Having discovered that Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA (MAMZ) a.k.a. "Kos" of DailyKos) has a long history of activism for the Republican Party and, furthermore, he trained and worked with the US CIA between 2001 and 2003, research has revealed and established the following, and therefore justice and history now bring this thirty-one count Indictment.
"Sure, I could always talk against racism, fight ignorance and prejudice wherever I ran into it, yet I would always be looking in from another room and I could always close the door. My life, in my world, in my own detached selfishness. 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.)Aren't Latinos (and women) targets of bigotry, or is MAMZ not Latino?
In strategizing for the Left, does it matter that 65% of DailyKos participants say that they don't believe in God? Meanwhile, according to a Pew poll,
"A candidate's religion continues to play a key role in shaping vote choice. Nearly four-in-ten (39%) say they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who is Christian. Moreover, 63% say they would be less inclined to support a presidential candidate who does not believe in God – the most negative trait tested."
Moulitsas Zúñiga Letter
Opposing ALL Gay Participation in US Military.
Queerty - Free of an Agenda
Except that Gay One
MAMZ Admits He Was An "Asshole" When He Campaigned Against Gays in the Military
Is Markos Moulitsas a Closeted Gay Homophobe?
WaPost: [YearlyKos] "Bloggers' Convention a Sea of
Middle-Aged White Males"
Moulitsas Zúñiga Confesses to
Two Years at the U.S. CIA
The Indictment of Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA by Justice and History (Updated with Additional Information and Counts)
Blogs citing The Truth About Kos
and the Indictment of Markos Moulitsas by Justice and History
Markos Moulitsas: A Lifetime Insensitive to Democratic Party Constituencies
Links to MAMZ's College Newspaper Articles with Helpful Annotations
Proof MAMZ Was at CIA When He Founded DailyKosWhy Has MAMZ Lied About
His Salvadoran Oligarchy Background?
New online book says Kos family member is president of the Association of Salvadoran Hotels and president of the Salvadoran National Tourism Board. Moulitsas lied when he said his family is not wealthy or influential.
In the fifth article, which was not commissioned, MAMZ declared that, having completed the obligatory four articles, the fifth article would announced his intention to withdraw again into "detached selfishness", grateful that he was not one of "them", "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."
This is MAMZ announcement that he is NOT a Latino, but is a white man, and he underlines this today by insisting that it is improper to address him using his mother's Latino name, "Zúñiga".In looking for the MAMZ's student newspaper articles, remember that the NIU student newspaper, the Northern Star, has changed the Internet addresses of these articles three times [now four times as of 9/2010] in last 30 months, making all old links obsolete and sometimes making all of the articles temporarily unavailable.
DailyKos 97% white, 2% Black,
0% Latino, Says Quantcast.com
Markos Moulitsas, Northern Star, Northern Illinois University "(NIU) student newspaper:
"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.)
Embarrassing college newspaper articles of Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga, including "Military Right" (opposing ALL gay service in the military).
SourceWatch.Org Removes all References to Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zuñiga's (MAMZ) Connection to the CIA from page Covering the Townhouse Group
The Indictment of
Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA
by Justice and History
Screenshots from the Wedding Album that Connects Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA to his right-wing aristocratic, globalization and pollution-loving family in El Salvador Hmmm. Why did MAMZ take down his wedding album from the Web?
"Francis L. Holland, one of the vocal black bloggers, sent e-mails to DNC officials asking that 15 black-operated blogs be added to the State Corps. "There is nothing 'Democratic' about an all-white Democratic National Convention floor blogging corps," he wrote in an e-mail. Holland is also asking for the inclusion of 15 Latino-operated blogs."
"Or, as Obama supporter Francis L. Holland puts it: "So, it shows tremendous courage, foresight and solidarity that Edwards has endorsed Obama after the media declared Hillary's campaign to be as good as dead, right? Oh, well! Better late than never!"
BlackEnterprise.Com quotes Francis L. Holland:"Of the blogs covering the convention, black blogs will be 7.2% of the blogs present,” says Francis L. Holland of the Afrosphere Action Coalition. According to Holland, many states with a strong black Democratic presence and population are either underrepresented or not represented at all, even though black bloggers from these states did apply. “The state of Tennessee, which often has over 25% blacks among its Democratic primary voters, will not have a single black blogger at the Democratic National Convention, for example. The District of Columbia, which is 60% black, will be left out. Louisiana, which is 32.4% black, will be left out. Illinois, the presidential nominee’s home state, which is 15% black, will be left out.”
Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism cites Francis L. Holland:
In 2008, the Democratic "party came under fire from African American bloggers. Francis L. Holland of the Afrosphere Action Coalition, complained to Black Enterprise magazine that black blogs only made up slightly more than 7% of the bloggers credentialed for the convention."
Francis L. Holland Blog in the
Washington Post:
"We are tired of Hillary Clinton telling America that we are less than American simply because we refuse to vote for her," said Francis L. Holland, an African American blogger." Ironically, the Clintons embraced us, and even embraced Pastor Jeremiah Wright for support during their impeachment scandal." Holland was speaking of the congressional trial that followed former president Bill Clinton's liaison with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. "She has forfeited the black vote for the foreseeable future with her color aroused appeals."
Francis L. Holland Blog in Dallas Morning News:
“November’s voter turnout depends on August’s blogger outreach,” said Mr. Holland of the Afrosphere Action Coalition., a member of a national and international black bloggers’ coalition called “The AfroSpear.” “Blogs address constituencies, and it simply is not possible for blogs that are all-white to effectively reach diverse Democratic constituencies.”
Francis L. Holland Blog in Black Enterprise Magazine:
"Of the blogs covering the convention, black blogs will be 7.2% of the blogs present," says Francis L. Holland of the Afrosphere Action Coalition. According to Holland, many states with a strong black Democratic presence and population are either underrepresented or not represented at all, even though black bloggers from these states did apply. “The state of Tennessee, which often has over 25% blacks among its Democratic primary voters, will not have a single black blogger at the Democratic National Convention, for example. The District of Columbia, which is 60% black, will be left out. Louisiana, which is 32.4% black, will be left out. Illinois, the presidential nominee's home state, which is 15% black, will be left out."
Pacifica Radio's Election Unspun June 23: Black Bloggers and Black Power, interviews Francis L. Holland:
"Francis Holland is a blogger from Afrospear, a national group of bloggers that advocates for African-Americans. When he looked at the list of State Bloggers, he saw no black blogs among them. Holland explains that the process the Democratic Convention planners used to choose the State Blogger Corps was bound to lead to this result. And he argues that the Democratic Party can scarcely afford to alienate black voters in this election year." (The original link no longer works, which is becoming a growing documentation problem on the Internet.)
"Electing Edwards to challenge the status quo is like supporting a queen to challenge the monarchy or integrating an all-white club by adding more all-white club members. It is possible that electing yet another white man to the Presidency will end the poverty of the historically disenfranchised, with John Edwards serving as a "pass through" for those who have historically been disincluded legally and by custom. But this is a very convoluted way of achieving what could be achieved much more directly by electing Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. ..."
Huffington Post published Francis L. Holland's articles.
Columbia Journalism Review quotes Francis L. Holland Blog.
Disclaimer: Although I am a trained attorney, I am retired and am not an active member of any state Bar. Therefore, I advocate in all matters on my own behalf and not as the legal representative of any person, group or organization.
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Thanks. I had also posted that at Daily Kos and of course the issue became me as a zombie over the merits of the content. That entry had a poll for how much the military-industrial complex budget should be slashed. True progressives and lefty peaceniks would say 80-100% or at least close.
