Hillary Clinton is repeating the methodology of the Iran/Contra affair, using “black” funds to finance the operation to ensure President Correa is not re-elected.
I had two excellent sources for the news that the US/UK strategy against Julian Assange was to ensure the defeat of President Correa in Presidential elections next spring, and then have him expelled from the Ecuadorean Embassy. One source was within the UK civil service and one in Washington. Both had direct, personal access to the information I described. Both told me in the knowledge I would publish it.
Of course Assange is not the only reason Clinton wants rid of Correa; but it adds spice and urgency.
We now have completely independent evidence from Chile that this CIA operation exists, from journalists who were investigating a smuggling operation involving 300 kg per month of cocaine, organised by the Chilean army and security services.
The links to US intelligence emerged after an anonymous source from the Agencia Nacional de Inteligencia (ANI) told Panoramas News that the smuggling of 300 kilos of cocaine was in fact a highly sensitive CIA/DEA operation that would help to raise money to topple the government of Ecuador. The operation is similar to the one carried out by the Agency in Central America during the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980’s, the source said.
A few days ago I published information I had received that Patricio Mery Bell, the director of the news programme which broke the story, had been lured to a meeting with a young lady “informant” who had worked with CIA-backed anti-Cuban groups in Miami. She had then accused him of sexual assault (does any of that scenario sound familiar?) He was arrested and his materials had been confiscated. However I took the article down after jst a few minutes because I had received the information in emails from sources I did not know previously, and was unsure it could stand up. It does now appear that this is indeed true.
My Washigton informant had told me, as I published, that the funds for the anti-Correa operation were not from the CIA budget but from secret funds controlled by the Pentagon. This could not be done by CIA funds because, perhaps surprisingly, for the CIA to operate in this way is a crime in the United States.
Whether my informant knew or suspected that the “secret Pentagon funds” were drug money I do not know. They did not mention narcotics.
2 drones spotted but Harry says the ground invasion may be fallacious.
Here he is on BBC Radio Oxford in 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdfaZEBJQhU&feature=plcp
And here’s a recent talk in Oxford he gave http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35WyW0WBVuI&feature=plcp
Never heard of him before today but very impressive.
IDF support blogs own the whole first page of search results for “Gaza Israel infografic”
A normal design blogger makes an infographic about displacement here http://www.fastcodesign.com and gets his comments completely mobbed by hasbara for his cheek.
Looking through several pages of search results the only other non-hasbara infographics I came to is here,
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
2 Fajr rockets hit Tel Aviv. 3rd generation Katyusha……bottle rockets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fajr-3
Esler has just started off the usual propaganda on Newsnight.
nice, crab.
They are following….http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/missingheadlines.html
HarryFear reports –
“it looks like another Caste Lead .. dozens of air strikes in previous hours.. 5 in recent minutes .. leaflets being dropped by israel announcing ground invasion.. ambiguous reports of rocket retailiation, 2 fhar ~gia rockets maybe hit tel aviv ,
Harry recounts message from medical aid: “as airstrikes hits gaza, it is worth rememberring that half the population are under the age of eighteen,”
5 munites ago jabalia was hit, north gaza seems to being bombardered the most,
85 confirmed injured so far,
This is electric viewing actualy, he is asking for suggestions as wether to keep streaming or go do some other options, but of course everyone is suggesting to continue. He has mentioned possibility of work for other reporting media.
Live webcast from Gaza http://www.ustream.tv/channel/operation-pillar-of-cloud
IDF has tweeted its ground invasion now…
On another forum I frequent, a few years ago, Rachel Corrie was referred to as “Saint Pancake” by an Israeli member (who previously had appeared quite sane). I found that illuminating and horrifying.
Thanks for all the excellent links team. After tonight’s secretive onslaught under the cover of darkness, effectively a strong man electioneering action by a psychopath, Netanyahu, a man obsessed with making his mark in history, i sent this to Newshite.
” after this onslaught on innocent children today, for the hatred of Israel’s zionist fascists, you, Newsnight, made it worse for all Israeli’s around the world bu amplifying lies and innuendo.
7 innocent children killed and you fail to mention it?
This attack will be felt around the world, by all Israelis. You are apologists to murder of children, apologists for the illegal use of white phosphorus tonight, and you can’t fool people anymore with your pathetic cover ups, we know before you know.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/operation-pillar-of-cloud
You are weak, due to your covering up of bestial acts involving politicians and the establishment, riddled with paedophile apologists and MI scum, you are the boil in our midsts that need lancing. You are no better than Goebbel’s Information ministry, dependent for your fix on status quo party politicians who lost their mandates long ago, schmucks of the highest order.
may hell have some corner reserved for the BBC, you have lost the contract of the people, because you can’t see that you are aiding fascists in Government and abroad, fascists who run this country and the cabinet and most MP’s, split loyalties at the heart of Government, whether its BICOM or the Paedophile male only secret society masons you are covering up.
shame on you for hanging on to scum such as Essler, what a schmarotzing creep.
got get!”
Background.
As always, Western media coverage would leave one thinking that Israel’s attack on Gaza was in retaliation for rocket attacks, i.e. that that is the whole story. This is not the case.
“Israel’s bogus case for bombing Gaza obscures political motives”
By Max Blumenthal – Sun, 2012-03-11
http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/5046
Short excerpt:
“As is so often the case, the Israeli army is lying. According to the army’s own investigation of the Eliat attack last year, the attackers were not from Gaza as Israeli government spokespeople initially claimed — they were Egyptian. The army’s investigative findings were first reported by Alex Fishman, the military correspondent for the Israeli daily Yedioth Aharanoth, who had treated the earlier attempts to blame Gaza’s Popular Resistance Committees for Eilat with extreme skepticism. Bloggers Idan Landau [Hebrew only], Richard Silverstein and Yossi Gurvitz also marshaled evidence shredding the army’s case against Gaza.
“Finally, in November, Egyptian security forces arrested the suspected mastermind of the Eilat plot, shattering the Israeli army’s initial claims about Gazan culpability. By then, however, Israeli forces had already killed 30 Gazans in retaliation for an attack they had absolutely nothing to do with …”
See also:
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/mowing-lawn-israels-latest-massacre-gaza-and-lies-behind-it
(also dated 3 November)
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G’night
As to proportional retaliation,,,,this from 2008
“Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in 2008-2009 began with a week of air attacks and shelling, followed by a land invasion of the blockaded coastal strip, sealed off at sea by the Israeli navy. Some 1,400 Palestinians were killed and 13 Israelis died.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/14/palestinians-israel-hamas-idUSL5E8ME99B20121114
Over one-hundred to one. If that’s not war crimes, what is?
It’s ethnic cleansing, Ben.
‘night
Ben: “Some 1,400 Palestinians were killed and 13 Israelis died.”
At least 4 of those Israelis were killed by their own side.
At least 340 of the Palestinians were children.
Mark Golding,
whatever Arafat died from, it rather improbable that any 210-Polonium is actually detectable in his body eight years after the event as more than 21 half lives have already elapsed since the presumed administration of the poison. Furthermore, the probability of finding Polonium in Arafats toothbrush that you quote seem rather low as
a)Polonium already decayed to less than one millionth of its original concentration,
b)there is no reason to assume that a toothbrush accumulates Polonium
c)the volume of the saliva sticking to it after Arafat cleaned with it his teeth for the last time would have been in the microgram range.
The radioactivity of 1 microgram of Polonium is 167 MegaBecquerel (MBq). Hence, to account for an activity of about 250 milliBecquerel (one count every four seconds), measured in the toothbrush about ten years after being used (i.e. in 2012), necessitates the assumption that at least 1.5ng of Polonium must have been stuck to Arafats toothbrush in 2004. If the amount of saliva (diluted with water and tooth paste) remaining in the toothbrush before drying was about 10 micrograms (no one can ever find out the exact volume) then 150 nanograms Po must have been present in one milligram and thus 150 micrograms in one gram of body tissue in 2004. Assuming that the total weight of the Arafats body, that contained diluted Polonium salt, was about 70 kg, then the administered dose must have been about 9 grams. This is clearly impossible and nonsensical as 500 nanograms would have sufficed to kill Arafat within days.
Why would anyone hope to reliably detect a trace of say 500 nanograms of 210-Polonium, distributed within a human body, 21 half lives later is an utter mystery to me. Can anyone think of an explanation?
A while ago, I found myself in a protracted email correspondence with a crap musician/self-proclaimed champion of the downtrodden masses and who was on Radio 4’s ‘Question Time’ in the aftermath of Operation Cast Lead and whose only comment was to support Israel’s right to defend itself.
I was asking him if, in retrospect, he could have been a bit more supportive of the Palestinians.
He said:
I said:
He said
What a hypocritical wanker.
Harry says Israeli and Egyptian tanks and Commandos moving in the Sinai Desert.
Gaza relatively quite for 30 mins.
Explosion shook doors in Harrys room just now!
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/operation-pillar-of-cloud
The US elections deserve a nobel peace prize. During the election, after the October surprise that is, everyone kicks back, puts down their guns, holds of resigning, stops reporting the news, doesn’t invade anyone, or cause general mischief. As soon as Stooge A or Stooge B is elected, it all kicks again. General Whoever resigns just after the election, which can be viewed as a coincidence by only the very dumb – and of course 99% of the press corps, as usual. And Israel murder some bloke, and a few others who happened to be standing in the vicinity, and begin mayhem and bombardment over whatever pretext, almost embarrassingly soon after Obomber makes his speech, and this is a coincidence as well, one presumes. I wonder. If we had constant US elections, maybe peace would be permanent?
Harry has just held his microphone towards the window and we can hear sounds of the Islamic Call to Prayer, punctuated by the dull thuds of shells. Very moving.
The Israeli navy has joined in the bombardment.
The building next to Harry has just been struck, we can hear his building shudder, he might be under attack, he’s switched out all the lights. Ambulances outside.
yup, live fire audible now, at harry’s building which he says is in a kind of green zone.
He goes to turn a light out, this is a tense feed, only 2000 viewers.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/operation-pillar-of-cloud
The chanting from the nearby mosque has got louder in response to the aerial attack on the neighbourhood. A gesture of solidarity and defiance. The palestinian spirit is very humbling. I don’t think I would be so brave.
Karel,
Polonium the Myth
This is how it works:
Po214(0.164ms) -> Pb210(22.3y) -> Bi210(5.0d) -> Po210(138.3d)[detected] -> Pb206(stable)
‘New Scientist’ is…. (ask our friends here)
Bizarre! …
Harry was up on the roof and thought a boat with all its lights on was an Israeli warship. Turns out it’s Palestinian fishermen – they’re so desperate for food (emabargo etc) that they’re fishing even now. Two Palestinian fishing boats close to land with 3 Israeli warships behind them firing over their heads.
It’s a measure of the desperation of their situation, and again, a measure of their spirit.
Things have calmed down for now. Harry is doing an interview, told listeners to watch his documentaries here:
http://www.harryfear.co.uk/blog/gaza-report
Multiple Israeli aircraft attacking a civilian area of Gaza, 2 large strikes in the last 10 minutes, a child injured.
Harry’s going to grab a couple of hours sleep. You can see how tired he is, nearly 2 days and counting.
He plans/hopes to get out and about tomorrow, away from his apartment. He’s going to try and keep in touch using his facebook account. He requests to you make friends with him at:
http://www.facebook.com/harryfear.
It’s not looking good, tanks massing on the border (incl, Egyptian ones!?), many aircraft overhead, and navy off shore, reports of strange new weapons and horrible old ones (white phosphorous), looks like Israel is shaping up for Cast Lead 2.
I’m off to bed, but I fear for what I’m going to hear in the morning.
BBC Balance. It does not exist. I just woke up to the sound of Michael Oren the Israeli UN Ambassador on the World Service. You can imagine the script.
BBC TV have just had a Jonathan Charles on from the European Bank for Redevelopment commenting on America’s reaction. He says a crisis like this can be quite useful to bring the matter to Obama’s attention. How many dead Palestinians does it take to wake Obama and the world up Mr Charles? He used to be a BBC reporter incidentally ! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Charles
Turned on Sky News who were speaking to a Mr Majovsky on from New York representing a Jewish pressure group. Sky report 50 Israeli air attacks throughout the night.
I am waiting to hear a Palestinian voice. It will be a long wait. All the voices are either Israeli or Jewish and Gaza comes second to the news about the new Chinese leadership.
15 November 2012 Last updated at 05:50
Israel ready to widen Gaza operations, says Netanyahu
The BBC’s Wyre Davies: “The violence in and around the Gaza Strip has been escalated”
Israel and the Palestinians
As-it-happened: Israel strikes Gaza
New term hopes
Palestinian prosperity hampered
Israel’s ‘forgotten’ Jewish refugees
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the country’s military is prepared to extend its operation against Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
His comments came after the head of the military wing of Hamas, Ahmed Said Khalil al-Jabari, was killed during Israeli air strikes on the territory.
/..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20334575
BBC Breakfast has just started. Their lead story is about Lord McAlpine who is about to reach a compensation deal with the BBC for defamation. His solicitor is one Andrew Reid.
Lord McAlpine is keeping his business in the (Conservative Party) family by having instructed Sir Edward Garnier QC. The latter is Con MP for Harborough and was Solicitor General until recently. {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Garnier}
http://www.thelawyer.com/lord-mcalpine-instructs-one-brick-court-and-rmpi-over-defamatory-claims/1015458.article
Andrew Reid is listed as a personal injury solicitor on the Law Society website. RPMI followed on from Reid Minty who reformed. {http://www.reidminty.co.uk/}
There was this large lawsuit from a client!
News: Reid Minty hit by negligence claim – Legalweek {www.legalweek.com} › News
25 Aug 2005 – Reid Minty has been hit by a multi-million pound negligence claim following allegations that the West End firm failed to serve a client’s claim … Paywall
Oh what a tangled web is weaved in the legal world. Keeps them all employed!
{http://high-court-justice.vlex.co.uk/vid/hc08c01692-52635826}
A snippet or two from Sir Edward Garnier’s Register of Interests.
Overseas visits
Name of donor: Conservative Friends of Israel
Address of donor: 45B Westbourne Terrace, London W2 3UR.
Amount of donation (or estimate of the probable value): £2,000
Destination of visit: Israel and the West Bank
Date of visit: 14-19 February 2010
Purpose of visit: to meet Israeli and Palestinian government ministers and politicians, central and other bankers, business people, judges and lawyers.
(Registered 25 February 2010)
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=10221
and three previous visits in 2007, 2006 and 2005 when he spoke at the Herzliya conference.
He likes pheasant shooting too by the looks of it.
PS Mr Taub the UK Israeli Ambassador is now giving an interview on Sky News. Not as dominating as old Ron Prosor who is now at the UN as Israel’s Permanent Representative but uses the same old script. Oren who I referred to above is the Ambassador to the US, not the UN.