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Obama says the U.S. will now begin to normalize its relations with Cuba and begin a new chapter. He says the U.S. intends to create more opportunities for Americans and Cubans to work together.
This is a breaking news update. Our earlier story follows.

WASHINGTON -- The United States and Cuba have agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations and open economic and travel ties, marking a historic shift in U.S. policy toward the communist island after a half-century of enmity dating back to the Cold War, American officials said Wednesday.
The announcement came amid a series of sudden confidence-building measures between the longtime foes, including the release of American prisoner Alan Gross, as well as a swap for a U.S. intelligence asset held in Cuba and the freeing of three Cubans jailed in the U.S.
President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro were to separately address their nations around noon Wednesday. The two leaders spoke by phone for more than 45 minutes Tuesday, the first substantive presidential-level discussion between the U.S. and Cuba since 1961.Wednesday's announcements followed more than a year of secret talks between U.S. and Cuban officials in Canada and the Vatican. U.S. officials said Pope Francis was personally engaged in the process and sent separate letters to Obama and Castro this summer urging them to restart relations.
Officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly ahead of Obama's remarks.
Gross, 65, was on an American plane bound for the U.S. Wednesday after being released on humanitarian grounds after more than five years in prison. He was accompanied by his wife, Judy, along with three U.S. lawmakers.



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U.S., Cuba to restore diplomatic relations after 50 years

(Reuters) - The United States is planning to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba more than 50 years after they were severed, a major policy shift after decades of hostile ties with the communist-ruled island.

President Barack Obama was set to announce the changes in an announcement at 12 noon on Wednesday. Previewing his announcement, U.S. officials said the United States and Cuba would move to open embassies in each other's capitals.

Obama spoke on Tuesday to Cuban President Raul Castro to discuss the changes in a call that lasted nearly an hour. Castro was due to speak in Cuba at the same time as Obama.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/17/us-cuba-usa-gross-idUSKBN0JV1H520141217

What's the problem here?..Castro, Che Guevara, Stalin...they aint so bad...just misunderstood....excuse me while I go waterboard some people..

Steve, I seriously hope you are joking, which I think you are...!
Everyone of the names you mentioned are Anti Christ's and the ONE you spoke in today's news POTUS IS "THE ANTI-CHRIST" the head of all these others.

I don't know how old you are, but the most terrifying time in my life was the Cuba Missal Crisis, I was very young then in my early teens. All anyone heard on the news, that Nuclear War, could start any second now, and the tension was felt through each household, especially ours. I still remember thinking if there was a future for me, my brothers and my parents. I remember the silence in my parent's home in those days, it was if some close loved one had died; no one spoke a word, and if they had too, it was brief; it was like death and dying was on every person's mind.

When I heard this news on the TV., this afternoon, I quickly tried to get it on the forum. My first thought was, POTUS IS A COMMUNIST in disguise, as well as a MUSLIUM. Can you imagine Russia which has close ties and relations with Cuba, setting up their Missiles pointed toward the U.S.A. & Canada; the continent of North America. That's a scary thought, it would be like reliving history so long ago. God help us!

What a way for POTUS TO DESTROY THE REST OF THE USA LITERALLY, the ecomony, first, and then courting in secret the neighboring renewed enemy, turned friend, all set up for the big bang, and I don' mean evolution. What a way to set up and then by destroying, by enemy's fire, USA, what a demonic plot from the depths of Hell. The Trojan horse,BHO, will soon complete his mission, as far as this part of the world is concerned...millions will die...!

I pray all of us will be Raptured before, it all happens.

God help us one and all...!

Maranatha!

Valerie

What Barack Obama learned from the Communist Party

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http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2008/07/what_barack_obama_learned_from.htm


Glenn Beck – Communist Influence On President - Maternal Grandparents were Communists.

http://savingtherepublic.com/blog/tag/obama-grandparents-were-communists/


Barack Obama’s Mother was a COMMUNIST!!!

https://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/barack-obamas-mother-was-a-communist/


Obama’s Communist Mentor

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/48895

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The New Year worry for a watching world is if Obama can open up channels for drastic policy changes in Cuba without the knowledge of the American population and Congress, when will he do the same for Iran?

America under dictatorship

Just as Fidel Castro became Cuba’s dictator when he and his guerrillas triumphantly entered Havana on January 7, 1959, President Barack Obama became America’s dictator on Dec. 17, 2014.



Swaggering into Havana dressed in army fatigues with his signature cigar, Castro claimed the island as his own. Like a thief making off with a nation in the middle of the night, Obama waiting until Congress was out of town, opened America to a Communist totalitarian state.

Obama’s dictatorship is one that patently ignores countless thousands of Cuban prisoners, some of them who have been in some of the worst jails in the western hemisphere for decades and comes as a knife in the heart for the loved ones of the so many Cubans already tortured and murdered.

Thousands who fled for their lives from the Castro brothers, losing everything they had won’t be sleeping tonight in Miami.

Swapping a single hostage for spies found guilty by American juries and jailed for killing Americans is how Obama began the ‘re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba’ for the first time in more than half a century.

Obama and his administration boast it is business. But they are not now, and never will be, doing business with the bread-and-butter Cuban people but with the ice-hearted Communist Cuban government, which jails, tortures and murders its own people and which has been doing so ever since Castro seized power as dictator.



With nothing to legalize it on paper, and with no one even talking about it, there is no onus on Cuba to back off its shameful record on human rights. Yet Obama spouts,‘isolation has not worked’ since the Castros’ communist regime hasn’t softened its position since JFK was president.

“We cannot keep doing the same thing and expect a different result,” is the propaganda stated on a White House ‘fact sheet’. ‘It does not serve America’s interests, or the Cuban people, to try to push Cuba toward collapse.”

It was never the Cuban people but their government under a crushing Communist system pushing Cuba toward collapse. Just as Obama blames the American people for everything he personally sees wrong with America, is he now expanding his destructive Fundamental Transformation of America to Cuba, which sits only 90 miles off the coast of Florida?

Just as Obama last May released five generals back to the Taliban for the outrageous swap of AWOL American soldier, Bowe Bergdahl, Obama swapped three spies for the release of American aid worker Alan Gross, who arrived back in the U.S. today after five years in captivity.

Gross was released along with an unnamed U.S. ‘intelligence asset’ in exchange for three Cuban spies held by America—including one serving two life sentences related to the downing of two airplanes in 1996. (Daily Mail, Dec. 17, 2014)

Town Hall, Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Humberto Fontova, who was earlier on the Mark Levin Radio Show, told CFP this evening that according to the FBI’s affidavit, the 26 charges against the convicted Castro-spies included:

Gathering intelligence against the Boca Chica Air Naval Station in Key West, the McDill Air Force Base in Tampa and the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command in Homestead, Fla.;
Compiling the names, home addresses and medical files of the U.S. Southern Command’s top officers, along with those of hundreds of officers stationed at Boca Chica. •Infiltrating the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command;
Sending letter bombs to Cuban-Americans;
Spying on McDill Air Force Base, the U.S. armed forces’ worldwide headquarters for fighting “low-intensity” conflicts;
Locating entry points into Florida for smuggling explosives.
“These spies also infiltrated the Cuban-exile group Brothers to the Rescue, who flew unarmed planes to rescue Cuban rafters in the Florida straits, also known as “the cemetery without crosses,” said Fontova. “The estimates of the number of Cubans dying horribly in the “cemetery without crosses” run from 50-85,000. Brothers to The Rescue risked their lives almost daily, flying over the straits, alerting and guiding the Coast Guard to any balseros, and saving thousands of these desperate people from joining that terrible tally. (Prior to Castroism, by the way, Cuba was swamped with more immigrants per-capita than the U.S., including during the Ellis Island years.) So you can imagine how the Cuban exodus embarrasses the Castroites, including those in the U.S.

“By February of 1996, Brothers to The Rescue had flown 1,800 of these humanitarian missions and helped rescue 4,200 men, women and children. That month Danny Glover’s and Pete Seeger’s cause célèbre’ passed to Castro the flight plan for one of the Brothers’ humanitarian flights over the Cemetery Without Crosses.

With this info in hand, Castro’s Top Guns, jumped into their MIGs, took off and valiantly blasted apart (in international air space) the lumbering and utterly defenseless Cessnas. “Four members of the humanitarian flights were thus murdered in cold blood by communists.

“Three of these murdered men were U.S. citizens, the other a legal U.S. resident.”

Obama’s Open for Business Cuban initiative ignores the fact that his own administration lists Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism.

“..Second, I’ve instructed Secretary Kerry to review Cuba’s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism,” he said today. “This review will be guided by the facts and the law. Terrorism has changed in the last several decades. At a time when we are focused on threats from al Qaeda to ISIL, a nation that meets our conditions and renounces the use of terrorism should not face this sanction.”

Today’s announcement followed more than a year of secret talks between the U.S. and Cuba.

Creepier still, those secret talks did not take place on American soil, but in another country—Canada.

The fix was already in because as Obama was speaking, Cuban President Raul Castro was addressing his own nation from Havana. Obama and Castro had spoken by phone for more than 45 minutes Tuesday.

The New Year worry for a watching world is if Obama can open up channels for drastic policy changes in Cuba without the knowledge of the American population and Congress, when will he do the same for Iran?




http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/68416

Communists Win the Day. Frank Marshall Davis Would Be Proud Of Obama

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Few could have predicted that communist regimes would win the day on December 17, 2014. Communism was so twentieth century. But Barack Obama, promising to fundamentally transform America, has done so. His mentor, communist activist Frank Marshall Davis, would be proud of him.

To reiterate my conclusion on Barack Obama’s world view and policy objectives: to make the world safer, the United States must be less safe. To make the world more stable, the United States must be less stable. To make the world more prosperous, the United States must be less prosperous.

Assisting Barack Obama in this are the Washington technocrats, bureaucrats, and numerous party apparatchiks of both parties who have decided America is in decline and the decline should be managed instead of overcome.

Read more at:

http://www.redstate.com/2014/12/17/communists-win-the-day-frank-marshall-davis-would-be-proud-of-obama/

this news reminded me of Dumitru Duduman:

The Message For America

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Raúl Castro Thanks U.S., but Reaffirms Communist Rule in Cuba


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