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Bolivia: repression is intensifying nine months on from the lithium coup

KEN LIVINGSTONE looks at the motivations behind the illegal ‘regime change’ in Bolivia last year

A supporter of Bolivia's former president Evo Morales yells at a police officer, telling him to respect the nation's indigenous people in La Paz, Bolivia, 2019

IN NOVEMBER 2019 President Trump welcomed the coup in Bolivia that toppled its democratically elected president, Evo Morales, as “one step closer to a completely democratic, prosperous, and free Western Hemisphere.”

But, in fact, like the 1953 coup in Iran or the slew of other coups that the US has supported, funded or organised in the last seven decades, at stake was the control and exploitation of scarce natural resources — in this case Bolivia’s reserves of lithium.

Lithium is a crucial component of the batteries used in electric cars, as well as computers, smartphones, and other equipment. As sales of such vehicles and devices increase, lithium’s value is set to rise steeply as supplies strain to keep up with demand.

Bolivia’s lithium is located in the Salar de Uyuni salt flats, high in the Andes, and is estimated at between 25 per cent and 45 per cent of all known lithium reserves. Evo Morales and his Movement for Socialism (MAS) government had been working to create a publicly owned lithium industry, to continue to diversify Bolivia’s economy and raise more of its people out of poverty.

For a decade and a half Bolivia had been showing that a better world is possible for Latin Americans through a clear rejection of neoliberal policies.

Retaking control of key parts of the country’s economy from foreign corporations, the billions of dollars gained were invested to modernise the country’s infrastructure and dramatically raise the standard of living for Bolivia’s poor and neglected people.

“We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.”

Elon Musk

But the military-backed coup in November brought an abrupt end to this approach.

The government described the coup as an “act of revenge by the United States, which never accepted the loss of control of the Bolivian lithium market in favour of Chinese and German companies.” The new coup regime had immediately announced plans to invite transnationals, including Elon Musk’s Tesla, to exploit Bolivia’s lithium reserves.

Musk’s response in July to a tweet accusing the Trump administration of ejecting Morales in a coup was breathtaking in its arrogance, even by his standards: “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.”

Morales was ousted despite being declared the winner of October’s election with a lead of 10 points over his nearest challenger, Carlos Mesa. Claims of irregularities by the Organisation of American States (OAS), which is 60 per cent US-funded, were used to justify his removal but these have been rejected by studies into the election. A report by the Washington-based Centre for Economic and Policy Research found: “There is not any statistical evidence of fraud that we can find… the OAS’s statistical analysis and conclusions would appear deeply flawed.”

Of course, America did not wait for the analysis before enabling the coup. They never do! Can't let truth interfere with their plans.

Having seized power, the regime under its appointed President, Jeanine Anez, began to unpick the economic and political reforms that had been made. State-owned companies are being privatised or handed over corruptly to coup supporters who are taking full advantage of the opportunity.

The directors of Bolivia’s airline, BoA, for example, have been replaced by close associates of Fernando Camacho, right wing opposition leader in the Santa Cruz region who facilitated the coup by urging the police as well as the military to join the protests against the elected government. Some of Anez’s trusted supporters have been reported as embezzling large sums from Bolivia’s largest oil and gas company (YPFB) and Bolivian Telecommunications (Entel).

“Savages” must not be allowed to win in the elections

President Anez

The coup regime also aimed to roll back the political advances secured for indigenous peoples in the new plurinational state. Anez, a Christian fundamentalist whose party’s electoral alliance secured only 4 per cent in October, revealed this clearly when she announced in January 2020 that “savages” must not be allowed to win in the elections then scheduled for May.

To shore up its position, the new coup regime wasted little time in turning on its critics and opponents to silence them through violent repression.

In a further indication of the racist nature of the coup, the crackdown has fallen most heavily on Bolivia’s indigenous peoples, including key figures in the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party who are being criminalised and face various charges.

The regime reportedly has a list of nearly 600 officials from the MAS government whom it has in its sights.

