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Fact Free “Diplomacy” is not Diplomacy

The Editors of Ecrisis — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:58:00 GMT

March 6, 2008 We at ECrisis are fans- really big boosters- of dialogue, talking, resolving and Getting to YES! We also believe in Correa and Evo Morales’s fake religion called Pachamama, complete with fake feathers from China’s manufacturers. We also believe in shamans, the power of the Pink Curtain, the rule of Gay Men’s Bath Houses and every other fake lunacy offered up these days to pretend tat all is normal in Ecuador when… nothing is normal. All is manipulative and false, including Correa’s upcoming fake money, his fake democracy, his fake accountability, his fake marriage, his fake rule of law, his fake PetroEcuador and his fake clamp down on the FARC and his ardor for Iran’s money laundering business. No wait- Correa’s money laundering is real- the rest are fakes- frauds- lies.

If you believe for one second that there is anything at all to diplomatically obsess over about the specious lies currently whapping Chevron Texaco over the head, then you will believe the brand new class action suits claiming that U.S. oil companies have destroyed all the world and now do owe the world reparations.

And you believe that diplomacy will suddenly gift these trial lawyers for the morally insane a new set of ethics.

For our part, we do not know why Chevron needs to exercise with the liars against them. Maybe it is a show. Maybe it is to exhibit rank stupidity as they slide in to an extortion pay off to Mr. Donziger and his New York lawyers with Rafael Correa over some mysterious crime that Chevron never committed in Ecuador. Maybe Chevron likes to bribe these awful actors. We however find no evidence to further this. And so we have to assume this was a Show Set with the liars to try to calm them down. How is that working out for Chevron? Here is what happened because Chevron’s advisors are determined to hurt their own company by paying layers upon layers of shady actors to dance around the fact that they have done nothing wrong and the so called lawsuit against Chevron- which is not a lawsuit at all- must end now. The whole matter is a mockery- more like Dancing with the Stars in Lago Agrio for fake reality in a time and a place with fake justice, fake integrity and fake reality.

Important First Steps – Chevron and Rainforest Action Network Meet, Share Common Ground
Thursday, Mar. 4th 2010
This past Tuesday, executives from Chevron hosted a meeting in San Ramon including Cofan representative Emergildo Criollo and advocates from the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) as well as Amazon Watch. Following the meeting, Chevron’s Manager of Global Issues and Policy, Silvia Garrigo posted the following comment to RAN’s blog:
“This is Silvia Garrigo from Chevron. I want to thank RAN for the opportunity yesterday to meet with Emergildo, Maria, and Mitch. Spending an hour together in our headquarters and hearing Emergildo’s story was a valuable experience. We can all agree that his personal story is moving and heartfelt. And we can all agree that there are unacceptable environmental conditions in Ecuador’s Amazon. While there may be many areas where we do not agree, it is important for us to listen to each other. We believe RAN and Chevron can share common ground on some important points. Thank you again for meeting with us. We look forward to continuing a constructive dialogue.”
Chevron views Tuesday’s meeting as an important first step towards building trust. It is our hope that subsequent meetings can move future conversations past rhetoric and towards a constructive dialogue about solutions.
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A dialogue for solutions? How about the so called plaintiffs take their lies and drop their fake law suit? How about the people of Ecuador act to end Correa’s reign of terror and disgrace and fraud? Someone- anyone? Able and willing to speak some facts? Any forensic audits yet on PetroEcuador and Correa’s graft?

Currently, U.S. Senators Dodd and Lugar apply the same pretense of “dialogue” to the utterly corrupt OAS and its leader Insulza- calling for dialogue. As anyone with a brain knows, the Dodd-Lugar matter is a substance free ploy- a deceit to postpone any honest fact finding about the corrupt OAS….hidden under the ploy of “dialogue.” There is an invaluable role for dialogue but it must be predicated on facts. Otherwise, it is a current fact-hiding scam. Chevron hopefully has figured this out. No wait- we are in dialogue with Donziger and Correa. Never mind that these men want to kill off Chevron on false grounds. Never mind that they say -use diplomacy, which is a tool but is never the sine qua non of life. It can be helpful but when two sides are diametric- one lies and the other pretends it cannot deal with those lies, the parallels collide in a murky, muddled and expensive mess. And both sides usually lose a lot. This they cheer as long as the game continues until… subversion, exhaustion and fuzzy thinking gainsays. This is not stewardship and is no solution. But it is expensive.

How is that fact free dialogue working out for you? Have you resolved- settled- evil diplomatically by pretending that nothing is wrong yet even as the so called victims seek to bankrupt a company for no cause? Feeling better yet?

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

Correa's Government = Ruin

The Editors of Ecrisis — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:43:00 GMT

January 31, 2010 ECrisis will say it again: Cuban Marxist communism- aka ALBA-Bolivarian socialism of el jefe Correa y Chavez of a certainty have crafted ruin in Ecuador. And by this we mean ruin in every way conceivable- not just economic ruin which surely by now you have figured out is the case for Ecuador....economic ruin as Correa's cartel drains every known account it can and plans to steal even more....or extort more through its unrelenting rackets.

Do read the article below. It states the facts: "There's a lot of ruin in Venezuela.

To the short and brutal list of life's certainties, let us add that socialism invariably leads nations to economic ruin. Latest case in point: Hugo Chávez's "Bolivarian" Republic of Venezuela."

There is a lot of ruin in Ecuador. Correa's socialist-Cuban communism- or whatever phony name he calls his cartel- is bankrupt and has ruined Ecuador just as that buffoon named Chavez has ruined Venezuela....because citizens let them. And where is Correa now? He did his perfunctory Man of Compassion tour of Haiti- on the run and hurried to a luxe spot in the Marxist Dominican Republic to enjoy another complete loser, Mel Zelaya who is a profound drug runner, too.

We add again a clip on Venezuela here which is poignant...not just for the facts but also as a reminder that truth tellers have existed for quite some time...ready and willing to state the facts about Correa and Chavez. Listen to Otto Reich's words of grace...reminding that there is always hope if we act of it. And recall too how the always-helpful U.S. Embassy of Soros Democrats in Quito refused en masse -barred- their attendance to Otto's last talk in Quito, as if he were a liar, as if he were the evil one. They were "too busy" they said to listen to Bush's former Envoy. They were too upset to cross the street to even say hello to their former boss from State Department because as the current US ambassador to Colombia, Brownfield's wife Kinney said....in her high dungeon- no American in Ecuador could be seen to encourage truth tellers. And Linda Jewell and Heather Hodges continue the tradition of welcoming to Ecuador some of this globe's most remarkable avatars of socialism such as Noam Chomsky and Joe Stigletz, banning as they do any real advocates of free speech. And so it comes to pass that Ecuador and Venezuela have no free speech in any healthy fashion. And they do not have a democracy either but they do have fake democracy, fake freedoms, fake religion in fat Pachamama and fake constitutions of over 500 pages- chock full of nuts.

Watch this stirring video on Chavez. There is not one lie in this film- not one. And even so, it needs updating. Were you invited to a screening of this film in Quito? Did American truth tellers step up and share this story? Of course not. Like the American-Ecuadorean Chamber of Commerce, they are too busy pretending that Chavez and Correa are doing a great job and that we must all shut up and be happy with what little manipulated hand outs befall us and forget that Correa has ruined Ecuador so that he can continue to ruin Ecuador some more....because you are tepid, stupid and so easily seduced in to being like a mouse. Moreover, one must ask- why did not one Venezuelan lift one lazy finger and make this documentary? There are plenty of American trained scions of wealthy Venezuelans who are film makers, they say, trained in the USA and trained to work but never ever quite seem to do anything. Ecuador deserves a film like this. We can only wonder why no Americans have ever so done. Or any American trained Ecuadorean film specialists. Why is that? Tradition mostly? We think that this would be very easy to do. If one does not tell the story, it does not get told.
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REVIEW & OUTLOOK
JANUARY 30, 2010 Wall Street Journal
The Chávez Meltdown
There's a lot of ruin in Venezuela.
To the short and brutal list of life's certainties, let us add that socialism invariably leads nations to economic ruin. Latest case in point: Hugo Chávez's "Bolivarian" Republic of Venezuela.

Earlier this month, the Venezuelan strongman moved the official U.S. dollar exchange rate to 4.3 bolivars to the greenback from 2.15. At a stroke, he wiped out the savings and purchasing power of the very working-class people he purports to represent, most of whom have barely been getting by. News of the devaluation instantly sent the country—where consumer prices had already risen by 25% in 2009, according to official figures—into a panic, with consumers standing in line to stock up on goods before prices rose.

Mr. Chávez next decreed that he would fine and even arrest any merchant caught adjusting prices, eliding the fact that Venezuela imports nearly everything and exports only oil. Now Venezuelans have the Hobson's choice of either complying with the diktat, which means shortages, or disobeying it, which means inflation.

Yet no sooner was one catastrophe of "21st-century socialism" inflicted on Venezuelans than Mr. Chávez unveiled another. On January 12, the government instituted a series of rolling blackouts due to an electricity shortage that had been building for months. Ostensibly, the reason for the shortage was a drought that had left water levels at the country's huge Guri Dam—the source of more than 70% of its electricity—at critically low levels. But that is a function of the government's failure to maintain the dam and build additional capacity.

The instant result of the blackouts was chaos, particularly in Caracas, where people were left "stuck in elevators or in dangerous parts of town without street lighting," according to Reuters. The capital city already has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the world, and Mr. Chávez was forced to suspend blackouts there two days later. The rest of the country, however, remains subject to sporadic power outages.

Behind the crack-up of Mr. Chávez's utopia is the fact that he's running out of money because Venezuela's oil production is plunging. In 1998, the year Mr. Chávez was first elected, the country pumped 3.3 million barrels a day. Today, the figure is 2.4 million barrels, and that's an optimistic estimate.

Venezuela isn't running out of crude. The problem is that Mr. Chávez has expelled or seized the assets of foreign companies capable of properly maintaining the country's fields, including ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips. It didn't help, either, that in 2002 Mr. Chávez fired thousands of skilled employees of state oil company PdVSA because he didn't like their politics and replaced them with his political cronies.

On Monday, Mr. Chávez made a grudging concession to reality when he agreed to a joint venture with Italian oil major ENI, which itself had been run out of Venezuela in 2006. We'll leave it to the Italians to place their own bets about the limits of Mr. Chávez's caprice. They've already had fair warning that Bolivarians, like other predators, rarely change their spots.

Does his sound familiar? It should. Chavez's ruin is your ruin and worse. Stand up. And when we say that Chavez and Correa’s ALBA communism equates financial ruin we so say with the facts. We are not afraid to say the facts….why are you afraid? Look around and state the obvious.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

Ecuadorean Ethics of Appeasement Leads to la Garra de Hierros

The Editors of Ecrisis — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:06:00 GMT

January 30, 2009 ECrisis presents yet one more opportunity for Andean souls to step up, wake up and stand against your own self prescribed poison pill: laziness which has brought you the veil of serious terror and ruin. Ecuador’s Rafael Correa, a self avowed Cuban communist-Marxist and a deviant- also called a pervert- is of course fully in bed with Iran’s Mullahs of cult evil in a totalitarian Hell of their own making. And Correa’s sublime authoritarian UNASUR gang of fools is meeting in Manta for more hot air, away from preying eyes. Correa sold out long ago for money and power to Hugo Chavez’s corrupt ministrations for complete control of your life and because the bribes were good and you never ever once stood up to Correa’s extortion racket, you are now owned body and soul by the very thing you did nothing- not one thing- to stop: serious evil. And this evil gets worse every day. Even Chavez has crafted more evil…this then is your ally, your supremo, and your bed fellow in Correa’s crowded bed of violent dictators, totalitarians and a Who’s Who is lying, useless sacks of horse pittoie:

Here is Chavez’s new instrument of ALBA-UNASUR peace-making- called the iron claw to rip flesh and kill innocent persons in use in Caracas this last week:

La Guardia Nacional muestra a los estudiantes la garra de hierro o garrapiño | Ana Viloria

And just because you are remarkably slow to draw the appropriate conclusions, we ask you: did your happy party-goers at UNASUR- plotting more “peaceful” abuse of regional militaries, utter one word to condemn their own leader Chavez for these horrifying and illegal tactics and weapons? Did the OAS utter one word? The United Nations…? The Obama team of Chavez and Correa loving liars such as Dan Restrepo and Arturo Valenzuela…? Anyone…? If this be your destiny- and it is- we suggest it is long past time to step up and state your facts in every capitol of the world- not your lies, not the standard self delusional manipulations from idiots such as the Chamber of Commerce’s Fernando Santos [ now retired] to tell the world that Chavez and Correa’s heist of all that is decent is a good thing because Correa deserves a multi billion dollar hand out for free trade, called ATPDEA, from the USA when Correa deserves nothing at all for his crimes. But…you get what you want and you wanted a lot of liars and deception and you got them…and concurrently the iron curtain of Pink or Purple perverts to abuse what little integrity is left because….you wanted to be dishonest and manipulative also. And for this, you get…the Iron Claw.

