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U.S. government caught using humanitarian HIV program as a front to foster Cuban dissent

Michael Krieger
Liberty Blitzkrieg
Mon, 04 Aug 2014 23:38 UTC
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Regular readers of Liberty Blitzkrieg will recall that earlier this year I highlighted how the U.S. government covertly created a "Cuban Twitter" called ZunZuneo in a failed attempt to overthrow the island nation's regime.

The elaborate plot was implemented under the umbrella of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which is responsible for overseeing billions of dollars in U.S. humanitarian aid.

If you need a refresher, check out the post: Conspiracy Fact - How the U.S. Government Covertly Invented a "Cuban Twitter" to Create Revolution.

Well we now know that USAID went a lot further than that. Another scheme to unseat the Cuban government has now been revealed. This time with even more immoral foundations, and which could disrupt genuine humanitarian relief efforts the world over.

Incredibly, the U.S. government used an HIV program as a front to foster dissent amongst Cuba's youth.

The HIV-prevention workshop was even referred to as the "perfect excuse to recruit political activists." Despicable.
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Out-Hitlering Hitler: Israeli official calls for concentration camps, ethnic cleansing of Gazans

Jill Reilly
Daily Mail UK
Mon, 04 Aug 2014 22:18 UTC
Moshe Feiglin

This man has no soul: Moshe Feiglin called for concentration camps in Gaza in his action plan
An Israeli official has called for concentration camps in Gaza and 'the conquest of the entire Gaza Strip, and annihilation of all fighting forces and their supporters'.

Moshe Feiglin, Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset and member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling Likud Party, posted the inflammatory message on his Facebook page at the weekend.

He lays out a detailed plan for the destruction of Gaza - which includes shipping its residents across the world - in a letter he addressed to the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The message, which received more than 2,000 likes on his page, lists four action points which he wants to be enforced as soon as possible.

Feiglin details the first one as 'defining the enemy' and states: 'The strategic enemy is extremist Arab Islam in all its varieties, from Iran to Gaza, which seeks to annihilate Israel in its entirety. The immediate enemy is Hamas. (Not the tunnels, not the rockets, but Hamas.)'

He says another important part of his plan is the 'conquest of the entire Gaza Strip, and annihilation of all fighting forces and their supporters.'

The Gaza war, now in its fourth week, has left more than 1,800 Palestinians dead.

Comment: Perhaps it is Feiglin who needs a new home: preferably one about 6 feet by 4 feet, with lightly padded walls, and a thin slot for his daily, limited-calorie 'diet'. Perhaps Bibi can keep him company, too.

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Meanwhile, in Ukraine: Kiev deploys more ballistic missiles to Donetsk region


RT
Mon, 04 Aug 2014 21:48 UTC
Tochka
© RIA Novosti/Igor Zarembo
Tactical Operational Missile Complex "Tochka"
Kiev keeps deploying missile launchers, including SS-21 (Scarab) and multiple rocket systems Uragan and Smerch in Donetsk as it "wants to continue the war" in eastern Ukraine, Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

"The Ukrainian army continues deploy Tochka U [which NATO refers to as SS-21 or Scarab], Smerch [the BM-30 Tornado] and Uragan [the BM-27] missile complexes to Donetsk. How many more lives will this weapon take? However, the Kiev authorities, it seems, are no longer concerned about the lives of civilians, military and militias. Kiev wants to continue the war," Russia's Foreign Ministry said in its statement, which was posted on its website.

Representatives of the Donetsk self-defense forces have also said that the Ukrainian army is "trying to close in on Donetsk, aiming its strikes on Krasnogorovka and Mariynka, which remain under militia control."

In July, Human Rights Watch accused the Ukrainian army of using Grad missiles to attack densely populated areas in Donetsk.

In its statement, issued July 25, the rights organization said that its "investigation on the ground strongly indicates that Ukrainian government forces were responsible for the attacks that occurred between July 12 and 21," despite the fact that "Ukrainian government officials and the press service of the National Guard have denied using Grad rockets in Donetsk."

