December 25, 2008   ECrisis wishes you a Merry Christmas...in jail. All Ecuadoreans have refused to throw off the self imprisoning yoke of bondage that comes from hyperactively running around 24 hours a day with nothing substantive and in full flight from adult responsibilities. You create your own prison by pretending that nothing matters except your capability to look ridiculously incompetent while clucking constantly like meaningless chickens on parade. This is not building anything good or helpful at such a time when rebuilding is desperately needed. You have no liberty because...you cannot manipulate the essentials of what gifts you this basic liberty and therefore you abandon your own liberty, pretending that fake liberties which you can and do manipulate dishonestly is preferable. You have and hold a government that lies to the world, lies to itself and lies to anyone it can. that government exists because you care so very little about your own addiction to lying that you do not once even object to the manipulative morass you live with. Ecuadoreans can work toward earning respect but first they must end their addictions to dishonesty and disgracefully clucking like vapid chickens, chock full of lies about every facet of their days.
 
But wait! you tell us. We are great and good people and have and hold valor, honor and decency. To this we say: no you do not. You are self delusional manipulators who cannot even muster one single protest against the rampant criminal cartel ruining your own life because....this feels normal after how you live you own private life. It is not normal, it is aberrant and it makes every Ecuadorean look like the teen aged idiot that they are- full of self importance, full of complaints that all around them caused their rejection of integrity when in fact their only solution is to...get drunk, go to the beach or go on vacation-pretending that some adult will rise up and cure the national addiction to childish, irresponsible manipulative and dishonest living, which is repulsive Ecuador today.
 
Ecuador's new Minister Falconi [an odious blob of dishonesty from the bottom rung of manipulative Ecuadoreans], as noted in PRENSA LATINA said that Ecuador will take dirty, illegal money anyway it can under the lie that it is building tolerance with terror states and criminals: "...while defending the strengthening of links with Russia, Iran and Venezuela because this government pursues tolerance and relations with all countries in the planet."  This is at the heart of Ecuadorean manipulative insanity. While you approve this double speak, you forget the truth as usual. There is nothing honest or legal about taking money from Iran or the dirty Russian mobsters or Chavez's oil derivatives cartel. You may believe that this easy money through crime affords Ecuadoreans the moral high road to pretend to be moral and compassionate with mobsters, terrorists and derivatives criminals but....you would be once again revealing your little Ecuadorean manipulative heart in disgrace.

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The Wall Street Journal
REVIEW & OUTLOOK
DECEMBER 24, 2008
In Hoc Anno Domini
 
When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage. There was one state, and it was Rome. There was one master for it all, and he was Tiberius Caesar.
Everywhere there was civil order, for the arm of the Roman law was long. Everywhere there was stability, in government and in society, for the centurions saw that it was so.

But everywhere there was something else, too. There was oppression -- for those who were not the friends of Tiberius Caesar. There was the tax gatherer to take the grain from the fields and the flax from the spindle to feed the legions or to fill the hungry treasury from which divine Caesar gave largess to the people. There was the impressor to find recruits for the circuses. There were executioners to quiet those whom the Emperor proscribed. What was a man for but to serve Caesar?

There was the persecution of men who dared think differently, who heard strange voices or read strange manuscripts. There was enslavement of men whose tribes came not from Rome, disdain for those who did not have the familiar visage. And most of all, there was everywhere a contempt for human life. What, to the strong, was one man more or less in a crowded world?

Then, of a sudden, there was a light in the world, and a man from Galilee saying, Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's.

And the voice from Galilee, which would defy Caesar, offered a new Kingdom in which each man could walk upright and bow to none but his God. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. And he sent this gospel of the Kingdom of Man into the uttermost ends of the earth.

So the light came into the world and the men who lived in darkness were afraid, and they tried to lower a curtain so that man would still believe salvation lay with the leaders.

But it came to pass for a while in divers places that the truth did set man free, although the men of darkness were offended and they tried to put out the light. The voice said, Haste ye. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come upon you, for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

Along the road to Damascus the light shone brightly. But afterward Paul of Tarsus, too, was sore afraid. He feared that other Caesars, other prophets, might one day persuade men that man was nothing save a servant unto them, that men might yield up their birthright from God for pottage and walk no more in freedom.

Then might it come to pass that darkness would settle again over the lands and there would be a burning of books and men would think only of what they should eat and what they should wear, and would give heed only to new Caesars and to false prophets. Then might it come to pass that men would not look upward to see even a winter's star in the East, and once more, there would be no light at all in the darkness.

And so Paul, the apostle of the Son of Man, spoke to his brethren, the Galatians, the words he would have us remember afterward in each of the years of his Lord:

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

This editorial was written in 1949 by the late Vermont Royster and has been published annually since.
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This superb reminder that we as humans make our own bondage by failing to act to expand liberty which is found both historically and in daily practice from God alone and never from the state or any manipulative structure, which always creates the false.

The people of Ecuador are spending, thanks to Correa's incredulous campaign to lie, steal and cheat [also called living la vida manipulativa] millions and millions not only to sell everyone on the false face of Correa's so called generosity, also called political bribes, extortion rackets, state hand outs for votes and FARC money taking, a legion of lawyers, lobbyists and propagandists- liars all. Following Correa's own lawyer-lobbyist Paul Reichler, Stephen Donziger has assembled a Who's Who of Obama friends  and wanna be's to sell the idea that due to their proximity to Obama and George Soros, they can jigger justice for billions for Correa's pro FARC cartel. Among them is the notorious Mr. Barnes, also known as DNC fundraiser and former Texas official before bribery charges and fraud saw him in trouble with the law, Ben Barnes is known as the "Fastest Zipper in the West." currently working to tell the world that Chevron Texaco should be bankrupted to feed Correa's burglary schemes. Not one to be shy about his proclivity for ruining careers and the truth, Mr. Barnes is a well known US Democratic Party propagandist who assisted the Soros-backed DNC candidacy of John Kerry in 2004 to lie a lot about the state of the truth regarding the Viet Nam War era while falsifying U.S. documents about both Kerry and George W. Bush's personal records. By taking the slanderous and libelous untrue screed from Mr. Barnes and his team previously headed by child porn man John Kerry and Obama donor, the lawyer /former Clinton official and Naval captain Wade Sanders, several CBS TV news executives from "Rathergate" for making fake stories for money now languish in the hallways of shame and unemployed disgrace....because they bought Correa's new lobbyist's lies. Mr. Sanders, like thousands of Soros and Obama employees, also serves double duty writing for more astroturffed non-fact checked media such as THE HUFFINGTON POST and his "ngo" miliray.com, more importantly their money to elect anti USA politicians called "VET PAC which is a sister group to the very socialist People for the American Way and other Soros-DNC funded activities. VETPAC says it exists to"...To rescue our Nation's future from policies that harm U.S. national security by alienating allies, feed the hatred that breeds terrorism, and diminish U.S. power and prestige around the world." Barnes and Sanders were active using Soros's hate Bush monies to build more hate for the Iraq War and assist Iran's murderous Muslim cartel. Here is a tale of Correa's lobbyist Ben Barnes's best buddy in propaganda:

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'My Motives Were Pure and Innocent'
A member of John Kerry's "band of brothers" pleads guilty to possessing child porn.
By JAMES TARANTO   Wall Street Journal 12-24-08

Remember Wade Sanders? He was one of the "band of brothers"--Swift Boat veterans who supported John Kerry's presidential campaign and appeared onstage at the 2004 Democratic National Convention before Kerry's "reporting for duty" speech.

On the campaign trail, Sanders was one of Kerry's nastiest surrogates. In August 2004, he likened the president to a "trapped animal." In September, he compared Karl Rove and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth chief John O'Neill to Josef Goebbels. He repeatedly referred to the president and his men as "chicken hawks," an especially nasty term because it is slang for a child molester as well as a derisive term for a nonveteran who favors a strong defense.

Sanders, who also served as a deputy assistant Navy secretary during the Clinton administration, continued his anti-Bush campaign even after Kerry's defeat. In a December 2004 op-ed for the San Diego Union-Tribune, he lectured the president on "the heavy responsibility of command":

Let me, for a moment, address the commander in chief directly:
Sir, with all due respect, you would be well advised to acquaint yourself with the level of responsibility and accountability that accompany the title. If you really want to fill those shoes, if you want to parade about in uniform, if you want to use our men and women in uniform as your personal props, then please honor moral and ethical standards that go with the job.
In 2007, Kerry attempted to use his Senate position to settle a personal score, scuttling the confirmation of businessman Sam Fox as ambassador to Belgium because Fox donated money to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. (President Bush gave Fox a recess appointment.) In a March 2007 Washington Times op-ed, Sanders railed righteously against Fox:

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but one of the lessons drilled into me by the military and preserved through the memory of friends who were lucky enough to come home from Vietnam alive, is that truth matters above all else. And as a military man, it doesn't matter much who is being attacked--John McCain, Max Cleland, John Kerry, or Jack Murtha--I just don't believe that assaults on the military records of veterans belong in our politics. Nor do I believe that those who finance smears of decorated Vietnam veterans deserve to represent America on the world stage. . . .
Those of us who are real swift boaters know something about judgment and responsibility for our decisions.
The following month, in a letter to the editor of the Boston Herald, Sanders harrumphed:

Yes, I am a member of Kerry's ready reserve of Swift Boat vets and unlike those who served with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and their ilk, I serve with honor, integrity and exercise sound judgment. Fox would do well to reacquaint himself with those qualities.
Sanders is back in the news. The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that he "pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal charge of possessing child pornography":

The investigation into Sanders began in October 2007, according to a statement filed in the case by San Diego FBI agent John Caruthers.

Another FBI agent working undercover signed on to a file-sharing computer network and entered a search term that is used for accessing child pornography images.

Among the responses to that search term was one for a specific computer address that the agents eventually traced to Sanders' home in South Park in San Diego. The agent then obtained a list of files that were being shared on the computer and downloaded 11 files, including at least two that contained images of child pornography.

On May 2, 2008, agents executed a search warrant at Sanders' home and seized his computer. During the search, Sanders admitted he had downloaded child pornography using the file-sharing program, but said he deleted the files once he noticed they were downloaded, according to the FBI statement.

Sanders acknowledged in court that he had "possessed computer files containing 600 images of minors, including a 21-minute video that depicted girls engaging in sex acts with an adult man." But don't worry--his motives were "pure and innocent":

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One of our perennial favorite club of Liars members is the entire Correa Case against Chevron Texaco comes this claim that any statement of facts by Chevron Texaco would weaken the USA's fight for democracy in Ecuador and would suborn the great judicial system of Ecuador. This from a 2005 Ecuadorean government letter to the U.S. House of Representatives' Ways and Means Committee:" “The US has devoted countless years, dollars and personnel to fomenting and nurturing democracy – and the hallmarks of democracy – in Ecuador,” the indigenous leaders warn in the letter. “Arguably the most important of these hallmarks is an independent judiciary, a concept enshrined in Article III of the US Constitution and held sacred in the US. That the Ways and Means Committee would think of intervening, even indirectly, with the Ecuadorian judiciary by dangling a sought-after carrot in front of the Ecuadorian executive to induce them to pressure the judiciary is to violate a fundamental principal of democracy --- and no less so, because it is not the American judiciary being victimized."

And here comes our favorite from the lawsuit supporters "Chevron Toxico: "...that stating the facts hurts rule of law [which does not exist] in Ecuador: "In the letter, the indigenous leaders warn that Chevron’s lobbying on the Hill would “subordinate the interests of US foreign policy in Latin America to the private economic interests of Chevron” and undermine democracy and the rule of law in Ecuador.

They add: “In the past, the US’s own Department of State has denounced the ‘politicization’ of the Ecuadorian legal system, but it hardly envisioned the possibility that such a problem would be the result of pressure asserted by the Ways and Means Committee, on behalf of a party to the litigation. Any interference in the judicial process by a third party, whether direct or indirect, would be an obvious effort to undermine the rule of law.” We at ECrisis are stunned by such a wild eyed claim based on non facts. Anyone who knows anything about Ecuador knows that rule of law does and exist there any more.

But the same plaintiffs gaggle under Correa and his NGO club of liars wants you to read how Barack Hussein Obama with Leahy supports this specious and fraudulent claim against Texaco as Obama wrote to the U.S. government in 2006, "The senators write: `We are writing to seek your assurances that the U.S. Trade Representative will not allow negotiations over the Andean Free Trade Agreement to interfere with a case involving Chevron that is under consideration by the Ecuadorian judiciary, particularly one involving environmental, health and human rights issues that have regional importance. While we are not prejudging the outcome of the case, we do believe the 30,000 indigenous residents of Ecuador deserve their day in court.' “Of all the vapid and dishonest lobbying ploys that Obama and Donziger could come up with, this is a stunning blow to fact sharing where Obama is caught presenting positions based on fraud and non facts.

THE NEW YORK TIMES reported on the case:

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Suit Says Chevron Texaco Dumped Poisons in Ecuador
 
By ABBY ELLIN
Published: May 8, 2003
A group of American lawyers representing more than 30,000 indigenous people in Ecuador filed a $1 billion lawsuit against the Chevron Texaco Corporation yesterday.

The suit was filed in Ecuador on behalf of 88 plaintiffs in Lago Agrio, a small oil town in northern Ecuador, and asserts that during two decades of operation, from 1971 to 1992, Chevron Texaco dumped over four million gallons a day of toxic wastewater, contaminated with oil, heavy metals and carcinogens into open pits, estuaries and rivers.

It also says the company left behind nearly 350 open waste pits that killed people and animals.

''We believe that what Chevron Texaco did in the Ecuador rain forest was not only negligent but might rise to the level of reckless behavior,'' said Joseph Kohn, a lead lawyer for the plaintiffs and a partner in Kohn, Swift & Graf in Philadelphia.

Chevron Texaco denies any wrongdoing and maintains that its practice was consistent with the practices of Ecuador's national oil company, Petro Ecuador, as well as internationally recognized standards.

The case, in litigation for almost a decade, has been dismissed four times. In August 2002, the United States Court of Appeals in New York ruled that the case should be sent to Ecuador, as Chevron Texaco originally wanted. It also ruled that American courts could step back in if the plaintiffs were unable to bring their case or if Chevron Texaco did not adhere to the Ecuadorean court's final decision.

The suit filed in Ecuador yesterday is the first step in adhering to the appellate court's direction.

Typically, cases against multinational corporations tried in developing countries languish there, as most plaintiffs cannot afford to sue in third world countries or do not have proper legal representation. If a corporation does lose, it often contends that the case was unfair or that ''the proceedings in the foreign county did not adhere to our notions of due process,'' said Michael P. Van Alstine, a professor of international commercial law at the University of Maryland.

This case is significant, legal experts say, because it could create a new way for multinational corporations to be held financially accountable for environmental abuses in foreign countries.

Chris Jochnick, a lawyer and founder of the Center for Economic and Social Rights, a human rights organization with offices in New York and Ecuador, said: ''The case has become something of a symbol for the abuses and lack of accountability of U.S. multinationals abroad, and of the efforts of local communities to organize and try to bring pressure to bear on those companies. You have both sides represented.''

Any financial penalty imposed on Chevron Texaco is enforceable in the United States, which ''adds an additional layer of security for the plaintiffs,'' Mr. Jochnick added.

In 1993, Chevron Texaco hired environmental consulting firms to conduct audits and identify the need for any remediation, said Chris Gidez, a spokesman for Chevron Texaco in Fairfield, Conn. In 1995, Chevron Texaco began a $40 million cleanup of about 250 drilling sites, which the Ecuadorean government deemed complete in 1998, Mr. Gidez said.

Mr. Gidez added that the oil operations took place over about 6,400 acres, or less than 1 percent, of the Ecuadorean rain forest. ''The Ecuadorean government,'' he said, ''encouraged growth -- colonization, building of roads -- in that area. To ignore all that activity as having a contributing impact on the environment is like walking around with blinders on.''

This weekend, Amazon Watch, a nonprofit environmental group in San Francisco, plans to bring a group of 13 indigenous leaders from Ecuador to San Ramon, Calif., the world headquarters of Chevron Texaco. The organization plans to stage protests and hold educational forums to ''raise awareness with community members of what their neighbors are doing in the rain forest,'' said Leila Salazar, an organizer with Amazon Watch's Chevron Texaco campaign.

With 2.1 billion barrels of proven reserves, Ecuador is an important player in the Latin American oil business. ''It's going to be interesting to see how a country that's so dependent on oil development is going to hold this corporation accountable,'' Ms. Salazar said.

Correction: May 12, 2003, Monday A picture caption in Business Day on Thursday with an article about a lawsuit that contends Chevron Texaco dumped toxic wastewater into open pits, estuaries and rivers in Ecuador referred imprecisely to the date of the photo, which showed a pit. It was taken in 1993.

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And this from 7-26-08 NEWSWEEK:

But Chevron's foes are not without their own resources. Just recently, Donziger and other trial lawyers in the case retained their own high-profile D.C. super lobbyist, Ben Barnes, a major Democratic fund-raiser. And they have tapped a capital connection that may pay off even more. Roughly two years ago, when Donziger first got wind that Chevron might take its case to Washington, he went to see Obama. The two were basketball buddies at Harvard Law School. In several meetings in Obama's office, Donziger showed his old friend graphic photos of toxic oil pits and runoffs. He also argued strongly that Chevron was trying to subvert the "rule of law" by doing an end run on an Ecuadoran legal case. Obama was "offended by that," said Donziger. Obama vetted the issue with Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy (who has long worked on Latin American human-rights issues), and in February 2006 the two wrote a letter to the then U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman urging the administration to permit the Ecuadoran peasants to have "their day in court."

The Obama letter, written before the senator had even announced his run for president, is now the wild card in the Ecuador-Chevron dispute. Donziger said he has had no further discussions with Obama on the issue (although he has co-hosted a New York fund-raiser and, together with his wife, raised between $40,000 and $50,000 for Obama's campaign). An Obama spokesman last week said the senator "stands by his position" that the case is a "matter for the Ecuadoran judicial system." So now the prospect of an Obama presidency has given additional urgency to Chevron's plea for help in Washington. Waiting until next year could leave the oil giant at the mercy of a judge in the Amazon jungle.

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Clearly lawyer Donziger used through deceptions Barack Hussein Obama to lie about the state of Ecuador in an effort to stop the facts about Ecuador furthering. Like Correa's lies that he is innocent and pure and just trying to help the poor....through crime, You should know what your government is spending money on: more lies. 

            Would you buy a used bond from this Minister of Finance?  This is the face of Ecuadorean integrity because....you ran away and cared nothing for how you look and what your people say or do while hiding. This disgrace has all the economic integrity of Correa's economic thesis which he wrongly believes proves that Marxism is great and national theft from innocent groups while stealing from one's own people. The face of Ecuador is Viteri and she is a candidate for the dishonest World Wrestling Federation, which also is for show and has no real basis in reality or rule of law or sportsmanship except for the showmanship. This is your face in the mirror:

El Gobierno ya puede emitir bonos



La inversión se priorizará. La ministra Elsa Viteri indicó que la ejecución de la obra pública será lenta.   Foto:EL COMERCIO
 
To raise more money to replace the money he has already stolen, Rafael Correa will soon enough force Ecuadorean pensions in to owning his funny bonds because no one else will freely buy them.
 
But Castro's own PRENSA LATINA tells us that "Ecuador Waits for Colombia Respect" which will never come because Correa insists, if you will recall the facts, that Colombia must withdraw its insistence on the truth and must, to be Correa's friend, follow the non ethics taught to each and every single Ecuador to lie, manipulate and cover up Correa's crimes with the FARC.
 
Worse yet is the George Soros-advised, and badly advised for financial crimes that is, opaque ALBA dirty money laundering caper:
 
ALBA to Study Common Currency

Caracas, Dec 24 (Prensa Latina) Experts from the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) will meet on January 8 in Caracas to analyze a proposal for a common currency, Venezuelan Finance Minister Ali Rodriguez informed.

The minister said that after the first exchanges, the experts consider the dollar an element of the world crisis, which underlines the need for a common currency.

Interviewed by the local Vive-TV channel, Rodriguez explained currency is a means of exchange, but when it is not represented by real values, it drops.

Considering the current world crisis, he added, different regions are seeking formulas to replace the dollar as unit of reference for world trade.

The Venezuelan minister believes that entails the creation of a universal currency and a World Central Bank to end with the one-country factor and boost the value of currencies in the rest of the world.

ALBA, made up of Bolivia, Dominica, Honduras, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, takes those processes into consideration, and assumes the need to have a currency that facilitates exchange in Latin America.

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The government of Ecuador is active behind the scenes in ginning up this Latin American banking club for criminal cartels. It is Correa's greatest deceit and is utterly depraved. It is the new Bank for communist cartels.
 
More on how this floods your person here from Sao Paulo:
 
 
The runaway Right

Olavo de Carvalho

Diário do Comércio (São Paulo, Brazil), Dec. 23rd. 2008

If there is anything to be dismayed about, it is the difference, the abysmal disparity between the multiplicity of fronts on which the activist Left launches its attacks against democracy, and the slavish modesty with which the advocates of democracy, while implicitly surrendering to the general strategy of their opponents, bound themselves to specific criticisms, if not to irrelevant aspects, thus losing ground even after History has favored them by proving the economic superiority of capitalism over socialism. This difference, which has already consolidated itself as an ineluctable journalistic rule – to break it means to risk being fired – represents the “asymmetric war” transposed to the battleground of culture and the media.

The immediate causes of the Right’s inferiority are twofold: a) liberals and conservatives’ obsession towards the economy; b) sheer ignorance. The first one already attests to the ideological subservience to the enemy, inasmuch as it embraces, without further consideration, the – absolutely incorrect – Marxist premise that the economy drives History. The second is a pure and simple crime – with the only mitigating circumstance that they commit it against themselves. Both causes are not independent: the passive admission of the Marxist premise shows deep ignorance about Marxism among liberals and conservatives alike. Since the death of José Guilherme Merquior – who grew weak before the Left not because of ignorance, but of mental subservience to his youthful coterie –, I don’t know, at least in Brazil, of any one of them that has dedicated enough time to study the works of Lucaks and Adorno, Korsh, Poulantzas and tutti quanti, not to mention Marxism’s latest developments in Europe and Asia, whose very simple existence they’re completely unaware of. Although the intellectual superiority of the Left is but a myth when it comes to the great names of philosophy, literature and human sciences (where conservatives reign), it makes up a plain truth vis-à-vis the average “rightwing” speakers in the media and the talking classes in general: they’re so immensely uninformed that they undergo blow after blow and don’t even know where it comes from. And if we try to warn them in advance, based upon a serious and profound study, they feel their pride’s been hurt and beat up the messenger in order to avoid the news.

This is true regarding Brazil, but, in a just slightly smaller proportion, it also applies to developed countries.

Thanks to this phenomenon, it’s no overstatement to say that in the whole western hemisphere, for more than half a century, the only historically active political force has been the activist Left, nourished by billionaire foundations. With the exception of the brief intermission of the Reagan era – when the episodic change of direction was due exclusively to personal leaderships without any further support from the politics and business circles –, it was the leftist activism that shaped at its own will the course of the world’s history. The fact that less than two decades after the fall of the USSR, the Left came to dominate so many countries in Europe, Africa and Latin America, and now the United States itself, should give food for thought for the apologists of the inevitable triumph of capitalism. However, the depth and breadth of this process goes much further than what can be traced back in the last decades. It’s necessary to go back to the 60s to have a partial understanding of the almost absolute control the leftist activism exerts on the flow of information in the world, casting at its own convenience, and mostly unchallenged, the very mindset of its opponents.

Invariably, the many beliefs the intellectual and journalistic activism manages to prescribe as undisputed global truths are entirely exposed after three or four decades, when it’s already too late to countervail their devastating effects. Worse still, the fabrication imposes itself onto international opinion, in the heat of the moment, while its refutation, no matter how meticulous and precise it might be, can only make its way to some scholars and to a minimum segment of the interested public, therefore losing any political momentum and significance. I’ll convey here a small sample of the disinformation scheme that was able to impose to the world the most blatant twisting of reality, shaping countless choices and political decisions, be it by the public opinion or public authorities, and bringing forth such effects that continue to spread themselves to these days.

1. Already in the 50s, the joint efforts of soviet disinformation and the American elite media succeeded in imposing to the world the myth of  “McCarthyist persecution”, celebrated in innumerous Hollywood movies, to the extent that it immunized the popular imaginary against the disclosure of the truth. The book by M. Stanton Evans, Blacklisted by History (2008), puts things back at their due place, with the added help of newly-disclosed soviet documents. But how can a single book neutralize decades of massive propaganda? Today we know that the “persecution” consisted of interrogating some dozens of suspects – none of them innocent – and sending them back home under the protection of the 5th Amendment, while the USSR, in the same period, slaughtered no less than three million people, with the assistance of those poor victims oppressed by Senator Joe McCarthy. The universal use of the expression “McCarthyism” as a synonym for persecutory hysteria certifies the degree to which the laboriously fabricated fantasy overcame reality.

2. To these days, even at conservative circles, people firmly believe that the assassination of John and Robert Kennedy did not originate in any communist conspiracy, but either in a CIA plot or as the spontaneous effect of “American social violence”, associated with the “gun culture” and the “religious fanaticism” of the Right. How could it be that all this reactionaryism ended up toppling on two anti-communist leaders through the hands of a communist militant and a Palestine activist, is an indecent question that mustn’t be voiced. The evidence in favor of the communist authorship of both crimes begins to prevail at scholars’ circles, but doesn’t have any reach beyond them.

3. Although it’s a commonplace that the Vietnam war, lost by the communists at the battlefield, was won back with the thoughtful help of the American media, student activism and the golden elite of show business, it’s forbidden to imply that there could have been any crime of treason worth investigating. The assumed impersonal fatality of the Vietnamese victory, a farce in all respects, is still accepted as an unequivocal historical truth.

4. The countless proofs in favor of Ernest Topisch’s thesis, that the rising of Nazism was from end to end an accomplishment of Stalin, are still ignored, to the degree that Nazism and Communism, in the vocabulary of academia and the media still denote the most extreme and irreducible pair of opposites.

5. When the USSR fell down, it was patent to the few qualified observers that, if the crimes of the soviet dictatorship were not investigated and punished, the communist leadership would simply rearrange itself in new forms of organizations, surprising its opponent in short time, with a display of renewed and prodigious power, exactly as it came to happen. The entire American and European media, without exception, kept down as long as it could the disclosure of the evidence of those crimes, which would keep popping up from the soviet archives, but so far are only accessible to interested scholars and don’t get any public exposure. The “death of communism” was a farce in all respects. It only served to disguise the real decease: that of anti-communism.

6. The briefest comparison between the communist propaganda of the 50s and the anti-American discourse of the mainstream media in Europe, the United States and Latin American suffices to prove that the slogans disseminated by the KGB more than half-century ago finished up embedding themselves in the popular mindset, to the degree that it received the stamp of conventional wisdom.

7. Any attack that can be imputed to the Right, no matter how insignificant and without any proven authorship, is aggressively exhibited and explored in newspapers and movies, for decades on end, with the strength of a world publicity campaign. When the indisputable proof that the attack against the Pope John Paul II was the work of the KGB, the “bourgeois”, “revolutionary”, “imperialist” media publicized it with the utmost circumspection and neither in Brazil nor in the rest of the world a single speech by a liberal politician denouncing the crime of the century was heard. Everyone conceded once and still concedes to the Left the monopoly of the right to reopen old wounds.

These seven samples suffice to underline the fact that the communist indoctrination, amidst the full surge of capitalist triumphalism, constitutes the dominant ideology, hegemonic under all aspects. In the face of this unsurmountable dominance, the timid apologies of the market economy, followed by no action in the cultural and psychological field, are pathetically impotent. In Brazil, capitalism transforms itself increasingly into a transient state concession, but businessmen strive more to avoid accidental faults of etiquette than to restrain the incoercible progress of capitalism’s enemies. They don’t even understand that verbal violence is the last efficacious weapon of the chased minority. The validity of this weapon was demonstrated many times by communists themselves. But liberals and conservatives stick to a stilted politeness just to feign peace of mind and optimism, when the enemy, fully aware of the disparity of power, amuses himself with these affectations of self-assurance, because he knows he can send them to prison at any time he pleases, and he’s got plenty of fiscal gimmicks for that purpose, all of them apolitical and blameless in appearance.

We hope you will stidy this analysis of Latin America and keep an eye toward organizing the removal of Ecuadorean stupidity. As Olavho writes, "The immediate causes of the Right’s inferiority are twofold: a) liberals and conservatives’ obsession towards the economy; b) sheer ignorance..." Only a multi-tiered plan, based on informed consent, will work to overcome Ecuadorian's addictions to manipulative living. There is a better way: no one is licked inside their own prisons of dishonesty unless they want to be. Merry Christmas to all Ecuadoreans- in jail- the hail of your own making. You can take vacations and drink your nights away but you are still strangers in your own homes-strangers to something that is lasting, real and meaningful. And that something is something that will never be handed to you so easily on a spoon- you must work for it and regain your moral ground. Otherwise, Ecuador is a nation that looks like, well.... Ministro Viteri and the world of fake wrestling not unlike fake democracy and fake rule of law enjoyed by all Ecuadoreans today while we all know what a disaster that is.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis