I AM A DIASPORAL JEW OF THE ASHKENAZ TRIBE AND I HEREBY DECLARE BUELAHMAN AND LYNDA OF BUELAHMAN'S REDSTATE REVOLT TO BE ABSOLUTELY FREE OF ANTI-SEMITISM OF ANY KIND. THEIR VIEWS ON AMERICA'S ISRAEL POLICY IS THE SAME AS MINE. IT IS THE SAME AS WELL OVER 30% OF THE ISRAELI PEOPLE AND OVER 70% OF THE DIASPORAL ASHKENAZ COMMUNITY IN THE WORLD OUTSIDE BOTH THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL.
You can read the official firing of me and Diane Valencen at THE PITCHFORK blog along with my diplomatic comments to Cav. Those remarks were true insofar as I´d be happy to continue running the sports contests. It certainly had nothing to do with my writing ability. My style and phraseology was copied by EVERYONE there.
All that really happened was nothing! Diane got angry with me and stupidly challenged me to a physical fight. I don´t hit women. Never have, never will. Silliness.
Furthermore, I believe in non-violence except for self-defense. I grew up in a working class neighborhood into a family which was loving, but Old School. My father used to be very violent as a profession almost when he was a young adult. I was exposed to things that are not really appropriate for a young age. I was mature enough to PASS on doing that shit except in rare cases of self-defense. I pride myself in my belief in non violence to the point that when I noticed a violent streak in my son, I discussed it with him and got him into a boxing program here in Panama so he could learn self-discipline and sportsmanship and forget about violence as a “solution.” (NB: thanks Jay Midnyte for the Bobby Seale lecture you tube. His decription of the image and reality of the Panthers fit very well in an adult way with what I´ve stressed with my son).
People are supposed to have arguments from time to time and then shake hands and forget what happened. If anything, I think my worst crime was to agree with No_slappz on an arcane but significant point with regard to the drift THE PITCHFORK took since Obama got elected.
Three malign strains evolved (1) The blog accepted everything, especially war and exploitation, that the Democrat Party was about. They excused errors and violence. I was the only writer there to damn not cheerlead Israel´s ethnic-cleansing of Gazans in December. Ironically, I was only one of three Jews on the staff. Fred Schwartz came around to my way of thinking. Rebekkah Rubenstein never did
(2) The blog took on and expanded what is sometimes called “WHITE MAN´S BURDEN.” In my understanding of the phrase it means a knee-jerk liberalism which involves useless big government hand-outs and rules which take the position that black Americans are incapable of evil or error and that all fault lies with White Southern Christians among politicians and electorate without ever ASKING both sides what their grievances are. Moreover, THE PITCHFORK neglected entirely such iconoclast pacifists as Rep Dr Ron Paul and Rep Walter Jones, Jr, who have the best anti-war voting record among all Republicans and most Democrats. I mentioned this as a news story. Nothing.
If Cavalor ever bothered to check the Black Agenda Report, his eyes would have been opened to a whole other way of radical African-American thought on the problems in the White Southern community. They expect all White Americans and Black Americans to be somewhat to very racist in their thinking but that doesn´t change the legitimate economic plight that the Town and Tea people were expressing perhaps in undiplomatic language but real nonetheless. Meanwhile, rich liberal Democrats who already had corporate health plans poured praise on Baucus and Obama as they engineered more corporate theft. I don´t know what liberal Democrats even believe in anymore, but it sure wasn´t Conyers and Kucinich´s HR 676 which was tied with Paul/Kucinich´s HR 1207 for being as close to perfect as any American piece of legislatiion in the past 30 years. They claim to be a “news organization”. I mentioned that these were big stories. Nothing.
In fact, other than myself and Schwartz, no writer at the PITCHFORK had anything but silence or opprobrium for some of the stronger voices for peace,freedom and justice like Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, John Conyers, Jim McGovern, Jared Polis, Alan Grayson (before he got famous), Jim McDermott, Maurice Hinchey, Barbara Lee, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Steve Cohen, Tammy Baldwin, Don Payne, Keith Ellison, Donna Edwards, Bobby Rush, Luis Gutierrez, Raul Grijalva, Nydia Velasquez, Marcy Kaptur, Dianne Watson, Bill Delahunt, pr CYNTHIA McKINNEY,etc…If the name wasn´t Obama, Emanuel, or a retrograde Democrat or Republican “centrist,” nobody there could be bothered.
I´m not sure if my worst crime at the PITCHFORK was agreeing with No_slappz that the PITCHFORK was laughably “knee jerk,” my praise for Cynthia McKinney, Piedad Codoba, Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, or BarryScheck and Peter Neufeld of THE INNOCENCE PROJECT. In reviewing criminal cases which hung on DNA evidence, Scheck and Neufeld´s record in appeals court was 240-0! The PITCHFORK is now very strict on ¨law and order” because Obama and Holder are.
(3) The PITCHFORK is now a shy neo-conservative and semi-proud neo-liberal blog. They have no criticism of any note for the governments of ISRAEL, COLOMBIA, PERU, COSTA RICA, RWANDA, THE DARFUR REGION, THE SOMALI bloodthirsty RIGHT, NIGERIA, EGYPT, SYRIA, LIBYA, ZIMBABWE, MEXICO, CANADA, PAKISTAN´s MILITARY JUNTA, pre Kevin RUDD AUSTRALIA or of course the neo-liberal governments of SPAIN, ITALY, FRANCE, THE NETHERLANDS, nor of couse the UNITED KINGDMOM.
They lend no support to new democracies like VENEZUELA, ECUADOR, BOLIVIA, PARAGUAY, URUGUAY, ARGENTINA, CHILE, BRAZIL EL SALVADOR or LIBERIA. They jumped on a “sexy” issue like HONDURAS but got off quick when t became clear the coup was authored by OBAMA, CLINTON, KISSINGER, BRZESINSKI, NEGROPONTE, COLIN POWELL, OSCAR ARIAS and OTTO REICH. When BlackwaterXe and Colombian Army and paramilitary forces crossed the Venezuela border and a battle ensued, I was the only one to report it there and was fired not long after. THE PITCHFORK has a PIEDAD CORDOBA link but support the Uribe/Bermudez governmnent because OBAMA does and because an honorable Conservative, ATTORNEY GENERAL MARIO IRGURAN would have enough evidence to indict ERIC HOLDER for conspiracy to commit murder as well as aiding and abbetting in the CHIQUITA massacre, should IRGURAN introduce the DELAHUNT SUB-COMMITTEE MINUTES. OR 60 MINUTES, if W and O´s William Brownfield didn´t have a gun to Irguran´s head!
It´s all a seamless fake pro-blackism web as HOLDER, like OBAMA, is the kind of Negro Whites like: compliant and all about neo-liberal IMF theft. THE PITCHFORK´s record on LGBTQ issues is equally pathetic even from erstwhile EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, Diane Valencen. I presume that they continue to take their cues from Obama and the DEMOCRAT MAINSTREAM ON THAT CRIME.
In the end, it was the RON PAUL THIRD PARTY CONFERENCE youtube and an amazing truth which was out there but missed by all of us in SEPTEMBER of 2008. Paul explains at one point that Green Party nominee Cythnia McKinney had contacted Ron Paul and gave Paul a great case for why he should endorse JOHN McCAIN instead of her, Nader, Barr and Baldwin. She said that she firmly believed that McCAIN would never be as violent, Zionist, and expansionist as Barack Obama would be. Ron Paul and Cynthia McKinney are beyond THE PITCHFORK´s understanding because of Paul and McKinney´s anti-Zionism anti-War anti-American Black Holocaust/Privatized concentration camp policies. I was furious with she said that she was only interested in “winners” and that Paul, Kucinich, McKinney, McGovern, and even Pope John Paul II would be more corrupt than Obama in the office of the presidency. I offered the opinion that I was friendly with a number of McKinney supportes in Buckhead and had Diane given a shit, I would have explained that they believed McKinney best BECAUSE OF HER PEACEABLE ANTI-ZIONISM AND THAT THEY WERE SICK OF HAVING ISRAEL´S ATROCITIES IN THEIR NAMES. FURTHERMORE, MS McKINNEY´S FATHER WAS A GOOD MAN AND ALWAYS GOOD TO GEORGIA´s JEWISH COMMUNITY.
The most revealing aspect of THE PITCHFORK´s indifferent attitude to news and change, was when they were off on Joe Wilson´s “mean name” for Obama being the greatest sin against humanity even and at the same time were all overthemselves for giving Jay Midnyte a link. I asked editor why this business of Wilson he had acually become something of a Black Power cult figure and the censure vote featured “nays” by pacfists Delahunt and Kucinich, but missed WHY giving Jay a big link was important. The color of Jay´s skin is relevant to those who focus on such stuff, but Jay´s having a link was important because HE´S AN ECONOMICS AND FINANCE PRODIGY! I am known as one of the better emerging markets quants around, but Im embarassed to say that once Jay has prob/stat, calculus, and operation research down, he´ll be better than me at the game.
If I didn´t believe that I would not have written Dr Faber a personalized letter on FB on Jay´s behalf and I would not have offered him a part-time job analyzing Brazilian and Venezuelan corporate debt for me. The latter offer was postponed and scratched by Obama´s PLAN COLOMBIA. As the BLACK AGENDA REPORT said of Van Jones and David Paterson: “Is that anyway to treat a brother?” I don´t know about any of that, but I know Obama fucked real lives up and a chance for Jay and I to make some money.
