When the KGB Fights the CIA

After 47 years, the Organization of American States has lifted its ban on Cuba's admission from the group, with most member states restoring ties with the island nation. The United States, which still maintains a trade embargo against Cuba, was the notable exception, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham-Clinton advocated for democratic and human rights reforms in Cuba as pre-requisites to the island's readmission. But the opinions of other hemispheric leaders, some of which were previewed at the recent 5th Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago, won out. Cuba is free to be part of the OAS - despite its leadership's statements suggesting that it has no interest in returning.

When the KGB fights the CIA, the police always win in the end.
Joaquin Sabina
This is not the first time I’ve heard that MSN Messenger is blocked for Cuban users. Almost three years ago a friend furtively sneaked me into a state office where she worked so I could connect to the Internet. I wanted to write an article and I was missing some data, so I asked for a few minutes in front of an obsolete computer at her company. Those were the days when I pretended to be a tourist to connect to the network at hotels, and that week I didn’t have the convertible pesos to pay for an hour of access.
My friend read me the list of what was prohibited on that institutional connection and added that MSN wasn’t working because it had been blocked for months. “You can’t use any email or chat services that aren’t local,” and “don’t even think about going to El Nuevo Herald,” she said, eyes open wide. When I asked about the limitations on chatting with Microsoft software she explained that I should not use any interface that the network administrators couldn’t control. Hotmail was banned because it was almost impenetrable to the recording software that kept a record of all the employees’ correspondence. A little bit later Yahoo and GMail would also be banned at work and educational connections for the same reason.
Now the prohibition comes from the other side, precisely on the part of those who built a program that helps us escape government control. “Windows Live Messenger IM has been disabled for users in countries embargoed by the United States,” reads the note that Microsoft published announcing the cut off. I feel with that once again we citizens lose out, because our government has its own channels for communicating with the rest of the world. This, clearly, is a blow to internet users, we outlaws of the web, which includes nearly everyone who accesses the Internet from Cuba. Surely at the company where my friend works the censor who monitors the connections must be delighted: Microsoft has just done his work for him.

Redemption and Regret

Typical is the CIA Agent who took part in the slaughter of 7.4 millions innocents over 40 years of excess. He managed this with the belief of sure Redemption at the end of the trail.
Every perpetrator regrets his evil deeds after he has been caught. The only Christians I ever heard of who were truly penitent were Bobby Seales and Chuck Colson.
I am sure God sees through the others. I could discuss the Jewish evil-doers as well, but that would be off the subject.

It Takes a Thief to Catch One

As many in the CIA, John Brennan has blood on his hands. It takes a thief to catch a thief. Brennan knows the organization inside-out. His work with Obama indicates he has had a change of heart.
Tim Geithner has ruined millions of widows and orphans. Importantly, he knows how the Federal Reserve did it. How many liberals with untainted credentials could make a dent in the Fed?

Torture Approved by American Psychological Assn

Torture Supported by American Psychological Association

This must stop, wrote psychoanalyst Stephen Soldz in a Sunday Boston Globe Op-Ed, Ending the psychological mind games on detainees:

Psychologists have been identified as key figures in the design and conduct of abuses against detainees in US custody at Guantanamo, the CIA's secret "black sites," and in Iraq and Afghanistan. Psychologists should not be taking part in such practices.

Yet a steady stream of revelations from government documents, journalistic reports, and congressional hearings has revealed that psychologists designed the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" techniques – which included locking prisoners in tiny cages in the fetal position, throwing them against the wall head first, prolonged nakedness, sexual humiliation, and waterboarding.

Jane Mayer ... reports that the central idea was the psychological concept of "learned helplessness." Individuals are denied all control over their world, lose their will and become totally dependent upon their captors.

War Crimes Trials Anyone?

War Crimes Trials Coming
Jason Linkins, Huffington Post

Media coverage of the disclosure of the "torture memo" authored by Bush Justice Department official John C. Yoo has been mostly a deafening silence. But on this morning's Chris Matthews' show, someone finally fired a shot. As we mentioned in this morning's liveblog, credit goes to The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan, for taking the opportunity to ensure that this matter got out into the televised discourse somehow.
SULLIVAN: The latest revelations on the torture front show the memo from John Yoo...means that Don Rumsfeld, David Addington and John Yoo should not leave the United States any time soon. They will be, at some point, indicted for war crimes.

Well, hooray and hallelujah, Yoo, Addington and Rumsfeld may face trial for proposing torture. The victims number in the tens of thousands. Wasn't there anyone else at the Justice Department who railroaded tens of thousands victims to the torture chambers?
Who legislated America's abrupt fall from human decency? Let's see. Hillary and McCain in the Senate had help. Pelosi and her Congressional pals funded the tragedy.
The Administration must answer for its pushing of the project.
At least 76,000 CIA employees had something to do with inflicting pain. What use are they anyhow? I can find 76,000 bums who do nothing at a greatly reduced salary.
Okay, we'll give Sullivan a Freedom Medal. Otherwise, his colleagues in the MSM can take mail order journalism courses in prison.
To make room for them in the hoosegow, we can send home the potheads.

We Should Attend Issues Not Personalities

Does Bill O'Reilly pay any attention to you? To me? To anybody?
We give him publicity, so why should the public attend to us?
Does the State Department market our nuclear secrets to the Middle East?
Does the CIA supply heroin to Europe?
What does the Federal Reserve do for us?
What is the IRS reason for being?
Why do the five major news networks continue to operate?
We focus on the personalities involved rarely the issues.

The Government's Fault Not Ours

My dad dug ditches during the Great Depression and my mom worked as an industrial nurse until age seventy. My family fought Fascists and Communists all over the world. We didn't fail the government, but it failed us.
They dummied us up with three generations of lying public schools. The CIA murdered six millions over 40 years. How many citizens have the math to count the dead? How many Americans can read well enough to absorb what is happening at the Winter Soldier confab?
I say read, because the boob tube never teaches anything.
Ron Paul says it's all about liberty. Who among the brain washed can comprehend such a complicated subject? I have battled my brain washing for 54 years and I still suffer from it.

False Flags Remember the Maine

It began with a boiler explosion the battleship Maine sinking in Havana harbor. The Hearst newspapers trumpeted war with Spain.

The Germans warned the US cruise ships to stay out of contested waters. The u-boat sank the steamship Lusitania and the USA moved a step closer to entry in World War One.

Pearl Harbor was a set-up and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a deadly farce.

The US had plenty of time to learn and to practice false flags techniques during the Cold War. The 9/11 tragedy was a masterpiece of deception. The conspirators focused the blame on far off cave dwellers historically unable to install a decent phone system.

Two vital elements in this were information control and the demise of rule by law. The three branches of government co-operated in this dramatic shift to totalitarian rule. Accomplished in what was formerly a democratic republic, it gained all the self-righteous trappings of the former regimes.

The citizens continue to believe they have a say in the actions of the administration. They insist the voting process will correct the current imbalance of power. They are delusional.

The real play goes back to 1996. To ensure steady profits for the military/industrial complex, the leadership needed perpetual war with a viable enemy. The so-called war on terror need never end. When the terrorist effort tails off, the CIA can supply any number of incidents.

Nuclear weapons grant viability to the potential enemy. The US officials have been selling nuclear secrets to potential enemies for over a decade. This action is a two-edged sword. Although the recipient may gain a nuclear expertise, he becomes a credible threat subject to false flag operations.

Let us assume for a moment that Baltimore and Denver have been vaporized. The President claims Pakistan as the perpetrator and destroys that country immediately.

Who will question him and how long will it take to dispute the action taken?

Between Nowhere and Good-bye

Between Nowhere and Good-bye

In the beginning I thought people more wounded than I would join me in fighting back. It didn’t work out that way. Existing is similar to torture. If somebody absorbs enough punishment, he will say whatever the sadists want him to say.

John McCain spent too many years in a North Vietnamese prison camp. He survived because he maintained his self-respect. McCain never sank to their level.

In politics he stayed on course deviating from the party line when his conscience called. Experience taught him candor brought crowd support, but rarely the top spot on the ticket.

McCain warmed to the Patriot and Military Commissions Acts, but he lost his soul when he backed the extended torture menu sought by the CIA.

John McCain has surrendered to his captors.