Castro the Multimillionaire & The Last Communist City (City Journal, excellent as always)

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 Fidel Castro’s son enjoying a millionaire vacation, while Cubans are starving

While Cubans in Cuba have an average salary of $20 a month and cannot buy enough food to feed their families, Antonio Castro, one of the sons of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, spent several weeks in June of 2015 cruising the Aegean Sea on his 160 foot yacht with a group of friends and several bodyguards.

The photos below were taken at a 5-star hotel in the city of Bodrum, Turkey, where Antonio Castro rented 5 suites for him and his friends, according to Turkish newspapers.

Castro arrived in Bodrum on his yacht, after spending a few days in the Greek island of Mykonos.

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Neill Blomkamp’s 2013 science-fiction film Elysium, starring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, takes place in Los Angeles, circa 2154. The wealthy have moved into an orbiting luxury satellite—the Elysium of the title—while the wretched majority of humans remain in squalor on Earth. The film works passably as an allegory for its director’s native South Africa, where racial apartheid was enforced for nearly 50 years, but it’s a rather cartoonish vision of the American future. Some critics panned the film for pushing a socialist message. Elysium’s dystopian world, however, is a near-perfect metaphor for an actually existing socialist nation just 90 miles from Florida.

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The Western War On Truth — Paul Craig Roberts

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The “war on terror” has simultaneously been a war on truth. For fifteen years—from 9/11 to Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction” and “al Qaeda connections,” “Iranian nukes,” “Assad’s use of chemical weapons,” endless lies about Gadaffi, “Russian invasion of Ukraine”—the governments of the so-called Western democracies have found it essential to align themselves firmly with lies in order to pursue their agendas. Now these Western governments are attempting to discredit the truthtellers who challenge their lies.

Russian news services are under attack from the EU and Western presstitutes as purveyors of “fake news.” http://www.globalresearch.ca/moscow-accused-of-propagating-fake-news-eu-resolution-on-russian-propaganda/5558835 Abiding by its Washington master’s orders, the EU actually passed a resolution against Russian media for not following Washington’s line. Russian President Putin said that the resolution is a “visible sign of degradation of Western society’s idea of democracy.”

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Priebus: Hillary Camp Reneged On Deal: Kellyanne Conway: Trump has not ruled out a criminal probe into Clinton's use of a private email server

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Wisconsin election officials are expected to meet Monday to discuss a possible timeline for a recount of the state's presidential election.

The recount comes at the request of Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who says it's important to determine whether hacking may have affected the results. Stein says she also plans to request recounts in Pennsylvania and Michigan.

President-elect Donald Trump narrowly won Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and has a small lead in Michigan.

There's no evidence voter results were hacked or electronic voting machines were compromised.

While Hillary Clinton's campaign formally joined Stein's Wisconsin recount effort, a lawyer for the Democratic campaign has said there is "no actionable evidence" of an altered outcome.

Wisconsin officials say it will be tough to finish the recount by the federally required deadline of Dec. 13.

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"A driver’s license works in every state, so its common sense that a concealed carry permit should work in every state.”

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“The right of self-defense doesn’t stop at the end of your driveway. That’s why I have a concealed carry permit and why tens of millions of Americans do too.”

In the closing days of the presidential campaign, Donald Trump issued a position paper on concealed carry weapons and other gun rights issues — and now the issue is blowing up.

Even those who were rabid anti-Trumpers during the election have found something to get excited about now. Like, really really excited.

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Trump Has Chairman of Top Nordic Bank Predicting Better Times

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The chairman of the biggest Nordic bank says Donald Trump’s election win is good news for the U.S. economy, thanks to the real estate mogul’s pledge to deliver tax cuts and deregulation.

“Based on the expectation that the American President and Congress are likely to act on taxes, and perhaps on regulation as well, I think there is a slightly more positive outlook for the American economy over the intermediate horizon,” Bjorn Wahlroos, the chairman of Nordea Bank AB, said in an interview in Stockholm on Thursday. But for the rest of the world, things will probably continue “as before,” he said.

