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Michael wrote:We're overlooking the obvious...Hugo Chavez. It's a two-fer. He gets to bankrupt a competitor and give Obama a monumental migraine at the same time.
Wikipedia but fuck you wrote:Peter Sutherland
Director-General of the World Trade Organization
Born 25 April 1946 (age 64)
[Note: I edited out the fluff and put the conspiracizing bits in my preferred order -FS]
He is non-executive Chairman of Goldman Sachs International (a registered UK broker-dealer, a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs).
Outside banking, Sutherland in early 2010 finished a 13-year stint as chairman of BP, Europe’s largest oil company. At one point during his tenure, the company was valued on the stock market at £236 billion (it is currently worth about £120 billion) and was making £42 million a day in profits.[15]
After UCD, he studied at the King's Inns in Dublin and was called to the Bar in 1969 and practiced until 1981 when, aged 34, he was the youngest Attorney General of Ireland.
He is on the steering committee of the Bilderberg Group [1], a chairman of the Trilateral Commission[2] and vice chairman of the European Round Table of Industrialists.[3]
He was the youngest ever European Commissioner and served in the first Delors Commission, where he played a crucial role in opening up competition across Europe, particularly the airline, telecoms, and energy sectors. Subsequently he was Director General of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (now the World Trade Organisation). Later Mickey Kantor, the US Trade Minister, credited him with being the father of globalization and said that without him there would have been no WTO. [citation needed]
The Uruguay round of global trade talks, concluded in 1994 with Sutherland as chair of GATT, produced the biggest trade agreement in history and established the World Trade Organisation.
On 5 December 2006, he was appointed as Consultor of the Extraordinary Section of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (a financial adviser to the Vatican).
Yeahsure wrote:Hmmmm....as soon as I saw that (above) image of what I presume is a typical Gothic Costa Rican barbecue I hear on the news that Darth Cheney's ticker burped.
Coincidence or does Friendly have powers beyond that of Mortal Women?
DICK CHENEY HEALTH UPDATE
Waiting For Dick Cheney To Die? Get a Chair
We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talent.First, it’s not going to be “justice” when Dick Cheney finally drops dead. He’s an old man, a sick & diseased 69-year-old blob of bitter fat and gristle and plastic. If the poisonous toad had been run over by a manure truck about thirty years ago, that would’ve been evidence of the Great Cosmic Wheels of Justice at work, for if such forces existed, they would not be shackled by our puny concepts of Time.
Instead, his long evil life — maintained and extended at great cost to U.S. taxpayers — is a testament to the complete lack of supernatural punishment. Look at this, from a long list of Cheney’s endless “health problems” reaching back to the Disco Era: “1978: Cheney’s first heart attack.” 1978. Still think it’s a good idea to waste your Saturday afternoon checking the Internet for reports of Dick’s demise?
Who knows, maybe he’s already dead and his Evil Family doesn’t want the news lost during a Gay Soccer Frenzy Weekend. Can get a lot of crocodile tears from the cable-news clowns if you put off the announcement until, say, early Monday. A slow news day. Before that goddamned Kagan confirmation starts, or maybe after it’s over, early afternoon, so it can drag on all night. Try not to do it on a day when the oil spill news is particularly bad. After the midterms, maybe.
Did Cheney expire in February, after his fifth documented heart attack? How would anyone know the difference?
But here’s the official word, for the moment:
Cheney was not feeling well on Friday and went to see his doctors at George Washington University. On their advice, he was admitted to the hospital for further testing.
Go outside, have “fun,” drink Bud Light Lime, yell at the Ghanaians, whatever people do on these long — but already getting shorter — summer days. Yes, summer’s already shrinking, dusk coming a few minutes earlier than last week’s solstice, the long march to winter’s darkness already underway. The world turns, the leaves fall, the ice caps melt, and the mysterious fire of life continues to flicker within the shit-husk known as Dick Cheney.
Sure, there’s a God. But she is evil.
Yeahsure wrote:Actually I was referring to that bonfire imagery in the 1st page of this thread. However the "F*ck off and die Hugo" comment is so priceless that I'll just go with the flow.
friendlyskies wrote:Hugo actually fits in best as a renegade, one of the rare world leaders operating outside the vast New World Order conspiracy.
Michael wrote:friendlyskies wrote:Hugo actually fits in best as a renegade, one of the rare world leaders operating outside the vast New World Order conspiracy.
Is that really possible? Or do they just allow a few renegades to operate so we can concentrate on faux "enemies" instead of them?
Sri Lanky wrote:I wonder how coffee and narcotics tie into this. It has to. I had lunch about a week ago with a retired biker who had befriended one of the ruling families of El Salvador back when the Sandinistas were a hot item. The coffee,narcotics,and AK-47's definitely go together. He said he was so shit scared he only lasted four days in that country. This from a bad-ass biker who's wife was murdered while he was in the game.
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez (October 21, 1882, San Matías, La Libertad – May 15, 1966, Hacienda Jamastrán, Honduras) [1] was the President of El Salvador from 1931 to 1944. Serving as President Arturo Araujo's Vicepresident and Defence minister, a Directorate seized power during a palace coup and after named General Hernadez president of El Salvador. Military personnel was not paid their salary. Many times this story about the military not being paid is not told in school, instead the sole reason of the coup d'état is blamed in the fall in the prices of coffee abroad. The reality is that officers were not paid and Finance Minister had only paid the Police which remained loyal to the president. Officers were angry and ousted president Araujo.
An ardent fascist, Hernández Martínez led a military government that actively suppressed opposition, most notably the Salvadoran peasant revolt of 1932 led by Farabundo Martí, where thousands of indigenous Salvadoran people were systematically murdered if they were suspected of collaboration with the communists. This massacre came to be known as La Matanza, and the specific number of victims is unknown but estimates range from 10,000 to 40,000. He also created a racial law to keep blacks from entering the country. The 1939 Constitution, however, gave voting rights to women for the first time.
Hernández Martínez was a believer in fringe occultism. When a smallpox epidemic broke out in San Salvador he had colored lights hung around the city, in the belief that this would cure the disease. He also believed in reincarnation and once said that "It is a greater crime to kill an ant than a man, for when a man dies he becomes reincarnated, while an ant dies forever."
His government was supported and financed by the United States, and military aid was offered if needed.[2]
During his tenure, El Salvador saw slight economic growth, and he was admired by the wealthy elite for returning a form of stability to the country in the midst of widespread social unrest. In 1944, however, he was deposed by the famous non-violent Strike of Fallen Arms led by students. During this massive political action, Salvadoran society was completely paralysed until he was deposed. Hernández Martínez fled to exile in Guatemala. Ironically, the revolt then spread to Guatemala where Jorge Ubico was similarly ousted.
After being deposed, Hernández lived in Honduras until he was stabbed to death by his driver, Cipriano Morales, whose father had been one of the many murdered by Hernández's dictatorship. He remains one of the oldest politicians to be assassinated.
During the country's civil war in the 1970s-1980s, an extreme right-wing death squad named after him operated in the country, and claimed responsibility for the assassination of many Christian democrat and Marxist politicians as well as innocent civilians in El Salvador in 1980.[3].
Atlacatl Battalion
The Atlacatl Battalion, a former Salvadoran army unit, was a rapid-response, counter-insurgency battalion created in 1980 at the U.S. Army's School of the Americas, then located in Panama. It was responsible for some of the most infamous incidents of the Salvadoran Civil War. It was named for Atlacatl, a legendary figure from Salvadoran history.
The Atlacatl Battalion's first trained Salvadoran soldiers arrived back in El Salvador in 1981. The Battalion was trained at Ft. Bragg, NC by US Special Forces and the 2nd Battalion, 505th Infantry of the 82nd ABN. As a result of their U.S. training, the Battalion had a close relationship with U.S. military advisors and Special Forces operating in El Salvador during the civil war of the 1980s.[1] The Battalion carried out some of the most horrific atrocities of the war, including the El Mozote Massacre of December 1981 and the notoriously brutal assassination of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter in November 1989.[2]
The Battalion was disbanded under the terms of the 1992 Salvadoran peace accords that ended the eleven-year conflict.
Enlightenment ideals like democracy and secularism, based on the French and US revolutions/constitutions
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