comment-thougth the journalist is bias against farc he does bring up some excellent cases of how discredited uribes gov and ministers are...Discrediting FARC-diplomacy with para-diplomacy?http://colombiareports.com/opinion/cantonese-arepas/7650-discrediting-farc-diplomacy-with-para-diplomacy.html

The credibility of the Foreign Service is meanwhile affected by the culture of paying political favours that results in the appointment of unqualified individuals, in the best of cases, or, in the worst of cases, criminals. Some examples:

Salvador Arana Sus was named ambassador to Chile in 2003 after masterminding, with the help of paramilitaries, the kidnapping, torture and murder of a political opponent a few months prior; the Supreme Court sentenced him to 40 years in jail. 

Luis Camilo Osorio has since 2005 served as ambassador to Itay, Greece and now Mexico. He is accused of having protected paramilitaries during his term as Prosecutor General from 2001 to 2005. He refused to investigate Arana Sus.

Jorge Noguera Cotes was named consul in Milan, Italy in 2005 after setting up the illegal wiretapping division of the Administrative Department of Security (DAS) and sharing secret information with the paramilitaries; he is currently detained awaiting trial.

Sabas Pretelt de la Vega has served as ambassador to Italy since 2006 and is the sole candidate to preside over the UN's World Food Programme. As Interior Minister he allegedly bribed Congresspeople into voting for a constitutional amendment allowing Uribe’s first re-election. He is being investigated by the Prosecutor General. 

Juan Jose Chaux Mosquera was appointed ambassador to the Netherlands in December 2007 immediately after the Prosecutor General’s office opened a preliminary investigation of possible links to paramilitaries; he is awaiting trial.

Ernesto Yamhure Fonseca was a consular official in Stockholm, Sweden, where he spied on Colombian dissidents; a paramilitary boss declared Yamhure was a friend and political adviser to United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) founder Carlos Castaño Gil. 

Retired General Mario Montoya Uribe was appointed ambassador to the Dominican Republic in February 2009 after he retired as general following the extrajudicial killings by the army. He is being criminally investigated for alleged ties to paramilitaries.

Comment-these are just but a few examples of uribes policies and appointments,something washignton is well aware of yet chooses to play dumb,so it can continue to support him.This support is spit in the face,of human rigths organizations,international law,vienna convention,treaty of rome,and face of colombian people who have been killed,tortured,arrested,displaced,at hands of uribes gov,army,and rigthwing paramilitaries.there is no justification for this below,absolutly none,except whe one realizes,that uribe is a rigthwing fascist client regime of washingtons in south america.uribe is a front men for colombia upper business class,and foreign corporate interests.hes also washingtons most valuable asset in colombia,allowing them to corner the cocaine market.again i riterate there is no justification for this...see...US supports Democratic Security policy: Uribehttp://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/7639-us-support-democratic-security-policy-uribe.html

Six more Soacha suspects releasedhttp://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/7649-six-more-soacha-suspects-released.html

Six more soldiers, all suspected of the extrajudicial murders of eleven young men from Soacha, were released on Tuesday after the prosecution was not able to call the suspects to trial within the legal deadline. Last week, another seventeen suspects in the so-called "false positives" case were released on the same grounds. The controversial releases, all of which followed defense lawyers' arguments that the suspects hadn't been tried within the 90-day legal time limit, caused President Alvaro Uribe to call for a change in law that would exclude suspects of heinous crimes and human rights violations from the right to a swift trial.

comment-uribe's rethoric is obvious,this scandal involved him personally.he stands to benefit most from having these men disappear,and not being tried.

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Common Purpose Exposed Back Up and Runninghttp://www.cpexposed.com/

After being taken down by their webhosting company under instructions from Common Purpose, CP Exposed is now back with a vengeance. Bigger, better and fighting fit!

VIDEO: Afghanistan and Global Dominancehttp://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20100112&articleId=16935

Obama wants $33 billion more for warhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/12/AR2010011203181.html

The Obama administration plans to ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on top of a record request for $708 billion for the Defense Department next year, The Associated Press has learned.

FOOD STAMPS PROFITS : How JP Morgan Gets Rich With Increased Povertyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYRG9f5F4gw

Securities and Exchange Commission Orders AIG Information Sealed Until 2018http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1116982020100111

'It could take until November 2018 to get the full story behind the U.S. bailout of insurance giant American International Group because of an action taken last year by the Securities and Exchange Commission.   In May, the SEC approved a request by AIG to keep secret an exhibit to a year-old regulatory filing that includes some of the details on the most controversial aspect of the AIG bailout: the funneling of tens of billions of dollars to big banks like Societe Generale, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch.'

More Evidence Emerges That Americans are Drugged Out of Their Mindshttp://www.naturalnews.com/027932_polypharmacy_psychiatric_drugs.html

'As NaturalNews has previously reported, the U.S. is a nation seemingly hooked on mind-altering drugs. A study released last fall in the Archives of General Psychiatry documented a dramatic increase in the use of antidepressant drugs like Prozac since l996. In fact, these medications are now the most widely prescribed drugs in the U.S. Think Americans are maxed out on the number of psychiatric meds that huge numbers of them are taking? Think again. A new report says U.S. adults are increasingly being prescribed combinations of antidepressants, anti-anxiety and antipsychotic medications -- and they could be experiencing serious side effects as a result.'

Giving Corporations an Outsized Voice in Electionshttp://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-youn10-2010jan10,0,5465869.story?track=rss

'Corporations are pitching a bizarre product -- a radical vision of the 1st Amendment. It would give corporations rather than voters a central role in our electoral process by treating corporate political spending as protected speech.

If this vision becomes reality, businesses and other big-money players will spend billions either hyping their preferred candidates or running attack ads against elected officials who don't support their preferred agenda. Voters will be forced into a couch-potato role, mere viewers of the electoral spectacle bought and paid for by wealthy companies.'

US Neocon Think Tank Seeks to Connect Iran, Yemen, Al Qaedahttp://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115990&sectionid=351020206

'A report says a high-profile neoconservative think tank in the United States is reportedly working to establish a link between Iran, the Yemeni opposition groups and al-Qaeda militants. The alleged connection between Iran, the Shia Houthi fighters in northern Yemen,

the Yemeni separatists in the south and the militants has been the subject of discussions between Chris Harnisch and Frederick Kagan, two scholars at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI). Harnisch and Kagan have been at work for the past six months to make the connection, the report said.'

Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz, Kagan and Gingrich are all based at the AEI so draw your own conclusionshttp://www.muckety.com/American-Enterprise-Institute/5000096.muckety

After This Awful Fiasco Over Swine Flu, We Should Never Believe the State Scare Machine Againhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1242479/CHRISTOPHER-BOOKER-After-awful-fiasco-swine-flu-believe-State-scare-machine-again.html

'So the Government, as the Daily Mail has revealed, is trying to get rid of £1billion-worth of unwanted swine flu vaccine - because the deadly epidemic they were promising us all last year never materialised.  Several things are shocking about this revelation, not least the charge by the Council of Europe's head of health that major drug companies might have leaned on the World Health Organisation (WHO) to stoke up last year's scare by warning that swine flu could be a worldwide 'pandemic' killing tens of millions. Certainly, those companies have made vast fortunes out of selling the vaccines which, at our expense, are now having to be flogged off at give-away prices.'

Bayer Aspirin, Illuminated Nazi's, and Heroinhttp://www.moneyteachers.org/Heroin.htm

'At the time, opium was either being banned or in the process of being banned in most Western Countries. With "heroin", Bayer's relabeling of a narcotic was/is standard procedure for any Illuminati owned pharmaceutical company. Claiming it was "non-addictive", when in reality it was a purer form of chemically synthesized Opium, is criminal at best. Even more interesting: "As part of the reparations after World War I, Bayer had its assets, including the rights to its name and trademarks confiscated in the United States, Canada, and several other countries. In the United States and Canada, Bayer's assets and trademarks were acquired by Sterling Drug, a predecessor of Sterling Winthrop. The Bayer company then became part of IG Farben, a conglomerate of German chemical industries that formed a part of the financial core of the German Nazi regime".

Stop-and-search powers ruled illegal by European courthttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8453878.stm

Iraq war was illegal, Dutch panel ruleshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/12/iraq-war-illegal-dutch-tribunal

comment-great,but,will the netherlands government,be held accountable,for their part in illegal occupation of iraq,and their role in afghanistan?

Moody’s warns of 'social unrest’ as sovereign debt spiralshttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/6819470/Moodys-warns-of-social-unrest-as-sovereign-debt-spirals.html

In a sombre report on the outlook for next year, the credit rating agency raised the prospect that future tax rises and spending cuts could trigger social unrest in a range of countries from the developing to the developed world. It said that in the coming years, evidence of social unrest and public tension may become just as important signs of whether a country will be able to adapt as traditional economic metrics. Signalling that a fiscal crisis remains a possibility for a leading economy, it said that 2010 would be a “tumultuous year for sovereign debt issuers”. Comment: The financial lords are pushing the public towards revolution

Report: Monsanto Corn Causes Organ Damage in Mammalshttp://twilightearth.com/environment/report-monsanto-corn-causes-organ-damage-in-mammals/

A report released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences states that three types of Monsanto corn, cause cancer and organ damage in mammals. In what is being described as the first ever and most comprehensive study of the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers have linked organ damage with consumption of Monsanto’s GM maize.

comment-never fear,obamas fda appointment will save us consumers,no wait maybe not,after all he was once a monsanto executive!!!!!!!!

Health Insurance companies covertly fund $20 Million in Anti-Reform adshttp://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/12/insurers-ad-campaign/

The funds were solicited by AHIP and funneled to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to help underwrite tens of millions of dollars of television ads by two business coalitions set up and subsidized by the chamber. Each insurer kicked in at least $1 million and some gave multi-million dollar donations.