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I guess FAIR will denounce

Aaron Carine — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 22:53:07 +0000

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I guess FAIR will denounce the United Nations now.

So you're falling for the

artappraiser — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 15:49:28 +0000

So you're falling for the narrative created by Jon Lee Anderson and other toadies of the U.S. regime? They said they were socialist so one must stick with them, solidarity forever, the people will eventually solve any problems caused by the boot on their neck of meddling hegemon. Never forget 1953! Avenge Mosaddegh! Remember Allende! Impeach Nixon! Oh and The New Yorker is publisher of fake news to support the devil Israel.

More seriously: very nice list!

"a husband-and-wife co

NCD — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 14:24:57 +0000

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"a husband-and-wife co-Presidency that is unique in the modern world."

A Daddy-daughter-son-in-law co-Presidency is also unique in the world.

Venezuela, and Nicaragua. Not "socialist", both rule by a leadership cult authoritarian, seem familiar...?

1. Run on upending the system for your "forgotten" uneducated base.
2. Lie constantly. Deny the truth when it undercuts your policies.
3. Pack the courts.
4. Loot the country, run up deficits.
5. Threaten (kill) or lock up political opponents.
6. Encourage violence against opposition demonstrators.
7. Hold rallies of adoring supporters, and plan military parades.
8. Load your administration with lying grifters whose only concern is lining their pockets
9. Blame all bad news or setbacks on foreigners, the opposition or wild conspiracy theories.
10. Violate the constitution, change it if possible to increase your power.
11. Ensure your Party is full of sycophantic toadies.
12. When possible, bailout your supporters with government money.
13. Purge the government of capable people who question your policies or actions.

Don't cry for me, Nicaragua!

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 05:34:32 +0000

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Don't cry for me, Nicaragua! I kept my promise (she kept her promise...)

Looks like it's spreading!

artappraiser — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 04:37:41 +0000

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Looks like it's spreading!

Guatemalan president shuts down U.N. anti-corruption commission that's investigating him

By ASSOCIATED PRESS AUG 31, 2018 | 3:30 PM | GUATEMALA CITY

Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales on Friday shut down a crusading U.N.-sponsored anti-graft commission that has pressed a number of high-profile corruption probes — including one pending against the president himself over purported illicit campaign financing.

Speaking in front of civilian and military leaders, Morales said he had informed the United Nations secretary-general of his decision to revoke the body’s mandate and “immediately” begin transferring its capacities to Guatemalan institutions [....]

Letter from Nicaragua “Fake

artappraiser — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 04:16:51 +0000

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Letter from Nicaragua “Fake News” and Unrest in Nicaragua

Suppressing an uprising, President Daniel Ortega borrows tactics from autocrats abroad.

By Jon Lee Anderson @ NewYorker.com for Sept. 3 print issue, available online now and there is also an audio version

It's a major long-form article, I've printed it out to read, takes 17 pages to print; an excerpt for a taste:

[....] Ortega was silent on the first day of the protests. On the second day, his wife, Rosario Murillo, broadcast a statement denouncing the demonstrators as “tiny, petty, mediocre beings.” They were not activists, she suggested, but “vampires demanding blood,” who were inventing stories about the deaths of protesters.

The aristocratic tone did not surprise Nicaraguans. Ortega and Murillo dominate the country, with a husband-and-wife co-Presidency that is unique in the modern world. Ortega is the more recessive of the two; he is a wily negotiator, with a street fighter’s swagger, but he is a clumsy speaker and avoids public appearances. Murillo, a thin woman with long, wavy hair, appears on the radio nearly every day and expounds at length on the news and on her personal philosophy. A self-described poet who professes a variety of religious faiths, she wears dozens of rings and vivid clothes in blue, yellow, fuchsia, and purple—colors that she believes give off “good vibrations.” During Ortega’s second term in office, Murillo was named the Presidential spokesperson, and early last year she became Vice-President. “She does all the day-to-day running of the government,” a Western diplomat told me. “She’s a fruitcake, but a brilliant fruitcake.”

The Ortega-Murillos control a portfolio that includes several television and radio stations, an advertising agency, and much of the country’s oil industry; they have seven children, and many are involved in managing these businesses. One of their sons, Laureano, is a key adviser for ProNicaragua, an agency that promotes foreign investment. A few years ago, he was at the center of an ambitious deal in which a Chinese company was given rights to build a canalacross the country; the project has faltered, and has been criticized for a lack of transparency. Laureano, who is also an operatic tenor, recently oversaw a lavish production of Verdi’s “Rigoletto,” in which he played the Duke of Mantua, supported by a cast brought in from Italy. His sister Camila runs a fashion business, which was hired to supply the costumes [.....]

makes me wonder how the far

artappraiser — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 03:05:57 +0000

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makes me wonder how the far lefty "socialism cannot fail, it is always beautiful" contingent can continue to spin this now that the U.N. can no longer be sanely claimed as an arm of the U.S. capitalist imperialist hegemon. Here's the thing: even if that was happening all along, that the U.S. deep state had been in cahoots with the U.N., and all those nasty NGO's too, how come they missed it until now? Still means they weren't accurate sources to read!