Week 8 started off with a recap on Semiotics and our Semiotic Assignment. Week 8 brought us on to Design Principles. We already covered shape/form, space, point, line, texture, pattern and colour earlier during the module but these can be considered elements of design used to create a composition.  We learn that space between and around our elements is very important and can be as dominant as the elements themselves. How we combine the elements of design forms design principles and the method we apply these principles determines how good our compositon/artwork becomes. We can combine our elements using balance, contrast, movement, emphasis and unity.

Balance
Balance refers to the equilibrium in a compositon. This is achieved by choice in arranging the elements in relation to each other and frame area. There are 2 forms – Symmetrical and Asymmetrical. Sysmmetical is an even distribution/mirror image. This is achieved by placing elements evenly in design.

Asymmetrical Balance
Asymmetrical balance is an uneven distribution of elements on the page/frame. These designs can be difficult to achieve but can work out very well. They can be created by placing small or no items on one side and a large item on the other side. This can create tension drawing the viewer in.

If you know the rules you can break them, lack of balance can convey action and motion. An off-balance design can make people think, it’s not good to end up having an off balance design by accident.

Contrast
Contast means difference, having similar components throughout and become bland and boring. Contrasts in composition, shape, size and colour can make a dynamic design. It creates interest for the viewer. Contrast can create tension by placing opposing elements in relation to each other. This can be achieved by placing subject to the side of the frame or even partially out of the frame.

Contast in size can be usefull for visual arrangement of elements such as large bold text for a dominent headline followed by an arrangment of text and images. Contrasting shapes can add tension to the image, the difference in elements should be obvious. Colour contrast can be very effective, small areas of vibrant colour and contast large areas of neutral colour.

Movement
Movement is the path our eyes follow when we look at art, this creates unity and can be achieved by using line, repetition and rhythm. Movements combines all elements together. Repetition in movement is when elements are often repeated or hav similar structure creating visual rhythm. Lines can be used to create movment, this is used alot in cartoons and Japanese animation ‘manga’.  Rhythm refers to the way your eye moves through a picture

Emphasis
Emphasis is the creation of an obvious area of importance in an image/design rather than have everything equal. Without emphasis nothing stands out drawing the eye to it. Simplicity/minimal-design omitts all non-essential elements and details with only the important elements represented and can be called KISS (keep it simple stuipd). A large object placd in the centre can be seen as a focal point.

Seperating bright and dark areas of colour can also be used to create emphasis.

At the end of the lecture were were broken into groups and each given a movie poster to talk about its principles of design. We were given Casablanca

We discovered that there was movement using rhythm by the arrangement of people on the right hand side of the poster and thru line by using the sloping text. We found emphasis on importance by use of the main 2 characters in the centre of the poster. There is a colour contrast with the name in bright red and the main characters in colour with surrounding yellowed compared to the dark blue tint all around the poster. The poster was slightly asymetrical with a heavier concentration on imagery on the right hand side.

That concluded our lecture for this week, we continued on with our semiotics in the lab.

“Bob” Seldon Lady, l’ex capo della stazione della CIA a Milano, colui che comandava i 23 agenti della “super agenzia” yankee condannati in Italia per aver sequestrato, torturato e poi fatto “scomparire” l’iman egizio Abu Omar nella città italiana di Milano nel 2003, era una figura chiave nella rete che dall’Honduras ed El Salvador scambiò armi per cocaina a sostegno della contra nicaraguense negli anni ‘80.
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Lady, un nordamericano di 52 anni, è nato nell’Honduras e partecipò insieme a suo padre in operazioni dell’Agenzia Centrale d’Intelligence degli Stati Uniti nella guerra sporca contro i sandinisti nicaraguensi, prima di arruolarsi dopo il 2001 in una “Operazione Condor” in versione mediorientale.
Tra i 26 imputati della fase iniziale della causa in Italia, si trovava una donna – Betnie Medero – ora presuntamente residente in Messico che è stata a capo del comando così come una misteriosa funzionaria del Dipartimento di Stato, Mónica Courtney Adler.
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Tra i membri del comando di sequestratori, è di particolare interesse il caso di Betnie Medero. Questa donna di 33 anni aveva l’incarico di seconda segretaria nell’ambasciata degli Stati Uniti a Roma. E’ arrivata in Italia nell’agosto 2001 con credenziali diplomatiche e – secondo il Corriere della Sera – ha personalmente diretto il sequestro in situ, oltre ad avere poi assicurato il trasferimento dell”ostaggio fino alla base statunitense di Aviano, nel nord del paese. Ora si ritiene che sia in Messico, con legami con la locale ambasciata USA, secondo lo stesso quotidiano italiano.
Medero ebbe due complici principali in quest’azione, che sembra ripresa da un film di Hollywood: James Thomas Harbison, di 58 anni , e Vincent (o Vicent o Vicente) Faldo, di 57 anni. Comunque, le caratteristiche del capobanda, Robert “Bob” Lady, illustrano l’estensione delle operazioni dell’agenzia nordamericana in tutto il mondo. Figlio di William “Bill” Lady, un vecchio agente della CIA radicato in Honduras, “Bob” Lady diresse insieme a Manuchar Ghorbanifar – un sulfureo negoziante iraniano – la vendita segreta di armi all’Iran che, insieme alle operazioni di narcotraffico dirette da El Salvador da Félix Rodríguez Mendigutía e Luis Posada Carriles, hanno provocato il più grande scandalo che colpi l’amministrazione Reagan.
Lady portò avanti i suoi loschi collegamenti sotto gli ordini del tenente colonnello dei marines Oliver North, che ha anche comandato le operazioni ad Ilopango, anch’esse allo scopo di fornire illegalmente armi alla contra nicaraguense.
Queste operazioni si svilupparono anche in parallelo con la rete di contrabbando del multimilionario Gerard Latchinian, padrino dell’imprenditore Yehuda Leitner, attuale fornitore di armi ed di equipaggiamenti per reprimere della dittatura Micheletti.
“Bob” Lady continuava ad operare in America Centrale nel 1994, quando la spia Aldrich Ames “lo bruciò”, rivelando il suo nome all’intelligence sovietica, secondo quanto sostiene la stampa nordamericana. Il suo nome fu poi associato al “Nigergate”, quell’operazione di disinformazione che giustificò l’occupazione dell’Iraq con il pretesto – completamente inventato – che Saddam Hussein tentava di acquisire uranio in Niger.
Lady è fuggito precipitosamente dall’Italia nel giugno 2005, quando seppe che la magistratura di quel paese si interessava del sequestro di Abu Omar. Avvertita, sua moglie, cancellò tutti i files del suo computer, ma gli specialisti della polizia riuscirono a recuperarne una buona parte. Anzi, gli inquirenti trovano prove del soggiorno di due settimane di Lady in El Cairo, proprio quelle in cui cominciò l’interrogatorio dell’iman di Milano.
Alcune fonti assicurano che “Bob” Lady si trova ora di ritorno in America Centrale.
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Da L’ex capo della CIA a Milano coinvolto nella rete terroristica di Posada Carriles, di Jean-Guy Allard.

CounterPunch, October 28, 2009

Brought to You by the CIA

America’s Drug Crisis

By DAVE LINDORFF

Next time you see a junkie sprawled at the curb in the downtown of your nearest city, or read about someone who died of a heroin overdose, just imagine a big yellow sign posted next to him or her saying: “Your Federal Tax Dollars at Work.”

Kudos to the New York Times, and to reporters Dexter Filkins, Mark Mazzetti and James Risen, for their lead article today reporting that Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of Afghanistan’s stunningly corrupt President Hamid Karzai, a leading drug lord in the world’s major opium-producing nation, has for eight years been on the CIA payroll.

Okay, the article was lacking much historical perspective (more on that later), and the dead hand of top editors was evident in the overly cautious tone (I loved the third paragraph, which stated that “The financial ties and close working relationship between the intelligence agency and Mr. Karzai raises significant questions about America’s war strategy, which is currently under review at the White House.” Well, duh! It should be raising questions about why we are even in Afghanistan, about who should be going to jail at the CIA, and about how can the government explain this to the over 1000 soldiers and Marines who have died supposedly helping to build a new Afghanistan). But that said, the newspaper that helped cheerlead us into the pointless and criminal Iraq invasion in 2003, and that prevented journalist Risen from running his exposé of the Bush/Cheney administration’s massive warrantless National Security Agency electronic spying operation until after the 2004 presidential election, this time gave a critically important story full play, and even, appropriately, included a teaser in the same front-page story about October being the most deadly month yet for the US in Afghanistan.

What the article didn’t mention at all is that there is a clear historical pattern here. During the Vietnam War, the CIA, and its Air America airline front-company, were neck deep in the Southeast Asian heroin trade. At the time, it was Southeast Asia, not Afghanistan, that was the leading producer and exporter of opium, mostly to the US, where there was a heroin epidemic.

A decade later, in the 1980s, during the Reagan administration, as the late investigative journalist Gary Webb so brilliantly documented first in a series titled “Dark Alliance” in the San Jose Mercury newspaper, and later in a book by that same name, the CIA was deeply involved in the development of and smuggling of cocaine into the US, which was soon engulfed in a crack cocaine epidemic—one that continues to destroy African American and other poor communities across the country. (The Times role here was sordid—it and other leading papers, including the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times—did despicable hit pieces on Webb shamelessly trashing his work and his career, and ultimately driving him to suicide, though his facts have held up. For the whole sordid tale, read Alex Cockburn’s and Jeffrey St. Clair’s Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press) In this case, Webb showed that the Agency was actually using the drugs as a way to fund arms, which it could use its own planes to ferry down to the Contra forces it was backing to subvert the Sandinista government in Nicaragua at a time Congress had barred the US from supporting the Contras.

And now we have Afghanistan, once a sleepy backwater of the world with little connection to drugs (the Taliban, before their overthrow by US forces in 20001, had, according to the UN, virtually eliminated opium production there), but now responsible for as much as 80 percent of the world’s opium production—this at a time that the US effectively finances and runs the place, with an occupying army that, together with Afghan government forces that it controls, outnumbers the Taliban 12-1 according to a recent AP story.

The real story here is that where the US goes, the drug trade soon follows, and the leading role in developing and nurturing that trade appears to be played by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Your tax dollars at work.

The issue at this point should not be how many troops the US should add to its total in Afghanistan. It shouldn’t even be over whether the US should up the ante or scale back to a more limited goal of hunting terrorists. It should be about how quickly the US can extricate its forces from Afghanistan, how soon the Congress can start hearings into corruption and drug pushing by the CIA, and how soon the Attorney General’s office will impanel a grand jury to probe CIA drug dealing.

Americans, who for years have supported a stupid, blundering and ineffective “War on Drugs” in this country, and who mindlessly back “zero-tolerance” policies towards drugs in schools and on the job, should demand a “zero-tolerance” policy toward drugs and dealing with drug pushers in government and foreign policy, including the CIA.

For years we have been fed the story that the Taliban are being financed by their taxes on opium farmers. That may be partly true, but recently we’ve been learning that it’s not the real story. Taliban forces in Afghanistan, it turns out, have been heavily subsidized by protection money paid to them by civilian aid organizations, including even American government-funded aid programs, and even, reportedly, by the military forces of some of America’s NATO allies (there is currently a scandal in Italy concerning such payments by Italian forces). But beyond that, the opium industry, far from being controlled by the Taliban, has been, to a great extent, controlled by the very warlords with which the US has allied itself, and, as the Times now reports, by Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president’s own brother.

Karzai, we are also told by Filkins, Mazzetti and Risen, was a key player in producing hundreds of thousands of fraudulent ballots for his brother’s election theft earlier this year. Left unsaid is whether the CIA might have played a role in that scam too. In a country where finding printing presses is sure to be difficult, and where transporting bales of counterfeit ballots is risky, you have to wonder whether an agency like the CIA, which has ready access to printers and to helicopters, might have had a hand in keeping its assets in control in Kabul.

Sure that’s idle speculation on my part, but when you learn that America’s spook agency has been keeping not just Karzai, but lots of other unsavory Afghani warlords, on its payroll, such speculation is only logical.

The real attitude of the CIA here was best illustrated by an anonymous quote in the Filkins, Mazzetti and Risen piece, where a “former CIA officer with experience in Afghanistan,” explaining the agency’s backing of Karzai, said, “Virtually every significant Afghan figure has had brushes with the drug trade. If you are looking for Mother Teresa, she doesn’t live in Afghanistan.”

“The end justifies the means” is America’s foreign policy and military motto, clearly.

The Times article exposing the CIA link to Afghanistan’s drug-kingpin presidential brother should be the last straw for Americans. President Obama’s “necessary” war in Afghanistan is nothing but a sick joke.

The opium, and resulting heroin, that is flooding into Europe and America thanks to the CIA’s active support of the industry and its owners in Afghanistan are doing far more grave damage to our societies than any turbaned terrorists armed with suicide bomb vests could hope to inflict.

The Afghanistan War has to be ended now.

Let the prosecution of America’s government drug pushers begin.

A note about Sen. John Kerry: Kerry (D-MA), who went to Afghanistan to press, for the Obama administration, to get his “good friend” President Karzai to agree to a run-off election after Karzai’s earlier theft of the first round, has played a shameful role here. Once, back when he still had an ounce of the principle that he had back when he was a Vietnam vet speaking out against the Indochina War, Kerry held hearings on the CIA’s cocaine-for-arms operation in Central America. Now he’s hugging the CIA’s drug connections.

Dave Lindorff is a Philadelphia-based journalist and columnist. His latest book is “The Case for Impeachment” (St. Martin’s Press, 2006 and now available in paperback). He can be reached at dlindorff@mindspring.com

NOTE:  This article originally appeared on the HONDURAS OYE! blog, but the editor function on the blog is not working (perhaps, gov’t. gremlins are?) preventing me from doing hotlinks and other really important editing tasks.  Here, the article with hotlinks.

In the 1990 film, “La Femme Nikita,” a young heroin addict kills a cop, is jailed for his murder, and subsequently is placed by French government intelligence services in the underground to conduct assassinations for them. When one of her assassinations goes awry, “Victor, the Cleaner,” is sent in to dispose of both the bodies and the evidence.

Unfortunately, this is the image that came to my mind when I first heard last week that a man by the name of John Biehl said that he was hopeful about an agreement between Honduran President Zelaya and the golpistas.  A few days later, I learned that Biehl, actually his name is John Biehl del Rio, is an advisor to OAS Secretary-General, Jose Miguel Insulza.  Then, just a few days ago, Arias declared support for the November 29 election.  And today, Biehl del Rio announces that a meeting between the golpistas and Zelaya will take place next week. Is this guy a fortune teller, a magician?  No wonder, out of the ill-fated attempt by OAS officials to enter Honduras a week ago, Biehl was the only one allowed in. I don’t know about you, but when the history is written, I would prefer to be one of the guys turned away by the golpistas at the airport.  I decided it was time to find out more.

His Wikipedia biography shows a varied diplomatic career.  Biehl del Rio is a Chilean of Danish heritage. In the 1980’s,  Biehl was an employee of the United Nations Development Program where he served as a development advisor in Honduras, Panama, Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru and Colombia. He also worked for Oscar Arias in Costa Rica as a policy maker and speech writer and was known as Arias’ “closest confidant” and “alter ego.” In addition, it was Biehl del Rio who led the successful campaign for Arias’ Nobel Peace Prize. In the late 1990’s , he served as Chilean ambassador to the US.  Next stop for Biehl was the International Crisis Group, as the Director of Colombia and the Andean Region, beginning in 2001.

When Biehl del Rio came to his most recent job in the political affairs department at the OAS, his first assignment was to oversee the OAS mission to monitor the Nicaraguan elections.  Back during the Reagan administration, Oscar Arias started bucking the US’ use of Contras in Nicaragua and ordered Contras arrested if found in Costs Rica.  Biehl del Rio was with the UN at the time and lobbied folks in Washington against Reagan’s use of the Contras in the war in Nicaragua.  In retaliation, the Reagan administration condemned Arias and tried to have Biehl del Rio fired from the UN.  Over time, as Arias began conducting peace negotiations concerning the war in Nicaragua, it was obvious that the Reagan administration had gotten to him because his actions became increasingly duplicitous.  With his suggestion of a unity government between the Sandinistas and the US bought and paid for Contras, it was obvious that Arias was working for the US government.  When he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his Nicaraguan peace plan, it was a deep affront to the Sandinistas.  Ever since that time, Arias has been in the US’ pocket and one cannot doubt that his alter ego, Biehl del Rio, has been as well.

In the Nicaragua negotiations, Arias dealt with the Sandinistas and the Contras as nearly equal entities, thus legitimizing the Contra war.  And while the Clinton State Department would deny it,  the US and its envoy, Arias, have been doing the same thing concerning Honduras.  From the very beginning, Arias’ mediations put the Michelettis at the same table as the Zelayas.  This is not mediating, this is fixing the deal.

Now that a November election looks to be a firm part of the plan and the will of the Honduras people has been grossly disrespected by Hillary Clinton, Oscar Arias and, I’ll have to throw in Insulza also because only he could have made the OAS walk the fine line between  Zelaya and the golpistas, it’s time to clean up the mess for international consumption. Issues of law will be erased, Zelaya will make compromises he never intended, and Hondurans determined to boycott the elections will be recast as unpatriotic elements in the country who don’t want peace.

Haitians boycotted their latest election this last April because it excluded all candidates from running who were associated with Lavalas, the largest and most popular party in Haiti. Yet, incredibly, the election went on and the 5% voter turnout result was certified. The US Ambassador to Haiti, Janet Sanderson, followed up with a public statement a day after the election suggesting that the Haitian government arrest all 42 leaders of the boycott.

Honduras, as it has in other instances since the June 28 coup, continues in a path similar to Haiti which also suffered a  US-sponsored coup in 2004.   But, how do you take the rags of a travesty and make it look like a whole piece of cloth? I guess,”John Biehl del Rio, the Cleaner,” will show us how it’s done.

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In the 1990 film, “La Femme Nikita,” a young heroin addict kills a cop, is jailed for his murder, and subsequently is placed by French government intelligence services in the underground to conduct assassinations for them. When one of her assassinations goes awry, “Victor, the Cleaner,” is sent in to dispose of both the bodies and the evidence.

Unfortunately, this is the image that came to my mind when I first heard last week that a man by the name of John Biehl said that he was hopeful about an agreement between Honduran President Zelaya and the golpistas.  A few days later, I learned that Biehl, actually his name is John Biehl del Rio, is an advisor to OAS Secretary-General, Jose Miguel Insulza.  Then, just a few days ago, Arias declared support for the November 29 election.  And today, Biehl del Rio announces that a meeting between the golpistas and Zelaya will take place next week. Is this guy a fortune teller, a magician?  No wonder, out of the ill-fated attempt by OAS officials to enter Honduras a week ago, Biehl was the only one allowed in. I don’t know about you, but when the history is written, I would prefer to be one of the guys turned away by the golpistas at the airport.  I decided it was time to find out more.

His Wikipedia biography shows a varied diplomatic career.  Biehl del Rio is a Chilean of Danish heritage. In the 1980’s,  Biehl was an employee of the United Nations Development Program where he served as a development advisor in Honduras, Panama, Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru and Colombia. He also worked for Oscar Arias in Costa Rica as a policy maker and speech writer and was known as Arias’ “closest confidant” and “alter ego.” In addition, it was Biehl del Rio who led the successful campaign for Arias’ Nobel Peace Prize. In the late 1990’s , he served as Chilean ambassador to the US.  Next stop for Biehl was the International Crisis Group, as the Director of Colombia and the Andean Region, beginning in 2001.

When Biehl del Rio came to his most recent job in the political affairs department at the OAS, his first assignment was to oversee the OAS mission to monitor the Nicaraguan elections.  Back during the Reagan administration, Oscar Arias started bucking the US’ use of Contras in Nicaragua and ordered Contras arrested if found in Costs Rica.  Biehl del Rio was with the UN at the time and lobbied folks in Washington against Reagan’s use of the Contras in the war in Nicaragua.  In retaliation, the Reagan administration condemned Arias and tried to have Biehl del Rio fired from the UN.  Over time, as Arias began conducting peace negotiations concerning the war in Nicaragua, it was obvious that the Reagan administration had gotten to him because his actions became increasingly duplicitous.  With his suggestion of a unity government between the Sandinistas and the US bought and paid for Contras, it was obvious that Arias was working for the US government.  When he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his Nicaraguan peace plan, it was a deep affront to the Sandinistas.  Ever since that time, Arias has been in the US’ pocket and one cannot doubt that his alter ego, Biehl del Rio, has been as well.

In the Nicaragua negotiations, Arias dealt with the Sandinistas and the Contras as nearly equal entities, thus legitimizing the Contra war.  And while the Clinton State Department would deny it,  the US and its envoy, Arias, have been doing the same thing concerning Honduras.  From the very beginning, Arias’ mediations put the Michelettis at the same table as the Zelayas.  This is not mediating, this is fixing the deal.

