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.
The Torygraph is beginning to scare me:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9670585/US-guns-sales-soar-after-Barack-Obamas-re-election.html
I have just sent this email to “English Knight”
I am afraid your persistent anti-Jewish comments mean that you are really no longer welcome on my blog. Please stop posting there.
Craig
Dreoilin
a) not aimed at you b) how would I know?
Even more concerning –
General hints at use of British troops in Syria
11 November 2012
General Sir David Richards, the chief of the defence staff, said contingency plans were being drawn up in the event of a humanitarian crisis in Syria. He said intervention would be limited and would need the support of the population
THE worsening situation in Syria could lead to British troops being deployed to intervene.
General Sir David Richards, the chief of the defence staff, said today contingency plans were being drawn up in the event of a humanitarian crisis.
Intervention would be limited and would need the support of people inside Syria in the areas where assistance was being provided, it was indicated.
But a move of this nature could be seen as a step towards a full-scale military intervention, bringing British forces directly into conflict with the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
Richards, speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, said: “It would be a huge effort. We would be very cautious about it.”
The remainder is behind the paywall. The Mail also carry it.
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/Middle_East/article1163075.ece
a most interesting piece in the Firm Magazine, which is, apparently, an independent scottish law journal. not attributed that i can see, tho it could be Mike’s blog. whilst it’s impossible to vouch for some stuff, i agree wholeheartedly that at least part of what is happening since steven messham’s newsnight appearance could be characterised as diversionary tactics, and the campbell/andrew gilligan/iraq analogy is spot on:
Schofield, the decoy witchhunt, and the black arts of spin
http://www.firmmagazine.com/features/1219/Schofield%2C_the_decoy_witchhunt_and_the_black_arts.html
It’s not the Torygraph that would scare me, it’s what they’re reporting on! Tea partiers are celebrating the rise in gun sales, and talking a lot of rubbish about Texas and elsewhere ‘seceding from the Union’. They want an all-white country, and to turn the clock back to the 1950s. Some of them seem to be itching for violence.
The consensus in the USA seems to be that unless the Tea Party embraces the “Latino vote” (which they won’t) they’ll never gain any further influence in the GOP. In fact the influence they do have will wane considerably.
“Dreoilin
a) not aimed at you b) how would I know?”
I dunno … You seemed to know more about him than me. 🙂
Thanks for that link, Oddie.
V interesting.
equally or even more interesting:
Nicholas Myra: Gatekeepers Attempt to Erase Pedophilia: BBC and Gov’t Operatives Still Hoping To Stop Hemorrhaging of Public Confidence
(Writer Nicholas Myra is a former actor and television producer, now a community youth worker, and originally hailing from Tipperary, Ireland. Myra spends his winters in the UK and his summers touring Europe and North Africa by Harley Davidson)
http://21stcenturywire.com/2012/11/11/an-attempt-to-erase-history-bbc-and-downing-street-hope-entwistle-sacking-will-stop-the-hemoraging-of-public-confidence/
Helen Boaden who once stated that she changed her email address to avoid questions from from license-payers (source, media lens).
Helen, meet my friend Lol.
Obama tells Abbas of opposition to UN move
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — US President Barack Obama told Mahmud Abbas on Sunday that his administration opposes a Palestinian bid for non-state membership of the UN, both sides said.
“There was a long telephone conversation between president Mahmud Abbas and Barack Obama,” the Palestinian leader’s spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP.
“Obama expressed the opposition of the United States to the decision to go to the UN General Assembly.”
Abbas explained “the reasons and motives for the Palestinian decision to go to the UN … including the continued (Jewish) settlement activity and Israeli aggression against citizens and property,” Abu Rudeina said.
In a subsequent statement, the White House said Obama had “reiterated the United States’ opposition to unilateral efforts at the United Nations” in the call to Abbas…
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ivZ8TleQE-BcFrD8eFYvCc6TgIPQ?docId=CNG.fb3bd09177c5a6b080a3a68b3038a92e.671
And Israel has threatened to withhold tax revenues if Abbas goes ahead.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/abbas-palestinians-determined-to-obtain-observer-status-at-un.premium-1.476833
“But it’s some hilarious stuff: “he had volunteered to plead guilty on a felony charge in order to discredit himself. This was part of Tatum’s strategy of survival””
Uh, the man is dead. What extremes would you resort to if your life hung in the balance? if that’s the sort of inconsistency you’re disturbed about, I’d be surprised if you could find your arse with both hands. (Into the troll bin)
@ Jives : you seem to specialize in calling people trolls. You’re a bit of a chump, aren’t you.
BTW : some time ago you called one of my posts (it was a joke addressed to Mary) “ugly” and “sinister”. I wonder if you would now join me in calling the various posts and links which have appeared on this board calling Lord McAlpine a paedophile “ugly” and “vicious”? Come on, man up!
Hey! – can we all lighten up for a few seconds?
The night before the election, Mitt Romney was very confident & told Ann his wife “This time tomorrow night, you’ll be sleeping with the President of the United States”. After Mitt’s concession speech, they head to bed. Ann was getting undressed when she asked, “so how does this work? Is Barack coming over here or am I supposed to go over there?
After 16 years, suddenly copies of the Jillings report are ‘discovered’ in the council archives. Oh yeah?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-20302198
There is no question that most of your posts have been personalised insults unconnected to topics Habbabkuk, a prime example of what ‘trolling’ really is.
As for your rare recall of a topic now. No one knew that the accusation of McAlpine was misattributed, it turns out the police themselves somehow mixed him up. MacAlpine was one of the weird-long-list of names circulated, which did have what appeared to be credible testimoney against it, and it was right to pursue it – until it turned out very oddly, to be confused.
The rest of the weird list, for example Portillo and others, i gave no credence to at all. But MacAlpines was a rare member of it who did have credible evidence against at the time to be investigated.
And there remains very credible reports, from a respected MP no less and other sincere campaigners that there are powerful known and unprosecuted uk paedophile networks still at large requiring a special investigation to deal with.
Where it’s all happening. £1bn later. Quite funny to read this as it talks of the incoming new DG Entwistle, Newsnight etc. The thing was built on Lend Lease by Bovis. A lot of licence fee money has been sloshed around. I think it’s time to get the exorcists or the Feng Shui people in.
The news from the BBC: its £1bn new base is finally coming on air
New Broadcasting House – four years late and £55m over budget – is ready for Andrew Marr and Jeremy Paxman
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/sep/07/bbc-1bn-new-base-broadcasting
and an aerial view of the monstrosity.
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There is also the new Salford Quays development which cost another £1bn {In total approximately 2,300 BBC staff will be employed at MediaCity. In July 2010 it was announced that the BBC Breakfast programme would move to Salford Quays. It is claimed that the development will create up to 10,000 jobs and add £1bn to the regional economy over 5 years. In 2009 the BBC estimated that the move would cost up to £1 billion.}
I believe the Scottish HQ is new.
The BBC Media Centre at White City has been rebuilt and opened in 2004.
{http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/05_may/11/media_village.shtml}
The Television Centre has been sold for £200m and Bush House has been vacated too.
Who sanctioned all this expenditure and changes? Mostly Mark Thompson now ensconced in New York. The last of the big spenders authorised by Ms Jowell presumably. Spend Spend Spend!
No wonder things have gone wrong. The sheer logistics of moving people, equipment and offices around and to new buildings must have distracted the management’s attention.
Ah, Dreolin…welcome back…missed your insight !
@Mary – I haven’t been here much lately, but did you get a chance to look at my post about the ‘MPs’ expenses scandal’? I’d be very interested to hear what you think about my thesis. Even privately, if you prefer! 🙂
I reckon what’s going on now with the BBC is very similar to the expenses scandal – the “new broom”.
Thanks Frazer, I hadn’t gone far 😉
I think ‘troll’ also includes those who are gluttons for argument. They feed on discord and rarely post solutions to the tragedies they bitch and moan about 24/7. This isn’t Facebook, it’s a forum for discussion, ostensibly expanding the core of knowledge we seek. It’s also a chance to bridge gaps between cultures so that some connections can be made in our diverse body politic. Trolls take delight in offending and setting psychic fires to further the division. Honest arguments can be made by those who are far afield. I comment at several such places, some to your right, and many have disdain for reading opposing views. I ask ‘why?’ and the response is muted in defense of the failure to read the Players who form the ‘oppos’. They relent, after a while and admit they risk suffering the same ‘bubble’ they accuse others of inhabiting.
As the Godfather said in the Puzo novel; “Keep your friends close, enemies closer” You want to know what their reasoning is so that you can prepare the battleground for victory.
Arbed, 12:32pm, 12.11.12: Thanks very much. You’ve done sterling – and rational – work here on that whole matter. I’m sure many others feel the same way.
Paula Broadwell has possibly spilled some beans about the attack in Benghazi in which Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans died. The video has since been removed from YouTube – but it’s up on RT.
http://rt.com/usa/news/petraeus-benghazi-attack-cia-535/
“Until then, and even today, the CIA denies Broadwell’s claims that the CIA was holding anyone prisoner at what has long been described as a consulate building in Benghazi.
“Should her account prove true, however, it could mean that the agency had a secret black site prison in Libya, a fact long denied by Washington. If true, it could also mean that not only was the security of United States’ top intelligence office breached, but also may for once provide an impetus for the Sept. 11 attack.”
sorry OT: trolling – The funny web culture encapsulation of ‘problem?’
Heh, crab. The face is familiar….” The face commonly appears in rage comics indicating that the character is being mischievous in some way.”
Mischievious is ok. I can be a rascal, too. But less, is more.
Also, OT. I have a streak of ‘Imperious Rex’ and need to instruct. Those not offended, jibe me with the title ‘Professor’, but I am nothing of the sort. More of a ‘jack of all trades. master of none. crab, so take me with the proverbial grain of salt.
How are Western demoracies controled by the super-elite? How do they undermine fledgling or sucsessful democracies in other places like South America?
The British model:
The British security services use drug dealers, prostitutes, paedophiles and all sorts of underworld scumbags as intelligence assets. The police do the same but it is usually (but not always) in a genuine attempt to catch Mr big i.e. “using a sprat to catch a mackerel.”
The security services however are not interested in bringing criminals to justice, rather they use them to gain intelligence on individuals of interest, especially those in positions of power; senior police officers, judges; MPs; ministers; journalists; Whitehall officials; Unions; peace protesters etc.
Information is power and compromising information has even more power and can be used to control any silly MP who may want an ethical foreign policy or justice for Palestinians or to tax the rich. It can also be used to control union leaders or high profile peace activists.
“Tasty” information that is used against these people include: adultery; homosexuality; sexual predation allegations; paedophilia; downloading child pornography; financial crimes and any other character-destroying information; whether true or not.
This is how our elected parliament and the separation of powers, needed in any democracy, are undermined. They are undermined by an unelected super-elite comprising past and present members of the military; the police; the House of Lords; Whitehall; ex-Prime Ministers; the super-rich and of course, the Royal Family. The glue that holds this amalgam together is MI5 and MI6 with a bit of help from the Special Branch. None of these people have any democratic legitimacy.
Jimmy Savile was able to get close to anybody and everybody in the political hierarchy and the Royal family over the last fifty years. He wasn’t a man of great charm or charisma so how did he manage that, now then, now then?
The purpose of the special branch and the security services is to protect the state at all costs and by all means. True democracy; separation of powers and transparency in government are regarded as a threat by the unelected and unaccountable super-elite.
Jimmy Savile must have been one of their most prized assets. At least fifty years of sexual offences against children and no proper investigations or criminal charges brought against him. This indicates to me that he was being protected by those on high and, perhaps in reward, he was allowed to continue abusing children with a guarantee of immunity as he worked to lure other people, in positions of power, into a trap constructed by the security services for the purposes of blackmail to control of parliament.
Prince Charles sent a box of cigars and gold cufflinks to Jimmy Savile in 2006 with a note saying “Nobody will ever know what you have done for this country Jimmy. This is to go some way in thanking you for that.”
“Ow’s about that then?
@ Thatcrab :
1. “…most of your posts have been personalized insults…” . Untrue! A mild joke vis-à-vis Mary, a linguistic correction for Karel, a kick up the backside for the paranoid TonyRoma and a suggestion to Jives that he characterize certain posts as ugly and sinister (after he used those adjectives for my post re Mary). Please give chapter and verse.
2. re Lord McAlpine : “…No one knew that the accusation of (sic) Mc Alpine was misattributed…. etc, etc… : exactly! But a lot of you were all too eager to jump in with both feet and put the boot in. Perhaps delighted to kick a Thatcherite? Or just a love of conspiracy theories? I note that only Mary has had the grace to apologize on this board – the rest of you bandwagon-jumping cowards and suckers are keeping rather quiet, aren’t you, perhaps you’re all busy wiping the egg off your faces.
I somehow suspect that most of you are as intolerant and fascistic as the people you’re always denouncing – and complete monomaniacs. Yes, you do discuss and even disagree within your little coterie, but God help the ‘outsider’ who dares to correct you or disagree.
Get a life, you lot.
Habbabkuk; You are the least known of the minor prophets. We’d like to know more about you.
Why did you choose that name?
Habakkuk 1:3
“Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds.” (NIV)
I seek to know who I am talking to. Do you concur that understanding is the path to self-awareness? Not being glib. I want to know what makes you what you are.
Doug Scourgie – great comment on that subject. I have added a cogitation in the savile thread
Hah! Habbabkuk – You do lay it on thick, like “in the thick of it” style Its actually been moderated in the past, but maybe with substance you will float that style.
I didnt lay into any of those suspects. I read about the Haute de la Garenne horror and extremely unsatisfactory investigations, and Hollie Greig and a bit of the North Wales case and about the Dunblane massacre and a prisoner serially abused by prison staff. It was all a bit too much for me actually because besides the disturbing and distracting but obviously hollow occultive listings including pink portillo et al, there is a terrible multiplicity of improperly investigated terrible abuse cases to get to grips with.