Yes, I am furious with Barack Obama having put me in a series of interlocking problems having to do with my partner´s adolscent children´s safety and education, with my money, and with my own safety for the rest of my life. The pre-cursor of all of this: the 1-party system´s fascist insistence on seeing groups not individuals.
KELSO´S NUTS; What the hell was wrong with Cynthia McKinney on the Green Party ticket thent? She had a veteran Democratic front-bencher until she ran afould of AIPAC. They sent out the useless Majette to beat McKinney in the primariy a few years ago, but McKinney fought her way back into the seat where she cast only anti-war, pro-people, votes over and over again. Her warchest for 2006 just wasnt big enough to fend of the AIPAC supported Johnson.
A McKinney presidency would have featured NO WARS, NO PROXY CIVIL WARS, NO COERCIVE USA MILITARY BASES, A FAR MORE “CONSERVATIVE” APPROACH TO FISCAL POLICY AND NO GODDAMED GIVEAWAYS TO WALL STREET BILLIONAIRES.
So, why was OBAMA the “milestone” candidate instead of McKINNEY? Because Obama raised more money from MALIGN Wall Street and polluting industrial sources than McKINNEY ever could.
More´s the pity.
JAY MIDNYTE: I really did think Obama would change a FEW things, maybe ONE thing for the better. Maybe more peace talks and negotiation. But nah, he hasn’t done ONE thing for poor people (he claimed to be for the people), and he negotiates with wild teens my age that know how to shoot M16’s to back him up.
KELSO: @ JAY: This is a very big problem and if I could pick one issue (two really) beyond the economic and foreign policy problems in whose teeth the USA finds itself, it would be the DOMESTIC YOUTH HOMELAND SECURITY AUXILIARY FORCE, and, perhaps, the very real confluence of forced vaccinations and the so-called FEMA camps.
The DOMESTIC YOUTH HOMELAND SECURITY AUXILIARY FORCE as envisioned by Emanuel and Obama is even frightening to me and I live 5000 miles away! It´s frightening not because I´m either a psycho left wing extremist or sociopathic right wing exremist bigot.
LIVING IN PANAMA, I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE USA GOVERNMENT CEDES LAW ENFORCEMENT POWER TO UNACCOUNTABLE 18-25 YEAR OLDS. There´s plenty of precedent: in 1989 there was the Powell-ordered El Chorillo massacre yet another “table top exercise” in which new model ordnance was tested outs on a lower middle class neighborhood of CIVILIANS, killing 5000 and make 100,000 people homeless. This after Bush Sr had given the stand-down order. The story which never made the US papers was the city-wide rampage by US military personnel who used rape as a terriorist weapon in the same way Milosevic and Karadzic did against the Kosovar Muslim women. Call it psyops to the extreme.
This plan of “the fierce” and their prison jumpsuit uniforms, will become an even more violent version of the soldiers at El Chorillo USA domestic style. The saddest part of it is that this corps will be made up of probably pretty nice kids before the indoctrination. The administration PR team will characterize this project as both a version of FDR´s “CCC” while the FEMA camps will be characterized as a progressive step forward in the event of another Katrina. The liberal press and the “liberal” people will lap this up like a kitten presented with fresh milk.
American liberals like this because the old insults like “boy” or “nickel nose” are out of vogue whereas “skell” (law breaker) carries no ethnic basis but is a treat for liberals seeing what hard-working people are in for in PROGRESSIVE BARACK OBAMA´S DECADE.
The Republicans will do their usual number and reflexively opposite because they are Democrat plans, not because they harken back to Nazi Germany (Hitler Youth) and Stalin´s USSR (Komsomol). Huey Long and General Smedley Butler are spinnng so fast in their graves, they may just awaken from the dead!
How else would Panama give me an insight into this besides the massacre at El Chorillo? Basically, unless you have REAL power here, you DO NOT EYEBALL US military on shore leave, BlackwaterXe contractors, or even American tourists if you know what´s good for you. I preted to ONLY speak Spanish because Il´d rather get called “wetback, spic, greaser, Noriega-lover, tax cheat, drug dealer, money-launderer, etc, while I smile and look at my shoes,. hoping he´ll lose interest in fucking with me and move on the next person over whom this raw recruit acrually has power.
This story has been told countless times in countless ways by African-Americans, Latino-hispano residents of the USA, and Slavic-American residents of the USA. It´s not really a racial thing, though. It is a SOCIAL CLASS THING. And it´s fucking humiliating. I am an accomplished man. I graduated from and excellant high school, college and MBA program. I´ve been petty successful in all sorts of business and I am committed to non-vioilence except in circumstances of self-defense. It aint pretty but I feel like I´ve reached a station in life in which I don´t have to tolerate imbelic drunk American Privates insulting me. Not at all. If this were a wasted Swede in a cardroom, say, I could respond any way I liked with the full blessng of the power structure on the SW side of LaCdP.
If the “liberals” iknew my story, they´d hate me exactly for be¡ng a successful man. The “liberal” mantra in the USA is: “Capitalism for me but not for thee.” The fake BIG GOVERMENT “conservative” mantra is “kill them all.”
And a 20-year old private is WAY MORE MATURE than these Civilian Teenage Brigades. What´s happening here is way more malign than either or both of THE GUARDIAN ANGELS and SAFE HAVEN. As far as FEMA goes, I assign a small probablity of the camps being AN EMPROVEMENT over Hell-Of-A-Job-Brownie and Barbara Bush. I also see a small probabiity of quick ethnic-cleansing of “disposible people in concentration camps.” Most likely, it falls somewhere in between with Nazi like seizure of all valuables in plain sight and a rather oppressive CAMP FEMA to follow.
I believe that the only way to stop this plan in the USA is to have a strong dissent by career military officers and career law enforcement agencies if only because it violates about ten convenants of a lot of public union/management contracts OF THE AMERICAN POLICE UNIONS, the FBI, and the National Guard, plus “loose cannons” (READ TRUTH TELLERS!) Admiral Fallon and General Casey. That, too, is playing with fire because Obama´s being neither fish nor fowl on every issue, he´s lost the respect of the underclass he seeks to oppress as well as the officers and para-militaries he supports.
The only first best and only way through.: peace, freedom,social justice, steady econimic growth, smaller less coercive government, a fair system of taxation, and
generally speaking a return to the Constitution and a social contract which gives at least 80% of the people a feeling and reality of being societal STAKEHOLDERS.]
[The same argument applied to Colombia in next post, an answer to Jay about what really happens when a head-of-state uses affectless children to "wetcha" ]
I think it was during a conversation with my attorney here sometime in August that I first noticed that there was a pattern to every conversation I had with a non-corporatist power-player.
I´d lay out my concerns to someone experienced in either getting clear of Big Sammy or standing in there toe to toe and fighting the powers that be only to be frustrated by the pure hypocritical Stalinism of the Big Pink Country with its Big People.
My attorney here, Sra Dra Lynnette Yaritzel Arosemena Murad, Abogada — she´s a 2nd time newlywed to a Turk — who was Panama´s head prosecutor in her early 20s during the Moscoso Administration, became disenchanted with the Mosoco Admin´s zeal for locking people up, even the non-violent, to the point of crippling migraines. In private practice she only litigates civil cases, criminal trials for the defense, and because we are on the QC system for major criminal cases, she will only prosecute cases of extreme violence.
Her best childhood, school-age, and law school friend is our current Vice President, Juan-Carlos Varela. Thus, I personally, could not be more politically-connected than I am. During the times leading up to Obama´s 23/9/09 deadline for those “subjects of the United States Of America,” to turn themselves in to American authorities, she explained to me that by reading of the law, without a criminal record in either Big Sammy or Panamá,and with USA taxes on USA cap gains paid at the well-head, I was governed by Panamanian law and did not have to obey USA law as a “Permanent Resident Investor,” especially not with only 3 months left until full citizenship.
I mentioned Frank DeLima´s “decision” to walk a narrow path with Big Sammy on the tax information demands, giving up possible 9 figure accounts but not that of all citizens´ and residents deemed to be SUBJECTS OF THE EMPIRE. I qualify for this under Big Sammy´s 15 year residency rule. This was said in context of the Naval/Dept of HHS covering Sept 11-25. The navy acted out war games involving the invasion of Venezuela (Panama cannot participate because it has no military) and the occupation of Colombia and Peru (Panama can allow any passage of any military transport, however.). I posed the question; “in the wake of the defacto deposition of President Hans-Rudolf Merz of Switzerland by the CEO of UBS, NA, Robert Wolf and POTUS Barack Obama, couldn´t an ARMED Big Sammy re-take Panama by force?
She said she didn´t think so because as crazy as he is, President Martinelli is, first and foremost, a BILLIONAIRE and knows that should Panama become once-again a US client state, he would owe 100,000,000s of B./ in taxes while ruining the banking system and country former presidents Ernesto “El Toro” Perez-Balladares, Miryela Moscoso and Martin Torrijos effectively built as the world´s 2nd largest private banking power after Switzerland. Less still by a USA president he deems his social inferior. [It´s not pretty, but any port in storm, oiste?]
As I pressed her for some more detail on this, she said ¨you are not only my client but you are also my friend for life so accept this; ´What Can I Do Beyond What I´m Doing for all of my clients on this history `[sic: "historia" means "story" in Spanish] ?”
The penny dropped. My New York attorney, Russell Gioiella, of Litman Asche Gioiella, said something similar “Take Your Pick, Augustinian paranoia or Kafka-esque paranoia. What More Can We All Do? We´ve been through the statutes and the case-law and it comes down not as a matter of law but a matter of political caprice. As your attorney, I insist you leave the USA asap,but haven´t I been telling you that since 2002?”
Cindy Sheehan: “You know I think of you as my knight in armor, but what more can I do for you: I´ve been tear-gassed and have chained myself to the White House gates for all of you? What can I do individually for any of my comrades? It´s either bring down the system with non-violence or learn to live with fascism up here and fear down there.”
Mike Gimbel of AFSCME and Workers´World Party: “I´ve walked into a FARC compound unarmed to see what exchange of prisoners deal was available and to test that cell´s willingness to join AFSCME…we are the most effective organization in America on Latin issues, but I can´t do better for you and yours than walk unarmed into a FARC compound, right?”
“El Flaco”: “Let´s forget about this, wait for the new Alex Jones movie, either shoot pool or play Blackjack and pretend Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich is president. What else can we do? The US government is fucked worse with Obama than ever before, but Bush was bad, too, he and Obama belong in the movie IDIOCRACY…twin Presidents Upgreydd!”
Marc “Dr Boom Gloom and Doom” Faber: “Bush and Obama are war criminals and the two worst presidents in US history. What can we do otherwise but use our brains and get ourselves loose of USD”
Gerald Celente; “What can a bunch of intelligent investors and traders do but make good decisions with the information available., and hope we´ve made good financial decisions…the alternative is violent revolution from below…”
There´s liberalism that is individualist. That´s good, but when I read the transcript of Obama´s “Health Care” speech that had some fol-de-rol about “a public option which is not the key to reform,” let alone any reference to Conyers/Kucinich, yet vanden Heuvel and Maddow are wet about Obama insisting on more BIG GOVERNMENT IN ALL FACETS OF AMERICAN LIFE, “I get scared. And when I´m scared, I´m nervous, and when I´m nervous…”
Say what you want about how badly Alex Jones “makes you feel” versus “how safe you feel about Big Sammy´s GOVERNMENT.” That´s good for you. For me, BULLSHIT!
I´ve always had a fondness for Jones and I “feel” good about that, knowing Cindy Sheehan is a close friend of his and Celente, Faber, Ron Paul, Rogers, Roubini and Schiff are in the same blog collective, I´m going to trust Jones a lot more than I trust vanDen Heuvel and Maddow.
Kelso´s Nuts love you
nb: The comments were pretty thought-provoking, too.
Ichabod said…
Hi Kelso;
Interesting history. Glad the powers that be can’t reach around the world to grab you.
It is a little ironic, how many tea party people were criticized, many rightly so, but the original tea party goers were against taxation without representation if my memory serves me correctly.
In the case of people who no longer live in the US, but still citizens, I think this holds true.
Why pay when you aren’t there?
It’s screwed up there and will get worse, transportation figures, shipping dropping, bodes no well for Main Street or Government Coffers.
It will get ugly in the US in a few years unless it reverses, but I don’t see the shift leaver changing.
24/10/09 16:56
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Blogger Jay Midnyte said…
That Ice Cube is the truth! Thanks for the links.
I was talking to these two 40+ year old men today, one was my uncle. I heard them talking and my Uncle’s friend was saying he didn’t think oil had anything to do with supply and demand. He said when oil dropped from 147 to 30, demand didn’t significantly change. Then he concluded that it was the Mid East oil cartel just trying to squeeze America for a big profit temporarily, then bring it back to normal.
Then I interrupted them like, no, actually when oil hit $147 the dollar hit it’s lowest point EVER on the index. Since the dollar lost som much strength, our suppliers wanted more dollars to make up for the loss in purchasing power. This is true because if you look at the dollar index when oil dropped back down to $30 a barrel, the dollar actually dramatically strengthened all the way to about 90 on the index, causing the sharp decline in oil prices.
They didn’t really agree with me. I agreed that it wasn’t ALL supply and demand. So I went an pulled up a historical chart with oil compared to the dollar index, showed it to them, and they said OH! that looks like an inverse relationship! (Threw all their theories about the evil mid east oil men out the window lol)
They both knew generally the dollar was losing value over time. But I could tell they only knew mostly because of what the news said, because before I SHOWED them the charts, they never knew the dollar dramatically strengthened recently, only to start it’s collapse again.
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The reason the dollar strengthened is because when the world economy was collapsing, everybody ran to the SAFE HAVEN US DOLLAR. But now we see the same thing is happening again, but the dollar keeps falling faster and faster.
THIS TIME THEY’RE ALL RUNNING TO REAL STORES OF WEALTH. GOLD AND SILVER!
25/10/09 04:48
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Blogger Carlton Pryor said…
Jay Midnite,
You hit a six with this comment just as Ser Kelso hit a six with his post!
For a “real world” connection to the loss of value the dollar is seeing in the suburbs of America take note that people are trading the copper they have stolen out of homes to grocery store workers who are in fear of foreclosure for food. Now there are few dozen or so reports of this taking place in Florida and Georgia so far and more rersearch needs be done. If this is a trend ity is a stunning example of how truly far down the US economy has fallen and how worthless to the desperate the dollar is.
25/10/09 05:55
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Blogger Jay Midnyte said…
Yea my cousin was stripping incomplete housing developments for copper not too long ago and making good money!
@ Jay – yo ass need some sleep, what kinda hours you keeping? lol
@ kelso – everybody’s fighting battles on multiple fronts, it’s tearing at the cohesion of men and giving way to this pervasive feeling of helplessness. Fuck that, we gotta stand and hold our post!
25/10/09 11:30
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Blogger KELSO’S NUTS said…
@ ICHABOD: Big Sammy is forbidden from having a command and control presence in the Republic Of Panama by virtue of the Carter/Omar Torrijos pact and the Bill Clinton/Perez-Balladres pact. But the president of the united states,as proven by Bush starting two illegal wars, is essentially omnipotent as to immediate capriciousness.
Panama has three weapons should Obama, like Bush, decide to do something aggressive on a whim (1) With so much debt and such big deficits, Amerikkka will at some point run up against a financial and economic stopper [Ron Paul would disagree with me here to some extent but in the end I´d have to admit that Paul is correct] (
2) A pretext for any sort of aggression beyond a “table top exercise” in which Panamanian children were given H1N1 vaccines by the USA Dept of HHS as anohter “tabletop exercise” would be a case of brinksmanship. There is a Ruso-Latino-Iran Mutual Defense Pact of 2008 which is signed, sealed and delivered at the World Court — we´re talking MUTUAL ASSURED DESTRUCTION here. There is no framework to DENY Russia the right to attack the USA should the latter aggress on any Latin self-governing nation or Iran
(3) The Obama administration has no idea how close to a very bad problem they caused themselves by asserting a 23/9/09 deadline for private financial submission, while it was using Panamanian children as Guinea Pigs for H1N1 “vaccines,” the “vaccine” STILL LOADED with Thimerosol and a dosage of H1N1 itself far beyond what an anonymous Senate two years ago insisted was too high and would require going forward NO THIMEROSOL…the USA really got away with murder here because of Russian patience.
CORROLARY: So far, the Russians fearing a full WWIII, have overlooked the overthrow of J Mel Zelaya in Honduras, the 23/9/09 “deadline” and the Costa Rica, Plan Colombia squeeze for the sake of their own ENORMOUS Andean investments and those of their BRIIC partners (Brazil, India, Indonesia and China). They have let the Bush and Obama governments a lot of slack in the line, because once they excercise their Ruso-Latino-Iran Pact rights, there´s no turning back. It ends in Global Thermonuclear War.
And yet again, the USA is playing with fire. They´ve created a whole fiction involving Assemblyman Pedro Miguel Gonzalez, who during the 1992 George H W Bush “victory visit” and concurrent protest let by Herrera, supposedly killed US Sergeant Zak Hernandez,a crime for which he was exonerated in Panamanian court.
I worry that the Obama government´s PR AND MARKETING TEAM will use Gonzalez as “the new Noriega.”
FINALLY (4): Should the Gonzalez affair be run concurrently with a mandate from the USA and OECD New World Order style tha DeLima´s compromise was not good enough, OBAMACO faces a public embarrassment far worse that any he suffered so far.
To wit: if full disclosure of the “datos y hechos” of all Panamanian citizens and residents who fall into the 15-year taxation without representation category, DeLima, Martinelli and Varela would make Obama choke on those records.
Aside from being a mountain of pen and paper documents, the private accounts in Citibank, HSBC, BNP PARIBAS, Banistmo, BBVA, BAC, St. George´s, New Stanford, Banesco, and Coutts would reveal so much hypocrisy and corruption on the part of Obama´s moneymen, that practically the only people with clean hands would be Jesse Jackson and ME!
POWER CORRUPTS AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY.
25/10/09 14:24
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Blogger KELSO’S NUTS said…
@ JAY: Actually from the moment George W. Bush was given the –by Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, breaking a 4-4 tie in Bush v Gore, or even going back to the impeachment of Clinton, ALL HUMAN DECENCY WAS DRAINED OUT OF THE USA GOVERNMENT. I acknowledge, of course, that Gore himself is a full-on corporatist and no great shakes and would have been equally bad as either Bush or Obama.
