23-01-2009, 10:13 AM
(This post was last modified: 23-01-2009, 10:40 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
Magda Hassan Wrote:If he is going to close the prison in Cuba he should close the whole base as it has been an illegal facility since the US navy stopped using coke for their ship early last century. That is what the lease was for - a coke refueling station. Cuba has never accepted a cent of the rent since the revolution and want it gone and they have asked the US to go but they haven't. It has no legitimacy to be there under any law.
Dream on.....read the An Empire Of Bases chapter in Sorrows of Empire by Johnson. America collects them and increases the number of them the way others collect butterflies - America's 'collection' is for Empire - nothing less. I believe the number is now about 725 foreign ones in 39 countries - this might be the number before the current War.:help:
Back to Obama in the Black House:
Opinion polls in the United States have reported the overwhelmingly optimistic and positive feelings of the American people toward President Barack Obama. A new Financial Times/Harris Poll finds that he is even more popular in the five largest European countries than in the United States.
In the U.S., fully 68% of adults believe that the new president will have a “positive impact on the course of international events,” and only 16% believe he will have a negative impact. In Europe, the numbers who are optimistic are 92% in France, 90% in Italy, 85% in Spain, 82% in Germany, and 77% in Britain.
Further evidence of the extraordinary enthusiasm and optimism engendered by Obama’s election is that scarcely anyone in Europe expects him to have a negative impact on international events – 1% in France, 3% in Spain, 4% in Italy, 5% in Germany and 8% in Britain.
These are some of the findings of a Financial Times/Harris Poll conducted online by Harris Interactive among a total of 6,299 adults (1,000 or more in each country), aged 16-64, within France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States and adults (aged 18-64) in Italy between 8 and 15 January 2009.
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That 16% negative in America are to be worried about - and the Deep Political elements who know how to manipulate them. I heard one of them speaking on the BBC Worldservice this morning - saying that Obama's closing of secret CIA detention and torture centers was the 'biggest mistake an American President has ever made'...or some such. He was from one of the right-wing think tanks. The article by Russ Baker recently is very apt. Those behind Bush and the push [putsch] toward coporate fascism will continue their work unabated within, without and privatized, off-the-shelf. Now they will be less visable - but there in the same way as before, subrosa.:driver: