November 23, 2008  The Ecuadorean so called constitution, which no Ecuadorean actually read- lazy fools that they are, ceded all powers to Rafael Correa as coming not from God almighty but from some fake, ginned up fantasy deity created whole cloth by these liars, called the Pachamama and all legal rights to Correa to be a dictator, to act to steal your money and to destroy what credibility Ecuador used to have. Ecuadoreans have been seduced so easily and their morals look about as pathetic as Correa's, which are non existent. Even so, Correa wants you to know that his Pachamama cult polytheism is a true and honest great religion now and with the same honesty, tells you he committed no fraud with Hugo Chavez on his recent bond market manipulations and attendant money making derivatives swaps scam. No indeed, Correa has been endowed by Pachamama [and his Mama] to do what all Ecuadorean Mamas tell their children to do: manipulate, whine, carry on, stamp their feet, lie a lot and still yet do nothing honest or responsible. This is what your Mama and the fake Pachamama have given you: fake family morals, a fake national religion, a fake government where all is a joke, a scam and fraud where nothing is meaningful and all is dishonest. There is no VIAGRA pill on earth that can make this fake body function honestly. In fact, the fake integrity of Ecuador is no longer on life support,  but is a disaster. You can do better than this:

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Former Ecuador leaders deny profit from bond deals
By JEANNETH VALDIVIESO
Associated Press Writer

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa delivers a speech after listening to the final report of the government commission that audited the country's debt in Quito, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. The commission recommended Thursday that Ecuador halt payments on three government bonds worth $3.9 billion after finding "serious indications of illegality" in the contracting and renegotiation of the debt.

QUITO, Ecuador Former Ecuadorean leaders said Friday that President Rafael Correa was playing politics when he accused them of taking bribes during $3.9 billion in debt renegotiations.

Correa said the former officials and two investment banks - U.S.-based J.P. Morgan and Salomon Smith Barney, now part of Citigroup Inc. - should repay debtholders after a government audit found they profited off of the "illegitimate" deals.

Spokesmen for both banks declined to comment on the charges. But former President Sixto Duran-Ballen, who worked with J.P. Morgan to refinance debt in 1994, said a government-appointed audit was full of "lies" and that his negotiating team acted in good faith.

The audit found that Ecuador should never have renegotiated the debt at all because it was unable to make payments for six years after a devastating earthquake, meaning that under U.S. law it should have been wiped from the books.

"The lenders were going to just let it expire? There wouldn't have been a lawsuit against Ecuador?" Duran Ballen asked Ecuavisa TV.

The audit also found that two sets of bonds issued in 2000 were illegitimate because dates on key documents were altered and lacked presidential authorization.

Gustavo Noboa, who was president at the time, did not answer calls from The Associated Press. But his former economy minister, Jorge Gallardo, wrote a letter from the United States, where he now lives, saying the audit was "full of errors" and shows "ignorance" and "bad faith."

Politics Minister Ricardo Patino, who participated in the audit, denied any political motives and said the courts should decide whether the negotiations were corrupt. The government has already hired a U.S. law firm to review the audit and counsel Ecuador on its legal options, Patino told the Associated Press. He refused to elaborate.

Noboa and Gallardo were charged in 2003 with embezzling funds during the deal but were pardoned in July. Ecuador delayed $30.6 million in interest payments on the debt last week, saying it would use a 30-day grace period to assess the results of the yearlong, 30,000-page audit. Correa must make a final decision on whether to default by Dec. 15.Ecuador's foreign debt hit $10 billion in August, 21 percent of its gross domestic product. "
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Following the non truths included in Rafael Correa's so called crimes based on Pachamama, actually the somewhat stylized earth mother, some claim to be a 2000 year old deity, an Aymran pre-  Incan god of earth [now claimed as an Incan god, you get the point] is not necessarily what Correa's hippies want you to believe. In fact, many pre-historic societies and cultures worshipped some form of a Mother Earth, including the Greeks and the Romans...and even the Egyptians. The OLD TESTAMENT of the BIBLE is full of ancient cultures who practiced polytheism and deity worship with lots of blood sacrifices and none of them ended up in very good shape. Here is one strange recounting of Pachamama, "Incas of ancient Peru believed that Pachamama personified the Earth. Incas ruled Peru from about 1450 until 1532 when Spaniards conquered their territories. Pachamama and her husband Inti, the Sun god, were viewed as generous deities. Incas used to offer llamas and other animals as sacrifices to the Earth goddess. According to an ancient legend, the first Incas had sacrificed a llama before entering their capital Cuzco. They entered the city with the lungs of the llama and the golden wedge that symbolize the Sun god Inti. Pachamama continues to be worshipped today in Peru, where she has also been identified with the Virgin Mary by Indian Christians." Let us be clear- the Incas also sacrificed brutally whole chunks of their own people in blood sacrifices. Pachamama worship today heralds live offerings of...coca leaves...and the sprinkling of some chicha- not a tough thing to do for chicha drinkers as it is about 200 proofs and has created lots of alcohol addiction, not to mention perpetrated coca cultivation in some feeble minds.  This  polytheism as a state religion is not a healthy society, like the Mayans, nor was the Incan hand of total domination so respected that their own denizens did not grasp the concept that the Incan yoke was not such a bad idea to throw off, as did their sister culture the Mayans, for even the stylized version of Christianity which was sold to the few who actually lived in what is now called Ecuador, which- before modern roads, water and cultivation, was not much to begin with. So any confusion  about the performance of Pachamama versus Western Civilization is a fools errand. We hold no problems with respecting the environment and regard normative regulations as part of decent stewardship of any nation. But to reinstate a hippie's version of a confused, vapid view of an Earth Mother as a state mandated religion, as Correa's gaggle of fools has just done, is the height of making excuses for abandoning common sense, law and order and Western Civilization as if it is all too much to expect and therefore, whole cloth a phony new society is to be made up.

When busy worshipping Pachamama, the locals were way behind on real life advancements, no reading or writing or sustainable education was envisioned in their totalitarian communist lands. No wheels were allowed- only walking, swinging or running. By choice, these Andean folks missed a whole lot of global progress, retreating in to slave like status. In fact, all citizens were serfs of the state with a well known Incan rule that over 2/3 of anything you had went back to the Incan rulers, including in many cases your children for sacrifices to Pachamama who would approve their murder in order to help make her husband, the Sun King happy, so their tawdry macho dysfunctional life went.

Here is more claptrap about the revered preSpanish life, "The Andean people always revered the mountains, because they knew about the electromagnetic power that resided in them. They called them Apus. The Apus are the great entities which inhabit the summits of the mountains." Here is another New Age goofy view of Pachamama:
               
"Pachamama, Goddess of Healing, Wholing, and Holy" ????



We are not sure what "wholing" is all about. But we are sure that for $58 plus shipping and taxes, you can own a piece of Pachamama: "Mama Pacha, is the Earth Mother of the Incans of South America. She lives inside the earth and is a companion to women. The mountain peaks are seen as her breasts, the flowing rivers, her life-giving milk, and the tilled fields, her fertile womb. This full-bodied earth goddess is the primordial feminine image. She is one with the earth, centered, calm, and content. But she is also a dragon Goddess and when the people do not honor her, she sends them earthquakes as reminders. Bronze Mama Pacha Goddess is the Earth Mother, bringing grounding and centering.



The Mama Pacha Pendant is glazed a lovely metallic bronze, wrapped with 14kt gold-filled wire and adorned with two garnet gemstones. The Necklace is strung with bronze-glazed ceramic, brass, and garnet chips. Colors are deep metallic bronze & garnet red. Clasp is a Brass Toggle." There -feel better now?
 
Here is a genuine Pacha Mama talisman- we are not sure if she is summoning more earthquakes and volcanoes because she is angry or ordering more blood sacrifices of little kids supposedly to make her husband happy and content [happy in his pedophilia], but her feet are noticeably made of clay:


                         

After years of dazed and confused dreams of an alternative democracy under fake gods and fake laws, our intrepid team in Quito brought forward their pals upon Correa's pre jiggered idiots called the constitutional writing assembly in the one horse town called Montecristi, Ecuador. They were forced to listen to these idiots and adopted whole cloth their foolishness without so much as a by your leave or even any fact checking. What is worse is that someone paid a lot of money for this garbage and the USA called it wonderful [when they should be shot for dishonesty and stupidity- just joking!] this from not quite one year ago:

Pachamama Addresses Ecuadorian Constitutional Assembly on Ecosystem Rights

"2008
At 8:00 AM on Tuesday, February 25th, at a hotel in Manta, Ecuador, Fundación Pachamama hosted a policy breakfast for 130 assembly men and women, to share with them the theoretical and practical arguments for incorporating Ecosystem Rights into the new Ecuadorian Constitution. The event was so successful and widely acclaimed that the Constitutional Assembly’s official media coverage included it on its web site’s homepage, less than 3 hours after the event began.

