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ZippoZ
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castro just stepped down from power.
#8042398 - 02/19/08 11:08 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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yep, turned over the country to his brother Raul.
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zippoz "in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption" "People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
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NationofStrangers
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Re: castro just stepped down from power. [Re: ZippoZ]
#8042420 - 02/19/08 11:12 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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No way. Is this a permanent thing? Read about it, wow i wonder if relations will change with the us
Edited by NationofStrangers (02/19/08 11:14 AM)
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ApJunkie
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source? Anything?
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jewunit
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Re: castro just stepped down from power. [Re: ZippoZ]
#8042437 - 02/19/08 11:21 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yeah, he also died a couple months ago. I don't believe anything I read about this guy anymore.
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OneMoreRobot3021



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Quote:
NationofStrangers said: No way. Is this a permanent thing? Read about it, wow i wonder if relations will change with the us
Considering he's just turning the country over to his brother and cabinet, I doubt it.
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NationofStrangers
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Re: castro just stepped down from power. [Re: ApJunkie]
#8042442 - 02/19/08 11:22 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/19/world/main3843492.shtml?source=mostpop_story
(CBS/AP) Ailing leader Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba's president early Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying in a letter published online by state media that he would not accept a new term when the newly elected parliament meets on Sunday.
"I will not aspire nor accept - I repeat I will not aspire or accept - the post of President of the Council of State and Commander in Chief," read the letter signed by Castro and published quietly overnight without advance warning in the online edition of the Communist Party daily Granma.
The new National Assembly is meeting Sunday for first time since January elections to pick the governing Council of State, including the presidency Castro holds. There had been wide speculation about whether he would accept a nomination for re-election to that post or retire.
The 81-year-old Castro's overnight announcement effectively ends his rule of almost 50 years over Cuba, positioning his 76-year-old brother Raul for permanent succession to the presidency.
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geokills
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Re: castro just stepped down from power. [Re: ZippoZ]
#8042606 - 02/19/08 12:03 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Pictures related to Castro's history compiled by the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4392634.stm
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Bridgeburner
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Re: castro just stepped down from power. [Re: geokills]
#8042636 - 02/19/08 12:10 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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he didn't step down, bush just cut through his puppets strings.
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PinballWizard
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Re: castro just stepped down from power. [Re: ZippoZ]
#8042652 - 02/19/08 12:14 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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So how does this get us any closer to having legal Cuban cigars?
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