Repression has been stepped up this year in the face of protests against both the coup government’s woeful ineffectiveness in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic and its equivocation about the holding of fresh elections. These have been postponed three times.

Since the beginning of August, the National Workers Federation and indigenous groups across most rural areas of the country have been taking part in a general strike and nationwide highway blockade in protest against the repeated postponements. The government accuses the protesters of terrorism and sedition.

The election date deferrals are seen by the left in the country as a ploy to enable the regime to consolidate its power.

We must stand in solidarity with those millions of Bolivians opposed to the coup regime, and in support of their struggle for public health, democracy and social progress.

Sign the Friends of Bolivia statement against the coup regime and its violent repression and austerity at bit.ly/boliviarepression.

Follow Ken Livingstone at www.twitter.com/Ken4London and www.facebook.com/KenLivingstoneOfficial.

Indigenous Bolivians would seem to have been at the mercy of the Spanish since the conquistadors in the 16th century. With help from the American CIA and businesses, South and Central American countries were raped of their natural resources with the profits going to America and, 'under the table' to whatever puppet regime they put in place. Indigenous workers were paid little more than slave wages with no help of ever rising above that station. 

Now, America has to close its borders, rather brutally, because those millions of poor in those countries raped by the USA are trying to get in. Trying to find the opportunities that America robbed them of for well over a hundred years.

I am not a socialist! I believe in a free-market system, but also in equal opportunity for health and education. I also believe that the many Tweets and FB posts about all the failed socialist systems, fail to mention that western countries do everything they can to destroy the economy of socialist states. 

There should be no pride in destroying the economy of another country for the sake of profits in America. It is racist and inhumane.

The Holocaust - A Short Story About a Little Girl, Her Bike, and Nazi Germany

WHAT THE GERMAN PEOPLE DID TO AN INNOCENT 13-Y/O JEWISH GIRL

From the diary of Eva Heyman, age 13.

"Today they came for my bicycle. 

I almost caused a big drama. 

You know, dear diary, I was awfully afraid just by the fact that the policemen came into the house. I know that policemen bring only trouble with them, wherever they go. [..] 

So, dear diary, I threw myself on the ground, held on to the back wheel of my bicycle, and shouted all sorts of things at the policemen: “Shame on you for taking away a bicycle from a girl! That’s robbery!” [..] 

One of the policemen was very annoyed and said: “All we need is for a Jewgirl to put on such a comedy when her bicycle is being taken away. No Jewkid is entitled to keep a bicycle anymore. The Jews aren’t entitled to bread, either; they shouldn’t guzzle everything, but leave the food for the soldiers."

The German people slaughtered Heyman and her grandparents at the Polish death camp of Auschwitz in October 1944.

This kind of hatred for Jews is rising again all across Europe. It has partly to do with the rapidly increasing Islamic population, and partly to do with rebellion against God. It will lead to another attempt by evil to irradicate Hebrews from the earth. It won't work, but it will be terrifying.

#Ozzone 2:29 > Do You Trust Jesus to do the Impossible?

 

Islam - Current Day - Toronto's Muslim Gangster; Links to Stories From My Other Blog - Some Hardly Believable

Four of the worst stories I've ever posted and they are all from Pakistan and recent:

Today's Global Pervs and Paedos List > 

Pakistan's Evils Astonish Even Me, and That's Not Easy to Do

It's not just Pakistan where Muslims kidnap Christian girls and Islamic police and courts back them up:

'Jihad of the Womb': Watchdog Details Systemic Abduction of Christian Girls in Egypt

Losing the War on Christianity in Egypt

Toronto murder victim dodged earlier assassin's bullet with cocaine bribe

Police wiretaps reveal bounty hunter was paid to fake victim's death in 2013

By Sam Pazzano · CBC - Posted: Sep 16, 2020 

Farogh Sadat was shot outside a bakery in Toronto's Corso Italia neighbourhood on June 23, 2020. Police wiretaps reveal there had been two previous attempts on his life. (Muslim Association of Hamilton)

In a plot twist worthy of a Hollywood crime thriller, the victim of a brazen execution in Toronto this summer escaped an earlier hit attempt by bribing a bounty hunter to fake the target's death.

