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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 <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/indictment-of-markos-ca-moulitsas-ziga.html">thirty-one count Indictment.</a></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger219125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566268769860937739.post-19741775891367697052014-08-22T04:34:00.001-07:002014-08-22T04:37:55.213-07:00DailyKos Uses Ferguson, MO to Request Contributions to DK, Ignoring Family's Memorial Fund<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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DailyKos editor Chris Bowers has originated DaikyKos' own petition about Ferguson, MO, urging readers to contact Attorney General Eric Holder, but also requesting donations to "keep DailyKos strong". DailyKos rejected linking directly to an earlier and <b><a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/mike_brown/?source=coc_website">substantially similar petition by Color of Change</a>. </b><br />
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Although the DailyKos e-mail requests donations to DailyKos, it does not mention the <a href="http://www.gofundme.com/justiceformikebrown">Michael Brown Memorial Fund</a> at Go Fund Me, created to receive donations for the benefit and education of Michael Brown's siblings.<br />
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This appears to me to be rank opportunism on the part of DailyKos. A 97% white readership blog seeks to raise money for its own coffers, hijacking efforts started and daily maintained by humble Black protesters, Black elected officials and community leaders, online Black Tweeters and advocacy groups.<br />
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Although it might otherwise be commendable for DailyKos to take a position in this case, it could have better helped to promote the much discussed "conversation" on skin color by linking to and directing contributions through the Black organization Color of Change, instead of linking to the white organization ActBlue while requesting donations for the virtually all-white DailyKos. <br />
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It is my contention that making any contribution to DailyKos only supports and encourages the blog apartheid that DailyKos has practiced since its inception.<br />
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Although the argument has been raised that DailyKos cannot be a white supremacist anti-Black antagonist blog because its owner is Latino, Markos Moulitsas has specifically disavowed being any kind of minority in the past. <b><a href="http://goo.gl/FxDzbd">http://goo.gl/FxDzbd </a> </b>In the<b><a href="http://northernstar.info/city/article_ec7b972a-1ad5-5943-b74f-7935f1639f9b.html"> fifth article</a></b> of a series of four commissioned articles for his college newspaper, Markos C. A. Moulitsas, <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.899999618530273px;">announced his intention to withdraw again after the assignment into </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.899999618530273px;"><a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/moulitsas-homophobic-stand-against-gays.html" style="color: red;">"detached selfishness"</a></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.899999618530273px;">, grateful that he was not one of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.899999618530273px;"><em style="font-weight: bold;">"them" </em>(the minorities),</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.899999618530273px;"> </b><br />
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The following is the college essay, <b><a href="http://northernstar.info/opinion/article_9b85db10-67fd-5a8d-b112-ba6bec340c9f.html">"Religion-It's Just Not for Me"</a></b>, that Markos C. A. Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) published in his college newspaper, the Nothern Star, at Northern Illinois University, on <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">Monday, October 4, 1993<span style="color: #666666;">, </span></span>in which he denounces religion, believers in religion, God and the Bible. <br />
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This article is important because it shows that if MAMZ were allowed to select candidates for the Democratic Party, he would select atheists, whom polls show are the least regarded group in America, reviled even more than communists and felons. MAMZ has a right to his atheism, but it would be disastrous to allow him to impose it upon the Democratic Party, as the following essay by him clearly shows:</div>
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<b>It seems like one doesn't have to look very far or wait too long here at NIU before he or she runs into a white Christian knight, self-righteously waving his or her bloodied sword of morality at us sinners.<br />Be it in the op-ed pages of the Star, the Letters to the Editor section of the paper or just a stroll through the MLK Commons, it seems there is no happier creature than religion's many mindless sheep, Bible in hand, decrying sin with blood-lust in their eyes...<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></b></blockquote>
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<b>I really don't care if someone wants to waste their life away, content to live life wearing blinders and extracting guidance from a book which is mediocre fiction at best. That's his or her problem. I just don't want anything to do with it.<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></b></blockquote>
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<b>Although it should amaze me how many people allow their lives to be molded by a book, it really doesn't. The Bible, in its inherent vagueness, happens to support just about any course of action one may be compelled to perform. Why do you think it's been used to justify almost every act of cruelty mankind has performed? (The Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition just happen to pop into mind).<br />You happened to have participated in gang rape and feel guilty? Don't worry about it. Genesis 19:8 says it's okay. Lot, revered for his holiness, says to a mob outside his house, looking for two men he has sheltered, "I have two daughters who have never had intercourse with men. Let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you please, but don't do anything to these men, for you know they have come under the shelter of my roof."<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></b></blockquote>
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<b>How about justification for the mass murdering of children? See II Kings 2:23. In that little snippet, the Lord's priest Elisha was on his way to Bethel. On the way, some small boys came up to him and taunted him about his bald head. This I have to quote: "The prophet turned and saw them, and he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the children to pieces." Good thing the guy in the Hair Club for Men commercials isn't a priest. (You know the one, he's not only the president of the company, but a customer, too.)<br />It shouldn't be too difficult to see why I can't place any seriousness in the book, but don't just take my word on the above two examples. Look them up.<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></b></blockquote>
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<b>Inconsistencies in the Bible are so numerous I can't even begin to list them. For example, why is it that in the Old Testament, God is this uncompromising and spiteful God, turning whole villages to sand and such, while when you turn the page to the New Testament, he turns into this swell guy you'd want to invite home for dinner with Mom and Dad?<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></b></blockquote>
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<b>Well, I suppose the older God gets, the more mellowed out and less demonstrative he tends to become. I can understand that. My grandfather is the same way.<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></b></blockquote>
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<b>I can see how religion is utilized by many lacking guidance or purpose. I encounter those problems myself. Still, I have looked at religion and any kind of answers are conspicuously absent from it (and I'm not just talking Christianity, but all the major religions of the world). You may not agree with me on that point, but just think about the many times you've heard a question on a difficult religious matter answered, "Just have faith. It's all too big for us to understand."<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></b></blockquote>
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<b>Sorry, but faith doesn't solve anything. I seek concrete answers to my very concrete problems and if religion can't answer them because of its inevitable limitations, then I don't need its excess baggage in my quest for purpose.<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></b></blockquote>
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<b>Religion, being created by mankind, can't help but be imperfect. I don't pretend to have all the answers or even understand the problems, but the mistakes I make will be my own, and when all is over and done I will be sure in the fact that I created my own destiny, and didn't just play-act a part read out of a book.</b></blockquote>
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OK. Markos Carlos Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) admits that he held "stupid ass" beliefs when he was a Republican. Now, he need only admit that he "evolved" those beliefs during what he said was approximately two years of training at the CIA, during which he started DailyKos.</div>
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Saying the above MAMZ article was an example of a <b><a href="http://northernstar.info/opinion/article_0643b3cc-9a99-54c1-837c-2e543616396d.html">"Bad Attitude"</a></b> on his part, Cheryl Anndel, also then a student at NIU, said:</div>
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<b>Second, if a military unit is inefficient and morale is down, that is the entire unit's fault and not just one soldier's fault. As military personnel, we are trained to accomplish a mission. If you cannot accomplish that mission because you're worried about who's watching you while you change your underwear, it sounds like you don't have the right mental attitude.<br />
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Unfortunately, the NIU reorganization of its archives disconnected original articles from the comments about them. So, you wouldn't know that there was a vehement counter-argument to MAMZ article above unless you diligently searched the archives for all articles mentioning e.g. "Moulitsas".<br />
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In another MAMZ NIU college article, entitled <b><a href="http://northernstar.info/opinion/article_9b85db10-67fd-5a8d-b112-ba6bec340c9f.html">"Religion-It's Just Not for Me"</a></b>, MAMZ proclaims early on that the Bible is "mediocre fiction at best" and says, "Sorry, religion doesn't solve anything...I don't need its excess baggage..." The entire article is as follows, in case NII once again reformats its archives and effectively hides this article from the public:<br />
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<b>It seems like one doesn't have to look very far or wait too long here at NIU before he or she runs into a white Christian knight, self-righteously waving his or her bloodied sword of morality at us sinners. </b></blockquote>
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<b>Be it in the op-ed pages of the Star, the Letters to the Editor section of the paper or just a stroll through the MLK Commons, it seems there is no happier creature than religion's many mindless sheep, Bible in hand, decrying sin with blood-lust in their eyes... </b></blockquote>
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<b>I really don't care if someone wants to waste their life away, content to live life wearing blinders and extracting guidance from a book which is mediocre fiction at best. That's his or her problem. I just don't want anything to do with it. </b></blockquote>
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<b>Although it should amaze me how many people allow their lives to be molded by a book, it really doesn't. The Bible, in its inherent vagueness, happens to support just about any course of action one may be compelled to perform. Why do you think it's been used to justify almost every act of cruelty mankind has performed? (The Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition just happen to pop into mind). </b></blockquote>
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<b>You happened to have participated in gang rape and feel guilty? Don't worry about it. Genesis 19:8 says it's okay. Lot, revered for his holiness, says to a mob outside his house, looking for two men he has sheltered, "I have two daughters who have never had intercourse with men. Let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you please, but don't do anything to these men, for you know they have come under the shelter of my roof." </b></blockquote>
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<b>How about justification for the mass murdering of children? See II Kings 2:23. In that little snippet, the Lord's priest Elisha was on his way to Bethel. On the way, some small boys came up to him and taunted him about his bald head. This I have to quote: "The prophet turned and saw them, and he cursed them in the name of the Lord. Then two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the children to pieces." Good thing the guy in the Hair Club for Men commercials isn't a priest. (You know the one, he's not only the president of the company, but a customer, too.) </b></blockquote>
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<b>It shouldn't be too difficult to see why I can't place any seriousness in the book, but don't just take my word on the above two examples. Look them up. </b></blockquote>
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<b>Inconsistencies in the Bible are so numerous I can't even begin to list them. For example, why is it that in the Old Testament, God is this uncompromising and spiteful God, turning whole villages to sand and such, while when you turn the page to the New Testament, he turns into this swell guy you'd want to invite home for dinner with Mom and Dad? </b></blockquote>
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<b>Well, I suppose the older God gets, the more mellowed out and less demonstrative he tends to become. I can understand that. My grandfather is the same way. </b></blockquote>
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<b>I can see how religion is utilized by many lacking guidance or purpose. I encounter those problems myself. Still, I have looked at religion and any kind of answers are conspicuously absent from it (and I'm not just talking Christianity, but all the major religions of the world). You may not agree with me on that point, but just think about the many times you've heard a question on a difficult religious matter answered, "Just have faith. It's all too big for us to understand." </b></blockquote>
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<b>Sorry, but faith doesn't solve anything. I seek concrete answers to my very concrete problems and if religion can't answer them because of its inevitable limitations, then I don't need its excess baggage in my quest for purpose. </b></blockquote>
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<b>Religion, being created by mankind, can't help but be imperfect. I don't pretend to have all the answers or even understand the problems, but the mistakes I make will be my own, and when all is over and done I will be sure in the fact that I created my own destiny, and didn't just play-act a part read out of a book.</b></blockquote>
MAMZ did not believe in the Bible or God, as is his right. However, polls show that the least respected group of Americans is atheists, beneath even communists and felons. So, anyone who hopes to make strides in American politics and who accepts guidance from MAMZ about their messaging concerning religion is unlikely to get far. <br />
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Likewise, MAMZ opinions about who should be candidates is colored by his view that religion is nonsense. If MAMZ were allowed to select candidates for the Democratic Party, he would select atheists like himself, and then the Party would find it impossible to win elections. The anger at DailyKos against politicians who express religious belief (like both Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton) show how outside-the-mainstream MAMZ and DailyKos are on this issue.<br />
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Once again, there was a vigorous contemporaneous response to MAMZ's declaration of atheism in the NIU student newspaper that was disconnected from the original article when the NIU archives were reorgaized: <b><a href="http://northernstar.info/opinion/article_b6a3108e-c894-538c-9a07-da168e0571ce.html">"Column Retort".</a></b><br />
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MAMZ's approximately <b><a href="http://northernstar.info/search/?t=article&s=start_time&sd=desc&q=moulitsas&app%5B0%5D=editorial&o=30&l=10">37 college newspaper articles</a></b> and the responses to them provide an important window into his thinking, self-image and aspirations. They show that he was an extremely homophobic young man and a virulent atheist, and he meanwhile considered color-aroused antagonism on campus to be <b><a href="http://northernstar.info/city/article_ec7b972a-1ad5-5943-b74f-7935f1639f9b.html">unworthy of his attention</a></b> as a writer for the school newspaper, demeaning the experiences of color-aroused antagonism that were recounted to him by students after he finished a four-part series on color-aroused antagonism on campus, to which he was involuntarily assigned, which is quoted here in part but <b><a href="http://northernstar.info/city/article_ec7b972a-1ad5-5943-b74f-7935f1639f9b.html">worth reading in full</a></b>, because it shows that MAMZ conceives of himself as a privileged white man and not a Latino:<br />
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<b>I was terribly happy to escape the ugliness of a racist world for the safety of my every day-to-day life. 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.</b></blockquote>
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<b>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.</b></blockquote>
It is no wonder, then, that you are more likely to find Blacks and Latinos participating in the Republican Party than you are to find them participating at DailyKos.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566268769860937739.post-82575323004572924792012-06-10T06:48:00.005-07:002012-06-10T10:39:27.246-07:00Netroots Nation 2012 and the Infiltration of the Liberal BlogosphereAs Netroots Nation finishes it's <b><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/van-jones-liberals-feel-crushed-by-obama/2012/06/09/gJQARB40QV_blog.html?tid=pm_politics_pop">annual meeting, in Providence, Rhode Island</a></b>, I continue to be troubled by the fact that the founder of this meeting, Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ), is quietly from the Salvadoran oligarchy and has acknowledged ties to the US Central Intelligence Agency. <br />
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(Click on MAMZ's photo in the sidebar to the immediate right of this article. See right entire right side bar for links to statements by MAMZ himself about his CIA involvement, and to original US and Salvadoran Government documents, private industry statements and MAMZ family statements that make his true identity and family background undeniable.)<br />
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It seems obvious to me that a meeting organized by the CIA for American liberals and leftists cannot deliver whatever it is these activists hope to obtain by attending the meeting. Instead, it will deliver what CIA-trained MAMZ hoped to deliver when he started DailyKos while training to be a secret-agent at the CIA.<br />
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In response to the outing of MAMZ as a CIA-trainee, he has successfully downplayed his involvement in the Netroots Nation conference, convincing its attendees that the conference can be reputable even if its founder is a CIA tool. I have posted here and disseminated all of the information that an intelligent person would need to have in order to evaluate Netroots Nation. <br />
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Now, I reluctantly but confidently await the fresh historical vindication that will come when the US Government eventually acknowledges the extent to which it infiltrated and oriented the liberal blogosphere, using big box blogs like DailyKos and subsequently inventing the DailyKos YearlyKos convention.<br />
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To those who have attended Netroots Nation 2012, I can only remind you that you are helping to write the infiltrated history of the American Left's manipulation by US Government undercover agents and forces. Unlike the true radicals of the civil rights movement, the 1960's and early 70's, it will never be necessary to shoot you down because you are so easily and passively led astray.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566268769860937739.post-56237393213855613042012-01-13T16:09:00.000-08:002012-01-13T16:09:04.250-08:00<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" height="374" id="ep" width="416"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="movie" value="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed_edition&videoId=bestoftv/2011/12/22/erin-intv-paul-callan-john-edwards-illness.cnn" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><embed src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed_edition&videoId=bestoftv/2011/12/22/erin-intv-paul-callan-john-edwards-illness.cnn" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="416" wmode="transparent" height="374"></embed></object><br />
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During my days at DailyKos, I opposed John Edwards candidacy because there were two better candidates (one of whom was elected President), but also because Edwards DailyKos-supported candidacy would have perpetuated what was then a 43-term white male monopoly of the Democratic Party nomination and of the US Presidency.<br />
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This didn't go over well at the 96% white DailyKos. (See Quantcast DailyKos demographic data in right sidebar.) I attacked Edwards from every conceivable (to me) angle and many other DailyKos participants resented that. How could I insist, day after day, that the next US President ought not necessarily be a white man, when everyone knew that ALL US presidents had been white men?<br />
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As we all know now, the Democrats would certainly have lost the election in 2008 had John Edwards been nominated, as a plurality at DailyKos preferred. John Edwards, it turned out, was a selfish, shameless philanderer, while his wife was an knowingly enabling, manipulative and exceedingly ambitious woman, who hid all she knew about John's clear unfitness for the nomination.<br />
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Today, <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/13/us/john-edwards-heart-condition/index.html"><b>CNN reports</b></a> that:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><b>Edwards is charged with six felony and misdemeanor counts related to donations to and payments from his failed 2008 presidential campaign. He is accused of conspiracy, issuing false statements and violating campaign contribution laws. He denies any wrongdoing.</b><br />
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<b>Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, died of cancer in December 2010. The couple had separated that year, shortly after Edwards admitted that he had fathered a daughter with Rielle Hunter, who was hired to make documentary videos for his campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.</b></blockquote>Had either or both of John and Elizabeth Edwards succeeded in their nomination ambitions, they would have destroyed the Democratic Party's hopes for regaining the presidency, because lying John Edwards' General Election campaign would have been embarrassingly over before it could begin in earnest. So, I now hold John Edwards in very low esteem.<br />
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When John Edwards is in Federal prison, mumbling to Elizabeth Edwards, who <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/03/22/314758/-Elizabeths-cancer-has-returned,-but-Johns-campaign-goes-on"><b>earned her place in Hell,</b></a> then both of them will have gotten their due for the harm they knowingly and intentionally tried to do to the Democratic Party, simply for their own personal gain. It is no longer possible to assert that Edwards wanted to help the poor or anyone else through his candidacy, because the only way he could have helped would have been to get out of the race, given what would soon become known about him. <br />
