Urgent message to the US Treasury Department

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1. Now where does the embargo end and the blockade begin?

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2. Manchester Guardian quoted in NY Times re the Asquith blockade on Germany:

   The differences between a blockade and an embargo are three. First, you may blockade enemy ports, but you may not blockade neutral ports… A second difference is that a blockade is subject to well-recognized rules of international law, administered through prize courts, in which the aggrieved neutral has a right to appear. But an embargo is an act of a belligerent executive, which may or may not have a legal remedy.

   They seem to have forgotten the third difference.

   An embargo on Venezuela would be much braver and more relevant. Ve shall see vat ve shall see.

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3. How about Columbia, which seems to be stirring up an awful lot of trouble at the moment? or China, where they still use slave labour?

   Or is that a boycott? ;-)

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4. China? Here’s one reason…
   http://www.rgemonitor.com/blog/setser/247902/

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