Comment: Kiev continues to take a page out of Israel's playbook. These people belong in cages, not halls of government.

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Conscience by peer pressure: Hypocrite French PM Hollande finally urges action on 'massacres' of Gazans


RT
Mon, 04 Aug 2014 21:20 UTC
hollande
French President Francois Hollande has described Israel's killings in Gaza as "massacres" and called for action to end the violence. This comes a day after an IDF airstrike hit another UN-run school, leaving 10 civilians dead.

"When I see what is happening with the Christians in Iraq, the minorities in Syria, massacres every day. What is happening too in Gaza, massacres ... we have to act," AFP quoted Hollande as saying at a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I on Monday.

Earlier in the day, one of the strongest condemnations of Israel's tactics in Gaza came from French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who said that security concerns do not justify "the slaughter of civilians."


Comment: Even the meaningless canard of Israel having the "right to defend itself" is wearing itself thin in the eyes of the world public, and now, its leaders. Israeli brutality and monstrosity are becoming too obvious to deny.


As Fabius was making his remarks Monday on Sunday's attack, Israel destroyed a house in a Gaza City refugee camp, killing an eight-year-old girl and wounding 29 other people. This was immediately taken by the Palestinians as a violation of Monday's seven-hour ceasefire.

"How many more deaths will it take to stop what must be called the carnage in Gaza?" Fabius said in a statement, following the Sunday bombing of a UN-run school which claimed 10 lives, who sought shelter from the carnage outside, AFP reports.

Comment: Once every few years, the urge to let some blood and kill some children just becomes too much for Israeli 'authorities'. They're the state equivalent of a serial killer.

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Hypocrite! British PM David Cameron endorses criticism of Israel's attack on UN school


RT
Mon, 04 Aug 2014 21:22 UTC
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Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, has endorsed the United Nation’s recent criticism of an IDF attack on a UN-run school in Gaza.
David Cameron has endorsed the United Nation's recent criticism of an IDF attack on a UN-run school in Gaza, which culminated in ten casualties. UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, condemned the assault as a "moral outrage" and "criminal act".

Cameron failed to indicate if he wholly agreed with Ban Ki-moon's condemnation of Israel's recent strike, however, merely emphasizing that the event had brought about "an appalling loss of life," and civilians should not be targets.

Reflecting on the IDF's destruction of the school, the PM defended the UK government's position on the Gaza crisis, stating the coalition had clearly called for "an immediate, comprehensive, humanitarian ceasefire."

"We want this conflict to stop - and we obviously think that it's an appalling loss of life," Cameron said in an interview with the BBC. He added that the "fastest way to stop this conflict" would be if Hamas ceased firing rockets at Israel.
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Client-state Ukraine will follow in lockstep with U.S. in imposing sanctions on Russia


RT
Mon, 04 Aug 2014 21:15 UTC
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Within a few days Ukraine plans to impose measures against Russian companies working within its borders. The sanctions will affect the financial, energy and military sectors similar to those already imposed by the US and EU.

The Ukrainian State Fiscal Service has listed up to 1,000 entities with over 50 percent Russian capital, Kommersant cites a person in the Ukrainian government. However the sanctions will be imposed on only a part of the list, mostly those companies related to Russian state enterprises.

Experts suggest the measures have more of a political message and will barely affect the Russian companies in Ukraine.

"There is no reason to expect the scale effect of sanctions, but Ukrainian businessmen will be forced to search for new markets and to reconfigure business structures so they are not connected with Russia," Kommersant quotes Andrey Novak, the head of the Committee of Economists of Ukraine.
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Russian business leaders trust Putin and won't pressure him over sanctions


RT
Mon, 04 Aug 2014 21:02 UTC
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© RIA Novosti/Vladimir Fedorenko
Gennady Timchenko
The big Russian businesses hurt by Western sanctions against Russia won't even think about putting pressure on President Putin, because the interests of the state are at stake in the conflict, says a reputed presidential 'inner circle' figure.

"This is out of the question," Gennady Timchenko, who is one of the few Russian businessmen personally targeted by the US-championed sanctions, told ITAR-TASS.

