Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 10/19/18> Message from @cecicastor you need to read in this edition.
I have been so consumed with my situation and uncertainty I have forgotten that some people are in a lot more desperate situations than I am in and my friend @cecicastor is one of those.
I received the following comment from her the other day and I am sharing it here in this Daily Dose to help get her message out. Most all of should recognize her name and chances are you are also friends or followers of hers as she is in some of the same groups as I am in including #steemitbloggers so I wanted to help her spread the word about what is taking place in her country of Nicaragua.
From @cecicastor,
“Hi @sultnpaper. Sorry to intrude on your replies but I need to get a message out to my friends about what is happening here. I hope you understand.
I am typing from a borrowed computer in a cyber cafe. My computer and both phones died on Saturday as well as our poor 17 year old kitty, Sally. Then on Sunday the grandfather of the family that is staying with us in the compound passed away.
We had his funeral on Monday afternoon. Organizing a funeral in the midst of a war is horrendous. We have also had two tropical storms sitting over us dumping a tremendous amount of water causing flooding and mudslides. Tuesday my son and I were both sick to add to problems.
The country is in a terrible state. The central bank is bust and people are still being shot and being imprisoned with no hope of release as they have been deemed terrorists. Everyone's safety is in peril.
We don't dare leave the compound after noon on any day. Going to the cemetery was a risk. I can't replace my phone or my computer until I don't know when so I will not be on here or steemit much if at all.
I all ready miss all my friends on both platforms and on discord. If I plan it right, I may be able to keep in touch with people through discord. Until We chat again. Take care. ♥💔😢”
That was a reply I got the other day on the Daily Dose from 10/15/18 and that is what I call a desperate situation and a real matter of a life and death existence of daily life. So please keep @cecicastor and her family in your thoughts and prayers.
I am not really sure that we can do anything else to help her but the power of prayer is readily available to us so send some prayers her way to help her and protect her and her family.
Until next time,
@sultnpapper
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Hi @sultnpapper, I'm @checky ! While checking the mentions made in this post I noticed that @sultnpaper doesn't exist on Steem. Did you mean to write @sultnpapper ?
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!help.It isn't my mistake @checky, I just copy and paste things I find on the internet; go find @cecicastor and tell her she screwed up. I doubt she will care that she misspelled my name, and I don't care either, she has a lot more things to be concerned with than some piece of shit bot running around pointing out peoples errors so guzbuck off.
Wow...
I saw that, Papper. Things there are rough, especially with the currency value in the toilet and the government being run like one.
With the telephones and Internet being monitored (looking for "terrorists") there's not much we can do from a material support level. Prayer never hurts, for certain.
Yes Will, the situation there is extremely bad and doesn't appear that it will get better anytime soon. Prayer is about all the support we can send at this moment. Thanks.
Here I was all morning ranting and raving about not having any internet. Jeeze.
I will put @cecicastor on my prayer list. Wish there were more to do.
Right now prayers are all any of us can do, so thanks for doing that. Very much appreciated.
Sending lots of good wishes ❤
Very much appreciated. I was hoping to win the Mega Millions drawing last night so I could fund a para-military raid on her compound and get them all out of there, with the jackpot at over a billion dollars I could have afforded it but I didn't win, in fact I need to look and see if anyone did.
So in the mean time good wishes and prayers are about all we can offer up in support.
I'm really sad to hear this. I've read some of @cecicastor's posts on the situation in Nicaragua, but I always seem to get to them more than seven days after she posted them. I don't often listen to the "news" these days, but I do check into the BBC Online website, and I don't think the situation in Nicaragua is being covered much over here.
My sister is a doctor, and she did her elective in Nicaragua, around 1990. Me and the rest of the family were terrified about her going over there at the time, although the situation there had become relatively peaceful when she went. I started reading up about the situation over there, and that might have been the first time I had my eyes opened to how the developed countries often meddle in these situations. Bizarrely, it was an article in the Daily Mail that informed me what the Reagan-supported Contras had been up to in that country.
When my sister came home safe and well a few months later, she had fallen in love with the place. She said the people over there were incredibly friendly and warm-hearted, and when she'd shown them photos of me, they'd said I must be Nicaraguan. She came home loving Latin American music and dancing, and not long afterwards, she went to work in an orphanage in Guatemala for a year, where she met her husband.
So I'm really sorry to hear of the trouble in Nicaragua. It's so sad, and I hope @cecicastor and her family are safe. She has been through a dreadful run of bad luck recently, and I hope that things improve for her.
Yes, most Latin America people I have met are just really good folks that would give you the shirt off their back knowing that they don't have another one.
It is amazing how things can get so bad because the dictator is flipping nuts.
It might not be quite as simple as a "dictator" going nuts. I'm not trying to paint Daniel Ortega as an angel, but it's certainly worth looking into this further. There are many questions to be asked about what is going on there. @cecicastor might be the best person to answer them, but this article offers an interesting perspective on the situation.
