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Tornadoes Rip Through U.S. South, Killing 50
Antonio Gonzalez in Lafayette, Tennessee
Associated Press
February 6, 2008
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080206-AP-tornado.html
Residents in five Southern states tried to salvage what they could Wednesday from homes reduced to piles of debris, a day after the deadliest cluster of tornadoes in nearly a decade tore through the region, snapping trees and crumpling homes.
At least 50 people were dead.
Rescue crews, some with the help of the National Guard, went door-to-door looking for more victims. Dozens of twisters were reported as the storms swept through Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Alabama.
Twenty-six people were killed in Tennessee, thirteen killed in Arkansas, seven killed in Kentucky, and four killed in Alabama, emergency officials said.
The system moved eastward to Alabama Wednesday, bringing heavy rain and gusty wind, causing several injuries in counties northwest of Birmingham.
The National Weather Service posted tornado watches for parts of southern Alabama, the Florida Panhandle and western Georgia, but the storms appeared to weaken as they approached the coast.
Weather service experts also investigated damage in Indiana to see if it was caused by tornadoes.
An apparent tornado damaged eight homes in Walker County, Alabama, and a pregnant woman suffered a broken arm when a trailer home was tossed by the wind, said county emergency management director Johnny Burnette.
"I was there before daylight and it looked like a war zone," he said.
Worst in a Decade
Winter tornadoes are not uncommon. The peak tornado season is late winter through midsummer, but the storms can happen at any time of the year with the right conditions.
But this batch was the nation's worst in a 24-hour period since May 3, 1999, when some 50 people died in Oklahoma and Kansas.
The death toll of 50 ranks among the top 15 from tornado outbreaks since 1950, said Greg Carbin, the warning coordination meteorologist at the center in Norman, Oklahoma, just south of Oklahoma City.
The tornadoes could be due to La Niña, the cooling of the tropical Pacific Ocean that can cause changes in weather patterns around the world. It is the opposite of the better-known El Niño, a periodic warming of the same region.
Recent studies have found an increase in tornadoes in parts of the southern U.S. during the winter during La Niña. On January 8, tornadoes were reported in Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. Two died in the Missouri storms.
In this round of storms, there were 67 eyewitness accounts of tornadoes but the number of twisters likely won't be that high because some probably saw the same funnel cloud, said Carbin. He said a reasonable guess is that 30 to 40 tornadoes touched down.
Freak Tornadoes: Global warming Kills at least 50
Alex Wierbinski, Berkeley, Ca., February 6, 2008
It is time that the press and politicians begin to take account of the unprecedented rise of freak weather and change in the seasons, and the serious damage and death toll this weather is causing here in the us and around the world.
Despite the calming words of the press and politicians, it is clear that the ferocity and size of this storm was unprecedented in the records of winter tornadoes.
This storm was born in the pacific a few hundred miles to the southwest of the tip of baja california, where a massive hot spot is spewing hot moisture as the sun's northward movement is superheating the pacific's already increased tempeture.
The clear fact is that the evaporative power and heat of the equatorial regions has increased, and is now dominating the weather patterns much further north than ever in human history.
This means that we can expect more incidents such as the massive ice storm the midwest experienced in december. And the massive tropical flooding they received last august. The freak flooding, the freak ice storm, and now this massive surge of freak tornadoes shared the same source: a superheated equatorial zone that now has the energy to push massive amounts of hot moisture into the continental us during mid winter.
It's time for average americans to open their eyes, as the press, politicians, and scientists have failed to provide for our safety and welfare.
It is time to stop the massive expansion of our population and curb our consumption, no matter what the democrats and republicans say.
Deadly Ice Storm Glazes mid west, cbs, 12-11-07
Freak Tropical Weather Floods Mid-West, committee, 8-29-07
Climate Already Changed, People and Scientists Too Stupid to SEE IT, committee, 5-1-07
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White House defends waterboarding
Spokesman says interrogation technique legal; Senate Dems demand probe
The Associated Press
updated 8:55 a.m. AKT, Wed., Feb. 6, 2008
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23030663/
WASHINGTON - The White House on Wednesday defended the use of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, saying it is legal — not torture as critics argue — and has saved American lives.
President Bush could authorize waterboarding for future terrorism suspects if certain criteria are met, a spokesman said.
A day earlier, the Bush administration acknowledged publicly for the first time that the tactic was used by U.S. government questioners on three terror suspects. Testifying before Congress, CIA Director Michael Hayden said Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri were waterboarded in 2002 and 2003.
Waterboarding involves strapping a suspect down and pouring water over his cloth-covered face to create the sensation of drowning. It has been traced back hundreds of years, to the Spanish Inquisition, and is condemned by nations around the world.
Hayden banned the technique in 2006 for Central Intelligence Agenc interrogations, the Defense Department has banned its employees from using it, and FBI Director Robert Mueller said his investigators do not use coercive tactics in interviewing terror suspects.
Dems demand criminal probe
Senate Democrats demanded a criminal investigation after Hayden's revelation.
Bush personally authorized Hayden's testimony, White House deputy spokesman Tony Fratto said.
"There's been a lot written out there — newspaper, magazine articles, some of it misinformation," Fratto said. "And so the consensus was that on this one particular technique that these officials would have the opportunity to address them — in not just a public setting, but in a setting in front of members of Congress, and to be very clear about how those techniques were used and what the benefits were of them."
Use of waterboarding to 'depend on ... circumstances'
Fratto said CIA interrogators could use waterboarding again, but would need the president's approval to do so. That approval would "depend on the circumstances," with one important factor being "belief that an attack might be imminent," Fratto said. Appopriate members of Congress would be notified in such a case, he said.
"The president will listen to the considered judgment of the professionals in the intelligence community and the judgment of the attorney general in terms of the legal consequences of employing a particular technique," he said. "The president will listen to his advisers and make a determination."
Fratto said waterboarding's use in the past was also approved by the attorney general, meaning it was legal and not torture.
Officials fear calling waterboarding torture or illegal could expose government employees to criminal or civil charges or even international war crimes charges.
OK'd by Justice Department
"Every enhanced technique that has been used by the Central Intelligence Agency for this program was brought to the Department of Justice and they made a determination that its use under specific circumstances and with safeguards was lawful," Fratto said.
Critics say waterboarding has been outlawed under the U.N.'s Convention Against Torture, which prohibits treatment resulting in long-term physical or mental damage. They also say it should be recognized as banned under the U.S. 2006 Military Commissions Act, which prohibits treatment of terror suspects that is described as "cruel, inhuman and degrading." The act, however, does not explicitly prohibit waterboarding by name.
Human Rights Watch, which has been calling on the government to outlaw waterboarding as a form of illegal torture, called Hayden's testimony "an explicit admission of criminal activity."
US Admits Crimes against American and international law:
War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity publicly acknowledged
Alex Wierbinski, Berkeley, Ca., February 7, 2008
There is nothing new or surprising about this public announcement of war crimes and torture by our government.
Bush issued a signing statement to mccain's 2006 anti-torture law, claiming he had the power to torture. Bush has claimed he is beyond international and domestic law since 9-11.
There are two issues that have been ignored by the corporate press, besides the fact that torture is an international and domestic crime. The first is that the media and politicians ar narrowly focusing on waterboarding as torture, while "detainees" are being tortured by chaining, freezing, beatings, extreme volume, and isolation.
The politicians and press have ignored the bulk of our criminal detention and torture machine, as they narrowly focus on waterboarding.
The second point is that the corporate press is incapable of calling torture torture. The public is constantly being misled by terms such as "harsh methods," "severe interrogations," and other word selections designed to soften and hide the crimes of our government.
What will the dems do? Nothing. Pelosi gave bush her approval for these crimes in oct of '06 when she took "impeachment off the table."
This not only gave bush a blank check to continue his crimes, but her toleration of the notion, and fact, of an unlimited president capable of acting beyond all law and limits, has given tyranny a space to live and grow within our government.
The dem and repugs have not only betrayed their constitutional duty and the law, they have established an international precedent allowing kidnapping, secret detention, and torture to be used by governments around the world. You can rest assured this criminal power will be used to support criminal regimes around the world.
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Mukasey: No Waterboarding Inquiry Plans
By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer
Thursday, February 7, 2008
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/02/05/national/w154158S89.DTL
(02-07) 09:38 PST WASHINGTON (AP) --
House and Senate Democrats pressed Thursday for the Justice Department to investigate whether U.S. interrogators broke the law when waterboarding al-Qaida detainees the years after 9/11.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey, appearing before the House Judiciary Committee, said he would not.
"Are you ready to start a criminal investigation into whether this confirmed use of waterboarding by U.S. agents was illegal?" asked committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich.
"No, I am not," Mukasey answered bluntly.
"Whatever was done as part of a CIA program when it was done, was the subject of a Department of Justice opinion, through Office of Legal Counsel, that was found to be permissible under the law as it existed then," Mukasey said.
He said the Justice Department could not investigate or prosecute people for actions that it had earlier authorized.
Waterboarding involves strapping a person down and pouring water over his or her cloth-covered face to create the sensation of drowning. Critics say waterboarding violates the U.N. Convention Against Torture and U.S. laws outlining legal treatment of detainees.
Democratic Sens. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island sent a letter to Mukasey on Thursday also demanding to know whether the attorney general planned an inquiry of interrogators who waterboarded terror suspects.
The Bush administration earlier this week publicly acknowledged for the first time that waterboarding had been used by CIA questioners on three terror suspects in 2002 and 2003.
CIA Director Michael Hayden, in testimony Thursday before the House Select Committee on Intelligence, defended the use of waterboarding and other harsh techniques when "an unlawful combatant is possessing information that would help us prevent catastrophic loss of life."
Hayden said the agency broke its silence on the use of waterboarding because he believes the CIA's interrogation program has been distorted by the pitched public debate.
The CIA director said waterboarding has not been used in five years. It was employed in 2002 and 2003 because the CIA feared an imminent attack and believed the men being interrogated had information that could avert it.
Since then, Hayden said, the legal landscape has changed following a Supreme Court decision about detainee rights and new laws and policies about how they are treated.
Hayden also confirmed that private contractors, not just CIA agents, were involved in the waterboarding of detainees. "They are bound by the same rules in force on the officers of the CIA," Hayden said.
What's Really Going on Here??
Mukasey defense of Criminal Government assured during, and prior to, nomination
Alex Wierbinski, Berkeley, Ca., February 7, 2008
It was apparent when gonzales resigned that bush and the dems would have no problem agreeing on nominating and confirming an attorney general who would continue to cover our government's crimes of kidnapping, secret detentions, illegal searches, and torture.
The democrats soon confirmed this prediction when they themselves suggested and confirmed mukasey for the position.
Mukasey made it perfectly clear that he supported the unitary president, and the president's power to kidnap, secretly detain, use torture, and employ unlimited illegal searches within the US.
Liars in Congress to ban torture: They already did, and bush ignored them, NYT, December 7, 2007
AG Mukasey blocks Congressional inquiry into CIA destruction of Torture evidence, AP, 12-14-07
Mukasey asserts Federal Courts have no Jurisdiction over torture evidence, AP, 12-18-07
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UN Blasts White House on Waterboarding
By BRADLEY S. KLAPPER, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
(02-06) 12:15 PST GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) --
The United Nations' torture investigator criticized the White House Wednesday for defending the use of waterboarding and urged the U.S. to give up its defense of "unjustifiable" interrogation methods.
The comments from Manfred Nowak, the U.N.'s special rapporteur on torture, came a day after the Bush administration acknowledged publicly for the first time that waterboarding was used by U.S. government questioners on three terror suspects.
"This is absolutely unacceptable under international human rights law," Nowak said. "Time has come that the government will actually acknowledge that they did something wrong and not continue trying to justify what is unjustifiable."
The White House on Wednesday defended the use of waterboarding, saying it is legal — not torture as critics argue — and has saved American lives.
White House deputy spokesman Tony Fratto said Wednesday that CIA interrogators could use waterboarding again with the president's approval.
He said that approval would depend on the circumstances, with one important factor being "belief that an attack might be imminent." Appropriate members of Congress would be notified in such a case, he said.
Critics say waterboarding has been outlawed under the U.N.'s Convention against Torture, which prohibits treatment resulting in long-term physical or mental damage. They also say it should be recognized as banned under the U.S. 2006 Military Commissions Act, which prohibits treatment of terror suspects that is described as "cruel, inhuman and degrading." The act, however, does not explicitly prohibit waterboarding.
Alex Wierbinski, Berkeley, Ca., Feburary, 2008
Corruption Updates 36, 4th article on the page, "IRAQI GOV FOLLOWS AMERICAN EXAMPLE: KIDNAPPING-TORTURE"
Corruption Updates 69, 1st article on the page, "Rights Groups Call for End to Secret Detentions"
Corruption Updates 71, 1st article on the page, "CIA rejects secret jails report"
Corruption Updates 80, 1st article on the page, "CIA Lawyer who Justifies Toture-Kidnapping-Endless Detention Appears before Congress"
Corruption Updates 80, 4th article on the page, "Abu Ghraib: Taguba fired for Probing too Deeply"
Corruption Updates 83, 1st article on the page, "Cheney the Torture mastermind"
Bush signs new CIA Torture authorization, LAT, July 21, 2007
Corruption Updates 99, 5th article on the page, "Bush Could Bypass new Torture Ban"
Book: Torture Taxi reveals us system of kidnapping, secret prisons, and torture, Toward Freedom, 9-6-07
Bush renominates bradbury, author of torture memos, for office of legal counsel, nyt, January 24, 2008
mukasey rules torture legal, reuters, 1-30-08
Mukasey's rulings predictable before confirmation, committee, 8-28-07
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Defeat of Prop. 93 will mean wholesale leadership changes
By STEVE LAWRENCE, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
(02-06) 17:55 PST SACRAMENTO, (AP) --
California voters' refusal to alter state legislators' term limits will force three of the Legislature's top leaders to give up their posts.
It also will free candidates running for 34 legislative seats from having to face an incumbent this year.
It failed by about 7 percentage points, despite support from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and a who's who of labor unions, corporations and professional groups that poured nearly $16 million into the Yes-on-93 campaign.
Opponents raised more than $7 million, fueled primarily by $2.5 million from state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner and $2 million from the prison guards' union.
Defeat of the initiative means that Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, D-Oakland, Senate Minority Leader Dick Ackerman, R-Tustin, and 31 other incumbents will be barred from running for re-election this year.
Schwarzenegger blamed the defeat on lawmakers' failure to accomplish much last year.
"I think it's very clear that the people felt the legislators have not performed well enough (to) deserve a change there," he said.
Poizner said voters didn't like the fact that the measure helped some incumbents remain in office longer.
"Do not send us initiatives that are full of complex and convoluted language that is intended to deceive voters," he said. "Do not send us propositions that contain these special loopholes just for incumbent politicians."
Perata said the measure was likely doomed from the outset because it protected incumbents and didn't change the way legislative districts are drawn.
"I think it was pretty clear what the voters wanted, and they weren't given it," Perata said. "If you wanted to say it was flawed, you sure gave everybody a reason for it."
California's current term limits, among the toughest in the nation, allow someone to serve up to six years in the Assembly and eight years in the Senate in most instances — a total of 14.
Proposition 93 would have cut the maximum time to 12 years but given legislators the option of serving all 12 in one house instead of trying to split time between the two.
Pre-election polls showed voters supporting those changes but balking at a transition phase provision that would have allowed nearly a third of current lawmakers to serve longer than 14 years.
The proposal made that possible because it would have only counted the time a lawmaker had spent in his or her current house against the new 12-year limit.
Nunez and Perata have the option of running for seats in the other house, although Nunez would have to wait until 2010 for a Senate seat to open up. But Ackerman's legislative career is coming to an end.
Perata and Ackerman blamed the proposition's defeat on the failure of lawmakers to put a measure on the same ballot taking away their ability to draw their districts, a power critics labeled a conflict of interest.
"If you want to try to solve the gridlock issue in Sacramento you need (redistricting) and term limit modification, not just one," said Ackerman, who opposed Proposition 93. "We thought if we had the total package ... we could get it through."
Ackerman said Sens. Dave Cogdill, R-Modesto, Dennis Hollingsworth, R-Temecula, and George Runner, R-Lancaster, are potential candidates to succeed him as minority leader.
Sen. Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said Wednesday that he's a candidate for Perata's job, the most powerful in the Senate. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Los Angeles, said he is seriously considering running too.
Several lawmakers are reportedly interested in succeeding Nunez, including Assemblywomen Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, and Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco.
