Brad Blog Plumbing the Reasons for the Authoritarianism at DailyKos

The Brad Blog has reported ugly truths about (MAMZ) "Kos" of DailyKos, and his minions, and I thought I'd link to their coverage today. And yet, during the period when I and Stu Piddy discovered that MAMZ had spent up to two years training at the CIA, the Brad Blog never seems to have covered that extremely important fact. I constantly Googled the issue at the time, under the assumption that blogs that reported MAMZ's CIA connections were more trustworthy than blogs that ignored the news of MAMZ's CIA, and blogs that attempted to explain away or continue collaborating with CIA-connected MAMZ.

Under this test of credibility, the entire mainstream press has to be considered suspect, because they continue to quote MAMZ without noting that his Wikipedia page and SourceWatch page clearly state that he was trained by the CIA for up to two years. (However, it does seem that they have stopped writing glowing biographical pieces on MAMZ since the Truth About Kos demonstrated that virtually everything MAMZ says about himself and his family background is distorted or outright lies.)

Maybe the mainstream press knows so many CIA-trained "progressives" that it no longer seems remarkable to them, but it is still remarkable to me. Just as likely, the mainstream press has an unspoken policy of not naming known past and present CIA operatives, just as they don't "out" members of Congress whom they know to be gay, even when the members' sexual orientation is highly relevant in the context of their legislative efforts, usually against gay rights.

I don't trust ANYONE who isn't surprised to learn that someone (like MAMZ) who is ostensibly progressive spent two years "training" at the CIA.

The following Brad Blog posts raises, among other questions, the issue of why so many CIA-connected people (like Larry Johnson and Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA) are fronting supposedly progressive blogs. (And yet with a quick Google search, I can't find where Brad Blog has directly addressed questioningly MAMZ's almost two years' "training" at the CIA in Washington DC. And I can't find where the Brad Blog has cited the Truth About Kos Blog's proof that MAMZ was "trained" for up to two years at the CIA. And so I don't know if the Brad Blog attacks DailyKos as true opposition to it, or merely to hold the attention of blog readers to the pseudo-progressive CIA-infected whitosphere.

Can anyone tell me whether the Brad Blog has ever pointed out that MAMZ was trained by the CIA? They SHOULD certainly have done so, because it would underscore the reasons for suspicion of MAMZ on the election integrity issue. If they haven't reported MAMZ's connections to the CIA, in spite of every motivation to do so, to support their own arguments against MAMZ on election integrity, then their must be a reasons for that failure to report MAMZ's CIA connections as well.

The only sense this all makes to me (MAMZ and Johnson's CIA connections AND participation in the psuedo progressive whitosphere) is that some Government agency is behind it, supporting, encouraging and financing it. MAMZ himself acknowledged on audio tape that he was at the CIA when he started DailyKos and would have "no problem working for them again", while Johnson acknowledges that he's "ex" CIA. That's not "tinfoil". Those are confessions of the sort that are admiissible in court under the Federal Rules of Evidence, and in spite of the rule against hearsay evidence, because what we "hear" someone "say" about their own behavior, when what they say is damning evidence against themselves, is more likely to be true, since people don't usually confess to heinous crimes and acts which they have not committed.

As one commentator has said with respect to MAMZ, "Once CIA, always CIA." For this very reason, I don't trust anybody who has EVER worked for the CIA, because I can never know what their true agenda is, and what their motive is for saying and doing any particular thing on any particular day. EVERYTHING they say has to be suspect, interpreted in the light of their connections, past and/or present, overt and/or covert, to the Central Intelligence Agency.

I frankly don't know WHO to trust (almost no one completely in the whitosphere), but I cite Brad Blog here because they have highlighted MAMZ's aversity to election integrity. And yet I wonder why they haven't pointed out MAMZ connections to the CIA and have left that task to commentors.

Larry Johnson: 'FUCK KOS...You Guys Are John Bolton and Dick Cheney in Drag'

Former CIA Analyst Outraged by 'Orwellian Fascist' Tactics of World's Most Powerful Supposedly 'Progressive' Blogsite...

Glad to see it's not just us. We've had our own problems with the self-destructive, control-bots of the Kossack Army Guards of the Gate. Note: The Daily Kos readers, by and large, should not be blamed, since they seem to get it, but founder Markos Moulitsas and his front-page diarists and automatons are a different matter.

Now they've managed to raise the ire of BRAD BLOG friend and former CIA analystLarry Johnson of NoQuarter, who, believe it or not, was far less politic in his response to Kos than even we were.

And, unlike most of the folks who have been banned and/or purged at dKos for having the temerity to discuss issues of Election Integrity, at least Larry was given a"warning" about his "unacceptable" behavior before it was demanded that he sign the equivalent of a loyalty oath to regain his ability to post over there again...Which, understandably, he has no interest in doing...

What a bunch of goddamn, Orwellian fascists. Here’s the message waiting for me when I checked in tonight:

Okay Mr. Kos. Here’s a word for you: GO FUCK YOURSELF. (Actually, that’s three words. My bad.)

This wannabee poseur and his gang of Animal Farm pig imitators have lost touch with reality.
...
Well Markos and crowd. Orwell was right. Fuck you people. I won’t post and I won’t read. But most of all, I won’t apologize. I have nothing to apologize for other than making the false assumption that you clowns gave a shit about freedom of expression or liberty. You guys are John Bolton and Dick Cheney in drag. You are welcome to kiss my ass.

The graf explaining the initial root of the problem is removed in the above, in hopes that you might go give Larry's excellent site a read to find out what his particular violation was.

UPDATE 2/17/08: A senior Daily Kos front-pager takes yet another shot at The BRAD BLOG following this post, referring to us as a "nutter site" doing "more harm than good" for the cause of election integrity. Go figure. The dKos poster, "DHinMI", also fails to fully disclose who he actually is. But we've been able to connect a few dots, making his Swiftboat-style attack on us a bit easier to understand. Complete shameful details here...

Blogged by Brad Friedman on 2/15/2008 11:31AM PT [Print Version] [Email it!] [Permalink] [23 Comments so far...] [Categories for this item: Accountability, Daily Kos]

February 4th, 2008

Your Daily Dose of Daily Kos Diarists in Dangerous Denial...

The courageous anonymous diarists at Daily Kos, the world's largest so-called "progressive" blog site, continue their pre-emptive suicide.

Today's dangerous mislead comes courtesy of anonymous poster "smintheus", who warns readers, in advance of Super Tuesday, that no matter what happens, there is nothing to worry your pretty little head about...

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Blogged by Brad Friedman on 2/4/2008 1:12PM PT [Print Version] [Email it!] [Permalink] [17 Comments so far...] [Categories for this item: Election Irregularities, Election Reform, Election 2008,Accountability, Daily Kos]

January 29th, 2008

Daily Kos' Markos Moulitsas Attacks Election Integrity, Irresponsibly, Yet Again

The World's Most-Read 'Progressive' Blogger Continues to Misinform His Readers, Seems to Have No Understanding of How Our Electoral System Works (or Doesn't)...

With "friends" like Markos Moulitsas at Daily Kos, Democrats may not need Republicans to help them lose this year. Once again, the namesake of the largest supposedly-Progressive blogsite in the world misleads his readers, confuses issues of Election Integrity with unmade allegations of "conspiracy theories," and otherwise makes all-new extraordinary claims which are wholly unsupported by any evidence, extraordinary or otherwise.

The damage he and his minions are personally causing to the fight for verified, transparent elections is becoming greater than we can possibly describe. But we'll try...

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Blogged by Brad Friedman on 1/29/2008 3:50PM PT [Print Version] [Email it!] [Permalink] [67 Comments so far...] [Categories for this item: Election Irregularities, Election 2008, New Hampshire,South Carolina, Daily Kos]

I don't know what to think about Brad Blog citing CIA Larry Johnson above as an authority. An ex-CIA man has an "excellent site"? HAHAHA!!!!! I wouldn't trust ANYONE who's "ex"-CIA.

All too much of what is available in print in the whitosphere is there to manipulate readers, in ways that we can't entirely even imagine. Maybe the whitosphere -- all or most of it -- is mostly a way to distract and discourage real white progressives from engaging in direct action of the sort that took place in the sixties.

DailyKos Participant "Let The Sunshine" is Banned for Citing Truth About Kos Blog's Research

Well, I think my curiousity has gotten the better of me tonight but, as is often the case, my dogged pursuit of the answers to my questions has led me to the truth. Today, the question was, "Why are so many readers coming from Google to read my exposé blog on Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA and DailyKos.

Although I was exiled from DailyKos and MyRightWing, as well as MyDD over a year ago, my SiteMeter at The Truth About Kos Blog tells me that there is renewed interest in and controversy over the circumstances of my banning. The Truth About Kos (DailyKos) serves as a road map to the strange fruit that is Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga, e.g. claiming that came to the US as an immigrant when he was actually born in Chicago, and claiming to come from a nondescript Salvadoran family when his family owns millions of dollars of prime ocean front property on El Salvador's most exclusive beach and the manager of MAMZ's family hotel is also president of the Salvadoran National Tourism Bureau (or was when I last looked). "Why Has MAMZ Hidden His Roots In the Salvadoran Oligarchy?"

In fact, this "family hotel" manager received a million dollar loan guaranteed by the US Government's Overseas Private Investment Corporation, perhaps in exchange for his vigorous advocacy of globalization within Central American tourism industry and multinational table and industrial salt mining. It's all heavily documented (and more) in an investigative report here called, "The Indictment of Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA by Justice and History (Updated with Additional Information and Counts)".

This blog receives about 15 consistent hits per day, with 25 page reads, from people wanting a roadmap to the strange life and secret family background of Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ), but over the last week there has been a noticeable increase in interest in my role in discovering and uncovering the MAMZ family secrets. (Just read the "Indictment" and you will see that there is no hyperbole when I use the words "secrets." Certainly, all of the information I uncovered was information that MAMZ himself, as well as his minions, had gone to great efforts to hide from the public, even to the extent to NEVER, EVER naming a single member of MAMZ biological family for the public. I simply pointed out and documented that MAMZ said he trained with the CIA for up to two years, and his behavior is that of a CIA agent trying to maintain a cover story while hiding his documentable background.)