The revelation came from a police wiretap of a phone conversation between the victim, Farogh Sadat, and another man on Jan. 15, 2015, which CBC learned about after recently obtaining a copy of a 2017 court decision about Sadat's bail conditions.

At the time of the wiretapped call, police were investigating the brutal kidnapping of a drug runner, allegedly by Sadat and others, in September 2014.

In the call, Sadat boasted that he bribed his would-be assassin with half a million dollars' worth of cocaine to stage Sadat's death in the Caribbean. Sadat said he then short-changed the bounty hunter by only giving him half of the promised amount.

Sadat, 37, was shot and killed in broad daylight on June 23, 2020, while he was sitting in his SUV with California licence plates at 1346 St. Clair Ave. W., in Toronto's Corso Italia neighbourhood.

It was the third known assassination attempt on his life.

Two previous murder attempts

In the 2017 judgment dismissing Sadat's bail application on the kidnapping allegations, Superior Court Justice Leonard Richetti noted that Sadat had bad blood with Mexican drug dealers in the Greater Toronto Area.

Police were called to the scene on St. Clair Avenue West near St. Clarens Avenue in June,

where they found Sadat in his car, having suffered fatal gunshot wounds. (Devin Keshavjee/CBC)

It started in 2013, when Sadat orchestrated a home invasion robbery. Sadat sent his henchmen to rob a suspected drug runner, H.G. (CBC is withholding his identity, as his life is likely at risk.) They grabbed $40,000 in cash and $20,000 worth of jewelry, and H.G. also gave them the keys and location of a stash house, where they stole several kilograms of low-quality cocaine.

That home invasion robbery was never reported to police.

A year later, on Sept. 6, 2014, Sadat and others allegedly kidnapped H.G., beat him and held him hostage for 12 hours, seeking information about another stash house. After that, the drug dealers put a bounty on Sadat's head, wrote Richetti.

On Sept. 23, 2014, shooters mistook Sadat's brother-in-law Ghorzang Zazai for Sadat, wounding Zazai and killing a friend, Gul Alakoozi, outside Sadat's parents' home in York region, north of Toronto. At the time, Sadat was living with his parents, who were his sureties for guns and drug possession charges in a Toronto hotel room in June 2014.

'We can't even fight these guys'

The wiretapped 2015 call was a conversation with Alakoozi's father. In it, Sadat told him he "knows" his son's killers, but York Regional Police say no one has been charged for the shooting and the investigation is ongoing. 

Sadat admitted on the call that he had sold up to 20 pounds of cocaine and "bought a couple of houses" with the profits of his criminal activity, but that he wasn't wealthy enough to mount a battle against the heavily armed drug lords.

"We can't even fight these guys, because I don't have the money like these guys," he said. Sadat also said he had a "toy" – meaning a handgun – because he didn't trust anyone at the time.

Sadat also disclosed his first assassination escape, in 2013. 

He said that a bounty hunter kidnapped him in the Dominican Republic, but that he bribed his would-be killer by offering him double the price of the hit — "10 bricks" (kilograms) of cocaine, worth $525,000.

The bounty hunter then staged Sadat's death by covering his "corpse" in fake blood as it lay in a Dominican ditch and photographing the "hit." But Sadat said he only gave him "half the bricks."

Sadat went into hiding on the West Coast and later tried to resolve the dispute with the drug barons.

'I hit a home run'

The drug dealers eventually discovered Sadat was still alive after he and others were busted and charged with possessing guns, drugs, a bulletproof vest and silencer after a maid spotted a man with a firearm inside a Toronto hotel room in June 2014.

Police found evidence on a laptop in the hotel room that Sadat and his partners had placed a tracking device on H.G.'s car, as well as details of a plot to pose as cops, abduct H.G. and force him to surrender the keys and location of a stash house.

Sadat's charges were stayed, however, after another man pleaded guilty. "I hit a home run," said Sadat on the wiretap.

Before H.G. was abducted in September 2014, a Peel Regional Police sergeant warned H.G. his life was in jeopardy and left her business card with him.

When the kidnappers took H.G. hostage that September, they discovered the officer's business card in his personal effects. Fearing H.G. might be under surveillance, the captors let him go after he agreed to give them some cash and the name of another potential kidnapping victim. He provided them $5,000 cash but not another name. Two days later, H.G. went to Peel Regional Police.

'Potential for further violence'

In a 2017 judgment dismissing Sadat's bail application on the kidnapping allegations, Justice Richetti wrote, "Any informed member of the public would be shocked that Mr. Sadat would be released into the public."

Sadat's vehicle at the scene in June.

Police continue to investigate Sadat's death.

(Paul Borkwood/CBC)

"Given the matters described by Sadat in the wiretaps involving shootings, bounty, faking deaths, retaliation and other criminal activity, the potential for further violence looms large," stated Richetti.

The judge quoted a "chilling" conversation between Sadat's wife and a co-accused's brother, in which Sadat's wife said, "If [the kidnapping victim] doesn't drop the charges, then they want to get rid of everyone involved permanently."

The kidnapping charges against Sadat were stayed in 2018 after Sadat's lawyer, Deepak Paradkar, undermined H.G.'s credibility during cross-examination at the preliminary hearing.

Toronto police continue to investigate Sadat's killing.

Islam - This Day in History - 2009 - Indonesia's Most Wanted Islamist Terrorist Dies

Noordin Mohammad Top

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In this Malay name, the name Mohammad Top is a patronymic, not a family name, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Noordin.

Born 11 August 1968

Kluang, Johor, Malaysia

Died 17 September 2009 (aged 41)

Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia

Occupation Financier, alleged trainer of the splinter group of Jemaah Islamiyah

Criminal status Deceased (2009)

Spouse(s) Munfiatun

Criminal penalty None

Noordin Mohammad Top (11 August 1968 – 17 September 2009) was a Malaysian Muslim extremist, also referred to as:

Noordin

Din Moch Top

Muh Top

Top M or

Mat Top

Until his death, he was Indonesia's most wanted Islamist militant.

Born in Kluang, Johor, Malaysia, he is thought to have been a key bomb-maker and/or financier, for Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), and to have left it, setting up the more violent splinter group Tanzim Qaedat al-Jihad. Noordin was reported by the FBI to be "an explosives expert", and "an officer, recruiter, bomb maker and trainer for the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) group."

Once in Indonesia, he married using the assumed name Abdurrachman Aufi. His wife, Munfiatun, would be jailed in June 2005, for concealing information about his whereabouts.

Noordin and Azahari Husin were thought to have masterminded the following bombings:

JW Marriott hotel (2003)

Australian embassy bombing (2004)

(each in Jakarta)

Bali (2005), and

JW Marriott - Ritz-Carlton (2009), again in Jakarta

Noordin may also have assisted in the earlier (2002) Bali bombings. Noordin (allegedly nicknamed Money man) was an indoctrinator specialising in recruiting militants as suicide bombers, and in collecting funds for militant activities. Long after first being declared as wanted by Malaysian and Indonesian authorities, he was added to the FBI's third major wanted list in 2006. FBI Seeking Information - War on Terrorism list. He was killed during a police raid (by Indonesia's anti-terrorist team Densus 88) in Solo, Central Java, conducted on 17 September 2009.

#Ozzone 2:28 > Have You Lost That Intimacy With God?

 

Islam - Current Day - Sweden, Pakistan, Israel, London - Murder, Torture, Sucker Punch, UK Politics

Shocking video shows thug sucker-punch woman on a street

in Sweden sparking fury

Christy Cooney, The Sun

14 Sep 2020

SHOCKING video showing a thug sucker-punch a woman on a street in Sweden has sparked outrage.

The footage went viral on social media over the weekend, and shows an assault reportedly carried out in the city of Malmo.

The clip shows a man stood on a quiet street as a woman approaches. The two don't appear to have interacted in the lead-up to the assault.

As the woman walks past, the man steps behind her and punches her across the right side of her head, knocking her to the ground.

The woman falls off the pavement and between two cars, and appears to fall briefly unconscious before sitting up clasping her head.

Her attacker runs away while another man behind the camera lets out hoots of laughter.

The assault is thought to have been carried out in the Rosengård district of Malmo, Sweden's third-largest city, though it is not known when.

Rosengård is home to many of Sweden's Muslim migrants, and, at times, is a No-Go zone. There is no proof as yet that these two yahoos were Muslim, but I would be willing to bet money on it. 

According to RT: The Instagram account @ALIBALOTELLII is tagged in the video but has subsequently been deactivated.

Swedish media are calling the perpetrator, 'Ali'.

The perpetrator has not yet been identified, but unconfirmed reports in Swedish media say he is a 20-year-old male. Police in Malmo have not yet released any official statement on the footage.

Social media users reacted with outrage after the clip went viral.

"That is absolutely disgusting," wrote one user.

"Life in prison without parole," wrote another.

A third person said: "From behind as well. Brave guy that."

The assault echoes the "happy slapping" trend that began in the UK around 2005 before spreading to other countries in Europe. The fad saw one or more people carry out minor and more serious assaults on strangers for the purpose of recording the attacks on a camera phone.

In 2013, the US also saw a spike in people playing the "Knockout game", in which a person attempts to knock out an unsuspecting victim with a single punch.

The game resulted in at least four fatalities that year, CBS reported.

A number of people linked to such assaults have also been charged with hate crimes.

Pakistan: Maid allegedly kills four-year-old after

he witnessed her stealing jewellery in Quetta

The victim's family claims she strangled and drowned the child

Published:  September 14, 2020 

Falah Gulzar, Social Media Reporter

  

A housemaid has allegedly murdered a four-year-old child because he witnessed her stealing jewellery on September 12 in Pakistan's Balochistan province.

Quetta city police told local media that a minor was brutally murdered by a housemaid near the Samungli road area.

The family of the deceased child claimed that the housemaid first strangled and later killed him by drowning because he saw her stealing from a house.

According to local media reports, a neighbour, Muhammad Khan Imrani said the child’s mother and maternal uncle were present at the house when the incident happened.

He told local media that when the neighbours rushed to the house after hearing cries, they found the dead body of the child, soaking in water. According to him, when they reached the hospital, the doctor said that the child was strangulated to death.

Police told local media that a case has been filed against the accused and raids are being conducted to find her.

They added that a postmortem report of the deceased child will help investigators ascertain the cause of death.

3 life sentences for Israeli convicted for murder of Arab family

 

Was he tortured into confession?

September 14, 2020

3 life sentences for Israeli convicted for murder of Arab familyAmiram Ben Uliel, convicted in the Duma arson murder. (Flash90/Avshalom Sassoni)

“His actions were carefully planned. This is not a spontaneous event but out of a racist extremist ideology,” Justice Ruth Lorch said.

By David Isaac, World Israel News

Amiram Ben Uliel received three life sentences from the Lod District Court on Monday. In addition, the court handed 20 more years for two murder attempts.

Ben Uliel had been found guilty on May 18 of three counts of murder in the July 2015 arson attack on a home in the Arab village of Kfar Duma, which killed the Dawabsha family, two parents and an 18-month-old baby.

“The defendant will face judgment today for the serious acts he committed. His actions were carefully planned. This is not a spontaneous event but out of a racist extremist ideology,” Justice Ruth Lorch said, head of the three-judge panel which tried the case.

Shouts filled the courtroom at the end of the trial. Ben-Oliel’s wife shouted at the judges as they left the chamber, “You are the murderers.” Members of the victim’s family shouted, “You are a family of murderers, be ashamed.”

Ben Uliel’s attorneys say they will appeal to the Supreme Court. They say his confession was given after torture by Israel’s internal security service, the Shabak. The court did dismiss some of his confessions but not ones given 36 hours after the Shabak’s “enhanced interrogations’. The court determined those confessions were given freely.

During the May judgment, one of Ben Uliel’s attorneys, Shmuel Zangi Meidad, director of the Honenu legal foundation, said “It’s a dark day for the State of Israel.”

 

“This judgment is worthy of the third world and of regimes that were part of the world that we hoped had passed from it 100 years ago,” he said.

“Today a court in Israel lent a hand to condemning a man whose innocence cries to the heavens,” Meidad said.

“We believed that the State of Israel values human rights, that a citizen who’s been tortured in the harshest ways in the cellars of Shabak until he was forced to confess for a crime he didn’t do would not be condemned on the basis of such admissions,” he said.

There are two issues I would like to note here:

1. Confession by torture is, as the lawyer said, worthy of a third world country. That it was an Arab family killed and a Jewish defendant no doubt lead to the desire for a quick closure of the investigation; perhaps too quick.

2. If he is guilty, the court case and the sentence stand in stark contrast to cases where Palestinians murdered Jewish children in their beds. They would not be charged or tried in a Palestinian court, and they, or their families, would receive a pension for life as a reward. A different kind of life sentence. 

Lib Dem hopeful for London mayor dumped by party

after ‘don’t vote for a Jew’ diatribe surfaces

14 Sep 2020 

The UK’s Liberal Democrats have suspended Geeta Sidhu Robb after old footage emerged of her making anti-Semitic remarks in public. She was among the final two candidates for the party’s nomination to run for London mayor in 2021.

The lawyer-turned-nutritionist coach is of South Asian extraction and ran for Parliament in Blackburn in 1997. During that election, she was filmed by a BBC documentary crew saying she would 

“Walk around and drive through town telling everyone Jack Straw is a Jew.

How is a Muslim going to vote for someone who is Jewish?” 

She made good on that promise, too, as the very next scene shows her driving through Blackburn with a megaphone, saying in Urdu, 

  “Jews are the enemies of Muslims”  

The documentary made it clear her action was a “furious” response to Labour’s campaign telling Blackburn residents she was “not Muslim” and “against Islam,” though she was married to a Muslim at the time.  

“This is making it racist, it's making it personal,” she said. “So, we are just going to pull the gloves off.”

Though the documentary aired at Christmas in 1997 and has been available on YouTube since 2017, the incident became problematic after Sidhu Robb was shortlisted for the LibDem mayoral nomination last week.

Sidhu Robb tweeted out an apology on Sunday evening, saying she was “deeply ashamed of the ignorant and abusive language I used on one occasion,” regretting her “abhorrent actions” and arguing she was now “committed to eradicating inequality and discrimination in all its forms.”

It did not save her from suspension by the party, however. “The Liberal Democrats take all allegations of this nature extremely seriously. A complaint has been received by the party and will be actioned in accordance with our processes,” a party spokesperson said. 

Straw, who had held the Blackburn seat since 1997, beat Sidhu Robb in that election and went on to serve in Labour cabinets under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown for the next 13 years. He retired from Parliament in 2015. 

Despite his own partial Jewish heritage, Straw was accused of anti-Semitism himself. An Israeli politician accused him of “prejudice of the worst kind” in 2013, after Straw criticized the influence of American Jewish organizations on US foreign policy.

Criticism of Israel was also used to accuse Labour and its leader Jeremy Corbyn of anti-Semitism during the 2019 general election campaign. Conservatives went on to win the election by a substantial margin, with Labour suffering its worst defeat in decades.

The increasing numbers of Muslims entering, or being born in Great Britain, and, indeed, most of Europe is causing the whole continent to grow in antisemitism. And this, only 75 years from the Holocaust, is hardly believable.