She definitely would be a good one to answer them since she is living there and has first hand knowledge and the experience of many years of living there. But as she has stated before, the people have become tired of Danny boy's failed policies and the use of public money for his personal gain of wealth and his close associates.
I am also sure that having the US sticking their nose in over there in the business hasn't helped either. The people tried peacefully to get change and that hadn't worked, they started becoming more vocal and protesting more especially about the economic conditions and that is what has led to where they are right now.
When I said he went nuts I meant that; and if giving orders to shot and kill your people of your country is something that you can do without being nuts than maybe I am the one who is nuts for thinking that has to be the case.
The power to command people to kill others in itself is nuts to begin with and that people will actually follow those commands is even nuttier yet, especially when it may be your neighbors and family right in your own town.
Most anyone in any country would probably tell you that all they want is to be left alone and allowed to live without being interfered with. Those days are long gone now and may never be seen again.
All I can say is that killing people is wrong unless the situation is "kill or be killed" and that would be self defense. Shooting and killing unarmed protesters because they disagree with your policies is nuts and those people serving as police and military there are as nuts as the man giving the orders to do such.
The really sad part is that in the end a lot of people will die, there will end up being change in leadership eventually, and in a few years it will be the same thing being done over again, just different names to be filled in in place of Danny.
You're right - there are always two sides to every story, and the fact that the American government did not distinguish itself in Nicaragua in the 1980s doesn't necessarily mean that the current regime in that country is not behaving badly. Shooting protesters is very wrong indeed, as is looting people's taxes for your own personal use.
Truth is generally the first casualty in war, and that goes for truth on both sides of the divide, and it's very sad when there is a divide. Often both sides are behaving badly with the people caught up in the middle.
The one good thing in all this is that people outside Nicaragua are starting to discuss what's going on. I'll certainly try to pay more attention to this situation.
I don't trust one thing the US government has to stay or what they do and I live here. I have seen the lies and corruption right here first hand and it is not hard to understand why people around the world have a disdain for the US and its leaders.
The sad part is the media here is under the control of the government so there is no truth in what is reported here by the news media and most people have no idea what is taking place not only here at home but also abroad.
We are quick to blame everything that happens on others and then look to punish them with military force when the truth is a lot of the things that "happened" never even took place or were instigated by the covert actions of US agencies to begin with.
One of the more recent ones that came to light was the operation named "fast and furious" where the US government was supplying automatic weapons to the drug cartels in Mexico, and then were outraged when one of the US border patrol agents was gunned down by one of those weapons in a shootout on the border with the drug cartels.
To the best of my knowledge no one in the government was ever charged with a crime in that situation, just told "don't do it again.".
It is so difficult to get to the truth in these situations. I certainly don't trust "The News". And I think our government in the UK is just as bad, but generally more sneaky about it. They're very good at getting other groups or even other countries to do the dirty work, and if it's found out, they pretend to know nothing about it.
The US and the UK are two peas in a pod and both owned by the Royal family, the people here in the US don't know but it is true, that is one reason the US is always fighting in wars, we do the dirty work for the Royals.
Thanks for passing this along. I've been keeping up with her dilemma for a while now. Sounds like things got really bad for them last weekend, and I appreciate you letting all of us know. I was hoping at one point, they'd be able to make it over to Panama, but that didn't work out! Not good that her computer and phones died. That has got to make things difficult, including keeping up with her son, but perhaps someone else at the compound can help out with that. So sad to hear that they are still having so many problems. Will continue to pray for her and Nica.
It has been in a steady state of decline down there for quite some time and it seems to be gaining momentum in the direction of complete disaster. The government is just shooting people in the streets now who are protesting for regime change.
Yes, I know. It's horrendous. I can't imagine...and hope I don't ever experience it.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but we are all in for this same type of situation. It all has to do with the global currency situation and the smaller weaker countries are the first ones that end up be affected, the bigger and more powerful (military) countries will be the last ones to have it come crashing down, but it will.
I was talking with a young man the other day who works at the bank. He told me that he doesn't see banks as we know them today being around in another 10 years. I asked him why he thought that and he said, "bitcoin."
He said he didn't know a whole lot about it, but evidently even the rank and file bank employees are now becoming aware of crypto.
I briefly explained to him the little bit I know and told him that it would be in his best interest to be learning now.
The world is going to be a bigger mess than it already is and not because of anything to do with the environment. In my opinion that is just another distraction to keep people occupied and focused on stuff that isn't going to make a rats ass of difference when this whole currency stuff blows up.
Just keep your ears open for the term "reset, currency reset." That is when the shit will hit the fan where ever you are.
Thank you for sharing this with us mr Papper, will keep @cecicastor in my prayers! Will there ever be peace in this world of ours!
I hang my head in shame thinking how fortunate I am yet will complain about minor issues when I hear about @cecicastor's plight!
Yes, looking at her situation will change a person's perspective or should.
Thank you sir for letting us see this message!