Lately, people have clicked in from the Radar Online article that was the first mainstream magazine article to question MAMZ's strange love for the CIA.

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A blogger who goes by the pseudonym "Karmafish" has acknowledged recently in a post at MyLeftWing that he intentionally taunted me at DailyKos and MyLeftWing in an attempt to either discredit me or make me so angry that I would say things that would alienate those who still believed that MAMZ was a leftist, rather than a Reaganite George H.W. Bush supporter who opposed ALL gay service in the military and then started DailyKos while "training" at CIA headquarters in Washington, DC. (See also "So Long, Francis", by Karmafish at DailyKos, August 13, 2007.)

I thoroughly debunked, fact by fact, Karmafish's defenses of MAMZ, not because I cared about Karmafish at all, but rather as an opportunity to more fully address the questions surrounding MAMZ for the benefit of other readers, many of whom visited MyLeftWing at the time strictly to see the debate about MAMZ and to learn more about who Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA really is, and his fascinating and horrifyingly right-wing Salvadoran oligarchy family background. (Just search for words like "oligarchy" and "family" and "hotel" and "ANEP" and "Alberto" and "Joya" and "salt" at this blog to follow the entire bizarre story of careful deception that is DailyKos and its founder and his one-time at least employer, and perhaps present handler.)

However, Karmafish's latest article about this at MyLeftWing was dated April 5, while all of the Google hits for "DailyKos and Francis L. Holland" were dated on April 4, preceeding the latest Karmafish article. The Karmafish article at MyLeftWing was, it seems, a response to some other occurrence that cast doubt upon MAMZ, based on information that I had developed, and therefore Karmafish felt a need to take action to rebut the whatever was printed somewhere on or just prior to April 4.

In fact many people at MyLeftWing and other blogs accused me of being a "Kos-basher" and, of course, they were quite right. This blog is devoted to exposing the many reasons why Kos needs to be bashed right out of the media and particularly out of left wing circles, where his efforts to channel and control dissent seems to be his primary value after having trained at the CIA. OF COURSE someone who trained at the CIA would vehemently oppose conspiracy theory, since the CIA is one big conspiracy think tank that endeavors to do all of its planning and action with plausible deniability, outside of the public eye. The CIA must have been terribly concerned with maintaining this plausible deniability and with deflecting blog attention from their activities when they sponsored MAMZ financially during the time when the Iraq War was starting and MAMZ was coincidentally starting DailyKos, where he urged supporters NOT to engage in street demonstrations against US invasion of Iraq.

HHHHHHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, MAMZ has still not told us whether he is under contract to the CIA at present, but at least we do know now why there are so many Google hits about it leading to this blog. On April 4, there was a diary at DailyKos entitled, "Explain This, Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga", in which the diariast simply linked to the June 2, 2006 Commonwealth Club interview in which MAMZ acknowledged that he had spent two years "training" at the CIA's Washington offices while he was starting DailyKos. In the comments at least two people posted links to The Truth About Kos, where MAMZ's connections to the CIA and, indirectly, to the globalizationist US Overseas Private Investment Corporation are explored in great depth.

Here's the entire diary that was posted at DailyKos on April 4:

Explain This, Markos Moulitsas ZunigaLetTheSunShine

Sat Apr 04, 2009 at 01:53:08 PM PDT

Kos has never explained the strange timeline that his 2006 interview with the Commonwealth Group produced. He said he interviewed with the CIA in 2001. He said it was a six month process. He said that when he was about to sign on for clandestine spy operations, he instead decided to join the Dean campaign. But that was in 2003. Links and evidence after the fold.

• LetTheSunShine's diary :: ::

http://www.commonwealthclub.org/...

key excerpt:

There have been plenty of folks who have railed against The Daily Kos for years. Many knew in their gut that free speech here has been an illusion. A wonderful activist named David Weintraub found the definitive proof that unfair moderating practices have been encouraged and implemented by top members of the administration. The following link may be housed by an insignificant website named Free Speech Zone, but don't be confused by that factoid. They had nothing to do with locating this proof.

The UGOG Files

Hmmm. This link is no longer displayed at FSZ. If the link doesn't work, then that will not be a problem, as it will simply be reproduced elsewhere when time permits.

Dave was arguably the finest blogger at DKos until an insidious individual named MajorFlaw{Ugog} decided that he needed to be run off.

I don't expect Kos to explain the illogical nature of his comments to the Commonwealth Group, of how a six month process lasted well past the start of this domain up to his decision to work with Howard Dean.

I don't expect Kos or any of the administrators to explain why UGOGs such as Trashablanca, MBNYC, DadaNation, TaylorMattD, and TECampbell are still allowed to post. I don't expect him to explain why he never made one comment on any of Dave's diaries until his last one, only to call him some kind of drama queen/king.

I expect this diary to be deleted.

I do not expect DKos to ever recover from the growing awareness that this website has been nothing other than a cash cow having none to do with democratic ideals.

Tags: Markos Moulitsas, CIA, Meta, DaveFromQueens, Michele Bachmann (all tags) :: Previous Tag Versions

The diary was not deleted, but the writer was summarily banned, according to the comments to the diary itself.

