This what happens when one drowns one's sorrow in food.
2019-11-30
2019-11-27
Tomorrow: Day of Mourning.
The true beginning of the racially-based genocide perpetrated in what is now called North America.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/american-thanksgiving-a-pure-glorification-of-racist-barbarity/5359622
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Mourning_(United_States_protest)
https://www.globalresearch.ca/american-thanksgiving-a-pure-glorification-of-racist-barbarity/5359622
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Day_of_Mourning_(United_States_protest)
Now we finally know - the US Government was behind the coup in Bolivia.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-government-propelled-coup-bolivia/5695837
1. For many years the Santa Cruz Civic Committee and its proto-fascist Youth Union received funding from the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy. According to analyst Eva Golinger some years ago, the USAID provided $84 million to Bolivian opposition groups.
U.S. Embassy officials conspired with and paid the “civic committees” of Bolivia’s four eastern departments. Representing the European- descended elite of Bolivia’s wealthiest region, these groups promoted racist assaults. They concocted a separatist movement and tried to assassinate Morales. In response, the Bolivian government expelled the U.S. ambassador, Drug Enforcement Agency, and U. S. Agency for International Development.
3. Money flowed freely prior to Morales’s departure. Bolivian
ambassador to the United Nations Sacha Llorenti – a Morales supporter –
reported that, “loyal members of [Morales’s] security team showed him
messages in which people were offering them $50,000 if they would hand
him over.”
4. According to the respected Argentinean journalist Stella Cattaloni, Ivanka Trump arrived in Jujuy on September 4-5 ostensibly to honor a small group of women entrepreneurs. Some “2,500 federal agents” and Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan accompanied her. At the same time, Governor Gerardo Morales was informed that the United States would be delivering $400 million supposedly to pay for improvements to a big highway in Argentina. Cattaloni suggests that a freight train running through Jujuy en route to Santa Cruz, the center of anti- Morales plotting in Bolivia, was transporting military equipment to opposition groups.
There’s media speculation as to how Governor Morales may have facilitated the
transfer of U.S. money to Luis Camacho, leader of the coup and head of
the Santa Cruz Civic Committee. He may have done so in Santa Cruz, where
he visited on September 4, or in Jujuy Province where Camacho may have showed up later that day or the next.
5. According to analyst Jeb Sprague:
Sprague notes also that the top commanders of police that mutinied had received training at the Washington-based Latin American police exchange program known by its initials in Spanish as APALA.
6. The OAS played a crucial role in the coup. Votes were being tallied on October 20 when the OAS, having audited preliminary results, announced that they showed irregularities. The U.S. government echoed the findings and street protests intensified. On October 24 the Supreme Electoral Tribunal declared first-round victories for Morales and García Linare. Protests mounted. The government, under stress, requested another OAS audit.
The OAS made its conclusions public on November 10, earlier than expected:
The OAS findings were false. Walter Mebane and colleagues at the University of Michigan, having examined voting statistics, indicated that fraudulent votes in the election were not decisive for the result. The Washington-based Center for Economic and Policy Research performed its own detailed study and reached the same conclusion.
The OAS served as U.S. handmaiden. Headquartered in Washington, the organization took shape under U.S. auspices in 1948 with the assigned task of protecting Latin America and the Caribbean from Communism. More recently the OAS, under Secretary General Luis Almagro’s guidance, has spearheaded U.S. efforts to expel President Nicolas Maduro’s progressive Venezuelan government.
Paradoxically, Almagro in May 2019 gave Morales the go-ahead for a fourth presidential term. That was despite a referendum having been defeated that would have allowed the extra term. Almago’s intention may have been to lull Morales into cooperating with OAS overview of the election results.
7. Other signs of U.S. coup preparations are these:
1. For many years the Santa Cruz Civic Committee and its proto-fascist Youth Union received funding from the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy. According to analyst Eva Golinger some years ago, the USAID provided $84 million to Bolivian opposition groups.
U.S. Embassy officials conspired with and paid the “civic committees” of Bolivia’s four eastern departments. Representing the European- descended elite of Bolivia’s wealthiest region, these groups promoted racist assaults. They concocted a separatist movement and tried to assassinate Morales. In response, the Bolivian government expelled the U.S. ambassador, Drug Enforcement Agency, and U. S. Agency for International Development.
2. Bolivian armed forces commander in chief Williams Kaliman Romero on November 10 “suggested”
that Morales resign. That was the coup de grace. Within three days,
Kaliman himself resigned and moved to the United States.
Sullkata M. Quilla of the Latin American Center for Strategic Analysis
explains that Kaliman and other military chiefs each had received $1
million and that top police officers received $500,000 apiece. U.S.
Chargee d’affaires Bruce Williamson allegedly arranged for monetary
transactions that took place in Argentina’s Jujuy Province under the
auspices of Governor Geraldo Morales. The story first appeared on the
website www.Tvmundus.com.ar.
4. According to the respected Argentinean journalist Stella Cattaloni, Ivanka Trump arrived in Jujuy on September 4-5 ostensibly to honor a small group of women entrepreneurs. Some “2,500 federal agents” and Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan accompanied her. At the same time, Governor Gerardo Morales was informed that the United States would be delivering $400 million supposedly to pay for improvements to a big highway in Argentina. Cattaloni suggests that a freight train running through Jujuy en route to Santa Cruz, the center of anti- Morales plotting in Bolivia, was transporting military equipment to opposition groups.
5. According to analyst Jeb Sprague:
“At least six of the key coup plotters are alumni of the infamous School of the Americas, while [General] Kaliman and another figure served in the past as Bolivia’s military and police attachés in Washington.”For decades, Latin American military personnel have received training and indoctrination at that U.S. Army school now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
Sprague notes also that the top commanders of police that mutinied had received training at the Washington-based Latin American police exchange program known by its initials in Spanish as APALA.
6. The OAS played a crucial role in the coup. Votes were being tallied on October 20 when the OAS, having audited preliminary results, announced that they showed irregularities. The U.S. government echoed the findings and street protests intensified. On October 24 the Supreme Electoral Tribunal declared first-round victories for Morales and García Linare. Protests mounted. The government, under stress, requested another OAS audit.
The OAS made its conclusions public on November 10, earlier than expected:
The OAS couldn’t “validate the results of this election [and called for] “another electoral process [and] new electoral authorities.”This was the tipping point. Morales convoked another election but shortly thereafter General Kaliman forced him to resign.
The OAS findings were false. Walter Mebane and colleagues at the University of Michigan, having examined voting statistics, indicated that fraudulent votes in the election were not decisive for the result. The Washington-based Center for Economic and Policy Research performed its own detailed study and reached the same conclusion.
The OAS served as U.S. handmaiden. Headquartered in Washington, the organization took shape under U.S. auspices in 1948 with the assigned task of protecting Latin America and the Caribbean from Communism. More recently the OAS, under Secretary General Luis Almagro’s guidance, has spearheaded U.S. efforts to expel President Nicolas Maduro’s progressive Venezuelan government.
Paradoxically, Almagro in May 2019 gave Morales the go-ahead for a fourth presidential term. That was despite a referendum having been defeated that would have allowed the extra term. Almago’s intention may have been to lull Morales into cooperating with OAS overview of the election results.
7. Other signs of U.S. coup preparations are these:
- Prior to the October 20 elections President Morales charged that U.S. Embassy officials bribed rural residents to reject him at the polls. They traveled, for example, to the Yungas region on October 16 with pay-offs to disaffected coca farmers.
- According to Bolpress.com, the National Military Coordinator (Coordinadora Nacional Militar), an organization of reserve military officers, received and distributed money sent from the United States to create social crisis prior to October 20. The United States also used embassies in Bolivia and the evangelical church as facades to hide its activities. Mariane Scott and Rolf A. Olson, U.S. Embassy officials in La Paz, met with counterparts in the embassies of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina to coordinate destabilization efforts and to deliver U.S. financing to opposition forces inside Bolivia.
- Weapons shipments from the United States arrived at the Chilean port of Iquique on their way to the National Military Coordinator group inside Bolivia.
- The State Department allocated $100,000 to enable a company called “CLS Strategies” to mount a disinformation campaign through social media.
- The CIA station in La Paz assumed control of Bolivia’s Whatsapp network in order to leak false information. More than 68,000 fake anti-Morales tweets were released.
- In mid-October “political consultant” George Eli Birnbaun arrived in Santa Cruz from Washington with a team of military and civilian personnel. Their job was to support the U.S. – preferred presidential candidacy of Oscar Ortiz and to destabilize the country politically after the elections. They provided support for Santa Cruz Civic Committee’s youth organization – specialists in violence – and supervised the U.S. – financed “Standing Rivers” NGO, engaged in spreading disinformation.
- Sixteen audio recordings of the plotters’ pre-election conversations were leaked and showed up on the internet. Several of the voices mentioned contacts with the U.S. Embassy and with U.S. Senators Ted Cruz, Robert Menendez, and Marco Rubio. Sprague reports that four of the ex-military plotters on the calls had attended the School of the Americas.
2019-11-25
Stopping the police from becoming another military force.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/whole-system-guilty-taking-control-police/5695829
2019-11-24
Sayonara Polar Ice?
https://climatenewsnetwork.net/arctics-oldest-ice-shows-signs-of-change/
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-arctics-oldest-ice-is-disappearing-before-our-eyes/
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-arctics-oldest-ice-is-disappearing-before-our-eyes/
Dr Moore and his colleagues report in the journal Geophysical Research Letters that they used computer models and satellite observation data to build up a picture of what they call “spatiotemporal variability” in their Last Ice Area.
They found two distinct places where ice thickness fluctuated by up to 1.2 metres from year to year. In some patches, the ice was thinning by the decade: a loss of 1.5 metres since the late 1970s.
2019-11-23
Should I be concerned about this analysis?
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/22/sand-n22.html
It's really hard to argue with it.
And make no mistake, there are a number of circumstances where I'd consider myself a naive Sanders supporter.
It's also true that with pretty much any candidate, there are things they did, or votes they took which ran against my interests.
I guess my issue is - assuming Sanders won - would he or can he be trusted to carry out his policies on the things he ran on?
That for me is the central question.
It's really hard to argue with it.
And make no mistake, there are a number of circumstances where I'd consider myself a naive Sanders supporter.
It's also true that with pretty much any candidate, there are things they did, or votes they took which ran against my interests.
I guess my issue is - assuming Sanders won - would he or can he be trusted to carry out his policies on the things he ran on?
That for me is the central question.
2019-11-21
Nothing better underscores how completely useless this Trump impeachment stuff is more than ... oh I dunno - re-authorizing sections of the FUCKING Patriot Act so Trump can spy on Americans!
Seriously - https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/21/fund-n21.html
By
Barry Grey
On Tuesday, House Democrats overwhelmingly voted for a stop-gap
government funding bill that includes an unannounced provision, buried
in the legislation, averting the expiration of the police state
surveillance Patriot Act.
Coming in the midst of the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, based entirely on differences over US foreign policy toward Ukraine and Russia, the extension of the Patriot Act underscores the absence of any democratic content in the Democrats’ opposition to the Trump administration.
...
This is why I fear the Establishment and Deep State will fix the 2020 US Democratic Presidential Primaries - just as they did in 2016 - so that Bernie Sanders won't get the nomination, and hence not be on the 2020 US Presidential Ballot.
Sanders would put a stop to this shit - among many other things - and these entities like large corporations, wealthy, CIA, etc., won't like that one bit.
Patriot Act extension concealed in funding bill passed by House Democrats
By
Barry Grey
21 November 2019
On Tuesday, House Democrats overwhelmingly voted for a stop-gap
government funding bill that includes an unannounced provision, buried
in the legislation, averting the expiration of the police state
surveillance Patriot Act.Coming in the midst of the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, based entirely on differences over US foreign policy toward Ukraine and Russia, the extension of the Patriot Act underscores the absence of any democratic content in the Democrats’ opposition to the Trump administration.
...
This is why I fear the Establishment and Deep State will fix the 2020 US Democratic Presidential Primaries - just as they did in 2016 - so that Bernie Sanders won't get the nomination, and hence not be on the 2020 US Presidential Ballot.
Sanders would put a stop to this shit - among many other things - and these entities like large corporations, wealthy, CIA, etc., won't like that one bit.
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