18-09-2014, 08:44 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Cuba sends medical teams to any crisis where they can be of use as long as the country is happy to receive them. And where ever they go there is a group of Americans government people and presumably CIA types to try and bribe them to come to live in the US. When the Cubans were in Pakistan a few years ago after the major earthquake the US was offering $100,000 and a car. Which might seem like a large amount of money at first glance but would go pretty quickly when housing is paid for and health insurance and the high cost of living in the US generally. Speaking to Cuban people who have made the mistake of going to the US they have not ended up in the good jobs they were told they would get. Mostly janitor type jobs. They are threatened by the Cuban mafia there if they start complaining. It is a tactic of the US to debase and undermine the social, cultural and educational resources of Cuba. Fortunately most are highly committed professionals and don't fall for it. They certainly don't need the military base to work from like the US seems to. They live in the same conditions as the people. Usually tents or what ever is available. They are very resourceful. They offered and were on standby to help when Katrina happened but were told their services were not needed.
What can Cuba expect? They wouldn't let the Mafia take over their island. Damn fools. Then they allowed "Reds" under their beds, and let them set up missiles aimed at America. And the US quite rightly wouldn't allow itself to be treated in the same way it treated Russia (by encircling it), so it had to threaten a nuclear world war to force the Soviets to withdraw, and then allow the US to impoverish the island for the foreseeable future as a wholly justified punishment.
If only they had allowed themselves to be subjugated, raped and turned into casino slaves, none of this would have happened -- and the American Mafia would've prospered as planned. Sheesh!
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14