CIA Turns On Obama, But Fails In Ecuador Coup Attemptlink In a virtual replay of the early 1960’s that saw a charismatic, but divisive, American President engaged in a ‘life and death’ struggle against his own Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and top Military Chiefs, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is reporting today that, once again, these powerful American agencies have “gone rogue” against President Obama not unlike they did against President John F. Kennedy almost half a century ago. In late April 1961, over 1,400 members of the Cuban Expeditionary Forces landed at the Bay of Pigs, in Cuba. Their mission was to overthrow the communist regime of Cuban President Fidel Castro. The mission was a striking failure. Almost immediately it became known that the CIA trained the “freedom fighters”: who were Cubans trained to overthrow the Castro regime. Kennedy, soon after the failure, spoke at a meeting of the American Association of Newspaper Editors and assumed all blame for the failed invasion. His staff then began leaking information to reporters, blaming the failure on anyone except the administration. Kennedy was quoted as saying, “How could I have been so stupid?” to trust the groups who were advising him, such as the CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). Even more damning to the CIA was a reputed quote by Kennedy that he wanted to “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.” Two and a half years after Kennedy uttered these words, he was assassinated along a motorcade route in Dallas, Texas. Unlike Kennedy, who never apologized to Cuban leader Fidel Castro for that failed coup by those forces under him, Obama did call Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa [photo top left taken shortly after his rescue by Ecuadorian Special Forces troops] on Wednesday and “reiterated the United States’ support for President Correa and Ecuador’s democratic institutions”. Causing Obama to make this call to Correa was the failed coup attempt against him less than a fortnight ago led by elements of Ecuador’s Air Force and National Police said in this report to have been “masterminded” by CIA and US Military agents who, should the coup have been successful, were set to pour into this South American Nation 7,000 American Marines previously stationed in Costa Rica in July, along with 46 US Navy warships to effectively take over this vital OPEC membered oil rich country. Raising the CIA and US Military’s anger against Ecuador was Correa’s expelling of all US Air Force, Military, CIA and Drug Enforcement Agents from his country in 2008, thus depriving the Americans of one of their only military footholds in South America. This report further states that the CIA-US Military plan to oust Correa was “without a doubt” begun under the regime of former US President George W. Bush, but to if Obama was aware of it or not is not known. Upon Obama’s taking office in January, 2009, however, tensions between Ecuador and the US escalated even further with Correa expelling US Embassy officer Armando Astorga for “meddling” in the affairs of Ecuador’s National Police forces and his stating, “Mr Astorga keep your dirty money. We don’t need it. We have dignity in this country, Ecuador doesn’t need charity from anyone.” Today 55 of those Ecuadorian National Police US agent Astorga was “meddling” with are now under arrest with warrants having been issued for 253 more of them accused of conspiring with the US to topple Correa during last weeks coup-attempt. Further confirmation of the CIA and US Military’s complicity in this coup attempt is, also, being reported by the Gramma International News Service in their article titled “Report confirmed: U.S. intelligence penetrated the heart of the Ecuadorian police force”  and as we can, in part, read: “THE uprising against President Rafael Correa by a coup faction within the Ecuadorian police force is confirmed in an alarming report into the infiltration of this force by U.S. intelligence services published in 2008, which states how many members of the police departments were developing a “dependency” on the U.S. embassy in that South American country. The report specifies that certain police units “have an informal economic dependence on the United States in terms of paying informants, training, equipment and operations.” The systematic use of corruption techniques on the part of the CIA in order to secure the “good will” of police officers was exposed on many occasions by former CIA agent Philip Agee who, prior to leaving the agency, was assigned to the U.S. embassy in Quito. In his official report, published at the end of 2008, Ecuadorian Defense Minister Javier Ponce revealed how U.S. diplomats dedicated themselves to corrupting police officers and also officers within the Armed Forces. Confirming that fact, the leadership of the Ecuadorian police force then announced it intended to sanction its agents who were collaborating with Washington, while the U.S. embassy declared the “transparency” of its support for Ecuador.” The Global Research Center in their reporting on this failed CIA-US Military further states: “According to the coup blueprint drafted by the CIA, Gutierrez was to announce the removal of “dictator” Correa and the transfer of authority to a provisional government in a televised address. The plan additionally included the disbandment of Ecuadorian parliament and the organization of snap elections. The conspirators, however, were dispersed by the defenders of the legitimate president and failed to clear Gutierrez’s access to TV. Besides, the Indian organizations from the PACHAKUTIK group chose not to partake. The coup therefore collapsed. Currently Ecuador is under emergency rule. Correa plans to purge the country’s law enforcement agencies and to find out who – including the army officers – was involved. Charges are already being pressed against Gutierrez and his Sociedad Patriotica.” Important to note about all of these events are that they are occurring at the same time that the American press is rife with stories (mainstreamed and leaked) that Obama has lost control over the US Military that as Commander In Chief is supposed to be controlling, all of which started recently with the publication of a new book by legendary Watergate journalist Bob Woodward, who openly states his doubts about his own President. Important to note about Woodward, however, is the critical role he played in the destruction of another American President, Richard Nixon, who ran afoul of the US Military and CIA, and as we can read: “The news media slowly began to cover the Watergate burglary. Several major newspapers investigated the possible involvement of the White House in the break-in. Leading the pack was The Washington Post and its two young reporters, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, whose stories were based largely on information from an unnamed source called “Deep Throat”; the mysterious identity of Deep Throat became a news story in its own right and continues to be speculated on to this day. The journalistic integrity of Yale graduate Bob Woodward became tainted and comprised years later when it was revealed, by authors Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin, that prior to working at the Washington Post, Woodward had worked at the Pentagon for the Office of Naval Intelligence as a Naval Lieutenant. Silent Coup—a 1991 book by Colodny and Gettlin—reveals that in 1969, the twenty-six-year-old Lieutenant was the briefing officer for Admiral Moorer, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who had authorized his subordinates to spy on the White House’s National Security Counsel. A briefing officer sees, hears, reads, and assimilates information from one of several sources and passes it on to more senior officers. This is a coveted position for young officers seeking career advancement. The work is often Top Secret. Colodny and Gettlin asserted that Admiral Moorer sent Lieutenant Woodward to the basement of the White House to act as a briefer for Alexander Haig. The ramifications of this information are staggering.” To what the American peoples reaction is to yet another attempt by their Washington elites to secure for themselves the oil riches of the World at the expense of the thousands of coffins returning to their shores with their fathers, mothers, sons and daughters lying inside it is beyond predictable, as time and time again these deluded people have ignored the pure evil that rules over them. This cannot, however, be said of the American elite class, whose latest member to the club of “conquest for greed” is the former US Diplomat to Iraq Peter W. Galbraith who this week became a very wealthy man when a British Court gave to him $75 million of Iraq’s vast oil wealth. Fortunately, today, the massive oil wealth of Ecuador remains in the hands of its people…but we would all be naïve in believing it will be theirs for long.   Hungary fears 2nd reservoir breach Towns threatened by new wave of toxic sludge The Associated Press link The cracking wall of an industrial plant reservoir could collapse at any moment and send a new wave of caustic red sludge into towns in Hungary devastated by a toxic deluge this week, the country's prime minister said Saturday. A crack in the concrete wall widened by seven centimetres overnight, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said. He was speaking to reporters gathered at a fire station near the alumina plant in Ajka that dumped up to 700,000 cubic metres of highly polluted water and mud onto three villages in about an hour Monday, burning people and animals. At least seven people were killed and hundreds injured. A firefighter wearing protective gear stands in a street flooded by toxic red sludge in Devecser, Hungary on Saturday. (Bela Szandelszky/Associated Press) Orban did not say how wide the crack had been, but he described collapse as imminent. "Probably today, the wall could come down. I cannot say that it will happen surely, but already the risk is there," he said. "Cracks have appeared on the northern wall of the reservoir, which makes it very likely that the whole wall will collapse." Red sludge is a byproduct of the refining of bauxite into alumina, the basic material for manufacturing aluminum. Treated sludge is often stored in ponds where the water eventually evaporates, leaving behind a largely safe red clay. Industry experts say the sludge in Hungary appears to have been insufficiently treated, if at all, meaning it remained highly caustic. Most of what spilled Monday when the northeast corner of the reservoir collapsed was water, leaving behind slower-moving mud that has been kept in place by the remaining walls and barriers hastily erected in front of the ruptured section. Red mud: Toxic waste of aluminum refining Orban said officials have started to build dams to the north, in the direction of lower-lying populated areas, to slow the mud in case of a second rupture. The neighbouring town of Kolontar, which was hit hardest in Monday's spill, has been evacuated. Officials believe they will have time to evacuate the next town of Devecser, four kilometres farther north. The prime minister said experts had estimated that about 500,000 cubic metres of red sludge could escape from the reservoir if the wall collapsed, but said exact figures were hard to calculate. "We have no exact information about the nature of the material because a catastrophe like this has never happened before anywhere in the world," Orban said. "We have only assumptions about how far and with how much force the material can come out of the storage container." People rescue usable items from their home flooded by toxic red sludge in Devecser. The population of the neighbouring town of Kolontar was evacuated early Saturday and Devecser is also likely in the path of a second possible sludge deluge. (Bela Szandelszky/Associated Press) The reservoir, one of several at the Ajkai Timfoldgyar plant is about 650 metres long and 500 metres at its widest point. It's formed by walls at least 50 metres high that look like flat-topped hills, tapering from roughly 65 yards at their base to 45 metres at their tops, which are covered in vegetation and trees. Zoltan Bakonyi, the CEO of MAL Rt., the Hungarian Aluminum Production and Trade Company that owns the plant, told Hungarian news website Index.hu that the walls are "medium-hard concrete." Authorities have not speculated about why they are cracking. According to MAL Rt., at least 95 per cent of the sludge is still in the reservoir. In Devecser, where the main street was deserted and an alcohol ban was in effect, Maria Gyori was having difficulties coming to grip with the evacuation plans. "My husband and I want to stay until the very last moment and even then I'm not sure we'll leave," said the 79-year-old homemaker. "If another wave comes, I was thinking of standing on top of the kitchen table. Maybe the sludge won't go that high." Gyori said she was exhausted and had been called by her son's family to join them at their home in Lake Balaton, 55 kilometres east of Devecser. "I'm so tired and nervous, my mind isn't clicking like it usually does," said Gyori, a lifetime Devecser resident. "Of course I'm scared but abandoning our home will happen only as a final resort." Footprints are left in the sludge covering a yard in Devecser. Authorities have asked people in the town to put their most essential belongings into a single bag and prepare for possible evacuation. (Bela Szandelszky/Associated Press) The red sludge devastated creeks and rivers near the spill site and entered the Danube River on Thursday, moving downstream toward Croatia, Serbia and Romania. Monitors were taking samples every few hours to measure damage from the spill but the volume of water in the Danube appeared to be blunting the red sludge's immediate impact. The concentration of toxic heavy metals where the spill entered the Danube has dropped to the level allowed in drinking water, authorities said, easing fears that Europe's second-longest river would be significantly polluted. Test results released by Hungary's disaster agency show the pH level of the water where the slurry entered the Danube was under nine — well below the 13.5 measured earlier in local waterways near the site of the catastrophe. That is diluted enough to prevent any biological damage, Interior Minister Sandor Pinter said. Despite the apparent good news, the risk of pervasive and lasting environmental damage remained at the site of the spill, with Greenpeace presenting laboratory tests that it said showed high concentrations of heavy metals in the sludge. 'If another wave comes, I was thinking of standing on top of the kitchen table. Maybe the sludge won't go that high.'—Homemaker Maria Gyori, age 79 MAL Rt. has rejected criticism it should have taken more precautions at the reservoir. Hungarian police have confiscated documents from the company, and the National Investigation Office was looking into whether on-the-job carelessness was a factor in the disaster. Authorities began questioning people in the case and were looking for witnesses who could provide information about the reservoir's operations and maintenance work. Orban said that the incident could have been avoided and that "there was no information diminishing the responsibility" of human error as a causing factor. "Hungary has never experienced any tragedy like that and we are all astonished," Orban said. "Human errors and mistakes must exist … and the [legal] consequences will be very serious. Someone has to answer for this." He said a request from the company to allow production to begin again would not be granted at least until a government cabinet meeting on Monday. "We still have to gather a lot of information before we can decide whether to allow … the plant to continue its operations," Orban said at Saturday's news conference in Ajka. There are red sludge storage sites at several other locations in western Hungary, holding at least 30 million cubic metres of the material. Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/10/09/hungary-sludge-reservoir.html#ixzz11ws92Yj7 Meteorologist - Trifecta of natural global cooling is in place Manmade global warming greatest hoax in last centurylink