If one of them wins the post, she would be only the second woman elected speaker.
Ackerman said he had no timeline in mind for Senate Republicans to elect his successor. Perata scheduled an Aug. 21 vote for majority Democrats to select a new president pro tempore before adjourning the 2008 session. But Perata said the new leader would not take power until after the November election.
A spokesman for Nunez, Steve Maviglio, said the speaker planned to meet with his caucus Thursday and that a transition could be one of the topics.
Nunez term limit deception fails: corrupted dem leaders thrown out of legislature
Alex Wierbinski, Berkeley, Ca., Feburary 7, 2008
The democratic mafia in california, funded by special interest bribes and led by fabian nunez and don perata, has been handed a resounding defeat, along with their walking papers and a resounding good riddance, when the voters wisely defeated their bald power grab.
Aside from rejecting the lies and deceptions of their fraudulent "term limits" initiative, the public has clearly condemned the incompetent and corrupt leaders of the corporate democrats in california.
Don't worry about who will fund nunez and perata' live of luxury and ease: The same special interest who bribed, wined and dined them will figure out how to slip them killer jobs, investment opportunities, and other forms of payback for the billions of taxpayer dollars nunez and perata gave them.
SF Chron on "term limits," 1-22-08
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Arnie rejects Nunez's Fake Term Limit measure, Bee, September 17, 2007
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arnie flips on dem power grab: supports extending terms, upi, 1-14-08
Term-limit ads attack nunez-Perata Corruption, bee, 1-8-08
Poizner pledges $1.5 million to defeat Nunez "Term Limits" FRAUD, LAT, Nov 7, 2007
Arnie rejects Nunez's Fake Term Limit measure, Bee, September 17, 2007
Term Limit measure is a FAKE, another Deception by the Democrats to damage our democracy, Bee, September 12, 2007
Good analysis of Term Limit/Redistricting proposals, Bee, September 12, 2007
Nunez, California Dems are paid whores of the Special interests:
nunez is a tool
Arnie and Nunez agree to subsidize profits of corporate health industry, bee, January 2, 2008
NUNEZ: Dems live in Luxury on a Flood Tide of Bribes, lat, December 12, 2007
State dems pay Nunez's fancy wine bill: a lesser sin than Nunez spending campaign bribes on luxury, lat, 12-12-07
Schools face Steep Cuts, bee, December 10, 2007
Ca Lawmakers take Fat Raises, bee, 12-3-07
Nunez Brags that his Bribes Pay his for Luxury rather than the State: but he still collects his per diem while whoring for the corporations, Bee, October 13, 2007
Great News Clip of Nunez running away from the truth, behind his own "Blackwater" security detail
Nunez lives with Political Fundraiser: Is there and separation between Nunez and his Corporate Bribers? AP, 10-12-07
Nunez and Perata Living Large on the Massive Bribes of the Special Interests, Bee, October 9, 2007
Nunez Pretends to be "Middle-Class" while living in luxury at public and private troughs, LAT, October 7, 2007
Nuñez travels the world like a high-roller, LAT, October 5, 2007
Donors poured millions into state parties: Nunez and Perata live like Kings, Bee, October 3, 2007
Worthless Assembly does Nothing but Play Games and Rob the People Blind, Bee, September 13, 2007
Term Limit measure is a FAKE, a Deception by the Democrats to damage our democracy, bee, September 12, 2007
Nunez: Term-Limit Donations can't fail to catch Nuñez's eye, lat, June 4, 2007
Marriage of Corruptions, billery and Nunez, bill bradley, 4-25-07
Nunez, ASSEMBLY STEALS LIKE CORPORATIONS, bee , 1-9-07
POLITICIANS WHO BRIBE POLITICIANS ARE LEADERS, sf chron, 12-4-06
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Argentine Dirty War Trial Opens
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
(02-05) 10:32 PST BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) --
The last army chief from Argentina's dictatorship and five other retired officers went on trial Tuesday for their alleged roles in the illegal detentions and torture of dissidents during military rule.
Cristino Nicolaides, an 80-year-old former general and the head of the army when de facto military rule ended in 1983, was the lead defendant in the trial in northeastern Corrientes province. He did not attend the proceedings for unspecified health reasons, government news agency Telam said.
A three-judge panel is trying Nicolaides along with three other former army officers and two ex-members of the military police for their alleged roles in the abduction of five political prisoners who disappeared during the 1976-83 dictatorship.
Nicolaides remains under house arrest.
Prosecutors said they will call 30 survivors of a former clandestine detention center to the witness stand, while the defense plans to summon at least 50 witnesses, mostly former military officers.
It is the first dictatorship-era human rights trial to be held in Corrientes province.
Argentina's Supreme Court annulled a pair of 1980s amnesty laws in 2005, clearing the way for former state security agents and their civilian allies to be called into court. A handful of trials have led to convictions but President Cristina Fernandez has urged courts to speed up the trials.
Nearly 13,000 people are listed officially as dead or missing from the military era. Human rights groups put the toll closer to 30,000.
In a separate trial last December, Nicolaides and seven other former army officers were convicted on a range of charges linked to the kidnapping, torture and disappearance of leftist guerrillas seized by the regime. He received a 25-year prison sentence.
South America finds Justice, What about US?
March 5, 2007 (edited 11-28-07)
Central America has been ruled with an iron fist by Spanish Colonial Elites since the conquest.
These elites have maintained power for the last 100 years by trading their country's resources, both human and natural, for American military, political, and economic support for their regimes.
The American program to dominate Central and South America has been an ugly affair from the start. After Cuba gained independence, our continential dominance began to seriously fail during the '70s, leading Nixon and Kissenger to commit crimes against humanity in Chile, and spreading waves of death squads across Central and South America.
This was a losing battle, and by the early '80s Regan was facilitating the movement of large amounts of drugs into the United States from both Afghanastan and Colombia to fund death squads across Central and South America to prop up our tottering dictatorships. Regan's coke money also funded Osama's earlier Afgan war against the Russians. Our actions then are still driving events in Central and South America today.
The perfect example today is our President of Colombia. Uribe is directly linked to the Right wing private armies and death squads that are attempting to maintain their control of both the nation and cocaine trade of Colombia.
We must adopt this handy rule: We can take political power with force, but we cannot maintain political power with force alone. To maintain power, we must match our military force with an equally powerful political or moral force that operates within the value system and for the benefit of the people we have invaded, occupied, or installed a dictator over.
Despite our powerful propaganda and loud claims to be the bearer of the political and moral principals of freedom, justice, and democracy, our support of dictators and death squads in Central and South America has made our claims to hold a moral high ground hollow, and has been the main fuel for both radical indiginious, marxist, and in the case of the Middle-East, radical islamic alternatives to our violent imposition of false democracy and hollow freedoms on conquored people.
As we have no moral force equal to our military force, we are doomed to walk down a long, bloody trail to failure in every region of the world we rule through proxies or direct occupation.
We are coming to the end of our long, bloody trail of domination in South America.
South America has effectivly taken the control of their political and economic affairs out of our hands, and are, for the first time in 500 years, almost in complete charge of their own affairs. Central America is not far behind South America.
The Agent of our Empire in Guatemala and Hondorus during the formation of the death squads was John Negroponte. Today's death squads are the children of American foreign policy, the children of Negroponte, Poindexter, North, and the crew of criminals that was the Regan administration.
The death squads used by the authoritarian and military governments they supported are still using extra-judicial violence to maintain political and economic control over their people in Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia.
The recent "election" in Mexico, and the subsequent violent suppression of democracy in Oxacha highlight the fraud and violence employed by the spanish elite mafia that rules over mexico.
Until we stop the corporate criminals in the United States from suppressing Our Constitution, perverting our democracy, and stealing our government, people around the world will continue to have their political and economic rights violently stolen from them with the help of the us.
Before we can bring the benefits of democracy and freedom to the world, we must first establish them here.
NY Times, September 17, 2007; Argentine Church Faces ‘Dirty War’ Past
Argentine Priest Receives Life Sentence in ‘Dirty War’ Killings, NYT, Oct 10, 2007
Kissinger approved Argentinian 'dirty war', Guardian, 12-6-03
Kissinger approved Argentinian 'dirty war', Guardian, 12-6-03
National Security Archive, State dept. reports on Kissenger’s knowledge of “Dirty War.”
National Security Archive, State dept. reports on weakness of insurgency
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