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"Cuba and the United States are keeping the verbal blows flying in a diplomatic row that communist President Fidel Castro says is aimed at unravelling their limited, tense bilateral ties. After the United States began scrolling human rights messages last week across the top of the US Interests Section, Castro condemned the "provocation" and organized a march of more than one million people to protest. The towering red-lettered rolling message scroll on the US Interests Section building displays texts such as quotes from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and sayings by civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. It also flashes brief news items which US officials say are a bid to subvert strict censorship in Cuba's state media."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060128/pl_afp/cubausrights_060128194103

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"The sign was activated as Castro began speaking in front of the building Tuesday morning, relaying global news and quotes including Abraham Lincoln's: "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." Castro glanced up at the building, saying, "They already turned on the little sign -- the cockroaches are brave," before starting his speech."

http://www.babalublog.com/archives/002834.html

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""We are only trying to communicate with the Cuban people. Only a dictator would be upset," said Michael Parmly, the top U.S. diplomat in Havana."

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=1535640

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"While millions of Cubans continue to live in derelict homes because of the lack of building materials, the Cuban dictator spends millions of dollars trying to block the news ticker at the US Interests Section in Havana."

1/31/2006 11:07:57 AM

BOMB HIM

1/31/2006 11:51:54 AM

Yeah, we'll spend millions to kill people in Iraq while folks still suffer NO.

That's how gubments do things.

1/31/2006 11:53:38 AM

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"In December 2004, US representatives infuriated the Cuban government by putting up an illuminated "75" on the building to signify 75 dissidents who had been rounded up by the authorities. Cuba in turn raised large billboards, some with swastikas, that denounce the torture of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. The United States and Cuba do not have full diplomatic relations, but maintain interest sections in the other's capital. The United States also maintains its controversial base at Guantanamo, Cuba against Castro's will."

awesome

1/31/2006 12:01:00 PM

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"Cuba in turn raised large billboards, some with swastikas, that denounce the torture of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan."

Touche.

1/31/2006 12:05:37 PM

Its like monkeys throwing poo at each other. I approve.

1/31/2006 1:30:16 PM

I heard the Americans were planning a panty raid.

1/31/2006 1:32:44 PM

Ultimately, I'd rather have to deal with this Mickey Mouse shit than a missile crisis.

1/31/2006 1:37:50 PM

I'm a fan of letting heads of state battle it out on an internationally televised death match.

1/31/2006 1:49:00 PM

Americas "to invade" list:

1.) Iran
2.) Palestine
3.) Cuba
4.) North Korea

[Edited on January 31, 2006 at 2:31 PM. Reason : whaa, 666 post!]

1/31/2006 2:30:44 PM