From 9-11 on,PR GAMES of Bush´s perversion of Christianity and Patriotism, from their oft-times valuable lessons of Peace & Love, and Pride & Honor, respectively, into Theocratic Authoritarianism, the USA itself coerced and cajoled a good portion of the rest of the world to join “the coalition of the willing,and that´s where your compartive charts come in.
You are using the basic captialist arguments we all understand and accept (especially Chavez and Correa!!!) because of its military might and huge debts, deficits and unfunded mandates, the USD is either uncorrelated or anti-correlated with ALL COMMODITIES, F/X, AND DEBT MARKETS. Yes, it´s a RYDER or PRESIDENT´S CUP match for all of our lives.
Here at THE PITCHFORK, we discussed this a 18 months or so ago, and Ser Carlton Pryor wrote an invaluable piece whose headline was a pun on ABBA´s “Fernando”. Carl substitued that with “CONTANGO” (upward sloping futures curves with time).
You prove the same point Carl and I did back then with the charts you brought out in a family discussion. I don´t know if you ran the analyis of variance on the charts as well, but on dead reckoning, your “Rs” couldn´t be much south of 0.85. That combined with a recession is an economic holocaust. The fatalist in me says that we may never again observe BACKWARDATION in any American futures market.
Politics is a power game people play to win, but economics never go away and the absolute lack of responsibility (READ:THEFT) of the USA governments coupled with 8 years of lies and theft by the Theocratic Bush Administration and 10 months of lies by the Limousine Liberal Obama Administration have brought Big Sammy to a weird crossroads in which its military might is unsurpassed in human history but absolutely unequipped to fight in IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, and (?) COLOMBIA.
The US GDP which dwarfs all others, is compromised by BushBama borrowing and spending on War abroad and a police state at home. Paradoxically, Big Sammy is by far both THE STRONGEST AND WEAKEST power on Earth. The jumping-off-USD process has begun AND WILL NOT END UNTIL THE USA IS A BIG THIRD WORLE NATION.
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@ CARL: Stepping back from the copper stripping as a social ill in the USA, and taking in the big picture, once again Russia and Chile hold the keys to the base metal needs of Big Sammy. This reinforces Medvedev/Putin´s effective control over whether the world gets blown in 2 or not (check out the copper output of NORILSK NICKEL JSC) in one MORE futures market. It also puts to the acid test just how much longer Michelle Bachelet has to be wedded to the Nelson Mandela model of a successful peace process as the Pinochet loyalist Senate of Chile and Big Sammy block every peaceful pan-Latin issue she supports, e.g., return of Mel Zelaya to Hondureño presidency, NO TO PLAN COLOMBIA.
Russia´s NORILSK and Chile´s CODELCO are the game right now. Jay´s stories of street level finished copper raids tell a story of hunger for copper in Big Sammy, yet you see the US government going out of its way to insult Russia and Chile at every turn, when the Cold War wounds continue to fester.
Medvedev, Putin and Bachelet are about the last three people on Earth Obama needs to be fucking with right now, given the impending death of Phelps-Dodge and ASARCO. If Rahm Emanuel and the other owners who tell Obama what to say REALLY believe that fucking with Medvedev, Putin and Bachelet are PR-friendly “Sistah Souljah” moments good for Obama´s favoribility ratings, then there is NOTHING STOPPING ME FROM BELIEVING AT LEAST 90% OF WHAT ALEX JONES SAYS.
The frustrated novelist in me kind of believes that Hillary Clinton and Michelle Bachelet´s enjoying a private laugh while Obama was hectoring away may have been all the push Obama needed to abandon whatever commonsense he had about copper (if he even knows the meaning about it).
Worse times coming either tomorrow, in three months, or nine months.
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@ NICKI NICKI TEMBO:
@ Jay – yo ass need some sleep, what kinda hours you keeping? lol
NNT: Jay´s only 20 years old. Of course, he still has the stamina to go to his classes, run his side music business, and get involved in the NEW PRO-BUSINESS PEACE MOVEMENT
@ kelso – everybody’s fighting battles on multiple fronts, it’s tearing at the cohesion of men and giving way to this pervasive feeling of helplessness. Fuck that, we gotta stand and hold our post!
NNT: This is exactly why I´m OPTIMISTIC about the emerging peace movement. Everywhere you look there´s another issue of Corporatist malevolence and a small dedicated movement to fight back. I could start naming then and after 8 hours, I´d still have more examples of exploitation and affronts to human decency!
What encourages me is that the three mainstreams of the movement — the (real) socialist and social-democratic LEFT, the new Black Power/Nationalist priorities, and the White Southern Christian libertarians who hate Theocratic Authoritarism have all set aside silly issues which too often divide a strong pro-people movement, have joined forces making PEACE, FREEDOM AND A MODEST AMERICAN REPUBLIC the key issues.
It´s something I´ve written in a lot of spots drawing no comment because despite all the evidence in the world, this PHONY LEFT/RIGHT, BLUE/RED, DEMOPUBLICAN/REPUBLICRAT paradigm cannot deal with this. I´d instruct ALL to check out THE BLACK AGENDA REPORT and READ what intellectual Black activists have to say about the Town and Tea people. In essence, they feel that ALL WHITES are exploiters (Bruce Dixon acknowledges the hyperbole knowing that BAR has over 30% White contributors and donors), so they see no difference between Town and Tea people who have legitimate gripes which the equally repellent Liberals won´t respect.
PHIL OCHS FIRST THEN JELLO AND MOJO´S UPDATE: Grooveshark
Lyrics to new version included because neither Jello nor Mojo have the best singing voices in the whole world!
I cried when they shot John Lennon
Tears ran down my spine
And I cried when I saw “JFK”
As though I’d lost a father of mine
But Malcolm X and Ice-T had it coming
They got what they asked for this time
CHORUS
So love me, love me, love me
I’m a liberal
I go to pro-choice rallies
Recycle my cans and jars
I’ll honk if you love the Dead
Hope those funny grunge bands become stars
But don’t talk about revolution
That’s going a little bit too far
CHORUS
I cheered when Clinton was chosen
My faith in the system reborn
I’ll do anything to save our schools
If my taxes ain’t too much more
And I love blacks and gays and Latinos
As long as they don’t move next door
CHORUS
Rush Limbaugh and the L.A.P.D.
Should all hang their heads in shame
I can’t understand where they’re at
Arsenio should set them straight
But if Neigborhood Watch doesn’t know you
I hope the cops take your name
CHORUS
Yeh, I read the New Republic(an)
Rolling Stone and Mother Jones too
If I vote it’s a Democrat
With a sensible economy view
But when it comes to terrorist Arabs
There’s no one more red, white and blue
CHORUS
Once I was young and had an attitude
Stickers covered the car I drove in
Even went on some direct actions
When there weren’t rent-a-cops to be seen
Ah, but now I’ve grown older and wiser
And that’s why I’m turning you in
CHORUS
There´s no more time for bullshit. When it “affected me personally,” I went FAR LEFT and FAR RIGHT, not “10 degrees left of center”. It´s maddening and frustrating when you try your hardest and the Evil Empire of Corporate Fascism still grinds everything into peanut butter.
Last week I witnessed both BuelahMan and Cindy Sheehan go through the same anomie that I suffer all the time: They just got fucking sick of it.
They pour their hearts and souls into teaching, explaining and of course NON-VIOLENT DISSENT. They come up with all manner of ways to get the message of peace across: B´Man in the buckle of the Bible Belt writes from the heart but does his research from the brain as a multi-generation Redneck for peace, freedom, and social justice. Cindy Sheehan is a whirling dervish of ideas and action. She has come up with a Mario Savio-inspired idea to fight the powers that be. Aware of the new — old — gender-gap Barack Obama has created with his vanity, Cindy will move to DC and do non-violent social action and protest EVERY DAY no matter if she´s the only one to attend.
She has adopted deeply finessed and male-friendly names for the project: PEACE OF THE ACTION and ALL-IN FOR PEACE. Both of which mirror B´Man´s multi-faceted blog name BUELAHMAN´S REDSTATE REVOLT.
Both B´Man and Cindy are non-partisan and both see the screaming need for the new model peace movement to speak to MEN. Both are well-aware that Big Sammy´s peace movement has three mainstreams: the leftist (real) socialist activist community, the new Black Power movement, and the Southern Christian libertarian movement, all of whom share certain cultural mores as well as a love of peace and freedom. They (We, really, as I lend the support which I´m able legally to do) never back off and always present themselves as they are. Non-violence — other than in self-defense — is the touchstone, but LANGUAGE INCLUDING DIRTY AND CRASS JOKES is a tool in the toolkit especially when trawling for disaffected men. So, sure both B´Man and Cindy spare nothing at all in their contempt for Bush, Cheney, Obama, and Emanuel.
I am happy to report that their disaffection and fatigue lasted only ONE DAY and they are back at their posts with all their usual enthusiasm and drive. NB: I suffer from this, too, and usually require three days to recover. (Thanks, B´man, Cindy Sheehan, D-Val, Pain, Itself, Ichabod, Jay Midnyte, Dr Marc Faber, and Fredrick Schwartz for kicking me in the ass and getting me back in the game). I´m angrier than ever but I´m not stopping until Big Sammy´s corporate fascism is crushed by the weight of public opinion or I die, whichever comes first!).