Now that a November election looks to be a firm part of the plan and the will of the Honduras people has been grossly disrespected by Hillary Clinton, Oscar Arias and, I’ll have to throw in Insulza also because only he could have made the OAS walk the fine line between  Zelaya and the golpistas, it’s time to clean up the mess for international consumption. Issues of law will be erased, Zelaya will make compromises he never intended, and Hondurans determined to boycott the elections will be recast as unpatriotic elements in the country who don’t want peace.

Haitians boycotted their latest election this last April because it excluded all candidates from running who were associated with Lavalas, the largest and most popular party in Haiti. Yet, incredibly, the election went on and the 5% voter turnout result was certified. The US Ambassador to Haiti, Janet Sanderson, followed up with a public statement a day after the election suggesting that the Haitian government arrest all 42 leaders of the boycott.

Honduras, as it has in other instances since the June 28 coup, continues in a path similar to Haiti which also suffered a  US-sponsored coup in 2004.   But, how do you take the rags of a travesty and make it look like a whole piece of cloth? I guess,”John Biehl del Rio, the Cleaner,” will show us how it’s done.

For two days a friend of mine came to visit me with her 3 years old son. I admit it, I had no idea how could have been going with him. Tomorrow they are leaving and …

Pros:

Everything watched through the eyes of a kid acquires incredible interest. Even a blue old Ikea carpet became e ocean to be explored. Fishes, flowers and plants were of course already very interesting.

When I was back home those last two days I could not think about my job anymore: talking to the kid was much more interesting.

Forget about late nights on the net and later mornings in the bed. At 10pm in the bed, at 6am at the table for breakfast. Very healthy!

Cons:

Kids seem to eat only a small portion of what they have on the dish. They eat even less than wives. I will become soon veeeery fat.

… so, it was funny and interesting being uncle Lorenzo for a while

Então, galerinha do mal… Essa semana, o jogador Çoneka, o mesmo do jogo contra o Amigos do Çoneka (meio óbvio isso…) onde o time agoravaiano ganhou, falou com a diretoria do time para marcar um novo jogo contra o time dele.

A diretoria aceitou a proposta e o jogo está marcado para o próximo dia 12, sábado, sem horário definido ainda. O mesmo será realizado na quadra do Rui Barbosa, na rua Cumanaxós (ou Cumanachós, já vi escrito dos dois jeitos…).

Rua Cumanaxós (ou Cumanachós, whatever...)

Pelo visto, o jogo contra o Dynamo Itaquera ficou para trás, inclusive porque Dznho nunca mais falou sobre o tal contra com a diretoria. Kaiser já declarou que novamente não vai poder comparecer ao jogo devido a um simulado no Objetivo, bem no dia do jogo. Porém, ele prometeu que vai torcer muito pelo time e vai até assistir o jogo no canal 69, provavelmente no iPhone de algum coleguinha.

A escalação será a mesma que já estava pronta pra entrar no jogo contra o Dynamo. O único inconveniente agora é a falta de um goleiro, visto que muito provavelmente Iuri não comparecerá ao certame. Nos últimos dois jogos, isso foi um problema para o time agoravaiano, que inclusive trouxe a derrota em um deles. Agora a diretoria vai correr contra o tempo pra arranjar um goleiro. E o pior de tudo é que a janela de transferências europeia fechou ontem…

Atual escalação para o jogo contra o Amigos do Çoneka

PARA RELEMBRAR

O time agoravaiano já jogou contra o Amigos do Çoneka, no dia 05 de abril de 2008, sábado, na Loc Sports Green. O time dual-blue teve de jogar sem goleiro, pois na época o camisa 51, Robertão, não pode ir. A escalação teve de ser alterada, pois era a primeira vez que o time jogava no Society (pronuncia-se Soçáithi). Foi combinado que o time revezaria no gol e o primeiro a ir foi o DDD. Lekus não jogou porque teve que ir a um treino de dança, pois na época ele fazia Street Dance e Vitaum jogou só os 10 minutos finais, pois estava emprestado ao APF e o jogo deles acabou terminando mais tarde do que o previsto.

Escalação que o time usou contra o Amigos do Çoneka.

Embora tenha ganhado com uma larga vantagem no placar, 17 x 5, o time não jogou muito bem. Na verdade, o fato do time adversário estar meio desestruturado ajudou muito o médio AVFC, que além de atuações tímidas por parte de alguns jogadores, ainda teve um pênalti desperdiçado por Trop’s e dois gols entregues ao adversário, sendo um contra.

Time unido para a foto após o término da partida.

PARA O PRÓXIMO JOGO

É verdade que de abril de 2008 pra setembro de 2009, um ano e cinco meses, o time mudou muito. A maioria aprimorou suas técnicas e vem num nível bem melhor de jogo. Nakata, após a rápida passagem pelo Não Há Vagas FC, voltou mais rápido e ofensivo; DDD, embora ainda criticado por parte da torcida, melhorou a marcação; Pikenes melhorou muito seus chutes, Guilherme também. Mas os contras também devem ser avaliados. O time não joga junto há muito tempo, o que influi e muito no entrosamento; Dznho perdeu muito da sua velocidade, o que reflete diretamente nos contra-ataques e na marcação; Lekus, como nunca jogou oficialmente um contra, ainda é uma incógnita, embora tenha total apoio do técnico e dos companheiros de equipe. Parece pouco, mas a falta de treino por parte dos agoravaianos irá pesar e muito no jogo. E tem também a saída de Diogo e a ausência de Caio, dois jogadores que fazem falta num contexto geral.

Ou seja, o maior adversário do Agora Vai Futebol Clube é ele mesmo…

Se que últimamente soy un poco monotemático, aunque después de esta entrada pocas van a venir más sobre iPhone/Apple a no ser que sea un tutorial sobre algo o alguna entrada que realmente merezca la pena.

Por si alguien no se ha enterado ya hace menos de un mes compré un iPhone 3GS y creo que durante este periodo ya tengo una opinión sobre este aparato bien fundada y creo poder aconsejar a alguien que todavía no lo tenga.

¿Qué tiene el iPhone para que lo compremos que no tengan otros teléfonos móviles/PDA’s?

• Hardware. El potencial hardware de este aparato es realmente impresionante. Velocidad de procesamiento, almacenamiento, tiempo de acceso a datos, calidad gráfica, componentes (GPS, Wi-Fi, etc), tamaño de la pantalla. Es algo que en mi opinión ha tenido un gran peso por decantarme por este teléfono (creo que sería incluso más correcto llamarlo PDA). Ficha técnia del iPhone 3GS.
• Conectividad. Podría englobarse en el primer punto pero cabe reseñarlo. Acceso a internet, como, donde y a donde yo quiera. En mi caso, no os podéis imaginar lo que significa poder controlar servidores (SSH) que administro desde cualquier punto recóndito del planeta con como mínimo cobertura GPRS/EDGE.
• Aplicaciones. La cantidad/calidad de las aplicaciones existentes también es realmente impresionante. Y no me refiero solo a las que podemos encontrar en la App Store. Aquí también podríamos meter la facilidad de uso de estas, creerme, que mis abuelas me digan que es muy fácil de manejar este ‘cacharro’, es por que realmente lo es.
• Juegos. Gracias a lo dicho en el punto número uno se pueden obtener juegos realmente buenos.
• Exclusividad. Si, le pese a quien le pese este es casi el factor más importante en el 90% de los casos. Y quien diga que no se ha comprado este aparato por llevar algo ‘a la última’ mentirá como un bellaco.

Hasta aquí los puntos que creo personalmente los que hacen al iPhone sobresalir por encima de otros teléfonos móviles y/o PDA’s y ordenados en función de la relevancia que tienen para mi. Ahora los puntos que le hacen caer incluso por debajo de muchos.

¿Qué tiene el iPhone para que NO lo compremos que SI tengan otros teléfonos móviles/PDA’s?

• Precio. Lo primero e indiscutible, al menos para mí es que es muy caro. Tanto si te lo compras de segunda mano como si te lo compras nuevo (mi caso).
• Tarifas. Si te lo compras nuevo, con Movistar, tendrás tu tarifa normal de voz y la bautizada por mi como tarifa-estafa de datos, baja lo que te de la gana pero a partir de x MB te bajan la velocidad. Y si no tienes alguna tarifa plana de datos olvídate de navegar por que los precios son altamente prohibitivos.
• Cámara de 3 megapíxeles. Para un aparato que ha costado tanto dinero y tan afamado esta cámara me parece cuanto menos ridícula.
• Batería. El señor Jobs podrá decir lo que quiera, pero un uso medio del aparato a mi me llega para 2 días (apagando el teléfono por las noches) y si nos vamos a un uso intensivo (juegos sobretodo), 4 o 5 horas?
• El último punto pero casi el peor. Lo cerrado que es el sistema operativo del teléfono y la propia App Store. Cosa que no me voy a extender por que ya quedó, o eso espero, suficientemente claro con la anterior entrada.

¿Realmente merece la pena? Si te sobra el dinero, papi te lo puede pagar, eres un tipo que duerme con sábanas de Apple, adelante, hazte con tu “aifon” y chuleate delante de tus amigos por que es realmente para lo que lo quieres. Si no te sobra el dinero pero quieres uno y lo haces por que realmente ves ‘algo más’ en el iPhone que no el tener lo más ‘cool’ del mercado atento. Lo primero de todo es que barajes la posibilidad de un teléfono móvil con Android (un grandísimo SO y no se yo si mejor que el SO del iPhone aunque no demostrado por estar bastante verde todavía), los aparatos que usan este SO son realmente baratos, asequibles y no por ello malos. La siguiente opción es que esperes al tan afamado Windows Mobile 6.5, si es Microsoft y a saber, pero como siempre habrá que probar de que son capaces los nuevos terminales con ese sistema operativo y sobre todo QUÈ terminales lo llevan.

La decisión es tuya, personalmente estoy muy contento con él y creo que estoy aprovechando hasta el más mínimo céntimo que me costó. Quería un móvil/PDA/MP3 y efectivamente lo es, también es cierto que lo tengo por que he podido permitírmelo, de no haber sido así desde luego que hoy tendría un buen terminal con Android.

“The enemy has only images and illusions behind which he hides his true motives. Destroy the image and you will break the enemy.” Shaolin Abbot to Bruce Lee, Enter the Dragon (1973)

The brilliant multi-genius Charles Alex Gregory had a vision for his people. It was an American Dream. The vision is enthroned in the Declaration of Independence, the right to “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”    

He was born on July 8, 1951 in Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama. Charles came to the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area to attend U.C. Berkeley’s Boalt Hall sometime after graduating from Tuskegee Institute in May 1972 with a B.S. in Physics.

