Pinochet along with DINA chief Contreras were the chief local architects of Operation Condor - which created a terror state comprising Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. 400,000 people were tortured and imprisoned, 40,000 people were disappeared (murdered). This was all done under the supervision of the CIA ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op7SUu37kjM

Transcript at: http://www.microtopia.org/us-and-california-politics-and-policy/us-corporate-media-ownership-agenda So Kerry is a disgusting sell out, who has voted for all kinds of legislation attacking our civil liberties and supporting neo con neo lib agendas. Chuck Hegel on the other hand telegraphs something different from Obama. I thought Hegel could not possibly succeed and let me tell you why. When I was working on Libya, gradually realizing from my initial view that it was great news that Gadaffi was to be overthrown, and then finding out about Libya's positive achievements and the propagandist nature of press coverage -- that perhaps it was not the White House dictating the war agenda, but the media itself! Perhaps the real power in this country is the media. I still haven't sorted it all out but I have found out a lot of pieces of the puzzle. The stock in the 5 big TV Networks, which own many many other forms of media such as Hollywood studios, radio stations etc -- are all invested via the big private equity players if I can call them that Black Rock, State Street and Fidelity. That is one part of the puzzle, the ultra wealthy give their money to these giant investment managers. These investment managers are ultra publicity shy. But the money and management of these companies is 75% WASPS, jewish people, neo conservatives and the religious right. So what they all have in common is a "defend Israel or die trying". Israel refuses to give the Palestinians citizenship, in Israel and refuses to give them a viable country in the lands they stole in the 1967 war. I say stole, because it is morally justifiable perhaps to hold this land as a security buffer. But they must allow the Palestinians to vote in an election in a sovereign state, just like every other human being in the world. Now up until the murder of the 2 participants in the Oslo Peace accords, Yitzhak Rabin, a war hero, and Yasser Arafat, whose character can best be described in reading the writings of Israeli peace activist Uri Avneri, not as bad a fellow as many might think, who was probably assassinated by Ariel Sharon, we shall likely know soon. It looked like peace in the middle east might happen. But since Netanyahu was elected it has been a bad situation. With the wall erected, the Israelis win, as long as the US gives them unquestioned backing. Now the policy is incredibly short sighted, because a fury is building in the hearts of many people, particularly arabs and muslims but many many people in the dehumanization of Palestinians by Israel. And to me the fundamental issue is that they should have the right to vote. They have less rights than blacks in the north before the civil war. And in the mean time what has happened to the progressive s in Israel willing to give the Palestinians pieces of Jordan and Egypt that Israel occupies, the future Palestinian State? One factor is that Israel has absorbed some less educated and more racist citizens from the former Soviet Union, people who my Israeli friends tell me think of Arabs as animals. And 1 million of them emigrated to Israel. That is 1/6th of the population. So to my Jewish brothers and sisters in the US and around the world I say, let us in America stop having to write a blank check for this insanity. Join J Street the progressive jewish organization seeking a 2 state solution, and pressure the companies with prominent Jewish management to adopt a pro 2 state solution. Dump the racism of Netanyahu and all who stand with him. Now we in the US have been turned into Isreal with our airport security and war of and on terror. Our drone attacks breeding hatred by arabs muslems, intellectuals and citizens of smaller countries generally. Another important issue lately is the call for banning the use of military style weapons by American Citizens. On the one hand, no other country has gun death levels like the US, nor gun ownership levels. There is 1 gun for every man woman and child in this country in private hands. On the other hand the traditional argument has been a police state cannot take over completely if the population is armed. Our right to bear arms is to resist the possible rise of a military style police state imposed on us, Our Nation since its dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima has become an ultra violent nation. We have been the primary aggressor and intervener around the world. We have interfered in the affairs of dozens of developing countries, fueling insurgencies, deposing left wing elected presidents and installing right wing military rules (Libya the latest until fate dictates otherwise). ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfDhJuWBkOw

Transcript: http://www.microtopia.org/us-and-california-politics-and-policy/libyan-conflict-intel/libya-conflict-analysis-oct-30-2011---news-of-the-world 4) The allegations of atrocities were not verified. And in fact were taken verbatim from the very people who wanted to obtain foreign military intervention. In other words the expert reported was prepared by one of the adversaries - obviously extremely prejudicial. Claims of thousands of rapes, tens of thousands of murder were entered into the public record at the ICC with no evidence, and by late June Doctors without Borders and one other credible - that is establishment human rights group - determined that the claims had no basis. Actual casualties at the beginning of the uprising were in the hundreds. No mercenaries, No Rapes. Ironically the US and its allies employ large contractor armies - which is in fact the definition of mercenaries, and as has been noted the USAF has one of the worst rape records of any military. So as absolute power corrupts absolutely, faulty information corrupts decision making and public perception. Then things got really out of control: 1) Libyas investments in Africa were demonized 2) No mention was ever made that Libya actually took care of its population bettter than even the West 3) The potential for civilian loss of life at the hands of the Libyan Army - was entirely hypothetical and real research would have shown at most 1,000 civilians would have lost their lives. The intervention has led to 30,000 to 50,000 fatalities. 4) By not mentioning Libya's education and medical and industrial achievements, the public had no interest in preserving them - thinking Libya like Afghanistan - and NATO's destruction of many elements of infrastructure struck no chord in western sentiment. My conclusion is by withholding the fact that Libya was the most advanced country in Africa, even when balancing data by looking at the other oil producers exlusively, all of these prejudices were made possible. The fact that this data was suppressed is extremely serious. The same was true for Iraq, however in Iraq's case they initiated a long and bloody war with Iran. In Iraq's case I cannot speak to the level of support or the validity of their right to not be invaded, I too am prejudiced against Hussein, because I was not permitted to know the other side, I was not permitted to make up my mind. I simply dont know. Because I was probably given faulty information. That is disinformation, that is propaganda. In the second half of the conflict: As NATO saw they were in danger of losing, they began to step up their attacks and more and more collateral damage was done - until at the end NATO leveled an entire City that was inhabited a serious and massive crime against humanity on the scale of Srebernica. I would very much like to have serious scientific credible data about how many buildings were bombed by NATO. My first tip off that all was not as i was being told other than Libya's high level of development was the fact that the TNC claimed they had 8,000 fighers near Benghazi as well as 3 brigades that defected with Younnes while i roooted for the rebels. In fact I could not find more than 1500 fighters. Indicating very tepid support. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF_3zFh7_5U

http://bangordailynews.com/2012/02/18/politics/live-updates-from-the-gop-caucuses-in-hancock-and-washington-counties/ BDN reporter Tom Walsh is covering the final GOP caucuses in Maine today as Republicans in Washington County and parts of Hancock County declare their preference for a presidential nominee. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Mt13auvcQ