                      
 

6 Oct 10 - Here's an email from a meteorologist in response to my article about the coming winter being the coldest in 1,000 years.

Robert,

If their chilly forecast is even close to being right it would be devastating. I don’t know about the slowing of the Gulf Stream they’re talking about. However, what I call the trifecta of natural global cooling is in place: prolonged solar minimum, cold phase of the PDO, and increasing volcanic activity.

Also, those who say that global warming is causing an increase in tropical cyclones are wrong. Tropical cyclones serve the purpose of transferring excess heat and energy from the tropical and subtropical latitudes to the colder mid latitudes and polar latitudes. If temperatures were much warmer in the mid and polar latitudes and fairly uniform from the equator to the poles there would be less excess heat and energy in the tropical latitudes compared to the polar latitudes and thus fewer tropical cyclones would be needed to dissipate the excess heat and energy. Think about it.

Enjoy your perspective on climate and the articles you post on your site.

Troy Frame

Chief Meteorologist/Hurricane Specialist
Alert Weather Services
Lafayette LA USA

I asked Troy for permission to post his e-mail because I think his allusion to a "trifecta of natural global cooling" is spot on. Here's his reply:

Robert,

You certainly may post my email. I’m thankful for your site and other sites like ICECAP that are challenging the greatest hoax in at least the past century or possibly ever. Many of my fellow atmospheric scientists and meteorologists do not adhere to this claim/myth of anthropogenic or man-made greenhouse warming. Finally many ordinary Americans are now doubting the lies of politicians like Al Gore and his ilk.

Again, thanks for your work.

Best regards,
Troy