CIA & American Oligarchic Capitalist State: War on Independent Publishing / Investigative Journalism - Re-Classification Casts Wide Suppression Net

WikiLeaks   JULIAN ASSANGE SPEAKS OUT: THE WAR ON TRUTH RON PAUL LIBERTY REPORT BACKGROUND CIA DIRECTOR - MIKE POMPEO POMPEO Wikpedia: Mike Pomepo Incumbent:  Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) TRUMP ADMINISTRATION prior:   U.S. Representative for Kansas's 4th congressional district, 2011-17 prior:  member of TEA PARTY MOVEMENT, within REPUBLICAN PARTY origins:   Santa Ana, California majored in mechanical engineering subsequently serving in the Army as an Armor Branch cavalry officer from 1986 to 1991 J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review worked as a lawyer for Williams & Connolly >>  served his last tour in the Gulf War << Pompeo founded Thayer Aerospace and Private Security (now NEXT-TECH AEROSPACE) / interest sold 2006 POMPEO - >> President of Sentry International, an oilfield equipment company << Pompeo honored the SAUDI ARABIA Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef with the CIA's "George Tenet" Medal. >> first reaffirmation of ties between the Islamic monarchy and United States since President Trump took office 2013, Pompeo introduced the Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act (H.R. 1900; 113th Congress) >> bill placed a 12-month deadline on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, requiring it to approve or reject any proposal for a natural gas pipeline within that timeframe Pompeo has referred to the Obama Administration's environment and climate change plans as "damaging" and "radical" Pompeo supports eliminating the Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse gas registry program Pompeo signed the Americans for Prosperity's No Climate Tax pledge Pompeo opposed the Affordable Care Act Pompeo opposes requiring food suppliers to label food made with genetically modified organisms Pompeo accused Obama of: "unforgivably fail[ing] to provide the total commitment of our national means to our servicemen in the field." JOURNALIST: MICHAEL HASTINGS see: General McChrystal,  forced to submit resignation for having made negative comments about Obama to Michael Hastings (1980–2013) - Rolling Stone magazine (The Runaway General) Hastings died in a fiery high-speed automobile crash on June 18, 2013, in Los Angeles, California ... in a single vehicle automobile crash in his Mercedes C250 Coupé at approximately 4:25 a.m. --Wikipedia VAULT 7 reveals CIA has been able to hack your car since 2014. Do you remember Michael Hastings? http://www.northcrane.com/2017/03/07/vault-7-reveals-cia-has-been-able-to-hack-your-car-since-2014-do-you-remember-michael-hastings/ Pompeo supports the National Security Agency's surveillance programs Pompeo denounced NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's inclusion in the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, and called for Snowden's invitation to speak via telecast at the annual Texas event to be withdrawn, lest it encourage "lawless behavior" among attendees DEATH SENTENCE 'DUE PROCESS' 2016, Pompeo said Snowden "should be brought back from Russia and given due process, and I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence." Pompeo: " ...  Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed. That includes Presidential Policy Directive-28, which bestows privacy rights on foreigners and imposes burdensome requirements to justify data collection." Pompeo opposes closing Guantánamo Bay detention camp. 2013 visit to the prison, Pompeo said, of the prisoners who were on hunger strike,    "It looked to me like a lot of them had put on weight." Pompeo has criticized the Obama administration's decision to end the CIA's secret prisons ("black sites") + administration's requirement that all interrogators adhere to anti-torture laws 2017 speech addressing CSIS, Pompeo referred to Wikileaks as "a non-state hostile intelligence service" and described founder Julian Assange as a narcissist, fraud, and coward. " ... Their mission: personal self-aggrandizement through the destruction of Western values." COMMENT:  the AGENTS of RULING CAPITALIST ELITES ...  LOVE TO EXPLOIT notions of >> WESTERN VALUES <<  - even as these agents of ruling power ACTIVELY & hypocritically violate such crafted notions, that are apparently no more than public manipulation / PR fodder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pompeo POMPEO's background: POMPEO attended:  United States Military Academy (USMA), also known as West Point, Army, The Academy, or simply The Point / United States Military Academy - est. 1802 students are officers-in-training and are referred to as "cadets" or collectively as the "United States Corps of Cadets" most graduates are commissioned as second lieutenants in the Army / foreign cadets are commissioned into the armies of their home countries its ranks include two Presidents of the United States (as well as the President of the Confederate States of America), presidents of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and the Philippines, numerous famous generals, and seventy-six Medal of Honor recipients Continental Army first occupied West Point, New York, on 27 January 1778 /  the oldest continuously-operating Army post in the United States Mexican–American War brought the academy to prominence During the Gulf War, alumnus General Schwarzkopf was the commander of Allied Forces, and the American senior generals in Iraq, Generals Petraeus, Odierno and Austin, and Afghanistan, retired General Stanley McChrystal and General David Rodriguez, are also alumni. [End - Wikipedia source] ROUGH OUTLINE OF WHAT APPEARS ON VIDEO SOURCE: VIDEO - RON PAUL LIBERTY REPORT https://www.youtube.com/embed/QwkrtpXp-wg?autoplay=1&auto_play=true JULIAN ASSANGE INCUMBENT NATIONAL SECURITY DIRECTOR, MIKE POMPEO: introduces concept of NON-STATE INTELLIGENCE SERVICE Doesn't an 'intelligence service' denote a STATE INTELLIGENCE SERVICE? What could be a 'non-state intelligence service'? POMPEO - says WikiLeaks is one of these things. Is what WL does - OR human rights groups OR media organisations - is in some ways similar to 'intelligence services' The answer is, yes, AND ABSOLUTELY:  NO. Investigative reporters Investigating human rights groups Organisations like Intercept, Propublica and all the serious media that consider national security journalism are all involved in DEVELOPING SOURCES PROTECTING SOURCES VERIFYING what is obtained from sources ANALYSING what is obtained from sources COORDINATING internally what is obtained from sources -- and intelligence agencies also do all that. The equivalent of the CIA in Germany is the BND, or Bundesnachrichtendienst. The literal translation of Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) is:  THE FEDERAL NEWS SERVICE. Bundes = federal Nachrichten = news Endienst = service Similarly, in the CIA under Obama about six (6) years ago, the CIA introduced a change as to how it writes its internal reports to use the same style that journalists use to write articles, called the 'INVERTED PYRAMID STYLE', where you basically put the conclusion up top and then you justify how you got to the conclusion. So there are similarities between news services and intelligence services. BUT it ends with what happens with the results of the research. So, publishers PUBLISH, whereas STATE INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES keep the information CONCEALED and USE it for the ADVANTAGE of their organisation, for their particular POLITICAL connections or MILITARIES, for OTHER INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES, and so on. For the CIA to say that investigative media organisations and publishers are the same as an INTELLIGENCE SERVICE, is as ridiculous as it is to say that the CIA is a MEDIA ORGANISATION. There are similarities in the sourcing in relation to both, BUT in terms of what the organisations then do with the information is completely different. DANIEL McADAMS - head of Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity - foreign policy expert - worked for many years on Capitol Hill - worked as an election monitor in eastern Europe It seems like the use of the term - it's a term of ART - I don't think [POMPEO] used it to demonise; I think he used it to CATEGORISE, to create a NEW CATEGORY out of thin air, that would enable the US government to go after WikiLeaks in a much more military sort of way. JULIAN ASSANGE WIKILEAKS: Yes, absolutely. DANIEL McADAMS - head of Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity - foreign policy expert - worked for many years on Capitol Hill - worked as an election monitor in eastern Europe As the ACLU noted, never has a publisher in the history of the United States been prosecuted for revealing truthful information. So it seems to me that the key is to REMOVE THE IDEA that you're a PUBLISHER and call you something different. And I think the battlefield right now is probably in US PUBLIC OPINION:  turn that first against WikiLeaks and then see what happens. Does that make sense? JULIAN ASSANGE WIKILEAKS: I think POMPEO's speech came about partly as a response to an OpEd I wrote for THE WASHINGTON POST, [discussing] why WikiLeaks does its work and so on. It might have been coming anyway. He was in LONDON the day before and on the Wednesday he then returned to the UNITED STATES; he gave this SPEECH late on a Thursday evening, before Easter Friday. It was actually quite hard to respond to in the media. And, from that kind of media analysis point of view, it was well timed. The CIA has been deeply humiliated as a result of our ongoing VAULT 7 publications. So this is a pre-emptive move by the CIA to try and discredit our publications and create a new category for WikiLeaks and other national security reporters to STRIP them of FIRST AMENDMENT PROTECTIONS, by defining the organisation as something that fits into existing interpretations:  so, you can surveil and engage in certain actions on "HOSTILE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES". That's throughout different pieces of US regulation, that you don't need search warrants and so on authorised by a judge, if what you're intercepting or surveilling is connected to an organisation that is an "INTELLIGENCE SERVICE" that is influencing someone. So, to CREATE this NEW CATEGORY of "NON-STATE INTELLINGENCE  SERVICE" can then be very easily applied to ANY MEDIA ORGANISATION  - "NON-STATE", of course means commercial organsation or a non-profit organsation. I think it's a long-term strategy. It's taking two bites of the apple: 1.  to REDEFINE MEDIA as "NON-STATE INTELLIGENCE SERVICES"; 2.  to use a perverse JURISDICTIONAL ARGUMENT, which is to say that all foreign reporters have no FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS. Of course, the FIRST AMENDMENT is not a positive right. It doesn't, generally speaking, give [ASSANGE] or, in fact, anyone else, a positive right; it's an obligation to the government to give ... a right:  it's a LIMITATION ON THE GOVERNMENT that LIMITS its ability to INTERFERE with FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION or of the PRESS, in order to create the necessary environment of PUBLIC DEBATE which can STOP AUTOCRACY developing within the UNITED STATES. I've seen a lot of misleading assumptions by even some of our supporters - a lot on the kind of nationalist right - going:  well, look,we all like you, but, of course, the US CONSTITUTION does not apply to you in AUSTRALIA and in LONDON. That completely misreads it. The US CONSTITUTION applies to the CIA in Langley, Virginia, and every US GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE and all the ACTIONS that they might take in relation to actions initiated against WIKILEAKS. And, of course, WIKILEAKS has lots of AMERICAN EMPLOYEES - we're a GLOBAL ORGANISATION, etc. RON PAUL: The other thing POMPEO was doing - and we've touched on this - that because you're not an AMERICAN CITIZEN, you don't have the rights. But our constitution wasn't written to protect CITIZENS; it's for the persons who are exposed to our COURTS. And, therefore, this accusation that you have no rights, you're not even an American citizen and therefore you don't qualify, I think a lot of people believe that AND THAT HAS TO BE REFUTED. The other charge that they've been throwing out - and I'm sure you've answered to this already, but I think it's important because I don't know whether it's just propaganda on their part or they think that they can get somewhere - but that you're 'different' than THE WASHINGTON POST and the NEW YORK TIMES; [that] you're not a PUBLISHER because you're a participant in obtaining this information, and they've thrown that out there. But I just want to hear how you answer that charge. JULIAN ASSANGE WIKILEAKS: Well, it's completely FALSE. They've tried this in the trial of CHELSEA MANNING in 2013, and it failed; it was NOT accepted by the MILITARY COURTS. They attempted to use it in order to get an extra charge up against the then BRADLEY MANNING (now CHELSEA MANNING), and did not succeed, and the evidence that they tried to present was really pitiful.  It was that in 2009, WikiLeaks had a web page, and on that web page we had collected nominations from police, private investigators, journalists etc, about what kind of documents they'd be most interested in seeing come to the public. That was called the "WIKILEAKS MOST WANTED 2009". It wasn't something that we had asserted that 'we' wanted; it was collecting a list of what other people said that THEY wanted and, of course, that included all sorts of documents - and the US government argued that there was one of the types of documents that was on that page, CHELSEA MANNING has subsequently leaked to us and therefore this was some kind of 'conspiracy'. So, it's really very indirect and didn't stand up in the case. But, of course, the average NATIONAL SECURITY REPORTER is engaged in a MUCH CLOSER RELATIONSHIP with their SOURCES, cultivating them over a long period of time, speaking to them - when a source says, "You know, I heard that this terrible thing happened ... "; and then the reporter goes:  "Well, that's interesting.  But can you prove it?  Do you have a document about it?" So, POMPEO - and it looks like the DOJ [Dept. of Justice] - is trying to REDEFINE that kind of conversation that occurs every day between journalists and their sources, as 'conspiracy' to commit 'espionage' and therefore OUTLAW it. DANIEL McADAMS - head of Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity - foreign policy expert - worked for many years on Capitol Hill - worked as an election monitor in eastern Europe Julian, you mentioned earlier on, the strange coincidence of the new assault on WikiLeaks with the VAULT 7 releases. Why is the CIA so upset about these VAULT 7 releases? JULIAN ASSANGE WIKILEAKS: Well, go back for a little while. You know, in the DEMOCRATICALLY ALIGNED PRESS, like THE WASHINGTON POST and CNN, this assault on us by the CIA and, apparently, the DOJ [Dept. of Justice], is being FRAMED as a TRUMP ADMINISTRATION initiative, but the reality is that this was going on under OBAMA for YEARS AND YEARS. That's why I have ASYLUM here.  There was a PENTAGON WAR ROOM of more than 120 people - publicly admitted - operating 24/7, back in 2010;  and then a very large FBI inquiry:  spraying out search warrants; trying to install informers; bribing people; flying people to Washington; [FBI] flying ILLICITLY plane-loads of FBI officers to ICELAND to interrogate people, etc. Extremely large. Now, because of the  POLITICAL RELATIONSHIP that the DEMOCRATS have with their base, by about two thousand and ... not long after I had asylum - so about mid 2012, they perceived that it did not benefit them POLITICALLY to talk the case up. But a lot was happening beneath the surface and continued to happen. Now this new REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION, perhaps because of the nature of the Republican base and because of the rhetorical assaults about them being approximate to RUSSIA, have now decided that it benefits them POLITICALLY to TALK UP the conflicts with WIKILEAKS and the DOJ [Dept. of Justice]. So that's why it's been raised up so much. The other reason is, yes, the CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) and the VAULT 7 publications. Well, we have published previous documents about the CIA. But only only, you know, maybe ten (10) or twenty (20) documents previously. It's very rare to see an actual fresh document leaked from the CIA, with CIA letterhead.  Extremely rare. There's reports about some CIA official said something, or it may be a printed line in a document in a document seen by a journalist ... But for an actual document, it's extremely rare. Now, VAULT 7 is the largest ever series of publications about the CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) in its history -- hundreds, thousands, of times larger than anything that has appeared before and it is on track to be the LARGEST INTELLIGENCE PUBLICATION EVER. So that is, of course, DEEPLY HUMILIATING to the CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) and its RELATIONSHIPS TO OTHER INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES, like MI6, and in its relationship with, say, the NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY (NSA) and with the FBI. So it's a way to get away from that HUMILIATION and, of course the PUBLIC and TECH COMPANIES are also don't like it very much because we've REVEALED that the CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) created an ENORMOUS HACKER FORCE [that] produced HUNDREDS OF VIRUSES which it then went around hacking and installing in people, developing methods to install these in cars and telephones and probably LOST CONTROL close to the WHOLE LOT of them - and covered it up. So, LOST CONTROL of all this flowing around some INTELLIGENCE CONTRACTORS at the very least, and they covered it up.  So they didn't tell APPLE or MICROSOFT or other AFFECTED members of INDUSTRY about it, and the PUBLIC, of course, wasn't told.  It is quite interesting if it was also CONCEALED from President OBAMA. Anyway, so they have quite a lot to be concerned about in terms of POSSIBLE PROSECUTION OF CIA OFFICERS; DE-FUNDING of certain parts; general LOWERING OF PRESTIGE. And the CIA is a very INCOMPETENT organsiation.  I mean, this is the organisation that - let's look at it:  the CIA is the organisation that gave us * [the ILLEGAL INVASION of] IRAQ; * AL-QAEDA; * the destruction of democracy in IRAN; * PINOCHET; * the destruction of LIBYA; * the effective rise of ISIS; * and the SYRIAN CIVIL WAR. So this is an organisation that goes around engaging in actions which are either DEEPLY INCOMPETENT or which, even from the perspective of AMERICAN POWER, are COUNTER to its PURPOSES. RON PAUL: Julian, your opponents aren't too difficult to understand if you once realise that, from my viewpoint, I don't think they're interested in the TRUTH nor the LAW and they are interested in PROPOGANDISING a certain POSITION in order to PROMOTE some POLITICAL VIEWPOINT. But, you know, just recently you had an interview with [SEAN] HANNITY on FOX, which I found pretty fascinating. I don't know what your opinion is of that, but I thought it was positive and it's interesting that FOX had this on their program. How did you see this?  Did you see this as an advantage to you, to at least get your side out in an audience that might be back and forth on the issue? JULIAN ASSANGE WIKILEAKS: Yeah, just like publishing OpEds in THE WASHINGTON POST is now possible because THE WASHINGTON POST is lined against the TRUMP ADMINISTRATION and we now have a conflict in relation to the TRUMP CIA, so when that channel opens up, yes, we do it, because we reach an audience that we wouldn't necessarily normally reach. Same with FOX. Certain channels opened up there, because of CONFLICTS between the TRUMP ADMINISTRATION and the FBI administration and the CIA. It looks like CIA essentially won now. So that was important. People like HANNITY and SARAH PALIN have been accused of being hypocrites because they made some negative comments about WIKILEAKS before; we published SARAH PALIN's E-MAILS in 2008 - so you can understand why she might have been a bit annoyed - but she said I should be hunted down like the TALIBAN back in 2010 - and a few months ago, she APOLOGISED. Is she a 'hypocrite' or did she learn something and do the right thing? Maybe she's both.  I don't know.  But I see that as something positive. Regardless of what someone's previous position was, if they've now come to a better position, they should be applauded for coming to that better position. DANIEL McADAMS - head of Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity - foreign policy expert - worked for many years on Capitol Hill - worked as an election monitor in eastern Europe I'm constantly fascinated by the relationship between WIKILEAKS and the MAINSTREAM MEDIA (MSM). You mentioned THE WASHINGTON POST, and they've of course accused WIKILEAKS of being: "... It's core mission is not transparency but undermining US national security, if they gladly publish ..." your documents. But I think the thing that we haven't addressed yet that I think is very important, and I'm sure you're aware of this, it's the ONGOING DEMONISATION OF RUSSIA in the UNITED STATES. Anyone who QUESTIONS THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE is an 'agent of Putin'; TRUMP is an 'agent of Putin'; we're all 'agents of Putin' if we don't go along with this business, but THE WASHINGTON POST - especially its editoral page - which, as you know, has a very NEOCONSERVATIVE bent, under FRED HYATT - it talks about WIKILEAKS has "close ties with RUSSIA's INTELLIGENCE SERVICES"; this was 'proven' by the INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY's REPORT about the DNC 'hack'. Of course, we know about the DNC 'hack' - that the forensic investigation was done by an organisation called CROWD STRIKE. THE WASHINGTON POST wrote about that quite a bit. But, strangely enough, when CROWD STRIKE was DISCREDITED a couple of weeks ago, THE WASHINGTON POST neglected to mention that part. So maybe you can address these charges that WIKILEAKS is 'colluding with RUSSIAN intelligence services. JULIAN ASSANGE WIKILEAKS: Yeah, it's very mischievous to see that in certain media.  That, of course, is FALSE. But there's NO ALLEGATION - NO OFFICIAL ALLEGATION - from the US GOVERNMENT that there is ANY evidence of WIKILEAKS 'colluding' with RUSSIA, or EVEN that WIKILEAKS 'is colluding' with RUSSIA but they can't find the evidence. That simply doesn't exist and, in fact, it has been STATED MULTIPLE TIMES. BARRAK OBAMA in his last speech said that there was NO EVIDENCE of WIKILEAKS 'colluding' with RUSSIA. JAMES COMEY, within the last MONTH, has stated that if the RUSSIANS did anything with WIKILEAKS they didn't do anything directly with WIKILEAKS, unlike DNC LEAKS and GUCCIFER 2.0. AND JAMES CLAPPER - the DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, under OBAMA  - STATED just before the TRANSITION that the US INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY had NO insight into how WIKILEAKS obtained its publications; when it obtained them; or the FREQUENCY or TIMING as to how we did our publications. So there you have it DIRECTLY from BARACK OBAMA and from the head of the FBI and the head of the NATIONANL INTELLIGENCE that there's no collusion that they can discern between WIKILEAKS and the RUSSIAN state. 25:31 So when you see reportage in the MEDIA suggesting otherwise, this is something that is EVEN going BEYOND what US intelligence is saying. I don't think US INTELLIGENCE is particularly credible. We all know that they're not particularly credible and they definitely have an ANGLE that they want to push for, particularly for their own POLITICAL and INSTITUTIONAL reasons. But they're NOT saying that WIKILEAKS 'colluded' with RUSSIA in any way. 25:58 FOLLOW:  WIKILEAKS TWITTER ACCOUNT - @wikileaks https://twitter.com/wikileaks LOOK AT:  JUSTICE4 ASSANGE https://justice4assange.com/ FOLLOW: @JulianAssange https://twitter.com/julianassange SOURCE: VIDEO - RON PAUL LIBERTY REPORT https://www.youtube.com/embed/QwkrtpXp-wg?autoplay=1&auto_play=true GLENN GREENWALD Trump’s CIA Director Pompeo, Targeting WikiLeaks, Explicitly Threatens Speech and Press Freedoms https://theintercept.com/2017/04/14/trumps-cia-director-pompeo-targeting-wikileaks-explicitly-threatens-speech-and-press-freedoms/ JOURNALIST: BARETT BROWN IN CUSTODY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua_OOxcdAoE

Capitalist Intelligence Services: MI6 & CIA ... Rivers of Blood

ministry of tokyo MI6 & CIA ASSASSINATION OF AIREY NEAVE Come Out Ye Black and Tans Via WikiLeaks  Airey Neave & Margaret Thatcher Airey Neave - first British officer to escape from Colditz Castle, WWII Airey Neave, wife: married in 1942 Diana Josceline Barbara Giffard Enoch Powell of "Rivers of Blood" fame Following extracts are from assorted Wikipedia entries: Arm Saoirse Náisiúnta na hÉireann Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) 1974 – present (on ceasefire since 1998, formally ended armed campaign in 2009 paramilitary wing of the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) Ideology Irish republicanism Left-wing nationalism Marxism–Leninism seeks to remove Northern Ireland from UK rule & to establish a socialist republic encompassing all of Ireland founded by former members of the 'Official' IRA who opposed that group's ceasefire BRITISH designate Irish National Liberation Army (INLA): PROSCRIBED ORGANISATION under the Terrorism Act 2000 Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), designated illegal organisation in the Republic of Ireland -- first action to bring the INLA to international notice assassination on 30 March 1979 of Airey Neave British Conservative Party's spokesman on Northern Ireland one of Margaret Thatcher's closest political supporters 1982 bombing of the Mount Gabriel radar station in County Cork / which the INLA believed was providing assistance to NATO / in violation of Irish neutrality 6 December 1982 – the Ballykelly disco bombing Droppin' Well Bar in Ballykelly, County Londonderry catered to British military personnel 11 soldiers & 6 civilians killed INLA members participated in the 1980 and 1981 hunger strikes for the recognition of the political status of paramilitary prisoners x3 INLA members died during the latter hunger strike – Patsy O'Hara, Kevin Lynch, and Michael Devine plus: x7 Provisional IRA members 1983, x3 members of the congregation in Mountain Lodge Pentecostal Church, Darkley / shot dead during Sunday service IRA: weapon had been given to the INLA member to assassinate a known loyalist / attack on the church was not sanctioned 1987 the INLA came under attack from the Irish People's Liberation Organisation (IPLO), / group made up of expelled or disaffected members of the INLA / feud resulted in the death of x16 INLA and IPLO members / mainly took place in cities, most notably in Belfast, Derry, and Dublin feud ended in 1992 with the INLA surviving just barely, / Provisional IRA stepping in and wiping out the main Belfast leadership of the IPLO /  as IPLO were openly involved in drug dealing / letting the rest of IPLO dissolve outside of Belfast 1992, the INLA carried out its first killing in England, post Airey Neave death / shot dead a recruiting army sergeant in Derby 1997, NLA gunmen opened fire on British soldiers in the Ardoyne area of North Belfast Drumcree conflict triggered x6 days of fierce riots / widespread violence in several nationalist areas of Northern Ireland mid-1980s, the INLA was greatly weakened by 1. splits among ranks 2. criminality within its own ranks 3. conviction of many of its members under the British supergrass scheme Harry Kirkpatrick, an INLA volunteer / arrest - x5 murders charges, 1983 / agrees to give evidence against other INLA members Supergrass (informer) British slang originated London informers referred to as 'grasses' since late 1930s 'super' coined by journalists in early 197022 / describing underworld informers testifying against former associates in series of high-profile mass trials of 1970s grass / for SNAKE IN THE GRASS known in English to mean 'traitor' since late 17th Century phrase derives from the writings of Virgil (in Latin, latet anguis in herba) latet anguis in herba = snake in the grass latet = hidden anguis = snake herba = grass, plant Northern Ireland the term "tout" is a popular alternative to "grass" Northern Ireland police used term 'Assisting Offender' in lieu of 'tout' / 'grass' legislation enables use of evidence from such offenders Northern Ireland 'supergrass' = arrested paramilitaries / divulged identities of compatriots to ROYAL ULSTER CONSTABULARY / probably in exchange from IMMUNITY from prosecution + monetary inducements (which were not denied) 1981, use of term in Northern Ireland began with arrest of Christopher Black in exchange for protection from prosecution: Black gave statements which led to 38 arrests Black testimonies alone: 1983, 22 members of the Provisional IRA were sentenced to a total of more than 4,000 cumulative years in prison > x18 of those convictions overturned on appeal 1986 by end 1982, x25 more 'supergrasses' had surfaced contributing to the arrests of over 600 members paramilitary orgs last supergrass trial finished on 18 December 1985 x25 members of the INLA were jailed on the evidence of Harry Kirkpatrick x24 convictions later overturned 1986 many convictions based on supergrass testimony were later overturned, and the supergrass system was discontinued in 1985 UNTIL 2011 Neave pro-Ulsterisation ULSTERISATION three-part strategy 1. "primacy of the police" 2. "normalisation" 3. "criminalisation" of the British government during the conflict known as the Troubles ie. disengage the non-Ulster regiments of the British Army from duties Northern Ireland / replace them with LOCALLY recruited Royal Ulster Constabulary & other objective = confine the effects of conflict to Northern Ireland strategy outlined in: unpublished 1975 British strategy paper titled The Way Ahead produced by a committee of senior British Army, RUC and MI5 officers produced the often controversial strategies of "criminalisation" and Ulsterisation 'Criminalisation' / avoid acknowledgement of political motivation and nature of the conflict *motivated to change perceptions of the conflict from a colonial war ... to that of a campaign against "criminal gangs" Ulsterisation = move to locally based policing policy comes from a similar US strategy towards the end of the Vietnam War called "Vietnamisation" COMMENT:  "LOCALISATION" - EFFECTIVE & PURSUED AS POLICY BY CAPITALIST COLONIALISTS IN MULTIPLE OCCUPATIONS Ulsterisation led to important changes in the casualty patterns / military/police casualties from Northern Ireland EXCEEDING British casualties for the rest of conflict / reversing the previous pattern *political impact in Britain of killings of British soldiers by the Provisional Irish Republican Army = greater than the deaths of local security forces = DROP in British Army casualties helped prevent any build-up in Britain of sentiment for withdrawal from Northern Ireland Airey Neave qualified lawyer spoke fluent German British army officer politician assassinated in 1979 in a car-bomb at House of Commons Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) claimed responsibility WWII Neave -  first British officer to escape from Colditz Castle subsequently promoted to war substantive captain / permanent rank of captain 1945 /  later recruited as an intelligence agent for MI9 MI9 MI9, the British Directorate of Military Intelligence Section 9, was a department of the War Office between 1939 and 1945 tasked with facilitating escapes & return of British prisoners of war communicated with British prisoners of war and sent them advice and equipment understaffed due to power struggles and personality clashes with MI6 & other / WWII prison-camp escapees were debriefed and questioned about their journey home / MI9 - WWII presence in Middle East, military deception role / secret mission 'A' Force deception department set up, representing MI9 in ME during war (later separate) manufactured various escape aid sent to POW camps * officer prisoners inside Colditz Castle requested and received a complete floor plan of the castle used the services of former magician Jasper Maskelyne to design hiding places for escape aids forged German identity cards, ration coupons and travel warrants were also smuggled into POW camps MI9 sent the tools in parcels in the name of various, usually non-existent, charity orgs / did not use Red Cross parcels lest they violate the Geneva Convention and to avoid the guards restricting access MI9 relied upon their parcels either not being searched by the Germans OR message warning to prisoners to remove contraband / German guards learned to expect and find the escape aids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MI9 Escape equipment - more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hutton Airey Neave role of reading indictments to the German leaders on trial served with the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials, investigating Krupp wrote several books about his war experiences including an account of the capitalist victor trials was awarded the Bronze Star by the US government 1948 promoted to lieutenant-colonel 1950 (retroactive from 1948) 1950 & 1951, stood for the Conservative Party career was held back by a heart attack he suffered in 1959 Neave - campaign manager for Margaret Thatcher's leadership of Conseratives bid 1975, Thatcher elected leader Neave rewarded with post as head of Thatcher private office / then appointed Shadow Sec. of State, Northern Ireland / & poised to take equivalent cabinet position at time of assassination, in the event of 1979 Conservatives win Neave was a strong supporter of Roy Mason, who had extended the policy of Ulsterisation Neave - author of the new and radical Conservative policy of abandoning devolution in Northern Ireland + concentrating on local government reform instead this * integrationist policy *  abandoned hastily by successor information from an intelligence agent 'Lee Tracey', claiming Neave had met Tracey, to recruit Tracey to team of intel & security specialists who would ensure politician Tony Benn "was stopped" - ie. alleged assassination of Tony Benn if Labour elected / second meeting planned but Neave was killed before meeting took place MAGNETIC CAR BOMB, fitted with ball-bearing tilt switch, exploded under his new vehicle at 2:58 pm, as he drove out of PALACE OF WESTMINSTER carpark / serious leg injuries - died in hospital without regaining consciousness INCALCULABLE LOSS TO THE BRITISH RULING CLASS INLA issued a statement: In March, retired terrorist and supporter of capital punishment, Airey Neave, got a taste of his own medicine when an INLA unit pulled off the operation of the decade and blew him to bits inside the 'impregnable' Palace of Westminster. The nauseous Margaret Thatcher snivelled on television that he was an 'incalculable loss'—and so he was—to the British ruling class. Neave assassination x2 days after the vote of no confidence brought down Callaghan's government (few weeks before the 1979 general election) saw Conservative victory / Margaret Thatcher to power as PM Neave's wife: subsequently elevated to the House of Lords as Baroness Airey of Abingdon following Neave assassination, INLA was declared illegal across UK KEVIN CAHILL Kevin Cahill Kevin James Cahill author and investigative journalist 1965 and served as a platoon commander in: Aden, Bahrain, and Northern Ireland 1968, leaves army University Ulster, BA Eng Lit. worked as a systems analyst at Farrington Data, Rank Xerox, Glaxo Ltd, Gulf Oil UK + Singer & Friedlander merchant bank / finished his professional career in computers as a project manager at International Computers Limited 1979 he became a full-time journalist part-time Research Assistant to Paddy (now Lord) Ashdown in the House of Commons + various other / advised many politicians investigative journalist, Kevin Cahill claimed Neave assassination was an inside job Neave killed by MI6 agents working with CIA / Neave sought to prosecute senior figures in intel establishment for corruption Cahill wrote: prior to Neave assassination in 1979, Conservative MP Airey Neave on verge of a massive overhaul of the security services possibly merger of MI5 & MI6 due to belief in corruption in security services Cahill suggested link between assassination of Neave & Sir Richard Sykes murder + attempted murder of: Christopher Tugendhat, 1980 Cahill claims Neave would have been head of the combined security services + Sykes (foreign ops) and Tugendhat (home ops) as his deputies HOUSE OF COMMONS - nobody would talk, says Cahill "everyone knew" the story behind Neave's death but that no one could talk about it in detail because it would have been too dangerous Cahill claims security staff did not believe INLA murdered Neave but that it was an "inside job" FORCED FEDERALISATION Kevin Cahill book: Trade Wars (1987) most important historical fact in the book - note in 1954 by a British Civil Servant (T. W. Garvey, later Sir T. W. Garvey) INDICATING UK had, because of the 'special relationship' with USA: 1. "the Loan, the lion's share of MARSHALL AID" 2.  "comparative immunity from FORCIBLE FEDERALISATION ..." Wikipedia: "No historian has been able to explain what 'forcible federalisation' was" COMMENT: likely the NATO & EUROPEAN UNION capitalist federalisation & the capitalist promotion of dispossession of European peoples, promoted as 'humanitarian' benevolence of capitalism, in what is a push for 'globalisation' of ruling capitalist power - a capitalist-ruled world slave state Interesting Capitalist History Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries  It was a business world defined by globalization and growing interdependency. But it's not international trade circa 2000. As HBS professor Geoffrey Jones points out, the "global economy" first emerged in the 1870s.  London had a unique role as the international service centre for the emergent global economy, providing information and contacts about investment opportunities worldwide.  — Geoffrey Jones http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/merchants-to-multinationals-british-trading-companies-in-the-nineteenth-and-twentieth-centuries Kevin Cahill book: Who Owns the World: The Hidden Facts Behind Landownership (2006) Queen Elizabeth II is the legal owner of one sixth of the land on the Earth's surface / more than any other individual or nation / 6,600 million acres in 32 countries / Crown is never separate from the individual who holds it all territories owned by the Crown, including Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, the governments (on behalf of the people) of those countries DO NOT own the land of the country but may administer it on behalf of its owner, HM Elizabeth II / all forms of land possession in those territories are based, formally and in law, on the Crown's superior ownership Land Registry in places like the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia cannot register land ownership, only tenure / freehold and leasehold are defined in law as forms of tenure, not ownership USA = only major country in which ownership of land was clearly defined as belonging to the citizens who had paid for it USA federal govt owns one-third of the land of nation as a landowner on a legal par with any other landowner and without a superior right to any land other than that endorsed on deeds as the property of the US federal govt 'eminent domain' - gives right of govt federal authorities & bodies to acquire privately owned land for public purposes ENOCH POWELL Enoch Powell, Ulster Unionist claimed in an interview with The Guardian, 1984 that Americans had killed: 1. Airey Neave 2. Lord Mountbatten 3. Robert Bradford MP said: evidence came from a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary said (1986): Neave assassinated by "MI6 and their friends" Neave's Northern Ireland policy had been one of integration with the rest of the UK Americans feared that this process, if implemented, would be irreversible Enoch Powell claimed; Neave assassination intended to make the British govt adopt a policy more acceptable to America in her aim of a united Ireland within NATO wife: married in 1942 Diana Josceline Barbara Giffard ------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airey_Neave RIVERS OF BLOOD Enoch Powell Come Out Ye Black and Tans MY OLD MAN'S A PROVO Tiocfaidh ár lá

Bankster Defence of CIA Spying on French Elections - Ecuador Bankster Election 2017

WikiLeaks WIKILEAKS RELEASE - #CIAFrance WIKILEAKS RELEASE - #CIAFrance RELEASE: CIA espionage orders for the last French presidential election @WikiLeaks Bankster Defence of CIA Spying on French Elections & ASSAULT on free press, WikiLeaks + Ecuador Bankster Election 2017 OTTAWA CITIZEN United States asked Canada to help spy on candidates during 2012 French election: WikiLeaks Zane Schwartz 02.16.2017 >>  IN SUMMARY << CIA and FVEY spying on FRENCH 2012 Presidential Elections CIA docs released by WikiLeaks list CANADA as ONE OF SEVERAL COUNTRIES (x5) asked to assist US while US spies on 2012 FRENCH presidential election x5 countries working on human intelligence parts of the op in addition to Canada > New Zealand, Great Britain, and Australia > all listed under a section indicating which countries are assisting with the “HUMINT” or human intelligence > those x4 countries, plus USA > comprise the Five Eyes intelligence sharing alliance COMMENT > ie. FVEY > see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes x3 CIA tasking orders request following be closely monitored: - current French president Francois Hollande - then president Nicolas Sarkozy - current first round presidential front runner Marine Le Pen to uncover the secret strategies of the candidates + info re on internal power dynamics within the parties Communications Security Establishment Canada - Canadian Security Intelligence Service DID NOT immediately reply to requests for comment Ashley Lemire, senior communications advisor Dept of National Defence, told the National Post “The Government of Canada does not comment on leaked documents.” revelations come amidst CLAIMS by the U.S. intelligence community that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election orders are all marked “NOFORN” meaning they are supposed to be restricted to U.S. eyes only so no potential allies are offended Canadian spying on allies have caused significant diplomatic issues before according to leaked docs Communications Security Establishment Canada spied on Brazil’s mining and energy ministry > to gain economic intelligence > 2013, documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden showed > NDP leader Tom Mulcair said the revelations gave Canada “a black eye in the world.” > economic intelligence was also a focus of the spying during France’s 2012 election > agents asked to answer questions about non-ruling political parties and candidates > including: “What are their opinions on the German model of export-led growth?” U.S. intelligence with compiling info on brewing export deals or export contracts in France worth $200 million or more United States asked Canada to help spy on candidates during 2012 French election: WikiLeaks Zane Schwartz 02.16.2017 OTTAWA CITIZEN Guillermo Lasso Tu Banco del Barrio / Mi Banco Your Bank of the Neighbourhood / My Bank CREO en el salvataje bancario (CREO) I BELIEVE in BANK BAILOUT #NOMASLASSOS NEUSTROS LOZOS NO SON UN EGACIO, NUESTROS LAZOS SON LA UNION DE UNA PATRIA ENTERA QUE GRITA:   NO MAS BANQUEROS #NOMASLASSOS OUR TIES ARE NOT A BUSINESS, OUR TIES ARE THE UNION OF A WHOLE COUNTRY THAT SHOUTS: NO MORE BANKERS Banco de Guayaquil founded 1923 Guayaquil Bank -  financial institution of Universal Bank - HQ - city of Guayaquil, Ecuado - formerly  SA Banco Italiano - name change:  1941 - Banco de Guayaquil - name change:  2014 -  Bank Guayaquil - established as foreign bank - WWII,  Italy part of the Rome-Berlin Axis - operation Italian capital & managers - Italy tried to nationalize the bank - in response, name of the institution changed to:  National Bank of Ecuador - 1941, a new deed renamed entity  -  Bank of Guayaquil - immediately several capitalist Ecuadorians began buying all the shares 1984, group of shareholders of Financiera del Sur SA,  better known as Finansur  > acquired most of the shares of Banco de Guayaquil result, Danilo Carrera Drouet (then the CEO of Finansur) > was appointed as executive president of the Banco de Guayaquil > his replacement as CEO of Finansur was Guillermo Lasso Mendoza (known as:  Guillermo Lasso) - his brother-in-law 1990, refors to general banking law > merger between:     - Banco de Guayaquil SA     - Financiera del Sur SA     - Banco de Guayaquil SA     Guillermo Lasso Mendoza known as:  Guillermo Lasso exec. president of FINANSUR > appointed EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT > thus, GENERAL MANAGER of Banco de Guayaquil > 1997 the Banco de Guayaquil merged with Banco General Society > becomes one of the LARGEST banks in Ecuador to date > 1999, financial crisis >  Bank of Guayaquil, was chaired by Guillermo Lasso 2007, joint report of the National Finance Corporation and Research Commission Salvataje Bank launched by:  President Rafael Correa >  to investigate those responsible for financial crisis + possible detriment of private banks > reportedly no finding of Guillermo Lasso responsibility re 1999 crisis (wikipedia) 2011, "Major Project Bancarización Latin America 2010" - awarded "strategies banking" awards Beyond Banking Award > re solidarity economy > award organized by INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_Guayaquil Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - founded: 1959 - an international financial org - HQ city of Washington DC, USA - Regional offices in MADRID and TOKYO - origin dates back to AMERICAN CONFERENCE 1890 - committee of governors / uses a 14-member Executive Board to oversee the ops - stated purpose to finance projects - economic, social & institutional development to promote regional trade integration - Latin America & Caribbean to reduce poverty in Latin America & Caribbean /  promoting "sustainable growth" LARGEST financial institution of regional development of this kind IDB is currently the LARGEST regional development bank in the WORLD > & serves as a MODEL for other similar institutions -  ordinary capital of the bank amounts to 101 billion US dollars at present - members     48 countries - member countries that are 48 are classified into two types: non-borrowing members or borrowing members non-borrowers are: - Germany - Austria - Belgium - Canada - Croatia - Denmark - Slovenia - Spain - United States - Finland - France - Israel - Italy - Japan - Norway - Netherlands - Portugal - United Kingdom - Republic of Korea - People 's Republic China - Sweden - Switzerland OVER 50% of the net funding of the project >  channeled to low-income citizens born within the Organization of American States (OAS) >  reportedly has no connection with     -  Pan-American institution     -  International Monetary Fund ( IMF )     -  World Bank     https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco_Interamericano_de_Desarrollo Guillermo Lasso Guillermo Alberto Santiago Lasso Mendoza described as:  Catholic b. city of Guayaquil, 1955 family described as 'high class' last of 11 children father, civil servant born Quinto parents migrated to Guayaquil in 1950s 1976, met wife Maria de Lourdes Alcívar Crespo 1980, married (x5 children) Lasso manager ProCrédito brother-in-law Danilo Carrera (FeCrédito founded in Panama) ProCrédito + FeCrédito  MERGE > resulting in:   Finansu (1980) 1984, Lasso appointed by national subsidiary of COCA-COLA - vice president to implement a rehabilitation process of the company president / board of following private foundations: - Fundación Ecuador Libre - Fundación del Barrio - Technical Center Laboral Montepiedra - Latin American Board of GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Public foundations: - board member of the Andean Development Corporation - head of:  Malecón 2000 Foundation - + other education: - business admin at the Business Development Institute (SDI) -  2011 the University of the Americas awarded him the title of Doctor Honoris Causa his public agenda >  classical liberals points as - defence of the separation of powers >> to limit government << - fundamental rights such as >> freedom of the press << - in favor of >> reducing taxes and the national debt << - increasing >> productivity & employment in private sector << - >> to ELIMINATE at least x9 TAXES << if elected PRESIDENT -  in favour of OPEN TRADE with major partners in Ecuador     >> USA <<     >> EUROPEAN UNION << - economic agenda:  "despetrolizar the economy" of Ecuador - via diversification of domestic production by  >> deregulation of entrepreneurship << - anti-abortion - in favour of homosexual unions / civil unions, as distinct re conventional marriage - pro immigration /  proposed controls re criminal records - pro decriminalisation re drugs - called the supranational body ALBA as a "third world empire" GUILLERMO LASSO = declared enemy of the XXI century socialism    promoted by Venezuela and Cuba    which Ecuador chapter identifies with Citizen Revolution led by Rafael Correa = representative of the political forces that ruled Ecuador prior to RAFAEL CORREA eletion 2007 = Lasso's tax proposals are irresponsible with the state budget = was involved in the financial crisis in Ecuador in 1999, according to President RAFAEL CORREA ALBA est. 2004 Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America - People's Trade Treaty aka Treaty of Commerce of the People or ALBA-TCP international org of regional members LATIN AMERICA + CARIBBEAN emphasis - fight against poverty & social exclusion, based on doctrines of LEFT collaborative project /  supporting complementary political, social and economic reform promoted by Cuba and Venezuela in return for USA originated:  FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) Free Trade Area of the Americas or FTAA expansion of the North American Free Trade Agreement  (USA, Mexico and Canada) 2005, LCA entered crisis, to the point that many already consider it a dead project intent was in USA which dates back to 1885 original version called for - gradual reduction of tariff barriers - investment in 34 countries in the region (except Cuba) > change of governments in South America complicated negotiations Latin American market =  population of 800 million =  gross domestic product (GDP) of US $ 21,000 combined BILLION annually most controversial issues of the treaty proposed by USA =  related to the rights of intellectual property and patents RE patents, Latin American analysts have accused the US of wanting to patent everything from inventions, discoveries, Indian mythology to living beings would prevent the scientific research in Latin America resulting in further inequality and dependence on technology https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Lasso University of the Americas founded 1995 by a group of entrepreneurs Chileans and Ecuadorians x4 campuses affiliated to the network Laureate International Universities Laureate International Universities  =  subsidiary of Laureate Education Inc - brings together 76 institutions of higher education in 27 countries around the world - collaborators in Europe, Latin America, North America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Oceania - over 100 campuses - LARGEST worldwide network of PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES Laureate International Universities HQ - BALTIMORE, USA Honorary Chancellor:  BILL CLINTON 2012, Chile investigation: >> institution also falls within the framework of  "buying and selling of universities under the control of economic and foreign groups" <<  [wikipedia] CREO movement, Creating Opportunities (CREO) political party ECUADOR registered:  2012 President:  Guillermo Lasso held out as:  movement is akin ideas CREO Liberal Democrats participated in 2013 elections in ECUADOR >  organized the electoral coalition "United for Ecuador" > took second place > CREO = second political force in ECUADOR, 11 parliamentary seats >  sectional Ecuador Elections 2014, won 22 mayoralties > since 2014, CREO formed COALITION of Ecuador group (group Compromiso Ecuador) > comprising:  several political and union groups & political leaders > in relation to:  draft CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS promoted by the current CORREA govt 2016, CREO was admitted as a member of the Union of Latin American Parties /  South American regional branch of the International Democrat Union Lasso and his movement formed the coalition ALLIANCE FOR CHANGE -  as electoral and political platform - Guillermo Lasso is contesting the 2017 Ecuador presidential elections International Democratic Union  founded:  1983 >> HQ, London << >> grouping of anticommunist political parties << mainly conservative and in some cases Christian Democrats and Liberals International Democratic Union founded by several heads of state and prominent members of CAPITALIST government - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, MARGARET THATCHER - President of USA, GEORGE H.W. BUSH - Chancellor of Germany, HELMUT KOHL - President of the French Republic, JACQUES CHIRAC 46 associate members chaired by:  former PM of Australia:  JOHN HOWARD associated with several regional org eg.  >> International Union of Women Democrats << members include: United States: Republican Party (Rep / GOP) United Kingdom: Conservative Party (Con) Sweden: Moderate Party Australia: Liberal Party of Australia (Lib) Ecuador: Social Christian Party (PSC) Germany : Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) France : Republicans (LR) Russia : Union of Right Forces Belarus : Popular Front Party of Belarus (PBNF) Bosnia and Herzegovina : Party of Democratic Action (SDA), Party of Democratic Progress (PDP) Croatia : Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) Serbia : Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) Hungary : Fidesz - Hungarian Civic Union Greece : New Democracy (ND) [unless otherwise marked, all notes from wikipedia] http://www.andes.info.ec/es/actualidad/7774.html 2012 - ECUADOR Between Guillermo Lasso and his brother-in-law Danilo Carrera contributed to the campaign of Jamil Mahuad 1,027 million sucres Wednesday, 17/10/2012 - 04:28:49 PM Guillermo Lasso Mendoza and his brother-in-law Danilo Carrera Drouet. Quito, October 18 (Andes) .- Jamil Mahuad Witt, (elected president of Ecuador for the period 1998-2002 and ousted in January 2000), narrowly won the election. Álvaro Noboa, defeated candidate, requested a recount of votes that the electoral court denied. During the campaign he had the support of powerful financiers such as Fernando Aspiazu Seminar, Banco del Progreso; Danilo Carrera Drouet and Guillermo Lasso Mendoza, Bank of Guayaquil; Ernesto Noboa Bejarano; Ernesto Estrada (Hijastro of Luis Noboa Naranjo and, at that time son-in-law of Leon Febres Cordero); Fuad Dassum; National soap; Soft drinks; Osvaldo Zavala Egas; Jhonny Czarnwinsky, My Commissariat; The Universal. Also Mariano González Portés, Ingenio San Carlos; Oscar Orrantia; According to Wong, Reybanpac / Fertisa; Plywood; Pronaca; Coca Cola Guayaquil; Fidel Egas Group (Banco del Pichincha / Diners); Olga de Eljuri and Roque Sevilla, among others. And although Ramon Yulee, signed as campaign treasurer, Eduardo Mahuad Witt, brother of Jamil was the fundraiser. It is curious that only between Danilo Carrera Drouet (Emperor of the Ecuadorian Olympic Committee, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Grupo Financiero Guayaquil, Manager of the Central Bank, head of the Ministry of Industries during the last military dictatorship, and President of the Monetary Board Fabián Alarcón) and Guillermo Lasso Mendoza, current candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, the two leaders of the Bank of Guayaquil at that time, added 1,027 million sucres as a contribution to that election campaign. Fernando Aspiazu Seminary was the largest contributor with three million one hundred thousand dollars. And it was so evident that the now ex-banker and Mahuad were fined by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) for having contributed illegally. Still, nothing could stop him and, with such support, he broke a dozen banks and similar numbers of financial institutions. Mahuad issued a bailout law that allocated state resources to address the problems of the broken private banks that financed his election campaign. This crisis caused, among other things, the emigration of compatriots to Spain and Italy. In November 1998, Filanbanco, the parent company of the country's fifth largest financial group, presented liquidity and solvency problems, prompting a bail-out by the government of Loan, Tungurahua and Finagro banks. After the fall of Filanbanco and other small banks, the bank of El Progreso, considered the second bank of the country by the size of its assets, and one of the most profitable institutions. To prevent the entire financial system from collapsing, the government opted to freeze deposits. The result was a situation of insolvency in most of the financial system and distrust in the sucre. Jamil Mahuad led the country to one of the worst economic crises of all time. Excessive printing of bills to meet state obligations triggered the dollar's trading at levels never before seen, at which point it adopted the US dollar instead of sucre, with a change from 4,500 to 25,000 sucres. Meanwhile the "descendants of the statue", as Asaad Bucaram called them, the owners of the private media, continued talking about honesty to give false moral lessons. Jorge Núñez, in the book "Banks and Bankers". From Urbina Jado to Aspiazu, Editorial El Conejo, 1999, said that "Throughout the twentieth century, private banking scandals have shaken the consciousness of successive generations of Ecuadorians." "In the 1920s, the economic and political disruptions of the bancocracy, associated with a voracious and insatiable state, unleashed severe inflation, created the scene for the massacre of workers of November 15, 1922, corrupted the political system and aggravated Effects of the export crisis ". "In the second half of the century ... the scandals of La Previsora ​​and the Bank of Guayaquil broke out in the 60s, which were solved in the same way: covering the black holes of the corrupt bank, while Rodrigo Icaza Candell and other fugitives The good life abroad or set up new companies ... " "Years later came the fall of the Discount Bank, also caused by poor management, denounced by a sector of the same shareholders." "... The bankruptcy of Banco Continental, whose beneficiaries were the Ortega Moreira brothers, and whose" bail-out "hurriedly attended the then President of the Monetary Board, Ana Lucía Armijos, violated the law and gave the bank owners an enormous amount of resources State, never justified ... " But they now live Christian in Miami from the benefits provided by a bank and various real estate companies. For them there was never an extradition request and some of the brothers get angry when they are told thieves. "Most financial institutions ended the first five years of the 1980s by owing to the Central Bank amounts greater than their equity value. By 1984, the emergency debt of the Ecuadorian banking system, with the issuing institute, exceeded 60,000 million sucres, while the capital and reserves of the banking system did not exceed 50,000 million sucres. During the 1980s, Ecuador experienced a process of structural adjustment ordered by the multilateral credit agencies (World Bank, IMF) to pay off the external debt. The social conflicts created an atmosphere of political instability that extended until the 90s and only in the first decade of the 21st century could be stopped the voracity of the bankers. http://www.andes.info.ec/es/actualidad/7774.html