"In any situation Putin is guided by the interests of Russia. Period. There can be no compromise about it,"he said. "[Captains of industry] wouldn't even thing about discussing it. Sanctions pose certain difficulties, but they are trivial next to the scale of the state's goals."

Timchenko is the owner of the private investment group Volga Group and former co-owner of oil trader Gunvor Group. He is estimated to worth between $12 billion and $16 billion.
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Despite worldwide protests, Obama refuses to condemn Israel's atrocities in Gaza


PressTV
Fri, 01 Aug 2014 20:44 UTC
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US President Barack Obama has refused to condemn Israel's ongoing atrocities in the Gaza Strip despite widespread global anti-Israeli protests.

Obama instead condemned the Palestinian groups for killing Israeli soldiers.

"I think it's important to note that we have, and I have, unequivocally condemned Hamas and the Palestinian factions responsible for killing two Israeli soldiers and abducting a third almost minutes after a ceasefire has been announced," Obama said in the briefing room of the White House in Washington on Friday.

The US president also urged Hamas to commit to the ceasefire.
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Dominoes

Recruits for Havana: U.S. used young Latinos to foment revolutionary moods in Cuba


RT
Mon, 04 Aug 2014 12:21 UTC
Latino recruit
© Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP
Rajiv Shah, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
The US secretly sent young Latinos to Cuba to trigger the political unrest, says a new leaked report. The 'traveling spies' working undercover within health and civic programs were put in danger as there was no safety net if they had been caught.
The ''travelers" project was launched in Cuba back in October 2009 by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), best known for overseeing billions of dollars in US humanitarian aid. It was secretly dispatching Venezuelan, Costa Rican and Peruvian young people to the island nation, said an AP investigation. The American authorities hoped that these people would help to provoke a revolution in the country.
Young Latinos often posed as tourists. They traveled across the country and recruited people whom they believed they could turn into political activists.

Another US attempt to spy on the neighboring country was from an HIV-prevention workshop, which is labeled by memos obtained by AP as "the perfect excuse" for the program's political goals.

AP also found some interesting documents revealing how the members of the program were communicating. They used encrypted memory sticks to hide their files and sent encrypted messages. The "travelers" used innocent content on their laptops so that they wouldn't be suspected by Cuban authorities. When they wrote "I have a headache," it meant they suspected they were being monitored by the Cuban government. "Your sister is ill" meant they wanted to cut their trip short.

"We worked it so that the government here didn't know we were traveling to Cuba and helping these groups," Yajaira Andrade, a former administrator with a Venezuelan organization, told AP, "because that was when [President Hugo] Chavez was in power, and if he had known about us - that some Venezuelans were working to stir rebellion - we would have been thrown in jail."

(Aug. 4) AP

Comment: Oligarchy owns the media and controls the government. Media and the government manipulate the populace. USAID...can we say tool for the CIA? Next target?

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The world sees the IDF's atrocities in Gaza for what they are - despite the media

Robert Fisk
The Independent
Thu, 31 Jul 2014 00:00 UTC
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Pictures like these tell no lies and many are now waking up to this fact.
The world is starting to turn against Israel

There was a time when our politicians and media had one principal fear when covering Middle East wars: that no one should ever call them anti-Semitic.

So corrosive, so vicious was this charge against any honest critic of Israel that merely to bleat the word "disproportionate" - as in any normal wartime exchange rate of Arab-to-Israeli deaths - was to provoke charges of Nazism by Israel's would-be supporters. Sympathy for Palestinians would earn the sobriquet "pro-Palestinian", which, of course, means "pro-terrorist".

Or so it was until the latest bloodbath in Gaza, which is being so graphically covered by journalists that our masters and our media are suffering a new experience: not fear of being called anti-Semitic, but fear of their own television viewers and readers - ordinary folk so outraged by the war crimes committed against the women and children of Gaza that they are demanding to know why, even now, television moguls and politicians are refusing to treat their own people like moral, decent, intelligent human beings.
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