Obama lied again, was less than candid or fully truthful, regarding Cuba yesterday. WHY cant our Government be truthful with the citizzens? Obama said ... we are taking steps to increase travel ... I look forward to engaging Congress ... Obama could TODAY immediately lift all travel restrictions to Cuba; planes could start flying today. Regarding needing COngressionl approval for an embassy; BULL SHIT! AN EMBASSY DOES NOT NEED TO BE BUILT; FOR WHICH CONSTRUCTION FUNDING WOULD NEED CONGRERSSIONAL ACTION. Instead the US could -- TODAY -- lease a facility to use as an Embassy. BTW, the USAID sub-contractor Alan Gross, released by Cuba yesterday was a US Government spy, as has been US Aid for many, many years. Obmas complete speech ia here [ whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/17/statement-president-cuba-policy-changes ] Some background on US Government actions regarding Cuba: Cubano Flight 455 (Cubana de Aviación Flight 455) Oct 6, 1976: the first and only mid-air bombing of a civilian airliner in the Western Hemisphere Flight 455 was a Cuban flight from Barbados to Jamaica that was brought down on October 6, 1976 by a bomb attack. All 73 people on board the Douglas DC-8 aircraft were killed. Two time bombs were used, variously described as dynamite or C-4. Colgate toothpaste was disguised plastic explosives that were set off with a pencil-type detonator on a timer Eleven minutes after takeoff from Barbados s Seawell Airport (now Grantley Adams International Airport) and at an altitude of 18,000 feet, two bombs exploded on board. One was located in the aircrafts rear lavatory, and another in the midsection of the passenger cabin. The former ultimately destroyed the aircrafts control cables, while the latter blasted a hole in the aircraft and started a fire. All 68 passengers and 5 crew aboard the plane died: the passengers comprised 57 Cubans, 11 Guyanese, and five North Koreans.[5] Among the dead were all 24 members of the 1975 national Cuban fencing team that had just won all the gold medals in the Central American and Caribbean Championships; many were teenagers. Cuba accused the US government of being an accomplice to the attack. CIA documents released in 2005 indicate that the agency had concrete advance intelligence, as early as June 1976, on plans by Cuban exile terrorist groups to bomb a Cubana airliner. State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research report to Henry Kissinger, posted online, noted that the CIA had a source in Venezuela who had overheard Luis Posada Carriles* [our volumes of still-secret records on Posadas career with the CIA] saying we are going to hit a Cuban airplane and Orlando has the details only days before the plane was blown up off the coast of Barbados. Please see the documentary film, Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up. (USA 2011 | 80 min. | Color) This is a film by Saul Landau. The film describes nearly half a century of relations between U.S. and Cuba, beginning in the years of Cuba’s Revolution in 1959 until today. A special screening was held in NYC on 3 Dec 2011, to launch the 40th anniversary year of the Center for Cuban Studies, in collaboration with The Center for Public Scholarship, at the New School for Social Research. This has the story of the Cuban 5, a group of spies sent by the Castro government to infiltrate right-wing terrorist organizations in Miami. When the spies turned over evidence of US-based terrorism to the FBI, they themselves were arrested, tried, and convicted in Florida courts while the confessed anti-Castro terrorists live freely in Florida. See a 16 minute trailer on FaceBook at https://facebook/video/video.php?v=148672096837 * the first President Bush (George H W Bush) issued him an administrative pardon in 1990. Sources: https://facebook/video/video.php?v=148672096837 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubana_de_Aviación_Flight_455 www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB202/ democracynow.org/2012/6/11/will_the_real_terrorist_please_stand realterrorist.wordpress
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 21:43:05 +0000
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