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#23710708 at 2025-10-08 19:06:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #28887: Day 8 of Shutdown - Corney Pleads NG - Popcorn Ready? Edition

Eleanor Holmes Norton raises little money for reelection as retirement questions loom
A handful of prominent primary challengers are emerging after Norton represented D.C. in Congress for decades.
Jessica Piper
10/08/2025, 12:50pm ET

Longtime Washington congressional Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton raised just $3,200 for her reelection campaign last quarter, according to a campaign finance report filed Wednesday,as she faces serious primary challengers and questions about her ability to serve in Congress.

Norton, 88, has repeatedly said she will seek reelection next year. But the capital city's delegate in the House has faced questions about her age amid a broader Democraticreckoning with generational change and doubts from longtime allies as to whether she is fit to serve another term.

She also faces several primary challengers, including two D.C. Council members, Robert White and Brooke Pinto. White previously served as a staffer to Norton. Both campaigns launched recently and have not yet filed reports with the Federal Election Commission, although Pinto's campaign said she raised more than $300,000 in her first day.

That stands in sharp contrast to Norton. The incumbent's campaign reported just over $700 raised from individual donors in the third quarter, along with $2,500 from the American Trucking Association. The campaign spent just over $26,000 in the period, primarily on staff salary and fundraising consulting.It also reported $90,000 in debt, all owed to Norton, who previously loaned money to the campaign, and just shy of $6,500 cash on hand.

While Norton has never needed to be a prolific fundraiser, she raised $19,200 from donors over the same period in 2023.

A spokesperson for Norton's office directed questions about her fundraising to the campaign. A campaign spokesperson did not immediately respond to questions Wednesday afternoon.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/08/congress/eleanor-holmes-norton-reelection-fundraising-00598060

#22285455 at 2025-01-03 17:33:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #27260: Q Days To WH On The Go Edition

>>22285416
3/3
I have been researching the Salvadoran Civil War for years. In February, I asked staff at the Carter Center whether the former president wished to answer some of my questions about Romero's assassination. A spokesperson wrote back: "As you know, President Carter entered hospice care on Feb. 18 last year, and since then he is not providing interviews or commenting publicly on events and issues."

The president following Carter, passionately anti-Communist Ronald Reagan, made El Salvador's civil war his own. When he took office in 1981, aid increased exponentially. By the end of 1981, the Salvadoran military was employing a "scorched earth" strategy== inspired by tactics from the Vietnam War.

In December, between 700 and 1,000 people - including children, elderly people, and disabled people - were killedat El Mozote by the elite U.S.-trained Atlacatl Battalion. The battalion's leader, Domingo Monterrosa, attended the School of the Americas, like D'Aubuisson. When U.S. newspapers broke news of the massacre, the Reagan administration went to great lengths to convince the public and Congress that the story of the massacre was guerrilla propaganda.

Butmajor human rights violations happened under Carter's watch, as well. In May 1980, Salvadoran soldiers, alongside Honduran troops, killed at least 300 civilians trying to escape across the river in what is known as the Sumpul River massacre.

Human Rights Watch alleges that earlier that year, officials at theU.S. embassy even worked with a death squad in the disappearance of two law students. Salvadoran National Guard troops arrested Francisco Ventura and Jos? Humberto Mej?a after a political demonstration. With permission, they brought the men to the property of the U.S. Embassy. From there, men dressed as civilians put Ventura and Mej?a in the trunk of a private car. They were never seen again.

There was more violence against members of the church.Maryknoll Sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel, and lay missionary Jean Donovan had been working with the poor of El Salvadorwhen they were raped and shot at close rangein December 1980. Especially after Romero's killing, this event drew outrage.
Carter stopped aid briefly, but he soon brought it backAmbassador to El Salvador Robert White, committed to improving conditions in the country, said there was no evidence the Salvadoran government was investigating the murders of the churchwomen. White was, not surprisingly, removed when Reagan took office, and the new administration went to lengths to cover up the crime.

Ultimately, while Carter demonstrated an interest in protecting human rights - and would champion the cause in his post-presidency - he funded a country committing mass atrocities. In fact, sending lethal aid to El Salvador was one of the Carter administration's final decisions.

The New York Times reported at the time: "Among its last acts, the CarterState Department disclosed last week thatit had sent El Salvador 'lethal' military aid for the first time since 1977. Transfused with a quick fix of $5 million in rifles, ammunition, grenades, and helicopters, the junta seemed to have little trouble containing the guerrilla offensive, although hit-and-run strikes continued."

Pope Francis declared Romero a saint in 2018.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/jimmy-carter-oscar-romero-legacy-el-salvador-1235224083/

May Carter get the Divine Judgement of God Almighty, and may his decision be to send Carter to the Lake of Sacred Fire for the Second and Final DeathCarter has done similar WW, during his term and after.

#20832560 at 2024-05-07 15:29:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25551: Tuesday Morning Melania Edition

>>20832510

5/10
The State of New Columbia, aka Washington DC

Council of the District of Columbia - At-Large Councilmember - Anita Bonds
https://dccouncil.gov/council/anita-bonds/

Council of the District of Columbia - At-Large Councilmember - Robert C. White, Jr.
https://dccouncil.gov/council/councilmember-Robert-c-White-jr/

Office of Councilmember At-Large - Robert White
https://www.RobertWhiteatlarge.com/about-Robert/

#20153512 at 2023-12-30 17:35:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24731: The Underwhelm Of AI, Not For CGI Fans Edition

The Macy Conferences


Cerebral Inhibition Meeting
The Macy Cybernetics Conferences were preceded by the Cerebral Inhibition Meeting, organized by Frank Fremont-Smith and Lawrence K. Frank, and held on 13-15 May 1942.[10] Those invited were Gregory Bateson, Frank Beach, Carl Binger, Felix Deutsch, Flanders Dunbar, Julie Eisenbud, Carlyla Jacobsen, Lawrence Kubie, Jules Masserman, Margaret Mead, Warren McCulloch, Bela Mittelmann, David Rapoport, Arturo Rosenblueth, Donald Sheehan, Georg Soule, Robert White, John Whitehorn, and Harold Wolff.[10] There were two topics:

Hypnotism introduced by Milton Erickson
Conditioned reflex introduced by Howard Liddell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy_conferences

#20131661 at 2023-12-26 05:46:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24705: Reading Between the Lines Edition

''CYBERSEANCE"

The Macy Conference(s)

The Macy Cybernetics Conferences were preceded by the Cerebral Inhibition Meeting, organized by Frank Fremont-Smith and Lawrence K. Frank, and held on 13-15 May 1942. Those invited were Gregory Bateson, Frank Beach, Carl Binger, Felix Deutsch, Flanders Dunbar, Julie Eisenbud, Carlyla Jacobsen, Lawrence Kubie, Jules Masserman, Margaret Mead, Warren McCulloch, Bela Mittelmann, David Rapoport, Arturo Rosenblueth, Donald Sheehan, Georg Soule, Robert White, John Whitehorn, and Harold Wolff.There were two topics:

Hypnotism introduced by Milton Erickson

Conditioned reflex introduced by Howard Liddell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macy_conferences

#16243317 at 2022-05-09 21:15:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20547: Jews should abandon the party that’s abandoned them Edition

WASHINGTON: "The District would become a sanctuary city for abortion seekers under a bill introduced to the city council Friday. It's a response to fears that the Supreme Court may overturn its 1973 ruling in Roe v. Wade, the case that legalized abortion nationwide, as a draft opinion recently leaked to Politico indicates. The Human Rights Sanctuary Amendment Act of 2022 would update the Human Rights Act of 1977. The plan would ban D.C. from cooperating if a state tries to prosecute someone who comes to the nation's capital to get an abortion. It was introduced by Ward 1 Council member Brianne Nadeau and nine of her colleagues: Chairman Phil Mendelson, Council members Charles Allen, Anita Bonds, Vincent Gray, Christina Henderson, Janeese Lewis George, Kenyan McDuffie, Elissa Silverman and Robert White.
The plan would also protect people from laws that allow private citizens to sue anyone who helps someone get an abortion after about six weeks of pregnancy. Texas signed a similar bill into law earlier this year."

https://wtop.com/dc/2022/05/bill-would-make-dc-a-sanctuary-city-for-people-seeking-abortions

#15364219 at 2022-01-13 13:02:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General: #19434: A New Vision Edition

>>15364196
Muriel Bowser will seek a third term as D.C. mayor11/4/2021

Muriel E. Bowser said she will run for a third term as mayor of Washington in 2022, asking voters to grant her four more years to manage the city's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and see through developments in housing and health care that she says will make the District more accessible to residents and competitive throughout the region.
Bowser's decision, which she announced Thursday, broadens a pool of mayoral hopefuls that already includes two members of the city's council.
Bowser (D) also said she will participate in the city program that offers public financing to candidates who pledge to only accept small-dollar donations, despite her early misgivings about using tax dollars for campaigns when it was first proposed by the D.C. Council. (She later changed course and supported the legislation.)
Having served in elective office in D.C. for about 17 years, Bowser said her depth of knowledge about the city's government and rapport with community leaders set her apart from candidates who have tried to sell voters on the need for a fresh approach.
"I ran my first campaign in 2004, where I asked Riggs Park residents to trust me," said Bowser, reflecting on her time as Ward 4 advisory neighborhood commissioner. "And that's what I'm asking D.C. residents to do again: Trust that I know where we are as a city better than most, and that I can execute a vision to bring the city back."
Bowser is known for her strong rhetoric in defense of the city's rights and her occasional creative strokes, like transforming the wide street outside the Trump White House overnight into "Black Lives Matter Plaza" with gallons of yellow paint. But she has also been criticized by some residents who are frustrated with spiking levels of gun violence and the high cost of housing after almost seven years of her tenure in office, and who view her decision-making - like her insistence this fall that almost every child in the District return to school in person - as sometimes heavy-handed or misguided.
For D.C. mayoral candidates, equity is an early flashpoint
Unlike 2018, when Bowser ran for her second term with almost no serious opposition, this time she will face at least two challengers who also have experience in local government. Last month, D.C. Council members Robert C. White Jr. (D-At Large) and Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8) declared their intentions to run in the Democratic mayoral primary, which in this deep-blue city is tantamount to the general election. By participating in the public financing program Bowser will forgo the large corporate donations that helped fund her last campaign and contributed to criticism that she is too closely linked with developers. Robert White has already met the public financing threshold; Trayon White has not yet filed paperwork for his campaign.

