Young women from France are among the dozens of thousands of young
people from around the globe walking during thunderstorms to the site of
a Catholic Mass in the Blonia green in Krakow, Poland: photo by Czarek Sokolowski/AP, 26 July 2016
Young women from France are among the dozens of thousands of young
people from around the globe walking during thunderstorms to the site of
a Catholic Mass in the Blonia green in Krakow, Poland: photo by Czarek Sokolowski/AP, 26 July 2016
@wikileaks leaked Clinton emails reveal direct U.S. sabotage of Venezuela. [The many faces of Hillary Clinton: photo by EFE]: image via teleSUR English @telesurenglish, 26 July 2016
While Hillary Clinton publicly welcomed improved relations with Venezuela as secretary of state, she privately ridiculed the country and continued to support destabilization efforts, revealed her emails leaked by WikiLeaks.
In 2010, Clinton asked Arturo Valenzuela, then assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs, how “to rein in Chavez.” Valenzuela responded that, “We need to carefully consider the consequences of publicly confronting him but ought to look at opportunities for others in the region to help.”
His answer was in line with the U.S. embassy strategy in 2006, also revealed in WikiLeaks intelligence cables: “Creative U.S. outreach to Chavez' regional partners will drive a wedge between him and them,” said the confidential cable from the embassy. “By refusing to take each of Chavez's outbursts seriously, we frustrate him even more, paving the way for additional Bolivarian miscalculations. We also allow room for other international actors to respond.”
Spain was among the countries willing to help the U.S. in its subversive foreign relations strategy. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright passed on a message from the administration of conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in 2012 expressing intentions “to re-orient Spanish foreign policy so that it can work with the U.S. in Latin America, especially on Venezuela and Cuba ... As a transition in Cuba and something significant in Venezuela (and possibly the Andes) loom, a stronger working relationship between the U.S. and Spain could be very helpful.”
When keeping an eye on regional meetings, Clinton was especially concerned with Venezuela. Responding to a United Nations statement against the coup in Honduras in 2009 -- that she supported -- Clinton shifted the attention to Venezuela: “Ok -- but have they ever condemned Venezuela for denying press freedom?” she wrote to Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan.
He responded “I highly doubt it. And that is just the tip of the iceberg,” to which Clinton wrote, “Ah, the proverbial iceberg.”
Clinton was cautious not to respond to all of Hugo Chavez’s “antics,” but her staff insisted that Venezuelan politics were a threat to U.S. interests.
An email advising how to spend USAID funds strongly suggested refraining from backing leftist states like Venezuela, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Cuba because the money “could undermine real democratic development to hand over ‘ownership’ to populist centralizers.”
Clinton should use language like “‘local ownership’ in a nuanced way” to avoid having her words “used against her by demagogues and kleptocrats,” said the email. Any funds channeled into such unreliable states, it added, must be accompanied by “(h)uman behavioral changes.”
International aid to Venezuela was siphoned off, but broadcasts to counter local “propaganda” were amplified.
The Broadcasting Board of Governors -- which runs the Marti stations, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks -- requested more funding in a 2010 email forwarded to Clinton to “combat the public diplomacy efforts of America's ‘enemies,’ which he (chairman Walter Isaacson) identifies as Iran, Venezuela, Russia, and China.”
The BBG, with a US$700 million annual budget -- now increased to over US$750 million -- was “facing increased competition from other governments' forays into international broadcasting ... including Venezuela's teleSUR.”
A month later, when the board was facing cuts, Cuban-born Florida Senator Ileana Ros-Lehtinen suggested focusing resources on high-priority countries like Cuba, Venezuela and Ecuador.
“Let the fun begin -- and let's keep going w(ith) our plans,” responded Clinton.
Another leaked email from Stratfor described the BBG as “responsible for the radio and TV aggressions against Cuba,” which received its own category of state funding of nearly US$40 million. The board separated from State Department control in 1999, officially becoming an independent agency. “Congress agreed that credibility of U.S. international broadcasting was crucial to its effectiveness as a public diplomacy tool,” according to Congress’s 2008 budget on foreign operations.
While giving the cold shoulder to Venezuela, Clinton was cozy with Latin American players that opposed the country's leftist politics.
Her counselor and chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, forwarded her a recommendation for Mari Carmen Aponte to be appointed as U.S. ambassador to El Salvador. Aponte, noted the email, “has consistently fought Cuba and Venezuela's efforts to gain influence in Central America and as a result of her negotiating skills, the U.S. and El Salvador will open a new, jointly-funded, electronic monitoring center that will be an invaluable tool in fighting transnational crime.”
She won the appointment and later became assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs.
Clinton also drew fire for saying, "We're winning!" when the Venezuelan opposition won a majority of seats in parliament in 2015 and for serving as secretary of state while the National Security Administration regularly spied on Venezuela.
These people gave you all they had Bernie, and you sold them out #SelloutSanders #DemsinPhilly #DemConvention: image via prince hubris @ShawnMichaelR
LIVE: Hillary Clinton is first female presidential nominee of a major party in U.S. history: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 26 July 2016
Hillary Clinton is first female presidential nominee of a major party in U.S. history: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 26 July 2016
[Untitled]: image via @BernieOrJill @BitchyLaughter, 26 July 2016
mood after Day 2 of #DemConvention: image via Bugei Nyaosi @bnyaosi, 26 July 2016
NOW: @HillaryClinton addresses DNC: This is the biggest crack in the glass ceiling yet #DemsinPhilly: image via CBS News @CBSNews, 26 July 2016
Typical Dem Hypocrisy - Breaking "virtual glass ceilings" while erecting "real glass" walls. #DemsinPhilly: image via The Last Refuge @TheLastRefuge2, 26 July 2016
Hillary Clinton secures the Democratic Party's 2016 nomination: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 26 July 2016
Chicago White Sox left fielder Melky Cabrera shows the ball after catching a ball off Chicago Cubs’ Kris Bryant: photo by Charles Rex Arbogast / AP, 26 July 2016
A helicopter drops fire retardant in the mountains off Placerita Canyon Road in Santa Clarita, California: photo by Frederic J Brown / AFP, 26 July 2016
Smoke over Lithi village during a wildfire on Chios island, Greece: photo by Kostas Koyrgias / EPA, 26 July 2016
Indian schoolchildren hold masks bearing the image of former Indian president APJ Kalam during a remembrance event at a school in Chennai: photo by Arun Sankar / AFP, 26 July 2016
FLASH - #Israël détruit 11 maisons palestiniennes à #Qalandia: image via Le Figaro Verified account #LeFigaro, 26 July 2016
Twelve #homes demolished by occupation forces in #Qalandia, #Palestine: image via Al Bawawba News @AlBawabaEnglish, 26 July 2014
Raghad Shoani, 18 yrs-old, is the Palestinian shot today by IOF at the Qalandya checkpoint, N of Occupied Jerusalem: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 26 July 2016
POLAND - Pilgrims gather in Krakow to celebrate the Opening Mass on the World Youth Days. By Wojtek Radwanski #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 26 July 2016
War Queen by Acclamation
@wikileaks leaked Clinton emails reveal direct U.S. sabotage of Venezuela. [The many faces of Hillary Clinton: photo by EFE]: image via teleSUR English @telesurenglish, 26 July 2016
Clinton Emails Reveal Direct US Sabotage of Venezuela: TeleSUR English, 26 July 2016
As
secretary of state, Hillary Clinton led a team committed to
delegitimizing the politics of the late Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian
Revolution.
As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton led a team committed to delegitimizing the politics of the late Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution.
While Hillary Clinton publicly welcomed improved relations with Venezuela as secretary of state, she privately ridiculed the country and continued to support destabilization efforts, revealed her emails leaked by WikiLeaks.
In 2010, Clinton asked Arturo Valenzuela, then assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs, how “to rein in Chavez.” Valenzuela responded that, “We need to carefully consider the consequences of publicly confronting him but ought to look at opportunities for others in the region to help.”
His answer was in line with the U.S. embassy strategy in 2006, also revealed in WikiLeaks intelligence cables: “Creative U.S. outreach to Chavez' regional partners will drive a wedge between him and them,” said the confidential cable from the embassy. “By refusing to take each of Chavez's outbursts seriously, we frustrate him even more, paving the way for additional Bolivarian miscalculations. We also allow room for other international actors to respond.”
Spain was among the countries willing to help the U.S. in its subversive foreign relations strategy. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright passed on a message from the administration of conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in 2012 expressing intentions “to re-orient Spanish foreign policy so that it can work with the U.S. in Latin America, especially on Venezuela and Cuba ... As a transition in Cuba and something significant in Venezuela (and possibly the Andes) loom, a stronger working relationship between the U.S. and Spain could be very helpful.”
When keeping an eye on regional meetings, Clinton was especially concerned with Venezuela. Responding to a United Nations statement against the coup in Honduras in 2009 -- that she supported -- Clinton shifted the attention to Venezuela: “Ok -- but have they ever condemned Venezuela for denying press freedom?” she wrote to Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan.
He responded “I highly doubt it. And that is just the tip of the iceberg,” to which Clinton wrote, “Ah, the proverbial iceberg.”
Clinton was cautious not to respond to all of Hugo Chavez’s “antics,” but her staff insisted that Venezuelan politics were a threat to U.S. interests.
An email advising how to spend USAID funds strongly suggested refraining from backing leftist states like Venezuela, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Cuba because the money “could undermine real democratic development to hand over ‘ownership’ to populist centralizers.”
Clinton should use language like “‘local ownership’ in a nuanced way” to avoid having her words “used against her by demagogues and kleptocrats,” said the email. Any funds channeled into such unreliable states, it added, must be accompanied by “(h)uman behavioral changes.”
International aid to Venezuela was siphoned off, but broadcasts to counter local “propaganda” were amplified.
The Broadcasting Board of Governors -- which runs the Marti stations, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks -- requested more funding in a 2010 email forwarded to Clinton to “combat the public diplomacy efforts of America's ‘enemies,’ which he (chairman Walter Isaacson) identifies as Iran, Venezuela, Russia, and China.”
The BBG, with a US$700 million annual budget -- now increased to over US$750 million -- was “facing increased competition from other governments' forays into international broadcasting ... including Venezuela's teleSUR.”
A month later, when the board was facing cuts, Cuban-born Florida Senator Ileana Ros-Lehtinen suggested focusing resources on high-priority countries like Cuba, Venezuela and Ecuador.
“Let the fun begin -- and let's keep going w(ith) our plans,” responded Clinton.
Another leaked email from Stratfor described the BBG as “responsible for the radio and TV aggressions against Cuba,” which received its own category of state funding of nearly US$40 million. The board separated from State Department control in 1999, officially becoming an independent agency. “Congress agreed that credibility of U.S. international broadcasting was crucial to its effectiveness as a public diplomacy tool,” according to Congress’s 2008 budget on foreign operations.
While giving the cold shoulder to Venezuela, Clinton was cozy with Latin American players that opposed the country's leftist politics.
Her counselor and chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, forwarded her a recommendation for Mari Carmen Aponte to be appointed as U.S. ambassador to El Salvador. Aponte, noted the email, “has consistently fought Cuba and Venezuela's efforts to gain influence in Central America and as a result of her negotiating skills, the U.S. and El Salvador will open a new, jointly-funded, electronic monitoring center that will be an invaluable tool in fighting transnational crime.”
She won the appointment and later became assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs.
Clinton also drew fire for saying, "We're winning!" when the Venezuelan opposition won a majority of seats in parliament in 2015 and for serving as secretary of state while the National Security Administration regularly spied on Venezuela.
Bernie delegates have stormed media row, it's locked down
by police #DemsinPhilly @wikileaks: image via Cassandra Fairbanks
@CassandraRules, 26 July 2016
These people gave you all they had Bernie, and you sold them out #SelloutSanders #DemsinPhilly #DemConvention: image via prince hubris @ShawnMichaelR
LIVE: Hillary Clinton is first female presidential nominee of a major party in U.S. history: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 26 July 2016
Hillary Clinton is first female presidential nominee of a major party in U.S. history: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 26 July 2016
[Untitled]: image via @BernieOrJill @BitchyLaughter, 26 July 2016
mood after Day 2 of #DemConvention: image via Bugei Nyaosi @bnyaosi, 26 July 2016
Trump edges ahead of Clinton for first time since early
May: Reuters/Ipsos poll: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 26 July
2016
NOW: @HillaryClinton addresses DNC: This is the biggest crack in the glass ceiling yet #DemsinPhilly: image via CBS News @CBSNews, 26 July 2016
Typical Dem Hypocrisy - Breaking "virtual glass ceilings" while erecting "real glass" walls. #DemsinPhilly: image via The Last Refuge @TheLastRefuge2, 26 July 2016
Hillary Clinton secures the Democratic Party's 2016 nomination: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 26 July 2016
Chicago White Sox left fielder Melky Cabrera shows the ball after catching a ball off Chicago Cubs’ Kris Bryant: photo by Charles Rex Arbogast / AP, 26 July 2016
A helicopter drops fire retardant in the mountains off Placerita Canyon Road in Santa Clarita, California: photo by Frederic J Brown / AFP, 26 July 2016
Smoke over Lithi village during a wildfire on Chios island, Greece: photo by Kostas Koyrgias / EPA, 26 July 2016
Indian schoolchildren hold masks bearing the image of former Indian president APJ Kalam during a remembrance event at a school in Chennai: photo by Arun Sankar / AFP, 26 July 2016
Look Mom, No Future
FLASH - #Israël détruit 11 maisons palestiniennes à #Qalandia: image via Le Figaro Verified account #LeFigaro, 26 July 2016
Raghad Shoani, 18 yrs-old, is the Palestinian shot today by IOF at the Qalandya checkpoint, N of Occupied Jerusalem: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 26 July 2016
Happy Birthday George Grosz. His Eclipse of the Sun (1926) could well be a US politics painting.: image via : image via Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad, 26 July 2016
I'm with the kid: image via Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad, 26 July 2016
remember this as we move forward. #FeelTheBern
#DemsinPhilly #DemConvention #DNCinPHL #DNC2016 #DNCleak: image via
Tommie Sunshine @tommiesunshine, 26 July 2016
Candle lit vigil for the death of democracy outside #DemConvention #demwalkout: image via West Coast for Bernie @jjubbu, 26 July 2016
what CNN won't show you: half the convention is gone. 1900 delegates walked out.
#DemsinPhilly #DemConvention: image via Andrew Saturn @andsat, 26 July 2016 Seattle, WA
As Sanders delegates' walkout continues, hundreds of empty seats across the hall. Mostly from AK, OK, ID, MS, UT, VT: image via Ed O'Keefe @edatpost, 26 July 2016
@DrJillStein talks 2 protesters near #DNCinPHL security fence: "long time ago they decided the game was rigged.": image via Aamer Madhani @AamerISmad, 26 July 2016 Philadelphia, PA
Quick refueling break after meeting some amazing delegates #DemsInPhilly: image via Lena Dunham @LenaDunham, 26 July 2016
Quick refueling break after meeting some amazing delegates #DemsInPhilly: image via Lena Dunham @LenaDunham, 26 July 2016
flame retardant
SPAIN - A helicopter drops water on a wildfire burning in Artana. By Jose Jordan #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 July 2016
SYRIA - An operation by Syrian government forces to retake control of Leramun near Aleppo. By George Ourfalian: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 26 July 2016
#Spain A plane fights a #wildfire burning in Artana, near Castellon by Jose Jordan: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 26 July 2016
A Palestinian girl photographs the rubble of a house demolished in the village of Qalandia by Ahmad Gharabli: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 26 July 2016
An aerial view shows people strolling through a crop circle on a field near Mammendorf, southern Germany: photo by Outsven Hoppe/AFP, 26 July 2016
An aerial view shows people strolling through a crop circle on a field near Mammendorf, southern Germany: photo by Outsven Hoppe/AFP, 26 July 2016
A policeman secures a position in front of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray’s city hall after two assailants had taken five people hostage in the church at Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen in Normandy. Two attackers killed a priest with a blade and seriously wounded another hostage in a church in northern France on Tuesday before being shot dead by French police.: photo by Pascal Rossignol/Reuters, 26 July 2016
A policeman secures a position in front of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray’s city hall after two assailants had taken five people hostage in the church at Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen in Normandy. Two attackers killed a priest with a blade and seriously wounded another hostage in a church in northern France on Tuesday before being shot dead by French police.: photo by Pascal Rossignol/Reuters, 26 July 2016
People wearing traditional costumes take part in the “Grand Pardon” Catholic religious procession on in Sainte-Anne-d’Auray, western France: photo by Jean-Sebastian Evrard/AFP, 26 July 2016
People wearing traditional costumes take part in the “Grand Pardon” Catholic religious procession on in Sainte-Anne-d’Auray, western France: photo by Jean-Sebastian Evrard/AFP, 26 July 2016
Indian schoolchildren hold masks bearing the image of former Indian president A.P.J Kalam ahead of the first anniversary of his death during a remembrance event at a school in Chennai: photo by Arun Sanka/AFP, 26 July 2016
Indian schoolchildren hold masks bearing the image of former Indian president A.P.J Kalam ahead of the first anniversary of his death during a remembrance event at a school in Chennai: photo by Arun Sanka/AFP, 26 July 2016
Masked demonstrators shout slogans next to a burning tyre during a protest in Srinagar against the recent killings in Kashmir: photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters, 26 July 2016
Masked demonstrators shout slogans next to a burning tyre during a protest in Srinagar against the recent killings in Kashmir: photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters, 26 July 2016
Solar Impulse 2, the solar powered plane, piloted by Swiss pioneer Bertrand Piccard, is seen before landing in Abu Dhabi to finish the first around the world flight without the use of fuel, United Arab Emirates: photo by Reuters 26 July 2016
Solar Impulse 2, the solar powered plane, piloted by Swiss pioneer Bertrand Piccard, is seen before landing in Abu Dhabi to finish the first around the world flight without the use of fuel, United Arab Emirates: photo by Reuters 26 July 2016
A Somali soldier stand near the wreckage of a car bomb outside the UN’s office in Mogadishu, Somalia: photo by AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, 26 July 2016
A Somali soldier stand near the wreckage of a car bomb outside the UN’s office in Mogadishu, Somalia: photo by AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, 26 July 2016
A police officer stands guard near a facility for the disabled, where a deadly attack by a knife-wielding man took place, in Sagamihara, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan: photo by Issei Kato/Reuters, 26 July 2016
A police officer stands guard near a facility for the disabled, where a deadly attack by a knife-wielding man took place, in Sagamihara, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan: photo by Issei Kato/Reuters, 26 July 2016
Dense smoke over Lithi village during a wildfire on Chios island,
Greece. The huge wildfire that broke out on Sunday on the island of
Chios has burned 3,500 hectares of forest and farm land.: photo by Kostas Koyrgias/EPA, 26 July 2016
Dense smoke over Lithi village during a wildfire on Chios island,
Greece. The huge wildfire that broke out on Sunday on the island of
Chios has burned 3,500 hectares of forest and farm land.: photo by Kostas Koyrgias/EPA, 26 July 2016
bleeding out
IOF placing the body of Mohamed Faqih in a Front End Loader after they killed him, then they snatched his body: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 27 July 2016
Collective Punishment on the family home of Mohammed Alehih, 21, that unjust and racist israel demolished last night: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 27 July 2016
Collective Punishment on the family home of Mohammed Alehih, 21, that unjust and racist israel demolished last night: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 27 July 2016
Collective Punishment on the family home of Mohammed Alehih, 21, that unjust and racist israel demolished last night: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 27 July 2016
Collective Punishment on the family home of Mohammed Alehih, 21, that unjust and racist israel demolished last night: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 27 July 2016
Images from the house where Palestinian Mohammed Faqih, was killed by IOF in the town of Surif last night.: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 27 July 2016
Images from the house where Palestinian Mohammed Faqih, was killed by IOF in the town of Surif last night.: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 27 July 2016
More images of last nights bombing and killing of Mohammed Faqih in the town of Surif, in Occupied Hebron, by IOF: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 27 July 2016
More images of last nights bombing and killing of Mohammed Faqih in the town of Surif, in Occupied Hebron, by IOF: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 27 July 2016
More images of last nights bombing and killing of Mohammed Faqih in the town of Surif, in Occupied Hebron, by IOF: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 27 July 2016
Family home of Mohammed Alehih, 21 (they shot in the head 10/2015) that israel demolished in the besieged Surif town: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 26 July 2016
Family home of Mohammed Alehih, 21 (they shot in the head 10/2015) that israel demolished in the besieged Surif town: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 26 July 2016
israel demolishes 4 Palestinian structures in Jerusalem to replace Palestinians w/ Squatters: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 26 July 2016
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians' to replace Palestinians with Illegal Squatters who have ZERO connection 2 the land: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 26 July 2016
Message after israel demolished home..
"We'll stay here, they'll leave this land—demolish, my children will rebuild": image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 26 July 2016
ETHNIC CLEANSING of Palestinians to replace w/ Squatters..demolition of houses in Occupied Jerusalem last night: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 26 July 2016
ETHNIC CLEANSING of Palestinians to replace w/ Squatters..demolition of houses in Occupied Jerusalem last night: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 26 July 2016
ETHNIC CLEANSING of Palestinians to replace w/ Squatters..demolition of houses in Occupied Jerusalem last night: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 26 July 2016
Earlier today, IOF kidnapping a Palestinian youth near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Occupied Hebron: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 26 July 2016
IOF Gangsters near the Ibrahimi Mosque in Occupied Hebron right now: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 26 July 2016
Confrontations between Palestinians who are Fed Up, and the IOF in the town of Beit Ummar, North of Hebron: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 26 July 2016
IOF has surrounded and is shooting artillery at home where #Palestinians are inside in the town of Surif in Occupied Hebron: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 26 July 2016
Electricity in the town of Surif still shut off by IOF, home is still surrounded, armed Palestinians, resisting back: image via Abbs Winston @AbbsWinston, 26 July 2016
Israeli forces shoot Palestinian lady at Qalandia Checkpoint: image via Days of Palestine @DaysofPalestine, 26 July 2016
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