The Bay Area is a beautiful and striking place sitting at the foot of a natural bay to the Pacific Ocean. The weather is always calm and pleasant all year round. It is one of the most diversely populated areas of the country that souls traveling through become in love with, but it has a deep dark evil side.

At its roots, Oakland remains a land of shadows and illusions, and a hidden troubling veiled background. The ante-bellum period of the old South is often considered the pinnacle of Southern aristocracy. The Southern aristocrats owned a majority of the wealth and land of the South. They have remained wealthy and the powerbrokers of the South even after their defeat in the American Civil War. The Southern powerbrokers are very visible, and in most cases able to be clearly seen.

In 1852, the City of Oakland was founded upon conceit by a bunch of lying, conniving, crooked and illusory squatters, Andrew Moon, Edson Adams and Horace Carpentier. The Spanish land grant owner, Vincente Peralta, and a band of armed rancheros found them illegally squatting on land near Jack London Square. After being herded in by the rancheros, the unsuspecting Peralta agreed to lease them what is now Oakland.

In absolute treachery and unseen deceit, Moon, Adams and Carpentier subdivided Peralta’s land grant property into lots and sold them to unsuspecting white gold rush settlers. Horace Carpentier was an immoral and fraudulent attorney that specialized in lawsuits and land grab schemes contrived to steal valuable Spanish land grants throughout Northern California.

The Peraltas subsequently lost Oakland. They had to deplete their herds of cattle and sell off large tracts of land to pay court costs to fight Carpentier’s tedious and never ending multiple illegal land grab schemes, city incorporations and lawsuits. [2]

In 1883, Sovereign Grand Commander and Confederate General Albert Pike, one of the founding fathers of the Ku Klux Klan, visited Oakland [3] to inplant his racist demonic seed and initiate and veil twelve (12) Oakland disciples into concealment in the “Luciferian Doctrine, and the Secret Doctrine.”[4] 

As part of a twisted pacification plan, even the way of the “Great Beast” found its way to Oakland. In 1976, Satanist U.S. Army Captain Grady McMurtry (1918-1985) quietly moved into Oakland at 588-590 63^rd Street and at 2820 San Pablo in Berkeley from Washington D.C to carry on a racialist (Nazi) devil worshipper legacy. [5] McMurtry appeared in Oakland at the start of the crack cocaine epidemic. He opened the Northern California Thelema Lodge of secret society Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O) in North Oakland to seed skinheads, which was raided in 1989 [6] for among other things drug trafficking, crack cocaine. The lodge’s phone number on 63^rd Street was listed to “Aleister Crowley” (The Great Beast). 

Aleister Crowley (1875 – 1947) was “The wickedest man in Britain”. The late Crowley remains one of the world’s most famous and influential Satanists of the twentieth-first century. Crowley called himself “The Great Beast”, a reference to the New Testament’s description of the Anti-Christ. Crowley’s brand of Satanism involves Nazism, drug trafficking and abuse, abductions, murder, mayhem, rape, animal and human sacrifices. McMurtry was the successor to the “Great Beast” Crowley. [7]

To this day, the lying, conniving, crooked, illusory and veiled forces at the roots of Oakland remain in power. The Oakland powerbrokers are not very visible, and in most cases cannot be clearly seen. They are extremely ruthless, and illusory. They feed upon the weak, poor, dead and the unsuspecting.

From the outside, the affairs of the City of Oakland appear normal municipal business. Oakland’s Victoria Court Development of the Oak Center Redevelopment Project on a strip of land at 14^th & Adeline Street in West Oakland seemed pretty normal urban redevelopment city business. [8]  I had a personal connection to the strip. My maternal grandparents and uncle had once occupied a downstairs unit of a grand Victorian house at the site before the mass urban redevelopment that displaced thousands of Black homeowners from West Oakland.

The Victoria Court Redevelopment Project was an interspace real estate development project. Interspace real estate development is the process to transform existing intercity vacant lots into new home/condo developments as a matter of city redevelopment policy. Gregory Construction, Inc. (Charles Alex Gregory) pioneered the concept and development within the city. It was as if the Victoria Court Project had been specifically designed for Gregory Construction. Gregory intended to build 20 to 40 affordable and low income Victorian designed concept units on the strip. Gregory had been the most respected, qualified and experienced real estate developer and building contractor in line to develop the Victoria Court Project. The ever resourceful Gregory Construction, Inc. had planned to develop and build the Victoria Court Project without city subsidies and bonding nothing beyond normal state redevelopment capital. Furthermore, the majority of the units were projected to be low-income housing units to benefit and fit the financial needs of most West Oakland’s Black residents.

One of Gregory Construction’s main competitors for the project was far less resourceful and experienced, but was a deceitful, shadowy and dangerously mob connected entity that feed upon the weak, poor, dead and unsuspecting.  

The forces at the roots of Oakland tried to veil the nature of that entity in the shadows to keep them at the pinnacle of Oakland’s deep well of redevelopment financial capital.

“I mean, no one is ever to say one kind word about niggers… The conservative isn’t against the Niggers; he just wants to keep him in his place for his own good.”  November 2, 1962: Dallas to Munich, Germany, Nazi Larry Schmidt of Americans for Freedom (YAF) and Conservatism USA (CUSA) [9]

Charles Alex Gregory had a vision for West Oakland. His vision was to transform one of the city’s most abandoned areas into an oasis of trade, industry and educational opportunity to benefit its neglected Black residents. If anyone could do it, it was Charles Alex Gregory. He saw it. Brilliantly, he had planned to finance it through existing funding resources such as state redevelopment capital, tax credits and incentives.

While Charles was boldly dreaming of a transformed West Oakland, there was other unseen forces working behind the curtain in the affairs of the City of Oakland conspiring to keep West Oakland and its residents mired in eternal poverty, crime, death, destruction and drug addiction.  

On or about June 14, 1991, a confidential reliable informant (CRI) told the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) that a white male (5’ 10”, wt. 145) was interested in buying kilograms of cocaine for distribution. The CRI had been a reliable source of information regarding Bay Area drug trafficking. SFPD decided to setup a reverse sting operation to nab the drug dealer.

The police identified the CRI as Don Holmes. Holmes told police the suspect lived in Piedmont, CA in a million dollar house. Holmes set the suspect up to purchase five (5) kilos of cocaine at $18,500 for each kilo. The suspect had told the CRI that under normal circumstances he could have no problem coming up with sufficient cash to purchase the kilos, but he was involved with a major real estate deal that absorbed most of his cash. He had just purchased 15 condos in Utah for cash. He encouraged Holmes to invest his money in the condo project.

The suspect also bragged about how he launders money through real estate investments. The suspect discussed a past relationship with a major drug dealer, who one time produced a suitcase containing twenty kilos of cocaine and how his associate was busted by the Feds and seized all his money and property.

On July 12, 1991, the suspect showed up to purchase the kilos. He said that he had two associates two blocks away to test the product. The suspect negotiated the sale at $16,750 per kilo.

When the sting was strung, the suspect fled, but was arrested after a short chase. For whatever reasons, the SFPD did not pursue the suspect’s associates for conspiracy to distribute cocaine. The suspect was taken to the SFPD Southern Station for further investigations.

Astoundingly, the suspect was only cited for two marijuana cigarettes and released pending further investigations. [10] Over a month after the suspect’s arrest, the Oakland Police Department along with SFPD executed a search warrant for the suspect’s residence at 451 Jerome Avenue, Piedmont, CA. Among other things not reported, the police found marijuana (California Health & Safety Code, §11359) and psilocybin (magic mushrooms) for sale and distribution (California Health & Safety Code, §11378).

Oakland’s “Mr. Steve” & The New York Spatola-Inzerillo-Gambino Mafia Clan

The Spatola-Inzerillo-Gambino Mafia Clan is a transatlantic mafia family, based in Palermo and New York City. In Sicily, the family clan is centered around the Inzerillo, the Spatola and Di Maggio families, while in the United States the Sicilian faction in the Gambino family is the core of the group. The Inzerillo clan hailed from the Passo di Ragano neighborhood in Palermo. They were relatives of New York City Mafia boss Carlo Gambino.

Beginning in 1984, a courageous Italian judge with the aide of an informant turncoat mafia soldier began to break the $1.6 Billion dollar Inzerillo-Gambino Mafia Clan’s international heroin and cocaine smuggling, money laundering syndicates that used pizzerias as fronts. [11]

With the cooperation of the Italian police, U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), FBI, and New York City Police, Carlo Gambino’s crime family came under an intense investigation. Through wiretaps, they discovered that a West Coast functionary of the Gambino Ring was a “Mr. Steve” in the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area.

The subsequent investigation and campaign by DEA to bust the San Francisco Bay Area-West Coast drug operations (distribution cells) of the Spatola-Gambino, and Inzerillo Palermo- New York crime families led to West Coast functionary “Mr. Steve.” Mr. Steve was Stephen Wilson, the son of Oakland Mayor and former Alameda County Superior Court Judge, Lionel Wilson.

In December 1988, “Mr. Steve” and twenty-one Bay Area criminals associated with the Spatola-Gambino, and Inzerillo Palermo- New York mob was rounded-up and busted by the DEA. [12] 

On 12/14/1988, the San Francisco Chronicle referred to Steve Wilson as a major high profile West Coast drug dealer functionary known in the inner circles as “Mr. Steve”. It also appeared that the DEA investigation was being compromised by Oakland’s Interagency Drug Council (IDC) controlled by Lionel Wilson.

In fact, San Francisco investigators were told by the Oakland Police Department (OPD) that they had no information about Mr. Steve nevertheless maintaining about ten (10) years of reliable informant reports that Steve Wilson was a major drug dealer in Oakland.

The DEA further identified Oakland’s Port of Oakland as the major U.S. entry point for “Golden Triangle” (Burma) heroin which distribution was/is primarily controlled by the New York Gambino Sicilian Mob family. [13] 

In 1988, the DEA seized cash, assets and Wilson’s home along with several other pieces of real property related to his drug trafficking industry saying that the assets had been bought with drug trafficking proceeds. Subsequently, the U.S. Justice Department was able to forfeit Wilson’s home as drug related assets in a civil suit. [14]

Mr. Steve was charged with conspiracy and attempting to pocess cocaine for sale between May and December 1988, and two counts of using a telephone to negotiate the acquisition of cocaine. He was charged with six tax violations for allegedly understanding his income to avoid more than $242,000 in federal taxes from 1986 through 1988.

At the time, Richard Held may have been one of the most powerful and notorious FBI agents only behind the director. Held was Special Agent-in-Charge of the San Francisco FBI Office from 1985-1993.  Held began his career under President Richard Nixon’s fascist-Nazi administration in 1968 in the Los Angeles office of the FBI.

He became the lead agent in the FBI’s COINTELPRO “racial matters” pacification program along with the CIA’s Project CHAOS, Nixon’s Huston Plan, and the Public Disorder Intelligence Unit, of the CCS (Criminal Conspiracy Section of the Los Angeles Police Department) to attack, expose, and neutralize “black extremists”, and pacify the left. Their overall coordinated objective was to put the Black masses into their place; in prison, virtual slavery or 6 feet below the ground.

Held was instrumental in targeting Los Angeles Black Panther Party leader Geronimo ji jaga Pratt for neutralization by framing him for murder. In a 1/28/70 memo by Held to the FBI Director, Edgar J. Hoover, he confirmed his involvement, “I request Bureau approval … to attack, expose, and ridicule the BPP… operation number one is designed to challenge the legitimacy of the authority exercised by Elmer Gerard Pratt.” Framed for a murder he did not commit, Geronimo spent 25 years in state prison. He was released in 1997 after a judge overturned his conviction based on prosecutorial misconduct. The key witness in the case, Julius Butler, was an agent provocateur and informant for Held, LAPD, and the L.A. District Attorney’s office; that information was kept secret during Geronimo’s trial.

Mr. Steve’s guardian angels, Held and Jensen, were associated with the FBI’s ultra secret counterespionage domestic intelligence department, “Division Five.” Division Five was responsible for COINTELPRO. Some sources maintain that Division Five was/is an arm of the Office of Naval Intelligence associated with the assassination of the JFK and Dr. Martin Luther King under the cloak of the Defense Industrial Security Command (DISC). [18] [19]

Division Five acts dually with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) which acts on behalf of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon. Directly under the two-pronged leadership of Division Five and the DIA is a control group, the highly secret policy agency, the DISC. [20] 

The DISC is headquartered at Muscle Shoals Redstone Arsenal in Alabama and on East Broad Street in Columbus, Ohio, which is the SECURITY DIVISION of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that was headed by Sturmbannfüehrer SS Dr. Wernher von Braun. [21]

Fritz Gustane Anton Kraemer was a special assistant, adviser and strategist to the U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff of Operations (DCSOPS) at the Pentagon, [22] and the National Security Council (NSC). The NSC was patterned after Hitler’s Security Council, and its jurisdiction was to oversee the CIA by dictate of the National Security Act of 1947

The extraordinary researcher Mae Brussell identified Kraemer as the “Number One” most powerful person (Secret Team) in the United States. She suspected that he was the very same Brigadefuhrer SS Fritz Kraemer [23] who was very high up in Hitler’s regime and personally responsible for extremely strategic fascist atrocities in WWII, who as a war crimes defendant literally walked away from the Nuremberg Tribunal. [24]

Fritz Kraemer and his son, Sven Kraemer, were major advisors of the NSC and the Pentagon Army Chiefs of Staff for both Democratic and Republican presidential administrations since Eisenhower. They were also prominent advisors in the Center for Security Policy (CSP), which features the William J. Casey Institute. Judge Jensen’s Alameda County Mafia partner, Edwin Meese III, was an informal advisor of the CSP with the Kraemers. [25]

U. S. Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North was at the center of national attention during the Iran-Contra affair, a political scandal of the late 1980s under Reagan. North was a NSC member along with Kraemers involved in the clandestine sale of weapons to Iran, which served to encourage the release of U.S. hostages from Lebanon. North formulated the second part of the plan: diverting proceeds from the arms sales to support the Contra rebel group in Nicaragua.

The most disturbing item to come from Iran Contra was that there was another commodity being traded, namely drugs earmarked for the streets of the United States, particularly targeting the Black Communities of Los Angeles and the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area. Lt. Col North actually kept a record of the drug transactions, and labeled them as such as found by the Kerry 1988 Congressional Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations. [26]

When the late courageous Gary Webb, author of Dark Alliance, was in Oakland, I asked him pointblank who were the Oakland Black drug dealers trafficking cocaine for the Colombia Cali-Medellin cartel funneling millions in drug (blood) profits to the Contras run by the CIA, and Lt. Col. Oliver North of the NSC. “Freeway” Ricky Ross was the exposed Black drug dealer trafficking cocaine for the Contras in Los Angeles, [27] but the Black Bay Area’s Iran-Contra Medellin drug traffickers remained anonymous.

Rather reluctantly, Webb said, “Rudy (Rudolph) Henderson.” I was somewhat shocked and taken back by the response. Rudolph had been my childhood friend when I lived a couple doors down from the Henderson Family on 8^th Street in West Oakland.

In West Oakland, Rudolph had been a husky sweet kid that didn’t even have the heart to fight. The Hendersons was an ordinary hard working blue collar family. They were like my second family.

In 1989, Henderson pleaded guilty to a single charge of possession for sale of 7 kilograms (15.4 pounds) of cocaine and evasion of $115,000 in taxes in 1984. He also agreed to forfeit his Sonoma County estate and two luxury cars. He was originally sentenced to 20 years in prison, but that was reduced on appeal. [28] In December 2006, Rudolph was liquidated in broad daylight in North Oakland. Rudy had been on parole since 2002 for the 1989 conviction for drug trafficking. Of course in Oakland, Rudy’s murder remains needlessly unsolved.

Crack cocaine has literally destroyed Black Communities across the nation. One in 11 African-Americans are in prison, on parole or on probation, and more than 50 percent of federal inmates are imprisoned for drug crimes related to crack cocaine. But in the drug trafficking industry, Rudy was like Cary Webb’s Dark Alliance Ricky (Freeway) Ross of Los Angeles; they were expendable. They were by design made the mass media’s most visible poster boys for drug traffickers and crack cocaine making Black communities across the country a wasteland of poverty, crime, death, destruction and drug addiction, while a far greater evil and danger loom.

“Ethnic cleansing is a bit trickier in South Central Los Angeles than it is in South Central Europe. It is essential in a “democracy” to have people do it in a way that makes it look like they’re “doing it” to themselves. You need a socially induced suicide. So how do you get people to commit suicide? You make it very attractive for their children to make money doing something illegal. Then you arrest them for it in a very visible way (Remember the battering rams and armored cars?).  You design stories to make people blame themselves for what has happened. This is how branding works. Pepsi = tastes good, Black people = cause illegal drugs and crime.  Support all this by a national media owned by defense contractors and other corporate interests. That way the nightly news has lots of moneymaking incentives to cover HUD OIG sponsored drug raids in black communities rather than doing a story on CIA drug trafficking.”  -Catherine Austin Fitts-  [29]

During wiretap investigation of the affairs of the drug syndicate of “Mr. Steve” at his home, Rudolph had been a frequent caller.  On many occasions the FBI/DEA recorded, he talked with Mr. Steve’s witting aficionado and partner in his drug trafficking industry, Denise E. Smith. The FBI/DEA had even followed Mr. Steve and Denise to the San Francisco Opera, and grand parties with the rich, famous and powerful in Beverly Hills, particularly at the home of the Ambassador of Mexico. Denise E. Smith is the same party at the head of Royal Realtors & Loan Services in Oakland [30] that just slipped through the cracks of a federal indictment for drug trafficking.

 After Gregory’s death, all of his office-business phone logs for weeks leading up to his death disappeared. However, we combed through the phone logs left by the intruders. We found messages left for Gregory from Mr. Steve’s aficionado and partner, Denise E. Smith, allegedly, relating to a piece of property on Skyline Blvd in the Oakland Hills. ”Mr. Steve” and his network was also watching  Charles Alex Gregory.

Cointelpro- Cocaine & The SS (“Schutzstaffel”) The World’s Greatest Racial Mass Murder Cult

“Only the SS was equal to the task of exterminating the Jewish people. Others talked about it but had too many reservations. To have completed such a mission is an unwritten page of honor in the history of the SS.” (Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler)

Mr. Steve’s passport listed him as a Caucasian under the alias name of “Steve or Michael Towns.” Did he change his bloodline to join an international white blood cult network of cocaine distribution and death? Mr. Steve’s alias is eerily similar to the Nazi trained Chilean General Augusto Pinochet DINA assassin and Operation Condor (North-South American campaign of political repressions involving assassination and counter-intelligence operations) [31]  functionary, Michael V. Townley. [32]

“Our concern, our duty is our people and our blood. It is for them that we must provide and plan, work and fight, nothing else. We can be indifferent to everything else. I wish the SS to adopt this attitude to the problem of all foreign non-Germanic peoples… All else is vain…” (Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler)

Heinrich Himmler’s SS was the instrument most noted responsible for the demotic wholesale slaughter of Jews, and non Aryans by Nazi Germany. Its instrument of death, destruction and human annihilation went by a different name, “the Knights of the Black Sun”, the Masters of Death.

The SS is generally translated as the “Schutzstaffel”, a special staff or military unit. There was another darker occult meaning of the “SS”, a meaning with roots deep in dualism and the occult of ancient Sumerian, Babylonian, and Egyptian mythology.

The letters “SS” also referred to die Schwatze Sonne, the Black Sun. The doctrine of the Black Sun is that there are two suns, the “white” sun at the center of the physical solar system, and the “black” sun, a “hidden” sun of (spiritual) illumination. The myth of the Black and White Sun encompasses the ancient doctrine of dualism, the two realms of good and evil, light and darkness, order and chaos as independent principles.

In some versions of Black Sun mythology, the Black Sun lies at the center of the galaxy. One attribute of the Black Sun is that it is the cause of the immortality,” evil”, and the reincarnation of the soul. In Babylonian mythology it was also associated with the coming of the “King of Kings” and the establishment of a New Babylon. Finally, theosophical mythology associated the Black Sun with uttermost “Hyperborea” and “Thule”, the legendary stellar home and celestial origin of the Aryan race. [33]

Their gods were Aryan war gods, Odin (Wotan) and Thor. The Aryan war gods were filled with Magic and Power in Heaven and in “Hell.” Many of the top leaders in Hitler’s Inner Circle such as Himmler, Goebbels and even Hitler began to envision themselves as god-like, taking on the characteristics of Aryan war gods, and mythical Germanic Kings. They dwelled into the black arts and occultism and ancient volkish rights in order to bring forth an Aryan vanguard of “supermen” to accomplish world domination.

One of the vanguard’s most sacred missions was to bring about the total annihilation of non Aryans by a secret blood oath for the coming of a Germanic blood master root race. Himmler’s vanguard was made-up of the Blood and Elite of the Germanic race.

