Expressions of sympathy have poured in from around the world from fellow murderous dictators and fellow climate warriors like Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, for the death of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on the death of former Cuban President Fidel Castro:
“It is with deep sorrow that I learned today of the death of Cuba’s longest serving President.
“Fidel Castro was a larger than life leader who served his people for almost half a century. A legendary revolutionary and orator, Mr. Castro made significant improvements to the education and healthcare of his island nation.
“While a controversial figure, both Mr. Castro’s supporters and detractors recognized his tremendous dedication and love for the Cuban people who had a deep and lasting affection for “el Comandante”.
“I know my father was very proud to call him a friend and I had the opportunity to meet Fidel when my father passed away. It was also a real honour to meet his three sons and his brother President Raúl Castro during my recent visit to Cuba.
“On behalf of all Canadians, Sophie and I offer our deepest condolences to the family, friends and many, many supporters of Mr. Castro. We join the people of Cuba today in mourning the loss of this remarkable leader.”
President Obama’s eulogy was sympathetic, if a little less enthusiastic than Prime Minister Trudeau;
We know that this moment fills Cubans–in Cuba and in the United States–with powerful emotions, recalling the countless ways in which Fidel Castro altered the course of individual lives, families, and of the Cuban nation
Read more: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/president-obama-fidel-castro-death-170615139.html
Murderous Syrian tyrant Bashar Assad joins Prime Minister Trudeau and President Obama in mourning the Cuban climate warrior.
… Syria President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday hailed Fidel Castro’s “legendary resistance” to the embargo imposed by the United States against Cuba in a statement marking the death of the revolutionary leader. “The great leader Fidel Castro led his people’s and his country’s struggle against imperialism and hegemony for decades,” Assad, whose government is facing US sanctions, said in a message of condolences.
“His resistance became legendary and inspired leaders and people all over the world,” he said in the letter addressed to Castro’s brother Raul, who is president of Cuba. “Cuba, a friendly country, was able thanks to its leaders to resist against the toughest sanctions and most unjust campaigns in our modern history,” Assad said, referring to the US embargo on the island. …
Fidel Castro’s brother Raul, the thug who inherited the Cuban dictatorship from his ailing brother, is committed to continuing Castro’s battle against Climate Change and any political dissidents, artists and homosexuals who have so far escaped Cuba’s brutal extra judiciary punishment of such offences.
Remarks by President Obama and President Raul Castro of Cuba in a Joint Press Conference
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More broadly, we’re moving ahead with partnerships in health, science, and the environment. Just as Cubans and American medical teams have worked together in Haiti against cholera, and in West Africa against Ebola — and I want to give a special commendation to Cuban doctors who volunteered and took on some very tough assignments to save lives in West Africa in partnership with us and other nations. We very much appreciate the work that they did. Our medical professionals will now collaborate in new areas, preventing the spread of viruses like Zika and leading new research into cancer vaccines. Our governments will also work to protect the beautiful waters of this region that we share.
And as two countries threatened by climate change, I believe we can work together to protect communities and our low-lying coasts. And we’re inviting Cuba to join us and our Caribbean and Central American partners at this spring’s regional energy summit in Washington.
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President Raul Castro on Climate Change;
President Raul Castro Warns on Consequences of Climate Change
Cuba´s President Raul Castro, denounced today here that the global temperature rise will compromise first, integrity and physical existence of many countries and island nations, and will produce serious consequences to the Third World.
Key Remarks of President Raul Castro at Rio+20
“Despite the milestone that marked the United Nations Convention on Climate Change, emissions of carbon dioxide increased by 38 percent between 1990 and 2009”, said Raul Castro speaking at the plenary session of the Summit United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio +20.
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President Obama and President Raul Castro’s remarks echo Fidel Castro’s earlier commitment to fighting climate change in 2012.
Fidel Castro warns of climate change
Havana – Cuba’s iconic revolutionary Fidel Castro warned that the world was on an “inexorable” march into the abyss this year because of climate change and the threat of nuclear war.
In an article published on Thursday – Castro’s first since November 2011 – the 85-year-old retired leader also took aim at the United States and at gas shale “fracking”, a new source of fossil fuels condemned by environmentalists.
He did not, however, address rumours of his death, which were denied by an official Cuban blogger after they surfaced on Twitter earlier this week.
“Many dangers threaten us, but two of them, nuclear war and climate change, are decisive and are drifting further away from a solution,” he wrote in an article entitled “The March Towards the Abyss.”
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Read more: http://www.news24.com/World/News/Fidel-Castro-warns-of-climate-change-20120106
Some Cuban exiles in Miami, who seem hung up on how many of their relatives and friends were brutalised and murdered by Castro and his thugs, are distracting attention away from Castro’s climate warrior legacy.
Castro was a mass murderer
President Obama said this about the death of Fidel Castro: “History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular character.”
And I say “Fidel Castro was a mass murderer who ordered the killing of thousands of innocent Cubans, in order to scare and control the rest of the Cuban population.”
He had a peaceful death, but in his final days he should have experienced a lot of suffering; he should have been dragged through the streets of Havana, like Mussolini in Italy, and then hanged.
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Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article117295703.html
President-elect Trump also criticised the Cuban dictator’s reign;
“Fidel Castro’s legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights”
Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/11/26/eu-chief-juncker-praises-hero-fidel-castro/
Some critics have mocked Trudeau’s heartfelt eulogy for his fellow green on Twitter, completely ignoring Castro’s strong stand against global warming.
https://twitter.com/FowlCanuck/status/802592021131259904
It is with a heavy heart that we mourn the passing of Saddam Hussein. His advancements in chemical research live on. #trudeaueulogies
— The Count (@TheCountDM) November 26, 2016
Jack the Ripper was a permanent influence on the lives of many economically deprived White Chapel women. #trudeaueulogies
— Regulus de Leo (@RegulusdeLeo) November 26, 2016
https://twitter.com/Integralmathyt/status/802599390623899648
https://twitter.com/realMaxRenn/status/802608014842855424
https://twitter.com/RenegadeMinds/status/802607939617980416
https://twitter.com/TheC0zmo/status/802607935130046465
Despite the criticism, I’m confident that Fidel Castro will be remembered by the liberal elite as one of their own – someone who stopped at nothing to address the twin problems of overpopulation and carbon pollution, by murdering lots of people, especially people who disagreed with him, and by doing everything in his power to halt harmful economic growth, by shackling his country’s economy to the grinding misery of decades of communist stagnation.
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I was looking for the source to the quote, “You are known by the company you keep” (possibly Aesop’s Fable?) and was reminded of an even better one, and one more suitable to a science-based site: “Birds of a feather flock together.”
In the present case, true Leftists support all Leftists, regardless of their previous deeds. If you want to know what a Leftist is capable of, just look at the past actions of those they idolize.
Rod Everson: “In the present case, true Leftists support all Leftists, regardless of their previous deeds.”
Of course they do. Always have, always will.
As the old saying goes, “there are no enemies on the Left”.
Mods
Why are some of my post disappearing?
ditto…mine too
Bob, You are wasting precious words, please keep your words to a minimum… 😉
Many of mine too Bob.
Mine too
Obama: “the countless ways in which Fidel Castro altered the course of individual lives, families, and of the Cuban nation” — plausible deniability. “altered” can be good or bad. Very clever.
Every climate change action advocate, I have ever met, seems to me, to be another Fidel clone. They talk the same, look the same and walk the same. Pure ideology with zero realism makes for a toxic brew. People’s lives have no importance to such. GK
Justin Trudeau is backtracking?
Trudeau defends comment on Fidel Castro’s death, says he didn’t intend to ignore human rights
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the former Cuban president Fidel Castro was a dictator, but that does not mean it was inappropriate to acknowledge his achievements at the time of his death.
Trudeau said the statement Saturday was meant to mark the death of a former head of a country with which Canada has had a long relationship.
Speaking in Antananarivo, Madagascar, where he is attending the summit of la Francophonie, Trudeau said he understands that some people who had been affected by the Castro regime would view things differently.
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/national/trudeau+defends+comment+fidel+castro+death+says+didn+intend/12441045/story.html
And H!tler invented the freeway, universal gun control, was an environmentalist, vegetarian and loved dogs. Acvirding to the Pope Francis, Obama and Trudeau standards of eulogy, those mitigating factors should have tempered the rather harsh comments about his demise in1945. Our modern leaders are so sophisticated!
Fidel Castro spent his life acquiring and retaining power. He never showed any hint of caring about anything else, other than shedding crocodile tears at appropriate times.
That he was a “climate warrior” is very telling.
So will they cheer when dictator Robert Mugabe dies. too? DIctators are dictators and none are to be admired. Their brutal tactics to retain power oppress people and hold back entire cultures. Castro supposedly wanted to create “Utopia” in Cuba. Sounds like he failed miserably. Good riddance.
All attempts to create utopia are doomed to fail. Because they all have to work with real humans, not ideal humans.
