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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-06-10 01:59 PM
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Uribe to receive Spanish anti-terrorism award
Uribe to receive Spanish anti-terrorism award
Monday, 06 September 2010 11:13 Kirsten Begg

Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe will receive an award for his contribution to the fight against terrorism from Spain's International Observatory of Victims of Terrorism.

The "La Puerta del Recuero" prize will presented to Uribe at the Casino de Madrid on October 27 for his "fight against terrorism" through "firm security and defense policies undertaken during his mandate in spite of the difficult political and social conditions in his country, as well as his service rendered to the existence of all Colombians, especially victims of violence."

The announcement comes as Uribe commences his first week at Washington D.C.'s Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he is scheduled to hold seminars and work with faculty on international issues in the 2010-11 academic year.

Uribe's post as an invited professor has sparked controversy, with NGOs such as Witness for Peace and the Dorothy Day Worker Foundation planning to hold protests against the former Colombian leader's appointment later in the week.

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http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/11689-uribe-to-receive-spanish-anti-terrorism-award.html
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-06-10 02:40 PM
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1. Protest Georgetown U's honoring of Colombia's Uribe
Protest Georgetown U's honoring of Colombia's Uribe
Submitted by WW4 Report on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 23:07. From SOA Wacth, Sept. 2:

Keep Colombian Ex-President Alvaro Uribe out of Georgetown and send him packing to La Picota prison in Colombia!
Georgetown University has recently announced that former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe will be named a "distinguished scholar in the practice of global leadership," and will soon begin giving seminars at the university's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS). Uribe has said it is a "great honor" for him, and that his "greatest wish and happiness is to contribute in the continuous emergence of future leaders."

Uribe's 8-year tenure in Colombia was rife with corruption, human rights violations and widespread impunity. In a letter in June to the White House, Human Rights Watch expressed "serious concerns" about the Uribe administration's record on and commitment to human rights, democracy, and the rule of law.
More than 3 million Colombians (out of a population of about 40 million) have been forced to flee their homes, giving Colombia the second-largest population of internally displaced persons in the world after Sudan.

More than 70 members of the Colombian Congress are under criminal investigation or have been convicted for allegedly collaborating with the paramilitaries. Nearly all these congresspersons are members of President Uribe's coalition in Congress, and the Uribe administration repeatedly undermined the investigations and discredited the Supreme Court justices who started them.

Colombia has the highest rate of killings of trade unionists in the world.

A clandestine gravesite of 2,000 non-identified bodies was recently discovered directly beside a military base in La Macarena, in central Colombia. When the news became public, Uribe flew to the Macarena and said publicly that accusing the armed forces of human rights abuses was a tactic used by the guerrilla. These comments put the lives of those victims who spoke at the event in grave danger.
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http://ww4report.com/node/9068

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The Three Graces

Former Vice President Francisco Santos, President Alvaro Uribe,
Francisco Santos' cousin, Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos
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Peace Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-06-10 05:50 PM
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2. That's a jaw-dropper--"service rendered" to "the victims of violence."
Was he there, in La Macarena, kicking the bodies into the mass grave, to help them decay quicker?

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I think Uribe was offered a deal by Leon Panetta--in my opinion, Daddy Bush-appointed* CIA Director, who visited Uribe in the spring amidst rumors of a Uribe coup to stay in power. The deal? Keep his mouth shut about Bushwhack/U.S. military crimes in Colombia, leave office peacefully, when the time came, with awards and prestigious appointments, so Panetta can get this "Smiley Face" Santos thing going, sweep the mass graves, the Blackwater assassination "trainings," the BIG drug dealing and God knows what else, under the rug, cleanse the bloody trail, and "look forward not backward." Forward has two forks: Clinton fork of "free trade for the rich" (capitalizing on all the dead leftists in Colombia to rob the country blind), and the John Negroponte/John Bolton/Jim DeMint fork: war. (Oil War II, against Venezuela.) The twain may meet. They may not. I think the twain might meet after Diebold/ES&S gets rid of Obama (and all pretense) and puts Bush Junta II in power.

But forks meeting or not meeting, I think what we have here--in Uribe's rewards and prestigious appointments--is a guide to one set of CIA operatives in Spain, at Georgetown U., and within the U.S. and Israeli governments. I believe it was the State Department that appointed Uribe to the prestigious international LEGAL commission to investigate Israel's firing on the aid boats. I suppose it goes without saying that the State Department is rife with CIA operatives. But it would be interesting to pinpoint exactly who it was who arranged that one. And since it is a sure vote for Israel on that commission--and a sure seat for obstruction of the investigation--there would be Israeli operatives involved as well.

Deep Throat's time-honored advice, "Follow the money," needs a subclause of advice--"Follow Uribe," if you want to know where some CIA agents are.

--"Spain's International Observatory of Victims of Terrorism" and whatever slimebag so-called leftists in the Spanish government helped arrange it.

--Georgetown University--international relations department, and administration (?), and who else?

--State Department, the UN (the Israel commission is UN, isn't it?), U.S. mission at the UN--and any who had a hand in putting Uribe on that commission (of all the bloody people in the world! Jeez. But I guess he best qualifies as someone that the CIA can easily and completely destroy, if they ever need to).

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*(Panetta was a member of Daddy Bush's "Iraq Study Group," which I think had two hidden and main purposes: 1) Save Junior's ass from CIA retribution over the Plame/Brewster-Jennings outings, and 2) Oust Rumsfeld and curtail Cheney (the two main traitors to the "old CIA" establishment)) and (in coalition with military brass) stop them from nuking Iran (--too dangerous; risk of nuke powers China/Russia coming into it--Armageddon). The deal offered to them was "impeachment is off the table," and immunity from all investigation/prosecution for war crimes, in exchange for their going quietly when the time came and not nuking Iran.

(For brokering this deal, Panetta--an "old CIA" hand--was made CIA Director by Obama (but actually appointed by Daddy Bush), with one of his jobs being cleaning up after Junior wherever necessary to prevent more horrors from emerging--as may be threatening to, in Colombia. Diebold/ES&S let the Democrats win in 2006--which put Pelosi into power as Speaker (who blurted out the truth--"impeachment" had been taken "off the table"); Rumsfeld resigned within weeks, and Pelosi then went off to the Middle East, a short time later, to notify Israel and others that the nuking of Iran was off. The incident that may have been designed to trigger that attack--Iran's capture of British sailors in their territorial waters--then ended with smiles all around (while Pelosi was in Syria and Israel).

(I think Panetta also has the job of healing the wounds from the Rumfeld-Cheney war on the CIA--to get U.S. policy back on track as a coherent imperial/multinational corporate/ war profiteer venture, which other countries are not so averse to joining--and to eliminate the sharp divide that Rumsfeld/Cheney had created within the U.S. imperial establishment. That establishment is more into appearances than Rumsfeld/Cheney cared to cater to. But the split lurks, and those maniacal powers could well return, and, with the ludicrous 'tea parties' and whatnot, seem to be planning a return.

(At that point, war on Venezuela will become the biggest danger--substitute oil source (biggest oil reserves on earth) for Iran. It's all set up. Just needs a trigger. Uribe seemed to be providing one, in his final weeks in office, with his wild allegations against Venezuela at the OAS ("harboring" FARC guerrillas), but the Obama team didn't take the cue, and seem to be working some other angle (with Mr. Smiley Face, former Defense Minister Santos), but they haven't withdrawn the war assets that the Bush Junta placed all around Venezuela; they even covered up the rightwing coup d'etat in Honduras, at least partly to secure the U.S. air bas in Honduras, which the ousted president wanted to turn into a commercial airport, and where the plane carrying the kidnapped president out of the country at gunpoint, stopped for refueling, on its way to Costa Rica.)

(We could also possibly see a return of Uribe to power in Colombia. I don't believe that he is barred from running for U.S. toady again, if he waits out Santos' term. If Obama wins in 2012, Uribe will probably continue on the luxury circuit of former mass murderers. If Bush Junta II is installed here, Uribe would gladly become their "little Hitler" for invading Venezuela. I'm not sure that Santos wouldn't do it--not sure at all. He'd be a better choice, actually--from Imperial Rome's point of view. But Uribe might be more controllable and disposable.)
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-06-10 06:08 PM
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4. They've still had Jeb waiting in the wings, too, and occassionally mention his name
as a possible candidate somewhere in the future. He's every bit as wrong for humans as his grotesque brother.

Uribe didn't really want to leave, he was holding out hope the Supreme Court would allow him his third unprecidented run, and started going after them individually when he grasped the fact it didn't look good for him, using the full resources of his spies to wiretap, and follow them, and could go to jail for it, still, if there's any justice left in the world.

It just occured to me seeing your comments about Honduras, they might not have really had to stop for refueling, since Honduras IS a small country. It may be they just wanted to rub his nose in the fact they have control, along with the U.S. of Palmerola (Soto Cano) Air Base, and that's the way it's going to stay now.

That would be low, and that's why I think they did it.
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Downwinder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-06-10 05:56 PM
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3. I guess they could give him the Peace Prise, but it is already taken.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-07-10 12:59 PM
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5. Wow. That's disgusting. n/t
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