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The U.S. is headed into its version of a communist revolution under the label “progressive”

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The hunt for money is intensifying with the aid of banks no less. India was the balloon. They simply canceled the current with no notice and imposed a 90% tax on anyone holding the high denomination notes. This is how the world governments operate. The first bail-in was done in Cyprus. We were even contacted by members of the government trying to push back against the EU. We provided the solution, but the government did what the EU wanted because this was a test. If they got away with it in Cyprus, then the “bail-in” would become a contagion. The politicians lied, as usual, and said that policy would NEVER be applied in Europe. It is now standard around the world. We warned, Cyprus, then Greece – who would be next.

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Fake News and How To Fight It: Lies of Omission

We are at war with the media, but more importantly, they are at war with us. By "we" I mean anyone who believes in the protections of the Constitution, who want to be left alone to live our lives without being constantly assaulted by our own government and the leftists; one group telling us how we are wrong one day and another group telling us how we are wrong the next day. But, all of it is driven by the media. It is the media that brings these issues to the national consciousness, who use the bully pulpit of television, radio and newspapers to beat us into submission. Worse, it is the media that withholds information from us about the government, about the destruction wrought by unfiltered immigration, about the usefulness of guns to reduce crime.

We are getting a warped message and have been for a long time, but it is different now. The media has been exposed as propagandists broadcasting the government line and making up its own news to convince "us" that we are warped and need straightening. It doesn't matter that most of us tuned out long ago. In fact, when the media started propagandizing (something I noticed in the early 80's) it fostered the alternative news that took root with the widespread use of the internet. They are responsible for the "fake news" they now have engaged in an all-out battle. It is "fake news," because it does not get its talking points from the government or special interest groups. Now, they want to censor these "fake news" websites.

The goals of the leftists are these: 1) bring the citizens under surveillance 2) disarm the population 3) propagandize the news 4) silence any opposition 5) execute the opposition. How far along are we? That's how bad we are losing the war. We cannot wait until step 5 to do something about it.

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Morton Klein, President of the Zionist Organization of America on Steve Bannon:

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"Would Trump’s extraordinary pro-Israel advisers, such as Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Pence, Mike Huckabee, Sheldon Adelson - and Orthodox Jews Jared Kushner (Trump's son-in-law), David Friedman, and Jason Greenblatt - ever allow an antisemite/Israel-hater to work with them?

Would Trump’s Orthodox Jewish daughter, Ivanka, whose children go to an Orthodox day school, ever allow an antisemite to work with her father?"

"Bannon is the opposite of an anti-Semite. Every article about Israel and the Palestinian Arabs he has published are all supportive of Israel. He’s had articles complaining about campus anti-Semitism at CUNY, and required his Breitbart reporters to call CUNY officials and Gov. Cuomo aides urging them to do something about it."

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The Dollar Invades and Conquers

Lee was not alone in seeing the masked reasons for the war prosecuted by the North and the opportunity seen in reducing the American South to a politically-weak economic colony. The bounty-enriched foreign mercenaries and displaced slaves used to fight its war of conquest were expendable tools for the task, and later employed to eradicate Indians.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com   The Great American Political Divide

The Dollar Invades and Conquers

“Certainly he must have sensed that in the future “those people,” as he called his Northern adversaries, were determined to push aside “his people” with their aristocratic prerogatives and privileges. Despite his determination to stay out of politics both during and after the war, Lee could see the handwriting on the wall as plain as anyone, and plainer than most.

He understood that in addition to the sharp odor of gunpowder, there was the sweet smell of profits in the balmy spring air. Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury, visiting New York earlier that spring, had noted that many people there paid more attention to the stock market than to the casualty reports. To this a New York editor added: “Real or professed patriotism may be made to cover a multitude of sins. Gallantry in battle may be regarded as a substitute for all the duties of the Decalogue.”

In the Northern States, the rapid transformation from a conglomeration of farmers to a nation of industrialists had been hastened by the war. The exclusion of Southern planters from the halls of government made the change considerably easier. Astronomical profits on wartime speculation and gouging encouraged rapid expansion. While the brave boys in [blue] shed blood on the battlefields, the crafty made profits back home.

