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UN- GAFI/FATF Urges Correa To Clean Up or Else Face Black Listing as State Sponsor of Terror

2012-01-29T21:42:10Z

January 29, 2012 Wait for it….the always vapid and terrifyingly useless United Nations finally gets around to noticing that Ecuador under Correa and his Cuban communist ALBA constitution has no vehicle- no bar to global terrorism. Like the US AID written language in Bolivia which stripped, to their unending glee and self proclaimed victory, any legal definition and thus no prosecution of any terror-related activity, Ecuador has no known definition and thus no punishment for terror and its actors.

Under the UN’s OECD, the FATF or GAFI, which has no power to do anything, does give words regarding money laundering and terrorist financing. To date, Correa has evaded the United Nations by lying and committing his usual crimes. However, the UN can use its bully pulpit and we hope, for hope is not ours to deny, that the UN will finally do and say something honest about Ecuador- for once. May their evaluations, all 370 pages, be fulsome and factual. And maybe- just maybe, the U.S. government of Obama will finally comprehend what all of Wall Street knows: Correa is very dirty and has no interest whatsoever in ending his crime spree with terror groups and global criminals.

Well….duhh. Who have folks been listening to? The lying useless piles of horse pittoie from the U.S. Department of State which continues to spend U.S. tax dollars to lie a lot about how wonderful Correa’s lawless cartel remains? And of course the State Department is so incompetent that they still pretend that Ecuador has anti-money laundering laws and full equal justice under law when Ecuador has nothing of the sort.

Moreover, Correa’s anti-Money Laundering director remains Gustavo Iturralde. Iturralde has direct personal links to Correa and is of course a long time card carrying member of the Communist Party. He was extremely close to the FARC’s Raul Reyes. Iturralde himself assisted in FARC money laundering and is way past the fox guarding the hen house. He is so dirty that it defies logic. And still the USA of Obama loves Correa and his dirty cartel mavens. We cannot even begin to fathom this state sponsored racketeering.

But wait! Correa comes now to declare that he will abide by the wishes of the UN. And before you get your hopes up, know this: Correa’s idea of a terrorist is archbishop Arregui, George W. Bush and the Pope. In no way does Correa formally or privately consider the FARC, Iran’s QUDS, Hezbollah., ETA, paid paramilitaries from dark places and Russian mobsters as well as ZETAS and on and on as terror actors. No indeed. Correa has stripped all legal definition of terror actors and not once prosecuted one single Al Qaeda or murderous thug, whom he does do business with daily. Correa is a liar and the United Nations, recently seen accepting the Correa lies about the 9-30-10 self coup complete with what were probably out of state snipers courtesy of Hugo Chavez, has not ever once done one verifiable act in support of reasonable law and order. Why would he? Correa has turned Ecuador in to a cartel state, now a proxy of the remarkably evil Iran.

Besides, the HOY article reminds one to ask: Why anyone would listen to Borja? He is a life long liar. As for the United Nations threatening penalties and Correa stating he will comply, again we advise: do not hold your breath. Correa just lied a lot to the UN and he knows very well how to lie a lot more. Correa has no laws and no interest in ending terror financing. He just merged his Central Bank with the Central Bank of Iran. Correa will, for a fee, launder anyone’s dirty money. He will do anything except be legal or clean.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis.

Impulsar terrorismo será penalizado
Publicado el 29/Enero/2012 | HOY

Ecuador Must Ban Iranian Press

2012-01-27T00:41:54Z

January 26, 2012 Of all the items stacking up on the To Do List for Ecuador, removing Iranian Media is at the top of the List, along with removing Iran in all ways.

Great Britain has banned Iranian media and Ecuador really must- now.

Correa stole Ecuador’s decent media and controls directly or by his censorship all the rest.

Correa has inserted Iranian News every chance he can. This is just awful. And of course he has installed his baby faced ambassadress to lie to American media all she can…along with the Iranians.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

Here are some of the reasons why, including the fact that nothing Iran ever ever eversays is honorable or helpful:

gopusa.com
Why Doesn’t Obama Ban Iranian Press TV?
By Kenneth R. Timmerman January 26, 2012

Authorities in Britain revoked the license of the Iranian regime’s English-language global television channel known as Press TV because of evidence that it is a propaganda outlet controlled by the Iranian regime. But the Obama Administration permits the channel to operate on American soil without a license and in violation of U.S. sanctions regulations, which ban commercial transactions with Iran. It appears to be another example of Obama coddling the terrorist regime.

British authorities justified the move by citing the specific example of a Press TV 2009 interview with a Newsweek correspondent held in an Iranian jail. British telecom regulator Ofcom found that the interview by Press TV with Maziar Bahari, who was jailed by the Iranian regime over his reporting of the disputed presidential elections in June 2009, was conducted under duress. It held that Press TV was in violation of its British broadcasting license because its content was dictated by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, the state broadcasting authority, and instructed the satellite carrier BSkyB to remove Press TV from its platform.

In the United States, the situation is even worse because although it operates openly in Washington, D.C., New York and Los Angeles, and regularly conducts interviews with such figures as Republican Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul, it does not have a license from the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). So far, the Obama Administration has done nothing to shut it down.

What appears to be lacking is a determination from OFAC pointing out the obvious—that the Iranian state propaganda channel is operating illegally in the U.S. Because of this failure to enforce the law, Press TV is able to operate a propaganda facility in downtown Washington, D.C. with a prestigious K Street address and send its operatives to observe and survey U.S. Government offices, under the cover of “freedom of the press.”

“While other countries might not respect the right to a free press, this is something we take very seriously,” an administration official told this reporter. “We like to stay true to our values.” But why do our values permit accommodating the actions of an illegal television entity devoted to propaganda and support for an outlaw regime that the Obama Administration itself says supports international terrorism?

In the case at issue in Britain, Bahari was picked up by the Iranian authorities at his parents’ home in Tehran on June 21, 2009, and jailed for four months in Iran. After an international campaign won his release and he returned home four months later that October, Bahari said that his captors had forced him to read a prepared script in front of Press TV cameras, just as American POWs were forced to do in Vietnam. Press TV has scrubbed the interview from its website but it was widely reported at the time. In the script his captors gave him to read, Bahari accused Western reporters of working “as spies,” and “confessed” that he had been covering “illegal demonstrations” as part of a Western effort to promote a “color revolution” in Iran. His family and the media dismissed his “confession” as clearly coerced.

Clinton Excuses Tehran

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed Iran hard to release Bahari, but never made a statement condemning Press TV for airing the coerced interview. “We’ve been condemning the Iranian government writ large on this, not any specific agency,” a State Department spokesman said.

The Obama Administration has continued to allow Press TV to operate unhindered in the United States, despite clear evidence that it is operating as a propaganda arm of the Iranian regime. Indeed, the State Department regularly entertains questions from Press TV reporters, and allows bloggers on its “DipNote” website to plug rabid anti-American and anti-Israel propaganda with links to Press TV articles and interviews.“If Press TV were to request a license to operate here in the U.S., the activities that led to having their license removed in the UK would certainly be reviewed by us,” a U.S. official said. “But for now, we cannot take a similar action because they have no license.”

So because it operates illegally in violation of the law, the U.S. will take no action. This might be enough for administration lawyers, but it defies common sense.

Other Propaganda Outlets

Press TV is not the only Iranian government media organization operating in the United States. The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting ... operates Aftab TV, which broadcasts in Persian and operates a prominent website. On December 28, 2006, for example, Aftab featured an interview with prominent pro-Tehran advocate Trita Parsi, who heads the National Iranian-American Council, NIAC. In prefacing the interview, Aftab stressed the importance of the “Iranian American lobby on behalf of the Iranian regime” and described it as the regime’s “unofficial diplomacy.” Last year, IRIB opened yet another 24-hour TV network they billed as “Iran’s CNN,” called Islamic Republic of Iran News Network, IRINN TV. They began broadcasting in the U.S. with an hour-long live program from a new Washington, D.C. studio on April 6, 2011. Their flagship U.S. show is called “Two half-hours (Dow Nim Saat) that airs from 11 a.m. to noon everyday.

While most programs are in Persian, IRINN also broadcasts news in English via satellite to the U.S.

The regime has also lavished money on the print media as a means of maintaining an intimidating presence within the Iranian-American community. The U.S. edition of the Tehran daily, Etelaat, was printed in New York and flown via Federal Express to a dozen distribution points around the country for over two decades, until it was shut down last year after an undercover FBI investigation determined it was being funded illegally out of the Iranian Permanent Mission to the United Nations, a source involved in the investigation told me. With the exception of Etelaat, the Obama Administration has continued to allow Iranian government media organizations to operate freely in the United States, mostly without licenses, despite nearly two decades of Iran sanctions that prohibit commercial exchanges between the U.S. and Iran.

Doubletalk from Obama

In a series of email and telephone exchanges, officials at the Department of the Treasury refused to acknowledge whether the administration or its predecessors had granted Press TV a license to operate in the United States. “We are unable to comment publicly on organizations that may or may not have received licenses from OFAC. However, we note that as an official propaganda arm of the Iranian government, Press TV has a history of fabricating news and has faced lawsuits in the UK for airing forced confessions,” a Treasury Department official said. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Controls issues trade sanctions guidelines and maintains the list of “Specially Designated Nationals” (SDNs) banned from doing business with U.S. persons.In the case where an organization subject to U.S. sanctions continues to operate in the United States by moving money under the radar, OFAC has often acted quickly and without warning to shut them down. But not in this case.

Spewing Filth

Press TV spews out unending streams of anti-American propaganda in a full-service program mix that includes talk shows, news reports, and TV magazines, aimed at an American audience via satellite. Professionally-produced—often times by Americans—these shows trot out a congeries of conspiracy theorists, Holocaust deniers and their apologists, masquerading as “analysts” and “political commentators” to give them a veneer of respectability.