Al Giordano of NarcoNews would probably say otherwise. He is funded by people with ties to military and even an ex-CIA chief named James Woolsey. He showed up again at DFQ2 to take a rip at you, me, and Stu. But I slung it right back at him. He called us the ones more likely to be CIA cointelpro. Even a dumbass like me knows that cointelpro was the FBI. Maybe he should sit down with Woolsey or the "Sal Alinsky of our time" to learn such basics. Such people can't deal with the truth, so they blurt out ad hominems and evoke authority and call us trolls. That to me is a sign of desperation. If we were so off-base, we'd be ignored.
I haven't read that whole flow chart, but I'm sure some of those who hound us are simultaneously looking at a government-prepared flow chart, guiding them through the steps of ignoring issues and ridiculing proven facts.
Calling someone a troll is like calling a woman the "c" word. It's an atomic attack attempt to shut the person up and invalidate them as a person with one word. It's the online equivalent of the "N" word.
"Troll" is a shorthand way of saying, "you are the devil, and I am a man of God". How do you argue with things like that, except by ignoring the name-calling and continuing on with facts.
When they call you a troll, they are trying to discourage you, but their audience is the reader. They are telling the readers that you are discredited and so readers should pay no attention to anything you say.
Meanwhile, readers know that if they engage in intelligent conversation with you, then they, too, will be considered "trolls".
It's a social system worthy of junior high school and high school, but it's probably part of the psy-ops that people like MAMZ learn during their two-year training at the CIA.
If I were to interview MAMZ, I would ask him what aspects of his CIA training have been most useful in his blogging experience.
One thing I respect about Daily Kos in contrast to Democratic Underground is that they don't wholesale delete our content. Though perhaps that is unnecessary as they have the plausible deniability provided through "community moderating." The beauty of DaveFromQueens was that he showed that such vigilante community moderating has in fact been a front. Those UGOGs actually had access to top DKos administrators.
The automatic ban is also a myth. DKos admins are the only ones who can ban someone. But they like the myth of it appearing that it is the "democratic consensus" of their blogging community who are doing the censorship.
Wikipedia has a similar model. It leads to discourse and the free exchange of ideas being perverted by insidious folks lurking in the shadows manipulating domain structures.
I started out in 2005 at HuffingtonPost. That's when it first dawned on me that internet democracy was a myth, and that a coordinated network of fakes were all over the joint.
There are so many different disinfo astroturfers on the net. Every branch of military has their own intelligence division. I have even been able to uncover fake posters who have ties to NASA. There are even companies who have been found to admit to doing such work. There is Netvocates, the Rendon Group, Advantage Consultants, the Bivings Group, and probably others that haven't yet seeped into our collective awareness.
It's tough for "them" to keep spinning us as paranoid kooks. The only way they seem to be successful at it, is like you say, anyone who agrees with the content provided is branded as a sock puppet or just another kook.
I agree with you that it is the silent reader's opinion which means more than our own or those of the fakes. I believe the ad hominem attacks eventually backfire. It is a great American value to give people their due process. When we are called trolls, without any credible justification, that forces the reader to hit the search engines and do fundamental research and fact checking.
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They will find out that in 2006, very recently, Moulitsas said the CIA is a liberal institution he'd have no trouble working for. They could go back in time and see that Kos did send that infamous Townhouse Memo about starving the oxygen out of the Jerome Armstrong scandal. True lefty peaceniks will take it a step further and try to figure out Kos' El Salvadoran history. They will find out there isn't much on it. But they will see that unlike his claims to be a poor immigrant who parlayed $100 into the biggest political blog in the world, that he has pinned the historic troubles in that country on the rebels. That will never add up. He is hoping people are ignorant of history. Curious readers will find no mention of right wing death squads. They will see that Markos comes from big money based on that wedding album he deleted but is for now still available through archive.org.
I'm not sure if you aware of something. Your banishment from MyRightWing coincided with another controversy. There was a well-known Kos blogger who was also a front pager for Maryscott O'Connor, now known as Thereisnorape. Maryscott deleted hundreds of posts that made that person look bad. She banned you but not him. MLW used to have a lot of potential. Those decisions and others led to MLW becoming a skeleton of what it once was.
You had a simple yet profound point back then that really stood out to me. You asked why would people who have been treated so unfairly by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, to paraphrase, run interference for him? Personally, I don't believe that all those people are paid fakes. I think a lot of them are a form of that, but I also think there are people who ended up falling for the Stockholm Syndrome and the psychological operations put forth by paid disinfo.
Nonetheless, I wouldn't be surprised if at some point it emerged that the person behind the username Karmafish turned out to be a paid fake. There's no logical explanation for why any lefty would have ever stuck up for Republican Lites like Zuniga. They wouldn't have ignored the content. It is nice that your work there is still readable. People should check out what happened with your MLW experience. Real trolls would be worried about letting the reader decide. It is people like Kos, Karmafish, and Giordano who are the real trolls. Giordano is funded by Peter Ackerman. Such funding can be easily tied to the CIA. And Giordano wants us to believe he is at the forefront of exposing them! He calls Kos the Sal Alinsky of our time. Wow. It's sad that so many "progressive" bloggers can be tied to intelligence (an oxymoron descriptor), the military-industrial complex, and many others on the wrong side of history.
I've stopped editing MAMZ's wikipedia page, because they keep editing out the fact that the confessed to training with the CIA for two years while starting DailyKos.
When they edit that out, it becomes apparent that MAMZ's wikipedia page is just a free advertisement for MAMZ, with little or no critical information whatsoever.
MAMZ obviously has a lot of minions in his employ (literally or figuratively) to go around fixing stuff like this for him.
When people see that there are 1.8 million hits for "Kos" + "CIA" at Google, but no information about that in the wikipedia page, I hope people will see that Wikipedia is unreliable. The baton of "truth" goes to whomever has the time to go to the page and edit it the most often.
I'm ignoring all whitosphere blogs now. Most people who visit my blogs come from Google or from other afrosphere blogs.
My goal is to create "sticky" information that is multiplied exponentially when people cite what I've written and then are cited by others in an ever-widening circle. That's why what you say is as important as how you say it.
Socrates, you said,
"True lefty peaceniks will take it a step further and try to figure out Kos' El Salvadoran history. They will find out there isn't much on it."
I used to know a lot of true lefty peaceniks in the United States, and I haven't heard very many people at any of the whiteosphere blogs who sounded like the white leftists. Just for one example: I have never, ever met a single lefty peacenik of any color who would defend MAMZ's CIA history. And yet, DailyKos is FULL of people who will deny that MAMZ's time at the CIA, simultaneous with starting DailyKos, is relevant.
I've never seen a single one of these whitosphere blogs organize a demonstration as successful as the Jena March.
And why are the whitosphere blog participants so concerned with maintaining their anonymity. That would have been impossible during the sit-in, protest days of anti-intervention work. And yet, the whitosphere loves the fact that you really never know with whom you're talking over there.
Here's another fact. At USA mainstream newspapers, you never see the headline, "Journalist Discovers that John Doe Is CIA." USA media simply DO NOT PRINT what they know about CIA identities. It's based on at least a tacit agreement between the Government and the mainstream media. So, even the two million hits on MAMZ at google about his CIA activities will not compel a newspaper to do a story that seeks to resolve the obvious questions about MAMZ. It's great big story for an investigative journalist, but the mainstream media won't touch it. Why?
The only information I have about MAMZ's family is what I can find, which turns out to be VERY extensive and literally frightening if you think about traveling to El Salvador and following up on it: Carlos Alberto Delgado Zúñiga, who shares one middle name and a last name with MAMZ and also works as "manager" at MAMZ's "family hotel" conglomerate.
Francis, I love reading your stuff. Thanks for what you have provided over the years. I'm looking forward to reading your new entry after responding to your posts here.
Wikipedia is ovbiously one of those "in theory" good ideas. It's a cheater's paradise. One of my main interests has been trying to figure out whether all contrails are natural, or if some are deliberate. Getting into the basic science of that, one needs to understand the difference between troposphere and stratosphere. One entry there had it completely wrong. Things like that make me wonder.
The buggers who get exposed on various things always seem to be ready to edit wikipedia. I can see how you've become disillusioned in the idea of continuing to edit in corrections.
I responded to your post at DFQ2 about the question of whether it has been proven through Kos' words that he is CIA trained. link
I agree with you that the blogosphere has turned into a dive. I haven't had any hope for it turning around since about a year ago. I think a certain amount of repetition is good. Disinfo fockers want big ideas to fall into memory holes or be drowned out by noise. They want the few like yourself to feel that no one agrees with your fundamental findings. One of my professors got through to me that repetition of basics is necessary. A bedrock of knowledge needs to be secured, before it can be taken to higher levels of cognition.
One of your google links gives returns pertaining to police abuse. Great minds think alike. I made a recent entry on it and have followed it a bit the last couple years. I also get how oppressed bloggers like us can play at their own game. I see through my own blogging how I have been able to end up more often in google search results. The Davids can fight back and win against Goliaths.
There is a general consensus that has formed outside the "whitosphere" blogs that the progressive label has been co-opted. Maybe what we are trying to do is akin to guerrilla blogging. Of course, none of us are in war torn areas and going hungry with bloodshed all around us. I don't want to ever sound leftier as thou as Giordano says we are.
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The "whitosphere" is rigged. It is outrageous that I can't even confront certain bloggers with facts. There's this one dude Brad Friedman who I have tried to confront. He has insider connections, and nearly every time I try to post some facts, they get deleted. I don't post porn. I don't libel. I don't make stuff up. I have been forced to take screenshots to show that I have been unfairly censored. I'm not afraid to let the reader decide. And like yourself, I have become more attuned to various methods in getting the word out.
Another bad result of "whitosphere" censorship is that us good whiteys aren't being represented either. You are a good jake who is aware of this. I don't take your whitosphere phrase personally, especially now after you sent me those materials proving race is a lie, and what we are looking at is a world acting ignorant on the basis of skin pigment.
The Daily Kos is rigged. Dave Weintraub proved it. Now it's not just a feeling that many have. It's fact. The Daily Kos is full of conservative ideology. It is triangulation in the extreme.
The Daily Kos is comprised of mostly political operatives and various other forms of astroturf. This can also be found at all the other Moulitsas affiliated blogs. It is found at every so-called progressive big blog.
I respect your ideas about anonymity. Some of us are just scared that if we publicise who we are in real life, it could put us in danger of violence. I told you my real name in an email. I've offered to share with Al Giordano my real life info. My excuse is that I am truly a nobody. There is not one iota on the internet that deals with my real name. Plus, you must realise that anyone could provide a name, and there would be no way of knowing whether it is a true one. In general, I agree with you. Even if it looks like I am a hypocrite for not posting with my own.
I'm surprised that not even an alternative newspaper has covered your story. One would think a Boston Phoenix, for example, would cover it.
I wish I had the money to bankroll your story. You have done a great service in exposing Moulitsas' ties to the El Salvadoran oligarchy. If Kos was a legit dude, he'd be saying that he used to be on the wrong side of history. He'd be explaining how he went from being aligned with the wealthy to being appalled about the death squads. He'd explain how he became aware and evolved as a human being.
He should have just kept his mouth shut the whole time. He shouldn't have astroturfed himself as a poor immigrant. He shouldn't have spoken about bloodshed at the hands of guerrillas, if he was going to ignore the true El Salvadoran history. He shouldn't have said anything about his man crush on the CIA. The Commonwealth Club interview was conducted a mere couple years ago. He doesn't have that wiggle room for passing off his historic homophobia and ties to far right politicians. He can't say that was a result of him being young and naive.
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