January 7, 2009      Doing business with criminal cartel mavens such as Rafael Correa or Hugo Chavez is rarely a mentally or emotionally pleasant matter because neither man is honest or responsible. First, one is always having to suck up to the bosses and their operatives. Second, one is always having to worry that one might get paid because their capos of crime can never run smooth accounts because they are always stealing from their own accounts to pay for more and more malfeasance. And third, with no rule of law and no respect for anything, the contracts one signs with these teen agers of crime are worthless almost as soon as the ink is dry. Doing any kind of business with uneducated childish teen agers who steal from their own people and are addicts of manipulative behaviors while deploying their own mood swings as if justified, is no way to get anything but misery accomplished.
 
But our dynamic duo find suckers and enablers all the time. Consider Chavez's ploys to numerous Latin leaders and his special installation of DISIP actors to monitor and spy on one and all. Doing deals with the devil does carry that extra premium- more fear, more state controls and an almost near zero level of liberty. Is it really worth it to do business with Correa and Chavez? The answer is: no- it is not. It is frenzied, unstable, unaccountable, irrational and devoid of sustainable building blocks.
 
Today's BLOOMBERG news writes, "Chavez has over the past decade forged stronger diplomatic and trade ties with Iran, which the U.S. has labeled a state- sponsor of terrorism. Iran, the second-largest producer in OPEC and a Hamas supporter, has called for a suspension of crude exports to allies of Israel. "

Correa, who wants to try to keep his mouth shut until he is re elected in April, has not yet opened his pie hole to express his solidarity with Iran on shutting off U.S., European, and Israeli oil supplies as Chavez has done. But Correa has formally enjoined the Iranian mullahs for money, a scam just as stupid and manipulative as the Joe Kennedy-Chavez oil for propaganda scam. The difference remains this: Iran plays by nobody's rules- making up fake religious justifications for its criminality and that alone is the worst non-rule of law manipulation ever....faking God's will to cover one's deviant behaviors. Then again, that is just exactly what Correa has done in Ecuador by creating whole cloth a fake new Pachamama religion of the state to enable anything lawless of the state and for the state. Correa is a sucker for the Iranians now and they play for keeps. This nasty manipulative game is indeed a Ponzi scam making one and all look like suckers, bought and sold for a little money, so easily seduced, while debasing any ethics and making a joke out of morality. Meanwhile, Chavez calls HAMAS as "heroic." Neither Hamas nor Hezbollah and its trainers and funders from Syria and Iran are heroic. In fact, while busily paying for the Palestinian suckers to strap on their suicide vests and hide out inside U.N. sponsored schools, have you ever seen one of Mahmoud's inner circle actually do anything? The answer is no- Ahmadinejad [and Chavez and Correa] likes to manipulate all around him with his lies and hate propaganda while paying money to others to act as his foot soldiers of hatred. This is not heroic and shows the Iranians as lazy, adolescent manipulators who just use and abuse folks around them. If this sounds familiar, it is because it is.
 
Currently, Turkey is refusing to ship 22 containers from Iran to Venezuela because the shipment is not as Chavez-Mahmoud claim.....just tractor plant parts, but instead materials to build more bombs. Both Iran and Venezuela are completely dishonest while amassing their nasty offensive [and please stop lying to us all that this is a defensive weapons build up when it is not] weapons building program, also called by US AID as "alternative democracy." We call this unacceptable. Large shipments called tractor parts which are actually explosives building laboratories from Iran for Chavez, also dishonestly called Latin American self defense, should trigger condemnation from the entire Western Hemisphere and see Chavez booted from the OAS. But to date, all Latins are silent. Where is Insulza of the OAS to tell us that no terrorists operate inside South America? Where is the U.S. democratic Foreign Affairs team to remind us that nothing evil transpires in these dark places and that we are not to worry because, as they constantly tell us, Russo-Iranian weapons do not operate very well. Well- those weapons are currently capable of real mayhem and are currently also killing many innocent Israelis while destabilizing the nation of Israel however imprecise and technologically inaccurate. We would also remind that the Middle Eastern attackers on 9-11 also did not use precise weaponry- no indeed. Their weapons were commonly available tools, in that case stolen commercial jet aircraft.
 
We recommend here  a superb piece from today's WALL STREET JOURNAL called Iran's Hamas Strategy. And while you are reading this, recall that all Ecuadoreans are now married with Iran and toying coyly with Russia. This is your new spouse, your partner for life for whom you will dedicate your lives, your fortunes and your sacred honor, as in all Ecuadorean marriages. Like all good Lebanese today, this is what you can see every night....in your bed:


 
               
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends an anti-Israeli demonstration in Tehran, Dec. 12, 2008. A poster at rear shows the late spiritual leader and founder of the Hamas movement, Sheik Ahmed Yassin.

