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September 17, 2016
US renews sanctions and keeps blockade on Cuba despite UN vote
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From the smoke and mirrors department: despite “normalizing” relations with Cuba, Obama continues economic blockade for another year.
Source: US renews sanctions and keeps blockade on Cuba despite UN vote — Puppet Masters — Sott.net
teleSUR
Sep 2016
© Carlos Barria/ Reuters
Arrest this man.
U.S. President Barack Obama renewed on Tuesday for another year the Trading with the Enemy Act, extending the economic blockade originally imposed on Cuba more than 50 years ago.
“I hereby determine that the continuation for one year of the exercise of those authorities with respect to Cuba is in the national interest of the United States,” Obama said in a statement.
Comment: Backstabbing lying idiot.
The restrictions will remain in effect until Sept. 14, 2017.
In Dec. 2014, Obama announced the normalization of relations with Cuba after more than 50 years of hostilities. The two countries reopened their respective embassies in July 2015, but the blockade remains in effect.
The law maintains the economic embargo on the island, which ultimately can only…
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September 16, 2016
Pentagon vs State Dept. Feud Goes Political
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Pentagon supports Trump’s non-interventionist stance – while the CIA and State Department want to carry on toppling regimes.
CIA, State Department, Pentagon take their civil war to the campaign trail
By Rachel Marsden
Donald Trump recently gave a noninterventionist foreign policy speech suggesting that he wants to make new allies of old foes and find common ground with them on shared national security challenges. He noted that 88 U.S. generals and admirals have endorsed him, and that “the current strategy of toppling regimes, with no plan for what to do the day after, only produces power vacuums that are filled by terrorists.”
Trump should tell that to the 51 State Department officials who called for ramping up U.S. military intervention in Syria in an internal memo that was reviewed by CNN in June prior to being classified.
Hoping to force Syrian President Bashar Assad back to the negotiating table, these State Department officials figured that in lieu of diplomacy, it would be a good idea to prolong a…
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Assange Offers Himself for Manning
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange offered to turn himself over to the United States and serve a prison sentence if President Barack Obama pardons Chelsea Manning, the whistleblower who leaked military and diplomatic documents while working as an intelligence analyst in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad in 2010.
Americans need to understand who the heroes actually are. As a group, as a nation, they most certainly do not.
Julian Assange to Accept Time in US Prison If Chelsea Manning Granted Clemency
Manning is serving a 35-year sentence in a military prison.”
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange offered to turn himself over to the United States and serve a prison sentence if President Barack Obama pardons Chelsea Manning, the whistleblower who leaked military and diplomatic documents while working as an intelligence analyst in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad in 2010″
Bradley Manning was imprisoned for exposing US military WAR CRIMES in Iraq:
COLLATERAL MURDER
Those war crimes remain unpunished. That is the meaning of “exceptional” and “indispensable” nation, the terms favored by Obama, Clinton et al. It means hypocrisy is the policy, and laws do not apply to the US as it rampages around the world with impunity.
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South Africa’s Economic Apartheid
Some Children Are More Equal than Others
Stefan Gottfried (2015)
Film Review
This film is about de facto segregation in South African schools – a major factor in making South African more unequal (two rich people control more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population) than when schools were first “de-racialized” with the end of apartheid in 1994.
At present South African schools are divided by parental status and income, rather than race. Urban professionals send their children to “English” public schools in the cities. In contrast, poor township residents have no choice but to send their kids to free Bantu schools. Township students are denied entrance to “English” schools – they are always “full” – even when parents can pay the substantial school fees. Owing to officials’ fears white parents will take their kids off to private schools, the latter are never turned away.
In “English” schools, 98% of students complete high school and 80% go on to complete a bachelor’s degree. Only 50% graduate from township schools, only 11% go on to complete a bachelor’s degree and only 1% receive a vocational qualification. These grim statistics translate into a 50% unemployment rate of black youths 18-24 and an overall illiteracy rate of 51%.
The teachers and education officials interviewed in this film blame the deplorable state of South African schools on endemic corruption. The shocking physical state of the leaky, ramshackle, toiletless township schools certainly lends credibility to this viewpoint.
September 15, 2016
Photographs That Capture The Reality Of Millions Of Americans Living In Extreme Poverty (15 pics)
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Documenting America’s status as a third world country.
Finding Truth In an Illusory World
Danish Joakim Eskildsen photographer spent about 7 months working on this project. He spent all this time with poor people from different cities in America documenting their everyday life.
Terry Fitzpatrick (pictured) lives with his girlfriend in a tent near a shopping plaza in Athens, Georgia to get his ‘peace and quiet’ away from other homeless people in the city. He considers himself a ‘city camper’ instead and hoped to move forward with his life after his mother’s death
Kate Three Legs left the abusive father of her children to live with her mom, sister and their kids. She was getting a pregnancy check up when the family’s trailer burnt down, destroying everything they owned. The Federal Emergency Management Agency sells condemned trailers to Native Americans to solve the housing shortage
Darlene Rosas, who was trained as a nurse, could no longer work after she was injured and disabled…
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Venezuelans organise Barter 2.0 to Survive the Economic War, avoid Inflation and Tax.
