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.
..i know many of you will feel that your’re making many points…etc..but camon…let’s get it on and make it happen…
I tried all evening to get news of Gaza out on the worlds biggest referal site, against the tide with partial success. The real news is swamped but just about visible. The disruption and repression of it is tangible.
Thatcrab, well done.
Attila, this site and others like it do make a difference. Without such efforts the corporate media would be even more biased and misleading than it is. Look back through the site and you will find examples; the business of Werritty running his own foreign policy would not have been exposed without Craig’s efforts, for instance, and Craig’s efforts would have been ignored were it not for the readers of this blog.
I know it’s not enough, and it can feel like nothing is being achieved, but you never discover the destination of the path you didn’t take, and we’re certainly not making things worse.
Write to the politicians, comment on the websites of the papers, complain to the BBC, edit Wikipedia; let them know that we know. You will find links to the evidence you need to make your case convincing here.
…what i mean is that we should get to grips with the crap that is put in front of us…i e ..: coming up with some sort of alternative to what is this life…etc…camon…let’s be strong…camon let’s help Craig…
a x xx
…thanks Clark…let us DO something…for a change…
sorry guys, I’ve been feeling inconsequential all day, sorry to be taking it out on you…
…and yes I wholy agree that this site is more than helpfull / open..etc.. I am` just so ……a x….
Attila: It might seem trite in the face of these headline-grabbing news events (and then you have to dig to see the real story), but we can actually make a personal difference, just in minor choices in our lifestyles.
Try this survey:
http://slaveryfootprint.org/
People are dying to bring us consumer products we casually buy and discard. Reduce the need to repress people, and we reduce the wars and mischief our governments perform, on our behalf via multinational corporations, to secure these resources. The smaller the profits, the smaller the incentive.
Socrates observed that all wars are fought for money 2500 years ago. This is all terribly frustrating, not to say outrageous, that the criminality of our governments is blatant, yet unquestioned. We go about as if nothing were amiss, at most warranting some light debate on how skillfully this or that move might have been played.
Perhaps it’s always been this way, but we can collectively be more informed now, if we choose.
…I so wish that we could affect a change, i really do…( sorry to say this but in my opinion it will only happen through a revolution…) a x
…I agree Glenn_uk but let’s fafe it …we are fucked…
..Glenn, I’ve looked at your slavery numbers…( and we are all slaves as you can see )
..what I’d really like/love would be a person to discuss with a whole sausage… a xxx
…i know it sounds odd / weird / even stupid…
but you should pay attention, my dearest love…
Attila: Yes, in the long run, I think so. We are insufficiently intelligent, collectively, to overcome our greed. Denial isn’t just a river in Egypt, it is a life skill. When it comes to denial about problems for those we’ve never heard of before, and planetary emergencies, it’s essential – particularly if your livelihood depends on it. It’s tough to convince a man of something, when his income depends on his not understanding it… I paraphrase Upton Sinclair, probably badly.
I don’t believe we’ll turn ourselves around before it’s too late, and even then we’ll have hucksters and useful idiots telling us the environment is just fine, let’s just proceed with business as usual!
When I was a fairly small kid, I climbed onto the garage roof at my parent’s house. It was the Summer and there were the remaining pools of rainwater in the undulations of the felting, they were all drying out. Two pools were just about still meeting, and there were insects – about 1/2″ each – each with forward pincers, and they were fighting over the larger pool. They were clearly getting overcrowded, and the pools were evaporating. The density of the creatures in the small pool was vastly more than those in the large pool, but the occupants of the latter were fiercely defending it.
This was a huge battle, between armies, being played out just up there, on my garage roof. And it would have been entirely unrecorded unless I happened to have witnessed it, and even recorded it here. It gave me the impression, even back then, that we’re always going to be fighting, it’s happening everywhere, tiny scale, massive scale, always has, always will. It’s utterly futile at the end of the day to bash yourself for not being able to stop it.
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this latest attack is that it is simply electioneering, Israeli style. It’s not even crass vengeance or hatred, but rather cold calculated vote grabbing. There is serious internal discontent within Israel’s borders. This year a wheelchair-bound Israeli veteran (Akiva Mafa’i) died, after setting himself on fire in a protest over his economic situation. Less than a week earlier Moshe Silman, a bed-ridden member of a movement to lower the cost of living in Israel, set himself alight during a demonstration in Tel Aviv and died. Moshe Silman left a note accusing the conservative Netanyahu government of “taking from the poor and giving to the rich.” Israeli media have reported other suicide attempts apparently motivated by economic hardship. I had heard about the general protests in Israel against the economic policies, but it wasn’t until an Israeli friend told me about the self immolations that I really grasped how dire the situation is there.
Not only is the Netanyahu government deeply unpopular, but bombing Palestinians pre-elections has become the standard procedure. 5 of the last 7 Israeli elections occurred months after an IDF operation.
Meant to say that I got talking to a good young man from Afghanistan at the protest. He felt so moved about the deaths of a baby and children in Gaza that he had come along to show support for the Palestinians. He had his little one on his shoulder. She was three and a sweetie. Her eyes were wide open. He left his country in 2002 when he was 18 and is thankful that he has his life here in this country and that he has a family and a job. An educated man and yet another person that Blair has helped to displace from their homeland.
He asked if he could take my photo LOL.
How about the election turnouts? Another LOL. I spoilt my vote for the PCC election saying that I disapproved of this change to our law and that it was a step on the road to a national state police force!
BTW I have been lurking recently, so I haven’t said welcome back to Dreoilin, I dunno why but I prefer this moniker. In my mind this is your new theme song: Still Dre. But I’m guessing you would prefer this version =P
Clark, really good to see you posting again. Unfortunately I found it much harder to find a theme song for you, it’s a bit of a stretch but here you go: Buddy Clark – Midnight Blue
can’t imagine a more putrid piece than this from murdoch press in australia.
not a mention of babies/children/women murdered/wounded, a timeline that is absurd but always works when MSM haven’t reported the daily atrocities against palestinians, nor the collective punishment of gazans for years.
we also have what looks like a Reuters’ set piece, designed for precisely this meme which we’ve heard before. i have little or no respect for BBC, yet cannot believe the daily attempts by MSM to cast them as anti israel:
‘PALLYWOOD’: Israel accuses enemies of fake casualties
Claims Palestinians faking injuries to stir public sympathy
A pro-Israeli website, “HonestReporting.com”, has accused BBC News of broadcasting footage of an apparently wounded Palestinian civilian being carried to safety for treatment. But shortly after the man is pictured walking around, presumably uninjured…
A BBC spokesperson has responded to the claims, saying to the best of their knowledge the vision was not staged.
“The footage shown by BBC News was edited from a longer sequence provided by the Reuters news agency in which the man in question is shown being lifted from the ground.”
“He is then given attention at the roadside, before appearing later having recovered.”
“Steps have been taken to ensure any re-broadcast reflects the full sequence so that is absolutely clear to our audience.”
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/pr-war-israel-hamas/story-fnd134gw-1226518018463
who will stand up for the Palestinians?
Please don’t fight fire wih fire.
Goodness and compassion.
Ben – thanks for the Vice link.
The BBC was discussing Gaza (Today, R4), with much less bias than it was showing when its only source earlier was Israeli press releases. There is now some awareness that Jabari – and see this, urgently –
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/16/ahmed-jabari-truce-hamas_n_2142045.html –
… that Jabari was not a wild-eyed evil terrorist but had been instrumental in keeping Gaza partially under control for some time, to the Israelis’ benefit. And the suggestion was made by one invited commentator that Israel has a mind to detach Gaza and hand it (back) to Egypt. This would naturally decouple the unified and determined Gazans from the increasingly fragmented West Bank Palestians under the effective control ( your Vice link shows how effective) of a supine Palestinian Authority.
The ethnic cleansing could then proceed unhindered.
The Egyptian Prime minister, Hisham Qandil, has arrived in Gaza.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20353223
He is much different from Mubarak with whom Israel had a working relationship.
Nevermind – Ben is quite right. Good news – you wouldn’t need to pluck the turkey. Bad news – you’d get turkey soup.
May I recommend this:
http://www.eurooptic.com/blaser-tactical-2-rifles.aspx
Interchangeable barrels. Standard Nato 5.50 for turkeys, and easily available Nato 7.62 (0.308 Win) for people you don’t like.
OK, the range isn’t quite as great…but how far away from the turkey farm do you need to be?
He is much different from Mubarak with whom Israel had a working relationship.
He was paid by the US taxpayer to have a working relationship with Israel. Question is, will Quandil refuse the protection money? I don’t think Egypt is in sufficiently good shape to allow him to do so. And stitching up the Gazans (while appearing to act in their interest) may offer him a way out. This is the Middle East, after all.
I should have said “stitching up the Palestinians”. By assisting Israel in detaching Gaza in order to weaken West Bank resistance to being dispossessed.
“And stitching up the Gazans (while appearing to act in their interest) may offer him a way out. This is the Middle East, after all.”
Komodo, you split-tongued beast, do I detect a degree of cynicism?
Komodo I agree, if the assassination of Jabari was deliberate when a peace agreement was being brokered by him (Huff Post), it sheds a whole different light on the conflict.
I’m afraid you do, John. I’ve been following this trail for a very long time, and it never seems to smell any better.
Anyway, for comic relief, HERE’S MELANIE!!!
(if you have sick bags, prepare to fill them now)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1110573/Violent-Gaza-protests-reveal-gentle-civilised-Britain-changed-ugly-indeed.html
Seems turning up at a pro-Palestinian rally wearing a kippah is one of our ancestral freedoms, and it is antisemitic to deny this. And Brits are ugly. Israelis are nice. Etc.
Rock on, Mel.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/162158#.UKYRpvnPrbc
Israeli ground force being briefed.
http://criticallegalthinking.com/2012/11/15/the-bombs-that-blast-gaza-a-view-from-the-ground/
Too sad. Boycott these bastards.
Many thanks for the protest report Mary, and all due respect for going, as attending such demos these days takes great courage as well as great humanitarian commitment; I still recall the slogans chanted at the big anti-war protest before Iraq was attacked, “Bush, Bush, we know you, your Daddy was a killer too”, “Bush out of Iraq, Blair out of Bush”, etc. All to no avail of course, and I haven’t been to one since, but only because, and partly as a result of the feeling of disgust & shame, of how the Establishment managed to turn the Public opinion from anti-war into “Now the war has started, we must support Our Boys otherwise your are a traitor” mentality, I left the UK as soon as I could following the the openning salvos of Shock & Awe.
And I’ve been watching from a distance how more Orwellianly repressive Britain is fast becoming, from jailing teenages who were accepted looted water bottles, to prosecuting a young Muslim student for writing poetry, etc, etc, more many examples of course, the latest being the arrest of the poopy burning teenager; although Steve Bell nails this absurdity with his cartoon here;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cartoon/2012/nov/13/remembrance-day-burning-poppy-cartoon?commentpage=2#comment-19418226
A better reponse I can’t help thinking would be for not only thousands of other online Sites to host the same image, but for somebody to set-up an “official” “Poopy Burning for Peace” Site, hosted on a legally out of reach domain, but that would take somebody both very courageous & very tech-savy.
and somebody who can spell Poppy correctly !