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- Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:41 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Baltimore bridge collapse
- Replies: 53
- Views: 869
Re: Baltimore bridge collapse
The vessel appeared to be turning towards the bridge when it hit. I wonder if an anchor that might have been dropped was pulling the bow around...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:55 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in Cuba
- Replies: 33
- Views: 660
Re: Chaos in Cuba
There goes that annoying whining again.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:01 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in Cuba
- Replies: 33
- Views: 660
Re: Chaos in Cuba
To my mind at least, the country produces two main products that the world no longer wants. Tobacco, for obvious reasons, and sugar which is increasingly grown as a beet in countries that are far north or south of the tropics, plus there are so many artificial alternatives today. Its biggest import...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:53 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in Cuba
- Replies: 33
- Views: 660
Re: Chaos in Cuba
There goes that pitiful whining again...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:50 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in Cuba
- Replies: 33
- Views: 660
Re: Chaos in Cuba
Let's see now, 50 years of American supported corruption and exploitation brought to a halt by Castro so America begins a never ending progamme of economic warfare in all it's forms. So yea, I can see how you might want to blame the Cuban 'man-in-the-street' for that.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:40 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in Cuba
- Replies: 33
- Views: 660
Re: Chaos in Cuba
So how is the situation in Cuba the fault of the people there?
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:02 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in Cuba
- Replies: 33
- Views: 660
Re: Chaos in Cuba
What is that pitiful mewling I can hear?
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:52 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in Cuba
- Replies: 33
- Views: 660
Re: Chaos in Cuba
Sort of 'free travel' with conditions eh?
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:59 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Friday Jokes
- Replies: 10859
- Views: 470747
Re: Friday Jokes
Looks neat and tidy and, warming up nicely this time of year. Not many trees!
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 6:50 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in Cuba
- Replies: 33
- Views: 660
Re: Chaos in Cuba
Tourism brings in some foreign currency and provides menial jobs, but Cuba, like Gaza, has no natural resources, and is an agrarian economy. I don't think America has ever forgiven Castro for taking away their island paradise, which was particularly useful following prohibition and WWII. Cuba has n...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in Cuba
- Replies: 33
- Views: 660
Re: Chaos in Cuba
Dec 10, 1898 to March 13, 1958 - a period to be celebrated in Cuban history. In 1913, President Mario García Menocal announced Cuba's deregulation law, saying that regulated prostitution was "incompatible with ... the spirit of freedom that governs our nation".[19] During the first half of the 20th...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:09 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in Cuba
- Replies: 33
- Views: 660
Re: Chaos in Cuba
Greed and corruption, the American dream!
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 5:10 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in Cuba
- Replies: 33
- Views: 660
Re: Chaos in Cuba
It is a pity you chose to chop my quote! You missed this bit ...and little was said about democracy. With the loyal support of Batista, Mafioso boss Meyer Lansky developed Havana into an international drug port. Cabinet offices were bought and sold and mlitary officials made huge sums on smuggling a...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 4:43 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in Cuba
- Replies: 33
- Views: 660
Re: Chaos in Cuba
Dec 10, 1898 to March 13, 1958 - a period to be celebrated in Cuban history. Yeah right .... 1903 to 1958: Uprisings, Coups, Dictatorship 1933: Military coup. After the American military quashes three Cuban uprisings in as many decades, the U.S. backs a military coup led by Sgt. Fulgencio Batista. ...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 4:18 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in Cuba
- Replies: 33
- Views: 660
Re: Chaos in Cuba
December 10, 1898GrumpyPilot wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:45 amMarch 14, 1958
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:33 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in Cuba
- Replies: 33
- Views: 660
Re: Chaos in Cuba
A bit longer than that, say 1898.
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:20 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in Cuba
- Replies: 33
- Views: 660
Re: Chaos in Cuba
On the verge of collapse? Does that mean that more than a century of anti-Cuban policies and activities are about to 'bear fruit'?
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 1:22 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: A cool morning in Ashburton...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 414
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:39 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: A cool morning in Ashburton...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 414
Re: A cool morning in Ashburton...
It is easy to find, just keep flying until everything is upside down and you will be here. Of course depending on where you start from!
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:53 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: A cool morning in Ashburton...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 414
Re: A cool morning in Ashburton...
This is a gathering of aero club members from various parts of NZ. They had annual competitions and prize giving etc at this airport and used the museum facilities for their evening activities etc. The peaks are the foot hills of the Southern Alps and are about 30 miles away, the main range is out ...