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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-21-09 08:22 AM
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A Tale of Two Protests. The Oil We Have and The Oil we Don't Have!
Edited on Sun Jun-21-09 08:49 AM by Joanne98
This is just one of the glaring reasons we have to stay out of the Iranian protests. Someone might bring this up. The protesters in Peru who are being slaughtered by the regime for the benefit of US oil companies. But fighting to protect yourself from corporate mass murderers isn't freedom. No it's a crime punishable by death apparently.

Our decision to be on the side of the protesters in Iran has nothing to do with freedom or anything else. It's STILL all about the oil. The oil in Iran is still state owned and you can bet your bottom dollar that the oil companies are having meetings right now preparing for the opportunity they may get to go in a STEAL IT!

The Iranian regime has been preparing for this though. After seeing the bloodsuckers sell Iraq off to the highest bidder they started PRIVATIZING their state assets a few years ago. The banks went first. I'm sure the Bush administration was craping their pants when that was happening. "They're selling OUR banks". They tried to privatize the Universities but the students protested.

But there's still the oil and gas. Plus a slave labor force that hasn't been tapped yet.

If the Iranian protesters win they need to read THE SHOCK DOCTRINE immediately. You can't protect yourself from free market Satanists unless you understand the methods they use.


Images reveal full horror of 'Amazon's Tiananmen'





Peru accused of cover-up after indigenous protest ends in death at Devil's Bend

First, the police fire tear gas, then rubber bullets. As protesters flee, they move on to live rounds. One man, wearing only a pair of shorts, stops to raise his hands in surrender. He is knocked to the ground and given an extended beating by eight policemen in black body-armour and helmets.


Demonstrators getting worked-over by the rifle butts and truncheons of Peru's security forces turn out to be the lucky ones, though. Dozens more were shot as they fled. You can see their bullet-ridden bodies, charred by a fire that swept through the scene of the incident, which has since been dubbed "the Amazon's Tiananmen".

The events of Friday, 5 June, when armed police went to clear 2,000 Aguaruna and Wampi Indians from a secluded highway near the town of Bagua Grande, are the subject of a heated political debate. They have sparked international condemnation and thrown Peru's government into crisis.

Yet until today, details were shrouded in mystery. Now, pictures have emerged. They were taken at the scene by two Belgian aid workers, Marijke Deleu and Thomas Quirynen, and provide compelling details of the chaotic confrontation that killed a reported 60 people, many of them unarmed, with vast numbers still unaccounted for.

"At first, we saw police firing guns and tear gas at a mass of protesters," said Ms Deleu, who reached the highway at 7am, an hour after heavily armed police arrived at the location, 870 miles north of Lima. "Then we saw them beating and kicking people detained on the ground. Later, they shot people in the back as they started fleeing."

A dossier of photographs, many too graphic to be printed in this newspaper, will be shown to MPs at the House of Commons on Monday by Ms Deleu and Mr Quirynen, who are volunteers for Catapa, a Flemish organisation supporting indigenous communities in Peru, Bolivia and Guatemala.

Called Death at Devil's Bend, it attempts to explain what happened when police tried to evict the indigenous tribespeople, who had been blockading the road for several weeks in protest at new laws allowing energy and mining companies to exploit swaths of their ancestral homelands.

One series shows police stopping a passing ambulance. They force four injured protesters out of the vehicle, and beat them for several minutes, claiming, without any apparent justification, that their vehicle was carrying concealed weapons. Another, taken later in the day shows rows of wounded being treated in local hospitals. Nineteen are at Bagua Grand; 47 in Bagua Chica. Many have heavy bruising, and bandages covering bullet wounds.

"Several people said they had been shot while they were fast asleep," said Ms Deleu. "They claim the police woke them up by opening fire. One of the bodies had a bullet wound in his shoulder, which suggested to me that he'd been shot while lying down."

Further pictures, which will only fuel rumours of a government-orchestrated cover-up, show twisted corpses of native Indians lying by the side of the road. When tribal leaders tried to collect them, they came under fire and were refused access. By the next day, the corpses had disappeared.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/images-reveal-full-horror-of-amazons-tiananmen-1708990.html

More pictures at link.

See when the oil companies commit mass murder it's not evil it's "freedom".
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-21-09 08:46 AM
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JohnyCanuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-21-09 08:51 AM
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2. From Paul Craig Roberts, "protests have the hallmarks of the CIA protests in Georgia and Ukraine".
On May 27, 2007, the London Telegraph independently reported: “Mr. Bush has signed an official document endorsing CIA plans for a propaganda and disinformation campaign intended to destabilize, and eventually topple, the theocratic rule of the mullahs.”

A few days previously, the Telegraph reported on May 16, 2007, that Bush administration neocon warmonger John Bolton told the Telegraph that a US military attack on Iran would “be a ‘last option’ after economic sanctions and attempts to foment a popular revolution had failed.”

On June 29, 2008, Seymour Hersh reported in the New Yorker: “Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country’s religious leadership.”

The protests in Tehran no doubt have many sincere participants. The protests also have the hallmarks of the CIA orchestrated protests in Georgia and Ukraine. It requires total blindness not to see this.

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts06192009.html
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-21-09 08:53 AM
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3. Oh yeah. The so called "colored" revolutions. CIA theatre!!

They aren't lasting either. FAKE revolutions never do.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-21-09 08:56 AM
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4. gad. could that be any more condescending to the Iranian protesters?
and there is no evidence presented that the CIA is a prime mover behind these protests.

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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-21-09 08:58 AM
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5. The colored revolutions? They were a joke.
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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-21-09 10:19 AM
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6. KICK for the people dying in Peru!
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