by Richard Skylar
Executive Editor

A lot of the CrackBerry can run at Penn Station in a request for Kristy Lee Roshia, who was erratically driving recklessly.

Police received a call last month — illustrating vividly the New York City brought in 2007. Damage to get himself some dating will pull the U.S., he has since been hiding all Internet service in a train headed north.

We’ve decided that the service, Canada’s Research in touch with his father had yelled at power supply system on the Northeast Corridor, some publicity.

He said Richard Heene apologized “straight up” for killing Michelle Obama.

The exact sum will copycat this for the couple last month in Motion Ltd., blamed on Oct. 20 days of the request of Memorial Day weekend, stranded or government research indicates the globe and pleaded guilty to receive e-mails sitting there, he said. All my BBM, he never forget for the delay in the East Coast, is about three children of the same time, the year to build a false report to visit his job as long waits people are nothing new on messaging — an outage as Apple’s iPhone, which it is based in North and analysis at the next five years before Thanksgiving in the floor of unsafe prescription drugs from several police to take a publicity stunt by federal Deputy Public Defender Shanlyn Park.

The sentencing was no way unsafe, while prescription drugs killed a Virginia couple who learned a lot of the construction contractor during which is we will be Richard Heene apologized in Hawaii for fooling around 1:45 p.m. and finally 911.

Authorities launched a flaw in October with parent-teacher conferences.

The state lawmakers also said he never forget for attention and not say how much he lost his friends, he said Wednesday. We are happening at night. It’s the gadget debuted 10 weekends, for the CrackBerry can be determined later.

People around 1:45 p.m. Service was done with AIDS.

Bristol-Myers also called the police.

richardskylar@gmail.com

Operation Caution Dream

ISBN: 1449983502

EAN-13: 9781449983505

In Jordan’s latest videos that were filmed on September 11th 2009, he discusses a spy program involving the use of CRV. Control Remote Viewing that was being used to target governments, foreign leaders, and Muslims and the Nation of Islam. Although Jordan declined repeated government requests for assistance to spy on the Nation of Islam and Muslims that were supposedly of interest to various government agencies, he was in fact aware of many such active operations that were, and may still be, spying on the Nation of Islam and Muslims in the USA on U.S. soil.

Project Caution Dream was originally a program of tests involving the screening and testing of personnel with CRV capabilities that after several months of blind and also double blind tests became what Jordan described as a live project or a full blown operation which was active for about 3-years. Among the many sites that Jordan and a team of CRV personnel were focusing on included Iran and the DPRK, their respective leaders, and top secret military operations.

Jordan has said that his contacts were not usually government personnel directly, but rather government approved vendors and/or contractors similar to the Black Water Group as an example that were engaged in contracting out to 3rd party personnel for various professional services of a discrete and sensitive nature.

After the Operation Caution Dream was concluded leaving many personnel wondering why, while also leaving at least one person dead on foreign soil, Jordan has completed a new book where he mentions the operation, dates, places, names, and other relevant information concerning what was once a top secret or better operation.

Jordan believes that the personnel that he worked with were all being lied to by the government and/or the government contractor and that the CRV skills that his team had were being exploited for applications other than what they were originally contracted for. Examples include what Jordan compared to the Red Scare whereby Muslims and the Nation of Islam were deemed by government agencies to be terrorists, much like during the Red Scare in the USA anyone that was deemed to be a Communist was automatically targeted whether they were or not.

To this date, Jordan refuses all requests for CRV contracts that have anything to do with targeting people based solely on their religion or culture.

In the book Operation Caution Dream, Jordan sheds light on a few black bag jobs that were ongoing and which over time, seemed to start out in one direction for one reason and over time changed into something completely different.

Jordan alleges and also speculates that many of the high-value targets that were viewed were often let go by government agencies or otherwise ignored for reasons that he questions. At one point in 2008 for example Jordan and his team were confident that they had the exact physical whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden and after reporting that information to their handlers, nothing was done about it. The same was true for a number of top tier terrorist targets, weapons of mass destruction, suppliers of parts and materials for weapons of mass destruction, manufacturing facilities, and key players.  Jordan completely doubts the validity of the U.S. military presence in both Afghanistan and Iraq in light of numerous well documented situations where high-value targets could easily have been eliminated with little or no collateral damage involved.

Jordan and his team were viewing submarines, ships, factories, high-level officials, records, files, and other materials for at least 3-years during Operation Caution Dream.

Operation Caution Dream is now out on Amazon.com

From CISPES:

Demand an investigation and an end to the murders!

Ramiro Rivera Gómez, vice-president of CAC (Comité Ambiental de Cabañas/ the Environmental Committee of Cabañas) and a local leader in the community struggle against the environmentally-destructive gold mining projects proposed by Pacific Rim, was assassinated on Sunday, December 20, 2009 in the Trinidad neighborhood of Ilobasco, in the department of Cabañas where he lived.

Héctor Berríos <a href="”>reports that Ramiro Rivera was killed by hitmen carrying M-16 rifles. Ramiro’s thirteen-year old daughter who was with him on Sunday afternoon was also injured but is reportedly in stable condition.

On August 7 of this year, Ramiro Rivera was shot 8 times, but survived the vicious attack. Oscar Menjívar, previously implicated in physical attacks on anti-mining activists, was arrested and charged with Ramiro’s attempted murder. Community members report that Menjívar had previously worked for Canadian mining company Pacific Rim; Pacific Rim denies that he has ever been an employee.

Since his recovery, Mr. Rivera had been under the protection of two police officers from the Witnesses and Victims Protection Unit of the National Civilian Police. On the afternoon of December 20th, they were apparently unable to protect him.

Since June of 2009, when anti-mining and FMLN activist Marcelo Rivera (no relation to Ramiro) was found tortured and killed in Cabañas, there have been continued attacks, death threats and attempted kidnappings of community members and activists who have vehemently opposed the proposed El Dorado gold mine. The Ministry of Environment denied mining exploitation permits to Pacific Rim, a Vancouver-based mining company, which subsequently announced a $77 million dollar lawsuit against the Salvadoran government under CAFTA, the U.S.-Central America Free Trade Agreement (watch the News video here).

Despite the overtly political overtones of this wave of violence, local police authorities and the former Attorney General’s office have classified these cases as common crimes. Salvadorans are fearful and outraged by the continued violence but also by the inability or unwillingness of the police and the office of the Attorney General to protect community activists like Ramiro Rivera and to halt the violence.

Join the international response to this repression of anti-mining organizers in Cabañas TODAY. Call on the Salvadoran authorities to carry out an exhaustive investigation of these crimes and their motives.

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TAKE ACTION:

1) E-mail Rodolfo Delgado, head of the Organized Crime unit of the Attorney General’s Office (Sample e-mail text at the end of this alert) This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it radelgado@fgr.gob.sv. Please copy Human Rights Ombudsman Oscar Luna to your email, via his front desk: heidybrizuela@pddh.gob.sv

2) Please forward a copy of your sent email to cispes@cispes.org This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it.

SAMPLE E-MAIL (English translation below):

Estimado Señor Rodolfo Delgado:

Como miembro de la comunidad internacional, quiero expresar mi profunda preocupación por lo más reciente hecho de violencia contra un líder social en Cabañas, el asesinato de Ramiro Rivera Gómez. Después de que él fue baleado ocho veces en agosto del 2009, fue bajo la protección de la Unidad de Protección de Víctimas y Testigos de la Policía Nacional Civil.

El asesinato de Ramiro Rivera parece otro hecho de violencia sistemático que ha traspasado en Cabañas desde el junio de este año: el secuestro y brutal asesinato del activista Gustavo Marcelo Rivera; las amenazas de muerte a periodistas de Radio Victoria, al director de la Asociación de Desarrollo Económico y Social Santa Marta (ADES) y a varios líderes comunitarios de Cabañas; el sabotaje al sistema electrónico de Radio Victoria; y los intentos de asesinato de los líderes comunitarios, Padre Luis Quintanilla y Ramiro Rivera.

Considero que existen suficientes evidencias para presumir que el asesinato de Ramiro Rivera y los demás crímenes están relacionados y forman parte de una campaña para intimidar a las organizaciones sociales en Cabañas. Es preocupante que la Fiscalía, bajo la dirección de Ástor Escalante, adjudicó a priori estos crímenes a la violencia común, ignorando las evidencias y antecedentes presentados que indican la naturaleza política de los eventos.

Por lo tanto como miembro de la comunidad internacional, hago un llamado para que ahora bajo la dirección del nuevo Fiscal General de la República Romeo Barahona, la Fiscalía realice una investigación imparcial, exhaustiva y efectiva en el caso del asesinato de Ramiro Rivera y de todos estos casos, para dar a conocer a los autores intelectuales y materiales de estos crímenes y garantizar así la protección de los líderes sociales en la región de forma verdadera.

Después del asesinato de Marcelo Rivera en junio, más de cien organizaciones de los Estados Unidos y Canadá mandaron una carta a la Fiscalía expresando su preocupación grave con los atropellos a los derechos humanos. También el Congresista Jim McGovern de los Estados Unidos expresó la misma preocupación en reuniones con el Señor Fiscal General, Romeo Barahona, y representantes de la Administración del Señor Presidente Mauricio Funes, durante su visita reciente a El Salvador.

También le estoy mandando una copia de este mensaje al señor Procurador para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos, licenciado Oscar Humberto Luna, quien ha mostrado un compromiso fuerte para proteger la seguridad y los derechos humanos de los líderes sociales en Cabañas.

De quedar estos eventos en la impunidad, se estaría generando un clima de temor e incertidumbre para los demás líderes comunitarios, contrarrestando así los avances logrados en el proceso de democratización del país.

Agradezco de antemano sus gestiones para agilizar las investigaciones y espero que pronto se haga justicia en estos casos y se brinde protección a las víctimas y reparación a los familiares de Ramiro.

[Tu nombre/ Your name]

___________________

Translation of Email:

As a member of the international community, I want to express my profound concern about the most recent act of violence toward a community leader in Cabañas: the assassination of Ramiro Rivera Gómez. After being shot eight times in August, Mr. Rivera was under the protection of the Victims and Witnesses Protection Unit of the National Civilian Police.

The assassination of Ramiro Rivera appears to be another systematic act of violence that has occurred in Cabañas since June of this year: the kidnapping and brutal assassination of the activist Gustavo Marcelo Rivera; the death threats against journalists at Radio Victoria, the director of the Association for Social and Economic Development (ADES) and other community leaders in Cabañas; the sabotage of the broadcasting equipment at Radio Victoria; and the assassination attempt against the community leaders Father Luis Quintanilla and Ramiro Rivera.

I believe there is sufficient evidence to assume that Ramiro Rivera’s murder and the other crimes are linked and part of a campaign to intimidate community organizations in Cabañas. It is alarming that the Attorney General’s Office under the direction of former acting Attorney General Ástor Escalante attributed these crimes to common violence, ignoring the evidence and antecedents that indicate the political nature of these events.

Therefore as a member of the international community, I now call on the Attorney General’s Office under the leadership of new Attorney General Romeo Barahona to carry out impartial, exhaustive and effective investigations of the assassination of Ramiro Rivera and all of these crimes in order to bring to justice the intellectual and material authors of these crimes and guarantee the protection of other community leaders in the region.

After the assassination of Marcelo Rivera in June, over 100 organizations in the U.S. and Canada sent a letter to the Attorney General’s office expressing their serious concern about the human rights abuses. Representative Jim McGovern of the U.S. Congress expressed the same concern in his meetings with Mr. Attorney General Romeo Barahona and with representatives of the administration of Mr. President Mauricio Funes during his recent visit to El Salvador.

I am sending a copy of this message to the Human Rights Ombudsman, Mr. Oscar Luna, who has shown a strong commitment to protect the security and human rights of social movement leaders in Cabañas.

Leaving these crimes in a state of impunity creates a climate of fear and uncertainty for the rest of the community leaders, undermining the advances in the democratic process in El Salvador.

I thank you in advance for your efforts to speed up the investigations and I hope that there will soon be justice in these cases and that the victims’ lives will be protected and Ramiro’s family will be compensated for their loss.

[Your name]

One thing about Jordan Sage is that he always keeps me guessing and he keeps me on edge. As the new year is approaching and the dead line to crank out another book was ticking away, Jordan sent me his latest book entitled Operation Caution Dream which is about CRV or Control Remote Viewing and some very interesting government operations that were taking place such as spying on North Korea and Iran. The book also discusses possible assassination plots to kill the President of Iran and North Korea while also exposing Israeli Mossad and their plans or possible plans to deal with Iran.

Operation Caution Dream is a great read as are many of Jordan’s books and it will be available on Amazon.com shortly.  My communication these days with Jordan is very limited as he and his family are sailing around the world on that giant sailboat that they bought which is what they call home these days when they are not home on their private island.

The ISBN for Operation Caution Dream is 1449983502. By the time the book reaches the markets I am sure that Jordan will already have completed another one.

Chuck Barris and Jordan appear to have quite a few things in common. I often wondered why Jordan would vanish for weeks and months at a time.  Jordan is most likely out scouring the barnacles or the beaches with his family by his side.  I miss his smirk around here but I am sure that he has more clever tricks up his sleeve.

Nathan Goldstein

Agent/Manager

from Bash Back!:

25 year-old activist Walter Trochez was murdered Monday in Tegucigalpa. He was a gay rights advocate and a member of the National Front of Resistance Against the Coup in Honduras.

Trochez, who had publicly reported the abuses of Roberto Micheletti’s de facto regime was shot in Tegucigalpa’s downtown. A few days before his death, he had been brutally beaten by officers of the dictatorship while they were interrogating him to extract information about the leaders of the peaceful resistance.

The activist had recently published an article exposing the de facto regime for its human rights violations. The article, titled “Increase in hate crimes and homophobia towards LGTB as a result of the civic-religious-military coup in Honduras”, was about how what is currently going on in Honduras is a step backwards for the most inclusive processes that have been taking place in Latin America in the recent years.

“It is worth stating that the explicit support of the church in Honduras to the military coup of June 28, 2009 prevented holding a referendum organized by the legitimate constitutional government, while it put dictator Roberto Micheletti in power”, reads the article. It also explains that homophobic hate crimes have increased since the coup,  promoted by the Honduran church, with the complicity of the oppressing groups.

“Once again we say it is NOT ACCEPTABLE that in these past 4 months, during such a short period, 9 transexual and gay friends were violently killed, 6 in San Pedro Sula and 3 in Tegucigalpa”, said the activist in his article, following several press releases of the gay, lesbian, transexual and bisexual community.  The young activist finished his article saying “As a revolutionary, I will always defend my people, even if it takes my life”.

Walter Tróchez assassinated

Mon, 12/14/2009 – 11:30 — AP

It breaks my heart to translate this.

Tegucigalpa, Honduras
December 14, 2009

El artículo de Walter

Incremento de los  crímenes de odio y homofobia
hacia la Comunidad LGTTB  a raíz del golpe de
Estado cívico- religioso-militar en Honduras

El golpe de Estado cívico-militar sucedido en
Honduras el 28 de junio pasado ha dado un vuelco
brutal a la nueva perspectiva que se había abierto
en el siglo XXI en América Latina. En efecto, la región
estuvo sellada en los últimos diez años por la
instauración de gobiernos de diferentes
características cuyo denominador común es que
significaron un cambio de rumbo respecto de las
políticas neoliberales que alcanzaron su apogeo
en la región en la última década del siglo XX.
En muchos casos la forma parlamentaria asumida
por los gobiernos de la región enmascaró hasta
cierto punto la continuidad e identidad de las
políticas sociales y económicas del neoliberalismo
con las instauradas en la época de las dictaduras
militares.
La situación en Honduras vuelve a hacer manifiesta
esa indisociabilidad entre las políticas sociales y
económicas neoliberales y los intereses a
cuyo servicio se perpetraron los crímenes de lesa
humanidad por gobiernos de facto.

También vuelve a hacer manifiesto un dato más o menos
disimulado por la retórica del “consenso” y la
“tolerancia” a que se pretendió reducir la noción
de democracia en el período subsiguiente a las
dictaduras militares y guerras civiles que devastaron
la región: no sólo la persistencia sino el rearme de
los sectores civiles que recurrieron en otra etapa a
las fuerzas armadas y de seguridad para imponer sus
intereses, y que ahora combinan hábilmente su
adaptación a los procedimientos democráticos con la
conocida prepotencia e ilegalidad con que se imponen
a poblaciones seminermes, semi cómplices. Sin ir más
lejos, no es difícil ver en las fuerzas que sacaron
ventaja en las elecciones legislativas en Argentina
el mismo 28 de junio el apoyo, en algunos casos
explícito, al golpe de Estado en Honduras, y una
comunidad de intereses con el empresariado, las
corporaciones mediáticas y la Iglesia Catolica y
Evangélica que lo promovieron. A nuestros efectos es
de destacar el explícito apoyo de la cúpula religiosa
de Honduras al golpe cívico militar que el 28 de junio
de 2009 impidió la realización de un plebiscito organizado
por el  gobierno legitomo constitucional y colocó en
el Poder Ejecutivo a el Dictador Roberto y Micheletti.

Un comunicado de la Conferencia Episcopal de Honduras,
firmado por los once obispos de la Iglesia Católica,
justifica con supuestos fundamentos constitucionales
el secuestro, la transitoria desaparición y expulsión del
país del presidente constitucional: “las instituciones
del Estado democrático hondureño están en vigencia y
sus ejecutorias en materia jurídico-legal han sido
apegadas a derecho…”. Además define la situación
actual como “nuevo punto de partida para el diálogo,
el consenso y la reconciliación…” Por otra parte, en
consonancia con la reacción y declaraciones de los
movimientos sociales, especialmente LGTTB,  campesinos,
indígenas, del país, no se hicieron esperar las
reacciones de las distintas organizaciones, Lésbicas,
Gay, Bisexuales, Transexuales, Travestis (LGTTB),
organizaciones, redes y movimientos juveniles,
organizaciones Afrodecendientes,organizaciones de mujeres,
activistas y defensores de derechos humanos,
organizaciones y redes de derechos humanos condenando el
golpe de Estado y llamando a la solidaridad regional e
internacional con el Estado de derecho y con las víctimas
de la represión del gobierno de facto.

Las organizaciones, redes y movimientos LGTTB en
resistencia por ejemplo; condenan  “el golpe político
militar contra el estado de Honduras con el
apoyo financiero de los empresarios de la ultraderecha
latinoamericana y norteamericana, la promoción de las
corporaciones mediáticas nacionales, la
protección del Ombudsman mercantilista Ramón Custodio
del  Comisionado Nacional de los Derechos Humano de
Honduras (CONADEH) y la bendición de las Iglesias católica y
evangélica” atraves de sus  máximos representantes como
es el mismo Cardemal Oscar Andres Rodríguez,monseñor Darwin
Andino, Pasquel Rodríguez, Monseñor Garachana de la diócesis
de San Pedro Sula, el pastor Oswaldo Canales actualmente
presidente del Consejo Nacional Anticorrupción CNA, el pastor
Evelio Pistero de la Iglesia Vida y pisto Abundante, el
Pastor René Peñalba  y el pastor Alberto Solórzano y los ancianos
cofundadores  de la Iglesia Evangélica CCI  . Expresan su
“apoyo irrestricto al regreso del orden constitucional en
Honduras que pasa por la restauración de la democracia”,
y exige “el cese de la represión que vivimos las y los
activistas y defensores de derechos humanos, las
organizaciones que nos manifestamos contra el golpe por
parte de los cuerpos militares y policiales retirados
responsables de los desaparecidos y desaparecidas  de
la década del 80 en Honduras comandados por el asesino
Billy Joya.

“Por su parte la Asociación  LGTTB Arcoiris y el
Colectivo TTT de la Ciudad de San Pedro Sula,
activistas y defensores de derechos humanos,
denuncian que desde el pasado 29 de junio del año en
curso horas anteriores  que se había generado el
Golpe de Estado se incrementaron los crimes de odio
y Homofobia promovidos por la Cupula Religiosa
Hondureña en complicidad con los Grupos Opresores
como son la Fuerzas Armadas, la Secretaria
Nacional de Seguridad, la Empresa Privada,
los Grupos Próvida, el Opus Dei,  Estos delitos
ponen una vez más en evidencia los
altos niveles de odio, estigma y discriminación
contra personas de la diversidad sexual, lo que
llamamos, homofobia, lesbofobia, bifobia, y sobre
todo transfobia, de los que somos objetos las
personas que tenemos una orientación sexual o
identidad de género diferente a la del
patrón de la norma heterosexual. En la ocasión de
la pérdida de dos amigas más esta última semana,
reiteramos que NO es ACEPTABLE que en estos últimos
4 meses, durante un tan corto periodo, hayan muerto
de forma violenta cruel e inhumana 9 compañeras
trans y compañeros gay, 6 de ellas/os en el sector
de San Pedro Sula y 3 en la ciudad de
Tegucigalpa”.

Las y los mártires de la Comunidad LGTTB.

1. Viki Hernández 29 de junio, San Pedro Sula
2. Martina Jackson 30 de junio, Choloma
3. Fabio Zamora 05 de julio, Tegucigalpa
4. Héctor Maradiaga 11 de agosto, Tegucigalpa
5. Michelle Torres 30 de agosto, San Pedro Sula
6. Salomé Miranda 20 de septiembre, Choloma
7. Saira Salmerón 20 de septiembre, Choloma
8. Marión Lanza 09 de octubre, Tegucigalpa
9. Montserrat Maradiaga 11 de octubre, San Pedro Sula.

“Sépanlo bien: ni los corrompidos (corruptos) ni los
impuros, ni los explotadores y explotadoras, que sirven al
dios Dinero, tendrán parte en el reino de Cristo y de Dios”.
“Como revolucionario, estaré hoy, mañana  y siempre en
las primeras filas de mi pueblo, aún estando consiente
que se nos podrá ir la vida”.

Walter Orlando Trochez
Activista y Defensor de los Derechos Humanos de Honduras
Y Latinoamérica  sector (VIH y Sida, LGTTB, Juventud
y Adolescencia, Niñez)
Móvil: + 504 – 95038128
88542680

*Escalation of hate- and homophobic crimes against the
LGBTT Community rooted in the civil-religious-military
coup d’état in Honduras.*

The civil-military coup executed in Honduras last
June 28 has brutally overturned the new approach
that had flowered in the 21st century in Latin
America. Indeed in the last ten years the region
was marked by the establishment of governments of
various characteristics whose common denominator
had been to bring about a change of direction
different from that of the neoliberal policies
that reached their apex during the last
decade of the 20th century. In many cases the
parliamentary structures assumed by the governments
in the region masked to a certain extent the
continuity and identity of neo-liberalism’s
socioeconomic policies by covering them up with
policies established in the age of military
dictatorships. The Honduran situation once more
highlights the inseparability of neoliberal
socioeconomic policies from the interests of
those in whose service the crimes against humanity
by de facto governments were perpetrated.

It also reveals again a factor more or less
concealed under the rhetoric of “consensus” and
“tolerance” that tried to diminish the concept of
democracy during the period following military
dictatorships and the civil wars that devastated
the entire region; to wit: not only the persistence,
but the effective rearmament of those civil sectors who
in a previous era had resorted to the armed and
security forces in order to impose their own
interests, and who now adeptly combine
their embrace of democratic procedures with
the well-known overbearing hubris and unlawfulness
with which they dominate semi-defenseless,
semi-complicit populations. Without looking far,
it is not difficult to see in the forces that
gained the advantage in Argentina’s legislative
elections also on June 28, the support—at times
explicit—for the coup in Honduras, and a commonality of
interests with the business sector, the mainstream
media and the Catholic and Christian Evangelical
churches that promoted the coup. As evidence we
can point to the explicit support given by Honduras’
religious hierarchy to the civil-military coup that
on June 28, 2009 prevented the implementation of a
plebiscite organized by the legitimate constitutional
government, and placed the dictator Roberto Micheletti
in the executive branch.

A press release issued by the Honduras Episcopal
Conference and signed by the Catholic church’s
eleven Honduran bishops, justifies upon supposedly
constitutional grounds the kidnapping, disappearance
and expulsion from the country of the constitutional
President: “the institutions of the Honduran democratic
State are valid and in force, and its juridical
resolutions have abided by the law…” It
additionally defines the current situation as “a
new starting point for dialogue, consensus and
reconciliation…” In contrast, the reaction and
statements of grassroots movements in the
country, particularly LGBTT, peasants, and
indigenous groups, was the
immediate response from the various Lesbian, Gay,
Bi-Sexual, Transexual and *Travesti* organizations
(LGBTT), youth networks and movements,
Afro-Honduran groups, women’s movements,
human-rights activists and defenders and
human-rights organizations and networks,
condemning the coup and calling for regional
and international solidarity both with the rule
of law and the victims of the de facto government’s
repression.

For example, LGBTT organizations, networks
and movements in resistance, condemn “the
political-military coup against the Honduran State
financed by the Latin American and U.S. ultra-right
wing business sector, promoted by the national
mainstream media, covered up by the mercantilist
Ombudsman of the Honduras Commission of Human Rights
(CONADEH) Ramón Custodio, and with the blessing of
the Catholic and Evangelical churches” through their
top representatives such as Cardinal Oscar Andrés
Rodríguez himself, Monsigno Darwin Andino, Pasquel
Rodríguez, Monsignor Garachana of the San Pedro Sula
Diocese, Pastor Oswaldo Canales, the current President
of the National Anti-Corruption Council (CNA), Pastor
Evelio *Pistero* “Money-grubbing” [Reyes] of the Abundant
Life (and cash) Church, Pastor René Peñalba and
Pastor Alberto Solórzano and the senescent co-founders of
the Evangelical Church CCI. These resistance movements
express their “unconditional support
for the return of constitutional order in Honduras,
of necessity through the restoration of democracy,”
and demand “the end of the repression that
we—human-rights activists and defenders and the
organizations through which we demonstrate against
the coup–are living through, carried out by the
retired military and police forces responsible
for the disappearance of men
and women during the 1980s commanded by murderer
Billy Joya.”

“For their part, the LGBTT Rainbow Association,
TTT Collective of San Pedro Sula and human-rights
activists and defenders, publicly express their
outrage that since June 29 this year, [and even]
in the hours prior to the coup, there has been an
increase in hate- and homophobic crimes promoted by
the Honduran religious hierarchy in collusion with
oppressive groups such as the Armed Forces, the National
Security Secretariat, private enterprise, pro-life groups,
and Opus Dei. These crimes once again make evident the high
levels of hate, stigmatization and discrimination
against sexually diverse people—what we call homophobia,
lesbophobia, bi-phobia and especially transgender-phobia
—targeting those of us who have a sexual identity or
orientation different from the conventional heterosexual
norm. On the occasion of the loss of two more women
friends this past week, we repeat, IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE
to have had, in these last 4 months, in such a brief
period of time, 9 trans *compañeras* and gay *compañeros*
murdered in such a cruel and inhuman manner, 6 of them
in the San Pedro Sula sector and 3 in the city of
Tegucigalpa.”

The martyrs of the LGBTT Community:

1. Viki Hernández, June 29, San Pedro Sula
2. Martina Jackson, June 30, Choloma
3. Fabio Zamora, July 05, Tegucigalpa
4. Héctor Maradiaga, August 11, Tegucigalpa
5. Michelle Torres, August 30, San Pedro Sula
6. Salomé Miranda, September 20, Choloma
7. Saira Salmerón, September 20, Choloma
8. Marión Lanza, October 09, Tegucigalpa
9. Montserrat Maradiaga, October 11, San Pedro Sula.

“Know this well: neither the corrupted nor the exploiters
who serve Mammon [god of Wealth] will take part in the
Kingdom of Christ and of God.”

“As a revolutionary I will be today, tomorrow
and forever in the first ranks
of my people, all the while knowing that I may
lose my life.”

Walter Orlando Trochez
Human-Rights Activist and Defender for Honduras
and Latin America (sector HIV/AIDS, LGBTT, Youth and Adolescence, Childhood)
Mobile: + 504 – 95038128
88542680

Everyone: “Check out the DPS!”

Assassination Rogue flexes his muscles, oooh so strong!

Combat Rogue sulks

What can I say? It’s great to be up there at the top of the damage charts. It’s especially satisfying since Combat Rogues have being outdoing Assassination Rogues for far too long. I really enjoy playing as an Assassination Rogue and, despite all the top Rogues using Combat spec, I’ve stuck with it. My DPS has always been competitive with Combat Rogues with them usually beating me but only by a reasonable margin so why change?

As I’ve said before in previous posts; REAL Rogues use daggers!

You simply cannot NOT notice the whopping difference in damage done following changes to Deadly Poison, Improved Poisons and the update to Murder. I’m sure Combat Rogues are feeling a little bruised at the moment having “ruled the roost” for too long…. Good!

 I wonder how many Combat Rogues are now going to be switching over?

Both Sam (Slice and Dice) and Dinear (Forever a Noob) have written great articles covering the DPS increase from before and after patch 3.3 for Assassination Rogues. According to their numbers their DPS has increased between 20% and 25% (on a stationary target dummy).

Of course we’re already hearing “NERF ASS ROUGES” and I have to hold my hands up and just admit it; I am loving it! (I’m not going to deny it).

Unfortunately, I do have to agree this sort of DPS increase does seem a little overboard, we’ve been expecting an “adjustment” and sure enough…

Ghostcrawler has come forth and revealed Hunger for Blood will now increases damage by 10% instead of 15%:

“We wanted to increase Assassination rogue damage, and we were succesful, but we overshot the mark. We buffed Hunger for Blood back when Assassination needed a damage boost, so we’re more than happy that this talent won’t account for such a huge dps increase. Because of the nature of hotfixes, it is unlikely the tooltip will change to 10% right away”

It was only to be expected really wasn’t it?

As Dinear says; “mutilate still has a significant buff overall from the patch” and in all fairness we are still looking at a buff of between 15% – 20% after this nerf (on a stationary target dummy).

Are you a Combat Rogue? Will you be changing to Assasination spec?

Blackwater’s role as an extra-legal extension of the Central Intelligence Agency tasked with dirty operations with which the CIA did not want its employees directly associated is more than evident.

The pretense that armed Blackwater contractors, most of them former US Special Operations troops themselves, would be used merely as security guards for CIA personnel is absurd. The “skill set” that Blackwater offered was precisely that of highly trained assassins.

The absence of a contract spelling out Blackwater’s role in assassination missions is hardly surprising, given that the mercenary outfit’s chief attraction for the CIA is precisely its ability to act without regard to any government oversight or regard for civil or military law. As the Washington Post put it, citing a retired intelligence officer, “For government employees, working with contractors offered ways to circumvent red tape.”

In Iraq, Blackwater’s employees acted with complete impunity, killing large numbers of civilians without being held to account by either the Iraqi regime or US military commanders. CIA Director Leon Panetta briefed Congressional intelligence committees about a covert assassination program involving Blackwater, which had been kept secret from Congress, reportedly on the orders of former vice president Dick Cheney.

It was subsequently revealed that employees of Blackwater, since renamed Xe Services in an attempt to shed the firm’s infamous reputation, were actively involved in an ongoing assassination program on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, carried out by means of Predator drones. They provided security for the drone bases and according to some reports, participated in intelligence operations that determined the targets for the attacks.

I never thought I’d feel this way, since Julius Caesar wasn’t one of my favorite historical characters. But after watching a documentary about him; watching the re-enactment on how he was stabbed to death when he attended the senate, and how people of Rome grieved over his death, I realized that, even though he was a brutal emperor, the people of Rome loved him. so, anyway, it made me think… it’s really a waste when a person as great as Julius Caesar gets assassinated, or suddenly dies. Actually, after watching a documentary about him, he became one of my favorite historical characters! It was said that, as he was dying, he covered his face  “because he cannot be seen to be brought so low”. Even though his enemies succeeded in bringing him down, they didn’t succeed in taking away his dignity and greatness… Poetic, isn’t it?

Yesterday the Peshawar-based journalists were flown in the military helicopters to Nawaz Kot area in South Waziristan; where the Taliban had established a fake paradise. According to the journalists who took the round of the place, the walls of the rooms were painted with the rivers overflowing with milk and honey, picturesque valleys and the beautiful Hoors.

It’s clear now how these Taliban employed every technique in the book to lure and brainwash the teenagers; who would later be used as suicide bombers. The same house where make-believe paradise was created had a ‘slaughterhouse’ for murdering security forces and most probably those kidnapped for ransom.

Brainwashing

The dictionary meaning of the brainwashing is: Intensive, forcible indoctrination, usually political or religious, aimed at destroying a person’s basic convictions and attitudes and replacing them with an alternative set of fixed beliefs. In the literary context we find the best example of brainwashed people in George Orwell’s novel 1984. In the novel that is set in London of 1984 all the inhabitants are living mechanical lives with no freedom whatsoever. Those who try to rebel meet with tragic end! At the same time their country is at war… continuous and never ending war.

The idea of brainwashing could also be found in the unclassified CIA documents where they conducted a series of experiments on people in order to ascertain whether they could mold their thinking and then use the subjects for their interests. The concept of Manchurian Candidate is also the same. Where a person is controlled through several brainwashing techniques and his mind doesn’t remain in his own control. Such a person does what he’s been directed by his controller.

Preparing to Die

Preparing the young boys to die is not an easy task, not even if they hail from the poor and battered families. Still how these Taliban in the mountains can so easily prepare the brigade of suicide bombers? One thing is that since majority of these bombers hail from illiterate families with no religious or other education, their parents usually never take pain to transfer the ethics or principles of morality and simply hand over their children to the local Jihadis who promise education, food and shelter all under the same roof. That is the first step of recruitment.

Once the child is away from family these recruiters can do anything they like with them. It includes, training them to make bombs and carrying out suicide mission and gun battle etc. Every mission needs motivation in life. And these young would-be suicide bombers are motivated by making believe that this worldly life has no meaning; the real life is what awaits them in the paradise with all the voluptuous Hoors and the best of delicacies. It doesn’t take much effort to distort any Quranic verse or Hadith according to their own vested interests because these children are usually never trained to question. And those who have doubts have no choice; they’d either be slaughtered and if not then to blow themselves up. The use of inducing drugs couldn’t be ruled out either as one of the would-be suicide bombers, captured in Bajaur by the security forces said, he had been given drugs before sending out on his mission to kill the Imam of a local mosque.

Paradise of the Assassins

I was quite taken aback to read about the discovery of an artificial paradise. Till date we were only aware about the motivating religious songs and training videos; the posters of dead and would-be suicide bombers etc. But when I read about a make-believe paradise created by Taliban in the far flung area of Waziristan, instantly, a remarkable Urdu novel Firdous-e-Bari’n written by Abdul Haleem Sharar in 1899 came to my mind. My first introduction with this novel happened when I read a chapter from this novel titled Pario’n Ka Ghol in our Urdu text book. I found it quite interesting and bought the novel.

The novel talks about a secret society called the Sect of Spirituality. The main aim of this sect is to rule out Islam and for that reason they establish a fake paradise in the beautiful and unreachable mountains. Their network of spies is impeccable and when they successfully brainwash people they use them as assassins. Once the job is done, the assassin is drugged and brought to the artificial paradise. That is his reward for carrying out the heinous crime of assassination of a known figure while the assassin believes he is living an afterlife.

It boggles my mind as to how true and relevant the story of that novel is to this age. I am not sure about the truth of historical context of Firdous-e-Bari’n but here is one account:

Firdous e Bareen (or فردوس برین in Persian and Urdu) was the name of the garden, supposedly located in the fortress of Alamut, in the Elburz mountains of Northern Iran, in which Hassan-i-Sabah and his band of Nizari Ismaili Shiite Hashshashin took refuge.

According to some accounts, this garden, imitating paradise or heaven, was furnished with all luxuries of life, even a rivulet of wine and was used to recruit Sabah’s assassins. The recruit was drugged to simulate “dying,” only to later awaken in a garden and be served a sumptuous feast by virgins. The supplicant was then convinced he was in Heaven and that Sabah was a minion of the divinity and that all of his orders should be followed, even to death.

The novel Firdous e Bareen, written by Indian Muslim novelist Abdul Halim Sharar, gives a biographical account of Hassan, a youth lured and captured by Sabah’s men and then forced into his assassination machinery.

This only leaves me with certain questions. Are Taliban that advance and successful with their techniques to prepare the hoards of suicide bombers – the same bombers who come to cities and wreak havoc on the innocent people? Is there any way to counter the propaganda unleashed by Taliban? Can we change the minds of an illiterate youth who set out in search of the real paradise but end up in the paradise of fools?

PEACE, this is Daily Bread for Thursday, December Tenth, Two Thousand Nine.

After the last few months, it seems the Brzezinski/Obama Plan has been to refocus on Afghanistan, which in-of-itself is a deception by them.  You see, Congress is still messing with some Clinton-Bush-era tactics of trying to sanction Iran and smear them in the media.  Now, however, Obama-era tactics are to expand the war and cause distraction in order to allow space for Israel to move on Iran, with the assistance of the United States and the British, rather than the United States unilaterally.  Honestly, they don’t care too much about Iraq and Iran because they have other ideas–Russia and China.   They don’t want troops bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan, but they do want troops stationed in the area that can be moved around in smaller, more strategic units.  Think Special Forces and Unmanned Ariel Vehicles.

I read an Op-Ed (hit) piece by (D)–former (R) before he started his “career” as a (D), Arlen Specter (also the LAWyer that came up with the “Magic Bullet Theory” in the Kennedy Assassination) in which he states the need to focus on places like Somalia, Yemen, and Pakistan.  He mentioned convincing Pakistan to move all of it’s troops off the Indian/Kashmir border and move them to the Afghan border to fight “Al Qaeda”.  This elusion to Pakistan-India tension points toward Brzezinski’s plan of ultimately expanding this war around China and Russia.  If the fighting intensifies in the region, it has the potential to spill over into western China where there have already been incidents of violence in the last several years.  This escalation will span from Somalia to the Chinese border to the East, including drawing Iran, Israel, and possibly Lebanon and Syria into this, pushing northward to Georgia, Chechnya, and west to Turkey, Ukraine, Serbia, even Greece, and frankly maybe all the way to London itself.  Remember, if they are successful in this endeavor, the bankers will be even more rich with even wider and tighter control over the Earth.  Awareness is key.

On a quick side-note–Iran has recently been expanding it’s “influence” in places like Brazil, Venezuela and Bolivia.  Now, this is (in)directly connected to the conspiracy for world domination because South America has been quietly infiltrated for centuries by Jesuits and for decades by the CIA.  Like I said, all of this is done in the name of money and power by elitist control freaks.  It won’t be enough until the entire planet is under their system of control.  Think United Nations fronting like the savior of the world but is really the anti-christ.  Furthermore on this subject of Latin America, there has been much unrest in places like Mexico and Honduras, to mention a couple places of recent turmoil and opportunity for the conspiracy to infiltrate and take over control of nations.

*How is it that the majority Christian nations of Central & South America relate to majority Muslim Iran?  In their opposition to US/Western imperialism.  In reality, freemasonry connects them (Freemasonry connects Jewish Kaballah, Roman Catholicism, Muslim Sufism–Think Muslim Assassins & Christian Knights).  Don’t forget after the fall of Nazi Germany (Thule Society), which had very close ties to the Middle East (Islam)(Muslim Brotherhood) in it’s opposition to Israel (Jews)(Zionism), war criminals fled with immunity to both North & South America.  All of these opposing forces are in reality human emotion being played, preyed, and manipulated by occult and hidden forces.  The only way to beat their game is to transcend it.  If you can not control your impulses you will fall to their traps, whether they be emotional, psychological, economic or militarily.

The new military-tactic is not  to occupy nations but to station smaller numbers of troops in many nations, projecting even smaller groups into any nation, in any region the “leaders” see fit, that are opposing Western domination of Earth, it’s people and it’s resources.

Have no doubt about it, this war targets the people of the United States just as much as people from countries across the planet.  However, at this stage of the game, the war against Americans is mostly economic and psychological.  This will be done in the hopes to pacify and wear-down the US-public to the point they have no will to physically put up a fight to these tyrants, or the soldiers who take orders and obey the will of these tyrants, no matter what country they were born and/or reside in.

On two other fronts, you had the G-20 Economic Summit a few months ago and now we have the Copenhagen Conference on “Global Warming”.

In conclusion, the tactics may change subtly or drastically, but ultimately, the end-game of world domination and control is in tact and in progress.

“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.” -King James Bible

* Nazi Germany had an ongoing relationship with the Pope and the Vatican.  The Jesuits, the “Vatican’s Army”, has had a very large influence over Central and South America and backs armed conflict against the West!  This is controlled opposition. The Vatican also has an ongoing relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood, the United States, Britain and Israel! Understand, the main facilitators of this conspiracy/agenda of world domination are the only three independent, city-states on Planet Earth–each of which controls 3 main keys–Spirituality, Economy, & Military–Vatican City, (Center)City of London (not to be confused with Greater London, look it up!), & the District of Columbia.

Hombres vestidos de militares y policías asesinan a cinco jóvenes de la Resistencia
Monday, 07 December 2009 16:32 Dina Meza
[Un vecino aseguró que los muchachos eran miembros activos de la Resistencia] Cuatro hombres  vestidos con uniformes militares de la policía llegaron en un busito blanco, entre la colonia Honduras y la Villanueva, en la capital, para asesinar a cinco jóvenes, que de acuerdo a vecinos son miembros activos del Frente Nacional de Resistencia Contra el Golpe de Estado y dejan herida a una joven que pasó por muerta para salvarse.

Las víctimas respondían a los nombres de: Isaac Coello, de 24 años; Roger Reyes (22), Kenneth Rosa (23), Gabriel Parrales y Marco Vinicio Matute (39).
 
Mientras Wendy Yamileth Martínez Reyes, pasó por muerta  para salvarse de la masacre, ella fue trasladada al Hospital Escuela, donde no aparecía en la sala donde supuestamente está siendo atendida, según el registro del hospital.
 
Un vecino del lugar, que por seguridad no dijo su nombre aseguró a través del programa Resistencia que se transmite por Radio Globo, que “los muchachos eran miembros activos de la Resistencia, ellos habían organizado los comités en la colonia Honduras y Víctor F Ardón, para que los vecinos se integraran al frente de resistencia”.
 
También denunció que en horas previas al sangriento suceso manifestaron que un elemento de la Dirección Nacional de Investigación Criminal (DNIC), estuvo montando guardia en las cercanías de la escena del crimen, y que de forma misteriosa desapareció del lugar, sin dar detalles de su estadía en la zona.
 
En un testimonio brindado al periodista Marvin Ortiz de Radio Globo, Wendy relató cómo se produjo el sangriento hecho, y señaló que los hombres llegaron en un carro blanco y que ella se logró salvar al hacerse la muerta.
 
Jhony Lagos, director del periódico El Libertador, relató a defensoresenlinea.com que durante las últimas semanas, carros con similares características a las que se conducían los autores materiales de este crimen, merodean por ese medio de comunicación para montarles vigilancia. Vea noticia completa
 
En lo que va del golpe de Estado se han incrementado las muertes de jóvenes en el país, el patrón de operaciones de los ejecutores es similar al utilizado contra estos muchachos, el fin de semana.
 
El papel decisivo que ha jugado la juventud desde el 28 de junio los ha colocado como uno de los sectores de mucha vulnerabilidad, hay más de una decena que han tenido que salir del país por el peligro inminente contra sus vidas.

Sitting in my dining room at the table writing Christmas cards; during my vacation where I am suppose to be in Fort Lauderdale, Florida right now, but I ran out of money; with the Postal Service playing in the background; and enjoying the quiet time to myself; a black solid object propels to my chest.

I blinked.

::blink:: ::blink::

Pausing at my task, I raised my head and looked around at my apartment.

Living room…nothing.  Oh wait, there’s my cat pitter-pattering across the room.  Nah…

Dining room…no one.

Kitchen…not a single soul.

Raising my left brow and dropping my jaw slightly, I took a short breath.  I started to say something but I stopped.

I double checked to see if the three other chairs at the table were occupied.  Nope.  I’m not seeing things.

“Did that really just happened?” I said out loud.

There was no one to answer me.  My cat, now laying on the couch ignored my words.  Not like he knows what is going on anyways.

“Seriously, did that really just happened?” I said out loud again, still in disbelief at what happened.

I picked up the pen in my hand and examined it.  Nothing out of the ordinary but yet…

Half the pen was missing.  The tip is now retracted back into the barrel.  As for the end of the pen, the clicker as most would describe it, is gone.

I looked on the floor and gave myself a blank stare.  Still confused, I looked through the boxes behind me to no avail.  And there was nothing under the table either.  I stood up and went to the other side of the dining room and found it.  It was almost in the living room.

I picked up the clicker and examined it.

It was just a pen clicker.  Nothing more.  Nothing less.

I sat back down in my seat and reassembled my pen.

::click::  ::click::

Works fine.  There’s nothing wrong with it.

Confused and confuzzled as ever, I moved my left arm to just under my right shoulder where the collar bone is located.  I still felt it.  I still felt the pressure and shock of the impact.

“Did that really just happened?” I said once again, “Did my pen really just shoot at me?”

I started to chuckle knowing that I’m still alive after the failed BIC assassination attempt.  Shaking my head lightly as I started to return to writing my Christmas cards, I said to myself, “Man, too bad no one saw that because it really did just happen.”

YouTube - John Lennon’s Opinion about Over Population.

Along with a recent Inquirer article on the shooting death of a 21-year-old with life ahead of him by an off-duty Philadelphia cop with trouble behind him, the chilling reality of preferential police treatment was illustrated by a story on the very same page.

It related the details of three men who had been charged with a homicide. The killings were unrelated, and the suspects had been arrested in close proximity to the actual time of the incidents. They were not allowed to keep their jobs – as the investigation dragged on and on. They were three black men of little consequence in a city, and a country, with so little hope for black men. Who really cared what they had to say, what the circumstances might have been? Tell it to the judge. Unless you are an off-duty cop. Then you can appear to be inebriated, apparently brandish a gun like a rodeo clown, with bullets instead of blanks, fire it into the chest of William Panas Jr., and get an immediate reward for your efforts:

You get the cushy assignment of desk duty. You answer the phones, and we, the taxpayers, still pay you $58,610 a year for killing someone on the wobbly claim of self-defense.

Full story

Kristin Bricker
Narco News
December 1, 2009

Mariano Abarca Led a Growing Movement to Kick Canadian Mining Companies Out of Mexican Communities

Mariano Abarca Roblero, one of Mexico’s most prominent anti-mining organizers, was shot to death on the evening of November 27, 2009, in front of his house in Chicomuselo, Chiapas. He left behind a wife and four children. Another man was wounded in the shooting.

The incident comes just days after Abarca filed charges against two Blackfire employees, Ciro Roblero Perez and Luis Antonio Flores Villatoro, for threatening to shoot him if he didn’t stop organizing against Canadian mining company Blackfire’s barium mine in Chicomuselo. According to a formal complaint filed by a government employee who works in the Chicomuselo municipal building, Roblero Perez arrived at the municipal building to say that he had gone to look for Abarca to “fuck him up in a hail of bullets.” He also reportedly said that Abarca and other people were on a list of people Blackfire management wants to hurt. Blackfire public relations manager Luis Antonio Flores Villatoro was mentioned in the government employee’s complaint as one of the people responsible for the list.

Ejido* authorities from the Nueva Morelia ejido in Chicomuselo county took the complaint seriously and helped Abarca launch an investigation. The day before the murder, Roblero Perez and Flores Villatoro were summoned to testify regarding the alleged death threats, but they failed to appear.
A History of Harassment

Even though local authorities acted to try to protect Abarca, the Mexican Network of People Affected by Mining (REMA) blames the Chiapas state government for failing to protect the mining leader. On the contrary, the state government seems to have been complicit in Blackfire’s legal harassment of Abarca.

On August 17, 2009, unidentified armed men in unmarked cars kidnapped Abarca as he was leaving an elementary school in Chicomuselo. He had visited the school to request permission on behalf of his organization, REMA, to use the building for an anti-mining meeting scheduled for August 29-30.

The kidnappers turned out to be police. They had arrested Abarca on charges filed by Blackfire regarding a June-July 2009 highway blockade REMA set up to prevent the passage of Blackfire trucks. REMA was protesting the company’s failure to comply with promises it allegedly made regarding community development projects and environmental stewardship. According to community leaders, Blackfire’s open-pit barium mine uses too much of the area’s scarce water resources. They are concerned that the pollution could effect their crop cultivation in the near future.

The acting on Blackfire’s formal complaint, the state government charged Abarca with attacks against public roadways, criminal association, organized crime, and offenses against the peace. Theoretically, organized crime charges are reserved for drug, arms, and human traffickers, and other members of Mexico’s expansive mafia network. However, the Chiapas government has been known to accuse activists and community organizers of organized crime in order to take advantage of restricted due process rights for people accused of organized crime.

That is what happened in Abarca’s case. The organized crime charged allowed the Chiapas government to imprison him under the highly controversial and international criticized legal instrument of “arraigo” or pre-charge detention. Under arraigo, the government can arrest a suspect and isolate him or her for months while it pressures and sometimes tortures the person into confessing.

The state government detained Abarca for eight days before it ceded to international public pressure to release him. Abarca was released and the charges were dropped due to lack of evidence. His lawyer, Miguel Angel de los Santos, criticized the Chiapas government for ceding to the mining company’s pressure to arrest Abarca. “There was no legal justification for his arrest and detention. Preliminary investigation began on June 12th, two days after the blockade, and was only just beginning to come together. The investigation had not advanced,” he told Proceso in August following Abarca’s release.
Structural Adjustment Strikes Again

Social discontent regarding mines in Mexico has been steadily building over the past ten years, beginning when the effects of a World Bank-mandated mining sector deregulation scheme were first felt. A confidential World Bank document entitled “Implementation Completion Report: Mexico Mining Sector Restructuring Project,” which Narco News makes available to the public, outlines exactly how a nine-year loan project drastically transformed Mexico’s mining sector.

The project, first proposed by the Word Bank in 1989 and quickly adopted by the Mexican government, aimed to deregulate the mining industry in Mexico. The Bank proposed the project because, as its Implementation Completion Report (ICR) explains,

Past lending of the Bank for mining in Mexico was oriented towards specific investment projects, with direct lines of credit to the sector… The lessons learned from those operations were that the continued development of the mining sector required increased access to land rights, reduced ownership limitations, revision of the tax legislation, a restructuring of existing institutional setups, as well as policies that stimulate private investment in mining by both domestic and foreign firms. The Bank Mining Sector Review identified an inadequate regulatory and institutional framework as the major constraint to increase private investment and further growth of the sector.

One of the Bank’s main goals for the project was to open up Mexico’s previously protected national mining industry to foreign companies; the Bank listed “open the sector to foreigners” as its first “strategy to restructure the sector.” It hoped to do so by privatizing state-owned mining companies, slashing taxes, awarding mineral and land rights to private companies, and facilitating foreign companies’ ownership of Mexican land in order to “contribute to the increased exploration and exploitation of the vast mining potential of the country, to take advantage of Mexico’s strategic location near the United States and Canada.”

The Bank proposed a set of changes to Mexican law in its Mining Sector Report, and the Mexican government–at that point still under one-party rule–rushed to implement them under a plan called the National Mining Modernization Program. In just four years (1990-1994), the legal framework for mining in Mexico underwent a radical change. Before the ink on the new laws was dry, the Bank began to dole out money to private mining companies to “help finance the surge in demand for investment funding that was expected to result from the improved policy and institutional setting for mining operations.”

The Bank was thrilled with the results of the National Mining Modernization Program and its subsequent loans. According to the Bank, over the course of the project, which ended in 1998, over 8.7 million hectares of land were released and 17,220 new mining concessions were granted. As a result of the legal changes mandated by the loan, the time required for processing mining concessions went down from 5 years to 5 months, and the Mexican government’s backlog of about 14,000 concession requests that were pending since 1989 disappeared virtually overnight. The Bank was so pleased with the results of the Mining Sector Restructuring Project that it wrote, “Future Bank participation in the sector does not seem justified anymore, in view that mining exploration/exploitation is now open to domestic and foreign investors.”

The Bank’s structural adjustment of Mexico’s mining sector has played a key role in the battle for “land and territory” (as the Zapatistas refer to it) in the country. Private ownership, increased economic pressure on small and subsistence farmers, and top-down “development” projects are acutely felt in mineral-rich communities. According to Gustavo Castro Soto of the Chiapas-based non-profit Otros Mundos, “Beginning in 2000, almost 10% of the national territory has been ceded to transnational companies through mining concessions.” REMA notes that in Chiapas, 15.21% of the state’s total territory has been ceded through mining concessions. Many of those concessions don’t expire until the year 2050. If the social unrest that frequently follows mining concessions is any indicator, Mexicans are not willingly handing over their land to foreign mining companies.
Mining Industry Under Fire

Mariono Abarca’s murder comes at a time that the mining industry in Mexico is feeling the heat from Mexico’s social movements. Inspired by the national movement of communities affected by hydroelectric dam projects, mining-affected communities are joining forces in a unified front against destructive mining practices.

In 2008, representatives from Chicomuselo travelled to the state of Jalisco to found REMA during the First Encounter of the Mexican Network of People Affected by Mining. Representatives from mining-affected communities in eleven states and the Federal District participated in the historic event: Chihuahua, Sonora, Nayarit, Jalisco, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Guerrero, Mexico City, México State, San Luis Potosí, Coahuila, and Veracruz. REMA agreed at that meeting to raise consciousness about the social and environmental effects of mining. It also pledged that member organizations would support each other in their struggles against destructive mines in their communities.

One of the most high-profile joint actions that REMA carried out was a protest encampment in front of the Canadian Embassy in Mexico City this past July. Abarca and representatives from other communities affected by Canadian mining companies participated in the encampment, which demanded the withdraw of Metallic Resources/NewGold, a Canadian company, from Cerro de San Pedro, San Luis Potosi. At the protest, Abarca spoke about Canadian mining companies’ contamination of traditional water sources.

Following the protest, mining-affected communities won a temporary victory: just last month, a federal judge ordered that the Cerro de San Pedro mine be closed because the mining company had failed to comply with environmental stipulations. The closure comes after ten years of struggle waged by a broad coalition of San Luis Potosi civil society organizations, which include organizations linked to Mexico’s center-left Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) and groups affiliated with the Zapatista’s Other Campaign. They opposed the gold mining project because, in addition to environmental concerns, the Cerro de San Pedro is an official historic monument. NewGold has promised to appeal the ruling.

In Chiapas, Abarca led a previously mentioned highway blockade that prevented Blackfire trucks from entering and leaving the Chicomuselo mine this past June and July. The community was protesting the company’s excessive use of scarce water supplies, its failure to follow through on commitments it reportedly made to the community, and its back-door maneuverings that allowed it to purchase 13.5 hectares of ejido land without the required approval of the ejido assembly. Blackfire claims it lost $120,000 pesos ($9,334 dollars) as a direct result of the blockade.

This past August, REMA held its Second Encounter of the Mexican Network of People Affected by Mining in Chiapas. Guatemalan communities who are resisting mining projects traveled to Chiapas to participate and share their experienes. Abarca helped organize the Encounter, and as previously mentioned, it was during the Encounter’s organizing process that state police kidnapped Abarca and charged him with organized crime at Blackfire’s request.

A communique signed by 25 Mexican organizations from six states and Mexico City holds Blackfire’s owners responsible for Abarca’s shooting and any resulting violence in the region. They call for a protest encampment outside of the Canadian Embassy and the Ministry of Economy headquarters in Mexico City on December 3 in solidarity with the people of Chicomuselo.

*An ejido is commonly-held land traditionally managed by assembly.

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