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Barter has become the new alternative for Venezuelans suffering the ravages of the economic war. The system, which has existed since time immemorial, gaining strength in the South American country with unique features is strongly mediated by social networks.
by Nazareth Balbás via RT
Social networks have become the ally of the family economy of Venezuelans against rising prices. Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp work groups work as exchange sites for necessities: no money, no speculation.
The first surprise is the offer: varied, uneven, abundant. Second, the number of groups in the world. The third thing is that escapes public or private control.
Barter has become the new alternative for Venezuelans suffering the ravages of the economic war. The system, which has existed since time immemorial, gaining strength in the South American country with unique features is strongly mediated by social networks.
Falling oil prices since last year has resulted in shortages of foreign exchange for the mono-exporting country. This along with the long campaign of boycott and sabotage from the USA, and the determined resistance of the deposed oligarchy articulated through the upper middle class, has led to hyperinflation…
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The Banks Financing the Dakota Pipeline*
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Follow the money.
The Banks Financing the Dakota Pipeline*
As reported by Democracy Now! Hugh MacMillan of Food and Water Watch has been conducting an investigation into the financial institutions which are directly bankrolling the Dakota Pipeline. In an interview with Amy Goodman, MacMillan explains exactly how banks are involved in the venture, and which banks in particular have a stake in the DAPL.
According to MacMillan:
“Dakota Access, LLC, is a joint venture of Phillips 66 and a joint venture of two members of the Energy Transfer family—Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics. Enbridge and Marathon Oil have bought into this, this joint venture. Together, they now have about a 37% stake in the pipeline, in the Dakota Access pipeline.”
MacMillan then goes on to explain that the banks involved are, in effect, investing into the venture in the hopes of making profits from the drilling and fracking operations that will send…
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Hunger drives US teens to swap sex for food, commit crimes – research — RT America
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Poor teens shoplift and sell drugs and sex to access food.
Hunger is driving desperate US teenagers as young as 13 to search for ways to feed themselves and their families, with many resorting to crime or providing sexual favors in exchange for food and basic supplies, according to a study published Monday.Researchers from the Urban Institute, a Washington-based economic and social policy research group, paired up with Feeding America – a US network of food banks – in an attempt to find out “how food insecurity affects teenagers.” They created two focus groups – one male, one female – in the 10 poorest communities across the States, including those in major cities such as Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as in some rural towns. Researchers interviewed 193 boys and girls aged 13 to 18, all anonymously, over the course of three years – and were deeply concerned at the results.“What emerged was a portrait of impossible choices imposed upon teenagers who…
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September 14, 2016
Celebrating Mercy Otis Warren, freedom fighter!
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This intrepid woman was instrumental in ensuring a Bill of Rights was incorporated in the US Constitution. It wasn’t just founding “fathers” – as we are systematically conditioned to believe.
Two centuries before “women’s lib,” in the run-up to America’s Revolutionary War, Mercy Otis Warren was already a liberated woman by the standards of her day. And she did the liberating herself.
In the latter half of the 18th century, Warren was an accomplished poet, playwright, pamphleteer, and historian — though much of what she wrote was anonymous, in part to get a hearing where a woman might not otherwise be listened to. She also risked reprisal from King George III and the British troops with her subversive rhetoric in favor of American liberty and independence.
She was a close friend and confidant to almost all the major figures of the revolution: the Adamses (Samuel as well as John and Abigail), the Washingtons (both George and Martha), Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, and Patrick Henry, among others. Many of the plans and activities of the Sons of Liberty and, later, the…
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“Godfather” of CIA, Nazi General Reinhard Gehlen–CIA’S Actual Files
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Gehlen was the most important and powerful war criminal to ever work for the US government. He ran the CIA’s Eastern Europe division until 1956 when the agency was handed over to West Germany. This post includes links to recently declassified CIA files on Gehlen.
RELEASE – CIA Files on Reinhard Gehlen
AsideMay 18, 2015fileandclaw322Primary DocumentsAdolf Hitler, Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), CIA, Counter-Intelligence Corp (CIC), Fort Hunt (Virginia), Fremde Herre Ost (FHO), Gehlen Organization, Gestapo, NATO, Reinhard Gehlen, Schutzstaffel (SS), Sicherheitsdienst (SD), Soviet Union, US Army
Note: While these files have been declassified and available to the public for several years, I have not seen them assembled into any sort of easy to download files. These 2,000+ pages, split into seven volumes, comprise the declassified portions of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) file on General Reinhard Gehlen, the Nazi intelligence chief who served many masters, including the CIA.
GENERAL Reinhard Gehlen, perhaps one of the most important people in modern American history that few have ever heard of. While his influence was covert, it was of no less force. The Nazi…
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