Yes, that does mean continually fucking around and busting on Barack Obama mercilessly and it means fucking around and busting on President Mittens Romney in 2012, too. It means calling out the Town peoples´ archaic views on Single Payer health insurace (Baucus and ObamaCare suck cock.). It means calling out “Teabaggers” for misunderstanding American history and trashing Ron Paul´s vision of Southerners en masse using their own history, Declaration Of Independence, Constitution to express their own legitimate gripes for yet another opportunity to mis-characterize “socialism” and alienate themsleves completely from a peace movement which would have accepted them as brothers and sisters without question had they not made hateful assholes of themselves.
The tea-baggers and Town people are hardly the Southern Christian libertarians I refer to. The latter HAVE NO BIGOTRY BECAUSE BIGOTRY IS A SECULAR SIN IN LIBERTARIAN PHILOSOPHY OF TODAY. Jeez, I guess I have to give the fine folks at Black Agenda Report credit for being more tolerant of TeaBaggers and Town People than I do. While I understand it, Mr Dixon, Mr Ford and Ms Kimberley ENCOURGE it because they feel the bite of the fascist teeth more than I do. For B.A.R. if it´s loud, angry, and peaceful dissent against Obama and the Big Sammy Elitist Cartel, it works for B.A.R.!
El Espiritu De La Escalera
Even though I´m boring on this subject, I´m staying with it. I don´t want to end up as “Stan”.
BuelahMan, Cindy Sheehan, Joshua Smith, Hans Michael, Sovereign John, and Jason Bermas of Antiwar.com are not giving up no matter what obstacles are placed in their way:
Upon the gears, wheels and levers, folks. I know I did and will continue to do the same. I cannot reveal my direct action against The Fascist State Of Big Sammy, but as always my home is open asylum to whoever fought this battle in earnest. Bush/Rush dittoheads and Obama-luv-bots as well as varied and sundry Republicrats and Demopublicans ARE NOT WELCOME!
Dennis kicked ass. The only point of disagreement I had with his presentation was his advocacy of subordinating a NEW CENTRAL BANK or a FED that has the same modest role and all the restrictions which Central Banks all over the world have, in a role subordinate to the US TREASURY. I understand his not wanting it under direct Congressional control because of the moral hazard implicit in all politicians´doings. I also llike the idea of the Treasury and Fed working to support each others´ONCE UPON A TIME goals of balance, savings and investment in times of plenty, of small direct transfers to the neediest in times of lean from the Treasury with a less iinflation hawkishness.
FRACTIONAL RESERVE BANKING MUST GO BECAUSE OF THE MOST BACCHANALIAN POSSIBILITIES INHERENT IN THEM. NO BANK NO MATTER IF TOO BIG TO FAIL SHOULD BE ABLE TO PLAY WITH 200-1 LEVERAGE.
I know that there are special “liiberal” American code words that Demopublican “liberal” peiople don´t like, but I´m writing them, anybody. There actually are many good reasons why younger Americans have given up on Obama.
Lots of students and recent graducaTES are beginning to see Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, Peter Schiff, Adam Kokesh, Barbara Lee,Sheila Jackson-Lee, Tom Campbell and Cynthia McKinney as the intelligent ones on peace, freedom, social justice, and STEADY ECONOMIC GROUTH IN CONDITIONS OF PEACE as the way forward in a bi-partisan way: Campbell Kokesh, Paul are libertarian Republicans. Kucinich, Jackson-Lee, and Lee are Democrats. McKinney is a Green.
What does label or skin-color have to do with the USA correcting past wrongs? What do “developed pectoral muscles and “feeling good about America” have to do with a society whose government does its share to help the people instead of rob from them and their grandchildrens´ futures. What does cheerleading over a dark complected fascist instead of a Big Pink Fascist have to do with being able once again to use fiscal and monetary policy in the ways the great minds like Adam Smith,Bellegarigue, Marx (for social understanding) Ricardo,Keynes,Veblen, Galbraith, Fisher, Markowitz, Tobin,Coase, Fama, Roll, Ross, Scholes, Marcuse, and Angela Davis?
As polticians, sadly only two have captuared the eye of the younger student activist community as ObamaRahma fades: Reps Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul, the LIBERTY TWINS. One can break with the old a bit and include last year´s USA Green Party nominee, former Democratic front-bencher in the House, Cynthia McKinney whose actions with FREE GAZA have made her a name once againg, and call them the LIBERTY SET. Add in the great contrarian, and now candidate for the Republican nomination for Junior U.S. Senator from CT, Peter Schiff, and call them the LIBERTY QUADS.
Kucinich, McKinney, Paul and Schiff. The people are the REAL CHANGE if t hey if choose to be and I can´t think of more able people to represent the peoples wishes than Kucinich, McKinney, Paul and Schiff.
The public in America may be a little slower on this stuff than people who live elsewhere, because of the infantilizing corporate media. I se nse that Americans are tired of being told THEMATIC overtures of “only in America can an upper middle class multi-racial prep school fancy-boy rise from the gutter (jajajajaja!) of Kansas and Maui to become RULER OF THE UNIVERSE”. That´s BULLSHIT.
People want to live in a society which offers the maximum personal freedom and presents a social contract designed to bring out the maximum personal responsibility. Constant War. Confiscatory taxation which merely lines he pockets of war profiteers — 53c out of every tax dollar collected funds war and exploitation abroad and at home. A domestic police state. An irrelevant constition and a perfect set-up for VOLUNTARY FASCISM because of a corporatist meda. People want neither the ANGRY FASCISM OF SARAH PALIN or the DO-GOODER SMILING FASCISM OF OBAMA´S NANNY STATE.
Those four prove with every TV and radiio interview how South America got it right by being fiscally and monetarily prudent so as to create the budget supluses that go to create a large social sector inclusive of Universal Single Payer care, not give-aways to Big Pharma, Big HiMOs, and Big Insurance. And guess what? Even with the social spending there´s plenty of surplus left in AMERICAN´S #1 NEW VILLAIN, PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ´s national income accounts.
The gossip I´ve heard is that the USD as a reserve currency and a currency with any power at all could crack as early as this coming Monday or two weeks from Monday or 3 months from Monay, but IT´S COMING. Even if Obama and team ended all US wars on Monday and closed all the bases and stopped stealing from the poor to give to the Ultra Rich, it´s too late. Obama should be FORCED to do those things anyway, but the debt´s too big, the deficits are too big, and the police state and taxes are crushing entrepreneurial enthusiasm as the prospect of STATUS QUO IN HEALTH CARE or the WORSE option: O´BaucusCare is creating a work force and mangerial force whose medical bills could break them and certainly robs them of a stake in society.
Ger mad at me for writing this stuff. I was the one who cashed up in January 2007, thogh, so who´s the fool in the game. The FOOL who´s writing these words made a good decision then and in promoting the profiles of Kucinich, McKinney, Paul and Schiff doesn´t expect automatic assent. Just using critical thinking skill instead of “feelings” to contradict me would be a baby step in America´s sef-deinfantilization.
How many times have I used this phrase: “Time is short”? Well, it´s overtime now.
The rupture of the USD as everyone here (me apoplectic and insane on the subject) and Torrance, B´Man, Celente, Faber, Henwood, Hudson, Schiff, and all serious financial professionals outside of K-Street American Exceptional Land, have been warning.
As if that weren´t enough pain, here are the insults added to the injury.
It´s an inside job all the way. The Republicrats and Demopulicans will fuck you any way they can and with whatever tools are available or does anyone think still that Obama has Peace, LGBTQ rights and liberties and economic “reform” at the top of his very “full plate.”
Sobukwe Shakura of the All African People’s Revolutionary Party said it best at a panel discussion in Atlanta on Sept. 24th: “President Obama leads a racist imperialist system whose failure is obvious and cannot be reformed. It can only sur…vive with the exploitation of people here and rape of people abroad. The conditions of our people have not changed.”
This sheeple ™ business has gone too far already. If you´re not for “PEACE OF THE ACTION” and HR1207/S604, who or “what” are you?
You are Vichy!
There are a lot of entwined issues here because when you´re facing a relentless Empire, having, for example, pro-LGBTQ rights and liberties, fights the same battle against the same dictators as pro-peace and pro-HR1207.
Two dirges followa couple of short Jay Midnyte posts:
* Cynthia McKinney/Mairead McGuire/Captain Dennis Healy (“Free Gaza”)
* Sra Senadora Piedad Cordoba [PL-Bogota, Colombia] (“La Turbante de la paz”)
* J Mel Zelaya, (PL-Tegucigalpa), PRESIDENTE de la Republica Hondureña
* Barry Scheck/Peter Neufeld, (“The Innocence Project”),
* George Ryan/Don Siegelman/James Trafficant ,USA political prisoners
* Cindy Sheehan, et al (“Peace Mom,” Myth America, Cindy Sheehan´s Soapbox).
