October 31, 2008   It is Halloween when theatrical ghosts and goblins rise for one night of fun and mischief. The ghosts of communism have risen across the Russo-Iranian-Venezuelan-Cuban-Ecuadorean graveyards of deadly aspirations, also called greed, corruption, deception and power grabs, also called evil, through an interlocking nexus of real time crimes- drug running, unaccountable governmental actions and spending sprees and dishonest non-diplomacy, which some stupidly call diplomacy when it is not.
 
Thanks to the massive spending spree in the billions to sell us all on the benefits of hatred and false information by immoral spenders of hatred's products such as George Soros, the global Pandora's Box has been opened wide. In thousands of smaller efforts, also called activist lobbying and propaganda mills, the Soros ilk have devised a network of enablers....enablers for undoing the higher reaches of Western Civilization. The spirits of these evil-doers are on the prowl now- coming in your doors, through your windows and across your computers and TV airwaves, also called TELESUR and AL JAZEERA media. Pandora's Box is always a temptation and the reminder that greed and jealousy always leads to dangerous erosion of morality is soothed away by the click of a computer mouse and the ongoing and pervasive message that Chavez and Correa and now Barack Hussein Obama will take care of you so that you need never do anything again, especially poignant for our irresponsible and lazy friends who join in this gay abandonment of any personal, moral responsibility.
 
Transference of morality, based on a ginned up, fake hatred of a demonized scenario following a reluctance to stand for anything more than the most shallow of non-meaningful irresponsible living habits has been underway for some time. Projecting a false sense of evil of liberty's brightest lights in order to generalize and make normal the refusal to stand for freedom has been on going while every attendant evil let loose on the world today swirls around as if a welcome guest in any home. When our schools, churches and families stand for nothing much more than fake religiosity for show only and false education for self generating foolishness, we expose our own weaknesses and reveal the failure of our personal commitments to stand for much of anything except the fake piety of the false where nothing is accountable, nothing is deliverable and nothing is honest except the incessant commitment to selfishness, greed and manipulative ethics. Such handmaidens of evil enable the growth of global evil.
 
This is not a happy celebration of evil today on All Hallows Eve. In fact, it is a symbol that Western Civilization has no defenders, certainly not these aberrant handmaidens of laziness and irresponsible living whose very purpose is to serve the self and none others. Due to the craven commitment to arrogance, the only antidote being sold today to the elitism of the undereducated is communism, mistakenly called charity. Charity of course does not truly exist as an ethic anywhere in Latin America. Our own families make fun of anyone with genuine charitable tendencies and all cynicism is forced upon the charitable. This enables the hue and cry for more and more communism while essential freedoms to give to the less fortunate and to build sane, healthy societies dies. Without so much as a by your leave, Ecuadoreans have left behind any and all commitments to sane, healthy societies and could care less what occurs as long as they can move their monies to safe havens, launder funds for other criminal cartels and pretend that the world actually likes them when no one welcomes them at all....unless the host is another cartel leader like el presidente Rafael Correa.
 
We pay special notice today to another evil underway: pretending that Chavez is a moral man with "peaceful" designs when nothing about Hugo in the last 30 years has been honorable or honest. To gift Chavez a morality which he and his cartel cabal do not hold is to actively deceive, itself a sin. To pretend that if we do nothing and say nothing that Chavez and his comrades in arms will quietly go away is also.... a sin. But sin we do daily and Ecuadoreans sin incessantly by pretending that what their undereducated MaMas tell this is morally choate when it is not. Ignoring evil will never restore sane, healthy living and only grows societal dysfunction, itself generated by the incessant addiction to manipulative living so abhorrent now across Ecuador. But this Mr. Brooks warns that Chavez is a liar, a dictator and is a global menace now. Although we have long disagreed with the manipulative rhetoric delivered incessantly by Chavez-Correa's propaganda and lobbying team to soothe that to state the facts about their corrupt and unendingly dishonest regimes is to make matters worse- always a tactic applied by immorals of any age- our evaluation has consistently been that to utilize fact based truth telling can only be a furtherance toward progress. Peter Brookes here warns of the consequences of our last 12 years of deceptive ethics. We cannot disagree with his assessment:
 
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A Nuclear Chavez

Now El Loco's pursuing the bomb

By Peter Brookes
New York Post | 10/31/2008

RUSSIA'S alliance with Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez just keeps getting tighter - and worse for America. Now, Moscow could be putting "El Loco" on the road to getting the bomb.

Russia has already sold billions worth of arms to Chavez, and recently flew two strategic bombers to Venezuela in a show of solidarity and force. A Russian flotilla will soon arrive in Caribbean waters for joint naval exercises.

But the latest deviltry came at a Moscow summit late last month, when Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin offered Chavez assistance in building a nuclear reactor.

During the Russian visit, Chavez said: "Russia is ready to support Venezuela in the development of nuclear energy with peaceful purposes, and we already have a commission working on it."

Peaceful purposes - right. Venezuela, one of the world's top energy producers, has about as much need for nuclear power as, well, Iran does.

This could be the start of the first new nuclear-weapons program in this hemisphere in decades. Rivals Argentina and Brazil gave up their dream of joining the once-exclusive nuclear club in the early 1990s; though each has nuclear power, neither has been willing to cooperate with Venezuela on atomic affairs.

It should come as no surprise that Chavez might be interested in nuclear know-how beyond power generation. He's clearly bent on building one of the region's most powerful militaries to advance his socialist revolution, intimidate his neighbors and project power - and keep Washington at bay. He's already bought more than $4 billion in Russian arms - including advanced fighters, combat helicopters and 100,000 assault rifles.

Another $1 billion or so in advanced Russian air-defense systems, main battle tanks, armored personnel carriers and diesel submarines may still be in the pipeline to Caracas.

And the Russian press reports that weapons sales to Venezuela over the next 10 years could top another $5 billion. Plus, Chavez has offered Moscow access to his nation's airfields and bases.

Making the Russian nuclear proposal more worrying are Chavez's tight ties with the regime in Iran. He's surely green with envy at how Tehran's ballistic missiles and nuclear-weapons program give the United States strategic indigestion. He especially likes the intended deterrent effect that these programs will have on American freedom of action.

The odds of Chavez pursuing only a peaceful nuclear power, rather than moving in the direction of a secret nuclear-weapons program once it gets started are about as likely as Iran doing the same: zero.

Not only could Tehran help Caracas with a nuclear program that Russia starts, especially uranium enrichment, it could also sell or help develop a ballistic-missile program that could reach the continental United States. (Could help from the North Koreans be far behind?)

The Kremlin, meanwhile, looks to have found another way to milk the Venezuelan cash cow besides conventional-weapons sales. A nuclear-power plant can easily run $1 billion apiece plus maintenance and fuel. Plus, a pumped-up Chavez could force the United States to focus on events in this hemisphere - hindering US interference in the Russian near abroad (e.g., the now-independent nations of Georgia and Ukraine).

Moscow's willingness to build Tehran's first (nearly completed) nuclear reactor isn't encouraging of its nonproliferation sense, especially considering the threat Iran may pose to Russia one day. Venezuela is no threat to Russia, meaning even less hesitancy on the Kremlin's part.

The good news is that falling energy prices and construction timelines mean a Venezuelan nuclear program of any sort isn't just around the corner. Of course, that's what people used to say about Iran's nuclear program, too.

Peter Brookes, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, is a senior fellow for National Security Affairs at The Heritage Foundation. 

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ECrisis reminds that economic downturns are never, ever significant deterrents to self styled sociopaths, psychopaths and narcissistic control freaks. It is only a minor bump in the road. The Chavez-Correa budgetary woes are only a slight discomfort to their self centered greed and power plays and will not last long. Besides, both the Venezuelan and Ecuadorean governments have taken comfort in watching their lucrative extortion and protection rackets plus narcotics transshipments, sometimes called oil tanker shipments, replace any unchecked wallet losses from their massively corrupt spot oil trading deals, off the books with oil speculators.
 
Has Chavez fired any of his lobbyists, double agents and propagandists in some nascent belt tightening endeavor? No he has not. Has Correa fired his paid teams of lawyers, lobbyists and propagandists in an economic thrift programs, currently costing tens of millions of dollars? No- he has not. So we remind that the Chavez and Correa addictions to living la vida manipulativa are strong, following the very ethics they have been trained in for all their lives.
 
Russia and Iran and Ecuador and Venezuela will be enjoying soon their nukes, with all the extortionary benefits they have come to love and revere, just as they have for all their lives. Why do you suppose that Correa has forced Ecuador's military in to a volunteer army with no known budget or accountability? It is because Chavez will deliver their joint-regional military blessings, complete with nukes and criminally handed over Predator Drones from some of the USA's most dishonest weapons dealers, for surveillance use by the Chavez-Correa-Russo-Iranian hub out of the Manta Base, connected now to three other base locations- Venezuelan Islands, outside Havana and soon the Galapagos.
 
Deterrence to liberty is what manipulative persons demand. And deterrence of freedom, with all dishonesty and all manipulative credos flying, will secure for Chavez and Correa their doomed, self destructive and beyond dirty cartel in the Andes.
 
Those who refuse to stand for freedom, stand for nothing meaningful. Those who spend their days doing nothing but manipulating others, stand for the cornerstone of this Hezbollah-style evil spreading like a nasty cancer today.
 
-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis