Gays Checking Out Kos's Junk, "Anti-Gay" Article Mysteriously Disappears

August 30, 2007

Gays Checking Out Kos's Junk, "Anti-Gay" Article Mysteriously Disappears (by The Jawa Report)

Here is a letter in which Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, aka "Kos", defends the pre-Clinton policy of not allowing gays in the military. You'll notice the date on the article he wrote in The Northern Star, the student newspaper of Northern Illinois University where he was an editor, is January 25th 1993-- just three days after President Clinton was inaugurated and right in the middle of the gays in the military controversy.

I wonder how John Aravosis, the editor of the America Blog, feels about Kos? He's the same guy who called Clinton's policy on gays in the military, "anti-gay". So, if Clinton's policy is anti-gay wouldn't the preceding policy be even more anti-gay? You might even call it gobsmackingly homophobic and the product of the American Taliban!

This is the same Kos who thought it was ok to help Aravosis out Jeff Gannon because:

"He has been extremely anti-gay in his writings. He's been a shill for the Christian right. So there's a certain level of hypocrisy there that I thought was fair game and needed to be called out."

Hypocrisy, thy name is Kos!

What's even better? Markos pulls the "I served in the military but you [Bill Clinton] didn't" card. A message he would come to perfect as cover for his vile criticisms of the military because, you know, he's been in the shit and has therefore earned the right to call our men and women baby killers!

Thanks to the Jammie Wearing Fools who have more details as does The Truth About Kos.

Screenshot below of Northern Star article which mysteriously disappeared.

UPDATE: Ron at Jamie Wearing Fools, who sent the pic, tells me the image was actually taken by Orlando at Fort Hard Knox.

By Dr. Rusty "John Doe" Shackleford at August 30, 2007 05:25 PM

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Editor's Note: See more recent article uncovering the reason for the disappearance of the MAMZ essays from the Northern Illinois University "Northern Lights" archives.

Mystery of Missing MAMZ Essays Appears to be Resolved

Cross-posted at the Political Fleshfeast.

I just spoke with Lauren Montgomery (815-753-0101) in the classifieds Department at Northern Illinois University's (NIU's) Northern Star campus newspaper, where Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga (AKA "Mark Moulitsas," AKA "Markos Moulitsas") published the shockingly homophobic essay, and the essay in which he said he was not a minority and did not and would not concern himself with the persecution of minorities. I asked her to explain why these essays, published in 1993, were available on line last week but are no longer available at present.

Ms. Montgomery says that the Northern Star website has just been renovated, and the technicians are still working to get all of the archives back online.

According to Ms. Montgomery, all of the archives, (presumably including the articles in which MAMZ opposed gays in the miltiary and said he is not a minority), will be available again in about a week.

One mystery appears to be solved, although we'll have to check back and see if the links are working again in a week.

However, many remaining MAMZ mysteries need to be resolved: For example, why did MAMZ write and publish the virulently homophobic essay, in which he opposed ALL gay service in military?

Markos Moulitsas: A Lifetime Insensitive to Democratic Constituencies
And why did MAMZ write and publish the Setepmber 3, 1993 essay in which he said he was not a minority?

"And as I left the ugly reality of racism behind, it struck me that what was such an easy and trivial exercise for me would be impossible for anyone whose skin color or religious persuassion (sic) made them the target of bigotry and discrimination. THEY would never be able to escape who THEY were." (Emphasis added. The Indictment of Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA by Justice and History (Updated with Additional Information and Counts)

He now claims that he IS an immigrant, even though he was actually born in Chicago? Much of what Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga has told us about himself simply doesn't add up, and tends to cast doubt upon everything that he says.

Some of MAMZ's supporters insist that he cannot be prejudiced because he, himself is an immigrant and a minority. But he is NOT an immigrant because he was born in Chicago, and the above quote proves that he does not believe he is a minority. Not unless it is convenient, anyway.

While the Northern Star is getting its archives back online, at least parts of the essays above can be accessed in the Google cache and at The Truth About Kos.

Judge Strikes Down Iowa Gay Marriage Ban, Gays Marry, Ruling Helps Markos Moulitsas

WaPost, DES MOINES, Iowa -- A minister married two men outside an Iowa home Friday morning, sealing the state's first legal same-sex wedding. Less than 24 hours earlier, a judge had thrown out Iowa's ban on gay marriage.

The Rev. Mark Stringer married college students Sean Fritz and Tim McQuillan.

"This is it. We're married. I love you," Fritz told McQuillan after the ceremony on the front lawn of Stringer's house in Des Moines.

I've always thought the courts should recognize gays' Constitutional right to marry. It's makes sense that our government should provide gays the same legal protections that others receive, without discrimination. This is also a protection for the many children of gays, who need to clarify their legal relationship and rights with respect to both gays parents.

In addition, allowing gays to marry makes good practical sense. One way to keep gay men from hitting on straight men is for gay men to marry each other and be out of the dating game entirely. The same holds true for gay women, as well.

Take the case of Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ), for example. He says he felt "inherently uncomfortable" to bunk in the military alongside gays who might be looking at his underpants. This new ruling should make people like Markos Moulitsas to feel much more comfortable. Because, if the gay people in the military are married, people like Markos who are preocupied with gay sex can be reassured that many gay bunkmates will have maritial commitments that morally preclude their involvement with heterosexuals. If a gay man hits on Markos, Markos can just say, "But, Bob, you're a married man!"

This ruling also helps Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga in another way: If he suddenly decides/discovers that he is gay (which is something gay people have already been speculating about) then Moulitsas will be free to love and marry another gay man, without suffering the discrimination against gays that he advocated in the past.

911 Researchers Lauds the Truth About Kos

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"The Last Bastion of Free Speech," by Jammie Wearing Fool

Cross-posted at the Political Fleshfeast.

This article about DailyKos comes courtesy of a blogger named, Jammie Wearing Fool, confirming a report about MAMZ that was posted at The Jawa Report:

"The Last Bastion of Free Speech,"
by Jammie Wearing Fool

Much is said about the First Amendment to the Constitution, especially by those claiming to be the last best hope for its preservation.

While they shriek about their status of being the true defenders of free speech, it's done so while hoping that activities done otherwise slip under the radar.

We saw this Monday morning:

Then we saw this:

Then there was this piece of brain surgery a month ago:

Which shortly became:

Until this past weekend, The Northern Star, student newspaper of Northern Illinois University, had a letter written by then-student Markos Carlos Alberto Moulitsas [Zuniga], today's new face and voice of the Democrat Party.

So, why would Zuniga's letter disappear, only to be found by Orlando?


Perhaps it's the subject matter.

Or, it's merely damage control so the Salvadoran oligarch doesn't come off as a wild-eyed loon.

Just a little bit late for that, doooood.

H/T Weasel Zipper, Francis L. Holland, Esq.

Also at: Fort HardKnox, LGF, DiggeralToolz.

Some screenshots: Kokonut Pundits, Orlando/Ft. HardKnox

Other screenshots courtesy: Stasi, StB & KGB

Another Curious Fact About Markos Moulitsas

Full text of "Military Right,"
archived at The Truth About Kos.

During my research into the background of Markos C. A. Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ), I discovered and linked to some of the shocking essays essays that he published when he was in college at Northern Illinois University, including the extremely homophobic essay in which MAMZ said,

( . . . ) the demands and pressures of military life are incompatible with allowing integration with homosexuals. ( . . . ) Worrying about whether the known homosexual sleeping next to you is watching as you change your underwear may seem trivial as you read this, but to the soldier who's short-tempered after three weeks in the field and four hours of daily sleep, it becomes a matter of great importance to his pride and sensibilities. And in any case, there aren't many people who would change clothes in a group of co-workers if members of the opposite sex were in the same room watching. There is something inherently uncomfortable about it. ( . . . ) Marcos C. A. Moulitsas Truth About Kos

However, suddenly the links to these articles do not work anymore. For example, look what happens right now, today, when you try to access to link to the screenshot above:

Look what happens at the Northern Star when you try to access the article in which MAMZ says that he is not a minority:

Certainly, the university's website has just been redesigned, and this could well explain the absence of some of their archives on this particular day, and yesterday as well.

Whatever the problem is, I certainly hope they fix it soon.

Because, right now, you could look at the Northern Illinois University campus newspaper archives and see no evidence that Markos C. A. Moulitsas, one of their most famous alumni, was ever a staff-writer there at all. For this moment in time, just for today, the essays of the most reactionary and conservative part of MAMZ's known writing history have become unavailable. The links no longer work. The articles already published in about these essays no longer have working links, right now.

Link to the screenshot above.

I'm sure these MAMZ's essays must still be available somewhere else, and they'll be back on line soon at the Northern Illinois Univeristy's Northern Star campus newspaper. Right?

A significant part of a public figures' history has gone missing, at least for the moment, yesterday and this morning. I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation and Markos C. A. Moulitsas Zúñiga's essays must be available somewhere else, and will be available again at his alma mater soon. I'll have to call or e-mail the paper and ask why this has occurred. But for me, right now, it's just . . . shocking!

MAMZ Biographical Table Proving He Was at CIA at Least One Year, Maybe Two

Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga said in a speech at the Commonwealth Club that he had spent only six months at the CIA, in 2001, leaving the CIA after the end of a six-month application process. That appears to have been a lie. To prove it, and to facilitate a community-wide investigation of inconsistencies and falsehoods that MAMZ has told the media and his followers, I offer the chronological table below, following MAMZ from his birth until the present. (Because of formatting difficulties, you have to pass over a sea of whitespace after Stu Piddy's quotation before you arrive at the table below.) According to Stu Piddy, of the MyLeftWing and Political Fleshfeast blogs,

Upon closer examination of the audio tape it appears that Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas says in fact he was speaking to the CIA up until 2003 about employment and long after he started Daily Kos in May of 2002.

Please listen to the tape for verifiication

He states that in 2001 "I was underemployed, between jobs so I applied to the CIA" and later in reference to ANOTHER POINT IN TIME ...he made a decision to work for Howad Dean instead of working for the CIA. That decesion could only have taken place in 2003. That is when he went to work for Howard Dean. Moulitsas discloses to the Daily Kos community that he had decided to work for the Dean Campaign in June of 2003 http://www.dailykos....

I've been on the road a lot the past few months. Some of it was for my day job as a web developer. But the bulk of it was for my new political consulting firm (alongside my partner).

I spent this weekend in Burlington, VT, where we officially accepted work on behalf of presidential candidate Howard Dean. Dean joins a Senate candidate in our still small but hopefully growing roster of clients.

Here we see Moulitsas is saying his decesion to join the Dean campaign is made final and the time is June 2003, NOT ANYTIME IN 2001. In January 2003 he formed a political consulting partnership with Jerome Armstrong. Sometime later in 2003 he joined the Dean campaign.

Stupiddy :: Proof of Marcos Moulitsa's Involvement with the CIA After Forming Daily Kos

Moulitsas says he talked to the CIA about his website. His website was begun in May of 2002.

By his own account, Marcos Moulitsas at least interviewed with the CIA AFTER he formed Daily Kos, not (only) before. It may be he began the interview process in 2001 and that it continued (or training continued) to just before June 2003. He says he went "all the way to the end". Does this mean he had compeleted training? If he started a 6 month interview process in 2001 it would have long ended by late June of 2003 when he made his decision to work for the Dean campaign. He formed his partnership as a political consultant in January 2003 with Jerome Armstrong.

In January of 2003, Markos Moulitsas joined Jerome Armstrong in a political consulting partnership called Armstrong Zuniga, before being formally dissolved in December 2004. Howard Dean hired them for a time as technical consultants in 2003.

It would be interesting to know more about Jerome Armstrong ( he was indicted for securities fraud). He went to work for Dean after forming the partnership...so it must be at THAT point that he made the decision he discusses to work not for the CIA but for Howard Dean and that occurs in June 2003. If he starts an interview process in 2001 that lasts 6 months and he is making his decesion in or around June 2003 there are at least 12 months in which his relationship with the CIA continues but is not defined. Therefore, according to his own statements, we can conclude that while Markos Moulitsas was proprietor of Daily Kos, he was also involved in at least discussions with the CIA for employment. Stu Piddy at Political Fleshfeast

Scroll Down to the MAMZ Biographical Data Table Down . . . Down . . . >>>>>

Year	Activity	Source of Data	Questions Raised
September 11, 1971	“Moulitsas was born in Chicago on September 11, 1971. http://www.guernicamag.com/features/172/firmly_forward/ ”MAMZ is born in Chicago. (CATO) “Nacido en 1971 en Chicago, vino a El Salvador en 1976 y regresó con su familia a Estados Unidos en 1980, cuando comenzaba el conflicto en nuestro país.” (La PrensaGráfica.Com)
September 11, 1974 > September 11, 1975	“His family moved to El Salvador, his mother’s native country, when he was three.” Guernica.com		There certainly is a discrepancy between these two dates of at least one year and maybe two. (See LaPrensaGráfica.Com article, which says he “came to El Salvador in 1976.")
1976	MAMZ family moves to El Salvador. “vino a El Salvador en 1976.” (La PrensaGráfica.Com) [“. . .came to El Salvador in 1976 . . .”]	There certainly is a discrepancy between these two dates of at least one year and maybe two. (See LaPrensaGráfica.Com article, below, which has says he “came to El Salvador in 1976.)
The 1980’s	MAMZ was a Reagan Republican: “It was my fealty to the notion of personal liberty that made me a Republican when I came of age in the 1980s.” Cato Unbound, publication date: October 2, 2006
1980	“civil war forced his family back to the States in 1980.” (CATO) “regresó con su familia a Estados Unidos en 1980, cuando comenzaba el conflicto en nuestro país.” (La PrensaGráfica.Com) [ . . .returned with his family to the United States in 1980, when the conflict started in El Salvador.] http://www.moulitsas.com/wedding/wedding.asp
1984	MAMZ starts playing piano, “Ticklin’ the ivories since 1984.” Moulitsas Online Music Album
1984	At thirteen years old, MAMZ is a precinct captain in the 1984 reelection campaign of president Ronald Reagan. After an interview with MAMZ, Guernica Magazine wrote, “( . . . ) he became a fanatical supporter of Ronald Reagan (who backed El Salvador’s government as part of his anti-Communist strategy), even working as a Republican party precinct captain in high school.” Guernica
September 11, 1988	MAMZ turns 17, has seventeenth birthday. “A los 17 años, Markos entró a formar parte del ejército de Estados Unidos.” (LaPrensaGráfica.Com) [“At 17 years old, Markos joined the Army of the United States.”]
9/11/88 - 9/10/89	“Immediately after high school, at the age of 17, Moulitsas enrolled in the U.S. Army” (CATO) “The idea was partly to improve his self-esteem and serve his country and partly to burnish his resume for a career in politics.” SanFranciscoGate.Com Guernica After high school, Moulitsas, then a Reagan Republican thanks largely to the White House's support of the Salvadorean government, spent four years as an army artillery scout, mainly in Germany. WaMonthly	Could MAMZ have spent “four years” as an Army scout, based on his year of graduation and his date of entering NIU?
September 11, 1989	Immediately after high school, at the age of 17, Moulitsas enrolled in the U.S. Army. Cato Unbound MAMZ turns 18, has eighteenth birthday.
Fall 1992(?)	Entered Northern Illinois University as a freshman.“enrolled at Northern Illinois University . . ." (WaMONTHLY) According to the NIU Northern Star campus newspaper, he was a “freshmen” in January 1993, when MAMZ wrote his infamous essay opposing ALL gays in the military.Northern Star Wiki: Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga
Presidential Election, November 1992	MAMZ votes for George H.W. Bush for president. Moulitsas voted for Bush Sr. in 1992. Guernica
January 25, 1993	MAMZ publishes essay at Northern Illinois University campus newspaper, the “Northern Star,” opposing ALL gay service in the US military. Northern Illinois University "Northern Star" campus newspaper.
1996	MAMZ records music in Chicago. MAMZ's Online Music Album
1996	MAMZ graduates from Northern Illinois University. Wiki: Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga			US Congressman (NM)
1996 – 1999	“He earned a J.D. at Boston University School of Law (1996-1999).[3]” Wiki: Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga			US Congressman (NM)
September 11, 1996 > September 10, 1997	He met Elisa when he was a 25-year-old law student and she was a 19-year-old sophomore at Boston University. SanFranciscoGate.Com
1997 – 2000	MAMZ “family business” receives five million dollars in foreign investments. Salvadoran Supreme Court Library Document
Spring 1998	MAMZ proposes to Elise. "While [Elise] studying abroad in Spain, I visiter her for a week. During that time, we spent a few days in Bamberg, where I lived for nearly three years in the early 90s. That's when I popped the question." MAMZ's Online Wedding Album
1998	"( . . . ) in 1998, moved out to San Francisco to try his luck in Silicon Valley." Kos Call
1999	MAMZ says, "I had the good fortune of working with Tim Bruhns at Blink Music in Cambridge, MA." Moulitsas.Com/music			US Congressman (NM)
November 24, 2000	MAMZ gets married in El Salvador. Online Wedding Album			US Congressman (NM)
Six months during 2001(?) Can´t be!	MAMZ says he interviewed with the CIA in Washington, DC for six months, where he was told that, "Man, they're going to take us to war. This isn't right." Speech to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, June 2, 2006.	Why would the CIA tell MAMZ about the Iraq War when the within four months after the destruction of the World Trade Center, at least two years before the war began? If this is true, why did MAMZ keep this information secret even as the Administration was insisting that it had no immediate plans for war with Iraq? Was there a conflict of interest between MAMZ’s role in the anti-war movement and his assumed duty not to report conversations he had had with employees of the Central Intelligence Agency? If so, how did MAMZ resolve this conflict?
May 22, 2002	“Six months before the 2002 midterm elections . . . he decided to start a blog. Guernica.Com "Moulitsas started Daily Kos — a weblog focusing on progressive, liberal, and Democratic Party politics — on May 26, 2002" Cato Unbound "Esta página [DailyKos] fue creada en mayo de 2002 por Markos Moulitsas Zúniga." LaPrensaGráfica.Com
November 2002	DailyKos receiving 8,000 hits per day. “By the height of the 2002 elections, the Daily Kos received about 8,000 hits per day.” Guernica
“Late 2002”	Moulitsas was not yet in touch with the Dean campaign, but he made contact with the Dean camp through Jerome Armstrong in “late 2002.” According to Guernica Magazine’s Mark Binelli, who interviewed MAMZ in 2004: “When Moulitsas began blogging, he did so anonymously, mostly to keep his boss from finding out how he was spending his work hours. In late 2002, he began corresponding with another political blogger, Jerome Armstrong — Moulitsas’ current partner in the consulting business — whose site, mydd, inspired the Daily Kos. “We started talking about how we were both anonymous, so people really had no reason to take us seriously. But they were,” Moulitsas says. “Then we said, ‘Imagine what would happen if a candidate did this.” Around the same time, future Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi — then a senior adviser — gave an interview which Armstrong found to be idiotic, and he noted as much on his blog. “I think Trippi was googling his name, and he saw what Jerome wrote,” Moulitsas recalls. “Then he started reading mydd and the Daily Kos. Eventually, he contacted Jerome and said, ‘You think I’m an idiot. We should talk.’ “We thought the blogs would just be another tool in Dean’s toolbox — you know, this notion of talking to people directly, not filtering it through the press, humanizing the campaign,” Moulitsas continues. “But someone like Trippi, he had nothing to lose at the time, so he could be as creative as he wanted to be. They implemented the blogs in a way that was phenomenal.” Guernica	MAMZ says he was told by CIA personnel BEFORE June 2002 and within ten months of the 9-11-2001 destruction of the WTT that the US was going to invade Iraq. This makes no sense. What DOES make sense is that he was still at the CIA in late 2002, long after he has admitted to being there in the past. He must have been at the CIA for at least a year, maybe two, even while leading an anti-war blog. Is that a conflict of interest? Isn’t one of the jobs of the CIA to keep tabs on anti-war activists? Did MAMZ help them to do so? Does he help them to do so today?
Late 2002	MAMZ contact with the CIA could not have occurred earlier than May or June 2002 if it ended after six months and BECAUSE of a competing job offer or opportunity with the Dean campaign, as alleged by MAMZ in his speech at the Commonwealth Club. Speech to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, June 2, 2006.
February 5, 2003	Colin “Powell addressed a plenary session of the United Nations Security Council on February 5, 2003 to argue in favor of military action.” Wiki: Colin Powell
February 14, 2003	“In his report to the UN Security Council on February 14, 2003, Blix claimed that "If Iraq had provided the necessary cooperation in 1991, the phase of disarmament -- under resolution 687 -- could have been short and a decade of sanctions could have been avoided." Wiki: Hans Blix
March 2003	Moulitsas attended the California State Democratic convention in Sacramento in March, 2003 with Jerome Armstrong of MyDD. Wiki: Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga
March 20, 2003	The American Invasion of Iraq officially began.
June 9, 2003	MAMZ “officially” announces that Armstrong/Zúñiga has a consulting with Howard Dean’s presidential campaign. “I've been on the road a lot the past few months. Some of it was for my day job as a web developer. But the bulk of it was for my new political consulting firm (alongside my partner). I spent this weekend in Burlington, VT, where we officially accepted work on behalf of presidential candidate Howard Dean” DailyKos Archives	MAMZ said he interviewed with the CIA in 2001, and only stopped interviewing because of the Dean campaign job offer. But, MAMZ could not have met Dean before late 2002, because that’s when Armstrong had his first contact with Dean. And MAMZ said he met Dean through Armstrong. So, MAMZ MUST have been at the CIA until AT LEAST late 2002, or later, if he was there when the opportunity to work for Dean arose. If MAMZ was at the CIA beyond a six month interview period, then he CERTAINLY was paid for staying on for the training period. If so, MAMZ was CERTAINLY an employee/trainee who worked for the CIA. People who go to a workplace, stay for months, take mandatory training and get paid for it are “workers” and “employees” by anyone’s definition. Did Markos Alberto Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA "Work" at the CIA During His Six Months There?”
2004	MAMZ has interview with Mark Binelli of Guernica Magazine, who later reports that “Moulitsas’ family was upper-middle-class in a country with virtually no middle class, and so had little sympathy for attempts to overthrow the corrupt ruling party. “I’m still the family communist,” he says. At the time, though, Moulitsas was politically in line with his folks. The family fled back to Chicago when Moulitsas was nine, and he became a fanatical supporter of Ronald Reagan (who backed El Salvador’s government as part of his anti-Communist strategy), even working as a Republican party precinct captain in high school.”Guernica	Compare this to what Moulitsas told the Salvadoran newspaper, LaPrensaGrafica.com: “[Translated: In the pre-Internet world, someone like me could never have had this level of success. I don’t have money. I don’t come from a famous or powerful family. I was an immigrant to the United States (…)Technology gave me the opportunity to create a publication with more than a million daily readers without having much money. The start-up costs were around $100.00.]”
June 2, 2006	MAMZ makes speech to Commonwealth Club, San Francisco Infamous June 2, 2006 MAMZ Speech to Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA.
October 2, 2006	Publication date of Cato Institute article in which MAMZ supports “States rights,” saying, “We can fondly look back to a time when Republicans spoke a good game on libertarian issues. They professed fealty to state rights, spoke of shrinking the government, preserving individual liberty, and embracing fiscal responsibility.” Cato Unbound
April 9, 2007	Story appears in LaPrensaGráfica.com in which MAMZ alleges, “En el mundo antes de internet, alguien como yo nunca hubiera tenido ese nivel de éxito. No tengo dinero. No vengo de familia famosa o poderosa. Era inmigrante en Estados Unidos (...) La tecnología me dio la oportunidad de crear una publicación con más de un millón de lectores diarios sin tener que tener mucho dinero. Los costes de lanzamiento eran cerca de $100.” [Translated: In the pre-Internet world, someone like me could never have had this level of success. I don’t have money. I don’t come from a famous or powerful family. I was an immigrant to the United States (…)Technology gave me the opportunity to create a publication with more than a million daily readers without having much money. The start-up costs were around $100.00.]
August 4, 2007	In keynote speech at YearlyKos, MAMZ implies that he served in the Gulf War: “I served my nation, during the gulf war . . . ” MAMZ’s transcript of his speech, DailyKos Although he served in Germany, the word “Germany” does not appear a single time in this speech. “ . . . we spent a few days in Bamberg, where I lived for nearly three years in the early 90s. That's when I popped the question.” Online Wedding album

Proof of Marcos Moulitsas' Involvement with the CIA After Forming Daily Kos

By Stu Piddy, cross-posted from Political Fleshfeast.
Upon closer examination of the audio tape it appears that Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas says in fact he was speaking to the CIA up until 2003 about employment and long after he started Daily Kos in May of 2002.

Please listen to the tape for verifiication

He states that in 2001 "I was underemployed, between jobs so I applied to the CIA" and later in reference to ANOTHER POINT IN TIME ...he made a decision to work for Howad Dean instead of working for the CIA. That decesion could only have taken place in 2003. That is when he went to work for Howard Dean.

Moulitsas discloses to the Daily Kos community that he had decided to work for the Dean Campaign in June of 2003 http://www.dailykos....

I've been on the road a lot the past few months. Some of it was for my day job as a web developer. But the bulk of it was for my new political consulting firm (alongside my partner).

I spent this weekend in Burlington, VT, where we officially accepted work on behalf of presidential candidate Howard Dean. Dean joins a Senate candidate in our still small but hopefully growing roster of clients.

Here we see Moulitsas is saying his decesion to join the Dean campaign is made final and the time is June 2003, NOT ANYTIME IN 2001.

In January 2003 he formed a political consulting partnership with Jerome Armstrong. Sometime later in 2003 he joined the Dean campaign.

Stupiddy :: Proof of Marcos Moulitsa's Involvement with the CIA After Forming Daily Kos

Moulitsas says he talked to the CIA about his website. His website was begun in May of 2002.

By his own account, Marcos Moulitsas at least interviewed with the CIA AFTER he formed Daily Kos, not (only) before.

It may be he began the interview process in 2001 and that it continued (or training continued) to just before June 2003.

He says he went "all the way to the end". Does this mean he had compeleted training? If he started a 6 month interview process in 2001 it would have long ended by late June of 2003 when he made his decision to work for the Dean campaign.

He formed his partnership as a political consultant in January 2003 with Jerome Armstrong.

In January of 2003, Markos Moulitsas joined Jerome Armstrong in a political consulting partnership called Armstrong Zuniga, before being formally dissolved in December 2004. Howard Dean hired them for a time as technical consultants in 2003.

It would be interesting to know more about Jerome Armstrong ( he was indicted for securities fraud). He went to work for Dean after forming the partnership...so it must be at THAT point that he made the decision he discusses to work not for the CIA but for Howard Dean and that occurs in June 2003.

If he starts an interview process in 2001 that lasts 6 months and he is making his decesion in or around June 2003 there are at least 12 months in which his relationship with the CIA continues but is not defined.

Therefore, according to his own statements, we can conclude that while Markos Moulitsas was proprietor of Daily Kos, he was also involved in at least discussions with the CIA for employment.

And that, it seems to me, is significant.

Once again these are his words.

Did the CIA Inform MAMZ of the Iraq War 2 Years Before it Began?

A couple of people have pointed out something about MAMZ's June 2, 2006 speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco that deserves to be pursued further. In the context of his assertion that everyone he met at the CIA was a "liberal," MAMZ's says of a woman with whom he spoke at the CIA,

This is before the war, right? And she was saying, 'Man, they're going to take us to war. This isn't right.'

The war in Iraq started two years later, officially on March 20, 2003. Did staffers at the CIA discuss this war with Markos Moulitsas two years before it began? If so, why? And what else did they discuss with Markos Moulitsas that has never been discussed with the public?

MAMZ says that he applied to the CIA in 2001. Presumeably, at least some part of this six-month application process would have had to occur AFTER September 11, 2001, unless MAMZ would have us believe that CIA officials discussed the Iraq War with him BEFORE the Twin Towers were destroyed.

The US War on Afghanistan began officially was in motion by October 2001. But there is some seems to be a consensus among politicians that there were at least militants in Afghanistan who arguably might have been anti-American. But what about what MAMZ insists he was told at the CIA in 2001: "Man, they're going to take us to war. This isn't right." Was this woman referring to the War in Afghanistan and saying that "This isn't right?" Or was she saying that the war on Iraq," even a full two years before that war began in earnest.

One thing is clear. We just don't know all that we need to know about MAMZ's participation at CIA, what he learned there, what he did there, what he was told there, and when and why.

And because this timeline offered by MAMZ in his Commonwealth Club speech simply doesn't hold water, the speech simply cannot be taken at face value, and nothing that he said in the speech can be accepted as unquestionably accurate.

All we know is that MAMZ said he spent six months interviewing with CIA officials and meeting with CIA officials, and he discussed his blog with CIA officials, and then his blog became a media darling.

In the speech, MAMZ predicted that Hillary Clinton would end up like Lieberman. If so, it should be noted that Moulitsas adamantly opposed Lieberman and then Lieberman was won the electoral race that MAMZ predicted Lieberman would lose.

The CIA Truth about Kos - Daily Kos

After six months at the CIA, are you ever completely free of the taint?

Maryscott OConnor Knew and Defended MAMZ's CIA Connections

Cross-posted at Where's MyLeftWing?

Raines at DailyKos, June 6, 2006.

MAMZ at the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, June 2, 2006.

On June 6, 2006, Markos C. A. Moulitsas Zúñiga confessed in an address at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco that he had been motivated and applied to work at the CIA in 2001, at the same time that he was starting DailyKos and involving himself with Howard Dean. MAMZ confessed that he applied to be a CIA agent while building a blog that he hoped would attract anti-war activists. Did he apply to be a mole? Did he become a CIA asset in 2001?

On the same day, on June 6, 2006, a diarist named "Raines" at DailyKos published a diary in which he published MAMZ confession at DailyKos. The response was muted. It seemed there were just as many people willing to come forth and agree that the CIA was a "liberal institution" as there were commenters willing to publicly doubt the motives of MAMZ, even obliquely.

Among those who apparently saw no problem with anti-war activists being infiltrated by CIA applicants was Maryscott O'Connor. She registered her presence and confirmed her knowledge of the contents of the diary by commenting, but she did not comment at all about the revelation that MAMZ's CIA connections. She was evidently more concerned about MAMZ position on Al Gore than she was with the possibility that MAMZ might be a CIA-asset infiltrating the anti-war Left.

Maryscott OConnor on MAMZ / CIA Diary, June 6, 2006.

In spite of her knowledge that MAMZ's connection to the CIA was posted at DailyKos in 2006 and remains uncontested, she has accused me of "lying" for reporting MAMZ's involvement with the CIA. And she has also offered to revoke my banning from MyLeftWing, but ONLY IF I STOP DENOUNCING MAMZ's participation in CIA activities. The following is posted with after permission from Maryscott O'Connor to publish this e-mail:

Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:32:18 -0700
From: "Maryscott OConnor" View Contact Details View Contact Details Add
To: "Francis L. Holland"
Subject: My Left Wing

Mr. Holland,

As I have stated before, if you wish to be reinstated as a member of MLW, you need only ask -- and promise to leave you MAMZ posts at your own site(s). I have no quarrel with criticism of Markos Moulitsas or Daily Kos; as I have stated repeatedly, it is merely critcism using FALSE claims that I disparage. As is plain for anyone who does a word search for it, I have NEVER attempted to censor or ban ANYONE for criticising Moulitsas and Daily Kos and I have NEVER even SAID anything REMOTELY to the effect that such criticism is discouraged, let alone BANNED, at My Left Wing.

There is no point in going around in circles about this; I know you disagree with my belief that you practise dishonesty in your posts about Moulitsas et al, but that is how I feel and that is that. I am also VERY much offended by the dishonesty with which you have decribed me and my rationale for your banning; you have variously accused me of being racist (in OTHER words, as you do not seem to believe in the actual word or concept as most people understand it) , cowed by pressure from Moulitsas's winged monkeys and -- MOST offensive of all -- of censoring and ultimately banning you in an attempt to regain favour (and reinstatement at DKos) with Moulitsas and his followers.

HOWEVER, I DO think you have much of value to contribute to MLW and its readership when you're not writing about Moulitasas and his site -- so if you wish to be reinstated under my conditions, you need only write to me and request it.

sincerely,

Maryscott O'Connor

Rage, rage against the Lying of the Right at...
the Liberal Community of My Left Wing ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
http://www.myleftwing.com

So, there you have it. If I stop denouncing MAMZ's relations with the CIA at MyLeftWing, then I can participate at MyLeftWing. If I stop denouncing DailyKos as an all-white pressure group, then I can participate at MyLeftWing. Presumably, if I write instead about my cat's fur balls, then I can participate at MyLeftWing. This is how the government-sponsored pseudo-Left controls the flow of information and advocacy in pseudo-progressive blogs, like DailyKos and MyLeftWing.

I responded as to Maryscott OConnor as follows:

Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:36:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Francis L. Holland"
Subject: Re: My Left Wing
To: "Maryscott OConnor"

Maryscott:

You have talked about a "belief" that I practiced dishonesty, but you have NEVER, EVER specified the FACTUAL BASIS upon which you base that belief, even though I have asked you to do so many times. I conclude that, like the MAMZ minion, you really have no factual basis for that belief and it is but a pretext for a decision to stop me from campaigning against the career of a "progressive" whose connection to the Central Intelligence Agency is not yet well-enough defined.

I am sure that if you could point to a "lie" or inconsistency that supported the drastic action of banning, then you would do so. More than four-dozen blogs have given credence to my reports about MAMZ by republishing the allegations as facts. So, there is no consensus whatever that anything I said was said with the intention of misleading anyone. Nor has anyone stated a specific fact which they want me to change in the Indictment.

When Markos Moulitsas is discredited by his own history, you too will be discredited because you will be remembered as the woman who tried to prevent me from disseminating what ultimately will be acknowledged as only a small part of a much larger and much uglier truth.

If ONE person can disprove ANTHING that I printed in my reports, then I will edit and republish the report with corrections as the price of my readmission to MyLeftWing. Indeed, so important is this issue, that I challenge you to assume as a community task the work of developing a consensus about which of my assertions are true and which are not. I will not expect you to believe anything I say without citations to government and business records, and I likewise will NEVER accept to be called a liar without EVIDENCE that something I said was incorrect, or at least that it was insufficiently supported.

Everyone, including yourself, who has read my reports has acknowledged that they are indisputable in every substantial respect. They doubt the significance but cannot punch a single meaningful whole in the underlying facts.

If you will accept the responsibility for providing a forum in which we can develop a consensus about which MAMZ facts are undisputed and which remain debatable, then I will accept your offer. I believe we [should] present our citations side by side and let the intelligent public decide for themselves which facts are true, which facts are important, and which are not.

Francis [L. Holland]

People who want to stop the Iraq War and who oppose CIA infiltration of the Left in America and overseas should take note and learn a clear lesson from this exchange of e-mails and from the DailyKos response to the revelation of MAMZ's involvement with the CIA. If you are still hanging out at the Government-approved progressives blogs, including DailyKos, MyLeftWing, MyDD, and the sites collaborating with these sites on condition of hiding the truth, then you are at the WRONG sites and you are being manipulated. Your participation may well be used to legitimize a Government-sponsored effort to control, manipulate and neutralize the political Left.

I am amazed at the number of people at DailyKos and MyLeftWing who acknowledge having personally been an undercover agent or having known others, in the past and/or present, who are undercover agents. This is, perhaps, another example of what distinguishes Blacks from whites in America. Blacks normally do not have any personal friends who are infiltrating organizations on behalf of the CIA. If we know people like that, we do not associated with them because we do not and NEVER WOULD OR COULD trust them.

People for Truth at DailyKos, July 29, 2006

And yet, look at DailyKos and MyLeftWing. Throughout their threads, they acknowledge that they DO NOT KNOW whether the man they regard as their leader is a CIA agent or not, and they do not care.

IF MAMZ is a CIA asset, then many others of his associates must be CIA assets as well, knowingly or unknowingly. The readers of DailyKos are CIA assets, knowingly or unknowingly, if MAMZ is a CIA asset. Can they and their judgment and their advocacy EVER be trusted by those who don't trust the Central Intelligence Agency? Are they dupes of the US Government or agents of the US Government?

Maggie's Madness: THIS IS BIZARRE - THE DAILY KOS & THE CIA

Guest Post: Maggie's Madness Blog Says,
"This is BIZARRE!"

Well, I gave up on the Daily Kos several years back, because Marcos said that he didn't believe street demonstrations were relevant. Shit, we had our heads beaten in back in the 60's and tear gassed to death, not to mention Ohio State. Those demonstrations were pretty fucking relevant to us, and they did have a positive outcome on society as a whole and our final exit from Vietnam.

So, I guess if he didn't think our demonstrations were relevant, I guess that he doesn't think the Weatherunderground was relevant. Oh Marcos, you don't need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows.

Later, I find out that Markos had banned several people for imploring for a state of Palestine and PEACE.I guess he figures the Palestinians aren't relevant.

Check this out:

Jewish-American Peace Activist Banned from DailyKos

And more:

Watch the Video from the Kent State Demonstrations

And more:

Two More Peace Activists Banned from DailyKos

Next, he banned Cindy Sheehan for announcing she would run against Nancy Pelosi, because Pelosi japped out and did not pursue impeachment, I assume he also doesn't think impeachment is relevant.

Then, I tried going over to Atrios, but noone would talk to me, they are all Daily Kos fans, and many of them defend Hillary and they put down The Salon, I love the Salon.

Now, this. This one takes the cake:

Daily Kos: CIA Engineered Controlled Opposition?

And he would have "no problem working for them" again? Marcos, you're a whimp, get fucked. And what kind of a name is Markos anyway, what a punk name. Someone needs to kick your ass.

Heh, see you guys later, everyone take care out there.

Goodnight, from Baja California

Can't Hold My Tongue Blog Addresses MAMZ and CIA

Guest Post: Can't Hold My Tongue Blog Expresses Serious Doubts
About MAMZ's CIA Role

Francis Holland of MyLeftWing writes about the CIA connections of Daily Kos founder and current operator, Markos Moulitsas.

Holland is immediately attacked by other MyLeftWing posters as having written something unverifiable, distorted, untrue and damaging to the reputation of the blog, MyLeftWing. I find it interesting how little consideration is given to the notion that a supposed leftist that sees no problem with the CIA or with even working for them (both of those things are admitted by Kos in the interview upon which the story was based) might actually be working for the CIA or had worked for the CIA. They are claiming that Holland’s assertions are ridiculous?

Is it ridiculous to suggest that if Kos did work for the CIA at some point that he might be forbidden to admit as much?

Is it ridiculous to suggest that the CIA has undercover agents and that if Kos is currently under the employ of the CIA that he might not be able to admit it?

I can’t prove these things but are these ridiculous assertions to make about a prominent political figure that voluntarily approached the CIA and went through the training program? Far from ridiculous, these are sensible guesses to make. However, they remain guesses.

If only the desire for the truth and not some mainstream corporate respectability was the driving force of communities like MyLeftWing, and others, we wouldn’t be having this discussion about Kos because he’d be made irrelevant by serious political forces. As it stands, conservative netroot movements like DailyKos and this followers have been ordained as the serious political force themselves. A situation, CIA directed or not, that should worry anyone serious about Left politics in the United States.

DailyKos Acknowledges The Truth About Kos

"Kos is alleged to be shilling for the CIA, etc."

I have often wondered whether DailyKos views itself as a newspaper for the Left or a campaign organization for Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) who, in turn, functions as an agent or "asset" for other forces who are not publicly identified? For clues to solve this mystery, I have been following the response at DailyKos to the revelation by The Truth About Kos blog that Kos spent six months at the CIA.

Listen to the speech now.

Look at the Truth About Kos citation list posted here. Over four dozen leftist blogs have reported the news that MAMZ was at the CIA. Yet, there has been a virtually complete news blackout about this story at DailyKos and at other blogs affiliated with DailyKos ("minion blogs"). As DailyKos member Delver stated above, in the face of allegations that MAMZ is an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency, "a clarification would be in order," at the very least.

Here is the link to the audiotape of MAMZ's confession.
Listen to MAMZ confessing.

However, DailyKos and the affiliated minion blogs are not reporting progressive news; they are only reporting MAMZ's self-serving and self-defensive propaganda, dressed up as news.

In response to the observation that people outside of DailyKos are accusing MAMZ of being a CIA agent, one DailyKos participant, (going by a user name, "FoundingFatherDAR," that strongly implies he is a white supremacist), says that, "Kos commented yesterday."

Here in the graphic is MAMZ's "comment." This comment offers rationalizations for spending his youth as a Republican, but it does not acknowledge at all the proof that MAMZ was strongly motivated to join the CIA in 2001, at the same time that he was starting DailyKos.

Hear MAMZ confess now.

Even if MAMZ offered a "clarification," it's hard to imagine what sort of "clarification" would convince the Left that a man who simultaneously applied to work for Howard Dean and secretly applied to the Central Intelligence Agency didn't choose the latter over the former. If he is working for the CIA, will the CIA authorize him to acknowledge that fact publicly? Will we EVER get a straight answer out of Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga? Or will he necessarily dissemble, spin, rationalize and distract the public in a vain effort to retain some facsimile of credibility among the terminally stupid and fatally credulous Kos minions?

If there is a even a 5% chance that MAMZ succeeded in becoming a CIA asset, can ANYONE on the Left afford to take that chance?

Listen to the MAMZ speech now.

Don't we need leaders who CERTAINLY are not now and never were in the pocket of the CIA? I think we do. I KNOW we do!

Kos Acknowledges Truth About Kos.

MAMZ says, "I've made no effort to hide my youthful indiscretions." If so, why did MAMZ spend six months at the CIA in 2001, and then wait FIVE YEARS to publicly acknowledge it, in his speech to the Commonwealth Club on June 2, 2006? And why has MAMZ made no effort whatsoever to explain what he did during those six months at the CIA and why? In what ways did his experience at the CIA motivate and facilitate his efforts at DailyKos? When he went to the CIA, did he believe they could help him with his new blog? Did they help him? Do they help him? What contacts does he retain and why and with whom?

Listen to the confession now.

As news that Kos was strongly motivated to join the CIA works its way into the public consciousness, along with the news that MAMZ actually spent SIX MONTHS at the CIA, the public and the news media, including blogs, will divide into clear categories: (This is already happening.)

(1) Those who never trusted MAMZ anyway and see their distrust and dislike for him confirmed. This group includes virtually everyone in the AfroSpear;

(2) Those who believed in MAMZ when he they did not know his CIA connections, but can never believe fully in him again, because they have a deep and abiding distrust and hatred for the works of the Central Intelligence Agency;

(3) Those who are simply stupid and cannot see the truth when it is presented to them on a platter, and

(4) Those formal and informal, direct and indirect prostitutes who will do ANYTHING at all to retain access to the DailyKos forum, and the influence that MAMZ seems to offer, even if they conclude that he IS an asset.

Only the people in groups (1) and (2) above are going to be honest about their beliefs and intentions. The people in groups (3) and (4) are going to use any lie and rationalization they can invent to protect the cover of Kos. And when that is no longer possible, they are going to rationalize the cover of Kos.

As you debate this issue with the MAMZ minions, keep this in mind: Most of them don't know the truth either. If someone is CIA, they are not authorized to tell all of their friends about it, much less their supporters. So, have some human empathy for the MAMZ minions and collaborators. Regardless of their state of knowledge today, the more we find out, the more embarrassed they are going to feel.

I recently asked whether DailyKos functions effectively as a white supremacist group. Look again at the user name "FoundingFatherDAR" and ask yourself where ELSE but in a white supremacist group a participant would choose this user name and still be accepted by his peers?

Eleanor Roosevelt the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and a niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, was one of the most active first ladies in American history. Mrs. Roosevelt won fame for her humanitarian work on behalf of poor and oppressed people everywhere, and became a role model for women in public affairs. In 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution [DAR] would not let black concert singer Marian Anderson perform at Washington's Constitution Hall. A public outcry followed, and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, along with several other distinguished women, resigned from the DAR.

Mrs. Roosevelt arranged Anderson's concert outdoors on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The concert drew an audience of 75,000 people. Mrs. Roosevelt was a board member of the NAACP and was criticized for integrating White House state functions and gatherings. From 1945 to 1952, she was a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly.

In 1947, as chairperson of the U.N.'s Human Rights Commission, she helped draft the U. N. Declaration of Human Rights. The document was designed to protect people throughout the world from abuses of power, emphasizing equality and nondiscrimination. It was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. In 1961, she was reappointed to the U.N. as the first chairperson of the President's Commission on the Status of Women. KidsNet.Org

Black people do not forget this history, and we're not stupid. Like Jewish people, we say "NEVER AGAIN!"

I don't care WHAT excuses FoundingFatherDAR and other inevitably offer for his using this screen name. The purpose and the effect of this name is to help create a whites-only DailyKos , to drag the Democratic Party and the nation in a more Republican and reactionary direction.

Think about it! Black people have a history of radical politics -- from abolition to Malcolm X to the Black Panther Party. What better way to make the Democratic Party LESS radical AND less potent, then by severing it from its most politically radical component - Black people?

Listen to the MAMZ confession now.

The two percent Black membership of DailyKos is not an accident. It is part of a conscious strategy to fracture the Left, neuter the Democratic Party, and frustrate truly radical efforts for change.

The Indictment of Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA by Justice and History (Updated with Additional Information and Counts)

INDICTED BY THE FACTS
Cross-posted at the Now Public.

Having discovered that Markos C. A.Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA (MAMZ), (founder and owner of DailyKos) has a long history of participation in and support of the Republican Party and, moreover, trained or worked or "interviewed" with the US Central Intelligence Agency betwee 2001 and 2003, now research into the life and history of Markos C. A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA (MAMZ) has revealed and established the following facts and, therefore, justice and history now bring this thirty-one count indictment of Markos C. A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA (MAMZ):

1). Markos C. A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA was actively at Central Intelligence Agency offices in Washington, DC, training to become a CIA agent for two years, between 2001 and 2003, with or without pay. (Listen carefully to MAMZ's speech to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, on June 2, 2006.) He says that he started training at the CIA to be a "secret agent" in 2001 and finished his training when the Howard Dean campaign took off, which was in 2003. Since secret agents are trained to offer cover stories, false backgrounds and provide false information, therefore, nothing that MAMZ, his supporters and associates say can be accepted at face value.

2). Markos C. A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA was born in Chicago, not in El Salvador. Therefore, he is a US citizen and is NOT and never was an immigrant, in spite of his habitual assertions to the contrary.

3). Markos C. A. Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) has used at least three aliases, including Mark Moulitsas, and Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga and Markos Moulitsas and Markos C. A. Moulitsas. No one seems to know MAMZ's complete name with certainty, but it certainly is not what he has said it is.

4). Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA lied when he said "I don’t have money. I don’t come from a famous or powerful family. I was an immigrant to the United States." CatoUnbound.Org:Markos Moulitsas [ZÚÑIGA] Counter to the rags to riches immigrant story MAMZ has conveniently adopted recently for public consumption, MAMZ has said that he can and does "always close the door" on immigrant identity "in detached selfishness."

5). Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA was a Ronald Reagan Republican, taking credit for supporting Ronald Reagan, campaigning for George. H.W. Bush, and for Republican Representative Henry Hyde, the House prosecutor in the Clinton impeachment hearings.

6). Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA (MAMZ) is not a "liberal" and he is not a "progressive." In an essay submitted to the Northern Illinois University campus newspaper, the Northern Star, MAMZ strenuously opposed ALL service by gays in the US military, a position more extremely Republican and discriminatory than that taken by many other military members and conservatives. Northern Star

7). Like David Duke and the Klu Klux Klan, Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA promotes "states rights," a codeword for opposition to integration and determined acts and policies of segregation. Is DailyKos a White Supremacist Group?

8). Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA has told the media, without naming her, that his mother "returned to El Salvador several years ago to run a hotel." San Francisco Gate

9). In fact, Mr. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA’s family owns a sumptuous and “exclusive” resort hotel and tourism conglomerate in El Salvador called the "Club Joya del Pacífico" (Club Jewel of the Pacific) a unit of which is the (Jaltepeque Suites Hotel).

10). Demonstrating his connection to these, what MAMZ has called "family business" interests, Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA invited his wife, friends and family to celebrate his honeymoon with him at the this Jaltepeque Suites Hotel after he was married in the year 2000. (For some reason, the original link no longer works. Fortunately, we have two screenshots from his wedding album, including their web addresses, to prove that the album was public before its significance was pointed out. And now it's gone.)

11). Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA ZÚÑIGA's "family business" actually received five million dollars in foreign investments between 1997 and 2000, immediately before the period in which MAMZ states that he sought work at the CIA because he was "underemployed, unemployed." Audiotape of 2006 Speech to the Commonwealth Club.

12). Carlos Alberto Delgado Zúñiga, the “family” member listed in government records as “manager” of the Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA’s hotel is also president of the “Junta Directiva” of the CÁMARA SALVADOREÑA DE TURISMO (CASATUR), the national tourism board of El Salvador, according to El Salvador's "La Prensa" newspaper. He has aggregated power in El Salvador through participation in a series of interlocking tourism-related directorates and has used this power to facilitate the destruction of the Jaltepeque Estuary by his hotel conglomerate, Club Jewel of the Pacific, even though the Jaltepeque Estuary is universally recognized by international groups as an endangered habitat for imperiled marine life. VII. MACROPOLITICAS, CONVENIOS INTERNACIONALES Y LEGISLACIÓN QUE INCIDE EN LAS ÁREAS DE CONSERVACION (VII. Macropolitics, International Conventions and Legislation Regarding Conservation)

. . . [P]resión urbana y la descontrolada dinámica de ocupación de la zona esta generando un fuerte y rápido deterioro provocando una alteración en dicho ecosistema. Urban pressure and the uncontrolled dynamic of occupation of the zone is generating a strong and rapid deterioration, provoking a deterioration of said ecosystem." Guide to Sustainable Development of the Jaltepeque Estuary in the La Paz Region.

See also:

Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA's "Family Business" Pollutes Unique Salvadoran Lagoon and Threatens Wildlife Species.

Why Has Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA (M.A.M.Z.) Lied About His Wealthy Salvadoran Oligarchy Family Background?

13). Carlos Alberto Delgado Zúñiga, the man listed in public documents as the “manager” of the Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA’s Jaltepeque Suites Hotel, is also president of the “Junta Directiva” of the CÁMARA SALVADOREÑA DE TURISMO (CASATUR), the national tourism board of El Salvador. In addition, he is a member of the member of the “Junta Directiva” of the “Sistema de Integración de Centroamerica” (System for Integration of Central America).

14). The man listed as the manager of the Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA’s hotel is also named in Salvadoran Government documents as the “ADMINISTRADOR UNICO PROPIETARIO” (Administrator Sole Proprietor) of PRODUCTOS TURISTICOS Y OTROS, SOCIEDAD ANONIMA DE CAPITAL VARIABLE - PROTURO, S.A. DE C.V. CNR.GOB.SV: Names and Credentials

15).Proturo, S.A. de C.V. is also known as the “Baja Salt Group,” which does business as “Baja Salt.”

16). Baja Salt distributes table salt and industrial salt in the United States, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand, Central and South America, and maintains offices in Odessa, Texas, where President George W. Bush was born. This Odessa, Texas office shares a telephone number, fax number and physical address with a peculiar equipment rental and petroleum industry business, Light Tower Rentals, Ltd, listed along with Halliburton Energy Services Group in the Texas organization records of USA Oilfield. These activities associated with Carlos Alberto Delgado Zúñiga's Baja Salt Group have not been sufficiently explained. See "The Secret "Family Business" of Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga (DailyKos)"

17). Baja Salt is the sole Central American distributor for the salt produced by Mexico’s Exportadora de Sal, S.A. (ESSA).

18). Baja Salt/ESSA is a notorious polluter of pristine grey whale and sea turtle spawning grounds and habitat in Baja Mexico.

19). ESSA is represented in its environmental pollution cases by the same Skadden, Arps powerhouse law firm that represents The Carlyle Group.

20). The internationally powerful Carlos Alberto Delgado ZÚÑIGA , the “family” member listed in government records as “manager” of the Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA’s hotel (see screenshot) was on the organizational member board of El Salvador’s ANEP, the Asociación Nacional de Empresas Privadas (National Association of Private Corporations).

21). ANEP is listed by the US Central Intelligence Agency as a right-wing political pressure group.

22). ANEP is "a lobby of El Salvador’s most influential businessmen" that advocates free markets and “wants to privatize El Salvador’s water delivery” and its hospitals, which has led to large popular demonstrations in El Salvador against ANEP’s pro-corporate policies. CountryData.Com

23). The large national and international corporate members of ANEP were the principal political opponents of Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero at the time when he was assassinated. CIA: Political Pressure Groups Mongabay.com

24). ANEP ran a vigorous media campaign against El Salvador’s populist Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero in the months that led up to his assassination on March 24 1980.

25). The corporate members of ANEP were the principal political opponents of Catholic Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero when he was assassinated. CIA: Political Pressure Groups Mongabay.com

26). While Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA was supporting Ronald Reagan and campaigning for other Republicans, the Reagan Administration provided billions of dollars in military and other aid to the Salvadoran Government and to the right-wing pressure groups believed to be responsible for the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero.

Total United States aid to El Salvador rose from US$264.2 million in fiscal year (FY) 1982 to an estimated US$557.8 million in FY 1987. On average over this period, economic aid exceeded military aid by more than a two-to-one ratio.

Economic aid was provided in the form of Economic Support Funds (ESF), food aid under Public Law 480 (P.L. 480), and development aid administered by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). ESF was intended to provide balance of payments support to finance essential non food imports. Assistance with food imports as well as the direct donation of foodstuffs was accomplished through the P.L. 480 program. Development aid covered a broad spectrum of projects in such fields as agriculture, population planning, health, education, and training.

For FY 1987, regular non supplemental ESF appropriations totaled US$181.7 million, and combined food and development aid amounted to US$122.7 million. The regular FY 1987 appropriation for military aid was US$116.5 million. Mongabay.Com: Country Studies/El Salvador

27). In 1983, another source provided the U.S. embassy with a chilling account of how death-squad operations were planned, financed and executed. According to the source, these right-wing death squads, which were all connected to D'Aubuisson's group,

“get their orders from paymasters in the Sol family ... younger members of the de Sola family and some members of the National Association of Businessmen (ANEP) ... The chain of command then proceeds to death-masters like [deleted] [who] have contacts with retired officers who go around to the different security forces as "black bag" men, paying off and recruiting likely foot-soldiers. The latter are recruited at the lower and even middle levels (captains and majors) of the different security forces. Death squad hit-men thus recruited are on the receiving end of a vertical hierarchy leading up to the paymasters (whom the foot-soldiers do not know...).”Center for International Policy

28). In spite of the leadership role of Carlos Alberto Delgado ZÚÑIGA in ANEP, and ANEP's role in the events leading to the assassination of Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero, Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA has told the public and his supporters -- cynically and as part of a continuing history of misinformation and deception -- that Archbishop Oscar Romero was one of his "heroes."

29). DailyKos practices blog apartheid, banning Black voices and restricting overall minority membership to less than 4% of membership. Is DailyKos a White Supremacist Group?

30). Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA could not be unaware of these facts, and yet, through dozens or hundreds of media interviews, he has persistently hid his knowledge of these facts, and of his family’s role, from his supporters and from the American public.

31). Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA has lied to the public about whom he really is, and he is not the person who he pretends to be, but is an impostor who makes a mockery of progressive people and progressive values.

Still, myriad questions remain and demand to be answered about his activities:

1). Why has Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA NEVER, EVER revealed in public the name of even ONE of his blood relatives?

2). What is the name of the uncle of Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA who was once the Minister of Education in El Salvador (if he in fact exists at all)?

3. Why has Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA not revealed that the “manager” of his “family business” in El Salvador, Carlos Alberto Delgado ZÚÑIGA , was a member of the organization member board of ANEP?

4). Who is Maria Elizabeth ZÚÑIGA de Delgado, the woman listed in Salvadoran Government documents as “Alternate Administrator” of Proturo, S.A. de S.V.?

5). To what degree does Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA stand to benefit financially from the ongoing financial and political activities of Carlos Alberto Delgado ZÚÑIGA, Maria Elizabeth ZÚÑIGA de Delgado, Club Joya del Pacífico, the Jaltepeque Suites Hotel unit, the Baja Salt (Group), PROTURO, ESSA, ANEP, Light Tower Rentals of Odessa, Texas, and any related persons, corporations, groups, economic and political activities?

6). Why has Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA never acknowledged, disavowed and disconnected himself from these activities?

7). Is Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA now receiving and/or has he ever received (e.g. in 2001) payments or other compensation from the US Government, directly or indirectly, for his intelligence work or other activities? (Please refer to and review now the audiotape of MAMZ's comments to at the Commonwealth Club on June 2, 2006, in San Francisco, CA.)

8). Why has Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA lied about so many things to so many people and why did he suddenly begin to present himself as a "progressive" during the period of his at least six-months involvement with the Central Intelligence Agency?

9). Why would any responsible candidate or voter of the Democratic Party accept money or advice from an self-acknowledged two-year CIA applicant/trainee?

10). With so many serious and troubling questions raised about the work and history of Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA and his family, the judgment of justice and history call upon and compel the public, the media and elected officials to reevaluate the truth and history of Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA, carefully comparing his unverified stories and self-serving propaganda to the facts documented above.