Posted on 05/19/2018 6:53:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
"We called the White House and they acted swiftly on the Friday event, which has since been postponed," said a staff member for Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who complained that the event would have openly undermined President Donald Trumps agenda on Cuba.
"The event in question has been postponed," a State Department official confirmed.
"This (event) was designed to embarrass the president and Pompeosomebody needs to be held to account," one source said. "The fact that State Department officials were advancing a program that is so slanted and completely at odds with the president's directive on Cuba, I am concerned what else they have done or what haven't they done." (As reported by Susan Crabtree of the Washington Free Beacon.)
The event was a seminar, an exchange of ideastitled Cuba under Díaz-Canel" put on by State department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research for government employees and featuring several Cuba experts.
DiazCanel, by the way, is the pathetic eunuch and puppet the billionaire Castro-Family-Crime-Syndicate and their millionaire drug-trafficking and military cronies are trying (desperately!) to sell to the world as Raul Castros reformist successor. We recently laughed-off those Castro-agent claims here.
Oh by the way: ten years ago upon Fidels retirement some of the very same Cuba experts scheduled for this (Deep) State Dept. event were peddling Fidels brother/successor Raul as a capitalist reformer. Remember that joke?
At a symposium on the issue at the time your humble servant went on the record scoffing at such claims and predicting nothing in Cuba would change for the better, while hinting that these experts were plain and simple propagandists for the Castro regime, intent on securing the regime an economic lifeline mostly at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer.
I was proven precisely correct, as documented here.
Under Raul-rule repression against the Cuban people indeed continued unabated and Cuba (formerly an immigrant-inundated nation with a higher standard of living than much of Europe) retained her prestigious position alongside North Korea and Zimbabwe in the index of economic freedom.
In brief, the foiled (Deep) State Dept. seminar was to be a taxpayer-funded propaganda-palooza for the terror-sponsoring Castro regime put on by that regimes (unregistered) U.S. lobbyists and agents of-influence.
But perhaps the terms unregistered lobbyist and agents-of-influence strikes some of my amigos as unnecessarily hyperbolic? Or perhaps even shamelessly McCarthyite? Or perhaps even untrue? Fair enough. Lets have a closer look:
Among the featured experts at the cancelled event was a former State Dept. employee named Phil Peters, who formerly also served as Vice President of a Think-Tank titled the Lexington Institute. Peters often facilitates and accompanies Senator Jeff Flakes on his frequent trips to the Castro-Family-Fiefdom. Unlike the thousands upon thousands of Cubans who annually risk their lives to escapeCuba, Mr Peters-- like Senator Flake-- slips in and out of totalitarian Cuba seemingly at will. This red carpet by the totalitarian Castro regime for Mr Peters-- like the one for Senator Flakehas been rolled out for many years. In fact Flake and Peters often stroll down this red carpet together.
A few years ago a court discovery document revealed astonishing items about the relationship between the Castro regime and Senator Flakes close and long-time accomplice on Cuba policy Mr Phil Peters. Turns out, that the huge Canadian mining company Sherritt International (one of the Castro regimes top business partners) was funneling under-the-table payments to Phil Peters.
You see, amigos:In 1960, Castro forces stormed into almost 6000 U.S. owned businesses (worth almost $8 billion today) in Cuba and stole them all at gunpoint. A few American business owners resisted and were tortured and murdered. The Inter-American Law Review classifies Castros mass-theft of U.S. property as the largest uncompensated taking of American property by a foreign government in history.
Youd never guess it from the Fake News Media and their pet Cuba experts but this mass-larceny of U.S. property (of which not a penny has been compensated) was the reason for imposing the Cuba embargo in the first place.
Like a snickering vulture, Canadas Sherritt International rubbed its hands and gleefully partnered with the Castro regime to occupy and run the stolen and formerly U.S.-owned Moa nickel plant, making them probably the worlds top trafficker in stolen U.S. property. Consequently their CEO was barred by U.S. law from entering the U.S.
Canadas Sherritt Int. works quietly in Washington, starts the discovery document from several years ago.Recently it has given money to a former State Department employee, Phil Peters, to advance its interests.The money to Peters goes through contributions to the Lexington Institute, where Peters is a vice president. Because the Lexington Institute is a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit, there is no public record of Sherritts funding. This has allowed Peters to advise and direct the Cuba Working Group (founded by Jeff Flake in 2002) in ways beneficial to Sherritt for instance when the House Cuba Working Groupmade its first visit to Cuba last year (2002) at Peters behest, it made a point of visiting Sherritts soybean-processing facility and staying in a hotel in which Sherritt has a 25% interest.
In brief: one of the Castro regimes top business partnersprobably the worlds top trafficker in stolen U.S. property, a company whose CEO was barred by U.S. law from entering the U.S.-- was funneling under-the-table payments to a person billed as an impartial Cuba expert by the (Deep) State department!
But in fact, serving the Castro familys interests is nothing new for our (Deep) State Dept. Lets take a little stroll down history lane:
You have been quoted, Ambassador Gardner (U.S. Amb. to Cuba 1953-57), as referring to, Castro worship in the State Department in 1957. Mr. Gardner, do you have any idea why the United States allowed Castro to get arms from the United States, and would not allow Batista to have arms to preserve his government . You have been quoted as saying that Washington, pulled the rug out from under Batista? (Sen. Thomas Dodd, Congressional hearings Aug. 27, 1960.)
The U.S. State Dept. is in our pocket, (The Castro MovementsJulio 26agent in New York Mario Llerena, 1958.)
Famous last words.
Indeed.
The liberal entrenched managers at State Department continue along the Clinton-Kerry path they were so comfortable with over the years.
Trump has to tell Pompeo to begin a scorched-earth campaign in the Deep-State Department.
Foggy Bottom has been fundamentally Anti-American for generations.They rarely even try to conceal their one world bias.
I’ve long been of the opinion that one of the most anti-American organizations in the world is the US Department of State.
Senator McCarthy was proven right after the fall of East Germany and the Soviet Union. The USDoS is a cesspool of international communists and globalists.
Mark
If someone wanted to destroy us, naturally they would go into these positions. what can be done other then to have someone on their backs 24/7, and someone on their backs 24/7
Like a snickering vulture, Canadas Sherritt International rubbed its hands and gleefully partnered with the Castro regime to occupy and run the stolen and formerly U.S.-owned Moa nickel plant, making them probably the worlds top trafficker in stolen U.S. property. Consequently their CEO was barred by U.S. law from entering the U.S. Canadas Sherritt Int. works quietly in Washington, starts the discovery document from several years ago.Recently it has given money to a former State Department employee, Phil Peters, to advance its interests.The money to Peters goes through contributions to the Lexington Institute, where Peters is a vice president. Because the Lexington Institute is a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit, there is no public record of Sherritts funding. This has allowed Peters to advise and direct the Cuba Working Group (founded by Jeff Flake in 2002) in ways beneficial to Sherritt
for instance when the House Cuba Working Groupmade its first visit to Cuba last year (2002) at Peters behest, it made a point of visiting Sherritts soybean-processing facility and staying in a hotel in which Sherritt has a 25% interest. In brief: one of the Castro regimes top business partnersprobably the worlds top trafficker in stolen U.S. property, a company whose CEO was barred by U.S. law from entering the U.S.-- was funneling under-the-table payments to a person billed as an impartial Cuba expert by the (Deep) State department!
Thanks; good catch.
Ping.
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