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.
Lot of attention on David Rose for discrediting (or telling the truth about?) Steven Messham, little on the co-author of the Mail item Bob Woffinden who has a history of exposing miscarriages of justice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Woffinden
Probably because David Rose has a reputation as someone who specialises in trawling the country for opportunities to rubbish child abuse investigations.
Entwhistle: Paxman tells it like it probably is:
http://www.newstatesman.com/staggers/2012/11/jeremy-paxman-george-entwistle-brought-low-cowards-and-incompetents
Kempe,
What “truth” do you know about Steven Messham? Or about the lifelong scars carried by victims of child sex abuse?
Do you know about the terror attacks, the depression, the tendencies to addiction, or the inclinations to suicide?
All of these, of course, can be used by people like David Rose to try and discredit survivors and call them “unreliable witnesses”.
I saw this in the printed version of the Independent which carries a photo of Agent Cameron in full Bullingdon Boy evening rig out. What a evil creature. He comes home from his sales pitch in the ME, visits Jordan and makes a song and dance about the Syrian refugees there, completely ignoring the Palestinian refugees who have been there for generations, spends that evening with that Merkel woman who crucified the Greek people further this week, and carried on to lay his wreath at the Cenotaph on Sunday. Then he was at the Mansion House last night having a good dinner presumably and boasting of his sales pitch in the ME. Like Blair he is blind to his crimes.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/david-cameron-makes-no-apology-for-controversial-visit-to-the-gulf-to-promote-british-defence-firms-8307188.html
See the second photo. It makes his face look fatter than usual.
Mark:
“only after the General told Congress that Israel was a strategic liability in the Middle East”
I had read that statement and was quite surprised by it. It could *almost* have been written by a commenter here.
“Specialises”, Dreoilin? He’s done a couple – got NWNF lawyers for the two defendants, who were given maximum damages for defamation in one case – but I’d be interested to see the full extent of his alleged infamy. Links please. Like this:
http://www.insidetime.org/articleview.asp?a=504&c=bob_woffinden_writes
Did you know you could be convicted on the evidence of a single anonymous witness?
Like anybody else the only information I have is what I read.
Messham may well have been through a dreadful experience; that doesn’t give him carte blanche to make false accusations.
How many other child abuse investigations has David Rose rubbished?
A half hour film showing how offshore banking launders money:
“How To Rob Africa”
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2012/11/201211714649852604.html
How about this character Dreoilin? Now deceased. Dismissed the N Wales abuse.
‘In The Secret of Bryn Estyn (2005), Richard’s compelling account of the lengthy investigations into suspected abuse in care homes in north Wales, he argued that abuse scandals could be phenomena conjured from an atmosphere of public hysteria, fuelled by credulous journalists and ratified through inefficient police investigative techniques. The real secret of Bryn Estyn, he concluded, was that there was no secret at all; it was just an ordinary community home where staff did their best to look after difficult adolescents.’
How could he have such beliefs? What was his agenda? Rose is referred to also.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jul/31/richard-webster-obituary
The author of the glowing obituary is a Bob Woffinden.
I see that Woffinden defended Jonathan KIng! Wonder what his opinion is of the Savile accusations.
He has argued that there have been wrongful convictions in other high-profile cases, including those of Jeremy Bamber, convicted in 1986 of killing five members of his family in Essex;[7] the music impresario Jonathan King (whom he had known since his time on NME) who was convicted of sexual offences against teenage boys; and in the case of Barry George, convicted of the murder of television presenter Jill Dando. Woffinden had been contacted by someone from military intelligence who told him that the murder was committed by a Serb terrorist.[8] Although in the Bamber case a reconsideration of all the evidence led him to later change his mind and write another piece in which he stated that he now thought him guilty of the murders.
PS I agree with him on Barry George. I think that his conviction for nurdering Jill Dando was definitely a miscarriage.
Komodo,
I’m quoting, word for word, Stuart Syvret, ex-Senator, and ex-Health Minister in the Jersey administration:
http://stuartsyvret.blogspot.ie/2010/05/facts-dont-go-away.html
I do not defend false allegations for one minute, obviously, and of course people who are wrongly accused should get damages for defamation.
But what has paedophilia (esp paedophilia ‘in high places’) got to do with the supply of ecstasy in a club, or anonymous police witnesses (i.e. the link you posted)?
… Dreoilin – (Sorry for the delay – been partying over France/Amazon tax claim)
But even if we accept that Obama waved a magic wand and made Guantanamo legit, the ‘evidence obtained by’ bit hasn’t gone away.
We are, I agree Dreoilin essentially on the brink of a very dark aeon in which agent Cameron is already enacting his part in the conspiracy to implode Syria – http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/12/cameron-syria-conflict-rebels-policy – succeeded by a Condition Yankee – Close all red openings. Action Stations! Action Stations! by British Naval vessels in the Persian Gulf running their engines in the familiar shadow of UAE and Oman’s radar site Link Quality Indicator (LQI) to monitor the TSS in the Strait of Hormuz.
Expect a diacritic festive season if I am not wrong.
“The real secret of Bryn Estyn, he concluded, was that there was no secret at all; it was just an ordinary community home where staff did their best to look after difficult adolescents.’”
Jesus, Mary, that just makes me feel sick. ‘Difficult adolescents’ = kids with emotional problems, like in Broadmoor. David Rose and Bob Woffinden may believe they are on some sort of ‘crusade’ to defend the innocent – but they are overzealous (or, being paid to do what they do). Bryn Estyn seems to have been a cesspit.
Did anyone see the interview with the guy by the name of Michael who alleged that busloads of boys were brought to London for weekend “parties” in swanky flats? I can’t remember now if it was on Sky or Channel 4.
Komodo,
Stuart Syvret has been ploughing away for the past number of years to vindicate the abused, and to bring abusers and those complicit in the coverup to justice in Jersey and in Britain. He is on a long legal trail to Europe with this case.
http://photopol.blogspot.ie/2012/11/jersey-ci.html
I hope you’re not going to argue with me on this just for the sake of arguing, because I argued with you in the past.
“But even if we accept that Obama waved a magic wand and made Guantanamo legit, the ‘evidence obtained by’ bit hasn’t gone away.”
Yes, Moniker, I realised that straight after I’d posted the comment. 🙂
[Just one more reason an Edit button would be useful, but I don’t want to overload Jon with requests.]
Nothing whatever, Dre. My precise point is that he covers a range of miscarriages of justice. He doesn’t specialise in abuse. Check his Wiki entry. (no need to inform me how unreliable Wiki is if you don’t like what you find) And if you’re quoting someone else, better to mention it at the time. But thank you for the link.
Judging by his extended rant about the JEP, it seems at least possible that he’s going OTT about Webster, anyway. Should I believe him (and thousands of C&P artists web-wide?) or a BBC article, I wonder? Face it, the BBC can be sanctioned if it gets it wrong – the artists can’t.
The last time we had an abuse witch-hunt in the UK, it was sparked off by Rebekah Wade-nee-Brooks*. One of its brilliant outcomes was the persecution of paediatricians by Sun-reading morons. I’m anxious to see a sense of proportion here.
* beautiful, totally socially committed embodiment of the public conscience that she is
Whistleblower in North Wales:
“Shooting the messengers to protect the powerful”
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/11/502608.html
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“Face it, the BBC can be sanctioned if it gets it wrong”
Not if you’re BBC Jersey, apparently. They have not been called to account for years. But I gather you’d need to have been reading the Jersey blogs to know this.
“One of its brilliant outcomes was the persecution of paediatricians by Sun-reading morons.”
Sure, Komodo, that would have been funny if it wasn’t so horrible.
I need a break. I only remembered to have breakfast an hour ago.
Habakuk; No offense intended. I wasn’t probing about personals, just like to have some context in discussion.
“One of its brilliant outcomes was the persecution of paediatricians by Sun-reading morons.”
Oh yes; if anybody wants a really amoral sleazebag to have a go at.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15937664
He also described the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone as “No big deal”.
Has this come to your notice Craig? Outrageous.
US to increase its use of assassination drones in West Africa: Report 10 hours ago
A US assassination drone (file photo)
Recent reports say that the United States is to expand its use of unmanned assassination drones across West African nations.
A state-funded BBC report confirms the US plans to increase the use of its terror drones in West African nations including Ghana.
Reports also suggest that for years, the US security and military forces have been secretly preparing bases in that part of the world for keeping and controlling unmanned aircraft capable of collecting military data and being used in the so-called war on terror.
The US plan includes operations in Ghana, as well as other African nations.
The first of these bases is to be launched in Mali, where the US claims drones will be used to fight against Mali extremists in the north of the country. However, the claim is rejected as baseless by observers.
Word of an escalation in the use of drones comes as tens of thousands of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan have already been killed over US interests.
According to Kwesi Pratt, the managing editor of Insight, more than 2,500 Pakistani civilians have lost their lives as a result of the US assassination drone strikes. This is while the international community remains silent on the matter.
The US has also been using its drones in Somalia. The actual number of innocent civilians who have been killed in the African nation remains unknown.
Related posts:
1.US assassination drone attacks kill 28 in NW Pakistan
2.France, US talk over sending drones to Mali
3.Clinton Using South Africa Against Iran, Working With Ugandans to Deploy Drones Against Kony
4.US drones kill 18 in Pakistan
5.UK to double number of drones in Afghanistan
http://share.banoosh.com/2012/11/13/us-to-increase-its-use-of-assassination-drones-in-west-africa-report/
I saw Michael on Sky News Dreoilin. It’s a miracle that there have been survivors like him. I bet that many of those abused children have left this world.
http://web.orange.co.uk/article/news/child_sex_abuse_victim_recalls_horror
Glenn focuses on the Bigger Picture…..
“So not only did the FBI – again, all without any real evidence of a crime – trace the locations and identity of Broadwell and Petreaus, and read through Broadwell’s emails (and possibly Petraeus’), but they also got their hands on and read through 20,000-30,000 pages of emails between Gen. Allen and Kelley.”
“This is a surveillance state run amok. It also highlights how any remnants of internet anonymity have been all but obliterated by the union between the state and technology companies.”
This next graf illustrates Glenn may have a sense of humor, obliquely.
“But, as unwarranted and invasive as this all is, there is some sweet justice in having the stars of America’s national security state destroyed by the very surveillance system which they implemented and over which they preside. As Trevor Timm of the Electronic Frontier Foundation put it this morning: “Who knew the key to stopping the Surveillance State was to just wait until it got so big that it ate itself?””
Heh
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/13/petraeus-surveillance-state-fbi
We (US) have dibs on hysteria. In fact, we invented and developed it into a macabre art, Komodo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial
Is GOOGLE, your friend?
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/11/gmail-location-data-petraeus/
‘Israeli leaders have begun preparing domestic and international opinion for a renewed onslaught against Palestinian militants after more than a million Israeli citizens spent a third night in bomb shelters as more than 100 rockets rained across the Gaza border in less than 48 hours.
…………..
Ministers were divided on whether Israel should launch another ground invasion or opt for assassinating Hamas leaders. Israel said it holds Hamas, as the controlling power in Gaza, responsible for the rockets.
US Ambassador Dan Shapiro posted on Facebook and Twitter: “Our thoughts are with the residents of southern Israel, who continue to be bombarded with missile attacks from terrorist organisations in Gaza. The United States supports Israel’s right to defend itself and its citizens.” ‘
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/rocket-attacks-force-israelis-to-spend-nights-in-bomb-shelters-8307218.html
And the good old Indie is helping them ‘prepare international opinion’
“Did Israel provoke rockets from Gaza to pressure Palestinians to back off UN bid?”
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/11/did-israel-provoke-rockets-from-gaza-to-pressure-palestinians-to-back-off-un-bid.html
UK acts with Israel and USA to stop PA bid
http://jfjfp.com/?p=35991#bid1
This posting has 3 items:
1) Ma’an news: UK pressuring PLO to abandon UN bid;
2) Times of Israel: In phonecall with Obama, Abbas vows to carry on with UN bid ;
3) Ma’an news: 51 states ‘undecided’ over Palestinian UN bid ;
Sorry O/T
hey, our smelly dragon has exchanged his motorbike for the armchair again, had some fresh air? did you?
You might have remembered my post from a week ago, we lambasted Jamie A(n)thill for being a closet arms dealer, the Guardian picked up on it and he was challenged on Radio Norfolk about it. Still nothing was heard about it in the EDP, nor do the people of Norfolk know about it.
They have swept it under the carpet and now this website, flagged up By Komodo and a friend of mine is coming to the front.
It had 5 million hits apparently and it is an erroneous advertising from the policy wonks in the minority coalition, try the website, please, find out as much about your local candidates, if you can that is, I failed to find anything out, except the profile of the quasi arms dealer in question.
This email arrived today from a tired campaigner who had tried for two days to get the MSM informed and acting.
“You will never guess what the Tories are up to now.
I had a friend call last night saying that she had been on the “official” website and was only able to vote for the Tory candidate as he was the only one who had put his details on the Police website. There were just holes with the names of the other candiates with a message saying how disappointed they were that those candidates hadn’t provided details!
Thought this was suspicious and checked the wesbite http://www.policeelections.com myself. If you type in your postcode that is indeed what you get. If you probe a little further you get the details of the organisation who has put this site on the web one “Policy Exchange”. It says it is “non partisan” which is a complete joke as it was founded by Michael Gove and Francis Maude (!!) and is staffed by some of the main Libertarians in Tory London today.
I asked the candidates and one of them said he had tried to get his details on there FIVE TIMES without success. And note that they have had FIVE MILLION HITS which means that if they have played this trick anywhere else it will certainly have an effect on the outcome of the election. It is a total disgrace.”
Nevermind, thanks. Ed Stourton on R4 yesterday was giving some egregious politician a hard time about this – or trying to. But of course it’s a done deal and of course the interviewee was able to be safe and smug about it all, while basically admitting the process is a joke.
If so it’s one with a very worrying punchline. I can’t quite believe what’s happening here. The people who are paying attention are up in arms – but there’s nowhere to take them to.