The Coups d'État in Latin America and the Dangers Facing Venezuelahttp://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/5069

The denunciation made by the Venezuelan minister and the one made by President Chávez again bring to public discussion the topic of the coups d'état in Latin American countries, particularly at a time when the government of Venezuela is denouncing Colombia's plans, encouraged by the United States, to create the conditions “to justify an aggression against our nation on the basis of false-positives or simulations of punishable deeds.”

The Heyday of the Counter Terror Industryhttp://www.voltairenet.org/article163560.html

On 14-15 April 2010, London’s Kensington Olympia will play host to a Counter Terror Expo, the only major international exhibition and conference of its kind to take place in the UK.

Headline sponsored by French arms company Thales, the Expo will be put on by Clarion Events which is also responsible for organising the Defence Systems and Equipment International (DSEi) exhibition held every two years in London’s Docklands, where some 1,000 arms companies congregate to flog off lethal arms, bombs and other weapons to buyers from all over the world.

HONDURAS Withdraws from ALBA, EL SALVADOR Won’t Join Despite FMLN Supporthttp://hondurasoye.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/honduras-withdraws-from-alba-el-salvador-wont-join-despite-fmln-support/#respond

Rafael Alegría, a leader of the Honduran resistance which has led ongoing street protests and suffered deadly repression since the coup, said the coup was aimed at restoring Honduras’s role as a client country of multi-national corporations.

“The coup leaders are signing accords that benefit foreign oil companies. President Zelaya had changed the formula for managing the oil. His actions began to benefit the state and the consumers, and now these men are changing everything. They are benefiting Shell and Texaco,” Alegría said in an interview with Radio of the South. “The coup leaders want to return to the past to benefit the empire and the oligarchy with the natural resources of our country,” Alegría continued. “We call on the international community to listen to us and support us, because the crisis was not provoked by the people, the left, or the resistance, but by a group of coup-mongering politicians who only seek economic advantage for themselves.”

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Haiti and American Colonialism : The Story Behind the Storyhttp://theragblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/haiti-and-american-colonialism-story.html

the_eyes_malita: UN Massacre and Occupation of Haitis à Cité Soleil people http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngK_2MEjJpM&feature=related Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JIUEW3FHd8&NR=1 *Graphic*

All You Need to Know About US Policy Towards Haiti and How This Translates to Critical Effects from Earthquakehttp://hondurasoye.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/all-you-need-to-know-about-us-policy-towards-haiti-and-how-this-translates-to-critical-effects-from-earthquake/

Haiti and America's Historic Debthttp://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/011310.html

Why the Blood Is on Our Handshttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24391.htm

As grim accounts of the earthquake in Haiti came in, the accounts in U.S.-controlled state media all carried the same descriptive sentence: "Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere..." Gee, I wonder how that happened?

Shock Doctrine for Haitihttp://thismodernworld.com/5013

An Orwellian world for Big Brotherhttp://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5473.shtml

The Council of Europe document ‘Internet Governancehttp://www.ministerialconference.is/agenda/conference-documents/and critical Internet resources’ states (p.7) that “ . . . the Internet of Things refers to the seamless connection of devices, sensors, objects, rooms, machines, vehicles, etc, through fixed and wireless networks. Connected sensors, devices and tags can interact with the environment and send the information to other objects through machine-to-machine communication . . . The Semantic Webhttp://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5363.shtmlpromotes this synergy: even agents that where not expressly designed to work together can transfer data among themselves when the data come with semantics.”

Big Brother Is Watching Youhttp://euro-med.dk/?p=13134

Yemen, Energy Crisis, & the Nigerian Crotch Bomber: The Privatization of Security & the Militarization of Society-Part IIhttp://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2010/01/13/yemen-energy-crisis-the-nigerian-crotch-bomber-the-privatization-of-security-the-militarization-of-society-part-ii/

The escalation of US military activity in Yemen, therefore, is by no means simply a response to events of recent years, but merely the continuing extension of a wider bipartisan geostrategy that was formulated not only by people largely associated with Republican neocons, but also by arch-Democrats, such as former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former National Security Adviser to President Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski.

During the 1970s Middle East oil crisis, Kissinger secretly advocated that the US military might have to intervene to directly and permanently occupy the oil-producing Gulf States to prevent future volatility in US energy security. Four years before 9/11, in his study published by the Council on Foreign Relations, Brzezinski outlined in unnerving detail the contours of what the Bush, and now the Obama, administration, have pursued in the context of the ‘War on Terror’: a plan to dominate “Eurasia” – the landmass comprising the continents of Europe and Asia, at the juncture of which lies the Middle East:

“… how America ‘manages’ Eurasia is critical… A power that dominates Eurasia would control two of the world’s three most advanced and economically productive regions. A mere glance at the map also suggests that control over Eurasia would almost automatically entail Africa’s subordination, rendering the Western Hemisphere and Oceania geopolitically peripheral to the world’s central continent. About 75 per cent of the world’s people live in Eurasia, and most of the world’s physical wealth is there as well, both in its enterprises and underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts for 60 per cent of the world’s GNP and about three-fourths of the world’s known energy resources.” “Two basic steps are thus required: first, to identify the geostrategically dynamic Eurasian states that have the power to cause a potentially important shift in the international distribution of power and to decipher the central external goals of their respective political elites and the likely consequences of their seeking to attain them;… second, to formulate specific U.S. policies to offset, co-opt, and/or control the above…”

 Iran: "Zionist methods" seen in scientist slayinghttp://www.ww4report.com/node/8201

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, commenting Jan. 14 on the murder of a leading quantum physicist, said, "The method of bombing was a Zionist one." The scientist, Massoud Ali Mohammadi, died when a bomb strapped to a motorbike was triggered by remote control as he was leaving his home the morning of Jan. 12.

Hundreds attended his funeral, shouting "Death to Israel" and "Death to America." Mohammad Khatami and Hashemi Rafsanjani, both former presidents who now support the oppsotion, condemned the attack in separate statements. (Indian Expresshttp://www.indianexpress.com/news/Briefly-World/567540 AlJazeerahttp://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/01/201011492553306143.html

Bilderbergs of the World Unite!http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16980

Filipino journalists are murdered with impunityhttp://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/01/philippines-journalists-mindanao-massacre/

Among the intended victims was freelance reporter Aquiles Zonio, who escaped after being tipped off at a hotel en route. Interviewed by Index on Censorship beside the mass grave where his colleagues were dumped, he was still in shock. “We had breakfast together that morning,” he recalls of his last meeting with his colleagues. “We were laughing and joking. Then I hear all my friends had been killed, every single one. I still cannot believe it.”

Ampatuan Junior has been charged with masterminding the attack in a trial that many believe will be a test of the country’s entire justice system. For years, the Ampatuan clan has dominated Maguindanao and carried the region for President Maria Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, delivering blocs of votes to her in the 2004 and 2007 general elections. In return, critics say she turned a blind eye to the vast voter fraud, intimidation and almost medieval cruelty that her allies used to hold power. The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism led the first angry reactions to the killings. “In one barbaric, gruesome Monday morning, the monster created by clan wars, warlords, and the tacit approval – and exploitation of it – by high government officials claimed the lives of over 40 people.”

  European Court of Human Rights condemns British anti-terrorist lawhttp://www.voltairenet.org/article163550.html

ALBA trading currency kicks off ... the Sucre will be worth US$1.25http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=87679

Progress on the false positives cases: just a case of false hope?http://colombiareports.com/opinion/the-colombiamerican/7686-progress-on-the-false-positives-cases-just-a-case-of-false-hope.html

flashback-Colombia: A US-backed terror statehttp://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/821/42188

Human rights organizations respond to The Wall Street Journalhttp://upsidedownworld.org/main/news-briefs-archives-68/2313-human-rights-organizations-respond-to-the-wall-street-journal-

In a letter to The Wall Street Journal editor, Justicia y Paz's Father Javier Giraldo Moreno states that these accusations are part of a defamatory campaign directed by the government and the military. He declares that the alleged links between the Peace Community and the guerrilla are only aimed to justify the crimes committed in the region by the Colombian Army.

US army to double weapons stockpiled in Israelhttp://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116153§ionid=3510203

Study: Campaign donations to judges distorting justice systemhttp://rawstory.com/2010/01/study-campaign-donations-judges-distorting-justice-system/

A soon-to-be-published study has found that campaign contributions from corporations to judges are likely distorting the justice system and making it harder for ordinary citizens to win cases against corporations.

Obama Regime Wants Record $708 for Defense Department, Plus $33 Billion More for War Escalationhttp://cryptogon.com/?p=13052

President Barack Obama will ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on top of a record $708 billion for the Defense Department next year, The Associated Press has learned – a request that could be an especially hard sell to some of the administration’s Democratic allies.

SUNSTEINS PAPER PROVIDES MORE EVIDENCE COINTELPRO STILL OPERATIONALhttp://fromthewilderness.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/sunsteins-paper-provides-more-evidence-cointelpro-still-operational/

Cass Sunstein’s white paper, entitled “Conspiracy Theories,” is an exclamation point in the latest chapter of a long history of government tyranny against citizens who organize in opposition to the government. Sunstein argues that individuals and groups deviating from the official government narrative on a number of political issues and events are a national security threat. The administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs formulates a plan for the government to infiltrate conspiracy groups in order to undermine them via postings on chat rooms and social networks, as well as real meetings…

Obama staffer wants cognitive infiltration of 9/11 conspiracy groupshttp://rawstory.com/2010/01/obama-staffer-infiltration-911-groups/

In a 2008 academic paper, President Barack Obama's appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs advocated "cognitive infiltration" of groups that advocate "conspiracy theories" like the ones surrounding 9/11. Cass Sunstein, a Harvard law professor, co-wrote an academic article entitled "Conspiracy Theories: Causes and Cures," in which he argued that the government should stealthily infiltrate groups that pose alternative theories on historical events via "chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine" those groups.

U.S. captive in Cuba was aiding Jewshttp://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1424148.html

A U.S. government subcontractor jailed in Cuba and branded as a spy was helping Jewish groups get ``unfiltered'' Internet access to sites like Wikipedia, sources said Wednesday. The identification of Alan P. Gross, 60, of Potomac, Md., and his mission on the island cast a new light on a case that has sharpened the discord between Washington and Havana.

Climategate Scientist Received Over Half A Million From Obama Stimulus Packagehttp://toryardvaark.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/climategate-michael-mann-awarded-500000-stimulus-cash-unbelievable/

Chief Luther Standing Bear  http://www.powersource.com/gallery/people/luther.html  Luther Standing Bear  http://www.indigenouspeople.net/standbea.htm  Chief Luther Standing Bear - Oglala Sioux  http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Wisdom/ChiefLutherStandingBear.html

"True, the white man brought great change. But the varied fruits of his civilization, though highly colored and inviting, are sickening and deadening. And if it be the part of civilization to maim, rob, and thwart, then what is progress? I am going to venture that the man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures, and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.... " -- Chief Luther Standing Bear, in his 1933 autobiography 

ANTI-BURQA CAMPAIGN MARKS TURN AWAY FROM DEMOCRATIC RULE IN FRANCEhttp://fromthewilderness.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/anti-burqa-campaign-marks-turn-away-from-democratic-rule-in-france/

The growing consensus in France’s political establishment around a law to ban the burqa has broad and ominous implications. Presented in defiance of public opinion and disregarding constitutional objections, preparations to institutionalize state discrimination against forms of Muslim religious expression mark a turn towards overtly anti-democratic forms of rule.