Both challengers have charged that Bowser has not gone far enough to support the city's neediest residents in a city with significant economic disparities.

Bowser, in turn, says many of her initiatives have been aimed at helping Washingtonians who need the most support. She pointed to the $375 million development of a full-service hospital at St. Elizabeths East in Ward 8, which is set to open in 2024 and bring additional resources east of the Anacostia River, an area that has long faced disparities in access to health care.Over the years, she has directed $1 billion into the Housing Production Trust Fund, though a recent report from the D.C. inspector general noted that the city in recent years did not meet a legal requirement to spend 50 percent of those dollars on households at the lowest incomethreshold.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/muriel-bowser-will-seek-a-third-term-as-dc-mayor/ar-AAQjmlH

#11520107 at 2020-11-07 14:37:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14709: Always Darnkest Before The Don Edition

>>11519871
This is global. You know, if you think about it. all of it already exposed. People have been talking openly about this for decades. James Burnam Suicide of the West, Robert White Duck Book, Col. Archibald Roberts and Committee to Restore the Constitution.

What's new is the number of people exposed to the depravity of the political and press class. They openly lie, and call it truth, and most people "accept it" or at least accept the power structure as honest enough to do fair business and governing.

That balance is about to shift remarkably.

#11376814 at 2020-10-31 18:15:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14530: If God Be For Us, Who Could Be Against Us Edition

https://thegrayzone.com/2019/07/28/biden-privatization-plan-colombia-honduras-migration/

How Joe Biden's privatization plans helped doom Latin America and fuel the migration crisis

July 28, 2019
By Max Blumenthal

While campaigning for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination this year, former Senator and Vice President Joseph Biden has touted the crucial role he played in designing US mega-development and drug war campaigns that transformed the socio-political landscape of large swaths of Latin America.

"I was one of the architects of Plan Colombia," Biden boasted in a July 5 interview with CNN, referring to the multi-billion dollar US effort to end Colombia's civil war with a massive surge of support for the country's military. According to Biden, the plan was a panacea for Colombia's problems, from "crooked cops" to civil strife.

But Biden's plan for Colombia has contributed directly to the country's transformation into a hyper-militarized bastion of right-wing rule, enhancing the power and presence of the notoriously brutal armed forces while failing miserably in its anti-narcotic and reformist objectives.

This year alone, more than 50 human rights defenders were killed in Colombia in the first four months of 2019, while coca production is close to record levels. And as Colombian peace activists lamented in interviews with The Grayzone, the US is still in complete control of Bogotá's failed anti-drug policy, thanks largely to Plan Colombia.

Biden has also pumped up his role in an initiative called the Alliance for Prosperity, which was applied to the Northern Triangle of Central America. The former vice president was so central to the program's genesis that it was informally known as "Plan Biden."

Marketed as an answer to the crisis of child migration, Biden's brainchild channeled $750 million through a right-wing government installed by a US-orchestrated military coup to spur mega-development projects and privatize social services.

The Grayzone visited Honduras in July and documented, through interviews with human rights defenders, students, indigenous activists, and citizens from all walks of life, how the Alliance for Prosperity helped set the stage for a national rebellion.

In recent months, teachers, doctors, students, and rural campesinos have been in the streets protesting the privatization plans imposed on their country under the watch of Biden and his successors.

The gutting of public health services, teacher layoffs, staggering hikes in electricity prices, and environmentally destructive mega-development projects are critical factors in mass migration from Honduras. And indeed, they are immediate byproducts of the so-called "Biden plan."

"Biden is taking credit for doing something constructive to stop the migration crisis and blaming the concentration camps [on the US-Mexico border] on Trump. But it's Biden's policies that are driving more people out of Central America and making human rights defenders lives more precarious by defending entities that have no interest in human rights," explained Adrienne Pine, a professor of anthropology at American University and leading researcher of the social crisis in Honduras, in an interview with The Grayzone.

"So $750 million US taxpayer dollars that were allocated to supposedly address child migration are actually making things worse," Pine added. "It started with unaccompanied minors and now you have children in cages. Largely thanks to Biden."
'I was one of the architects of Plan Colombia'

In an interview with CNN on July 5, Biden was asked if he favored decriminalizing the entry of Latin American migrants to the United States. Responding with a definitive "no," Joe Biden stated that he would be "surging folks to the border to make those concrete decisions" about who receives asylum.

Biden argued that he had the best record of addressing the root causes of the migration crisis, recalling how he imposed a solution on Central America's migration crisis. "You do the following things to make your country better so people don't leave, and we will help you do that, just like we did in Colombia," he said.

"What did we do in Colombia? We went down and said, okay, and I was one of the architects of Plan Colombia," Biden continued. "I said, here's the deal. If you have all these crooked cops, all these federal police, we're sending our FBI down, you let us put them through a lie detector test, let us tell you who you should fire and tell you the kind of people you should hire. They did and began to change. We can do so much if we're committed."

With the arrogance of a pith-helmeted high colonial official meting out instructions on who to hire and fire to his docile subjects, Biden presided over a plan that failed miserably in its stated goals, while transforming Colombia into a hyper-militarized bastion of US regional influence.
Plan Colombia: 'They come and ask for bread, and you give them stones'

Plan Colombia was originally conceived by Colombian President Andrés Pastrana in 1999, as an alternative development and conflict resolution plan for his war-torn country. He considered calling it the "Plan for Colombia's Peace."

The proposal was quickly hijacked by the Bill Clinton administration, with Joe Biden lobbying in the Senate for an iron-fisted militarization plan. "We have an obligation, in the interests of our children and the interests of the hemisphere, to keep the oldest democracy in place, to give them a fighting chance to keep from becoming a narcostate," Biden said in a June 2000 floor speech.

When Plan Colombia's first formal draft was published, it was done so in English, not Spanish. The original spirit of peace-building was completely sapped from the document by Biden, whose vigorous wheeling-and-dealing ensured that almost 80 percent of the $7.5 billion plan went to the Colombian military. 500 US military personnel were promptly dispatched to Bogota to train the country's military.

"If you read the original Plan Colombia, not the one that was written in Washington but the original Plan Colombia, there's no mention of military drives against the FARC rebels," Robert White, the former number two at the US embassy in Bogota, complained in 2000. "Quite the contrary. [Pastrana] says the FARC is part of the history of Colombia and a historical phenomenon, he says, and they must be treated as Colombians."

White lamented how Washington had abused the trust of the Colombians: "They come and ask for bread, and you give them stones."

Plan Colombia was largely implemented under the watch of the hardline right-wing President Álvaro Uribe. In 1991, Uribe was placed on a US Drug Enforcement Agency list of "important Colombian narco-traffickers," in part due to his role in helping drug kingpin Pablo Escobar's obtain licenses for landing strips while Uribe was the head of Colombia's Civil Aeronautics Department.

Under Uribe's watch, toxic chemicals were sprayed by military forces across the Colombian countryside, poisoning the crops of impoverished farmers and displacing millions.
Biden with former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe at the Concordia Summit in June 2017

Six years after Bill Clinton initiated Plan Colombia, however, even US drug czar John Walters was forced to quietly admit in a letter to the Senate that the price of cocaine in the US had declined, the flow of the drug into the US had risen, and its purity had increased.

Meanwhile, a UN Office of Drugs and Crime report found that coca cultivation reached record levels in Colombia in 2018. In other words, billions of dollars have been squandered, and a society already in turmoil has been laid to waste.

For the military and right-wing paramilitary forces that have shored up the rule of leaders like Uribe and the current ultra-conservative Colombian president, Ivan Duque, Plan Colombia offered a sense of near-total impunity.

The depravity of the country's military was put on bold display when the so-called "false positives" scandal was exposed in 2008. The incident began when army officers lured 22 rural laborers to a far-away location, massacred them, and then dressed them in uniforms of the leftist FARC guerrillas.
Victims of Colombia's "false positives" scandal, where laborers were massacred to justify Plan Colombia funding

It was an overt attempt to raise the FARC body count and justify the counter-insurgency aid flowing from the US under Plan Colombia. The officers who oversaw the slaughter were paid bounties and given promotions.

Colombian academics Omar Eduardo Rojas Bolaños and Fabián Leonardo Benavides demonstrated in a meticulous study that the "false positives" killings reflected "a systematic practice that implicates the commanders of brigades, battalions and tactical units" in the deaths of more than 10,000 civilians. Indeed, under Plan Colombia, the incident was far from an isolated atrocity.
Colombian activist Santiago Salinas in Bogotá
Colombian activist Santiago Salinas in Bogotá (Photo: Ben Norton)
Forfeiting Colombia's national sovereignty

In an interview in Bogotá this May, The Grayzone's Ben Norton asked Colombian social leader Santiago Salinas if there was any hope for progressive political transformation since the ratification of Plan Colombia.

An organizer of the peace group Congreso de los Pueblos, Salinas shrugged and exclaimed, "I wish." He lamented that many of Colombia's most pivotal decisions were made in Washington.

Salinas pointed to drug policy as an example. "It seems like the drug decisions about what to do with the drugs, it has nothing to do with Colombia.

"There was no sovereign decision on this issue. Colombia does not have a decision," he continued. It was the Washington that wrote the script for Bogota. And the drug trade is in fact a key part of the global financial system, Salinas pointed out.

But Biden was not finished. After 15 years of human misery and billions of wasted dollars in Colombia, he set out on a personal mission to export his pet program to Central America's crime and corruption-ravaged Northern Triangle.
Biden eyes Central America, selling mass privatization

In his July sit-down with CNN, Joe Biden trumpeted his Plan Colombia as the inspiration for the Alliance for Prosperity he imposed on Central America. Channeling the spirit of colonial times once again, he bragged of imposing Washington's policies on the governments of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

"We'll make a deal with you," Biden recalled telling the leaders of these countries. "You do the following things to make your country better so people don't leave, and we will help you do that."

Biden announced his bold plan on the editorial pages of the New York Times in January 2015. He called it "a joint plan for economic and political reforms, an alliance for prosperity." Sold by the vice president as a panacea to a worsening migration crisis, the Alliance for Prosperity was a boon for international financial institutions which promised to deepen the economic grief of the region's poor.

The Alliance for Prosperity "treated the Honduran government as if it were a crystal-clear, pure vessel into which gold could be poured and prosperity would flow outward," explained Dana Frank, a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of the book, The Long Honduran Night.

"In reality, the Plan would further enrich and strengthen the political power of the very same elites whose green, deliberate subversion of the rule of law, and destruction of natural resources and of Indigenous and campesino land rights, were responsible for the dire conditions the proposal ostensibly addressed," Frank added.

In Honduras, the government had no capacity or will to resist Biden's plan. That is because the country's elected president, Juan Manuel Zelaya, had been removed in 2009 in a coup orchestrated by the United States.

As Zelaya told The Grayzone's Anya Parampil, the Obama administration was infuriated by his participation in ALBA, a regional economic development program put forward by Venezuela's then-President Hugo Chavez that provided an alternative to neoliberal formulas like the so-called "Biden Plan."

Following the military coup, a corporate-friendly administration was installed to advance the interests of international financial institutions, and US trainers arrived in town to hone the new regime's mechanisms of repression.

Under the auspices of the Central American Regional Security Initiative, the FBI was dispatched to oversee the training of FUSINA, the main operational arm of the Honduran army and the base of the Military Police for Public Order (PMOP) that patrols cities like an occupation force.

In an October 2014 cable, the US embassy in Tegucigalpa acknowledged that the PMOP was riven with corruption and prone to abuse, and attempted to distance itself from the outfit, even though it operated under the umbrella of FUSINA.

This June, the PMOP invaded the Autonomous University of Honduras, attacking students protesting the privatization of their school and wounding six.

US-trained troops shoot Honduran students protesting privatization@AnyaParampil reports from inside a student occupation at the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH), where protesters are being shot by military policehttps://t.co/HQHX497zPW

- The Grayzone (@TheGrayzoneNews) July 13, 2019

The creation by the US embassy in Honduras of a special forces unit known as the Tigres has added an additional layer of repressive muscle. Besides arresting activists, the Tigres reportedly helped a drug kingpin escape after he was detained during a US investigation.

While violent crime surged across Honduras, unemployment more than doubled. Extreme poverty surged, and so too did the government's security spending.

To beef up his military, President Juan Orlando Hernández dipped into the social programs that kept a mostly poor population from tumbling into destitution.
Chart on Honduran budget priorities by the Center for Economic and Policy Research, 2017

As Alex Rubinstein reported for The Grayzone, the instability of post-coup Honduras has been particularly harsh on LGTTBI (Lesbian, Gay, Trans, Travesti, Bisexual, and Intersex) Hondurans. More than 300 of them have been killed since 2009, a dramatic spike in hate crimes reinforced by the homophobic rhetoric of the right-wing Evangelical Confraternity that represents the civil-society wing of the ultra-conservative Hernandez government.

As the social chaos enveloped Honduran society, migration to the US-Mexico border began to surge to catastrophic levels. Unable to make ends meet, some Hondurans sent their children alone to the border, hoping that they would temporary protective or refugee status.

By 2014, the blowback of the Obama administration's coup had caused a national emergency. Thousands of Hondurans were winding up in cages in detention camps run by the US Department of Homeland Security, and many of them were not even 16 years old.

That summer, Obama went to Congress for $3.7 billion in emergency funds to ramp up border militarization and deport as many unaccompanied Central American minors as possible.

Biden used the opportunity to rustle up an additional billion dollars, exploiting the crisis to fund a massive neoliberal project that saw Honduras as a base for international financial opportunity. His plan was quickly ratified, and the first phase of the Alliance for Prosperity began.
From the IADB's sanitized survey of the Alliance for Prosperity
Energy industry rush dooms indigenous communities and human rights defenders

The implementation of the Alliance for Prosperity was overseen by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), a US-dominated international financial institution based in Washington, DC that supports corporate investment in Latin America and the Caribbean.

A graphic on the IADB's website outlined the plan's objectives in anodyne language that concealed its aggressively neoliberal agenda.

For instance, the IADB promised the "fostering [of] regional energy integration." This was a clear reference to Plan Pueblo Panama, a region-wide neoliberal development blueprint that was conceived as a boon to the energy industry. Under the plan, the IADB would raise money from Latin American taxpayers to pay for the expansion of power lines that would carry electricity from Mexico all the way to Panama.

Honduras, with its rivers and natural resources, provided the project with a major hub of energy production. In order for the country's energy to be traded and transmitted to other countries, however, the International Monetary Fund mandated that its national electricity company be privatized.

Since the implementation of that component of "Plan Biden," energy costs have begun to surge for residential Honduran consumers. In a country with a 66 percent poverty rate, electricity privatization has turned life from precarious to practically impossible.

Rather than languish in darkness for long hours with unpaid bills piling up, many desperate citizens have journeyed north towards the US border.

As intended, the Alliance for Prosperity's regional energy integration plan has spurred an influx of multi-national energy companies to Honduras. Hydro-electric dams and power plants began rising up in the midst of the lush pine forests and winding rivers that define the Honduran biosphere, pushing many rural indigenous communities into a life-and-death struggle.

This July, The Grayzone traveled to Reitoca, a remote farming community located in the heart of the Honduran "dry sector." The indigenous Lenca residents of this town depend on their local river for fish, recreation, and most importantly, water to irrigate the crops that provide them with a livelihood. But the rush on energy investment brought an Italian-Chilean firm called Progelsa to the area to build a massive hydro-electric dam just upstream.
Reitoca community leader Wilmer Alonso by the river threatened by a major hydro-electric project (Photo: Ben Norton)

Wilmer Alonso, a member of the Lenca Indigenous Council of Reitoca, spoke with The Grayzone, shaking with emotion as he described the consequences of the dam for his community.

"The entire village is involved in this struggle," Alonso said. "Everyone knows the catastrophe that the construction of this hydro-electric plant would create."

He explained that, like so many foreign multi-nationals in Honduras, Progelsa employs an army of private thugs to intimidate protesters: "The private company uses the army and the police to repress us. They accuse us of being trespassers, but they are the ones trespassing on our land."
US reinforces 'factors that generate violence the most in our society'

The Alliance for Progress also provided the backdrop for the assassination of the renowned Honduran environmentalist and feminist organizer Berta Cáceres.

On March 3, 2016, Cáceres was gunned down in her home in rural Honduras. A towering figure in her community with a presence on the international stage, Cáceres had been leading the fight against a local dam project overseen by DESA, a powerful Honduran energy company backed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and run by powerful former military officers.

The representative that DESA sent to sign its deal with USAID, Sergio Rodríguez, was later accused of masterminding Cáceres' murder, alongside military officials and former company employees.

In March 2018, the Honduran police arrested DESA's executive president, Roberto David Castillo Mejía, accusing him of "providing logistics and other resources to one of the material authors" of the assassination. Castillo was a West Point graduate who worked in the energy industry while serving as a Honduran intelligence officer.

This July, The Grayzone visited the family of Berta Cáceres in La Esperanza, a town nestled in the verdant mountains of Intibucá. Cáceres' mother, Doña Berta, lives there under 24-hour police guard paid for by human rights groups.

The Cáceres household is bristling with security cameras, and family members get around in armored cars. In her living room, we met Laura Zúñiga Cáceres of the Civic Council of Indigenous and Popular Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), the human rights group that her mother Berta founded.
Laura Zuniga Caceres of COPINH in the home where Berta Caceres was raised (Photo: Ben Norton)

"The violence in Honduras generates migrant caravans, which tears apart society, and it all has to do with all of this extractivism, this violence," Zúñiga Caceres told The Grayzone. "And the response from the US government is to send more soldiers to our land; it is to reinforce one of the factors that generates violence the most in our society."

"We are receiving reports from our comrades that there is a US military presence in indigenous Lenca territory," she added. "For what? Humanitarian aid? With weapons. It's violence. It's persecution."
Gutting public healthcare, driving more migration

The Alliance for Prosperity also commissioned the privatization of health services through a deceptively named program called the Social Protection Framework Law, or la Ley Marco de Protección Social.

Promoted by Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández as a needed reform, the scheme was advanced through a classic shock doctrine-style episode: In 2015, close associates of Hernández siphoned some $300 million from the Honduran Institute for Social Services (IHSS) into private businesses, starving hospitals of supplies and causing several thousand excess deaths, mostly among the poor.

With the medical sector in shambles, Hondurans were then forced to seek healthcare from the private companies that were to provide services under Hernandez's "Social Protection" plan.

"The money that was robbed [in the IHSS scandal] was used to justify the Ley Marco Proteccion Social," Karen Spring, a researcher and coordinator for the Honduras Solidarity Network, told The Grayzone. "The hospitals were left in horrible conditions with no human capital and they were left to farm out to private hospitals."

"When Hondurans go to hospitals, they will be told they need to go to a private company, and through the deductions in their jobs they will have to pay a lot out of pocket," Spring said. "Through the old universal system you would be covered no matter what you had, from a broken arm to cancer. No more."

In response, Hondurans poured out into the streets, launching the March of Torches - the first major wave of continuous protests against Hernandez and his corrupt administration.

In March 2015, in the middle of the crisis, Joe Biden rushed down to Guatemala City to embrace Hernández and restore confidence in the Alliance for Prosperity.

"I come from a state that, in fact, is the corporate capital of America. More corporations are headquartered there than anyplace else," Biden boasted, with Hernández and the presidents of Guatemala and El Salvador standing by his side. "They want to come here. Corporate America wants to come."
Joseph Biden embraces Juan Orlando Hernandez in Guatemala City, February 2016

Emphasizing the need for more anti-corruption and security measures to attract international financial investment, Biden pointed to Plan Colombia as a shining model - and to himself as its architect. "Today Colombia is a nation transformed, just as you hope to be 10 to 15 years from now," the vice president proclaimed.

Following Biden's visit, the privatization of the Honduran economy continued apace - and so did the corruption, the repression, and the unflinching support from Washington.
Hondurans take to the streets, wind up in US-style supermax prisons

By 2017, the movement in Honduras that had galvanized against the US-orchestrated 2009 coup saw its most immediate opportunity for political transformation at the ballot box. President Hernández was running for re-election, violating a constitutional provision on term limits. His opponent, Salvador Nasrallah, was a popular broadcast personality who provided a centrist consensus choice for the varied elements that opposed the country's coup regime.

When voting ended on November 26, Nasrallah's victory appeared certain, with exit polls showing him comfortably ahead by several points. But suddenly, the government announced that a power outage required the suspension of vote counting. Days later, Hernández was declared the victor by about 1 percent.

The fraud was so transparent that the Organization of American States (OAS), normally an arm of US interests in Latin America, declared in a preliminary report that "errors, irregularities and systemic problems," as well as "extreme statistical improbability," rendered the election invalid.

But the United States recognized the results anyway, leaving disenfranchised Hondurans with protest as their only recourse.

"Hondurans tried to change what happened in their country through the 2017 elections, not just Hernández but all the implementation of all these policies that the Biden plan had funded and implemented all these years since the coup," explained Karen Spring, of the Honduras Solidarity Network.

"They tried to change that reality through votes and when the elections turned out to be a fraud, tons of people had no choice but to take to the streets."

At the front lines of the protests in 2017 was Spring's longtime partner, the Honduran activist Edwin Espinal. Following a protest in November of that year where property damage took place, Espinal was arrested at gunpoint at his home and accused of setting fire to the front door of a hotel. He fervently denied all charges, accusing the government of persecuting him for his political activism.

In fact, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights had placed a protective measure on Espinal in 2010 in response to previous attempts to legally railroad him.

The government placed Espinal in pre-trial detention in La Tolva, a US-style maximum security prison normally reserved for violent criminals and narco-traffickers. Last October, Espinal and Spring were married in the jail while surrounded by masked guards.
Karen Spring and Edwin Espinal marry in La Tolva in October 2018 (Photo: Karen Spring)

"Since the Biden plan, contractors have been coming down to build these US-style maximum security prisons," Spring said. "That's where my husband Edwin Espinal is being held."

"They say the company is Honduran but there's no way Hondurans could have built that without US architects or US construction firms giving them the plans," she added. "I've been in the prison and it's like they dumped a US prison in the middle of Honduras."

Reflecting on her husband's persecution, Spring explained, "Edwin wanted to stay in his country to change the reality that caused mass migration. He's one of the people who's faced consequences because he went to the streets. And he's faced persecution for years because he's one of the Hondurans who wanted to change the country by staying and fighting. Berta Caceres was another."

"Hondurans wanted to use their votes to change the country and now they're voting with their feet," she continued. "So if Biden's plan really addressed the root causes of the migrant crisis, why aren't people asking why migration is getting worse? Hondurans are voting on the Biden plan by fleeing and saying your plan didn't work and it made our situation worse by fleeing to the border."