Take a scan of this correct review of the failed nation of Iran, also your partner in crime… and ask yourself what did you gain when you decided that it was helpful for Correa and Chavez to marry Ecuador and Venezuela with Cuba and Iran? How did your manipulation work out for you? How do you feel today about your special end game to appease evil and enjoy its benefits? Iran is uniquely situated to deliver significant evil…everyone knows this and yet Correistas believe that they are so special that they can out-manipulate Mahmoud and the Ayatollahs. Self delusion is also a vexing and costly sin.

"Infernal Iran; The Death Spiral Accelerates

Posted By Michael Ledeen On January 28, 2010

Let’s start with economics. Here are three recent tweets:

Updates on Iran’s economic situation: The price of bread has increased six-fold since subsidies slashed;
Iran’s Energy Ministry: The price of electricity for households will soon be quadrupled;
Bank Melli & Mellat have told AN (Ahmadinejad) if they don’t receive funds within 4 days, they’ll be bankrupt.
And here are some data on Ahmadinejad’s accomplishments from a Farsi web site [1]:

47% under poverty line.
75% of all projects started remain unfinished&halted.
Average inflation of 20%.
Budget submitted one month late.
Welfare under $20 aftr promising $70 during elections.
Gov employees raises granted days before the election are now deduced in installments on paychecks.
Failure to submit progress reports & answer to legal authorities for the past 4 years.
No inflation-adjusting raises of Gov employees salaries & benefits.
So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that people are racing to the banks to get their rials and toumans out, and convert them to some harder currency. But the banks won’t give them all their money; withdrawals are limited to $15,000 per account, and there have been many angry scenes. The people know that the rulers are shipping out their own wealth, and they hear terrible rumors about the impending failure of major banks. Continue reading here.

You can ask Ambassador Heather Hodges to share her information about Iran and Ecuador’s criminal merger with you. She will of course if you ask her politely. So too will Correa’s Central Bank and Foreign Ministry officials because, as Correa and Hodges tell us, the government of Ecuador is clean, is an honest democracy, and openly transparent for all to review. So- we urge you to exercise these truths from Correa and Hodges and give it a review. And if you find that the road to fact finding is barred/shut down, do ask why and what steps are being taken to repair this. And do not forget to be polite when both are lying like dogs.

We at ECrisis have long been stating that no one benefits from the current plan to self-deceive and self-delude and follow rodent- lemmings in their annual dive off cliffs in to death. We remind that suicide also is a terrible sin. You can choose to be a man or a mouse- a manipulator/appeaser or a person of virtue.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

Ecuador's Corrupt Cartel Leader Rafael Correa is a Drug King Pin

The Editors of Ecrisis — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:17:00 GMT

January 29, 2010 ECrisis is delighted that imminent researcher Doug Farah has tackled president Correa's past and current actions, spotlighting Correa's totalitarian regime in Quito, also called the Pink or Purple Curtain. Farah is good- he goes about 2/3 of the way to get the story and that is helpful as an opening piece, repeating what ECrisis has known and has so said here for three years: Correa is a corrupt, devious and dishonest pervert whose government is chock full of recycled communists, perverts and creeps. Nothing- not one thing- is honest out of Ecuador today. Correa's entire life is predicated on envy, greed and manipulating everything around him. He should, of course not be president for this primary reason alone as he is unfit for office. He is also guilty of destroying this nation step by step and that too demands that he must be held accountable for his crimes.

For our part, we acknowledge that Correa is utterly depraved. Doug's analysis is seminal but still weak because his conclusions are weak. Doug states that Correa makes possible bad decisions....and refuses to state the facts that Correa will always make wrong decisions. The excerpt below states that Correa's actions are ambiguous. In fact- Doug is wrong. Correa's actions are determinedly made to lie and present the false face of his intentions. Propaganda and total state control for Correa's criminal cartel play a large role in Ecuador's reprehensible statism today. Doug also tells us that Correa is not as well known as Chavez. Doug fails to deliver publicly available information that this is by design- by choice. Correa's advisors and paid publicity liars, such as Fenton Communications of the USA, have told Correa to stay out of the USA and stay silent in the American media because they know, as we know, that as soon as he opens his mouth and as soon as anyone looks at the facts about Correa- his game is over. Thus, Correa stays out of the main stream awareness, browned out and continues along his corrupt and corrupting agendas. There is no difference between Correa and Chavez except that Chavez has more money and is more of a public blowhard- a bag of hot air. Correa, for his part, is far more of a totalitarian-communist than even Chavez and that is hard to do but a quick review of Correa's acts confirms this fact.

For any student of Ecuador it is mandatory to study Doug's 76 pages here.

"…Yet Correa's actions have been ambiguous. While attacking the bearers of bad news regarding the ties of his government officials to the FARC, and to drug trafficking, he has distanced himself and the government from those individuals under investigation. However, while distancing himself, he has also appeared to retaliate against those carried out the most significant operations against the government officials, including reshuffling vetted units that worked with U.S. agencies after the units led to investigations of Correa allies.

There is a reasonable possibility that Correa, on a personal level, was seeking to engage the FARC solely to facilitate the release of hostages and other humanitarian reasons. However, given his closeness to Chávez, the declared support of the

Bolivarian revolution for the FARC, and Correa's apparent reluctance to publicly condemn the FARC's well documented human rights abuses, it is not clear he views the organization as either dangerous or criminal. Also, given his well known penchant for micro managing issues, he almost certainly knew, or could have known of the meetings of senior officials of his government with FARC commanders in Ecuadorian territory.

At best it shows extremely poor judgment by the president to surround himself with people who maintained contacts with non state armed actors and met with them repeatedly on national territory and did not communicate that fact, or the contents of the discussion, to the nation's commander in chief. At worst it shows a complicity in the dealings or a willful ignorance of the behavior and actions of his subordinates.

The question of Correa's knowledge of the FARC financing for his campaign also remains unresolved. There is ample evidence that the FARC, at the very highest level, decided to fund his campaign and collected at least $100,000 and mobilized its supporters in the border region to vote for him. There is some evidence that the money was accepted, although it is not conclusive. What remains unknown is whether Correa, as a candidate, knew or had reason to know of the contribution.

There are also significant challenges in the areas of governance and democracy. The Correa government, wrestling multiple challenges on many fronts, has chosen to concentrate most of the power in the hands of the president, arguing that this is necessary to give the country a chance to re-institutionalize. This is a dangerous strategy, given the nation's new constitution and Correa's own autocratic governing style. It is unlikely that a system of clear checks and balances, and centers of power outside of the executive, will be allowed to emerge.

While not pursuing the Boliviarian revolution with the same degree of authoritarianism and anti-American fervor as Chavez in Venezuela, Ortega in Nicaragua and Morales in Bolivia, Correa has clearly cast his lot with this profoundly Anti-democratic group and process. His visceral desire to attack and silence the media that opposes him and to publicly insult those who challenge him indicates he harbors a dangerous caudillismo tendency that bodes ill for democracy."

Again- Doug is good. His seminal review is fabulous. He however does not go far enough. Doug tells us that Correa's actions are ambiguous. This is a lie. Correa's actions are determinedly and decisively dishonest by intent, by design and by delivery. That is not ambiguous- it is criminal. We note that Doug ridiculously sources the ridiculous Adrian Bonilla and Cesar Montufar... pathetic. He could have sourced actual truth tellers, which he did not do in this review and indeed he should have. As above, he says that Correa "bodes ill for democracy." Do you think? That is an understatement and we cannot comprehend why the 2/3 truths about Correa's undemocratic government remain hidden. Correa is an essential dictator without the tanks rumbling down the streets. He is a thug and his government is darkly, deeply, vastly corrupt and worse- is corrupting. To do business in Ecuador, to survive in Ecuador one is forced/mandated to act as the spouse of a drunk- as an enabler/as a victim with a primary role: to serve the addict, in this case Correa and his cabinet or pervs and criminals. No man and no woman is on this Earth to be a partner or a spouse to a childish, manipulative dishonest creep such as Correa. Ecuadoreans tell us that they cannot ever survive in Quito without playing the dishonest game that Correa is terrific lest they be....without their primary relationship that now defines them....with Correa. This is sick. And this dishonest sickness desperately needs correction, atonement and proper steps toward honest, clean government.

The real point here is this... and the question needs an answer- why o why did not one Ecuadorean deliver this review first? Why o why does the US government waste tens of millions of dollars creating false reports to lie a lot about Correa when this simple, easy to do review of Correa hits home runs out of the park on every page with its facts? What is wrong with the United States and its paid contractors through the U.S. Embassy? What is wrong with the people of Ecuador that they are so happy being manipulated in their personal lives that they refuse to stop Correa manipulating them in their public lives? Being married with manipulation means never having to be honest or honorable. And it certainly means that no one in Ecuador will be credible, honorable and respected unless and until they divorce themselves from their addiction to manipulated living and stand up for principles of function, accountability and dependable integrity. To date, this is a bridge too far.

Here too is yet another specious and ridiculous example of Correistas living la vida manipulativa, which no one wants to talk about. Correistas acting badly and stupidly inside the USA to sue an American company, DynCorp for spraying tobacco juice by air in Colombia. With no data, no forensic audits, no medical exams, Correistas do what they are trained by their mothers to do: lie a lot, blame everyone else and pretend that the USA hurt them and their holdings by spraying cocaine's leaves of coca. We hope the judge levies court fees for this waste of time against the people of Ecuador because this law suit is fraudulent and is the responsibility of every man, woman and child of Ecuador who perpetuates this type of fraudulent claim, winking and nodding and blaming everyone around them for their silly and irresponsible lives while never, ever having nor holding any check on reality nor the facts.

But Correistas today are quite aware that even Chevron Texaco which never did anything wrong in Ecuador except to have and hold some of the world's stupidest lawyers and paid mouth organs continues to ignore the basics of ending the surreal game that somehow there is a law suit against Chevron in Lago Agrio when there is no law suit, there are no facts and there is no discovery. Chevron's paid performing circle of jerks in Ecuador are from the same circle of jerks and self enriching idiots that started the entire problem of Correa's capital of corrupt capitol...living la vida manipulativa, always on the shallow, the hollow, the fake and the never ending disgraceful series of behaviors to lie a lot.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

Update on Some of Correa's Team of Liars

The Editors of Ecrisis — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:35:00 GMT

January 17, 2009 ECrisis reminds that lying to the U.S. government is a crime and there is no diplomatic immunity for this, no matter what Hillary Clinton tells her armies of the night. Not that this stops Obama and Soros's pet public relations teams such as Fenton, brought to the Correa pink circle early on by Correa's own Paul Reichler, attorney at law. Fenton's own words detail that they lied to the U.S. government, which they call lobbying and we call it lying. Fenton reveals also gaming the Quito AMCHAM to use them to sell their lies. Correa's Ecuador never once chose to not grow coca. Correa's team processes and ships cocaine- more lucrative. Never did Ecuador chose to grow roses instead of cocaine- the geo-physicality of Ecuador alone barred production of much coca plants. Some is grown. Mostly hybrid poppies for heroin is now moving in where coca plants cannot grow. But you knew that.

