tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post6431648189974221056..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: We didn't know that Panama was bombed in 1989Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-8520054273534909702015-10-08T19:18:25.201-04:002015-10-08T19:18:25.201-04:00In 1991, PBS carried a story of 2 photographers wh...In 1991, PBS carried a story of 2 photographers who witnessed U.S. forces digging huge pits and carting burned bodies in with trucks. They took up separate vantage points and photographed U.S. troops doing their thing as shown on PBS. A guard contingement charged up to one of them and grabbed his camera pulling all the film out exposing it also shown on PBS. Proud of what they had done they looked around and saw the other photographer. They charged up to him as shown on PBS, took his camera pulling all the film out exposing it, then sauntering off. The cameramen said they looked dejected and milled around until the U.S. had done it's thing. Then they gathered up the film destroyed by U.S. troops and retreated to where they respooled the film later to be shown on PBS....it was video tape!! About 25 minutes into the hour long show PBS feed went blank with jamming, and in fact the Feds had jammed the whole satellite, all channels for the rest of the hour. Every year since, then U.S. funding for PBS has been cut. Total U.S. statement of civilian deaths as a result of their invasion was 200...yeah and in April I'm the Easter Bunny!!! Erwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13502054929072599077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-75296949114441865652014-08-28T10:25:46.857-04:002014-08-28T10:25:46.857-04:00Brenda, you hit the nail on the head! John Perkin...Brenda, you hit the nail on the head! John Perkins is now a whistle blower and once was an "Economic Hitman" If anyone knows the system and the corruption involved in U.S politics, he does. He also mentions that the U.S were trying to destroy derogatory pictures of the Bush Administration that the Panama had stored in that gov. building that was destroyed by the air strike. like you said....If the the economic hit men doesn't succeed in bribing the government, then they send in the Jekyls to assassinate them...if they fail then the last resort is to send the military in to basically blow the place up and kill the president. YOU BETTER OBEY THE U.S OR ELSE....that's what it comes down to these days. They did the same thing with Saddam Hussein. he threatened to switch his oil reserve to Euros instead of the U.S dollar...he had all the right in the world to do it, but of course that would have de-valued the US dollar which pissed off Bush...after failing with bribery and assignation attempts, it was rime for WAR!! Don't F@#K with the U.S. If you would like to see another story...check out how the U.S pulled the biggest economic scam in the history of the world when they conned Saudi Arabia into valuing their oil based on the U.S dollar rather than any other currency...even their own!! This is ultimately how the U.S has grown to be so powerful. everyone is forced to buy U.S money to purchase oil. This makes the U.S dollar very valuable. Every time a country purchases oil in the world, the U.S profits from it one way or another. The U.S government is the most corrupt in the world...the world bankers like the Rockerfellers, JP MOrgan, the Rothschilds are the most evil, corrupt, money hungry, selfish, corporations in the world. Many innocent people die in the hands of the this government and the big billionaire bankers who are behind funding these wars. The Bush family are the scum of the earth. So is Dick Chaney and Donald Rumsfeld. Do your research on those guys and you'll be furious about what they are doing to the world!! this is the real evil in the world....not Al Qaeda and surely not Pananma!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04242916354667349014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-30609830423824589632009-09-04T09:04:04.807-04:002009-09-04T09:04:04.807-04:00I don't quite understand your point, Anonymous...I don't quite understand your point, Anonymous. Even if it is true that Noriega rigged the election - and the US is known for this practise as well - what did the US 'defence' forces hope to achieve by bombing a civilian population and killing thousands in the process?<br /><br />Also, do you have reasons why 10,000 individuals were put in concentration camps?Myrtle Blackwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07427043367624101075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-34758317713740072732009-09-03T16:29:49.553-04:002009-09-03T16:29:49.553-04:00Two of my friends were in that invasion and the PD...Two of my friends were in that invasion and the PDF wasn't some "police force". One of them got wounded and it was a pretty big fight.<br /><br />And even <i><b>Jimmy Carter</b></i> said that it was <i><b>Noreiga</b></i> who rigged the election and not the other way around.<br /><br />Panama wants him to return to face murder and human rights violations. Even the French government is trying to extradite and imprison the guy.<br /><br />Who the hell is Webster Tarpley and where did he come up with this crap? If you want to skewer the Bushes there's plenty of real stuff to use. Not this BS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-41687923187205726712009-08-31T22:23:52.759-04:002009-08-31T22:23:52.759-04:00Was any kind of sensible rationale for our little...Was any kind of sensible rationale for our little Panama adventure ever even offered? I remember the thing as a kind of temper tantrum on Bush the Elder's part. Also, if memory serves, the media gasbags had been insinuating that his manliness wasn't quite up to Dear St. Ronnie's sunny level -- so maybe Bush the Elder had to prove something. <br />-- sgloverAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-63893739637583901222009-08-31T10:01:19.842-04:002009-08-31T10:01:19.842-04:00OSO,
Thanks for your comments.
