The Dead Thread

[hullefc]

One of the memories of the year 1959 will always be the year the 'weak' stood tall and fought back against Uncle Sam and his henchmen puppets.

Thanks goes to the 26th of July movement for changing the course of history.

Fidel Castro you will be missed but not forgotten.

 

[gorgeousgeorgeEFC]

Their health care system is really good too isn't it?

It is indeed sir. Cuba's health care system is ranked ahead of New Zealand's by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Incredibly, Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than a whole host of western countries, including the United Kingdom, Greece and the United States. And the life expectancy of Cuba is the same as that of America (79 years) and far greater than that of Poland.

Not bad for a tiny country with few natural resources and an economy that has been largely isolated for half a century.

 

[Clint Planet]

RIP Fidel Castro. Undoubtedly one of the men of the century and, lest we forget, a whole lot better than the brutal Batista regime that the Yanks backed. Imagine what Cuba could have achieved without America's churlish economic blockade.

 

[magicjuan]

RIP Fidel Castro. Undoubtedly one of the men of the century and, lest we forget, a whole lot better than the brutal Batista regime that the Yanks backed. Imagine what Cuba could have achieved without America's churlish economic blockade.

That is a shame and a great unknown. Along with the Sandinista there was no way Murica could allow socialist principles be seen to be working

 

[Walken]

That is a shame and a great unknown. Along with the Sandinista there was no way Murica could allow socialist principles be seen to be working

Allende as well, was turning his nation around with socialist policies, and as usual the yanks stepped in to brutally stop this, and leave a nation in poverty

 

[Clint Planet]

Allende as well, was turning his nation around with socialist policies, and as usual the yanks stepped in to brutally stop this, and leave a nation in poverty

...not to mention brutal repression.

 

[Eggs]

A revolution is not a trail of roses.… A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past.
RIP Fidel.

..not sure if you've been, but there's an impressive mural in Havana.

 

[larbert toffee]

Paul Futcher, aged 60 from cancer.

Much travelled footballer, Chester, Manchester City, Barnsley and others. England international.
RIP

For those of us old enough to remember he also had an identical twin brother Ron who was a centre forward coincidentally he is also 60.

 

[larbert toffee]

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
Fidel Castro

To some he will be a hero, an icon next to Che Guevara, to others he will be remembered as that cigar chomping commie beardface. But he stood up to America and stood by his people and was true to his beliefs.
R.I.P.

From whatever aspect you look at it, this is one of those occasions where we can truly say we shall never see his likes again.

 

[Eggs]

Paul Futcher, aged 60 from cancer.

Much travelled footballer, Chester, Manchester City, Barnsley and others. England international.
RIP

....never noticed this one. Very sad, happy memory of him marking me when I scored a hat trick. His brother was a player as well.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Christ, Fidel gone?

2016 really is a sick year. Keith Richards has been put on notice.

I saw a recent programme on the Stones. A documentary type but with plenty of live music, following a fairly recent tour of South America. It was quite shocking really. Apart from Jagger they all looked Spitting Image puppets.

 

[JonS]

Castro is the colour
Redder than red
Those Washington Bullets
Want Castro dead.


RIP Fidel
RIP Joe Strummer

 

[JonS]

A kinder more humane society.
Not founded on greed but in looking after people

 

[silent bob]

....never noticed this one. Very sad, happy memory of him marking me when I scored a hat trick. His brother was a player as well.

And yet you never made it??

 

[Eggs]

And yet you never made it??

....nah, it was never for me. I signed for a top flight club, scored plenty of goals but never had the desire to 'make it'. Don't for one minute regret the route I took but footy has been so integral to the person I am today.