I think this diary is mocking Holland (0+ / 0-)
from those links there are several recent spinoffs from his 3/30/09 posting.
This is mockery in a subtle style imo, not serious.
Diarist now banned I see...

Hear is "one of them" edscan 3/27/09

by KenBee on Sat Apr 04, 2009 at 04:45:04 PM PDT
[ Parent ]

As is so often the case at DailyKos, there was no one there to seriously engage the discussion of why MAMZ confessed in a video, in his own voice, that he spent up to two years at CIA offices in D.C. Instead of addressing that question, commentors attacked the diarist, his motives, and showered him with ridicule, while expressing no curiosity at all about MAMZ's 2 years at the CIA, as if his reasons for being there were self-evident or easily explained away. One commentor even claimed to be the wife of a CIA employee, apparently as a way of legitimizing MAMZ's time there. 'Everybody works at the CIA at some point in their lives, right?' seems to be the attitude that DailyKos (staff writers?) would have us all adopt.

The same diarist had made a previous attempt a few days earlier to bring the truth about Kos to DailyKos, but s/he naturally met with the same derisive and dismissive comments, as well as vulgar insults that we saw with respect to the diary referenced above:

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Read the comments, if you want to bother with all that mindless vitriol. If there is a lesson to be learned here, it is that DailyKos is not a serious blog of any kind, leftist, centrist or rightist. Instead, it is a most likely a bunch of salaried employees of the Defense Intelligence Agency or some other such Government department, with the editorial voice of the US Central Intelligence Agency. One commenter even threatens the poster as they often did to me, offering to send the poster a fruit basked with a "pineapple" (hand grenade) inside. Yeah, that's a progressive blog alright, where dissenters are threatened with death by hand grenade!

In reality, the voice of the EXTREME right is everywhere present. I'm talking about the Salvadoran Death Squad type of people who really do believe that killing someone to silence them is a perfectly acceptable activity. Except that at a Government organ like DailyKos, "banning" is the functional equivalent of killing, because it prevents the banned person's political voice ever from being heard again at the blog.

Which is why a country run by the majority at DailyKos would probably have about the same level of freedom of speech as Pinochet's Chile or Somoza's Nicaragua.

I would encourage whomever started posted those pieces (and then got banned) to start his/her own blog, and focus on exposing more about Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA's family in El Salvador, their international salt mining and distribution business, and why in the world his humble Salvador family has an office in Texas representing their Baja Salt conglomerate! I don't know, and I can't figure it out yet, but if anything every sounded like a CIA front to me, it's that Baja Salt office in Texas

The following is Count 16 of "The Indictment of Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA by Justice and History (Updated with Additional Information and Counts)":

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

There is still so much more to be learned, if only for the sake of satisfying one's curiosity. But, I figure I've done my job. The media cannot possibly write about MAMZ biographically now without mentioning his CIA record and questioning, "WHY". And MAMZ's desire for political influence on the Left is limited by what is now known about the CIA's influence on MAMZ.

The strongest circumstantial proof that MAMZ still works for the CIA is that no national newspaper or magazine except RadarOnline.Com has covered the substantial blog debate about MAMZ's links to the CIA. Mainstream newspapers have a policy not to "out" CIA agents.

Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zuniga, 2% Black DailyKos, Decries Lack of Diversity in 10% Black Republican Party

It's richly ironic that Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga, writing now for The Hill, and subject of the investigatory piece, "The Indictment of Markos C.A. Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA by Justice and History (Updated with Additional Information and Counts)", is criticizing the Republicans for lack of diversity. This s so ironic, since DailyKos, the blog founded by Zúñiga while he was working (or "training"for two years) at the CIA, is a blog with only 2% Black members and 1.5% Latino members, even though MOULITSAS Zíñiga is ostensible one half Latino (and one half Greek). Maybe there are lot of Greek immigrants at DailyKos to round out the diversity at the virtually all-white blog.

Back on December 6, 2006, just a week before this Black man was banned from participation at DailyKos, I published a critique there, entitled, "Black Republicans (9.5%) ; Black at DailyKos (2%)." The scathing response to the statistically factually critique showed that Moulitsas and his minions are more interested in integrating the Republican Party than they are in integrating DailyKos.

Later, when not a single Black blogger was selected to cover the Democratic National Convention from the floor, Zúñiga raised his voice that his picks for state bloggers were not all selected, but none of his picks was Black or Latino.

You have to compare the facts to the rhetoric to identify hypocrisy, and you have to compare the cover-story to the facts to identify agents and assets of the Central Intelligency Agency. It's worth reading ALL of the research here at Truth About Kos to figure out how someone like Moulitsas Zúñiga, who claimed to be an immigrant but was born in Chicago, nonethless got himself these plum writing assignments at Newsweek and The Hill, as a "progressive voice," even after supporting Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Rep. Henry Hyde, states' rights, and opposing ALL gay participation in the US military!

Some people are willing to give people the benefit of the doubt, regardless of all of the countervailing facts at hand. I prefer to give the doubt the benefit of the doubt in light of all of the damning facts at hand.