MarkW: “All attempts to create utopia are doomed to fail. Because they all have to work with real humans, not ideal humans.”
But Socialists don’t believe in human nature!
First, Trump wins, then Castro dies! I tell ya, the Democrats haven’t been this mad since we freed all of their slaves!
wws: “First, Trump wins, then Castro dies!”
Don’t forget Brexit!
The times they are a’changing!
And it looks like the Italians are going to vote against increasing the power of their EU-loving government in their referendum next week. Which should lead to a new election, and an anti-EU government.
2016 is going to go down as a great turning point in the history of the world. And 2017 may be greater still.
What a wonderful time to be alive.
Indeed Cat Weazle, the far right have won stunning victories across the world. If Marie La Pen wins, which would not remotely surprise me, UN security council would be governed by Trump, La Pen, May, Putin, and whoever China nominates. As far as I can see, May is the only right of centre figure, the rest see left wing tendencies in Mein Kampf. Life could get very interesting. I wonder how governance by the far right worked out last time they had the opportunity ? Obviously concern with climate change will end, but what else will change?
..LOL…I guess, from your Extremely “Far Left” position, any one that doesn’t agree with you would seem “Far Right” ??…N.U.T.S. !
Socialists are centrists, and anyone to their right is far right.
Gotcha.
@GP:
“UN security council would be governed by Trump, La Pen, May, Putin, and whoever China nominates. As far as I can see, May is the only right of centre figure, the rest see left wing tendencies in Mein Kampf.”
As well they should since ‘Mein Kampf’ was a source from which sprang the NAZIs. ‘NAZI’ is the German acronym for the National Socialists that Hitler founded. Socialists are the group to which ‘left wing’ points. That makes it a very natural inference.
Don’t forget the victims that were shot in the water as they swam in the bay towards the U.S. base.
…..Justin
Many Cubans are also here in Spain. As a friend pointed out today, how can a country with a population of 11 million people need over 200 prisons? Why did excellent bloggers like Yoani Sanchez have to avoid the Cuban authorities? Because she tells the truth about daily Cuban life, with all the issues regarding not being able to raise a voice that is not party line, like the neighbourhood spies, like housing being allotted based on toe-ing the party line rather than contribution (for example by doctors). People who could not get by in the city moved to the country where they live a subsistence existence. There may have been free health care but no drugs available, no basics available, like tooth paste. And people are lauding a guy who brought that about?
Cuba has the second highest incarceration rate in the world at 510/100,000 which is way too high. Unfortunately the country with the highest rate is the US at 716/100,000, most states exceed the Cuban rate!
I can see why someone in Spain would be shocked since their rate is ~130/100,000.
“And people are lauding a guy who brought that about?”
They don’t care, because every leftist ‘useful idiot’ expects to be a Commissar after the Glorious Revolution, not a dead body in a ditch (as is their usual fate when the Great Leader decides he needs to purge anyone who might support a revolution against him).
Besides, Cuba is a leftist utopia. Anyone spreading ‘fake news’ goes to jail. And just think how much larger the Carbon Footprint would be if they were living more than a subsistence existence. They don’t see it as a failure, they see it as the future for the world.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/castro%20island.jpg
Justin Trudeau:
“While a controversial figure, both Mr. Castro’s supporters and detractors recognized his tremendous dedication and love for the Cuban people who had a deep and lasting affection for “el Comandante”.
Kind of like Jim Jones’s tremendous dedication and love for his people:
(you only have to listen to the first 20 seconds…I haven’t – couldn’t – listen to the rest of it).
https://archive.org/details/ptc1978-11-18.flac16
In a strictly numeric sense, Castro was a minor character — compared to Hilter’s estimated 12 million intentionally killed, and Stalin’s 9 to 23 million (history is still counting). Mao’s policies killed as many as 45 million.
But, he was our local character, and his relationship with the USSR during the cold war gave him power and money to spread discontent and communist ideology throughout Latin America as a bought-and-paid-for puppet of the Soviets.
Calling him a Mass Murderer gives him too much credit.
“In a strictly numeric sense, Castro was a minor character…”
The death toll resulting from his action as a Soviet catspaw in untold proxy wars in Africa and South America runs into many tens of millions, and the damage continues to this day in many states, Zimbabwe for example.
Catweazle,
if Castro was such a pillock, then why did millions of ordinary North Koreans dim their lights last night in mourning?
Anyone can “honor” Fidel with a token gesture like, say, making their fonts black, but with the cost of text so low and dropping all the time thanks to the clever folks in Silicon Valley, words are cheap.
Making your whole country black—now THAT’S grieving.
And it wasn’t just a one-night thing. North Koreans still respect Fidel in the morning, and to show their high fidelity they’ve been abstaining from meat and other rich foods all day, every day since the tragic news broke. Sure, it could just be an acute physical symptom—we can all lose our appetite, at least for dessert, to intense emotional disturbances, both positive and negative. But the proof is what you do the next day. And the next day. And the next day. So far, there’s no sign of the nationwide grief-diet coming to an end.
The climate embassy I work at did the decent thing and lowered its Australian flag to half-mast. As you’d expect. But that’s hardly supererogatory. To be honest, we didn’t even lower it, really—all we did was not raise it all the way when we opened up for they day! (My boss seems to believe he’s in line for a People’s Medal For Revolutionary Fidelity for that grand sacrifice, but I think he might just have unrealistic expectations on that score.)
Flag-lowering is hardly original. And with tragedies happening more frequently than ever (due to factors like climate change and Twitter), it’s not even rare.
Last weekend I was driving past Parliament and had to do a double-take, because… get this… the flag was actually at full mast!
Luckily I snapped a photo before they lowered it out of respect for the victims of my vehicular double-take. Pro Tip: don’t stop on a dime and turn around to get a better look at something if you’re moving at 70mph.
My diplomatic immunity paid for itself that day, believe you me!
Any nation can reduce the altitude of a bit of cloth on a stick.
But when a national leader of Kim Jong-Un’s stature vows to be incredibly short for the day, that’s powerful. To see a proud nation’s President brought low like that… well, it’s clear that Fidel Castro is no ordinary loss. He represents a bigger loss than I’ve seen in my lifetime. And now that I know how it feels, I don’t particularly want to live through such a global outpouring of pain ever again, thanks very much.
Brad Keyes: “if Castro was such a pillock, then why did millions of ordinary North Koreans dim their lights last night in mourning?”
Hehehe!
Here’s a photo of it happening taken from space!
http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/02/26/darkkoreaold-d80fe984f71570257340733c0a490d6964612ded-s900-c85.jpg
Killing at a minimum 30K people isn’t enough to make you a mass murderer?
MarkW ==> Comparatively minor…..people die in armed conflicts and violent revolutions….to qualify as a mass murderer, one needs to have lots of people intentionally killed. But, hey, you can call him a mass murder if you want … he just small beans in the mass murders of the 19th century roll call.
Rwanda? anyone.
None of those 30K were killed in armed conflicts or violent revolutions.
Those were all his people, killed after he was installed in power.
MarkW ==> I lived through the era but Cuba was pretty closed to news coverage at the time (missile crisis followed). I have no doubt that he ruled like all the other Communist dictators — killing anyone who showed even the slightest opposition or not enough Castro-worship. You may have him as a mass murderer after all…but a pretty minor one 🙂
I see little difference between Fidel Castro and the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.
Hart ==> I am impressed! Some reading here do have literary backgrounds.
Do people still read Herbert? — I ate his books up, and re-read them last year on my eReader.
PS: Never liked any of the movies made from the stories…..do you have a favorite?
“Climate science should be debated on the science”
OK, I am starting.
1. I misplaced the paper showing an increase of 2 deg C (1.5 according to Canadian delegation at Paris) cause CAGW. Can you help me find it.
2. I have trouble measuring the temperature change caused by greenhouse gases. can you help me?
Cuba was so great you were jailed or murdered if you tried to leave. Ahhh paradise.
Don’t forget drowning or sharks. But of course you had to love FIDEL.
Any idea Moderator why 5 of my recent posts have not appeared? Is there a problem?
Don’t forget that the United Snakes of Captivity, the country withe the highest incarceration rate on Earth, slaughtered 1/2 a million Iraqi children through starvation.
Here’s Leslie Stahl and Madelaine Albright to remind all you shameless, selectively-outraged hypocrites…
Lest you forget.
“…slaughtered 1/2 a million Iraqi children through starvation.”
No they didn’t.
Stop making stuff up.
Catweezle
Don’t feed the troll
Hay Khwarizmi, I heard ISIS calling, they’ve got some more widows and orphans they need you to go shoot.
Recycling agitprop from another yahoo the left loved, Saddam Hussein. Totally bogus, but I will forgive you as you have recently suffered severe disappointments and mourning/s
Saddam Hussein killed his own people and depended on lefty liars in the West to help him get away with it.
For a change I agree with you both, this statistic is nonsense.
Each time that lie is told, the number gets bigger. There weren’t that many “children” in Iraq at the time.
