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Saturday, October 28, 2017

US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy Speech turns 55 Years | "The Fruit of Any Victory in Ashes in Our Mouths"


The missile crisis in Cuba was one of the main threats to world peace after World War II


"Good afternoon, fellow citizens, this government, as promised, has maintained a strict watch over the operations of the Soviet Army on the island of Cuba, " with these words US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was beginning a speech called will not change the course of history.

On Oct 22nd is the 55th anniversary of that crucial speech, which was broadcast both on radio and on a television still in black and white, and that paralyzed a nation that listened attentively to each of its 2,434 words, eleven of which coincided : "nuclear".


Some words that would change the world, even if in fact they were uttered precisely to the contrary, so that it would not change, to avoid a possible nuclear holocaust that would have made, the president said, "the fruit of any victory in ashes in our mouths" 



At this point, the stage is well known by all. On October 14, 1962, photographs taken by U2 planes from the US intelligence service revealed the presence of eight shuttles and 16 medium-range missiles in the western region of the island. 

"It was clear that these strategic weapons, which were reliable and modern, were destined to be managed by the Soviet Union and not to be transferred to Cuba," the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said in an unclassified report. 

This information gave way to thirteen days of tension in which any error of calculation could have given rise to a conflict of consequences difficult to imagine.

Fundamental attitude

"The president's attitude was critical to defusing the crisis," Kennedy said. "It was the intention of President Kennedy to avoid any nuclear exchange, whether voluntary or accidental," said Defense Department Chief Erin Mahan.

One of the key measures taken by the leader was the creation of a working group of trusted advisers, most of whom belonged to the National Security Council.
It was this group of experts who called for deaf ears of those responsible for the General Staff, who were betting on an air attack on Cuba, and for opening a negotiation with the Kremlin through non-traditional channels, while blocking the island to avoid the arrival of new weapons. 

This decision would be doubly successful, not only because in the end proved to be the correct way to settle the crisis, but also because the air attack would have followed the subsequent landing of US troops on the island and that would have been a serious action failure. 

Despite numerous reports by the intelligence services, what US intelligence was unaware of at the time was that Russian troops deployed in Cuba were also equipped with nuclear weapons, which "could have ended" with the troops, Mahan said. 

"Through initiatives by unofficial channels, the United States agreed not to invade Cuba and withdraw its missiles from Turkey." (Soviet Nikita) Khrushchev pledged to dismantle and remove Soviet missiles and light bombers from Cuba, "he said. the historian of the Pentagon.
The other key measure of this crisis also had the words as the protagonist and was none other than the historic presidential address. Since in informing the American people, with open hearts, Kennedy was legitimated to act with total freedom knowing that his honesty had gained the support of the whole country. 

"The road we have chosen at the moment is full of dangers, like all roads, but it is the most coherent with our character and our value as a nation ... And a road we will never choose is the road to surrender and submission, "Kennedy concluded in his address. 

And, in fact, that was the key. Find a way in which there were no losers, but no winners . Possibly the only way he could stop someone from ending that nasty ash taste in his mouth.

Saturday, October 21, 2017

US President Donald Trump | He Will Declassify the Files On the Assassination of John F. Kennedy


Trump is the one who has the final authority to decide to publish the files or delay it for another 25 years

US President Donald Trump announced Saturday that declassify the archives of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Democrat president who died from gunshots in a political visit to Dallas (Texas) on November 22, 1963. 

"Subject to receiving more information, I will allow, as president, to open JFK files locked and classified for a long time," Trump wrote in his usual series of morning messages, but without further elaboration.

Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened.
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The National Archives have until next Thursday 26 to decide which of the 3,100 classified files that they possess on the assassination of Kennedy (1961-1963) can come to the light and which they must continue in secret. 

But Trump has the final authority to decide whether to publish the files or delay it for another 25 years. 

A White House spokeswoman, Lindsay Walters, told this Friday that Trump's office is working "to ensure that the maximum possible amount of data can be released" for those files by next Thursday, a deadline marked under a law of 1992. 

But Walters acknowledged that the White House is concerned about the fact that "some records of this collection were not created until the 1990s" and should be reviewed to ensure that their publication does not cause "identifiable damage" to national security.


The CIA presses 

A congressional official who has closely followed the process told that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has pressed Trump to block the publication of some documents, possibly to conceal its methods or the identity of some spies who might follow alive.

"Suppose the president could change his mind at the last moment, but unless he does, there will be no absolute publication of this information. We will see a lot of files next week, but not all, unfortunately,".

Those questioning the official version of the Kennedy assassination are eagerly awaiting Trump's decision in the hope that the new documents will shed light on the greatest mystery in recent US history. 

According to Newspapers, documents dating back to the 1990s may be published with some of the censored information to avoid exposing relatively recent intelligence operations. 

Most of the 3,100 unpublished documents were created by the CIA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Justice, and the 1992 law dictates that next Thursday they should be published entirely unless Trump decides what to do.

If he blocked the most delicate documents, Trump would disappoint historians and proponents of conspiracy theories, a group he himself is not so far off, given that during the 2016 election campaign he even suggested that Senator Ted Cruz's father had something to do with Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of Kennedy.

Friday, October 13, 2017

North Korea | Send raining fire over the US


North Korean chancellor Ri Yong-ho

Has warned that the country's will is to "send raining fire" over the US in response to the belligerent words of US President Donald Trump, who threatened the UN with destroying North Korea. The North Korean foreign minister spoke in this way when he received a delegation from the Russian news agency Tass that has visited Pyongyang, state media reported. "It is the firm will of all the military personnel and people of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, the official name of the country) to make it rain on the US, which called for the total destruction of the DPRK," said Ri, according to a statement from the KCNA agency. Ri also said that the North Korean nuclear program is the "precious fruit of the bloody struggle of the Korean people to defend the destiny and the sovereignty of the country before the prolonged nuclear threat of the American imperialists, and a valuable sword justice." The North Korean chancellor attended the regular session of the United Nations General Assembly last September, in which Trump threatened in his speech to "completely destroy North Korea" for its continuing weapons tests, including its latest nuclear test, made on 3 September. These tests and the dialectical escalation between Washington and Pyongyang have raised regional tension over the past year to unprecedented levels since the end of the Korean War (1950-1953).


The delegation of Russian journalists to North Korea came shortly after a group of Russian MPs traveled to the hermetic Asian country. One of them explained after their visit that the North Korean authorities assured them that they are preparing the next test launch of a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with real capacity to reach the US West Coast. Experts speculate that Pyongyang could make this launch coincide with the Chinese Communist Party Congress, which starts on October 18, or in the face of Trump's visit to the region, which will take place from November 2 to 14.

Sunday, October 8, 2017

Nine countries accumulate the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the world


Nine countries in the world have about 15,000 nuclear weapons, a figure that shows that expressions of world leaders for nuclear disarmament do not mean a binding letter of intent, as recorded by the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN ), who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, 6 October. ICAN has received the award for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of the use of atomic weapons as part of the escalating tension over North Korean threats and increased nuclear capacity around the world. The United States and Russia accumulate a total of 13,800 nuclear weapons, of which 1,800 are likely to be used in a matter of minutes if necessary. The United States, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea add atomic equipment, according to the anti-nuclear initiative based on the official data presented by the Federation of Scientists of the United States in 2017.

Countries with nuclear weapons 

The race for nuclear development was started by the United States, which is also the only country that has used this type of artifacts in a conflict and spends more budget than the rest of the countries combined in its nuclear program. Its 6,800 weapons place him, however, behind the 7,000 of Russia, the nation with the largest arsenal in the world. At a great distance, France and the United Kingdom maintain about 250 nuclear equipment with which they have mainly equipped several submarines, in contrast to China that has the capacity to transport a similar number of weapons by land, sea and air. Both India and Pakistan have developed their nuclear program in recent years, but their rapidity has enabled them to acquire substantial infrastructures and more than a hundred weapons. For its part, the Israeli authorities are ambiguous regarding its atomic arsenal, without denying or accepting its existence, although experts estimate that it has around 80 teams. North Korea is the country on the list with less nuclear equipment, not exceeding ten weapons. However, its missile tests and its threats to use an ever-growing weapons program have raised concern for the international community in the face of fears of a possible atomic war.

Countries indirectly related to the nuclear program

ICAN points out that five European countries have a US nuclear arsenal in their territory - Belgium, Germany, Italy, Turkey and the Netherlands - as a result of agreements signed within the framework of NATO. In addition, dozens of countries have nuclear alliances with those powers that have their own weapons. Faced with the growing threat of nuclear war, more than 20 countries see the possession of nuclear weapons by the United States as a guarantee of security for them. There are also many nations that have a nuclear industry or research reactors capable of manufacturing such equipment, in a race that has been activated in urban areas "it would kill millions of people and have effects for decades," according to the organization laureate The Nobel Committee stressed in its speech Friday that "the next step to have a world free of nuclear weapons must involve the countries that have them." "That's why this year's Nobel Prize is also a call on these countries to start negotiations seriously with the prospect of a careful, gradual, balanced and supervised elimination of the nearly 15,000 nuclear weapons in the world."

Monday, October 2, 2017

Las Vegas Deadly Shooting | 50 Killed and 406 Hurt Near Mandalay Bay | Shooter killed himself

Las Vegas Deadly Shooting
A shootout erupted Sunday night in Las Vegas, in the western United States, during a concert. The latest report shows at least 50 deaths. A total of 406 people were taken to the hospital, police said. It is the most deadly shooting in the country for 25 years, ahead of Orlando (49 dead) in 2016 and Virginia Tech (32 deaths) in 2007. The Las Vegas police announced in a tweet that it had shot a suspect:  "We confirm that a suspect has been neutralized. "We do not think there are any other shooters," she said later on Twitter.
US President Donald Trump presented "condolences" to the victims on Twitter.

My warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the terrible Las Vegas shooting. God bless you!
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The shooter was on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay casino hotel, near which was a concert. Shooter killed himself before forces arrived on the scene said Las Vegas sheriff Joe Lombardo. He was identified, he is a resident of the city. The sheriff later revealed his identity, his name is Stephen Paddock. "There were at least eight firearms in his hotel room," said Kevin McMahill, deputy sheriff of Las Vegas, Monday morning in an interview on CNNPolice said she was looking for her girlfriend,  a young woman named Marilou Danley. 
The security forces were deployed in numbers after reports of firing from the Mandalay Bay casino hotel. A security perimeter has been set up. The circumstances of this shooting remain blurred and the shooter's motives are unknown. According to initial testimonies and initial indications, shots were fired at many people who came to attend this concert of singer Jason Aldean. In a message on Instagram, the musician indicated that he and his group were safe and sound. "The evening was beyond horror," he said, dedicating "his thoughts and prayers" to everyone on Sunday at his concert.

Images from Mandalay Bay showed a crowd participating in a concert interrupted by noises resembling automatic gun bursts. The music on the stage stopped, the lights went out, the artists ran to take refuge at the back of the stage.The people jumping over the cars that were parked outside, and took refuge in the prefabricated buildings.

"It started like a broken glass noise. We looked around to find out what was going on. A few minutes later, we heard pop-pop-pop-pop. We thought it was fireworks or firecrackers. And we realized that this was not the case, that they were shots, "said a spectator, Monique Dekerf, on CNN. "We thought for a moment, OK, we're fine, there are no more shots and then it started again," she added. Her sister, who was attending with her at the concert, felt that "the shots came from the right. It was right there, not far from us, "she said.


On photos taken at the time of the concert, people could be seen wounded, lying on the ground in front of the scene where a singer was performing, sometimes comforted by a loved one. The shooting resulted in a vast crowd movement and scenes of panic in the city of Nevada, known for its casinos and luxury hotels.