The Entire Reading Public Wants to Know: Is MAMZ and/or his Family on the CIA Payroll?

Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zuñiga: "Once C.I.A., always C.I.A", says the above video, relying on MAMZ own speech to the Commonwealth Club in June 2006.

Comprehensive Background Report

Name: MOULITSAS, MARKOS ALBERTO

This PeopleFinders.Com looks like a source of some information that we don't have yet, but it costs $39.00 to view it. It shows some likely family members, their ages and addresses. The year of birth town and cities of residence match.

Can the CIA-trained Markos Moulitsas get the information scrubbed before his supporter, detractors and the press have a chance to review it? That depends upon how fast readers act, and post their revelations.

Interestingly, the information here connects Moulitsas to the Woodlands Texas (Bush, Halliburton Country) location that we researched and reported about in earlier stories. From

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

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

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Will Netroots Nation Be a White-Out in 2008, Like it was in 2007

I've heard that, in contrast to last year's YearlyKos, this year's Netroots Nation was making a special effort to reach out to diverse parts of the Democratic Party, instead of having a virtually all-white conference again.

"A Diversity of Opinion, if Not Opinionators:
At the Yearly Kos Bloggers' Convention, a Sea of Middle-Aged White Males"

By Jose Antonio Vargas
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 6, 2007; C01

In that article, the conference organizer, Gina Cooper was quoted as saying, "I hate using the word 'diversity.'

Apparently, she also hates using the word "black", because I searched the entire Netroots Nation website and I can't find a single instance of the use of that word to mean that color group of people that makes up 20% of the Democratic Party. I'm not saying the word isn't there somewhere, but check it out for yourself, using the search function, and see if you can find it! See if you can find us

This actually represents a regression relative to 2007, when the word "black" was used once, in a description of Alexis McGill, who "She has written and taught primarily on urban secession, black youth political participation and organizing the hip-hop generation. She received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University."

So, I searched for the word "African, but every mention of the word "African" is from the 2007 program, with none from 2008.

It seems like instead of trying to address the lack of diversity pointed out by the Washington Post last year, Netroots Nation may have circled the wagons and tried to make the conference even more monochromatic this year then last. Otherwise, why wouldn't they announce any break-out sessions or speakers or participants who are "Black" or "African" American?

Well maybe instead of recruiting Blacks, they're focusing on recruiting Latinos? Well, there are two mentions of the word "Latino" in the database, so maybe they're recruiting non-whites one color at a time.

OK, well now it's time for someone to explain how pseudo-"progressive" only-whites expect to win the 2008 election without input, participation or collaboration from Blacks and Latinos. It must be the progressive "serendipity strategy."

Moulitsas Zúñiga Family Member Sits on Board of Latin American Federation of Associations of Hotels and Restaurants

Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga says he came from a poor family in El Salvador. But not very poor, according to documents publicly available on the Internet. He told the Salvadoran newspaper, La Prensa Gráfica, "No tengo dinero. No vengo de familia famosa o poderosa." (I don't have money. I don't come from a famous or powerful family, he told LaPrensaGráfica.Com.)

However, someone with the last name "Zúñiga", who is also listed in government documents as the "manager" of the Zúñiga's family hotel, also happens to be a director on the board of the Latin American Federation of Associations of Hotels and Restaurants:

ASOCIACION SALVADOREÑA DE HOTELES
ALAMEDA DR. MANUEL ARAUJO, PASAJE CARBONEL CASA 2
SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR
TELS. (503) 298 3629, 298 1651, 245 4529 FAX 298 3628
PRESIDENTE LIC. CARLOS ALBERTO DELGADO [Zúñiga] CEL. 887 5721 TEL. 225 5286/312
VICEPRESIDENTE LIC. JORGE CASTILLO
e-mail gerencia@jaltepeque.com suitesjaltepeque@telesal.net asocdehoteles@telesal.net

Notice that the e-mail listed for the Carlos Alberto Delgado Zúñiga above is the same as the e-mail for the "family hotel" at which Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga held his honeymoon celebrations, the Hotel Suites Jaltepeque, which is part of the multi-million dollar Club Jewel of the Pacific Group hotel and condominium complex.

Actualmente opera como un hotel pequeño de playa "Hotel Suites Jaltepeque", para el mes de septiembre de 2003, se operará el Club Jaltepeque, Club nunca visto en las costas salvadoreñas, con el "USO DE DIA" exclusivamente para socios. La membresia es nula y demanda una cuota mensual de mantenimiento. Es membresia segmentada. La finalizacion de la primera y segunda etapa será en un término de 24 meses como máximo, se venderán las membresías anualmente y de manera preferencial las primeras a partir del 1o. de agosto de este año. Igualmente se comercializán en la actulaidad acciones de propiedad de la empresa a un precio minimo de compra de $2,500.00 cada una (1,000 en total) de lo que tenemos informacion en nuestra pagina web www.jaltepeque.com y posteriormente personalizada para presentar las bondades de este proyecto completamente innovador en nuestro país. ElSalvador.Com

And the same e-mail is listed for Carlos Alberto Delgado Zúñiga in his capacity as a member of the Central American Federation of Tourism Boards, which is highlighted in the "Regional Industry Profile of the Central American Free Trade Agreement."

The Moulitsas "family hotel" provides oppulent services for its guests. There's lovely blue sail fishing off the coast of El Salvador through the Hotel Suites Jaltepeque!
Imagine! Five days of angling for just seven thousand dollars USD!

I swear! For a guy who who has "no money" and doesn't come from a "famous or powerful family", Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga's family members sure are well connected all over Latin America.

So, why, precisely, has Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga felt the need to dissemble about the wealth and power of his family in El Salvador? Oh, well! I guess we'll find out sooner or later!

Which National Reporter Will Break the Real Story of Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga's' Real Background?

Here is an enormous scoop that has not yet been reported in the national press. The first reporter to simply report the little-known but now well-documented background facts about "Kos" (DailyKos) is going to become a national figure.

The biggest name in the blogosphere is "Kos", AKA Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga. He's hosting a national convention, Netroots Nation (previously known as YearlyKos) on July 17–20 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas. This is a good time for the press to at least provide some background information on the man behind the conference.

http://www.netrootsnation.org/agenda-2008?topic=black

He says he came from a poor and family in El Salvador. "No tengo dinero. No vengo de familia famosa o poderosa." (I don't have money. I don't come from a famous or powerful family, he told LaPrensaGráfica.Com.)

Yet, he has never told the press or his supporters the names of the members of his biological familly, perhaps because his real family history is patently inconstent with and tends to discredit everything he has said about himself to his supporters, to the press, to the public and to political officials who are scheduled to speak at this Netroots Nation Conference, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

For example:

His own blog says he celebrated his honeymoon at the family hotel on the Pacific shores of El Salvador. It turns out that this "family hotel" is "Hotel Jewel of the Pacific", a massive hotel and condominim complex where the daily rate for a room is about $300 United States dollars! Is that consistent with coming from a poor Salvadoran family?

Research reveals that a member of his family, the same one listed as "manager of the family hotel", Carlos Alberto Delgado Zúñiga, received a $700,000.00 loan from the United States' Overseas Private Investment Council, for his international Baja Salt Group.

It's not wrong to be rich. But, it's wrong to be rich while consistently presenting oneself as a poor immigrant, particularly when one was actually born in Chicago.

And the same member of his family that received the grant from OPIC is also on the business member board of ANEP, El Salvador's "National Association of Private Corporations", which the CIA has calls "a political pressure group" and which has been associated with the assassination of Catholic Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero.

http://www.anep.org.sv/anaso_a.htm

Twenty-seven years ago,

When [Jesuit Fr. Rutilio] Grande was killed, however, [Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo] Romero made an extraordinary decision: The following Sunday there would be only one mass in the entire archdiocese. In order to receive the eucharist, every person would have to come to the cathedral in San Salvador. The oligarchy reacted with alarm. The day after Romero announced the single mass, representatives of ANEP, the national businessmen's association, met with Romero and demanded that the idea be dropped. The church, they said, was stirring up trouble and conflict. Theology Today

And Carlos Alberto Delgado Zúñiga, the same ANEP board member who is the national director of El Salvador's national tourism board, Casatur, and, by his own admission, owns an enormous hotel/condominium complex on the most exclusive ocean front land in El Salvador, is the "manager" of Moulitsas ZÚÑIGA´s "family hotel" and shares his last name, as well as a startling family resemblance.

Presidente : Lic. Carlos Alberto Delgado Z.
Director Ejecutivo: Lic. Ena López
Teléfono y Fax : 2223-9775
Correo electrónico: casatur@telesal.net
Página web: www.casatur.com
Dirección: Carretera a Santa Tecla, Pasaje Carbonel contiguo al edificio Carbonel Nº 2.

http://www.anep.org.sv/anaso_a.htm
http://www.joyadelpacifico.com/

He also owns an international salt corporation, Baja Salt Group, that exports table and industrial salt to "Japón, Corea, Taiwán, Nueva Zelanda, Centro y Sudamérica y en la costa este y oeste de Norteamérica."

Although some fifty blogs have reported these facts, Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga has never denied any of them, and has confirmed some researched facts, such as that he spent his youth as a Republican campaign operative and vehemently opposed ALL gay service in the military back in 1993.

With Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga hosting a national bloggers' conference in Austin, Texas, with Nancy Pelosi as one of the speakers, I think these are all facts the the public needs to know and would find very interesting. And I can provide MUCH MORE information to fill in any gaps and satisfy editors, based on published government records, newspaper reports, etc.

Again, the reporter who writes this story first will become nationally know because of the high profile of Mr. Moulitsas and his Netroots Nation conference in Austin.

I'll call you this week to talk about this some more.

Kos worried gays were looking at his underpants

Kos said there was something "inherently uncomfortable" about working with gays.

Netroots Nation Exposé: Conference Founder Trained by Central Intelligence Agency

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Francis L. Holland, Esq.*
Afrosphere Action Coalition
http://francislholland.blogspot.com
http://truth-about-mccain.blogspot.com
francislholland@yahoo.com
55 (73) 3288-1716

June 26, 2008

Netroots Nation Exposé:
Conference Founder Trained by the US Central Intelligence Agency

Adam Zerwer
National Black Programming Consortium
http://www.nbpc.tv/

Dear Adam:

As we discussed tonight, Netroots Nation the yearly conference of the white blogosphere, founded by Markos C.A Moulitsas Zúñiga, is coming up on July 17-20. I have two blogs dedicated to reporting upon Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga, DailyKos, YearlyKos (now Netroots Nation) and the exclusion of Black people from his blog and others in the white blogosphere: (1) Truth About Kos, and (2) AfroSpear in the Whitosphere.

Tonight in my conversation with you, I made some very highly inflammatory statements about Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga and DailyKos, for example:

• that although Moulitsas Zúñiga is half Greek and half Salvadoran, he considers himself to WHITE, NOT a minority;
• that his blog's participants are 96% white and only 2.5% Black and 1.5% Latino;
• that he was trained at the CIA between 2001 and 2003,.according to a speech that he made to the Commonwealth Club on June 2, 2006.
• Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga requests that he not be referred to by the Latin Zúñiga last name, perhaps because (1) he does not want to be perceived as Latino, and (2) the "Zúñiga" name connects him directly to extremely wealthy family members in El Salvador who have received millions of dollars in "foreign investments" including a million dollar loan financed through the US Overseas Private Investment Council (OPIC).
• Meanwhile Moulitsas Zuniga tells his supporters and the public that "I don't have money. I don't come from a famous or powerful family".
• Although DailyKos claims to be open to afrosphere bloggers, it has never, ever mentioned the AfroSpear or the afrosphere in a story, even during months like last month, when the 150 blogs of the AfroSpear have appeared in the national mainstream newspapers, magazines and radio 23 times.
  
• That the MyDD has announced its policy that it does not need or desire Black participation at that blog.

Now, here is the documentation for each of those facts (pages at the Truth About Kos include to primary sources), and based on a speech by Markos C.A. Moulitsas himself, his published writings in his college newspaper, internal polls of membership by race at DailyKos, and a quote from the owner of MyDD, as well as my own independent research.

http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/08/moulitsas-homophobic-stand-against-gays.html

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/12/5/7114/08229

http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/06/06-06zuniga-audio.html

http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/2/12/123712/293#commenttop

http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/07/why-has-mamz-dailykos-misled-us-about.html

http://truth-about-kos.blogspot.com/2007/09/cross-posted-at-the-truth-about-kos.html


As I said in our conversation of tonight, Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga does NOT consider himself to be a minority; he considers himself to be white. When he was a student at Northern Illinois University and wrote for the student newspaper, the Northern Star, he wrote a five part series on relations between people of different colors and ethnicities at the campus. However, Moulitsas Zúñiga said in an essay concluding the series, that he was glad his work confronting the issue was simply over and done with:

Today the Star ran the last of my four-part series on racism at NIU. Having been a project that dominated my life for the last couple of weeks, I was more than glad to have it finished and over with so I could return to the mundane world of Faculty Senate meetings and other reporter stuff." Northern Star, September 2, 1993. (Emphasis added.)

Apparently, this was an an assignment that Moulitsas did not relish and he was glad to have his study of racism over and done with. In spite of being partly Salvadoran, Moulitsas never considered himself to be subject to racism and always considered himself to be simply "white." When he finished writing his series on racism for the school paper, he said,

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. Northern Star, September 2, 1993. (Emphasis added.)

Shortly after I dug up and reported the existence of the essays, and another letter to the newspaper in which Moulitsas Zúñiga OPPOSED ALL SERVICE BY GAYS IN THE US MILITARY, these essays disappeared from the online archives of the Northern Star. Thankfully, I had taken a screenshot of the one opposing all gays in the military. As a result of my investigation, he has since acknowledged, in writing at DailyKos, that he held this position.

Although his online biographies state that he wrote for the Northern Star during college, you will discover that the archives of the Northern Star have been scrubbed and no longer mention Moulitsas Zúñiga's name, even though these same archives cover the years in which he is known to have published at the Northern Star, 1992 and 1993. But, if you call and ask for them providing the dates of these articles, the Northern Star will confirm the existence of these articles, confirm that they were once available and are not now, and send you faxes of these articles.

As I said, there is unanimous agreement among Black people and Black bloggers that no part of the Democratic Party apparatus should be segregated by color, and that Black people should be adequately represented among the bloggers at the Democratic National Convention.

I have collected all of my research about Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga into an outline with extensive documentation using US and Salvadoran government documents available online, US and Salvadoran newspaper accounts, Moulitsas Zúñiga's own published statements and tthe statements of his relatives as reported in Salvadoran Newspapers:

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

Also see,

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

Matt Stoller, owner of MyDD, has said,

Now first I'm going to address this community about our culture. Most MyDD readers are comfortable within what I call 'Jewish political culture', which is a very individualistic, progressive style of argumentative discourse . . . There are lots of other cultures out there, and lots of other ways of thinking about the world. These represent themselves online, but they don't necessarily represent themselves here. Does it matter that they don't? Maybe. Maybe not. http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/2/12/1237 12/293#commenttop (emphasis added)

Please feel free to contact me for any more information that might be helpful.

Sincerely,

Francis L. Holland, Esq.

Coordinator, Afrosphere Action Coalition

francislholland@yahoo.com
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The Strange Tree of Netroots Nation

Cross-posted from the Francis L. Holland Blog.

The Netroots Nation website (previously known as "YearlyKos" or "Yearly Whitosphere")
says it is "a project of bloggerpower.org . . . "


Something very strange is going on at DailyWhitosphere, beyond its connections to the Central Intelligence Agency.  According to the Washington Post, the Netroots Nation coordinator, Gina Cooper, has said, "I hate using the word 'diversity.' " It certainly shows when you review the website for the 2008 Netroots Nation conference.

The word "diversity" does not appear a single time on the Netroots Nation website with respect to the 2008 conference. The term "African-American" does not appear a single time on the Netroots Nation website with respect to the 2008 conference. The term "Black" does not appear a single time in the Netroots Nation website with reference to Black people. The term "Latino" does not appear in any document on the Netroots Nation site with respect to organizing for the 2008 Netroots Nation conference.

However, the phrase "make my dick bigger" appears prominently among the advertisers and financial supporters of bloggerpower, the "non-profit" that sponsors Netroots Nation. Why is it alright to say "make my dick bigger," but unacceptable to use the words "Black", "Latino" and "diversity"?

The Netroots Nation website (previously know as YearlyKos or Yearly Whitosphere) says it is "a project of bloggerpower.org with the generous support of the Netroots Arts and Education Initiative (NAEI)." If you go to the bloggerpower.org website, you discover that one of the sponsor links is "Make My Dick Bigger".

Now, you might be tempted to think this is a frat-house joke from a group that is 70% male and 96% white, but when you click on the "Make My Dick Bigger" link, you actually find a series of for-profit entities that promise penis enlargement.

However, if you look at the conference's contact form, (above) you will find not a single line vaguely referencing diversity, presumably because Gina Cooper and the Netroots Conference "hate using the word diversity."

A Diversity of Opinion, if Not Opinionators
At the Yearly Kos Bloggers' Convention, a Sea of Middle-Aged White Males

According to its website, "Netroots Nation 2008 will feature a spectacular 26,000-square-foot Exhibit Hall centrally located near all the action," but it won't have any Black or Latino listed exhibitors (as far as I can see by reviewing the exhibitors list), and it won't have any Black or Latino sponsors or organizers, as far as I can see. You tell me! I would love to be wrong, but I'm afraid that I'm right.

What a strange "progressives" conference, sponsored by penis enhancement companies but statistically and constitutionally averse to the participation of Blacks, Latinos and diversity.

A Jim-Crow Blogger White-Out at the Denver Convention?

I've looked at all of the blogs selected for the Convention floor, beginning with "A for "Alabama" and ending with "N" for New Mexico. In all of these blogs, I cannot see a single blog that can definitively be identifed as a Black blog. The only blog that seems to run any risk of being a Black blog is the one from Washington, DC, but even that one could just as easily be a white blog.

In all of the bloglists of all of these blogs, I saw two links to Pam's House Blend, or or two to Jack and Jill Politics, one link to Fort Wayne (Indiana) Black woman, none to any Black organization (besides a single link to the NAACP), one link to that Black guy Willis, and one link to Field Negro, out of over a thousand links to "progressive" blogs. So, I figure that links to Black blogs represent less than one percent of the links at these blogs, which is a good indication of the unlikelihood that they will send any Black bloggers to Denver.

What you WILL find among these blogs is that they' almost all part of an interestate "Blue Blogs" network dominated by partisans of Markos C.A. Moulitsas Zúñiga (DailyKos), the Salvadoran Reagan-Bush supporter who railed against gays in the military, worked on the poltical campaign of Republican Rep. Henry Hyde, and acknowledges having spent over a year training with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency while he was starting his progressive blog, DailyKos.

You will also notice that DailyKos, MyDD and other closely related blogs are on the bloglists of virtually every blog that was invited to the Convention (of the blogs from "A" to "N").

Somehow, all of the blogs from "A" to "N" on the list of blogs invited to the Convention have gotten the memo that says not to include Black blogs on their bloglists.

I warned my readers last year that a segregated whitosphere where Blacks could not participate openly and freely would result in Democratic Party decisions made exclusively by and for white people whenver these white supremacist apartheid bloggers get their hands on the levers of power, for example selecting bloggers to participate in Denver on the floor of the Convention.

I hope that others will review the blogs from "O" to "Z" and discover that the latter part of the alphabet is more integrated than the former. Good luck!

"Hinessight: The Anti-Drudge" Discovers the Truth About Kos

Today, when I looked at my eponymous (self-named) blog's site meter, I discovered that a blog that usually gets 180 hits a day was getting 41 hits in just the last hour! And then I discovered why: The Hinessight blog posted a link to my Indictment of Markos C.A. Moulitsas by Justice and History, saying, "Daily Kos founder Moulitsas-Zuniga has quite a history ."

There are still a lot of Americans who don't know who MAMZ is, including the entire mainstream media. How long can that last?