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Ben Shapiro might have had his fair share of cucking [and he's still massively cucking against Trump on his new employer's site], but his two articles covering Obama's visit to Cuba are very good. I heartily recommend them:
Quote:The Castros understand that Obama just signed them the greatest blank check they’ve ever received. And they’re milking it.
Here are five reasons Obama’s trip to Cuba is one of the worst acts of his presidency.
- Imprisonment Of Dissidents.
- Re-Enshrinement Of The Castros.
- Humiliation Of America.
- Pretend Changes.
- Romanticization Of Poverty.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/4251/5-rea...en-shapiro
Quote:Sitting beside stand-in strongman Raul Castro, Obama listened patiently as Castro explained that women and men receive the same pay for the same work in Cuba (namely: nearly nothing), denied the presence of political prisoners in Cuba (there are thousands in jail), and lectured the United States for its shortcomings on race. “We defend human rights,” Castro blustered on the same day that his jackboots locked up his political adversaries. “In our view, civil, political, economic, and social rights are indivisible, interdependent and universal. Actually, we find it inconceivable that a government does not defend and ensure the right to health care, any patient, social security, food provision and development, equal pay and the rights of children.” Castro went on to demand the turnover of Guantanamo Bay and the end of the American trade embargo with the island nation.
Then, when it came time for Obama to respond, he promptly rolled over so that Castro could rub his tummy:
http://www.dailywire.com/news/4262/castr...en-shapiro
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(03-26-2016 02:08 PM)RaccoonFace Wrote: I wish this was satire but it probably isn't.
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http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2016...ervention/
Quote:Newly disclosed emails show that Libya’s plan to create a gold-backed currency to compete with the euro and dollar was a motive for NATO’s intervention.
Quote:But historians of the 2011 NATO war in Libya will be sure to notice a few of the truly explosive confirmations contained in the new emails: admissions of rebel war crimes, special ops trainers inside Libya from nearly the start of protests, Al Qaeda embedded in the U.S. backed opposition, Western nations jockeying for access to Libyan oil, the nefarious origins of the absurd Viagra mass rape claim, and concern over Gaddafi’s gold and silver reserves threatening European currency.
Quote:The same intelligence email from Sydney Blumenthal also confirms what has become a well-known theme of Western supported insurgencies in the Middle East: the contradiction of special forces training militias that are simultaneously suspected of links to Al Qaeda.
Blumenthal relates that “an extremely sensitive source” confirmed that British, French, and Egyptian special operations units were training Libyan militants along the Egyptian-Libyan border, as well as in Benghazi suburbs.
While analysts have long speculated as to the “when and where” of Western ground troop presence in the Libyan War, this email serves as definitive proof that special forces were on the ground only within a month of the earliest protests which broke out in the middle to end of February 2011 in Benghazi.
By March 27 of what was commonly assumed a simple “popular uprising” external special operatives were already “overseeing the transfer of weapons and supplies to the rebels” including “a seemingly endless supply of AK47 assault rifles and ammunition.”
Yet only a few paragraphs after this admission, caution is voiced about the very militias these Western special forces were training because of concern that, “radical/terrorist groups such as the Libyan Fighting Groups and Al Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) are infiltrating the NLC and its military command.”
Quote:The email identifies French President Nicholas Sarkozy as leading the attack on Libya with five specific purposes in mind: to obtain Libyan oil, ensure French influence in the region, increase Sarkozy’s reputation domestically, assert French military power, and to prevent Gaddafi’s influence in what is considered “Francophone Africa.”
Most astounding is the lengthy section delineating the huge threat that Gaddafi’s gold and silver reserves, estimated at “143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver,” posed to the French franc (CFA) circulating as a prime African currency. In place of the noble sounding “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) doctrine fed to the public, there is this “confidential” explanation of what was really driving the war [emphasis mine]:
This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French franc (CFA).
Quote:Early in the Libyan conflict Secretary of State Clinton formally accused Gaddafi and his army of using mass rape as a tool of war. Though numerous international organizations, like Amnesty International, quickly debunked these claims, the charges were uncritically echoed by Western politicians and major media.
It seemed no matter how bizarre the conspiracy theory, as long as it painted Gaddafi and his supporters as monsters, and so long as it served the cause of prolonged military action in Libya, it was deemed credible by network news.
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On the topic of Trump and politics and war but kind of off topic:
I was in class today and the instructor mentioned a video that I had used for my presentation on the country earlier this term. Its a 4th year course but I got in even though I am in my first year. A space needed to be filled. So lucky me. The class she was talking about was one of the first year courses she is the instructor for.
If you haven't seen the video I recommend it if you are interested in the Czech Republic. It is a speech by the Czech President. My instructor said that she showed the video to her students in her class. According to her there were people that after awhile stopped watching, a couple that could see why the Czech President was saying such things, and apparently several that thought the speech was like one by Trump and as such it was too right wing and thus 'wrong'.
I got a good mark on the presentation I mentioned. A-. I wanted to show something on topic, interesting, and to do with my case study. It did have an effect and I am hoping some got visibly annoyed or pissed off by the content.
I hope some of you will like the speech the Czech President made.
You mention Trump on campus and any anti migrant leader or show their speeches and you get knee-jerk reactions in the current university system where I am at. Being Right wing and against mass migration= bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FBTpR_uSE0
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I was reading the biography of Neil Bush (Lyin' Ted's finance team member) and was surprised to find this positive bit about him:
Quote:Anti-Ritalin campaign
In 2002, Neil Bush told the New York Post that he "endured his own Ritalin hell seven years ago when educators in a Houston private school diagnosed his son, Pierce, (then) 16, with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and pushed medication."
In a September 26, 2002, episode of CNN Interview,[23] Bush told Connie Chung:
“You know, we have a knee-jerk reaction in this education system where, if the kid doesn't perform well, then the reaction is to try to assign a label. The label is followed by a drug. The drug allows the kid to sit cooperatively, to pay attention, to focus in school.”
Bush spent years researching the issue and found that "the educators were wrong" about his son. "There is a systemic problem in this country, where schools are often forcing parents to turn to Ritalin," he said. "It's obvious to me that we have a crisis."
Also that year, Bush testified before a hearing of the United States Congress to speak out against over-medicating children for learning disorders.
He has suggested that many parents believe the ADD and ADHD diagnoses and subsequent medicating of their children because it explains why they aren't doing well in school, saying "it's the system that is failing to engage children in the classroom. My heart goes out to any parents who are being led to believe their kids have a disorder or are disabled."[24]
Neil Bush (along with filmmaker Michael Moore) is credited in the cast of a 2005 documentary called The Drugging of Our Children[25] directed by Gary Null. In the film's trailer[26] Bush says: "Just because it is easy to drug a kid and get them to be compliant doesn't make it right to do it".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Bush#...n_campaign
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