The JOURNAL writes, "In 2003, Iran launched two Arabic satellite TV channels both under the guidance of the former Revolutionary Guards commander Ali Larijani, a well-dressed, well-trimmed puritan with a Ph.D. in philosophy who crushed a brief period of intellectual openness in Iran's media in the early 1990s. A favorite of Mr. Khamenei, Mr. Larijani pushed TV content extolling Hamas, anti-Israeli suicide bombers, anti-Semitism and an all-Muslim insurgency in Iraq. Iran's remarkably subdued rhetoric against Arabs who gave loud support to insurgents and holy warriors slaughtering Iraqi Shiites between 2004 and 2007 is inextricably tied to Tehran's determination to keep Muslim eyes focused on the most important issue -- the battle against America and Israel. Iran's full-bore backing of Hezbollah in the July 2006 war with the Jewish State, a conflict that Tehran and its Syrian ally precipitated by their aggressive military support of Hezbollah, drew Sunni eyes further away from Iraq's internecine strife."  We remind: president for life wanna be Correa is co owner with Chavez of TELESUR which co owns this Iranian state news media which broadcasts with Spanish language inserts daily now for your intellectual edification, leaving Ecuadoreans preferably more stupid than ever before. But this is serious state funded propaganda from Chavez and Correa. This is why this duo of dictators seizes media companies and boosts its own state money making monopoly, in this instance called TELESUR, to keep one and all full of hatred and happily plodding along with lives of delusion. Selling hatred is what they do and buying this cancerous disease outright is what whole communities do when they are lazy, manipulative and essentially honor-free. What we still do not know is why the USA wants everyone to believe the canard that Ecuador is a free and wholesome place when it is not.
 
The JOURNAL piece also writes of Iran, "Where once Ayatollah Khomeini believed in the revolutionary potential of soft power (Iran's example was supposed to topple the pro-American autocrats throughout the Middle East), Khomeini's children are firm believers in hard power, covert action, duplicity and persistence. With Gaza and Egypt conceivably within Tehran's grasp, the clerical regime will be patient and try to keep Gaza boiling... with a nuclear-armed Iran just around the corner, the mullahs will do their best to inspire. Ultimately, it's doubtful that Tehran will find President-elect Barack Obama's offer of more diplomacy, or the threat of more European sanctions, to be compelling. The price of oil may be low, but the mullahs have seen worse economic times."
 
That is to say, Obama's fake plan to appeal to Iran through diplomacy is a fools' errand. The current tale that low oil revenues will decrease Russo-Iranian crime is also canard. Iran cares nothing that its armies move on their bellies- Iran's armies are a cult and their bellies are irrelevant.
 
Doing business of any sort with our Russo-Iranian-Venezuelan-Ecuadorean "sovereign leaders" of crime is not for the light hearted. As this article below notes, "Joe Kennedy was an easy mark for Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, who promised cheap oil in exchange for Joe's endorsement...But behind the pretty image was an odious dictatorship that's devastated democracy in Venezuela, multiplied poverty and forged military ties with America's enemies. That's why having a shill or two in the U.S. to praise Chavez as a `humanitarian' is always useful, at least while the money lasts."
 
Following the Chavez oil and gas manipulations, comes the Andean partner in crime Russia, which is also firmly in bed with Iran's criminal empire. Putin's Russia, like Ecuador and Venezuela, lives off of oil and gas. But Putin is also bankrupt just as Correa and Chavez are bankrupt. And now Putin is so desperately in need of cash that he is illegally squeezing all of Europe in his extortion for gas scam. Sound familiar? It is. And the Russo-Iranian cartel is the bed mate of the Correa-Chavez unholy matrimony. Today's WALL STREET JOURNAL reports on Putin, Iran's puppet master for now, "Here's the salient fact about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine over gas supplies: Russia's strongman is wielding the energy club to undermine the pro-Western government in Kiev and scare the European Union into submission. The strategic stakes are as great as in Georgia last summer."
 
Like Correa, Chavez is no humanitarian- he is an extortionist and has not got a clue how to run a business, let alone a nation. But like the abysmal Joe Kennedy, anything ever done with these cartel crime bosses will always leave suckers, the carcasses of the manipulated, under the bus because neither Chavez nor Correa know one thing about maintaining successful relationships with anything at all because they are not honest, have never grown up and are always scamming those around them with no clue how to actually make a living for anything.
 
 
 
Joe Gets Suckered
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009

"Oil: Joe Kennedy was an easy mark for Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, who promised cheap oil in exchange for Joe's endorsement. But after a first $100 million, the well went dry Monday. How's it feel to be had, Joe?
It seemed like easy money at the time. To get cheap oil for the poor, raise his power profile and get his Citizens Energy Corp. set for life, Kennedy made a deal with the brutal dictator in Caracas in 2005 to distribute cheap heating oil to the poor.
In exchange for Venezuelan oil at a 40% discount, Kennedy would enhance Hugo Chavez's reputation and shame private oil companies for not getting involved...." Reat it here.

