MMmm Powdered Flounder

Big fun in SE Asia, pretty pics at 
http://www.tumblr.com/blog/ontheroadwithstevev

Welfare Queens

General Electric- one of the top ten most profitable companies in the world-got a net tax rebate of $4.7 BILLION dollars for the years of 2008-2010. Meanwhile, it spent $84 Million dollars lobbying the federal government

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And you may ask your self? Well, How did I get here?

Six weeks bumming around thailand and cambodia , it's nice I like it

Countdown to Adventure Continues

Moving sale was very successful but I still have all the hand tools & plants, I kept my bike ( the best one) but that will have to go away by Monday....From Granada Nicaragua to Nebraska USA To Thailand to Laos all before Xmas.......

GRINGO Moving Sale Aug 26,2011

Saturday August 26-27, 9 till 12

Sunday Aug 28 10 till 12 deep discount day

Casa Baltic corner of LaLibertad & the arroyo at Puente PapaQ

More info eMail nicanutbutter@gmail.com

Electronics Etc:

Samsung 22 inch color TV with original remote…sold

Dell 14’ flat panel monitor …$35

Linksys Router Wireless G 2.4GHz with extended antennae & custom heat sinks…$sold

Bulova Marine Star #98H01 Men’s two tone 300 meter, analog alarm watch, new in box..$90…. over $200 retail

Sony Mavica Digital Camera circa 1999 uses 4’ floppy disks, complete..C100

25 foot Coax tv cable with splitter…$C100

GE Slimline corded phone (good for magic Jack) new in box..sold

25 foot two outlet extension cord…C80

Sony blank Cds 12 left…C100

Siemens A71 Cell phone in box…C150

Movies, DVDs,CDs

HouseHold

Potted Plants...

Victorian wall hung clothes hooks……$40

LED modern gooseneck metal desk lamp…$15

Nice standard double 400 thread count cotton sheet set, light slate blue…C200

1950s aluminum style green 2 ft Xmas tree in the box

with 6 1950s era glass ornaments …C400

Hamilton Beach Steam Iron…C150

German chef knives...wood handle, chef, filet, slicer...C100 ea

Oyster Rice Cooker with scratched up pan….$C100

Plastic 4 top table with removable legs…C100

Three antique Bell canning jars w lids ...$12

AC-DC 10’ fan…$C100

Big TFal fry pan & wok, BBQ skewers, ice pick, grill

Tupperware, salad spinner, plastic dishes, strainers, gadgets, can openers etc:

Sporting Goods

Toby Trek 26' up graded with alloy rims, raised alloy goose neck, handle bars, brakes…$55

BikePump,USA Bike repair paperback, patch kit,two spare 26’ tubes & bicycle misc parts ..$10

North Face 2 man backpacker camping tent, nice complete C400

Eddie Bauer Day Pack, old Samsonite, hard sided suitcase, duffel pack, shoulder bags, cloth shopping bags, etc

XL Gringo tee shirts, button downs, towels etc

MISC

Jewelers professional 10X loupe…C300

Barlow pocket knife wood handled…C100

Victrinox …Swiss Army Knife midsized promo Exl…C150

Old USA metal lunch boxes beat up Wild Bill Hickok or Cartoon Zoo with Wally Gator..C200 ea

Wooden Billy Club old & serious works great for the barrio drunk at the door….C200

Eddie Bauer blue Day Pack…C150

TOOLS: Choice $C45 each

Soldering Iron, hot glue gun, Eastwing all metal hammer…Exacto Knife Set, …Hand Brace, big bag of misc drill bits

2 x 10’crescent wrenches, 6’ crescent, wire stripper,

¼ drive sockets & drivers, 8’ channel lock,10’ vice grips, tin snips, screwdrivers,

2x wire cutters, pliers, needle nose etc, small file set, wood chisel,

6 in one screwdriver, tape measures 50 & 6 feet, utility knives, box cutter,

mitre saw,

Books:

Failed States ….Noam Chomsky…sold

What We Say Goes…..Noam Chomsky …C100

Waiting for Fidel...Christopher Hunt sold…

No Logo…Naomi Klein…C100

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man…John Perkins…sold

People’s History of the USA…. H. Zinn…C200

Nothing Scared, hardback…Lewis Black…C60

Pigs at the Trough…A Huffington…C50

Moon Guide to Nicaragua 2^nd Edition…C100

Carnivores of Central America…C120

Savage Shore…Ed Marriott…sold

Skinny Legs and All…Kurt Vonnegut…sold

Jailbird…Kurt Vonnegut…sold

The Fruit Palace…Charles Nicholl…sold

Monkey Wrench Gang….E. Abbey….C60

50th Anniversary of the Bay of Pigs Adventure from the Cuban perspective

Playa Giron: The Mercenary Defeat in Cuba

by PL — last modified Apr 13, 2011 01:25 PM

— filed under: BAY OF PIGS

The 50th anniversary of the Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs) victory, is particularly important for the Cuban people: the 1961 defeat of an invasion of CIA-trained mercenary troops.

That armed invasion was approved by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who on March 17, 1960, ordered the recruitment of Cuban-born mercenaries to land in the western Cuban province of Matanzas.

Historical documents show that each of these soldiers for hire was offered 225 USD monthly plus 50 USD for his oldest child and 25 for other children. A total of 4.4 million USD was initially allocated for this purpose, and that figure later grew.

The CIA trained their newly-recruited mercenaries in camps in Guatemala, Nicaragua and the United States and on U.S. military bases in Puerto Rico and Panama.

Days after the U.S. elections, on Nov. 18, 1960, the CIA proposed the details of the plan to President-elect John F. Kennedy, and he approved the idea.

On Apr. 15, 1961, while the mercenary naval group was sailing to Cuba, escorted by U.S. Navy ships, eight B-26 bombers painted with Cuban Air Force emblems bombed two air bases and a civilian airport in Cuba.

At the memorial services for the victims of the air raids, the socialist character of the Revolution was proclaimed and a state of combat alarm was decreed nationwide. That date is celebrated every year as Militia Member Day.

Meanwhile, a media campaign was being created to back a future direct attack, demonizing Cuban revolutionary measures to benefit the people, such as the agrarian reform to give land to those who work it and the urban reform, doing away with landlords.

The United States concentrated the power of its propaganda on convincing the world through false information that the Cuban people had created an internal uprising, backing an exile government made up of traditional, corrupt politicians.

From : Escambray Cuban digital newspaper