* Rafael Correa Presidente de la Republica de Ecuador (Alianza PAIS-Guyaquil), Presidente de la UNASUR, following Sra Dr Presidenta De Chile, Michelle Bachelet (PS-Santiago)
@@@ Financed by short position writing equivalent amout fading President Barack Hussein Obama (Repulicrat Demopublican Corporate-Fascist Unity Party-Ill)
If I can find enough qualified investors around the world to take the other side — long Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize 2009, short my 7 from above — and enough leverage, I HAVE CREATED MONEY. If can do this — and I´m truly a nobody — you can see how insane it could get with Mortgage Desks at very big banks taking naked long positions on the CDO roll ups with 60-100s leverage.
Furthermore, that you can create a property right out of thin air ought to go back and try to read through Cap-N-Trade “environmentalism”. All it does it monetize death and creates so many Synthetic Work-arounds that it will end up codifying into International Trade law the RIGHT to pollute as much as you care to. Wait on the next ghoulish thing Brand Obama has in store for you: Life Insurace Roll-Ups with more sinister features than the 80s viaticals ever had.
Expect recess-flation in the USA sooner rather than later, not a year away, not two years away so a bunch of Democrats can laugh at goofy Republicans and re-run all the Palin jokes and what a successful first-term Obama had against all odds. Nope. None of that is happening. Here´s what´s happening:
Cindy You Said…(I´m goofing on that absurd No_slappz here!)
“Very good report from ABC when we were bullhorning Obama in front of the White House today…btw: “Hi, kids, I am moving to DC in March. Sorry you had to hear it on ABC News…love you guys!”
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: Cindy Sheehan’s “PEACE OF THE ACTION”. Beginning March of 2010. A sustained MULTI-MONTH action/event of DAILY militant resistance and civil disobedience in the streets of Washington DC. We will be calling on thousands… upon thousands to commit (to be all in it to win it.) We will be loud and we will get in their faces… relentlessly. More information to come ASAP. This is going to be HUGE. Stay tuned for more…”
I could go on and on like this. More American war craziness and the pending Dollar crack. I won´t. Use you minds. Think critically: imagine everything in each article is wrong and a lie. Then re-read imagining imagining everything is true. Try to be objective as possible
These issues are all entwined.
Do me one favor. Read or listen to at least one economics piece and listen tp at least one anti-war piece before the Conservative bible bullshit. That,s the dessert you will enjoy having eaten all your vegetables.
The only way for the Imperialist fascist USA Empire right to make it though these fiscal and monetary jaws if for peace to prevail. Because there are cultural issues related to Obama which might bring him to heel. Obama is very vulnerable with men and now with A-As. He has laughed at them and disregarded them at every turn, while pretending he´s the greatest friend the A-A community ever and so oneEvangelical Extremists are a problem to be sure. Right now, the Democrat Party in Congress, the
So, where are we for now? Nowhere good really. In my opinion, the dollar as it is with
all the debt would turn into real toilet paper slowly. Or it can happen any day at all. But recess-flation combined with war and a restive Big Sammy could could open a few new fronts and double down. To compete against that you finally have a movement, Enough so that the PITTSBURGH G-20 defense are doing to do their damage to a small group of protestors while Cindy Sheehan soldiers on, staying in DC to call the public´s attention to Barack Obama´s third term of Bush. The number caren´t so big but the commitmennt is strong. The MSM has cottoned on to the fact that she is a human being just like Barack Obama, only she has scars from Casey being taken away. She´ll BE STRONG FOR PEACE as she details the great moments of Obama history as she does so, every Obama rally, every bit of vacuuousness. Lies. Lecturing. Hectoring. Prudery. American Exceptionalist expropriation, slaughter, and conquest.
The first song, Warren Zevon´s “Volunteer” is a favorite of mine for a lot reasons and it is in some ways evocative of the same frustration all of us dissenters — unwilling domestic subjects of the Empire, and unwilling colonial subjects of the Empire — when we say “What Can We Do?” Cindy Sheehan is answering the more essential question “What Is To Be Done? And she has shared her experiences with the typical critique “Why do you stoop to their level (referring toe Beck or Limbaugh). She doesn´t exactly say “fuck you.” That´s my job! But she doesn´t respond all that cordially. And you never ASK. You DEMAND.
She´ll do whatever it takes short of violence. When the USD bomb does go off America will not resemble itself after the first storm is calmed by someone other than Barack Obama, because like it or not, Barack Obama is the title
of Cindy´s tract: “Myth America.” And enjoy “Alternative Ulster”
It´s late and I´m tired so please don´t write a complaining about a run on sentence. That´s worse than sophhistry. That´s retarded.
Ser Sarah and Lord Cantharidin (of DIS BRIMSTONE -THE DAILY PITCHFORK):
I accept that you have moral values and that you want the same things I want: peace, personal and collective freedom, social justice and a more aware Big Sammy. If not for the latter there would be no war nor global exploitation on this level.
What I have seen, heard and experienced over the last 9 years in Big Sammy and in Panama has convinced me that there are no politics in Big Sammy because in order to have politics, a state cannot be corporate fascism or for that matter unwilling coerced communism or even socialism.
As new nations emerge into accepting being self-governing social democratic republics, democracies, or parliamentary common-law systems, each will treasure that freedom more and more which means withdrawing when possible from an expansive Big Sammy, UK, Israel, Colombia, China, Saudi Arabia, other gulf monarchies, Egypt,Nigeria, Peru and will continue to fight for freedom.
Other governments can be and are respected by their people: Chavez, Bachelet, Lugo, Correa, Fernandez de Kirchner, Morales, Rudd, Key and Funes are the those figures who show the world that self-government works. Outside of Fernandez, all of these heads-of -state have bigger poll numbers by far than Obama does. I would imagine that would be cause to pause and re-think the Empire.
This will take centuries to undo what Sammy has wroght over a mere 9 years. I´m sorry honestly that Barack Obama has defrauded a lot of you and that he only slightly defrauded me. I don´t have a sense of disappointment, for the kinds of reverse-Robin Hood domestic fiscal and bank policy to a commiment to do global violence for expansionist ends, is an idea that has ever gone away.
We all have the issues on which most of our energies are placed. Mine by chance is the preservation of Latin American democratic republicanism, along with the holocaust on the poor of Big Sammy itself.
What I don´t understand is the obsession with gnats and sand flies on powerless US Republican characters and issues. The lever of US “government” is not in the hands of one wing of the fascist party and that wing save 25 people is now pro-war pro-exploitation of labor, and pro-police state, just as the Republicans were a year ago. The salesmanship is just better.
This is the finest, most aware, most intelligent and intelectually broad-minded a collective that I´ve ever been part of.
But assuming for a second that LGBTQ rights and liberties guaranteed not just for a moment but were front and center always, how has Barack Obama´s government done anything to help? Proclaim a month as GAY AWARENESS MONTH with one hand and with the other PERSONALLY fire Lt. Dan Choi?
Having a brown-skinned, African featured HEAD OF SALES of fascism means doggie doo. The regress sees stamps PAID to that.
Let´s say women´s rights to a private relationship with her doctors was the most important issue. What´s been happening on the Dr George Tiller assassination front? That was a key issue here and it is no longer because the Obama handlers and the DoJ are so corrupt that one must only draw the conclusion that Obama approves of Tiller´s murder and would rather have some stupid tea dance rather than accept it for what it is — a political assassination. If Roeder is not treated as a traitor by Obama or by extension here, what chance do any of us have against the evil empire?
I have mountains of evidence on my side and I have my truth. Perhaps, the election of a person of color to the office of POTUS is enough. The end of history? Well, maybe. Ask Sudamericanos negros what they think of the Democrat Party outside of that handful of Reps. You won´t like the answer. They are far more vocal and angry at the man than I am. Ask them about Sarah Palin, and they´d say “como? no hemos oido d ella.”
The Lord Canthardian is correct. There has been a 45-year civil war in Colombia. Plan Colombia is the CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS/MOVEON´s baby and it started with Bill Clinton and is acclerating with Obama.
I am in a very good position to know exactly why Obama is not a role model for a growning, radicalized sub subset of the Black community. In that vein, they no longer see a JFK or LBJ in it, and prefer to use their intelligence to pursue a better life for themselves and their country by REJECTING party politics outside of — say — Conyers, Kucinich and Paul. There is a reason after all that in only searching for answers regarding war and social control I have credibility in that sub-group that very few White Americans ever will just because I don´t use a collectivist approach to friendship and speaking my mind when I´m pissed of (which now is always). I´m not PC. I´m just a human being who has had luck in his life and feels comfortable with his own views.
If Great White Father is what´s required, I´m incapable of being that. I´ll can do is create cross-communications between the Black Is Back movement and the Southern White liberty projects. I have been very good at this, not that´s its scored any major windfalls, although PITTSBURGH showed the world what strength and unity is worth. The world saw inappropriately large para-military force to subdue a crowd only 5000 strong.
The rest of the world save the countries I´ve mentioned but inclusive of the UK, France, Italy, and Spain like the idea of peaceful dissent. And meanwhile back in the states, there´s no uniformity of RADICAL politics as opposed to PEOPLE politics. The NC-based Campaign For Liberty project, the Texas-based antiwar.com, the Black Agenda Report and Cindy Sheehan are uniting more and more people every day. None give a rat´s ass about Palin, other than to be disgusted by her anti-intellectualism. If her shenanigans are more important than world peace, I´d also take a gander inside and why this drift away from the hard issues to focus on the soft ones.
Critiquing Sara Palin will not end the Ken Saro Wiwa family case in Nigeria, for example. It will not the truth about Hugo Chavez and Michelle Bachelet. It will not free Don Siegelman and nor disbar all the Bible School Girl prosecutors. It will not tear into shreds what the King and Ray families have done together to CRUSH RACISM more than any puns about Palin. But you ignore your best chance now of seeing beyond Obama-blackness to undestand why Campaign for Libertyand the Black Agenda Report and Antiwar.com are all together now. Rights and liberties groups go very well together.
As I´ve mentioned before, the focus on uniting is fighting for peace and freedom.
If there is a Palin victory in 2012 it will make Obama and Bush having and their followers, and power in spite of Obama not because of haters but because the people of American have been left with a Hobson´s Choice: death by Theocray or death by hollow but effective words about all the ways Obama is BETTER than any as will have marginalized all voices of dissent. That´s sad but with or whithout you, I believe the modern peace movement tiny as it is will go down fighting.
Fredrick Schwartz, Diane Valencen, Pain, Itself,Crown Fiery, The Baton Rouge, Carl Pryor, Ser Gabrielle , Ser Sarah, Ser Odamo, Lord Canthardian,The Consigliere and Jeanne d´Arc: They appear to understand (as do the all-time ring of honor Hellions, Mencken, Clifford, and Hot Dot). Sadly,Dr Coffin has been silent. 10 days ago, only four Hellions were on point for peace. Now, including myself takes 15 and a simple majority forum.
I believe this augurs well much in the way that thawhat started as Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich´s dream HR 1207, cannot be ignored too much longer. As Pilcher notes, there´s something brewing maybe like a symbolic Berlin Wall or Prague 68.
Good. I´m warmed-up and can play the Olivetti again (Dan Jenkins line). Some voices of the non-mafia vox populi, friends of mine indicted or named on federal gambling charges yesterday:
23-year old Woman, indicted on felony gambling charges facing life for being a cocktail waitress (not a “service professional,” a cocktail waitress at a V2oo9 speak-easy, fuck the preferred nomenclature) carrying two previous cocktail-waitress felony guilty pleas into this for yes being a cocktail waitress :
mentally and actually preparing for what may very well be the mostdifficult day ive had to face. i need love
32-year old Woman, highish up at NYC Legal Aid Society and representative of woman above see you there–you are the strongest 23 yr old ever. love you!so-and-so is not having her annual Halloween party this year. I know, im depressed about it too
27-year old woman, so far un-dicted co-conspirator
love you __H__I im sorry for the loss. If you need anything just call♥ sad day for NY poker
Another friend with regard to woman indicted under terror-related federal gambling statutes in PATRIOT ACT, so far still unindicted co-conspirator:
Love from me to you its all I got
28-year old Man, currently getting M.S. in engineering at Columbia University, indicting facing life for gambling USA PATRIOT tangent means he´s facing life in prison, no parole:
Thank you Jayme and Voltaire for sharing this special occasion with you both. It was amazing as are you both. ps ironic day to be dress as a gangster type.
35-year old Man:
rikers island to visit joey, im gonna try to get plaxicos autograph [The joey he refers to is also a good friend as is everyone who used Facebook gingerly to reach out...Joe is currently a kindergarten teacher...I´m not joking, man, there is no SOL on these charges.]
A friend of 40-year old Man who spent a week in April with Magda and me. He took all the beautiful pictures of Madga. The dude is one of my closest friends in the states. Cellphone doesn´t respond. Everyone´s worried sick about him and everyone who was or still “in the life”. Hey what’s up.. Call me.. Wanna catch up. Where u been my friend.. X ~ DL
Twin brother of engineering student (not indicted):
yes.XXXX is that XXXX…a bunch of people were indicted by the US attorney general. So its now federal. I think the minimum is twenty years but I could be wrong
Another friend and unindicted co-conspirator in response to something the brother had said in reference to the whole tits-up: word
Kelso, still oblivious of his own status and who thought he wouldn´t would never have to deal with this ever again: I didn´t LIKE IT. I was disgusted by it, but wanted to acknowledge $$$ for bringing it to my attention
Another friend and unindicted co-conspirator in response to something the brother had said in reference to the whole tits-up One of the NYC people who helped get me re-entree to LaCdP with the champagne room treatment Atoning...
That dude has a dry sense of humor, I´ll say that alright.
Am not discussing my personal shit because no conceivable way I get pull into this because I was a player not in the club poker business. But you never know with BushBama. I´m not answering my calls because Plan Colombia took everything out of me. I can´t shoulder any more peoples´ weight.
Instead, I´ll fantasize about some revenge. By Mario Irguran upon Eric Holder for Chiquita/Drummond anti-union massacre. By an unleashed Jim McGovern and Mike Delahunt to follow the links of SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS-WHINSEC without Barack Obama inviting John Negroponte and Otto Reich as “neutral” observers of Delahunt´s hearings earlier this summer.
Nothing soothes the soul like Jonathan Richman and Alex Chilton, though.
Time to leave the COWARDLY SALESMEN-IN-CHIEF BILDERBEREGERS be, though, to their vacuuity and rampant narcissism. I want to find out how Bible School Girlish the still AUSA Bible Girls are now having been kept over by Barack Obama, the lecturing preeing edition of his sloppy inarticulate predecessor. Twins: former prefers sit-ups to common-sense, current throws away common-sense away for a good pec workout. Both are ignorant Gringo clods, however.
I´m looking at a 0 in comments which let the zen of the thing register in context. I´`m likely to get only imbecilic comments about my misplacement of a semi-colon and/or how this proves Black inferiority to Whites. Problem is that they people whose Facebook comments I cited are: White Jewish, White Italian, White Irish and Asian-American. The droning tedious comment will follow “Kelso you said…” and the argument will be a hodge-podge about LBJ, how the CRA was a license to steal, how Plessy v Ferguson needs a new test case to affirm!…and on on and on….” like a pesty mosquito or sand fly. On one point I will agree with Slappsie, however. Being jammed up in the system over total bullshit is no damned fun for WHITES EITHER.
This is a cry for Ass-Whole Foods liberals and the Radical Christianist right all inclusive just shut the fuck up right now. Yes, Radical Christianists in politics or home town life are a cancer. Yes, Ass-Whole Food Liberals are also tyrants but a knack for Rainbow “themes” and on cultural issues and are as racist and indifferent as the radical whites are. Both groups have already thrown all their rights liberties and money away to war criminals. I´m with Torrance, Jay, B´Man and Cindy Sheehan on this. Most Americans are blockheads. Wingnuts suck most of the time. AWFLs suck worst of all when money is involved.
There´s no American partisan crap to any to any of this. Bush started it. Obama´s worse of course but he is really just on the post-Jerry Ford trend line line of fascism. I just don´t need prudery right now. Like the woman said just “love”.
On what planet are smoking pot and playing cards in a private club felonies, but prosecuting imperials wars such that the sun never sets on American fascism.
…I present a little gift for Noonan and the rest of the K_razy K_ristians´K_lavern, weirdos who seek to impose on everybody their rather unusual Christianism [must be hard to be a Christian without Jesus, si o no?].
(1) Peter Schiff´s announcement for the Republican nomination for Jr. Connecticut US senator in 2010. This was a very important and empowering act by Schiff. He´s not only trusted as an educator, but he has worlds of of experience as a money-manager. I think a few traders who want “change” in a hotel suite for 5 or 6 days could have accomplished a least more prudent and socially-more generous and surely the least worst of any other options wasted and other pauperizing options still held-over and and/or ready to be deployed.
The problem with Big Pink Sammy´s upper chamber is that it is a corrupting institution. I merely point to Bernie Sanders as a perfect example of the corruption. Bernie Sanders is absolutely, positively, the most progressive Senator in the 111th. In the words of radio personality Thom Hartmann, Sanders is “America´s Senator there. Still,even Sanders can´t be persuded to advocate “change” this year. I no longer hear him speaking about wars or killing off (financially) Switzerland and Panama by fucking around in their sovereign banking systems. He has spoken little on the ethnic -cleansing in the Occupied Territories,nor the proxy war that will be the 3rd front, Plan Colombia, He has not offered an opinion recently on Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Somalia, nor China nor Saudi Arabia. He jumped into the neo-liberal pool on “the public option” instead of using the same logic he applied to the Federal Reserve with S604 (Kucinich, Paul, Sanders, DeMint).
None of this means that Sanders is a bad guy. He´s not. As I wrote before, I consider him the ideal of what a U.S. Senator should be. Everybody knows that I think highly of Sheldon Whitehouse, but once his drive to hold all of the Bush Administration accountable for their illegal war smashed into a ¨Democratic Party” which didn´t want the truth to come out, Whitehouse has retreated. Feingold has retreated. Leahy has retreated. Jack Reed has retreated. Carl Levin has been letting his Zionist freak-flag fly. It´s very hard for any politician, especially in the US Senate which is both stodgy and corrupting, to throw caution to the wind and be “hard for peace,¨and more so because of the material power that Emanuel, Kaine and Obama have. I read today that in the White House, Joe Biden is considered the “dove”.
