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The Unholy Trinity Taking Aim At Honduras

July 23, 2009 By Joan of Snark

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Though the ADD media did little more than their usual hit & run on recent events in Honduras before glomming onto more important things like the death of Michael Jackson, Accuracy In Media has posted a detailed report that connects some rather chilling dots between the U.N., President Obama, and Hugo Chavez, and poses legitimate questions of their real intentions.

This also begs the question of Obama’s loyalty to the United States, for interference in the fate of Honduras appears to also be tied to affairs in Iran.

The United Nations on Thursday begins a debate over a new U.N. military doctrine called the “Responsibility to Protect,” which would authorize the world organization to be used as cover to intervene in the sovereign affairs of a nation state, supposedly to protect the people of a country against their own government. The first target could be anti-communist Honduras.

In an ominous development, blogger Jason Poblete, an astute observer of Latin American affairs with excellent sources, reports that “The Obama Administration is considering a United Nations Security Council Resolution against the constitutional government of Honduras.” If true, anticipated U.N. sanctions against Honduras could be followed by the world organization being used as cover for outside forces to invade Honduras and reinstate Zelaya.

Zelaya flew from Costa Rica, where he was deported, to U.N. headquarters in New York, where D’Escoto, who is also a Communist Catholic Priest from Nicaragua, greeted him as a comrade. Since the crisis began and the U.N. voted to have him reinstated, the Obama Administration has been trying to figure out a way to get him back into power. Costa Rican President Oscar Arias recently hosted some negotiations to try to resolve the dispute but they appear to be going nowhere.

The U.N. may be the logical next step, if Zelaya’s allies in the region don’t act precipitously on their own and intervene. Chavez has already threatened to invade Honduras to put Zelaya back in power.

On July 13, the State Department spokesman confirmed that Chavez had called Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon to “discuss the current situation in Honduras and the ongoing negotiations mediated by Costa Rica’s President Oscar Arias.” The confirmation followed news of Chavez boasting about the telephone call on Venezuelan state TV.

This tends to confirm what former Marxist SDS radical Tom Hayden, leader of “Progressives for Obama,” has written about the Obama-Chavez relationship. Based on his own inside sources of information, Hayden said that he thinks Obama and Chavez are working together on Honduras and have an “understanding,” which he even describes as “collaboration.” The call Chavez made to Shannon suggests that Chavez is calling the shots.

Ultimately, according to a very detailed report by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, part of the Israel Intelligence Heritage and Commemoration Center, this would benefit Iran, a terrorist state developing nuclear weapons which is developing a vast network throughout Latin America. A recent report from the organization examines the deep Iranian connections to Venezuela as well as Bolivia.

We here continue to stand by the people of Honduras and their upholding of their constitution.  It is humiliating that our President refuses to do the same.

It is also a dangerous walk on a very thin line.  Article III, section 3 of the United States Constitution states:  “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” 

…the Hayden article strongly suggests that the Obama policy is not the result of incompetence or inexperience but is deliberate in nature. 

Hayden, once a famous anti-Vietnam War protester in his own right and former official of the Marxist Students for a Democratic Society, claims that “something profoundly new began developing between Obama and Chavez at the hemispheric conference in April in Trinidad.

According to eyewitness sources, under the apparently blind eye of the global media, the two leaders had lengthy conversations. The media covered the friendly photo of the initial handshake between the two leaders, then made much ado about an apparently-impertinent Chavez handing Obama a book in Spanish by Eduardo Galleano. What has not been reported is that Obama, leaving his advisers behind, held lengthy private conversations with Chavez where only an interpreter was present.

In December 2007 his [Chavez’s] regime hosted a conference devoted to staging a communist revolution in the United States. The panel discussion on “United States: A possible revolution” was described as the central event at the third Venezuela International Book Fair.