The breakfast included three “expert” presentations on the conceptual basis and practical-legal application of Ecosystemic Rights. First, Mari Margil, the Associate Director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, spoke of how Ecosystem Rights came to exist. Specifically, they grew out of grassroots efforts in the United States, among local communities in Pennsylvania who were being affected by mining and agricultural activities. These communities came together to fight a common problem: companies had the same rights as citizens (if not more), moreover, the natural environment had no rights at all – a situation very similar to that of Ecuador’s indigenous communities and their ancestral territories. The communities from Pennsylvania reacted by turning the tables on the companies, demanding that they and their natural environment had inherent rights which the companies could not violate and the government had to guarantee and protect. Out of this US-based, grassroots movement grew the concept of Ecosystemic Rights.

Thomas Linsey, expert in Ecosystemic Rights and founder of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, followed Ms. Margil. Mr. Linsey emphasized that nature currently has no constitutional rights, despite it having many inalienable rights that should be formally recognized and protected; therefore, the environment should not be treated as goods to be bought and sold. An example of an Ecosystemic Right, as proposed by Mr. Linsey, is a river’s right to flow fully and freely. Mr. Linsey offered a set of practical suggestions for “operationalizing” these rights, if they were to be incorporated into Ecuador’s new Constitution.

Finally, Fundación Pachamama’s own Mario Melo, a Human Rights lawyer who is currently the lead counsel on the Kichwa Sarayaku case before the Interamerican Court on Human Rights, articulated the connection between Ecosystem Rights and the Collective Rights of Ecuador’s indigenous peoples. For indigenous peoples, there is no separation between their human communities and their natural environments – these are intrinsically linked and manifested through their territories and cosmovision. Mr. Melo argued that both Ecosystemic and Collective Rights should be incorporated into the new Constitution’s fundamental principals, as rights to be protected and guaranteed by the State.

This event reflects an important way in which the Pachamama organization is working to positively influence a new Constitution for Ecuador that recognizes and values our indigenous partners and their ancestral territories. "

Here is how one international web site analyzes the ridiculously dishonest Correa government, calling Ecuador a dead nation, so easily seduced by lies, confusing functional rule of law for dishonesty, "Rights are moral entitlements embodied in law to protect people. They are human rights, rights which are not earned but inherent by virtue of being a member of the human race, meant to protect human life.  And the central importance of human life is the fundamental principle undergirding Western civilization" :

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17 November 2008
one dead nation under pachamama
And high priest Correa.

Back in September, Ecuador voted in a new Constitution - its twentieth.

This Constitution didn't just expand the hard-left President Rafael Correa's powers, allowing him to run for another term, giving him control of monetary and credit policy previously managed by the Central Bank, the power to grab and redistribute idle farmland, the power to appoint controlling majorities in the supreme, constitutional, and electoral courts as well as exclusive authority over the budget.

The new Constitution didn't just ban big landholdings, allow for popular referenda without the authorization of the congress, and raise mandatory spending on health, education, and social security.

This socialist manifesto - every greeny leftists wet dream - also gave every virus, insect, tree and weed constitutional rights. 

Seriously.

Article 1 states:

Nature or Pachamama [the GoddessEarth], where life is reproduced and exists, has the right to exist, persist, maintain and regenerate its vital cycles, structure, functions and its processes in evolution. Every person, people, community or nationality, will be able to demand the recognitions of rights for nature before the public bodies.

Meaning the Constitution also explicitly empowers just about anyone, including elected officials and every nutjob greenie group in or out of Ecuador, to enforce "Pachamama's" fundamental rights.

 This didn't make all the greenies happy though - some said it was nothing more than "populist greenwashing":  Correa could still argue his favourite political project trumps "the rights of nature"; others moaned that there is no right of communities to consent to development.  Indeed they are presently up in arms about Correa's 'mining mandate'.

But the idea of giving nature constitutional rights is demented.

Rights are moral entitlements embodied in law to protect people. They are human rights, rights which are not earned but inherent by virtue of being a member of the human race, meant to protect human life.  And the central importance of human life is the fundamental principle undergirding Western civilization.

The inspiration for this little gem of Gaia worship came from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), an American extremist environmental group based in Pennsylvania which aims to "change the status of ecosystems from being regarded as property under the law to being recognized as rights-bearing entities." 

The press release on its website brags:

The Pachamama Alliance, with offices in San Francisco and Quito, played a key role in facilitating the Legal Defense Fund’s involvement in the drafting of Ecuador’s new constitution.

CELDF runs 'democracy schools' all over the country to help community activists "confront corporate power."

Sound familiar?

Ah yes. Community organisers.

Thomas A. Szyszkiewicz:

ECUADOR'S GRANTING of juridic personhood to nature is unique in the world, but the country is not completely alone. Spain will be granting human rights to all 350 apes in its territory. Switzerland is telling farmers not to lop flowers off as they return from mowing their fields since those flowers have a right to exist as they are. The European Court of Human Rights will be hearing a case that could grant a chimpanzee the status of a person in Austria. And in an editorial watching amusedly as Ecuador begins its grand experiment, the Los Angeles Times reported that Australia, Italy, South Africa, and Nepal (which is also in the midst of writing a constitution) have all started looking at similar juridic person provisions.

Indeed Pachamama has fifty priests and priestesses ready to spread their poison in Australia.

While we in the U.S. might think it's only the crazy Europeans and backwater countries like Ecuador that are into this stuff, we shouldn't be so smug. Ecuador turned to a little-known public interest law firm called the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund in Chambersburg, Pa., for advice on the nature's rights language of its constitution. The reason: CELDF has already convinced some small municipalities here to pass similar legislation. These towns have a clear purpose in mind, which is to keep large corporations out of their territories. They don't want factory farms being set up or corporations dumping chemical sludge on their fields or giant box-stores like Wal-Mart and Target coming into their towns.

However, CELDF has another purpose in mind -- the removal of the juridic person status given to U.S. corporations. This law incenses them and they blame it for the rise of big-box retailers and the disappearance of Mom and Pop shops all over the country. While that may or may not be an accurate reading of history, what is clear is that the law is an accurate law. For behind every corporation is a group of people who run that corporation. Behind nature is...what?

But the new Constitution also did more than give rights to weeds and feral pests. 

Ecuador's new Constitution also sold out its own people in other ways.

Carlos Polo:

The second chapter of article 417 of the recently approved Constitution of Ecuador reads:

"The international treaties ratified by Ecuador will be subject to the established tenets of the Constitution. In the case of treaties and other international human rights instruments, these principles will be understood to be pro-human, non-restricting of rights, of direct applicability and of open clause in the Constitution."

Notice how "international treaties" and "international human rights instruments" are now considered equivalent, when in reality, the difference is enormous. This change, which would go unnoticed by all but the most perceptive citizen, essentially allows for Ecuadorian laws to be generated by people other than Ecuadorians. In this way, the sovereignty of Ecuador has been sold abroad by its own constitution.

There have been less than a dozen international human rights treaties signed by Ecuador. These treaties have been fruit of a global diplomatic consensus in which Ecuador was represented by its foreign ministry. All of these treaties were carefully worded so as not to transgress Ecuador's legal framework, but rather to elaborate it and, in some cases, to reinforce it. As a result, these treaties are binding to the point of effectively being law in Ecuador.

The act of changing the word "treaties" (which has always been the term used in previous Constitutions) to "international instruments" lowers the standard that resolutions need to meet in order to be legally binding on the people of Ecuador. Now, Ecuador is not only required to recognize documents drafted by diplomatic bodies, but also to recognize resolutions passed by less rigorous processes.

Under this new constitution, even interest groups assembled by ministries may produce a document that is considered binding, if one or two activists from a country attend an international conference. This is absolutely unprecedented. Such documents have never been considered binding on any country, including Ecuador, and with good reason. More often than not, such interest groups pursue objectives that are directly at odds with existing national legislation.

To equate "treaties" and "human rights instruments" is to open the door to interest groups from around the world to impose binding laws on Ecuadorians. "Reproductive rights" organizations in New York City, for example, will plan and execute such laws.

I am sure such organisations in New York have their little 'democracy schools' too.

And given how the Constitution also opened the door to abortion, you can expect Planned Parenthood, who are already calling up favours from Obama to allow them to export abortions to Mexico, to be in there making making laws too.1

And should one even be able to have a child, not to worry: the new Constitution removes the right of parents to send their children to a school of their choice; the government can now force parents to send their children to state-run schools for their proper Correa education.

What you see with this Constitution is how leftist, greeny and feminist radicals - predominantly from the U.S., but also Correa and friends themselves - have raped a country with a 38% poverty rate and left its own citizens, especially its most vulnerable citizens powerless and at the mercy of their own government and foreign entities and radical activists - anyone but themselves.

To now claim non-humans have rights, to open the door to anyone but citizens themselves to chose their own destiny, to promote death of your own children and not even allow you to raise them - such moronic notions don't just diminish human rights, they are profoundly anti-human; they promote more than just slavery, they are quite simply, the ingredients for national suicide.

And yes, there are plenty of Obama connections with Ecuador too - you didn't think you could talk radical, loony lefties like Correa  without that could you?  Try Obama's Harvard mate and fundraiser Donziger and one of the loony green left's favourite causes. Don't wonder why Obama is holding out on free trade agreements. His debt to loonies exceeds even the U.S. deficit.  And full credit to Bush for playing him hard even in these last weeks of his administration, and showing up Obama for the lame duck fool that he is. 

Here again, although this appeared on an American site is Ecuador's Sosa piece of 11-14-08- still worth reviewing:

The Marxism Nightmare Spreads to the U.S.!
By Antonio Sosa  |  Friday, November 14th, 2008 at 11:54 am
In 2006, when Ecuadorians were electing a new president, Venezuelans such as Alejandro Peña Esclusa warned Ecuadorians that the young and charismatic Rafael Correa would use democratic institutions to impose “socialismo del siglo XXI” (Marxism) in Ecuador just like Hugo Chavez had done in Venezuela. (Reference — Carta abierta al pueblo ecuatoriano)

How did Peña Esclusa know that Marxism would be imposed in Ecuador? Because the basic elements of Chavez’s campaign (lies, manipulation, intimidation, fraud) were identical to those of Correa’s campaign.  Even their slogans were the same (CHANGE, YES WE CAN). Correa’s campaign appealed to young people, to the poor, and to everyone who was envious of others. Correa ridiculed the opposition as old and out of touch. Chavez had done the same. Correa’s campaign was extremely “professional” as millions were spent on that campaign. It seems most of those millions were donated by Chavez and terrorist groups, such as FARC (see Ecuadorean President Correa Took $100,000 From FARC to Fund Campaign), and perhaps even by the ubiquitous George Soros, working everywhere against democracy and U.S. interests.

Informed Ecuadorians were not able to convince their compatriots that Correa was a fake and not the wonderful savior the media was portraying. Once he took over, Correa dissolved Congress and took control of the legislative and judicial powers. Just like in Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua, CHANGE in Ecuador has meant loss of freedoms and greater poverty and despair.  When informed Latin Americans realized that Barack Obama’s “Christian” Church was based on Black Liberation Theology (Marxism), they began to worry. Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Rafael Correa all pretend to be Christian, but profess “Liberation Theology” (Marxism) instead. They noticed that Obama’s campaign strategies were almost identical to those of Chavez, Morales and Correa. And George Soros was supporting Obama!

However, most Latin Americans could not imagine that North Americans could be fooled as the poorest and most ignorant people in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador had been fooled. Tito the Builder (from Colombia), for example, believed that “Americans are very smart” and would realize that Obama is a North American Chavez (see Tito the Builder). However, those Latin Americans were wrong. They were not keeping in mind that perhaps Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov was right when he warned that, through media manipulation, Americans would be brainwashed and would allow their country to be taken over by Marxists (watch this video).

On November 4, 2008, tragedy struck the U.S. and the Free World. North Americans were fooled just like the poorest and most ignorant Venezuelans, Bolivians and Ecuadorians. Through lies, manipulation, fraud, and a bribed or corrupt media, a Marxist president was elected in the U.S.  A speck of hope… Barack Obama may not have a legitimate U.S. birth certificate. By December 1, 2008, Obama must present to the Supreme Court an authentic birth certificate. “I can see a unanimous Court (en banc) decertifying the election if Obama refuses to produce his birth certificate,” says Raymond S. Kraft, an attorney and writer. “They cannot do otherwise without abandoning all credibility as guardians of the Constitution.” (Reference — The Supreme Court and Obama’s Birth Certificate)  If Obama does not have a legitimate U.S. birth certificate, will the Court decertify the election?  For the sake of the U.S. and the world, the Court must do so."

We are not sure about Obama and his Kenyan birth place. But we are sure that we will likely not have a whole lot of countries selling the notion that transparency is a good idea. We think it is a good idea. And moreover, we think Ecuadoreans should rip up their ridiculous so called constitution- it is nothing to be proud of unless like the feet of clay Pachamama, never once aspiring to the betterment of mankind, you approve communism and societal deviancy.

 -Pedro Camargo for ECrisis