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I am proud to be able to write this at at Truth About Kos blog, which provides the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/05/AR2007080501580.html"><b>truth about the DailyKos community</b></a>, <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/09/why-is-mamzs-homophobic-1993-essays.html"><b>it's owner</b></a>, and its <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/indictment-of-markos-ca-moulitsas-ziga.html"><b>(right-wing, CIA-driven?)</b></a> politics.<span style="font-size: large;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566268769860937739.post-38426165874900597572012-01-13T14:04:00.000-08:002012-01-13T15:07:24.951-08:00"Banned at Kos" is Ongoing Topic at Tikun Olam Arab-Israeli Topic BlogTwo recent visitors to the Tikun Olam blog have added information to a <a href="http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2006/07/29/tikun-olam-banned-at-daily-kos/?cerror=incorrect-captcha-sol#respond"><b>thread started in 2006</b></a> about banning at DailyKos. In summary, many DailyKos participants eventually realized that any defense of the Palestinians or criticism of the Israelis would lead to the writer being banned from participation at DailyKos.<br />
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<a href="http://alethonews.wordpress.com/"><b>Atheo</b></a>, for example, found out very quickly this month that there are some subjects you simply are not allowed to address at DailyKos. Atheo discussed his experience <a href="http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2006/07/29/tikun-olam-banned-at-daily-kos/?cerror=incorrect-captcha-sol#respond"><b>at Tikun Olam</b></a>.<br />
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It's ironic that the mainstream media constantly address the issue of Palestinians and Israelis, but a supposedly "liberal," "leftist" blog bans the topic entirely. DailyKos does not seem to hold the sentiment behind the First Amendment -- freedom of speech -- in very high esteem.<br />
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For example, DailyKos bans all discussion of how and why and by whom the Twin Towers were destroyed on 9-11. Meanwhile, YouTube is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=9-11&oq=9-11&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=4890l6466l0l16077l4l4l0l0l0l0l666l1749l2-1.1.1.1l4l0"><b>full of videos (2.5 Million)</b></a> typically doubting the official story of 9-11. and <b><a href="http://www.google.com.br/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=9-11%20conspiracy&source=web&cd=14&sqi=2&ved=0CJIBEBYwDQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C1531304%2C00.html&ei=qJ0QT4GKDuHd0QGmuvyvAw&usg=AFQjCNEtJD9j1uT2XtI3sSik-sDCGQi54g&sig2=u0pAjRVj8six2u7CieKCtg&cad=rja">Time</a></b> and <b><a href="http://www.google.com.br/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=9-11%20conspiracy&source=web&cd=15&sqi=2&ved=0CJsBEBYwDg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fstories%2F2011%2F09%2F11%2Fnational%2Fmain20104377.shtml&ei=qJ0QT4GKDuHd0QGmuvyvAw&usg=AFQjCNFdf5AFxTlKaPhOV49HyjsEF0Q6vg&sig2=mDjG2F8dpyiOcaa-3-yIpQ&cad=rja">CBS</a></b> have discussed the theory that 9-11 did not occur as reported, but was perhaps an inside job. So, you have the mainstream media and <b><a href="http://www.google.com.br/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=pt-BR&biw=1024&bih=589&source=hp&q=9-11%20conspiracy&pbx=1&oq=&aq=&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=98f41058edd2ee5&pf=p&pdl=500">Google</a></b> sharing information about an issue whose mere mention will get you banned at DailyKos. Why does DailyKos believe it is crucial to prevent this discussion, even as Google/YouTube, a much larger media corporation, is a veritable treasure trove of information about 9-11. Google permits it, but DailyKos blocks it.<br />
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It seems to me that the roles of the big box blog and the mainstream media have been reversed and many issues that can be covered in the mainstream media are now (and have been virtually since the beginning) BANNED at DailyKos. And that is the wall against which Atheo bumped his nose in his first attempt to address what was important to him at DailyKos.<br />
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I don't visit DailyKos anymore, except to see them go berserk when they realize that the guy they banned from their little backwater published opinion pieces at, for example, <b><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/francis-l-holland">Huffington Post,</a></b> and is quoted in the <b><a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/05/colorofchange-leader-accuses-c.html">Washington Post</a></b> and at <b><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/todays_blogs/2008/05/edwards_for_obama.html">Slate</a></b>. <br />
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When I initially began contacting the mainstream media about my experience of being banned at DailyKos for expressing the views of a Black man, big wigs at DailyKos mocked and derided me. In think they underestimated me, as you can see when you read the article, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/05/AR2007080501580.html"><b>"Bloggers' Convention a Sea of </b></a><b><b><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/05/AR2007080501580.html">Middle-Aged White Males,"</a></b></b> for which I spoke with the Washington Post writer beforehand. I found bigger and better places and ways to publish my opinions after I was banned from DailyKos. <br />
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With <b><a href="http://www.google.com.br/#pq=%22francis+l.+holland%22+slate&hl=pt-BR&cp=13&gs_id=28&xhr=t&q=moulitsas+cia&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=moulitsas+cia&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=98f41058edd2ee5&biw=1024&bih=589">456,000 hits at Google for "Moulitsas" and "CIA,"</a></b> mostly based on information first widely disseminated at my <b><a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/">Truth About Kos blog,</a></b> I believe I have done what I could to explain to the public why DailyKos and its cohorts (look at its blog list) serve the conversation-curtailing role that they do in the whitosphere.<br />
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I also note that history and these two historical figures have proved my judgment correct about John and Elizabeth Edwards, whose DailyKos-supported candidacy for the presidency I opposed because, among other factors, John's election would have perpetuated what was then a 43-term white male monopoly of the US Presidency. <br />
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This didn't go over well at the 96% white DailyKos. (See Quantcast DailyKos demographic data in right sidebar.) I attacked Edwards from every conceivable (to me) angle and other DailyKos participants resented that. How could I insist, day after day, that the President ought not necessarily be a white man, when everyone knew that ALL US presidents had been white men?<br />
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As we all know now, the Democrats would certainly have lost the election in 2008 had John Edwards been nominated, as a plurality at DailyKos preferred. John Edwards was a shameless philanderer and his wife was an enabling, manipulative and exceedingly ambitious woman, who hid all she knew about John's unfitness for the nomination.<br />
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Today, <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/13/us/john-edwards-heart-condition/index.html"><b>CNN reports</b></a> that:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq"><b>Edwards is charged with six felony and misdemeanor counts related to donations to and payments from his failed 2008 presidential campaign. He is accused of conspiracy, issuing false statements and violating campaign contribution laws. He denies any wrongdoing.</b><br />
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<b>Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, died of cancer in December 2010. The couple had separated that year, shortly after Edwards admitted that he had fathered a daughter with Rielle Hunter, who was hired to make documentary videos for his campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.</b></blockquote><br />
Had either or both of John and Elizabeth Edwards succeeded in their nomination ambitions, they would have destroyed the Democratic Party's hopes for regaining the presidency, because lying John Edwards' General Election campaign would have been embarrassingly over before it could begin in earnest.<br />
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When John Edwards is in Federal prison, mumbling to Elizabeth Edwards, who <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/03/22/314758/-Elizabeths-cancer-has-returned,-but-Johns-campaign-goes-on"><b>earned her place in Hell,</b></a> then both of them will have gotten their due for the harm the knowingly and intentionally they tried to do to the Democratic Party, for their own personal gain. <br />
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I am proud to be able to write this at at Truth About Kos blog, which provides the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/05/AR2007080501580.html"><b>truth about the DailyKos community</b></a>, <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/09/why-is-mamzs-homophobic-1993-essays.html"><b>it's owner</b></a>, and its <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/indictment-of-markos-ca-moulitsas-ziga.html"><b>(right-wing, CIA-driven?)</b></a> politics.<br />
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And now John Edwards suddenly discovers that he has a <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/13/us/john-edwards-heart-condition/index.html"><b>life-threatening heart condition</b></a> just before his aforementioned Federal trial was scheduled to begin? I was wondering what this lying lawyer would fabricate to derail his trial. And now we know. The man who was the apparent epitome of health has discovered that he has a heart condition and so, regrettably, cannot go ahead with his trial at the moment. Maybe he can join his wife in her present abode and thereby avoid the trial entirely.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566268769860937739.post-43398955446302525432011-09-24T18:03:00.000-07:002011-09-24T19:18:29.212-07:00Minneapolis "City Pages" Shows Contradictions in MAMZ's Disinformation Campaign About Himself and His "Right-Sympathizing" Family HistoryOn June 8 2011, <b><a class="author" href="http://www.citypages.com/authors/jessica-lussenhop">Jessica Lussenhop</a></b> of <a href="http://www.citypages.com/about/index/"><b>Minneapolis-St. Paul's "City Pages'</b></a> published an article covering what Markos Moulitsas says are important moments and facts in his blog's and the whitosphere blogs' history. She gets one crucial fact right that other mainstream media biographers have ignored. She says, <br />
<blockquote><b>WHEN MOULITSAS WAS A nine-year-old boy living in civil war-torn <a href="http://www.citypages.com/related/to/El+Salvador" title="El Salvador">El Salvador</a>, his parents received a strange envelope in the mail. Inside were photos of Moulitsas and his brother being driven to their grandmother's, and getting on and off the school bus. It was a message to the<span style="color: red;"> right-sympathizing family</span> from the communist guerilla fighters: We can take your children at any time. Terrified, the family fled to Chicago in 1980. (Emphasis added.)</b></blockquote>This is the first time I recall a mainstream newspaper making the obvious observation and stating as fact the reality that Marcos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) comes from a "right-sympathizing family."<br />
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<b><a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/indictment-of-markos-ca-moulitsas-ziga.html">The Indictment of Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA (MAMZ) by Justice and History (Updated with Additional Information and Counts)</a></b> pointed this out in 2007. This fact is important because MAMZ has <a href="http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p316/francislholland/LaPrensaGrfica35.png"><b>consistently lied about it</b></a> and because it stands at odds with MAMZ's own incredible assertion, through his <a href="http://www.cato-unbound.org/contributors/markos-moulitsas/"><b>Cato Unbound</b></a> biography, that his heroes are the late (assassinated by the Salvadoran right wing) Catholic Archbishop Arnulfo Romero, who was identifying and organizing increasingly with goals of the the Salvadoran leftist majority when he was assassinated, as well as Cesar Chavez, the famous Latino union organizer.<br />
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On September 9, 2006, the editors of <a href="http://www.cato-unbound.org/contributors/markos-moulitsas/"><b>Cato Unbound wrote of MAMZ</b></a>,<br />
<blockquote><b>Moulitsas’s heroes are Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, Cesar Chavez, and, above all others, his father. Moulitsas currently resides in Berkeley, California, with his wife and son.</b></blockquote>The Cato Institute can only have written this because this is what MAMZ told them.<br />
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The media has never asked MAMZ to explain why someone like himself, who acknowledges voting for President George H. W. Bush in 1992, when the right-wing Salvadoran Government's civil war against leftists was raging, would also admire the leftist Archbishop Romero, who was assassinated after increasingly supporting the Salvadoran left wing in its opposition to the right-wing Government's war against its leftist opposition. MAMZ tries to position himself as a leftist while acknowledging that he voted and politically organized as a Republican.<br />
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MAMZ has said of his politics at the time of the election of George H.W. Bush, in an <a href="http://prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=11410"><b>autobiographic piece at the American Prospect</b></a>:<br />
<blockquote><b>I was also a Republican. As a 17-year-old precinct captain in 1988, not even old enough to vote, I helped deliver one of the district’s best precinct performances for Henry Hyde. I had a framed picture of me with George H. W. Bush. </b></blockquote>George H. W. Bush was elected in 1988, when the Salvadoran civil war was raging between a right-wing Government and a left-wing populace, which populace was supported by some Catholic Church officials who found themselves morally compelled to side with the terrorized leftist public against the Government.<br />
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<a href="http://www.pbs.org/itvs/enemiesofwar/elsalvador2.html"><b>PBS has written:</b></a><br />
<blockquote><b>Truth Revealed With continuing reports of atrocities and murders in El Salvador, the U.S. Congress no longer accepted the State Department's assurance that things were getting better. Speaker of the House Tom Foley created a special task force to monitor El Salvador's investigation of the murders.</b> </blockquote><blockquote><b>Congressman Joe Moakley of Massachusetts was selected to head up the investigation. During his research and visits to El Salvador, Congressman Moakley encountered a massive cover-up, deep problems with the Salvadoran armed forces, conspiracy and lies, which led him to challenge U.S. policy. He discovered that from a very high level, the armed forces of El Salvador had been responsible for the murders of the Jesuits. His investigation also led to the conclusion that certain levels of the U.S. government had known about the situation long before the task force was created.</b> </blockquote><blockquote><b><a href="http://www.pbs.org/itvs/enemiesofwar/resources.html">Moakley's report</a> revealed the cruel injustice of the U.S.-backed Salvadoran government, setting in motion an international process to end the war. Both sides of the conflict in El Salvador approached the United Nations for help in negotiating a settlement. The United Nations sponsored talks, which culminated in the January 1992 signing of the Peace Accords, ending 12 years of civil war. </b></blockquote>So, what did MAMZ, who came from a right-wing family and voted for a right-wing President in the United States, nonetheless admire about the left-leaning Archbishop Romero and Cesar Chavez? And how did MAMZ's admiration for Romero and Chavez become convoluted into his support for Republican politics in the United States? <b><a class="author" href="http://www.citypages.com/authors/jessica-lussenhop">Jessica Lussenhop</a></b>'s story in <a href="http://www.citypages.com/about/index/"><b>Minneapolis-St. Paul's "City Pages'</b></a><br />
seems to offer a ready answer. MAMZ is from a<span style="color: red;"><b> "</b></span><b><span style="color: red;">right-sympathizing family"</span></b>and his assertions to the contrary are simply bold-faced lies.<br />
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MAMZ disingenuous and dishonest in his identification of his "heroes," and was engaging in political positioning that derived from his desire to be seen as a "leftist." Since MAMZ has admitted being trained by the CIA to be as a secret agent <a href="http://audio.commonwealthclub.org/audio/podcast/cc_20060602_inforum_zuniga.mp3"><b>between 2001 and 2003</b></a>, while he started DailyKos in 2002, wasn't MAMZ's incredible assertion that he admired Archbishop Romero and Cesar Chavez just more <a href="http://kos-cia-transcript.blogspot.com/2010/05/markos-c-alberto-moulitsas-zunigas-cia.html"><b>CIA-trained</b></a> misinformation, or does that sort of self-serving posturing come naturally to MAMZ? It seems that both motivations have a basis in fact.<br />
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What stands out about the two leaders whom MAMZ claims to admire, is that they led Latin Americans in fighting for liberation from oppression. And yet MAMZ himself has apologetically and categorically rejected any such role for himself with respect to Latin Americans. After the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.northernstar.info/ArticlePage.php?pk=16416&sectionfrom=perspective_letters&db=2">Northern Illinois University "(NIU)</a> <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/moulitsas-homophobic-stand-against-gays.html">student newspaper</a></span> assigned MAMZ to write about "racism", and MAMZ wrote a mult-part series on the topic, MAMZ wrote an unassigned piece summing up his attitude toward the task and the people he had been assigned to cover.<br />
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He said in the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.northernstar.info/ArticlePage.php?pk=16416&sectionfrom=perspective_letters&db=2">Northern Star, </a> </span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;"><b>"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.<span style="color: red;"><b> They </b></span>would never be able to escape who <span style="color: red;"><b>they</b></span> were." </b></span>(Emphasis added.)</blockquote>MAMZ has made good on his promise to ignore Latinos; Quantcast.com says that only <a href="http://www.quantcast.com/dailykos.com"><b>1% of the readership at DailyKos is Latino</b></a>, even though <a href="http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1024/exit-poll-analysis-hispanics"><b>67% of Latinos</b></a> voted for Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008. The quote above shows why a Black presidential candidate is so much better at leading Latinos than is a Salvadoran blogger <b><a href="http://www.citypages.com/2011-06-08/news/daily-kos-markos-moulitsas-s-website-changed-politics/">"from a<span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: red;">right-sympathizing family"</span></a></b> with the resources to fly to Chicago, with legal immigration status, when necessary. (Emphasis added.)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566268769860937739.post-86975621719720325142011-08-22T02:06:00.000-07:002011-08-22T02:07:19.701-07:00CIA Protected Two 9-11 Hijackers from Arrest Before 9-11, Says Clinton and Bush Counterterorrism Director, Richard ClarkeBased on information from Richard Clarke <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/blogs/we-read-it/2010/04/26/cyber-war-the-next-threat-to-national-security-and-what-to-do-about-it.html" target="_blank">Former White House counterterrorism czar</a> under Presidents Clinton and Bush, the <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/12/richard-clarke-9-11-interview-was-there-a-cia-coverup.html"><b>Daily Beast</b></a> asks,<br />
<blockquote><h2 class="dek"><span style="font-size: small;">Did the CIA keep mum about two 9/11 hijackers because it tried and failed to recruit them? Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan [are] authors of 'The Eleventh Day,' on whether there’s any truth behind ex-Bush official Richard Clarke’s claim.</span> </h2></blockquote>Here's the conspiracy theory, <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/12/richard-clarke-9-11-interview-was-there-a-cia-coverup.html"><b>reported at the DailyBeast</b></a> and offered by the highest-level White House official on counterterrorism at the time, based on the facts available. Close your eyes and ears at DailyKos, because this theory involves the same CIA that was <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/proof-of-marcos-moulitsas-involvement.html"><b>training Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) to be a "secret agent" during and two years after the year of the 9-11 terror attacks:</b></a><br />
<blockquote><b>Former White House counterterrorism coordinator <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/blogs/we-read-it/2010/04/26/cyber-war-the-next-threat-to-national-security-and-what-to-do-about-it.html">Richard Clarke</a> has reignited controversy by speculating, in an <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/11/september-11th-anniversary-richard-clarke-s-explosive-cia-cover-up-charge.html">interview cited in Thursday’s Daily Beast</a>, that the CIA intentionally withheld advance knowledge of two of the 9/11 hijackers from the White House and the FBI, in an attempt to cover up the agency’s failed effort to recruit the two men as assets.</b></blockquote>There's a 9-11 conspiracy theory that could not be printed at DailyKos (because Kos doesn't tolerate conspiracy theories about the CIA) even though this theory comes from Richard Clarke, top counter-terrorism aide to Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, before, during and after 9-11. <br />
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<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/blogs/we-read-it/2010/04/26/cyber-war-the-next-threat-to-national-security-and-what-to-do-about-it.html" target="_blank">Former White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke</a> says that although the CIA shared much information with him, he and the Bush and Clinton White Houses were never told that the CIA had identified two of the hijackers of the 9-11 jets long before the attacks; knew that they had attended Al Quaeda attack meetings overseas and knew their exact whereabouts within the United States.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/12/richard-clarke-9-11-interview-was-there-a-cia-coverup.html"><b>DailyBeast reports:</b></a> <br />
<blockquote><div class="text parbase section"><b>Clarke’s comments—and immediate, emphatic <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/62083444/Joint-Statement" target="_blank">denials from former CIA director George Tenet</a></b> and two senior CIA officials involved—go to the core of one of the enduring enigmas about 9/11. </div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="text parbase section"></div><div class="text parbase section"><b>Things began to unravel for the CIA on the day of the attacks, just four hours after the Qaeda strikes, according to research we conducted for our new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/140006659X/thedaibea-20" target="_blank"><i>The Eleventh Day</i></a>. Soon after 1 p.m. that day, at agency headquarters in Langley, an aide handed Director Tenet the passenger manifests for the four downed airliners. “Two names,” he said, placing a page on the table where the director could see it, “these two we know." </b></div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="text parbase section"></div><div class="text parbase section"><b>Tenet looked, then breathed, “There it is. Confirmation. Oh, Jesus ...”</b></div><div class="text parbase section"><b>There on the manifest for Flight 77, listed as traveling in first class, were the names of <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2002/06/10/the-hijackers-we-let-escape.html">Nawaf al-Hazmi</a> and his brother, Salem. Also on the manifest, near the front of the coach section, was passenger Khalid al-Mihdhar.</b></div></blockquote><div class="text parbase section"><blockquote><b>The names Hazmi and Mihdhar were instantly familiar, Tenet has said, because his people had learned only weeks earlier that both men might be in the United States. According to the director’s version of events, the CIA had known of Mihdhar since as early as 1999, identified him as a terrorist suspect by December that year, had him followed, learned he had a valid multiple-entry visa for the United States, and placed him and comrades—including Hazmi—under surveillance for a few days in Southeast Asia. Later, in the spring of 2000, the agency had learned that Hazmi, who also had a multiple-entry visa, had arrived in California.</b></blockquote></div><br />
The CIA knew of two of the hijackers but made no attempt to prevent them from entering the United States and no attempt to detain them. This, according to Counterterrorism Chief Richard Clarke, is <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/11/september-11th-anniversary-richard-clarke-s-explosive-cia-cover-up-charge.html"><b>not a "conspiracy theory, but is rather a conspiracy fact:</b></a><br />
<blockquote><div class="text parbase section"><b>Clarke, who led governmentwide counterterrorism efforts from the White House during the Bush and Clinton administration, has said in the past that he was astonished to learn after 9/11 that the CIA had long known about the presence of Hazmi and Mihdhar inside the United States.</b><br />
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</div><div class="text parbase section"><b>“To this day, it is inexplicable why, when I had every other detail about everything related to terrorism, that the director didn’t tell me, that the director of the counterterrorism center didn’t tell me,” <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoo9aclwBg" target="_blank">Clarke said</a> in the interview for the documentary, referring to Tenet and Cofer Black. “They told us everything—except this.”</b></div></blockquote><blockquote><div class="text parbase section"></div><div class="text parbase section"><b>He said that if he had known anything about Hazmi and Mihdhar even days before 9/11, he would have ordered an immediate manhunt to find them—and that it would have succeeded, possibly disrupting the 9/11 plot.</b></div></blockquote><div class="text parbase section"><blockquote><b>“We would have conducted a massive sweep,” <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDTNEtIj8vU" target="_blank">he said</a>. “We would have conducted it publicly. We would have found those assholes. There’s no doubt in my mind, even with only a week left. They were using credit cards in their own names. They were staying in the Charles Hotel in Harvard Square, for heaven’s sake.” He said that “those guys would have been arrested within 24 hours.”</b></blockquote></div>It has always seemed incredible and inexplicable to the average American that hijackers could attend Al Quaeda terrorism planning meetings and then enter and leave the United States undetected. <br />
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Here's my conspiracy theory: Director Tenet kept Clarke out of the loop on director orders from Vice President Dick Cheney, who perceived the immense political benefits that would derive from letting these men go ahead with their terrorist plots, and then bringing the nation into a virtual state of siege based on what had happened. The power of the Presidency (and the Vice President) was greatly enhanced by the 9-11 attacks.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566268769860937739.post-7916080065038050532011-08-16T13:40:00.000-07:002011-08-16T13:40:02.851-07:0031 Things You Should Know About the Owner of DailyKos and His FamilyHaving 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" <strong><a href="http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/06/06-06zuniga-audio.html">with the US Central Intelligence Agency betwee 2001 and 2003,</a></strong> 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):<br />
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<strong>1).</strong> Markos C. A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA <strong><a href="http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/06/06-06zuniga-audio.html">was actively at Central Intelligence Agency offices in Washington, DC</a></strong><a href="http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/06/06-06zuniga-audio.html"><strong></strong><strong></strong></a><strong><a href="http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/06/06-06zuniga-audio.html">, training to become a CIA agent</a></strong><strong><a href="http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/06/06-06zuniga-audio.html"> for two years, between 2001 and 2003,</a></strong> with or without pay. <strong><a href="http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/06/06-06zuniga-audio.html">(Listen carefully to MAMZ's speech to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, on June 2, 2006.)</a></strong> 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.<br />
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<strong>2).</strong> Markos C. A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA was <strong><a href="http://www.cato-unbound.org/contributors/markos-moulitsas/">born in Chicago,</a></strong> not in <strong><a href="http://soc.enotes.com/world-fact-book/el-salvador-es">El Salvador.</a></strong> Therefore, he is a US citizen and <strong><a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode08/usc_sec_08_00001401----000-.html">is NOT and never was an immigrant,</a></strong> in spite of his <strong><a href="http://www.laprensagrafica.com/dpt15/noticias/09042007/752524.asp">habitual assertions to the contrary.</a></strong><br />
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<strong>3).</strong> <strong><a href="http://www.northernstar.info/article.php?id=16416&old=1">Markos C. A. Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ)</a></strong> has used at least three aliases, including <strong><a href="http://www.northernstar.info/article.php?id=32359&old=1">Mark Moulitsas</a><a href="http://www.northernstar.info/articles/?id=32359">,</a></strong> and <strong><a href="http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/06/06-06zuniga-audio.html">Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga</a></strong> and Markos Moulitsas and <strong><a href="http://www.northernstar.info/articles/?id=16416">Markos C. A. Moulitsas.</a></strong> No one seems to know MAMZ's complete name with certainty, but <strong><a href="http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/DailyKos_FAQ#Who_is_kos.3F">it certainly is not</a></strong> what he has said it is.<br />
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<strong>4).</strong> Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA lied when he said <strong><a href="http://www.laprensagrafica.com/dpt15/noticias/09042007/752524.asp">"I don’t have money. I don’t come from a famous or powerful family. I was an immigrant to the United States."</a></strong> <strong><a href="http://www.cato-unbound.org/contributors/markos-moulitsas/">CatoUnbound.Org:Markos Moulitsas [ZÚÑIGA]</a></strong> Counter to the rags to riches immigrant story MAMZ has conveniently adopted recently for public consumption, MAMZ has said that he can and does <strong><a href="http://www.northernstar.info/article.php?id=31464&old=1">"always close the door" on immigrant identity "in detached selfishness." </a></strong><br />
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<strong>5).</strong> Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA was a <strong><a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0601.wallace-wells.html">Ronald Reagan Republican</a></strong>, taking credit for supporting Ronald Reagan, campaigning for George. H.W. Bush, and for Republican Representative <strong><a href="http://www.salon.com/news/1998/09/cov_16newsb.html">Henry Hyde,</a></strong> the House prosecutor in the Clinton impeachment hearings.<br />
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<strong>6).</strong> 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. <strong><a href="http://www.northernstar.info/article.php?id=16416&old=1">Northern Star</a></strong><br />
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<strong>7).</strong> Like David Duke and the Klu Klux Klan, Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA <strong><a href="http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/10/02/markos-moulitsas/the-case-for-the-libertarian-democrat/">promotes "states rights,"</a></strong> a codeword for opposition to integration and determined acts and policies of segregation. <strong><a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/is-dailykos-white-supremacist-group.html">Is DailyKos a White Supremacist Group?</a></strong><br />
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<strong>8).</strong> 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." <strong><a href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/04/05/MNGHSI3N5S1.DTL">San Francisco Gate</a></strong><br />
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<strong>9).</strong> In fact, Mr. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA’s family owns a sumptuous and <strong><a href="http://www.joyadelpacifico.com/Default.aspx?tabid=93">“exclusive”</a></strong> resort hotel and tourism conglomerate in El Salvador called the <strong><a href="http://www.joyadelpacifico.com/">"Club Joya del Pacífico"</a><a href="http://www.joyadelpacifico.com/Default.aspx?tabid=94"> (Club Jewel of the Pacific)</a></strong> a unit of which is the <strong><a href="http://www.moulitsas.com/wedding/wedding.asp">(Jaltepeque Suites Hotel).</a></strong><br />
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<strong>10).</strong> Demonstrating his connection to these, what MAMZ has called "family business" interests, Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA invited his wife, friends and family to <b><a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/07/moulitsas-zigas-family-business.html">celebrate his honeymoon with him at the this Jaltepeque Suites Hotel</a></b> after he was married in the year 2000. (For some reason, the original link <a href="http://www.moulitsas.com/wedding/wedding.asp"><b>no longer works.</b></a> Fortunately, we have two screenshots from <b><a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/07/moulitsas-zigas-family-business.html">his wedding album</a>, </b>including their web addresses<b>, </b>to prove that the album was public before its significance was pointed out. And now it's gone.)<br />
<strong>11).</strong> Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA <strong>ZÚÑIGA's</strong> "family business" actually received <strong><a href="http://www.csj.gob.sv/BVirtual.nsf/3db6532d39e032fd06256b3e006d8a73/ac51a20ee8af71ba062572a000577e5a?OpenDocument">five million dollars in foreign investments between 1997 and 2000,</a></strong> immediately before the period in which MAMZ states that he sought work at the CIA because he was "underemployed, unemployed." <strong><a href="http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/06/06-06zuniga-audio.html">Audiotape of 2006 Speech to the Commonwealth Club.</a></strong><br />
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<strong>12).</strong> <strong><a href="http://images.google.com.br/images?hl=pt-BR&q=%22Carlos%20Alberto%20Delgado%20Z%C3%BA%C3%B1iga%22&btnG=Pesquisa+Google&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi">Carlos Alberto Delgado Zúñiga,</a></strong> the “family” member listed in government records as “manager” of the Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA’s hotel is also <strong><a href="http://archive.laprensa.com.sv/20060509/eleconomista/481571.asp">president of the “Junta Directiva” of the CÁMARA SALVADOREÑA DE TURISMO (CASATUR)</a><a href="http://www.casatur.com/A559D5/casatur/app.nsf/0/0F4C012D6E92F310062570B1000521A2">,</a></strong> 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<a href="http://www.sica.int/busqueda/busqueda_archivo.aspx?Archivo=acue_2768_2_12092005.htm"><b> series of interlocking tourism-related directorates</b></a> and has used this power to facilitate the destruction of the Jaltepeque Estuary by his hotel conglomerate, <a href="http://www.joyadelpacifico.com/"><b>Club Jewel of the Pacific</b></a>, even though the Jaltepeque Estuary is universally recognized by international groups as an <a href="http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:TDDkqxwIIAUJ:www.gtz.de/en/dokumente/sp-proa-desarrollo-sustentable-jaltepeque.pdf+jaltepeque+defensa&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk"><b>endangered habitat</b></a> for imperiled marine life. <b><a href="http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:EaJnjvliABMJ:snet.gob.sv/uploaded/content/category/1072712717.pdf+jaltepeque+defensa&cd=19&hl=en&ct=clnk">VII. MACROPOLITICAS, CONVENIOS INTERNACIONALES Y LEGISLACIÓN QUE INCIDE EN LAS ÁREAS DE CONSERVACION</a><i> <a href="http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:EaJnjvliABMJ:snet.gob.sv/uploaded/content/category/1072712717.pdf+jaltepeque+defensa&cd=19&hl=en&ct=clnk">(VII. Macropolitics, International Conventions and Legislation Regarding Conservation)</a></i></b><br />
<blockquote>. . . [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. <b><i>Urban pressure and the uncontrolled dynamic of occupation of the zone is generating a strong and rapid deterioration, provoking a deterioration of said ecosystem."<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></i></b><b><a href="http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:TDDkqxwIIAUJ:www.gtz.de/en/dokumente/sp-proa-desarrollo-sustentable-jaltepeque.pdf+jaltepeque+defensa&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk" style="text-decoration: none;">Guide to Sustainable Development of the Jaltepeque Estuary in the La Paz Region.</a></b></blockquote><strong>See also:</strong><strong></strong><strong><br />
<a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/07/moulitsas-zigas-family-business.html">Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA's "Family Business" Pollutes Unique Salvadoran Lagoon and Threatens Wildlife Species.</a></strong> <strong><br />
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<a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/07/why-has-mamz-dailykos-misled-us-about.html">Why Has Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA (M.A.M.Z.) Lied About His Wealthy Salvadoran Oligarchy Family Background?</a></strong><br />
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<strong>13).</strong> <strong><a href="http://images.google.com.br/images?hl=pt-BR&q=%22Carlos%20Alberto%20Delgado%20Z%C3%BA%C3%B1iga%22&btnG=Pesquisa+Google&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi">Carlos Alberto Delgado Zúñiga</a>,</strong> the man listed in public documents as the “manager” of the Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA’s Jaltepeque Suites Hotel, is also <strong><a href="http://www.casatur.com/A559D5/casatur/app.nsf/0/0F4C012D6E92F310062570B1000521A2">president of the “Junta Directiva” of the CÁMARA SALVADOREÑA DE TURISMO (CASATUR),</a></strong> the national tourism board of El Salvador. In addition, he is a member of the <strong><a href="http://www.sica.int/busqueda/Informaci%C3%B3n%20Entidades.aspx?IDItem=3180&amp;amp;amp;amp;IDCat=29&IdEnt=1&Idm=1&IdmStyle=1">member of the “Junta Directiva”</a></strong> of the <strong><a href="http://www.sica.int/sgsica/relaciones_sgsica.aspx?IdEnt=1">“Sistema de Integración de Centroamerica” (System for Integration of Central America).</a></strong><br />
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<strong>14).</strong> The man listed as the manager of the Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA’s hotel is also named in <strong><a href="http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:_KdFV8sMxGgJ:www.cnr.gob.sv/documentos/rc/noviembre-diciembre/Nombramientos_y_credenciales_noviembre_diciembre_06.pdf+PROTURO,+S.A+sv&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;hl=pt-BR&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=br">Salvadoran Government documents</a></strong> as the <strong><a href="http://www.cnr.gob.sv/documentos/rc/enero_febrero_2008/Carteles_de_Matr%C3%ADcula_de_Empresa_1a_vez_enero_febrero_2008.pdf"> “ADMINISTRADOR UNICO PROPIETARIO” (Administrator Sole Proprietor)</a></strong> of PRODUCTOS TURISTICOS Y OTROS, SOCIEDAD ANONIMA DE CAPITAL VARIABLE - <strong><a href="http://www.bajasaltgroup.com/index.php?id=1">PROTURO, S.A. DE C.V.</a> </strong><b><a href="http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:_KdFV8sMxGgJ:www.cnr.gob.sv/documentos/rc/noviembre-diciembre/Nombramientos_y_credenciales_noviembre_diciembre_06.pdf+%22delgado+zuniga%22+cnr&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk">CNR.GOB.SV: Names and Credentials </a></b><strong> </strong><br />
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<strong>15).</strong><a href="http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:_KdFV8sMxGgJ:www.cnr.gob.sv/documentos/rc/noviembre-diciembre/Nombramientos_y_credenciales_noviembre_diciembre_06.pdf+PROTURO,+S.A+sv&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;hl=pt-BR&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=br"><b>Proturo, S.A. de C.V.</b></a> is also known as the<strong> “Baja Salt Group,”</strong> which does business as <strong><a href="http://www.google.com.br/search?hl=pt-BR&q=%22Baja+Salt%22&btnG=Pesquisar&meta=">“Baja Salt.”</a></strong><br />
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<strong>16).</strong> Baja Salt distributes table salt and industrial salt in the <strong><a href="http://www.bajasaltgroup.com/distribuidor.php?id=4">United States, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand, Central and South America,</a></strong> and maintains offices in Odessa, Texas, <strong><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/11/ma_559_01.html">where President George W. Bush was born.</a></strong> This Odessa, Texas office shares a telephone number, fax number and physical address with a peculiar equipment rental and petroleum industry business, <strong><a href="http://www.macraesbluebook.com/search/company.cfm?company=804101">Light Tower Rentals, Ltd, </a></strong> listed along with <strong><a href="http://usaoilfield.com/statesearch.php?do=Search">Halliburton Energy Services Group</a></strong> in the Texas organization records of <strong><a href="http://usaoilfield.com/showcompany.php?cid=2224">USA Oilfield.</a></strong> These activities associated with <strong><a href="http://www.bajasaltgroup.com/">Carlos Alberto Delgado Zúñiga's Baja Salt Group</a></strong> have not been sufficiently explained. See "<strong><a href="http://www.myleftwing.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=17649">The Secret "Family Business" of Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga (DailyKos)</a>"</strong><br />
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<strong>17).</strong> <a href="http://www.cnr.gob.sv/documentos/rc/enero_febrero_2008/Carteles_de_Matr%C3%ADcula_de_Empresa_1a_vez_enero_febrero_2008.pdf"><b>Baja Salt</b></a> is the sole Central American distributor for the salt produced by Mexico’s Exportadora de Sal, S.A. (ESSA).<br />
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<strong>18).</strong> <strong><a href="http://www.google.com.br/search?hl=pt-BR&q=%22baja+salt%22+%22whale%22&btnG=Pesquisar&meta=">Baja Salt/ESSA is a notorious polluter</a></strong> of <strong><a href="http://www.burmalibrary.org/reg.burma/archives/199603/msg00295.html">pristine</a></strong> <a href="http://www.siteselection.com/ssinsider/snapshot/sf000320.htm"><b>grey whale</b></a> and sea turtle spawning grounds and habitat in Baja Mexico.<br />
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<strong>19).</strong> ESSA is represented in its environmental pollution cases by <strong><a href="http://www.skadden.com/printFriendly.cfm?print=1&contentID=49&officeID=21">the same Skadden, Arps powerhouse law firm that represents The Carlyle Group.</a></strong><br />
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<strong>20).</strong> The internationally powerful <b><a href="http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p316/francislholland/FotoofCarlosAlbertoDelgadoZigawithc.png">Carlos Alberto Delgado ZÚÑIGA</a></b> , the “family” member listed in government records as <b><a href="http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p316/francislholland/HotelSuitesJaltepeque-AlbertoDelgad.png">“manager” of the Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA’s hotel</a></b> (see screenshot) <a href="http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p316/francislholland/MarkosandANEPandDeathSquads440.png"><b>was on</b></a> the <strong><a href="http://www.anep.org.sv/anaso_a.htm">organizational member board of El Salvador’s ANEP,</a></strong> the Asociación Nacional de Empresas Privadas (National Association of Private Corporations).<br />
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<strong>21).</strong> ANEP is listed by the US Central Intelligence Agency as a right-wing <strong><a href="http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p316/francislholland/CIAFactBook-ANEP-1.png">political pressure group.</a></strong><br />
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<strong>22).</strong> ANEP is <strong><a href="http://luterano.blogspot.com/2007/02/water-for-el-salvador-competing-visions.html">"a lobby of El Salvador’s most influential businessmen"</a></strong> that advocates free markets and <strong><a href="http://luterano.blogspot.com/2007/02/water-for-el-salvador-competing-visions.html">“wants to privatize El Salvador’s water delivery”</a></strong> and its <strong><a href="http://www.dghonline.org/nl11/es_strikes.html">hospitals,</a></strong> which has led to large popular demonstrations in El Salvador against ANEP’s pro-corporate policies. <strong><a href="http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-4291.html">CountryData.Com</a></strong><br />
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<strong>23).</strong> The large national and international corporate members of ANEP were the <strong><a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3664/is_200107/ai_n8993556/pg_2">principal political opponents</a></strong> of Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero at the time when he was assassinated. <strong><a href="http://soc.enotes.com/world-fact-book/el-salvador-es">CIA: Political Pressure Groups</a></strong> <strong><a href="http://www.mongabay.com/reference/country_studies/el-salvador/GOVERNMENT.html">Mongabay.com</a></strong><br />
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<strong>24).</strong> <strong><a href="http://www.infed.org.uk/thinkers/oscar_romero.htm">ANEP ran a vigorous media campaign</a></strong> against El Salvador’s populist <strong><a href="http://www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/romero.html">Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero</a></strong> in the months that led up to his assassination on March 24 1980.<br />
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<strong>25).</strong> The corporate members of ANEP were the <strong><a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3664/is_200107/ai_n8993556/pg_2">principal political opponents</a></strong> of Catholic Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero when he was assassinated. <strong><a href="http://soc.enotes.com/world-fact-book/el-salvador-es">CIA: Political Pressure Groups</a></strong> <strong><a href="http://www.mongabay.com/reference/country_studies/el-salvador/GOVERNMENT.html">Mongabay.com</a></strong><br />
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<strong>26).</strong> 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.<br />
<blockquote><strong>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.<br />
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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. </strong><strong>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. <a href="http://www.mongabay.com/reference/country_studies/el-salvador/all.html">Mongabay.Com: Country Studies/El Salvador</a></strong></blockquote><strong>27).</strong> 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,<br />
<blockquote><strong><strong>“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...).”<strong><a href="http://ciponline.org/dethsqud.htm">Center for International Policy</a></strong></strong></strong></blockquote><strong> 28).</strong> 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 <strong><a href="http://www.cato-unbound.org/contributors/markos-moulitsas/">"heroes."</a></strong><br />
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<strong>29).</strong> DailyKos practices blog apartheid, banning Black voices and restricting overall minority membership to less than 4% of membership. <strong><a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/is-dailykos-white-supremacist-group.html">Is DailyKos a White Supremacist Group?</a></strong><br />
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<strong>30).</strong> 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.<br />
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<strong>31).</strong> 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.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566268769860937739.post-80719688736709476472011-08-14T17:33:00.000-07:002011-08-16T03:27:17.870-07:00"Now Public" Liberal Blog Bought by Billionaire Republican Party DonorI <a href="http://www.nowpublic.com/world/billionaire-republican-campaign-donor-buys-now-public-site"><b>posted the following article </b></a><b>at the "Now Public"</b><a href="http://www.nowpublic.com/world/billionaire-republican-campaign-donor-buys-now-public-site"><b> site</b></a> in 2009, as soon as I learned that the blog had been purchased by a right-wing Republican. Many of us <a href="http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/daily-kos-cracks-down-on-anti-semitism-again/#comment-43222"><b>express surprise and outrage</b></a> when we are shut down at these right-wing-owned sites, even though censoring our facts and opinions is the most natural thing for sites like DailyKos' and Now Public's right wing owners to do, given their right-wing political goals. Apparently, it is important to Republicans that they own and control the large blogs where we Leftists would like to express our opinions and share facts.<br />
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If Hitler didn't let the Jews publish at Third Reich's newspapers, then why would we expect people like Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) and <b><a class="mandelbrot_refrag" href="http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/mackenzie-phillips-family-secret-sex-dad-john-phillips?lc=int_mb_1001">Phillip Anschutz</a></b> of Now Public to let us express our opinions at their blogs? Our political goals and interests are antithetical to theirs. Meanwhile, there are far more leftists at our collective Blogspot and Wordpress blogs than at those faux leftist and once-liberal <b><a href="http://www.google.com.br/#hl=pt-BR&cp=10&gs_id=t&xhr=t&q=rightosphere&pf=p&sclient=psy&site=&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=rightosphe&aq=0L&aqi=g-L1&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=d2ef6d349ecc1be8&biw=1024&bih=560">rightosphere</a></b> blogs. <br />
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We just need to keep doing what we're doing independently, while informing the public not to be confused about which blogs are truly <a href="http://francis-the-socialist.blogspot.com/2009/06/francis-l-holland-is-socialist.html"><b>leftist-owned-and-operated</b></a>, and which are undercover right-wing propaganda organs.<br />
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Within a day or two after my publication of the following article at Now Public, my posting privileges were put <a href="http://www.nowpublic.com/francislholland"><b>"Under Review"</b></a> and withdrawn, and have remained so since September, 2009. No surprise.<b> </b>I knew<a class="mandelbrot_refrag" href="http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/mackenzie-phillips-family-secret-sex-dad-john-phillips?lc=int_mb_1001"> </a><b><a class="mandelbrot_refrag" href="http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/mackenzie-phillips-family-secret-sex-dad-john-phillips?lc=int_mb_1001">Phillip Anschutz</a></b><b> </b> was not going to let me publicly defrock him more than once at his own blog.<br />
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The problem is much larger than who owns the blogs. The problem is who owns the means of production and the aggregated wealth in a capitalist society.<br />
<blockquote><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_129824898"><b>World</b></a><br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_129824898"><b>Billionaire Republican Campaign Donor Buys "Now Public" Site</b></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_129824898"><b>by francislholland | September 1, 2009 at 10:04 pm</b></a><br />
<a href="http://www.nowpublic.com/world/billionaire-republican-campaign-donor-buys-now-public-site"><b>331 views | 8 Recommendations | 5 comments</b></a></blockquote><blockquote>Subsequently posted at the <a href="http://francislholland.blogspot.com/"><b>Francis L. Holland Blog</b></a>.<br />
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<b><a class="mandelbrot_refrag" href="http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/mackenzie-phillips-family-secret-sex-dad-john-phillips?lc=int_mb_1001">Phillip Anschutz</a></b>, the new owner of Now Public, has given hundreds of thousands of dollars <b><a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/qind/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">to Republicans and Republican causes</a></b>, including $3,000 to Senator John McCain and the Colorado Republican Party, according to the <b><a class="mandelbrot_refrag" href="http://www.nowpublic.com/world/president-obamas-re-election-announcement-fund-driven-0?lc=int_mb_1001">Federal Election Commission</a></b> (FEC). <br />
The <b><a href="http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/DSAK.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">world's 89th wealthiest billionaire</a></b>, according to Forbes, has been a <a class="mandelbrot_refrag" href="http://www.nowpublic.com/sports/rampage-jackson-interview-video-gives-karyn-bryant-motor-boat-2796176.html?lc=int_mb_1001">consistent giver</a> to <a class="mandelbrot_refrag" href="http://www.nowpublic.com/world/addressing-republican-candidates?lc=int_mb_1001">Republican candidates</a> and causes since at least 1999. The FEC <b><a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/qind/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Contributions to Political Committees</a></b> report says that <a href="http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/DSAK.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Phillip Anschutz</b></a> of Denver, Colorado gave:<br />
<ul><li><a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/qind/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>$58,900 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee</b></a> between 2008 and 2009;</li>
<li>$1,000 to <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashcroft" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">John D. Ashcroft, who was </a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashcroft" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">President George W. Bush's Attorney General from 2001 until 2005</a></b> and was a fiercely <a class="mandelbrot_refrag" href="http://www.nowpublic.com/world/democrats-us-amnesty-bill-piece-shit?lc=int_mb_1001">anti-abortion Republican Senator</a>;</li>
<li>$10,000 dollars to the <a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/qind/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Republican Federal Committee of Pennsylvania</b></a>; </li>
<li><a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/qind/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>$1,000 to Larry E. Craig for US Senate</b></a> (who subsequently left the US Senate after confessing to committing a sex crime in an airport bathroom);</li>
<li>$1,000 to Elizabeth Dole</li>
<li>$5,000 to the <b><a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_detail/C00082040" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PAC (US CHAMBER PAC);</a></b></li>
<li><a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/qind/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>$1,000 to Friends of Sam Brownback</b></a>, "the evangelical-turned-Catholic religious conservative who endorsed McCain shortly after ending his own presidential campaign in October [in 2007]. <b><a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/godometer/2007/12/with-help-from-brownback-mccai.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://blog.beliefnet.com/godometer/2007/12/with-help-from-brownback-mccai.html</a></b></li>
<li>And other Republicans listed in the <a class="mandelbrot_refrag" href="http://www.nowpublic.com/world/president-obamas-re-election-announcement-fund-driven-0?lc=int_mb_1001">Federal Election Commission</a>'s<b><a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/qind/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Contributions to Political Committees</a><a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/qind/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Report</a></b> </li>
</ul>The DailyKos blog is owned by Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga ("Kos), who says he started DailyKos <b><a href="http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/06/06-06zuniga-audio.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">during a two year training period with the CIA</a></b>, after he worked for the election of Republican Congressman Henry Hyde, chief prosecutor in the House for Bill Clinton's impeachment.<br />
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Now, <a href="http://my.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/nowpublic-acquired-examiner-com" rel="nofollow"><b>Now Public is owned</b></a> by <b><a href="http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/DSAK.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">multi-billionaire</a></b> <a class="mandelbrot_refrag" href="http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/mackenzie-phillips-family-secret-sex-dad-john-phillips?lc=int_mb_1001">Phillip Anschutz</a>, who has been a consistent supporter and substantial contributor to <a class="mandelbrot_refrag" href="http://www.nowpublic.com/world/addressing-republican-candidates?lc=int_mb_1001">Republican candidates</a> and causes.<br />
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<b>The FEC also lists the following contributions:</b><br />
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<a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_detail/C00005926" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY</a> <br />
12/30/1999 621.00 <a href="http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?20036134782" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">20036134782</a> <a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_detail/C00041160" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MICHIGAN REPUBLICAN PARTY</a> <br />
12/30/1999 513.00 <a href="http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?20036190432" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">20036190432</a> <a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_detail/C00164418" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NEW JERSEY REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE</a> <br />
12/30/1999 423.00 <a href="http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?20036133646" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">20036133646</a> <a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_detail/C00055582" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NEW YORK REPUBLICAN FEDERAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE</a> <br />
12/30/1999 927.00 <a href="http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?20036190854" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">20036190854</a> <a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_detail/C00162339" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OHIO REPUBLICAN PARTY STATE CENTRAL & EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE</a> <br />
12/30/1999 594.00 <a href="http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?20036213059" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">20036213059</a> <a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_detail/C00044842" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">REPUBLICAN FEDERAL COMMITTEE OF PENNSYLVANIA</a> <br />
12/30/1999 657.00 <a href="http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?20036161321" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">20036161321</a> <a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_detail/C00099259" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">REPUBLICAN PARTY OF FLORIDA</a> <br />
12/30/1999 711.00 <a href="http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?21037034107" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">21037034107</a> <a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_detail/C00156810" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">REPUBLICAN PARTY OF KENTUCKY</a> <br />
12/30/1999 225.00 <a href="http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?20036192419" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">20036192419</a> <a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_detail/C00001305" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">REPUBLICAN PARTY OF VIRGINIA INC</a> <br />
12/30/1999 369.00 <a href="http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?20036254141" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">20036254141</a> <a href="http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_detail/C00031088" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WASHINGTON STATE REPUBLICAN PARTY</a> <br />
12/30/1999 315.00 <a href="http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?20036351456" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">20036351456</a> <br />
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<b>Recipient Total: 5580.00</b></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566268769860937739.post-47080625959979652612011-08-14T16:59:00.000-07:002011-08-14T17:06:41.421-07:00CIA-Connected DailyKos Blog Bans Critical Discussion of Israel, Says "Desert Peace" BlogOver at the <a href="http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/daily-kos-cracks-down-on-anti-semitism-again/#comment-43222"><b>Desert Peace blog</b></a>, there is an article reporting and criticizing the DailyKos crackdown on critical discussion of the US's relationship with Israel. It ought to be apparent by now, after DailyKos banning "conspiracy theories" and banning discussion of September 11, and banning critical discussion of Israel, that the purpose for the existence of DailyKos is to dissuade American Leftists from discussion reality, while convincing the press that a CIA trainee is a representative of the American Left.<br />
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This is very convenient for the American media, since they are loath to invite, for example, a socialist to discuss the benefits of socialism as opposed to capitalism on a talking heads television show. Instead, they invite a man who acknowledges having been trained by the CIA and <i><b>HE</b></i> tells the press what leftism means. They live off of Left/Right discussions, but they can't bring themselves to invite a <i>real</i> Leftist to speak on behalf of the Left.<br />
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The press never mentions in its biographical articles about MAMZ that he says he spent two years training with the CIA. However, I have noticed that there have been dramatically fewer biographical articles about MAMZ in the mainstream press since this obviously-relevant fact became public knowledge. <br />
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The media seems to believe that it is better not to write about MAMZ at all than to address any of the glaring and thoroughly-documented facts raised in <b><a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/indictment-of-markos-ca-moulitsas-ziga.html">"The Indictment of Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA (MAMZ) by Justice and History (Updated with Additional Information and Counts)."</a></b><br />
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So, I posted the following (common knowledge to readers of this blog) at the <a href="http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/daily-kos-cracks-down-on-anti-semitism-again/#comment-43222"><b>Desert Peace blog</b></a>, with minor revisions: <br />
Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ or "Kos" of DailyKos) <a href="http://kos-cia-transcript.blogspot.com/2010/05/markos-c-alberto-moulitsas-zunigas-cia.html"><b>admits that he trained with the US CIA for two years (transcript)</b></a>, between 2001 and 2003, while he started his "leftist" DailyKos blog in 2002, simultaneously with his CIA training. <b><a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2011/08/moulitsas-acknowledges-that-many.html">"Moulitsas Acknowledges that Many Consider Him a CIA Agent."</a></b><br />
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He has never categorically denied that he still works for the CIA, although he calls the belief that he does a "conspiracy theory." He HAS said that he would be more than willing to work for the CIA today, because "their hearts are in the right place." <a href="http://kos-cia-transcript.blogspot.com/2010/05/markos-c-alberto-moulitsas-zunigas-cia.html"><b>(See "Transcript" and listen to MAMZ's statements in the accompanying videos.)</b></a><br />
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I am proud that <b><a href="http://www.myleftwing.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=16893">"Stu Piddy"</a></b> <a href="http://www.myleftwing.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=16893"><b>("Kos and the CIA")</b></a> and the <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/"><b>Truth About Kos</b></a> blog, combined with hundreds of other blogs and over <b><a href="http://www.google.com/#hl=en&cp=9&gs_id=33&xhr=t&q=moulitsas%20CIA&qe=bW91bGl0c2FzIENJQQ&qesig=oXwqeZRD0BTS50cjNSrMKg&pkc=AFgZ2tlpAeEt3sChCea7U9NmnnvOKLuluY6XffWuRURIp1kQ8D-c3vHkr7Odb0BYcY8BS5Cij_unXcvsL2eFHHAlJRVz2KrBEQ&pq=markos%20cia&pf=p&sclient=psy&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=moulitsas+CIA&aq=0v&aqi=g-v1g-m1&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.&fp=980fac5185de01ec&biw=1024&bih=560">one hundred thousand hits at Google</a></b> have compelled MAMZ to address the public's "conspiracy theory" that he is CIA, whether it be as an agent, operative or asset. MAMZ <b><a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2011/08/moulitsas-acknowledges-that-many.html">did finally admit</a></b> publicly that the "conspiracy theory" about him exists widely, but he <i><b>did not deny</b></i> the validity of "conspiracy theory" directly, categorically or convincingly. <br />
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The question for leftists and for those who criticize the US relationship with Israel is not whether to participate at DailyKos, but rather what the Democratic Party and the American Left should do when we become convinced that a CIA agent is manipulating and disinforming the public by telling the public that he is a Democratic Party "leftist," "progressive," and "liberal" when, in fact, there are at least <b><a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/indictment-of-markos-ca-moulitsas-ziga.html">thirty-one good reasons involving him and his family</a></b> for us to believe that he <b><i>is</i></b> a CIA agent and is trying to manipulate us.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566268769860937739.post-58558950233737250042011-08-14T04:56:00.000-07:002011-08-22T02:16:37.327-07:00Warren Weinstein, US AID Contractor in Pakistan (and CIA Representative?) Kidnapped ThereWarren Weinstein has been kidnapped was a country director for the US Government's USAID agency at one time, and that he was in Pakistan doing similar work when he was kidnapped, on a contract from the US Government. But was he a CIA agent? <br />
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No one has proved so as of yet, but everyone is speculating based on information about his life and work, such as the details provided by <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/world/asia/14pakistan.html"><b>a New York Times article</b></a> (with salient details highlighted in yellow below): <br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/world/asia/14pakistan.html"><b>The New York Times reports</b></a>:<br />
<blockquote><b>ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A group of armed men broke into the home of an <span style="background-color: yellow;">American development expert</span> in Lahore on Saturday and abducted him, Pakistani and American officials said. </b><br />
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<b> American officials identified the man as Warren Weinstein, 70, the Pakistan director for J. E. Austin Associates, an <span style="background-color: yellow;">international development consulting company based in Arlington, Va. </span></b></blockquote><blockquote>( . . . )</blockquote><blockquote>According to J. E. Austin’s Web site, Mr. Weinstein had been working on the company’s <span style="background-color: yellow;">Pakistan initiative for strategic development and competitiveness.</span></blockquote><blockquote>( . . . )<br />
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Over the past several years, Mr. Weinstein has worked on projects <span style="background-color: yellow;">with the United States Agency for International Development and corporations in Pakistan</span></blockquote><blockquote> ( . . . )</blockquote><blockquote style="background-color: yellow;">A Pakistani friend of his said he was advising the provincial livestock department and the Industries Ministry, and was <u>working on a development project financed by the American government in the tribal regions,</u> a largely lawless area where militants operate along the border with Afghanistan.</blockquote><blockquote>( . . . )<br />
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“He was a very experienced man and said he had <u><span style="background-color: yellow;">worked in many countries in difficult circumstances,</span></u>” said the Pakistani acquaintance, who asked not to be identified. People who know him said he tried to assimilate into the local culture, wearing the Pakistani national dress, baggy trousers and a long tunic known as a shalwar kameez, and speaking functional Urdu. </blockquote><blockquote>( . . . )</blockquote><blockquote>Mr. Weinstein and his wife maintain a split-level home in a middle-class neighborhood in <u><span style="background-color: yellow;">Rockville, Md., a suburb of Washington.</span></u></blockquote>Britain's <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8699426/American-aid-worker-Warren-Weinstein-kidnapped-in-Pakistan.html"><i><b>The Telegraph</b></i></a> offers a cogent reason why Mr. Weinstein would be a target of kidnappers:<br />
<blockquote>Mr Weinstein was working as the Pakistan country director of Virginia-based development company J.E. Austin Associates. He described his work as supervising a four-year $11 million “competitiveness project”, <u><span style="background-color: yellow;">funded by the American government</span></u>.</blockquote>Although the New York Times and the Telegraph don't mention it with specificity Mr. Weinstein's history of involvement with the US Government makes him a plumb target: <b><a href="http://opensecrets.org/">OpenSecrets.Org</a></b> says that Weinstein was once an office director for the US Agency for International Development, <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/revolving/rev_summary.php?id=22632aa"><b>a "country director" for the Peace Corps</b></a> in the Ivory Coast and Togo.<br />
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In April, <a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2011/04/29/concerns-in-pakistan-that-usaid-officials-are-cia-spies/"><u><b>Antiwar.com reported</b></u></a>:<br />
<blockquote><b>Now, Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau has turned its eyes toward USAID, the official US government aid agency. There is concern, according to reports, that the various USAID “corruption” scandals surrounding inefficient projects are evidence that the agency is being used as cover for CIA activities.</b></blockquote>It is possible that Mr. Weinstein became perceived to be an operative or agent of the US Central Intelligence Agency, and that is both part of why he was taken hostage and part of why the US Government is making such a big deal of getting him back?<br />
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Anyone who says that CIA activity in Pakistan is a mere "conspiracy theory" is trying to convince you not to use your eyes, your ears and your brain. Many conspiracy suspicions are also conspiracy facts.<br />
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<blockquote></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566268769860937739.post-59439158023101242952011-08-10T16:50:00.000-07:002011-08-10T16:50:59.777-07:00FederalJack.Com Says Homeland Security is Already Watching You Intensely<br />
On the subject of CIA agents and assets, FederalJack.Com, whose header shows the statement that, "Conspiracy is no longer theory," says, "Mexican Newspaper Uncovers Systemic Monitoring Plans of Public Online Sources by DHS, citing the <a href="http://es.scribd.com/doc/60329262/Espionaje-a-carteles-de-la-droga-en-Twitter-y-Facebook"><b>Department of Homeland Security PDF</b></a>, accessed through the Freedom of Information Act, as reported by Mexican newspaper, El Milenio:<br />
<blockquote><div class="date"><div class="dateleft"><b><span class="time">August 9, 2011</span> by <a href="http://www.federaljack.com/?author=1950" rel="author" title="Posts by boztundj">boztundj</a> <br />
Filed under <a href="http://www.federaljack.com/?cat=4" rel="category" title="View all posts in Establishing The Police State">Establishing The Police State</a>, <a href="http://www.federaljack.com/?cat=28" rel="category" title="View all posts in Featured Stories">Featured Stories</a></b></div><div class="dateright"><b><span class="icomment"><a href="http://www.federaljack.com/?p=93161#respond">3 Comments</a></span></b><br />
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</div></div><b>(EFF) Two weeks ago, the Mexican newspaper El Milenio <a href="http://blogs.milenio.com/node/3208">reported</a> on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Operations Coordination and Planning (OPC) initiative <a href="http://es.scribd.com/doc/60329262/Espionaje-a-carteles-de-la-droga-en-Twitter-y-Facebook">to monitor</a> social media sites, blogs, and forums throughout the world. The document, obtained by El Milenio through a U.S. Freedom of Information Act request, discloses how OPC’s National Operations Center (NOC) plans to initiate systematic monitoring of publicly available online data including “information posted by individual account users” on social media.</b> </blockquote><blockquote><b>The NOC <a href="http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/structure/editorial_0797.shtm">monitors, collects and fuses</a> information from a variety of sources to provide a “real-time snap shot of the [U.S.] nation’s threat environment at any moment.” The NOC also coordinates information sharing to “help deter, detect, and prevent terrorist acts and to manage [U.S.] domestic incidents.” The NOC has initiated systemic monitoring of publicly available, user-generated data to follow real-time developments in U.S. crisis activities such as natural disasters as well as to help corroborate data received through official sources with ‘on-the-ground’ input.</b></blockquote>Although I skimmed the document for 30 seconds, assuming that it is truly from the DOHC, it seems clear that sites like Facebook, Brazil's Orkut, LinkedIn.Com and Googles new social networking site will be constantly monitored. Don't say anything online that constitutes the admission of a crime or the admission of an attempted crime. It could easily be used against you in a court of law.<br />
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Meanwhile,<br />
