Palocci is out. But what about the boss??

The pressure went too high.
After denying categorically that he had been at the "Ribeirao Preto Republic´s house" in Brasilia-DC (where besides plotting and sharing assaults on the Brazilian State to benefit the Party´s  structure  they enjoy the company of some whores), had been unmasked by the house´s caretaker Francenildo, another great crookery from him was discovered today.

The economy minister demanded himself the bank account secrecy´s leakage from Francenildo. Yesterday the (former) bank´s president (Jorge Mattoso) revealed that just after taking Francenildo´s balance sheet he personally gave it to Palocci.

Yesterday, with more this one disclosure of his activites, he finally quit.

But is not the end.
Some version leaked from Federal Police say that what what Mattoso and Palocci did was not against the law. Crime was characterized when the leakage was sent to  "Epoca" magazine.
This is one more attempt to lessen Palocci and his affiliates´ crimes. Breaking the secrecy is the breaking the secrecy or it was supposed to be  opened to  any  thief-as-economy-minister in charge???

But another claim is starting to be heard among the opposition´s most prominent spokesperson: Lula must be impeached. Right now.

I agree. But all the crimes must be punished, it musn´t be just another political trial. Must be a real one.

Lula was jailed (briefly) once when he was just a trade union leader, back in the seventies (before he got brainwashed by the left that came back to Brazil after the 'amnesty' processes of  1979). For all he did, or left others do, it´s time to seriously consider this possibility again...

 


 

"The Worldwide Communist Federation"- A Warning to the Democratic World

This is the most impressive part of the chapter named "The Final Phase" from the book "New Lies For Old", an exercise on forecasting the future of communism using a new methodology created by the author Anatoliy Golitsyn – a defector from KGB intelligence office.

Golitsyn wrote too books. This one and "Perestroika Deception" both dedicated to show how the Western World is in danger in denying that communism is still alive.

Hundreds of his predictions on this book – published in 1984 – turned out to be true, from the fall of Berlin's Wall, the emergence of a leader like Gorbachev and his economic reformation in the Soviet world to the communism fall in 1989. Golitsyn has proved correct in 140 out of 145 predictions.

Can his other predictions turn to be true? Until now he proved with tons of references that communism is just playing dead until what he called "The Final Phase" described here.

I made some comments in it. Enjoy. And pray.

"The Worldwide Communist Federation

Integration of the communist bloc would follow the lines envisaged by Lenin when Third Communist International was founded. That is to say, the Soviet Union and China would not absorb one another or other communist states. All the countries of the European and Asiatic communist zones, together with new communist states in Europe and the Third World, would join a supranational economic and political communist federation.* Soviet-Albanian, Soviet-Yugoslav, Soviet-Romanian disputes and differences would be resolved in the wake, or possibly in advance of, Sino-Soviet reconciliation, The political, economic, military, diplomatic, and ideological cooperation between all the communist states, at present partially concealed, would become clearly visible.** There might even be public acknowledgment that the splits and disputes were long-term disinformation operations that successfully deceived the 'imperialist' powers. The effect on the Western morale can be imagined.

In the new worldwide communist federation the present different brands of communism would disappear, to be replaced by a uniform, rigorous brand of Leninism. The process would be painful. Concessions made in the name of economic and political reform would be withdrawn ***. Religious and intellectual dissent would be suppressed. Nationalism and all other forms of genuine opposition would be crushed. Those who had taken advantage of détente to establish friendly Western contacts would be rebuked or persecuted like those Soviet officers who worked with the allies during the Second World War. In new communist states – for example, in France, Italy and the Third World – the 'alienated classes' would be reeducated. Show trials of 'imperialist agents' would be staged.

Action would be taken against nationalist and social democratic leaders, party activists. Former civil servants, officers, and priests. The last vestiges od private enterprise and ownership would be obliterated. Nationalization of industry, finance, and agriculture would be completed. In fact, all the totalitarian features, and agriculture from the early stages of the Soviet revolution and the postwar Stalinist years in Eastern Europe might be expected to reappear, specially in those countries newly won for communism. Unchallenged and unchallengeable, a true communist monolith would dominate the world".

Comments:

* "The Worldwide Communist Federation" is the role reserved to United Nations and its intention to create an "World Government" in a "New World Order". It is clearly visible right now.

** UN and here in Latin America the so called "São Paulo Forum" are the most visible faces of it. "Forum" controls most of the 'democratic' governments in Latin America, from Chávez in Venezuela to Lula da Silva in Brazil, with the blessing from Fidel Castro and other leninist-marxist terrorist groups like Colombia's FARC.

*** Thianen Square Massacre revisited. The crushing of the Chinese rebellion in 1989 was just an exercise to see if any western powers would interfere. Nothing happened then and China became, less a decade later, the country with the higher development index in the world, with the help from billions of dollars from the west. But the capitalist adventure in China will soon be over and I dare that no one will interfere again.

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"Deception Game" Over for Mr. Ladislav Bittman (former communist agent) - But not for the Western World

Here's a interesting story on the former Czech spy agent Ladislav Bittman. I wrote some articles on his disinformation tasks in Latin America and the recent re-opening of a murder case in France, reported on his book "Deception Game". He defected to USA after the smashing of the so-called "Prague Spring" by the soviets.

'''I refused to serve under the new regime for the Russians. So I could either land in prison or go to the coal mines," said Martin-Bittman.

Fearing for his life, he fled to the United States embassy in West Germany. After asking for political asylum, Martin-Bittman was held for a year in Washington, where he was debriefed by government intelligence and changed his name to Lawrence Martin for protection, according to the Prague Post. (He has since hyphenated his last name to become Martin-Bittman). In Prague, the government sentenced him to death'.

Lawrence/Ladislav is the author of another very good book on KGB disinformation - " KGB and the Soviet Disinformation" - that provides solid evidences on the effective communist support to the "Iranian Revolution" in 1979 and the subsequent manipulation of muslim radicals against the west by the same communist manouvres through KGB and its satellites.  I recommended it to all who wants to understand the present events in Europe

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Brazil: Economy Minister Palocci finally unmasked. What´s next?

Despite all polls – that insist to give the first rank on 2006 elections run to Lula da Silva – the government of Lula da Silva is fading fast.

His "premier" - in Brazil, after decades of high inflation we consider economy minister almost as our "premier" -, Antônio Palocci, the double-faced minister, is in his final days at Lula´s government.

I posted here an article proving his liasons with drug-dealing-terrorist army from Colombia – FARC – some months ago.

How can the higher position of the economy ministry of a country like Brazil could be filled by a person that´s a friend of terrorists? Ala, not just a friend, but the unofficial FARC´s representative in Brazil.

Now , new evidences on the character of Palocci arose: He is seriously involved in the corruption scandals that shocked the public opinion in Brazil.

Palocci made part of a mob-group called "Ribeirao Preto´s Republic" - a bunch of former Palocci collaboratives when he was Ribeirao Preto´s Mayor – five years ago. These people has been accused to have received money from Cuba and bribed enterprise-owners to contribute to Workers Party election's forbidden funds.

This group used to secretly (not so secretly at all) meet each other on a rented mansion in Brasilia (Federal Capital) to plan new strikes and to share some of the results of their attacks – doing orgy parties with alcohol, high-class whores and viagra.

All seems to be in perfect order until now. Palocci bluffly denied all the accusations before a coward opposition bench that were so eager to "protect" the economic policy (that is the same from former Fernando Henrique Cardoso – unpayable high taxes that generates sub-minor development & employment indexes). But something gone wrong. The mansion´s caretaker an eighteen-year-old and honest man called Francenildo Santos Costa decided to speak out how many times he saw Palocci at that house, always in company of girls and his comrades.

What happened after was one of the most significant signals of a totalitarian bias from Lula da Silva´s government: the minister and a senator from Worker´s Party got the Supreme Court under their kneels, when they got a motion to prohibit Francelino to speak before a congressmen special comission. Yes, government has Supreme Court in its hands. But the wizardry worked only partially: Francenildo could speak for about 40 minutes but it was enough to prove Palocci was lying not once but everytime he went before the congress comission on the subject.

But the story went on: Some government troskyites inside the a State Bank & Savings – where Francenildo has a bank account – broke his account secrecy, found some strange money in it - passed the story to a friendly weekly magazine called "Época" that published an article on the internet with the suspicion that Francenildo has received money (obviously from the opposition ) to throw false accusations against Palocci. It must be noted that "Época" magazine is owned by Globo TV network, that not even mentioned a single word about Francenildo testimonial in its dominant TV news "Jornal Nacional".

But this second attempt exploded on the government hands: Francenildo prove that the he received money from his bilogical father that refuses to do a DNA test.

Francenildo´s life got overexposed by the media on a detail level - unimaginable in a decent country. Do you imagine what is the reason to Supreme Court's ban on Francenildo´s special commission speech? They say that it was to "protect Palocci´s private life" that could be destroyed by the revelations of his behavior inside that house – he is married. It´s unbelievable that the government in its hurry to protect Palocci did not give the slightest attention to civil rights and to protect the private life of Francenildo and his family.

But now it's the government that has to explain who obtained the illegal account balance sheet of Francenildo's account.

Two questions:

When the opposition will open the eyes and start to fight this government for good? And when Palocci will quit...

Only time will tell.

Venezuela: Hard times for democracy and freedom

Here in Brazil, when we think about Chávez, two kind of thoughts come to our minds:
a) For the left he is a real hero. He is all that Lula da Silva must be doing if he didn´t turned to sell himself to "neo-liberalism"
b) To midclass people, Chávez is just a populist clown that only deserve attention as carnival theme.

But reality bites. Aleksander Boyd, a Venezuelan citizen that lives in UK has an impressive website called Vcrisis.com where he details the present status of the so-called "Bolivarian revolution".
In fact he is on the spot right now, because he has discovered that the favorite Chávez' pollster , the one he claimed to be impartial because it was north-american - curiosly the one that shows a strong Chàvez' acceptance among the Venezuelan voters - is in fact owned by "chavista" people.
Read all in here.

Boyd also showed the atomic link between Venezuela and North Korea.

To fight this, Venezuela government is accusing anyone that exposes its lies as traitors back-funded by American government.
Boyd mocks about theses false accusations creating "The AngloVenezuelan Connection" - a fictionous group of Chávez opposers, fund backed by tenths of thousand of "imperialist" money.

He sent me this message: "The more bloggers/journalist denounce these threats against freedom of expression the better. Note that I uncovered the duplicitous nature and conflict of interest of a chavista pollster that does work in Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Bolivia... The Venezuelan problem has crossed the borders of our country and is affecting the whole region. If we don't respond as a united front, we shall pay the consequences."

I cannot deny it. The Left Holy "Trinity" (Fidel-Chávez-Lula) is controlling Latin America without being opposed. Fidel and Chávez on the front, with the help of Lula, a fifth-column posing as a peacemaker, democrat and Bush's friend, ready to calm down Chávez when necessary.

For my part, you can consider this blog as another one involved in "The (vast) AngloVenezuelan Connection"- (TAC) too!

The Real Secret of Red-is-Back Mountain

Sometimes is hard to keep your hardness. It is hard to keep your joie-de-vivre when you have so many enemies do defeat: George W. Bush, Condoleeza or even the enemies inside like trade union strikers, reporters and bloggers.
But sometimes you need some tenderness.
You need someone who fully understands you the way you are. When you find him, you don't worry to show your affection in public.
Here's a photographic prove of one of these moments...
But take care, Chavito, cause the man in olive outfit has some Jupiter-like taste: he uses to eat his children... (see what happened to Allende...).

Olavo de Carvalho and the Neocommunist rise in Latin America

Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho is living in the USA since 2005. There, he is making a huge effort to try change the US view towards Latin America and the key role of Brazil's leader Lula da Silva in this - according to his words - "Neocommunist rise". Here is the excerpts of a presentation delivered at the Intelligence Summit 2006 - Arlington, VA, Feb. 17^th -- 20^th:

Excerpts: "As to Lula himself, the fact that once in charge he kept his predecessor's economic policy seemed to many people in the USA an evidence that he was a changed man, that he was no longer a political partner to Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. But if the goals and the strategy of a ruler could be grasped from his economic policy alone, Vladimir I. Lenin would have been reputed a Russian forerunner of Margaret Thatcher."

Porto Alegre is a shelter for leftist saboteurs

Porto Alegre is the city I live in.
For four years, unfortunately, it became worldwide known as the capital of World Social Forum. During the Forum - a kind of Carnival of the left - many sabotage acts took place, like McDonald´s invasions (!), invasion and destruction of GMO (genetically modified organisms) field research with the help from French agitator José Bové and occurrences alike.

When WSF went to Venezuela, we - the peaceful inhabitants of this city - believed we could face better summer days here.

But let me appoint that it was odd for me that despite all those events cited above - that upsetted too many people like me - Porto Alegre´s mayor and Hotel entrepreneurs here missed WSF a lot when it left Porto Alegre to India and Venezuela. They said it brought  "tourists" and  money to the city.  It is strange to label a bunch of agitators, saboteurs,  anti-democratic  thugs  or just  "libertarian" people as "tourists".

Putting this way, it seems that the city mayor is very concerned to achieve some economic profit from the WSF - no matter the nature of it - because the huge publicity that is gained along the years. They say that because of WSF "Porto Alegre is becoming worldwide known as the capital of diversity and multiculturalism".

But it is sad that for the other 355 days of the year they never work to transform  Porto  Alegre  a better  place  for  economic development.  Yes.  Porto Alegre is a city with some of the highest taxes in the country. The results of this suicidal policy is that the unemployment rate here is  higher  than  the average. So the prices of food and public transportation.

But it seems that this "worldwide fame" of Porto Alegre, not as a place to visit as a tourist, but a shelter to all kind of saboteurs and agitators is charging its price.

Another international event is going on here: a United Nations conference on agrarian reform. Guess what happened yesterday?
This is what Reuters  informed "about 2,000 protesters on Wednesday invaded a plantation in southern Brazil owned by Aracruz, the world's biggest producer of bleached eucalyptus pulp, and caused what the company said was millions of dollars of damage and losses."

Via Campesina and Landless Workers are responsible for this. The reason? Aracruz according to them is turning my state, Rio Grande do Sul into a kind of "green desert" because of the eucalyptus "plantation".

The worst of all is that they used poor people to do the dirty job. They puppeteered hundreds of women - yesterday was the "Woman's international day" (another deception from leftist movement to create and raise the society inner struggle between groups and genders)- to gain access to the pulp plant.

The result: Aracruz is suspending a billion dollar budget project here in my state.

Counter actions? None. But what can we expect from a government like this, a close friend of Fidel, Chávez and Landless Workers? Nothing.

If even U.S. considers Lula as a friend that can help Bush to calm down Chávez, it's clear that the game is about to be lost.

Porto Alegre is not the "Capital of Diversity".

Definetely, "Shelter of Saboteurs" is a better title for it.

Cold War murder investigated...

This is interesting because cites a former communist-Czech agent, Ladislav Bittman, whom after many attempts I could hardly obtained a laconic confirmation about a disinformation operation in Brazil (read here) - the author of the book which upon the accusations are based on (The Deception Game).

Two thoughts on the subject:
First, it seems that somebody is finally reading these old-cold-war files and trying to re-stablish justice. Second, it seems that Bittman´s auto-imposed retirement (he is now a painter) and his silence (tireness?) about those facts will soon be over.

People with the authority of Mr. Bittman , like a few others like Mitrokhin and Golitsyn, has the evidence of what was really in stake on those crucial cold-war years. In our time, when we are surrounded by an almost canine anti-americanism, these evidences are critical to understand who is who. These people must be always (unfortunately Mr. Mitrokhin passed away last year) ready to help to uncover the truth. They cannot deny their past.
And I think that books are not enough, specially in a country like Brazil, where this kind of book will never be published, while any scrap from Michael Moore is widely accepted as truth.

But here is the news.

Court returns case of murder from 1957 for further investigation - Prague Daily Monitor: "Court returns case of murder from 1957 for further investigation

Prague, March 8 (CTK) - The Prague City court will return the case of an almost 50-year-old murder of a French official, allegedly committed by two former communist secret police (StB) officers for further investigation so that more evidence is gathered, judge Hana Hrncirova told CTK today.

The accused, Milan Michel and Stanislav Tomes, are suspected of having sent a parcel with a bomb to Andre Tremeaud, then prefect of Strasbourg. The explosion then killed Tremeaud´s wife.
(...)
The StB´s participation in the Strasbourg explosion was disclosed by Ladislav Bittman,an ex-StB officer who emigrated to the US in 1968, in his book The Deception Game that appeared in 1972.

Brazil: "Carnival" of the Left

This past month of february a lot of significant facts happened here in Brazil. Significant to show how deep we are into the cultural "red tide" that is drowning us.

February is the "Carnival" month. Time to get loose. But the cultural leftist fight still strong, even on this "party time" period.

Here's a brief description of what happened:

Preface: The Bigger band and a the biggest chaos in Rio

Rolling Stones made a big show on the Copacabana beach. It was free and around 1,2M people went to see Jagger and his band play "Sympathy for the Devil". While mainstream media reported the concert as "peaceful", they hid events that firemen quoted as "a hell": more than 600 people were attended by them and 90% were cases of alcoholic comma as reported by this. 28 people got drowned and three people got stabbed too.
In Rio, at the time, it was reported that people were beheaded during drug-dealer war in the "favelas"(poor people barrios). The reaction from common people when the saw the scene was that it was becoming more and more "regular" in Rio these days. Schocking. A hell indeed.

Second Part: Bono and his "pacifism"


U2 was the second part of the show. They came to Brazil for two concerts in Sao Paulo. Bono, before these concerts met president Lula da Silva and said he is one of his "heroes". Bono seemed not to read anything about the huge corruption wave inside Lula's government, its anti-americanism and its ties with Cuba and Hugo Chávez. But it seemed to be enough even for U2 fans. During the concert Bono received many disapproval signs from the crowd, specially when he cited President Lula and the Brazilian Federal Capital, Brasilia. Bono even donated a guitar for the "Zero-Hunger" federal program. This program is known here as just pure propaganda, with no results at all until now.

Intermezzo: Lula and Chávez cited as World Peace Nobel Prize nominees

Time for laugh. This was a joke for all real democrats and the rest of free world. But it was true.

Final Chapter: Che Guevara, Bolivar and Hugo Chávez won the Carnival contest in Rio


In Rio there is a contest for choose the better "samba school" of the carnival parade. "Vila Izabel" is one of the biggest samba schools from Rio and one of the traditional team. They received millions from PDVSA (Venezuela's oil company) to show off a theme called "Soy Loco por ti America" - a song with this name was created by the Brazilian composer Caetano Veloso as a homage to Che Guevara when he died in the 60's - a "Bolivarian Revolution" theme indeed. They won the contest as the "better" samba school of the year. Even Chávez himself was expected to appear during the parade. Link: Terra.com

Georgian Scientist Claims Bird Flu Virus Could Be Soviet Biological Weapon - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM

Georgian Scientist Claims Bird Flu Virus Could Be Soviet Biological Weapon - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM:
"The H5N1 bird flu virus, which is dangerous for humans, might have been artificially created, Georgian biologist Dmitry Kipiani said on Georgian Imedi radio on Monday.

“We cannot be certain about this but there is some circumstantial evidence, including the unsolved murders of renowned micro-biologists in some countries,” he was quoted by Interfax as saying.

The former Soviet Union developed biological weapons for decades. “This information is not a secret, it can be found on the Internet,” he said.

The bird flu virus is far more lethal than the SARS virus that struck Asia last year and could unleash a pandemic that could kill as many as 50 million people, the World Health Organization says."

Thanks for Perilous Times for this link

Google is not "too cooperative" to Chinese government

You can't serve two masters at the same time. This was just Google wanted to.
By acting this way they only received criticism by western media, of being too cooperative to a red dictatorship.
Reading this report - published on washington post - we know that even Chinese government is satisfied.


Chinese Media Assail Google
Internet Giant Said to Face Probe for Operating Without License

By Philip P. Pan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, February 22, 2006; Page A09

BEIJING, Feb. 21 -- A state-run newspaper reported Tuesday that Google Inc. is under investigation for operating without a proper license in China and quoted an unnamed government official as saying the Internet giant needs to cooperate further with the authorities in blocking "harmful information" from its search results.

The report, in the Beijing News, was published the same day that another state newspaper ran a harshly worded editorial about Google. The paper accused the firm of sneaking into China like an "uninvited guest" and then making a fuss about being required to follow Chinese law and cooperate in censoring search results such as pornography.

The unusually bold attacks in the state media suggest that the Chinese government is unhappy with Google's efforts thus far to filter politically sensitive results from its popular search engine in China, and that its ability to do business in the country may be in jeopardy.

Google's cooperation with the Chinese government in censoring the Internet has already sparked outrage from free speech advocates and U.S. lawmakers who accuse it of betraying its corporate motto, "Don't be evil." The firm announced last month that it was launching a censored search engine, Google.cn, to improve its service in China, where its regular site and its search results are sometimes blocked.

Dubbed the "eunuch edition" by some Chinese Internet users, the new search engine withholds results from Web sites the governing Communist Party finds objectionable, and returns limited results when users enter politically sensitive keywords.

Google has defended its decision to launch the censored site, arguing that people in China can continue to use the Chinese version of its regular search engine, Google.com. It has also pointed out that the new search engine is the first in China to inform users when results have been removed because of the government's "laws, regulations and policies."

But it appears Chinese authorities are now pressuring Google to cut off access in China to its regular search engine, and to stop telling users of the new site every time a search is censored.

"Is it necessary for an enterprise that is operating within the borders of China to constantly tell your customers you are following domestic law?" said the editorial published Tuesday in the China Business Times, a financial daily.

Both the editorial and the Beijing News accused Google of operating its new site without an ICP -- or Internet content provider -- license. The editorial also accused Google of starting a debate about censorship in China to draw attention away from its "illegal" activity. "Can Google get away with this?" it asked.

In a written statement, Google spokeswoman Debbie Frost said Google uses a license held by a local Chinese firm, Ganji.com, in an arrangement that is common for foreign Internet firms in China.

A source familiar with the government's position said the Ministry of Information Industries has raised the ICP license issue to put pressure on Google to comply with its demands. He said the government wants Google to make a larger investment in China and do more to censor its search results.

"The main problem isn't the ICP dispute, but the awkward relationship between Google and the Chinese government," the source said. "To be honest, the ICP dispute is a minor thing, and that's not what will get Google into trouble."

Another Chinese source said Google recently rejected an urgent request to remove from its stored Web pages information related to an internal dispute at an influential Chinese agency. That information had been posted on the Internet.

"Foreign-invested search engines must strengthen control and management of how they handle search results with Chinese information," an unnamed government official was quoted as saying in the Beijing News.

He said blocking "harmful information" from search results was a "very practical problem," and added that Google "still needs to strengthen cooperation with the government's relevant functional departments" in this area.

The Beijing News also quoted an unnamed Google official as saying it was "very likely" that all Chinese searches on its regular site would be redirected to the censored search engine because of "pragmatic considerations."

But in congressional testimony last week, Elliot Schrage, Google's vice president for global communications, appeared to rule that out. "We will not terminate the availability of our unfiltered Chinese-language Google.com service," he said.

Vacation time

To all my readers: I will be out until 02/26.
Don't worry: It's just v-a-c-a-t-i-o-n.
See you!

A new revelation -- Did Castro Kill Kennedy?

Months ago I published the theory that Chilean President Allende was killed by Castro.
Now this new revelation emerges: Castro could killed Kennedy too.
The most impressive is the reason to keep it in the shade for more than 42 years: politics.

Read this transcript

"Alexander Haig, then a military adviser to President Johnson, went on camera to say that Lyndon Johnson believed Cuba was responsible, but he believed that if the evidence came out of a Castro link to the Kennedy murder, it would turn the country to the right politically, and keep the Democrats out of power for years to come. Added Haig: "He (Johnson) said 'we must simply not allow the American people to believe Fidel Castro could have killed our president.'"

Now read here the full transcription of the article of Roger Aronoff from "Accuracy in Media" and all the articles linked to it
Enjoy!

PS.: Thanks to Miguilim for sending these links by e-mail.

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Did Castro Kill Kennedy?
By Roger Aronoff | February 2, 2006
Shortly after Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963, a Cuban connection was investigated.

Compelling new evidence of a Cuban Communist role in the assassination of former president John F. Kennedy has come to light, but has received little attention in the U.S. media.

It comes at a time when there has been renewed interest in the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II and the alleged Soviet role behind that.

Mehmet Ali Agca, who attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II, was released from jail in Istanbul, Turkey, after nearly 25 years in prison. Most of the reports labeled him as being from the far-right, because for a time he was a member of a militant nationalist group in Turkey. At best, the reports have said that because of Ali Agca's changing stories, we still don't know who was behind the attempted assassination.

But at his trial, the Italian prosecutors made the case that he was in fact carrying out an operation by the Bulgarian secret service. The act took place in 1981, during the height of the Cold War. If the Bulgarian secret service was involved, it was clearly on behalf of the Soviet Union and its intelligence service, the KGB.

Accuracy in Media commented here and here on evidence that was later presented on the CBS 60 Minutes program, making a strong case that the Soviets were ultimately behind the assassination attempt. The Soviets saw the Polish-born Pope as a threat to the survival of the Soviet empire, and they were right.

In the Kennedy matter, the big news comes from a German TV documentary that claims that the Cuban government was behind the assassination of former president John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald. The film is called "Rendezvous With Death," by award winning director Wilfried Huissman. It took five years to make, and reports suggest that it makes a compelling case.

Among those talking on camera is Oscar Marino, a former Cuban intelligence agent. He says that the Cubans wanted Kennedy dead because he had opposed the Cuban revolution, and had tried to have Castro assassinated. Marino told Huissman that he knew for certain that the Cuban secret service G2 had carried out and financed the operation, though he wouldn't say if Castro had directly ordered it. But under Castro's brutal dictatorship, which has endured for nearly half a century, it is not conceivable that this would have happened without his blessing. As Marino described it, Oswald "was so full of hate, he had the idea. We used him."

According to Marino, the Cubans contacted Oswald after being tipped off by their patrons, the Soviet KGB. Oswald had lived there for three years after deserting from the U.S. military. There he married the niece of a KGB colonel. He was allowed to return to the U.S. and bring his wife with him. He continued to call himself a Communist, and demonstrated on behalf of Cuba. And as a Marine, he had been sharpshooter, thus capable of hitting the intended target from the Texas Schoolbook Depository, where he went to work. Marino said that Oswald offered to kill the president. He said that Oswald traveled to Mexico City in September 1963 where he met up with Cuban agents who paid him $6,500 to carry out the assassination.

Shortly after Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963, a Cuban connection was investigated. The trail led to Mexico City. An FBI agent by the name of Laurence Keenan was sent to Mexico City, but he was recalled after only three days. Keenan is now 81, and he also spoke to Huissman for the documentary. "I realized that I was used," Keenan said. "I felt ashamed. We missed a moment in history." Keenan called it "perhaps the worst investigation the FBI was ever involved in."

Alexander Haig, then a military adviser to President Johnson, went on camera to say that LBJ believed Cuba was responsible, but he believed that if the evidence came out of a Castro link to the Kennedy murder, it would turn the country to the right politically, and keep the Democrats out of power for years to come. Added Haig: "He (Johnson) said 'we must simply not allow the American people to believe Fidel Castro could have killed our president. '"

Thanks to the Internet and Google News in particular, it is easy to find a few articles on this new documentary from the BBC and The Australian and other papers from around the world. In this country there were stories in Newsmax.com, The Washington Times, and Miami Herald.com. But nothing was carried on the major broadcast networks, the New York Times or the Washington Post.

Human Events had the most comprehensive report on the film, including director Huissman's claim that LBJ was concerned that if we followed the trail and it led to the Cuban government, the pressure would have been intense for the U.S. to invade Cuba, possibly sparking a world-wide nuclear conflict with Castro's patron, the Soviet Union.


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Newly Released Movie Pins Blame on Castro for JFK's Assassination

by Jim Burns
Posted Jan 10, 2006

Another theory has arisen on to the death of America's 35th President John F. Kennedy. A newly released film that explores JFK's death is claiming that his accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was directed and paid to kill the president by Cuba's Castro government.

A German documentary film entitled "Rendezvous with Death ---why Kennedy had to die" will be shown on German television on Friday. Journalist Wilfried Huismann, the filmmaker, says Kennedy's killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, traveled to Mexico City a few weeks before the assassination and met agents from Cuba's G-2 intelligence service.

Huismann told Germany's Deutsche Welle radio, "We settled the question of why in three years of research on this documentary in Mexico, USA and Cuba. Oswald had been an agent for the Cuban intelligence services since November 1962."

"He (Oswald) was a political fanatic and allowed himself to be used by the Cuban intelligence services to kill John F. Kennedy," said Huismann. "It was a Cuban reaction to the repeated attempts of the Kennedy brothers, above all the younger Kennedy, Robert, to get rid of Fidel Castro through political assassination -- a duel between the Kennedys and the Castros, which, like in a Greek tragedy, left one of the duelists dead."

Several have said since the Kennedy assassination that Cuban intelligence officials contacted Oswald after he was alerted by the Soviets intelligence agency the KGB in 1962. He returned to the United States after living in the Soviet Union for several years. One source has told this writer that Oswald met in Mexico City with some Castro operatives' just days before JFK died.

Huismann was asked why the United States did not pursue the Mexican lead.

"Kennedy and Castro were out to kill each other," Huismann says.

