May 14, 2008    Ecuador and Venezuela are planning, so these two rogue regimes [ and we say this not lightly: they are rogue regimes because they have one central government and no democracy left plus these two goofball presidents named Correa and Chavez allow not one smidgeon of accountability or integrity to impede their criminal cartel building] a new $5 billion, 300,000 BPD   refinery  and a petrochemical plant in Manabi so that PdVSA can abandon its run down, non-maintained and illegally unreported refineries inside the USA. The AP writes on 5-12-08 that, " The joint venture, known as Pacific Refinery-CEM, will be formed this month, with Ecuador owning a 51 percent stake and Venezuela owning 49 percent, Ecuador's state oil company Petroecuador announced in a statement. The new company will ask foreign companies for bids to build the refinery, likely requiring them to finance 70 percent of its construction, Petroecuador said. The winner will be compensated after construction, possibly with a fee-for-service payment or a temporary cut of the refinery's earnings, Petroecuador told The Associated Press. Ecuador is South America's fifth-largest oil producer, with daily output of about 500,000 barrels of crude, much of which the country is now unable to refine."

Of course, no one at all is permitted to even review this marriage of convenience deal between Correa and Chavez because neither neo-socialist cartel manager will permit even a smidgeon of transparency. There is no Congress is Ecuador: not permitted. There is no functioning justice system to deliver legitimacy to the Correa regime gone wilding.  Have you seen the full deal- or any of the deals between Venezuela and Ecuador and Iran? Of course not: you are forbidden this essential of open government. Meanwhile, Venezuela and Ecuador continue to serve as state sponsors of terror- aiding and abetting the FARC and no doubt Hezbollah while whining and complaining about anything that remotely smacks of truth telling even as their support for the FARC assists the FARC to pile up more dead bodies from the FARC terror spree, which has not ended yet.
 
This drawing is about Burma's military junta, currently denying assistance for hundreds of thousands of Burmese cyclone victims. The government of Burma, which they call Myanmar, is a corrupt and evil regime that cares nothing about its own people just so long as the deals with Russia, China and India keep rolling in. But it could also be the face of Hugo Chavez... and Correa's own FARC squads in Quito.....aiding and abetting the murderous terror thugs called the FARC, looking more and more like Sureshot every day while busily flying to Nicaragua known FARC accomplices from Mexico and who-knows-where-else:

Tuesday, May 13, 2008


We become known for the company we keep.
 
 
Wednesday, May 14, 2008


And if you do not think that Iran's Ahmadinejad does not see the Andes as his new proxy state, guess again. And then demand that all Ecuadorean banks disclose legally who and what they launder money for...because the so called anti money laundering laws in Ecuador are a joke and are meaningless. Like Venezuela, Ecuador is a proxy for Iran and global cartels now.
 
EL TIEMPO, read it here- carries new news that the Chavez and Correa backed FARC efforts have already "MOVED ON" to new computers, new criminal plans- already seen in "new" directives to blow up U.S. Secretary of State Rice and others...while Senators Dodd-Leahy-Reid plus their George Soros compadres Congressman McGovern, Delahunt and New Mexico's talking idiots pretend that the FARC/Chavez-Correa are sensible groupings. We are past time to even consider this string of debauched and embarrassingly seditious group of hate America first  while crafting regional narcozones for criminal cartels concurrently cheering squads who have all the integrity of limousine liberals watching pornography, also sponsored by the FARC for nightly in-camp entertainment, and pretending that nothing matters. Life matters: there is nothing to support for these criminals who need to depart now.
 
Ecuador has pushed out the last remnants of integrity and honest government. We know this is so because no honest business person considers Ecuador an honest place to do business. And it is not. Today in Quito, the government of the dishonest Rafael Correa tells one and all that capitalism must be replaced with Cuban style communism, whatever that means to this dishonest psychopath. But what we do know is that in one year, Correa and his cartel buddies have ruined Ecuador and made the best the enemy of the good. Correa continues to denounce INTERPOL and all law and order.
 
In 1997, Dr. Steve Hanke wrote in the March 10 FORBES magazine a seminal piece called, "The Specter of Capitalism" which noted that:
 
"If you haven't read it, you may well have gotten wind of an article signed by speculator George Soros in the February issue of Atlantic Monthly. Soros, who pines to be known as something more than just the man who broke the British pound, declared that the untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the spread of market values are promoting income inequality and endangering democracy. Soros' message is clear: A little capitalism might be a good thing, but too much of a good thing might be dangerous.

One expects this kind of talk from the hard left. Last year the Zapatista guerrillas gathered an impressive array of stars from the international socialist movement in the jungles of southern Mexico. These lefties convened under the banner of the International Forum in Favor of Humanity and Against Neoliberalism. Neoliberalism, of course, is Marxist jargon for free enterprise with minimal government intervention.

More surprisingly, I heard a fair amount of the same refrain last month at one of the favorite gatherings of the captains o of  i n d u s t r y, the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Subcommander Marcos didn't deliver the message. But George Soros was there and his influence was strong in many of the sessions.

Whether it comes from a very smart speculator or from guerilla theater, the thesis is nonsense. Fellow economist Stephen Walters and I recently evaluated, for the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, some studies that contain empirical evidence about economic and political/civil freedoms. The data in these studies contradict the argument that capitalism hurts the poor. In fact it helps them.

What we found was that countries that have more economic freedom have higher living standards than those with less, and their citizens enjoy better health. Indeed, a 10% increase in economic freedom can be expected to increase GNP per capita from 7.4 % to 13.6% within five years, on average.

Economic freedom and prosperity also increase pressures for democratization and politically open societies.  As John Helliwell's research ("National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper," number 4066, 1992) shows: More capitalism is associated with more political/civil liberties.

The power of economic freedom combined with political/civil liberties is truly remarkable. We studied the measures of economic freedom contained in the World Economic Forum's "Global Competitiveness Report 1996." We also consulted measures of political/civil liberties produced by Freedom House. What we found was that 75% of the variation in income across countries can be explained in terms of these measures of economic and political/cid freedoms.

What about income distribution? The most careful work on this topic is contained in Gerald Scully's book, Constitutional Environments and Economic Growth (Princeton University Press, 1992). Scully concludes that income is more equally distributed in countries that are more capitalistic and politically open than in those where economic and political rights are abridged.

George Soros writes that too much capitalism is dangerous.

For example the share of national income going the middle classes (the middle 60% of the income distribution) is 30% to 50% higher in the most free nations than in the least tree. And in the most free nations, the share of income going to the richest fifth of the population is 25% lower than in the least free nations. Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ethiopia and Laos are representative of the least free countries. Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Switzerland and the U.S. are representative of the most free nations.

In short, lack of economic and political rights has a large and negative effect on increase in economic freedom income distribution.

Capitalism is no threat to democracy and the well-being of the masses. All George Soros has demonstrated is that money and clear thinking do not always go together."

Forbes March 10, 1997
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The Editors of ECrisis could not agree with Dr. Hanke more:  contrary to what Chavez, the FARC and Correa tell us, capitalism is not the problem and is no threat to democracy. In fact, we need more democracy- that is structural/legitimate democracy with transparency/checks and balances and open justice. What we have is non democracy, by design/by plan. George Soros, who seriously manages the USA's Democratic Party -and anyone who tells you differently is a liar- is the man behind the scenes with his Soros Family Values of non-belief in much of anything except the politics of hatred. This dovetails neatly with the politics of hatred and self loathing, currently called Family Values in Venezuela and Ecuador where the Soros message has fertile ground not just in the astonishingly corrupt regimes of Correa and Chavez but across the full spectrum of society. Soros's Family Values are taught daily in Ecuadorean homes: manipulate, manipulate, manipulate. Never stand for anything and always surrender. And primarily follow this plan: Accuse, Confuse, Divide and Conquer. Of course following the Yellow Brick Road of Evil gets you exactly where it has gotten Ecuador: a failed narcostate where no one is honest and there is nothing to be proud of.
 
We remind: to combat evil....never give up. Never surrender, never run away, and never ever "throw in the towel." To those who suggest this, call them out and maintain even handed integrity. Demand integrity for without it, you have no future. Where will you be tomorrow at 10 AM, Bogotá time? And what are you doing to ratify the truth that is about to be unleashed on the dark evil of deception, also called the Chavez and Correa Plan to denounce the Facts about their Own Complicity and Sponsorship of the FARC and every other criminal scum that wormed across the Andes? Your choice is yours on May 15, 2008 to stand with law and order or be known as a lying, useless manipulative bag of manure. Which do you chose? The dishonest, manipulative Correa-FARC-Chavez way or the way of law and order?
 
Along with other Soros-backed groups such as the ACLU and WOLA and the Crisis Group, we suggest a review of the 1998 public letter addressed to Kofi Annan of the UN which said, “the global war on drugs is now causing more harm than drug abuse itself.” The letter also stated that:

Human rights are violated, environmental assaults perpetrated and prisons inundated with hundreds of thousands of drug law violators. Scarce resources better expended on health, education and economic development are squandered on ever more expensive interdiction efforts. Realistic proposals to reduce drug-related crime, disease and death are abandoned in favor of rhetorical proposals to create drug-free societies.
This is of course pure propaganda and chock full of lies. You will see this again in the Correa-Paul Reichler-Soros enthused law suit at The Hague against Alvaro Uribe and the USA for Plan Colombia.

This public letter was and remains a George Soros generated and signed letter, also signed by the likes of the USA's Tammy Baldwin, Mort Halperin [one of Soros's executives whose own son is busily promoting presidency efforts for Barack Hussein Obama through his propaganda, also called yellow journalism], Cornel West [advisor and advocate of Black Liberation Theology] and the NAACP's Kweisi Mfume, among others. Also teaming with Soros are numerous Soros-backed names such as Argentina's Domingo Cavallo, Lula da Silva [now president of Brazil], Costa Rica's current president Oscar Arias, Jesus Silva Herzog- former Mexican Ambassador to the United States [Clinton era], Ecuador's Washington Herrera former Presidential Minister under Borja [ long a Soros man in country and long time advocate for legitimizing the Shining Path, Alfaristas and the FARC], Diego Arria former ambassador and former Representative of Venezuela to the United Nations and Security Council, plus a long list from the USA including Ira Glasser Executive Director, The American Civil Liberties Union, Vartan Gregorian  President, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Lester Grinspoon of Harvard Medical School, Lani Guinier Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania , and Peter Lewis who has subsequently followed Soros's lead [as usual] and given millions to funding Obama election support groups .    
          
Among the hundreds of drug legalizing names listed, scores and scores are currently serving the EU parliament, such as it is, in Belgium in numerous capacities.

Some are libertarians like David J. Theroux, Founder/President, The Independent Institute who somehow co opt themselves in to the free trade argument regarding addictive, psychotropic drugs which is where they lose their free trade argument. But there remain some libertarians clearly wedded to the drug legitimization movement.
Correa has already told the world that he cares nothing about World Bank norms, nothing about standards set by INTERPOL, nothing about law and order- certainly not money laundering norms and he cares nothing whatsoever about transparency, open media and free speech nor sustainable capitalism and democracy. No indeed- from his earliest campaigns, Correa vowed to install a Castro-backed communist paradise in Ecuador. He was very direct then and he has accomplished his goals already. Replicating all Soros mores, Correa has legitimized that which should never be legitimized- all done behind the smoke screen/the haze of overpaid, easily manipulated Asambleistas in Montecristi who are illegal to begin with and are busily making the best the enemy of the good, while running FARC cartel monies and any other vermin that slimes across Ecuador. The USA dishonestly agreed by its acts and its deeds and its money with George Soros that Ecuador needed to "kill the oligarchy to help the poor" and promoted all rewards for this Correa regime of hatred to assist in crafting an illegitimate empire for the world's scum in this tiny nation. Soros's neo Marxism and labor union machinations never "help the poor"- the only thing that gets helped under the Soros Plan for governance are more of his self selected anti USA NGOs and off the books oil traders and commodity derivatives swaps deals- sometimes called bond market racketeers, currently escalating global food and energy prices while self enriching under these new monopolies inside Andean governments for the rackets and of the rackets.. This is no substitute for transparency, open media [which Soros abhors] and functional democracy. The world needs more democracy- not less.

We would not live in Sorosville. Why should you???

- Pedro Camargo for the Editors of ECrisis