Why is this on this site? Nothing to do with global warming.
Its just us deplorables gloating. If the superstition of good things coming in threes, was Fidel finally dying the third or is something else about to happen, like Merkel losing?
Good question. I assumed, without really examining the assumption, that Castro’s cremation was the punchline in God’s cruel mockery of les bien-pensants. I mean, it fits the tragic template, right?
BrExit + ClExit + CastrAtion = 2016 Annus Deplorabilis
It interests our host and reminds us all of the reality of what far too many climate true believers want us all to live under.
Read the prospectus. Nothing in it says that articles are limited to global warming.
The article about ice being found on Mars has nothing to do with global warming either.
As a Canadian, I am embarrassed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s fawning comments on the death of Fidel Castro. With each succeeding day he is in office, he is proving to me and millions of other Canadians that he is as shallow and empty as we feared last year.
Justin is following in the footsteps of his father, the late Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who admired Fidel Castro and called him a friend (Fidel was an honourary pallbearer at Pierre’s funeral 16 years ago). During his long stint as Prime Minister, Pierre cosied up to the Castro regime as part of his “we are not America” socialist schtick.
Justin’s brother Alexandre put out a ridiculous screed 10 years ago praising Fidel Castro as an intellectual and moral giant, a master of many disciplines, and labelled the Cuban populace as whiners comparable to children who complain about a strict father. Total apologist BS. Additionally, Alexandre is the director of the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation which has seen a remarkable increase in donations since Justin became Prime Minister. So there are a lot of ducks quacking here.
In the run-up to Canada’s federal election last year, Justin praised China’s totalitarian regime because it could do what was necessary – i.e. changing directions on a dime – to get things done WRT climate change. Seriously, he admires that. He evidently loves that China does not need to worry about dissent, but of course he does not seem to care about the despotic root of that lack of dissent.
So the Trudeau family can be interpreted as lovers of modern totalitarianism and the resultant personal (familial) enrichment from power. Fortunately he is kept in check by our institutions and constitution, but unfortunately there are throngs of fanboys and fangirls out there who love Justin’s youthful image and vapid, platitudinous monologues.
The dominant fanboys are our state run media.
They sold this product,Turdeau Two, to the public.
They own it and all the defects.
Think back the last PM was “not qualified” to be Prime Minister, according to the same media that has promoted,protected and still runs cover for this accomplishment free child with the infamous name.
And the King of Dopeau will be given a pass for this latest blunder.
This product from the Canadian Media Guild is toxic to civil society, constantly showing his contempt and ignorance of the taxpaying citizen, an mindset shared by his media apologists and party faithful.
What gives Western Canadians pause is that we do not reward lying stealing and self enrichment by our politicians, yet the population of Eastern Canada does, continuously, and we are expected to pay the tab.
What is the point off this thread?
[what is the point of your misspelled name?]
“What is the point off this thread?”
The Castro brothers were promoting “climate change” which is what WUWT is about and incidentally they were mass murderers…
Our ditzy prime minster is deluded if he believes that he was speaking on behalf of all Canadians. Canadians have unfortunately embraced dynastic politics which is leading to this type of silly veneration of someone who has a lot of blood has on his hands. It’s completely inconceivable that he could be so stupid. Completely disgusted!
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Nov 26
Fidel Castro is dead!
A word for the socialist dictator, cocaine and cannabis dealer, sustainable living advocate for his people, great friend of many Hollywood actors and actresses and newscasters who needed a vacation from their very demanding work portraying admirable American characters in movies and objective reporters, and the well-spoken anti-fossil fuel environmentalist.
But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled;
My steps had nearly slipped.
For I was envious of the boastful,
When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
For there are no pangs in their death,
But their strength is firm.
They are not in trouble as other men,
Nor are they plagued like other men.
Therefore pride serves as their necklace;
Violence covers them like a garment.
Their eyes bulge[a] with abundance;
They have more than heart could wish.
They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression;
They speak loftily.
They set their mouth against the heavens,
And their tongue walks through the earth.
Therefore his people return here,
And waters of a full cup are drained by them.
And they say, “How does God know?
And is there knowledge in the Most High?”
Behold, these are the ungodly,
Who are always at ease;
They increase in riches.
Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain,
And washed my hands in innocence.
For all day long I have been plagued,
And chastened every morning.
If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
Behold, I would have been untrue to the generation of Your children.
When I thought how to understand this,
It was too painful for me—
Until I went into the sanctuary of God;
Then I understood their end.
Surely You set them in slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.
Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment!
They are utterly consumed with terrors. Ps 73