Anti-Government riot in Cuba over blackouts

Anti-government protesters stormed a Communist Party office in northern Cuba early Saturday, according to a state-run newspaper, marking a rare flash of open defiance fueled by brutal blackouts made even worse by the U.S. oil blockade.

What started as a peaceful rally against power outages and food shortages in the city of Moron [seriously] late Friday spiraled into violence by early Saturday morning, the Invasor newspaper reported. Social media videos captured a massive fire raging and crowds hurling rocks through building windows while chants of “liberty” echoed in the background.

Reuters could not independently verify the videos, which posters claimed depicted the chaos in Moron, a coastal city roughly 250 miles (400 km) east of Havana, close to the tourist spot Cayo Coco.

The United States has really tightened the screws on Cuba this year, especially after nabbing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in January. Maduro has long been Cuba's top foreign sugar daddy.

President Trump shut down Venezuelan oil deliveries to the island and warned any nation selling oil to Cuba could face tariffs, hammering an economy already choking on shortages of food, fuel, electricity, and medicine.

In recent weeks, Trump has repeatedly declared that Cuba is teetering on the edge of collapse or desperate for a deal with Washington. On Friday, the Cuban government announced it had kicked off talks with the U.S. to ease the crisis.

Violent public protests remain extremely rare in Cuba. The 2019 constitution supposedly guarantees the right to demonstrate, but a detailed law spelling out how that works is stuck in legislative purgatory, leaving street protesters in a legal gray zone.

"What initially began peacefully, and after an exchange with local authorities, turned into acts of vandalism against the headquarters of the Municipal Party Committee," Invasor reported. "A smaller group of people stoned the entrance of the building and started a fire in the street with furniture from the reception area," it added.

The Moron vandals hit several other state-run spots in the area too, including a pharmacy and a government market, per the report.

One unverified social media clip includes the sound of a gunshot, followed by the camera panning to someone on the ground. State media outlet Vanguardia de Cuba pushed back hard against online claims that police had shot the person.

"The image circulating shows the scene of the protest, but it’s important for the public to know the truth: no one was injured by gunfire," Vanguardia de Cuba posted on X. "Media manipulation seeks to sow fear and confusion among our people. Let's not fall for provocations," it added.

Police rounded up five people, and one drunken protester took a tumble and ended up getting treated for injuries at a local hospital.

Over the past week, small groups in Havana have been banging pots and pans in the streets to protest the endless blackouts.

On Monday, students staged a sit-in on the steps of the University of Havana after the regime canceled in-person classes, blaming the U.S. oil blockade. Fuel shortages have crippled public transportation, turning commutes for teachers and students into a nightmare. Moron also saw major unrest during the huge anti-government riots on July 11, 2021, the biggest challenge to the regime since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution.

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Antifa fascists nationwide protest flops

Anti fascist fascists and other leftist Trump haters plan to overthrow his "regime" with "continuous protests." They were to do this in over a dozen U.S. cities on Saturday but it turned out to be a limp noodle. That didn't stop organizers who claim that this is just the start of something big.

An oxymoron-named group Refuse Fascism's spokes-thing Isabel Cardenas, said on Saturday that Trump needs to be removed onnaconna he and his "regime" like divide the people and promote white supremacy. Cardenas was unable to give an actual example of how it is Trump, not Obama or Clinton or anyone else, who divide the people and promote white supremacy and stuff.

Antifa, who name ironically stands for 'anti fascism' had hoped for a million unwashed, women-attacking stooges at gatherings in large cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Honolulu, New York City, Portland, Austin, Boston and Philadelphia. 

It appears they fell short by almost a million unemployed leftists. Some cities attracted about 1,000 anarchists and others only a handful of demonstrators.

The plan was to make Saturday an "Antifa apocalypse" but it was more like an "Antifa debacle." There were only a few arrests and a lot of unused George Soros-funded signs.

The group plans to keep giving it the good ole Revolutionary Communist Party try until President Trump is illegally overthrown.

Wednesday is the one year anniversary of Trump's election win over known felon, Hillary Clinton. Refuse Fascism plans to collectively "scream at the sky helplessly."

Later in the evening, the group plans to do drugs, have unprotected sex, and publicly defecate on police cars.




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This Justin, from Canada

Being that this is my first posting on Canadian Brain Flushings, I thought I'd go right to the top of Canadian government and write about our new liberal Prime Minister, Justin "Pretty Boy" Trudeau. 

Trudeau told the House of Commons Tuesday that the main reason he attends those posh fundraisers thrown by the Pierre Trudeau Foundation isn't for his benefit, it's to "create economic growth for the middle class." 

Yes, the common folk. 

Justin renounced his official position of the Foundation when he became the leader of the Liberal Party, but admitted he allowed fundraiser attendees to lobby him there, which is a clear violation of Liberal Party bylaws.

Shades of Hillary Clinton.

And like US liberals, Trudeau had nothing but nice things to say about Cuba's Castro dictators, two guys who killed thousands upon thousands of Cubans, and impoverished the Communist island nation. The Liberal Party approval has dropped nine percentage points to Trudeau's credit.

After being confronted by Conservative Party leader Rona Ambrose in the House of Commons, Trudeau said that his presence at the fundraisers was a ploy to defend middle class interests.

"When did money become more important than the integrity of his office?" Ambrose asked.

"No matter where I am or who I am talking to I always talk about the same thing: The fact that our priorities are to create economic growth for the middle class," he answered, then denied any involvement in the foundation in spite of having attended questionable foundation fundraisers.

One fun fundraiser cost $1500 an entry and was attended by Chinese Communist millionaires. They all donated to the Trudeau Foundation soon after partying with Justin. After some time, Justin visited China and, the "human rights" dude that he is, he simply forgot to criticise the nation on their horrible human rights record.

Instead, Justin "did an Obama" and criticised his own country in Hong Kong where he "talked about the fact that Canada is not immune to criticisms on human rights either" with Chinese Communist leaders.

He previously bragged about his ability to get Chinese business leaders to deal with Canada. He said, on the same Hong Kong trip where he criticised our human rights record, "We needed to renew and deepen the relationship between the people of Canada and people of China for the long term and I think it's safe to say we have accomplished just that."

Highly suspicious donations were found by the National Post after Trudeau rose to the head of the Liberal Party in 2013:

Donations went from $172,211 in fiscal 2014 to $731,753 in fiscal 2016. From 2008 to 2013, the Trudeau Foundation had no (zero, zip, nada) foreign donations, but it brought in $53,000 in fiscal 2014 and jumped to $535,000 in fiscal 2016.

When these donations were discovered, it was then the Trudeau acknowledged that he has been lobbied at these fundraisers and engaged in unauthorized political discussions with donors.

The bylaws of the Liberal Party are very clear: "Fundraising events are partisan functions where we do not discuss government business." It also states that "any individual who wishes to initiate a policy discussion is immediately directed to instead make an appointment with the relevant office."

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Imam Jeh Johnson knows Islam

Jeh Johnson is our Homeland Security Secretary and a self-proclaimed expert on Islam. On Monday he visited a Virginia mosque where he must have been so moved, that he declared that "anyone who does not understand that Muslims want peace, does not understand Islam."

Imam Jeh

Imam Johnson stopped by at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society in Sterling, Virginia following President Barack Hussein Obama's speech on Sunday saying that Americans have a responsibility to respect their Muslim neighbors.

Barack could give no examples of instances where any disrespect had occurred, nor did he mention the greater disrespect as exemplified in the greatest number of national hate crimes directed at Jews. But hey, it isn't like anti-Semitism is worse than Islamophobia, right?

Imam Johnson said the "new phase" of the terror war--with "terrorist-directed and terrorist-inspired attacks" calls for "a whole new approach to counter-terrorism and homeland security," which includes Muslim outreach, an exercise he performed the past couple of years.

Imam Johnson could not explain how terrorism, per se, inspires attacks, rather than the religious ideology most terrorists share inspires people to shout "Allahu Akbar!" while killing infidels.

Imam Jeh (as his Muslim  friends call him) recalled one of the "most meaningful discussions" on his tour that took place in June with the ADAMS Center with another imam, Mohamed Magid. It began with a Boy Scout Troop leading the meeting participants in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Imam Jeh forgot to mention that his imam buddy, Mohamed Magid is a past president of the Islamic Society of America (ISNA), an organization linked to the Holy Land Foundation and the terror-financing trial. It is also linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.

And Johnson, whose own grandfather was called to testify in the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1949 to deny he was a member of the Communist party, is the head of Homeland Security?

The Obama cronies are now on a mission after the San Bernadino terrorist attack to ensure Americans in no way actually look at Islam through a magnifying glass. Johnson said "In responding to this new environment, we must not vilify American Muslims. We must not throw a new of suspicion over American Muslims and an entire religion."

Who is doing that? Who is attacking Muslims carte blanche? Americans are better than that.

And why isn't this JV administration going after the real hate crime of anti-Semitism?

I believe we have given the foxes the keys to the hen house.


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