marksoc said:
Probably the eggs will go off and the asado will be poisoned with the fumes...don't do it.
I can't tell you how glad I am that Latin American countries are fighting back against U.S.
Psyops, black ops and dirty dealings of every kind. Examples...
--rightwing disinformation campaigns, with the USAID funding faux NGOs (rightwing political organizing groups) and covertly funding rightwing journalists in Venezuela: Venezuela's legislature banned foreign money from the NGOs; don't know what they can do about journalists except to require disclosure and go after them if they're caught lying. (FOIAI requests here come back with all the names redacted, as if the rightwing journalists that the U.S. is funding in Venezuela is a U.S. national security matter.)
--the U.S. embassy funding/organizing a white separatist insurrection in Bolivia in 2008: Evo Morales threw the U.S. ambassador out of the country, with the backing, through UNASUR, of every country in South America; they worked together to defeat that coup against the hugely popular Morales.
--Morales ejecting the DEA, for spying and collusion with the white separatists; Morales' government then legalized the coca leaf (innocent medicinal leaf like marijuana)--to screams of anguish from the corrupt U.S. "war on drugs" establishment.
--Brazil's Lula da Silva absolutely refusing to play the U.S. "divide and conquer" game against Venezuela and rallying the opposition to the U.S. coup d'etat in Honduras.
And now Argentina has caught the U.S. with its pants down, importing guns and drugs that were likely headed to disruption/destabilization groups, or was it just U.S. corruption, which I have little doubt has become endemic in U.S. military/police-state operations in Latin America, as it certainly is in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Based on various spot studies that have been done, I would guess that half--HALF!--of the U.S. tax dollars appropriated for U.S. military operations and military aid around the world are corrupt. So we may be talking about up a trillion dollars just fucking stolen--stolen outright, stolen in goods, stolen by 'contractors' who do nothing, stolen by vastly inflated budgets for doing nothing, stolen for bogus operations like the U.S. "war on drugs" that haven't put even a dent in the hard drug trade, stolen by non-"reconstruction" in Iraq or Afghanistan, stolen every which way, by virtually everybody involved.
I'm glad that Latin American countries are getting vigilant because our government certainly is not. It is run by war profiteers who write their own tickets into our pocketbooks and write their own laws. And we, of course, have been prevented from having anything to say about it by ES&S/Diebold. Congress is a joke (one of the main purposes of the 'TRADE SECRET' voting machines). And President Obama either doesn't know, or can't do anything about it (simply has no power vs the war profiteers), or is swamped with other priorities, or (I hope not) doesn't care. I have to laugh at the budget cutting, currently going on. If they would simply cut the 50% or more fluff and bullshit out of the budgets of every private contractor leeching off the federal government, they could probably put the country in the black.
Go, Argentina! Go, Latin America! And do cherish and protect your democracies!
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