In this case, Press TV appears to be emulating the old Soviet Union, which specialized in propaganda for the regime and against its enemies. The Soviet-led Comintern sent propaganda specialist Willi Muenzenberg to America to recruit propaganda agents. The Iranian regime has invested heavily in Press TV because it understands the value of propagandists who speak unaccented English and who are not openly tied to the regime to spread its ideological “payload.”

Muenzenberg wrote the playbook that was later used by Press TV and much of the “politically-correct” left in the 1920s and 1930s, when he set up a vast web of cover influence operators stretching from media to academia to America’s newsrooms that continue to make their message felt way beyond the grave.

As former CIA propaganda expert Kent Clizbe explains in his book on Muenzenberg, “the goal of the operations was to make Americans feel that their country was bad.”

“You claim to be an independent-minded idealist,” said Muenzenberg’s widow, Babette Gross. “You don’t really understand politics, but you think the little guy is getting a lousy break… You are shocked, frightened by what is going on right here in our own country… You believe in peace… You yearn for international understanding… You think the capitalist system is corrupt.”

The propaganda from Occupy Wall Street appears to be a modern-day example of the Muenzenberg approach.

Press TV takes the anti-American propaganda to a global level. Like the old Soviet propaganda networks, Press TV uses Americans to make the case against their own government and society. Consider the case of James Fetzer, “a prominent philosopher” who went on Press TV to comment on the violent turn of the Occupy movement in Oakland last November. He blamed the police. A professor at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, Fetzer said, “We are seeing the increase in militarization of the police forces throughout the United States and that is a very bad tendency that has been taking place since 9/11. We see the rich getting richer and the increasing gap between the rich and the poor. This gap has been widening since the administration of Ronald Reagan,” Fetzer said.

He went on: “What they are doing, the politicians are ignoring the needs of the average American and the working families. We have had increasing foreclosures, and unemployment is seen as the tip of an iceberg resistance to the corruption of politics in America… I believe this movement is not going to go away, and that what we are seeing is the real face of the police state of America has become.” As it turns out, James H. Fetzer is indeed well-known—as a conspiracy theorist.

In a Wikipedia entry tagged by editors as “an autobiography,” Fetzer is described as “a well-known conspiracy theorist,” who has written extensively on the JFK assassination, 9/11, and the plane crash that killed U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone. Fetzer claims, for example, that the film footage taken of the aircraft that crashed into the World Trade Center towers on 9/11 was “video fakery” caused by “holographic projects,” because the high-speed crash was “in violation of Newton’s laws” of physics. His own website highlights his book, The 9/11 Conspiracy: The Scamming of America. A YouTube video shows Fetzer arguing that Senator Wellstone was assassinated, not killed by accident in a plane crash.

After a federal judge in District Court in New York issued a finding last December that Iran “shared responsibility with al Qaeda” for the 9/11 attacks, Press TV naturally turned to Fetzer for comment. Calling the ruling “preposterous,” he said he knew who was responsible for the attacks: Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad. “Multiple investigations by independent journalists have revealed that Israel—the Mossad—played a key role in 9/11,” Fetzer said. “Look up ‘the dancing Israelis.’ Look up ‘urban moving systems.’ Look up ‘CITS ‘and you’ll find ample indication that Israel was profoundly involved in 9/11.”

Another Press TV Propagandist

Another propagandist used by Press TV as an on-air commentator is Mark Dankof, whose support for the Ron Paul presidential campaign we highlighted in an earlier story. In a May 2011 article aimed at discrediting the Ofcom case against Press TV in Britain, Dankof hauled out the big artillery. Why was the British government attempting to shut down Press TV? It was, of course, all because of the Jews. “It may not be a coincidence that the British Ofcom case against Press TV Iran pops up against the backdrop of Netanyahu’s state visit to the United States to press his own case for ongoing Talmudic Death and Destruction in the Middle East,” Dankof wrote.

The “logic” of his case went like this: Press TV accuser Maziar Bahari was a contributor to Newsweek, whose late chairman, Sidney Harman, was married to Rep. Jane Harman of California, a Jewish Democrat. “Mrs. Harman, in turn…proves to be the very member of Congress wiretapped by the American National Security Agency (NSA) conveying promises to Israeli agents that the dogs would be called off from tailing and successfully prosecuting the espionage case involving key executives of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC),” Dankof wrote. In the article, “Empire continues to sweat over Press TV,” he went on, “This is the transparent connection in this case, as it is in other recent attacks on Press TV in the West involving media outlets and correspondents with provable connections to the American Jewish lobby; Israeli intelligence; and Neo-Conservatives thirsting for a War of Civilizations with Iran specifically, and the Islamic world generally.”

“If anyone wanted to run the traps and understand the connections, they should read the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,” Dankof concluded. Press TV was being persecuted because it was “one of the few exceptions to The [Jewish] Lobby’s control of global print and electronically transmitted news and analysis.”

The Protocols was a Russian forgery designed to blame the Jews for the world’s problems. Muslim religious leaders and political leaders have touted its “accuracy” to me in interviews throughout the Middle East for decades.

More material of this sort can be found in the innumerable interviews Press TV conducts with “expert” Paul Sheldon Foote, whose favorite line is that “Crypto-Jews” have initiated a war between Christians and Muslims. Such arguments harken back to the ugliest forms of Western anti-Semitism.

The Rise of Press TV

When Press TV CEO Mohammad Sarafraz announced the creation of the new English-language satellite broadcasting channel in June 2007, he stated at the get-go that the goal was to spread the propaganda payload of the Tehran regime.“Since September 11, Western bias has divided the media into two camps: those that favor their policies make up one group and the rest of the media are attached to radical Islamic groups like Al-Qaeda. We want to show that there is a different view. Iran, and the Shi’ites in particular, have become a focal point of world propaganda. From the media point of view, we are trying to give a second eye to Western audiences,” Sarafraz said.

While Press TV made some effort in its U.S. programming to invite guests who weren’t always fans of the Iranian regime, all pretense of its propaganda aims disappeared in May 2009, just before the stolen elections that gave Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term in office.

That was when a group of Ahmadinejad supporters raided the petty cash desk at Press TV’s Tehran headquarters and used the money to support Ahmadinejad’s election campaign, according to Press TV insiders who subsequently left or were forced to leave the network. Since the June 2009 elections, opposition politicians, such as Mir Hossein and other challengers to Ahmadinejad, have been banned from the airwaves and Press TV has abandoned any pretense of even-handedness.

Skirting the Sanctions

Press TV has used a number of subterfuges to skirt the U.S. sanctions on commercial transactions with Iran.

From the start, Press TV has maintained close ties to the Iranian Mission to the United Nations, the Iranian regime’s only legal financial base in the United States. The UN mission may have paid some staff in cash brought in through the diplomatic bag. Press TV maintained an official presence at the Iranian Mission.

Because it could not incorporate directly in the United States, Press TV worked through production companies operating in the U.S., which in turn hired crew, correspondents, and producers.

Former Atlantic Television News (ATN) correspondent Colin Campbell questioned U.S. officials on Press TV’s behalf. ATN Productions Ltd. has seven reporters currently registered with the Senate Press Gallery: Nicholas Ewing, Affra Khallash, Taleb Khallash, Zina Khallash, Dirik Rice, Mohamed Said Ouafi, and Firas Tuma. The company is registered in Denmark and produces the weekly magazine show “American Dream,” hosted by an American, Nisa Islam.

ATN operates out of production studios located on K Street in downtown Washington, D.C. AIM Center for Investigative Journalism director Cliff Kincaid was invited and appeared on its “American Dream” program a couple of times, before realizing that ATN was operating as a front for the Iranians. When he criticized the Iranian regime on one of the programs, he was not invited back. Press TV contacted Accuracy in Media on another occasion, looking for a guest for one of its programs to discuss why Republican Representative and presidential candidate Ron Paul was not getting more favorable attention from the U.S. media. Paul has pleased the Iranian regime by defending its pursuit of nuclear weapons. AIM declined the invitation but considered the request as more evidence of how foreign propaganda channels, such as Press TV and Russia Today, have embraced the foreign policy views of the Texas congressman.

The Press TV Media Universe

Press TV also contracts with American Press and TV Services (APTVS), an outfit run by Egyptian nationals Gamal Hassanein and Samir Ezeldin. Like ATN, they hire producers and camera crews to film events and conduct interviews at Press TV’s request. “Gamal and Sam were running the operation, because Press TV was not allowed to incorporate here,” a former Press TV insider told me. APTVS took over Press TV’s bureau at the United Nations in 2010. Like ATN, their correspondents and camera crews have all received press passes for the U.S. Capitol complex from the Senate Press Gallery. They hired Colin Campbell away from ATN, and have also registered the following staff with the Senate Press Gallery: Ibrahim Alshamrani, Moaz Attawia, Fahd Banhawy, Umut Colak, Samir Ezeldin, and Mike Kellerman.

The Senate press passes not only give the Press TV contractors access to the House and Senate chambers, but serve as accreditation for a much wider range of events reserved for members of the press corps, including White House, State Department, and Defense Department briefings. Although each of these three issues its own credentials to beat reporters (the “White House press corps,” etc.), the Senate press pass gets most reporters through the door for the occasional event.

Although APTVS and ATN are not part of Press TV, they produce “works for hire” for Press TV. Should OFAC decide to enforce the law, this could be construed to mean that they are engaging in unlicensed commercial transactions with Iran. In an effort to forestall precisely such an investigation, APTVS for several years received payment from Press TV through a Palestinian production company in Ramallah run by silent partner Maher Shalabi, according to former Press TV insiders. On his Facebook page, Shalabi identifies himself as General Manager of that company, PMCC TV.

“Press TV used to contract Maher, and he then contracted with APTVS in Washington,” a former insider said. “APTVS then booked the guests and studios and conducted the interviews or satellite link-ups.” Shalabi also works for “Palestine TV,” and conducted a high-profile interview with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for that channel in 2010. Do the activities of Press TV and these production companies fall within the “information” loop-hole of the Iran sanctions?