According to an article in The Militant, the newspaper of the Socialist Workers Party, the forum included presentations by “Mary-Alice Waters, a member of the Socialist Workers Party National Committee and president of Pathfinder Press; Eva Golinger, a Venezuelan-American lawyer and author of The Chávez Code; Chris Carlson, a contributor to the venezuelanalysis.com website; and Tufara Waller, cultural program coordinator of the Highlander Center in Tennessee.”

Other panelists were identified as “Bernardo Alvarez, Venezuela’s ambassador to the United States; former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill; August Nimtz, a University of Minnesota political science professor; William Blum, an author who has written a number of books opposing U.S. foreign policy; ex-Maryknoll priest Charles Hardy; and Dada Maheshvarananda, yoga instructor and founder of the Prout Institute.”  

The communist paper reported that, before there could be a revolution in the United States, Marxist forces would have to take control of Latin America. “Another idea frequently expressed by speakers from the floor and by a few panelists was that ‘change has to come from the South,'” referring to Latin America, the paper said.

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Filed Under: Truth In Reporting Tagged With: Chavez, Honduras, Obama, U.N.

Baffle ‘Em With Bullshit

March 28, 2009 By Joan of Snark

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Do you actually read the news?  I mean really read the news; not just looking at the pictures, skimming over to the gossip or entertainment sections so you can then get to the daily cartoons.  Read to the point you know about what’s going on in your town and in your country.

I talk to a lot of people and am often surprised at just how little they know about things that stand to change their very way of life.  So much is taken for granted yet there are times I can’t blame them for wanting to stick their heads in the sand and choose instead to obsess over the next American Idol.  Not only do current events sorely test those few lessons in civics through which most of us nodded so many years ago, the sheer number of them coming at us today is unprecendented.

But maybe that’s the way the new administration and those working behind the scenes of it planned it all along.  Baffle ’em with bullshit about crisis after crisis and then leverage the overwhelming despair to sneak in and steal everything of value.

Today is a day when there’s surely plenty of it.  First and most importantly, there’s the fundamental insanity of “rephrasing” the terms by which we measure what’s going on in the world around us.  That’s a really good way to get yourself in through the backdoor; just don’t let ’em know what you really mean.   The “war on terror” has now become the “ongoing struggle against terror” (courtesy of those alleged-as-nebulous ties to Bill Ayers, we presume?)  On a global level, it’s being referred to as an “overseas contingency operation”. 

Yeah, right.  Where I come from, it’s called fighting those who wish us dead.  In other words, it’s war.

There’s the ongoing saga of government bailouts and the endless AIG ping-pong blame game to take our minds off such insensibilities.   But in an unprecedented move, Treasury Secretary Geithner has proposed a sweeping set of regulations that could well spell the end of business as we know it.  He thinks we need an “independent” agency to monitor “major institutions” or payment systems whose failure “could” present a “destabilizing effect” on the economy.  The stated intention is to restrain companies whose size or complexity “could” threaten the financial systems’ stability, with the power to control all this to be spread among the Treasury, Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and SEC.  Color me an alarmist or color me practical, but there’s nothing to define any of this; much is being left up for “discussion” over the next few weeks.  What is there to discuss?  It’s all being directed at private businesses, where in a free market business operates according to Darwin’s theory – the survival of the fittest (there is a reason the dinosaurs went extinct).  I can easily imagine a government takeover of, say, Microsoft when some hacker unleashes the virus-to-end-all-viruses and manages to take down computers from coast to coast, businesses large and small, and portions of government operations.

This comes from the very same Tiny Tim who was unable to tell anyone just how much TARP money is left.  I can’t help but now wonder if that failure to pay all those taxes didn’t stem from simple stupidity after all. 

And did you know that the IRS is setting up a sort of clemency program, designed to get the wealthy to spill the beans about their oversees bankers?  The government made up rules that allow this sort of thing, but now we’re going to tell other countries that they can’t allow Americans to play by them. 

It isn’t going over very well.  The World Trade Organization is warning about the creeping protectionism now being displayed around the world, but the finger is being pointed at the United States and the European Union for starting the financial crisis.  Suggestions about replacing the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency with some mish-mash to be managed by the International Monetary Fund were given a semblance of credence by none other than, yes, Tiny Tim, when he told the Council on Foreign Relations “We’re actually quite open to that.”  Thereby setting off yet another panic in the financial sectors, both nationa and global.  Though it is reported that he’d not even read China’s proposal. 

I fear it is simply a precursor to the latest U.N. proposal for “climate change”, complete with a global shift to a “world economy”.  Though the proposal is still rather vague in terms of dollars, the scope should frighten anyone with a modicum of sense for it will affect absolutely everything from goods to the ability to provide services to utilities through mandates like cap and trade and a shift in the use of subsidies.  The Obama administration is for anything that uses the weasel words, “global warming”, and there is obviously no concern on their part that the “bank” for all of the monies that will involved will be none other than the inept U.N.

Anyone else getting the feeling that reading is somehow something just a bit too plebian for this administration?  Despite all the talk about transparency, they don’t want anyone else to read anything, either.  Fox cable news won a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of the Treasury seeking documents related to the Troubled Asset Recovery Program.  Some 10,000 pages were finally received but, guess what?  The majority of them were redacted.  Thereby continuing to cloak the government’s role in the compensation agreements at AIG and Citigroup, etc.

Meantime, North Korea is preparing to launch what they are calling a satellite and the rest of the world is calling a missile test.  A test to see if whatever-you-choose-to-call-it is capable of reaching the United States.  Japan is preparing to intercept debris over the ocean and the U.S. has 2 warships deployed in southwestern Japan while the inevitable threat of sanctions is being made by allies.  Not that the North Korea contributes to the stability of the region, but this is not just a diplomatic nightmare.  It contains all the potential for the very same ugliness with which we are already heavily involved in the Middle East.  But at least the Middle Eastern leaders aren’t (yet) attempting to launch missiles at us.

But there are some missiles already hitting close to home.  My home.  Your home.  If the technology exists, someone will figure out how to make a buck with it.  And red-light cameras are the latest trick in the revenue-collecting arsenal.  Mississippi,  Arkansas, Minnesota, Nebraska and West Virginia all ban them, though about half the states authorize their use.  Now Chicago – surprise, surprise – is considering using them to not only catch people who run red lights, but to also check to see if they are driving an insured vehicle, since there is big money to be made collecting fines for driving without insurance.  Big money for government and for a Michigan-based company, InsureNet, who would charge up to 30% in collection fees for tying into the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System, an information-sharing network that links some 35,000 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.  Though being sold as an adjunct check for drivers who break the law, there is nothing to stop a check of every single car passing through an intersection to see if they are insured.  In fact, that’s still on the table.  Maybe it’s just me, but I fail to see how this makes the roads safer.  Certainly driving is a huge act of faith – that other drivers will obey the rules of the road – but whether or not other drivers are insured has nothing to do with how they operate a vehicle.  The only thing being guaranteed is someone’s pockets are being lined.

And this is just the ones that come readily to mind.  There is legislation pending in the House for reparations to American slaves (worth a rant of its own since, among other things, it speaks to slaves not having been allowed to repatriate – to the very countries and the governments that sold them in the first place, and what about the same discriminations having been made towards women…heh); Senator Dodd is being stripped of more and more of his protective covering to reveal what a slimey mess he really is, national health care is being discussed despite a stern warning from Daniel Hannon (member of the British Parliment and former Obama supporter) last night to Sean Hannity about the dangers of it.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:  we’re being sold down a river.  De Nile ain’t just a river in Egypt but it’s not a place any of us can afford to swim in any longer.

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Filed Under: Hypocritical Politicians Tagged With: Bill Ayers, cap and trade, Chicago driving without insurance, Geithner TARP money, government transparency, North Korea missile launch, ongoing struggle against terror, red-light camera, TARP bonus money, Tim Geithner open to replacing dollar, Treasurey private business, Treasury taking over business, U.N., U.N. climate change, war on terror

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