http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=convert Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:58:24 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=convert Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:34:09 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9ef_1371587286 Muhammad_ibn_Abdullah Two weeks ago in Egypt, a Coptic Christian man named Milad living in Tanta in northern Egypt submitted a formal complaint to authorities, saying that "unknown persons" invited him and his family to renounce Christianity and submit to Islam and convert. "They also snatched at the crucifix he was wearing around his neck, and threatened to kidnap his children and wife if he refused to convert to Islam." The man identified them as members of the Salafi movement in Egypt-as they wore the trademark white robes and long beards. Such incidents-threatening Coptic Christians to convert to Islam and kidnapping their children-are becoming commonplace in post "Arab Spring" Egypt. Some months back, Coptic priests were threatened with death if they did not convert to Islam, and the jihad on Egypt's Christian children is an ongoing phenomenon, most recently resulting in the abduction and slaying of a 6-year-old boy. http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/coptic-christians-threatened-to-convert-to-islam/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9ef_1371587286 Muhammad_ibn_Abdullah Coptic Christians Threatened to <span class="highlight">Convert</span> or be slaughtered... islam, evil, muhammad, quran, allah, jihad, massacre, slaughter, slayings, Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:44:24 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7fa_1371587745 Mo Elnadi The Southbank Center's plans to shut down that famous skatepark spot, which has existed as a hub for skaters, BMXers and artists for some 40 years to convert it into a shopping centre or a coffeeshop! "Hold Tight" Henry discusses the organic 'Long Live South Bank' petition campaign which aims to raise public awareness. Sign the petition before 5th July please. Long Live Southbank http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7fa_1371587745 Mo Elnadi Skateboarders trying to save their Skatepark from being turned into a Starbucks! uk, skateboarding, petition, shop, starbucks Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:57:53 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=751_1371563688 Griffindor I found this comment on amazon.co.uk from a guy who used Veet for Men Hair Removal Gel Creme 200 ml (Personal Care). This is what this guy said: ENJOY!! http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B000KKNQBK/ref=sr_cr_hist_5?ie=UTF8&amp;filterBy=addFiveStar&amp;showViewpoints=0 After having been told my danglies looked like an elderly rastafarian I decided to take the plunge and buy some of this as previous shaving attempts had only been mildly succesful and I nearly put my back out trying to reach the more difficult bits. Being a bit of a romantic I thought I would do the deed on the missus's birthday as a bit of a treat. I ordered it well in advance and working in the North sea I considered myself a bit above some of the characters writing the previous reviews and wrote them off as soft office types...oh my fellow sufferers how wrong I was. I waited until the other half was tucked up in bed and after giving some vague hints about a special surprise I went down to the bathroom. Initially all went well and I applied the gel and stood waiting for something to happen. I didn't have long to wait. At first there was a gentle warmth which in a matter of seconds was replaced by an intense burning and a feeling I can only describe as like being given a barbed wire wedgie by two people intent on hitting the ceiling with my head. Religion hadn't featured much in my life until that night but I suddenly became willing to convert to any religion to stop the violent burning around the turd tunnel and what seemed like the destruction of the meat and two veg. Struggling to not bite through my bottom lip I tried to wash the gel of in the sink and only succeeded in blocking the plughole with a mat of hair. Through the haze of tears I struggled out of the bathroom across the hall into the kitchen by this time walking was not really possible and I crawled the final yard to the fridge in the hope of some form of cold relief. I yanked the freezer drawer out and found a tub of ice cream, tore the lid of and positioned it under me. The relief was fantastic but only temporary as it melted fairly quickly and the fiery stabbing soon returned . Due to the shape of the ice cream tub I hadn't managed to give the starfish any treatment and I groped around in the drawer for something else as I was sure my vision was going to fail fairly soon.I grabbed a bag of what I later found out was frozen sprouts and tore it open trying to be quiet as I did so.I took a handful of them and tried in vain to clench some between the cheeks of my arse. This was not doing the trick as some of the gel had found it's way up the chutney channel and it felt like the space shuttle was running it's engines behind me. This was probably and hopefully the only time in my life I was going to wish there was a gay snowman in the kitchen which should give you some idea of the depths I was willing to sink to in order to ease the pain. The only solution my pain crazed mind could come up with was to gently ease one of the sprouts where no veg had gone before. Unfortunately, alerted by the strange grunts coming from the kitchen the other half chose that moment to come and investigate and was greeted by the sight of me, arse in the air, strawberry ice cream dripping from my bell end pushing a sprout up my arse while muttering..." Ooooh that feels good ". Understandably this was a shock to her and she let out a scream and as I hadn't heard her come in it caused an involutary spasm of shock in myself which resulted in the sprout being ejected at quite some speed in her direction. I can understand that having a sprout farted against your leg at 11 at night in the kitchen probably wasn't the special surprise she was expecting and having to explain to the kids the next day what the strange hollow in the ice cream was didn't improve my status...So to sum it up Veet removes hair, dignity and self respect...:) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=751_1371563688 Griffindor I found this comment on amazon.co.uk!!!!!!! amazon, dangllies Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:55:10 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e2a_1371077443 thaer35 4 People in the U.S converted to Islam after lecture. Over 20,000 people convert to Islam a year in the U.S. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e2a_1371077443 thaer35 4 People <span class="highlight">Convert</span> to Islam Converts, to, Islam, Allah, ackbar, Islamophobes Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:24:37 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=382_1371460017 Hendomania Here is a man preaching Islam and Sharia Law in the UK. He praises Osama Bin Laden and tells the man that if he doesn't convert and follow Sharia Law - he will have to leave. IMO - Islam cannot be integrated into a democratic UK - yet the boarders are open for them to come and preach their hatred and breed at 4 - 1, as their foothold gets stronger and stronger. A young 'British' couple will have on average one child - they cant afford more, as their taxes are going to support welfare for immigrants and their large families. Islam is a cancer and it needs to be treated as such. With 78% of Islam followers, in the UK, favouring Sharia Law, over democracy, the future for our grand-children looks bleak. The Liberal weak ass politicians and largely, foreign, 'human rights lawyers' have fucked up the population balance and as Enoch Powell foresaw we have 'blood on the streets' and its going to get worse. Our politicians have betrayed us with their weak Immigration policies and cow tailing to Islamists. Even the 'moderate' population have had enough and there is no place to go apart from the far right. For a good 'balanced' and 'informed' view on the threat Islam represents; I follow Douglas Murray DouglasMurrayArchive on youtube and also like what Mark Steyn has to say (author of 'America Alone' and 'After America'). Obviously labelled racists by Islamists. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=382_1371460017 Hendomania Muslim leader Saif Al Islam promoting Islam and Sharia Law in Luton - relent or leave. Islam, Saif Al-Islam, Luton, Sharia Law, Sun, 16 Jun 2013 03:55:55 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=038_1371369166 aydeo According to Mother Jones magazine, surprising data reveals Pakistan, one of the world's least tolerant nations toward gays, is the world leader for Google searches of gay porn. This month, the Pew Research Center published results of a public survey of gay tolerance in 39 countries worldwide, the question being "Should society accept homosexuality?" Among the least tolerant nations surveyed was Pakistan, where only 2 percent of those surveyed said society should accept homosexuality. But surprisingly, according to Google Trends Pakistan is by volume the world leader for Google searches of the terms "shemale sex," "teen anal sex," and "man fucking man," Mother Jones found. Pakistan also ranks second in the world (after similarly gay-intolerant Kenya) for volume of searches for the search term "gay sex pics." In its report, Pew noted that countries exhibiting the highest levels of gay tolerance are largely secular, whereas nations where religion is central to public life-such as Egypt, Nigeria, and Pakistan-tend to reject homosexuality. According to the article, in Pakistan, the highest number of hits for some of these terms, including "shemale sex," come not from Pakistan's cosmopolitan centers, but from Peshawar, a bastion of conservative Islam, lately known in the West as a counterterrorism frontline. Farahnaz Ispahani, an expert in Pakistani minorities at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a former member of Pakistan's parliament, told Mother Jones that homosexuality is a taboo subject throughout the country. In major cities such as Lahore and Karachi, gays can develop a network of allies outside their tribe or family, but in conservative Peshawar, gay identity is more complicated. Part of the popularity of gay porn could stem from the fact that even highly observant Muslim males often have physical relationships with men without considering themselves gay, she said. "The real love they can have that most of us find with a partner, they find with men," Ispahani told Mother Jones. "They mostly see their wives as the mother of their children." At the same time, she said, persecution of minorities, including gays, has reached an all-time high in Pakistan, and discussing homosexuality openly in public is virtually forbidden. "Religious extremism is at a height today," she says. "Hindus are being forced to convert, Christians are being burned alive-there's very little personal safety for those seen as 'the other.' So what do (gay Pakistanis) do? They turn to pornography because they can't live their lives openly." http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4392730,00.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=038_1371369166 aydeo Gay-intolerant Pakistan world leader for gay porn searches... Pakistan,World leader,Gay porn,Search Sun, 16 Jun 2013 02:48:06 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=145_1371364819 grewal People think that whoever is wearing a turban is a terrorist well thats wrong, arabs wear turban because its windy and hot and sand storms blow all the time in middle eastern countries While for a SIKH its his Identity, Sikhs have a long term conflict going on with muslims even before all these terrorists activity begun, Sikhs conflict with muslims date back to 17th century when they tried to convert them to islam like what they are doing right now in the world but the sikhs didnt now their heads they rose up to these culprits and defended their faith, Sikhs are totally different from muslims its just the demographics and turban is what confuses everyone in states, watch this video to learn more http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=145_1371364819 grewal Turban Wearers In The West Are SIKHS Not Muslims a.k.a Terroristspork Louisville Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:42:32 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ada_1371328435 Detroit Iron By MICHAEL BLAUSTEIN Last Updated: 3:23 PM, June 14, 2013 Posted: 12:46 PM, June 14, 2013 Pakistan -- a global leader in intolerance towards homosexuals -- leads the world in Google searches for gay pornography, according to an analysis of search terms published by Mother Jones. The study found the Islamic republic is the world leader by volume of searches form the terms "shemale sex," "teen anal sex," and "man f***ing man," while it ranks second in searches for the term "gay sex pics." The term "shemale sex" was most-searched for in the city of Peshwar, a conservative Islamic stronghold that has become a frontline in the war on terror. In a survey of 39 countries worldwide, the Pew Research Center asked the question, "Should society accept homosexuality?" In the United States and Western Europe the answer was a resounding "yes," but wallowing at the bottom of the countries surveyed was Pakistan where only 2% of those surveyed answered in the affirmative making the predominantly Muslim nation one of the least tolerant countries on Earth, according to Mother Jones. "Religious extremism is at a height today," said Farahnaz Ispahan, an expert in Pakistani minorities at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a former member of Pakistan's parliament. "Hindus are being forced to convert, Christians are being burned alive-there's very little personal safety for those seen as 'the other.'" Ispahan said while trying to explain Pakistan's odd relationship with homosexuality and gay porn. "So what do do? They turn to pornography because they can't live their lives openly." Part of the reason why gay Pakistanis can't live openly is because gay sex is illegal and can be punished with a lengthy jail sentence. - @mikeblaustein http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/pakistan_hates_gays_porn_loves_shemale_1nLWiA802cZVRAbXc43w4O?utm_source=SFnewyorkpost&amp;utm_medium=SFnewyorkpost http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ada_1371328435 Detroit Iron Pakistan hates gays but love 'shemale sex' and 'man f***ing man' porn searches Google, Mother Jones, Pew Research Center Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:41:45 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0b5_1371299797 kle57 Pakistan -- a global leader in intolerance towards homosexuals -- leads the world in Google searches for gay pornography, according to an analysis of search terms published by Mother Jones. The study found the Islamic republic is the world leader by volume of searches form the terms "shemale sex," "teen anal sex," and "man f***ing man," while it ranks second in searches for the term "gay sex pics." The term "shemale sex" was most-searched for in the city of Peshwar, a conservative Islamic stronghold that has become a frontline in the war on terror. In a survey of 39 countries worldwide, the Pew Research Center asked the question, "Should society accept homosexuality?" In the United States and Western Europe the answer was a resounding "yes," but wallowing at the bottom of the countries surveyed was Pakistan where only 2% of those surveyed answered in the affirmative making the predominantly Muslim nation one of the least tolerant countries on Earth, according to Mother Jones . "Religious extremism is at a height today," said Farahnaz Ispahan, an expert in Pakistani minorities at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a former member of Pakistan's parliament. "Hindus are being forced to convert, Christians are being burned alive-there's very little personal safety for those seen as 'the other.'" Ispahan said while trying to explain Pakistan's odd relationship with homosexuality and gay porn. "So what do do? They turn to pornography because they can't live their lives openly." Part of the reason why gay Pakistanis can't live openly is because gay sex is illegal and can be punished with a lengthy jail sentence. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0b5_1371299797 kle57 Pakistan # 1 in Gay Searches on the Internet Pakistan, Gay, Homosexual Sat, 15 Jun 2013 06:23:24 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=924_1371291169 Dr Derp Muslim filth jailed for dishing out 40 lashes. A man who whipped a Muslim convert 40 times as punishment for drinking alcohol and taking drugs because of a "contorted" belief in sharia has been jailed for at least 16 months, with a magistrate saying he had "brought much shame upon the Islamic faith". Wassim Fayad, 45, was one of four men sentenced on Friday for their assault upon Cristian Martinez in July, 2011. He was whipped 40 times with an electric cord in his Silverwater home, while three other men held him down on his bed.Previously, the court has heard Fayad and three other men - Zakaryah Raad, Tolga Cifci and Cengiz Coskun - believed they were following sharia when they held Mr Martinez down and whipped him on the back in the middle of the night. On Friday, Magistrate Brian Maloney sentenced Fayad to a maximum two years' imprisonment for assault occasioning actual bodily harm, giving the less culpable trio suspended 18-month sentences, finding they were easily led by their older friend. Turning to Fayed directly, Mr Maloney said: "Mr Fayad, by your actions you have brought much shame on the Islamic faith. "You have proved yourself unscrupulously cunning, deceptive and dishonest. You profess to be a religious man; however, you resorted to violence upon Mr Martinez," he said. In other observations about the case, Mr Maloney said it "was never about the Islamic faith or Islamic law, and my findings bear witness to the fact". "It was simply one man who happened to be Muslim, assaulting another man, to effect a criminal purpose. To assist in that purpose recruited three young men who had been groomed and duped into believing he was righteous and learned in Islamic law." Instead, he said Fayed had whipped Mr Martinez in order to get him to pay his debts. Fayed shook his head and muttered as Mr Maloney handed down his sentence. The three younger men were also sentenced to community service orders. All four embraced in court afterwards. The case is believed to be the first of its kind in Australia relating to such punishment being given out under the pretext of sharia, or Islamic law. The court has previously heard Mr Martinez, 32, had asked Fayed, his religious mentor, for help in getting off drugs. Fayed replied: "It means I'm going to tie you up brother, because that's what you need." Fayed and the other offenders then went round to Mr Martinez's home and Fayed lashed him on the back as the others held him down. Mr Martinez cried and begged for the men to stop and he was in pain for about a week after the incident. Lawyers for Mr Fayad lodged an immediate appeal, and were seeking bail pending the outcome of the appeal hearing on Friday afternoon. Wassim Fayad Zakaryah Raad http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-sharia-whipping-case-man-jailed-for-dishing-out-40-lashes-20130614-2o8pj.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=924_1371291169 Dr Derp Sydney sharia whipping case. muslim, scum, sharia, australia, pedo, goat, fuckers, Sat, 15 Jun 2013 04:19:47 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4a0_1371284254 absu69 Paraguay's April 21 election of Horacio Cartes, a dodgy "tobacco magnate," rancher and banker, whose Banco Amambay has been accused of laundering drug money, tax evasion and other crimes, raises the specter of "state capture" by powerful drug cartels linked to US intelligence agencies. In the context of US efforts to manage not eliminate, the multibillion dollar global trade in illegal narcotics, Cartes electoral victory might very well be a shot in the arm for certain three-lettered US intelligence agencies, eager beavers always on the lookout for new allies--and an endless supply of black funds--to carry out hemisphere-wide dirty ops against leftist governments. The current US destabilization campaign targeting Venezuela's newly elected president, Nicol'as Maduro and the Bolivarian revolution, is instructive in this regard. A key factor driving US regional operations is control over the narcotics market. As researchers Oliver Villar and Drew Cottle revealed in Cocaine, Death Squads and the war on Terror : "Paraguay was the first country in Latin America to be publicly exposed for its involvement in the drug trade. Paraguay in the early 1970s was a vital center for the Corsican mafia, leading to the development of a vast heroin-trafficking network supplied from Turkey, and based in Marseille, the infamous 'French Connection.' Corsicans coordinated the transport of heroin from Marseille to the United States via Paraguay. The CIA," Villar and Cottle averred, "used such networks as transit stops in transporting Asian heroin to the United States with the help of corrupt high-ranking government and military officials." "Later," journalist Vicky Pelaez disclosed in The Moscow News , "cocaine trafficking was added. It was transported through Chaco's wild and rough terrain. Chaco is a vast, semi-arid and semi-humid region in western Paraguay, where there are at least 900 covert airplane runways and where between 60 and 70 tons of cocaine circulate annually, according to former Interior Minister Carlos Filizzola." "Curiously," Pelaez averred, "there are two US bases in that region. One is located in the city of Pedro Juan Caballero, in the Amambay province, and is operated by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The other, run by the Pentagon, is part of the Mariscal Estigarribia airport, in the Boquer'on province, and boasts a 3,800-meter long runway." When Fernando Lugo was removed from office last year after an expedited impeachment "trial" by Paraguay's Senate, it was widely denounced across Latin American as a parliamentary coup d''etat which had more than a passing resemblance to the 2009 ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya. And like the Honduran coup against Zelaya, the World Socialist Web Site pointed out that "both countries have been the focus of attention of the US military and intelligence apparatus, which shares intimate connections with its local counterparts. Security forces in both countries have been trained and advised by the Pentagon and would not support the overthrow of an existing government without its approval." Elected in 2008, Lugo, a former Catholic bishop and proponent of Liberation Theology, promised to combat Paraguay's endemic corruption and implement policies favoring a "preferential option for the poor." Lugo however, was no Hugo Ch'avez, Evo Morales or Rafael Correa, populist leaders who defied the Global Godfather by charting an independent course. Despite a mildly reformist agenda which increased access to healthcare and education for Paraguay's working class majority, when it came to the key issue of land reform Lugo's administration hit a brick wall. Shortly after assuming office, Lugo became the target of that nation's entrenched landed oligarchy, multinational agricultural corporations (including such paragons of virtue as Monsanto, Pioneer, Syngenta, Dupont, Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, and Bunge) and the transnational drug cartels which continue to rule Paraguay with an iron fist much as they did under the 35-year dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner. Paraguay, a landlocked nation in which 2 percent of the population control more than 80 percent of the landed wealth, most of which had been expropriated by the kleptocratic Stroessner regime and handed out to favored cronies of his Colorado party, agrarian reform should have topped Lugo's agenda. As The Moscow News pointed out, "Monsanto was naturally involved in the conspiracy. The world's largest producer of genetically modified crops disapproved of Lugo's idea to abolish the per-ton royalty of $4 on soybeans, to be paid by growers using Roundup Ready RR1 and Intenta RR2 Pro seeds. Recall that on his fifth day in office, the new president, Federico Franco, offered new concessions to Monsanto concerning the distribution of its GM cotton, soybean and corn seeds in Paraguay." According to Pelaez, "Over the past ten months, unofficial employment has soared to 66% (this proportion is higher only in Peru (67%) and in Haiti (92%)). The bulk of the shadow labor market is formed by farmers pushed off the fields by such groups as Monsanto and Cargill, which use biotechnology to industrialize agricultural production and convert farmland into a contaminated 'green desert,' slowly but surely implanting a system of 'farming without farmers'." Blocked at every step, and relying on the right's largesse to remain in office, Lugo's betrayal of the campesino base that put him in office and his retreat and capitulation to Paraguay's elite doomed his administration. In fact, as journalist and researcher Benjamin Dangl reported in UpSideDownWorld last year, "Lugo was no friend of the campesino sector that helped bring him into power. His administration regularly called for the severe repression and criminalization of the country's campesino movements. He was therefore isolated from above at the political level, and lacked a strong political base below due to his stance toward social movements and the slow pace of land reform." Using a police provocation and subsequent massacre of 11 landless farmers who had occupied land belonging to ex-Colorado Senator Blas Riquelme, illegally seized by the Stroessner regime as a pretext, the Chamber of Deputies launched proceedings to remove Lugo from office. Scarcely 24 hours later, the Senate voted to impeach the president. Who was leading the charge for Lugo's removal? Why none other than the Colorado Party's declared candidate for the presidency, then-Senator Horacio Cartes. But the final straw may have been the decision by Lugo's administration three years earlier, to cut off access to the country by the US military. By 2007, the Pentagon had deployed some 400 Marines under the guise of "medical readiness training" exercises that were denounced by grassroots activists as a ploy to identify "dangerous" rural leaders of the landless movement. At the same time, the Pentagon was planning to expand US operations at the giant Mariscal Estigarribia air base, 120 miles from the Argentine and Bolivian borders. Journalist Conn Hallinan reported back in 2005, "US Special Forces began arriving this past summer at Paraguay's Mariscal Estigarribia air base, a sprawling complex built in 1982 during the reign of dictator Alfredo Stroessner. Argentinean journalists who got a peek at the place say the airfield can handle B-52 bombers and Galaxy C-5 cargo planes. It also has a huge radar system, vast hangers, and can house up to 16,000 troops. The air base is larger than the international airport at the capital city, Asunci'on." During a 2009 press conference, Lugo rejected further US troop deployments under the Bush-era "New Horizons" program. In a decision that greatly angered Washington, Lugo remarked, "we don't see it as convenient that the Southern Command has a presence in Paraguay." Coming on the heels of Ecuador's 2009 closure of the giant US airbase at Manta, of which Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa famously said: "We can negotiate with the US about a base in Manta, if they let us put a military base in Miami," the Pentagon and CIA looked to Paraguay for a platform for what Southern Command described as "counternarcotics surveillance," but which regional neighbors denounced as a threat to hemispheric security. Ominously, the US ambassador in Asunci'on, Liliana Ayalde declared: "It's a regrettable decision." Indeed it was, for Lugo and the Paraguayan people. The (Narco) Ties that Bind In their relentless drive to accumulate riches at the expense of their citizens, comprador elites, particularly those who mix land grabs, far-right politics with currying favor from their imperialist overlords, utilize state institutions as cash cows. And when those elites are also plugged into the international narcotics trade and control the state's machinery of repression, well, it's a win-win all around! Who would imagine that a central banker would have ties to criminals and narcotraffickers? Why, the US Embassy that's who! A 2007 Cable Gate file published by WikiLeaks noted that former Central Bank president Dr. Angel Gabriel Gonz'alez C'aceres, "a strong Colorado with close ties to President Duarte, who appointed him Central Bank president in September 2003," was named "Paraguay's new director of SEPRELAD, the Secretariat for the Prevention of Money Laundering," and that reviews of his previous performance were "quite mixed." Variously described by the Embassy as "a technician with a long trajectory at the Central Bank who has cooperated with the Embassy on money laundering and terrorist financing," as Banking Superintendent however, Gonz'alez "opposed creation of SEPRELAD because he wanted the Central Bank to retain responsibility for fighting money laundering." But perhaps there were other factors, and interests, at work? According to Asunci'on Deputy Chief of Mission Michael J. Fitzpatrick, Paraguay's counternarcotics director Hugo Ibarra would have "nothing to do with" Gonz'alez. The counternarcotics chief then "volunteered that Gonz'alez had a direct personal role as Central Bank president in white-washing ('blanquear') funds for so-called pillar of the community Horacio Cartes and his Banco Amambay, noting that 80 percent of money laundering in Paraguay moves through that banking institution." "Ibarra indicated," Embassy officials averred, "that Gonz'alez is still involved with Amambay, and questioned why a former Central Bank president would take a lower level position as SEPRELAD director--managing an office with less than a dozen employees--in the absence of some other financial incentive." Certainly a relevant question; however, no answers were forthcoming. In 2008, another WikiLeaks file disclosed that shortly after assuming office, Lugo informed the US Embassy of his interest "in closer counternarcotics cooperation with the United States and requested U.S. assistance with microenterprise development during a Friday, August 29 dinner with the Ambassador." Significantly, "Lugo made clear that he does not trust some of his closest advisors or cabinet ministers. During dinner, which took place before the weekend rumors emerged regarding coup planning, Lugo told Ambassador about a tape recording of former President Duarte and General Lino Oviedo betting that Lugo will last only three to eight months in office." A 2009 secret WikiLeaks file, "Paraguayan Pols Plot Paraguayan Putsch," noted that "discredited General and UNACE party leader Lino Oviedo and ex-president Nicanor Duarte Frutos are now working together to assume power via (mostly) legal means should President Lugo stumble in coming months." Oviedo, "serving time for involvement in the 1999 assassination of Vice President Luis Argana and the subsequent Marzo Paraguayo massacre of unarmed student protesters," the Embassy noted it was Duarte "who used his control of the Supreme Court to free Oviedo from jail" in 2007. A 2003 CIA report published by the Library of Congress informed us that "Brazilian and U.S. officials generally consider former General Lino C'esar Oviedo to be head of the so-called Paraguay Cartel. He reportedly has amassed at least US$1 billion, including numerous properties in the TBA ." The Argentine investigative news magazine P'agina/12 published a 2001 Argentine Chamber of Deputies report on money laundering which noted that according to Brazilian officials, the US Embassy and the DEA, Oviedo was involved with "drug trafficking (cocaine and marijuana), weapons, money laundering and the smuggling of various items." In 1994 for example, a "load of seven tons of cocaine, worth $70 million, which was seized with the participation of the CIA, and destined for the USA," was linked to Oviedo and his employees. Later that year, according to DEA documents, another load of five tons of cocaine was seized from "Oviedo accomplices" attempting to smuggle it across the Paraguayan border. The Chamber of Deputies report concluded: "Oviedo is accused of being the head of a drug trafficking, arms trafficking and being involved in the murder of media entrepreneur Carlos Honorio Cubillas and Paraguayan Vice President Argana. The various charges against him made by the DEA were, by former U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay and the Brazilian CPI." As noted above, in 2007, Oviedo's conviction for orchestrating an attempted military coup in 1996 was annulled by Paraguay's Supreme Court. Again a candidate for the presidency in 2013, nominated by the ironically named National Union of Ethical Citizens (Uni'on Nacional de Ciudadanos 'Eticos, UNACE), Oviedo died in a "helicopter accident" after a campaign appearance in February, clearing the path to power for Horacio Cartes. The Cartel: Back in Power Last Sunday in an unusually critical article, The New York Times reported that during the campaign, Cartes "was pressed to explain why antinarcotics police officers apprehended a plane carrying cocaine and marijuana on his ranch in 2000; why he went to prison in 1989 on currency fraud charges; and why he had never even voted in past general elections." Good questions, all of which were dismissed by Cartes' top aides as "conspiracy theories" and "slander." The most serious charges involve Cartes connection to drug trafficking, money laundering and the smuggling of contraband cigarettes. Another WikiLeaks file, this one from 2010, informed us that a joint that a joint ATF-DEA-ICE-OFAC US anti-money laundering investigation dubbed "Heart of Stone," revealed that Cartes is the head of a transnational criminal organization and the main target of the operation. "OPERATION HEART OF STONE is a coordinated, transnational investigation focused on the disruption and dismantlement of a significant drug trafficking and money laundering enterprise operating within the Tri Border Area (TBA) of Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil, and elsewhere throughout the world. This investigation has established links between and among drug trafficking, money laundering and other criminal organizations and, as such, was approved as a designated Consolidated Priority Organizational Target (CPOT) investigation during April 2009." The WikiLeaks file averred: "The investigative team has implemented strategies and operations aimed at attacking the financial infrastructure of drug trafficking supply network (DTO's) and other criminal enterprises operating within the TBA. Using a strategic approach to target the international command and control centers of these criminal organizations based in the TBA, agents have successfully focused investigative activity in an effort to develop this investigation with an aim toward a DEA UC introduction to CPOT designee Horacio CARTES. Through the utilization of a DEA BACO cooperating source and other DEA undercover personnel, agents have infiltrated CARTES' money laundering enterprise, an organization believed to launder large quantities of United States currency generated through illegal means, including through the sale of narcotics, from the TBA to the United States." Despite the seriousness of the allegations, and others enumerated below, The Independent reported that Cartes "has publicly denied the allegations and says he has received assurances from the embassy that the US Drugs Enforcement Agency and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are conducting no investigations against him, something the cables allege." If true, this raises a disturbing question: did the DEA drop the ball or were they ordered to back away from the investigation by Obama's State Department? "'When it comes to drug trafficking, Horacio has made it clear what his position is,' says Julio Velazquez, a Colorado senator standing for re-election tomorrow." Ludicrously, Velazquez told The Independent: "'There's no concrete allegation against him. Horacio has investments in the US. Do you think the Americans would allow a narco to bring money into their country?'" Memo to Senator Velazquez: Not only would the Yankees "allow a narco to bring money into their country," they'd look the other way as US banksters laundered the funds and extracted hefty fees in the process! Another front in the Cartes empire involved Banco Amambay and illegal tax evasion. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ( ICIJ ) reported earlier this month that "five directors of Banco Amambay created a secret bank in the Cook Islands with no building and no staff." Journalists Marina Walker Guevara and Mabel Rehnfeldt disclosed that "top officials of a Paraguayan bank owned by Horacio Manuel Cartes, the country's leading candidate in this month's presidential election, operated a secret financial institution in a tax haven in the South Pacific." According to the ICIJ's investigation, "Cartes' father, Ram'on Telmo Cartes Lind, and four other executives of Paraguay's Banco Amambay S.A. created Amambay Trust Bank Ltd. in 1995 in the Cook Islands, a tiny chain of atolls and volcanic outcroppings more than 6,000 miles away from the South American nation." "The Cook Islands bank, which was operational until 2000," the same year the Cook Islands landed on of the OECD's money laundering blacklist, "a dishonor roll for places the OECD considers havens for dirty money," was de-registered a month prior to OECD sanctions. Guevara and Rehnfeldt reported that the Cook Islands were condemned for "'excessive secrecy provisions'" that "allowed owners of offshore companies and accounts to hide in the shadows. It noted the islands' government had 'no relevant information on approximately 1,200 international companies that it had registered' and that the offshore banks located in the Cooks weren't required to document the identity of their customers." "It was not the only time that Banco Amambay and its officials made headlines for alleged money laundering, but the accusations have never resulted in convictions." "Just last month," the ICIJ averred, "the head of Paraguay's anti-money laundering agency said that the bank was being investigated alongside other financial institutions for illegal money transfers abroad. The following day the official recanted his words and said he had misspoken. Amambay denied any involvement in criminal activities." With the election of another "teflon president" accused of operating a drug trafficking and money laundering enterprise, and with powerful connections to prominent right-wing politicians suspected of decades' long ties to global narcotics rackets, the Pentagon and US secret state agencies must be salivating over the prospect of the cartel's return to power. After all, as State Department spokesperson Patrick Ventrell said during an April 22 press briefing when queried about Cartes dodgy record: "The United States values its relationship with Paraguay and looks forward to working with the President-elect, with President-elect Cartes, on many of our shared interests, such as defending and promoting democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, and expanding trade and economic opportunities." When pressed about Cartes long history of criminal allegations, Ventrell didn't bat an eyelash and averred: "I'm not aware of specific allegations one way or another, but we do congratulate him on his electoral victory. And I think I just was clear about working with him going forward." http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4a0_1371284254 absu69 In the Wake of Last Year's 'Soft Coup' Against Paraguay's President, Will a New Narco-Dictatorship Emerge? drug,war Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:22:43 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2fb_1371244035 anglosaxonwarlord He admits murdering surrendered soldiers gets married in this film made by a fellow USA jihadi.The exclusive footage focuses on recruits from a hardline Sunni militia of more than 700 foreign fighters in the Katiba al-Muhajireen (the battalion of migrants) and follows Ibrahim al-Mazwagi, the first British fighter to die in Syria. He was killed in February this year, aged just 21.The video is the first intimate access to the previously unseen lives of this band of jihadi brothers, and shows them fighting and killing on the frontlines, talking about jihad, and even getting married. We can't accept enemies of Allah for our religion - killing us, abusing our religion, belittling it, taking our lands. Ibrahim al-Mazwagi, British rebel fighter in Syria Fighters from the west are flocking to Syria in growing numbers, with estimates that there are now about 80 British recruits in the country among as many as 700 Europeans.In the footage, filmed by an American Muslim convert, Mazwagi can be seen conducting target practice and joining battles on the frontline. He justifies his decision to come to Syria and says: "Well, I've always known about jihad, seen the Mujahadeen on TV and everything." Later in an interview he adds: "Our religion is one of superiority and honour, you know. We can't accept enemies of Allah for our religion - killing us, abusing our religion, belittling it, taking our lands. This is not something we stand for. So the Mujaheddin, those who practise jihad, are those who defend the Muslims." Filmed over several months, the young British jihadi fighter can be seen shooting weapons, going shopping for cereal, and joining a key battle for a Syrian army base called Sheik Suleiman in western Aleppo. He talks about his family back in London and how they support his actions.At one point, while hanging off the side of a truck, he is asked if his mother knows where he is and replies: "I remember I called my mother once. I told her I am going on an operation tomorrow." They are happy I'm taking my own path, doing my own thing and helping people. At the same time they don't understand entirely why I'm here. Abu Islam, Canadian rebel in Syria She said: "Make sure you're not at the back. Go to the front." Laughing, he adds: "I don't think my mother loves me that much. No, I'm joking. She must love me for her to say that. Hamdullah (thank God), she understands." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2fb_1371244035 anglosaxonwarlord The first British fighter to die in Syria&quot; MUST WATCH&quot; intervew/documentary filmed over his jihad and death. ibrahim al mazwagi,british,jihadi,syria,death,marriage,admits war crimes