John Perkins, in ...OSO,<br />Thanks for your comments. <br /><br />John Perkins, in his book "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" confirms your statements about the strategy of the US. <br />"<i> "We're a small, exclusive club," she said. "We're paid - well paid - to cheat countries round the globe out of billions of dollars. A large part of your job is to encourage world leaders to become part of a vast network that promotes US commercial interests. In the end, those leaders become ensnared in a web of debt that ensures their loyalty....</i>" Perkins mentions bribery, corruption. If that doesn't work then assassinations. If this strategy fails the next step is invasion.<br /><br />Joey G:<br />Well, at last, the deficiencies of the Murdoch, Fairfax and other media are so glaring that they're no longer commercially viable. I see that James Murdoch is whinging that the free public news provided by the BBC is making it hard for his empire to start charging for online content.<br /><br />CMike,<br />thanks for the links. I have trouble downloading video with our limited broadband connection. Will try in town when I can.<br /><br />Webster Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin draw upon plenty of other sources for their article on Panama. It frightens me that the US has evolved into such an extreme overkill machine across the planet!<br /><br />On the United Nations involvement:<br /><br /><i>"Back in January, 1972, at the extraordinary session of the United Nations Security Council in Addis Ababa, the Panamanian delegate, Aquilino Boyd, had delivered a scathing condemnation of the American "occupation" of the Canal Zone, which most Panamanians found increasingly intolerable. At that time Ambassador Bush had wormed his way out of a tough situation by pleading that Boyd was out of order, since Panama had not been placed on the agenda for the meeting. Boyd was relentless in pressing for a special session of the Security Council in Panama City at which he could bring up the issue of sovereignty over the Canal Zone and the canal. Later, in March, 1973, Bush's successor at the UN post, John Scali, was forced to resort to a veto in order to kill a resolution calling for the "full respect for Panama's effective sovereignty over all its territory." This veto had been a big political embarrassment, since it was cast in the face of vociferous condemnation from the visitors' gallery, which was full of Panamanian patriots. To make matters worse, the US had been totally isolated, with 13 countries supporting the resolution and one abstention. [25]</i><br /><br />[25] 25. Kenneth J. Jones, The Enemy Within, (Cali, Colombia: Carvajal, 1990), p. 22.<br /><br />AND<br /><i>"Washington’s action was so flagrantly illegal that the overwhelming majority of world governments have felt compelled to state opposition to it. The Organization of American States, long a pliant tool of Washington’s foreign policy, condemned the invasion with only a single dissenting vote – that of the US delegate. The United Nations General Assembly went on record against the invasion by a wide margin....</i>Myrtle Blackwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07427043367624101075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-40374541926090063322009-08-31T01:52:33.438-04:002009-08-31T01:52:33.438-04:00Webster Tarpley is not a reliable commentator. He ...Webster Tarpley is not a reliable commentator. He is a LaRouche-ite kook (or poseur). <a href="http://splicd.com/uhhUasSi5qY/249/419" rel="nofollow">Nevertheless.</a> This clip is from:<br /><br />>>>>>>>>><br />>>>>>>>>><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Panama_Deception" rel="nofollow">The Panama Deception</a> [which] <i>is a documentary film that won the 1992 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. The film is critical of the actions of the US military during the 1989 invasion of Panama by the United States, covering the conflicting reasons for the invasion and the depicting of the US media as biased. It was directed by Barbara Trent of the Empowerment Project and was narrated by actress Elizabeth Montgomery.</i><br /><<<<<<<<<<br /><<<<<<<<<<br /><br />In case you're interested, the documentary can be seen in its entirety <a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D1B8C6963C8F757A&search_query=the+panama+deception#" rel="nofollow">here.</a>CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-86982032066851729302009-08-30T12:31:08.148-04:002009-08-30T12:31:08.148-04:00This American remembers the whole business; the me...This American remembers the whole business; the media portrayed it as a vital manhunt for the evil-doer Noriega. There was no mention of the bombing of the slums, just breathless "where's the bad guy" coverage. No questioning as to whether it made sense, if it was moral or justified, America of course had the right.<br /><br />For anyone with an independent mind, it stunk like pure propaganda.Joey giraudnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-89609420213536547612009-08-30T10:43:40.877-04:002009-08-30T10:43:40.877-04:00Hi Brenda,
The invasion was an absolute travesty.t...Hi Brenda,<br />The invasion was an absolute travesty.the Guardia Nacional was essentially a police force,Panama had no military.It's my understanding that Torrijos,along with being "guilty" of the Torrijos-carter treaty was also guilty of not allowing Panama to be used as a transfer point for drugs.So his plane exploded and Noriega, who was more compliant,was plugged in. But Noriega opposed the School of Americas, the torture school,returning to Panama as well as reneging on the treaty.So he had to go too but he was like Saddama in that he was hard to assasinate so went to Plan C-invasion.one could draw the analogy with Iraq.assasinate a nationalist leader(Qassim)then plug in a dictator who won't let himself be assassinated then Plan C.Osohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09513535195785731541noreply@blogger.com