" After Kennedy's death on Nov. 22, 1963," Huismann continued, "[President] Lyndon B. Johnson found out that the US had a secret, illegal murder program focused on Fidel Castro. He hadn't been informed before that." "He (Johnson) knew that Castro knew, and he was afraid that the discovery of these mutual assassination attempts could force him to carry out an invasion of Cuba, which he believed could result in a third -- nuclear -- world war. And as a conservative pragmatist, he (Johnson) decided within a few hours, in agreement with Robert Kennedy, to drop the whole thing and to ban FBI and CIA officials from pursuing the trail leading to Cuba," said Huismann. Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig says in the film that President Johnson believed Cuba was to blame and feared a pronounced swing to the right if the truth were known that would keep the Democrats out of power for a long time. Haig -- a US military adviser at the time -- said, "He (Johnson) said 'we must simply not allow the American people to believe Fidel Castro could have killed our president'. "He (Johnson) was convinced Castro killed Kennedy and he took it to his grave," Haig concluded. Before he left office in 1969, President Johnson had told ABC News commentator Howard K. Smith, "Kennedy was out to get Castro but Castro got him.
Meanwhile, BBC Radio quoted ex-Cuban agent Oscar Marino, as saying that Havana had "exploited" Lee Harvey Oswald, who was arrested but shot to death on live television before he was transported from the Dallas police jail to the Dallas County jail.

Conspiracy theories on the killing have variously accused Cuba, Russia and the US of acting alone or jointly.

However, an FBI officer sent to follow the Oswald's trail during a visit to Mexico was recalled after only three days and the investigation called off.

Laurence Keenan, now 81, told BBC that it was "perhaps the worst investigation the FBI was ever involved in".

"I realized that I was used. I felt ashamed. We missed a moment in history," Keenan said.

Lee Harvey Oswald, an ex-Marine sharpshooter who worked in a book depository building that overlooked the assassination site. Oswald had a Russian wife, called himself a Communist and agitated on behalf of Castro's Cuba.

The film was five years in the making and will be shown on Germany's main ARD public TV station. It was funded by a series of German public broadcasters as well as Japan's NHK television network.

Huismann concluded, "It's history. Only people's awareness will change, the impression they have. And it will provide an answer to the question that has very much upset many million people over the years: Why did this horrible thing happen?"

Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, over a year after he faced off with Castro and Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev over the placement of missiles in Cuba in what became known as the "Cuban Missile Crisis." The Soviet Union removed those missiles even though in later years several people contended that many of those missiles were left behind.

Shortly after Kennedy's death, President Johnson appointed a commission headed by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren to investigate the assassination. One of the commission members was then House Republican Leader and later President Gerald R. Ford.

The Warren report concluded that Oswald for Kennedy's the assassination. The commission could not find any persuasive evidence of a conspiracy, either domestic or foreign involving any other persons, groups, or countries. The theory that Oswald acted alone is also informally called the lone gunman theory.

The commission also concluded that only three bullets were fired during the assassination, and that Lee Harvey Oswald fired all three bullets from the Texas School Book Depository behind the motorcade. It noted that three empty shells were found in the sixth floor sniper's nest in the book depository, and the rifle was found with one live cartridge left in its chamber on the sixth floor.

The commission released its report in 1964. Upon its release all commission files were sealed away from public view until 2039 by executive order of President Johnson. According to the 1992 Assassinations Records Review Board laws, other Kennedy all assassination related documents that have not been destroyed are scheduled to be released to the public by 2017.


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BERLIN
Film: Cuban secret service organized JFK's murder
A Cuban secret service agent claims in a German film that his colleagues chose Lee Harvey Oswald to assassinate President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
BY HUGH WILLIAMSON
Financial Times


BERLIN - Hoping to scoop the world on one of America's supreme historical puzzles, Germany's leading television broadcaster has claimed in a documentary film that it was the Cuban secret service that organized the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The 90-minute film, Rendezvous with Death, features an interview with Oscar Marino, a former agent of the Cuban G2 secret service, who says he knew before the assassination in November 1963 that Lee Harvey Oswald -- Kennedy's killer -- had been picked by his colleagues to do the job.

''He offered to kill Kennedy, and we used him to do this,'' Marino says during the film, made by Wilfried Huismann, a prize-winning German director.

Marino claims that Oswald, a Communist who lived in the Soviet Union for three years, was identified to Cuba by the Russian KGB secret service.

In Havana, the official Granma newspaper Friday dismissed the documentary's claim, saying it was the latest chapter in the long history of efforts ``to annihilate the Cuban revolution.''

A Cuban involvement is one of the dozens of conspiracy theories that have long surrounded the JFK assassination. The Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone.

Huismann, who worked on the project with Gus Russo, the Baltimore-based author of a book on Fidel Castro, told the Financial Times his exclusive interview with Marino provided ''decisive new evidence'' beyond the dozens of existing inquiries, books and films on the subject.

He admitted many Americans were ''very skeptical'' that he had solved the Kennedy assassination puzzle, but argued that his research focus on Mexico City -- which Oswald visited two months before the assassination in Dallas -- was his breakthrough. He interviewed Marino in the city, Huismann said, and gained exclusive access to parts of the country's secret service archive.

''I ask skeptical Kennedy assassination specialists - have you ever done research on the case in Mexico? Most, if not all, have not,'' he said.

Marino knew before the killing that Oswald had been recruited in Mexico City in September 1963 to do the killing, according to the filmmaker. In addition, in late 1962 the Cuban spy saw a list of about 100 foreign agents financed by the Cuban secret service. ''Oswald was on the list,'' Huismann said. The G2 decided to have Kennedy killed because it believed the U.S. government planned to kill Castro, according to the film.

Another key witness in the film is Lawrence Keenan, a retired FBI agent, who was sent to Mexico after the assassination to investigate Oswald's activities and says he was withdrawn after only a short time.




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BS Pins Shooting of Pope on KGB Part 1
By Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid | June 19, 2001
"If Bulgarian agents were involved, then the government of Bulgaria was involved. If Bulgaria was involved, the Soviet Union was involved."

On May 29, "60 Minutes II" pinned the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II twenty years ago on the Soviet Union's KGB. This belatedly made up for the failure of CBS to give this story the attention it deserved when it first surfaced in November-December 1982. Three Bulgarians were arrested in Italy after Ali Agca, the Turk who shot the Pope, claimed that the Bulgarian Special Services was behind the plot. They made the plans, furnished the gun, took him to Saint Peter's Square, promised to help him escape and paid him three million German marks.

Ali Agca talked after he had been in prison for eighteen months and no effort had been made to free him. Dan Rather reacted in a radio broadcast in which he said that if true, this would be the story of the decade. He explained: "If Bulgarian agents were involved, then the government of Bulgaria was involved. If Bulgaria was involved, the Soviet Union was involved. Why? Because it has long been accepted as fact that Bulgaria does nothing without marching orders from the Kremlin." But a week later, when Italy made official statements that included calling the Bulgarian actions "an act of war," the CBS Evening News aired only a 35-second report.

CBS was not alone in brushing off this important story. A French paper had quoted the former head of the Bulgarian Special Services who said, "On operations of a truly international character, they always follow the directives of the KGB." Terrorism expert Claire Sterling quoted that statement on "Nightline," the only publicity that it got in our national media at that time.

Most media were skittish about covering this story, perhaps because Yuri Andropov, who ran the KGB when the Pope was shot, had just become president of the Soviet Union. White House spokesman Larry Speakes refused to comment on reports linking Bulgaria to the plot and would not even confirm that Bulgarian intelligence was linked to the KGB. The State Department and CIA were also silent. It was reported that intelligence officials remained unconvinced by allegations in Italy that Bulgaria was behind the plot.

The New York Times helped absolve Andropov in an editorial on December 18, 1982. It gave three absurd explanations of what might have happened. One was that Agca "might have found help in Bulgaria solely from a flourishing underworld of arms and drug smugglers." Another was, "zealous Bulgarian security agents might have acted on their own, without clearance from their Soviet allies." Finally, it said that "a government's ambiguous signal might have been construed as a wink of approval."

Having exposed the involvement of the Bulgarians, Ali Agca was the most important witness at their trial. The case was solid, but at the trial Ali Agca claimed to be Jesus Christ reincarnated. He was promptly labeled a madman. The trial was halted and the defendants were sent home. In our next commentary we will tell how "60 Minutes" found the explanation for Ali Agca's bizarre behavior and validated the Bulgarian-KGB role in the plot to kill the Pope.

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CBS Pins Shooting of Pope on KGB Part 2
By Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid | June 20, 2001
"Find a way to discredit the trial, or the KGB will find a way to kill you."

In our last commentary we showed how the media in 1982 had given inadequate attention to revelations that the Bulgarian secret service, which was then a puppet of the Soviet KGB, was behind the plot to kill Pope John Paul II. That was revealed by Ali Agca, the Turk who shot the Pope. We reported that "60 Minutes II" had recently obtained new information that explains why, in 1985, Agca sabotaged the trial of three Bulgarians who were his co-conspirators. Agca, the key witness in the trial, discredited himself, terminating the trial by claiming to be Jesus Christ reincarnated.

"60 Minutes" had obtained a copy of a long letter handwritten by Ali Agca to an Italian lawyer, Ferdinando Imposimato, who had been chief prosecutor in the case and had spent many hours talking to Ali Agca. Imposimato had kept the letter under wraps for more than three years before giving it to "60 Minutes." It claimed that the KGB was behind the plot to kill the Pope and that there was a KGB colonel who could confirm this.

In the letter, Agca explained that was why he proclaimed himself to be Jesus Christ. He said that before the trial, a Bulgarian lawyer named Stefan Markov came to question him in prison. He said Markov told him: "Find a way to discredit the trial, or the KGB will find a way to kill you." He took the warning seriously. He decided to feign insanity, and he began to claim that he was Jesus Christ reincarnated. He made that claim at the trial, and the prosecutors saw that they had lost their key witness. They halted the trial and the three Bulgarian agents were freed and sent back to Bulgaria.

"60 Minutes" had obtained the letter from an Italian lawyer named Ferdinando Imposimato who had investigated the attempt on the Pope's life for nearly 20 years. He had many hours of conversations with Agca when he was imprisoned in Italy. He was convinced that the KGB was involved in the assassination attempt and that the Bulgarians were acting as their agents. He did not believe that Agca was crazy, but it was not until he got his letter some three years ago that he understood why he had feigned insanity.

..... "60 Minutes" found Stefan Markov in Bulgaria. He said that the KGB and the Bulgarian Special Services were not involved in the plot to kill the Pope. He claimed his questioning of Agca was monitored by the Italians. But "60 Minutes" learned that during breaks Markov could have given Agca a message in Turkish that the Italian magistrate would not have understood.

Markov insisted that Agca had lied about the three Bulgarians who were put on trial, but Agca had shown that he knew a lot about them. He described the apartment of Sergei Antonov, the top agent, very accurately. Imposimato said he brought the two men together, and Agca confronted Antonov with so many details that Antonov could not explain that he became very angry. The "60 Minutes" segment, in explaining why Agca sabotaged the trial of the Bulgarians who directed his attack on the Pope, made an important contribution to history. A Nexis search could not find a single story reporting that contribution in the print or electronic media.


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Quotes on Russia: Golitsyn was right!!

The outstanding blog Once Upon a Time in the West , cites many quotes that put light on the real role of Russia in the present (aka "Golotisyn was right") :

"There is no such thing as a former KGB man".
-- Vladimir Putin, Russian Federation President, 2005

"Russia has ceased being a free and democratic country".
-- Andrei Illarionov, Putin's former economic advisor, 2005

"It stretches credulity to its absolute bounds to think that suddenly, overnight, all those who were Communists will suddenly adopt a new philosophy and belief, with the result that everything will be different. I use this opportunity to warn the House and the country that that is not the truth".
-- Christopher Gill, British parliamentarian, 1995

"In October 1917 we parted with the old world, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving towards a new world, the world of communism. We shall never turn off that road"!
-- Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary, CPSU, 1987

"Yet it was, in reality, one of the shrewdest pieces of international hoodwinking in historical record . . . So the Comintern was dissolved [in 1943], and the misguided democratic world rejoiced . . . A glance at your newspaper will show that the former Comintern officers had little difficulty in finding new employment. The Comintern was never dissolved . . . Military Intelligence took over the old chores of the Comintern. It became an active part of the Soviet Fifth Column in democratic countries".
-- Igor Gouzenko, This Was My Choice, 1948

"Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots [then] may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil".
-- Jeremiah 13:23

The Rise and Fall of Castro

Searching for videos on video.google.com, I found these two.

Cuba's revolution in two times.

First: The arrival of Castro & Che in Havana (1959).

People on the streets celebrating the "revolucion".It makes me wonder how bad things always look good in the beginning (it remembers me Hitler in Germany).

Second: The fall of Castro.
A thing that most of Cuban people dream of today.

"Swimming.." reviews

More reviews of this humble blog.

This came from PBS page ( www.pbs.org).

"Swimming Against the Red Tide

This is a blog written by a Brazilian conservative who, in his words, has been "almost drowned by the giant socialist-totalitarian tsunami that's flooding Brazil." His criticism of the Latin American left, from Allende to Da Silva, has been convincing enough to get him noticed by the National Review."

Latin America´s "Fourhorsemen of the Apocalypse"

Gilberto Simões Pires is a very critic web-journalist. He is libertarian and conservative too. He has a webpage called "Ponto Crítico" (critical point). It is in http://www.pontocritico.com
He published a very good definition of the "fantastic 4" of Latin America (Lula, Chavez, Kirchner and now Evo). They are the "Fourhorsemen of the Apocalypse".

Read this:

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The Fourhorsemen of the Apocalypse

"The presidents: Lula, Kirchner and Chávez, all of them belonging to the idelogical left, they are not just friends - as the media puts out. These three , added now by Evo Morales - since yesterday the new Bolivia´s president - are really brothers of blood. Communist blood flows through their dangerous, revolutionary veins. They form, nowadays, the "Fourhorsemen of the Apocalypse". I don´t intend to be a new Jules Vernes by saying that - antecipating the events that will follow shortly in Latin America. Even not attending to any future teller classes, I am convinced that the current status of the revolution is in an advanced stage".

Russia and China are enemies of America: proof

This article from Reuters is the proof of what Golitsyn, Nyquist, Olavo de Carvalho and bloggers like me and Perilous Times know a long time: China and Russia are still comrades in their struggle against America. Read on.

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Russia, China want talks not sanctions on Iran

Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:14 AM GMT

By Oleg Shchedrov

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and China made clear on Tuesday they did not favour U.N. sanctions to induce Iran to scale back its nuclear programme, advocating more negotiations.

Their comments revealed a continuing lack of consensus among world powers over whether the U.N. Security Council should take up Iran's case and what action it should consider.

Germany earlier said Council members remained at odds on the Iranian nuclear issue after talks in London on Monday among the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany.

Washington and its European Union allies say EU-led talks with Iran have failed to quell suspicion that Tehran is seeking a nuclear bomb, despite its denials, and it is time the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency sent the case to the Security Council.

The Council could eventually decide to impose diplomatic or trade sanctions on Iran, though this would depend on the consent of its five permanent members, including Russia and China.

"The question of sanctions against Iran puts the cart before the horse. Sanctions are in no way the best, or the only, way to solve the problem," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

He said years of international sanctions against Iraq had failed to change the behaviour of ousted leader Saddam Hussein.

Moscow's $1 billion stake in building Iran's first atomic reactor gives it potential leverage over Tehran.

President Vladimir Putin hinted on Monday that Moscow was losing patience with Iran after it resumed nuclear fuel research last week, but he warned against any "abrupt, erroneous steps".

He also said after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Moscow on Monday that Russia, European countries and the United States had "very close positions" on Iran.

Lavrov told a news briefing that Russia's offer to enrich uranium for Iran remained on the table. Tehran has sent mixed signals on the idea, which has tentative EU and U.S. support.

EU DIPLOMACY

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said his country favoured EU diplomacy to resolve the crisis.

"So we think the most urgent thing for all the parties now is still to keep patient and make utmost efforts to resume the negotiations between the EU3 and Iran," he said.

China said last week that resorting to the Security Council might "complicate the issue", citing Iran's threat to hit back by halting snap U.N. inspections of its atomic plants.

Britain, France and Germany ended more than two years of talks with Iran last week after Tehran removed U.N. seals on equipment for enriching uranium in a research programme that could further its quest for nuclear energy -- or for bombs.

"We hope the Iranian side can cooperate with the efforts by the international community to restart the diplomatic negotiations and resolve the nuclear issue properly," said Kong, whose country gets 12 percent of its oil imports from Iran.

German Deputy Foreign Minister Gernot Erler confirmed that the London talks had produced agreement on convening a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on February 2.

But he said world powers that met in London on Monday were still divided on the purpose and content of a planned IAEA resolution referring Iran to the Security Council.

"We remain in talks about what should be decided there and what the role of the United Nations should be," Erler said, referring to the meeting of the IAEA.

EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana had said he was confident China and Russia would back the EU in sending the issue to the Security Council. In their comments on Tuesday, neither country said it would block referral at the IAEA.

Erler said it remained important to seek a diplomatic solution to the impasse over Iran's nuclear programme.

"Western states and the Europeans are ready at any time to restart talks, but only if Iran fulfils the pledges it has made," he said.

(Additional reporting by Noah Barkin in Berlin and Chris Buckley in Beijing)

Sao Paolo Forum: the backbone of communism & terrorism spread in Latin America

Vcrisis.com , a website created by Alexsander Boyd to expose to the world what's goin on in Venezuela, published a very good interview with Brazilian philosopher Olavo de Carvalho. It reveals the true nature of an entity named as "Sao Paulo Forum", (quoted by me many times here). It's a must to understand what is going on in Latin America.
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Sao Paolo Forum: the backbone of communism & terrorism spread in Latin America | www.vcrisis.com: "Sao Paolo Forum: the backbone of communism & terrorism spread in Latin America
Aleksander Boyd interviews Olavo de Carvalho

21.11.05 | Recently I had the chance to spend some time with an extraordinary individual. Of Brazilian origin, this university professor, thinker, philosopher and self-made investigative journalist revealed a wholly unknown reality -for me at least- vis-a-vis the nature of the Sao Paolo Forum; its members and its carefully orchestrated political goals. Often one tends to incur in the mistake of judging situations isolatedly, which, according to Olavo de Carvalho, shows not only ignorance but naivete. Aghast with the wealth of knowledge that Olavo commands on Brazilian and regional politics, I intended to unravel through a series of questions the reasons behind the emergence of 'leftist' movements and leaders across Latin America. Olavo's take is factual, radical and very much detached from the usual nonsense that one encounters in the mainstream media. Hopefully readers of this site will find his opinions illuminating, as I did.

- Olavo, you contend that the neocommunist surge in Latin America is not a spontaneous phenomena but rather the result of the successful implementation of strategies devised by Antonio Gramsci. Could you please expand into the philosophical/political underpinnings of Gramsci's methodology?

Gramsci, side by side with the frankfurtians and the Hungarian philosopher Georg Lukacs, is one of the top masterminds of the so-called “cultural marxism”, which is not a school of thought but a bunch of heterogeneous proposals having in common the hate to Western civilization, and the belief that, the cultural war against it, should precede and guide the political fight for socialism. Somewhat cultural marxism is at the same time the apex of marxism and its nemesis. On the one hand, it delivers the marxist thought from the chains of soviet mediocre orthodoxy and provides it with a considerable amount of intellectual sophistication; on the other, it destroys from the inside the marxist doctrine of history, emphasizing the primacy of cultural factors over the economic ones. Economic arguments that occasionaly drop from the mouths of cultural marxists are but lip service they pay to communist tradition, but in the final practical account their inner belief is that “ideas have consequences”. They try to accomplish the practical goals of marxism by means that disavow its theory.

But while the aforementioned authors focused mainly in theoretical issues, Gramsci, who was the founder and leader of the Italian Communist Party, was interested above all in practical results. He created the strategy and the tactics of the “cultural revolution” that should pave the way for the seizure of State power by the communists. The cultural revolution should be a subtle and almost imperceptible transformation of the collective mind, intented to induce everybody to think, to feel and to act according to the tenets of socialism without being consciously socialists. Socialist symbols and values under some other name should be inocculated in the souls of people since early age. Disguised socialist influence should spread to every field of human social existence, including private life and the most intimate feelings. Child care, medicine, psychoterapy, religion and marriage counseling were preferential channels for the transmission of that influence. Christian churches, for instance, should not be criticized, but infiltrated in order to deprive them of their spiritual content and use them as megaphones for communist watchwords. At the same time, disguised communists should occupy all the posts in educational, cultural and media organizations, gradually and carefully expelling their opponents to the last man. Communist ideology should recast all the language of public conversations, in order to provide that every circulating opinion contributes unconsciously to communist-fabricated general results.

The perverted character of the whole scheme is clearly psychopatic, but so much dangerous at that. Gramsci was an admirer of Machiavelli and he believed that the Communist Party should be “The New Prince”, ruling over the whole of society “with the invisible and omnipresent authority of a categoric imperative, of a divine commandment” (sic). Only after acquiring such amount of psychological mastership over society should the Party try to conquer the State, at a time when the very possibility of finding some serious resistence was already eliminated.

- Can we assume that the weak footing upon which parties associated with pro-democracy, rule of law, decentralization and free markets values in the region is but the unconscious resultant of Gramsci's plan?

Of course. The cultural changes affect everyone far beyond the focus of its political beliefs. One may remain a conservative in politics while making so many little concessions in one's language, in one's morals, in one's general cultural outlook, that one's conservatism looses its emotional strenght and its capacity to fight. You may verify it yourself: while communists are free to preach today the same things they preached thirty years ago, with the only difference that they receive ever warmer welcomes in any elegant environment, conservatives that remain faithful to the ideals of Robert Taft or Barry Goldwater are blamed as extremists even by their fellow conservatives.

- To what extent Gramsci's theories resemble those of dictator Fidel Castro?

Fidel Castro comes from a different ideological background. He followed the old leninist strategy of the armed vanguard that seizes power by violence and creates a new society from the top. Only when he hit his head against the wall of limits opposed to the armed revolutionary spreading, in the 70’s, he had the joyful surprise to be informed that many of his fellows from other Communist parties in Latin America were already high in the practice of a new and smarter revolutionary technique. The defeat of the guerrillas was immediately followed by the general adoption of the Gramscian long term strategy, that obviously didn’t renounce to the use of violence but postponed it to a far better occasion. Castro welcomed the new strategy and adapted to it very efficiently. He managed to stop the guerrilla fighting and to make up Latin America communist parties to work along Gramscian guidelines. The reflux of the guerrilla movement was celebrated by almost every non-communist politician, journalist and businessman in Latin America as a sign of the “death of communism”. This mistake was due to the fact that these people cared only for the visible surface of political, military and economic facts, giving little or no attention to deep and large scale transformations in the social and cultural background that was precisely the chosen field for the expansion of communist activity at that time.

To be continued...

"Political Correctness": One of the threats to the Brazilian democracy

Published on www.votebrasil.com.br and midiasemmascara.org sites.*

Translated from portuguese by the author with the help from Pedro Mallmann

"New Year, New life", is one of the popular sayings this time of the year, but it could as well turn out to be true in this very year of 2006.

So many analyses have been made on the possible outcomes of the political events of the year - the implosion - "from the inside" – of what used to be known as the "historical struggles" of the Workers' Party (ethics, truthfulness, struggle against corruption and poverty) and the surprising result of the referendum on the ban on arms sales in Brazil. Some of the analyses pointed out the latter as some kind of a plebiscite on the government, unveiling the rejection of the speech of the winning party, the very speech with which they won the 2002 elections. But it only points out a rejection in political-partisan terms.

This is a partial view of the events. In reality, the defeat of the "Yes" in the referendum was a clue that a much bigger chain - bigger than political-partisan choices - was defeated. This chain is ' the politically correct ' thought.

The "politically correct" can be defined as a type of ' wishful-thinking' that is self-achieved through the mantric repetition of words of order. These words are carefully chosen to define the reality in a differentiated manner, thus having the power of modifying the way people think about it, and ending by modifying reality itself. The basic premise is that 'reality' is subjective in essence, therefore being an exclusively personal good. By modifying this personal vision of reality through the Pavlovian conditioning of repetition, reality will be finally modified. Therefore reality is just a set of personal realities.

Initially received as a pseudo-intellectualized extravagance, it went on – by the means of a very careful dissemination plan by the 'cultural elite' – contaminating all environments it got in touch with. Its emergence to political campaign speeches and to the country's largest newspaper leads was the sign of the victory of political correctness in the market of ideas 'that sell'. From this point on - defined temporally in the 90's – there were no political speeches or political news left without incorporating the flavor of political correctness; if not political correctness itself incorporating the speeches.

All political parties were misled by 'political correctness'. They all started to sound and to act as 'pc'. From right-wing to leftist parties, they all missed the point on the real nature of 'pc'. The result was that we came to a point that all parties lost their identity, as far as the public is concerned.

The lack of parties with electoral "persona" had its pinnacle in the presidential election of 2002, where all options seemed absolutely the same, and leaving it up to the electorate to choose between neckties, suits and hairdos. The apparent convergence of thought was so evident that all the 'adversaries' of 2002 ended up forming the support base of the new government in 2003. This lack of political identity caused by the overwhelming success of politically correct is a threat to the Brazilian democracy. The lack of a broad range of political-partisan options is a mistake that has to be corrected. When I mention political-partisan options, I do not refer to the number of parties - which I consider excessive in Brazil - but to their political colors.

The conclusion is that, by means of the politically correct speech, political parties in Brazil were transformed into uncolored, odorless jelly of slogans totally detached from the voters' real world. The result of the referendum on the ban of arms sales was a clear sign to the political class for them to avoid the excess of politically correct speech and pay more attention to the real world.

In spite of the apparent popular support to the political correctness, the formula seems worn out. The adorned speech, full of good intentions, disclosed its major victim after all: the political class. The witchcraft struck back against the wizard. The public perceived that, behind the good intentions, the real intention could be very diverse, in terms of a Brazilian new edition of Orwell's doublethink. The overwhelming victory of the 'NO' vote in the referendum was a good expression of the exhaustion of "PC". Never have emotional appeals had so little attention. And never have words like 'individual rights' and 'freedom of choice' been so much debated in this country.

I hope this is the symbol of a new stage of Brazilian democracy. I anxiously look forward to the next chapters.

Happy New Year!
*Translated from portuguese by the author with the help from Pedro Mallmann
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Another terror video from North Korea: Public executions goes on

Blogger R..J. Rummel has a blog called "Democratic Peace" where there's a link to a terrifying video on public executions in North Korea.

While crowds still marching against the USA all around the world, the reds are silently (with the help from the biased media) doing what they know better: to kill people.

" Video Proof: Public Executions in North Korea ", secretly taped and smuggled out at great risk, capture two outdoor trials. Each of these public trials is followed immediately by executions. No time is wasted on appeals."See "One Free Korea for more videos and information."

China and Russia: red comrades don't forget who is the 'enemy'

A new - and extraordinary - blog called "Once Upon a Time in West" updates Golitsyn 'predictions' by an accurate news analysis and prove the old communist defector - that gave us outstanding books like "New Lies For Old" and "Perestroika Deception" - is still ahead of the news.
He predicted a new communist alliance between China and Russia, now free to do whatever they want without being labled as 'communist' anymore.
What is happening now? China and Russia are playing 'war'.

It stinks like a new world dominance plot...(depressed)

"Following the much-ballyhooed demise of communism in Russia, the "ex"-communist leaders of Russia saw fit to establish a strategic partnership with their former, openly communist "enemy" in China. Fast forward to "Peace Mission" 2005, the first-ever joint military exercise between the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China. "

The times are getting rough

Just minutes after the last post, I received an e-mail informing that one the most famous TV's anchor in Brazil - Boris Casoy, that starred a national news show that was very critical of Federal Government - was fired by the pressure from Lula da Silva's government.

2006 is an election year and is clear that Lula's administration is very doubtful on its probability to win. People are very suspicious of his real intentions, after the all the corruption cases were disclosed last year. Their only hope is try to shut-up the opposition voices and their critics.

Lula tried the "popular democratic" way to control the press, when he aired the intention to create a kind of 'press committee' ruled by the press unions . The initiative was withdraw after the bad repercussion on the media.

But now is a question of life and death to the Sao Paulo Forum project. Evo Morales took the power in Bolivia, thanks to the Venezuelan and Cuban money and its urgent to keep Lula in the government. He is one of the Forum's foundation stone, and forum is about to achieve its goal: "to recover in Latin America what was lost in East Europe".

Until now, Lula tried to hide his original intentions, but now there's no need to disguise it. The project is in danger. So Worker's Party is doing what they used to do before: control the press by denying advertise money - the money that's the core of all TV network's budget in Brazil.

Boris Casoy, was the only person that asked directly Lula about Sao Paulo Forum in 2002, during his campaign that year.

Now that's clear: Lula dropped the mask and reveal himself as new Chavez-wannabe.

Read the article (in Portuguese) below.
source: http://www.diegocasagrande.com.br/main.php?flavor=manchetes&id=9728

The times they are a changin´? Communist site is out of best site dispute in Brazil

Can it be a sign that the times are really changing in Brazil?
For the last five years, Communist Party of Brazil (a dissident branch old Communist Party that led the Chinese/Albanian revolution model) was listed as one the best websites about politics in Brazil.
Media Without Mask - the site a use to write - entered the pool last year and still there.

The poor communists lost their rank. This year they not even mentioned on the list of the ten best sites.

According to their site:
Red Diary .::: Obscured criteria keep "Vermelho" website out from the dispute for the best Brazilian website of the year :::.: "In the category named Citizenry/Politics this year were nominated the following sites: Política Para Políticos, Duplipensar, Revista Caros Amigos, Senado Federal, Franklin Martins, Mídia Sem Máscara, Blog do Noblat, VoteBrasil, Claudio Humberto e Câmara dos Deputados"

Is it a sign that Brazil youth is fed-up with this lefty-empty speech?

I hope so.

But there´s still left supremacy on the list, most of the sites are left or middle-of-the-road embedded with tons of political correctness views.