It is important to note that the SS not only wanted to kill the body, but sought by pseudo-occult-spiritual science to extinguish the soul and spirits of non Aryans.  Himmler and other key members of the SS were not only fanatic occultists, but followers and believers of Rudlof Steiner’s pseudo “spiritual science.” Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) was an important German occult philosopher.

Hauptsturmfuhrer SS Dr. Sigmund Rausher was Dr. Josef Mengele’s medical colleague at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland performing some of the most bizarre and heinous medical experiments on human beings. Dr. Rausher was one of Rudlof  Steiner’s followers.  Dr. Rauscher had also been one of Himmler’s favorites, and it was Dr. Rausher that in August 1942 developed the idea of using gas chambers for racial mass murder and the “Final Solution”.

It was Steiner’s belief that potassium cyanide (like in the insecticide “Zyklon B” used in Auschwitz) from an occult point of view of “spiritual science” not only kills the body but also the soul. [34]

The SS sacred mission did not end after World War II, the death of the Hitler and the Nazi State. At least two years before the official end of World War II, the SS, including Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler, began to go underground to continue their “Thousand Year Reich”  conspiracy of racial mass murder. Here lies one of the most neglected and veiled subjects of twentieth and twentieth-first century.

Generally, people of color aren’t fully aware of them. The media, and surprisingly, most of the left and so called progressives will not talk about the SS, which has allowed them to recruit knights, initiates and disciples to continue their veiled demotic deeds to mass murder non Aryans for decades to come. Incredibly, Bob Marley, the world’s greatest conscious reggae performer, was taken to a SS doctor, Dr. Josef Issels, a Knight of the Black Sun, for cancer treatment. Dr. Issels tortured Marley to death. Dr. Issels also worked under the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele, at Auschwitz. [35]

One of the principals of Operation Condor along with Michael V. Townley was wanted war criminal Hauptsturmfuhrer SS Klaus Barbie (1913–1991), [36] the “Butcher of Lyon”. SS Barbie had been recruited and veiled by U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps in 1947; he also worked for British intelligence. The CIA smuggled SS Barbie into South America as an asset. The ardent Nazi Barbie, consultant to the Bolivian Ministry of the Interior, was a major principal in Luis Garcia Meza Tejada’s 1980 “Cocaine Coup” in Bolivia. 

Hauptsturmfuhrer SS Barbie, ODESSA (Organization of SS Members), and their young neo-fascist disciples organized and protected Colombian Cali-Medellin cocaine cartels and transported drugs and weapons internationally to find its way to the streets of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area and Black Communities across the Nation. [37]   

SS Barbie was also instrumental as some sort of secret SS High Priest (Knight) in a satanic Thule Lodge [38] in forming a blueprint for a new type of occultist-satanic SS that became the core of paramilitary units, soldiers, and death squads for cocaine cartels across the United States, Central and South America. 

According to an acticle in the Los Angeles Time, 2/27/85, Hauptsturmfuhrer SS Mengele, the Angel of Death of Auschwitz, was also confirmed to having been involved in the Nazi network of crack cocaine distribution. One CIA document said SS Mengele used his farm machinery business in Paraguay, South America as a mechanism to move or launder large sums of money, as well as to cover the movement of illicit narcotics.  [39] 

Connect the dots. The FBI Division Five’s control group that was linked to COINTELPRO was controlled by Sturmbannfüehrer SS Dr. Wernher von Braun of NASA and the DISC.

Oliver North’s NSC prime mover and shaker was Brigadefuhrer SS Fritz Kraemer. Fritz Gustane Anton Kraemer of the NSC was one of the most secretive, illusory and veiled personalities at the Pentagon. He didn’t allow pictures or biographies of himself to be produced or published. Nazi War Criminal SS Fritz Kraemer disappeared as a defendant from Nuremberg Tribunal in Germany after the war at the same time that Fritz Gustane Anton Kraemer first appeared with U.S. Allied Forces in Germany. I believe Mae Brussell was right that Brigadefuhrer SS Kraemer was Fritz Gustane Anton Kraemer of the NSC. [40]

California’s resident Knight of the Black Sun, the CIA’s veiled agent war criminal and one of the architects of the “Final Solution,” Sturmhauptfuhrer SS Otto Albrecht Alfred von Bolschwing (Beast of Bucharest) of TCI of Sacramento, CA sold the company’s largest subsidiary to Albert Hakim and Richard Secord. And that subsidiary became Stanford Trading Group International (STGI), and Stanford Technology Trading Group (STTG). STTG became the notorious CIA front that sprouted the Iran-Contra/Cocaine Connection conspirators from the operatives of the Phoenix Assassination and Counterintelligence Program of Vietnam. [41] It included Lt. Col. Oliver North, Theodore Clines, William Casey, Admiral J. Pointdexter, Edwin Wilson, Frank Terpil, Theodore Schackley, Chilean General Augusto Pinochet, and the Nugan Hand Bank.

The Nuremberg Tribunal declared the Knights of the Black Sun rightfully as a war criminal organization. The SS’s overall and undivided objective was to put non Aryans on the planet in their place; in prisons, in virtually slavery for the state, or 6 feet under; “to exterminate” them.   

Towards the end of the war in 1945 the occultist SS had over 840,000 members. They mercilessly carried out the Nazi’s mass murder-extermination policy in which as many as 6 million Jews and 4 million other mostly non Aryans were systematically exterminated on the streets, in concentration and death camps. The SS were frighteningly real, a racialist mass murder cult.

The mass majority of the Knights of the Black Sun just walked away and melted into Germany, Eastern Europe, South America, and into the governmental affairs of America as a plague of racism, chaos, murder, and genocide. 

The suspect’s high profile Bay Area drug dealer associate had to have been non other than Oakland’s “Mr. Steve.” The suspect like “Mr. Steve” also had powerful guardian angels in high places like FBI Agent Richard W. Held, Lionel Wilson, and the NSC, he was referred to Department 31 (Judge Vern Nakahara) of the Alameda County Municipal Criminal Court for misdemeanor probation & diversion pursuant to and under California Penal Code, §1000 even though he didn’t qualify for relief under that section. The suspect was a major Bay Area mob drug trafficker and money launderer. The suspect’s wife said that he had to pay someone $8.000 to package the deal, and get out of the case repackaged and squeaky clean.  

The City of Oakland’s  Sweetheart Real Estate Developer: A Major Crack Cocaine Drug Trafficker and Money Launderer

The repackaged and wiped squeaky clean suspect was Peter Robertson [42] of Baines and Robertson, Inc. [43]  Baines and Robertson was the entity that was Gregory Construction’s main competitor for the Victoria Court Redevelopment Project. The veiled Peter Robertson was at Gregory Construction, Inc.’s rear on the Victoria Court Project. Virtual Murrell and Franklin Young, the veiled society (The Triad), was posted at his front. Dr. Isaac Slaughter, an unseen veiled CIA asset and Denise E. Smith of “Mr. Steve’s veiled COINTELPRO-IRAN CONTRA CRACK COCAINE Syndicate was posted at his side.

COINTELPRO Goals:

1. Prevent the coalition of militant Black nationalists groups;
2. Prevent the rise of a (Black) messiah who could unify and electrify the militant Black nationalist movement;
3. Prevent Black nationalist groups and leaders from gaining respectability by discrediting them to the community;
4. A final goal should be to prevent the long-range growth of militant Black nationalists’ organizations especially among youth. [44]

Any Black leader, including Christian preachers, with charisma was a target of Cointelpro. The FBI’s Division Five, Defense Intelligence Agency of the Army Chiefs of Staff, and Defense Industrial Security Command wanted to destroy any and all progressive movements that sought to advance the human and civil rights of Black people. Any Black person who sought voting rights, quality education, decent jobs, and even improved housing for Black people was earmarked by Cointelpro for arrest or liquidation.

It was like the unsuspecting Charles Alex Gregory had been surrounded and led blindfolded into a secret demotic circle to be liquidated-heart-body-soul and seed for his natural brilliance, and vision and quest to uplift the souls and spirit of the Black masses, instead of joining in a conspiracy to literally exterminate and annihilate their heart, body and soul with crack cocaine.  

[2] http://www.hillcrestestates.org/documents/hillcrest3002.pdf

[3] http://www.scottishritecalifornia.org/about_us!6.htm

[4] http://www.geocities.com/endtimedeception/worship.htm

[5] http://users.usinternet.com/daresan/aethyr_x/thelema.htm

[6] http://user.cyberlink.ch/~koenig/rf/raid.htm

[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grady_McMurtry

[8] Oakland Redevelopment Agency Resolution No. 93-39 C.M.S. (6/29/93)

[9] A correspondence between Larry Schmidt in Dallas, to Bernie Weissman in Munich, Germany, in preparation for their arrival in Dallas, TX just prior to the arrival and Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the letter was published in the Warren Commission Hearings, Vol. XVIII. http://www.maebrussell.com/Mae%20Brussell%20Articles/Nazi%20Connection%20to%20JFK%20Assass.html

[10] SF Police Report, No. 91-0917622

[11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_Connection_Trial

[12] S.F. Chronicle, 12/2/1988

[13] S.F. Chronicle, 12/14/1988

[14] http://www2.sfgate.com/c/a/1996/07/20/MNR5BA2.DTL

[15] Id.

[16] Id.

[17] S.F. Chronicle, 12/11/88

[18] http://bfeldman68.blogspot.com/2007/10/hoovergate-scandal-hoovers-fbi-and-king_13.html

[19] http://www.whale.to/b/brussell3.html

[20] http://pigs-in-the-parlor.blogspot.com/2009/06/fbi-division-5-defense-industrial.html

[21] Id.

[22] http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/kennedyjf/iii/8180.htm

[23] http://www.eucmh.com/tag/ss-brigadefuhrer-fritz-kraemer/

[24] http://www.maebrussell.com/Mae%20Brussell%20Articles/Eyes%20Wide%20Open.html

[25] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Security_Policy

[26] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_North

[27] http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/start.htm

[28] http://socialissues.wiseto.com/Articles/155456569/

[29] http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/economy/ethnic_cleansing_usa.html

[30] http://royalrealtorsandloan.com/WhatsNew.htm

[31] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor

[32] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Townley

[33] Id. Schellenberg served as major general (Brigadeführer) in the Waffen-SS and held a high post in political secret service.

[34] Supra.

[35] http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread235511/pg1

[36] http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/6764/

[37] http://india.indymedia.org/en/2003/01/2772.shtml

[38] http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon6.html

[39] http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=mengele+cocaine&d=76399306738627&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=f98d4295,25d31b86

[40] http://www.maebrussell.com/Transcriptions/787.html

[41] http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/9712/ch05p1.htm

[42] People v. Robertson, Alameda County Criminal Court, Case No. 354361

[43] http://clerkwebsvr1.oaklandnet.com/attachments/12533.pdf

[44] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

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God appears to a group of men, former Green Berets, men who now live in the ‘darkness’ and reminds them of a promise they made to him long ago when they thought their lives were coming to an end. He gathers them once again in a small town on the coast of Georgia and gives them the right to stand in the ‘light’ of men once more if they rescue the beautiful and brave, Sunny, a woman of his own heart, who is being held hostage by the Argentinian Secret Police on the Island of Los Estados, literally at the end of the earth. But God has given the earth and all in it to Satan, who uses, the CIA, M-19 the Narco Terrorist Group, the Argentinian Air Force, and one of their own number to stop them. David ,their leader and husband of Sunny, knows the odds are against them but has has a trump card to play, the United States Navy. Along the way they encounter, Mr. Steelhammer of the National Security Council, the Contras, Maria of M-19, Captain Alvarez of the ‘Group” ,the dreaded Secret Police, the brave pilots of the Argentine Air Force and Satan himself. Dreamer takes it’s name from the nightmares that David, the lead character, experiences which are a portent of what is to come. Dreamer takes place in Washington, D.C.. , Georgia, Mexico, Central America and high in the skies over Argentina. It involves a fight between good and evil for the souls of the Team. And evil sometimes does win out.

If you want to read a book an action packed book that challenges your assumptions about God and Satan and America, in a most unlikely setting, the Falklands War read Dreamer.

Alexis Arguello è morto l’altroieri, nella sua casa di Managua. Suicida, come suo padre: in casi come questo è sempre molto meglio sospendere il giudizio, fare un po’ di silenzio e affidare il pover’uomo alla Divina Misericordia.

L’ultima volta che l’ho visto — un po’ appesantito, ma fiero come sempre — portava la bandiera del Nicaragua alle Olimpiadi di Pechino: segno della stima incondizionata di cui godeva nel suo martoriato paese.

La penultima volta credo fosse in occasione della rivincita contro Aaron Pryor. Nel primo incontro Arguello era stato sconfitto (KO14), ma per un sospetto doping di Pryor era stata ordinata una rivincita. Arguello perse anche la rivincita (KO10), lo rimisero in piedi con i sali: su quel tappeto lasciò la sua carriera — la parte seria, almeno — ed il sogno di diventare il primo detentore del titolo mondiale in quattro diverse categorie di peso. Secondo le classifiche dell’autorevole The Ring Magazine, è stato il miglior peso leggero e l’ottavo peso piuma della storia; la prima sfida contro Pryor è all’ottavo posto nella lista dei migliori 100 combattimenti della storia.

Dopo la seconda sconfitta contro Pryor — i due diventarono amici e continuarono a vedersi —, lasciò il ring per darsi alla guerriglia insieme al Comandante Zero. Ricordare oggi chi fosse il Comandante Zero è un po’ complicato, e il coccodrillo de La Stampa non fa che aumentare la confusione — oltre a confondere i due incontri con Pryor. Proverò a dare qualche coordinata, a beneficio dei lettori più giovani.

L’opposizione armata alla cinquantennale dittatura della famiglia Somoza era composta da varie componenti: tra essi, il Fronte Sandinista — di ispirazione (catto)marxista — era riuscito a prendere il potere nel 1979, instaurando con Daniel Ortega un regime altrettanto illiberale del precedente. Il Comandante Zero, che pure aveva contribuito alla vittoria sandinista, tornò nella giungla e riorganizzò le sue truppe nel sud del paese; a nord una miriade di piccoli gruppi — soprattutto indios ed ex combattenti sandinisti — diede origine al movimento di guerriglia poi soprannominato Contras. A Managua rimase Violeta Chamorro, direttrice del giornale liberale La Prensa dopo l’assassinio del marito da parte di Somoza: i funerali di Pedro Chamorro furono la scintilla della rivolta popolare che aveva portato al potere i sandinisti, e la vedova era stata cooptata nel primo governo rivoluzionario. L’anno seguente, delusa dalla deriva marxista del nuovo governo, si dimise e La Prensa divenne la più pungente spina nel fianco del regime. Dei suoi cinque figli, due lavoravano con lei al giornale; un altro finì con i Contras, mentre altri due fecero carriera nel governo sandinista: questo per dare l’idea di una situazione più complicata di quanto potesse sembrare con i paraocchi dell’ideologia.

Nei primi anni ‘80, la CIA iniziò a finanziare pesantemente i Contras — qualcuno ricorda il caso Irangate? — ma il Comandante Zero vide solo un pugno di dollari, data la sua separazione logistica e militare dal fronte nord. Chiese ad Arguello — notoriamente antisandinista, anche perché alcuni suoi familiari erano stati ingiustamente uccisi — di aiutarlo a raccogliere fondi in qualità di uomo-immagine. Arguello non era il tipo da pubbliche relazioni, e tornò in Nicaragua per combattere: catturato ed espulso — non potevano certo tenere in carcere un eroe nazionale — tornò negli Stati Uniti, dove sostenne ancora un paio di buoni incontri ma non realizzò mai il sogno del quarto titolo.

Ortega e i sandinisti vinsero le libere elezioni del 1984, ma fu Violeta Chamorro a diventare presidente nel 1990, alla guida di una vasta coalizione. Saggiamente mantenne alcuni sandinisti al governo, e non abolì molte delle importanti riforme portate avanti da Ortega: questo fatto le attirò le ire degli Stati Uniti, ma permise al Nicaragua una vera riconciliazione nazionale. Attualmente, dopo due presidenti conservatori, il presidente è di nuovo Daniel Ortega, sostenuto anche da alcune frange della destra; Alexis Arguello, dopo una storica riconciliazione, era sindaco di Managua per il partito sandinista. Oggi il Nicaragua è un paese povero, ma totalmente pacificato; se ne parla poco, forse anche perché la CIA ha altri problemi da risolvere. Il Comandante Zero si guadagna da vivere pescando squali vicino al confine meridionale.

Io credo che in tutta questa storia ci sia una morale.

Ännu en gång har DN publicerat en mycket märklig ledare med titeln “Honduras: Tragisk läxa i reformism”. Författaren, Håkan Boström, skriver på hemsidan för Historiska institutionen vid Uppsala universitet:

Att studera historia ger en möjlighet att sätta in händelser i ett sammanhang och se vad som konkret döljer sig bakom de ofta abstrakta och ideologiska budskap som dominerar offentligheten. [...] Historia kan användas både för att kritisera och bygga upp nya berättelser.

Texten är ett typexempel på “censorship by omission” – utelämnandet av viktiga fakta. Men det är klart, om man som journalist har inställningen att “historia kan användas för att bygga upp nya berättelser”, måste ledaren ses som väldigt lyckad.

Redan ledarens titel är missvisande. Reformism innebar på sin tid ett avståndstagande från revolutionära metoder till fördel för långsammare samhällsförändringar inom lagarnas ramar. Begreppet har under de senaste decennierna tappat sin innebörd och idag är det mer eller mindre synonymt med privatisering. Se exempelvis Union for life (brittisk fackförening) om reform. De “vänsterpresidenter” Boström försöker kritisera har rört sig i motsatt riktning; nationalisering av offentlig och även privat sektor. Den “tragiska läxan i reformism” har inget med Honduras att göra, men allt att göra med ineffektiviteten, byråkratin och elitismen i de privatiserade delarna av offentlig sektor runtom i världen.

Texten börjar med en historisk tillbakablick:

Nästan alla centralamerikanska stater är konstitutionellt modellerade efter jätten och förebilden i norr – USA. [...] För medan den amerikanska konstitutionen tjänat sitt land väl har de latinamerikanska staterna länge plågats av fattigdom, inbördeskrig och militärkupper. De sociala förutsättningarna för en fungerande demokrati har varit otillräckliga.’

Det ingår uppenbarligen i Boströms berättelse att utelämna hundratals år av amerikansk (och europeisk) kolonisering, slaveri och extremt förtryck av all slags demokratisering. Om vi håller oss till modernare historia, kan vi nämna några exempel där USA:s inblandning i anti-demokratisk verksamhet borde vara allmänt känd:

• Chile 1973: Salvador Allendes folkvalda regering störtas i en våldsam CIA-organiserad militärkupp, där amerikanska flygplan beskjuter presidentpalatset. Allende mördas troligen i samband med kuppen. Därefter följer förtryck, kidnappningar och tortyr under general Augusto Pinochet fram till 1990, men även en våg av privatisering (“reformism”), se exempelvis Public Citizens rapport från 2006.
• Nicaragua, 80-tal: “Contras”, ett gerillaband som grundades, utrustades och styrdes av CIA för att bekämpa den folkvalda sandinistiska regeringen i Nicaragua. Oxfam kallade Nicaraguas socialistiska regering “the threat of a good example” (d.v.s. Nicaragua visade andra länder i världen att det går att störta USA:s diktatorer och ersätta dem med socialism och demokratisering) och rapporterade om Contras brott mot civila, se här. När amerikanska kongressen antog en resolution som förbjöd amerikanskt stöd till Contras finansierades de i det tysta med pengar från vapenförsäljning till Iran, vilket ledde till att Iran-Contra-affären uppdagades 1986 – en dubbel skandal då pengarna från en diktatur som USA inte hade diplomatiska förbindelser med användes till att finansiera ett gäng blodtörstiga banditer för att störta en demokrati. Samma år dömde Internationella domstolen i Haag att allt stöd till Contras stred mot internationell lag och att USA var skyldigt Nicaragua skadestånd, se Counterpunch. USA ignorerade domslutet.
• Haiti, 2004: Folkvalde presidenten Jean-Bertrand Aristide störtas i en militärkupp stödd av bl.a. USA, Canada och Frankrike. Aristide hade motsatt sig privatisering av statliga institutioner och företag. Viktigt att veta är att Haiti är ett av världens fattigaste länder och majoriteten av befolkningen lever på under 1USD/dag – men det stoppar förstås inte “reformisterna”, som kan mjölka blod ur en sten. Se Amy Goodmans intervju med president Aristide på Democracy Now!.

Så mycket för “fungerande demokratier”, alltså. Och då har vi ändå inte nämnt vad som hänt i Honduras (kommer i senare inlägg ikväll). Boström nämner inbördeskrig och militärkupper, men inte att USA – av hans kollega Peter Wolodarski kallat den “fria världens ledare” – startat eller partiskt stöttat varenda militär konflikt i Central- och Latinamerika. Exemplet Contras är extra intressant då de grundades av CIA i just Honduras och inledde sin terrorverksamhet där. Sedan har Boström mage att skylla olikheterna mellan länderna idag på konstitutionerna – det är inte bara extremt okunnigt, utan ett hån mot dessa länders historia.

Boström avslutar texten med att jämföra Zelaya med Chavez.

Chavez närmast autokratiska ställning har säkerligen inspirerat Zelaya i hans försök att stärka presidentmakten. Men just exemplet Chavez bidrog troligen också till den honduranske presidenten snöpliga slut.

Hugo Chavez maktfullkomliga styre leder närmast tankarna till Putins Ryssland, med statskontrollerade medier och domstolar. En despoti har helt enkelt ersatts med en annan. Zelaya försökte gå en mellanväg och reformera systemet inifrån. Det vore något av en tragedi för Centralamerika om söndagens kuppmakare lyckas släcka hoppet om att en sådan medelväg är möjlig.

De flesta länder var snabba med att fördöma kuppen och Zelaya planerar att återvända till Honduras idag. Vad menar Boström med “snöpligt slut”? Tvärtom kan kuppen ses som en framtida förstärkning av den latinamerikanska enighet som börjat ta form under de senaste åren.

Att dra in Putins namn i artikeln utan egentlig relevans visar vilken banal nivå Boströms smutskastning ligger på (se även Esbatis kommentarer för mediernas språk). Boströms historiska minne sträcker sig inte så långt, men Chavez lät konspiratörerna bakom militärkuppen 2002 gå fria och trots att de privatägda mediernas förvanskade rapportering störtade honom låter han dem fortfarande sända fritt. Att Chavez återfick makten efter ett folkuppror motsäger också att han skulle inneha en “autokratisk ställning.” Men som sagt, historia verkar inte vara Boströms starka sida. Han ska nog hålla sig till att “bygga upp berättelser”.

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Mer om Honduras historia, vem Zelaya är, varför han avsattes och uppdaterad info kommer i ett inlägg senare ikväll.

Após várias conversas a respeito, a diretoria finalmente divulgou o time inicial no próximo jogo, dia 11 (provável), contra o Dynamo Itaquera.

Muito se falava sobre a entrevista de Dznho, onde ele dizia que o time inicial seria ele, Trop’s, Pikenes e Vitaum, além do goleiro Iuri, emprestado. Enfim, hoje a tarde, a diretoria divulgou a escalação.

Escalação contra o Dynamo Itaquera

Pela primeira vez, Trop’s começará uma partida fora do banco, e pela primeiríssima vez, Lekus jogará oficialmente pelo AVFC, visto que até agora, ele só participou de jogos não-oficiais no Monumental, contra o APF.

Nakata

Há rumores que o ex-jogador Nakata poderá jogar também, e mais, ele pode estar voltando (eu, trabalhando em telemarketing, seria um fiasco) ao Agora Vai Futebol Clube, após quase um ano fora do time. A diretoria não confirma nada, mas o fato é que ele ainda mantém contato com os jogadores do time e as vezes aparece no CT, até mesmo jogando com os agoravaianos. O ex-camisa 7 rescindiu seu contrato com o AVFC no final de julho do ano passado, para jogar no Não Há Vagas FC.

A ideia é fazer o time começar ágil, tanto no ataque quanto na marcação, daí a escalação de Trop’s, Lekus e Pikenes, que são jogadores velozes. Dznho aparece pra jogar de pivô e retomar o contato com o futebol, já que o mesmo se encontra fora de ritmo. Os jogadores nunca jogaram com o goleiro Iuri, mas segundo Dznho, amigo dele, ele joga bem e tem uma boa habilidade em jogar com os pés, ajudando na troca de passes.

O jogador Vitaum foi escalado na reserva, mas segundo a diretoria, ele pode nem entrar em quadra, pois volta de uma contusão no tornozelo, que não está 100% boa e, segundo o departamento médico, pode piorar a situação.

Com relação às cores das camisas, Dznho disse que o Dynamo possui dois uniformes, um azul e o outro amarelo. Ainda indeciso quanto a escolha da cor, o time escolheu jogar de camisa branca, calção e meião preto, mas nada ainda está definido.

Lekus e DDD, treinando no Monumental

Estatisticamente falando, o Agora Vai Futebol Clube até o presente momento ganhou duas partidas e perdeu duas, o que aumenta a pressão da torcida para a conquista da vitória. Se perder esse jogo, o técnico Kaiser pode ter problemas. Lekus vem com tudo para tentar marcar o seu primeiro gol pelo time agoravaiano, enquanto Dznho tenta manter a sua artilharia entre os jogadores, com 10 gols.

Gols de cada Jogador

Sabendo da importância, Kaiser disse que não faltará a esse jogo (sim, ele já deixou de comparecer aos 3 últimos jogos do time) e que o time deve se manter motivado, rumo a vitória.

O membro Khorzho do Fórum Oficial do Spore, de alguma forma, conseguiu adquirir o Aventuras Galácticas em alguma loja local em seu pais, e realizou uma review da expansão. Ele mostrou prós, e também mostrou os contras que ele achou na expansão.

Prós:
- Existe um Sistema de Rank de capitões no jogo. Você ganha Sporepoints através dele, e ganha novas partes para usar em seu capitão no Estágio Espacial, igual quando você desbloqueia novas partes no Estágio Criatura.
- Há 7 tipos de partes de capitões, com quatro partes cada tipo. Se você desbloquear todas as peças em ordem especifica, sua nave recebe um novo poder arquétipo!
- Cada desempenho seu em cada missão é monitorado on-line! Você pode comparar e competir com outros jogadores pela Sporepedia.
- As missões no Estágio Espacial são oferecidas apenas como uma preview do Aventuras Galácticas. Não há interfaces especiais ou qualquer coisa que você precisa fazer para joga-las.
- A quantidade de itens para compra em cada império foi aumentado. Por exemplo, você não vai precisar se deslocar por dez impérios diferentes a procura de um Reparo AOE.
- Sim, você pode entrar em edifícios nas Aventuras. Isso deixa um monte de possibilidades disponíveis.
- Há muitas conquistas novas, pelo menos umas 25.
- As missões criadas pela Maxis são muito boas. Existem uma missão dos Grox (Bem… chamando eles de de Neo-Grox seria mais apropriado).
- Assim como o Editor de Criaturas, o Editor de aventuras é muito fácil e intuitivo.
- Missões não apenas de “matar,matar,matar”. Também não tem que ser.
- Parece que o problema do “Jogo travando” foi concertado. Acredito que o jogo faz uma limpeza em seus arquivos, e fixa vários problemas.

Contras:
- O tempo de carregamento são terríveis no SAG. Especialmente se você está jogando uma missão recém baixada da Sporepedia. Tenho um Core i7965, 12GB de RAM, um Disco rígido de 1TB, Placa de vídeo GTX295, e uma nova missão demorou uns 3 minutos para carregar.
- As missões que você encontra no Estágio Espacial são aleatórias. Não é sempre uma aventura. Você as vezes ainda recebe as antigas missões do Estágio Espacial, como coletar uma planta de um planeta. Se você quiser jogar aventuras, terá que procurar.
- As aventuras irão repetir no Estágio Espacial. E você não irá ganhar novos SporePoints por isso. Isso é ruim, pois você terá que esperar as pessoas criarem novas missões para avançar de Rank (acredito que isso será corrigido quando todos tiverem a expansão).
- Os Planetas com aventuras não podem ser interagidos de nenhuma forma. Isso deixa a Galáxia cheia de planetas inúteis para sua nave.
- A Maxis não fizeram nada no que diz a respeito do Holograma de sua nave, eles não podem ser usados em planetas com aventuras.
- Os controles de seu capitão em uma aventura são desajeitados. Basta girar ao redor e você terá problemas, por algumas vezes.

Se você é um viciado no Spore, você irá dar um 9/10 e terá que comprar. Se você não for viciado, irá dar uma nota 7.5/10, mas é o suficiente para se diverti, valendo a pena os $30.

Fonte: Sporedum

Here’s a film I made about this place, in 2 parts. It’s a very basic intro, aimed at kids. For the film, I tried not to make a “here look at these poor peasants” film, which can easily reinforce our ideas that the rest of the world are some kind of second-class people. It’s meant to avoid being a liberal, raised, perspective where the viewer is elevated above the gritty reality of life in “the last corner of Nicaragua” (check the background voice at 2:40 of part 2 – a remarkably lucid comment from an otherwise drunk and annoying guy). It’s meant to allow the viewer to empathise with Puerto Morazanains, whilst it does draw out some more subtle differences – that kids have to retake their year if they fail their exams, for example.

My issue was that having made it with this framework in mind, I began to worry that this could be seen as washing out the reality of poverty and failing to take the opportunity to analyse the structural causes of this poverty. Bearing in mind the intended audience – Bristol school kids – the coda text was an attempt to reconcile this and introduce the viewer to the craziness of the Contra scandal: the CIA illegally and secretly continued to fund the Contras – short for contra-revolucionarios – through funds from the sale of arms to Iran in the 1980s. This story is a fascinating case-study for understanding the history of US foreign policy in Central America in the latter half of the twentieth century. The pattern is clear that the US elites, through the CIA and quasi-private corporations, deliberately obstructed and sabotaged any economic or social development autonomous to that authorised and decreed by the US establishment through the IMF and the World Bank, characterised as neo-liberal.

I’m really pleased with the finished product. The footage was shot on my stills camera, which takes 10 frames per second video, in 30 second clips! It’s highly basic, some camera phones might be better these days. But I wanted to give it a go to show what can be done on basic equipment with a clear idea of what you want to show – and some nice software to edit it with. And if you have a sick fast internet connection, click the HQ button below the video to see the High Quality version… hope you like it.

+ Pode xingar o chefe em rede nacional sem correr o risco de perder o emprego
- Se precisar viajar a trabalho, corre o risco de ir dentro da mala
+ Já tem o futuro garantido mesmo que ganhe notas vermelhas na escola, pois no trabalho ganha muitas notas azuis
- Precisa se esforçar muito para pegar todo seu pagamento, pois não é fácil segurar os aviõezinhos com as notas de 100
+ Todo mundo acha engraçado seu mau humor
- Seu mau humor vai perder a graça quando começar a menstruar
+ É a estrela principal de um canal de televisão
- Esse canal é o SBT

**Coluna do Danilo Gentili no jornal Metro