Colombians Refuse to Be Displaced: Over 5,000 Occupy the Piñuña Negro Police Inspectors Office in Putumayo
Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Campesinos Demand an End to Coca Eradication and Plan Colombiahttp://www.narconews.com/Issue63/article3998.html
Canada: The Practices of Corporate Mininghttp://dissidentvoice.org/2009/12/canada-the-practices-of-corporate-mining/
Accountability for War Crimes Is Imperative
An Interview with Cindy Sheehan
http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/12/accountability-for-war-crimes-is-imperative/
Top Ten Most Glaringly Blatant Instances of Zionist Control in Canada for 2009http://ziofascism.net/blog/
British-israelis inside the government and so called 'anti-terror and security services' behind false flag operations, loyal to whom ?http://islamic-intelligence.blogspot.com/
"Doubts about FARC responsible for the crime is insulting the Governor," says defense ministerhttp://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/justicia/dudas-sobre-responsabilidad-de-farc-en-crimen-de-gobernador-son-insultantes-dice-mindefensa_6840087-1
The defense minister, Gabriel Silva, referred to the Agency's information center Anncol,who often plays the positions of the FARC wich were replicated by the Venezuelan channel Telesur.
Silva said "these concerns are almost insulting, to the horrific death of Governor Luis Francisco Cuellar
Anncol ensures that it spoke to a FARC commander and it was confirmed that the group was not responsible for the murder. But it also stated that the slain leader, despite being a civilian and in the state of helplessness in which he was killed, allegedly he was not protected by the rules of international humanitarian law because of his official capacities . According to the UNDP, Cuellar was a legitimate military target by being a "member of the State institutions.
The agency also mentioned that he(Cuellar) had been summoned to the Prosecutor's Office to give a deposition over his role in 'para-politics' scandal.
Sources familiar with the investigation told the newspaper that while the governor was being investigated for alleged ties to the AUC, all signs still point to the case the 'Teofilo Forero'.
comment-the sources familiar with investigation are, the lead investigating agency DAS. heres their statement from another source concerning cuellars death...
http://www.noticierocentral.com.mx/topico/Te%C3%B3filo+Forero+CastroOfficial Information
National Director of the Department of Administrative Security (DAS), Felipe Munoz, said "In our intelligence activities we realize that this (FARC)is the group responsible, in particular alias 'Egg' and alias 'Nicuro' who not only Planned and executed this crime, also others more appalling. "
comment-some backround on this parapolitics scandalhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombian_parapolitics_scandal
On [November 21, 2006, Rafael García Torres, the former Information Technologies Chief of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS) (Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad) was questioned by the Supreme Court after being arrested and charged with taking bribes from paramilitaries and narcotraffickers in exchange for erasing or altering their judicial history from the state intelligence database. García claimed to have knowledge of Jorge 40's plans to corrupt congressmen and install those friendly to his causes.
comment-the DAS is implicated in scandals for ties to rigtwing paramilitary groups,to paramilitary coup attempts in venezuela ..heres some more scandals involving the DAS...
The DAS' 'Political War'http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/7338-the-das-political-war.html
Venezuela arrests 'Colombia spies'http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/10/2009102922252954951.html
Documents allegedly describe joint US-Colombian spy operationshttp://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/01-291/
US bans Colombian intelligence agency as aid recipienthttp://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/7448-us-bans-colombian-intelligence-agency-as-aid-recipient.html
comment-after years of DAS scandals some involving US GOVERNMENT and DAS,only now does US GOV cut funds to DAS.This is of course because numerous ngos started exposing the relationship between both and DAS other activities.
The new DAS scandalhttp://www.cipcol.org/?p=752
The DAS is still recording
Between the 19th and 21st of January, most of the “secrets” of many of Colombia’s top personalities were destroyed on the 11th floor of the main DAS headquarters. “We received the order to gather everything we had in several offices in the building, and in other buildings, and bring it to the Counter-Intelligence office. For two days external disk drives were gathered, hard drives were changed out of computers, CDs, voice files and confidential documents were collected. I alone, without counting my colleagues, carried two boxes full of those things,” one of the DAS detectives who participated in this unique collection told Semana. “Of all the boxes that were taken to Counter-Intelligence, with documents, recordings and the rest, only one remained, which was taken out of the 11th floor at the end of the afternoon of Wednesday the 21st. I don’t know what was left in that one, or where they took it. I just know that everything else was destroyed,” the source affirms.
The suspicious mission of recovering and destroying information was carried out by a small group of officials. Though they sought to do it in the most discrete manner, it was inevitable that a few DAS members would notice the unusual things going on during those days. But what was it that they were destroying with such urgency? Much of the files that don’t exist today were, among others, recordings, secret documents and intelligence analyses that contained information about a wide variety of personalities whom the DAS was watching.
Supreme Court justices, journalists, opposition politicians, generals in the armed forces, prosecutors, and even some high government officials made up the group that, for the past several months, was being monitored by the security body.
comment-the DAS in Colombia is now leading investigations,or rather blaming Farc for the death of governor Cuellar,even thougth DAS and governor Cuellar were involved in the parapolitics scandals that showed both had ties to AUC.The question now,is,why is DAS leading investigations into this incident after so many scandals ?For starters DAS has ties to AUC,and that was revealed in one such scandal.why would anyone trust DAS?its easy for DAS to blame FARC,but you can bet it wont investigate wether AUC killed Cuellar,for fear Cuellar would sing in the investigations being conducted by bogotas attorney general into the governors role in the earlier parapolitics scandal that had been restarted since march..
Colombia: ex-para names US banana companies in murder of trade unionistshttp://ww4report.com/node/8096
How creditors decide the fate of the Congohttp://www.voltairenet.org/article163393.html
The 19 creditor nations that make up the Paris Club [1] met on 18 November to consider the case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) after two reports related to the review of the very controversial Chinese contract. This contract, mortgage giant quantities of minerals in favor of China in exchange for building infrastructure in the DRC, might finally be revised in the direction desired by the lender of Western funds represented by the IMF [2].L’ingérence sournoise du FMI et de la Banque mondiale en République démocratique du Congo" , por Renaud Vivien, Yvonne Ngoyi, Victor Nzuzi, Dani Ndombele, José Mukadi et Luc Mukendi, Réseau Voltaire, 8 octobre 2009.
Following this, the matter seemed settled: the Paris Club would provide the financial guarantees requested by the IMF to conclude a new three-year program with the Congolese government from now until the end of 2009 and delete the beginning of 2010 an important part of public external debt. Far from it! The Paris Club decided to turn "punish" the DRC is demanding the maintenance of two one-sided contracts signed with Western transnationals.
The Paris Club proves once again that is a body governed by the North in which the South not only play a walk-on. No member of the Congolese government was invited to the discussions made at Bercy, the French Ministry of Finance, or has established the Paris Club. This club is defined as a "non-institution", having no legal personality. The advantage is clear: the Paris Club does not incur any liability with regard to their actions and therefore can not be prosecuted in court because it officially does not exist!
However, their decisions have serious consequences for the populations of Third World because it is in their midst that is decided, in concert with the IMF and World Bank, that an indebted country of the South "deserves" a rescheduling or debt relief. When he gives the green light, the country concerned, where isolated in the face of this united front of creditors, should apply neoliberal measures dictated by lenders of funds, whose interests overlap with the private sector.
But in reality, the DRC, like other countries in Africa full of natural resources, is the scene of a fierce competition between Western countries and China, whose appetite continues to grow to the point where today the third largest trading partner for Africa , after the United States and France. The Paris Club is therefore the instrument that Western countries have used, such as Canada and the United States, demanding that the Congolese government that it reverse its decision to terminate the contract giving rise to the consortium Kingamyambo Musonoi Tailings (KMT) and review the agreement creating the Tenke Fungurume Mining (TFM), in which the United States and Canada have important interests.
The lender of funds applicable to Western policy of "two weights, two measures" depending on whether a contract with China or with a Western company. The private sector interests take precedence over considerations of legality and development since the fraudulent nature of these two conventions have been reported by the Commission to "revisit" mining contracts, established in the DRC in 2007 [3]."Au terme de la revisitation, Contrats miniers : 23 maintenus, 14 résiliés, 2 à finaliser", Groupe @venir CD, 16 novembre 2009
The northern states are served in the Paris Club and international financial institutions, which are over-represented, as a Trojan horse to monopolize the national resources of the South
It was the trio infernal - Paris Club, IMF, World Bank - which since 2002 has organized the bleaching of the odious debt restructuring of the DRC left by the late dictator Mobutu. This was the time to lend money to the government to clear the debts of the old dictator, to allow the transitional government into debt again but by imposing anti-social policies, including a new Mining Code very favorable to corporations.
In 2009, the debt continues to stifle the Congolese people whose human rights are trampled to ensure the repayment of debt service. Despite the impact of listing of creditors that promised debt cancellation by the Congolese, it today stands at 12.3 billion dollars or the equivalent to the sum claimed the DRC at the time of death of Laurent Kabila in 2001. .. That debt is the archetype of an odious debt, void in international law since she was hired by a dictatorship, without benefit to the community and with the complicity of the creditors. The Congolese government could then divorce her, which would allow it also does not accept the dictates of the Paris Club.
For the CADTM, the blackmail of the Paris Club is not a surprise: this instance is illegitimate, since its creation at the same time judge and party. It should therefore simply be abolished, and the debt of the DRC.
Meanwhile, the Congolese government should unilaterally suspend payment of the debt, the example of Ecuador in November 2008 and Argentina in 2001 had decreed the most important suspension of payment of foreign debt in history, more than 80 billion dollars both in relation to private creditors as compared to the Paris Club, and that no reprisals would take place.
The economic crisis requires strong and immediate action against the debt and the benefit of people. To do so, the South would have an interest in forming a united front for non-payment of debt.
USA Spends Trillion Dollars to Make Terrorist War Last Foreverhttp://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/23-12-2009/111344-terrorist_trillion-0
“They spent a trillion dollars to add more fuel to the fire of the terrorist war. The Americans crushed Iraq and Afghanistan . There are too many people in these two countries who lost their homes, jobs and loved ones because of the USA, and those people are ready to do anything to harm the Americans. Washington will have to pay for this politics. As for the situation in other countries, one may say that there is no country in the world that can defend itself against terrorist attacks. Recent attacks in India’s Mumbai prove that,” the expert said.
History Repeats the Same Old Lieshttp://thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=11863
'So as Queen Elizabeth II pays tribute to British troops she continues an old tradition: giving the official seal of approval to Western involvement in the drugs trade. Although of course, no one will say as much but that is what Western forces are in Afghanistan for. It’s also no coincidence that Helmand Province has seen some of the hardest fighting and where British forces have their biggest base. For Helmand is the very heartland of Afghanistan’s poppy production and Camp Bastion is there to ensure it continues.
It’s not just ‘foreign policy’ however but a lucrative business where vast amounts of money can be made. What’s more none of it need be accounted for, which is why it is so appealing to the West’s ruling elite. Vast amounts of money can be made and used to finance secret ‘Black Budget’ projects, which needn’t be accounted for or even known about. All Queen Elizabeth II has to do is make a few fine sounding noises to cover what is essentially a criminal enterprise.'
Chevron Using Six Public Relations Firms to Discredit Indigenous Groups In $27.3 Billion Environmental Case In Ecuadorhttp://chevrontoxico.com/news-and-multimedia/2009/1120-chevron-using-six-public-relations-firms-to-discredit-indigenous-groups-in-environmental-case.html
'Chevron has retained at least twelve public relations firms and lobbyists to discredit claims of Amazon indigenous groups on the eve of an expected multi-billion dollar judgment against the oil giant in an environmental lawsuit in Ecuador, according to representatives of the tribes in the U.S.
Although Chevron is near the top of the list of highest-spending lobbyists in Washington, the campaign seems to be backfiring. Politico, one of the most influential publications on Capitol Hill, reported this week that Chevron's lobbying was "drawing fire from environmentalists, media ethicists, state pension funds, New York's attorney general, members of Congress, and even Barack Obama when he was a Senator".'
Hordes of Angry Activists and a $27 Billion Court Case Is Making Oil Giant Chevron Pretty Nervoushttp://www.alternet.org/workplace/144652/hordes_of_angry_activists_and_a_%2427_billion_court_case_is_making_oil_giant_chevron_pretty_nervous
Perhaps the largest coordinated activist campaign in history is being launched against the San Ramon-based Chevron Corporation.
Foregoing boycotts and other traditional market campaign techniques, non-governmental organizations are creatively communicating the business case for why Chevron should change its ways, focusing on mobilizing company shareholders and consumers to compel the company to come clean and pursue social and environmental leadership.
Saudi Regime Launches New Air Strikes Against Houthi Shias in Yemenhttp://current.com/items/91770597_saudi-regime-launches-new-air-strikes-against-houthi-shias-in-yemen.htm
This report from Press TV includes an interview with a senior commentator on the reasons why there is a complete media blackout on the situation of the Houthi Shias and the Attacks on the Houthi Shias
World Conference on Social Movements will take place in Boliviahttp://pressenza.com/npermalink/bolivia-calls-world-conference-of-social-movements?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pressenza%2FQrjW+%28News+from+Pressenza+IPA+in+english%29
Merry Christmas! Ed Hanway, Cigna CEO, is getting a $73,200,000 golden parachutehttp://CIGNA.com
Ed Hanway, CEO of Cigna, one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies, will step down at the end of this year, in just over a week. When he does, he’ll get $73,200,000 as compensation for a job well done.
What makes Hanway worth $73.2 million? Well, for one example, he’s presided as Cigna denied a liver transplant to 17-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan, causing her death and widespread outrage.
Israel Recalls all of its Ambassadors Worldwidehttp://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114663§ionid=351020202
flashback-rabbi_nthe_rubble: Israeli Diplomat Carrying Large Quantity Of Explosives Arrested In Argentinahttp://beirut.indymedia.org/ar/2006/09/5612.shtml
flashback-False Flag Attacks in Argentina: 1992 and 1994
http://www.voltairenet.org/article162474.html
VARIOUS GOVERNMENTS HELP THE CIA CONTINUE THE TERRORISM AND THE WARShttp://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2009/12/various-governments-help-cia-continue.html
KARKARE KILLED BY FASCISTS AND GANGSTERS?http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2009/12/karkare-killed-by-fascists-and.html