We say- more like what happens when one deals with dictators- any dictator, especially those who wear red- communist red, here on Medvedev and Putin:

 
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Although Ecuadorean media only tepidly covers the vast corruption of Rafael Correa, much of the world is now at Ecuador's door step. And it did not have to be this way. Like the ridiculously shallow Cesar Montufar who used and abused US AID monies to promote anti-USA adventures and his previous preferred chief Rafael Correa to his new   career as crime boss in chief over Ecuador, Montufar sounds as if he has been reviewing ECrisis as he stated the other day that Ecuador was falling in to the abyss, falling off a cliff. Well- duhhh. Of course it is now a failed state. And the aberrant contractor for neo communists promoted Correa and does now, a day late and a dollar short, tell us that the abyss is yawning. The abyss has yawned and Ecuador is a ruinous dark place now, chock full of dark people doing dark things. Cesar looks today as if he is scrambling to cover up all that he and his brethren in perturbing malodorous fake democracy building have accomplished. No one with any brain at all cannot any longer state what Ecuadoreans are too lazy and too silly to say: The drug king pin Correa has ruined Ecuador.

In fact, no one with a brain any more formally states that Correa's Ecuador is a clean and sane nation. There are still lots of over paid propagandists for Correa and too many disgustingly dishonest Soros and US AID paid contractors spewing so called analyses on Ecuador, chock full of holes and non facts to aid and abet Correa's crime cartel.

Meanwhile. the U.S. Congressional Democrats who support the Soros plan to aid and abet legitimizing the FARC, also called economic scams probably run through Barclays Bank in the UK, do not have their previous frontal support from the Should-Be-Gone U.S. Senator Dodd. While the democrats are loath to turn on their preferred and aberrant leader Dodd, he is still failing to come clean on his own dirty little personal mortgage scam. And still yet the U.S. Embassy in Quito wants you to know that the U.S. Democrats under Barry Obama will send them more money for more dishonest contracts to build more FARC protectorates and more Iranian terror activities in Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia. And they know this because....Hillary is their new Queen of Mean at State Department for millions in contract hand outs. And they know this because US AID will, as with all U.S. cabinet positions under Obama, have paid bosses from the Soros team of global socialism and cartel building for fun and hedge fund running. And we know this because this is what they tell us all. We say- you are dead wrong. The USA is not in business to enable more cartel crimes and the U.S. although seemingly happy about the cheap white trash that Obama is enshrining to run his checkerboard Chicago style mob, is not happy at all. Chicago may export good Chicago pizza but its Chicago political mafia is not a good export. Washington, D.C. has enough problems and yet joyfully ushers in this mafia trash, also called "the one we have been waiting for." We however are still waiting for Chris Dodd to do what he promised and turn over his dirty mortgage give away papers which he still keeps hidden.
As Bibi Netanyahu states about the current, legitimate Israeli efforts to defend itself, "There is no moral equivalence between Israel, a democracy which seeks peace and targets the terrorists, and Hamas, an Iranian-backed terror organization that seeks Israel's destruction and targets the innocent...We fight to defend ourselves, but in so doing we are also fighting a fanatical ideology that seeks to reverse the course of history and throw the civilized world back into a new dark age. The struggle between militant Islam and modernity -- whether fought in Afghanistan, Iraq, India or Gaza -- will decide our common future. It is a battle we cannot afford to lose."

This then is the matter before us. In Ecuador stands a criminal cartel government, cofunded and enabled by US AID abusing US monies through aberrant and dishonest cartel building ploys through the Soros family of enablers with an  entire nation of manipulative addicts to moral equivalency- as taught from birth to every Ecuadorean in this shameful self imprisoning place of no honor. Netanyahu is right: Iran is evil and seriously wants more chaos and a place where nothing is honest.

What you do and how you act in the coming months defines your own future and your place in the common future of mankind. You are either enabling evil or you are not. It is at your door and it is in your home now just as surely as Chavez is buying instruments to build up his terror team which Correa is buying. This is not democracy and it is evil. There is moral equivalence in Ecuador today. This disgusting approach is highly valued. It is also called its own self destruction. It is past time to demand that Correa break with Chavez and Iran and start cleaning up Ecuador.
 
And while too many are busily telling us that Iran's weapons are no good, remind us why Chavez is busily enjoined with Correa in importing these weapons of terror and remind us why there is fear behind your eyes?

The IBD piece above tells us that Joe Kennedy got suckered by Hugo Chavez. That is true. But Kennedy made lots of money reselling Venezuelan oil while gifting Chavez with a cover up for his dictatorship. What deals have you made lately with Chavez and Correa, now called the axis of the Russo-Iranian nightmare?

Are you ready to grow up and stand for something- anything moral at all? Or are you still pretending that if you pretend enough, you can manipulate life's realities, run away and hide? Lebanon tried this again two years ago. Today Lebanon's ethics are on display for all to see: a disgusting and immoral place run by dirty Muslim bankers and Hezbollah where no one is free at all and no one has a future.
 
-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis