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.
Mary,
Thanks for that list. I am meeting my (Zionist) MP on 28th November with others from our constituency to lobby him to speak out about Israeli crimes. He will not do so of course but names of victims do put a personal perspective on war crimes. Israeli victims are usually named in the MSM (especially children) with a sentimental biography appended citing their innocence and their hopes and ambitions for the future. No such details of Palestinian victims are available in the western media.
Any more names you can provide me with up to the 28th of November would be appreciated
I’ve seen people claim in the past on other forums that after they registered an account with GLP they discovered that their email account was later accessed from Israel. Presumably they made the mistake of registering on GLP with a common password. Of course an access from Israel could be deliberate misdirection but I definitely would be very wary about registering on GLP and have never done so.
There was a Wikipedia page on GLP that had interesting information about who is behind it but it got deleted from Wikipedia because it was “not notable enough”.
Harry Fear confirms he is still blocked from Facebook even though he has previously sent them his passport when they blocked him before.
Anon; I can see that. They were too eager to have me register.
“Gaza Blitz – Turmoil And Tragicomedy At The BBC”
http://www.medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=706:gaza-blitz-turmoil-and-tragicomedy-at-the-bbc&catid=25:alerts-2012&Itemid=69
From PalestineAction:
On Thursday 8th November, a 13-year-old boy, Ahmed Younis Khader Abu Daqqa, was killed in Gaza by Israeli machine-gun fire.
On Saturday 10th November, four more teenage boys, aged 16, 17, 18 and 19, were killed by Israeli shelling. These included two brothers, Mohammed Ussama Hassan Harara (16) and Ahmed Mustafa Khaled Harara (17).
The deaths of these children and young people in Gaza have been completely ignored by BBC radio and television.
In particular, there have been no reports on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme, which the BBC describes as its flagship news programme and one which sets the agenda for the rest of the day.
However, ‘Today’ and other Radio 4 news programmes, such as the World at One, regularly repoort on rockets fired into Israel from Gaza, and on damage done to Israeli buildings.
As a result, BBC audiences are under the impression that southern Israeli towns are constantly under attack from Gaza, but remain unaware when Israel kills Palestinian children and civilians. This is not balanced reporting, and is a clear indication of the BBC’s bias.
Take action:
Email ‘Today’ to ask why it has not reported on the killing, within the space of two days, of five young Palestinian boys in Gaza. In the same period, 52 Palestinians were injured by airstrikes, including 12 children, and this has also not been reported. It is unlikely that the BBC would have ignored the deaths of five teenage Israelis if they had been killed as a result of rocket fire from Gaza, or overlooked injury to 12 Israeli children. Please ask for a reply. Email the editors at: [email protected]
Please also send a general complaint about the total absence of coverage of these killings across BBC news and radio, via the BBC’s official complaints procedure. This needs to be done by filling out the online form at http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints Again, please ask for a reply, so that the BBC is obligated to deal with your query.
An ‘infographic’ from a RW website called the American Conservative. The article it came from is called the Comedy of Deterrers.
‘Nuke’ stockpile. Guess who heads the list.
Megatons per million population
Kilotons per square mile
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/deterrersColor.jpg
Suggest magnifying to read the text.
Agree, GodLike Productions is seriously bananas or funded by Tel Aviv. Ignore, for sanity’s sake. I may have cited it earlier. Ignore that too.
Radio 4 News, reporting live from Gaza, has reported an attack on the home of “a member of Hamas’ security service” in which 30 people were injured, including children. I’m inclined to give the BBC the benefit of the doubt here. Unlike the last time the Israelis felt like shooting fish in a barrel, the media were not given a grandstand view of the proceedings before it kicked off. Events developed so quickly that for 24 hours the Israelis had control over most of the limited information available. (This follows the pattern of 2006, when the bastardy in Gaza took place under the cover of a more media-friendly alternative attraction in Lebanon)
I’ve submitted a comment for Feedback as suggested above, btw.
I think the BSD movement has had adequate time to demonstrate its limited effectiveness. From now until further notice, I shall be communicating distantly and formally, and only if I have to, with anyone I know to be Jewish. I realise this is a scattergun approach, and risks alienating perfectly decent people, but I really think that the only pressure the Israeli government will recognise is from the diaspora. If there is to be a uniquely Jewish state built on barbarism and robbery, is for Jews everywhere to decide. And if they love it enough to support it here, let them go and live there. Starting with Mel Phillips.
Sorry. I’m incandescent at the moment.
(For ‘last time’ read ‘last time but one’, above)
Noam Chomsky speaks out on the latest Israeli attack on Gaza
“It is not a war, it is murder.”
“The incursion and bombardment of Gaza is not about destroying Hamas. It is not about stopping rocket fire into Israel, it is not about achieving peace.
The Israeli decision to rain death and destruction on Gaza, to use lethal weapons of the modern battlefield on a largely defenseless civilian population, is the final phase in a decades-long campaign to ethnically-cleanse Palestinians.
Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command in control, no army… and calls it a war. It is not a war, it is murder.
“When Israelis in the occupied territories now claim that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier has to defend itself against the population they are crushing. You can’t defend yourself when you’re militarily occupying someone else’s land. That’s not defense. Call it what you like, it’s not defense.”
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/november172012/chomsky-gaza.php
http://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-assaults-gaza-bbc-reporting-assaults-truth/11894
The author is Amena Saleem. Good and very active. She has driven on two convoys to Gaza and comes from the Scottish branch of the PSC I believe.
Komodo; I know there is an oppositional response by many Israelis to Zionism, but often wonder why the Holocaust memory has so little influence over their approach to the Palestinians.
Warsaw Ghetto=Gaza……wtf?
Ben
For Zionism, the Holocaust was an opportunity.
http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/antisemitism/holocaust/gedalyaLiebermann.cfm
Zionists are quite a nasty bunch of fruity loops. Once you understand that you’ll appreciate its self-destructive nature, one that we’re seeing in the US too.
Anyone familiar with Juan Cole?
http://www.juancole.com/2012/11/top-ten-myths-about-israeli-attack-on-gaza.html
That point has been made many times, Ben. By me, too. Eight years ago, even. But the heroism of the Jewish resistance, incinerated in Warsaw’s sewers by a numerically superior army equipped with state-of-the art weaponry obviously has no points of comparison with current events. For one thing, there is less opportunity for shelter in Gaza.
Live feed from RT and Harry monitored by Tennessee guy here.
Israelis trying to get Pal militants to use their phones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udOWpvQVQXM
Al-Sabra targeted…
Listen to this aggressive treatment of the Hamas representative, the deputy Foreign Minister, on this afternoon’s PM compared to the spoonfed stuff with Regev that precedes it. I believe the presenter shilling for Israel here is Paddy O’Connell, normally on the Sunday Broadcasting House programme. He might as well be working for the Israeli Ministry of ‘Truth’.
It is not Eddie Mair as incorrectly shown on the graphic.
5mins 15secs in http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nwp2x/PM_Saturday_PM/
I know there was a cadre of resistance in Warsaw, ‘modo. My question had to do more with the Jews memory of their treatment, both by Nazis and the World Community as instructive in their view of Palestinians. We, I believe, have finally delivered a death-blow to the Teahadists in the US through our electoral process. Israeli’s have the same process, no?
Herbie; Yes. Thank you for that.
What Juan Cole thinks at the moment is irrelevant to the current slaughter of Palestinians.
He blotted his copybook IMHO by supporting the USUKIsNATO attack on Libya.
The Wikipedia page on him is a fair summary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Cole
Writing for CounterPunch, John Walsh[84] and editor/commentator Alexander Cockburn[85] described Cole as being an advisor to the CIA and Walsh referred to Cole as a “humanitarian hawk.”[84] Cole responded to Walsh’s charges, saying that he was never a consultant to the CIA but did give talks in Washington, D.C. at events sponsored by think tanks at which a range of US government officials were present, including CIA analysts: “Qaddafi was a CIA Asset”
David North, writing on the World Socialist Web Site has strongly criticized Cole’s defense of the US/NATO Libyan intervention, claiming an inconsistency between Cole’s 2006 opposition to the “wholesale destruction of all of Lebananon by Israel and the US Pentagon” as part of a broader strategy to acquire control of the major sources of oil and natural gas, and Cole’s 2011 statement that “I haven’t seen the war-for-oil argument made for Libya in a manner that makes any sense at all.”8
“Life for people living in southern Israel is grim and life for people living in Gaza is grim.”
That’s BBC balance for you, from the clip Mary posted above. Very poor stuff.
There’s plenty to read on BBC bias in favour of Israel – Loads of it from academics all over the place.
But you need do no more than read the BBC’s own commissioned report, The Thomas Report published in 2006. It was bad then and it’s even worse now.
http://www.palestinecampaign.org/index7b-2.asp?m_id=1&l1_id=3&l2_id=122&content_ID=1709
My question had to do more with the Jews memory of their treatment, both by Nazis and the World Community as instructive in their view of Palestinians.
Sorry, Ben. My snark was excessive. And I didn’t read your question in the way it was intended, evidently. The answer is, I think, “by their works shall ye know them”. And Jewish voices protesting that some basic Nazi assumptions are obviously shared by Israel, are hard to hear.
Komodo
Such voices are only hard to hear because mainstream media refuses to report them with anything remotely close to the weight it gives to Zionist narratives.
Mary: Does anyone’s ideological purity meet your strict standards? Is it even possible that it does so? Juan Cole is a respected academic with an intimate knowledge of the Middle East and beyond; historical and political. His piece concisely lists the lies we are being told by Israel, and explodes them conclusively. He is more than entitled to his informed opinion, as of course you and I are entitled to our relatively uninformed ones. He’s on the side of right as regards Gaza, and his opinion is respected. Isn’t that enough?
This is an excellent site produced by a real journalist with immense experience of the ME.
He’s met and interviewed all the main figures down the years and spoken to them privately etc, producing insights that are the stuff of real journalism.
http://www.alanhart.net/
It’s a definite must read for anything with an interest in what’s going on. He worked in the BBC before the children turned it into romper room.
Mary; I respect Alexander Cockburn, but I think Cole is another victim of the ‘purity’ contingent.
Personally, I see a difference between an internal uprising, and an invasion/occupation, but understand your suspicions.
I understand too, why Hamas will greet the Iranian Foreign Minister in Gaza, even though they have had their internal troubles. Make alliances. Build bridges. A smattering of loosely affiliated groups who agree on most things, is preferable to isolation.
True, Herbie.
We all suffer from that. But I think there is an element of peer-group pressure too. If you agree that some of your co-religionists behave like Nazis, you are likely to be excluded from the group, no? Bear in mind that for most Jews, Jewishness is their principal defining characteristic-even for non-practising ones. At once their great strength and their fatal weakness.
“At once their great strength and their fatal weakness.”
Heh. I was asked at a job interview some years back; ‘What is your strongest quality”
answer; ‘Persistance’
Your weakest? ‘persistance’.
Komodo (again! sorry!): should people on the board then only communicate with you if they have to? Or each other? Or Ben? Bearing in mind what this country and the US has done to Iraq and Afghanistan?
It is, quite simply, wrong to single out and blame all Jewish people for the crimes of the Israeli government.
Indeed, The Goldstone affair comes to mind.
I think Gerald Kaufman compared them to Nazis a few years ago.
But more generally I’m encouraged by the extent of the dissent in Israel itself and the growing numbers of younger Jews in the US who are prepared to disassociate themselves from Israeli policy.
In the meantime we’ve Chomsky, Finklestein, Neturei Karta and many others to bear witness to the shame that Zionism brings to humanity.
thanks Herbie, very interesting and experienced character, liked your little quip about romper room.
Just listened to Norwich win against ManU, so who knows what other positive things might come of today.
It is, quite simply, wrong to single out and blame all Jewish people for the crimes of the Israeli government
I entirely agree. You are absolutely right.
However, I see no other way to influence the Israeli government to adopt a more civilised course. You might have added that it plays into the hands of the Zionists who encourage antisemitism where they can, as it increases support for Israel. That too. But we are dealing with people in the final analysis, and social ostracism is a very potent modifier of opinion.
Have you any better ideas? Please? I don’t want to do this. Give me a viable alternative.