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ALBA summit vetos declaration of Summit of Americas

www.chinaview.cn 2009-04-18

by Alejandra del Palacio

CARACAS, April 17 (Xinhua) — The 7th Presidential Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) concluded on Friday with rejection of the declaration of the Summit of the Americas.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez read a 15-point statement, blaming capitalism for creating the current global economic crisis and criticizing U.S. imperialist policy on Latin America.

Before the Summit of the Americas, scheduled for April 17-19 in Trinidad and Tobago, leaders from Nicaragua, Cuba, Bolivia, Honduras, Venezuela and Dominican Republic formed a common position towards the summit during their meeting in Cumana, capital of Venezuela’s Sucre state.    –more–

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When I read the following I thought it was some kind of radical student group – making a stance for reason and sense.

No it was the leaders of six countries:

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24 April, 2009

‘Capitalism is putting an end to humanity and the planet’

— Derek Wall @ 1:29 pm

Viva Chavez, say I!

‘Capitalism is putting an end to humanity and the planet’ — ALBA on the 5th Summit of the Americas

Translated by Federico Fuentes

Cumaná, April 17, 2009

The heads of state and governments of Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Venezuela — member countries of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA) — consider that the proposed Declaration of the 5th Summit of the Americas is insufficient and unacceptable for the following reasons:

•It offers no answers to the issue of the global economic crisis, despite the fact that this constitutes the largest challenge faced by humanity in decades and the most serious threat in the current epoch to the wellbeing of our peoples.
•Unjustifiably excludes Cuba in a criminal manner, without mentioning the general consensus that exists in the region in favour of condemning the blockade and the isolation attempts, which its people and government have incessantly objected to.
For these reasons, the member countries of ALBA consider that consensus does not exist in favour of adopting this proposed declaration and in light of the above; we propose to have a thoroughgoing debate over the following issues:

1) Capitalism is putting an end to humanity and the planet. What we are living through is a global economic crisis of a systemic and structural character and not just one more cyclical crisis. Those who think that this crisis will be resolved with an injection of fiscal money and with some regulatory measures are very mistaken.

The financial system is in crisis because it is quoting the value of papers at six times the real value of goods and services being produced in the world. This is not a “failure of the regulation of the system” but rather a constitutive part of the capitalist system that speculates with all goods and values in the pursuit of obtaining the maximum amount of profit possible. Until now, the economic crisis has created 100 million more starving people and more than 50 million new unemployed people, and these figures are tending to increasing.

2) Capitalism has provoked an ecological crisis by subordinating the necessary conditions for life on this planet to the dominance of the market and profit. Each year, the world consumes a third more than what the planet is capable of regenerating. At this rate of wastage by the capitalist system, we are going to need two planets by the year 2030.   –more–

HatTip:  http://dispatches.vastleftwingconspiracy.net/?page=2

To make this post because it is ammunition in being anti Israeli would acheive nothing.

But to ask what is going on might be helpful.

A nation raised to lording over ‘inferiors’ then let loose on the world.

It isn’t a case of ‘one bad apple’. It is symptomatic of a widespread malaise.

What state of mind would anyone be in after having served in the Israeli military?

The religious would use the same argument for someone with poor parenting, but they would not address ethnocentricity as a cause.
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Altogether three suspects detained in investigation of traffic accident that killed British police officer

Hagit Klaiman
Published:     04.23.09, 21:41

LONDON – An Israeli tourist was arrested in London Wednesday on suspicion that he was involved in a hit-and-run accident that killed a police officer, Ynet has learned.

The 37-year old officer was traveling home on his motorcycle when, at around 9:30 pm local time, a silver Volkswagen hit him. The accident, which took place in western London, was witnessed by several bystanders.

The driver fled the scene on foot, leaving two female passengers behind. They were interrogated by police and subsequently arrested for interfering with the investigation. The two were later released on bail.

Police then detained three suspects in connection with the case. The suspects were residing at an address in the north of the British capital. They are currently being held at the nearby precinct.

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Morales 22 April 09 addressing UN Earth Day

from the YouTube web site:

Bolivian President Evo Morales addressed the UN General Assembly Wednesday. In a speech marking international Earth Day, Morales criticized former President George W. Bush for supporting a failed coup plot against him last year. He also addressed the controversy surrounding last weeks Bolivian police killing of three people in an alleged assassination plot against him. Morales also discussed the World Bank, which he said is no longer trying to impose privatization as a condition for loans. Bolivian President Evo Morales: Before, the World Bank used to impose conditions on Bolivia in order for us to have access to loans. In the first year of my government, some World Bank representatives came to Bolivia and tried to blackmail me. And I said, OK, if its unconditional help, fine, but if its conditioned on the privatization of basic services, on the privatization of our natural resources, then no.

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PressTV:

‘US not involved in Morales killing plot’

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:56:11 GMT

US President Barack Obama and Bolivian President Evo Morales during the opening ceremony of the 5th Summit of the Americas

US President Barack Obama assures his Bolivian counterpart that “his administration was not involved” with his recent assassination plot.

–PressTV–

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I went to Israel when I thought they wanted peace – it didn’t really work out …

Have had my passport and Drivers licence taken from me since leaving, have met every criminal and deviant since. Wonder what my ID has been used with – how many crimes?

Israeli agents have been arrested in New Zealand and Australia on charges that they were involved in the theft of New Zealand passports

‘You are either for us or against us’

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Israeli nabbed in Trinidad and Tobago

Michael Agronov of Tel-Aviv arrested in Caribbean country for suspicion of involvement in four terror attacks; Israeli Foreign Ministry officials say handling of case by local authorities ‘strange’

Itamar Eichner
Published:     11.08.05

An Israeli has been arrested in Trinidad and Tobago for suspicion of involvement in four terror attacks that have occurred in the Caribbean country over the past month, Israel’s leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Tuesday.

Local police officials said Michael Agronov (26) of Tel-Aviv was arrested last Friday in a hut located in the middle of a forest, where officers found a fake passport stamp, electrical wires, electronic devices and a blowtorch.

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Some weeks later the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago visited Israel:

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There is also evidence that the FBI arrived in Trinidad after the July blast to cover up for the Israelis. Local police complained that the FBI presence was not required and Prime Minister Patrick Manning said he was unaware that anyone had requested help from the FBI at the time. In cases where local police and federal agents detained Israeli agents snooping around sensitive industrial and military facilities in the United States, the FBI quickly had them transferred to their control whereupon they were hurriedly deported from the United States. In some cases, deported Israelis have returned to the United States.

Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and nationally-distributed columnist.  –source–

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A typical day – (of murder)

in a far off land

We are the infidels

From the horses mouth …

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A B-1B Lancer at a forward deployed location in Southwest Asia prepares for a mission. Lancers support both Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Clark Staehle)

4/23/2009 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFNS) – Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations April 22, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.

In Afghanistan, an Air Force B-1B Lancer destroyed a large compound used as an anti-Afghan forces staging base. The strike employed a variety of guided bomb unit munitions and was conducted in support of an Afghan and coalition clearing operation taking place in the area.

Near Shurakian, Navy F/A-18C Hornets conducted several strafing runs, targeting anti-Afghan personnel gathering weapons and rocket-propelled grenade launchers from a weapons cache. The strikes resulted in the destruction of the enemy force.

An Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II strafed an anti-Afghan motorcycle with its cannons. The aircraft carried out the strafing run after enemy personnel were spotted leaving a mortar site they had used to shell a coalition base.

In the vicinity of Sheykhabad, A-10s flew shows of force over an Afghan National Army convoy after the convoy started taking enemy fire. The aircraft, which also expended flares during their pass, dispersed enemy personnel and ended the attack on the convoy.

In the Garmser area, a coalition aircraft performed a show of force over a compound where enemy forces gathered. Following the aircraft’s maneuver, the aircraft conducted tactical surveillance as the enemy personnel ran from the area.

Joint terminal attack controllers assigned to coalition units verified the success of these missions.

In total, 75 close-air-support missions were flown in support of the ISAF and Afghan security forces, reconstruction activities and route patrols.

Twenty Air Force intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft flew missions as part of operations in Afghanistan. In addition, two Navy aircraft performed tactical reconnaissance.

In Iraq, coalition aircraft flew 29 close-air-support missions for Operation Iraqi Freedom. These missions integrated and synchronized with coalition ground forces, protected key infrastructure, provided overwatch for reconstruction activities, and helped to deter and disrupt hostile activities.

Thirty Air Force and Navy ISR aircraft flew missions as part of operations in Iraq. In addition, three coalition and Air Force aircraft performed tactical reconnaissance.

Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft and C-17 Globemaster IIIs provided intra-theater heavy airlift, helping to sustain operations throughout Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Horn of Africa.

Approximately 150 airlift sorties were flown; 420 tons of cargo was delivered; and about 3,000 passengers were transported.

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From another blogger – Travellrev

… In the ‘great’ depression 7 million people died of hunger in the US alone. The ‘Great’ depression led to WWII and the abject world wide poeverty that some of the oldies still remember and which prevents them from spen[d]ing even the smallest amount of money on themselves. I’m sure you all know of such a person. They had every reason.

At he time of the great depression 90% of the US population grew their own food and had their own small family farms. Now perhaps 15% of the US population has access to homegrown food and the rest of the population works in the service industry or the financial industry and only some 12% work in factories actually producing something that can be sold.

More than  600.000 people a month for the last four months have lost their jobs in the US alone. The expectation is that more than 8 million houses will be foreclosed on in the next two years with millions already having been foreclosed on.
So let me set you straight on this littel issue. The IMF says it will be the deepeset depression since the ‘Great’ depression? No, It will be a depression that will dwarf the ‘great’ depression.

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I like Bagels.

Why don’t they make them from the Biblical wheat called Spelt, it is far healthier.

I also like a Matzabria, again why don’t they use Spelt for the Matzos as Moses probably did

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Head of center in Rurrenabaque reports several Israelis arrested in number of police raids in recent days; center shut down. Rabbi says given no reason for raids, but rumors say they could be related to assassination attempt on president’s life

Kobi Nahshoni
Published:     04.23.09, 12:18

Bolivian police forces raided a Chabad center in the northeastern town of Rurrenabaque a number of times in recent days, ordered its closure and arrested a number of Israeli tourists who were staying there.

Police at Chabad center in Rurrenabaque (Photo: Curtesy of Chabad.info)

Rabbi Aharon Fraiman, who heads the center, told Ynet the police refused to give him a reason for the raid, but rumors throughout the town have linked the police activity to an assassination attempt on the Bolivian president last week.

On Wednesday, after the center temporarily resumed activity, Fraiman, who was almost arrested himself, said this was nothing more than a local dispute: “An anti-Semitic restaurateur who thinks we are hurting his livelihood is doing everything to get us out of here,” the rabbi said.

On Thursday, however, the multiple arrests, closure of the center and the local media’s coverage of police activity in the area, led the rabbi to believe it was something more: “Apparently it’s not him, but something bigger. He doesn’t have this much power”.

“Rumors floating around say that it has something to do with an assassination attempt on the president,” the rabbi said. “But on the other hand, the media is reporting all kinds of other things, like that the Chabad center here is involved in dealing drugs and the like.

“Meanwhile, I hired a lawyer here to handle the case, but this is not a law-abiding state, and so far, no one has told us what the commotion is about. They also haven’t showed us any closure injunctions.”

The emissary told Ynet about one Israeli tourist who was arrested by the Bolivian immigration police, taken to the airport in handcuffs and deported from the country. He also said there were a few others still under arrest.

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http://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/south-america/bolivia/

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An older post in reaction to the Mumbai terror attack:

There is a history of Chabad Houses not only being used as safehouses and logistics centers for Israeli intelligence but as storefronts for criminal activity. In March 1989, U.S. law enfocement rounded up a criminal network in Seattle, Los Angeles, New Jersey, Colombia, and Israel that involved a Chabad House that was involved in money laundering and currency violations.

The Associated Press reported from Newark, New Jersey that Adi Tal, a former employee of Israel’s El Al Airlines who emigrated to the United States from Israel in 1983, and his chief assistant Nir Goldeshtein, were found guilty by the U.S. District Court in Newark of laundering $25 million. The cash was sent to Panama and Colombia directly and smuggled to Britain, West Germany, and Israel as personal and cashier’s checks, money orders, and cash. The money was then wired to Panamanian bank accounts. Tal and Goldeshtein lived in Edison, New Jersey. They had moved there from Seattle. Goldeshtein had attempted to deposit $437,000 in Citibank’s London branch.

Federal prosecutors said Tal conspired with Jose Stroh, one of the Cali, Colombia drug cartel’s chief money launderers. Sixteen people were indicted in the case but five were never captured. Of the five, Nir Levy, Rea Lev-Ari, and Dov Feldman, escaped to Israel and avoided extradition back to the United States. Among the fugitives was Tal’s recruiter, Enrique Korc of Israel. Among those indicted was Rabbi Sholom Levitin, the founder and head of the Chabad House in Seattle. Tal claimed that the laundered money was Israeli “investments” and Levitin denied knowing that the money he was laundering was illegally obtained. Federal prosecutors said Tal told his “mostly Israeli operatives” that the money was not connected to organized crime but, according to the March 23, 1989 AP report from Newark, told them “the cash came from Israel for investment in the United States or that it was somehow connected to the Mossad, Israel’s secret service.”  –more–

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President George Bush's meeting with a group of Chabad Rabbis in the Oval Office grew awkward yesterday when Bush suddenly announced that he "really likes bagels" during a lull in the conversation. http://people.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/20723/

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Mondoweiss: Jack Ross on the relationship of Chabad to Zionism

Jack Ross on Chabad, referring to the next post down: I’m not sure whether or not its fair to hold them up as representing anyone but themselves.
www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2009/03/jack-ross-on-the-relationship-of-chabad-to-zionism.html

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Niqnaq with prescience made a post yesterday:

dwyer mystery: krav maga=IDF buddies

April 22, 2009

Dwyer unarmed and undressed when shot
Ken Foxe, Sunday Tribune (Ireland), Apr 19 2009

The Irishman gunned down in a suspected assassination plot in South America was unarmed and in his underwear when he was shot dead after being woken in a dawn raid. ….

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The Chabad web site is here:

http://www.chabad.org/

The stakes are so huge, no one could allow it to unravel. She might be sacrificed, but that is affordable.

Tens of thousands of insiders know this is how the US (and Europe?) ticks. If a full expose was issued it would bring down everyone in Government and intelligence and that is over decades. So a lid will be put on the shenanigans.

Still the question remains; what faction is releasing the info? Mike Rivero at whatreallyhappened suggests the Israelis themselves made the leak, and looking at the likely sudden dropping of the prosecutions against the AIPAC operatives by the implicated DOJ that is possible.

Imagine all the taped conversations that reveal the same scenarios? No one could allow their release. It is anyway ‘classified’ information.

The only alternative to the Israelis releasing the wiretap info, is that a faction opposed to Israeli influence has done so, and although I thought that yesterday, today I smell the Israelis, and Mike Rivero has his ear to the ground.

I was sure it was Israelis who brought down New York Governor Eliot Spitzer (another example of an expendable Jew) just as US navy warships in the ME were positioning for a Cheney war Jamboree.

A few posts before this ( Israelis and drugs ) is a Fox news video listing Israeli ownership of all US telecoms billing companies.

If only the Israeli interests (our masters) were more humane, but they are not!

There is toooo much hardship, violence, hate and wars.

Just some little strange anomalies at the Racism conference

1/Ahmadinejad was the first speaker at the conference.

It is as if he is the only one left who can speak for everyone else, wonder who engineered him to be the first? Friends of Zion? To beckon the upheaval?

2/ UN secretary General Ban sat behind him as he spoke

Presumably with knowledge of the controversy about to unfold. Perhaps protocol dictated that he sat behind every speaker?

3/ It was on Holocaust remembrance day – 20 Apr 2009 – presumably that was by design. A statement in itself, for a conference on racism. Last year was May 2nd, a different day every year.

4/ It was the anniversary of Hitler’s birth – 20 April 1889

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The following is the beginning of a critique by a veteran critic of Israel:

Gilad Atzmon – Ahmadinejad: “Read My Lips” plus Full Text of Speech

Once again I find myself saluting Iranian President Ahmadinejad, in full support of his words. No one could do better bringing to light European racial discriminatory sentiments.

What we saw yesterday at the UN Anti Racism Forum was crude collective institutional Islamophobic racism in its making, a coordinated show of rabid western chauvinism. A bunch of European diplomats behaving as a herd of sheep, exhibiting complete denial of the notion of freedom of speech and the culture of debate.

Eloquently and profoundly, President Ahmadinejad was stating the full truth and expressing some universally acknowledged facts.

Israel is indeed a racist state!

Israel defines itself as the  ‘Jewish state’.  Though Jews do not form a racial continuum, their national state’s legislation is racially orientated. The Israeli legal system is discriminatory towards those who fail to be Jews. As if this is not enough, the Israeli army proves to be murderous towards the indigenous inhabitants of the land.      –more–

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Deciphering what Haaretz says Lieberman said to a Russian Newspaper.
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The Obama Administration will put forth new peace initiatives only if Israel wants it to, …

This has been the understanding for decades between Israel and the US, possibly there is such a groundswell of opposition to Israel that the reality might now be different, but if such a new reality exists it does not reach the ear of Lieberman. Israel in recent years has received many shocks: Lebanon, Georgia and Gaza, all because it was unaware of the reality on the ground, preferring to listen to the advice of its supporters.

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“Believe me, America accepts all our decisions,” …

Assuming the Obama administration’s intentions can be nullified. As was Clinton’s and every other Western leaders. Israel has Rahm and Hillary as staunch supporters, that might not be enough.

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Lieberman granted his first major interview to Alexander Rosensaft, the Israel correspondent of one of the oldest Russian dailies, not to an Israeli newspaper. …

Haaretz verifying its dislike for Lieberman, by questioning the roots of his  loyalty – I recall people saying Sharansky couldn’t speak proper Hebrew – and he was a Government minister – This is all the consequences of the Zionist philosophy. And Israel was always at the forefront of the US haranging the Soviets to let the Jews go, this went on for decades.

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During the interview, Lieberman said Iran is not Israel’s biggest strategic threat; rather, Afghanistan and Pakistan are….

And just as we had to hate the Soviets, then the Iranians, now the Afghanis and Pakistanis. Is this Israeli government, a government of hate? And does that mean all the West has to fall into line? Would the Israel fall apart if there was peace, no one to hate? We have been killing innocents in the thousands in Afghanistan – women and children – funerals and wedding parties – even used vacuum bombs which have a yield similar to a nuclear bomb.

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it is unclear to me why the U.S. needs to confront Russia on Kosovo or Ukraine’s entry to NATO; however, Russia needs to understand that close cooperation with Hugo Chavez does not build western confidence. …

Strange that he missed out Georgia, where there actually was a military conflict. Maybe he has inherited an illogical reality born of a faulty philosophy. With so many pressure groups and lobbies vying for their interests the hegemonic ambitions become unteneble. And the hubris to question Russia’s and the US’ foreign policy, and in the Americas, as if Jerusalem should care. As if Israel should decide. A poor Israeli electorate has catapulted this man into master of the world status.

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Lieberman called a two-state solution a nice slogan that lacks substance. …

Why doesn’t he just say lets go to war?

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1080097.html