rule on U. S. soil within the bowels of the U. S. democracy. Although neither the mainstream U. S. media nor the U. S. citizens have the courage to admit it, that's what happened following the Cuban Revolution's overthrow of the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba on January 1, 1959. Over six decades later, there are daily examples of why the Cuban Revolution says a lot more about the superpower United States than it says about little Cuba. The latest example this week {late July in 2018} is Panasonic's cowardly capitulation to the uncontested effort of the U. S. Congress, on behalf of a 3rd generation of rich and powerful Batistianos, to starve 11 million totally innocent Cubans on the nearby island. Sanctimonious Americans, always ready to condemn Russia or China of abusing innocent people in much weaker countries, are the prime reason the U. S. got condemned by a 191-to-ZERO vote in the United Nations for the U. S. embargo against Cuba, the longest, stupidest, and cruelest ever imposed by a powerful nation against a weak nation.
The brave and decent effort by Democratic President Barack Obama to end the embargo against Cuba has, as expected, fallen victim to his successor, Donald Trump, who is yet another Republican President of the United States routinely allied with and dictated to by rich Batistianos considered in control of Florida's often pivotal 29 electoral votes that can put Bush-like and Trump-like patsy-presidents in the White House.
But it is the Batistiano dictation in the U. S. Congress that has fueled history's longest and cruelest embargo ever imposed by a strong nation against a weak nation. Of course, the purpose of the embargo, which has existed since 1962, was kept from the American people for decades by the easily employed method of classifying {hiding} U. S. documents "for national security reasons" when, quite often, the prime reasons are to protect miscreants within the U. S. government. And so...decades after 1962 we learned via DE-classified U. S. documents that the reason for the embargo was/is to starve, deprive, and make miserable the lives of everyday Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. So, the embargo in 1962...and apparently to this day...was imposed after the 1961 military attack at the Bay of Pigs as well as numerous assassination attempts and terrorist acts had failed to recapture Cuba, probably because...to this day...a strong majority of Cubans on the pugnacious island prefer revolutionary rule to foreign domination from Spain, for centuries, and from America from 1898, following the Spanish-American War, till 1959 when the Cuban Revolution provided independence. Two revolutionary wars against Spain had failed in the 19th century but in January of 1959 the revolution against Batista, the Mafia, and the U. S. succeeded in shocking the world. In the many decades since, the aftermaths...such as the nefarious Embargo...have changed the USA even more than they have changed Cuba. After all, Cuba is a weak island nation and the USA is the world's economic and military Superpower. And after all, other than the U. S. Embargo against Cuba, there is probably no OTHER TOPIC in this diverse world that could POSSIBLY get a unanimous...191-to-0...condemnation by all the UN nations, which include all of America's best friends.
Hey!!! Some of those Panasonic Lithium-ion batteries MIGHT have some Cuban cobalt in them??? Well now, the mighty United States of America can't allow that or else we might not be able to starve, deprive, and make miserable the Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government!!! SURELY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, who have understood that brilliant and very effective reasoning for over six decades, WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO!!!
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