<blockquote><b>The Atlantic is up in arms over a bill before Congress, titled the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011, that would require Internet service providers to capture credit card data, bank statements, IP information and search history from every user and keep it on hand for 18 months.</b></blockquote>So, even if you use an anonymous screen name, the Government intends to monitor your every transaction and correspondence. They are probably doing so now, except that the above cited bill would require Internet providers to hand over virtually all that is public and private about individuals to the Federal Government. As FederalJack.Com says, "Conspiracy is no longer a theory," but instead is a fact, and now a fact in the form of a bill in the US Congress. As Stevie Wonder once sang, "Kiss Lonely Goodby" because no matter what you are doing at your computer, your data is being recorded. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566268769860937739.post-4600839195671329812011-08-07T22:32:00.000-07:002011-08-07T22:52:01.334-07:00Tikum Olam Blog Revisits MAMZ's CIA Contacts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaZaBt1_ZJKAr8qzqhosi4CPpTgXNAGvS0zlvp3tYguGNz_CaD997wYy_Xboj2LaMqR7TLt4CNC_fP9cAJkSdPFNVsyZe3dh6EizgKz0LI4Gy1Ghf9MXQ5RQnQT2ZM42yi7aWmMqD8KIFD/s1600/OPICBajaSaltcollage500.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaZaBt1_ZJKAr8qzqhosi4CPpTgXNAGvS0zlvp3tYguGNz_CaD997wYy_Xboj2LaMqR7TLt4CNC_fP9cAJkSdPFNVsyZe3dh6EizgKz0LI4Gy1Ghf9MXQ5RQnQT2ZM42yi7aWmMqD8KIFD/s640/OPICBajaSaltcollage500.png" width="448" /></a></div><br />
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Over at <a href="http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2006/07/29/tikun-olam-banned-at-daily-kos/comment-page-1/#comment-232409"><b>the Tikun Olam blog</b></a>, I found the following comment about my research regarding Marcos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ):<br />
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<blockquote><div class="comment-author vcard"><b><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-32 photo" height="32" src="http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/ef997d9ce2a01bef4050ae76f3ae3f73?s=32&d=identicon&r=R" width="32" /> <cite class="fn"><a class="url" href="http://www.politizine.com/" rel="external nofollow">Tony Schinella</a></cite> <span class="says">says:</span></b> </div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata"><b><a href="http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2006/07/29/tikun-olam-banned-at-daily-kos/comment-page-1/#comment-232352"> August 7, 2011 at 5:16 AM</a></b> </div><b>I’m glad I clicked the “notify me” for new updates years ago and I appreciate all this information.</b> </blockquote><blockquote><b> Personally, after being banned from Kos, I went on with life and worked on other things, including improving my journalism career and raising a family. While I miss many aspects of the viral political debate that historically occurred at that site – before Kos decided to change the focus to “electing Democrats” – other aspects of it, like attacking one as being anti-Semitic for not wanting tax dollars to flow to Israel’s military machine or questioning the official 9-11 story, as examples, I don’t miss at all (note that’s it’s OK to yell and scream about not wanting tax dollars to flow to Pakistan, Egypt, etc., something many of us do. That’s not being “anti-Muslim” or anything … that’s just being sensible and smart).</b> </blockquote><blockquote><b> Francis, you’ve done a great bit of work and research on your site. Thanks for spending the time to look into it. There might be a bit of wiggle room in there based on his own memory of things and seems to be putting together years of history in a few words. Sure, he could have said, On March Whatever, whatever year, I was recruited by the CIA … then, in April Whatever, I decided I didn’t want to live in D.C., so I joined the Dean campaign … or whatever. It does seem odd but I think it might just be that he was trying to gloss over the timeline quickly.</b></blockquote><blockquote>( . . . ) </blockquote>Because I tend to see and focus on the bad rather than the good in what people say about my efforts, I <a href="http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2006/07/29/tikun-olam-banned-at-daily-kos/#comments"><b>responded to Tony Schinella as follows at Tikun Olam:</b></a><br />
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I'm glad you've moved on, because most of what Moulitsas says doesn't merit our time or attention. However, your expressed credulity for Moulitsas' responses to the questions about his CIA involvement leads me to doubt your sanity and/or sincerity. I'm sorry to say that in such an unpleasant way, but it's what I think.<br />
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MAMZ has outright lied about the economic resources he had available when he started DailyKos. His family is among the upper crust of the Salvadoran oligarchy, with international influence and paid rolls in globalization. He has not commented on the fact that a family member received a <a href="http://media.photobucket.com/image/markos%20moulitsas/francislholland2/OPICBajaSaltcollage500.png?o=9" target="_blank">one million dollar loan guarantee </a></b><a href="http://media.photobucket.com/image/markos%20moulitsas/francislholland2/OPICBajaSaltcollage500.png?o=9" target="_blank"><b></b></a><b><a href="http://media.photobucket.com/image/markos%20moulitsas/francislholland2/OPICBajaSaltcollage500.png?o=9" target="_blank">from the Overseas Private Investment Council (OPIC) </a></b><b><a href="http://media.photobucket.com/image/markos%20moulitsas/francislholland2/OPICBajaSaltcollage500.png?o=9" target="_blank">for globalization work </a>, according to an <a href="http://media.photobucket.com/image/markos%20moulitsas/francislholland2/OPICBajaSaltcollage500.png?o=9" target="_blank">OPIC press release</a>.<br />
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It's possible that MAMZ is not a CIA agent, but the fact that he looks like one, even without his confession at the Commonwealth Club, troubles me. This is about the infiltration and manipulation of the American Left and the media's refusal to cover real American leftists. MAMZ is important politically and negatively because he claims to the media and to politicians that he represents the American Left, which drowns out and distorts the voices of real leftists. <br />
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And you're telling me that we should ignore his admission to CIA contacts because he can't remember when he entered the CIA orbit and when he left? If he doesn't remember when he left, maybe it's because he never left the CIA at all, or never stopped being a CIA asset.<br />
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I believe that his Netroots Nation conferences and secret Townhouse Group (and undoubtedly many other secret engagements) are for the purpose of developing CIA assets and then misdirecting them. I was recently contacted by one of those assets, whose interaction with him is public knowledge, and this contact asked me to join a secret group that would make secret political decisions. <br />
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I will not join any group until at least those within the group who are suspected of CIA connections have conclusively disproved their connections with the CIA. MAMZ cannot disprove his connections because he has already confessed to them. I will not be a CIA asset through MAMZ or a MAMZ asset, and Truth About Kos warns and discourages others from playing that role.<br />
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I was also contacted by Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign's e-mail guru (can't remember his name right now), who told me, "We want you to work to elect Hillary Clinton . . . . You know that Markos and I are friends, right?) <br />
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What was he trying to tell me that he didn't come out and say? That if I wanted to be in the Clinton inner blogging circle then I would have to stop writing critically about MAMZ? Was this a back-channel communication from MAMZ himself? <br />
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The reason you can't get anyone to listen to your criticisms of Israel is that there is a massive program of misinformation and obliviousness going on in the United States to convince Americans to accept the relationship with Isreal and forget about the Palestinians. As you have come to realize, MAMZ participates, to the extent of his blog's abilities, in that massive effort to forget about Israel's cruel hegemony over the Palestinians and the Lebanese as well. MAMZ little part is the attempt to shut down discussions of Israel (and also shut down doubt of the incredible explanations of 9-11).<br />
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I have been contacted by various people who tell me in a friendly way that I might as well stop criticizing MAMZ. One woman claimed to be MAMZ's neighbor in California and said she didn't care about him politically, but he was a nasty neighbor. I told her that if she was MAMZ's neighbor then I wanted her to take his garbage from the curb, put it into a box, and mail it to me, so that I could review its contents. I never received any of MAMZ's garbage, so I guess that contact's story was garbage.<br />
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The fact that MAMZ was <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2011/08/moulitsas-acknowledges-that-many.html" target="_blank">compelled to acknowledge that a lot of people believe he is involved with the CIA</a> is proof positive that the work of the Truth About Kos blog has had the desired effect: to discredit him in the eyes of the public. The media continues to cover him because they know that a lot of the people they cover are CIA agents, and it is an accepted rule that the media should not consider CIA contacts (or should favor them) when deciding whether to cover a media event or not.<br />
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MAMZ's 2% Black and 0% Latino participation at his blog is also an attempt to marginalize Blacks and Latinos as part of the American left. Black bloggers thought this didn't matter until they found out that no Black or Latino bloggers would be allowed on the floor of the Democratic National Convention, because that privilege was held by MAMZ's "state bloggers." MAMZ was effectuating a plan to lock Blacks and Black bloggers out of contact and exposure, using the infrastructure of the Democratic Party. When MAMZ's actions result in an all-white Democratic Party media floor blogging pool, the MAMZ has become to malignant to ignore.<br />
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If he can convince the media that Black Kos represents Blacks, then why would or would the media need to contact us Black bloggers. Thankfully, Black Kos is such a transparent ruse that even the media won't cover them. They don't do anything or represent anyone worth covering.<br />
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Most of the time I spend on The Truth About Kos is when I daily review the hits in order to see where Truth About Kos has been cited and quoted and used by others to prove that MAMZ is a liar whose views and concocted appearance of leftist leadership are fallacious. <br />
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When people use the Truth About Kos to discredit Kos, simply by placing a link in the comments at another blog, I know that this part of my efforts has been well done, even if I don't do anything more. <br />
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It is a pleasure, though, that MAMZ acknowledges that he is <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2011/08/moulitsas-acknowledges-that-many.html" target="_blank">widely suspected of being CIA</a>. That suspicion started with Stu-Piddy and me and it limits the harm that MAMZ can cause to the American left and American politics in general. <br />
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This I can tell you with certainty. MAMZ will never run for public office (although he once suggested that he wanted to) because his opponent would access the Truth about Kos blog and use reams of evidence to show that there is something very incredible about MAMZ and he can't be trusted. I feel I'm doing the public a significant service, even if I never update Truth About Kos again.<br />
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<span style="color: #888888;">Francis</span></b></blockquote>MAMZ, who claims to have trained by the CIA for two years (2001 - 2003) during which he started his DailyKos blog (2002), continues to talk nonsense to the media about a number of issues, simply for the purpose of getting his name in the news and having the mainstream press refer to him as a "leftist," "liberal," "progressive." MAMZ needs to try to maintain the perception of legitimacy of his leftist bona fides, even as he struggles with what he acknowledges is a public perception that he is a CIA agent. See links for the above assertions in the right sidebar and in <b><a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2011/08/moulitsas-acknowledges-that-many.html">this article</a></b> published here recently.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566268769860937739.post-59827156590099305552011-08-02T20:45:00.000-07:002011-08-02T20:59:18.592-07:00Moulitsas Acknowledges that Many Consider Him a CIA Agent<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/eK6CinsGYC0" width="425"></iframe><br />
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MAMZ (Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga) finally acknowledged, in an <a href="http://www.politico.com/click/stories/1008/answer_this_moulitsas.html"><b>interview with Politico of August 26, 2010</b></a>, that many people suspect that he is a CIA agent:<br />
<blockquote><b>Your relevance is directly proportional to the amount of chatter you generate about yourself. Given that I'm trying to have an impact on the American political system, I'm more than happy to tolerate crazy CIA conspiracy theories about me. </b></blockquote><br />
This blog would have reported this acknowledgment earlier, but I simply don't have the patience to read and write about MAMZ's day-to-day "chatter"-making statements.<br />
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MAMZ (Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga) finally acknowledged, in an <b><a href="http://www.politico.com/click/stories/1008/answer_this_moulitsas.html">interview with Politico</a></b> of August 26, 2010, that many people suspect that he is a CIA agent:<br />
<blockquote><b>Your relevance is directly proportional to the amount of chatter you generate about yourself. Given that I'm trying to have an impact on the American political system, I'm more than happy to tolerate crazy CIA conspiracy theories about me. </b></blockquote>[I would have reported this acknowledgement earlier, but I simply don't have the patience to read and write about MAMZ's day-to-day attention "chatter"-making statements.]<br />
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Today, MAMZ says his involvement with the CIA is a "crazy CIA conspiracy theory." If so, it's a "crazy" theory based on MAMZ's own "crazy" <a href="http://kos-cia-transcript.blogspot.com/2010/05/markos-c-alberto-moulitsas-zunigas-cia.html"><b>statement of June 2, 2006 at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.</b></a><br />
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Here is what MAMZ said to get the "crazy conspiracy theory" going: <br />
<blockquote><blockquote><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b><b><b style="color: red;">QUESTION:</b> Not long ago, liberals loathed the Central Intelligence Agency as the enemy of democratic governments and they installed dictators around the world, and these days you read the papers and people on the Left are rallying to the defense of the CIA and are indignant when the CIA is politicized. How did this come about, that suddenly liberals are championing the CIA:</b></b></b> </blockquote><blockquote><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b> <b><b style="color: red;">MAMZ's ANSWER:</b> I don’t know. You know I.</b></b></b> </blockquote><blockquote><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b> </b></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b> <b><b style="color: red;">QUESTION:</b> Do you find it stranger or ironic, this sudden love for the CIA?</b></b></b> </blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b> </b></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b><b><b style="color: red;">MAMZ's ANSWER:</b></b></b></b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b><b><b>:</b> You know . . . coughs . . . I think a lot of the people that did have problems with the CIA, I mean it was a very vocal minority.</b></b></b> <br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b> </b></b></blockquote><blockquote><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b><b><b style="color: red;">MAMZ's ANSWER:</b> You know . . . coughs . . . I think a lot of the people that did have problems with the CIA, I mean it was a very vocal minority. I think most people really didn’t think about it all that much. Right? It wasn’t really on their radar screens, ah, in the way that now it is, because now we are in this huge war, and it was the CIA that was warning the Administration against invading because, there were no weapons of mass destruction.</b></b></b> <br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b> <b>Here’s a little secret I don’t think I’ve ever written about: But in 2001, I was unemployed, underemployed, unemployed. You know I was in that . . You all have been there “dot com” people? Kinda like, in between jobs, doin’ a little contract work and . . . kinda. So, you know. That’s where I was: in this really horrible netherworld of ‘will I make rent next month’ and . . .</b></b></b> <br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b> <b>So, I applied to the CIA and I went all the way to the end, I mean it was to the point where I was going to sign papers to become Clandestine Services. And it was at that point that the Howard Dean campaign took off and I had to make a decision whether I was gonna kinda join the Howard Dean campaign, that whole process, or was I was going to become a spy. (Laughter in the audience.) It was going to be a tough decision at first, but then the CIA insisted that if, if I joined that, they’d want me to do the first duty assignment in Washington, DC, and I hate Washington, DC. Six years in Washington, DC [inaudible] that makes the decision a lot easier.</b></b></b> <br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b> <b>[ . . .] This is a very liberal institution. And in a lot of ways, it really does attract people who want to make a better, you know, want to make the world a better place . . . Of course, they’ve got their Dirty Ops and this and that, right but as an institution itself the CIA is really interested in stable world. That’s what they’re interested in. And stable worlds aren’t created by destabilizing regimes and creating wars.</b></b></b> <br />
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</blockquote><blockquote><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b><b>Their done so by other means. Assassination labor leaders . . . I’m kidding!</b></b></b> <br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b> <b>[ . . . ] I don’t think it’s a very partisan thing to want a stable world. And even if you’re protecting American interests, I mean that can get ugly at times, but generally speaking I think their hearts in the right place. As an organization their heart is in the right place. I’ve never had any problem with the CIA. I’d have no problem working for them . <b><a href="http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/06/06-06zuniga-audio.html">Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA at the Commonwealth Club.</a></b></b></b></b></blockquote><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b><b></b></b></b></blockquote>After MAMZ stated publicly that he trained for two years to be a CIA agent, I cannot see anything "crazy" about demanding to know his level of involvement with that agency now. What is "crazy" about wondering how he uses his CIA training and contacts in the context of his present activities? What is "crazy" about wondering if he maintains these contacts now, exchanging privileged information from the left with handlers at the CIA?<br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">In the audiotape recorded <a href="http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/06/06-06zuniga-audio.html"><b>at the Commonwealth Club on June 2, 2006</b></a> and transcribed above, MAMZ states that in 2001 he began training to be a "secret agent" for the US Central Intelligence Agency and that "when the Dean campaign took off" (which happened at the very end of 2003) MAMZ chose to work with that campaign rather than to be a CIA agent, potentially infiltrating that campaign and the blogospere in general. </span></b></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">In a very real sense, he acknowledges that he infiltrated the Left by training at the CIA while participating among people with real and true leftist beliefs and commitments. And he was duplicitous and traitorous when he waited four or five years to tell his readers, associates and the public about his CIA affiliation.</span></b></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Does MAMZ believe that his two years at the CIA are irrelevant to his resume? This doesn't appear in any of his own biographies and curriculum vitae. Did he just think that it would be easier to announce his CIA involvement later, off-offhandedly, rather than post a serious article about it at his blog in 2002, when his blatant conflict of interest commenced? </span></b></b><br />
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There is one point on which I agree with MAMZ.<br />
<blockquote><b>Your relevance is directly proportional to the amount of chatter you generate about yourself. </b></blockquote>However, I would substitute the phrase "ignominious infamy" where MAMZ says "relevance." Unfortunately, it's easier to generate chatter by doing something unspeakably horrible (like infiltrating the Left for the CIA while pretending to be a leftist) than to become notorious while doing something good, during an entire lifetime. <br />
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It's easier to generate an "amount of chatter" by shooting thirty fellow students at a university than it is to become famous while teaching thirty kids to read. It is unquestionably faster and easier to become famous and therefore "relevant" by doing evil than by doing good. The "chatter" about Adolph Hitler and Benedict Arnold may never completely subside.<br />
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Outstanding acts of evil are more newsworthy than positive commitment to others because most people do not practice outstanding evil while trying to attract "chatter." It's easier to pull the trigger on a semi-automatic rifle for a minute and kill people than it is to research cancer cures for a decade. So, if MAMZ chose the route of quick chatter through evil (announcing his involvement with the CIA) rather than quietly doing good, then maybe that's comprehensible from someone who believes as he does that "chatter' is indispensable.<br />
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So, what better way could there have been for MAMZ to generate chatter than to assert, <a href="http://kos-cia-transcript.blogspot.com/2010/05/markos-c-alberto-moulitsas-zunigas-cia.html"><b>as MAMZ did on June 2, 2006 at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco</b></a>, that MAMZ had trained for two years (2001-2003) to become a CIA agent, while starting DailyKos (2002). A CIA agent-in-training starting a "leftist" blog simultaneously is inherently newsworthy, to say the least. Maybe MAMZ just announced this truth in 2006 because he wanted the "chatter" that would result.<br />
But, did he want chatter so much that he would lie about a nonexistent connection with the CIA?<br />
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If MAMZ would lie about training for two years with the CIA, is there anything that he would NOT lie about? And if he told the truth in 2006, then there is no excuse for him to dismiss that truth as a "crazy conspiracy theory" in 2011. This instance show just how quick MAMZ is to call something a crazy conspiracy theory when there is substantial or even <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/indictment-of-markos-ca-moulitsas-ziga.html"><b>overwhelming evidence</b></a> to support the theory<br />
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The Truth About Kos will continue to public information about MAMZ that <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/indictment-of-markos-ca-moulitsas-ziga.html"><b>sheds light on his own connections to the CIA and his family's connections to the US Government</b></a>. See, for example,<br />
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"<b><a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/indictment-of-markos-ca-moulitsas-ziga.html">The Indictment of Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA (MAMZ) by Justice and History (Updated with Additional Information and Counts)</a></b>"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566268769860937739.post-7041609463037646002011-05-21T09:48:00.000-07:002011-05-21T17:55:05.458-07:00A Case Study of Censorship at DailyKos (w/Screen-Shots)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/eK6CinsGYC0" width="425"></iframe><br />
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DailyKos <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trusted"><b>"trusted users"</b></a> are censoring articles posted there by making them invisible to the public. Here is an example: <a href="http://s131.photobucket.com/albums/p316/francislholland/Truth%20About%20Kos/?action=view&current=DailyKosVisitorstoTruthAboutKos.png"><b> The first Site Meter screen-shot</b></a> below shows that on May 18, 2011, approximately sixty DailyKos readers clicked on a link posted at DailyKos, with the intention of viewing a link to this Truth About Kos blog, whose identifier code at Site Meter is "s36hypocrite." (That is the username I chose when creating the "Truth About Kos (DailyKos)" blog's site meter back in 2007.)<br />
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<a href="http://s131.photobucket.com/albums/p316/francislholland/?action=view&current=RedStatetoTruthAboutKos.png"><b>The second Site Meter screen-shot</b></a> (below) shows that DailyKos readers were following a link directly to an article that I researched and published here, entitled: <b><a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/indictment-of-markos-ca-moulitsas-ziga.html">"The Indictment of Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA (MAMZ) by Justice and History (Updated with Additional Information and Counts)"</a></b><br />
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<a href="http://s131.photobucket.com/albums/p316/francislholland/Truth%20About%20Kos/?action=view&current=YouDoNotHavePermissiontoViewthisDiary-1.png"><b>The third Site Meter screen-hot below</b></a> demonstrates that at the DailyKos blog URL address where the blog post <i><b>should have been</b></i> available, there was instead a statement that: <a href="http://s131.photobucket.com/albums/p316/francislholland/Truth%20About%20Kos/?action=view&current=YouDoNotHavePermissiontoViewthisDiary-1.png"><b>"You do not have permission to view this diary."</b></a> At least sixty readers at DailyKos had read the diary, but the general public and reporters would not and will not be able to read the diary.<b> </b><br />
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As <a href="http://s131.photobucket.com/albums/p316/francislholland/Truth%20About%20Kos/?action=view&current=ImfromRedStateAndImHeretoEducate.png"><b>the fourth Site Meter screen-shot shows</b></a>, that hidden article was entitled, <a href="http://s131.photobucket.com/albums/p316/francislholland/Truth%20About%20Kos/?action=view&current=ImfromRedStateAndImHeretoEducate.png"><b>"I'm from Red State and I'm Here to Educate."</b></a><br />
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As screen-shot #2 below demonstrates, the now-hidden Red State blog post that cited Truth About Kos had a link that went directly to <b><a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/indictment-of-markos-ca-moulitsas-ziga.html">"The Indictment of Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA (MAMZ) by Justice and History (Updated with Additional Information and Counts)"</a></b> is not gone. It simply is no longer available to the public. The clear implication is that there is something within the thirty-one-count "Indictment" that trusted users don't want the public or DailyKos readers to see. With over 200 links to US Government, Salvadoran Government, MAMZ family websites, Salvadoran newspaper articles and even a press release by US Government's OPIC, I can certainly understand why trusted users would consider <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/indictment-of-markos-ca-moulitsas-ziga.html"><b>The Indictment</b></a> to be a threat to DailyKos' and MAMZ's reputation.<br />
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If you don't want to know the truth about Kos, and you don't want others to learn the truth about Kos, then don't read <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/indictment-of-markos-ca-moulitsas-ziga.html"><b>The Indictment</b></a> and don't link to it. (Over sixty blogs have linked to Truth About Kos.)<br />
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People who understand the rules and invisible inner-workings of DailyKos could probably explain to us quite easily what this evidence means. I cannot fully explain, but I can say what I do know. <a href="http://www.redstate.com/"><b>"Red State</b></a>" is a Republican conservative blog, so anyone who posted an article at the ostensibly "leftist" DailyKos using the name "Red State" in the title would immediately be suspect.<br />
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DailyKos has <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trusted"><b>"trusted users"</b></a> whose foremost job is eliminate from the blog posts and comments any information that seriously threatens the authorized view of Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) and of DailyKos, e.g. <i><b>a blog post or comment that links to this Truth About Kos blog</b></i>. They can eliminate any information from public view if it contradicts an aspect of the blog's reputation.<br />
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Reportedly, the way that they do so is by having a threshold number of "trusted users" who must object to a post or comment in order to make that comment or post invisible to the public. Once that threshold is reached, the comment or blog post becomes invisible to the public, and visible only to "trusted users"<br />
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DailyKos "trusted readers" treat people differently according to whether they observe the rules (public and unstated). Anyone who quotes or links to the Truth About Kos blog has effectively declared war on DailyKos and on Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga. Once it becomes clear that the information posted is inimical to the view of DailyKos that the "trusted users" carefully maintain, the user's ability to post will be diminished or eliminated.<br />
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What information is in the indictment that is inimical to the DailyKos? The fact that MAMZ admittedly spent three <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/truthout1020"><b>years training at the CIA</b></a> is probably among the facts that the "trusted users" want to keep secret. Not surprisingly, the Commonwealth Club has finally removed from its archives the audiotape in which MAMZ acknowledges that he spent three years with the CIA, including 2002--the year in which he started DailyKos.<br />
Fortunately, I suspected this might happen and so I prepared a <b><a href="http://kos-cia-transcript.blogspot.com/2010/05/markos-c-alberto-moulitsas-zunigas-cia.html">Transcript of MAMZ's Confession to 2 to 3 YRS at CIA.</a> </b> This audio tape has been excerpted and written about all over the leftist and psuedo-leftist blogosphere and MAMZ has never denied its authenticity. For example, a user at YouTube named <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/truthout1020"><b>truthout1020</b></a> made a video including audio of MAMZ's own voice, confessing to having been trained by the CIA from 2001 until 2003. MAMZ did not challenge the fact that the voice on the tape is his and has not denied making any of the statements he made. However, the links to the audio-no longer work, and a search for "Moulitsas" among Commonwealth Club's archives show no<br />
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Almost nine thousand people have viewed and listened to the video and still MAMZ has never denied its authenticity. I would imagine that TruthOut1020 probably has the entire interview on his hard drive, because he used it extensively in making the above video.<br />
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Although MAMZ has acknowledged verbally, on audio-tape, that he spent 2001 until 2003 training at the CIA, this is not in his biography at DailyKos. His military service is. The fact that he has not acknowledged training at the CIA while starting DailyKos is not in his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markos_Moulitsas"><b>Wikipedia entry</b></a> either. I have put it there more than once, but someone keeps taking it out, as if three years at the CIA are not relevant and worthy of mention. Or as if a Wikipedia page is not information for the public but rather propaganda for those names lead in biographies there. (The mainstream media doesn't out CIA agents and this may help to explain why they haven't discussed the CIA backstory even though MAMZ has brought it up in public.) <br />
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The truth is that being CIA-trained contradicts his attempts to present himself as a "leftist" and "progressive" and so those whose job it is to prune his image have intentionally withheld critical background information from the public. It is as if his entire public posture is just his CIA cover story, while the thoroughly documented information at the Truth About Kos is the reality from which he wants to run and hide.<br />
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Just remember this: MAMZ did not inform the public that in 1993 <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/09/why-is-mamzs-homophobic-1993-essays.html"><b>MAMZ vehemently opposed ALL gay service in the US Armed Forces,</b></a> and he ridiculed then-President Clinton for trying to open the military to gay service. <br />
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You didn't discover that information in his bio at DailyKos, or in his Wikipedia entry or in any of the biographical pieces that have been written about him by the mainstream media. <br />
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The homophobic college essay was research, discovered and published at The Truth About Kos, because we research and expose Kos, even when his "trusted users" and the mainstream media refuse to do so refuse to publish this information.<br />
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SourceWatch is also a more credible source of information than Wikipedia because the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Markos_Moulitsas_Z%C3%BAniga"><b>SourceWatch biography of MAMZ</b></a> includes the following:<br />
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<blockquote><h2><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="mw-headline">Criticisms</span></b></span></h2><b>"<a class="new" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=The_Truth_About_Kos&action=edit&redlink=1" title="The Truth About Kos (page does not exist)">The Truth About Kos</a>," an anti-DailyKos blog by <a class="new" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Francis_L._Holland&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Francis L. Holland (page does not exist)">Francis L. Holland</a>, reported on a 1993 college essay in which Moulitsas Zúniga (then a freshman) opined that gays should not be permitted to serve in the military under any circumstances. He wrote in the column, signed "Markos C.A. Moulitsas," that for non-gay military men, "There is something inherently uncomfortable about it."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Markos_Moulitsas_Z%C3%BAniga#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a></sup></b> </blockquote><blockquote><b>In a <a class="external text" href="http://commonwealthclub.org/archive/06/06-06zuniga-audio.html" rel="nofollow" title="http://commonwealthclub.org/archive/06/06-06zuniga-audio.html">June 6, 2006 speech</a> to the <a class="new" href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Commonwealth_Club&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Commonwealth Club (page does not exist)">Commonwealth Club</a> in San Francisco, Zúniga stated that he had spent between six months and two years training at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a> in Washington, DC. In this speech Kos said began in 2001, before he started DailyKos,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Markos_Moulitsas_Z%C3%BAniga#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a></sup> and continued until the beginning of his involvement with the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Howard_Dean" title="Howard Dean">Howard Dean</a> presidential campaign (late 2003/early 2004), which would mean that Zúniga was in training with the US CIA for as much as two years.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Markos_Moulitsas_Z%C3%BAniga#cite_note-5" title="">[6]</a></sup></b></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Screenshots 1 to 4:</b></span><br />
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The Indictment of Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA (MAMZ) by Justice and History (Updated with Additional Information and Counts)</a></span></b><br />
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</tbody></table>Over at DailyKos, an article was posted with the name <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/17/976930/-Im-from-Red-Statehere-to-Educate"><b>"Red State Here to Educate."</b></a> The article almost certainly linked to the Truth About Kos blog, because close to sixty DailyKos leaders followed the link to the Truth About Kos blog. Now, for some reason, I find that I cannot read the article. Instead, I get the page above, saying.<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/17/976930/-Im-from-Red-Statehere-to-Educate?via=siderecent"><b>"You do not have permission to view this diary."</b></a><br />
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Why would I need "permission" to view a diary at a large national blog pseudo-Democratic Party blog that does not charge fees for reading articles? Is it because there is <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trusted"><b>rampant censorship</b></a>, practiced by "trusted users" at DailyKos, and articles that do not support the underlying premise of DailyKos are taken down by the censors? <br />
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Or is it because no one with my IP address is allowed to visit DailyKos, lest I show the relationship between the articles posted there and the fact that MAMZ was admittedly <a href="http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/06/06-06zuniga-audio.html"><b>(on audiotape)</b></a> <a href="http://kos-cia-transcript.blogspot.com/2010/05/markos-c-alberto-moulitsas-zunigas-cia.html"><b>training with the Central Intelligence Agency in 2002, during the entire year when he started DailyKos?</b></a><br />
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I just don't know why an article posted by someone from RedState has been hidden from me, and perhaps from thousands of others, by DailyKos censors.<br />
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My bet is that it is invisible simply because it links to a list of <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/indictment-of-markos-ca-moulitsas-ziga.html"><b>31 essential and reprehensible facts about DailyKos</b></a>, its owner and his family, which <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/indictment-of-markos-ca-moulitsas-ziga.html"><b>facts are posted</b></a> here at Truth About Kos. These thirty-one facts, when taken together, show that MAMZ is a brazen liar, undercover in the United States as a "leftist-blog" operator, rags to riches story, when in fact his family is ENORMOUSLY wealthy in El Salvador.<b><a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/indictment-of-markos-ca-moulitsas-ziga.html"> See "The Indictment of Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA (MAMZ) by Justice and History (Updated with Additional Information and Counts)."</a></b><br />
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This is the Truth About Kos article to which Red-State linked to today, and this explains why Red-State's article is invisible, at least to me, this afternoon. Google Red-State's article and see if you can find it. If you do, post a link here in the comments.<br />
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At DailyKos it is verbotten to link to Truth About Kos, and people who do so anyway quickly find that their posting privileges has been withdrawn. If readers don't believe me, they need not take my word for it. In an article or diary that you post at DailyKos, just use the blog name "Truth About Kos" and link to this blog. You will immediately be warned by someone, perhaps subtly but without question, that you have broken and unwritten rule by linking to Truth About Kos. If you continue, the warnings will become more explicit and then your blog post and comment privileges will be withdrawn. This can all happen within one day if your repeatedly link to this blog.<br />
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You will lose your posting and commenting privileges faster than a tornado rips a barn off of its foundation. Or link to this <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/05/AR2007080501580.html"><b>Washington Post article</b></a> and quote from the article: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/05/AR2007080501580.html"><b>WaPost: [YearlyKos] "Bloggers' Convention a Sea of</b><b><b><b> </b>Middle-Aged White Males"</b></b></a><br />
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The Truth About Kos blog has come to serve an essential purpose in the blogworld: when people are arguing about any issue involving MAMZ and DailyKos, e.g. in the comments section of any blog, anyone who wants to instantly <a href="http://chmt.wordpress.com/2007/08/11/daily-kos-founder-admits-to-seeking-cia-job-before-getting-involved-in-the-dean-campaign/"><b>drop a truth bomb</b></a> on DailyKos and MAMZ need only link to <i><b>one</b></i> of the articles here to demonstrate that MAMZ has acknowledged <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/proof-of-marcos-moulitsas-involvement.html"><b>being trained by the CIA</b></a>; isn't an immigrant although he has claimed to be in the press; and wrote a letter to his college student newspaper in 1993, arguing against any and all gay participation in the US Armed Forces.<b><a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/indictment-of-markos-ca-moulitsas-ziga.html"> The Indictment of Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA (MAMZ) by Justice and History (Updated with Additional Information and Counts)</a></b> (See over 200 links to US and Salvadoran Government documents, US Government press releases, MAMZ's college student articles in his student newspaper, and statements by the "manager" of MAMZ "family-owned hotel conglomerate in El Salvador, which "manager's name is strikingly similar to MAMZ's own name.) <br />
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Reading the above and much more at the Truth About Kos shuts down his defenders in the blogworld, because no one wants to admit that their favorite blogger is very likely employed by the CIA and using his blog to gather more CIA assets, who join knowingly or unwittingly.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566268769860937739.post-45854009439848255602011-05-11T03:16:00.000-07:002011-05-11T03:33:54.203-07:00The Rehabilitation of Markos Moulitsas<div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://culturekitchen.com/francislholland/forum/the_rehabilitation_of_markos_moulitsas">First posted at Culture Kitchen</a> on February 4, 2007,<br />
before the Truth About Kos blog and associates<br />
broke the <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/indictment-of-markos-ca-moulitsas-ziga.html">dams of Moulitsas' bullshit wide open.</a></b></div><br />
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Today, Markos Moulitsas, is the doctrinaire leftist publisher of the DailyKos progressive anti-war blog, railing against the moderation of candidates like Hillary Rodham Clinton and Harold Ford. But in the 1980'a, Mr. Moulitsas was an unabashed Reagan Democrat, even working as a campaign aid to George H.W. Bush in the 1992 Presidential election. <b><a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0601.wallace-wells.html" title="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0601.wallace-wells.html">http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0601.wallace-wells.html</a> <a href="http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/01/markos-was-republican-states-rights.html" title="http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/01/markos-was-republican-states-rights.html">http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/01/markos-was-republican-states...</a></b><br />
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Last year, in a piece Markos wrote for the Cato (libertarian) Institute, Markos acknowledged that the spent the 1980's as a Reagan Republican. <a href="http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/10/02/markos-moulitsas/the-case-for-the-libertarian-democrat/" title="http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/10/02/markos-moulitsas/the-case-for-the-libertarian-democrat/">http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/10/02/markos-moulitsas/the-case-for-the...</a><br />
<a href="http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/01/yes-progessive-markos-of-dailykos-was.html" title="http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/01/yes-progessive-markos-of-dailykos-was.html">http://francislholland.blogspot.com/2007/01/yes-progessive-markos-of-dai...</a><br />
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How did Markos achieve this stunning metamorphosis in just a few short years? Actually, nobody knows and Markos isn't telling. He has told interviewers, improbably, that he last voted for the Republicans in 1992, because he suddenly realized that they didn't support states rights as strongly as he would have liked. (See articles above.)<br />
<br />
<b><a href="http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/10/02/markos-moulitsas/the-case-for-the-libertarian-democrat/">He said,</a></b><br />
<blockquote><b>"We can fondly look back to a time [during the 1980's Reagan Administration] when Republicans spoke a good game on libertarian issues . . .[including] fealty to state rights . . ." <a href="http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/10/02/markos-moulitsas/the-case-for-the-libertarian-democrat/">The Case for the Libertarian Democrat (by Markos Moulitsas)</a></b></blockquote>States rights' is the right-wing proposition that the Federal Government lacks the Constitutional authority to oblige the states to integrate schools, oblige restaurants to serve Black patrons and mandate equal rights for the disabled. States rights was the clarion call of southern segregationists against integration of schools and restaurants.<br />
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Considering that, for Markos, part of the Republicans "speaking a <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;">good</span> </span>game" on libertarian issues consisted, in Markos' words, of "fealty to states rights", clearly Markos is saying that he stopped supporting the Republicans because they stopped supporting states' rights. (Emphasis added.)<br />
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But, Markos' rejection of the Republicans today doesn't make sense, because Republicans' dedication to states' rights has not deminished. One would have thought that George H.W. Bush's appointment of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court would have satisfied Markos thirst for states rights jurisprudence on the US Supreme Court. Clarence Thomas is among the foremost proponents of states rights on the US Supreme Court. <a href="http://www.acsblog.org/equal-protection-and-due-process-in-clarence-thomas-america-civil-rights-legislation-is-in-jeopardy.html" title="http://www.acsblog.org/equal-protection-and-due-process-in-clarence-thomas-america-civil-rights-legislation-is-in-jeopardy.html">http://www.acsblog.org/equal-protection-and-due-process-in-clarence-thom...</a><br />
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E. J. Dion says,<br />
<blockquote><b><b><b>What was once obvious is becoming painfully obvious again: The doctrine of states' rights, so often invoked as a principle, is almost always a pretext to deny the federal government authority to do things that conservatives dislike. These include expanding claims to individual rights, increasing protections for the environment and regulating business. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39141-2002Jun24?language=printer" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39141-2002Jun24?language=printer">http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39141-2002Jun24?language=print...</a></b> </b></b></blockquote><b><b>For example, </b><br />
</b><br />
<blockquote><b><b><b>In the ground-breaking 2000 case, United States v. Morrison, the Supreme Court was presented with a constitutional challenge to 42 U.S.C. 13981, the provision of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) that gives victims of gender-motivated violence a private right of action against their assailants. In a 5-4 decision, the Court struck down the law, holding that the Commerce Clause did not provide Congress with the authority to enact the civil remedy portion of VAWA, since the provision was found not to be a regulation of activity that "substantially affected" interstate commerce; and secondly, because the enforcement clause of the Fourteenth Amendment did not provide Congress with authority to enact the provision </b><b> . . .</b> </b></b></blockquote><blockquote><b><b><b> </b><br />
<b>With Thomas and four other justices declining to extend the enforcement clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to enact VAWA, "the unfortunate consequence of a series of political decisions harking back to Reconstruction" occurred, said Jack Balkin, a law professor at Yale. The 14th Amendment is arguably the natural home of civil rights legislation, as it guarantees equal citizenship, and it gives Congress power to enforce equality rights. Balkin elaborates, "We should recognize what the framers of the 14th Amendment intended: Congress has an independent power and obligation to promote and protect equal citizenship and civil rights." Therefore, if Congress believes that a law is necessary and proper to promote equal citizenship, it should have the power to pass it "without using the fiction that inequality affects interstate commerce."</b> </b></b></blockquote><blockquote><b><b><b> . . . The effects of Morrison have undermined civil rights generally and women's safety issues in particular. "The Rehnquist Court's ruling in U.S. v. Morrison is a setback for women's rights and a triumph for those that seek to roll back 30 years of federal civil rights law under the guise of states' rights," said Kathy Rodgers. "The Court has slammed shut the courthouse door, wished women good luck, and sent us back to the states for justice." <a href="http://www.acsblog.org/equal-protection-and-due-process-in-clarence-thomas-america-civil-rights-legislation-is-in-jeopardy.html" title="http://www.acsblog.org/equal-protection-and-due-process-in-clarence-thomas-america-civil-rights-legislation-is-in-jeopardy.html">http://www.acsblog.org/equal-protection-and-due-process-in-clarence-thom...</a></b> </b></b></blockquote><b><b>With Clarence Thomas appointed to the US Supreme Court to uphold states' rights, it hardly seems logical that Markos would have abandoned the Republicans who had done so much to revive states rights in the post Civil Rights era, particularly with the appoint of Clarence Thomas, the foremost advocate of states rights.<br />
And therein lies the mystery of Markos. Why is he a Democrat at all, if he still supports states rights? <a href="http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/10/02/markos-moulitsas/the-case-for-the-libertarian-democrat/" title="http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/10/02/markos-moulitsas/the-case-for-the-libertarian-democrat/">http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/10/02/markos-moulitsas/the-case-for-the...</a></b></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566268769860937739.post-3959995142635740732011-04-19T22:28:00.000-07:002011-04-20T08:51:10.536-07:00"Black Kos" a Transparent Demographic ShamIt's April 20th and Michelle Obama's Government plane nearly crashed today, while a chief within the Republican Party has circulated an e-mail depicting the President Obama as one among three monkeys.<br />
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At least that's what the Brazilian press is saying and showing. However, "Black Kos" has not reported on either of these incidents.<br />
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<b>On April 19th</b>, two days ago, we have a <b>"Commentary by Black Kos Editor Deoliver 47,</b>" about the youth vote.<br />
<b>On April 15</b>, four days earlier, there was a bit of poetry by <b>"Black Kos Poetry Editor Justice Putnam</b>."<br />
<b>On April 12</b>, 3 days earlier than the last post, appeared <b>"Commentary by Black Kos Editor </b><br />
<b> Deoliver47."</b><br />
<b>On April 8</b>, four days earlier than the last post, there was a reflection by <b>"Black Kos Editor, Sephius1."</b><br />
<b>On April 5, </b>three days earlier than the last post, there was a<b> "Commentary by Deoliver47</b><b>."</b><b> </b><br />
<b>On April 1, </b>four days earlier than the last post, there was a commentary by <b>dopper0189, Black Kos Managing Editor.</b><br />
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What can we gather from the above? All of the articles written for Black Kos in so far in this April were written by four (4) editors of "Black Kos". What are they "editing" besides their own writings? <br />
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All of the articles they wrote in the first twenty-one days of April were written by: <b><br />
</b><br />
<ol><li><b>"Deoliver 47"</b><b><br />
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<li><b>"Black Kos Poetry Editor Justice Putnam</b>," <b> </b></li>
<li><b>"Sephius1" </b>or<b> </b></li>
<li><b>"</b><b>dopper0189".</b> </li>
</ol>So few are Blacks at DailyKos that these editors could have a board meeting in a telephone booth. There is no evidence of continuity of political themes or collaborative political efforts, unless the "editors' " political goal is to establish that Black people can participate in a poetry club.<br />
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Black Kos is a silent backwater in the DailyKos whitosphere blog as the following observation proves numerically:<br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1472983566"><b>Editor Deoliver 47 has</b> </a><b><a href="http://dailykos.com/search?keyword=Deoliver+47+%22high+impact%22&submit.x=22&submit.y=23&submit=Search">not</a> </b>written a high-impact diary according to the archives of DailyKos, from January 2010 until the present..<br />
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/search?keyword=%22high+impact%22&submit.x=13&submit.y=16&submit=Search"><b>Editor Justice Putman has never</b></a> written a high impact diary during that period either, according to an archives search.<br />
<a href="http://dailykos.com/search?keyword=Deoliver+47+%22high+impact%22&submit.x=22&submit.y=23&submit=Search"><b>Editor Sephius 1</b></a> has not written a high impact diary at least since January 2010.<br />
<a href="http://dailykos.com/search?keyword=Deoliver+47+%22high+impact%22&submit.x=22&submit.y=23&submit=Search"><b>And Dopper0189</b></a> has not written a high-impact diary in that period either.<br />
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An "editor" should teach writers to publish stories that are influential. Yet, these four editors themselves have demonstrated that their own writings have no influence at DailyKos. This leads me to believe that, however meritorious the writing of the four editors above may be, they are being ignored at DailyKos, and they apparently don't even care.<br />
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The transparent sham appearance of an attempt to create a Black community around these editors is simply a reflection of a much deeper problem: the redlining of DailyKos and the whitosphere. DailyKos whites treat "Black Kos" as if it were a dangerous Black ghetto that DK whites avoid like a car-jacking. The neutered speech of four (?) 'Black Kos" editors is the price for them speaking at all at DailyKos. These are Black Americans who have learned not to upset the <a href="http://kos-cia-transcript.blogspot.com/2010/05/markos-c-alberto-moulitsas-zunigas-cia.html"><b>pseudo-progressive</b></a> <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/indictment-of-markos-ca-moulitsas-ziga.html"><b>CIA-influenced</b></a> DailyKos branch of the American whitosphere. <br />
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This is why <b><a href="http://www.quantcast.com/dailykos.com">Quantcast.com</a></b> site metrix shows that DailyKos has only <a href="http://www.quantcast.com/dailykos.com"><b>3% Black visits to their site</b></a>, while Black delegates to the Democratic National Convention typically are 20% of delegates and some states have more Black Democratic voters than white ones.<br />
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Moreover the site visits at DailyKos are <b><a href="http://www.quantcast.com/dailykos.com">1% Hispanic</a></b>, perhaps precisely because its owner, Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas <b>Zúñiga's</b> runs like his hair is on fire from his Latino, Salvadoran roots, as he did in the following letter to the editor at Northern Illinois State University's "Northern Star" student newspaper. He insists that he is simply a white man.<br />
<blockquote><b>"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.)</b></blockquote>MAMZ looks white in terms of his skin color. The quote above explains why Latinos in the United States utterly ignore DailyKos even though it's owner is half-Latino. MAMZ thinks like an anti-Black and anti-Latino color-aroused antagonist, and these demographic groups feel it.<br />
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You'll have to <a href="http://northernstar.info/articlepage.php?pk=31464&sectionfrom=metro&db=2"><b>search for the link and the rest of the above article</b></a> at MAMZ's alma mater, the Northern Illinois University, within their <b><a href="http://northernstar.info/articlepage.php?pk=31464&sectionfrom=metro&db=2">Northern Star newspaper archives</a></b>, using the search term "Moulitsas." For some reason, the URL addresses of MAMZ's articles from his college career have changed four or five times since 2007, when I began researching and publishing these <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/kos-acknowledges-truth-about-kos-at.html"><b>extremely embarrassing</b></a> and <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2009/08/i-dont-think-anyone-should-out-gays.html"><b>rabidly homophobic</b></a> 100% Republican articles. <br />
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Back to the point: "Black Kos" is a transparent shame that exists precisely because there are virtually no Blacks participating at DailyKos, and so the few there are must be aggregated and highlighted to avoid the appearance that DailyKos is <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/is-dailykos-white-supremacist-group.html"><b>a white supremacist organization</b></a>.<br />
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The concept of a ghetto created especially for the Black demographic at DailyKos arose because there was an embarrassing lack of Blacks' content, and Blacks with high-impact there are feared and banished. I know because my diaries at DailyKos were consistently high-impact diaries and yet I was banned from the site. I was banned because I expressed the opinions of a Black man (e.g. that a non-white male president of the United States should and would be elected in 2008).<br />
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This anti-Black antagonism expressed in response to this view explains why there are only 3% Blacks at DailyKos, and proves that "Black Kos" exists only as part of a public relations sham attempt to imply that there are substantially more Black at DailyKos than there <a href="http://www.quantcast.com/dailykos.com"><b>actually are</b></a>. This is why the Washington Post said for YearlyKos said, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/05/AR2007080501580.html"><b>"Bloggers' Convention a Sea of </b></a><b><b><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/05/AR2007080501580.html">Middle-Aged White Males".</a></b></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566268769860937739.post-41693322788607592042011-02-21T17:57:00.000-08:002011-02-21T23:26:21.382-08:00Arrested US Official is Actually CIA Contractor<b><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110221/ap_on_re_us/us_pakistan_detained_american"></a></b><br />
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</ul></div></div></div><div class="byline"><cite class="vcard"> By ADAM GOLDMAN and KIMBERLY DOZIER, Associated Press <span class="fn org">Adam Goldman And Kimberly Dozier, Associated Press</span> </cite> – <abbr class="timedate" title="2011-02-21T12:16:33-0800">Mon Feb 21, 3:16 pm ET</abbr></div><div class="byline"></div>WASHINGTON – An American jailed in Pakistan for the fatal shooting of two armed men was secretly working for the CIA and scouting a neighborhood when he was arrested, a disclosure likely to further frustrate U.S. government efforts to free the man and strain relations between two countries partnered in a fragile alliance in the war on terror.<br />
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Raymond Allen Davis, 36, had been working as a CIA security contractor and living in a Lahore safe house, according to former and current U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to talk publicly about the incident.<br />
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Davis, a former Special Forces soldier who left the military in 2003, shot the men in what he described as an attempted armed robbery in the eastern city of Lahore as they approached him on a motorcycle. A third Pakistani, a bystander, died when a car rushing to help Davis struck him. Davis was carrying a Glock handgun, a pocket telescope and papers with different identifications.<br />
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Meanwhile, the Obama administration insisted anew Monday that Davis had diplomatic immunity and must be set free. In a hastily arranged conference call with reporters shortly after details of Davis' employment were reported, <a class="kLink" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110221/ap_on_re_us/us_pakistan_detained_american#" id="KonaLink0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted;" target="undefined"><span style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">senior </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">State </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">Department </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">officials</span></span></a> repeated the administration's stance that he is an accredited member of the technical and administrative staff of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad. They said the Pakistani government had been informed of his status in January 2010 and that Pakistan is violating its international obligations by continuing to hold him.<br />
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The officials would not comment on Davis' employment but said it was irrelevant to the case because Pakistan had not rejected his status The officials spoke only on grounds of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.<br />
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The revelation that Davis was an employee of the CIA comes amid a tumultuous dispute over whether he is immune from criminal prosecution under international rules enacted to protect diplomats overseas. New protests in Pakistan erupted after The <a class="kLink" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110221/ap_on_re_us/us_pakistan_detained_american#" id="KonaLink1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted;" target="undefined"><span style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">Guardian </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">newspaper </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">in </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">London</span></span></a> decided to publish details about Davis' relationship with the CIA.<br />
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The U.S. had repeatedly asserted that Davis had diplomatic immunity and should have been released immediately. The State Department claimed Davis was "entitled to full criminal immunity in accordance with the Vienna Convention" and was a member of the "technical and administrative staff" at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad.<br />
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The Associated Press learned about Davis working for the CIA last month, immediately after the shootings, but withheld publication of the information because it could endanger his life while he was jailed overseas, with at least some protesters there calling for his execution as a spy.<br />
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The AP had intended to report Davis' CIA employment after he was out of harm's way, but the story was broken Sunday by The Guardian. The CIA asked The AP and several other U.S. media outlets to hold their stories as the U.S. tried to improve Davis' security situation.<br />
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A U.S. official says Davis is being held at a jail on the outskirts of Lahore where there are serious doubts about whether the Pakistanis can truly protect him. The official says the Pakistanis have expressed similar concerns to the U.S.<br />
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A <a class="kLink" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110221/ap_on_re_us/us_pakistan_detained_american#" id="KonaLink2" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted;" target="undefined"><span style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">senior </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">Pakistani </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">intelligence </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">official</span></span></a> said the government had taken measures to ensure the safety of Davis, stepping up security at the facility, removing certain inmates from the prison and sending a contingent of well-trained paramilitaries known as the Rangers.<br />
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The State Department said the Pakistani government was informed that Davis was a diplomat and entitled to immunity when he was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad.<br />
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"We are very mindful of the difficulty that the government of Pakistan faces with public opinion in this case," department spokesman P.J. Crowley said. "We remain concerned about him and our message to Pakistan remains that he should be released as soon as possible."<br />
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Davis identified himself as a diplomat to police when he was arrested and "has repeatedly requested immunity" to no avail, Crowley said. The U.S. Embassy said he has a diplomatic passport and a visa valid through June 2012. It also said in a recent statement the U.S. had notified the Pakistani government of Davis' assignment more than a year ago. However, the senior Pakistani intelligence official says that Davis' visa application contained bogus U.S. contact information.<br />
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Since Pakistani authorities took the ex-Special Forces soldier into custody Jan. 27, U.S. officials said, the situation has slowly escalated into a crisis, threatening the CIA's ability to wage a dangerous war against al-Qaida and militants. Some <a class="kLink" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110221/ap_on_re_us/us_pakistan_detained_american#" id="KonaLink3" target="undefined"><span style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">members </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">of </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">Congress</span></span></a> have threatened to cut off the billions in funding to Pakistan if Davis isn't released.<br />
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Davis was attached to the CIA's Global Response Staff, which provides security overseas to agency bases and stations, former and current U.S. officials told the AP. In that role, he was assigned to protect CIA personnel. One of their duties includes protecting case officers when they meet with sources. On the day he was captured, he was familiarizing himself with the area.<br />
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"Davis is a protective officer, someone who provides security to U.S. officials in Pakistan," the U.S official said. "Rumors to the contrary are simply wrong."<br />
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In a YouTube video of local police interrogating him, Davis says he's a consultant and he's with the "RAO," a reference to the American Regional Affairs Office. Davis also said at one point he was attached to the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad.<br />
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Working for the agency's GRS comes with risks — sometimes fatal ones. The head of security at the CIA's base in Khost, Afghanistan, was killed with six others in December 2009 after a suicide bomber detonated a powerful explosive under his belt.<br />
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The CIA has a major presence in Pakistan, where it runs the drone program in Islamabad and offensive operations against militants, al-Qaida and Pakistan's spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence. <br />
Former and current U.S. officials say the Pakistanis might have been stalling to release Davis so he could be extensively questioned, hoping he could provide more information about CIA activities in the troubled country or possibly even identify other agency officers.<br />
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The senior Pakistani intelligence official told the AP the two men in the response vehicle that went to aid Davis, killing the bystander, have left the country. The official said the Pakistani government's decision to let them leave was a concession to the U.S.<br />
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The U.S.-Pakistani partnership had begun to fray in recent months. In late 2010, a pair of civil lawsuits filed in the U.S. accused Pakistan's spy chief of nurturing terrorists involved in the <a class="kLink" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110221/ap_on_re_us/us_pakistan_detained_american#" id="KonaLink4" target="undefined"><span style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">2008 </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">Mumbai </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">attacks</span></span></a>. Shortly after the lawsuits were filed, the name of the CIA's top spy in Pakistan was publicly disclosed and his life threatened. He was eventually pulled out of the country in December, a month before the scheduled end of his tour.<br />
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A former CIA officer said militants have also threatened the children of ISI officers. And the CIA in recent years has become increasingly concerned about the safety of its officers in outlying areas like Lahore and Peshawar, a former senior U.S. intelligence source said. But the danger was more pronounced in Lahore, where the CIA learned there might be government elements willing to harm agency officers. <br />
Former CIA officials said the agency officers could have been killed in 2009 when terrorists attacked an ISI compound in Lahore. CIA officers regularly met their counterparts at the compound but didn't have a meeting scheduled the day of the attack.<br />
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Further inflaming tensions, the wife of one of the men Davis shot committed suicide. She had said she feared her husband's killer would be freed without trial.<br />
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Military records show Davis, a Virginia native, served a decade in the Army, including five years with the 3rd Special Forces Group in <a class="kLink" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110221/ap_on_re_us/us_pakistan_detained_american#" id="KonaLink5" target="undefined"><span style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">Fort </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">Bragg</span></span></a>, N.C., home to the Green Berets.<br />
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Davis also worked for security contractor Blackwater Worldwide, now known as Xe Services. <br />
Davis and his wife run a Las Vegas-registered company called Hyperion Protective Services. The address for its headquarters is a mailbox at a UPS store in a strip mall. The truth about Davis' true employer briefly slipped out after a local television reporter in Colorado called his wife.<br />
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In a story posted on the website of Denver's 9News, the wife provided the name and number of a "CIA spokesperson" in Washington, D.C. But the story was quickly taken down, edited and then reposted with new language eliminating any reference to the CIA.<br />
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The incident in Pakistan also raises serious questions about how an armed CIA employee could become involved in a fatal shooting with street bandits and allow himself to be captured. Former CIA officers say they were taught to make their way back to the safety of the embassy or consulate in potentially dangerous situations, but the circumstances could have made that impossible in Davis' case. <br />
Former CIA officials say this is not the first time an agency employee was detained in a foreign country. In the 1980s, a CIA officer with diplomatic immunity was abducted in Ethiopia after he was suspected of spying. The case was quietly resolved and the officer was eventually released.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566268769860937739.post-55870759640502272092011-02-21T17:48:00.000-08:002011-02-21T17:48:58.075-08:00Newspaper Story Explains Mainstream Press Unwillingness to Tackle Moulitsas CIA ConnectionsToday, a story published at <b><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110221/ap_on_re_us/us_pakistan_detained_american">Yahoo News about a CIA agent</a></b> whose activities where discovered and outed by a <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110221/ap_on_re_us/us_pakistan_detained_american#"><b>Great Britain newspaper</b></a> confirms a suspicion that I have held for at least four years: Just as the United States mainstream media does not report that a member of the US Congress is gay or cheating until the issue is forced into the open, likewise the US mainstream media simply does not report on its knowledge of who-- here and overseas-- is a CIA agent.<br />
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Likewise, identifying CIA-sponsored activities is also a verboten topic in the mainstream media, even when those topics receive a great deal of press. The New York Times made an exception recently, reporting that President Obama had requested last September a list of countries that might be susceptible to uprisings. The article reported CIA involvement in preparing the report. (I am looking for a link to that story.) Yet, the Yahoo story of today proves that the US press doesn't identify or discuss CIA agents, except "on background" and without reporting their identities because doing so would disrupt CIA activities, and endanger agents and assets, within the United States.<br />
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And so it is in the case of Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúniga (MAMZ). On June 2, 1996, MAMZ <a href="http://kos-cia-transcript.blogspot.com/2010/05/markos-c-alberto-moulitsas-zunigas-cia.html"><b>announced in a speech</b></a> to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco that, when MAMZ founded DailyKos in 2002, MAMZ had been in training with the CIA to be a Clandestine Services agent.<br />
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With 45,000 hits at Google for <a href="http://www.google.com.br/#hl=pt-BR&biw=800&bih=439&q=Moulitsas+CIA+speech+Commonwealth&aq=&aqi=&aql=&oq=Moulitsas+CIA+speech+Commonwealth&fp=622e4108c1a60520"><i><b>Moulitsas CIA speech Commonwealth,</b></i></a> the apparent disinterest in this story by the mainstream press is a matter that has confounded me over the last four years. In fact, the mainstream press, I have learned, has simply written less biographical pieces on MAMZ rather than include his CIA involvement in stories about him.<br />
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Yahoo New reported today, based on a story first broken by the<span style="color: #366388;"><b> </b></span><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110221/ap_on_re_us/us_pakistan_detained_american#"><span style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-weight: 400; position: static;">Guardian </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-weight: 400; position: static;">newspaper </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-weight: 400; position: static;">in </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-weight: 400; position: static;">London</span></span></a></span></b> that a purported US Embassy staffer was actually working for the CIA when he was arrested in Pakistan:<br />
<blockquote><b>The revelation that Davis was an employee of the CIA comes amid a tumultuous dispute over whether he is immune from criminal prosecution under international rules enacted to protect diplomats overseas. New protests in Pakistan erupted after The <a class="kLink" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110221/ap_on_re_us/us_pakistan_detained_american#" id="KonaLink1" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); border-bottom-style: dotted;" target="undefined"><span style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">Guardian </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">newspaper </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">in </span><span class="kLink" style="color: #366388; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 400; position: static;">London</span></span></a> decided to publish details about Davis' relationship with the CIA.</b><br />
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<b>The U.S. had repeatedly asserted that Davis had diplomatic immunity and should have been released immediately. The State Department claimed Davis was "entitled to full criminal immunity in accordance with the Vienna Convention" and was a member of the "technical and administrative staff" at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad.</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">The Associated Press learned about Davis working for the CIA last month, immediately after the shootings, but withheld publication of the information</span> because it could endanger his life while he was jailed overseas, with at least some protesters there calling for his execution as a spy.</b> </blockquote><blockquote style="color: red;"><b>The AP had intended to report Davis' CIA employment after he was out of harm's way, but the story was broken Sunday by The Guardian. The CIA asked The AP and several other U.S. media outlets to hold their stories as the U.S. tried to improve Davis' security situation.</b></blockquote>This case clearly shows that the mainstream newspapers and media in the United States withhold information about CIA activities if the CIA asks them to do so, and also because there is a tacit agreement that clandestine CIA activities are not to be reported in the news, because of "harm to the troops" and "risk to foreign sources" and a plethora of others excuses not to inform the public.<br />
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Obviously, it's impossible for the public to truly understand foreign news stories when the clandestine activities of the most powerful nation on earth are hidden and not revealed.<br />
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And so, MAMZ can cavort around media talk shows, insisting that he is a "liberal" "leftist", without ever being confronted with the proof that he is CIA-involved, which casts doubt on everything he does in the name of leftist activism. By telling only the CIA-approved version of MAMZ's biography, the press actually helps the CIA to mislead the US public.<br />
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Still, the public can gather and publish MAMZ's CIA contacts at blogs such as this one, and any member of the public who really wants to understand MAMZ can just Google his name along with CIA. The information is there. It's explosive in the blogosphere, but still carefully ignored, at least since <a href="http://kos-cia-transcript.blogspot.com/2010/05/markos-c-alberto-moulitsas-zunigas-cia.html"><b>June 2, 2006</b></a>, by the mainstream media.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566268769860937739.post-19088832095254318402011-02-11T13:30:00.000-08:002011-02-11T13:46:03.129-08:00Markos Moulitsas 1993 Letter to Editor Opposing ALL Gay Military Service is Missing, AgainMany of us have read the <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/09/why-is-mamzs-homophobic-1993-essays.html"><b>1993 letter that Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga posted</b></a> in his college newspaper, opposing ALL gay service in the military. We have also noticed that the <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/09/why-is-mamzs-homophobic-1993-essays.html"><b>URL for the article has changed five times or more</b></a> since it was first reprinted here at Truth About Kos. These changes in the URL make it more difficult for members of the public to read what MAMZ said when he was a college newspaper writer. These changed URL's breaks our links to the article and lead to an <a href="http://northernstar.info/articlepage.php?pk=16416&sectionfrom=perspective_letters&db=2"><b>"Unsupported Media"</b></a> notice at the Northern University's <i>Northern Star</i> student newspaper.<br />
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Ironically, the article in which a woman student and former servicewoman challenges MAMZs <a href="http://northernstar.info/opinion/article_0643b3cc-9a99-54c1-837c-2e543616396d.html"><b>"bad attitude"</b></a> <a href="http://northernstar.info/opinion/article_0643b3cc-9a99-54c1-837c-2e543616396d.html"><b>can still be found at the same URL as before</b></a>. <br />
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Is someone at the Northern Start student newspaper, or even someone substantially more powerful, constantly changing the address of <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/09/why-is-mamzs-homophobic-1993-essays.html"><b>MAMZ's anti-gay article</b></a> so that the public will not be able to read it? If so, it remains available in a screenshot at Truth About Kos, as well as in dozens of other blogs that couldn't help but highlight<a href="http://northernstar.info/opinion/article_0643b3cc-9a99-54c1-837c-2e543616396d.html"><b> the duplicity of MAMZ's homophobia</b></a> versus his facile and relatively new endeavor to seem "progressive". Compare his <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/09/why-is-mamzs-homophobic-1993-essays.html"><b>1993 letter to the editor</b></a> with what has come after it, and see which reflects the REAL MAMZ, if any of his writings really do.<br />
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Go to the newspaper's archives and search for Moulitsas and you may still be able to read his embarrassing articles, including the on in which <b><a href="http://www.northernstar.info/ArticlePage.php?pk=31464&sectionfrom=metro&db=2">MAMZ Denies Being Latino in Spite of "ZÚÑIGA" Maternal Surname.</a></b><br />
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A blog called<b> "<b><a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2010/02/im-really-tired-and-disgusted-with.html">Links to MAMZ's College Newspaper Articles</a>" </b></b>once had functioning links to all of MAMZ college articles, but now includes only the names, summaries and broken links, because, for some reason, the URL's of these articles change over and over again. Is it possible that someone is assisting MAMZ in making it more difficult to read these articles, some of which are frankly embarrassing? <b><br />
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<a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2010/02/im-really-tired-and-disgusted-with.html"><b>Links to MAMZ's College Newspaper Articles</b>,</a> with helpful annotations.<br />
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You may find that, once again, the links to his articles don't work and you have to search for the articles at the <i>Northern Star</i> by searching for the target word, "Moulitsas." <b><b><br />
</b></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566268769860937739.post-28402855393975310892011-01-18T05:15:00.000-08:002011-01-18T05:15:57.318-08:00"Belismelis Family Wealthy"We have always known that <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2010/03/wealthy-moulitsas-zuniga-kos-family.html"><b>Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) enormous family wealth</b></a> in El Salvador was not unique, but was part of an oligarchy that controls most of the wealth in El Salvador. Tonight, someone Google-researched the "Belismelis Family Wealthy." Their search led them to the <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2010/03/wealthy-moulitsas-zuniga-kos-family.html"><b>Truth About Kos</b></a> blog, because a member of MAMZ's family is a player in a right-wing advocacy group in which the Belismelis family is involved.<br />
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Any additional and well-sourced information about the Belismelis family and it's indirect or direct contacts to MAMZ would certainly be published here as an article if sent to FrancisLHolland @ Gmail.com.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566268769860937739.post-25528956293480061742011-01-15T18:43:00.000-08:002011-01-15T18:43:51.882-08:00"We See You" Blog Includes "Truth About Kos" on Blog ListThere's a blog called, <b>"<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://weeseeyou.com/" title="W.E.E. See You…">W.E.E. See You…</a></span>"</b> that covers the issues being raised in Black blogs generally and whose self-definition says the blog is, "<span class="blogDescription">Keeping Our Eyes on African Americans: Our History, Political Issues, & Popular Culture</span>".<br />
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Although many white people's blogs have linked to the Truth About Kos blog *See side bar), Black people and particularly bloggers have found it hard to understand the relevance of <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/05/AR2007080501580.html"><b>virtually all-white DailyKos, Kos and Kos minions for Blacks. </b></a><br />
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It was therefore, a real wake-up call to other Black bloggers in 2008 when they and I discovered that the bloggers authorized to cover the Democratic National Convention were to be divided into two groups, one of which would cover the Convention action from a distance while other group, "State Bloggers Corps" or "Floor Bloggers" (all-white), would have constant access to the floor of the Convention.<br />
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When Black bloggers learned that NONE of the floor bloggers would represent a Black blog, I think Black bloggers began to understand why you can't authorize a man with <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Markos%20Moulitsas:%20A%20Lifetime%20Insensitive%20to%20Democratic%20Party%20Constituencies"><b>2% Black participants at his blog</b></a> to design Blacks' access to the Democratic National Convention floor.<b> <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/moulitsas-homophobic-stand-against-gays.html">Markos Moulitsas: </a><a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/moulitsas-homophobic-stand-against-gays.html">A Lifetime Insensitive to Democratic Party Constituencies</a></b> <br />
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And yet that is exactly what had happened. The whole State Blog idea was born on the campus of <a href="http://kos-cia-transcript.blogspot.com/2010/05/markos-c-alberto-moulitsas-zunigas-cia.html"><b>DailyKos clandestine services</b></a> where Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) first helped to catalyze a group of State Blogs, each focusing narrowly and on the cloistered politics of their own state.<br />
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Then, Moulitsas convinced the DNCC that the best way to determine which bloggers would be on the floor of the Convention would be to select bloggers who focus specifically on the politics of their own state. Since Black bloggers cover the Black diaspora with concern for Africa, Philadephia and how we are being represented in Hollywood, it was a foregone conclusion that no Black blogs would be represented among the State Blog Corps, and that no Black blogs would have the constant access to the floor of the Convention that the all-white State Blogs would have.<br />
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When you trust a <a href="http://kos-cia-transcript.blogspot.com/2010/05/markos-c-alberto-moulitsas-zunigas-cia.html"><b>CIA-trained </b></a> blogger with a Latino last name, who nonetheless insists that he <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/moulitsas-homophobic-stand-against-gays.html"><b>is white and non-Hispanic</b></a>, even though his mother is El Salvadoran; and who has <a href="http://www.quantcast.com/dailykos.com"><b>zero percent Latino users at his DailyKos site</b></a> be the one who designs Democratic Convention access, you'll get precisely what we got in 2008:<a href="http://blogs.newamericamedia.org/nam-round-table/1337/the-black-political-blogosphere"> <b>an apartheid-like Jim Crow system that privileges a select group of white bloggers</b></a> on a basis that is arbitrary and entirely spurious. You'll find that Black bloggers who ignore white bloggers' scheming are Black bloggers who are disadvantaged by white bloggers' scheming. <br />
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And so we are glad that the <b><a href="http://weeseeyou.com/about/">"We See You"</a></b> Blog has acknowledged the importance of keeping an eye on all-white blogs that are intimately connected within the Democratic Party--the Party that cannot win presidential elections without Black and Latino votes..Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2566268769860937739.post-91364197587843667502011-01-09T16:56:00.000-08:002011-01-09T17:19:52.944-08:00Prison Planet Cites Truth About Kos Blog Exposing MAMZ's CIA Roots<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://kos-cia-transcript.blogspot.com/2010/05/markos-c-alberto-moulitsas-zunigas-cia.html"><b> Transcript of Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) Interview </b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>In Which MAMZ Says He Spent 2 Year Training at the CIA, between 2001 and 2003, </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>while he started his DailyKos Blog in 2002</b>.</div><br />
Today, after the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/us/politics/10giffords.html?_r=1&hp"><b>shooting of Arizona Democratic Representative</b></a> <a class="meta-per" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/gabrielle_giffords/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Gabrielle Giffords."><b>Gabrielle Giffords</b>,</a> Alex Jones' <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/establishment-media-demonizes-tea-party-and-constitutionalists-after-giffords-shooting.html"><b>Prison Planet blog</b></a> and <a href="http://www.infowars.com/establishment-media-demonizes-tea-party-and-constitutionalists-after-giffords-shooting/"><b>Infowars</b></a>, by Kurt Nimo, wrote about the corporate and corporate blogs' media coverage of articles, blog posts and commentary about the shooting, pointing out that<br />
<blockquote><b> In a Tweet, <a href="http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/indictment-of-markos-ca-moulitsas-ziga.html" target="_blank">suspected CIA operative</a> <a href="http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/01/08/sarah-palin-blamed-by-bloggers-for-shooting-of-gabrielle-gifford/" target="_blank">Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos</a> wrote sarcastically: “Mission accomplished, Sarah Palin.”</b></blockquote>I appreciate <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/establishment-media-demonizes-tea-party-and-constitutionalists-after-giffords-shooting.html"><b>Prison Planet's recognition</b></a> and <a href="http://www.infowars.com/establishment-media-demonizes-tea-party-and-constitutionalists-after-giffords-shooting/"><b>InfoWars</b></a> acknowledgement that the known CIA past and present activities of any public official or member of the public should be noted when writing about that official or person. Readers need to know when reading MAMZ's comments that <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/establishment-media-demonizes-tea-party-and-constitutionalists-after-giffords-shooting.html"><b>"suspected CIA operative" Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga's (MAMZ´s) past</b></a> includes, by <a href="http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/06/06-06zuniga-audio.html"><b>his own audio-taped account</b></a>, (see <a href="http://kos-cia-transcript.blogspot.com/2010/05/markos-c-alberto-moulitsas-zunigas-cia.html"><b>Trancript</b></a>) two years of training and working with the CIA, from 2001 until 2003.<br />
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<a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/establishment-media-demonizes-tea-party-and-constitutionalists-after-giffords-shooting.html"><b>Prison Planet</b></a> gives its readers the opportunity to weigh MAMZ's CIA involvement so that readers can give his comments all of the weight they deserve, and also better understand MAMZ's possible motives in making these comments. When we read MAMZ's comments we must always "take them for what they are worth," as judges take evidence in criminal and civil trials.<br />
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I personally believe that MAMZ's short and quotable accusantion against Sarah Palin in this instance is meant to increase his credibility in the mainstream media and among self-professed "progressives", "liberals" and "leftists". MAMZ wants to get out in front and make a comment that his target audience will take as the words of a "leftist", even if this "leftist" was trained at the CIA to infiltrate groups as a "Clandestine Operations" CIA-staffer.<br />
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I personally think it's fair to assume that when MAMZ started DailyKos (2002) while training with the CIA (2001-2003), MAMZ availed himself of the help of some of his CIA co-workers'. I cannot prove the veracity of my belief, but I believe the rabid defenses of MAMZ, at DailyKos and elsewhere, is bought and paid for. <br />
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It certainly is relevant that a public figure was trained for two years by the CIA, and the <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/establishment-media-demonizes-tea-party-and-constitutionalists-after-giffords-shooting.html"><b>Prison Planet website recognizes that relevance</b></a> when describing MAMZ as a <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/establishment-media-demonizes-tea-party-and-constitutionalists-after-giffords-shooting.html"><b>"suspected CIA operative"</b></a> and then links to a <a href="http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/06/06-06zuniga-audio.html"><b>the Truth About Kos Blog article</b></a> to a <a href="http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/06/06-06zuniga-audio.html"><b>Commonwealth Club audio-taped interview of June 2006.</b></a> In a <a href="http://kos-cia-transcript.blogspot.com/"><b>verbatim transcript of that interview</b></a> MAMZ is shown to have said,<br />
<blockquote><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b> <b>Here’s a little secret I don’t think I’ve ever written about: But in 2001, I was unemployed, underemployed, unemployed. You know I was in that . . You all have been there “dot com” people? Kinda like, in between jobs, doin’ a little contract work and . . . kinda. So, you know. That’s where I was: in this really horrible netherworld of ‘will I make rent next month’ and . . .</b></b></b> </blockquote><blockquote><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b> </b></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b> <b>So, I applied to the CIA and I went all the way to the end, I mean it was to the point where I was going to sign papers to become Clandestine Services. And it was at that point that the Howard Dean campaign took off and I had to make a decision whether I was gonna kinda join the Howard Dean campaign, that whole process, or was I was going to become a spy. (Laughter in the audience.) It was going to be a tough decision at first, but then the CIA insisted that if, if I joined that, they’d want me to do the first duty assignment in Washington, DC, and I hate Washington, DC. Six years in Washington, DC [inaudible] that makes the decision a lot easier.</b></b></b> </blockquote><blockquote><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b> </b></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b> <b>[ . . .] This is a very liberal institution. And in a lot of ways, it really does attract people who want to make a better, you know, want to make the world a better place . . . Of course, they’ve got their Dirty Ops and this and that, right but as an institution itself the CIA is really interested in stable world. That’s what they’re interested in. And stable worlds aren’t created by destabilizing regimes and creating wars. Their done so by other means. Assassination labor leaders . . . I’m kidding!</b></b></b> </blockquote><blockquote><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b> </b></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b> <b>[ . . . ] I don’t think it’s a very partisan thing to want a stable world. And even if you’re protecting American interests, I mean that can get ugly at times, but generally speaking I think their hearts in the right place. As an organization their heart is in the right place. I’ve never had any problem with the CIA. I’d have no problem working for them . <b><a href="http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/06/06-06zuniga-audio.html">Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA at the Commonwealth Club.</a></b></b></b></b></blockquote> I think it is fairly obvious why the mainstream press does not print the above information which MAMZ has acknowledged and why they don't ask him to explain his comments more fully: The mainstream press of the left and the right has an unwritten rule that it does not "out" CIA agents and does not report and who has or is working with the CIA, particularly within the United States of America.<br />
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If the mainstream media reports MAMZ's self-described CIA history then he would no longer be a credible "leader of the left" because the general public would assume that MAMZ is an infiltrator of the Left rather than dedicated leader of public "progressive" opinion. <a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/establishment-media-demonizes-tea-party-and-constitutionalists-after-giffords-shooting.html"><b>Prison Planet website recognizes that relevance</b></a> and importance of an employment history that includes CIA training and work in the past and a declaration that the same person that:<br />
<blockquote><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b><b>I’ve never had any problem with the CIA. I’d have no problem working for them in the present. <b><a href="http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/06/06-06zuniga-audio.html">Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA at the Commonwealth Club.</a></b></b></b></b></blockquote>Isn't MAMZ effectively telling us that he DOES work for the CIA, since he has never subsequently addressed this topic and has never said that he does NOT work for the CIA? Why doesn't the mainstream press report this question and its relevance to his role in American politics?<br />
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That unwritten mainstream press rule that the press will not "out" CIA agents is followed both in the corporate so-called "liberal" news outlets as well as in the right-wing mainstream media. And so when MAMZ calls himself a leader of public opinion, most people are not able to weigh the truth of that against the fact that he was trained by and worked for the CIA at the same time that he opened a "leftist blog".Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0