“If I am sending an academic journal, or some materials that actually will help the exchange of knowledge, that is allowed,” an Obama administration official told me. “But if I am actually conducting paid journalistic work, right now I still need a specific license to allow that to happen.”Press TV does not have a license, this official hastened to add. “Therefore, they are operating illegally.”

Yet, the Obama Administration permits the channel to continue to operate in violation of the law. Congress should investigate.

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The death of press freedom in Correa's Ecuador
By Alberto de la Cruz, on January 26, 2012, BABALU

Ecuadorean dictator Rafael Correa knows an effective plan for complete control over a population when he sees one, and that is why he is busily implementing the Fidel Castro method of repression, domination, and propaganda. Like his mentor Fidel did in Cuba, Correa is taking control of the press in Ecuador, threatening the few remaining independent news agencies in the country with fines and imprisonment if they dare print or utter a critical word regarding his dictatorial rule. And just like Castro, he and his minions are engaging in superfluous propaganda to both vilify his opponents and hide his regime's oppression.

In an editorial that appeared in last Sunday's Miami Herald as well as other media outlets, Correa lackey and new Ecuadorian ambassador to the U.S. Nathalie Cely penned quite a laughable piece of propaganda defending her dictator and his assault of press freedoms in Ecuador. Here it is in its entirety:

Rights and responsibilities of Ecuador’s media
By NATHALIE CELY

From the beginning of time journalists and elected officials in democratic societies have had painful and interdependent relationships. It is the nature of democracies to try to provide maximum freedom for responsible journalists and publishers while preventing dangerous misbehavior, libel and abuses of power.

A number of U.S. defenders of a free press, from The Miami Herald and Washington Post to the Committee to Protect Journalists, have taken an ongoing legal dispute between a powerful publishing family in Ecuador and Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa and have written of it as though it represented some new sort of Armageddon for the journalism profession.

To be very clear, no journalist in Ecuador has gone to jail, been kidnapped or paid a significant fine in the five years of the Correa presidency, even though El Universo, the newspaper owned by the Pérez family that these media watchdogs defend, published a scurrilous column about the president and an attempted coup against him that was factually untrue and far beyond any reasonable norm for criticism. Here is the background:

In September 2010, President Correa went to a rally of national police in Quito to respond to protests over changes in their compensation schemes. It soon became clear that this was not a peaceful rally. Shots were fired and there were casualties. He was taken to a hospital for the effects of tear gas, but the police and their allies surrounded the hospital and threatened more violence. Members of the military came to escort him out. It was a scary moment in a country that, before the president’s inauguration in 2007 had seven failed presidents in a decade.

Last February, a columnist for El Universo who now lives in South Florida wrote an attack in which he never used the president’s name, referring only to “The Dictator.” He claimed to have proof that the president ordered troops to fire on innocent people and accused him of “crimes against humanity” — genocide. The president demanded proof or a retraction, but got neither. And so he sued under a longstanding law that allows any citizen to sue when he feels libeled. He won the case in a court of law and so far has won each appeal.

The president has said that he will waive some or all of the penalties provided he gets a retraction of the offensive column.

So who is the victim in this dispute? Not the people of Ecuador. A recent objective analysis of Latin American public opinion by the Mexican polling firm Consulta Mitofski shows that President Correa is among the most popular leaders in the hemisphere. All social indicators in the country are heading in the right direction: employment is up; wages, up; literacy and health measurements, up; public engagement, up. The electorate will decide next year, assuming he seeks re-election, whether they think their president is a “dictator” or their chosen leader.

What should anyone do when lies are published about him? It appears to me that President Obama has been harmed by ludicrous false charges about his birthplace, citizenship and religion in the U.S In the U.K., journalists illegally routinely spied on ordinary citizens to get their stories. Where do ethics come into play in these situations? What are the rights of those who are injured or offended by these lies? Even elected officials have some right to the truth. Where is the public self-criticism among publishers and journalists?

Ecuador and Latin America — probably also the United States — all need more honest debate and dissent to build better democracies. But should principles of press freedom have no limit? Do honest journalists support the work of those who are unethical in their writings? Can you deliberately and falsely call me a narco-trafficker and then hide behind grand principles of media freedom?

At a time when winds of change whip through the world, perhaps it is time for a re-examination of the special immunities and responsibilities of the media. That’s what is underway today, in a messy, public and democratic way, in Ecuador.

Nathalie Cely presented her credentials to President Obama last week as the new ambassador for the Republic of Ecuador in Washington, D.C.

A few facts Ms. Cely leaves out of her ridiculous defense:

The courts and the judicial system in Ecuador has been systematically taken over by Rafael Correa in a fashion similar to what dictator Hugo Chavez has done in Venezuela. Therefore, to claim Correa's complaints about the free press in Ecuador have been vindicated by the courts is at best laughable, and at worst, sinister.

Moreover, Ms. Cely unwittingly proves the corruption of the Ecuadorean judicial system when she states "[t]he president has said that he will waive some or all of the penalties provided he gets a retraction of the offensive column." If Ecuador is truly a democracy and the judicial branch is independent of the executive branch, where does Correa get the power to "waive some or all of the penalties" levied against a journalist by a supposedly independent court? Obviously, as dictator, he only needs to make a phone call and the judges do as they are ordered.

And lastly, Cely closes her remarks with an impassioned call for a re-examination of the immunities and responsibilities of the independent media. An interesting request considering the fact that Correa now controls 95% of the media in Ecuador. Apparently, that 5% is still considered a threat, and if you want to believe Cely, freedom of the press in Ecuador will not be safe until Correa controls 100% of the press.

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Jan. 25, 2012

Public spending fuels Ecuador leader's popularity

By GONZALO SOLANO Associated Pres MIAMI HERALD

In this photo taken on Nov. 19, 2011, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa talks during his weekly media program "Enlace Ciudano" in Quito, Ecuador. Correa is regularly assailed by human rights, press freedom and business groups as intemperate, autocratic and intolerant of dissent. Yet he is popular among millions of Ecuadoreans for programs which, like the initiative for the disabled, have improved their quality of life. Amparo Martinez's universe is two small, tidy rooms in a poor Quito neighborhood that she shares with her 83-year-old mother and a severely handicapped daughter.

Her predicament makes holding a job impossible, so the three depend on a $240-a-month government stipend introduced by President Rafael Correa under a program for the disabled.

Martinez adores Correa.

"I hope he's re-elected many times," she says.

Correa is regularly assailed by human rights, press freedom and business groups as intemperate, autocratic and intolerant of dissent. Yet he is popular among millions of Ecuadoreans for programs which, like the initiative for the disabled, have improved their lives.

An array of state-funded programs implemented or broadened since Correa's 2006 election have brought stability to this traditionally unruly South American nation that previously churned through six presidents in 10 years.

A doubling in public spending under Correa adheres to a formula that has also aided the political longevity of his leftist allies Presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Cristina Fernandez of Argentina and Evo Morales of Bolivia.

But Ecuador devotes a greater share of its economy to public investment than any other nation in Latin America and the Caribbean, spending 10 percent of gross domestic product.

The main strategic ally of this tall, pugnacious U.S.- and European-trained economist has been the high price of oil, currently at $99.50 per barrel, which helped fuel 8.9 percent economic growth last year.

Oil accounts for about a third of government revenues in this OPEC member nation, whose proven oil reserves of 6.5 billion barrels are surpassed in South America only by those of Venezuela and Brazil.

According to Oil and Gas Journal (OGJ), Ecuador held proven oil reserves of 6.51 billion barrels in January 2011 the third largest reserves in South America after Venezuela and Brazil. Ecuador is the fifth-largest producer of oil in South America, producing 486,000 bbl/d of oil in 2010 (almost all of which was crude oil), down from a 2006 peak of 536,000 bbl/d. Data from the first half of 2011 show a rebound in production, which averaged 501,000 bbl/d through June.

Straying from Latin American custom, Correa has also engineered a vertiginous rise in income tax collection, boosting compliance by businesses and professionals. From $4.9 billion in 2007, income tax receipts rose to $8.4 billion last year.

He has exhibited uncanny resolve in coaxing higher numbers into the revenue columns of the balance sheet in a country that made the U.S. dollar its national currency in 2000.

That included rewriting oil extraction contracts with multinationals to radically boost the state's share of windfall profits. Some multinationals left, others stayed.

The government is now on the verge of reaping more raw material royalties. It is set to shortly sign contracts designed to yield the state $3 billion annually from the mining of gold, copper and other metals.

Correa has been coy on whether he'll run for re-election in balloting that could come as early as a year from now. If voting were held today, he'd be difficult to beat. Never in five years in office has Correa's approval rating dipped below 50 percent. It currently stands around 70 percent.

Critics accuse Correa of building castles in the air by creating expectations on the uncertain promise of continued high oil prices. If oil drops below $73 a barrel, they say, his ambitious public spending will need to be curbed.

"It's not sustainable as an economic model over time," said Xavier Ordenana, an economist with the Escuela Politecnica del Litoral in Guayaquil. "It can last for some years but not forever."

Ordenana says the government realizes the private sector must also grow or it risks insolvency. Heavy industry, export-oriented manufacturing and high-tech work remain scarce in Ecuador.

In all, 5 million of Ecuador's total population of 14 million have personally benefited in some measure from government largesse, researchers at the FLACSO graduate school calculate. Under Correa, the state has built homes for 30,000 families, plowed $8.5 billion into education and $5.3 billion into health care. It has rebuilt or improved nearly 3,400 miles (5,500 kilometers) of roads, nearly two-thirds of Ecuador's highway system, spending $4.5 billion.

Other programs have zeroed in on helping individuals and families.

The government says the program for the disabled, a flagship Correa initiative, has benefited 300,000 people. They receive medical attention, welfare payments and equipment including wheelchairs. Some have even been given housing. Public wheelchair access is improving.

Another popular program provides a $35 monthly boost to 1.6 million poor people, chiefly homemakers with no other formal income.

"My husband died many years ago but now I have the president as a spouse because he gives me a little money every month," said Maria Pillajo, a stooped 67-year-old who scrapes by washing clothes and loading baskets in the market of Quito's poor southern district of El Camal.

"Until poverty is eliminated it's a good measure," Correa said of the program when asked about it during a recent meeting with foreign correspondents. The government says the poverty rate stands at 29 percent, down nine percentage points from when Correa took office. Meanwhile, unemployment is officially at 5.1 percent.

It's not just the poor for whom the government is writing checks.

Some 100,000 middle-class first-time home buyers have received a $5,000 one-time "housing subsidy" grant that enable them to afford down payments.

"The payments have a direct bearing on the president's image. In political terms, they have the excellent effect of sustaining his political project," said Simon Pachano, a FLACSO political scientist.

Correa has also plowed millions into education, giving free uniforms to a million students, texts to 3 million and regularly feeding 1.6 million breakfast.

"It's a great relief because sometimes we just don't have the money," said Francisco Carvajal, a 28-year-old father of three who said he earns $750 a month from his job as a construction material sales company.

His children got free uniforms and texts as well as English and computing classes free of charge.

Correa is far from Ecuador's first populist leader. Yet he has been hounded by none of the accusations of corruption that drove previous presidents from office.

His popularity is anything but universal, however.

In striving for what he and Chavez call "21st-century socialism," Correa has alienated bankers, industrialists, the Roman Catholic Church and even indigenous groups. Initially backing him, the latter now object to his insistence that the state can extract minerals from their traditional lands without their consent.

Many business leaders are angry with Correa over his chumminess with Iran, fearing that he is distancing Ecuador from Washington, still the country's top trading partner.

On no adversary has Correa unleashed such bile as on the opposition news media, which he claims "oligarchs" have used to seek to discredit him.

Correa has had a columnist and three directors of the opposition newspaper El Universo successfully prosecuted for criminal defamation. They have been sentenced to three years in prison each and a collective total of $40 million in fines, though the sentence is on appeal.

Human Rights Watch has decried how Correa used a May referendum to obtain a popular mandate for reforms that could "constrain media and influence the appointment and dismissal of judges."

It also complained that people involved in protests where violence occurs "may be prosecuted on inflated and inappropriate terrorism charges."

Ecuador’s President Correa is Iran’s New Boy Toy with Tokyo Rose Cely To Sell Freedom’s End

2012-01-22T21:10:34Z

January 22, 2012 The government of Ecuador today features some of the world’s worst liars and manipulators. The Miami Herald, left wing rag that it is often is and with no fact-checking visible, too often runs awful “news” items and gets itself discredited many times. The HERALD’s running of newly confirmed Ecuadorean ambassador Cely’s paid piece- that is, she spent a lot of Ecuadorean tax money on her paid writers, is not only offensive for its lack of facts but is dishonest, as is Ms. Cely and her entire government.

While Ms. Cely calls her campaign to lie a lot to the American public as “diplomacy,” that is to defraud the USA and secure dishonestly American monies and support, we call her efforts discredited and in need of her immediate removal.

Like World War II’s propaganda queen dubbed Tokyo Rose, Ms. Cely, who claims she can but really cannot string two serious sentences together in English [for all her DisneyLand early years on scholarship at Harvard with Ivonne abdel Baki’s tutelage along with Muhammad abdel Baki at Harvard], we will not hesitate to point out that Ms. Cely is a lying, useless- dishonest propaganda tool of president Correa’s vast panoply of lies and cover-ups.

Ecuador’s Correa is in fact a dictator. Ms. Cely lies about the real time acts of Rafael Correa, just as she has been busy lying about U.S. Congressional activities. Ms. Cely is a paid propagandist abusing her diplomatic credentials and access to lie a lot about the facts of Ecuador.

Ms. Cely’s problem is not that she is an incompetent, baby-faced young woman. Her problem is that her entire portfolio exists to lie a lot and cover up for Correa’s cartel crime and his Iranian mergers. She defends Correa only by calling him popular when anyone with a brain knows that Correa buys votes, bribes, extorts, threatens and puts one’s very person and job in danger if not toeing total support for Correa’s rackets.

There is no democracy in Ecuador. There are no freedoms. Rafael Correa is a dictator. Ms. Cely tells us that no Ecuadorean journalist is in jail. But she fails to tell us of Correa’s theft of media companies, his draconian state controls and his insertion of dishonest news services from Iran. Correa has installed censoring and worse: self censoring. Correa now has inserted, thanks to his 9-08 constitution, a regulatory group of communists to control religious beliefs. He already totally controls the media, the courts, all jobs and the military-police complex. Correa is a dictator and a pretty bad one at that. Ms. Cely tells us that if crime in popular, then is should proceed uninhibited. This is the Cely-Correa sickening and debauched position.

Ms. Cely dishonestly lies a lot about Correa’s self coup of 9-30-10 as well. She fails to inform that on the morning of Correa’s staged, bodice-ripping events, he was widely known to have been engaged in a lengthy conference call with both Hugo Chavez and Iran’s Ahmadinejad…a fact which none disclaim. There was no coup against Correa that day. There were angry police and military who experienced Correa’s pledge on their salaries and pensions only to watch him remove that, too….having stripped the military and police of any decent, law abiding leadership while promising to pay them which he promptly broke after buying their souls. The military of Ecuador today and the police are a craven bunch of thugs in general and criminals aiding and abetting human, weapons and drug trafficking at worst. There was no coup on

9-30-10 until Correa’s self-coup later that evening, which killed innocent Ecuadoreans as Correa staged a fake fight against Ecuadoreans to present a fake escape, an escape he never needed nor was he ever a hostage except to his plan to stage his own fake rescue. And the hours ticked by to assemble paid sharp shooters of unknown nationality, probably flown in from Venezuela or worse, from Sucumbios Province where everyone knows the Hezbollah are enjoying Correa’s hospitality, and of a certain terror training background. These killers did kill innocent Ecuadoreans and any who spoke truth to power were threatened or chucked in jail. These are the acts of a dictator and are known as such.

Currently, the vapid, dishonest United Nations team is purportedly reviewing the 9-30-10 events. Without a doubt, the UN will remind us why that organization is deeply dishonest. The UN team will never consider the facts of 9-30-10….only the cover up of what occurred that day. Seen any ballistics reviews? Seen any hour by hour of Correa’s phone calls with Mahmoud and Chavez? Seen any facts that Correa was not hurt….he was doing morphine for his knee caps, trying to hide the pain from his incompetent knee surgery in Cuba. Worse yet, Correa flew in paid killers to Quito who staged a gun battle. Seen any data bout who they were and where they came from and why? Do you know the identities and nationalities of the paid sharp shooters? And what weapons they used? Men and women died that night. Some innocents are chucked in prison. El Universo ran one piece about this and got sued for its words….and at a price which will shut down that newspaper unless stopped. With Correa owning and controlling about 95% of all Ecuadorean media today….and the few remaining media outlets he does not fully own frightened out of their wits, there exists no liberty in Ecuador and certainly no democracy and no free speech. Everything that Correa does ruins lives and this is no less than some of his worst. And now baby-faced Cely comes to lie a lot about that too. Only she is clever enough to throw in, for good measure, her unending and gratuitous political support of Barack Hussein Obama, her new best friend and ardent supporter for her lies, her disgrace and her criminality. Already Ms. Cely has attacked US Congresspersons as liars if and only if they are Republicans. Ms. Cely has already commenced her war of attrition by happily stating that Ecuador does not have nor mine uranium and any who so say are liars. Ms. Cely’s actual nuanced words remain on the record so awful, so dishonest and so misleading that we know as this is being posted that she needs to go away and take her Iranian portfolio and her operatives with her. You understand her dishonest push as operative.

And if these criminal acts by Correa in a land called Ecuador with no due process under law, no elected or appointed officials, no church, no educator, no media not under his total control makes him popular, then Ecuadoreans are over the edge and into the realm of utterly debauched souls who deserve what they get. But just because lazy, useless Ecuadoreans think that lying, killing and stealing of and for the state is a good thing, it does not make it a good thing. Indeed, the crimes remain, popular or not. Ms. Cely wants to justify crime. She has been doing this for some years now and her paid script writers are good but they are still liars and they are still in existence to defraud.

Just because Obama’s own Soros man, Dan Restrepo in the White House has coordinated a full black out of facts about Ecuador to defraud the American public, in no way does this mean that Ecuadoreans have no right to state the facts as well. It just makes it harder but no one ever promised that terminating lazy, manipulative Ecuadorean practices would be easy. And now they come for you, too and now Ecuador has an ambassador to the USA who is a paid liar and deceiver.

We hope Ms. Cely presses ahead and exposes her disgusting and unacceptable portfolio and that she is soon kicked out of the USA, never to return. We hope that she and Rafael Correa simply go and live in Havana for all eternity in a beggar’s hell for they deserve this. Better yet, we hope they move permanently to their new partner state of Iran and enjoy all that they support. And lest we forget, Correa has never ended his working love with Russian mobsters and the FARC. And now he is….Iran’s new boy toy.

And for the record, Ms. Cely….yes indeed….you and your Correa team are drug king pins and you are state sponsors of terror. And yes, data exists to prove this whether you like it or not.

Correa and Cely tell us that the Ayatollahs and Mahmoud are popular in Iran and that Iran is a great democracy. Ecuador is now a proxy with Iran. What is next-? Muslim prayer services inside the U.S. Embassy of Ecuador? How many Iranian murderers and agents are Correa and Cely processing and running north,as they do daily with weapons, drugs and human beings ….these paid killers and Iranian agents they take in as Mustaffa and turn out as Menendez? How many? And why?

Correa and Cely are agents of Iran and nothing that Barack Hussein Obama says or does as he embraces these agents of Iran serves mankind.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

Ecuador’s Mandatory Iranian Religious Freedom-Ending Laws: Their Deathly Hallows of Shari’a Have Come for You, Too

2012-01-22T21:03:52Z

January 21, 2012 With the formerly called Republic of Ecuador fast sinking its own principles and deleting any semblance of honesty, integrity or functioning, open and accountable government- which does not exist in Ecuador under president Correa, any person of conscience is about to be corralled in to a very unpleasant place…a mirror of the anti- Iranian opposition. We wish good luck on that, knowing well that Correa’s best proxy mate of Iran suffers no dissent, no free speech and an unending addiction to destroying Western Civilization and female clitorises. To be sure, the Iranian ambassador to Ecuador, when asked of the Iranian mandatory by law [or else] surgery on young girls merely shrugged and quipped `oh well, no one is perfect.’ As if. Ecuador, now merged with Iran is not perfect. In fact, the evil is oozing out of Carondelet. …for whom you do now work.

Ecuador has a serious problem. Actually it has two real problems. Ecuador is now fully in bed with shari’a law Shiites of Iran and Ecuador’s governmental portfolio is now actively engaged in lying to the world about its money making off Iran’s criminality. It looks as if Ecuador is a paid agent of Iran. What is happening is that Ecuador’s so called diplomats are now paid agents to advocate for Iran and to cover up Iran’s activities. As day follows night, this is a stubborn and bad bad bad transformation. AS Harry Potter would say, these are Deathly Hallows.

But while most Ecuadoreans vapidly and with full mental disorders flying posit that oh well, Iran is not perfect but Correa loves Iran and so….if we complain, we will not enjoy our statist hand outs and gifts nor will we be assured that we will have a job tomorrow or be chucked in jail.

Matters are worse than this. The fake and utterly debauched and depraved members of the so called Ecuadorean assembly, aka its kangaroo legislature, to a man and woman proclaim that the 9-08 constitution of Ecuador is fabulous. It is not fabulous. It is a full blown piece of garbage, a cancer which gifts Ecuadoreans no freedom but rather secures the end of freedom. That impossibly aberrant constitution declares a fake fat goddess as Ecuador’s polytheistic clap trap state religion. That is OK you muse to worship Pachamama over the Judeo Christian tenants. Great you think. Do some more drugs, stop working and be an alcoholic, dysfunctional and useless in your days. And don’t forget to thank Pachamama.

But eventually they do come for you. And your days are known as days of disgrace and dishonor. Correa will now regulate all personal thought. Correa and Iran call this bringing peace to the nation. They call this religious freedom. Under Correa and Iran’s religious freedom regulations, there is no religious freedom. Actually there is no freedom left whatsoever in Ecuador.

Here is the beginning of your end on this planet, depositing you along with Correa’s cousin, the very corrupt Iranian money mover and maker Pedro Delgado who glides in and out of Iran with more stealth than Correa has sex. To be sure, the entire government of Ecuador is fully engaged in a total campaign, sometimes called asymmetrical warfare, to cover up and lie with each breath it takes about its proxy/merger with Iran, making one know that the agents of the government of Ecuador are agents of Iran and all that this brings. Iran does not come to serve mankind. Iran comes to skewer mankind. Iran suffers no religious freedoms nor any freedom.

Ecuador is in ruins. It is under Correa and Cuba and Iran a cess pool. Ecuador is a racket.

You are now all agents of Iran. Rise up and defend your honor as a free person, not an Iranian proxy. They have already come for you. Throw out this evil and shut the door on Pandora’s Box.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

Correa: Wrong on Iran, Wrong on All He Does

2012-01-22T20:50:02Z

January 19, 2012 Hiding as the Correa administration does behind the skirts of its own factual black outs and ignorant self-delusions to self enrich, the merry band of Correa racketeers pretend that they are loved, they are wildly popular and their only problem is that evil open media, that evil free speech, those evil judges they do not already control, the evil police – the few- not fully under Correa’s total control. And Correa also blames schools for not fully instructing grades 6 to 12 on Iran’s special Shi’ite cult of evil. Correa blames any fact finding mission as evil for in Correa’s land, facts are evil. Facts, he enthuses, do not help poor people: only lies and the denial of any liberty help the poor. Of course Correa runs a criminal racket which should be ended.

President Correa has merged Ecuador with Iran. He is a state sponsor of terror. Correa also aids and abets the FARC and soon enough you will note that many of the Al Qaeda and Taliban actors will be staying around just a bit more on their unending glorification of evil using Ecuador for their pass- throughs to terror. Already scores of Hezbollah and Mexican cartels move freely through Correa’s Ecuador.

Correa’s mandatory Islamic curricula in all schools, now can be called establishing madrassas- by the state- in Ecuador. Correa can also be correctly noted as furthering Shari’a law and shari’a banking for terror. Correa needs to go. He and his minions are not candidates for rehab.

Andy McCarthy correctly writes today of the Iran-backed terror-doing, burka mandating, clitoris cutting Taliban, “By quite consciously accommodating and protecting an international terrorist organization that was at war with the United States, the Taliban joined al-Qaeda and became an enemy of the United States. It was thus every bit as much a part of al-Qaeda’s attacks on the U.S. as was al-Qaeda itself. That is not only how war works, it is a straightforward application of the criminal-law principles — a conspirator and an aider-and-abettor is responsible for the actions of his confederates.”

Taken correctly, this should also read: “ Ecuador quite consciously accommodates and protects international terrorist organizations at war with the USA and other nations which they do not already own….This is not only how war works, it is a straightforward application of the criminal-law principles.. a conspirator and an aider-and-abettor is responsible for the actions of his confederates.”

McCarthy denounces US congressman Ron Paul, the saint of muisguided libertarians, he who gives libertarians the brand of stupid. Nonetheless, it should not go without saying that George Soros funds the dishonest Ron Paul who is himself a misguided missile of messy lies.

Do you know how much money Correa is spending to secure an exemption from Iran sanctions by Obama? Do you know how many are paid today to accomplish this feat of paying for that which they do not deserve? Ask.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

Obama Credentials Correa’s Pro-Iran Agent Cely..Already Lying to the U.S. Government

2012-01-19T13:44:56Z

January 19, 2012 In the blink of an eye, Ms. Cely, now a credentialed plenipotentiary for no reason, trumpeted her success across Ecuadorean media. Yesterday we called her an agent of Iran because she is aiding and abetting, as is her government and her embassy team, in the proliferation of Iranian activities even as she openly lies about this while attacking, sotto voce, U.S. Republicans who are terribly worried about Iran’s build up in this hemisphere….as all sane persons should be.

But time and tides have moved along. No longer should sane persons be, as Mrs. Clinton has urged, “worried” about Iran and its evil. Iran’s evil must be shut down. Full stop.

Ms. Cely has no portfolio but to advocate for the “Love Bomb” from Iran…even as she will be unwelcome anywhere in the USA except with pro-Iran actors even as she was remarkably gifted with a photo op inside the Oval Office of Obama and not just the standard diplomatic rooms of the White House. Not that Obama cares.

Formally, Ms. Cely has directed her Embassy to issue formal declarations of fact which were not factual and remain completely dishonest and misleading about Ecuador’s participation in supplying Iran with uranium.

Last week, president Obama ordered the end of U.S. uranium production in Arizona on false grounds. This of course gifts Andean uranium production with a serious market boost as Bolivia, Venezuela and Ecuador assist in Iran’s uranium production, cradle to grave, now with unfair market advantages and no one reporting the facts since Obama’s team has forcefully blacked out usable data regarding Iran in Latin America, still teasing with their “we are worried” lines of dishonesty.

Ms. Cely has already gone too far in her patent dishonesty but she, as a well- trained acolyte of her mentor Ivonne abdel Baki and her son Muhammad, is on track to be removed. She should never have been credentialed and she should have her credentials yanked and the entire embassy in Washington closed.

Note too the pressure from U.S. Department of State “diplomats” to rush Adam Namm, their pet tool, into service in Quito. Mr. Namm should not be credentialed either. Ecuador does not warrant restoration of U.S. diplomatic relations and after last week’s patently obvious merger of Ecuador with Iran, Mr. Namm arrives on the Want List with the same bona fides as sending Hillary’s favorite hair colorist to Caracas. Obama’s acts in Latin America are a disgrace and causes harm to the USA. The U.S Department of State, under tools Roberta Jacobson and Tom Shannon, have all entered the Twilight Zone of dishonesty. Did Tom or Roberta once- just once- hand over fact based due diligence on the Ecuador portfolio? Of course not. They have failed in their duties. And now Cely, it seems, is lobbying to install Namm, her pal, post haste. For her part, Cely is already busy….and will use and abuse her USA funding pass through account and fact denier chump Namm, to sell the tall tale [called a lie] that her boss president Correa has only been misunderstood about his total control of Ecuador’s open media and speech AND that Correa deserves $billions in USA gifts. Cely tells us that Correa is innocent of any wrong-doing. Of course she does. And she is just getting started because….because there was no fact based analysis about Ecuador for 3 years, because the U.S. State Department failed to do its job and has defrauded the U.S. public and Congress about Ecuador’s cartel completions with Iran and failed to be honorable. What we do not yet comprehend is why….why this mafia of leftists called team Obama does what it does. We do comprehend why Correa does what evil he does but Obama is under the USA system which demands checks and balances, clearly not applied for reasons we do not comprehend.

Comes Ms. Cely today to inform us that Correa is right to seize free speech and open media in Ecuador. All the fools from Guayaquil who stupidly believed she would be their direct line to reforming Correa are ingloriously idiotic once again. Cely, the plenipotentiary, is too busy tipping off Correa and Mahmoud while actively lying about their evil, now partnered.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

Cely asume como embajadora ante Barack Obama

The Obama Credentialing of Iranian Agent: Ecuador’s Cely as Plenipotentiary

2012-01-18T14:00:01Z

January 18, 2012 Numerous folks have told us that Ecuadorean president Correa’s hand picked plenipotentiary of Ecuador to the United States of America is slated to be credentialed tonight in a White House ceremony with U.S. president Obama. This seemingly unimportant event should not go one step further. Ms. Cely has already been caught in the act of lying to and about U.S. members of Congress as her portfolio is of course to protect and defend Iran. In other words, Obama is about to welcome and celebrate Ms. Cely…a rank agent for Iran.

Ms. Cely is a useful tool of Correa’s, a well known liar and enabler of Iran’s progress in the Americas. She is a well trained acolyte of Ivonne abdel Baki and her son Muhammad. Already at the helm in Washington, without credentials, Ms. Cely is now known for her feral lies against U.S. Republicans, the U.S. media and her abject lies to convince the U.S. Congress that Correa’s Ecuador exists in partnership with Iran only to “serve mankind,” to secure the peace and “help the poor.” Nothing in what Ms. Cely and her entire embassy staff of well trained liars is anything but….lies even as she dispatches her well trained liars expressly to lie to the U.S. Congress, lie to the public and secure more accounts for Correa’s criminal cartel.

No one- no one at all – should credential Ms. Cely and her minions of dishonesty.

Should this incredibly dishonest effort by team Obama continue, an effort based on the singular goal of aiding and abetting Iran’s proxy state Ecuador while barring all facts and data about Ecuador to the U.S. public [called fraud], we submit that here is a preview of what Ms. Cely will enjoy at her ceremony tonight: Obama’s Alice in Wonderland false face of solemnity while defrauding the U.S. public and installing a young woman whose acts already indicate her preferred profession as agent of Iran to cause harm to the USA.

Here is the Obama White House…in celebratory costuming as a preview of the Cely credentialing ceremony

We say this: Ms. Cely’s ceremony today has all the seriousness….and all the integrity of Obama’s 2009 romp with fantasy figures of the dead and mythical.

We also say this: de facto or de jure….Ms. Cely is today an agent of Iran, by her very acts, and she will be credentialed very soon as plenipotentiary to lie and defraud the U.S. public. Obama is held responsible for this. He can suspend this affrontery.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

Chevron’s De-Frauders, called the U.S. Democratic Party, N.Y. Pension Fund Bettors and Kennedy Family, Flourish in Ecuador

2012-01-15T15:09:37Z

January 15, 2012 What is it with The U.S. Democratic Party and its favorite sons and daughters, currently masking….defrauding the U.S. and Ecuadorean public regarding the horrifying scope and depth of Ecuadorean corruption and mergers with Iran, Hezbollah and the FARC, to make a lot of money fraudulently off the USA’s second largest company?

Why is Ecuador so easily seduced by scam artists and U.S. liberals? The answer is not as complex as you may think and reveals a racket enjoined by global liberals and politicians insisting on their right to make money by fraud.

ECrisis has long maintained that the anti-Chevron case is a scam, now run by untaxed, unknown hedge funders and U.S. state pension fund bettors to steal money from Chevron.

Ecuador has long attracted the Kennedy off spring: Kerry Kennedy who is currently defrauding the public about Chevron, Robert Kennedy is godparent to populist “banana” Noboa of the purchased females and cocaine sniffing tales plus former Democratic congressman Joe Kennedy, last seen making a lot of money with Hugo Chavez’s dirty oil in black communities, called 100% voters for the U.S. Democrats. Most tell us that president Correa’s so called 90% exports to the USA from Ecuador is his heavy, dirty crude….imported to the USA but is actually sent only to be refined at Chavez’s heavy crude refineries before being shipped right back out….duty free and at a reduced price….to China and Correa’s hand picked spot oil traders who make unfair market advantages from Correa’s duty and tariff free oil.

We have a hard time forgiving the NEW YORK POST for stating that Ecuador is in Central America. We have an even worse time wondering why Governor Cuomo [D-New York] does not stop his terribly compromised anti-Chevron lobbyist former bride from acting to cause harm to a U.S. business, also called racketeering. Just as the Kennedy-Cuomo-Clinton team blacked out mortgage backed securities derivatives scams, the Kennedy-Cuomo- Clinton team blacks out all Ecuadorean scams, much to the benefit of the George Soros world of betting Leftists..

It remains that as Secretary of HUD under Clinton, a massive U.S. mortgage finance scam moved forward. Cuomo’s liar in chief at HUD is now the anti-Chevron liar in chief…not to mention his former wife and his current NY comptroller. Then again, U.S. Secretary of State Clinton and team Obama have deemed Ecuador, now merged with Iran, as a great ally of the USA and continues to pour $billions annually in to Ecuador from U.S. taxpayers based on no data and with no oversight. All this aids and abets the anti-Chevron and pro-Iran fraudsters, also called agents of racketeering.

If you have ever wondered WHY the Obama team and his Democrats are never honest about Ecuador, look no further than the Soros and the anti Chevron actors. This effort exists to defraud.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis
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Updated: Sun., Jan. 15, 2012,

Cuomo's ex Kennedy stands to make $40M in secret anti-oil deal
By ANNIE KARNI

Last Updated: 6:18 AM, January 15, 2012

Posted: 1:10 AM, January 15, 2012

Professional do-gooder Kerry Kennedy — Gov. Cuomo’s ex-wife and the daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy — has called the oil-drilled rain forests of Ecuador “the biggest corporate environmental disaster on the face of the Earth, in the history of the world.”... Continue reading here.

Correa & Iran Backers/Liars Pressed to Terminate Portfolios: Boggs, Soros, US AID Scamsters Across Ecuador Urged to Get Out or Be Exposed

2012-01-15T14:59:28Z

January 15, 2012 Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa extorts human beings. He pays a lot of bribes. He exhausts sensible people with his full court press of hatred, dirty tricks, lies and manipulations. Correa calls this diplomacy. We call it some of the most evil dirty tricks we have seen outside Iran.

Then again, Cuban communist ALBA Ecuador and Iran have merged. All who work for Correa’s Ecuador, and every single soul who covers up for Correa, is a liar and is now an agent of Iran. This of course is no compliment to the utterly depraved U.S. Department of State which has defrauded the U.S. public through its $ billions of lies to hide Correa’s criminal malfeasance and disgusting criminality, now openly operating with Iran and Cuba. You know this because not once in three years has the U.S. government- or any other government- reported factually about Ecuador.

Soon.

Soon enough the course of human events finally reveals some facts….facts blacked out today under the three most deadly sins of dishonesty: that Iran and Cuban communism simply exists to help the poor. The poor are never aided by crime.

Soon enough the Obama administration and the Correa administration will be exposed for their racketeering which began with data hiding, fact burying and now full throated monetary crimes. These schmucks lie to the U.S. congress and worse- to the U.S. public. The U.S. Congress has only itself to blame for accepting Mrs. Clinton and Ecuador’s lies, pre-packaged as they remain by hard Left contractors and Correa lobbyists who have teamed to defraud for three years. That the U.S. Congress seems to enjoy defrauding the public second hand is bad enough. But the U.S. citizens cannot get an honorable review out of any of them.

Why does this matter? It matters because the perfect storm of criminal racketeering is not diplomacy and does defraud the publics. Nothing good ever comes out of this.

Soon enough, the minions of Correa’s racketeering….the Tommy Boggses of this planet, the Hundreds of Soros groups operating daily in Ecuador with U.S. tax dollars and now running total control of Ecuador’s oil, gas and mining grid will be known for what they are: partners in crime. Today they are partnered with Iran. Soon the U.S. public will demand to know just why the U.S. taxpayers must gift this dirty Ecuadorean racket of Correa and Iran and Soros billions each year with no accountability and dishonestly called “trade” and “democracy building” when nothing of the sort occurs, unless one enjoys calling criminal human trafficking as trade.

Follow the reports below. Ask yourself what you are going to do about all this?

- Pedro Camargo for ECrisis
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A look inside the mysterious Venezuelan-Iranian gunpowder plant

Casto Ocando - Univision January 14, 2012

While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday concluded his two-day visit to Venezuela, a secret team of technicians and military officials from both countries were putting the final touches on one of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces’ (FABN) most protected military installations, one surrounded by mystery.

The facility is a gunpowder manufacturing plant, whose construction is believed to be already completed and is expected to be operational early this year, according to official sources.

Located in the city of Moron, the petrochemical hub in central Venezuela, and under construction since 2006 with an initial budget of about $14 million, the plant was announced by President Hugo Chávez as part of a series of agreements between Venezuela and Iran signed during an Ahmadinejad visit in September 2006 to Caracas.

“Iran is going to help us set up a gunpowder factory and primers for ammunition that is imported because we’ve been kept in the backlog,” said Chávez, making reference to the US military embargo on Venezuela.

Yet, the true purpose of the Venezuelan-Iranian plant may be a bit more than simple manufacturing of gunpowder for munitions.

According to documents and drawings reviewed by Univision News, the plant was designed by the Iranian firm Parchin Chemical Industries (PCI), a subsidiary of Defense Industries Organization (DIO), the conglomerate controlled by the Iran Defense Ministry. PCI is believed to play a key role in the Iranian nuclear program, currently under heavy sanctions from the international community.

According to the documents, the project was commissioned to PCI by the Venezuelan Company of Military Industries (Cavim), under the code name of Bahman, the eleventh month of the Iranian civil calendar.

The plant’s purpose, according to the documents, is the manufacture of “ball powder,” a type of gunpowder that is used as a trigger for a wide range of weapons, from commercial rifles and pistols to 120 mm mortars and missiles for military use.

According to experts, PCI plays a key role in the Iranian weapons program. The firm was founded in 1939 and produces missiles in a facility located around 20 miles southwest of Tehran. Supervisors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have paid several visits to Parchin to determine whether or not it’s part of the Iranian nuclear program, according to Global Security, a non-government organization based in Alexandria, Virginia.

PCI was included in the June 2005 list of entities designated as “proliferators of weapons of mass destruction” by the United States, under Executive Order 13382, specifically because it “deals in chemicals used in ballistic missile programs.”

It also was included in the list of firms and individuals sanctioned by United Nations resolution 1747 in 2007, due to its links to the Iranian missile program, specifically for the manufacture of chemicals used as “solid propellants for rockets and missiles.”

In 2008, two years after the announcement of the Venezuelan-Iranian cooperation to manufacture ball powder in Moron, Cavim was sanctioned by the State Department, because of the company’s alleged cooperation with the proliferation of weapons and equipment to or from Iran.

In May 2011, Cavim was to be sanctioned again, alongside other companies, by the U.S. government under the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Act, because “there was credible information indicating that they had transferred to or acquired from Iran, North Korea, or Syria equipment and technology listed on multilateral export control lists (Australia Group, Chemical Weapons Convention, Missile Technology Control Regime, Nuclear Suppliers Group, Wassenaar Arrangement) or otherwise having the potential to make a material contribution to WMD or cruise or ballistic missile systems.”

Several questions linger on the subject. For instance, has PCI shared advanced missile technology that would enable Hugo Chávez’s regime to produce and operate long-range missiles? It’s been confirmed that among the agreements with Chávez, Ahmadinedad has transferred technology to Cavim for the manufacturing of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones.

There’s little doubt the sanctions imposed by the U.S. and U.N. against Cavim were triggered, in part, by its relationship with PCI, whose most important details are unknown to the public.

According to experts in Venezuela, the military cooperation between Caracas and Tehran, has always been marked by secrecy.

“The military relationship between Iran and Venezuela has been completely opaque,” said Rocio San Miguel, an expert who chairs Control Ciudadano, a civil organization that monitors the military sector in Venezuela.

“The military agreements are kept secret, and the public parts of those agreements are very general, and do not say much of what’s being agreed upon,” said San Miguel in an interview with Univision News.

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January 15, 2012

Strait of Hormuz in Greater Context
By Arash Irandoost

In 2011 Congress pressured the Obama administration to take a tougher stance on Iran than President Obama has been willing, this time against Iran's Central Bank. Publicly Iran remains defiant and claims that sanctions will have no effect. Privately, however, the regime is panicked and has mobilized its lobbyists and apologists to persuade the international community to delay implementation of the sanctions claiming the restrictions will hurt diplomatic attempts to engage Iran. We must see through the IRI and its lobbyist' propaganda.... Continue reading here.

Iran and Ecuador Wage War Against Christian Civilization

2012-01-14T14:28:31Z

January 14, 2012 Iran’s Victory Lap of its Latin American ALBA nation unity trip is an unacceptable assault on Western civilization, with Rafael Correa of Ecuador fully married to Iran’s evil effrontery to mankind.

If you do not comprehend the evil that these two interdependent doers of evil portend, we advise you to join the dust bin of history- all those who refused to stand for Western civilization. More efficacious is a commitment to never give in, never surrender to evil in our midst.

Listen to Winston Churchill’s entreaties to do all one can to save Christian civilization:

“The battle for Christian civilization is about to begin….the light of the world may move forward. But if we fail, then the whole world …will sink in to the abyss of a new dark age …” here.

In its partnering with Iran, Ecuador has just declared war on man’s highest liberties.

Iran’s sign of peace is a lie. Iran wants peace only by total denial of man’s gift of liberty.

Here is the real V sign:

Winston Churchill giving his famous 'V' sign

Where is your Churchill? While it would be great for Churchill to walk among us, know this: he does. His words have always been with us. Each of us must carry forward the light of the word of truth in this world or sink in to the abyss of the new Dark Age.

Watch THE VALIANT YEARS , a six part series, on the life of Churchill here.

Churchill said: brace yourself to your duty.

-PedroCamargo for ECrisis

Iran and Ecuador Sing the Love Bomb Song To Serve Man

2012-01-14T14:21:25Z

January 14, 2012 Iran’s president Ahmedinejad and Ecuador’s president Correa on Thursday held a joint press conference in Quito to jointly announce their plans for peace: Iran’s love bomb. The pair, after a five hour meeting, announced that Iran exists only to bring peace and love. Incredulously, the duo told us all that Iran’s bombs are wonderful bombs of love not war and that makind is served with this love to help the poor. In fact, the public was told that Iran’s intention is peaceful as noted here in their joint address announcing the Love Bomb here.

The pariah duo are remarkably, stubbornly dishonest in all they say and do. Why these men, both state sponsors of terror, are still paid to lie a lot to the public, we do not know.

But you can sing along to their LOVE BOMB song with the old TV series song, the Love Boat theme.

Of course that TV show, which was a fantasy show, was more realistic than Mahmoud and Correa’s joint claim that Iran is a peaceful, happy place and that Correa and Mahmoud are just selling love and worse yet… just helping the poor...

Correa’s cartel government, which despises the USA in every sense, feeds its offshore accounts with criminal acts, and is still gifted in the $ billions with U.S. tax dollars, states that at least 30+ contracts /treaties/agreements exist with Iran. Correa’s Ecuador is never honest about its behaviors and always dishonest. Nothing from Ecuador is accountable, transparent or respectable. The Cuban communist ALBA constitutions gift Ecuador and the almost dozen [1/3 of Latin American nations and growing] with the right and the duty to meld with Cuba and Iran while lying like dogs and self enriching with global vermin.

Worse yet, the Embassy of the Government of Ecuador which is busy with its Iranian-paid uranium mines, issued this in-your-face lie from its terribly dishonest “Albadinejad” Embassy in Washington, which should be shut down and none credentialled:

“ECUADOR DOES NOT HAVE URANIUM Ecuador has not discovered any evidence of uranium deposits that would attract commercial interest for exploitation. For this reason Ecuador has not initiated any exploration or prospecting for uranium on its territory, nor would it be possible to reach an agreement with any nation for the exploitation of that mineral.

Statements given in this regard by some media outlets, are wrong, and have not support and generate unnecessary confusion.”

Washington DC, January 12, 2012

Correa’s Iranian merged Ecuador is reminded for the last time that it is still a crime to lie to the U.S. Congress, as it does and to slander the public. Note the misleading/lying formal disclaimer in their propaganda: “ uranium deposits which would attract commercial interest for exploitation.” We are cognizant that this is a lie to steer one away from the fact that Iran has paid for the exclusive uranium mining in Ecuador, which of course has uranium mines and does run, with Correa’s military, a full, clandestine Iran-use only mining in Ecuador to assist Iran with its aggressive uranium enriching efforts unimpeded. Correa’s dishonest embassy exists only to defraud the American public and states that some “media” generates unnecessary confusion. We state that Ecuador’s failed, dishonest….fake tales and fake diplomacy exists only to lie to the public and governments, to generate unnecessary dishonesty. And Ecuador’s media today-? Ecuador has stolen or inserted almost 95% total media control in Ecuador while inserting Iranian media 24/7 which always generates dishonesty.

Far more honest than singing the LOVE BOMB song is this take off of the Iranian bomb making activities: The bomb.

Iran lies each and every day, with the full force of its evil. Iran and Correa tell us that Iran comes only to serve mankind with peace and love…to help the poor.

Iran comes to serve mankind all right: skewered, gutted and roasted.

Watch here the old, 1962 Science Fiction TV show, The Twilight Zone as outsiders sell their propaganda that they come only “To Serve Mankind” and help the poor. And the new manifesto “To Serve Man” is…a cookbook. …mankind going from dust to dessert, the ingredients of Iran’s catastrophic soup.

Rafael Correa deserves removal from office for his treason in Ecuador as, among numerous notable crimes, Iran’s latest proxy nation, merged with Iran, and Iran warrants removal of all its dirty deals and actors in the South American nations, its evil proxies now. Correa invites Ecuador and its supporters and funders to state sponsored jihadist suicide…skewered, gutted and roasted. There will be no virgins in heaven for these agents of evil.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

Iran’s Victory Lap with Its Proxy: Correa’s Ecuador

2012-01-14T14:11:48Z

January 13, 2012 The nation of Correa’s Ecuador gave Iran full state honors on January 12, 2012 indicating its formal, sovereign to sovereign nation merger. In other words, Ecuador is a proxy of Iran. Ecuador is a state sponsor of terror.

While Correa’s state remains completely closed off with no accountability and certainly nothing remotely indicating honesty, we do not know how much money was spent on Mahmoud’s Ecuadorean visit- his Victory Lap to show to the world his latest proxy state Ecuador. The security was heavy, brave protesters and journalists denied free speech, airports were shuttered, media- state owned- were poised and positioned to capture every glorious moment and of course exclude the fully blacked out Mrs. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Also blacked out were the numerous, additional agreements reached with Iran and Correa. Also blacked out were Mahmoud’s words inside the Ecuadorean Assembly last night. In fact, correct, fact based analysis of Iran and Ecuador is still blacked out.

As The Washington Post quickly changed its original piece of 1-12-12 from a headline that correctly stated, “Ahmadinejad Trip to Ecuador: A Meeting of International Pariahs” to a more soothing headline…removing any hint that Rafael Correa’s Ecuador is honestly deemed a pariah state with Ian, we are sadden by the failure of the POST team to stand against intense lobbying by the government of Ecuador through its minions of dishonesty called the U.S. Department of State. Contrary to the fraudulent claims by the Obama administration, Ecuador is an Iranian merged pariah.

Almost laughable are the so called Opposition members to Correa: Paco Moncayo and his merry band of self enriching idiotic, pro-Cuban socialists. It is not that anyone who worked so long and hard to install Cuban communism, called the ALBA state of Ecuador and made so much money off state deals or US AID are dirty, for they are, but the problem is that these morally compromised fake opposition power-grabbers have no moral legitimacy whatsoever except in the minds of idiots such as the majority of the legal community in Guayaquil which has yet to figure out what has happened to Ecuador.

Fully commendable is Blasco Junior’s statements in defense of free trade, capitalism, the USA, Western Civilization and the Jewish heritage…all items which Correa and his brother Mahmoud want dead and buried. But the ever deceptive Paco Moncayo says nothing of this nor the fact that every single ALBA nation now has united to defend any attacks against Iran.

They like to tell us that they just need the money. No one needs blood money for selling hatred. Blasco seems to be growing up and deserves commendations: Click here and here.

Why in all this do we state the fact that Blasco is a freedom lover and Paco Moncayo and his boys and girls are not? We say this because no man can love God and Mammon both.

Freedom is never allowed with Cuban Marxism. Freedom will not be yours ever under ALBA although Moncayo and his merry band of manipulators so say. These persons are frauds.

Blasco is telling the truth.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

Iran’s Uranium: Source Code + Shipping Ports?

2012-01-08T21:17:33Z

January 8, 2012 Even as Ecuador’s Correa and his Fraud Squad was announcing on Friday his total support for Iran’s “sovereign right” to sustain its greatest erection: global terror and an astonishingly dishonest state religion cum governance, we continue to ask: what about Iran’s uranium?

Moreover we will still ask: will Correa and the Obama U.S. Department of State continue to lie to the world that it does not matter one iota that scores of uranium shipments have departed the Andes for Iran ….no, they lie this matters not because it is not enriched. And just what in the name of all that is holy do these liars in the Andes, in Iran and the Obama fools think Iran is doing with all their uranium? And what is Obama’s new ally Argentina doing selling Iran a nuclear reactor, along with Iran being its largest trading partner?

Let us spell out the lies from the governments of Iran, the USA and Ecuador: Iran buys uranium to enrich it. You know this and we know that you know this so please….stop lying about Iran.

We are still laughing at Obama’s State Department on 1-6-12 claiming that Iran is just desperately seeking friends in Latin America. This dishonesty however fraudulent contains large scale humor. Laughably, the Obama idiots fail, as do all Latins, to be cognizant of the fact that Iran wants no friends. Iran has no friends. Iran buys proxies and uses nations and groups to spread evil. To be sure, many- if not most Ecuadoreans today accept that friends are only those who buy you. Like marriages of convenience, these dishonest relationships conveniently never ever satisfy honesty. Worse yet- Iran is in a state of totalitarian control over all its own and its paid proxies. Your only way out, as Iran sees it, is death.

Comes today new reports that the US Department of State is strongly detailing the problems of being Iran’s friends to Latin nations. We do not believe this for one second since the Obama team has never said one thing effectively in Latin America and has no credibility about anything, having sold out long ago as for example did Tom Shannon in Brazil, to the manipulative Sorosites currently commandeering not only the White House but all of Brazil.

Nonetheless, derivatives bettors and hedgers are laying down their bets regarding Iran attacks.

Something is very wrong about all this.

Far better to denounce evil in our days. There will be no salvation from derivatives boys and certainly no salvation by lying and manipulating all around you.

Today, the government of Ecuador through its Washington embassy is breaking U.S. law by dispatching its own to knowingly lie to the U.S. government about its relationship with Iran.

The Obama White House knows this and we know that they know this. Will the U.S. Department of State revoke their plenipotentiary welcome mat or continue, as they have for 3 years to co-fund and cover up Ecuador’s vast criminality while defrauding the American public, now in bed with Iran.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis

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Iran’s Victory Lap in its Proxy: Correa’s Ecuador.

2012-01-08T18:57:46Z

Iran Comes Not to Consolidate but to Celebrate Victory in Ecuador

January 4, 2012 ECrisis reminds you that each and every single time that the government of Ecuador, almost every single Latin American nation and certainly the Obama Administration in Washington, D.C., who are quite active in South America, tells you that Ecuador is irrelevant and of no consequence, you know that they are liars. For this is a lie. Ecuador is not as large as the as-yet still unmapped Brazil. Ecuador is a larger land mass that England and has more people and more riches than England which Ecuador’s own current cartel - as all Cuban communist governments do- is so dishonestly and badly managing that no one would know. Moreover, Ecuador has more people than England. The point is that England is in the top 10 of productive nations and in this we are not speaking of the Commonwealth as a whole although Canada and Australia are doing exceptionally well these days.

The huge distinction is that the all British are mostly free, holds due process under law and lives under rule of law [which Ecuador no longer does], and the British government is mostly accountable. In Ecuador, none are free under Correa’s Cuban ALBA constitution and nothing is accountable and certainly nothing is productive.

Ecuador is a rich nation but its domestic corruption has killed its sustainability and cancels all attractions. Ecuador is richer than England but the English enjoy a higher GDP and a higher standard of living. Of course the British have not yet tossed out capitalism yet as Ecuador has done. Nor do the British steal from its own citizens, robbing private businesses in the hundreds and stealing banks, manufacturing, media outlets and human lives. But Ecuador does this as a daily fare and not one entity charged with reporting the facts does so with any detail. The public is de-frauded. History is robbed of details and narrative. This benefits Iran and its proxy, its now-merged organ of evil….Ecuador’s cartel criminals.

Does size matter? What is wrong with a little evil you say? History tells us that size does not matter. But in Ecuador’s case, the nation under Correa likes to pretend it is too small for any to notice. Ecuador is not that small and it matters because all global multilateral nations have gifted Ecuador a full voting power no matter its size or veracity, which is of course non-existent. Ecuador is today a nation of dishonest sods and gangs of liars and manipulators. And this matters very much. But by maintaining the lie that an entire government is so small that its total addiction to lying does not matter remains…..dishonest. Ecuador’s criminality matters very much inasmuch as Ecuador today is completely a proxy of evil, by its own commitment to dishonesty and evil.

No amount of lying, useless fake “development” and “economic contractors from various so called NGOs and US AID’s pro-Iran Marxist shock troops can dispel the basic fact that Ecuador under Correa is a craven cess pool of irrational addictions to dishonest and dysfunctional behavior. Do you wonder why George Soros and his actors of deception adore Correa as they do when Correa is actually repulsively corrupt and thoroughly debauched? Do you not ever wonder why the Obama administration continues to lie a lot about Ecuador, sending $ billions in U.S. tax dollars to help lie a lot about Correa, completely hiding his thorough commitment total dishonesty, while lying to the American people? It is all of a piece and all to assist this nasty little plot of serious evil called Correa’s Ecuador which you alone have helped build. And you are now a proxy of Iran with no way out save the one thing you have shamefully refused to do for a decade: be honorable. Your own children will not call you blessed. They will call you dishonest.

Yesterday we stated that the Ecuadorean and North American media is stubbornly dishonest about Iran’s visit to Ecuador in a few weeks. These liars tell us that Iran comes to “consolidate” its Ecuadorean proxy. This was true 3 years ago. August, 2011 saw Iran expand in to every corner of Ecuadorean life. This January, Iran comes not as a visitor but for its Victory Lap.

Iran is triumphant over Ecuador because Ecuadoreans agree that lying, stealing and manipulating are their hall marks.

No nation long stands as Marxist Mullah totalitarian Iran does or as Ecuador is doing today. No sane support for sponsors of terror can be given. Ecuador has defrauded its own long enough and the USA has defrauded its own citizens long enough about Ecuador. The size and the scope of the totality of this extant fraud has gone too far and it matters very much. Ecuador will see its days played out very badly under its own dishonesty.

Iran’s Victory over Ecuador is the last straw. With all that you own, you must reject this evil and restore functioning liberty to your days. This is a message you will not hear from the thoroughly incompetent manipulators from the U.S. Department of State, today itself installing more and more dirty deals for its own Soros efforts, backed by the U.S White House. Just stop depending on others to do what you should do….and that is: stand your ground, hold fast to ethics and a moral position.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis
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The Wall Street Journal

REVIEW & OUTLOOK
JANUARY 4, 2012
Iranian Strait Talk
A carrier response to Tehran's threats.
If there were a diagnostic list for the symptoms of a regime gone rogue, Iran would tick off every box. Taking hostages? Check. Sponsoring terrorism? Check. Covertly pursuing nuclear weapons? Check. Under international sanctions? Check. Repressing its own people? Another check.

Then there is Iran's threat to the freedom of the seas. "We recommend to the American warship that passed through the Strait of Hormuz and went to the Gulf of Oman not to return to the Persian Gulf," Iranian army chief Ataollah Salehi said Tuesday, adding darkly that "The Islamic Republic of Iran will not repeat its warning." The Iranians have also been conducting naval exercises and test-firing ballistic and cruise missiles.

As Bradley S. Russell and Max Boot write nearby, the last time Tehran interfered with shipping in the Persian Gulf, during the so-called Tanker War of the 1980s, it didn't exactly come out the winner. The "American warship" that Tehran is now threatening, the USS John C. Stennis, is a Nimitz-class carrier whose air wing alone is more capable than the entire Iranian air force. If the mullahs are serious about carrying out their threats, they're dumber than we thought.

All this bluster is almost certainly a reaction to new U.S. sanctions that target Iran's oil trade—60% of the economy—via its central bank. These, finally, are sanctions with real bite, assuming President Obama doesn't use the waiver written into the law to dull their impact.

Meantime, the best response to Iran's threats would be to send an American aircraft carrier back through the Strait of Hormuz as soon as possible, with flags waving and guns at the ready. If it can't be the Stennis, the USS Eisenhower would drive home the message.

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Iran's Hormuz Threat

By Jim Lacey

January 4, 2012 4:00 A.M.

For the past two weeks Iran has committed a sizable portion of its military to rehearsing how it would go about closing the Hormuz Strait. For the most part, strategic analysts yawned, and declared Iranian blustering to be an empty threat. Judging from the oil markets’ relatively muted reaction, it appears that most of the folks who bet big money on what happens in the Persian Gulf share this opinion. So what is this consensus based on? First and foremost, it relies on the belief that the Iranian leadership will make a number of rational calculations and decisions concerning their own and their country’s future. Personally, I am not sure of the wisdom of betting on the rationality of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a few globally disconnected mullahs.... More