What you need to know is that Correa spends Ecuadorean monies to lie to the United States of America and his paid actors are also the same actors that also sell all manner of Soros and Obama and Chavez activities- none of them honorable or helpful to mankind.

FENTON Communications has been selling lies about Correa for years- for a lot of money. FENTON refuses to tell the truth about Ecuador and denies the real facts on the table about Ecuador from the US Treasury, from Wall Street, from Commerce Department, from the US DEA and the US FBI. Fenton, like Arturo Valenzuela, could care less about real data about Ecuador and both are now revealed as lying to the U.S. government because their positions are useful to perpetuating the Andean fraudsters still in play when they should be handcuffed. Aiding and abetting fraudsters is still a crime in nations that hold common law.

We also remind that pan-South America, the Soros and Obama gamesters for more and more fake democracy with no derivatives accountability, also called ALBA lands and Banco del Sur's fake fiscal plans for speculators, the Chavez-Correa-Morales ploy holds only 27% popularity. Contrary to what idiots and liars like Soros's own Insulza, Chavez has no power except from lazy, irresponsible Latin Americans who refuse to know the facts. FENTON will help hide the truth that lawless Ecuador is chock full of nuts, liars and pervs.

Here is Fenton in their own words of late, bragging about lying for Correa to the United States while using the AMCHAM to parrot their lies:

Fenton Communications - Your cause. Our passion.

Roses vs. Cocaine: Winning a Fair Trade Deal for Ecuador
Ecuador is the only Andean country with zero coca cultivation, an impressive feat that it has achieved in part because of the Andean Trade Preferences and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA), established by the U.S. Congress in 1991 to support development and economic growth in Latin America.

In Ecuador, the trade preferences have generated more than 350,000 badly needed rural jobs--many in the flower-export sector--and kept the door shut on the drug economy.

In 2007, Congressional support for ATPDEA, which requires periodic renewal, nearly faltered due to a highly effective negative campaign by Occidental Petroleum. Occidental, engaged in a nasty legal dispute with Ecuadorean indigenous communities over alleged environmental damages, sought to convince members of Congress that the country was not a worthy trade partner. Meanwhile, the Bush Administration's geopolitical grudge match with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez was drawing any progressive Latin American government, including Ecuador, into its orbit.

Three months before the Act's June 30 expiration date, Fenton was brought in to wage a high-level, high-intensity communications campaign that combined targeted media relations and advertising to counter the spin from Occidental and reposition Ecuador as a positive partner for U.S. trade.

Highlights from our media strategy:

Target the right media outlets. In addition to arranging interviews for spokespeople ranging from Ecuador's foreign minister to American investors in national outlets such as The Washington Post and The Wall Street, we also focused on niche media widely read by Washington, DC decision makers such as Inside U.S. Trade and CongressDaily.

Choose the best messengers. Matching the right messages to credible messengers created an echo chamber that amplified our argument. For example, in the conservative Miami Herald, we placed an op-ed on the importance of the Act to the international business community by the director of the Ecuadorean-American Chamber of Commerce.

Advertise to the most influential audience. We designed a print ad that clearly defined the stark choice before the U.S. Congress: Help Ecuador keep the floral jobs ATPDEA has created or leave rural communities with nowhere to turn but the drug trade. We ran the ad twice in three key Congressional publications during the two weeks preceding the ATPDEA vote.

On June 27, 2007, Congress overwhelmingly approved an eight-month extension to ATPDEA, by unanimous consent in the Senate and a margin of 365 to 59 in the House. Fenton employed the same successful strategy for a second extension of the program through 2009.
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What this pathetic U.S. Congress is not doing with any real facts about Ecuador- because the U.S. government refuses to deliver real time facts- is another matter. They make lots of money selling non facts and barring real facts. This is fraud and Correa and Fenton engage on fraud by any definition. A quick survey or real coca growth prior to 2005 reveals the facts that Ecuador did never ever chose to grow much coca and no choice was made to grow roses instead. Free trade alone viz a viz capitalism and the advancing rose hybrids from Europe found a natural partnership in Ecuador and that alone is the fact- not the lies sold by Correa and Fenton.

And while you are still believing Correa and Hugo Chavez's lies- at your own peril, comes now BABALU's web site to remind us that the tens of thousands of so called Cuban doctors, functionally not fit to trim your nose hairs, and not really doctors at all...even though Correa lies and lies and lies about them. They are untrained and unschooled idiots set lose on a job corps not even fit to treat cows. These so called doctors are not doctors but paid informants in Ecuador and would not know how to treat amoebas in Lago Agrio, which they do not diagnose nor treat because....they are incompetent, as are most all of Correa's paid informants cum doctors without ethics or intelligence or training, scamming Ecuadoreans with their malpractice:

“Cuba provides best Medical training ON EARTH!” says Al Jazeera
By Humberto Fontova, on December 7, 2009 BABALU

"The Cuban-trained doctor will see you now...!"

"In universities across Cuba, the next generation of African doctors are being trained....When they graduate, the doctors will return home to treat patients in some of Africa's poorest countries, equipped with some of the best medical training in the world.".

So says Al Jazeera

On the other hand:

"According to a report by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, more than 75% of “doctors” with Cuban “medical degrees” flunk the exam given by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates for licensing in the U.S. Most Cuba-certified doctors even flunk the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates’ exam for certification as “physician assistants,” making them unfit even as nurses. None of this is meant to disparage these hapless men and women who were simply cursed by fate to be born under a Stalinist tyranny."

But as you can see, Chavez and Correa's state run lying machine, TELESUR, partnered now with the incredulous AL JAZEERA and Iranian News for more lies and propaganda across over 90% of all Ecuadorean media because Ecuadoreans are too lazy to demand sustained AND DEPENDABLE free speech and open media now, spread even more lies that these Cuban doctors are great and indeed are sending these unschooled idiots to Africa, the heart of darkness. No doubt Bill Clinton thinks they should be in Haiti as well. Then again, too many cameras are rolling in Haiti these days so maybe not: too much filming of what these Cubans actually do or do not do. Lies and Correa's propaganda are nowhere in Ecuadorean media nor anywhere in the U.S. Department of State's plethora of lies about Ecuador, all illegally misleading and covering up George Soros's great new business idiots on Ecuador all doing dirty, irresponsible and dishonest things which help no one. You can talk to U.S. ambassador Hodges about her wonderland theory for Ecuador and why it is so important to lie a lot about Chavez, Correa and Soros. Perhaps you can divine her wisdom: we find her a failure and a joke and have done so since her Peter Romero-George Soros-Bill Clinton days passing millions to S.I.N.'s Montesinos in Peru per the ridiculously incompetent Einaudi CIA ploys for fun and drug running expertise, which is of course why they love her and her protection racket for smugglers, also called bribes to gain for Newmont gold that which they sought in Peru.

Here too is communist Castro's own media on his own lobbying efforts in Quito:

Ecuadorians Nix Cuban Inclusion in US Terror List

Escrito por Raquel Maria Garcia Alvarez

viernes, 15 de enero de 2010

15 de enero de 2010, 16:27Quito, Jan 15 (Prensa Latina) The Movement of Friendship and Solidarity with Cuba in Ecuador repudiated on Friday the US government declaration "including Cuba in a list of alleged sponsors of international terrorism."

A public statement issued by the Ecuadorian Coordinating Office of Solidarity with Cuba says that "this amounts to involving the world movement of solidarity, including the Ecuadorian Chapter, the reason why we reject such a US declaration."

"The US diplomatic chief and her officials are the masterminds of such an unfair, reprehensible decision, ratified by President Barack Obama, who shows their intention to continue the old failed policy of previous administrations, it adds.

It shows the intention to harm the image of the Cuban Revolution in order to justify the cruel blockade imposed on our Cuban sisters and brothers."

"Cuban authorities have shown signs of their struggle against terrorism. The best proof of that is the presence in US soil of Five Patriots serving unfair prison there for fighting against terrorist who walk free with all rights and guarantees in the United States," the Ecuadorian statement says.

"We urge the Obama Administration to fail to make with Cuba the same mistakes of its predecessors and thus prevent a further weakening of its already tarnished image in the wake of its military campaign in Afghanistan and Iraq, the installation of bases in Colombia, the support to Honduran putschists and the inexplicable Nobel Peace Prize, it adds."

"We call on friends to protest before Obama and his government for such a despicable decision and support the Cuban Declaration clarifying lies on the issue," concludes the document.

This is a pathetic and dishonest Quito screed to lie some more about Castro's Cuba which is bankrupt and selling everything it has- its people, its services and its spying center, such as it is and what it is.... dishonest. The USA does not open Cuba to trade because Cuba does not pay its bills and is never honest. Cuba, like Ecuador, honors no contract and holds no rule of law. No sane business person does business with Correa or Castro because they are dishonest people and never practice sane business for they are criminals. Those who deal with Cuba and Ecuador deal with liars, criminals and pervs. Tragically, the Obama team - especially Arturo Valenzuela, agrees with this claim that the USA hurt itself with the war in Iraq and now must rebuild itself by embracing criminals like LuGo, Morales, Zelaya, Castro, Correa and Chavez. This is an immoral and irrational scam. Valenzuela knows a lot about scams: he built his so called academic career on the stupidity of force-feeding students at Georgetown to embrace his theory that students must embrace his claims that the poor poor peasant uprisings in Mexico in the 1800s represented the sine qua non of Latin studies, by effect of his curricula. Valenzuela is of course an idiot but so too were his badly educated followers. Valenzuela and his team member Dan Restrepo - along with Correa- of the House of Soros and Obama need to work for the USA and not for their own myths. Fidel Castro deserves no embrace and only the back of a hand. He exists only because idiots like Chavez and Correa prop him up. He deserves nothing but the end of his days. And this is a reminder that the so called five Cubans in US jails are indeed criminals who in earlier years would be hung as spies. They belong in prison in Guantanamo with other spies and terrorists but because these Cubans are state actors, they get to be inside the USA for all the luxuries they hold...luxuries that no Cuban prisoner garners from their dirt holes.

The Obama team gifted Correa’s Ecuador with an ATPDEA extension for one reason only and that was to further Trafigura’s drug running assistance by sea, Chavez’s Iranian money laundering by dint of abusing U.S. dollarization, and the utterly dishonest support for increasing off the books, illegal financial scams across the globe called the Soros Plan for synthetic funny money out of the UN, Brazil and Chavez-ville. Because Correa aids the FARC and the U.S. government refuses to hold any facts about Ecuador, Fenton games the story for more lies. Correa’s bankrupt nation deserves no multi billion dollar free trade gifts from the USA for any reason and certainly not on the ploy that Correa does not grow coca plants. What a joke. Correa’s liars called Fenton, long a Soros-selling PR team now hiding Correa’s drug and terror support crimes by lying is a joke.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

Real Men Do Not Wear Fanny Packs: Real Men are Truth Tellers

The Editors of Ecrisis — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:54:00 GMT

January 16, 2010 Why is it we wonder that so many of Correa's functionaries walk around with fanny packs strapped to their bodies as if a badge of manliness showing that they are well connected to the real world and vital communications? Vital chatter in Ecuador burns up the phone lines 24/7 and wastes an enormous amount of work time with idiotic, foolish chatter. Nothing serious happens in Ecuador and the vast waste of time spent listening to manipulative non-facts is the addiction of the day. Who are these Ecuadoreans talking to- so vital, so demanding, so....important? Nothing of importance happens in Ecuador or on those burning chattering phone lines- just more and more vapid, self absorbed fake analysis that all is great when not one thing in Ecuador is great at all.

The Australians have a word for this circular and manipulative untruth telling and it is not nice even though these circular non truths have risen to a high art in Quito these days. But the Aussies are right: one is a wanker if and only if one wants to be a wanker. And wankers are what Correistas are today. By definition, wankers are selfish and do what they do for selfish reasons which always preclude honest relationships and integrity, preferring the quick fix, the shallow justification for nothingness and vacuity. Moving around and around and up and down in circular motions of no import and no honesty- constantly making urgent! important items that are shallow, vain and frivolous. Informed discussion never transpires with Ecuadoreans any more and this love of the quick draw- fanny packs at the ready to chatter away is unseemly, unmanly and pathetic. Look on the sidewalk one sunny day and count how many men are wired- ready for the quick draw- with all sorts of telephone devices to stay in tough constantly with the high art of hollow rhetoric and self absorbed emptiness.

But here are our favorite fanny pack boys- wankers really- spreading the Correa gospel as if anyone takes these liars seriously. And here is Correa doing what all 14 year olds do: he stamps his little feet and gets mad when common sense plagues his dishonest global betting ploys and screeches, as he was taught to do, that no one understands him and no one who does not praise him is worthy of life on this planet. Fine Correa says- if you do not gift me with billions of dollars which I will steal, I will take my dishonest game elsewhere and condemn you as ousted from my inner team of useless chattering sycophants. That is shamefully how it is badly done everywhere in Quito today- oh the threats that if one does not totally enable and encourage and fund and praise the manipulator.....goodness knows what will befall the non-enabler. Even Opus Dei may descend upon you and press you in to returning to some bizarre cult to grow even more dishonest enabling. But worse is that this circle jerking Ecuadorean wankers of unmanly non-morality and dishonesty feels far far too normal to Correistas to even notice that Correa is manipulating this nation in to ruin because....all homes center on this very same dishonest addiction to manipulative living and unending selfish chatter. Fanny packs at the ready, Ecuadoreans do not turn off the steady stream of idiotic uneducated circular chatter and nation-ruining time's waste. Wankers are as wankers do. And that is not a nice analysis and is not even a nice word but in this case, it is appropriate. A nation of wankers doing nothing meaningful but compelled to continue circuitously into dishonest lives of dishonest chattering nothingness as they kill what is left of Ecuadorean integrity. The battle lines are drawn now: be a man and a truth teller or be a wanker like Correa and his money making chum Donziger. It is your choice.

ECUADOR’S PRESIDENT CORREA: IF YOU DON’T PAY ECUADOR MONEY, WE WILL KILL THE AMAZON

We at ECrisis commend who ever and however this San Francisco report on Ecuador came forward because no one in Ecuador stands up and tells the real story which is that there is no justice in Ecuador. There is only Correa and his immoral, dysfunctional, dishonest pink curtain, which we now call his purple curtain for his iron fisted rule by his communist Marxist pervs running Quito.

Notably said to EFE are comments about the unrelenting symbol of Correa's vast corrupt extortion racket called Ecuador here.

We at ECrisis applaud Chevron's truth tellers and urge them onward. The Correa-Donziger extortion racket against the 3rd largest American company is so disgusting and has been enabled by Chevron for so long to continue that we cannot but extol the new found virtues of Chevron to start to tell the truth, contrary to its previous plan to play the Ecuadorean game of unmanly timidity, obfuscation and virility-killing silence when $30 billion is on the line.

Or as our Opus Dei friends SHOULD say but have never once said about truth telling viz a viz Correa's fake so called Christianity in his fake so called democracy [ neither of which exist], timidly- not even denouncing his fake state religion of polytheism under the fake fat goddess Pachamama, which is covering Quito's Cuban Marxist cartel governance, `Ahmen to that'- Ahmen to truth tellers. We at ECrisis say: bring it on. Bring on the truth. Bring on the facts. No one will do this for you and none will set you free unless and until you do. Do not look for the Clinton State Department and George Soros's overhyped and overpaid operatives in Quito to help you tell the truth: they are there in Quito to game the system- not tell the truth. Review all U.S. State Department reports on Ecuador for the last 15 years to know that nothing they say is honest or helpful. You have to grow up and do the truth telling yourself- sad to say. But it is not so hard. Just turn down the noise- the fearfulness, the anxiety caused by manipulators and simply speak truth to power. Correa cannot track that for a million years and his fanny pack armies cannot harm truth tellers who can and will set you free. But you must first let the truth get on the table. Define the truth and miracles can happen. A nation of vainglorious losers.... wankers all... are what Correa sells Ecuador. Take off your fanny pack and grow up, we say. Finally Chevron Texaco symbolically has the right of this story. You deny facts at your own peril.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

Christ is NOT within Ten Million Miles of Correa’s Cuban Marxist Model

The Editors of Ecrisis — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:25:00 GMT

January 14, 2010 Rafael Correa has been whining to any fool who will listen to him that he is afraid for his life. He should be afraid for his soul… his own soul which he has chosen to disregard. But Correa wants to call Ecuador’s fake democracy. He also calls it ALBA democracy or alternative democracy- a Christian democracy. Correa is an avowed- and has so said scores of times publicly- a Cuban communist. Christ is nowhere on Correa’s menu now does Correa pray to any remote semblance of a God who handed this world the Ten Commandments, which Correa ignores in every way.

Here is the typically liberal ECONOMIST with a new small snapshot of Correa’s ruinous and utterly debauched nation which he runs like a Gay Man’s Bath House- same rules, same deceptions. Even the ECONOMIST cannot help but relay the facts about Ecuador- facts which Ecuadoreans self-deceive themselves about but are quite clear in this lawless zone where all systems are Correa’s pet kangaroos: bouncing around and doing nothing positive. We remind Mr. Correa that what he calls evil Neoliberalism is in fact a call for integrity, accountability and transparency. Add to this some inherent freedoms and there is nothing evil at all about neo liberalism. But Correa wants you to believe his lies that communism will save your soul. Communism demands that any man’s soul be controlled by the state. No Ecuadorean should willingly or for any excuse accept Correa’s lures, traps, bribes, lies and purchase of your liberties so he can spread his pathetically dishonest regime. Correa has no lenders of any integrity because he is dishonest. No one wants to do business- unless they are a criminal or on the US AID payroll to hide and enable Correa’s crimes. This too is called criminal aiding and abetting and the U.S. embassy should pay attention to what is abuses U.S. monies to do. Correa is a loser. He is a dishonest and dishonored man. Stand up and insist he have true psychiatric help or get out. Be a man or a mouse….like kangaroos bouncing around wasting your days. The fact is this: Correa is a failure and because you do nothing, you fall off his cliff.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

Chavez Militarizes his Money Making Schemes

The Editors of Ecrisis — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:51:00 GMT

January 12, 2010 ECrisis is thrilled that a private media group, Investors Business Daily has performed a true service to mankind- acting with fact based and independent reporting- which no state owned news service can or will do and relays the facts about Hugo Chavez’s pathetic bankrupting of Venezuela to fund his armies of the night to infiltrate and subvert many lands to his evil world view, at once dishonest and concurrently unhelpful.

The IBD review of Chavez’s criminal cartel gifts the world with a significant gift: the truth. Not once, not once in years, has one single solitary USA or Latin government review ever ever stated the facts that Venezuela’s poor are harmed and hurt by the very thing they all support and have spent real money and time to install: Chavez’s ALBA communism in all its variants. The United States of America has enabled and funded the aberrant and dysfunctional Chavez communism, which, like alternative marriages, they gleefully call alternative democracy, for years while refusing to audit or review what their actual contractors and NGO groups are doing in the Andean climes. This has reached, for the USA, a treacherous moment when indeed the USA should apologize and atone for its own criminality in the Andes which continues to sell the evil that is before all in the Andes today.

But before you happily blame the USA for this morass of lies, know that no one was forced to actually believe the thousands of pages of Soros group think and all the USA’s dishonest presentations, called alliance building which actually lied every moment to supposedly build friendships with criminals to diplomatically guide these aberrant sub humans toward the light of honesty. Of course this was always a cover for their nascent and serious intention to SELL fake democracy, fake economies, fake trade and fake judicial ploys, all in the name of USA funded democracy building which scammed the USA and scammed every single Andean nation and still does. What is needed is honesty. What Venezuela gets are Chavez’s armies to overguard one more of his money grabs because he is broke. So the next time someone tells you that Chavez “needs” to do what he does know that this too is a lie. Chavez needs to restore accountability and transparency to all that he touches. Unless and until he does, he is a disgraced liar.

The only thing standing between Ecuador and Venezuela’s embarrassing self-debasement is dollarization, which Rafael Correa repeatedly states he wants ended.

If you like 40 % and more inflation, you will love Chavez-land. If you enjoy the military and police watching your every move, you will love Chavez’s plans for ruining your life too. And the next time you hear Correa tell you that all his cartel acts are to “help” the poor, tell him to go and lie some more with U.S. ambassador Hodges because you know that the “poor” in Ecuador nor anyone else is helped by these cartel antics.

Here is how a satirist sees Chavez.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

Cowardice is a Vice: Giving in to Fearfulness Insures Evil’s Winning

The Editors of Ecrisis — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:54:00 GMT

January 10, 2010 ECrisis does not exist as a global terrorism monitor. We are aware that our Ecuadorean friends pay no attention to the growing and looming mandatory conversion to evil Islam, thanks to Rafael Correa’s greed and stupidity. We do not want to hear your uneducated lies that Islam is the religion of peace. So too is narcolepsy and suicide if one views their positions. Nonetheless, some Muslims are terrific folks but they are freaking cowards for never ever standing up to their neighbors who are also cowards busily selling lies and terror: cowards lurking, planning and murdering to convince us all that peace alone lies in their non-freedom under their cult of Allah which is no religion but a death cult of many factors. Nonetheless, we address the Nigerian panty bomber, himself a coward of great proportions. And our wrath finds no solace in the knowledge that cowards are everywhere… failing to stand up for what they know to be good and moral, which is not running drugs, is not ushering in ridiculous JIHAD and is not abandoning morality, as the disgusting president of Ecuador has done to Ecuador with his unlawful and unjust constitution.

Nonetheless, no society remains standing long that fails to know that cowardice- a highly virtuous device applauded by every single Ecuadorean housewife- is no virtue but is indeed a vice, a sin, an aberration and a matter to be overcome. But wait you tell us: your emotions make you afraid. Indeed. Indeed you can be afraid and lock yourself inside your ` I am afraid of Chavez, Iran and Correa’ prison for a long time and better no one, including yourself. Or you can stand for liberty and stand for functioning truth telling. Or you can enable more vice. Better yet: study how to act with honor, with courage for moral matters. Stop panty bombing yourself.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis
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The Wall Street Journal
JANUARY 9, 2010

Undressing the Terror Threat
Running the numbers on the conflict with terrorists suggests that the rules of the game should change

By PAUL CAMPOS
I'm not much of a basketball player. Middle-age, with a shaky set shot and a bad knee, I can't hold my own in a YMCA pickup game, let alone against more organized competition. But I could definitely beat LeBron James in a game of one-on-one. The game just needs to feature two special rules: It lasts until I score, and when I score, I win.

We might have to play for a few days, and Mr. James's point total could well be creeping toward five figures before the contest ended, but eventually the gritty gutty competitor with a lunch-bucket work ethic (me) would subject the world's greatest basketball player to a humiliating defeat.

The world's greatest nation seems bent on subjecting itself to a similarly humiliating defeat, by playing a game that could be called Terrorball. The first two rules of Terrorball are:

(1) The game lasts as long as there are terrorists who want to harm Americans; and

(2) If terrorists should manage to kill or injure or seriously frighten any of us, they win.

These rules help explain the otherwise inexplicable wave of hysteria that has swept over our government in the wake of the failed attempt by a rather pathetic aspiring terrorist to blow up a plane on Christmas Day. For two weeks now, this mildly troubling but essentially minor incident has dominated headlines and airwaves, and sent politicians from the president on down scurrying to outdo each other with statements that such incidents are "unacceptable," and that all sorts of new and better procedures will be implemented to make sure nothing like this ever happens again.

Meanwhile, millions of travelers are being subjected to increasingly pointless and invasive searches and the resultant delays, such as the one that practically shut down Newark Liberty International Airport last week, after a man accidentally walked through the wrong gate, or Tuesday's incident at a California airport, which closed for hours after a "potentially explosive substance" was found in a traveler's luggage. (It turned out to be honey.)

As to the question of what the government should do rather than keep playing Terrorball, the answer is simple: stop treating Americans like idiots and cowards.

It might be unrealistic to expect the average citizen to have a nuanced grasp of statistically based risk analysis, but there is nothing nuanced about two basic facts:

(1) America is a country of 310 million people, in which thousands of horrible things happen every single day; and

(2) The chances that one of those horrible things will be that you're subjected to a terrorist attack can, for all practical purposes, be calculated as zero.

Consider that on this very day about 6,700 Americans will die. When confronted with this statistic almost everyone reverts to the mindset of the title character's acquaintances in Tolstoy's great novella "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," and indulges in the complacent thought that "it is he who is dead and not I."

Consider then that around 1,900 of the Americans who die today will be less than 65, and that indeed about 140 will be children. Approximately 50 Americans will be murdered today, including several women killed by their husbands or boyfriends, and several children who will die from abuse and neglect. Around 85 of us will commit suicide, and another 120 will die in traffic accidents.

No amount of statistical evidence, however, will make any difference to those who give themselves over to almost completely irrational fears. Such people, and there are apparently a lot of them in America right now, are in fact real victims of terrorism. They also make possible the current ascendancy of the politics of cowardice—the cynical exploitation of fear for political gain.

Unfortunately, the politics of cowardice can also make it rational to spend otherwise irrational amounts of resources on further minimizing already minimal risks. Given the current climate of fear, any terrorist incident involving Islamic radicals generates huge social costs, so it may make more economic sense, in the short term, to spend X dollars to avoid 10 deaths caused by terrorism than it does to spend X dollars to avoid 1,000 ordinary homicides. Any long-term acceptance of such trade-offs hands terrorists the only real victory they can ever achieve.

It's a remarkable fact that a nation founded, fought for, built by, and transformed through the extraordinary courage of figures such as George Washington, Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King Jr. now often seems reduced to a pitiful whimpering giant by a handful of mostly incompetent criminals, whose main weapons consist of scary-sounding Web sites and shoe- and underwear-concealed bombs that fail to detonate.

Terrorball, in short, is made possible by a loss of the sense that cowardice is among the most disgusting and shameful of vices. I shudder to think what Washington, who as commander in chief of the Continental Army intentionally exposed himself to enemy fire to rally his poorly armed and badly outnumbered troops, would think of the spectacle of millions of Americans not merely tolerating but actually demanding that their government subject them to various indignities, in the false hope that the rituals of what has been called "security theater" will reduce the already infinitesimal risks we face from terrorism.

Indeed, if one does not utter the magic word "terrorism," the notion that it is actually in the best interests of the country for the government to do everything possible to keep its citizens safe becomes self-evident nonsense. Consider again some of the things that will kill 6,700 Americans today. The country's homicide rate is approximately six times higher than that of most other developed nations; we have 15,000 more murders per year than we would if the rate were comparable to that of otherwise similar countries. Americans own around 200 million firearms, which is to say there are nearly as many privately owned guns as there are adults in the country. In addition, there are about 200,000 convicted murderers walking free in America today (there have been more than 600,000 murders in America over the past 30 years, and the average time served for the crime is about 12 years).

Given these statistics, there is little doubt that banning private gun ownership and making life without parole mandatory for anyone convicted of murder would reduce the homicide rate in America significantly. It would almost surely make a major dent in the suicide rate as well: Half of the nation's 31,000 suicides involve a handgun. How many people would support taking both these steps, which together would save exponentially more lives than even a—obviously hypothetical—perfect terrorist-prevention system? Fortunately, very few. (Although I admit a depressingly large number might support automatic life without parole.)

Or consider traffic accidents. All sorts of measures could be taken to reduce the current rate of automotive carnage from 120 fatalities a day—from lowering speed limits, to requiring mechanisms that make it impossible to start a car while drunk, to even more restrictive measures. Some of these measures may well be worth taking. But the point is that at present we seem to consider 43,000 traffic deaths per year an acceptable cost to pay for driving big fast cars.

For obvious reasons, politicians and other policy makers generally avoid discussing what ought to be considered an "acceptable" number of traffic deaths, or murders, or suicides, let alone what constitutes an acceptable level of terrorism. Even alluding to such concepts would require treating voters as adults—something which at present seems to be considered little short of political suicide.

Yet not treating Americans as adults has costs. For instance, it became the official policy of our federal government to try to make America "a drug-free nation" 25 years ago.

After spending hundreds of billions of dollars and imprisoning millions of people, it's slowly beginning to become possible for some politicians to admit that fighting a necessarily endless drug war in pursuit of an impossible goal might be a bad idea. How long will it take to admit that an endless war on terror, dedicated to making America a terror-free nation, is equally nonsensical?

What then is to be done? A little intelligence and a few drops of courage remind us that life is full of risk, and that of all the risks we confront in America every day, terrorism is a very minor one. Taking prudent steps to reasonably minimize the tiny threat we face from a few fanatic criminals need not grant them the attention they crave. Continuing to play Terrorball, on the other hand, guarantees that the terrorists will always win, since it places the bar for what counts as success for them practically on the ground.

Correa Also Charges his old Scout Leader with Treason

The Editors of Ecrisis — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:53:00 GMT

January 10, 2009 Rafael Correa is outed by his corrupt brother before the public this week end, in this instance doing the right thing, who reminds Rafael that former president Noboa was once his mentor, bought him clothes, guided this fatherless boy and was his friend. Noboa headed up the local version of the Boy Scouts. Noboa bought the Correa boys clothes when they had none. Noboa was like a father figure. Noboa today faces not one but three charges of death-sentencing treason by Rafael Correa. Here is what we know: Rafael Correa holds no honor and has tossed out all bonds of integrity, including the familial, to retain his iron grip on Ecuador and to cover up his burgeoning crime spree, currently kept well cloaked behind his Purple Curtain of miscreants, burglars, liars and pervs, called his inner circle. But as Castro and Chavez keep reminding Correa, his choice to destroy all bonds of fellowship is correct to install the old hard dawn of communism in Ecuador, forsaking all of Western civilization, which Correa calls evil capitalism but we call simply human decency, which he neither has nor holds at all.

Three separate charges of treason by Correa against Noboa- all baseless- are on the table to insure that Noboa does not get out of this alive. Never mind double jeopardy. Never mind that as with all Correa’s legal claims and all his public acts and pronouncements, these too are false charges with no evidence and no way out. Correa does not run a democracy but does showcase his kangaroo false justice in his fake democracy run by cartel thugs and pervs. There is no rule of law in Ecuador. Correa’s treason charges reveal that rule of law has no rule in any of Correa’s so called criminal cases. Facts be dammed, lives be jettisoned.

Correa's dishonest and indefensible list of innocent traitors grows long and does now include just about all of any Ecuadorean who was ever decent and that was never a long list. Correa cannot stand the thought that someone will conjure up remembrances of things past- halcyon days when Ecuadoreans did not always have to fear car jackings, burglary and rape and murder on a daily fare. Today, following his father's footsteps as a Shining Path-FARC agent, Correa protects and expands the FARC in some weird Freudian sociopathy as of to justify his long dead drug running Marxist-Leninist father [probably killed by the Shining Path to silence him and not the rumored suicide] as KGB actors used to die in those years.

Or perhaps the FARC and Chavez's KGB agents simply manipulate the great manipulator Correa. We know he is in bed with this gang and we know that Correa is Chavez and Castro's proxy, now merging with Iran. No doubt Correa always considered that he could outmaneuver his manipulators. We do not know if he has yet realized that his Faustian Bargain, which bankrupted his nation has also bankrupted his soul and stripped his freedom as well as all Ecuadoreans.

What we do know is that Correa has no real friends except for his perverts Mera and Pesantez, and those brothers in criminal perversions are no one to truck with: they will charge you with treason if you question them or any rumors of perversities in Carodelet or even ask for any budgets, expenditures or justifications.

No indeed- their purple curtain has rung down and has left Ecuador under the cloud of disgusting dishonesty of their own making because no one stood long to demand an end to this government under the worst rules, right out of a Gay Man's Bath House. this is not democracy and this is not freedom. You have been gamed enough. Just try to get Correa to say something honest. Or Mera or Pesantez: they do not and will not. Get rid of this scum and stay their madness.

Rip down their Purple Curtain.

Know this: you can demand to review Correa's growing list of state enemies. You need to have the facts. Stop pretending that you cannot for you can. You can also ask the EU or the UK or the Canadian or the US ambassador Heather Hodges for the latest copy: we are sure these highly paid professionals are is doing their job [recall that Heather gets hardship pay and her total package probably tops well over $400,ooo per year alone so we are sure she wants to keep relaying the facts to keep her post] and has an up to date list of the multitudes charged with crimes they never committed. And know why Correa turns with envy, greed and avarice on any one who ever had decency in Ecuador: no addict to manipulative living, and Correa is primary example number one, will ever stop lying about others who they deem better than themselves. this is what manipulative addicts do: they lie about all else around them to pretend that they alone deserve and warrant full respect and full obedience when they deserve nothing. Stop being gamed by these manipulators and start breathing the free air again.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

Montaner Reports that Sociopathic Liar Correa Installs National Schizophrenia

The Editors of Ecrisis — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:17:00 GMT

January 6, 2009 We applaud Carlos Alberto Montaner for his use of the printed word: president Correa’s own words in Correa’s very own self-inflating vanity piece, ECUADOR which Correa, true to form, using absolutely no data and no facts [as he has done all his life], claims he has rescued from ruinous democracy where the Ecuadorean economy was finally growing to his communist plan where one and all suffer in Ecuador today, all that is outside his small cartel of criminals and pervs. Montaner, who knows Ecuador and its travails well, based on much time spent in country, reports that Correa is… a charlatan in a lawless regime of his own device.

As we at ECrisis have said for many years now, Correa is past awful: We at ECrisis continue to declare that anyone who loves Correa’s perversities is a liar or a ninnyhammer, a dimwit, a dunce or serving some nefarious end for bad purposes, such as Iran or the FARC or both. We do not understand the enjoyment that the USA takes from watching Ecuador sink in to a lawless morass of crime run by pervs. But like Correa, the USA’s Obama team claims to serve mankind when they do not. We note that Correa will serve mankind flame-broiled, en brochette or skewered….to his satisfaction for he is dishonest and dishonorable in all that he does and all that he touches. You can also read this in Spanish- readily available.

Montaner did not call Correa a sociopathic liar in his article. He says he is intellectually schizophrenic: that he is. But to be so dishonestly pervasive, one is also a sociopathic liar which anyone who follows Correa knows this to be true. And yet Correa is honest about nothing- nothing at all. He is quite demented and quite perverse. What we do not know is why he is not deemed psychologically unfit to govern for his vast and dark mental illnesses. We also do not know why Ecuadoreans permit this man to destroy their country simply because he does precisely as all Ecuadoreans are trained by their mothers from birth to do: manipulate and behave with mental illnesses to have and hold power over all matters domestic or publicly-funded. It is a disease best ended now with the cure of honorable behaviors and lives based on honesty, not manipulations, also called nation and family-ruining. Correa has ruined Ecuador and, as he has been guided from birth, blames everyone else for his own sordid behaviors while claiming the name of Jesus Christ on bended knee. We do not believe that Christ is anywhere within 50,000 miles of Correa and his manipulative piety. In fact, Ecuadoreans and Jesus himself deserve better than this sociopathic liar.

But Montaner is a serious fellow and tries to wrap his head around Correa’s academic joust. He tries very hard to review Correa’s chock-full-of-lies academics and cannot muster his way through any point because there are no embraceable points to Correa- just a lot of lies and academic fraud.

Under Correa, Ecuador- contrary to what Correa laughingly states in his own words- has seen jobs, trust, confidence, open media, lawfulness, prospects for any future and all hope abandoned or crushed or stolen or killed off. Anyone who tells you differently is either aiding Correa’s extortion rackets or is a sociopathic liar. Many of these aiders and abettors of crime do exist. But not all.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, as interpreted by Correa is every bit as phony an analysis as every single bit of phony history and anti-capitalism diatribes he utters which Correa spews for his own convenience. Correa lazily learned nothing but garbage during his short stint in the USA, living for free off the charity of others. Correa learned all the wrong lessons in life but there was no one- no one at all- to urge him to work toward honesty. Correa simply learned how to live off of other people’s money, blame others, lie a lot and hate fact based analysis. A greatly debauched education he had and an even worse legacy that he applies yet today in full. Correa’s gift to mankind is a disgrace and his purpose in life is self justification for his own sociopathy, envy and incompetence.

We suggest that Correa depart for good- legally. Montaner suggests that Correa mirror actual success stories instead of looking to justify his own failures with tales of other failures whom he calls fabulous. No self respecting manipulator- and Correa is very good at this- will ever try to grow up and serve honorably. They are too busy manipulating the world around them that they have all the answers when they have answers to nothing.

Montaner delves in to Correa’s facts and finds them nothing but lies and a recipe for disastrous ruin, as all dishonorable communists are. Montaner, who knows very well first-hand about communism and its evil tells the truth about Correa’s own words. Ecuadoreans need to connect their own dots and remove this sociopathic liar and disaster-maker now. And take his wretched gang of pervs with him.

No one who is a sociopath and a manipulator can do anything helpful except go away. No one who rules by lying to his nation is helpful except by going away. Correa needs to go away. We have written about this perv for over 3 years- he is a menace to himself, his family and his nation. He needs to go away. We applaud Montaner for noting Correa’s perversions of truth telling. Correa has stripped Ecuador, as all manipulators and extortionists [all manipulators are one and the same with extortionists, just degrees vary] do, of their right to justice, all rights to liberty, their right to honesty and integrity and their right to a future. Stay this madness.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

Correa's recipe for disaster
BY CARLOS ALBERTO MONTANER
www.firmaspress.com

Rafael Correa, the president of Ecuador, has just published a book. He titled it Ecuador: From Banana Republic to Non-republic.

He posits that the country, under his leadership, ceased to be a banana republic, governed arbitrarily for the benefit of a dishonest oligarchy and foreign capital, and became a traditional republic with a separation and balance of powers, a neutral constitution and open institutions that propitiate changes smoothly under the tranquil protection of the rule of law -- something that it's not.

On the jacket flap, Correa unfurls his noteworthy academic credentials and states his ideological affiliation. He says he's a follower of the Catholic Church's social doctrine and the by now much-discredited liberation theology.

But it's in the text, composed of previously published articles, where we find the keys to his vision of Ecuador's problems. There, we find a bulky list of evildoers, whom Correa flays, along with a list of good guys, whom he praises effusively.

List of bad guys

The list of villains is very long: practically all the presidents who preceded him, the international lenders, ``the nefarious international bureaucracy and its cronies,'' the market and ``the invisible hand'' that guides it, the Washington Consensus, the independence of the Central Bank, the dollarization of the currency, international free trade (the FTAA), privatization, what he calls ``the long and grim neoliberal night,'' the concession of services to private enterprise and ``subcontracting'' or the hiring of third-party personnel to avoid fiscal burdens or labor-union pressures. On page 64, he states an intention that I find commendable: ``Liberate the State from the power groups that control it.''

His heroes are the state, the dependency theory, planning, public expenditure, development dirigisme, a national currency that can contain crises and compensate for the country's unproductivity, Raúl Prebisch, J.M. Keynes, James Petras -- a hare-brained radical Marxist economist -- tariff protection as a means to develop national industry, some convenient inflation and even Facundo Cabral and Eduardo Galeano, to add a slight folkloric touch to a semi-academic book.

The book has some mistakes that are unworthy of an economist trained in the United States. For example, it says the government of Franklin D. Roosevelt revoked the gold standard in 1933, something that actually happened during the administration of Richard M. Nixon several decades later. What Roosevelt did was to devalue the dollar in relation to gold, from $20 per ounce to $35, an action that at the time was considered by many to be a violation of property rights.

`Third World' vision

We are therefore looking at a ruler who possesses an ideological vision that can be perfectly described as statist (``Third-Worldist,'' as Charles Rangel phrased it), along with a total mistrust of the market economy and the intentions of the major developed democracies. Lamentably, added to this misguided understanding of governance (which failed 40 times in Latin America in the 20th century) is a clearly authoritarian temperament -- so described by Correa's own brother -- and the pernicious intellectual arrogance of someone who knows no doubt and remains indifferent in the face of a reality that constantly disproves his premises.

If, following Correa's analysis, Ecuador's political class is totally venal and ignorant and is surrounded by an army of indolent functionaries, why does he think that the state will solve the problems of society better than the civilian society? If Ecuador's public sector is an unmitigated disaster and his own government founders amid corruption and inefficacy (that's also his brother's opinion) and if Correa was unprepared for the predicted collapse of the energy system, what makes him think that giving more power and resources to the state will make his job easier?

Instead of looking toward Venezuela, which is the perfect model of how not to govern a society, Correa should carefully observe the type of state that the Chileans began to build in the 1980s, a state intelligently conserved and solidified by four ensuing democratic governments and the administration that will emerge from the next elections. It is true that the Chileans are doing the opposite of what Correa prescribes, but it seems advisable that he should imitate the successful examples, not the failed ones.

At the end of his book, Correa quotes two economists whom he probably has not read or, worse, not understood -- Ronald Coase and Douglas North -- and assumes with them that prosperity, development and stability depend on the quality of the institutions and the predictable nature of the rules. Exactly the opposite of what his government does. That's called cultivating an intellectual schizophrenia.

Correa’s Great Projects for 2010

The Editors of Ecrisis — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:41:00 GMT

January 5, 2009 ECrisis reports here that president Correa’s newly launched dishonest regional news wire service, ANDES, is running its ALBA-communist state propaganda through Castro’s communist propaganda PRENSA LATINA for Castro’s helpful news spread….of more propaganda.

And before you join with every single idiot working for the U.S. Department of State, gleefully chanting, “Isn’t that nice of Correa and Chavez?” pay attention here and use your brain….because you know from experience that the Obama team will not. Indeed, it is the obligation of every Ecuadorean to stop being lazy and for once do their own due diligence- gather and hold the facts and stop pretending that life as spoon fed from the overpaid and lazy U.S. operatives will yield you anything helpful when it does not anymore. Grow up and get serious- it is your life anyway.

Correa is laughably selling the idea that he is a great builder of nations. Would you buy anything from Correa and his team? Would you even buy a used, second hand lady’s dress from Correa’s collection? No you would not so why do you believe his new airstrips for drug running deserves your money and the money from the World Bank of idiots gone wilding? We also remind that running drugs, weapons and human slaves is what Correa calls free trade. We call it pure evil. These GREAT projects by Correa are neither great nor are they what the North Americans praise. Take for example Correa’s planned air strips near the jungle with Peru and at the border with Colombia- all for ease of drugs trafficking and worse- human trafficking and weapons running, far away from the preying eyes of accountability and promises to never ever run drugs which of course Correa’s teams do with gay abandon. And their vow to build concrete! Yes- real concrete! roads in to Cuenca and expanded landings for their fabulous bastion of non-law in Lago Agrio so that US visiting dignitaries such as avowed FARC advocate U.S. Congressman McGovern and all his paid Soros hacks for fake justice can ease their way in and out of paying homage to the wonders of fake justice in Correa’s one horse town of non-justice called Lago Agrio, currently extorting Chevron Texaco as fast as they can. Not one word from Correa about what is truly needed: water treatment to kill off the epidemic of amoebas- intestinal parasites- from humans drinking their own sewage in Lago Agrio and enjoying their own lies that this is all the fault of America’s third largest employer. We remind that the vast PetroEcuador waste pits outside Lago Agrio should be remediated and until so done, none should drink their own waste water, as is the case in Correa’s paradise. And we still ask: how is Correa’s great state run health service doing for all those tens of thousands we keep hearing about from master liar in chief Correa and his team mate Steven Donziger from the USA about the cancer deaths in Lago Agrio? Does not one medical doctor in Correa’s state run health system ever ever state the truth to these so called patients that they are not dropping like flies from Texaco’s cancer delivery system but instead are with intestinal parasites from drinking, thanks to Correa’s state system, their own sewage? We have abandoned all hope that the USA team will ever change and act honorably, ending their collusion with criminal extortion rackets called the Correa-Donziger law suit in Lago Agrio but we do hope their employees fully know that there will be no protection gifted them for their complicity in known extortion racketeering- no diplomatic immunity at all. We have seriously given up on Correa and Donziger being honest to expand their extortion racket in Ecuador [which is why these criminals refuse to permit any due diligence or relocate to the tender mercies of US trial practices preferring instead the corrupt Correa justice which is non justice] to make money off of lying while suborning perjury but even Correa’s own Cuban doctors- tens of thousands of them now- should at least make a feeble attempt to be honest. But wait! They are not really doctors and they are of course carrying a job description that they are really intel gatherers for the state and never permitted to be honest or helpful. So much for Correa’s circular system of dishonesty. A great year of projects this will be. What would be truly great is for Chevron Texaco to finally state the facts: there is no justice inside Correa’s cartel lands and quit the farce that Lago Agrio will hand them justice when this will never occur. Chevron is wasting a lot of money and its shareholders’ confidence to assuage the ridiculously dishonest Obama team who still inexplicably pretend that Correa’s land of criminals will serve up justice for all when this will never happen: just read Correa’s 9-08 ALBA constitution for once.

As for the happy news that the overpriced resort town of Salinas will get its own upgraded runways, we remind just WHO loves to pretend that Salinas is Ecuador’s own private Palm Beach resort. Worse yet is why any government would have permitted unsafe air transport in to Salinas all these years…no guard rails, no safety features and certainly no basic standards for air travel. Were they ever fined for such unsafe practices? No matter- the drug runners need the space now and it will be upgraded to their standards, so sayeth Correa. We also wonder what happens to our happy airstrips when the electricity goes out as is frequently the case these days because Correa’s team is too busy stealing from the central bank to pay its bills to energy suppliers, claiming as Correa does that he and Chavez will build more energy and refining sites….to better serve his cartel activities There are not enough generators on this planet to serve Ecuadoreans who have no confidence in any government services and no confidence that Correa’s great propaganda, now called Castro’s news service- ANDES- will deliver anything honest either.

Then ANDES-Prensa Latina is pure propaganda, inexplicably called honest news reporting while avoiding its real content providers from Castro’s GRANMA and Iranian News [co-owned by Correa in another GREAT project with TeleSur from Caracas], of and by Correa.

What the ANDES-Prensa Latina happy story of lies forgets to say is that Correa’s projects for 2010 are all about doing evil with someone else’s money so that more evil doers can happily make money off of the people of Ecuador. Great indeed are your New Year’s prospects…in the hell you have made for yourself because you cared nothing about systemic corruption while busily manipulating yourself that it did not really matter anyway. For too many years did Ecuadoreans pretend that the North American money to end corruption in Ecuador was a terrific matter when shifted with great manipulation and deception [to help the poor and grow democracy they deceptively said] in to protester training programs, called democracy building by the U.S. Embassy’s liars from US AID/the US Department of State- also called Soros’s own, which commenced in 2002 and is now fully dishonest, not unlike the fake reporting from Correa and Castro’s media mills to spread Iran’s message of lies. What matters a lot is that Ecuador is a corrupt cess pool of its own device with the reality that the fake justice of Correa’s Lago Agrio court is what is now your justice. And that is an extortion racket.

If Correa really wanted great plans for 2010, he would release Ecuadoreans from his pledge to convert them to a model replica of Castro’s Cuba. He would permit justice not controlled by his state handlers. Correa would also release open media and free speech once again. These things do matter and are deal breakers with all known sane persons.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

Chavez’s Venezuela, like Correa’s Ecuador, is a Narcostate and Lynchpin for Evil

The Editors of Ecrisis — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:52:00 GMT

December 7, 2009 Here is Gustavo- a very nice man- about Venezuela. He tells us that Venezuela might be a narcostate. He points out the end of freedoms and the regional bloc called ALBA. Gustavo weakly states that Chavez might [maybe/it is possible/could occur] show, “characteristics that apply both to a petrostate and a narcostate.” Such statements by Gustavo permit and enable Chavez to carry on his regime. Hugo Chavez, like Rafael Correa of Ecuador, is indeed a drug king pin and he does indeed run a narcostate while also merging with the Russo-Iranian axis of evil.

But no Andean soul wants to state these facts. They come close but run away. Why is that?

It is impossible not to personally like the friendly Gustavo. We remain appalled that he and the rest of the Venezuelan so called opposition in Washington are so weak-minded, tepid and easily manipulated that they cannot bring themselves to state the obvious….which is that while he and his chums like Norman Bailey prefer to report that corruption is at an all time high, they refuse to connect the dots under common sense applications of what this means for totalitarian situations such as Venezuela under Chavez, as if….by some miracle the corruption could be diplomatically corrected or controlled by George Soros’s enabling hand of the US AID and the National Endowment for Democracy, which only makes matters more corrupt.

More to the point has been the Venezuelan’s own campaigns in the USA to never, ever support any rational effort to stop Chavez. Unhappy Venezuelans flee to the USA for “rights” and “security” while refusing to organize in the USA with even a fact based analysis on what Chavez and his cronies are actually doing. Instead, the USA gets complaints, whiners, tepid scam artists and arrivistes who know the value of nothing and are even less willing to work for sane governance. These actors reject any embargo, any accountability for what Chavez is doing with his off the books, foreign spot oil trades to gin up the price per barrel of global oil, and refuse to even consider the notion that Chavez’s private bankers are remarkably dirty, recently seen in Bailey’s lobbying to bar US Treasury from banning Venezuelan corrupt banks, claiming as they did do before the US Congress that this would “hurt the poor” in Venezuela. Thus, the organized racketeering state of oil capital continues to extort, threaten and harm actual democracies. What we do not understand is why George Soros so supports this cartel bloc of nations called ALBA, now known as proxy states for the Russo-Iranian nexus. We also do not understand why Gustavo does not factually detail this, as if – along with so many Soros-paid writers- to declare that this bloc and its terror aspirations matter not.

Indeed we see that the so called Venezuelan opposition to Chavez will never state the full facts about Chavez because this might limit their capacity at offshore, spot oil trading which seems to engage many so called ex pats who are not ex pats at all except in their minds’ eye.

We do not like it at all when we read things such as…` it might be that Chavez is running a narco state.’ Well- duhh! Do you think? Sounding more like Soros’s own Moises Naim or worse, the Inter American Dialogue of Soros and US AID to tell us that Chavez is really not much of a threat, what little we know is that Chavez has expanded his drug running 10 xxx in the last 2 years as he is desperate for cash margin calls due to his incompetent global off the books speculations, not to mention his babysitting the bankrupt Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador and now teaming with the Russo-Iranian axis of evil.

Refusing to grasp the importance of Chavez’s Iran/Hezbollah terror training camps inside Venezuela, like all Venezuelans, Gustavo’s points are weakened.

He begins to sound like Karen Harbert, then at the US Energy Department, before the US Congress, under oath, who informed us all that the USA must keep its hands off Venezuela because the US needed its oil when the USA has never needed Chavez’s heavy, dirty oil- which it refines at very badly run and badly maintained refineries. This is more than a story of corruption: it is a story about Venezuelans who continue to take the Chavez bribes and are, like Ecuadoreans, so weak-minded and so easy to seduce that they fail to stand up to the Chavez way of life….based on lies and manipulations. While we are proud of the sporadic and spotty freedom fighters, unless and until Venezuelans give Chavez’s dirty money back his control over their entire lives goes on.

He notes, “Clamping down on the media: Radio Caracas TV and Globovision.
In March 2007 Hugo Chavez closed down Radio Caracas TV, the most popular television station in the country and confiscated its plant and equipment. As of this writing the equipment is still in the hands of the government, being utilized for an official TV station and no compensation has been offered to its owners. The government claimed that Radio Caracas TV license had expired and that the frequency used by the station was needed for official purposes. Both claims were wrong. The government had about 75 idle frequencies available. The real reason was that Radio Caracas TV owner, Marcel Granier had become a very prominent political dissenter and had to be silenced 36.

Hugo Chavez has placed Venezuelan freedom of expression under siege by imposing three laws: the modified Penal Law, the Law of Responsibility in Radio and Television and the Law for the Protection of Children and Adolescents. Although theoretically designed to promote a better media performance these laws are utilized, in practice, to intimidate the media, promote self-censorship and punish dissidents. The Penal Code, an imitation of Italian laws of the XIX century, considers punishable with fines and/or prison of 4-5 years any expression that might be defined as offensive against the president, his family and the government bureaucracy. Who defines the offense? The government. The government used the law on children and adolescents to fine a dissident newspaper, Tal Cual, with $120,000 for having made a totally innocent reference to Hugo Chavez’s daughter Rosines. In protest for this arbitrary measure a popular collect paid the fine in 48 hours. By the end of 2008 37 Venezuelan communications expert Antonio Pasquali estimated that Chavez had used 2544 hours of compulsive media, radio and television hook-ups, the equivalent of 318 days at an average of seven to 19 In March 2007 Hugo Chavez closed down RadioCaracas TV, the most popular television station in the country and confiscated its plant and equipment eight hours per day, in order to address the nation in often unimportant or partisan matters.”

Gustavo writes, “Creating chaos within the Organization of American States. During the last two years the Venezuelan government has systematically tried to destroy what is left of the ineffective OAS. Chavez has promoted UNASUR, a parallel organization restricted to South American countries. UNASUR is being modeled after the European Union and would promote a single currency, passport and parliament. It would also include a NATO like military organization and a bank, Bank of the South, for which Venezuela has pledged $3 billion, still unpaid. However, as Southern Affairs reports 38, there is profound distrust among the members, as illustrated by conflicts such as the FARC-inspired political crisis between Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, the Argentina- Uruguay paper mill controversy, Peru’s border suit against Chile in The Hague, Bolivian’s demands for Chilean territory, the Bolivian gas disputes with Brazil and Argentina and Venezuela’s claims to two thirds of the territory of Guyana. In a recent move 39 the Venezuelan Supreme Tribunal of Justice refused to recognize a decision by the Inter American Commission of Human Rights of the OAS in connection with the politically motivated dismissal of three Venezuelan judges. The Venezuelan Supreme Tribunal of Justice considered that such decision could not be accepted. This position of the Venezuelan judiciary violated the sovereign act by which Venezuela became a member of the OAS and accepted to abide by its norms, regulations and decisions. Chile, faced with a 2001 decision by the OAS related to censorship of information 40 not only accepted this decision but altered its constitution in order to conform with it.”

We at ECrisis note that Gustavo does indeed shine a light on Venezuela. We commend the decent Gustavo- really we do. But Gustavo’s 15 watt, tiny light in no way is a 100 watt bulb of daylight, still desperately needed. Gustavo, like so many, gives us a half baked story supposedly so that we can digest this while ignoring the obvious conclusions. The USA of Soros Democrats refuses any and all true facts about the ALBA empire-bloc of Iran and Russia. This creates harm and perpetuates the crimes underway. Without truths, there will be no quality of life in the Andes.

Soon a full forensic wattage will be necessary- the entire league of evil nations must be under the transparent light of truth. Half measures, half truths struggling in the dark will not suffice and help no one.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

'Correa is an Incompetent, Corrupt Homosexual Communist’

The Editors of Ecrisis — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:06:00 GMT

December 6, 2009 Here is Rafael Correa’s brother telling the world that president Rafael Correa is corrupt, incompetent, homosexual…and a communist.

This may be the only honest thing his brother has ever said. Of course the brother likes to blame Correa’s PINK CIRCLE- the Pink Iron Curtain of Quito on Correa’s comrades in arms….his cabinet…currently stating that free speech for all Ecuadoreans is to be denied except for his gang. Will Correa charge his brother with treason? Or will he stop charging treason against decent Ecuadoreans? And what happens to the rumor that Correa is doing cross-dressing with Alexis Mera and his gang? What will become of this cess pool that we have long described as having and holding the morals of a Gay Man’s Bath House?

Indeed, one could only disagree with the brother that this so called conversion is recent. It is not recent.

Correa, himself a dishonest and corrupt adult child of an abusive, violent, alcoholic and a Shining Path drug runner, enjoyed his EURO-RED party alliances in Belgium with his...guide/mentor Pesantez, now in a triangle with Alexis Mera. Others credit the same Quito group with US AID’s Cesar Montuffar currently trying desperately to call himself the opposition with Carlos Vera, which falls flat.

Other Correa family members, all working for the Correa regime….called the Pink Curtain…tell us that Correa has changed of late: changed wives, changed homes, changed his economic outlook, changed his clothing and changed in to being profoundly corrupt.

We disagree: these enablers simply refused to be honest about what Correa always was. They have had plenty of help ignoring Correa’s now public letter to Fidel Castro during his first election wherein he swore allegiance to the Communist Party….and not Ecuador the Republic. For his part, the USA’s Roger Noriega, Hugo Llorens, and Tom Shannon pretended this communist allegiance was of no consequence. Enabling dishonest and manipulative Ecuadoreans always gets one in to trouble.

We also hear rumor that Correa’s mother has returned from the USA, where it was never clear to us why she lived there for so long nor what she lived off of. What we hear is gossip that she is now babysitting Correa’s abandoned daughters and son, raising them in the shadow of her vast and dirty family values.

And still we ask: who makes Correa’s outfits? And what becomes of a trans – sexual when global realities and the pressures of Iran’s nuclear and non-nuclear weapons and bombs, soon to off load at Manta, will be weighing in on his adolescent mien? What then? A manipulative girly-man always spells trouble for the world’s most evil axis. And why yet we ask is the USA of Obama still refusing a Fact Based Dossier on Correa? Could it be that the false face doth hide what the heart knows? Could it be that by pretending that ignorance, is bliss that plausible deniability is engaged? We hold all parties responsible for this cess pool.

Entrevista en radio Sucesos de Quito

"El Gobierno es incompetente, corrupto, comunista y homosexual", según Fabricio Correa

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

Lawless Ecuador Takes its Rule of Law from Alice in Wonderland

The Editors of Ecrisis — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:55:00 GMT

December 5, 2009 We at ECrisis find many truths in the following article:

Ecuador plays `dirty'

By GLENN GARVIN ggarvin@MiamiHerald.com
Some countries derive their legal system from the Magna Carta or the Napoleonic code, which clamped restrictions on royal fiats. Others rely on the Koran. And in Ecuador, the governing authority looks to Alice in Wonderland for legal standing.

In the trial there of a $27 billion pollution lawsuit against Chevron, the courtroom echoes with the cry of the Queen of Hearts: ``Sentence first -- verdict later.''

The trial is still going on, evidence is still being submitted. But in a YouTube video (youtube.com/texacoecuador), you can can see presiding judge Juan Nuñez breezily declaring that he's already decided against Chevron and will stick the company with a fine in January.

``Chevron is the guilty party?'' asks a visitor. ``Yes, sir,'' the judge assures him.

It's hardly surprising that the wheels of justice are running on flat tires in Ecuador, where President Rafael Correa fires congress at breakfast, repudiates a few billion dollars in debt at lunch and then relaxes over dinner by sheltering Marxist narcoguerrillas. Ecuador's main export may be oil, but Correa runs his country like a banana republic.

The Chevron trial has become a morass of corruption that threatens to suck in the U.S. judiciary, too. It's the ugliest example yet of a new, international form of jackpot justice in which buccaneer American trial lawyers hitch their wagons to class-action suits in anti-American countries, hoping for a big score that will be enforced by U.S. courts.

The good news is that U.S. judges have, so far, refused to play along. This summer, a California judge ruled that a trial lawyer had faked evidence in Nicaragua lawsuits in which plantation workers supposedly poisoned by pesticides won $3.2 million from Dole Food Company. ``It is now clear that those plaintiffs and the evidence presented were all a product of the fraudulent enterprise,'' declared Judge Victoria Chaney in a ruling that casts major doubt on more than $2 billion in Nicaraguan judgments against Dole, Dow Chemical and others.

The Chevron case in Ecuador will be the sternest test yet of the American judicial system's ability to resist politically correct but legally suspect awards from Latin America. Steven Donziger, the lead attorney representing the Ecuadoreans, is Barack Obama's law-school pal who raised more than $40,000 for the campaign and likes to brag about his political clout.

Certainly the case has more to do with politics than the law. It started with Texaco's discovery of oil in the Ecuadorean Amazon in 1967. (Chevron inherited the case when it bought Texaco in 2001.) Far from regarding the American company as a rapacious interloper, the Ecuadorean government welcomed Texaco as the key to a bright economic future.

Over the next quarter century, Texaco worked with the state-owned company Petroecuador in an enterprise that brought Ecuador billions of dollars of royalties and turned the country into the second-largest oil exporter in Latin America.

In 1992, when Ecuador decided it could pump the oil by itself, Petroecuador bought out Texaco's stake. Texaco spent $40 million cleaning up its drilling sites; the Ecuadorean government released the company from further liability.

But that was no deterrent to American trial lawyers who, as Ecuador's politics moved left, saw a cash cow just waiting to be milked. The entire case against Chevron has been bankrolled not by damaged Ecuadorean parties but Philadelphia trial lawyer Joe Kohn. While the state-owned Petroecuador never cleaned up its share of sites and has amassed one of the world's worst environmental records -- an estimated 1,400 oil spills this decade -- it mysteriously is not a target of the lawsuit.

The conduct of the Chevron case has been an outrage from the beginning, with faked cancer cases, backdated documents, findings of pollution at nonexistent wells and grotesquely inflated cost estimates. (One court-appointed ``expert'' recommended billing Chevron $2.2 million for cleaning up each well pit, even though Petroecuador cleans up its own pits for $85,000 apiece.)

But last week's video of Judge Nuñez's ``facts?-we-don't-need-no-stinkin'-facts'' advance verdict takes the case to a new level of legal malfeasance. The video was shot with concealed cameras by two businessmen who were negotiating with the government for a piece of any cleanup project resulting from the verdict. Correa's political cronies arranged for them to meet with the judge (who, on Friday, removed himself from the case) to assure them that there's plenty of money in the pipeline.

As attorney Donziger admitted in the documentary film Crude, discussing political pressure his team has applied to Ecuadorean courts, ``Ecuador, you know, this is how the game is played, it's dirty.'' American courts would do much better to stay on this side of Alice's looking glass.
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And here is Correa’s legal team fighting against rule of law:

BUSINESS
DECEMBER 5, 2009
Ecuador Seeks To Block Chevron

By BEN CASSELMAN And CHAD BRAY
The government of Ecuador asked a U.S. court on Friday to intervene in its long-running environmental battle with oil giant Chevron Corp.

The federal court filing is tied to a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit taking place in Ecuador that seeks to hold Chevron responsible for environmental damage allegedly caused by Texaco Inc., which operated there from 1964 to 1990.

Chevron, which bought Texaco in 2001, denies the allegations. A ruling in that case is expected next year. Although the lawsuit was filed by residents of Ecuador's oil-producing region, Chevron has increasingly targeted the government of Ecuador in both its public statements and its legal filings in the case.

The San Ramon, Calif., company accuses the government of interfering on the plaintiffs' behalf and violating an agreement to release Chevron from environmental claims. The government denies any interference and says the release agreement didn't cover lawsuits filed by third parties.

In September, Chevron requested binding arbitration under international law, claiming that Ecuador was violating the terms of a 1997 trade pact with the U.S. Chevron asked arbitrators to rule that Ecuador, not the company, is responsible for any environmental damage and should pay any penalties.

On Friday, Ecuador's government fired back, asking a U.S. district court in New York to order Chevron to drop its arbitration claim. At the heart of Ecuador's claim is a promise by Texaco to a U.S. court in 1999 to accept the ruling of the Ecuadorean courts in the case.

"By commencing the arbitration, it is Chevron that is trying to escape its commitments," said Eric Bloom, Ecuador's attorney in the case.

But Chevron argues that promise doesn't apply to the current lawsuit, and accused Ecuador of stalling. "The government of Ecuador is simply seeking to delay the arbitration and avoid ever having to own up for its abrogation of the rule of law," the company said.

Separately, Chevron said it would stop selling fuel at more than 1,100 gas stations in Eastern states including Pennsylvania, Ohio and South Carolina.
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And The LA Times on December 3, 2009 had a story planted by the Correa-Donziger fake law suit team, currently engaging the Obama team and the U.S. Democrats to suborn perjury. Here is a comment from one of the readers:

“The current piece appears to denounce some nascent request by Chevron Texaco to underscore that the USA deem Ecuador as unfit for free trade benefits extensions in 2010. What we know is that the USA deserves a dossier of facts regarding Ecuador today and a fundamental review of same, which does not exist and must be on the table. Without a real time review, your analysis stands as irresponsibly naive and in need of repair.

We cannot but be struck by the demonstrable facts that Ecuador has broken its fitness for these trade benefits willfully, which we woefully admit are its own doings and nothing to do with whatever it is that Chevron seeks, which appear to us to be a reiteration of findings on the ground.

By any yardstick, the facts bear out the reality that the Correa team running Ecuador has broken the bonds of US-Ecuadorean trade relations by verifiably restricting U.S. goods and services, portending its canceling the Bi-Lateral Investment Treaty {BIT}, revoking U.S. counter-narcotics reduction activities in any meaningful sense, ending U.S. patent protections, terminating open media and free speech with a new draconian Chavista media barring law, seizing private enterprise while melding its presidentially-controlled Central Bank with the Iranian Central Bank for ease in money laundering of Iranian cash in to U.S. dollars. To this must be added a deteriorated scenario in Ecuador created by their president Correa to replicate Castro's Cuba while insisting that contract law and private property end while afflicting all branches of government, notably denying even handed law and order, now arbitrarily under Correa's ham fisted control. Rule of law, contract law, property rights and essential due process are banished in Ecuador. This bears no reward by Obama.

Ecuador can and must restore all human rights and return to the sound principles of governance, transparent and accountable. Unless and until it does, the USA must not reward cartel-like behaviors with U.S. tax dollars and will not serve to further extortion rackets.”

And while you are pondering just how bad Ecuador will be under this lawless and very corrupt government of Correa, currently lying a lot to the USA and itself, consider what Correa’s group of self inflated narcissists look like:

Adaptive liberal hypocrisy
By Deborah C. Tyler American Thinker

In recent weeks we have witnessed liberals in the highest level of government sanctimoniously defend terrorists who kill us, while persecuting those who defend us from murderous attacks. In an effort to understand this reversal of good and evil, it has become a cliché to call liberals crazy. But while supremely hypocritical, liberalism is not insane. It is a highly adaptive ego device that enables people to violate commitments, vilify those who are true to their faith, and avoid personal sacrifice while feeling great about themselves. The only defense against hypocrisy is self-knowledge; the politics, spirituality, and morality of liberalism are well-constructed firmaments of self-delusion.

The United States was founded in a Judeo-Christian theocentrism that is informed by scripture and assumes a personal God who hears prayers and grants forgiveness for sin. Theocentrism provides stable laws and settled moral codes.

In the mid-twentieth century, an unorganized, reactive spiritual orientation arose, egocentrism, which has become the dominant moral framework in our nation. This orientation says there may or may not be a God, so each individual must follow his or her own conscience and ethical values. Theocentrism has been promulgated by traditional religion. Egocentrism has mainly been introduced through mass media, educational power structures, and more recently by reoriented religions.

A theocentrist lives out the question, What does God say is best to do? An egocentrist lives out the question, What do I think is best to do? Here is the central difference between theocentrism and egocentrism: Living for God is a largely conscious, intentional process, informed by a written scripture that presupposes the need for repentance.

Egocentrism largely proceeds below the level of conscious awareness through a series of experiments in self-directed living. It presupposes constant change -- and who is there to repent to? The consciousness/unconsciousness dichotomy may be shown by a behavioral exemplar. Theocentrists are always praising and blessing God, saying things like, "Praise the Lord . . . so help me, God . . . Insh Allah." But for egocentrists, it's not so clear who to thank. They don't disclaim "Praise Me!" Me have Mercy!" or "May it please Myself!"

This difference explains the gratitude gap between liberals and conservatives. Thanking God is central to theocentrism; thanking oneself is more complicated, and that is why self-esteem is all important in egocentrist spirituality.

The individual ego is a PR shill. Its job is not to find the truth but to organize life and win every game from the viewpoint of the all-important I. And just as the eye cannot see itself, the ego cannot be honest with itself. It always buys its own pitch. The individual ego is the strongest force in the phenomenal world because of its capacity for self-delusion. Toward that end, there is no form of self-service that the ego cannot transform into a sense of moral superiority. This is why we see a case like Representative Patrick Kennedy, who claims to be Catholic, yet facilitates mortal sin by endorsing "the right to choose." His ego, not Christ or scripture, is in the driver's seat. But the ego is so enthralling that Mr. Kennedy may not even know it. Though hypocritical, his public position is not crazy. In fact, it is functional and advantageous in a world dominated by egocentrism.

The spiritual orientation of theocentrism generally provides the moral framework for conservatism, and the spiritual orientation of egocentrism generally provides the moral framework for liberalism. When a theocentrist is hypocritical, it is because he has knowingly violated the tenets of his faith, and the transgressor tends to be secretive because he knows he has broken his own laws. That is the purpose of scriptural codification: it lets you know when you are wrong. And that is why there is no equivalent written code of behavior in egocentrist spirituality. Egocentrism has no written moral law because a written code would in itself violate the process of self-directed experimentation.

Because of the way the ego works, the politics of liberalism are bulwarks of hypocrisy and self-deception. But liberals are often not secretive, just clueless. They tend to be "in your face" hypocrites because they are obeying the ego, which tells them that, ultimately, they cannot be wrong. This is why liberals speak of tolerance when they really mean approval. Tolerance is based on disapproval. It is a conscious, mediative process of non-interference with something that does not meet with approval. Tolerance is a compromise that the ego cannot make, because the ego is an on-off switch of self-interest.

The anti-American statements and policies of the Obama administration are sacraments of two generations of ascendant egocentrism in our country. The ego is loath to admit, "I don't want to get my behind shot off in some war." No problem. Liberal academia has given us 50 years of indoctrination in the many reasons America is not worth it. And here's some good ego-logic: The reality that "it takes too much courage to knowingly bring a Down Syndrome child into the world" becomes "Sarah Palin is confused and slutty." Eric Holder calls the American people cowards and then casts self-confessed terrorist murderers as civil rights victims. Khalid Sheik Mohammed becomes the new Rosa Parks.

But none of this is crazy. It is adaptive. For example, in the case of Mr. Holder, his deference to admitted terrorists is an ingenious, though probably mostly unconscious, ego-projection of himself as a civil rights hero while he breaks his oath to defend the Constitution from foreign enemies. Liberal hypocrisy is not insanity, it is pretersanity, a powerful tactic of self-absolution, a way to become rich, admired, and powerful while supposedly "fighting for the little guy," or to exhort others to self-sacrifice while making none yourself.

The notion, now commonly posited in liberal media, that the Fort Hood terrorist Major Hassan is mentally ill, is another unconscious capitulation to egocentrism. It is the worst form of hypocrisy to make excuses for somebody who takes all of the benefits of military service and then murders his defenseless fellow soldiers.

Theocentrism and egocentrism are opposite and irreconcilable. One revels in the new moral entitlements, the other sees a mad world portending the end of days. A theocentrist will not give up God, an egocentrist cannot give up himself.

American society is being split in two. It is also a testament to our rule of law and compassionate character that we still hold onto our pluribus unum. How will it all end? Let's use a psychological assessment technique. Complete the following sentence:

The significance of these times is: _____________________________
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-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis