MoA—The “phased ungrounding” means that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration would certify the plane as being safe while other regulators would still not do so. U.S. passengers would be asked to fly on a plane that the rest of the world would still consider too unsafe to fly. 737 MAX flights from the U.S. to other countries would still be grounded as would the by far largest part of the total fleet in Europe and China.
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Twitter Blocks Cuban Media: What are they Afraid Of?
16 minutes readWhile Twitter is indicating that these accounts had violated provisions of their use agreement, and as a separate business it can decide to close accounts at anytime, this act of sabotage is clearly at the direction of the US State Department. Millions of dollars are now being directed through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) for projects in Cuba just like this one whose goal is thought control and the muzzling of Cuba’s voice in the battle of ideas where they have been winning.
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The Veteran Health Administration is the Best Healthcare Anywhere! (First report in a special series)
45 minutes readDAVID W. PEAR—The success of the VHA is owed to its being socialized medicine, and its dedicated doctors, nurses, medical personnel and employees. The dedicated men and women of VHA prove that not everybody is motivated by profit. In fact, most people are not. The VHA is a federally-funded government healthcare system. Unlike Medicare, Obamacare, and Medicaid it is not a health insurance program, which depends on the for-profit medial industry for healthcare. At VHA the government owns the “bricks and mortar”: the hospitals, clinics, etc.
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TERJE MALOY—He moved to Franco’s Spanish dictatorship in 1971. Spain was then a central node in all sorts of right wing networks, where fascists and Nazis, both of the old and new kind, enjoyed a safe haven. Delle Chiaie quickly established connections to both French and German ultra right networks.
The move did not stop him from again doing what he was best at. He was involved in the organization paramilitary death squads (LAGs) on behalf of the Spanish government, to counter ETA separatists; these squads committed several hundred bloody attacks and extra-judicially executions of at least 50 people, both in Spain and abroad.
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GEORGE GALLOWAY—I have maintained from the start that President Trump did not want war against Iran. But that John Bolton – on his way to a slot on Fox News as I write – surely did. Trump wanted to treat the Iran “negotiations” like the North Korean ones: A blizzard of blood-curdling threats and economic sanctions, culminating in a bear-hugging personally brokered “deal”on prime-time with the Iranian leadership.
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US military encircling Venezuela: Regime change preparations?
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