With all that in mind, I have to question how good a thing it would be to have Peter Schiff in the Senate when at this moment his message is one of the clearest and that message is reaching college students in a more tangible way than the Good Cop Obama of the pre-presidency. Basically, all Schiff has to do is go up against a moderate, corporatist, Bob Simmons to get the nomination of the Republican Party. Then it would be duck soup for Schiff against a wholly-tainted Chris Dodd. Loosed from the immediate needs of the 1-party Big Sammy system it´s going to take a lot of effort to communicate his message to the people sufficiently even though Schiff is in the media a lot and his values are peace, personal freedom and social justice, all important and which have relevance to every other element of Big Sammy crisis.
Peter Schiff wants be a Senator, but I want him to keep telling the truth. A muzzled Schiff, just like a muzzled Feingold Sanders or Whitehouse is hardly CHANGE I CAN BELIEVE IN. About the best I can hope for is that Simmons will pick up on some of Schiff´s libertarian ideas and present them in a way that´s more traditionally social democratic.
(2) I believe PITTSBURGH was the first battle since the Freedom Rides and 1968 across the world that gives me some optimism. I´ve never had the experience before of protest in which The reason that the SWAT and urban guerrilla tactics were deployed was because of a diverse 3000 committed peace activists. They didn´t go quiety into cages like New Yorkers did. With a “liberal” president, even New Yorkers who are more cynical than anybody except for Bostonians and Oaklanders, still gets a pass. Oh well.
Maybe it´s because of some unique moment in time of Democrats paralyzed by the Democratic National Committe — which is now far right of where DLC was when it began doing dirt in its few years of oppression — and its use of Barack Obama and the race card as tools for American hegemony. You can classify a leaderless Peace Movement 2009 as being composed of four disparate groups: the true left-wing committed activists, the White Southern Christian libertarians, the activist LGBTQ community and the re-emerging re-adhering Black Nationalist movement there´s room for everybody, but there are no leaders. The well-known names like Cindy Sheehan, Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul, Cynthia McKinney, Ralph Nader and Bobby Seale happen to be very good organizers of a purely dis-organized activist community, but their words give what John Pilger calls “the New Populism,” a good way of understanding each other and acting collectively.
The introduction of banking, business, economics, finance and trade has made these once-auto-antithetical groups understand each other and go into the fight with that understanding. Had a Kent State happened last week, it would have been tragic for any young person and her relatives, and it would have equally destabilizing in the USA as well. Obama´s trip is very obsessive-compulsive and as he has shown to be very concerned with his Beltway image first and foremost.
Today´s activists are NOT Democrats. Some are Republican by necessity. They are no liberals nor are they coporatist “moderate” Republicans. These are committed peace activists,who see each person´s complaints about Big Sammy equally valid. Everyone´s issues are everyone esle´s issue the fight is not against people but against a corporatist government. I think Pilger´s right because every person has a limit to how much he or she can take. Eventually, the New Populists will win the day because all are so keyed-in to the importance of understanding economics and all are genuinely active on veterans´issues, something that was wholly absent during the 1960s. The next protest gatherings will be at each of Bush and Obama´s first or 2nd home.
(NB: rest was originally a comment to Ser Gabby but it ran long)
Noonan´s FREEDOM TRADE idea would also INSIST on as much cocaine as possible from Colombia and Peru, but would pass on cocaine from Bolivia and Ecuador.
Processed opium from China, Karzai´s “Afghanistan,” as well as from Pakistan, Chechnya,or Georgia would be fine, but not the same stuff from Abkhazia, Kazakhstan, Tadjikistan, Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan.
How Venezuela figures into the “War On Narco-Terrorism” is beyond me. Their arable land for coca is very small compared to the other Andean nations. Sure, they deal it back and forth internally but for the most part, Venezuela is about heavy crude, agricultural futures, banking,green tech and, surprisingly, arts, entertainment and sports. They could not even be a major player in cocaine even if they wanted to.
The Big Pink Empire has gotten so dystopian that one of my core philosophies — fungibility fitting most of life 3-dimensional surface bounded by risk, return and time — is no longer applicable because of the wretched needs of the decayed Empire.
My belief in fungibility of cash, equities, debt, commodities, real property, insurance and explicit and implicit options used to underlay my interpretation of the Chomsky-ite conception of the social contract. Part of this philosophie is the insistence on the parity of one unit of labor with one unit of capital of equivalent capital. A parity of RIGHTS and LIBERTIES is necessary, too. The simplest aspect of this would be the portability of labor as well as capital.
This ideology oddly enough is called once again Anarco-Syndicalism. It´s funny how the words of public intellctuals of the 1960´s words went out-of-vogue when Reagan was elected and then were dormant until the Obama Decade began. I like the old words. They feel comfortable to me.
I write it over and over again. The Chavez government has delivered not because it is both a social-democray and an economy that is guided far more by Adam Smith than by Fidel Castro. Che Guevara, although associated in American minds, were two very different characters. Castro and Che will always have symbolic meaning but we know what happened to Che and we know that Castro´s Cuba even allowing for USA intervention, failed to live up to its promises and as such is very close to being a failed state, Bolivar, Allende and Arbenz all have the symbolic stuff but were more instrumental leaders in the same way that Mossadegh and Omar Torrijos did. This brings me to the political economy
To me, Chavez is the synthesis of Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul, pero en plan Bolivarano: No coercive FTAs, neutral free-trade on equal terms with the world, plus the “Dutch Auction” concept in contracting parts of collective assets such that no bidder comes away with nothing. The bids are re-cabrated to match the last marginal bidder´s price, i.e., everybody gets a piece of the project and everyone pays the unit price which clears the market.
I was talking on the phone with a history professor the other day whom I´d know since college. We both came to the conclusion that the “Dutch” Auction idea is the market analog to Prof. Lani Guinier´s “Instant-Runoff” voting system.
I have to give Kucinich, Paul, Sanders and even crazy Jim DeMint, some credit for PC language by calling Biblically extremist, confiscatory and fraudulent borrowing “Fraction Reserve Banking.”
We all live in risk, return & time space, but without a little Karl Marx, a little Veblen (on tech), a little Adam Smith, a little David Ricardo, a little Keynes, a little Modigliani-Miller, and a little Black-Scholes, a little Eugene Fama, a little Richard Roll, and even a little Tobin, to make a better social contract in a self-governing free nation. That´s what´s needed — another of my favorite Big Sammy expressions from the peace movement: CRITICAL THINKING. It´s why the movement got into economics and finance thinkers who are off-the-grid and range from libertarian to socialist. Celente, Faber and Roubini along with Blinder, Grant, Henwood, Hudson, Perkins, and Stiglitz, but showed Krugman and Reich the gate! Institutional neo-liberalism in most ways is more destructive than orthodox free-markeets are. So, Krugmann and Reich tal vez ya no quepan.
El Espirtu De La Escalera
Cynthia McKinney guest hosted Cindy Sheehan´s show yesterday and interviewed Howard Zinn for the hour. The whole series is real good. SoapboxInternet09272009
TERRY SOUTHERN. I have it cued up to the start of a particular favorite of mine “‘Heavy Put-Away’ which the New York Observer called “the coldest story ever written.” –Elston Gunn
The more I see every single issue that everyone who thinks about these things raises,
the more I realize that they are all really the SAME issue. From
anti-Universal Health Care to no-LGTBQ rights nor liberties to the
domestic war of drugs and privatized concent…ration camp system to cause
holocaust on all Blacks in America to Plan Colombia to that sinister
Cap-And-Trade “environmental” plan which monetizes death to Iraq to
Af-Pak-Ind-Bangl-Kashmir to Somalia to the Occupied Territories to not
investigating 9/11 to that INSANE FEDERAL Reserve, IRS and Department
Of Injustice to privatized for-profit “public schools” in which the
Secretary of Education owns the Testing Company, TO THE BIG ONE: $24 TLN DEBT/CHINA/USD…and on…and on and…on and on…THE EVIL NEVER RELENTS AND GOES ON AND ON AND ON…
Icould list other outrages for five hours more and not run out of
them…THIS IS THE MOST FRIGHTENING FAILED EMPIRE IN WORLD HISTORY.
IT
REALLY IS. My conclusion is that Kissiger and Brzezinski’s ultimate plan is try to WIN a global thermo-nuclear war. It’s far, far, far past even these dominionist Bilderberg and Bohemian Grove things. Those are almost afternoon ladies’ tea dances compared to what evil has been let loose and can’t ever be stopped.
These Blackwater thugs are all over big cities in Panama and EVERYWHERE in Colombia. I’ve been up 30-hours trying to get help with ST BARACK “MR ROLE MODEL JESUS CHRIST” OBAMA’s sadistic PLAN COLOMBIA which is totally enmeshed with THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK and the IRS and the USA SS NAZI BROWNSHIRT DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE run by MURDEROUS BASTARD “ROLE MODEL” ERIC HOLDER.
My girlfriend just got searched for drugs by two of these goons as she was coming out of accounting class.
Three loosely organized parts of American society have been very helpful and sympathetic: the Black Power activists, the Socialist Parties, and the Southern Christian libertarians and Town Hallers.
The next time some USELESS WHITE LIBERAL BLOGGER MAKES SOME SMART-ASS REMARKS ABOUT SOUTHERNERS I’LL PROBABLY HAVE A STROKE!!
Critical thinking time: White Southern Christians are SAVING LIVES IN LATIN AMERICA. “Evolved” WHITE LIBERAL BASTARDS ARE KILLING AND EXPLOITING PEOPLE IN LATIN AMERICA. IT’S JUST THAT SIMPLE.
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by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley
