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.
Good point…
http://www.firstpost.com/world/bombarding-gaza-isnt-america-ruled-by-a-nobel-peace-prize-winner-527859.html
No, it isn’t even funny.
The conclusion of the Jerusalem Post leader
We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn’t stop with Hiroshima – the Japanese weren’t surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too.
There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing. Then they’d really call for a ceasefire.
Were this to happen, the images from Gaza might be unpleasant – but victory would be swift, and the lives of our soldiers and civilians spared.
IF THE government isn’t prepared to go all the way on this, it will mean reoccupying the entire Gaza Strip. Not a few neighborhoods in the suburbs, as with Cast Lead, but the entire Strip, like in Defensive Shield, so that rockets can no longer be fired.
There is no middle path here – either the Gazans and their infrastructure are made to pay the price, or we reoccupy the entire Gaza Strip. Otherwise there will be no decisive victory. And we’re running out of time – we must achieve victory quickly. The Netanyahu government is on a short international leash. Soon the pressure will start – and a million civilians can’t live under fire for long. This needs to end quickly – with a bang, not a whimper.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=292466
Sorry but I see that Dreoilin posted the same link last night.
Today’s Times editorial is a little different. Posted by the Medialens editors who describe it as ludicrous.
http://members5.boardhost.com/medialens/msg/1353315071.html
Yes, N_ My experience exactly. I’ve lived in the middle of the London diaspora, too. Great people for a chat…but don’t push your luck, socially speaking.
CheebaCow
Yeah but, the “suburbs in Melbourne” ain’t quite the full authentic experience.
You probably want to get yourself to the West Bank for that. Highly recommended by Rough Guide. Insurance not included.
The Qataris have not found one commercial tenant for Mr Irvine Sellar’s Shard. LOL
Pn the same website – 1 in 10 UK shops are empty.
London’s future skyline in doubt
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20357816
@Mary – very important observation that a million people can’t live under fire for long. We shouldn’t forget words the present Zionist foreign minister has said in the past, referring to the US nuclear attacks on Japan as well as doing a 3 million on Egypt by bombing the Aswan dam. The blood of innocents is as nothing to these nuclear-armed racist psychopaths. The choice of the operation name, Pillar of Cloud, may also be significant in the sense of a planned follow-up with a Pillar of Fire.
I can’t get the video of that gurgling burnt baby at that website out of my mind.
I need to get a grip and stop trying to educate people about what words get used in Stoke Newington, when which side is right and which side is wrong is obvious!
Meanwhile the quisling governments of the West, in every single speech their senior figures make about the ongoing massacre, push the idea that the only acceptable viewpoint is Israeli one.
Haniyeh calls on the world to assume its responsibilities
(18/11/2012 – 09:44 PM)
GAZA, (PIC)– Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh condemned the massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces against the Dalo family in Gaza, resulting in the killing of 12 martyrs ,11 of them from the same family, mostly women and children, along with dozens of wounded.
“We the government and people stand by Dalo’s family who was subjected to a horrific massacre that exceeded all expectations,” Haniyeh said in a statement, on Sunday evening.
We condemn this brutal massacre that stressed the need to remove the occupation from our land, he said, calling on the world to assume its responsibilities towards the blood of these innocent people.
For his part, Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, the spokesman for the Islamic Resistance Movement “Hamas” stated that the massacre of the family of Dalo is an evidence of the Israeli military failure that wants to compensate for its failure through targeting civilians, stressing that Israelis will pay the price.
Thanks Komodo for some support. I was beginning to think I was in a minority of one here!
Amazing that Sharon’s vast body is being kept alive nearly 7 years after he was incapacitated. ‘He has been in a persistent vegetative state since suffering a stroke on 4 January 2006’. Why is his ‘life’ so precious cf that of a child in Gaza.
The son does not resemble him physically.
http://www.speakers.com/Gilad-Sharon-speaker-biography
Pity young Natan Blanc. He will have a terrible time in prison.
To Military Prison, Instead Of Gaza
Israeli Conscientious Objector Natan Blanc To be imprisoned this morning
Today, Monday November 19th, Natan Blanc, a 19 years old Israeli from old Haifa, will show up at the recruitment bureau, inform officers there of his refusal to serve in the IDF, and will likely be sent immediately to the military prison. His act of conscientious refusal is directly connected to the current situation and the army’s acts in Gaza. He took this decision even before hearing the terrible news of five women and four children being killed today by a single Israeli Air Force bomb:
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1211/S00276/to-military-prison-instead-of-gaza.htm
what should we replace these pigs with, Mary, they are deemed to be the best model for humans bar the real thing and the practise has been going on for decades. afaik.
Some on here ought to get a Harley or something else for their mid-life crisis, I was waiting for villager to pitch in, as he/she said, ‘lying in wait is precisely what you do’, sorry, you meant to say what you just now did.
Your last sentence was uncalled for as nobody on here was aware that Technicolour is female, my assumptions as to menopause and natural cycles, was merely a stab in the dark.
Why did you out Technicolour Villager? care to explain?
‘Say what you will but keep in mind your earlier attack towards Technicolour could be implied as racist (I don’t know TC, and am no more familiar with her than you are with Clark) and is still on record.
A carefully constructed side swipe at Clark, BF, whoever he is, and at Technicolour, only to scowl off back into the village.
Thanks for that reminder that Israel is not the only rogue state in the world, Courtney, we can guess how this year vote will be on both the issues of Cuba and that of Palestine, by the looks of it we have to change domestic politics to change the equation.
That would mean leaving the keyboards and become actively involved, nothing will be achieved by arguing with each other on what is essentially a news chrunching forum with a few good books on the side.
Too tired to have another attempt, after trying to persuade, more than once, and getting SFA response, the silence is deafeningly loud and I wonder whether any of you is actually capable of making an effort to change the equation you are faced with.
I do not include Clark and Mary in this grump, they do go to demo’s and make their voices heard, thanks for it, I’m out with a thick knee unfortunately, otherwise I would have joined in, thanks for your example though.
Apparently it was young Gilad Sharon who wrote that disgusting stuff in the JP.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/18/gilad-sharon-israel-gaza-op-ed_n_2155932.html
Off out with my dog now for some fresh air!
Hacking continues. Good.
http://hackread.com/54-israeli-websites-hacked-by-vru-nor/
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Hackers-Leak-Details-of-5-000-Israeli-Officials-307872.shtml
Also…
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/likudnik-website-hacked-by-palestinians/2012/11/18/
(Can’t reach {www.likudnik.co.il} at all. LOL)
Blair Bush Sarkozy and Olmert discussed the re-occupation of Ghaza in 2004, a default position, ‘should all efforts fail’.
Re-taking Gaza by violent means was contemplated some time ago, don’t ask me to provide a link, too busy with a submission for the Kings Lynn incinerator inquiry.
I wish there would be more hackers than maulers Komodo.
I completely agree, Nevermind. And good luck with the incinerator – though the words “brick wall”, “head” and “banging” come to mind. Would you consider a pyrolysis plant as an alternative?
Looks like Technicolour has a lot of sympathy for the Israeli cause to me. Someone earlier noted the absence of hasbara posters here. Not so, I think.
Inverting truth. How is uncritically accepting the number ‘six million’ from ancient religious writings more ‘scholarly’ than examining the documentary evidence of our recent past?
No ‘holocaust denier’ has ever lost an argument of modern history to a Zionist and certainly has no reason to turn to “lying, deceit and shoddy use of sources”, unlike some well documented religious dogma’s.
You’re wrong Komodo. Tech is no more a “hasbara poster” than you are.
And Nevermind, what on earth has got into you? Referring to someone as “she” or “her” is “outting them” now?
Good god …
In which we learn a little more about that media strike. Seems TV antennae are hiding behind human shields, if I’ve got it right.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/nov/19/gaza-journalist-safety
Still, it was impartial…
…the facilities of Sky News, ITV, the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV, al-Quds TV and Palestinian news agencies were badly affected. Russia Today (RT) reported that its office, along with that of its Arabic-language sister, Rusiya Al-Yaum, were destroyed. They were located on the top floor of the 11-storey al-Shawa building.
So sorry, Sky. Our deepest regrets. But you can console yourselves with the knowledge that RT is off-air.
Dreoilin – you have faith that can move mountains. I envy you.
Hang-em-High : I suspect you will get bounced if you continue in that vein. FYI this blog does not accept holocaust-denial posts. Matter of record.
Mod!!!!
When people hear someone described as a holocaust survivor, what image wells up in their mind – mass graves, gas chambers, crematoria burning day and night?
So, simply being alive at a particular point in time and being a member of a religion in a particular country means you ‘survived’ the holocaust, even if you were never in any physical danger for one single second. Not only that but you can also screw money from the Germans and Allies for generations to come.
I’ve seen some rubbish posted here in the past 24 hours and some crazy assumptions made. I think I’ll lurk for a while. I may be facing eye surgery anyway.
Meanwhile, Villager, you say, “I suspect he was playing to the gallery then–a chameleon changing its colour”
IMO, BF doesn’t so much play to the gallery as play to Komodo, and Clark. Constantly.
Others here say what they mean and mean what they say. Always. I’d put Tech and Glenn and Clark, CheebaCow and Mary – and numerous others – in that category. But not BF. He’s currying favour, but why, I have no idea.
“Dreoilin – you have faith that can move mountains.”
Komodo, maybe it’s because I’ve been here for a long time, and I know who’s who by now. I know who’s speaking from the heart. And it doesn’t sit well with me when they get attacked for no good reason.
Anyway, I’m taking a break.
Of course millions of Jewish people were murdered in Europe during WW2.
well yeah, it did. Enjoy your break, hope the eye surgery does the trick, get better soon.
This is what a provincial rag like the EDP has to offer, their first article of the Gaza attacks, its all about cyber wars apparently. I wrote a long tome in response, but its hanging in moderation/gently falling towards the bin.
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/politics/israel_and_hamas_launch_online_war_1_1696527
I have no problem with anyone referring to me as she, he or they. I am, however, interested to note that playground sexism now apparently counts as argument.
And here are all the nasties, in full baying flood, and now we’re on to the holocaust. I think people are making their positions very clear, and providing more than enough evidence to (metaphorically) hang themselves.
Villager; it’s quite true.
For anyone else reading this board, on Craig’s account, and trying to make some sense of it: I have been posting on the comments section since it started. Dreoilin, CheebaCow, Clark, Crab, Vronsky, Suhayl, Glenn, MarkGolding, Courtenay and Mary are also long term posters. I can’t speak for Craig, but of the newer additions Villager is patently in tune with the general ethos here.
On which note, I think it is saner to let the squabblers and haters congratulate each other until Craig recovers. Komodo, since you’re concerned enough to warn someone that they might be ‘bounced off’ for their holocaust denial; perhaps you would like to address the lies they are trying to propagate. On the other hand, since, in the teeth of all the evidence, you are peculiarly trying to smear me as ‘hasbara’, which is really quite laughable, perhaps you will just keep going along with them.
Have fun with it all.
[..]
The Ministry of Health in Gaza said it had run out of 192 essential drugs – 40 per cent of the essential medicines list – and held zero stocks of 586 medical disposables – items such as dressings and syringes – accounting for 65 per cent of the essential list.
Tony Laurance, the head of the WHO office for Gaza and the West Bank, said the Palestinian Authority was $400m overspent and there were drug and medical equipment shortages across the region. But they were worst in Gaza.
“Our biggest concern is the shortage of supplies,” he said, appealing for donors to provide cash that could be spent on the most urgently needed items, including the antibiotics cefazolin and ciproflaxin for injection, saline solution and chest drains for crush injuries.
[..]
“The shortages are affecting ordinary patients, too. There are lots with heart problems and cancer. We need ranitidine for ulcers and bicarbonate solution for kidney dialysis. These patients face a double disadvantage of having to move out to make room for the casualties and being unable to get their drugs.”
Of the 21 WHO medical clinics in Gaza, 11 are closed because they were in areas targeted by air strikes. The head of the WHO Gaza office, Mahmoud Daher, recounted that the windows of his house were blown out and the interior destroyed by an explosion as he and his family sheltered in the cellar.
The bombing and shelling takes a psychological toll as well. The Gaza Community Mental Health programme found during the 2009 war that children were affected by bed-wetting, nightmares, sleeplessness and behavioural disorders. Post-traumatic stress disorder increased, leaving a legacy of on-going raised levels of depression.
“Stress can be treated – depression persists,” Mr Laurance said.’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/overwhelmed-palestinian-doctors-run-out-of-lifesaving-medicines-8327307.html
jeez, again you are smearing all and sundry as accusing you of being hasbara, they have not and I have not.
I hope that Craig is getting better.
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The death toll is climbing. Terrible.
Ninety-four Palestinians and three Israelis have died since Wednesday. They include nine members of a Gaza family apparently killed by mistake. BBC website