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For with judgment and anticipation, I may find disappointment rather than amazement.In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.comBlogger333125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-55397661291699135142009-07-03T18:04:00.001-07:002009-07-03T20:00:24.150-07:00<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">If you do not see what you are looking for within the following groups, you can search using keywords in the above </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(255,204,0)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Search Blog</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" 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class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/01/channeling.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(153,255,153)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Channeling</span></span></a></span></span></p><center><table width="auto" border="0"><tbody></tbody><tbody><tr><th align="middle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Seth</span></span></span></th><th align="middle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Brenda Dempsey</span></span></span></th><th align="middle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: 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/></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><hr /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in" align="left"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/01/past-present-future.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(153,255,153)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Past - Present - Future</span></span></a></span></span></p><center><table width="auto" border="0"><tbody></tbody><tbody><tr><th align="middle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The<br />Anti-Christ?</span></span></span></span></th><th align="middle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">USA Found<br />Guilty</span></span></span></span></th><th align="middle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">US Invades<br />Panama</span></span></span></span></th><th align="middle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">End of<br />America</span></span></span></span></th></tr><tr><td style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/obamas-digital-presidency.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" 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/>Reed</span></span></span></th><th align="middle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Nancy<br />Lieder</span></span></span></th><th align="middle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">John<br />Walson</span></span></span></th><th align="middle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Billy<br />Meier</span></span></span></th></tr><tr><td style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/01/spotlight-jonathan-reed.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img alt="Jonathan Reed" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SYSbvUv2CoI/AAAAAAAAA4c/tm4z1KXShIQ/s144/JReed-128x207.JPG" border="0" /></span></a></td><td style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/02/spotlight-nancy-lieder.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img alt="Nancy Lieder" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SZtIdDQd_zI/AAAAAAAABDA/4_R2MptJ-7M/s144/NLieder-128x207.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></td><td style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/01/spotlight-john-lenard-walson.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img alt="John Lenard Walson" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SYTZtediwbI/AAAAAAAAA5U/rT2Wl9eqilc/s144/JLW-128x207.JPG" border="0" /></span></a></td><td style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/01/spotlight-billy-meier.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img alt="Eduard Meier" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SX-yfg6QcDI/AAAAAAAAAxs/XtUEbFPth-w/s144/BM-128x207.JPG" border="0" /></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/01/ufos-and-extras.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(153,255,153)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">More...</span></span></a><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/01/ufos-and-extras.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><hr /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in" align="left"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/01/food-for-thought.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(153,255,153)"><span 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/>Cedars</span></span></span></th><th align="middle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">NSA<br />Hit Man</span></span></span></span></th></tr><tr><td style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/01/making-killing.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img alt="Making A Killing" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SYXzRJ7bpmI/AAAAAAAAA50/HW4zjgZY3Vw/s144/MaK-128x207.JPG" border="0" /></span></a></td><td style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/spotlight-keppe-and-pacheco.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img alt="US Drug Multinational" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SdG9qYKzTKI/AAAAAAAAB3w/3Qm2bJLluBA/s144/ADM-128x207.JPG" border="0" /></span></a></td><td style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/ringing-cedars.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img alt="The Ringing Cedars, by Vladimir Megre" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/Sd5P2VxD0bI/AAAAAAAAB_E/OKC0ZlTgGlM/s144/RC1-128x207.JPG" border="0" /></span></a></td><td style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/02/spotlight-john-perkins.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img alt="John Perkins" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SacMOoltmlI/AAAAAAAABOE/KAZvQTxk32k/s144/JPerkins-128x207.JPG" border="0" /></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: right"><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/01/food-for-thought.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(153,255,153)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">More...</span></span></a></div><hr /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.2in" align="left"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/01/mayan-calendar.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(153,255,153)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Mayan Calendar</span></span></a></span></span></p><table width="auto" border="0"><tbody></tbody><tbody><tr><th align="middle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Carl<br />Calleman</span></span></span></th><th align="middle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ian<br />Lungold</span></span></span></th></tr><tr><td style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/01/spotlight-carl-calleman.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img alt="Carl Calleman" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SXkiM99lBQI/AAAAAAAAApc/xk7N0-VtYKQ/s144/CC-128x207.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></td><td style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/01/spotlight-ian-xel-lungold.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img alt="Ian Xel Lungold" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SX_Ibb7jGaI/AAAAAAAAAyw/SXluQ8puBSQ/s144/IXL-128x207.jpg" border="0" /></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/01/mayan-calendar.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(153,255,153)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">More...</span></span></a></center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><br /></center></center></center>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-54764780548876149422009-07-03T18:03:00.016-07:002009-08-12T10:57:37.488-07:00Spotlight - Brenda Dempsey<center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/VXVpnEklhOHILyj3DHctIA?authkey=Gv1sRgCMuC_7a3nOWyOQ&feat=embedwebsite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/Sk7Cf5RbynI/AAAAAAAAC3w/sjQtNd4hJ8Q/s400/brenda%20-%20book.JPG" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></center><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></b><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></b><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Bio</span><br />Brenda Dempsey has been a practicing <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">metaphysician</span></span> for over 20 years. Her personal journey with Michael consciously began in this life in 2000, when answers to questions began arriving as she thought them. Her life has never been the same. Her personal processing and life path have taken her to this point in time to assist others in their journey as a spiritual guide and life coach. Her "Golden Light" seminars are <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">enlightening</span></span>, inspiring and often life altering.<br /></span><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/htyBMHrFSUYX06jZBNtA2A?authkey=Gv1sRgCMuC_7a3nOWyOQ&feat=embedwebsite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/Sk7kFwcgNyI/AAAAAAAAC4c/JoO1Lr_Gz_w/s800/BD-oDeck_400.jpg" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><p><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Read Excerpts</span><br /><br />* </span><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/07/archangel-michaels-sacred-symbols-toc.html"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="TEXT-DECORATION: none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;color:#9999ff;">Archangel Michael's Handbook of Sacred Symbols (Vol. I)</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br />* </span><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/michaels-passing.html"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Michael Jackson's Passing</span></a><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br />* </span><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/08-11-2009-st-germain-re-aug-15-2009.html"><span style="font-family:georgia;">St. Germain 8-11-09</span></a><span style="font-family:georgia;"> (re Aug. 15, 2009 Shift)</span><br />* <a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/07-13-09-archangel-michael-re-aug-15.html">Archangel Michael 7-13-09</a> (re Aug. 15, 2009 Shift)</span><br />* <a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/07-11-09-st-germain-re-aug-15-2009.html"><span style="font-family:georgia;">St. Germain 7-11-09</span></a><span style="font-family:georgia;"> (re Aug. 15, 2009 Shift)</span><br />* <a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/06-22-2009-archangel-michael.html"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Archangel Michael 6-22-09</span></a><br />* <a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/06-20-09-summer-solstice-with-stgermain.html"><span style="font-family:georgia;">St. Germain 6-20-09</span></a><br />* <a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/06-09-09-st-germain.html"><span style="font-family:georgia;">St. Germain 6-09-09</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></b><br /><b><br /></b></p><b></b>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-47872799473824626172009-07-03T18:03:00.015-07:002009-07-03T20:31:11.738-07:00Archangel Michael's Sacred Symbols - TOC<center><br /><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/uSuMeevr1mAqHydKAE1tRQ?authkey=Gv1sRgCMuC_7a3nOWyOQ&feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/Sk7Cf7bk78I/AAAAAAAAC30/RhgbLdJz6nw/s400/brenda%20-%20fbcovers.JPG" /></a><br /></center><br /><br /><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/07/michaels-sacred-symbols-forward.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Forward</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />Use of the Sacred Symbols<br />Use of Candles with the Sacred Symbols<br />Sacred Symbols<br />1. Dispersing Energy<br />2. Condensing Energy<br />3. Vitality Spiral<br />4. Prosperity<br />5. Joy<br />6. Beginning<br />7. Female<br />8. Male<br />9. YHWH<br />10. Lightning Strike<br />11. All That Is<br />12. Infinity<br />13. Hope<br />14. Transition<br />15. Sunset<br />16. Clearing<br />17. Release<br />18. Unification<br />19. Aurora Borealis<br />20. Light<br />21. Health & Wellness<br />22. Gateway to the New Energy<br />Notes<br /><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/07/michaels-sacred-symbols-chart.html">Chart for Use of Symbols with Life Issues</a></span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-85946362901057547672009-07-03T18:03:00.013-07:002009-07-03T20:16:36.898-07:00Michael's Sacred Symbols - Forward<div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Archangel Michael's Sacred Symbols - Forward</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />It is with great humility and joy that I put these handbooks together to assist lightworkers on their journey. It has been a very intense and rewarding journey to reach this point in my soul's path. Michael has been my strength and resolve, and without his assistance, there were many times I don’t think I would have made it through. I remember in January of 2003, when he told me to take up my sword and prepare to defend myself. I wasn’t sure what I was fighting but I was ready. Little did I know that it would come at me from every direction and some I didn’t even know existed, at least not in a 3rd dimensional reality. After a two and half year Pluto transit of soul clearing, I exited out the other side filled with wisdom I never dreamed possible to find Michael as my constant companion and guide. Thank you Michael!<br /><br />Having taken out my psychic sight ability in a lifetime in Egypt I asked for it to be restored and in a matter of days in March of 2005, the information began flooding in. Not knowing what I was receiving, but trusting they were important, the handbooks evolved one at a time. I had been told by an intuitive in 2004 that I would be writing some kind of handbooks on different topics, which takes us to the current day with information flooding in daily, continuing my journey.<br /><br />I am grateful and thankful for my husband Dennis’s support, understanding and patience in this growth of my soul as I know it hasn’t always been a piece of cake! Thank you to my daughters, Tina and Kimber, for their patience and understanding in times of insanity for allowing me to follow my path.<br /><br />Thank you, Kathy for being such a great friend and participant in this process. We have much more to do, it has just begun. I must also thank my friend Ken, whose journey has often paralleled mine, for sharing the ups and downs of my spiritual process.<br /><br />Joy and blessings to all in your journey from Michael and myself.<br /><br />Brenda Dempsey<br />January, 2007</span><br /></div>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-16536930352067233982009-07-03T18:03:00.011-07:002009-07-03T20:30:08.652-07:00Michael's Sacred Symbols - Chart<div><br /></div><div>click to enlarge</div><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/yyaAQ3m2_M0IwWVzHgwmTw?authkey=Gv1sRgCMuC_7a3nOWyOQ&feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/Sk7LqyfcfCI/AAAAAAAAC4A/_GighV9TvNY/s400/BD-OD_570x300.jpg" /></a>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-65215248106691859862009-03-29T18:39:00.015-07:002009-08-12T10:44:20.336-07:0006-22-09 Archangel Michael<span style="font-family:georgia;">06-22-09 New Moon Archangel Michael<br /><br />Fear-a chilling debilitating word, emotion, the planet is full of it. Those without center have no idea as to how or where to find it. Frantically they move trying to locate some form of status quo, trying to return all that is out of the box to the box.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">We are all in this together, a difficult concept to learn or acknowledge . We are all a part of the other; higher, lower, middle makes no difference. This is something we will all realize in due process.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Many come in our path to show us what it is we truly desire or need not. Sometimes we need to know what we don't choose to know what we do choose. All at once we see another and can choose.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">All humanity really needs is love or to be loved.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">As we move through our blockages or emotional traumas pathways are created so others can follow.</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-28387547617903482282009-03-29T18:39:00.013-07:002009-08-12T10:41:35.129-07:0007-13-09 Archangel Michael (re Aug. 15, 2009 Shift)<span style="font-family:georgia;">07-13-09 8:00 A.M. Archangel Michael<br /><br />All the company of heaven are poised ready to assist in the shift of the ages,<br />standing at the precipice.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">The joy for humanity we feel is overwhelming, know that we are all there with you. The cosmos is sturing in preparation as well.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Maintain your center in all that you do and experience, as this is the most important piece of the process at this time. Maintaining center allows you to open pathways and walk through them. Pathways being created to the NOW assists humanity across the bridges into tomorrows.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">When this time has passed and you pause to look back you will be truly amazed at the distances you have traveled. You often feel as if you are barely moving and yet you are moving at the speed of light. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Blessings, Michael</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-49310903289797617282009-03-29T18:39:00.011-07:002009-08-12T10:39:09.998-07:0007-11-09 St. Germain (re Aug. 15, 2009 Shift)<span style="font-family:georgia;">07-11-09 7:57 A.M. St. Germain<br /><br />This week will change the course of humanity for all eternity-nothing will ever be the same. It is time for the biggest shift of consciousness humanity has ever experienced.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">The synthesis of thought and energy has finally become one, sending a pulse into the cosmos. Much has been foretold of this time, stimulating a change in humanity's thought process.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">There will be information that will surface this week which will change conscious thought, humanity's basis of beliefs will be altered.</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-24632923333631396002009-03-29T18:39:00.009-07:002009-08-12T10:27:41.423-07:0008-11-2009 St. Germain (re Aug. 15, 2009 Shift)<span style="font-family:georgia;">August 11, 2009 2 P.M. St. Germain<br /><br />Approximately every 26,000 year there is a shift of the ages, which we are currently in the midst of experiencing. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">The last big shift of the ages was the sinking of Atlantis approximately 13,000 years ago with an interim shift approximately 6500 years ago coinciding with the Great Flood of Biblical times and the renewal after.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">Great Shifts in consciousness happen every quarter, however consciousness is stronger at the halfway points and more poised for perfection.<br /><br />Question: Well we feel the shift of August 15, 2009?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;">You will see it and feel it, it will be very obvious.<br /><br />At that moment St Germain gave me a vision of a tiny red spark, the spark of humanity, being enveloped by a stream of golden light entering it and exploding it into brilliant ball of red.<br /><br />This is Source opening the seed of consciousness in humanity in its highest form, in preparation for peace on earth known as the 1,000 years of peace. This is the piece we have been held waited for, choosing not to move forward to allow more of humanity to have this experience with us. There is no more waiting. The moment is here, even more significant than December 21, 2012. Archangel Michael spoke of the moment the seed would burst open in 2005, this is it.<br /><br />What we have been waiting for is NOW! THIS MOMENT! At that moment I felt a pull in my heart chakra and turquoise chakra. A triangle was being created connecting the heart and thymus to the octahedron surrounding my physical body.<br /><br />The pinnacle of the shift of the ages is happening at this very moment and with the energy continuing through the 19th of August, with the 15th as midpoint. You will see glimpses of purity of heart, be in the heart. It is of the utmost importance for those living in the NOW to be present and centered during this time frame.<br /><br />So Be It, So It is, So Mote It Be.<br /><br />St. Germain</span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"></span>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-21206365061378294082009-03-29T18:39:00.007-07:002009-07-10T15:16:50.627-07:0006-20-09 Summer Solstice With St.Germain<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />06-20-09 Summer Solstice with St.Germain<br /><br />It is time to be still and listen. The earth is changing and shifting constantly. It is now the norm not the exception, it began last year on the eve of this day, when the ethers shook.<br /><br />As the cosmos transitions so goes Gaia and humankind, all in perfect unison. As Gaia makes its changes all the cosmos watches-humanity unaware of its magnificence.<br /><br />Again I say to you, be still and listen. You are in the biggest transformation of this lifetime. Three months from now you will not recognize who you are. You will know who you are, your wisdom shall arrive.<br /><br />The grid removal is only one portion or piece of the puzzle you will carry. Others will begin to walk out of the box and into the NOW as well. Many are ready they just don't know how to get there.<br /></span>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-56693817775610354652009-03-29T18:39:00.005-07:002009-07-10T15:15:41.143-07:0006-09-09 St. Germain<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />06-09-09 St. Germain<br /><br />The time is now, all is moving into the Now, each day a little more. Each day we move closer to the synthesis of NOW. As more grids are removed the light shines brighter, one being at a time as we unite in Love.<br /><br />It is important to stay centered and focused as the energies ebb and flow in and out of the NOW. The more time spent in the NOW, the more balanced you will feel.<br /><br />The earth, the river, the trees, the birds, the animals all nurture you-take notice of them. Each and every step you take you assist in creating the tomorrows.<br /><br />Be in love and walk with God. It is all that IS.<br /></span>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-69473882793760712222009-03-29T18:39:00.003-07:002009-07-10T15:11:32.264-07:00Michael's Passing<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />07-08-09 1:11A.M.<br /><br />I was awakened from a sound sleep with the following message: Michael's Passing<br /><br />Michael Jackson, the gentle light that he was, once again gave of himself for humanity.<br /><br />The great outpouring of love and compassion assisted the planet and humanity in moving forward on their path of ascension.<br /><br />Many of his difficulties in life came from trying to live in two worlds-trying to manifest from the New Energy of Neverland into the old energies of judgement, control and jealousy. Neverland exists in the New Energy of the NOW, where we are all going.<br /><br />Michael helped create a pathway for the rest of us to follow. The pain of living and moving between these two realities became to painful physically and emotionally and he slipped away. If you look at the difficult times and issues he faced, many were issues of humanity which needed to be looked at or viewed. He never lost his child-like knowing and connection to the oneness. He could no longer be kept in a box, it was time for the butterfly to fly.<br /><br />We will miss him.<br /></span>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-6188643151692873142009-03-29T18:39:00.001-07:002009-04-09T12:51:17.782-07:00Ringing Cedars<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.ringingcedars.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/Sd5GqCe9AWI/AAAAAAAAB-8/zE-pdrUSRa0/s400/9books.JPG" alt="The Ringing Cedars, by Vladimir Megre" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">click image for more info and to purchase</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">“Basically, these books make all the books that I've read to date look like a complete waste of paper!”</span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></blockquote><div></div><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Over 10 million copies sold with no advertisement!<br /></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Thousands quit their jobs!<br /></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The most stolen books across Europe!<br /></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Readers are already buying dozens at a time!<br /></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">You can FEEL the mysterious "energy" encoded in her words…<br /></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Recession? These books show us another way!<br /></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Like nothing you've ever read!<br /></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">AND the more you read them—the better you'll feel<br /></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Change? Yes we can!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51); font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Series Overview</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />There is so much mind-blowing material in these books it's almost impossible to give you an overview! What we can tell you is this…<br /><br />This real-life story begins in 1995…<br /><br />A trader prepares his ships to embark on the most remarkable trip of his life—a trip that will change the course of millions of human lives. Ahead of him lies the mighty Ob River—winding and snaking for 3,500 miles through the Siberian taiga—the vast boreal forest—that stretches across Northern Europe, Alaska and Canada.<br /><br />A warning! Nothing you have ever read before can prepare you for the journey you are about to take.<br /><br />You are about to meet Anastasia—a beautiful young woman—discovered by the author, living alone deep in the remote wild forests of Siberia. She is considered to be a surviving member of an ancient Vedic civilisation whose extraordinary powers and knowledge far exceed anything known today.<br /><br />Anastasia's powerful, myth-shattering messages reveal a profound wisdom grounded in ancient knowledge; they expose suppressed secrets and hidden historical facts that will completely change your understanding of our past, and offer a whole new paradigm for our planet's future.<br /><br />Anastasia will lift you up and hurl you into a future that is… well… everything you imagined life could and certainly should be!<br /><br />The twist is… it's here NOW!<br /><br />Anastasia will have you dancing with delight and squealing with excitement as you re-discover YOU… in all your glory!<br /><br />Anastasia's messages will simply blow your mind!<br />Her soft-spoken words go straight to your heart—like nothing you have ever read!<br /><br />And the more you read them… the better you'll feel.<br /><br />Anastasia will restore your hope for the future and re-ignite your passion for life. After reading these books—nothing will be quite the same…<br /><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Book 1: Anastasia</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Anastasia, the first book of the Ringing Cedars Series, tells the story of entrepreneur Vladimir Megré's trade trip to the Siberian taiga in 1995, where he witnessed incredible spiritual phenomena connected with sacred "ringing cedar" trees. Here he discovered a beautiful young woman named Anastasia, living alone deep in the forest. He spent three days with her during which she displayed the most extraordinary physical, mental and psychic powers.<br /><br />She also shared with him her unique outlook on a vast range of subjects as diverse as happiness, co-creation, spirituality, sexuality, child-rearing, healing, gardening, nature and environmental issues, planetary change and much more.<br /><br />This wilderness experience affected Vladimir so deeply that he abandoned his commercial plans and went to Moscow to fulfill Anastasia's request to write a book about what he had witnessed and the insights she had shared with him. She told him she would imbue his books with an energy that would uplift the spirit and cause them to sell in the millions. True to her promise this life-changing book has become an international bestseller and is now touching the hearts of millions of people world-wide.<br /><br /></span><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“In the book you are going to write, Vladimir, there will be unobtrusive ombinations, formulations made up of letters, and they will arouse in the majority of people good and radiant feelings. These feelings are capable of overcoming ailments of body and soul, and will facilitate the birth of a new awareness inherent in people of the future. Believe me, Vladimir, this is not mysticism—it is in accord with the laws of the Universe.” — Anastasia</span></span></span></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Book 2: The Ringing Cedars of Russia</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />After rising rapidly to the top of national best-seller lists, first-time author Vladimir Megré has some explaining to do.<br /><br />Just who is this extraordinary woman Anastasia? How did Megré become her messenger… and her lover? Anastasia's visions in Book 1 are already becoming reality and readers are demanding to know more. What else did she tell him? Here in his second book, Megré reveals some of the answers… and raises a lot more questions.<br /><br />Prepare to plunge deeply into Anastasia's wild and brilliant world as the author embarks on an adventure through the vast expanses of space, time and spirit—from the paradise-like glade in the Siberian forest, to the rough urban depths of Russia's capital city; from the ancient mysteries of our forebears, to a vision of humanity's radiant future.<br /><br />Along the way you'll get a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at how Anastasia and the Ringing Cedars Series came to be published.<br /><br /></span><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“Way back in ancient times people living on the Earth had the capacity to use wisdom and intelligence far surpassing the abilities of modern Man. People at the time of the Earth's pristine origins enjoyed ready access to all the information in the entire database of the Universe.” — Anastasia</span></span></span></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Book 3: The Space of Love</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />Nothing you have read in Books 1 and 2 has prepared you for Book 3—The Space of Love.<br /><br />News of Anastasia's powerful abilities has reached people in high places. Someone wants her captured. As Megré attempts to return to the forest—where Anastasia has borne him a son—he finds his way blocked.<br /><br />A helicopter hovers over her glade as armed agents close in. But these men with machine guns flee in horror when Anastasia gives them a terrifying taste of hell—and it's far worse than your worst nightmare!<br /><br />Then… discover a school in the forest, designed, built and decorated entirely by students 7 to 17 years old, without adult supervision. Here students cover a 10-year math syllabus in just one year, while learning three foreign languages, martial arts and ballroom dancing. They come and go as they please, and their parents pay no fees. With a waiting list in the thousands, this school completely redefines the word "education".<br /><br />Enter The Space of Love—you'll emerge recharged and excited by its remarkable revelations, with a totally new appreciation for life and all that your future holds.<br /><br /></span><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 255, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“Love dissolved in Space for one can touch the hearts of many.<br />So that close to a loved one there will always be a Space of Love.<br />This is the essence of Love, this is its designated purpose.” — Anastasia</span></span></span></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Book 4: Co-Creation</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />If you've read Anastasia, The Ringing Cedars of Russia and The Space of Love, and you think you've "got it"… Book 4, Co-creation, will cause you to think again. In this book, Anastasia's pure energy vibrates at a much higher pitch. Co-creation is vast in its scope of vision and powerfully poetic. You will actually feel yourself changing as you read.<br /><br />Through words and images that sing to your soul, Anastasia deepens your understanding and raises your sights to a whole new level. This is the story of creation as you have never heard it told.<br /><br />Now—as Anastasia reveals the Divine blueprint—we see that we are truly masters of our own destiny and that our choices affect not only ourselves but also the entire Universe. Full of astonishing revelations, this book may just turn your world upside-down. Co-creation offers practical steps, grounded in ancient wisdom, which you can use today to create powerful positive change in your life and simultaneously guarantee the future happiness of all mankind.<br /><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“I shall tell you about co-creation, Vladimir, and then everyone will be able to provide an answer to his own questions. Please listen carefully and write about the Creator's great co-creation. Listen and try to understand with all your Soul the aspirations of the Divine dream.” — Anastasia</span></span></blockquote></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Book 5: Who Are We?</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />The Ringing Cedars Series is creating a wave of excitement that is sweeping the globe with positive, life-transforming messages of pure love energy from the beautiful Anastasia.<br />Filled with her profound practical wisdom and powerful creative imagery, Who Are We? reveals more of her remarkable dreams.<br /><br />You will be stunned by Anastasia's vision of the future in which she exposes the extraordinary process by which all armaments—from nuclear missiles to handguns—will be removed from the planet in the days to come.<br /><br />Anastasia paints images of exquisite beauty, abundance, peace and harmony—images which will fill you with renewed hope and inspire you to begin creating a very different life for yourself—one far better than anything you might have previously imagined.<br /><br />Full of unexpected twists and turns, and with a surprise ending, Who Are We? will have you fully engaged from the very first word.<br /><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“And if you, my dearest, should find yourself scattered across the unfathomable Universe as little specks of dust, still refusing to believe, then from these specks of dust wandering through eternity I shall begin to gather you up.” — Anastasia</span></span></blockquote></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Book 6: The Book of Kin</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />You are about to meet the author's son—raised naturally in the forest by his mother, Anastasia. Rest assured, you have never met a five-year-old like this! This young boy's profound intelligence forces Megré to take a totally fresh look at education, science, and history and… well… just about everything.<br /><br />In The Book of Kin, Anastasia will lead you on a shocking rediscovery of pages of humanity's history that have been distorted or kept secret for thousands of years. She sheds new light on the causes of war, oppression and violence in the modern world, and guides us toward preserving the wisdom of our ancestors, so that we may pass it on to future generations.<br /><br />Series translator, John Woodsworth, became so excited when he read the original text of this book, he began working on it day and night. Dr Leonid Sharashkin, the Series editor, said, "It's hard to believe that a human being could have written this book."<br /><br />Deeply touching, beautifully heart-warming, and utterly life confirming, this book is another sparkling gem in the brilliant Ringing Cedars Series.<br /><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“The Universe itself is a thought, a thought from which was born a dream, which is partially visible as matter. … You are infinite, you are eternal, within you are your dreams of creation.” — Anastasia</span></span></blockquote></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Book 7: The Energy of Life</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />The Energy of Life reasserts the extraordinary power of human thought and reveals the influence our thinking has—not only on our lives—but also on the destiny of our planet and the Universe.<br /><br />In this book, Anastasia's grandfather steps in to give Megré a reality check that turns out to be a wake-up call for all of us.<br /><br />Packed with more stunning revelations, The Energy of Life sheds new light on the forgotten pages of humanity's history, on religion, on the roots of inter-racial and inter-religious conflict—and even on what constitutes ideal nutrition.<br /><br />This book shows the way to solve the problems of crime, corruption, misery, conflict, war and violence. It reveals practical ways to consciously control and build up the power of our creative thought. It shows how a new way of thinking—together with a lifestyle in harmony with Nature—can lead to true happiness.<br /><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“There is a law of the Universe which says: A single Creator inspired by love is stronger than all the sciences combined, which are deprived of love.” — Anastasia</span></span></blockquote></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Book 8.1: The New Civilization</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />The New Civilisation chronicles another visit by Vladimir Megré to Anastasia and their son, providing new insights into practical co-operation with Nature and showing in even greater detail how you can apply Anastasia's wisdom to your own life.<br /><br />Describing how the visions presented in the previous books have already taken beautiful form in real life and produced huge changes in Russia and beyond, the author discerns the birth of a new civilisation.<br />Anastasia shows Vladimir a vivid scene of America's radiant future, revealing how the conflict between the powerful and the helpless and between the rich and the poor can be overcome and thereby lead to positive transformations in both individuals and society.<br /><br />The New Civilisation demonstrates the proven power of Anastasia's creative imagery, as she inspires us to become co-creators of a marvelous future for all mankind.<br /><br />Anastasia's word-images are being taken up by thousands of readers of the Ringing Cedars Series, and also it seems, by the Universe itself. Across the globe, as if responding to a call, people from all walks of life are committing their support to the creation of this radiant vision of a "Paradise Planet".<br /><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 51);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“Such beneficial energy can flow from Man as has never before been seen. Every living creature on the Earth needs this energy just as it needs air, sunshine and water. And even sunlight is but<br />a reflection of the great energy emanating from Man.” — Anastasia</span></span></blockquote></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Book 8.2: Rites of Love</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />Rites of Love compares today's attitudes toward sex, childbirth, family and education with those of our forebears. Their depth of understanding may cause you to wonder when and how we lost this extraordinary knowledge. Anastasia assures us that it can be regained.<br /><br />Through the fascinating life-story of one family, Megré portrays the radiant world of the ancient Russian Vedic civilisation, documents the drama of its destruction and then reveals its rebirth—millennia later—in our present time.<br /><br />In powerful poetic prose, Megré describes a way of life that was grounded in love and non-violence, and then shows the practicability of this same approach today.<br /><br />Rites of Love reminds us of so much we have long forgotten—it really is like reading one's own life story and, in the process, awakening from a long sleep.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“There are hundreds of thousands who are discovering more and more the truth within themselves and are changing their way of life at the core. They will soon number in the millions, but for now these hundreds of thousands should be seeking for the answer to the puzzle within themselves.” — Anastasia</span></span></blockquote></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.ringingcedars.com/" target="_blank">www.RingingCedars.com</a></span></span><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-1143380169609137522009-03-27T14:22:00.015-07:002009-04-01T23:46:20.334-07:00American Drug Multinational - Pt.2<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2</span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">nd</span></span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Part: The World Dimension of the Drug Business</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“In 1988 drug-traffic trade generated $500 billion dollars all together. This is equivalent to French GNP in 1985.” – Mohaen Toumi, Science et Vie, Economie Magazine, November 1989 - (official data always minimize reality)</span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a name="ADMDrugsHistory"></a></span><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/KWVlfKPOBPDaocAAiy8GqQ?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqK6a7Fo6qZGg&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SdRaY4u-bII/AAAAAAAAB4o/LRZV0Xvq_2s/s400/IMG_6785.JPG" alt="American Drug Multinational" border="0" /></span></a><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/KWVlfKPOBPDaocAAiy8GqQ?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqK6a7Fo6qZGg&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/KWVlfKPOBPDaocAAiy8GqQ?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqK6a7Fo6qZGg&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">click image to enlarge</span></a><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/KWVlfKPOBPDaocAAiy8GqQ?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqK6a7Fo6qZGg&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Drugs Through History</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Through research done on the history of civilizations as to the origin of the drugs, we have found that:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In Asia Minor, in 5,000 BC</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, Sumerian people, who created the cuneiform alphabet, included references to opium poppy in their most ancient writings.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In 3,000 BC</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, China’s native efedra’s bush, ma-huang, was already inhaled. In 2,737 BC, Emperor Shen Nung, wrote in a Chinese treaty that cannabis sativa be made into tea and used for medical purposes.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">By 2,000 BC</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, cannabis had already been introduced in India and the Hindus were probably the first people to have dried and smoked it.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In Ancient Egypt</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, papyrus dating 1,500 BC mention fear arising from opium elixir, due to the hallucination it provoked.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Around 400 BC, Hippocrates</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, the father of medicine, used opium in experiments with medicinal substances. Ever since then, Medicine has not stopped harming human beings with dangerous drugs.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Around 100 AD, Mexico</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, Aztec Indians created a culture centered around the magic qualities of cacto peyote, from Psilohybin, ololiuqui mushroom, spores which produced an hallucinatory chemical substance similar to LSD.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Around 1,000 AD</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, Incas from what is today known as Bolivia and Peru, chewed coca leaves to obtain their hallucinatory effects.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In the XI century the word haxixe appeared in Persia</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, where drugs were associated with criminal activities for the first time. The origin of that name comes from the Persian cult leader, Al-Hansan. It is said that people took haxixe in order to reach ecstasy and obtain a vision of paradise, before facing martyrdom. Then, in that state of intoxication, they attacked their enemies in a suicidal way (haxixe – has the same origin as the word murderer).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Drug-traffic</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> began when the Old World made its first contact with the New World. Expeditions initiated by Columbus found, among other things, cocaine in South America, hallucinatory substances in Central America and tobacco in North America. Such drugs were taken back to European courts where they were very welcome due to the psychological inversion of people who saw great advantage in alienation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Drug exchange</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> was complete when Europeans introduced distilled alcoholic beverages and Asian cannabis to the Americas (Chile, 1545).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Hindus</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> introduced tobacco in Europe. Shipment of leaves and seeds helped the spread of tobacco cultivation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In England</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, which controlled Virginia’s tobacco region, the fever for tobacco reached epidemic proportions, despite its high price. Nicotine gained its name from Jacques Nicot, who brought it to France in 1560 alleging its supposed medicinal potential which, in time yet another proved to be fantasy of medical science.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Describing the habit of smoking, Sir Francis Bacon wrote, In 1623</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: “Once used to it, one will find very difficult to get rid of such an addiction.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In 1650 opium started being</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> increasingly used in China. Opium use was already known as a serious health problem. The Manchu dynasty tried to restrain its import but they didn’t succeed because they were powerless against English East India Company’s economic pressure. This company aimed to profit from and dominate people through alienation. In 1839, importing opium was prohibited and all shipments were checked. The result was the 1839-1842 Opium War between China and England where the latter was the winner. The second Opium War took place between 1856-1858.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In the XIX century the use of Opium reached epidemic proportions</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, mainly in England and America. Tragically the drug was more wide spread in remedies for children. Those medicines were sold under names such as Godfrey’s Cordial, Munn’s Elixir and Mother Bailey’s.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The most popular household guide at the time</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, “Beeton’s Book of Household Management” saw the need to warn people that certain remedies constantly given to children by nurses and mothers to help them sleep were frequently fatal. 1842 English research so called “The Second Report to the Commissioners”, commented on the dilemma which led poor women to drug their children with opium. Even at that time the drug was already used to exploit people’s slave labor.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">German Frederick Engels</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, in his book, The Condition of the Working Class, England, 1844, described a horrifying increase in drug use, due to the development of a tolerance to such substances in children’s bodies. Because they were given stronger and stronger doses, they became pale, weak, usually dying before they were two years old. The use of this “remedy” was wide-spread in all big cities as well as small villages all around the country.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In the present century</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> the French legalized opium and alcohol trade in Indochina, and created a monopoly of purchase, manufacture, and sales. In the mid-1930s there were 1,500 alcohol and opium distilleries.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Central Asia</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> is the Soviet Union’s drug barn. Eighty percent of the Soviet Union’s narcotic consumption comes from the Moslem provinces.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In all instances of colonization</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> one can note that drugs have been a very destructive merchandise for people but very profitable for traffickers. Such merchandise has brought splendid revenue to the income of a metropolis as much as it has been used to dominate those being colonized. Exploitation becomes easier after one has made the people drug addicts. Dependence occurs on both sides. Not only does the colony depend on the metropolis, but also its inhabitants depend on the drugs. That strengthens the traffic. The same phenomenon is found in dictatorships and imperialist governments due to policies of corruption and exploitation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Issue Today</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If the drug trade was substantial in the past, its dimension was infinitely modest compared with today’s traffic.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At the present time one can see that drug dependency and traffic have become worldwide epidemics of frightening proportions, the USA being the center of it, both in terms of drug consumption (the world’s largest) and in terms of illegal trade and profits.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Cahiers du Tiers Monde magazine, nr. 113, published the following:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Late this century, drug-traffic turned out to be one of the most important axis between Latin America and the United States with significant implications in strategy and national and collective security. For this reason, treating the problem as a mere police question is a gross simplification which ignores its complex reality. In its true dimension, drug-traffic is an economic, social and political problem of trans-national significance, which unbalances the States and the Latino-American society.” (Cahiers du Tiers Monde, “Drugs and the Parallel Power”, by Manuel Gonzalo C. Alvarez, p.10).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In the following chapters, we will focus on the true and terrifying world dimensions of trafficking today, as well as on the preponderous role played, in this trade of death, by the nation which until recently, was the leader of the West – the United States of America.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a name="ADMExtentToday"></a><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Extent of the American Drug Business Today</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">To have an idea of how attractive the European drug market is to American “investors”: one gram of gold in Paris costs between 60-70 francs, depending on market fluctuation (August 1990), whereas one gram of cocaine is sold at 1,000 francs, that is 940 francs more per gram of cocaine sold!</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Drugs are the Major World Business at Present</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">According to official numbers collected by Swiss writer jean Ziegler (in Switzerland Washes Whiter):</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Today drug profits are a fantastic market (…) between USD $300 and $500 billion per year. Many famous experts support the second figure, Interpol secretary general, Mr. Kendall, among those.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Official figures are usually at least five times lower than the real ones. Even though this official index places drugs amongst the major world businesses. Drug profits are equivalent to five times some of the 3</span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">rd</span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> world country’s debts (Brazil, for example, is being forced to export practically all its products in order to pay its US $110 billion debt’s interest rates). According to Ziegler the half trillion dollars drug profit per year is equivalent to “</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">all western country’s yearly expenses in oil purchases.</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And it represents over three times France’s budget which is 150 billion dollars!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“The international drugs trade is an economic activity battled against but also protected (…) it is one of the major world economic activities” (Le Monde Diplomatique, 24/4/1990, article by Christian de Brie, “Who profits from the drug-traffic? Bankers, who are in complicity with drug-traffic.”)</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">To have an idea of how attractive the drug market is to “investors”: one gram of gold in Paris costs between 60-70 francs, depending on market fluctuation (August 1990), whereas one gram of cocaine is sold at 1,000 francs, that is 940 francs more per gram of cocaine sold!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Organized crime is only one of the international drug trade’s business “partners” (…) The drug business functions like a three-partner society: the traffickers group, the business group and the political group” (Christian de Brie, art. Cit.)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In practically all countries, bankers are in complicity with this business not only laundering drug money but even giving advice, defending and keeping bank accounts secret; they also provide solicitors and advisors to traffickers; in short, they help drug money to be “clear and respectable”. Everybody knows the remarkable power of influence banks have on modern society’s governments. In many countries they are practically today’s ruling class. In his book Psychoanalysis of Society, Keppe stated that in the past cities were built around churches, after that around castles and today around banks. Christian de Bie in the above mentioned article said that:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“In truth, banks not only don’t avoid drug money but voraciously compete to obtain it (…) In the smallest cities in Bolivia, Peru and Colombia’s cocaine zones there are American, British, German, Swiss and French banks. For what business and for what money other than that of drugs? (…) Amongst the numerous banks involved in the drug laundering service since a long time ago, are some well-known names such as Chase Manhattan, American Express, Louis Dryfus, etc. (a dozen major Swiss banks, more than 20 in Miami.)”</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Read chapters “American Drug Multinationals” and “Who is responsible for the drug traffic” in order to be aware of the dimensions of the international drug-traffic business.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The power of traffickers is already larger than that of many States</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Trafficker’s killing power competes with the nations power (…) Let us create against them a protection of the human individual, who is affected on a most intimate level (…) One needs to dare think and say that it is not acceptable to have any commitment to such a network of corruption, with such agents of death” (Francois Miterrand, inaugural address at the Arch of Fraternity, Paris 26/8/1989, Le Monde, 29/8/1989).</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Who does crime pay? Everybody, and that is precisely the problem. How to fight against the running waters, when complicities are all around and corruption is abundant? (Le Monde’s dossier on drugs)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Nations seem disarmed before the problem, incapable of fatally striking drug-traffic” (Le Monde’s dossier on drugs). </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(N.B.: In fact there are Nations which are disarmed against drug-traffic. Nevertheless there are others which promote it, and this was not mentioned in that article).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The United States are the world’s major marijuana producer and favors opium, heroin and cocaine production throughout the world.</span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1. </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Opium, heroin and cocaine are produced in the following geographic zones</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1.1</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Middle-East</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: produces opium and heroin. Countries: Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan (Golden Crescent), India, Nepal and Lebanon.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1.2</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Southeast Asia</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: produces opium and heroin. Countries: Burma, Thailand and Laos (Golden Triangle)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1.3</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Latin America</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: produces cocaine. Countries: Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1.4</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mexico</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: produces 50 tons of opium, converted into 5 tons of heroin.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Most of these productive zones are directly or indirectly controlled by the United States of America, as follows:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Afghanistan, Pakistan</span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In April 1990, Soviet Life magazine published that: “</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">600 tons of drugs are produced yearly by Afghanistan opposition-controlled zones, with the support of Pakistan and the United States.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">According to that magazine, peasants are encouraged to cultivate opium poppy; an air transportation system, via Pakistan ensures that the product goes to Western European countries and to North America and says that: “</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">armed detachments of the opposition are the ones that transport drugs to Pakistan.”</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Afghanistan is responsible for 1/5 of the world production of opium and for half of the world production of heroin.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Iran</span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Studies on the Iran-gate scandal (clandestine arms sale to Iran by Israel and the United States) show that:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a) </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">those arms were paid for with dollars, “but mainly with drugs (base-morphine and heroine)” (according to Jean Ziegler, above mentioned book, p.151);</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">b) </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the White House had an active part in the operation; even ex-president Ronald Reagan was accused, but alleged not to know what was going on. His National Security Aid, John Poindexter (government’s right arm), was even sentenced, but for only six months in prison. Doubts about the American ex-president still remain.. (according to article “The Reagan Verdict” by Antony Lewis, New York Times / Diario de Noticias, 1/5/1990);</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">c)</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the arms sale money (and that of drugs, of course) was transferred to Central America under the order of North American colonel Oliver North, and others, in order to financially back up gangs of mercenaries against Faribundo Marti Front, in El Salvador, and in order to help with the Nicaraguan “contras” (group opposed to Sandinista government);</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">d)</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Iran secret arms sale was used to provide equipment to Nicaraguan “contras”, and this made it possible for a significant cocaine traffic between Colombia and the United States to take place, which was done with the logistic support of the North Americans.”</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (according to Le Monde Diplomatique, 24/4/1990, Christian de brie).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In July 1990, CIA ex-agent, Richard Brancke, stated the following to Italian federal television (RAI):</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Iran arms traffic was the Reagan / Bush political debt with Tehran in exchange </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">for the delay</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> in the release of the American hostages from the American Embassy in Tehran. That delay had cuased Carter’s defeat in the November presidential elections” and also said that “Swedish Prime Minister, Olof Palme, had been killed by the Masonic Lodge P2, supported by CIA, because he was aware of the illegal arms traffic at the time of the Iran-Iraq war.”</span></span></span></blockquote></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Golden Triangle</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Burma, Thailand and Laos</span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The United States and the CIA created “rebel armies” in Laos and Burma and controlled opium and morphine production using the Golden Triangle. Such drugs were the only currency used for the purchase and supply of arms provided by the CIA, whose airplanes transported the drugs back. Such an arrangement is still in use today, supplying nearly half of the world heroin trade (according to Le Monde Diplomatique, 24/4/1990, article by Christian de brie).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">N.B.: According to Le Monde dossier on drugs, world heroin production is around 106 tons per year (in official numbers). Given that Afghanistan (in part controlled by the US), produces 50 tons per year, and that the Golden Triangle, under the CIA control, produces 45 tons per year, one concludes</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">that the United States (that is, the White House, and government agencies) participate directly in the overall heroin production trafficked in the world (including that sold in North America itself).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">13 Heavens Note</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In 2006, a UN report stated the number at 6,700 tons. So from 50-tons per year in 1988 to 6,700 tons in 2006, the question undoubtedly becomes: “Who’s using all of this stuff?” </span></span><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/american-drug-multinational-pt1.html#ADMUncleSam"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">See more…</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Latin America</span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">According to Le Monde’s above mentioned article, Nicaraguan “contras” organization, organized by the United States of America (CIA and Noriega), made substantial cocaine traffic between Colombia and the United States possible, with the logistic support of American agents. By and large, Latin America’s dictatorial regimes were created by the CIA. For example, in dictatorial times Brazilian generals had secret bank accounts at the (Swiss) Migros Bank where 1 million Swiss Francs, coming from the Brazilian network of drug-traffic, were deposited weekly. Money exchanged at the Migros Bank was deposited weekly at New York’s Banesto Banking Corporation account number 13.277.201 (Jean Ziegler, mentioned book, p.71-72).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">General Noriega, who organized the Nicaraguan “contras” and supported the Medellin Cartel in Colombia, has been a CIA agent since 1950 and was made both by Ronald Reagan and by the present American president (Expresso magazine, article “Noriega, the American Lesson”, by Tony Jenkins, 20/1/1990). Bush only had him arrested when the dictator of Panama was no longer of interest to the USA.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Marijuana is produced in the following geographic zones</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2.1</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">United States of America </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(major world producer, according to Figaro, 19/5/1990).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2.2</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Asia</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (India, Thailand and Nepal).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2.3</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Middle-East</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (Lebanon, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2.4</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Africa</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (Morocco and Kenya).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">As one can see, besides the fact that the United States of America is the major drug producer, those countries used by the North Americans to produce opium and heroin (Thailand, Pakistan, Afghanistan…) “coincidently” are also amongst the world’s marijuana producers (“marijuana is certainly the second or the third Californian cultivation”, according to economics Nobel Prize winner, Milton Friedman, in interview for Le Figaro, 19/5/1990)</span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">How Drug-Traffic Threatens Europe</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">On March 29, 1990, USA Today newspaper reported the following:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Traffickers take to Europe what is left from the US cocaine” and state “in order to find new markets, United States drug traffickers are now taking to Europe what is left (…) The quantity of cocaine which comes to the United States exceeds the demand (…) cocaine traffickers have saturated the American market at the price they wanted to sell it, so that now they are forced to take the drug overseas (…) Prices in Western Europe are double those in the United States (…) there is no doubt at all that the European market is indeed opened. Federal agents say they are now seizing more cocaine shipments coming directly from Colombia to Europe – and the number of shipments to Eastern Europe will increase rapidly (…) Now that borders are being eliminated, opportunist traffickers will find open doors, says DEA Frank Shultz in Washington, DC.”</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">As one can observe, North Americans are “keeping an eye” on Europe, now that their country’s economic decay is reducing the fabulous profits of drug-traffic.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It is necessary for Europe to awaken to this danger, for it is a very serious threat to Europe.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In France, for example, drug consumption more than doubled from 1980 to 1987, according to the inquiry on “Drug Addiction” by the Ministry of Solidarity to Health and Social Protection.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Portugal, specially the Azores, is today a new world drug traffic route according to the news published by the Portuguese media (could it be a coincidence that an American military base is located there?)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“There is a dramatically increasing number of drug victims in Western Europe. The polytoxocomaniac progression, the highly worrisome connection between drug use and AIDS and the Association between traffickers and terrorists is a sad balance reported by UN International Body for Drug Control 1988 Annual report, in that organization’s headquarters in Vienna on December 12” (according to Le Monde dossier on drugs).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The same group responsible for the massive introduction of drugs into the United States of America – which has been trying to do the same in Europe, although not with the same results until now, are now concentrating their total efforts on the European market, which is the last stronghold still capable of resisting such an invasion. We are at the doors of a final conflict. Either the traffickers will destroy the world or we unite in order to save civilization”, says Pacheco. In the book, </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Decay of the American People,</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> 1985, Dr. Pacheco wrote the following:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“A New York Times, 27/5/1984 research paper showed that 99 percent of the country’s boarding schools were being affected by cocaine use, besides marijuana. Those children were asked the reason for their behavior. It was found that even their parents and teachers were also addicted. This means 90 percent of at least the population of New York have already had experience or still use drugs. And drugs affect the brains’ functions irreversibly (a scientifically proven fact).”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">13 Heavens Note</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">On a similar note, while not considered an illicit drug, Aspartame (a widespread artificial sweetener) also impairs the brain’s ability to focus, recall short/long-term memory, etc. The question could reasonably be asked if the lessons learned by the CIA and US Army (discussed in previous chapters) have found their way into pharmaceuticals and foods of today. In order to support consumerism, repeat customers are eventually needed. Making something addictive is a quick and easy solution. Therefore, addiction - as the vehicle, ensures whatever effect of mysterious or undisclosed “additives” in medications, foods and beverages, will continue – in the same way shown here with illicit drugs.</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Facts like these, which brought about the openly mentioned decay to the North American civilization, are the ones which 1992’s united new Europe must avoid by all means.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">click image to enlarge<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/bT1jirIe6HaN3YjLvSMPow?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqK6a7Fo6qZGg&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SdRaZFwvzDI/AAAAAAAAB4w/4aTmecWT9A4/s400/IMG_6786.JPG" alt="American Drug Multinational" border="0" /></span></a><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/bT1jirIe6HaN3YjLvSMPow?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqK6a7Fo6qZGg&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- pages 59-69</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-65382367046451890812009-03-27T14:22:00.013-07:002009-03-31T20:31:03.139-07:00American Drug Multinational - Pt.1<a name="ADMDedication"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“I dedicate this dossier to all those who have given their lives to combat corruption, and to the children who deserve a better life than the one society offers them.”</span></span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> – Claudia Pacheco</span></span></span></span></blockquote><p></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">***</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/JudijDOh11XReF7DHvdGBQ?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqK6a7Fo6qZGg&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SdBagRDHTJI/AAAAAAAAB1U/Eq92ArUiSAA/s400/IMG_6775.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">***</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Prologue</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Dear reader:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We must warn the families of England, France, Portugal, and everywhere, of the danger that surrounds their homes in relation to the drug runners.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">These criminals, highly dangerous, infiltrate communities and public bodies such as the government, the legal system, the police, the churches, the schools, mainly in positions of economic and public power. They are much more dangerous than the drugs which they distribute. They are the psychotics and psychopaths described in the book </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Liberation of the People – The Pathology of Power</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (Keppe, Pacheco and others), who act like demons to destroy civilization.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They act, insinuate themselves, lie, corrupt, threaten, attack, kill, mutilate children, youths, intelligent and productive adults, scientists, artists – they grind people up in their money-making machine called the drug trade.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They kill in various ways:</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Through the drugs they sell<br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> By sucking dry the economies of nations – they suck up all the money that is in the hands of the people – putting an end to the productive capital), keeping it in their enormous private fortunes.<br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Assassinating those who resist their determined and unchecked march toward destruction.<br /></span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">These individuals are not just problems for the police, or for judges, or for public attorneys: they are our problem, they are “the” problem of the people:</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Firstly, because many of the judges, police and attorneys have already been corrupted and co-opted into the millionaire machine of death and will favor the drug runners in their work.</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2.</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Secondly, because if they resist the temptation of corruption, they fall into the problem of fear. They fear being assassinated, or seeing their families dominated, should they resist or oppose the criminals.</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:.75in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">3.</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And thirdly, because the struggle is disproportionate:</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a.</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There are many more people involved in the traffic of drugs, with all the power in their hands, and the whole structure organized to attack (they are well-armed and fortressed). They have become powerful “shadow governments” which are destroying the true governments.</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:1.25in;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo2"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">b.</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There are, further, many more individuals dependent on drugs who will kill to get access to them than the small group of people who heroically give their lives to eradicate this evil.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For this reason Keppe and Pacheco were attacked in the USA, in Brazil, and suffered persecution and sabotage from secret groups infiltrated from everywhere into the countries where there are centers of ISAT.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It is necessary that the people, the lay-man, fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, lovers, husbands and wives, who are living the drama of drug addiction, even unwillingly, or who do not live it as yet, but fear that at any moment they could be touched by the problem, help this little army of courageous and idealistic people, who love life, and still hope to see the birth of a better humanity.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The responsibility for the future of humanity is in the hands of all human beings – of the people, and not of their governments.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Several Governments have already become contaminated by this problem, and the people have to wake up to this reality. The situation is grave. The evil has existed for too long, and even honest governments who are at present disposed to undertake this war will not be able to beat the enemy alone.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Further – and most important – it is precisely within the power structure, public and economic, that the worst assassins of drugs have infiltrated, forming the modern millionaire mafias: the Drug Multinationals.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The problem is more difficult than it seems; it is the tip of an enormous iceberg, because the drug multinationals are like ghosts which never show themselves to the light of truth – they mask themselves, they hide from the eyes of people and act in the shadows, and behind backs. They gag journalists in order for these latter not to denounce them.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If I could find a synonym for them, the ideal one would be: demons.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The American Drug Multinational</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Another extremely important point is that the world appears to be sleeping and not aware of the great dragon of drugs which acts within, and through the United States.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">First, it spreads drugs within the United States, bringing it into the chaos of economic, educational, political, human, and moral destruction, which is slowly becoming apparent to the rest of the world.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Then, it has become the American nation itself which has basically taken upon itself the task of spreading this same dragon-fire of death and decadence throughout the planet, in these ways:</span><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1.</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Through the promotion it makes of its habits, and philosophy of life, with its films, TV, books, magazines, schools, music, etc., which spread violence, drug abuse, promiscuity, and cultural, ethical and professional decadence. They promote alienating psychologisms, and “liberalizing” philosophies which preach that “anything can be done”, good or evil.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> 2.</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Through the policy of economic imperialism, which has obliged various countries of the Third World, strangled and sucked dry of their true sources of wealth (naturally derived from work) to opt for “alternative economies” based on the production of the raw materials needed for drugs – coca, marijuana, poppies, etc. – in order to survive (this is the case with Colombia, which is very rich in gold, precious stones, coffee, etc., but was sucked dry by the Americans. The people opted to grow coca so as to have something to eat.)</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> 3.</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And, very important, through the international American network of production, distribution, and sale of drugs, which is acting, in an extremely well organized and camouflaged manner, in every country to which they have access.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The great problem with the American Multinational of Drugs is that they are practically unknown to the world. They hide behind a false image, professionally constructed, by specialized promotion. They wear the uniform of soldiers, who are fighting against drug running, in the much trumpeted “War on Drugs” unleashed by Ronald Reagan and presently continued by George Bush. This war looks like a great Hollywood production but it is a hollow promotional farce.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">According to Frederic Filloux, NY correspondent for the French periodical Liberation, in the 19 April 1990 edition, with reference to the methods adopted by American Attorney General Dick Thornburgh in dealing with laundering drug money through American banks: </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“But this way of ding justice looks just like a publicity stunt. The sort of thing the ailing Bush administration needs now, exactly in the moment that the war on drugs seems to have failed, even in the Federal Capital.”</span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Americans are seen as victims of addiction, as consumers, but the world seems never to have seen or heard of Americans as competitors of the Colombians, Brazilians or even Europeans on the international death market!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I realized all this in an April morning, in Portugal, and I immediately wrote this appeal to our future friends. I say future friends, because I know that we could form a resistance, or even an army, dedicated to putting an end to once and for all the terror that torments and persecutes not only Keppe and Pacheco, but also the creatures of God.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I plead with you to make this appeal public, that it should be spread as widely as possible, and quickly, for we do not have much time.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We are at a final bottleneck: from now onward, either an army of individuals will rise to finish this “Dragon of Death” (the economic power generated by the drugs trade) or we will all be gradually and fatally liquidated.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">With much hope, I greet you.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Claudia Pacheco</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- pages 5-7</span></p></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">***</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a name="ADM1stPart"></a><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/8Oi_Ab-BuhTCM0OONembkA?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqK6a7Fo6qZGg&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SdBafkEhflI/AAAAAAAAB1M/dFDb8jBm_dg/s400/ADM1.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">***</span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1</span></span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">st</span></span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Part: The American Drug Multinational</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"></i></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Separating consumer countries from those who produce drugs is no longer valid (…) there is an increasing production in the consumer countries both for their own use and well as for others.”</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- Phillip Shenon, The New York Times</span></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">***</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Drugs: The Establishment’s Weapon to Numb Social Consciousness</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When young people take drugs they believe they are going against the establishment. What a mistake! The only ones who directly benefit from their addiction are precisely the individuals who have economic power (traffickers, bankers, politicians) and who are the most evil-minded people.</span></span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></blockquote><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There is no person, no sector of society which would approve of drug addiction, except those who commercialize it and whose economic interest is directly connected to drugs consumption.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Not even the addicts are happy with their addiction. And the drug barons would not be happy if they saw their children dying by drug poisoning or killed as a result of drug-trafficking.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Drugs are like the devil (*): nobody in their right mind would accept them, although the majority of people are in a pact with them. This is the problem: everybody knows that drugs kill, but they allow themselves to be seduced by them.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For this reason, many researchers say that drugs are, without questions, the worst problem plaguing humanity today. And they are (the drugs), more than ever, actively destroying human consciousness.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Drugs have always interested human beings on two levels:</span><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ol><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">On a consumer level: their use causes consciousness to go numb; allows a temporary escape from reality and from the perception of personal and social problems; and gives a false sensation of freedom and power.</span><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"></span></span></span></span></span></li><li><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">On the level of those who commercialize them: the use of drugs by people give those who commercialize them the following advantages:</span></li></ol><p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space: auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a.</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Economic: they are a product which gives those who commercialize them a huge margin of profit. They are much, much more lucrative than gold, than oil; and they count on a guaranteed market with addicts of all ages, sex, race, religions, etc., who give up anything to obtain a dose of temporary “relief”. They give up eating, dressing properly, living decently; they can even kill in order to keep their addiction. No other product has ever guaranteed such faithful customers and regular income.</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:1.0in;mso-add-space:auto; text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level2 lfo1"><span style="mso-bidi-mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">b.</span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Social-political: drugs have been used for centuries but never as systematically as today by the powers interested in having people’s consciousness go numb.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They have been used since the industrial revolution, when English capitalists provided opium to workers’ poor families, who in turn gave them to their children with the intention of “softening” life’s harsh conditions. Many times children had to be left alone at home for long hours, while their parents went to work – and, as an alternative, parents gave them drugs to keep them sleeping.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In Peru’s agricultural fields, and in those of the majority of cocaine producing countries, peasants with empty stomachs for lack of food, chew “magic” leaves in order to obtain strength to work better for a longer period of time.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In the Soviet Union, for example, the government keeps people more or less under control by providing them “oceans” of vodka. In Leningrad, a Russian artist told me that if the government restricted people’s drink consumption, the Soviet Union would implode.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When youths take drugs they believe they are going against the establishment. What a mistake! The only ones who directly benefit from their addiction are precisely the individuals who have economic power (traffickers, bankers, politicians) and who are the most evil-minded people.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It has been precisely by injecting thousands of LSD doses into American youngsters that the CIA and the evil American power managed to dissolve the sixties political and social “consciousness revolution” which had been started there and had been called the New Left Movement. The youngsters demanded many social and economic changes in the United States (as well as the end of the Vietnam War).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The 60’s and 70’s were rich in students’ and workers’ movements both in Europe and the Americas. They confronted the unjust and anti-human lifestyle imposed by the establishment. Since drugs have taken over the youngsters, protests have been gradually disappearing until today where they’re predominates a situation of total intellectual aridity, “pseudo” calmness, apparent social satisfaction and an economic conformism. This is cancer placed in people’s consciousness to stop them questioning things.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">13 Heavens Note</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">LSD (Lyserigic Acid Diethylamide) is a synthetic (man-made) drug, according to the US Department of Justice, has been abused for its hallucinogenic properties since the 1960s. If the dose is large enough, LSD produces delusions and visual hallucinations that distort the user’s sense of time and identity. The DOJ, however, neglects to say who created this drug and for what purpose.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In search of a mind capacitating or controlling substance, LSD was created by the US Army and CIA, intending to promote illogical thinking, impulsiveness, lower ambition, distorted eyesight and hearing faculties, ‘truth telling’, amnesia, etc. – all to distract the person from what was going on around them. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In 1977, Senator Ted Kennedy stated: The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an “extensive testing and experimentation” program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens “at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign.”</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to “unwitting subjects in social situations.” </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The CIA doesn’t need to declassify the documents showing which universities this included, to realize that UC Berkley, the location of many “anti-Vietnam war” protests, was a prime target - if not the first. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">During the </span><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/usa-convicted-of-war-crimes-1.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1990 invasion of Iraq (Operation Desert Storm)</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, it was broadcast on international television that a US high school boy was arrested for slipping one of his teachers LSD. That high school was the stage for similar anti-war protests and the growing anti-war sentiment during the US-led invasion. </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">However, never has human beings’ quality of life been worse – the satisfaction today’s societies can offer is practically nil. There has never been such a shortage of thinkers, good writers, artists, scientists, of good movies and plays. The level of education is getting worse day by day in schools and universities; in the cities unemployment and work and living conditions are also becoming more inhumane and stressful day by day.<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">That philosophy of life where the aim is “work for consuming and paying the bills” is extremely tiring, arid and unsatisfactory. One must admit that the consumer society, organized by the economic power, is a great failure.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Television and movie films are generally about violence and perversion; and at the intermissions one is bombarded by adverts which demand one to consume and spend money.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Governments withdraw support from cultural and artistic events; fashion is a reflection of mentality of profit: much quantity and low quality. Nobody wonders if human blood is worthier than oil or heroin any longer.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At home, family life becomes more tense day by day, as a result of pressures from survival activities. One cannot even breathe fresh air any more and, soon, going out will be suicide, for the sun will radiate lethal rays upon Earth, due to the destruction of the ozone layers and the dumping of pollutant gasses into the atmosphere. Food is more and more expensive and of worse quality. Most of mankind dies from starvation and the people in most “developed” countries work solely for food and essentials, such as a place to sleep, modest clothing, and transportation to get them to work.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">People save whatever they can in order to, take a yearly 15-day holiday. But how stressful such holiday trips are, for people are also exploited in the places they go – everything is expensive, difficult, there are crowds packed up in small spaces – in short, everything leads one to spend money, to consume, to enrich an elite few. Should one fail to pay, the system for repression will be ready to attack, to arrest, to punish. Pressured by all sides, the people are seduced once again: now with the promise of being free through drugs.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">How can one blame those youngsters or their families and teachers for using drugs?!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A heroin or cocaine dose is seen as the only safety valve for such an unbearable life, which has been organized by some certainly mentally ill people who presently run the destiny of peoples and nations. However, even such a supposed, safety valve is used for the benefit of the drug-traffic group, for people themselves even more quickly: by having their brain destroyed and spending more than they have in favor of their exploiters.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There is no possibility of solving the drug problem if a fundamental change is not made in the organization of social and economic structures as well as in people’s philosophy of life. Power has organized a hell-like kind of life and now numbs the people’s consciousness so that they will not complain.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Many individuals who participated in such pathological structures of power are inconscientised (unaware) about what is going on. Not everybody knows what to do, and even fewer imagine that they ware contributing to such evil intentions of the dominating group.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Fortunately not everybody deliberately exploits and plans with coldness their profits to the detriment of the many.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And if this destructive mechanism, in which mankind is, is not stopped, life will be unable to continue to exist on this planet.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We will never have scientists, politicians, artists and educators of worth to lead mankind’s destiny if today their brains are being destroyed by drugs. Life will become more and more unbearable, day by day.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Such a vicious cycle must be interrupted as soon as possible. Those more lucid individuals, who have some power of influence, must be conscientised to the fact that a major reform must occur so that we can save the new generations and preserve what little is left of what has been built by our ancestors.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mankind was growing, gradually and continually in its conscientisation and freedom from the pressure of the ill-intentioned powers. Revolution after revolution mankind was moving towards more developed and more democratic conditions.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Human beings were moving toward dignity and progress until, suddenly, their progress was interrupted, to a large extent, by the introduction of drugs, an efficient technique used by the Machiavellian intelligence of the holders of economic power!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Fortunately, most people find violence unacceptable. This is a legacy nobody will ever steal from mankind: the consciousness that violence can only generate violence. But reforms must continue – and they must be rational, conscious and based upon the use of intelligence and affection, that is, based upon the use of precious consciousness.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We are in an era where, either human beings become attuned to the universal laws, of harmony, truth and beauty existent in the universe, organizing a truly mature kind of life which is worth living; or we will witness the destruction of the human race. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There is no doubt that drugs have served as one of the most efficient means, if not the most efficient one, to make social and human consciousness go numb, paralyzing the natural development of civilization.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(*) the origin of the word “drug” is found in the Persian language, meaning Devil.</span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a name="ADM"></a><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The American Drug Multinational</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Our experience and research show that at present the American economy depends greatly on the millionaire drug business on an international level. American imperialism, which used to be based on certain sectors of production and the sale of products is now based on cheating financial maneuvers and on crime machines at national and international levels, mainly the business of narco-trafficking, a business which is more lucrative than any other.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“By far the greatest share of drug money is earned, banked and spent in the United States” – The Economist, July 21, 1990</span></span></span></span></blockquote><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">USA – A victim in the trafficker’s hands?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A highly intriguing aspect of the American situation with regard to the lucrative international drug industry is that the USA hold themselves “above suspicion” as far as the production, the refining, the distribution and sale of drugs, as well as the money-laundering of the proceeds.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Although some journalists, such as Phillip Shenon, of the New York Times, in 1988, had already raised doubts about the matter, saying that “The separation between drug producing and drug consuming nations is no longer valid (…) in the consuming countries there is an increasing production of drugs for home consumption and for overseas,” the question seems not to have been properly conscientisided. (Article, “Drugs in the US are a Synonym of Corruption,” Phillip Shenon, The New York Times, transcribed by Diario de Noticias, 8/5/88).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The way American society has represented itself so far, is as a helpless victim in the claws of drug dealers, dealing in drugs brought in from overseas and sold mostly by immigrants, while the Government, the investigative agencies, and the judicial machinery are shown as being absolutely incorruptible and great world heroes in combating the death traffic.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This role is now being fully questioned, both by the liberal media and writers in some countries, who see the Reagan / Bush Administration’s war against drugs not only as a big failure, but also as a big publicity stunt. (Liberation, 19 April 1990). Even more dishonest is the instance of the American Government upon attributing its own crimes to other peoples, in a paranoid projection typical of the gravely mentally ill, sing themselves as the innocent victims of the evil actions of others.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At present the American economy is based mainly on the multi-million drug business.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Our experience and research show that at present the American economy depends greatly on the millionaire drug business on an international level. American imperialism, which used to be based on certain sectors of production and the sale of products is now based on cheating financial maneuvers and on crime machines at national and international levels, mainly the business of narco-trafficking, a business which is more lucrative than any other. Unfortunately in countries where the Americans have much influence, the economy becomes based on corruption, contraband, and crime, while constructive activity is abandoned. For example, Colombia no longer bases its economy on gold and coffee, and has now become a member of the American Drug Multinational. The same is happening to Brazil, whose economy is stagnating, and criminal contraband is the great “business” of the moment. Portugal seems to be going the same way. In the other countries where the United States are not so dominant, there is also contraband, but it does not constitute the largest sector of the economy.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The following facts illustrate this thesis:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The American people are by far the greatest consumers of drugs in the world. If they wish to consume so many drugs, it is not the problem of other nations; but it surely indicates a serious psycho-social imbalance in America.<br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">After the famous “anti-drug war” launched by the Reagan administration, and followed by Bush, the supply of drugs on the American market increased in volume and ease of availability.<br /></span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“The budget for combating drugs rose to $2.5 billion dollars in the fiscal year of 1988 (…) Only, all this effort (…0 has turned out to be ineffectual. The supply of cocaine has never been so great on the streets, the price has never been so low, the quality has never been purer.” (Diario de Noticias, Phillip Shenon, article cited).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“When President Bush unleashed his war on drugs (…) drugs were being sold in profusion throughout the city (Washington), from the parks around the White House to the black ghettoes of the suburbs (…) Until the end of March (a year later) the fall of prices of packets of cocaine in the streets of the city shows that supplies have never been so abundant.” (Veja magazine, April 1990, page 63).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“The Mayor of Washington, Marion Barry, was caught red-handed buying a dose of crack from FBI agents.” (Same article above).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The American drug market has already been invaded by synthetic drugs, much more potent and harmful, made in the USA, at ridiculous prices. Crack, for example, a cocaine derivative, is prepared there, and is more easily available than ever at the ridiculous price of two or three dollars a dose, not only in the great capitals, but from point to point throughout the country.<br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The production and trade in drugs is by far the most lucrative in the world. The USA is no exception to this. Drugs are the only thing that the American cannot do without, impoverished though he is by dependence on them and his philosophy of life devoted to pleasure.<br /></span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Organized crime is only one of the partners in the international trade in narcotics, which is an economic activity bot combated and protected (…) one of the foremost world activities in terms of the volume of money involved.” Le Monde Diplomatique, 24/4/90, article by Christian de Brie, “Who profits from the narcotics trade? (The bankers who work with it)”.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Milton Friedman, American Nobel Prize winner for Economics, says that the States “have become without doubt the most important producer of marijuana in the world, and tis plant is certainly the second or third cash crop in California” (Le Figaro, Sat. 19 May, 1990). Marijuana is the most lucrative cash-crop in North Carolina, despite being illegal, turning over $1.5 billion dollars annually. (Vega magazine, 16 may, 1990). USA Today also reported that marijuana is the most lucrative cash crop in the USA, representing a turnover of $18.6 billion dollars in 1985 alone. (USA Today, 10 January 1986). Likewise, Terceiro Mundo magazine said the following:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“The president of the Senate North American Banking Committee, William Proxmire, states that six out of ten banks have accounts of traffickers (…) Traffickers’ dollars circulate freely throughout the veins of the North American financial systems (…) The volume of illegal money which rots its structure is so high that one is led to believe that the whole financial structure would collapse without the narco dollars” (Terceiro Mundo, July 86, no.90, p.70). </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">To have an idea about the vast profits made from the drug-business, note this: the price of gold in the international market is 60 French francs per gram (August 1990), whereas approximately one gram of cocaine is sold in Paris for 1,000 francs – 940 francs more! There cannot be a more attractive business for those greedy for economic power than this million dollar and non-competitive drug business!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Dirty Money Laundering on Wall Street</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It is clear that there is a daily profit made in the drug trade on American territory possibly greater than that of Wall Street. Where does all this money go? What route does it follow? In the holds of airplanes, hidden inside clothing? Of course not!! The biggest slice of the millionaire drug takings can only be heading for American bank accounts, where it will be most welcome and appreciate!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Some of the takings are laundered overseas illegally by the banks. But the greater part is being invested on Wall Street on the international real estate market and through the purchase of American Treasury bonds. By the very high volume of narco dollars being invested in the US one can conclude that a good part of these government bonds are already in the drug mafia’s hands.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“North American magazine Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) cites Merril Lynch (one of the most important brokerage houses in the US) as a pioneer firm in money laundering (…)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">From another source:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“(…) A substantial part of (…) the Mafia’s profits is laundered in Eurodollars in accounts numbered, which, as it is known, are accountant transactions of money which physically stay in the United States. Obviously the heroin route travels through many other European countries, but the ultimate destination of these resources is invariably Wall Street banks, through the Eurodollar circuit, along the Zurich-New York axis” (apud Cadernos do Terceiro Mundo magazine, July 1986, p.70).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It’s important to note that Merril Lynch was denounced not because of money laundering, which is something most American banks also do, but because it made an agreement with Zurich’s Credit Suisse to dominate the $140 billion Eurodollars market. The majority of this money comes from drug-traffic. Obviously such an agreement would divert US currency to the Swiss, something the American Government didn’t want (the accusation was perpetrated against Merril Lynch in 1984 by a Presidential Committee on organized crime – leaving other banks safe and sound).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Bank Secrecy laws in the United States which say that no one can deposit or send out more than USD $10,000 without registering its ownership, where it is coming from, and where it is bound for, should be used in relation to the millions of dollars which are produced by the sale of drugs on American soil, and which are deposited there. However, this is not done. Probably, this law was only made to be applied incases which interest the American Government: a selective persecution.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“This year, Dick Thornburgh announced the seizure of documents corresponding to 750 bank accounts, and the “freezing” of 684 other accounts, ordered by a judge in Atlanta (…) but at the moment the only effective seizure by the FBI and the DEA consists of $20 million dollars in accounts in Miami, and $15 million dollars in banks in New York. This represents no more than 0.03 percent of the $110 billions of dollars (according to figures supplied by the Treasury Department) generated by the sale of drugs on American territory. Why such a modest rate of success?” (Frederic Filloux, Liberation, 19/4/1990).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Economist, 21/7/1990, reports the following information:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Mr. Crawley (Latin American Newsletter’s editor) estimates at US 1.3 to 2.8 billion Peru’s profits from cocaine export and US 1.4 to 2 billion those of Bolivia. On the other hand, Colombian processors need to import expensive chemical products; their net profit could be between US 7 and 15 billion – enough for the terrible quantity of bribery and arms needed to protect the drug traffickers.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The same magazine lists the drug prices for the different steps of production and sale:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Coca leaf: USD 2.10 per kg; cocaine paste: USD 875 per kg; cocaine base: NA; pure cocaine: USD 11,000 per kg; street cocaine: USD 90,000 per kg.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">One notes that the greatest profit is obtained from the street sale in the world’s biggest consumer country: the USA.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There are many who say that: </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“The banks hardly avoid drug money; in fact, they hurl themselves at it in bloody competition to get hold of it (…) In the smaller towns in the cocaine zones, in Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia, branches of American banks can be found, as well as branches of English banks, German, Swiss, French (…) For what business, and with what money, if not drugs? (…) Among the numerous banks which have long been implicated in the laundering of drug money (ten great banks in Switzerland, more than twenty in Miami) figure such names as Chase Manhattan, American Express, Lous Dreyfus, Algemeene Bank Netherlander, and firms “de courtage” (intermediates such as Merril Lynch). (Le Monde Diplomatique, 24/4/1990, Christian de Brie, cit.).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It seems that this American Administration is principally concerned with allowing the profits of the drugs trade to remain, as far, as possible, on American territory and to be laundered by American banks, by Wall Street and by the American Treasury. In other words, the Bank Secrecy Law serves to keep drug money inside the US, to be spent there. Could it not be this money, that is at present sustaining the US economy? Is the American Government not mainly preoccupied with avoiding putting itself into debt with the commerce of drugs with Colombia, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Uraguay, Panama, etc.? is this not the source of the rivalry with Noriega? Was this not the principle motive for the war against Colombian mafias, that the Reagan / Bush administrations do not want drug money to be diverted to other countries?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The American Government’s theatrical struggle against the illegal commerce of drugs</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“There are many who think the trial of General Noriega will be a circus act capable of rivalry those seen at the Roman Coliseum”. (Tony Jenkins, of New York, for Expresso Magazine, 20/1/1990, article “Noriega: the American “Lesson”, in which the journalist shows that the Panama dictator and drug-dealer has always been a CIA agent, supported since 1950 by successive American Governments, even by Bush, when he was</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the director of the CIA and Vice President of the USA.)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It is also said that Noriega knows too much about the illegal operations of drug-traffic and money laundering practiced by the American Government, and that this was the real reason for his imprisonment.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For what reason has the use of drugs not been legalized in the US until now? Obviously, moral questions are not the determining factor. In a country where exploitation, racism, fanaticism and corruption are totally free, what is the point of moral considerations? The problem of drugs is the same as the problem of alcohol at the time of the Prohibition – if the Government legalizes them, the revenue from their commercialization will necessarily go into the public purse, and there will be an end to corrupt dealings: besides which, the exportation and distribution made world-wide by the USA would come to light, and the whole world would come to know what has been keeping the US economy on its feet.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There are many who advocate the de-criminalization of the consumption of drugs, as the only way to deal with an evil still greater than the first. Friedman asks “Where is the criminality in this case: with the suppliers of marijuana, or with those whose refuse to legalize it?” – commenting on the danger of the increase of synthetic substitutes, supplied on the black market (Milton Friedman, in interview for Le Figaro, 19/5/1990).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Friedman asserts that “If we could succeed in completely blocking the entry of drugs into the United States, the country would be flooded by substitute products, already made within our own frontiers: and since these substitute products are of a much inferior quality, the problem would be aggravated, instead of being reduced.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The issue of legalizing drugs or not is a very controversial subject. Drug use is an evil itself and no evil should be legalized. It seems that such a discussion occurs because there are those who wish to carry on with the organized crime’s profit by legalizing it. And that could make the problem even worse.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The US has a long history of profiting from death and corruption:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the profits they derived from the Second World War with the destruction of Europe and the division of the world between the two super powers;<br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a tradition of violence and corruption within the country. “Some investigators say that in certain American communities, corruption among agents of the Law – police, sheriffs, prison guards, and even attorneys and judges – is out of control” (Phillip Shenon, article cited above);<br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the arms industry, used to defend capitalist exploitation;<br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">incentivizing international friction to guarantee its economic interests and the sale of arms. The Vietnam War itself seems to be closely connected with the question of drugs, as can be seen in the following article:<br /></span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“The United States and the CIA favored the formation of rebel armies in Laos and in Burma, controlling the production of opium and morphine (…) the only currency with which to buy the arms supplied by the CIA, whose airplanes flew back loaded with drugs. This arrangement made at the time, lasted throughout the Vietnam War, supplying the GIs and now supplies nearly half the world market of heroin.” (Le Monde Diplomatique, 25/4/1990, by Christian de Brie);</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the mafias of alcohol, gambling and prostitution which have always flourished there. “We already know of a similar period in American history, the “Prohibition” of alcohol in the 1920s. it produced the same effects as the drug trade: crime, gangs, deaths of alcoholics, particularly after drinking illicit alcohol,” says Milton Friedman in his interview with Figaro;<br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the capitalist colonialism which lives off of the exploitation of the work and the hunger of the poor of the Third World;<br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">and, why not now, the Drug Multinational? Says Christian de Brie:<br /></span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“The recent desire of the United States to put an end to the traffic in drugs leaves room for doubt. It will require much virtue from the democracies to root out the worst form of “wild” capitalism that has ever existed, which is even now triumphant.” (Le Monde Diplomatique, article cited above).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">To which we would add: It does not seem to us that virtue is the forte of the American civilization.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Americans seem, indeed, to have developed a well thought out plan to profit from drugs, not only in their own country, but on the international scene.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The USA’s interest in the European market</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Portugal has become the principal entry gate of drugs to Europe, and the Azores have become the most recently active. Is it not precisely on these islands that the American military bases are found? Coincidence? Or intentional protection of death’s traffic?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Recent studies show that Portugal is a center of transit for international drug-traffic coming from Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Morocco, Nigeria, Spain, Turkey, Pakistan, India, Switzerland and the GFR (most of these countries are controlled by the US, which is also a direct producer – as in the case of Pakistan) (Expresso magazine, 28/4/1990, p.46R). “The Azores, where there are North American bases, are a great center for narcotic traffic for Europe and the US.” (Semana magazine, Rui dos Anjos, p.24)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Untied States show enormous interest in penetrating the European Common Market without however having any goods which are competitive in this market. They have been desperately trying to keep their armaments industry going but have failed: the Russians are no longer playing this unhealthy game – for them, it is a thing of the past.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“During a student conference, the American President reaffirmed the necessity for the USA to secure its place in Europe. (He said) America is looking for new reasons for staying in Europe. Our involvement is not only a matter of defense, it has to become an involvement in all aspects of European business. I want to see NATO, the only organization America has in Europe, become a political organization.” (Liberation, 6/5/1990, p.2, Francois Sergent).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In every part of the world, people are becoming increasingly conscious of the need for peace and for democracy – except in the American Government. What products, then, will the Americans be able to offer the Europeans, without serious competition, unless it be the trade in death drugs? Nobody at the moment can compete with them in that department; no one lives with and understands the drug trade like them!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And there is another point to consider. The Americans have military bases in various places in Europe and throughout the world. Are these not being used as centers of dissemination and distribution of the drug?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“We ourselves cultivate around four thousand metric tons of marijuana and have the capacity to produce synthetic cocaine and heroin, twice as powerful as the natural product.” (Sterling Johnson, public prosecutor in New York, for drug cases, in Expresso, 28/4/1990, article by Miguel Calado Lopes, Washington correspondent.)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Those Europeans who still have a love of life, have ethics, and hope to construct a better and more decent life for their children, should open their eyes to the American peril while there is still time. We are asking them to verify: to investigate the activities of the officials of the American Government, the military, the police, businessmen, and banks scattered throughout European territory. They will most certainly encounter some disagreeable surprises. Some of these bases, and many of these enterprises, must already be operating secretly and criminally.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Their intention seems to be to spread throughout the world that which they experience within their own borders: corruption and decadence. The American Mafias, whether of drugs or of any type of economic corruption, appear to have sucked dry the domestic American market and are now ready for the “filet mignon” of Europe.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“My European colleagues want the US to become part of the future of Europe, affirmed Bush taking his allies at their word… but America should be a full partner in the Community (CEE) and leader of the West.” (Liberation, 6/5/1990, p.2, Francois Sergent).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What kind of leadership are the Americans trying to exercise in Europe? The same as they have already practiced in other poorer regions of the planet?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“In the zones of Afghanistan controlled by the opposition, with the support of the United States, 600 tons of drugs are produced every year.” (Nassir Akmed, of the Afghan Ministry of Security, for Soviet Life no.175, year 16, Feb./90).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Today the United States are able to export that which they internally produce most: corruption and decadence</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">North American people are already living in a state of collapse. Violence has attained record levels (285 daily violent crimes on the streets of New York); sexual promiscuity has made AIDS into a national epidemic; the country is $3 trillion dollars in debt [</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">$12 trillion in 2008</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">]; poverty and unemployment are increasing, the educational system has failed, and high figures for illiteracy and crime in schools; all this, inflamed by the indiscriminate abuse of drugs – from the earliest ages, children 5 or 6, to the oldest, of all races and religions – the US is at present a great monster in a state of decomposition. One has to live in the US for a few years, to travel through all the States, and to check all the facts “in loco” to see this clearly. Official data provided by the Government minimize the gravity of the facts, for dollar value is based upon the confidence of the investors in the American economy.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This being so, the interests of the merchants of death turn toward more promising markets: principally, to Europe!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For example there is the case of former US Attorney General, Edwin Meese, who was dismissed for “corruption”, but it was never known what type of corruption he had been practicing. The case was hushed up.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This shows the general pact within the medias in the American socio-economic and political structure, to stifle the growing consciousness of the state of collapse in which the nation finds itself.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The newspaper USA Today of 29 March 1990 says that since the American market is saturated, traffickers can get double the price in Europe, “upwards of $55,000 per kilo.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“says Miami Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman John Fernades, “There isn’t any question that the European market is open”.” “Our interdiction efforts have basically failed”, says Dick Powell, director of Vermont’s Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs. “Cocaine is now within reach of anybody”.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In the same breath they affirm that all the traffic is coming from Colombia, leading the world to see the Colombians as the guilty ones, and drawing attention from the dealing carried out by the Americans themselves, many of whom are from the FBI, the CIA, and the American government.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">These are the tactics of disinformation they always use – not only in questions of the trade in narcotics, but in relation to any problem; they blame, and attack, other nations, so as to defend themselves from accusations of their own errors.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And those Americans who are disposed to correct their problems, to raise the question of their faults, have not the slightest chance of being heard. They are immediately wiped out by super-power structure, which is already rotten to its core.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The White House role in drug-traffic</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The American social structure has already reached such a degree of corruption that it is difficult for honest individuals to have any chance of surviving in the country, much less of building something better so that their children can survive.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“History is rapidly turning against Ronald Reagan. Fifteen months after leaving his position, surrounded by an aura of public consideration, he is today more and more associated with greed, corruption and conspiracy.”</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Conspiracy has been one of the five crimes which the jury pointed out to condemn his National Security Advisor, John Poindexter. Jury concluded that there was a conspiracy at Reagan’s White House, in order to conceal the truth on the arms sale to Iran and on aid to the Nicaragua’s contra. Reagan denied any effort to deceive congress and the people. The jury’s verdict, then, meant either that his statement was false or that he was not aware of what was going on. That is, he was either a liar or a fool.”</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Let’s consider only one aspect: the 1985 shipment of American Hawk missiles from Israel to Iran. Both the White House and various security agencies were involved in the deal. And President Reagan knew about that. (…) He denied having any prior knowledge about the shipment of the Hawk missiles (…)” (“The Verdict on Reagan”, by Antony Lewis. Exclusive DN/New York Times – Opiniao, 7, Diario de Noticias, 1/5/1990).</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Note from the Editor</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: It is important to note what was behind this shipment of arms to Iran. The following text from the book Switzerland Washes Whiter, by Ziegler, explains:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Arms-traffic is usually accomplished in the same way as drug-traffic. Cases of exchange (drugs for arms) are countless” (p.151). “(…) The Irangate case, in which Colonel Oliver North and his accomplices were condemned by the American justice in April 1989, is still under consideration by Swill court. North and his accomplices’ deal was as simple as lucrative: they shipped American and Israeli war weapons to Khomeini and he paid for them with dollars and also with drugs (morphine-based and heroin). The god-fathers of the Zurich based Turkish and Lebanese networks took their share and deposited the rest in numbered accounts in some of the main banks and financial societies in Genève and Zurich. Then, under the command of North and his accomplices, bankers organized the shipment of money to Central America. They financially supported the sabotage wars, terror and killings perpetrated by mercenary groups, as from Honduras, against Farabundo Marti front, in Salvador, and Sandinista Government, in Nicaragua.”</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Note from the Editor</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: Today, it is believed that those funds diverted to Central America and Nicaragua, aimed not only to help the “contras” but also to strengthen (that is, to provide arms to) drug-traffickers in El Salvador and in other international centers of production and trade of drugs.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We think that an international conscientisation of these facts will be necessary, so that, at least, the American Multinational of corruption, and of trade in death drugs, does not inflict on the European Market the scars of destruction that it has left in the United States, in Brazil, and in other countries.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Laws ought to take power away from the powers-that-be and should not be made against the people. Additionally, they should prevent any single individual, from the general population, from wishing to obtain power.” </span></span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">– Norberto R. Keppe</span></span></span></span></blockquote><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a name="ADMBases"></a><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Military Bases: A Possible Connection to Drug Traffic</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If one compares three maps: one of the production and money laundering zones; the other of the places where the largest shipments of narcotics come from, pass through and head for; and a third one showing the areas of American influence and military presence – one will notice a surprising coincidence: the biggest shipments of drugs are produced, come from or pass through or arrive precisely at regions with American military presence.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1989: Bush administration wages total war against drug-traffic on an international level.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1989: Portugal, mainly via the Azores, becomes one of the main entry gates for drugs in Europe. That country receives large shipments of narcotics from Pakistan, India, Morocco, Turkey, Spain and Latin and Central America and other countries.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Lajes, in the Azores, where an American military base is located, becomes an “obligatory route for drug-trafficking.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/g5bkhngPEudvXWpCrxH2ow?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqK6a7Fo6qZGg&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SdFaiObh07I/AAAAAAAAB1k/D0-xXi0pdMM/s400/LajesAirBase1989.jpg" alt="Lajes AB, Azores" border="0" /></span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If one compares three maps: one of the production and money laundering zones; the other of the places where the largest shipments of narcotics come from, pass through and head for; and a third showing the areas of American influence and military presence – one will notice a surprising coincidence: the biggest shipments of drugs are produced, come from, pass through or arrive precisely at regions with American military presence (see illustration in this chapter).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Question: Why would that happen exactly at a time when the United States say they are fighting war against drug-traffic? Logically, shouldn’t the regions under more influence and with American military presence be exactly the ones to be more free from such problems? Nevertheless, one can observe precisely the opposite.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In May 1990, in their special edition entitled “Drugs – The World War”, the French newspaper Liberation published a world map showing regions which produce narcotics, their traffic routes and money laundering zones. The source of this map was the United States Justice Department. This shows that the US is aware of the details of drug-traffic.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Facts pointed out in the maps:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">click images to enlarge</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/72hS3yfEL2jO5eAxMAgQfQ?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqK6a7Fo6qZGg&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SdFdP5AkGpI/AAAAAAAAB2U/xccjf1rPU8w/s400/IMG_6778.JPG" alt="Map: Areas of Drug Production" border="0" /></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/07YuQwPmVjNB7ytW1xOw4A?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqK6a7Fo6qZGg&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SdFdQbHWLbI/AAAAAAAAB2c/fOnutPhtkVQ/s400/IMG_6779.JPG" alt="Map: Areas of Drug Traffic for Western Countries' Consumption" border="0" /></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/P2JhJUs8KWeQ4ZAZ9-SAbA?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqK6a7Fo6qZGg&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SdFdO_ydsII/AAAAAAAAB2E/Tmckr5__Ing/s400/IMG_6781.JPG" alt="Map: American Military Bases" border="0" /></span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/VXNOqw7ZLB92opakfxoI5A?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqK6a7Fo6qZGg&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SdFdPallepI/AAAAAAAAB2M/j0DzyqwPJzk/s400/IMG_6780.JPG" alt="Map: All 3 Maps Combined" border="0" /></span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The State of Oregon produces marijuana;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The State of California, besides being the country’s second or third largest producer of marijuana (according to Economist Milton Friedman), is the country’s main entry point (via Los Angeles) for cocaine and marijuana coming from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Venezuela as well as for opium and marijuana coming from Calacau and Guadalajara, in Mexico;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">3.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Texas (famous as the State where John Kennedy was assassinated) is also an importer (via Houston) of cocaine and marijuana coming from Latin America;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">4.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Miami and New York are also major North American centers which receive and disseminate drugs;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">5.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Money laundering is done by banks located mainly in Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, New York, Bahamas and Cayman Islands.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Question: If the United States Justice ministry is aware of such cases, why is the “total war” against drugs so much publicized by the North American Government not promoted in that same country?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Why are they going so far away to combat drug producers if such producers are based within the United States themselves?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Our map on drug production and traffic and money laundering was based on that of Liberation newspaper. If the readers compare our illustration with the third map (the one which shows the location of American bases and their zones of military influence), they will note the following: just as drugs in the United States are produced, trafficked and imported with no major problems (the country consumes 60 percent of the world’s production), drugs proliferate furiously in those regions which are militarily dominated, controlled or “assisted” by the United States. Military bases seem to work like fertilizer for poppy, marijuana or cocaine plantations!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Note the following examples:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1. </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">North America</span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1.1 Canada: which has American military bases, is known as a laundering center for drug money (these bases are located in Toronto, on the US border; there are others in New York State and New York City).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1.2 Mexico: (zone of “personal security assistance” and “North American military concentration” produces opium and marijuana. Traffic from this area goes to California.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Central America</span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Central American countries which serve as a corridor between South and North America illustrate the following situation:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2.1 El Salvador: (zone for North American military “assistance” in permanent state of civil war) is a route for marijuana traffic between Medellin and Los Angeles.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2.2 Honduras: (where there are American bases and Nicaraguan “Contras” are trained) is a zone for cocaine and marijuana trafficking, which crosses the whole country en route to Colombia / USA.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2.3 Nicaragua: known as a “zone of conflict”. It is said that the White House, with Noriega’s help, organized here a group of “Contras”, with the alleged aim of fighting the Nicaraguan government. This armed group facilitated a significant flow of cocaine between Colombia and the United States, with the logistical support of North American agents” (according to Le Monde Diplomatique, 24/4/1990, by Christian de Brie);</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2.4 Panama: where a huge North American military base is located and which is under the overall domain of the USA. It is a center for arms and drug trafficking, prostitution, gambling and money laundering. General Noriega, CIA agent since 1950, was the organizer of those crimes. He received from successive North American governments a yearly salary of $100,000 for his services (according to Expresso magazine, 20/1/1990, article: “Noriega, the American “Lesson””, by Tony Jenkins).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2.5 Costa Rica: vital center for CIA operations in the exchange of arms and ammunition for cocaine. “The center for the traffic was a huge farm situated on the frontier near Northern Costa Rica. The owner, John Hull, was a member of the CIA. Loaded with cocaine, by the Medellin Cartel, in Colombia, airplanes stopped in at that farm before setting off to Miami. The money from this traffic was used to purchase hundreds of tons of arms and ammunition for the Southern frontier Contras based in Costa Rica” (Croissance des Jeunes Nations, nr.5, “Amerique Latine: Le Boom de la Cocaine”, p.33)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">3.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">South America</span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">These South American countries are all under the total economic, political and military control of the US:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">3.1 Colombia: considered to be a “North American zone for military assistance” is the largest world producer of cocaine (Medellin). It also produces opium in Cauca region and marijuana in Santa Marta. It exports to the US, Canada and Europe by air, land and sea.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">3.2 Ecuador: it is also a “zone for military assistance” and produces cocaine for the USA.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">3.3 Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil, all have the following characteristics: they are “zones for assistance in personal security or zones for North American military concentration”. They have been governed by Washington DC, through dictators or “friends” directly chosen by the CIA, such as Videla, Stroessner, Geisel. All these countries are involved with production, traffic or laundering of drug money. Peru produces cocaine which is exported to Colombia, Ecuador and the USA. Bolivia, also a cocaine producer, is a distribution center of the product for Colombia, USA, Argentina, Paraguay, and North, Central, Eastern and Southeastern Brazil. Paraguay produces marijuana which is exported to Brazil and Argentina. Argentina sends cocaine to the USA, Canada and Europe. Uruguay is a center for money laundering (as well as that of smuggling between the US and Brazil) via Montevideo. Brazil exports cocaine to the US, Canada and Europe.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">4.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Europe</span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In Europe one can see the following picture:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">4.1 The United Kingdom: where there is a large North American military base (the country has a big political and economic pact with the United States) is not only a center for money laundering but also a center for reception and exportation of opium to the USA and Scandinavia (Sweden, Norway and Finland).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">4.2 Holland and Belgium: have American bases and are receptors of opium and cocaine coming from Lebanon. Luxembourg is shown to be a center for money laundering.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">4.3 Federal Republic of Germany: where there is one of Europe’s largest North American military bases, is the center for the import of opium and marijuana coming from Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">4.4 Portugal and Spain: where there are also American bases, are being considered even by local media as corridors for the traffic of drugs coming from South America, USA, Africa and Europe.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">5.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Australia</span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">5.1 Australia: a country dominated by the USA, hosts North American bases on its territory. The country imports opium and marijuana coming from Thailand and Cambodia. Vanuatu Island, Cambodia, is a center for money laundering.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">6.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Middle East</span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In the Middle East, the situation is clear: </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">6.1 Pakistan: being a North American “military assistance zone” Pakistan forms, together with Iran and Afghanistan, the so called “Golden Crescent” a world center for the production of opium, heroin and marijuana. The US “military assistance” to Pakistan is in such terms: creating military forces to oppose Afghanistan government (a sort of “contras” in the East). Such opposition controls well fortified zones. It is in these zones that 600 tons of drugs are being produced yearly, according to Soviet Life magazine, April 1990. As one can see in the other chapters, Iran was the center of Irangate, which involved the White House and the Reagan / Bush government. In this case the White House supplied the Iranian government with arms and was paid with drugs (Jean Ziegler, Switzerland Washes Whiter, P.151).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Comparing maps the reader will see that the same “coincidence” is repeated in the other countries: zones of USA military influence are zones involved with drugs (Lebanon, Laos, Cambodia, Morocco, etc.)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">All this leads one to suspect the intentions with which military bases are created. The Reuter’s News Agency published the following article by Bernard Dubusmann:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“The USA built a fortified military base in the heart of Peru’s cocaine producing zone. Its defensive boundaries, with its bunkers protected with bags of sand, reminds one of Vietnam”</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> according to the article, such bases were used by DEA Agents and Peruvian policemen to attack clandestine trails and laboratories for the processing of cocaine in the neighboring forest). Considering that the flow of cocaine to the US still goes on, even more intensely than before, one questions the efficiency of such a gigantic base. Is it really for fighting against drug-traffic? Or might it be providing “logistical support”, in the same way that the American agents who were connected with the Nicaraguan “Contras” gave them support for the very same cocaine traffic?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Drug-traffic may have turned out to be a question of “national security” for the USA, just as in the Third World countries which can only arm their armies with profits from cocaine, opium, heroin and other drugs.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The United States economic difficulty in supporting the whole structure of its military power is widely known: budget cuts have been necessary in a country where the index of poverty, illiteracy and homelessness reach even increasing levels. Not to mention the fact that the USA has become the number one debtor country in the world, followed by Canada. The US debt is many times larger than that of Brazil, which is the biggest debtor in Latin America. If one is to count the United States internal and external debt (today around USD $3 trillion), one will see that in fact the US is a Third World nation. It is indebted and it seems to be using the same techniques used by Third World nations, in order to keep its military power (the only aspect which still holds the country within the rank of the 7 “big” nations). Third World countries are forced to exchange arms for drugs in order to arm and support their armies and guerrillas (such is the case in Afghanistan, Laos, Burma, Lebanon, etc.) In other words, drug-traffic may have turned out to be a question of “national security” for the USA, the same way it is in the Third World countries which can only arm their armies with profits from cocaine, opium, heroin and other drugs.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Following this line of reasoning: what would be a safer or less vulnerable place for one to organize headquarters for the transportation and sale of drugs than military bases equipped with airplanes, ships, launches, tanks, and other vehicles, besides the fact that they have people highly trained and with total immunity, security and confidentiality in their operations?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Everybody knows that American soldiers were led to drug addiction in the Vietnam War in order to tolerate the severity of the fighting. Such a practice, obviously, continued after the war was over. The use of LSD, for example, was introduced by the CIA into the American Army, as well as into other sectors of American defense and intelligence. (Acid Dreams, the CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion, by Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Are there not entire nations which base their economy on drug traffic? Have not conflicts over economic interests been the motives for nations to engage in wars? Therefore, drug-traffic and narco-terrorism have become a question of national security amongst countries. The following report clearly illustrates that:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Garcia Meza and the Bolivian Mafia> (Title)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“A secret report has recently been leaked, in La Paz, about a plan to collect the amount of $200 million dollars yearly for the Bolivian government. The plan was elaborated by the Bolivian President at that time and by the country’s most important drug-traffickers. The report was prepared by ex-president Luis Garcia Meza’s close aids.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“The report also reveals that the cocaine “exporters” agreed to support the ex-president on the condition that he curbed minor producers and guaranteed the functioning of factories with the capacity to produce five tons of the drug monthly.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“The leak of the report took place when General Garcia Meza was being sued by the Supreme Court because of his connection with drug-traffic, among other charges. (Third World magazine, nr.91, July/86, p.68).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">One must seriously suspect the involvement of the American Armed Forces in the Multinational of Drugs</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1. </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If high-ranking CIA officials have already been denounced for participating in the production and traffic of drugs as well as money laundering. For example: it was the CIA that smuggled heroin to the Golden Triangle in south East Asia and introduced it to the American ghettos in the 1940s and 50s, according to the book Acid Dreams, the CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion, by Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain, Crone Weidenfeld, NY, 1985. Afterwards, the CIA controlled the opium and morphine production in the Golden Triangle region during the Vietnam War; drugs were the only currency used in the purchase of arms supplied by the North American branch of the CIA, which trafficked them to the United States (according to Le Monde Diplomatique, 25/4/1990, article by Christian de Brie);</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If the Regan administration was directly involved in the arms smuggling to Iran; such smuggling was paid with drugs, whose re-sale profit was channeled to the Nicaraguan “Contras”; and the Nicaraguan “Contras” are connected to the major Colombian trafficker “D. Pablo” (according to articles “Veredict on Reagan”, by Antony Lewis, New York Times / Diario de Noticias, 1/5/1990; “Who profits from drug-traffic”, buy Christian de Brie, Le Monde Diplomatique, 25/4/1990; and the book Switzerland Washes Whiter, by Jean Ziegler, p.151;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">3.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If in one of the most questionable operations ever accomplished by the American government, Mr. Bush invaded Panama in order to arrest Noriega, known by many as being commissioned by Mr. Bush himself and the CIA for many joint operations (according to article “Noriega, the American “Lesson””, by Tony Jenkins, Revista Expresso, 20/1/1990);</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">4.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If the CIA has already been pointed out by the media as being involved in the exchange of arms for cocaine in Afghanistan and Burma, and is suspected of running similar operations in other areas of armed conflict (Le Monde Dossier on drugs, February 1990, Christian de Brie, p.6);</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">5.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If the American Senate (under Ted Kennedy’s leadership) has already revealed a small part of the secret operations involving LSD and many other drugs promoted by the CIA and supported by various sectors of the American Government, and given to thousands of unsuspecting persons: military, agents and citizens (according to the book Acid Dreams, the CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion, by Lee Martin and Bruce Shlain, Crone Weidenfeld, NY 1985);</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">6.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If such secret operations were spread to other countries in Europe and the world (according to the same above mentioned book);</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">7.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If Mr. Bush vehemently insists on keeping his troops on European soil, without the least objective reason, in an era when all Europe is rapidly moving towards peace and disarmament (and by doing so Mr. Bush contradicts the will of the European and the American people);</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Then one must seriously suspect the involvement of the American Armed Forces in the Multinational of Drugs.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Next follows a report by ISAT physician and psychoanalyst Deise Iamada. She points out the results of her research on the American military activities in Japan.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“I worked as a teacher of English for the employees of the Encyclopedia Britannica from June to December 1986, in one of that organization’s nine schools in Japan. On that occasion, I worked with many American colleagues who also taught in the same schools. They had in common the fact that several of them had served in the American Army and Navy. My “boss”, who was the teachers’ coordinator, had been a sergeant and had been to the Vietnam War for about two years. He personally told me that during the war the great majority of soldiers and American officials made daily use of drugs such as heroin, cocaine and marijuana. He said that up until that time (1986) he still smoked marijuana, which was a bit difficult to obtain in Japan. Another teacher, who worked with me in the same school in Tiba, told me that in San Diego, California, he was not only a marijuana and cocaine addict but also trafficked those drugs. Because of that he had problems both with his family and the police. After that he joined the American Navy. He lived for two years on the American bases in the Philippines and Malaysia. According to him, drugs had always been abundant there. He said they were more difficult to find in Japan, but he had some “contacts” who were helping him. He had bought a big motorcycle, at that time, which he could not have afforded on the salary we received at the school. He also purchased many other things all at once such as a gold watch and jewelry for himself and his wife, who also worked with us. That leads one to believe that he, as well as many other Americans in Japan, was making his living by drug trafficking for that country. Today I believe that that school was just a façade for those much more profitable, drug trafficking operations. Another teacher at the Britannica School in Tokyo was an American ex-military man, known amongst the teachers as a “marijuana obtainer”. He was from Florida and, as far as I was told, had joined the Navy in Miami. Everyone knows that the Okinawa Islands (to the South of the Japanese archipelago) still has a huge American military base. Japanese people must be very concerned about getting rid of such and undesirable presence which is dangerous to Japanese youth in terms of drug-traffic. Therefore, it is important that the American Army and Navy’s activities and influence be carefully checked. </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></i></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a name="ADMCIA"></a><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">CIA and the American Power Control Minds Through Drugs</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"></span></span></i></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“This is the aim of those individuals who work for certain internationals: weaken Western elites’ moral and physical resistance by means of drugs” </span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">– Yan Moncomble, Le Pouvoir de la Drogue dans la Politique Mondiale, 1990, Paris</span></span></i></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"></span></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The book 1984 – Orwell prophetically described the future of civilization: political, economic and social power, united in a diabolic tirade, finally manage total control over citizens’ minds. Brain washing, totally successful, act with the violence of monsters, like lobotomized giants. A Zombi army is programmed to demolish any trace of consciousness and lucidity which could sprout within that gray mud of alienation. Two individuals (a man and a woman) go against the status quo. The book talks precisely about the struggle of the arbitrary powers that be and the brain-washed masses to annihilate the consciousness brought by these two beings.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The USA in 1984 – Drug abuse has reached alarming levels. A great part of the population has been made useless through addiction. In great capitals, such as New York, 10,000 “crack babies” are born per year. They are children of mothers addicted to “crack” and suffer terrible consequences from their mother’s addiction. Violence and poverty reached frightening levels, sick and drugged vagrants are thrown onto the streets. But what is worse: the American people seem to be millions of individuals who think, speak, feel, act and eat the same way. They go to the same places, like pre-programmed robots in a system of mass brain washing.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Surprisingly, they believe the USA to be the best nation in the world, with the best form of government and life, the best economy and they are united to defend the “good ideals” and laws of their leaders.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In 1984, psychoanalysts Keppe and Pacheco moved to New York and were shocked with what they found in that nation. They did detailed research and, in 1985, initiated an intensive program for the conscientisation of the catastrophic state of decay of the Americans and their country – in the psychological, economic, cultural, social and ecological sense, was Orwell’s “1984” come true. And they tried to awaken people in time.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">That desperate struggle to bring lucidity to the people took three and a half years and it was done through television, radio, newspapers and magazines published by ISAT, lectures, pamphlets and contact with the media. The attempt failed. The people were already excessively brainless and did not hear those who tried to warn them about the great danger.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In 1988, after an endless series of terrorist acts against the two scientists, the American “system” (which today we know is a criminal one) arrested them, tried to kill them, confiscated all their assets and spread a slanderous and demoralizing campaign in the media and literally destroyed them both and their work in the USA.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Miraculously, Keppe and Pacheco managed to escape from the FBI and CIA’s strict vigilance and flee from the claws of that diabolic power.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Partially protected on European soil, where the tentacles of the Machiavellian power haven’t yet managed to dominate, the two scientists announce the alarm, a shout of urgency for the salvation of human consciousness, on a universal level, as the brain-washing through drug-consuming, the robotizing philosophies, the excessive attachment to money and materialistic speculation – the American lifestyle – has already gained the adhesion of many throughout Europe.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Is the similarity between Orwell’s forecast and reality a mere coincidence?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In the past, Machiavellian power was introduced in communist countries through the corruption of dictatorships; in the United States and capitalist countries it dominates through economic corruption (consumerism, exploitation, speculation). Lately, the “trust” of the powers-that-be plans to rule the whole world through the spread of drug addiction combined with various techniques of brain-washing.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Those individuals – many of them psychotic and even psychopaths eager for power, managed the total manipulation of the American people’s minds and have been insistently trying to introduce the same mechanism in those countries influenced by the USA and, more recently, in those of Western and Eastern Europe.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“CIA’s experiments – special projects called “Bluebird”, and “Artichoke” among others – were conducted by the president of the World Association for Psychiatry, Ewen Cameron”</span></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This plan of domination through drugs has been in force for a long time. There is solid evidence that in 1947 the CIA financially supported and developed some horrible work with the aim of creating secret weapons for controlling brains.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Actuel magazine reported in March 1989:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“When America wanted to control brains. In 1947, the West was persuaded that the Russians had a secret weapon which would allow them to control brains. In order to compensate for the delay, the CIA financed the most incredible project for twenty years. In a castle-hospital, in Montreal, the CIA conducted experiments with all types of drugs, electric shock and sensorial isolation. In these experiments and tortures the subjects were not volunteers.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">13 Heavens Note</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This sounds very much like the film “</span></span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">” from 1975. In fact, there have been suggestions that Charles Manson was a victim of the CIA’s chemical and electo-shock therapy as depicted in the film. For this reason, some believe him when he says he was hired to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. Unfortunately, once the “government” or “media” report someone is crazy, spent time in a psychiatric hospital or mental health clinic, they are branded crazy, discredited, and no one will believe a word they say.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif";font-family:";color:black;"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DCUmINGae44&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DCUmINGae44&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Those experiments – which were a CIA special project named “Bludebird” or “Artichoke” – were conducted by the president of the world Association for Psychiatry, Ewen Cameron, with the excuse of defending the world’s balance of power. The CIA tried to create a methodology for changing the behavior of individuals so defined by Cameron as “dangerous for a country’s social balance: those who are anxious, frustrated and narrow minded, with all sorts of neuroses. It was absolutely necessary to modify those individuals’ behavior in order for one not to condemn democracy to death.” (Note: who can be excluded from the above classification?!)</span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The experiments reached a barbaric level, with the justification that it was all necessary in order to reach their goals. Their slogan was “Anything goes” and they used, besides brain surgery, barbiturates and many drugs brought from the four corners of the globe – mainly cocaine and heroin, the latter much appreciated due to the dependency it creates.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The CIA did not hide its interests in finding the means to easily manipulate human minds – “techniques to put an end to all psychological defense mechanisms” – techniques that were already of the domain of Russians and Nazis. That in fact, was just an excuse for the American agency to go ahead with its plans for domination. Its ideal: to keep the individual sufficiently lucid so that he would say everything, but, at the same time, lead him to a state where he would be prevented from understanding what was going on.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Most Americans have already become a mass of drugged zombies, beings with no consciousness, intellect or will of their own</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What Keppe, Pacheco and their collaborators notice clearly is that the present state of the American people is precisely as mentioned above. The plan which was allegedly aimed at affecting the Russian enemies, was expanded to practically effect the entire US population, as the most efficient technique for keeping it under the “democratic American control”; to keep it imbecilic enough so that it would not properly question the system in force, and, on the other hand, keep it docile enough so that it would accept all its commandments.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Many times the two scientists asked how the powers-that-be had managed to turn the American civilization of the last years into the most unpleasant one on the planet, and, at the same time, how they had managed to persuade its people that their country had a better quality of life than any other nation. How was it possible for the Americans not to realize the horrible situation they are in: that they have such a lack of freedom and yet they defend their lifestyle as a model of civilization for the world?! One is only able to understand the issue if one realizes that: </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1. </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Most Americans have already become a mass of drugged zombies, beings with no consciousness, intellect or will of their own. They are slaves of those pathological powers who govern them.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2.</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In a Machiavellian way, the consumption of drugs was considered the most efficient technique for controlling human minds.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Most worrisome, however, is that the CIA has in fact fulfilled the plan it developed in 1947, of introducing cocaine, heroin and LSD into the America’s upper echelons, including the Pentagon. The same article mentions the following on page 99:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“In fact, that game included all CIA’s agents who passed by; be it an agent returning from a mission, a fresh recruit, or a veteran passing by saying “good morning”. Anybody was subjected to a whiskey with some acide in it. That happened to such an extent that the “trips” became an occupation as any other one within the CIA! (…) They only got a bit scared when an official found that they wanted to pour some acid into the fruit juice at the Agency’s Christmas party. Two thousand and five hundred people were to attend the meeting and the Pentagon’s chief among them!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Therefore, they were lacking a study on the average American’s reaction. They knew the acid could not be applied as a massive weapon. The old dream of certain hippies of pouring hectoliters of LSD into a city’s water reservoir in order to make the world fly was impossible. Chlorine would kill the effects.”</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">By taking LSD the youngsters believed themselves to be opposing the establishment when they were in fact being addicted by it.</span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The following article describes some experiments applied to thousands of individuals who were involuntary “guinea pigs” and who, also without their knowledge, were observed and studied.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">More detailed and more shocking information on those experiments are to be found in the book Acid Dreams, the CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion by Martin A. Lee and Bruce Shlain. The two journalists who had access to the CIA’s files (partially revealed by the American Senate under Robert Kennedy), informed that, after the Second World War, the CIA “imported” 600 Nazis to lead the experiments aimed at controlling minds. The most barbarian surgeries were developed under their orientation, such as those of lobotomies without anesthesia so that the human guinea pig could report his sensations as he was administered LSD.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In the seventies, the CIA made millions of individuals, most of them youngsters, addicted through the use of LSD, which was distributed free of charge by psychiatrists, psychologists, artists, intellectuals and professors of universities specially hired for that purpose.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">These individuals used all means to promote the wonders of the psychedelic drug. Within a short period of time they made LSD to be the great flag of the American youngsters from coast-to-coast – the latter believed that by taking drugs they were contradicting the economic-socio-political system in force. They naively believed themselves to be opposing the establishment, whereas, in fact, they had been addicted by it.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The establishment felt that the anxious consciousness of the youngsters had to be urgently “neutralized” and those voices from popular protests should be silenced, because that was a time when there was a political anxiety and workers and youngsters from all around the world were uniting. They organized strikes, protests and intelligent proposals, which demanded a radical change in the socio-economic and cultural organization in force.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In the United States the so called “New Left” movement, which protested, amongst other things, against the low level of Higher Education and against the Vietnam War, became a major threat to the American Government. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It was not difficult for the American powers-that-be to “govern” the people and lead them to this kind of “democracy” by the use of drugs. What would have been difficult was for the people to accept that kind of socio-economic and political system without being drugged!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Martin Lee, says the following on pages 284 and 285 of his book Acid Dreams:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“The wide use of LSD has, in this respect, contributed significantly to the extinction of the New Left, because they accelerated the metabolism of the political body, which made all changes – both positive and negative – go faster, with all their contradictions. For this reason, the New Left was able to dismiss a president and to keeping another one from starting a nuclear attack in Northern Vietnam. These accomplishments were in fact powerful, but the movement fell apart in the long run, because it was never able to control its own intensity. So it was not able to keep in power with political good sense.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The author adds:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“In the late sixties, the use of LSD amongst the youngsters In the US reached its peak, right after the CIA started its secret operations to destroy, discredit and neutralize the New Left. Was it a mere historic coincidence or did the Agency really promote the illegal acid trade?”</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For such a task ti used very intelligent and charismatic individuals, such as English writer Aldous Huxley, American psychologist Timothy Leary(1), musicians such as John Lennon, who had free access to and were totally accepted by young people, and the intellectual and creative population in both the United States and England.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It is worth mentioning what john Lennon said right before his death in 1980:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“You don’t hear about this anymore but people are still visiting the Cosmos (referring to the use of LSD). We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Armed Forces for LSD. This is what people forget… They invented LSD in order to control people, but what they ended up doing was giving us freedom. Sometimes things happen in mysterious ways so that wonders can take place.”</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What kind of freedom is that if John Lennon himself was assassinated soon after he made such a statement and all individuals from the psychedelic generation have been literally destroyed both intellectually aspect and in terms of their power to change things?!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What freedom to the thousands of drug-addicts in this would have today? Freedom for their imagination, freedom to escape? </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Or freedom to destroy Freedom for themselves, to consume and support the establishment without question?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Manipulation of people is easy after they have become addicted and dependent – after an individual’s consciousness has been eliminated it is easy to re-program his mind. It was not difficult for the American power to “govern” the people and lead them to this kind of “democracy” by means of drugging them. What would have been difficult would be for people to accept the socio-economic and political system in force without being drugged!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It is simply horrifying that something similar must be happening amongst European youth, and in advanced stages by now. And what is even more terrifying is that, according to data revealed by the media today, most of this international death’s traffic is still being accomplished, protected and financed by the CIA. The same plan which succeeded well on American soil is now quickly expanding to other continents.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/uFx8mzOP7S7QXXMSLVGdnQ?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqK6a7Fo6qZGg&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SdGYObhdZdI/AAAAAAAAB3g/uzi8tISH0tY/s400/IMG_6782-1.JPG" alt="ISAT General Information" border="0" /></span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(1) In 1960, American psychologist Timothy Leary, who was a young people’s leader produced by the power, said the following about drug use: “Turn on, tune in, drop out.”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a name="ADMPortugal"></a><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a name="”ADMPortugal”"></a></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Death Traffic in Portugal</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“(…) The Azores really are a mandatory stop in the famous “Drug Route” due to their privileged geopgraphic position.” – Semana Magazine</span></span></blockquote></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Both the United States and Brazil, have made repeatedly clear their interest in being active in Europe. Vega magazine, 16 May 1990, p.95, cites the American Secretary of State:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Our soldiers must stay here in order to help Europe and Germany, as a quiet guarantee and reassurance of the rights they’ve gained.”</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Their presence in Portugal is remarkable, although American and Brazilian investment in business and productive activities are not significant compared with those of England, Sweden, Germany and other countries.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">One wonders: Why does the American Government maintain such a close relationship with Portugal? What is its interest in imposing the presence of its military bases in strategic points in Europe, even against the Europeans’ will? Most of these points, coincidental or not, have already proved to be important centers for drug-trafficking and consumption (Portugal, Germany, Turkey, Spain, Italy, England…)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">As far as the Brazilians are concerned, many of them (such as Abreu Sodre and ex-president Sarney) are known to have purchased properties in Lisbon in order to be based there. Why?!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The following is a series of quotes gathered from the Portuguese media, where one can see the involvement of customs officers; TAP; American bases; policemen; import/export enterprises; diplomats and Brazilian citizens in this traffic of death.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Portugal joins the drug-route</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Some “drug barons” have chosen Portugal as their area of action, as an alternative to those countries devastated by the Bush Administration’s open anti-drug war.” – Semana Magazine</span></blockquote></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This magazine has the naïve opinion that the Colombian drug barons have chosen Portugal. In fact the North Americans chose that country a long time ago. There are reports, for example, of drug cargos floating around the beaches of Portuguese islands where Americans have their bases. The magazine itself will mention this fact further ahead.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Our country’s strategic geographic location, together with completely outdated legislation, make it a privileged field for the “barons” to act (…) In Northern Portugal (…) Viana do Castelo (…) which is known on the drug circuit as “the Hashish Princess”*, a squad of fast launches, so called flying launches, function as heads for the introduction of drugs in Portugal and Europe. The “barons” settle villages on Santa Luzia’s slopes and, from there, coordinate their operations and perpetrate their theft to Europe and to the World.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“In Portugal, the laundering of illegal profits, including those coming from drug-trafficking is not a crime punishable by the laws of the country. Portugal’s need for foreign currency is so great that any amount of dollars, pounds or marks invested in the country is welcome and is not subject to control as to its origin.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"></i></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“(…) Braganca: Prison security guards arrested and suspended for selling drugs to inmates.”</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“In greater Lisbon the number of places where one can buy drugs is ever bigger (…) like drugs malls, they function efficiently.”</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- Semana Magazine</span></span></i></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Airport Customs, Custom Offices, Airlines Companies, Diplomats – all partners in the drug mafias</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“It is easy to divert luggage containing drugs at the Airport Customs. As an agent of the judiciary police, who testified on Friday before the Court where a drug-trafficking hearing was taking place, said that “there are many ways whereby luggage possibly containing drugs can be diverted through Customs (…) The legal proceedings involve elements both from the Customs Offices and airline companies (…) As far as a probable entrance of 800 grams of cocaine coming from India is concerned, the sub-inspector said that it was seized in Germany. The item will have entered in Lisbon and then been sent to the former Portuguese Consul in Frankfurt, Walter Leitao, together with “diplomatic luggage.” The consul has already been sentenced and is serving the term at this moment (…) The lawsuit covers two drug-routes: one from Europe, via India, and one via Latin America (…) The drugs, carried in luggage identical to those used by the aircrew, were diverted from the ordinary flow of luggage at Lisbon Airport (…) The legal proceedings involve a long serving TAP officer, two members of the Customs Office and also a former boxer and candidate for director of the Athletico Clube de Portugal.” – Correio da Manha, 1/4/1990, p.9</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Airport works for drug-traffic (…) In her testimony before the court, an inspector who has participated in various investigations at Lisbon Airport, said that attempts to pass several kilos of drugs are very day events at the Airport (…) The lawsuit, which involves 33 people, refers to events which started in 1981. Amongst those charged are members of TAP and VARIG, as well as those of the Customs Office.” – Diario de Noticias, April 1990, article: “Arrested by the PSP at Alto do Pina – young man confessed being a drug-trafficker but not an addict.”</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Lajes’ American Base (Azores) and the Route of Drugs</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“(…) The Azores, due to its privileged geographic location, is indeed a mandatory stop for the famous “Route of Drugs” at this moment. In their trip to Europe and mainly to the United States, drugs make a stop here (…) According to the authorities, drugs are brought by the open sea and stocked in buoys close to the beach. From there, they are later collected by vessels setting off to Europe or to America; (…) sometimes (…) the buoys break off and the drugs are found floating by the sea shore. Early this year several bags with drugs were found on the beaches of Faial Islands, Flores and Sao Miguel. A pack with 20 kilos of hashish was found on the shore of Flores Island and one with 10 kilos in Faial Island.” – Semana Magazine, p.24</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Why think that these drugs were being sent from those islands to the United States? Couldn’t they be coming from the United States, perhaps via military in Portugal as a center for smuggling of several goods, a former Portuguese soldier from Lisbon, Jose Carlos Simoes, 26, stated to our magazine: </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When I was serving in the Portuguese Army in 1988 and 1989, it was common to purchase and sell many kinds of smuggled goods coming from the American Base in the Azores, such as sun-glasses, electronics, camera, clothes, etc. if it was easy for them to smuggle those goods, the same channels could obviously be used for drug-traffic. As a matter of fact, that would be even easier, considering the bulky size of sound equipment as compared to a tiny bag of cocaine, which, although smaller, is worth millions (…) Our neighbor Spain is not an exception and shipments with substantial quantities of drugs arrive from Brazil and get into Portugal. 200 out of the 788 kilos of cocaine seized by the Portuguese Judiciary Police in 1989 came from Brazil, whereby nearly all the drugs produced in Colombia, Bolivia and Peru pass through.” – Semana Magazine</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Note: those four countries are dominated by the United States and produce and distribute drugs. The 788 kilos of cocaine seized in Portugal would yield the fantastic profit of 262 million dollars (each 3 kilos of cocaine is sold for 1 million dollars on the streets, according to an article by Beatrice Bontman for Le Monde in 12/10/1989). As the seized amount is 10 times inferior to that which actually reaches the market, according to the Judiciary Police, the actual total of the trafficked drug would be that of 7.8 tons (2.6 billion dollars). And that refers only to cocaine.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“(…) Azores: Judiciary Police and FBI have found a network of drugs dealing which has introduced hashish to Americans at their Base in Lajes.” – Semana Magazine</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This is very important data. It shows that:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Americans, at their Base in Lajes, do consume hashish;</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Where there are Americans, there are frequently drugs.</span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Now, one may ask: would not this network be in competition with the other network from the inside of the Base of Lajes?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It seems that it would be useful for the European Nations to investigate and control these bases in order to check whether shipments of drugs are leaving from there to Europe (via Portugal in the case of Azores).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Shouldn’t there be a safer and more effective way to traffic drugs other than to make use of this well organized scheme which is already equipped with aircraft, ultra-modern launches, weapons, submarines, sophisticated surety systems, radars, communication, etc.?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">How do we explain the fact that drug-traffic has increased precisely in those areas where American military bases are located on the Portuguese coast?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What has the Bush Administration done, considering it so well promoted international war “against” drugs? What do its military do other than “avoid” such danger? Wouldn’t they be the ones who intend to keep the monopoly in such a trade?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Drug traffic is supported by those groups with great economic power</span></span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“White-collar crime is more lucrative than the work of a machine-gun. The protagonists of the economic fraud against the European Social Fund diverted more money in three years (and drug-traffickers in one year) than did the number of robberies committed in the last decade (…) But, amongst the crimes of high delinquency, drug-trafficking is the most sophisticated and organized (…) As far as the profits from drug-traffic are concerned, they are incalculable and turn out to be a real underground economy. Control over it is null, for, up to this point, the Portuguese State has no legislative measures to inspect and prevent “dirty” money from being laundered. Unlike other countries, a vast amount of foreign currency can get into our banks, without being investigated (…) In the opinion of magistrate Goncalves da Costa, who teaches at the Center for Judiciary Studies, “what is worrisome, however, is the high degree of criminality within the sphere of power. But, as the power-that-be are involved, this kind of criminal is treated with kindness. A greed speculator dilutes his action in such a way that one can never really pin blame on him. For example, is it not a great criminal act to off-load astronomical amounts of bonds into the market, causing their prices to plummet? However, these people are usually congratulated (...) What characterizes it as a crime of high delinquency is the kind of interests involved, the extent of such actions and the subtleness of their means. These cases are much more difficult to single out. Only a tiny minority is revealed; most of them are from the black ciphers and, ironically, are the most severely punished (…) According to researchers of drug-traffic, police seizures represent only one-tenth of the quantity of drugs which actually get into the market.” (Publico, 9/4/1990, p.2).</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Note: The money so raised is used by the international mafia in order to buy weapons, to bribe people in all countries, to organize their ultra-modern army and to equip it with highly sophisticated spying devices and arms which sometimes are more developed than those of some countries. They use that money to coldly spread destruction and death amongst the peaceful workers in all nations in the world. Never before has organized crime been so well structured! Today, it is already infiltrated into the government of nations, and in extreme cases, such as that of the United States, it forms a powerful parallel government. In that country it has taken over all control of today’s social, political and economic events, shaping the course of contemporary history.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“(…) Drug-traffic is organized crime par excellence, and it has no frontiers. According to director of Drug Investigation in Portugal, Goncalves Carvalho, such traffic is supported by groups with great economic power. Such groups have already been detected among us, such as that which were in the leadership of the recently caught network of C. Venntoso (…) many Portuguese networks are found amongst groups with interests in the hotel industry and among individuals who came back from the ex-colonies, these are dedicated mostly to the traffic of heroin coming from the Golden Triangle (India and Pakistan). Southern America countries, especially Brazil, are great cocaine suppliers; the drugs travel from here into the European market (…) The means of transportation are varies, many times covered up by “import-export” companies.” (Publico, 9/4/1990, p.2)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">click image to enlarge</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/dtTF6KxoPISzeNwMUJ32PA?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqK6a7Fo6qZGg&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SdFdQ1Q3jRI/AAAAAAAAB2k/ydi7g2Rs_nk/s400/IMG_6783.JPG" alt="Seizures by Country Map" border="0" /></span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“As one looks at the map, Portugal shows itself to be the ideal stopping point for the entry and exit of drugs into Europe, a continent which will have no frontiers within three years time. One fears that the problems will get even worse. Drugs are consumed in the great urban centers, as shown by the arrests carried out by the Portuguese authorities in 1989. Cocaine enters via Lisbon – incidentally Lisbon is the great national center of distribution – and from there gets off via train to the rest of Europe.” – Expresso magazine, 28/4/1990, Joao Garcia</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> click image to enlarge</span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/y5teEjSPYKiBHquloCho-g?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqK6a7Fo6qZGg&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SdGyCdsljBI/AAAAAAAAB3o/HNOXyPxz7k0/s400/IMG_6801.JPG" alt="Portugal's Organized Crime Against Keppe and Pacheco" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a name="ADMItamaraty"></a><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Itamaraty’s Corruption and the Involvement of the Brazilian Government in the Drug-Trafficking</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We would ask international authorities to seriously consider the possibility of banishing privileges granted to government representatives all around the world, for that has already proved to be, if not the cause, at least a major contributor to abuse and international crime.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Brazilian magazine Veja recently published an article on the difficult and special diplomatic mission of releasing Brazilian citizens from Iraq. In that article “an important diplomat of Itamaraty”, who didn’t want to reveal his name, comments that the Brazilian Ambassador in London, Paulo de Tarso Flecha de Lima, has been chosen to organize the deal with Bagdad:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“This can be looked at from two perspectives: it was either decided that the leader’s diplomatic ability could not be replaced or that nobody else could better deal with a cheater but another cheater.” (Veja, Editora Abril, year 23</span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">rd</span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, nr.37)</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> This phrase is self explanatory.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">One of the main intentions of this dossier is to question the legitimacy of the legal immunity and all sorts of indulgence enjoyed by diplomats, officers of embassies and other diplomatic bodies.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If a government is relatively honest, its diplomats will also be more correct (ethical) in their conduct. But if the nation they represent is built upon a corrupt political and socio-economic structure, they will in turn be like international gangsters with no punishment, and no restraint.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Unfortunately such has been the case with a major part of the Brazilian Diplomatic Corps, the so-called Itamaraty. For most of those employed in the organization (with exceptions), the Itamaraty is a source of international “employment.” Corrupt and lazy officials are involved in smuggling, money laundering and trafficking; they are selling Brazil for a trifling price while depositing large bribes in their Swiss bank accounts.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In the book Cabo Frio Connection – Scandal at Itamaraty, 1989, the journalist responsible for the Brasilia branch of Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper, Gilberto Dimenstein, through true and fully documented evidence, denounced Brazilian diplomacy as being involved in a network of illegal and corrupt activities perpetrated by a gang operating in New York, London and Brasilia. His book involves names such as those of Abreu Sodre (ex-Minister of Freign Affairs), Paulo de Tarso Flecha de Lima (Itamaraty’s General Secretary), Antonio Carlos Magalhaes (Minister of Communication), Ivan Mendes (head of SNI – National Services of Information) and Romeu Tuma (head of Federal Police).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">All of those men are or were direct representatives of the Brazilian government holding positions of high responsibility. Dimenstein also mentions names of other Itamaraty officers as well as those of joint-enterprises and foundations, such as that of Cabo Frio Foundation, ALALC (Latin American Association for Free Commerce) and that of the Ministry for the Development of Industry and Commerce. In addition Itamaraty has connections with dollar traffickers Paulo Passos, Antonio Soares, Paulo Mafra among others.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">According to Dimenstein, such individuals perpetrate highly illegal operations between Brasilia, New York and London, under the protection of the authority of diplomatic bodies.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At page 53 Dimenstein describes the following event:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“A Federal Police sheriff phoned Folha Newspaper Editorial Office in the morning. He had read the news. He was quick:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Did you know that his Paulo Passos is one of the main dollar traffickers in Brasilia and that he operates in the Itamaraty?</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Are you sure?</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Yes. And if you carry on investigating you will end up in cocaine.</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What do you mean, cocaine? I asked breathlessly.</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Money laundering. I can’t give you more details. But what you have in your hands is a connection which involves dollar trafficking and slides into cocaine smuggling. That’s for sure, believe me.</span></span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Next I phoned several diplomats and all confirmed Paulo Tarso’s private secretary to be indeed one of the main dollar smugglers in Brasilia and definitely Itamaraty’s most important one. And he operated openly along the Ministry corridors.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">On page 98 Dimenstein adds:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“I thought of the Federal Police chief’s clue (which he told me on Friday 23</span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">rd</span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> of June) that sooner or later one would find cocaine involved in the case. In fact it did. So much so that the Department of Organized Crimes was called during the Cabo Frio case’s inquiry.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“In Brasilia, cocaine smugglers got cruzados (Brazilian currency) from the selling of the product. Afterwards they had to launder the money in order to buy more cocaine. And for that they needed dollars. They went to the Itamaraty, a safe place to get it. Abreu Sodre did not like this information being released and reacted toughly through a letter sent to Folha newspaper. He accused me of leading a campaign to libel the image of that institution with distorted facts and lies.”</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Interesting fact: the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abreu Sodre, only got indignant when the news mentioned drugs… In any case that was not the first time Itamaraty reacted that way.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“On May 1</span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">st</span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> 1989, Miami Police revealed that they havd found one ton of cocaine in a Varig DC-10 operating Rio de Janeiro-Miami. Agents of DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), a North American body for repression of drug-trafficking, arrested Jose Machado, 55, and Warley da Silva, 47, two Miami based Brazilians who received the shipment at the airport. Varig tried to deny the news that the drugs had been carried by one of its aircrafts. But the news proved to be true later on. (Folha de Sao Paulo, 30/4/1989, “Varig aircraft carried a ton of cocaine, says the USA.”)</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Showing a lack of trust in the Brazilian Federal Police investigation, DEA agents were sent to Brazil to “aid” Brazilian police. Superintendent of Rio de Janeiro Federal Police, Fabio Calheiros Wanderley admitted that “at least three” North American agents had meetings with Federal Police chief, Romeu Tuma, in Brasilia on 3/5/1989. (Folha de Sao Paulo, 4/5/1990 “In Brazil, Americans investigate shipment of cocaine.”)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">That was when Brazilian president, Jose Sarney, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abreu Sodre, and ministry secretary general, Paulo Tarso Flecha de Lima interfered in the case, vigorously defending the trafficking enterprise.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“President Jose Sarney through North American Ambassador Harry Schlauderman, personally asked the United States to reconsider the involvement of Varig airlines in the capture of one ton of cocaine, given the company’s previous integrity. At the end of a dinner party in honor of the Ambassador, in Alvorada Palace, Sarney talked with Schlauderman about the case (…) Some hours before, Schlauderman had been called by Itamaraty to hear from the Foreign Ministry’s secretary general, Paulo Tarso Flecha de Lima, an official protest from the Brazilian Government about the way Varig was being treated in the episode. (Folha de Sao Paulo, “Department of Taxation investigates Varig Flight which may have carried cocaine to the USA.”)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The case ended with the Brazilian Federal Police’s official conclusion, watched by the DEA, that countless Varig employers participated in the operation, which had been organized by Brazilian Warney da Silva, had about twenty participants and had sent approximately 2.5 tons of drugs to Miami in the last three years. Cocaine came from Colombia, entered Brazil via Rondonia, then went to Rio de Janeiro and was then exported to the USA.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Going back to Dimenstein’s book Cabo Frio Connection – Scandal at Itamaraty, although his initiative is praise-worthy, this question still stands: What will be done, in practice, for the charge of corruption detailed in the book?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Some of the people mentioned in Dimenstein’s book, and many others had already been mentioned in the dossier sent by Pacheco to Brazilian and American authorities in 1986.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The practical results from this dossier are unknown up to now. However what is known, for sure, is that the main heads of the Brazilian and USA crime organizations carry on operating without being penalized. Such has been the extent of the official protection that these white-collar gangsters have with their political and socio-economic power. And they simply have their victims punished and arrested when any confrontation is to take place.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Brazil as a whole is harmed by its corrupt representatives. Embassy and State officials do not pay taxes as the rest of the citizens. They are paid enormous wages and buy whatever they want fro prices lower than the ordinary citizen has to pay. They are not subject to customs, nor to customs inspections, they contravene normal citizenship laws, cannot be sued nor fined… privileges are abundant, duties are minimal.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Furthermore, because of this corruption, Brazil is becoming more and more the largest center for drugs in the world, in opposition to its simple natured people. Police chief Teodoro Rodrigues Pereira, from the civil Police’s Department of Drugs, states that he fears the “settlement of Medellin’s head-quarters in Brasilia” (article by Renato Lombardi, released in 15/7/1990 by O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper, page 36)(</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">*</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A summary of that news may be useful to help the reader understand:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Arms trafficking and smuggling come to the National Congress (…) Drivers Antonio Henrique Moreira and Elias Martins Azevedo used official cars to sell cocaine (…) PDS-MT Roberto Campos ex-parliamentary secretary, Joao Pedro Aquino Ferreira and Claudio Luis Salgueiro de Carvalho, from the Senate security were arrested bearing modern arms which were to be delivered to traffickers, bank burglars, farmers, members of Parliament (….) The arrest of the son of ex-presidents Ernesto Geisel and Joao Figueiredo’s ex-private secretary, Heitor Aquino, will make it possible to identify the whole gang (…) Aquino Ferreira travelled to Miami, Florida, every 20 days and managed to smuggle, through the Brasilia airport, arms and ammunition, printing machines; film cameras; computers; videos and electronics (…) One of the trafficking leaders is Chamber of Deputies driver Antonio Henrique de Moreira, known as El Bigodon. He used to travel to Miami, Spain and Holland, presenting congressional documents at the airports. He carried cocaine with him and brought back arms.”</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">On July 15, 1989, Folha de S. Paulo newspaper published: </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Brasilia’s Police worries about National Congress official’s involvement in drug trafficking. In the last seven years the Department of Drugs (DTE) has been seeing 27 Senate and House of Deputies officers. The head of DTE, Police chief Teodoro Rodrigues, says that “should one investigate within the Congress that number would probably be much bigger.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“(…) With the arrest of House of Deputies driver, Antonio Henrique Moreira, charged for involvement with an international gang, police found (…) credentials for visitors, authorized by members of Congress, which were used, according to the Police, by other traffickers enabling them to circulate within the Congressional premises (…) As the names of the politicians who signed such credentials became publicly known Federal the case. That was not the only time when Police faced pressure (…) Arms and drugs walk together. “Drugs leave Brazil and, in return, arms come in,” says Police chief Pereira. “But we have no access to investigate the Congress.” There is no cooperation between the police and the inner security (…) “What is most disturbing is the immunities, which these officials want to extend to relatives, friends and employees” says the Police chief. According to him, such privileges explain in great part the involvement of Legislative officers with crime. “(…) Legislative privileges, according to the Police, were being used to feed the cocaine trafficking which was in operation in the Federal District up until recent times. Elias Martins Azevedo and Terezinha Senir do Prado, charged and arrested for trafficking, had arrived to Brasilia from Rondonia carrying air tickets given to them by PRN-Rondia deputy Francisco Sales. Both had already been arrested in 1988 carrying 5kg of cocaine paste while using a Deputy’s private car.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Such facts show that the National Congress, Senate, House of Deputies Inner Police as well as people connected to Brazilian ex-presidents are also involved with drug trafficking, other than Itamaraty – that is, the political leadership of Brazil.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Another problem is the censorship faced by journalists in their denouncements. After 3 days, news about the above mentioned scandal was briskly interrupted by the media and nothing else was ever seen or heard about it.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Nevertheless, this is not what one would verify from Bolivia’s media. Aqui newspaper, which is not under the influence of the Brazilian Government, openly denounces drug-traffic linked to tin smuggling in the Brazilian State of Rondonia and clearly mentions Mr. Romeu Tuma’s involvement in such operations. The newspaper reports:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“In the Bazilian State of Rondonia, which shares its borders with Pando Department; the tin industry is directly linked to drug-traffic and dollars laundering, according to a public document of denunciation from SITERON’s president. (Workers Union at State of Rondonia Industry of Extration and Trasformation).</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Such a denunciation was recently made at a conference of the International Organization for Work (IOW) in Geneve, Switzerland.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The dossier sates that there are 64 “enterprises” and 135 foremen irrationally exploiting what is considered to be the world’s biggest production of cassiterite (unofficial data).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Region Union head, Moraes do Amaral, denounces those enterprises’ “insane and ultra ambitions attitude of power. They ignore human, social and workers’ rights, taking away from our fellowmen their last traces of human dignity.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Amaral also alerts one to the complicity of Rondonia’s authorities in what is called “organized crime, due to the fact that tin extraction is controlled by drug-traffic.” Among such authorities are the state governor himself, Jeronimo Garcia de Santana and Federal Police Chief, Romeu Tuma. The report states that the volume of tin smuggling amounts to 10,000 tons a year (5 percent of worlds’ consumption), whereas the whole national output reaches only 12,000 tons.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The estimated annual value of this smuggling is USD $60 million, but that of drug-traffic is not yet estimated.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Amaral, who has already suffered four attempted murders, fears the same end as Chico Mendes, the famous Brazilian ecologist recently killed in Northern Brazil.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Rondonioa’s Federal Police ex-superintendent, Arthur Carbone Filho, was recently removed from his potion by the body’s head general, Romeu Tuma, because of the former public declaration that Rondonia is one of the country’s major entry points for traffic (besides gold and cassiterita smuggling), with connections with Aao Paulo, Mato Grosso and Manaus. Both of them attack each other through the Brazilian media, a fact that deeply concerns the Brazilian government, which “wants to keep the subject from reaching international levels”, according to Bolivian newspaper Aqui.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Therefore, as Brazilian citizens and representatives of the hones part of the population, we have the duty and the dignity to alert international authorities to be careful of the possible corruption perpetrated by corrupt “authorities” of our countries.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Going even further, we would ask international authorities to seriously consider the possibility of banishing privileges granted to government representatives all around the world, for that has already proved to be, if not the cause, at least a major contributor to abuse and international crime.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(*) Rivalry between Civil and Federal Police originates denounces from both sides, and this is somehow beneficial.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">N.B.: At present (Sept.1990) Mr. Paulo de Tarso Flecha de Lima has been transferred from Brazil to London to occupy the position of Brazilian Ambassador.</span></span></i></p></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a name="ADMUncleSam"></a><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/GcD8kCRKQuth75EfFq0y6w?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqK6a7Fo6qZGg&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SdK8JrGOYyI/AAAAAAAAB4A/Qsa_iyCRL7c/s400/IMG_6784.JPG" alt="American Drug Multinational" border="0" /></span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Uncle Sam Depends Totally on Drugs – Psychologically and Economically Speaking</span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Only this year, 1990, I have conscientized that the United States, as a nation, is entirely dependent on the Death Traffic and, mainly, from drugs – not only in the sense of taking them but also in the economic sense.” (*)</span></blockquote></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In 1984, when I moved to the United States, I was horrified to notice the overall erroneous orientation of its economy; factories were deactivated, agriculture totally abandoned, a great part of the population lived on social security, students’ level of knowledge was poor – and, what was worse, there was an atmosphere of aggression, of discontent (and mad joy on the other hand). I definitely was not in the country I had idealized; and, at the same time, I speechlessly contemplated an ex-movie star (Reagan) acting out all the time, lying and following a political strategy of total speculation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I could see that that nation was moving towards its destruction, repeating the same errors of the nineteen twenties and thirties.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Today I know that that nation is non-viable, for it only recovered when it entered the Second World War (having then started to produce arms), returning to full employment, when the economic situation in Europe collapsed. Therefore it was Hitler who “recuperated” it. Later on, the Soviet Union gave it incredible international power, leading it to continue producing arms and place its armies all around the Western world and its multinational enterprises to exploit the other countries.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When we demonstrated in New York, Boston, Washington, and Philadelphia we didn’t understand the reason why people did not join us in that attempt to rehabilitate their country. Little by little, I started to understand that a true “mutation” had occurred in that people, as though</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(*) This is an excerpt of a book which is now being written by Norberto Keppe, based on his experience in the United States of America.</span></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">All of them had gone into a collective psychosis. Worst of all was the group of drug-traffickers within the government which was persecuting us. One fact which must be noticed is that of the dismissal of US Attorney General Edward Meese, for corruption, right after our release from prison (28/6/1988). We had the impression that it was he who ordered Customs special agent Brownholtz to arrest us, and that Edward Maloney, from the New York Eastern District did not act alone.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It is only in this year 1990, that I conscientized that the United States, as a nation, is entirely dependent on the traffic of death, and mainly dependent on drugs – not only in the sense of taking them, but economically speaking. Since the United States’ industrial and agricultural phase was over and international hostilities had ceased, its main source of income began to come from this type of fabulous profit. After all, the US is the greatest consumer country in the world.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When we travelled the country’s interior, we constantly found signs forbidding one to leave the motorways. The vigilance of the highway police was extreme, showing that the Government does not want the people to come to know what goes on inside those 9.5 million square kilometers – and it is known that there are huge plantations of marijuana, probably refineries for the manufacture of cocaine, etc. Soviet Life, February 1990, p.4, published the following:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“The United States intend to give an image of great champions in the struggle against drug-traffic, to a point of “justifying its invasion of Panama”. Nevertheless, zones of Afghanistan controlled by the United States produce 600 tons of the drug per year (…) Afghanistan is, today, a new world center for drugs...”</span></blockquote></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The reader can now see why the American Government could never like us, because we intended to rehabilitate a large number of drug-addicts and to conscientize people that they were serving the drug multinationals. We were an enormous stone in Uncle Sam’s shoe.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- pages 8-58<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">13 Heavens Note</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ask most Americans why the US is over in Iraq and they will most likely respond, depending on the year you ask, </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Fight to free </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Kuwait</span></span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Hunt </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Saddam </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Hussein</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">to free Iraq</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">With Kuwait free, Saddam executed, what's left? </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Oil</span></span></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">However, ask them why the US military is over in Afghanistan (since 2001) and they will most likely respond, “</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Fighting terrorists!</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">” </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">With a quick search from Google, something else begins to surface: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Drugs</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">!<br /></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/__P76rytUfYC_Xh7nKux1A?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqK6a7Fo6qZGg&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SdK6QOJ6a3I/AAAAAAAAB34/yalncZ-SoZ8/s400/ArmyAfghanistan2006.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></span></span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">According to Dave Gibson, writing for </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The American Chronicle</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (Jan 22, 2008), using the following title:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"President Bush Has Made Afghanistan Safe Once Again For Opium Production"</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Taliban banned opium production in Afghanistan as it became illegal to grow poppies. Those caught faced death. By mid-2001 there was essentially no opium produced there - a nation which led the world’s production of the drug. However, since the US invasion, the poppy fields have started growing and the trade of opium is flourishing like never before.<br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Additionally:</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime released a report this week which found that during 2006, opium production increased by 50 percent from the previous year. Afghanistan produced a record of 6,700 tons last year and was responsible for 92 percent of the world's opium production. This rise corresponds with the dramatic fall of Southeast Asia's opium production, in contrast that region only produced 370 tons last year."</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"It has been reported that the CIA is involved in Afghanistan's opium production, or at least protecting it. It is widely known that the Pakistani Intelligence Service is terribly corrupt and profits directly from the sale of opium. For whatever it's worth, the CIA relies on the Pakistanis for intelligence regarding the insurgent Taliban as well as al Qaeda. Given the history and immorality of the CIA, it is certainly no stretch to believe that the agency is complicit."</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"In March 2002, a U.S. foreign intelligence official speaking on the condition of anonymity, reminded a reporter with NewsMax.com of the CIA's record of involvement with the international drug trade. The official said: "The CIA did almost the identical thing during the Vietnam War, which had catastrophic consequences--the increase in the heroin trade in the USA beginning in the 1970's is directly attributable to the CIA. The CIA has been complicit in the global drug trade for years, so I guess they just want to carry on their favorite business."</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"He went on to say: "The sole reason why organized crime groups and terrorists have the power that they do is all because of drug trafficking. Like the old saying, 'those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.'"</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"Osama bin Laden got away and President Bush does not even mention his name anymore. The Taliban has become stronger once again in Afghanistan. Terrorists, mafia, and warlords are profiting from bumper opium crops. To date, 480 American young men have lost their lives in Afghanistan...So what was the point?"</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"Afghanistan could now fairly be described as a 'narco-state' and the U.S. military has played a large role in that nation's illicit evolution. Have we sent our young men to die in Afghanistan to protect or possibly monopolize the opium trade?”</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- Source: </span></span><a href="http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/50029"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/50029</span></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">***</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and co-author of </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (1992) writes:</span></span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Poppy Paradox: US War in Afghanistan Boosts Terror Funds, August 3, 2002</span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“… Thanks to the U.S. intervention, Afghanistan will again supply up to 70 percent of the world's heroin this year, 90 percent of the heroin reaching Europe and even a part of the heroin reaching the United States."</span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- Source: </span></span><a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/Articles/Scott_PoppyParadox.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">http://dissidentvoice.org/Articles/Scott_PoppyParadox.htm</span></span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">* End of 1st Part *</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-1129549682263295712009-03-27T14:22:00.007-07:002009-04-02T15:20:36.552-07:00Spotlight - Keppe and Pacheco<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=norberto+keppe&x=0&y=0" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SdAKes-7kOI/AAAAAAAAB0c/pKw9_V8_IjQ/s400/norberto02.jpg" alt="Norberto Keppe" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss_w_h_?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=claudia+pacheco&x=0&y=0" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SdAKfABN2lI/AAAAAAAAB0k/3z-Emz7a3Zo/s400/claudia01.jpg" alt="Claudia Pacheco" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">click images to see additional material from authors<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Bios</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dr. Norberto R. Keppe's</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> curriculum vitae is impressive: studies in Vienna at Viktor Frankl's prestigious Polyclinic; founder of the center for Psychosomatic Medicine at the Hospital das Clinicas of the University of S‹o Paulo; founder and president of the International Society of Analytical Trilogy and founder of the largest private psychotherapy clinic in South America. Keppe has written extensively - over 25 books on themes ranging from the origins of psychological and organic illness to sociopathology and the pathology of power, to metaphysics, to the decay of esthetics, art and culture. Dr. Keppe was initially trained as a theologian, and subsequently as a Freudian analyst, but early in his private practice he experienced the restrictions and limitations of traditional psychotherapy.<br /><br />After many years of conducting extensive scientific research at his clinic in S‹o Paulo, and which encompassed the areas of psychology, philosophy and theology, Dr. Keppe constructed a therapeutic model to more accurately, expansively and deeply address the mental and emotional problems which plague modern man.<br /><br />Keppe expanded his views to include society, and he coined the term, psychosociotherapy to describe his study of society's psychological problems.<br /><br />Keppe has traveled extensively lecturing and conducting seminars, and has conducted research and practiced in many European countries as well as in the U.S.A.<br /><br />Dr. Keppe maintains a private clinic in S‹o Paulo, Brazil, where he sees many patients and trains psychoanalysts to work with his unique method.<br /><br /><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dr. Claudia S. Pacheco</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, vice-president of The International Society of Analytical Trilogy, is a highly trained and skilled psychoanalyst with a large private practice in S‹o Paulo, Brazil. Not initially content with the confines and limitations of traditional psychotherapy, Dr. Pacheco studied and trained with Dr. Norberto Keppe, as well as studying psychosomatic medicine at the Hospital das Clinicas of the University of S‹o Paulo.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />She has spent more than twenty-five years conducting research in the field of psychosomatic medicine, and has gathered information from hundreds of patients she has attended in clinics in Brazil, Europe and the U.S.<br /><br />The producer, director and host of various scientific radio and TV programs, Dr. Pacheco lectures internationally and conducts seminars in Latin America, Europe and the U.S. Dr. Pacheco has authored a number books - on themes ranging from an analysis of female psychopathology, to the U.S. drug multinationals, to healing through consciousness.<br /><br />Dr. Pacheco is the founder and director of a number of publications, conferences, and organizations in Latin America, Europe and the U.S., including Savior C'est Pouvoir, Intergral Psychoanalysis Review and the Association: Stop the Destruction of the World.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/lNQjZToCj0glBRe8_vULwg?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqK6a7Fo6qZGg&feat=embedwebsite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SdARljCRxKI/AAAAAAAAB0s/m86LoCwP-es/s288/WaC-BCoverSm.JPG" /></span></a></div><div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">"The coordinators of this publication, Brazilian scientists, psychoanalysts Claudia Pacheco and Norberto Keppe, were arrested in the US, suffered attempted assassination and had their assets confiscated by the CIA, FBI, and American government in collaboration with the Brazilian government.</span></span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">At present living in Europe, they are still constantly threatened by the same groups. Therefore, any attack perpetrated against any member of the Society of Integral Psychoanalysis (Analytical Trilogy) will be attributed to those groups."</span></span></span></span></blockquote></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Excerpts</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />* </span><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/work-and-capital-toc.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Work and Capital</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> <br />* </span><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/american-drug-multinational-toc.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The American Drug Multinational (</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/american-drug-multinational-toc.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dossier</span></a></span><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/american-drug-multinational-toc.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">)</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">HOT!</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Newsletter</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />* </span><a href="http://www.analyticaltrilogy.com/emaillist.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It's Free!</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /><a name="FreeEnergy"></a><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Video</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />* </span><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2725743017261031812" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Keppe Motor (Free Energy)</span></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-2725743017261031812&hl=en&fs=true" style="width:400px;height:326px" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://www.trilogia.ws/books/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/SdQ3qOUspMI/AAAAAAAAB4I/hLDzDnqnnWg/s144/book_newphysics.jpg" alt="New Physics, by Norberto Keppe" border="0" /></span></a></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.trilogia.ws/books/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The New Physics Derived from a Disinverted Metaphysics</span></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Norberto R. Keppe</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">272 pages</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">ISBN – 85-7072-050-5</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">US$ 18.00</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In this fascinating book, Dr. Norberto Keppe, explores how the essential concepts of Physics (as well as biology and psychology) are completely inverted and are actually leading scientists away from an understanding of the nature of reality and the universe we live in. 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covers</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Table of Contents</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/american-drug-multinational-pt1.html#ADMDedication"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Prologue</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/american-drug-multinational-pt1.html#ADM1stPart"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1st Part – </span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/american-drug-multinational-pt1.html#ADM1stPart"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The American Drug Multinational</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><ul><li><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/american-drug-multinational-pt1.html#ADM1stPart"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Drugs: the establishment’s weapon to numb social consciousness</span></a></li><li><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/american-drug-multinational-pt1.html#ADM"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The American Drug Multinational</span></a></li><li><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/american-drug-multinational-pt1.html#ADMBases"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Military Bases: a possible connection to drug-traffic</span></a></li><li><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/american-drug-multinational-pt1.html#ADMCIA"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">CIA and the American power control minds through drugs</span></a></li><li><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/american-drug-multinational-pt1.html#ADMPortugal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The death traffic in Portugal</span></a></li><li><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/american-drug-multinational-pt1.html#ADMItamaraty"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Itamaraty’s Corruption and the involvement of the Brazilian Government in the drug-trafficking</span></a></li><li><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/american-drug-multinational-pt1.html#ADMUncleSam"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Uncle Sam depends totally on drugs – psychologically and economically speaking</span></a></li></ul><a 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for the traffic of death?</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The money laundering</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Drug Multinational wages war against those who oppose drug-trafficking</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The drug multinational’s subliminal (and the direct) promotion</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Solutions proposed for the drug problems</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Liberation, power and drugs</span></li></ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">3rd Part – </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The persecution of Keppe and Pacheco by the organized crime</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For the American Government and the CIA the presence of Keppe and Pacheco in Europe is a big threat</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What happened while Keppe and Pacheco were in New York: a nest of white collar criminals</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">About Integral Psychoanalysis (Analytical Trilogy)</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Support and references about Norberto Keppe and Claudia Pacheco</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Integral Psychoanalysis (Analytical Trilogy) literature</span></li></ul><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><br /></span>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-20677862766087667752009-03-27T14:22:00.003-07:002009-03-29T23:09:42.761-07:00Work and Capital - TOC<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/JNXox7UMlHiIsBdKTTFdPQ?authkey=Gv1sRgCKqK6a7Fo6qZGg&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/Sc_7o3nNKhI/AAAAAAAABz8/MRFkr8eh9A0/s144/IMG_6771.JPG" alt="Work and Capital Front Cover" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><a 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/>Forward<br />Introduction<br /><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">PART A</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Problem: Capitalism (Total Division)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />1. We Live in the Worst Possible Society<br />2. The Human Being has Organized a Schizophrenic Society<br />3. The Capitalist Approach to Economy and Freudian Approach to Psychology Are the Two Most Alienating Concepts Today<br />4. Socio-Economic Power Is the Major Cause of Human Suffering<br />5. Capitalism as the Principal Evil of Modern Society<br />6. Capitalism Destroys the Individual, the Nation, and Civilization<br />7. Capitalism Has Weakened the Economy, the Health and the Life of Humankind<br />8. Capitalism Has Become a System of Legalized Robbery<br />9. Depression, Inflation, Deficit, Surplus and Foreign Debt Are Merely Symptoms of a Profoundly Sick Socio-Economic Structure<br />10. The People Are Not Economically Well Off Because They Are Exploited<br />11. The Job Structure Is the Principle Cause of Human Alienation<br />12. The Desire for Immediate profit Caused Consumerism, Which Is Destroying Real Economy<br />13. Capitalism Has Created a Very Limited Labour Market<br />14. The Socio-Economic Structure Is the Major Cause of the Human Being’s Alienation<br />15. Poverty Is Caused Only by the Very Rich Through Their Usurping of the Common Good<br />16. Human Endeavour Today, Aimed Solely at Monetary Gain, Has Brought Generalized Mediocracy<br />17. The Process of Speculation Inevitably Leads Any Nation to Ruin<br />18. The Creation of the System of Usury is Responsible for Today’s Noxious System of Banking<br />19. The Fundamental Cause of Today’s Economic Problems Is the Megalomania of the Economists and the Powerful<br />20. The Economists Complicate the Most Easily Understood Science<br />21. Without Trilogical Vision the Economist Organizes and Erroneous Economic System<br />22. The World’s Whole Economic financial System Is In Ruins<br />23. The Crash of the Stock Market Is Merely a Symptom of the Severe Sickness of the Economy<br />24. The American Philosophy of Life Based on Profit has Made This Nation Non-viable<br />25. Capitalism, Being Wrong, Cannot Last<br />26. The American and Soviet Socio-Economic Systems Clash because Their Goals Are Similar<br />27. Karl Marx Denounced Capital for the Individual and Transferred it to the State<br />28. The United States is an Example of the Terrible Consequences of Capitalism<br />29. The United States Is Being Destroyed by the Capitalist System It Adopted<br />30. Reaganomic Policy Has Brought Only Apparent Progress to the United States<br />31. The North American Civilization Is Collapsing for Lack of Genuine Bases<br />32. The Americans Can Destroy Humanity Without using Their Deadly Weapons<br />33. The End of American Civilization marks the Final Downfall of the Capitalist System<br /><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">PART B</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Dialectic: Work and Capital (A Complimentary Pair)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />1. The Capitalist System, a Cherished illusion of the Twentieth Century<br />2. The Decay of the United States Shows How a Mistaken Philosophical System Can Destroy a Nation<br />3. The Error Does Not Lie in Capital as Such, But in the Way It Is Organized<br />4. The Mistake of Capitalism Is To Put Capital Before Work<br />5. The Two Great Plagues of Present Society Are Capitalism (American) and Socialism (European)<br />6. The Fact the Soviet Union Is the Second World Power Shows That Capitalism Does Not Work As Well As Is Imagined<br />7. Marxist Economics Are Closer to Reality, But Their Politics Are Further Away<br />8. We Must Understand the Genius of Karl Marx in order to preserve His Incredible Contribution to Humanity<br />9. With Some Corrections, Marxism Would Be Within a Democratic System<br />10. The Cause of Human impoverishment Is in the Dishonesty of the Economically Powerful<br />11. Money Cannot Go On Producing; Indefinitely; Only Work Can Generate Wealth<br />12. The Economy Will Not Develop Correctly Until It Is Based on Reality<br />13. The Economy Can Only Be Called Successful If it promotes Human Values<br />14. The Economy of a Country Is Not Determined by the Economist, But by the True Economic Situation<br />15. The Cause of Poverty is the Envy Both of the Oppressor and of the Oppressed<br />16. Because of the present Ascendancy of the Economic System, Political Democracy Is Being Destroyed<br />17. To Be </span><master><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, Or To Be </span><slave><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, Are Equally Injurious to the Human Being<br />18. The Fundamental Cause of Human Problems is laziness<br />19. Sick Individuals Resemble Demons in Their Opposition to Action<br />20. If Work Has Ceased To Be Attractive It Is Because It Has Been Debased in Its Purpose<br />21. People Reject Present-Day Work Also Because it Is Against Their Nature<br />22. Humanity Is Being Supported by Those It Most Despises: The Workers<br />23. It Is Vitally Important to Become Aware That the Greatest problem of Humanity Lies in the Corrupt Socio-Economic Structure<br />24. The Social Pact has Generally Been organized by People or Groups Against the True Interest of the People<br />25. Change Society First: Only Then Will It Be Possible to Change the Human Being<br />26. A Truly New Discovery Cannot Be Totally in Disagreement with Previous Discoveries<br />27. Just as We Are Responsible for the Problems of Humanity, So We Are Also Responsible for their Solution<br />28. Trilogical Enterprises Can Save the Economic Life of the People<br />29. The Purpose of Trilogical Enterprise Is To Correct the Sociopathology of Humanity<br />30. The Value of (Trilogical) Enterprises Comes from Work, Which Is the Source of All Wealth<br />31. The Greater the Number of Members in a Trilogical Enterprise, the Greater its Competitivity and Wealth<br />32. The Trilogical Enterprise Is the Greatest Source of Conscientization, Correcting Psychopathology and the Structures That Produce It<br />33. The Trilogical residence Constitutes the Basic Social Therapy needed To Form a truly Human Society<br /><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">PART C</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Solution: Conscientization and Action (Unification)</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />1. Stock Market Crashes Are Important Warning Signs that the Economy Is on the Wrong Course<br />2. The 1929 Crisis Began With Adam Smith, But Is Still Capable of Resolution Through Conscientization<br />3. The Conscientization of the Errors of Capitalism, and of Socialism, Is basic to the Organization of a New Economy<br />4. How to Avoid Economic Decadence in the Other nations Allied to the United States<br />5. All Nations Must Become Aware of Sociopathology If They Are to Solve the Great Human Problem<br />6. The Source of Conscience Is Correct, Real and Aesthetic Action<br />7. We Must Awaken People’s Awareness Before They Can Transform Society<br />8. Only After Conscientizing Reality Is It Possible to Percveive One’s Own Errors and Defects<br />9. Only by the Conscientization of Its Errors Will the Economic System Be Able to Escape Disaster<br />10. The Most Important Social Conscientization will Come About by the Unification of Work and Study<br />11. The Personality of the Human Being Is Formed Principally by the Social Environment in Its Aspect of Action<br />12. Only by the Conscientization that Comes through Work (Correct and True) is It Possible to Help People To Avoid Being Exploited<br />13. Material Wealth Is Scarce, But that of Work Is Almost Limitless<br />14. Action (Correct, Real and Aesthetic) Is Fundamental to All and Any Human and Social Development<br />15. Evil Will Be Eliminated Through the Conscientization that Follows from Action<br />16. A High Level of Productivity Is the base of the Economic and Cultural Wealth of A People<br />17. Sophisticated Work Must Be the Basis of the Economy of the Future<br />18. The Third Economic Phase of Humanity Will Be Based on the Wealth Generated by Qualitative Work<br />19. Liberty Is Not As Simple As It Seems, for We Are Not Free To Do Evil<br />20. Only True Liberty (To Do Good) Can Increase the Wealth of the Human Being<br />21. The Failure of the American Challenge means that the True Challenger for Development Is Now Europe<br />22. Awareness of Its Errors Will Unite Humanity, beginning with Europe, Which Is the Basis of Civilization<br />23. After the Renaissance, the Real Birth of Humanity Will begin, If Europe Conscientizes Its Errors and Its Values<br />24. Unification Could Resolve All Human Problems<br />25. Conscientization of the Evils of Isolationism Is the Only Way for a Country to Return to Development<br />26. Only Europe Will Be Able to Unify the World through Conscientization<br />27. Only a Universal Civilization Such As Europe Will Be Able to Bring About the Trilogical Revolution in a Form Definitive for Humanity<br />28. We Must Return to the Unity Which Exists Among All Things, Because It Is The Source of Existence<br />29. The World of Economics, and the Spiritual World, Form Two Aspects of the Same Universe in Which We Live<br />30. All People Should Rejoice, for We Are Entering the Most Marvellous Period of Human History<br />31. Humanity Will Reach the Apogee Foreseen by Its Creator, Because Good Is More Powerful Than Evil<br />32. Awareness of the New Science of Sociopathology Is the First Step Towards Resolving All Social and Mental Problems<br />33. Conscientization Based on a True Dialectic Has Brought Us to a Universal<br />Synthesis<br /><br />Glossary<br />About the Author<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /></slave></master>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-48931825517750496312009-03-27T14:22:00.001-07:002009-03-28T18:58:50.999-07:00US Invasion of Panama - Notes<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Notes</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1. In September 1979 the US Congress passed Law 96-70, sponsored in the House of Representatives by Rep. John Murphy of New York. It “implemented” the Panama Canal treaties, but in fact contained a number of provisions that violated Panama’s sovereignty over its territory.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />2. In September 1984 the Contadora Groups (Mexico, Venezuela, Panama, and Colombia) proposed a Central American peace accord designed to end the contra war in Nicaragua. The agreement was accepted by Nicaragua but rejected by Washington.<br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">3. Roberto Diaz was relieved of his post as second in command of the Panama Defense Forces in June 1987; Devalle was dismissed as president by Panama’s National Assembly in February 1988. Both have joined the US campaign of aggression against Panama.<br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">4. Jose Marti is considered Cuba’s national hero. He initiated Cuba’s final war for independence from Spain in 1895 and was killed in battle that same year.<br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">5. The Movement of Nonaligned Countries held its Ninth Summit Conference in September 1989. At that meeting Cuba’s First Vice President Raul Castro made a vigorous call for worldwide solidarity with Panama.<br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">6. In 1949 some drunken US sailors climbed on top of Marti’s statue in Havana and urinated on it. This act of desecration provoked a wide public outcry and protest demonstrations among Cuban patriots.<br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">7. In April 1961, in an action organized and directed by the US government, some 1,500 Cuban-born mercenaries invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. The invaders were defeated within seventy-two hours.<br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">8. On December 7, 1989, Castro spoke at a ceremony honoring Cubans killed on internationalist missions. The speech was published in English in the December 17, 1989, issue of Granma Weekly Review and in the January 5, 1990, issue of the Militant.<br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">9. This refers to the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis. At that time, Washington threatened a nuclear attack and invasion against Cuba after it had acquired missiles from the Soviet Union to defend itself from threatened US aggression.<br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">10. Cuban athlete Javier Sotomayor is holder of the world high jump record.<br /><br />- page 58<br /></span><br /></div>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-30697936001235015462009-03-27T14:21:00.004-07:002009-03-28T19:02:54.430-07:00US Invasion of Panama - Ch.4<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Resistance of Panama’s People is of Truly Historic Significance</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A few days ago, we projected holding this ceremony here today. In the past few hours, we thought about whether or not to suspend it, owing to the developments you know about. We had also planned a reception with the athletes, which had been promised some time ago. Obviously, however, that has been suspended until a more suitable time.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In any case, we wanted to go ahead with the ceremony, although I believe that our hearts are not exactly into talking about sports. Sports are deserving of every honor and glory. Victories in sports are one of the most legitimate products of the revolution.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This has been a year of great successes, of great satisfaction for our people, and of glory for Cuban sports. And these are a precursor of even greater glories in the future. But our intention is not to speak about sports.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It is more fitting to devote a few words to the heroes of Our America who at this moment are fighting in Panama for the dignity, honor, and sovereignty of our peoples. It is more fitting to recall those who are dying at this moment. We should recall those who at this very moment are being massacred by bombs and imperialism’s most sophisticated weapons of war.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We must think about the fact that they are fighting at this very moment. Thus, our event is occurring at one of the most painful, dramatic, and difficult times in the contemporary history of what Marti called Our America.4</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">To a greater or lesser extent, we have witnessed and received information about everything that began occurring yesterday, December 20, during the early morning hours.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It’s not that these developments took us by surprise. It’s not that we considered imperialism incapable of such a crime. It was possible to anticipate these acts.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Our country had denounced these acts in our press three or four months ago, and in particularly strong terms. We’re now in December and these denunciations were made around August or September. We also energetically denounced them at the Non-aligned summit meeting.5 We know the enemy and we know the enemy’s moral character. Therefore, what they did could not surprise us.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">But even though we anticipated these actions and denounced them, we could not but feel deeply indignant to the bottom of our hearts, deeply angry, deeply bitter. Because it is not possible to react to such a crime in any other manner.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Once again, we have been witness to how imperialism acts. We have seen or heard – in one way or another, through television footage or radio broadcasts – the pretexts and justifications used to carry out this savage and uncivilized action. We have listened to the spokespersons of imperialism, from the president of the United States to the secretary of state, as well as the secretary of defense and the Pentagon chiefs. We find loathsome and disgusting the way they try to justify the deeds, the lies, and the ridiculous pretexts used for it.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They say that the Panamanians murdered an unarmed soldier. Everybody knows how they go around there, how they go around in Panama drunk who doesn’t know that US soldiers do when they’re drunk? Once they even climbed atop the statue of the hero of our national independence, Jose Marti, in Central Park.6 There are photographs of it. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">These soldiers, armed and in the state of intoxication, fired on a military installation and wounded some Panamanians. One of these soldiers died as a result of the provocation. What could the Panamanian soldiers there do, being attacked while at their post? What the imperialists are saying is that an “innocent” and “unarmed” US soldier was murdered.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It seems that in the party they were having they brought along a North American woman. So what do the US spokespersons say? That not only did the Panamanians murder a soldier, but there was also an attempt to sexually abuse a North American woman. These things have been said and repeated hundreds of times. The goal is to present as the most natural and justified thing in the world the act of committing genocide against the people of Panama.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">13 Heavens Note</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For the purpose of United States military troops being located on foreign soil, US officials negotiate a SOFA agreement, or Status of Forces Agreement, which among other things, outlines the actions and responsibilities by both nations (the host and the USA) in the event criminal or military crimes are committed by US civilian, military, or contracted personnel. In most cases, this acts in similar fashion to ‘diplomatic immunity’, preventing prosecution or even punishment for crimes committed against the host foreign nationals or property. To see the effectiveness of this, simply look at the many rapes of young Japanese and Okinawan girls by US military troops. In many cases, these girls were under the age of thirteen, and in some cases were abducted and then gang-raped. Such soldiers are afforded protection from prosecution by the host nation, per the terms of the SOFA. Only in rare circumstances has the US government turned over US personnel to face host-nation prosecution, and these tend to be the stories that are allowed to come into the homes of parents and neighbors of those charged with such crimes. The countless others are never reported by the US media. </span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">These are the methods of imperialism and this is how it acts. We know it well, and not only through our own long experience. We also know the number of lies used in this whole sad episode of aggression against Panama. We have seen the videos, we have seen these things on television. And we know the dozens and hundreds of times that US troops have violated Panamanian sovereignty, humiliation and trampling on the people of Panama. This was occurring virtually every day, and now we have the scenes, we have the televised shots of these events, which our people can observe.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They showed no respect for Panama’s streets or avenues. From their military bases in the canal zone they came with their helicopters, their tanks, their armored personnel carriers, and their mercvenary troops. With the look of murderers that characterizes them, they would go into any part of the Panamanian capital or any other town, violation all international laws. And now they are saying that those who provoked it were the Panamanians. They are saying that the United States had to invade a smaill country in our hemisphere to defend the security of the United States.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I repeat once more: This is loathsome and disgusting. And these pretexts and lies have been spread throughout the world by way of their powerful mass media.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The fact is that they invaded Panama. How did they do it? They did it in the manner that the peoples were familiar with not so long ago, in 1939. They did it in the manner of the Nazis and the fascists, looking for similar pretexts to initiate their aggressions. They did it in the manner of the Nazis and the fascists, attacking by surprise, without any kind of warning.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This time they did it in the early morning hours, at 1:00AM, when it was assumed that the population was asleep, that the workers were asleep, and even that the soldiers were asleep. And this was not an attack against one position. It was a simultaneous attack on all the military units and important strategic points in Panama.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In this way they have brought death and destruction to this sister country in Latin America. In a few hours they have shed the blood of thousands of Panamanians, the majority of them civilians.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">But they didn’t attack fearlessly, that is, fearless of the death of imperialism’s own mercenary soldiers. Quite the contrary. They killed as many persons as necessary to avoid their own losses. Wherever there was resisteance they didn’t send soldiers. They used planes and helicopters to drop bombs, and they “flattened” areas with artillery. Then they attacked. Whenever they encountered resistance, they would retreat again and “flatten” the area, using air power and artillery. This is the type of war they have waged in the capital of Panama, in the most densely populated communities. That is what has created thousands of civilian victims.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Imperialism’s mercenary soldiers who are wounded receive immediate attention. They are picked up in modern ambulances, taken to hospital planes, and flown to the best hospitals in the United States. Meanwhile, they don’t even permit ambulances to pick up wounded Panamanian combatants. And they don’t even permit them to pick up the wounded civilian population. Thus people are dying, and the streets of the capital of Panama are covered in blood.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There were some wounded Panamanians who the people themselves, in one way or another, were able to bring to the hospital. Owning to the number of victims, however, there was not adequate medical attention, despite the extraordinary efforts by Panamanian doctors. There wasn’t enough plasma, medical supplies, hospital beds, equipment, or surgical instruments. And thus we have seen photographs and television footage of dozens of civilians – men, women, children, and old people – whose dead bodies filled the hospital corridors.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Cuba addressed itself to all the most authoritative international bodies. It called on the United Nations. It called on the Movement of Nonaligned Countries and all organizations that could participate in the struggle, in the effort to halt US imperialism’s act of barbarism. Cuba spoke with many friends throughout the world.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">But in addition, it also addressed itself to the International Red Cross, to the highest authorities of that institution, explaining to them what was occurring in Panama with the victims of the invasion. We explained the need for an urgent mobilization to attend to the wounded Panamanians, who the empire’s mercenary soldiers were preventing from even receiving assistance.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We have expressed our willingness to cooperate. We have expressed our willingness to send our plasma, our doctors, our equipment, our surgeons. We have done this many times over the years of the revolution, helping countries that suffered natural catastrophes such as hurricanes or earthquakes. We have done this even in cases where the governments were enemies of ours, as in Nicaragua under Somoza, or as in Honduras. We also did this with governments that we had no relations with, as happened on one occasion following a major earthquake in Peru. Now we are facing the reality that it is not possible to assist Panama’s wounded, because US troops are there and do not want Panama’s wounded to receive assistance.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">13 Heavens Note</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">International Red Cross personnel, as well as journalists from around the world, were prevented from helping, let alone videotaping or interviewing victims. The world wanted to know what was happening, but the US military and its leadership wanted to keep the story contained until they could report their version...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">How much barbarity and abuse have we come to in this world? How much cruelty have we come to in this world? Thus, while the empire’s wounded soldiers travel immediately to the best hospitals over there, Panamanians lie bleeding in the streets.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">That’s why I say that the events are sufficiently sad and sufficiently harsh as to make anyone angry and bitter. I’m no longer thinking just of the brutality, the illegality, and the unjustifiable action of the United States.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Alongside this, there is something else that has occurred that is truly historic, that is truly significant. This is the resistance of the people of Panama, the resistance of the units of the Defense Forces and the civilians organized in the Dignity Battalions and other units.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The empire believed the resistance would last minutes, perhaps hours. They thought that when they dropped paratroopers at night or attacked with planes and helicopters, not a single soldier or a single civilian combatant would remain at his post. That is the conception they have of Latin Americans. They still have not learned enough. That is their conception – or more accurately, that is their contempt for our peoples.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The truth is that they believed the battle would already be over by dawn. The president of the United States had a speech prepared for 7:00AM to announce that everything had already been wrapped up. One could see discouragement, disgust, even panic on his face that morning. Tens of thousands of soldiers had been deployed in a surprise attack, along with hundreds of planes, helicopters, heavy artillery, and armored personnel carriers. But despite all this, they encountered everywhere the heroic resistance of the defense Forces and of civilians opposing the aggression.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In this respect they were unable to imitate Hitler. They were unable to imitate the fascists and the Nazis of 1939 or 1940. Because in many countries the Nazis were able to at least capture important cities in a matter of hours, fighting against well-equipped armies. Yet in twenty-four hours the empire was not able to capture the capital city of Panama. This was despite the fact that they began the attack from military bases within Panama itself, and despite their fabulous superiority in men and, above all, weaponry. And yet they were unable to overcome the resistance of a handful, of a few thousand combatants.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">13 Heavens Note</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When the USA wanted to send US bombers stationed in England to attack Libya, France, in opposition to their planned attack, refused over-flights through French airspace. The US was forced to “go around”. That didn't stop one pilot from dropping a bomb on French soil as if saying, "Take that!" However, in the case of the Panama invasion, US warplanes few directly over Cuba. No request for permission was requested. Rather, the US sent electronic jamming aircraft ahead of the bombers to completely disrupt Cuban radar and defense systems. It is also worth noting that the US Air Force’s prized F-117 Stealth saw its first combat action in the invasion of Panama, accompanied of course by electronic jamming EF-111 Ravens, to help give it its much touted “stealthiness”. This, rather than announce it three years earlier during the attacks against Muammar Qaddafi of Libya. It was said, "Qaddafi wasn't worth it!"</span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Don’t imagine that Panama had a large military force. They posed a few thousand men in their armed forces spread across the country, plus a few thousand civilians organized and trained in a relatively brief period of time. Don’t’ imagine that large amounts of military equipment were in the hands of the Panamanians. Many of our municipalities in Cuba have more weapons and more firepower than the Panamanian people had as they confronted this aggression.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We ourselves have calculated our firepower in comparison with that of Panama. These calculations show that Cuba possesses 200 to 300-times greater firepower than Panama in terms of combat resources, quantity of arms, and the capability of our weaponry. Nevertheless, tens of thousands of Yankee troops, attacking by surprise in the early morning hours of December 20, were unable to capture Panama City. Even today they have had to take another twenty-four hours to try to overcome the resistance. And this is in a city cornered between the Pacific Ocean and the canal.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">That is why we believe that the Panamanian people have written one of the most heroic chapters in the history of the hemisphere during the last forty-eight hours.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">None of the empire’s key objectives have been attained.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They did not succeed in capturing the head of the Defense Forces, which was one of the main stated aims for this savage and illegal action. Their aim was to capture him and bring him to the United States.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">See how far we have come: they have put into practice a new imperial principle whereby their armed forces can land in any part of the world to arrest persons they say are wanted by their courts. They can go into any part of the world and arrest people who in their view may have violated their laws, or whom they classify as terrorists.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This is the first time they have put this principle into practice. They have invaded a country and killed thousands of people under the pretext of capturing a senior official of a sovereign state in Latin America, a country that is a prominent member of the Movement of Nonaligned Countries and the United Nations. But they are frustrated because they say they have not attained their objective.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They also claimed that they were going to bring democracy. And they were going to do this through no less than a repugnant, puppet government. They have imposed a mercenary government over a river of blood, a river of Panamanian blood, the blood of the Panamanian people. In addition, they said they were going to guarantee implementation of the canal treaties and other, similar pretexts.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Up to the present, what they have won for themselves is the repudiation of the world. They have not succeeded in smashing the resistance. They have not succeeded in crushing the resistance in a few hours, as they imagined they would. The great army of the great empire has been made to look ridiculous against a handful of Panamanian fighters attacked by surprise.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What are they now afraid of? What do they now fear? They fear that the resistance will be prolonged. Their tactic has been to attack the capital, appoint a puppet government, and, based on this, call on the other patriots to surrender. It’s as if one day they attacked Havana and captured it, and then called on the people of Pinar del Rio to surrender, the people of Villa Clara to surrender, the people of the eastern provinces to surrender, the combatants in the Sierra Maestra to surrender.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">That is their hope, and that’s the idea they are attempting to apply. They are making use of their technology to jam television broadcasts and to send messages over clandestine radio stations, applying the methods of psychological warfare. The goal is to paint a picture of a people no longer able to put up resistance. In this way they also aim to deceive the world.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Yesterday we witnessed how in the morning, six hours after the attack had begun, they were already telling the world that all resistance had ended.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">For more than fifteen hours yesterday, the Panamanian national radio network – which was being relayed to other transmitters – broadcast news of what was occurring, summoning the people to the struggle. It did this until the invaders were able to silence it through direct attacks by helicopter gunships.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">But Panamanians have also been listening to international radio. They have been listening to Cuban radio, to Radio Havana Cuba, Radio Rebelde, and other stations. These stations were in regular communication with Panama yesterday, informing the people of Cuba and the world of what was happening. Today these stations continue reporting, although the US was attempting to intercept their broadcasts in Panama. They were trying to jam the broadcasts because they did not even want the Panamanian people to know what was going on through listening to Cuban radio.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What is it that they fear like the devil himself? What is the fear that all the spokespersons of the empire now express? The fear is that the resistance will continue. The fear is that the Defense Forces and the Dignity Battalions and all Panamanian patriots will continue the war in the country’s interior. Because they know that it is possible, over a greater or lesser period of time, to control the capital with its overwhelming accumulation of force. But they are panic-stricken that the patriots will get organized in the country’s interior, in the wooded and mountainous terrain, and continue the war of resistance. All the steps they are now taking are inspired by this panic.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Their hope is to prevent this from happening and to present the aggression to the world as being over. For this reason they are using all possible means today to confuse the Panamanians, telling them that all resistance has ended.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They are afraid of getting bogged down there. It is one thing to control a city, given the means at their disposal. It is quite another to try to eliminate resistance throughout the country if the Panamanians make use of the rich experience of irregular warfare.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This is something we have studied extensively. It is something we have educated our combatants in from one end of Cuba to the other, through what we call the concept of war of the entire people. We have studied the experience the revolutionary movement has accumulated in recent years, as well as our own experience. Because when all is said and done, we did not begin our struggle for liberation in the capital of the republic. We began in the mountains of the Sierra Maestra, until our guerrilla struggle extended itself across the entire country.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">That’s what the powerful imperialist gentlemen are afraid of now, and that’s what they are trying to avoid at all costs. They are afraid, and well they should be! Little by little they will be forced to learn what we are capable of, we whom they have scorned, we the peoples of Latin America!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They have had to be taught a number of lessons. They were taught something at the Bay of Pigs, a number of years ago. They were taught something in Nicaragua, by the Sandinista fighters. And just recently they were taught something in a spectacular fashion by the heroic actions of the Salvadoran revolutionaries and patriots.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This was something truly extraordinary. For ten years the United States has constantly provided financial resources, training, and arms to the genocidal government of El Salvador. For ten years they have provided technical means, helicopters, planes, the most modern infantry weapons, communications equipment, everything. For ten years!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">And yet the number of Salvadoran fighters has grown. They have proved they can penetrate the streets of the capital nad remain there for weeks at a time, holding in check an army that is armed to the teeth, financed, and trained by the United States. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This was just five or six weeks ago. And now we have seen what has happned to them in Panama. They know that if the Panamanian patriots are able to take into account the experience of Nicaragua, of the FMLN [Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front] in El Salvador, then they are going to get bogged down in this small country – and for who knows how long.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Yankee imperialists have in one way or another been rebuked by world public opinion. But in our opinion they have not yet received a sufficient response.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There is still a great deal of hypocrisy in the world. Europe, which boasts of its civilized character, has seen some governments applauding the aggression against Panama. Others have expressed their “understanding” for US actions.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Of course, there are also governments in Europe that have forcefully condemned these acts. In terms of the European socialist countries – as far as we know right now – the Soviet Union has condemned the US action and called for the withdrawal of US troops from Panama. But in some European socialist countries we haven’t heard so much as a word spoken concerning the aggression against Panama.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In Latin America the immense majority of countries and political leaders have in one way or another condemned these acts – some energetically, others more tepidly.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">International institutions – above all the Movement of Nonaligned Countries – have forcefully condemned these acts. The United Nations Security Council has not said its final word on the matter; they are still discussing it. But as you know, the United States enjoys the sacrosanct right of veto, which it has utilized on countless occasions.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The United Nations secretary general has said he regrets the acts of violence. But in all sincerity I believe that this is a time not for regretting acts but rather for condemning them. In the past I have expressed the hope that peace can be attained. But this is not the time for expressing the hope that peace cab be attained. Rather, it is the time to demand the withdrawal of the invading US troops.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Of course it is not easy to carry out important functions in the United Nations, because those elected to posts there depend on the backing of the Security Council. And it is sufficient for a single member, among those who enjoy the irritation and anti-democratic privilege of the right to veto, to overturn the election of any leader of the United Nations.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Organization of American States, although not the same rotten mess it was thirty years ago, is still a far from being a model institution. This time the United States was not able to secure the complicity of the OAS.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This time the United States was not able to accomplish what it did in the case of Cuba, where it gained OAS support for its aggressive measures.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This time it was not able to accomplish what it did in the case of the Dominican Republic in 1965, where, after staging a cunning military strike, it managed to get the OAS to approve a resolution to also send in troops.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This time, despite many maneuvers in the OAS to get it to support US plans for political aggression against Panama, it did not succeed. And when it came to sending in troops, the United States won no support in the OAS for its action, let alone agreement by OAS members to send in troops of their own.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What happened this time is that the OAS condemned both the aggressor and the victim. It condemned the aggression by the United States and it condemned the government under attack. This is a novel approach. But it is one that, despite everything, represents a step forward. In fact, we might say it is a considerable step forward.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Many governments around the world have condemned this crime, including a number of capitalist governments, a number of Western governments. They know it is an act of savagery, an act of barbarism, which strikes a blow against peace in Central America, against stability in Central America, where there are so many serious unresolved problems.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">They know this action strikes a blow against stability in Latin America, where there are so many serious unresolved problems. They know it is a blow against stability in world politics, and that it is a humiliating slap in the face to the Soviet peace policy.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We have been sounding the alert for more than a year, since the meeting with the milita members of Havana held in the Plaza of the Revolution, and on numerous occasions since then. Just a few days ago, at the ceremony for eh burial of the comrades who lost their lives in internationalist missions, we said what we thought about the imperialists’ interpretation of peace and what we thought about the dangers of the present situation.8</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We said what we thought about the evolution from a bi-polar to a uni-polar world, under US hegemony. And we said what we thought about the stepped-up role by the United States as a policeman that does not stop at any hemisphere, that intervenes in Asia and Africa as well as in Latin America, and that takes upon itself the right to decide what government a country can and cannot have.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We said that the only guarantee and security that our people can have is that which we were capable of conquering with our heroism.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It is difficult to place much confidence in international law when we see such things. It is difficult to place much confidence in international institutions when we see these events and the other things we have seen. It is difficult to place much confidence in the United Nations when we see such things.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It is difficult to place much confidence in the Security Council, which ended up not even issuing a resolution, even a mediocre one, expressing a judgment on the events. Instead it discussed who represents Panama – the representative of the puppet placed in power there or the representative of the government under attack, which is recognized by dozens of countries around the world. This is what they have been discussing!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Even the OAS proved capable of declaring that the representative it would accept is the representative of the government of Panama, of the Torrijista government of Panama, of the anti-imperialist government of Panama. And this is something that has not yet been decided by the “brilliant” Security Council of the United Nations!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">From this we have to draw lessons that even wise men should continually reflect upon. I am not a pessimist, because I believe in the peoples. And I believe particularly in the peoples of Latin America – peoples who have been so humiliated, plundered, exploited, and attacked. I believe in this mixture of Indians, Blacks, Spaniards, Europeans, and even Asians who make up our peoples! Or who make up the Cuban people in particular, and to a greater or lesser degree those of Latin America.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I believe in these peoples not as an article of faith but because I have seen them fight, I have seen them in battle. I admire the way in which Latin Americans today are prepared to fight. I am referring to the peoples, because there are governments that are still not sufficiently courageous to challenge the actions of the imperialist power. But any country, no matter how small, can fight.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Grenadians fought. The Nicaraguans fought the genocidal army of Somoza, created by the United States. They fought the mercenary invasions, the war imposed by the United States, just as in the past Sandino fought the Yankees. The Salvadorans have fought with unequaled heroism. The Panamanian patriots have fought with equally extraordinary heroism. Without a single exception, the peoples are losing their fear of the imperialist soldiers!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I have not spoken of Cuba; there is no need to. We know very well what will happen if one day they dare to invade our homeland! I think they know this too – and if they don’t, they should – because we have not wasted time. We have confronted this empire for thirty years, and the more aggressive it becomes the more we prepare ourselves to confront it with our own forces, which are sufficient to defend our homeland.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Our homeland will be defended not only with unequaled heroism but also with the best technical means that our science can provide, with the best military and political conceptions, with the best strategy, with the best tactics. And we didn’t just start to work on his today, we didn’t just start thirty years ago with this revolution. We began more than 120 years ago during our first war of independence. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">One single municipality, even the smallest in our country, could wage a long war against the same number of troops the imperialists have employed in Panama. So we are prepared and we are trained. We have hundreds of thousands of trained military personnel; we have an experienced and seasoned party; and we have an exceptionally courageous and patriotic people.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Our people have always been patriotic, but never like today. They have always been revolutionary, but never like today. This stems from years of real-life experience in the revolution and in the international field. It stems from the constant observation of phenomena and of the evolution of the world.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Let the imperialists do what they will! They will never force Cuba to surrender and they cannot keep Latin America in submission indefinitely. Each time they will have to confront a people who are increasingly conscious, increasingly tired of suffering abuses, injustices, and plunder. Imperialism will increasingly fail to force the Third World into submission, no matter what political maneuvers or conspiracies it employs, and despite its successes against certain countries in the socialist camp.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Let them do what they will! I am convinced that these aspirations to be the policeman of the world, to be owners of the world, to be masters of the world, will be unsuccessful no matter what weapons they employ, including nuclear ones. We have already learned that this is nothing to be afraid of. We know this because they once threatened us with those weapons, and I don’t think a single person in this country lost any sleep over it.9</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It doesn’t matter what they have! It doesn’t matter how sophisticated their weapons may be, because what a man carries inside himself, in his breast, in his consciousness, in his mind, is worth far more than any advantages offered by their sophisticated weapons.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We know this from our own history and from more than one experience. In fact we began our war of liberation virtually without weapons. And with the enemies’ weapons – which had been provided by the United States – we carried out and won the war. The situation today is different. Today, we have millions of weapons – millions! And we even produce our own. But in addition we can also count on the weapons of the invaders because we know how they can be taken and used against them. [</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Applause</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">]</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I think that the best guarantee is a correct understanding of the power of our peoples, of the courage of our men and women, of the courage of our nations.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">More than in hackneyed phrases of international law, more than in discredited international institutions, we believe in the peoples and in their courage. We believe in the ability of man to continue marching on the path of progress, on the path of independence, on the path of genuine freedom and dignity!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I am speaking here to athletes, but we know that our athletes are also soldiers of our homeland. For they are ready, as has been said many times, to defend their country not only in the field of sports but also in the field of battle.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/QUklYcszBEAzcUceKrenng?authkey=Gv1sRgCNWzoaulyfLWywE&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/Sc7S9CkMkgI/AAAAAAAABzw/VJgIKaYhlf8/s400/OJC2.JPG" alt="US Invasion of Panama" border="0" /></span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We know the patriotism with which our athletes fight. We know the moral values and honor with which our athletes fight. We know the love with which they defend our beautiful flag in any corner of the world. We know the honesty and integrity of their conduct. There is no campaign of lies that can force them to deviate from this. Not even all the gold in the world would be enough to buy them off. I speak to these athletes today and I express these sentiments, these thoughts, because this is not the time to speak of anything else.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">You athletes know that the better trained you are, the better prepared you are, the more certain you are of victory. Inner courage, intelligence, and thought are important and decisive, but so too is training. That is why in recent years our party and our revolutionary government have devoted so much energy, so much time, and so many resources to preparing the people for a war of the entire people. Because if the difficult hour arrives, it’s good to know how to shoot for the heart, how to shoot for the head, how to shoot with whatever weapon you have. And if the invaders come wearing bulletproof vests, we can make mines ant will blow them 100 yards into the air. That’s the only way they’ll break the records set by Sotomayor!10</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We have arms of all calibers and penetrating power. And we will have the marksmanship to shoot where we have to shoot, even if they come equipped with armor heavier than that worn by the Spanish knights during their conquest of this hemisphere or in their wars of the medieval era.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Let us make use of this additional experience to deepen our understanding that we must be ever more prepared and ever more organized; so that the barbarians, the savages, the monstrous imperialists never again dare to commit a similar act of aggression against our homeland. They will have to pay a very high price if they dare try it!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I salute you, our athletes, for the honors and trophies you have won.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Let me finish today the way Sotomayor, the glory of our sporting world, did in his remarks today:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Socialism or death!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Patria o muerte! [Homeland or death]</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Venceremos! [We will win]</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">[</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ovation</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">]</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Fidel Castro</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This speech was delivered December 21, 1989, the day after the US invasion of Panama. It was given at a ceremony called to present awards to the most outstanding Cuban athletes of the year, held at the Sports City complex in Havana.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- pages 40-57</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-42305518050532439502009-03-27T14:21:00.003-07:002009-03-28T15:03:04.205-07:00US Invasion of Panama - Ch.3<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Panama’s Only Sin is Refusing to go Down on its Knees</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Located at the south-eastern-most end of Central America, Panama was one of the countries liberated by Simon Bolivar. Culturally and ethnically, it extends the Colombian-Venezuelan coast, and it is also a Caribbean nation. It is Caribbean because of its varied, historical ties to the Antilles.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The location and shape of Panama’s territory makes its geographic position the main natural resource of the country – it is an isthmus that links the two continents of America and is at the very center of the hemisphere and the Caribbean. Thanks to this, shipping transit between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, as well as other forms of international communication and trade, are possible.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If exploited rationally and peacefully, this asset could provide resources to finance the full development of the country’s other productive capacities. But it hasn’t been able to. For centuries, Panama’s geographic advantage has been subject to the control of successive colonial and imperialist powers, hardly leaving even marginal benefits for Panama, and creating structural distortions in te country’s economy.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The most irritation of these experiences has been and remains the hegemony of the United States, which has carried out numerous armed interventions since the beginning of the nineteenth century and which currently militarily occupies the central part of the country.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">National struggles against US excesses and to recover the territorial and moral integrity of Panama have been at the center of its history. We have fought to win complete independence and to exercise real sovereignty over the nation’s main natural resource, as well as control over our country’s development. We Panamanians have the right to determine this.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The 1977 canal treaties were a result of this history; of the tragic and heroic events of January 1964; and of the complex and prolonged negotiations led by Gen. Omar Torrijos during the 1970s, backed by mobilizations of the Panamanian people and international solidarity even though these treaties, which are now in effect, are far from satisfying all of Panama’s just demands, they represent important progress toward achieving our national objectives.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In accordance with the treaties, civil administration of the canal became bi-national, with an increasing Panamanian share of control. The canal is to be turned over to Panama completely by the year 2000. Responsibility for its protection and defense is to rest increasingly with the Panamanian armed forces, while the US military presence is to begin decreasing, so that the last foreign soldier leaves the country by the end of the century.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The treaties clearly establish that US forces remain in Panama for the time being exclusively to provide protection and defense of the canal. And that this must always be carried out in coordination with the Panamanian armed forces. US forces cannot be utilized for any other purpose.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Since the signing and ratification of the treaties, Panama has scrupulously carried them out and the United States has systematically violated them. The US Congress unilaterally passed the so-called Murphy Law, or Law 96-70, which it uses to gaggle over and deny Panama a large part of the benefits and rights that belong to us in the administration of and profits from the canal.1</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In the military sphere, the United States has created and maintains two structures in Panama that violate the pact:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The 193d Brigade of its southern army tries to justify its presence on the basis of protection and defense of the canal.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Even more serious is the Southern Command, which is an enormous complex dedicated to military control, espionage, and intervention against all the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Neither the existence nor the activities of the Southern Command are authorized by the treaties, or by Panama’s laws or government. Both the Panamanian parliament and government have repeatedly demanded its removal, denouncing it before the world’s principle international forums.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">These two foreign military structures have nothing to do with protecting the canal. The canal’s security is guaranteed by its neutrality, as well as its efficiency in the permanent service of the peaceful navigation and commerce of the nations of the world. It is also guaranteed by the good will of the Panamanian people, who make it possible for the canal to operate and who voluntarily refrain from interrupting its functioning.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Neither Panama nor the canal have enemies, or reasons to have them. The only thing that threatens the security of the waterway is the unwanted presence of the military forces and installations of a foreign power that is constantly involved in conflicts and rivalries in other parts of the world.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Both from a military and an economic point of view, it is absurd to station installations and large numbers of troops on the banks of the canal. This restricts its functioning and prevents the area from being used for more productive activities.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The canal has no nearby potential aggressors and would be vulnerable only if faced with a missile attack from outside the region. Anybody who wants to defend the canal against this hypothetical possibility does not need to do it from inside Panama. Inside our territory, the Panamanian forces are sufficient to protect and defend the installation of the waterway.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This is precisely why the Panamanian Defense Forces exist: to guarantee Panama’s neutrality and the security not only of the canal but of all the country’s resources. Our armed forces do this for the benefit of the international community and without threatening the sovereignty or security of third parties.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">One reason for the existence of the Panamanian armed forces is to eliminate the legacy of colonialism and neo-colonialism, and guarantee the integrity and self-determination of the country. This is in compliance with the clause in the treaties stating that for US troops to withdraw, Panama must have sufficient armed forces to replace them. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It’s for this reason also that the current administration in Washington has concentrated its attakes against the Panamanian military and against its Torrijista officers. In the ten years since the signing and ratification of the treaties, the strategic goals of the United States in the region have changed decisively. For them it’s no longer merely a question of controlling the canal. They want to control the entire sub-continent. To do this, they must eliminate three obstacles once and for all.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">First, change the terms of the canal treaties to broaden the authority of the US military presence and to prolong it beyond this century.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Second, eliminate Torrijismo as the dominant political current and restore an oligarchic alternative government that will agree to and administer new canal accords.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Finally, under the guise of “professionalism,” eliminate the nationalist, popular character of the young Panamanian armed forces. That is to say, break its civic commitments and turn it into the kind of repressive force necessary to impose the objectives I referred to, against the will of the nation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Going against the grain of the real historical, ethnic, cultural, economic, and political characteristics of the country, US administrations have insidsted on subsuming Panamain their Central American strategy. Contrary to this picture, however, the Contadora initiative and previous initiatives -</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ut not as part of the sub-regional conflicts.2</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Nevertheless, with characteristic US arrogance, in December 1985 Vice-Admiral John Poindexter – then head of the US National Security Council – made the following demands:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Panamanian government must break with the Contadora efforts. It must provide logistical and training facilities for the Nicaraguan contras. And it must assign special units of its armed forces to initiate acts of aggression against Nicaragua. When Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega firmly refused, he was warned that he would have to face the consequences.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Economic reprisals against Panama were initiated the following January with the cancellation of assistance that had been agreed to through the US Agency for International Development. The slander campaign against Noriega and other Panamanian leaders began in March, throught Col. Oliver North’s “leaking” to the press of “secret” National Security Council documents, as the US press itself has revealed. The campaign has not let us since then, systematically pursuing its objective of isolating Panama.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This attack is directed not only against the Contadora Group (although the US government put pressure simultaneously on other members of it, particularly Mexico). Significantly, during that same time, Gen. John Galvin, then head of the Sourthern Comnand and the current commander of NATO’s troops, made Panama an offer. He proposed turning over civil administration of the canal to the country by 1990 – ten years ahead of schedule – if Panama would allow US military bases to remain in the country for fifteen more years, until the year 2015.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There’s nothing naïve about the US conception of turning over the canal. On the one hand it recognizes that the waterway has been more efficient, secure,and profitable since Panamanians began sharing in its administration. On the other hand, the essence of the US conception is something else: it proposes the “nationalization” of the canal, in which Panama would agree to privatize it – in other words, turn the canal over to multinational corporations dominated by US capital. This would serve not only to dilute Panamanian demands, but also to discourage Latin American, Japanese, and European participation in the creation of new alternatives for the canal.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">US strategy to bring Panamanina nationalism to its knees has been able to combine various operations at the same time. It has carried out a campaign directed at the US public and at Latin America and the world, aimed at discrediting General Noriega and other leaders. (It is necessary for them to prepare US public opinion for a military intervention much more costly even than the invasion of Grenada.) It has accused them of a variety of crimes, such as drug trafficking, and has tired to make it appear as though a bloody dictatorship rules Panama.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Throughout this long campaign the United States has used to the utmost its undisputed control over the mass media in most parts of the world. It temporarily succeeded in its efforts to neutralize international solidarity with Panama and paralyze a Latin American response to the flagrant aggression committed against a Latin American country.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At the same time, in addition to the psychological damage it inflicted with this type of aggression, the US government attempted to fashion a united front of right-wing political parties within Panama. When this failed to bring results, it organized a front headed by business and oligarchic sectors that succeeded in winning over numerous middle-class professional associations and civic organizations. This front had the support of the church hierarchy, most of the foreign banks, and the political parties I mentioned.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Throught this the US government aimed at – and temporarily succeeded in – destabilizing the political and economic life of the country. It initiated a process of social subversion that was supposed to lead within a short period of time to the setting up of a de facto government and the final breaking up of Torrijismo and the Defense Forces. The aim of the US propaganda and disinformation campaign outside the country was to cover up the neo-colonialist nature of this movement, making it appear as though the movement’s aims were “democratic.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">At the same time, intense pressure was put on members of the oligarchy – both those who were pro-US, as wellas vacillating members of the government alliance. Officials of the armed forces who were less patriotic were also pressured. All of this ws done to break their resistance psychologically and intimidate them into surrendering. This led to the betrayal of ex-Colonel Diaz and ex-President Eric Arturo Devalle, neither of whom have any political significance of their own, as well as a group of officers.3</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">However, far from weakening the popular, patriotic movement, these moves helped purify and strengthen it. They opened the door to the establishment of a constitutional government with a patriotic character and a much broader social base.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">On top of everything else, in its arrogance, ignorance, and desperation, the US government carried out a brutal series of economic aggressions against Panama, alone with military threats. It has severely damaged the Panamanian economy, particularly hurting the Panamanian people.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">However, the imperialist plan did not foresee the resolute resistance of the Panamanian people. Nor that the imperialist actions themselves would become the best indictment of the true neo-colonialist character of the internal subversion.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">This has led to the breaking u[ of the social and political front of the pro-US opposition, which has been stigmatized irrevocable for its role as pawns of the US errors. And the prolonged patriotic resistance has finally opened up the eyes of Latin American and world public opinion. This resistance is also increasingly becoming a political problem within the United States.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The temporary relative success achieved by the opposition has made possible a more self-critical examination of the political errors made by the Panamanian government over the last several years.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The government formed an electoral alliance with sectors of the oligarchy in 1984. It subsequently adopted a policy of concessions toward the International Monetary Fund. It allowed productive sectors of the economy to be de-capitalized in the name of servicing the foreign debt and speculative finance capital, turning the country into a net exporter of capital. It allowed Torrijismo’s basic forms of popular organization and participation to become weak. It maintained a government that was clearly unpopular, in the name of a supposed respect for formal democracy and to avoid incurring Washington’s disfavor. These were errors that of necessity alienated important sectors of the middle class and demobilized popular support.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Panama has reiterated its decision to continue and deepen the process of democratization. But it is not willing to denigrate democracy, reducing it to a mere succession of electoral matches in which the oligarchs take their turn in the government according to what pleases Washington. The cornerstone of real democracy is respect for popular, national sovereignty and the genuine exercise of national sovereignty and the genuine exercise of national self-determination.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/yMC_Gr1CUb4M8mtBVgiOWg?authkey=Gv1sRgCNWzoaulyfLWywE&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/Sc6eGK_Ff_I/AAAAAAAABzo/6vHDjcHUTz8/s400/OJC1.JPG" alt="US Invasion of Panama" border="0" /></span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There is no democracy under conditions of foreign tutelage or interference, or by being forced to imitate foreign models. There is no democracy without effective democratization of the economic, social, and cultural structures of the country, with the people’s participation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There is no democracy if it’s left to US consuls to decide who can and cannot be president of Panama, or which Panamanian civilian or military officials can keep their positions and whether they can remain in the country. This is a matter of principle and is not negotiable.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In Panama we have witnessed and are witnessing what will probably be the US model of destabilization and control for the whole region in the coming years. Panama has been and continues to be an arena for experimentation with new forms of psychological warfare and neo-colonial domination that are already being tested in other parts of Latin America and the Caribbean.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It’s not only a moral imperative, where a small Latin American country whose only sin is effusing to go down on its knees is being subjected to the brutal and blatant aggression of a great power. It is also a political imperative, because the methods being used to force Panama into submission are obviously intended for more general use and are more than a simple precedent.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What is at stake is the sovereignty, self-determination, and dignity of all our nations and peoples. At stake is the right of the Latin American and Caribbean peoples to decide on their own forms of democracy, to determine their own future according to their own interests. Our fate – that of all of us – is either the right to popular, national liberation, or neo-colonial slavery. That’s why we say to certain governments that are too docile, too timid, too complacent: Do not ask for whom the bell tolls in Panama; it tolls for thee.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- pages 30-39</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p></div>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-41360332614190177432009-03-27T14:21:00.001-07:002009-03-28T22:02:43.081-07:00US Invasion of Panama - Ch.2<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Panama’s Fight for Sovereignty: A History</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Panama is not just a canal. Neither did its history begin with the construction of the waterway.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Panama is a country with a rich and complex history and with vibrant cultural traditions. A history of pain and suffering under Spanish colonial oppression, Colombian neglect and indifference, and misrule by a series of corrupt oligarchies in alliance with US imperialism.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It has also been a history of bitter struggles for national independence, sovereignty, and self-determination – from its many attempts to secede from Colombia and up to its present resistance against Washington’s economic domination and military aggression.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Visited by the explorer Christopher Columbus in 1502, the isthmus was the principal transshipment point for treasure and supplies to and from South and Central America during the era of Spanish colonial rule in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. During those years of wanton plunder, Panama was constantly attacked by pirates, corsairs, and buccaneers.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In the colonizers’ lust for gold, mistakenly thought to exist in abundance in Panama, they slaughtered hundreds of thousands of indigenous Indians in the belief that the natives were hiding the precious metal from them.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">After having virtually eliminated the Indians, the Spaniards brought in tens of thousands of African slaves to work the land between 1518 and 1820. Both the Indians and Africans mounted several revolts against the Spaniards. As a result, many Africans escaped bondage and fled to the mountains, where they set up their own kingdom and lived relatively isolated until the early 1900s.</span></p> <div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In 1821 when Central Americas revolted against Spanish rule, Panama joined Colombia, which had already declared its independence. For the next eighty-two years the country struggled unsuccessfully to end its status as a “department” of Colombia.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Anti-colonial forces in Panama had been inspired by the leadership of Simon Bolivar, Latin America’s most prominent fighter against colonial rule. In 1826 Bolivar convened the Congress of Panama to lay plans for a unified federation of free Latin American states.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Throughout the nineteenth century, Colombia treated Panama as a poor and unimportant fiefdom, exploited by military officials and tax collectors sent to govern this “backward department.” During this period Panama received neither the autonomy and self-government that it had sought nor the protection from foreign powers that it had been guaranteed when it voluntarily joined Colombia.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In 1841 the Panamanians declared themselves an independent “State of the Isthmus,” and in 1855 they set up the “Federal State of Panama,” but neither effort was sustainable, and the country fell back into its “department” status.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The southern-most of the Central American countries, Panama is roughly the size of the US state of South Carolina. It is marked with volcanic mountains in the west and rain forests in the fertile eastern region. Most of this land, however, is uninhabited, with the population of 2.5 million concentrated close to the canal. The canal bisects the isthmus connecting North and South America at its narrowest and lowest point, allowing passage between the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Panama’s singular geography, more than any other factor, has fashioned the country’s political history in the twentieth century.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The predominant cultural influence has been Spanish. But the country’s indigenous peoples, as well as the descendants of African slaves and Caribbean peoples who migrated from the islands at the beginning of this century, have together helped shape Panama’s identity and its national character.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Panamanian historian Ricuarte Soler argues that a Panamanian national consciousness and a sense of being “predestined to control the crossroads of the world” was well established before the formation of the Panamanian republic in 1903.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In the second half of the nineteenth century, French capitalists, who had built the Suez Canal in Egypt, became interested in building a waterway across the Central American isthmus. In 1878 they obtained a concession from Colombia to build a canal under the direction of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the engineer who built the Suez Canal.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">After nine years in which thousands of workers died from disease, the French Canal Co. – by then bankrupt, scandal-ridden, and technologically depleted – abandoned the project.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The French effort did not go unnoticed by the US capitalist rulers. President Rutherford Hayes in 1880 and later President Theodore Roosevelt both stated that Washington wanted to build a canal under US control. They argued that it was necessary for “strategic defense” and for expansion beyond US continental borders.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As a result of the brief war with Spain in 1898, the US government won absolute control of Puerto Rico and the Philippines and established a “protectorate” over Cuba.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Washington was now an imperialist power with colonies in two oceans, and so both desired and needed a canal to shorten the travel time to its colonies, as well as to facilitate trade between the East and West coasts of the United States itself. Control of the canal would also place the rising imperialist power in a competitive position in world trade and commerce and bolster its military position.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The US Congress had long been considering a route through Nicaragua, utilizing that country’s huge lake on its western side. But in comparison to Panama, it was claimed that the Nicaraguan project would have been more costly. Moreover, the country was susceptible to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">By 1903, therefore, Panama had become the more practical and feasible route. By then the US rulers were determined to have “their” canal one way or another. To them, flexing of imperialist muscle against Colombia seemed to be a perfectly logical and convenient way to achieve this goal.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">No consideration was given to the views and sentiments of the pro-independence forces in Panama, who were excluded from the negotiations of the Herran-Hay Treaty of 1903. This agreement granted the United States “exclusive and absolute option” to build and then operate the canal for 100 years.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Under the draft treaty, the United States agreed to pay Colombia $10 million plus $250,000 annually, to begin nine years after the ratification of the treaty. Meanwhile, Washington, without consulting the Colombian government, agreed to pay the bankrupt French Canal Co., which was still subject to Colombian sovereignty, $40 million for its rights and assets. On March 17, 1903, the US Senate ratified the Herran-Hay Treaty and then waited for the Colombian congress to do the same.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Colombian government had sought a percentage of the money Washington paid to the French company, but failed to wrest an additional penny. Five months later the US rulers were stunned by an announcement that the Colombian congress had rejected the treaty approved by the US government.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There had been heated debate in Bogota, the Colombian capital, marked by what one historian described as “floods of anti-treaty oratory that invoked national honor.” The Colombian congress responded with no fewer than nine amendments to the treaty, all aimed at clarifying and preserving Colombia’s sovereignty over the isthmus, its residents, and its two port cities of Colon on the Caribbean coast and Panama City on the Pacific.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Infuriated by Colombia’s rejection, President Roosevelt railed against “those contemptible little creatures in Bogota” who ought to understand “how much they are jeopardizing things and imperiling their own future.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Abandoning further negotiations with the Colombian government, the US rulers then shifted tactics by promising the Panamanian independence forces diplomatic and military support to carry out a “revolt” against Colombia.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Using a crafty French engineer, Philippe Bunau-Varilla, a former representative of the French Canal Co., as an intermediary with the forces favoring Panamanian independence, the Roosevelt administration promised that it would “guarantee” Panama’s independence.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The independence forces were unable to prevent Secretary of State John Hay and Bunau-Varilla from drawing up a new treaty behind their backs and rushing it through the Senate for speedy ratification. So the infamous Panama Canal Treaty of 1903 was put together without the participation of a single Panamanian official.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In accordance with the “independence plan” worked out by Hay and Bunau-Varilla, the Panamanians would be given a flag, a declaration of independence, a constitution, and $100,000. On November 5, 1903, US marines landed in colon while the small Colombian garrison in Panama City retreated back to Colombia. Panama became independent the day after without a shot being fired. A US army officer on hand was given the “honor” of raising the Panamanian flag over city hall. Panama was at once made and recognized by the United States.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">On February 24, 1904, the US Senate ratified the canal treaty, which allowed for interventions by the US Army into Panamanian territory beyond the Canal Zone if required to maintain “order.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">For canal rights, the US government paid Panama $10 million.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The treaty also stated, “The Republic of Panama grants to the United States all the rights, power and authority within the zone… which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said lands and waters are located to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of panama of any such sovereign rights, power or authority.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">By November Washington forced the Panamanian government to abolish its army and replace it with a weak, and at times weaponless, national police force.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Writing about the 1903 treaty, historian Wallace LaFeber noted the US government’s “breathtaking” powers to acquire any land or control any water “outside the Canal Zone but incident to canal uses.” The zone itself is a ten-mile-wide strip across the isthmus.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Moreover, the US officials controlled Panama’s immigration and communications. They could intervene in Panama City and Colon, where most Panamanians lived, to enforce law and order, acquire buildings, and run sanitation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Construction of the canal was begun in 1904 and completed in 1914. It was hailed as an engineering marvel of the twentieth century and a triumph of US technology and know-how.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Tens of thousands of Black workers were brought over from the Caribbean islands to carry out the back-breaking work of building the canal. Of these, close to 5,000 died from disease, malnutrition, and sheer exhaustion.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border- padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; color:initial;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">II</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The central feature of Panama’s history from 1903, the time it won what some commentators in the region have described as “the most dependent independence” in the history of Latin America, is the quest of the popular masses for sovereignty over the Panama Canal and the Canal Zone.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In struggling to rid themselves of imperialist domination, the Panamanian working people have had to confront direct US military intervention and occupation, a succession of neo-colonial oligarchies, extreme economic dependency, severe social inequalities, and pervasive racism.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The US colonial enclave set up as the Canal Zone controlled both the political and economic life of Panama. This domination was so extreme that in 1908, 1912, and 1918 local elections in Panama were directly supervised by the US Army.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">After World War I, the Panamanian economy slumped, and so did public expectations of the economic benefits of the canal.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">At the same time, mass resentment began to build up against the excessive rights and privileges enjoyed by the US government in the Canal Zone as guaranteed by the Hay – Bunau-Varilla Treaty of 1903.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In 1926 Panama’s National Assembly, under pressure from the population, rejected an initiative by Washington called the Kellogg-Alfaro Treaty, which was designed to temper some excesses while reserving Washington’s rights under the 1903 treaty.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In 1934 President Franklin Roosevelt, seeking to pacify the growing nationalist movement, visited Panama and called for a new treaty that would “eliminate as far as was possible all causes of friction and all reasons for legitimate complaint on the part of Panama without sacrificing those rights considered essential for [the US] government.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">One of the main causes of friction, which was not acted upon by Roosevelt, was the Canal Zone’s role as a US colonial enclave inside Panama.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Whenever a Panamanian travels across the country he or she must invariable cross the US-controlled Canal Zone, which covers a total area of over 500 square miles. The zone not only cuts through the middle of the Republic of Panama but the capital city abuts on the zone and the city of Colon is surrounded by it. In both cities, the principle commercial wharves are located within the zone. The US government uses only 3 percent of the land in the zone for the canal; 68 percent is taken up by military bases and reservations.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Roosevelt’s proposed treaty was approved by Panama’s National Assembly in December 1936. However, it was not ratified by the US Senate until 1939. Among Washington’s concessions was a renunciation of its right of “eminent domain” in the cities of Panama and Colon and an increase in the annuity paid to the Panamanian government from $250,000 to $430,000.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In addition, the treaty gave to the Panamanian oligarchy “full opportunity” for local merchants to make sales to vessels arriving at terminal ports of the canal or transiting the canal, as well as the right to collect tolls from merchant ships in the port cities of Colon and Panama.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In return for these minor concessions, the United States government received the right of unimpeded transit across and along the Colon corridor, as well as the right to set up roads within it. The corridor had been established to provide Panamanian access to the city of Colon.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The economic depression that hit the capitalist economy worldwide in the 1930s left Panama even more dependent upon US capitalism. Reduced investments by US businessmen and bankers in the Canal Zone led to increased unemployment among Panamanian workers, lowering their purchasing power and spreading poverty. This, in turn, produced working-class upheavals that helped lead to the election of a populist capitalist politician, Arnulfo Arias, to the presidency in 1940.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Arias drew up a nationalist constitution reflecting the sentiments of the Panamanian masses for sovereignty over the Canal Zone. But he was soon overthrown by the dominant forces among the local capitalists in collusion with Washington and the Panamanian National Police.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A serious social revolt was averted after Arias’s overthrow, partly because Panama’s capitalist economy was in an upswing from the increased use of the canal by the US military during World War II and from the construction boom related to the new US military bases.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Due to the 1936 renegotiation of the canal treaty, the zone market was opened to Panamanian capitalists during the war. The increase in traffic of US warships through the canal strengthened the demand for locally provided goods and services, which gave an impetus to domestic agricultural and industrial production. Energy consumption rose by 62 percent in Panama City and 73 percent in Colon. Employment in the zone increased from 14,800 in 1939 to 40,000 in 1942. By 1945, participation of the Canal Zone in Panama’s gross domestic product reached 21 percent.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">From its control of the canal during the war years, US big business also accrued significant benefits.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">According to information presented to the US Congress by the Canal Zone governor in 1947, “monetary saving to the United States arising from the use of the canal [during the war years] is estimated as $1,500 million in maritime costs alone without considering the lives and materials that were saved.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In the immediate postwar period a recession hit Panama as the Canal Zone demand for goods declined by 20 percent and that for services by 50 percent. Unemployment reached 11.4 percent of the total labor force and 22.3 percent of non-agricultural labor.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Income received from raw material exports lagged behind payment for manufactured imports.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As the recession deepened, vast slums spread around Colon and Panama City.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Soon after the war ended in 1945, the Panamanian National Assembly ordered the minister of foreign affairs to inform Washington that the US military bases built during the war should be removed from Panamanian territory “no later than one year after the end of hostilities.” Panamanian public opinion firmly supported this mandate, but the US government refused to accept it.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Mobilizations of workers, farmers, students, and women exploded in the streets of Panama City and Colon, forcing Washington to back down and order the immediate withdrawal of 2,000 troops and military equipment in 1947. The US military retained the wartime Rio Hato air base.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Working-class protests against imperialist domination picked up momentum. Banana workers challenged the privileges and rights of the US-based multinational corporation United Fruit, which operated as a huge foreign fiefdom in Panama with its own security forces.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Throughout the 1950s and 1960s agricultural workers struck repeatedly for higher wages and better working and living conditions, and students agitated for Panamanian control over the Canal Zone.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This growing anti-imperialist mass movement, coupled with the postwar economic recession and the resulting decline in living standards, spurred internal conflicts within the local ruling class. In the three years from 1949 to 1953 the country had four presidents.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The power of the traditional political and economic oligarchy waned as the National Guard emerged as a political force in its own right. Racial and class tensions among Panamanians increased. Discriminatory practices against Panamanians in both jobs and wages within the Canal Zone continued.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A quasi-nationalist regime led by Jose Antonio Remon, former commander of the National Guard, took control in 1953 under the popular slogan, “Neither millions nor handouts [from the United States] – we want justice.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Remon invited US President Dwight Eisenhower to visit Panama, which he did in 1955, leading to the Remon-Eisenhower revision of the canal treaty. The US government conceded to increase its annual payment for use of the canal and to grant the local ruling class the right to tax Panamanians who worked in the Canal Zone. But its pro-sovereignty rhetoric notwithstanding, the Remon government did not demand or win any gains under the new treaty in the direction of Panamanian control over the canal and the Canal Zone. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Panamanian capitalists were the only local beneficiaries from the 1955 treaty. Local manufactured goods were exempted from application of the Buy American Act in the Canal Zone, and US business agreed to stop manufacturing inside the zone as soon as it could be shown that similar goods could be produced in Panama. Panama became marginally stronger in relation to the US colonial enclave through the acquisition of these new resources. The economic weight of the Panamanian capitalists increased.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Local food production expanded while the importation of food, which in 1951 had been 20 percent of total imports, fell to 15 percent in 1955 and to 12 percent in 1960. The penetration of capitalist relations into agricultural production intensified and wageworkers grew from 4.5 percent of agricultural labor in 1950 to 22.8 percent in 1961. Thousands of small farmers displaced from the land moved to the cities, where they faced large-scale unemployment, wretched housing, and inadequate public services.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In 1958 a movement to highlight the oppression of colonialism and neo-colonialism was organized primarily by high school and university students with support from women’s groups and some labor unions. The movement demanded a revision of all existing treaties between Panama and the United States. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In response, President Eisenhower agreed to allow the Panamanian flag to be flown alongside the US flag in the Canal Zone’s Shaler Triangle as a symbol of Panamanian sovereignty, and in 1962 President John Kennedy joined with President Roberto Chiari of Panama to designate public buildings that would fly either both flags or none.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The triumph of the Cuban revolution in 1959 under the leadership of Fidel Castro and the July 26 Movement inspired the nationalist and anti-imperialist forces throughout the Americas, including Panama.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Emboldened by this historic victory, patriotic Panamanian students and working people stepped up their pro-sovereignty mobilizations and actions.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In January 1964 an incident took place in the Canal Zone that was to become a watershed in the Panamanian peoples’ anti-imperialist struggles.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"></p><hr /><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">DIRECT US MILITARY INTERVENTIONS IN THE CARIBBEAN REGION SINCE 1898</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The list below includes cases of direct intervention by US military forces in the Caribbean and Central American region. it does </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">not</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> include acts such as the CIA-directed overthrow of the government of Guatemala in 1954; the US-organized contra war against Nicaragua; the numerous campaigns of political and economic destabilzation; or the large-scale military and financial assistance to right-wing regimes such as in El Salvador.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">COSTA RICA: 1917<br /></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">CUBA: 1898-1902, 1906-09, 1912, 1961</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: 1903, 1904, 1912-14, 1916-24, 1965</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">GRENADA: 1983</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">GUATEMALA: 1904, 1920</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">HAITI: 1914, 1915-34</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">HONDURAS: 1905, 1907, 1910, 1912, 1919, 1923, 1924, 1929</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">MEXICO: 1914, 1916, 1918</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">NICARAGUA: 1906-09, 1912-16, 1927-33</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">PANAMA: 1903, 1908, 1912, 1918, 1919-20, 1925, 1989</span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">PUERTO RICO: 1898-PRESENT</span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"></p><hr /><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-1476975760680250561&hl=en&fs=true" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="width: 400px; height: 326px; "></embed></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1476975760680250561" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">click here for larger view</span></a></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">On January 9, US students and their parents living in the zone hoisted the US flag at Balboa High School, disobeying the orders of the zone governor, and refused to allow the Panamanian flag to be flown alongside it. When Panamanian students entered the zone and secured permission to raise their flag, they were stopped by the US students, and the Panamanian flag was desecrated.<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This triggered a revolt that lasted for two days and nights. Panamanian protesters were fired upon by zone police and later by US soldiers, resulting in 21 Panamanian deaths and 400 wounded, many of them critically. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">News of the rebellion sent shock waves throughout the Americas. Panama broke off diplomatic relations with the US government and appealed to the Organization of American States, which set up a commission of inquiry that later recommended the two countries draw up a new treaty.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">More importantly, however, this event helped open a new chapter in the struggle for Panama’s sovereignty. By 1977 the US government had been forced to sign treaties committing itself to cede control over the canal and the Canal Zone to Panama.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As this brief account shows, Panamanians fighting today to implement those treaties are part of a long history of struggle for their country’s sovereignty. This is what Washington is desperately fighting as it seeks to maintain its domination.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">- pages 17-29 </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></o:p></p></div></div>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-40795023949042833392009-03-26T13:12:00.009-07:002009-03-27T20:18:36.938-07:00US Invasion of Panama - Ch.1<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Why the Panamanian People are Fighting for National Dignity</span></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“General Thurman, with the way things are going, don’t you think it’s optimistic to say US troops will be out of Panama in one month?”</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ted Koppel, ABC Nightline</span></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“Well, you’ll recall when we went into Detroit. We said it would be for ten days and then it took us a while…”</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Gen. Maxwell Thurman, </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Head of US Southern Command, Panama, </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">December 22, 1989</span></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Three days into the US invasion of Panama – Washington’s biggest military operation since the Vietnam War – Gen. Maxwell Thurman could think only of Detroit, where 4,700 US paratroopers and 8,000 National Guardsmen invaded in 1967 to crush a rebellion by Blacks against police brutality.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The US Army’s occupation of Detroit left 43 Blacks dead, 2,000 wounded, 5,000 arrested, and 5,000 homeless.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The invasion of Panama by 26,000 US troops has taken thousands of Panamanian lives and left thousands more homeless and wounded. Body bags of US GIs have arrived in the United States, along with hundreds of wounded US troops.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Washington says it has occupied this country of only 2.3 million people to “restore democracy.” But the bombing of working-class neighborhoods in Panama City, the refusal to permit Red Cross workers to evacuate the wounded, and the rounding up of thousands of Panamanian youth reveal the real target of this operation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The invading troops have met resistance from the Dignity battalions. These are armed civilian units of Panamanian workers and peasants, many of them Black. The battalions have been branded “terrorists,” “thugs,” and “looters” by the likes of General Thurman. Cuban President Fidel Castro has praised them as “heroes of Our America who are fighting for the dignity, honor, and sovereignty of our peoples.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Who are the men and women of the Dignity Battalions and why are they standing up to the most powerful military force on Earth?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The battle of the Panamanian people for freedom from US tyranny stretches back to the beginning of this century. In 1903 the United States intervened in Panama to gain for itself rights to build the Panama Canal. A treaty was drawn up giving the US government rights to the canal “in perpetuity,” including the right to administer the over-500-square-mile Canal Zone, to run the Panama Canal Co., and to use US soldiers to maintain “order” in other parts of Panama. Washington didn’t even bother to ask the Panamanian government, which it had just installed, to sign the document.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Tens of thousands of workers from the Caribbean, most of them Black and English-speaking, migrated to Panama to work on the canal. Thousands died from the slave-like working conditions or from disease. Of those who survived, many stayed in the Canal Zone working for the US Army or private US companies once the canal was completed.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The decades following completion of the canal were marked by repeated struggles of Panamanians against US domination of their economy and government and for an end to the occupation of the Canal Zone. Intertwined with the fight for Panamanian sovereignty was the struggle against the racist policies of the US government. In the Canal Zone, which was subject to US law, Washington had set up the same kind of Jim Crow system that existed at that time in the US South.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Whites shopped at “gold” commissaries and lived in “gold” neighborhoods, while Blacks went to “silver” commissaries, drank out of “silver” water fountains, and could only find housing in “silver” neighborhoods. One Black neighborhood was even called “Silver City.” US police were quick to stop any Panamanian who was Black from entering the zone’s white neighborhoods.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The struggle against this discriminatory system was waged partly through the trade unions that grew up along canal workers. Many of the labor leaders who fought to end segregation were expelled from the zone.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The “gold-silver” system, while not in force in Panama proper, nevertheless set the tone for racist policies throughout the country. Blacks, whether they spoke Spanish or English, suffered discrimination in jobs, schools, and housing.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The legal segregationist system in the zone began to fall apart, however, in the 1950s. With the first victories in the US civil rights movement against “separate but equal” facilities, certain US policies in the Canal Zone were no longer constitutional.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In 1959 the people of Cuba overthrew the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship, ending decades of US domination. Working people throughout Latin America were inspired by the new Cuban government’s resolute action to distribute land to poor peasants, nationalize US-owned companies, drive out the gambling and prostitution houses, and defend the revolution arms in hand.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Labor and youth struggles in Panama, as in many other Latin American countries, began to intensify following the Cuban victory. Sugar and banana workers in Panama spearheaded a battle for a minimum wage in the early 1960s. There were urban protests against high rents. Panamanian students organized demonstrations against the US occupation of the zone.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In 1964, US students and parents refused to allow Panama’s flag to be raised next to the US one at Balboa High School in the zone. When a group of Panamanian students attempted to do so, they were attacked and the Panamanian flag was desecrated. Zone police and US troops then opened fire on the crowd, setting off rebellions in the zone, Panama City, and Colon.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">More than 20 Panamanians were shot dead and over 400 wounded. The bulk of the protesters were slain in Chorrillo, one of the poorest working-class neighborhoods in Panama City.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Twenty-five years later, when the US military invaded on December 20, 1989, Chorrillo was the first neighborhood to be destroyed as US bombers pounded the Defense Forces headquarters located in the heart of Chorrillo.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">While most strongly rooted in the working class, the demand for the United States to get out of Panama had also won support among middle-class layers and from a section of Panamanian capitalists who resented the special privileges granted to US businesses in the Canal Zone.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In 1967 Washington offered the Panamanian government a new canal treaty aimed at maintaining the US presence with some cosmetic changes. Opposition to the treaty was so great that Panama’s National Assembly was unable to ratify it.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The political crisis deepened with the 1968 presidential elections. Arnulfo Arias declared himself the winner, but eleven days after taking office, he was overthrown by a group of young officers in the country’s National Guard led by Omar Torrijos, then a colonel.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The National Guard, made up overwhelmingly of peasant and working-class youth, many of them Black, had been affected by the anti-imperialist upsurge sweeping Latin America, as had some of its officers. The young troops had no desire to continue allowing their country to be a base for US military operations in the region.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Torrijos came increasingly into conflict with Washington, particularly as he pressed for control of the canal and an end to Panama’s colonial status.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“We will never be an associated state, a colony, or a protectorate,” Torrijos told the United Nations Security Council in 1973. “Nor will we add another star to the flag of the United States.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In 1974 Torrijos recognized the government of Cuba, breaking with Washington’s long-standing policy barring relations with the revolutionary government of Fidel Castro. “Every minute of isolation suffered by the brother people of Cuba constitutes sixty minutes of hemispheric shame,” Torrijos said.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Big changes came to Panama’s countryside under the Torrijos regime, to the distress of the landowning families who had exploited the rural work force for decades without government interference. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The new government launched agro-industrial projects aimed at overcoming Panama’s dependence on US consumer goods. Torrijos also set up peasant cooperatives to increase production.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">About 5 percent of the nation’s cultivable land was distributed to poor peasants. Torrijos opposed extensive nationalization of capitalist farms, however, arguing that a mixture of private, state-owned, and cooperative enterprises was the road to Panama’s development.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The government instituted social projects that benefited above all the impoverished rural population. From 1968 to 1986, for example, the number of public schools increased from 1,851 to 3,187. The infant mortality rate dropped from 40 to 19.4 per 1,000 live births, a lower rate than in Harlem today. Roads were built and electricity brought to remote parts of the countryside. Social security was extended to more than a million Panamanians who had never received it before.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Panama’s labor movement began demanding a new labor code that would permit greater organization of the working-class. Under the 1947 code, bosses had thirty different ways to legally fire a worker. The employers used this to crush organizing drives. Between 1947 and 1972 only twenty-nine new labor contracts were signed.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In 1972 the labor movement won a new code that permitted workers to join the union after just two weeks on the job. Unions were organized at many more work sites and nearly 200 contracts were signed the first year. Among those organized for the first time were the many public employees in the country.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The advances won by working people during these years opened the door to greater participation in society and the government by Panamanians who were Black. For the first time Panama’s Indian communities entered politics, bringing to national attention their demands for protection of their indigenous culture, languages, and territory.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In 1977 US President James Carter was forced to sign historic treaties promising to relinquish Washington’s control of the Panama Canal to Panama by the year 2000. The Torrijos-Carter treaties stipulated that total control of the canal and the administration of the zone would revert to Panama. The US military bases – which numbered fourteen at the time – would be dismantled. Between 1977 and 2000, control would be turned over step-by-step to the Panamanian government.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">On October 1, 1979, a quarter of a million Panamanians demonstrated to celebrate the formal turning over of the Canal Zone to Panama. US Vice President Walter Mondale, who addressed the ceremony, was greeted by banners demanding “Yankees out of Panama!” and “Sovereignty or death!”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The victory for Panamanian self-determination was the product not only of decades of battle by the Panamanian people, but big struggles taking place around the world that had weakened Washington’s grip on the lives and destinies of working people.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In 1979 alone, the Iranian masses had overthrown the shah’s monarchy; the murderous Pol Pot regime was ousted in Cambodia; the people of the Caribbean island of Grenada had established a popular revolutionary governemtn; and in Nicaragua, the workers and peasants had toppled the Anastasio Somoza dictatorship, one of Washington’s strongest allies in the region. The Torrijos government had given considerable material aid to the Sandinista guerrilla forces, who led the revolution to bring down Somoza and place the toilers in power.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In 1981 Torrijos died in a mysterious airplane crash. Gen. Manual Noriega assumed control of the National Guard in 1983, changing its name to the Defense Forces.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">By this time Washington’s contra war against Nicaragua was under way. The US Southern Command, based in the canal zone, directed the mercenaries. To Washington’s irritation, the Panamanian government called for a political settlement to the war and opposed the deepening US military intervention.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">By 1985 the Sandinista army had begun to drive the contras back. The mercenaries were finished unless Washington could breathe new life into the war.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Then National Security Advisor John Poindexter paid a visit to Noriega in 1985. He demanded that Panama’s Defense Forces directly aid the contras in Nicaragua. Noriega refused.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Suddenly a campaign began in Congress denouncing Noriega as a double agent – said to be working for the CIA and the Cuban government at the same time. Charges of drug trafficking were leveled at Noriega a few months later.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Inside Panama, Washington turned to the very forces overthrown by Torrijos in 1968, popularly known as the rabiblancos (white asses) because of their light skins, wealth, and ties to the US government. These businessmen and landowners established a “Civic Crusade” in 1987 to demand that Noriega leave power. They sought to organize demonstrations and strikes to rally working people to their side.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Panamanian labor movement had little sympathy for the rabiblancos, despite sharp clashes that had occurred a year earlier between the Panamanian government and the unions.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In 1985 and 1986, Presedent Nicolas Ardito Barletta sought to impose austerity measures demanded by the International Monetary Fund. Barletta introduced new restrictions in the labor code, closed some of the state-owned enterprises set up by Torrijos, and tried to lay off 30,000 public employees. A series of general strikes protested the measures and Defense Forces troops were called out to break the strikes. The public employees union, however, was successful in blocking the layoffs of its members.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Whatever opinions workers had of the government and Defense Forces in 1987, virtually the entire labor movement opposed the Civic Crusade and what some jokingly called the “Mercedes Benz revolution,” because the well-do-do Civic Crusaders arrived at demonstrations in the latest-model sedans.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Working people did respond, however, to a call by the Panamanian government in 1988 to set up civilian defense units, which became known as the Dignity Battalions. These militias were trained by the Defense Forces to prepare for a possible US invasion.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Washington stepped up the pressure with stiff economic sanctions against Panama, aimed above all at making life miserable for its working people.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The US government froze $56 million of Panamanian funds in US banks. Panama’s quota for sugar exports to the United States was eliminated. All US aid to the country was ended, including funds for medical programs such as anti-malaria programs. US companies were prohibited from paying taxes to Panama and also stopped paying social security for their Panamanian employees.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The sanctions had a devastating effect. By 1989 unemployment had nearly doubled, to 17.5 percent officially. Some 50,000 workers were laid off. Among the hardest hit were construction workers. Their union, which had 20,000 people working in 1987, hand only 1,200 on the job by 1989.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">By late 1989 the percentage of the population living under the official poverty line had jumped to 44 percent, up from 33 percent in 1987.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">13 Heavens Note</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">According to the Merva-Fowles study, a 1 percent rise in unemployment results in:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a 6.7 percent increase in homicides</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a 3.4 percent increase in violent crimes</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a 2.4 percent increase in property crimes</span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Therefore, an 11 percent increase in unemployment in just 2 years time equates to:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a 73.7 percent increase in homicides</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a 37.4 percent increase in violent crimes</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a 26.4 percent increase in property crimes</span></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">How would any city, let alone an entire country, deal with this?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It was in this context that presidential elections took place in May 1989. Washington openly gave $10 million to the Democratic Alliance for Civil Opposition ticket (the old Civic Crusade), headed by presidential candidate Guillermo Endara.<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Opposing Endara was the Coalition for National Liberation ticket, which united parties that favored implementation of the canal treaties and rejected Washington’s arrogant demand that Noriega resign.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The race itself was close, but before all the votes could be counted the results were annulled by the Panamanian government because of the provocative US interference. US President George Bush responded by sending 2,000 more troops to Panama.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In the fall of 1989 Washington made its last attempt to use Panamanians to overturn the legitimate government of Panama. On October 3, US troops provided backup for a coup attempt against Noriega by a group of officers in the Defense Forces. The coup was smashed within hours.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Two and a half months later, the biggest US invading force since Vietnam attacked a country whose working people have fought long and hard for national dignity and self-determination.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- pages 8-16</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">13 Heavens Note</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">As a career soldier, Manuel Noreiga received additional military training in Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence at the School of the Americas at Fort Gulick and also in Psychological Operation (PsyOps) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. According to retired US Navy Admiral and former Director of the CIA, Stansfield Turner stated that Noriega became a CIA asset in the early 1970s. Sources suggest he was actually on the US government's payroll from the late 1950's to 1980's.</span></span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p></div>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-87978692014046491872009-03-26T13:12:00.007-07:002009-03-27T22:02:52.071-07:00US Invasion of Panama - Intro<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Introduction</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">On December 20, 1989, millions of working people throughout the Americas awoke to the news that United States military forces had invaded Panama during the night.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">At 1:00AM, US officials held a secret ceremony at Fort Clayton, one of the thirteen US military bases in the canal zone. There Guillermo Endara was declared Panama’s new president. Moments later, massive bombing of Panama City began.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">US troops then mounted a savage assault on military bases and working-class neighborhoods. Washington’s forces eventually reached 26,000, including the 12,000 troops stationed there prior to December 20.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Panama’s working people were the chief victims of Washington’s brutal assault. In the first days of the invasion, thousands of civilians were killed, wounded, and left homeless. Whole neighborhoods were bombing into rubble or burned to the ground. US troops prevented many of the wounded from receiving emergency medical care, and the lack of even the most basic medical supplies and facilities led to many deaths. Panamanian victims were poured by the truckload into common graves. Over 5,000 people were rounded up and held in detonation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Resistance to the invasion was led by Panama’s working people, organized in the Dignity Battalions. Though vilified by Washington and the big-business media as “thugs” and “looters,” these battalions were in fact popular militias set up in 1988 to help prepare Panama’s workers and farmers to defend their country against exactly what occurred: a US invasion. Although most combat had ended by the second week of the invasion, the resistance led by the Dignity Battalions proved much stiffer than the Pentagon had bargained for.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Two weeks after the invasion, the US occupation force seized Gen. Manuel Noriega, Panama’s head of state, flew him to the United States against his will, and jailed him. Washington has announced its intention to put him on trial in Miami. This arrogant move is in gross violation of Panamanian sovereignty, as well as all norms of international law.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Washington used the invasion to escalate provocations against Cuba and Nicaragua as well. The embassies of these two countries in Panama City were surrounded by US troops. At one point several Cuban diplomats were illegally detained. On December 29, US forces raided and ransacked the residence of Nicaragua’s ambassador.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In the days and weeks following the invasion, actions protesting Washington’s assault took place in many US cities, as well as throughout Latin America and in dozens of other countries around the world. In particular, many anti-imperialist fighters in the Caribbean spoke out against the violation of their sister country.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Washington’s action was so flagrantly illegal that the overwhelming majority of world governments have felt compelled to state opposition to it. The Organization of American States, long a pliant tool of Washington’s foreign policy, condemned the invasion with only a single dissenting vote – that of the US delegate. The United Nations General Assembly went on record against the invasion by a wide margin.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Those governments that did back Washington themselves became targets of protest. The president of the Canadian Labour Congress, for example, protested the government of Canada’s support for the invasion, terming it “a simple-minded endorsation of vigilante justice.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">How did Bush justify this massive assault? The invasion, he claimed, was needed to safeguard US citizens, restore democracy, and protect the Panama Canal treaties.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Not so.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The truth is that after several years of trying to overthrow Panama’s government using everything from economic sanctions to coup attempts, Washington finally decided that only direct military intervention could accomplish what it wanted. Its aim was to install a client regime, smash the movement for national sovereignty and social justice that had developed in Panama over the previous twenty years, undermine the Panama Canal treaties, ensure the use of US military bases in the country, and strengthen US domination throughout the region</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The purpose of this pamphlet is to tell the truth about panama’s fight for sovereignty. It seeks to help arm working people, students, political activists, and other fighters with facts needed to answer Washington’s lies.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The first article, “Why the Panamanian People Are Fighting for National Dignity” by Cindy Jaquith, was featured in a special issue of the New York socialist newsweekly, the Militant, published in response to the invasion. Jaquith is a leader of the Socialist Workers Party of the United States. She has visited Panama several times to report for the Militant, most recently in November 1989.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The second article, “Panama’s Fight for Sovereignty: A History” by Don Rojas, explains how the US rulers seized what is now the Panama canal zone, and the record of resistance by the Panamanian people up to the mid-1960s. The article appeared in two parts in August and September 1989 in the Militant. Rojas himself was a victim of Washington’s last direct military intervention in the region – the 1983 invasion of Grenada. He served as press secretary to Maurice Bishop, murdered prime minister of Grenada’s revolutionary government. Following the invasion, Rojas was arrested and deported by the occupation forces and has been barred from Grenada ever since. His articles appear frequently in the Militant and other newspapers in the United States and the Caribbean.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The third piece is a speech presented by Panamanian leader Nils Castro to the Third Assembly of the Anti-Imperialist Organizations of the Caribbean and Central America, held in Panama City in June 1988. Nils Castro represented Panama’s Democratic Revolutionary Party at that conference. This speech is reprinted from One People, One Destiny: The Caribbean and Central America Today (New York: Pathfinder, 1988), edited by Don Rojas.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The final item in the pamphlet is a speech by Cuban President Fidel Castro given in Havana December 21, 1989, the day after the invasion. The speech, translated from the December 22, 1989, issue of Granma, also appeared in the special issue of the Militant.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Susan LaMont</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">January 4, 1990</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/FnRk2gjUGAWOQ2vvIJTFpQ?authkey=Gv1sRgCNWzoaulyfLWywE&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/Sc14Z3N9wGI/AAAAAAAAByY/rX-OUa-fe54/s400/IMG_6766.JPG" alt="US Invasion of Panama" border="0" /></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">click image to enlarge</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">- pages 3-7</span></p></div>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556145690038249750.post-38988882073585425622009-03-26T13:12:00.005-07:002009-03-28T22:23:45.324-07:00US Invasion of Panama - TOC<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/AbzYr1rcYJcgXDkCywGYEw?authkey=Gv1sRgCNWzoaulyfLWywE&feat=embedwebsite" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_XWt86HB0l_M/Sc14ZF0SbgI/AAAAAAAAByQ/hJNHHLmWSUs/s400/IMG_6765.JPG" alt="US Invasion of Panama" border="0" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">US Military Operation Name: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Just Cause</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Excerpts From: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The International War Crimes Tribunal</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">On December 20, 1989, President Bush ordered a military assault on Panama using aircraft, artillery, helicopter gunships and experimenting with new weapons, including the Stealth bomber. The attack was a surprise assault targeting civilian and non-combatant government structures. In the El Chorillo district of Panama City alone, hundreds of civilians were killed and between 15,000 and 30,000 made homeless. U.S. soldiers buried dead Panamanians in mass graves, often without identification. The head of state, Manuel Noriega, who was systematically demonized by the U.S. government and press, ultimately surrendered to U.S. forces and was brought to Miami, Florida, on extra-territorial U.S. criminal charges.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The U.S. invasion of Panama violated all the international laws Iraq violated when it invaded Kuwait and more. Many more Panamanians were killed by U.S. forces than Iraq killed Kuwaitis.</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">President Bush violated the </span></span></span><a href="http://deoxy.org/wc/wc-un.htm"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Charter of the United Nations</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, the Hague and </span></span></span><a href="http://deoxy.org/wc/wc-proto.htm"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Geneva Conventions</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">, committed </span></span></span><a href="http://deoxy.org/wc/wc-nurem.htm#p6"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">crimes against peace, war crimes</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-Times New Roman";font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and violated the </span></span><a href="http://deoxy.org/fz/consti.htm"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">U.S.Constitution</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> and numerous U.S. criminal statutes in ordering and directing the assault on Panama.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The U.S. invasion took between 1,000 and 4,000 Panamanian lives. The United States government is still covering up the death toll. U.S. aggression caused massive property destruction throughout Panama.</span></span></span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">***</span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Contents</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1. </span><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/us-invasion-of-panama-intro.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Introduction</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2. </span><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/us-invasion-of-panama-ch1.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Why the Panamanian people are fighting for national dignity</span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">3. </span><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/us-invasion-of-panama-ch2.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Panama’s fight for sovereignty: A history</span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">4. </span><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/us-invasion-of-panama-ch3.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Panama’s only sin is refusing to go down on its knees</span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">5. </span><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/us-invasion-of-panama-ch4.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The resistance of Panama’s people is of truly historic significance</span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">6. </span><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/us-invasion-of-panama-notes.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Notes</span></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">***<br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=5895346656185903649&hl=en&fs=true" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="width: 400px; height: 326px; "></embed></span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/02/spotlight-john-perkins.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">John Perkins</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> discusses his involvement in Panama</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(Video Duration: 1:47)</span></div><div style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5895346656185903649" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">click here for larger view</span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">***</span></o:p></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">13 Heavens Note</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">See also the following blog posts:</span></span></div><div><ol><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"</span></span><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/usa-convicted-of-war-crimes-1.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">USA Convicted of 19-Counts of War Crimes</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"<br /></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">NSA's Economic Hit Man </span></span><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Perkins"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">John Perkins</span></span></a></li></ol><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Chapter 10: </span></span><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/economic-hit-man-ch10.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Panama's President and Hero</span></span></a></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Chapter 11: </span></span><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/02/economic-hit-man-ch11.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Pirates in the Canal Zone</span></span></a></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Chapter 13: </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/02/economic-hit-man-ch13.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Conversations with the General</span></a></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Chapter 27: </span><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/02/economic-hit-man-ch27.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Panama: Another Presidential Death</span></a></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Chapter 30: </span></span><a href="http://13heavens.blogspot.com/2009/03/economic-hit-man-ch30.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">US Invades Panama</span></span></a></li></ul></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Times New Roman';"><div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><b><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The United States Invades Panama</span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Torrijos was dead, but Panama continued to hold a special place in my heart. Living in South Florida, I had access to many sources of information about current events in Central America. Torrijos's legacy lived on, even if it was filtered through people who were not graced with his compassionate personality and strength of character. Attempts to settle differences throughout the hemisphere continued after his death, as did Panama's determination to force the United States to live up to the terms of the Canal Treaty.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Torrijos's successor, Manuel Noriega, at first appeared committed to following in his mentor's footsteps . I never met Noriega personally, but by all accounts, he initially endeavored to further the cause of Latin America's poor and oppressed. One of his most important projects was the continued exploration of prospects for building a new canal, to be financed and constructed by the Japanese. Predictably, he encountered a great deal of resistance from Washington and from private U.S. companies. As Noriega himself writes:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Secretary of State George Shultz was a former executive of the multinational construction company Bechtel; Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger had been a Bechtel vice president. Bechtel would have liked nothing better than to earn the billions of dollars in revenue that canal construction would generate ... The Reagan and Bush administrations feared the possibility that Japan might dominate an eventual canal construction project; not only was there a misplaced concern about security, there was also the question of commercial rivalry. U.S. construction firms stood to lose billions of dollars.l</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">But Noriega was no Torrijos. He did not have his former boss's charisma or integrity. Over time, he developed an unsavory reputation for corruption and drug dealing, and was even suspected of arranging the assassination of a political rival, Hugo Spadafora.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Noriega built his reputation as a colonel heading up the Panamanian Defense Forces' G-2 unit, the military intelligence command that was the national liaison with the CIA . In this capacity, he developed a close relationship with CIA Director William J. Casey. The CIA used this connection to further its agenda throughout the Caribbean and Central and South America. For example, when the Reagan administration wanted to give Castro advance warning of the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada, Casey turned to Noriega, asking him to serve as messenger. The colonel also helped the CIA infiltrate Colombian and other drug cartels.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">By </span></span><i><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">1984, </span></span></i><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Noriega had been promoted to general and commander in chief of the Panamanian Defense Forces. It is reported that when Casey arrived in Panama City that year and was met at the airport by the local CIA chief, he asked, "Where's my boy? Where's Noriega?" When the general visited Washington, the two men met privately at Casey's house. Many years later, Noriega would admit that his close bond with Casey made him feel invincible. He believed that the CIA, like G-2, was the strongest branch of its country's government. He was convinced that Casey would protect him, despite Noriega's stance on the Panama Canal Treaty and U .S. Canal Zone military bases.2</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Thus, while Torrijos had been an international icon for justice and equality, Noriega became a symbol of corruption and decadence. His notoriety in this regard was assured when, on June 12, 1986, the </span></span><i><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">New York Times </span></span></i><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ran a front-page article with the headline, "Panama Strongman Said to Trade in Drugs and Illicit Money." The expose, written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, alleged that the general was a secret and illegal partner in several Latin American businesses; that he had spied on and for both the United States and Cuba, acting as a sort of double agent; that G-2, under his orders, had in fact beheaded Hugo Spadafora ; and that Noriega had personally directed "the most significant drug running in Panama ." This article was accompanied by an unflattering portrait of the general, and a follow-up the next day included more details .3</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Compounding his other problems, Noriega was also saddled with a U.S. president who suffered from an image problem, what journalists referred to as George H. W. Bush's "wimp factor."4 This took on special significance when Noriega adamantly refused to consider a fifteen-year extension for the School of the Americas. The general's memoirs provide an interesting insight:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">As determined and proud as we were to follow through with Torrijos's legacy, the United States didn't want any of this to happen. They wanted an extension or a renegotiation for the installation [School of the Americas], saying that with their growing war preparations in Central America, they still needed it . But that School of the Americas was an embarrassment to us. We didn't want a training ground for death squads and repressive rightwing militaries on our soil.5</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Perhaps, therefore, the world should have anticipated it, but in fact the world was stunned when, on December 20, 1989, the United States attacked Panama with what was reported to be the largest airborne assault on a city since World War II.</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">6 </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It was an unprovoked attack on a civilian population. Panama and her people posed absolutely no threat to the United States or to any other country. Politicians, governments, and press around the world denounced the unilateral U.S. action as a clear violation of international law.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Had this military operation been directed against a country that had committed mass murder or other human rights crimes — Pinochet's Chile, Stroessner's Paraguay, Somosa's Nicaragua, D'Aubuisson's El Salvador, or Saddam's Iraq, for example—the world might have understood. But Panama had done nothing of the sort; it had merely dared to defy the wishes of a handful of powerful politicians and corporate executives. It had insisted that the Canal Treaty be honored, it had held discussions with social reformers, and it had explored the possibility of building a new canal with Japanese financing and construction companies. As a result, it suffered devastating consequences. As Noriega puts it:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I want to make it very clear : the destabilization campaign launched by the United States in 1986, ending with the 1989 Panama invasion, was a result of the U.S. rejection of any scenario in which future control of the Panama Canal might be in the hands of an independent, sovereign Panama— supported by Japan . . . Shultz and Weinberger, meanwhile, masquerading as officials operating in the public interest and basking in popular ignorance about the powerful economic interests they represented, were building a propaganda campaign to shoot me down.7</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Washington's stated justification for the attack was based on one man. The United States' sole rationale for sending its young men and women to risk their lives and consciences killing innocent people, including untold numbers of children, and setting fire to huge sections of Panama City, was Noriega. He was characterized as evil, as the enemy of the people, as a drug-trafficking monster, and as such he provided the administration with an excuse for the massive invasion of a country with two million inhabitants — which coincidentally happened to sit on one of the most valuable pieces of real estate in the world.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I found the invasion disturbing to the point of driving me into a depression that lasted many days. I knew that Noriega had bodyguards, yet I could not help believing that the jackals could have taken him out, as they had Roldos and Torrijos. Most of his bodyguards, I suspected, had been trained by U.S. military personnel and probably could have been paid either to look the other way or to carry out an assassination themselves.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The more I thought and read about the invasion, therefore, the more convinced I became that it signaled a U .S. policy turn back toward the old methods of empire building, that the Bush administration was determined to go one better than Reagan and to demonstrate to the world that it would not hesitate to use massive force in order to achieve its ends. It also seemed that the goal in Panama, in addition to replacing the Torrijos legacy with a puppet administration favorable to the United States, was to frighten countries like Iraq into submission.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">David Harris, a contributing editor at the </span></span><i><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">New York Times Magazine </span></span></i><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">and the author of many books, has an interesting observation. In his </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">2001 </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">book </span></span><i><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Shooting the Moon, </span></span></i><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">he states:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Of all the thousands of rulers, potentates, strongmen, juntas, and warlords the Americans have dealt with in all corners of the world, General Manuel Antonio Noriega is the only one the Americans came after like this . Just once in its </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">225 </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">years of formal national existence has the United States ever invaded another country and carried its ruler back to the United States to face trial and imprisonment for violations of American law committed on that ruler's own native foreign turf. 8</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Following the bombardment, the United States suddenly found itself in a delicate situation. For a while, it seemed as though the whole thing would backfire. The Bush administration might have quashed the wimp rumors, but now it faced the problem of legitimacy, of appearing to be a bully caught in an act of terrorism. It was disclosed that the U.S. Army had prohibited the press, the Red Cross, and other outside observers from entering the heavily bombed areas for three days, while soldiers incinerated and buried the casualties. The press asked questions about how much evidence of criminal and other inappropriate behavior was destroyed, and about how many died because they were denied timely medical attention, but such questions were never answered.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We shall never know many of the facts about the invasion, nor shall we know the true extent of the massacre. Defense Secretary Richard Cheney claimed a death toll between five hundred and six hundred, but independent human rights groups estimated it at three thousand to five thousand, with another twenty-five thousand left homeless.9 Noriega was arrested, flown to Miami, and sentenced to forty years' imprisonment; at that time, he was the only person in the United States officially classified as a prisoner of war.' 10</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The world was outraged by this breach of international law and by the needless destruction of a defenseless people at the hands of the most powerful military force on the planet, but few in the United</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">States were aware of either the outrage or the crimes Washington had committed. Press coverage was very limited. A number of factors contributed to this, including government policy, White House phone calls to publishers and television executives, congress-people who dared not object, lest the wimp factor become their problem, and journalists who thought the public needed heroes rather than objectivity.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">One exception was Peter Eisner, </span></span><i><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a </span></span></i><i><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Newsday </span></span></i><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">editor and Associated Press reporter who covered the Panama invasion and continued to analyze it for many years. In </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Memoirs of Manuel Noriega: Amer</span></i></span><i><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ica's Prisoner, </span></span></i><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">published in 1997, Eisner writes:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The death, destruction and injustice wrought in the name of fighting Noriega —and the lies surrounding that event —were threats to the basic American principles of democracy... Soldiers were ordered to kill in Panama and they did so after being told they had to rescue a country from the clamp of a cruel, depraved dictator; once they acted, the people of their country (the U.S.) marched lockstep behind them. 11</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">After lengthy research, including interviews with Noriega in his Miami prison cell, Eisner states:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">On the key points, I do not think the evidence shows Noriega was guilty of the charges against him. I do not think his actions as a foreign military leader or a sovereign head of state justify the invasion of Panama or that he represented a threat to U.S. national security.12</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Eisner concludes:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">My analysis of the political situation and my reporting in Panama before, during, and after the invasion brought me to the conclusion that the U .S. invasion of Panama was an abominable abuse of power. The invasion principally served the goals of arrogant American politicians and their Panamanian allies, at the expense of unconscionable bloodshed.13</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Arias family and the pre-Torrijos oligarchy, which had served as U.S. puppets from the time when Panama was torn from Colombia until Torrijos took over, were reinstated. The new Canal Treaty became a moot point. In essence, Washington once again controlled the waterway, despite anything the official documents said.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">As I reflected on those incidents and all that I had experienced while working for MAIN, I found myself asking the same questions over and over: How many decisions —including ones of great historical significance that impact millions of people—are made by men and women who are driven by personal motives rather than by a desire to do the right thing? How many of our top government officials are driven by personal greed instead of national loyalty? How many wars are fought because a president does not want his constituents to perceive him as a wimp?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Despite my promises to SWEC's president, my frustration and feelings of impotence about the Panama invasion prodded me into resuming work on my book, except now I decided to focus on Torrijos. I saw his story as a way to expose many of the injustices that infect our world, and as a way to rid myself of my guilt. This time, however, I was determined to keep silent about what I was doing, rather than seeking advice from friends and peers.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">As I worked on the book, I was stunned by the magnitude of what we EHMs had accomplished, in so many places. I tried to concentrate on a few countries that stood out, but the list of places where I had worked and which were worse off afterward was astounding. I also was horrified by the extent of my own corruption. I had done a great deal of soul searching, yet I realized that while I was in the midst of it I had been so focused on my daily activities that I had not seen the larger perspective . Thus, when I was in Indonesia I fretted over the things Howard Parker and I discussed, or the issues raised by Rasy's young Indonesian friends . While I was working in Panama, I was deeply affected by the implications of what I had seen during Fidel's introduction of the slums, the Canal Zone, and the discotheque. In Iran, my conversations with Yamin and Doc troubled me immensely. Now, the act of writing this book gave me an overview I understood how easy it had been not to see the larger picture and therefore to miss the true significance of my actions.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">How simple this sounds, and how self-evident; yet, how insidious the nature of these experiences. For me it conjures the image of a soldier. In the beginning, he is naive. He may question the morality of killing other people, but mostly he has to deal with his own fear, has to focus on survival . After he kills his first enemy, he is overwhelmed with emotions. He may wonder about the family of the dead man and feel a sense of remorse. But as time goes on and he participates in more battles, kills more people, he becomes hardened. He is transformed into a professional soldier.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I had become a professional soldier. Admitting that fact opened the door for a better understanding of the process by which crimes are committed and empires are built . I could now comprehend why so many people have committed atrocious acts — how, for example, good, family-loving Iranians could work for the shah's brutal secret police, how good Germans could follow the orders of Hitler, how good American men and women could bomb Panama City.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">As an EHM, I never drew a penny directly from the NSA or any other government agency; MAIN paid my salary. I was a private citizen, employed by a private corporation. Understanding this helped me see more clearly the emerging role of the corporate executive-as -EHM. A whole new class of soldier was emerging on the world scene, and these people were becoming desensitized to their own actions.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I wrote:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Today, men and women are going into Thailand, the Philippines, Botswana, Bolivia, and every other country where they hope to find people desperate for work . They go to these places with the express purpose of exploiting wretched people — people whose children are severely malnourished, even starving, people who live in shantytowns and have lost all hope of a better life, people who have ceased to even dream of another day . These men and women leave their plush offices in Manhattan or San Francisco or Chicago, streak across continents and oceans in luxurious jetliners, check into first-class hotels, and dine at the finest restaurants the country has to offer. Then they go searching for desperate people.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Today, we still have slave traders. They no longer find it necessary to march into the forests of Africa looking for prime specimens who will bring top dollar on the auction blocks in Charleston, Cartagena, and Havana. They simply recruit desperate people and build a factory to produce the jackets, blue jeans, tennis shoes, automobile parts, computer components, and thousands of other items they can sell in the markets of their choosing. Or they may elect not even to own the factory themselves; instead, they hire a local businessman to do all their dirty work for them.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">These men and women think of themselves as upright. They return to their homes with photographs of quaint sites and ancient ruins, to show to their children. They attend seminars where they pat each other on the back and exchange tidbits of advice about dealing with the eccentricities of customs in far-off lands . Their bosses hire lawyers who assure them that what they are doing is perfectly legal. They have a cadre of psychotherapists and other human resource experts at their disposal to convince them that they are helping those desperate people.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The old-fashioned slave trader told himself that he was dealing with a species that was not entirely human, and that he was offering them the opportunity to become Christianized. He also understood that slaves were fundamental to the survival of his own society, that they were the foundation of his economy. The modern slave trader assures himself (or herself) that the desperate people are better off earning one dollar a day than no dollars at all, and that they are receiving the opportunity to become integrated into the larger world community'. She also understands that these desperate people are fundamental to the survival of her company, that they are the foundation for her own lifestyle. She never stops to think about the larger implications of what she, her lifestyle, and the economic system behind them are doing to the world — or of how they may ultimately impact her children's future. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- pages 173-181</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></div></div></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">***</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>In Lak'ech, Ala K'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01461039246091132053noreply@blogger.com0