If the drama of collapse and surrender centered in the South, the drama of growth and expansion focused on the West. Hundreds of millions of dollars would go there; the receding frontier would be whittled down by systematic attacks of the Yankee investor. The Federal government would help by showering the railroads and settlers with land and services. Mines, cattle and farming would boom. Where bayonet had never been, the dollar would invade and conquer.”

(Lee After the War, Marshall W. Fishwick, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1963, pp. 39-40)

Economist Steve Moore: If Election Results Are Overturned We Will Be looking at Civil War

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Kellyanne Conway on Mitt Romney: “We Don’t Even Know if He Voted for Donald Trump”

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Donald Trump will undo Cuba deal absent major changes, Reince Priebus says

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President-elect Donald Trump will undo the historic diplomatic reset with Havana put in place by the Obama administration unless the Cuban government addresses rampant human rights abuses, lack of freedom of speech and religion, and the taking of political prisoners, incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus said Sunday.

Mr. Priebus, formerly the head of the Republican National Committee-turned-top Trump adviser, said the president-elect is keeping an open mind on the heels of the death of longtime Cuban strongman Fidel Castro, but will demand major changes before continuing a diplomatic relationship.

“We’ve got to have a better deal. We’re not going to have a unilateral deal from Cuba coming back to the United States without some changes in their government,” Mr. Priebus said. “There is going to have to be some movement in order to have a relationship with the United States.”

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Jill Stein Cannot File Direct Request For Recount In Pa, Must Take it to Court

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Per Pennsylvania regulations, there is only one way remaining for Jill Stein to get a recount in Pennsylvania and it is a complicated process. BillyPenn reports that Stein would have to file for a court appeal and present a “prima facie case” showing that voter fraud took place. While prima facie has a lower burden of proof threshold than “beyond reasonable doubt,” it is still significant. Stein would have to prove in court that fraud was “probable.” This is going to be very difficult given that even the computer specialists recommending the recount say there is no proof of hacking or fraud.

 

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Stein’s Recount May Prevent WI, PA, MI Votes From Being Counted by Electoral College

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Jill Stein is asking for recounts in an effort to nullify the electoral votes of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

Federal law says that presidential recounts must be completed within 35 days after an election. Stein waited until 90 minutes before the Wisconsin deadline for filing a recount petition expired.

All the votes have to be certified by December 13 according to a report on Friday. The electors meet on December 19.

Wisconsin will almost certainly miss that deadline, since the last recount took more than a month. And that recount was for a state Supreme Court contest where only 1.5 million votes were cast.

If Wisconsin misses the December 19 deadline, the electoral votes may not be counted.

Stein is going to ask for a hand recount, which will slow the process even further.

If Wisconsin’s electoral votes are excluded on December 19, the state will then have to try and get Congress to include the votes in the January 6 count.

According to Inquisitr:

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Jill Stein's Money Coming From 'Bot' @ $160K Per Hour - Soros?

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Ms. Stein started fundraising online on November 24th with a goal of $2.5 million. According to Paul Joseph Watson of InfoWars.com "Overnight on the hour, her fund received $160,000 every hour. These were not random people donating at 3 am to her campaign but rather some 'bot' that increased her amount by this amount on the hour."

If you are wondering what a "bot" is, so did I. I'd not heard this term before so I looked it up and found that it's kind of an Internet robot that performs an automated task every hour or every how-often-you-set-it-up to do this particular task. Up until this point Stein has raised more than $4.5 million, more than enough to take care of the recounts in those critical states Hillary needs to shift the electoral vote.

Watson has noted that:  "Go to Jill Stein's fundraiser page and watch the progress. You will see that her funding is coming in at a perfectly consistent 160,000 an hour. I watched this yesterday and last night carefully.and noted that at night when everyone is sleeping and right through the time when the whole world slows down, the donations for this came in like clockwork with no deviation from the steady pace whatever. The only way that can happen is if a bot was set up to fake her getting donations from multiple people and whoever set it up did not consider the fact that practically everything would come from America and practically everyone is asleep at 3 am. Last night it should have slowed down. It did not. It just marched toward the finish line like an obedient soldier.

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