#8935886 at 2020-04-27 12:56:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11437: Supplement to Flynn's Motion To Dismiss Edition

>>8935824
Grant Stockdale

The Omega Ultra-Thin wristwatch pictured below was worn by President John F. Kennedy at his inauguration ceremony in January 1961. A photo published in LIFE magazine, which prominently featured the watch on JFK's wrist, helped make it legendary among watch historians. The story behind the timepiece, made of 18k yellow gold and powered by a movement measuring less than 2 mm thick, is that it was a gift to Kennedy from his friend Grant Stockdale in 1960. (Stockdale apparently had great faith in Kennedy's presidential ambitions, as the watch's caseback is engraved with "President of the United States" even though its owner at that point had yet to be elected.) In a letter that is also now in Omega's archives, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy expressed sincere thanks to Stockdale for this "thinnest most elegant wristwatch" and even mentioned how her husband "promptly... took off the chunky little one" she had previously given him, a watch whose identity remains unclear.

Still on its original black leather strap, and nicknamed "the Stockdale watch," the historic timepiece was acquired at auction by the Omega Museum in 2005 from the Robert White Collection, the world's largest private collection of JFK memorabilia.

#8935816 at 2020-04-27 12:41:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11437: Supplement to Flynn's Motion To Dismiss Edition

>>8935441
Interdasting.
Omega bought back JFK's "Stockdale" watch.
Still on its original black leather strap, and nicknamed "the Stockdale watch," the historic timepiece was acquired at auction by the Omega Museum in 2005 from the Robert White Collection, the world's largest private collection of JFK memorabilia.

Kim Kardashian bought Jackie O's watch.

#4619697 at 2019-01-06 02:32:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5893: Follow The Watch Edition

>>4619408
Bobby collected and withheld key evidence from the alphabets that he investigated privately to prove without a doubt the killing of his brother was an inside job. This evidence was handed down to Evelyn Lincoln, JFK's secretary, and after she died was handed down to her friend Robert White. White had sold Kennedy's watch to his friend Christopher Fulton without the knowledge of its actual significance. Fulton and White learned soon after all the evidence was handed over to White that this had never been acquired by the alphabets and was key to building Bobby's case.

Fulton, the writer and central figure of the book, felt the need to return the watch to the Kennedys and NOT the gov. This decision brought him face to face with JFK, Jr. to both return the watch AND provide an interview for George magazine relaying insider information he had gathered after doing his own investigation.

Fulton was then incarcerated by the gov and harassed through the prison system before being placed before a grand jury where one of the questions asked of him is if he had any knowledge of A GRAND JURY BEING CONVENED IN TX RELATED TO THE INHERITANCE MADE BY White.

There's a lot more, but it bridges JFK with JFK, Jr. among other things.

#2655616 at 2018-08-18 14:02:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3352 Good Morning Uncle Q Edition

>>2655199
PART 3

HUMPHRY OSMOND
interesting info

wrote a book called
THE FUTURE OF TIME: Man's Temporal Environment (1971) pic
https://www.amazon.com/FUTURE-TIME-Mans-Temporal-Environment/dp/B0097O0D0W

definition:
("The term temporal environment refers to the timing, sequence, and length of routines and activities that take place throughout the school day.")

The future of time; man's temporal environment. Edited by Henri Yaker, Humphry Osmond, and Frances Cheek.
Subject(s):
Time perception [Browse]
Schizophrenia [Browse]
Hallucinations and illusions [Browse]
https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/1573675

no luck finding reviews or quotes yet on the book; did get 4 of 5 stars on one review.

CO-WRITTEN WITH DR FRANCES CHEEK: WORKS WITH 'BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION' AND STRESS WITHIN FIRST RESPONDER CIRCLES ie police firefighters paramedics pic

Stress Management for Correctional Officers and Their Families (out of stock)
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/stress-management-for-correctional-officers-and-their-families-frances-e-cheek/1001281847

Dr Cheek also does studies on sex roles and schizophrenia: (pic)

Finding little to no info on Dr Cheeks.
Interesting that the work Humphry Osmond focuses on is schizophrenia, which can easily be extrapolated to 'alters' in the MK community.
Humphry does have connections to the CIA:

Humphry Osmond was at the cutting edge of psychiatric research in the 1950s. He believed that hallucinogenic drugs might be useful in treating mental illness and he studied the effects of LSD on people with alcohol dependency. His investigations led to his association with the novelist Aldous Huxley and to involvement with the CIA and MI6, which were interested in LSD as a possible "truth drug" to make enemy agents reveal secrets.
During the 1940s and 1950s both scientists and government intelligence agencies were interested in using hallucinogenic drugs such as mescaline and LSD as a "truth drug".
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC381240/

A further search reveals some interesting 'relatives' of DONNY OSMOND, including but not limited to ALLEN DULLES…
Allen Dulles
5th Director of the C.I.A.
9th cousin 1 time removed via Thomas Harris

…and NELSON ROCKEFELLER …
Nelson Rockefeller
41st U.S. Vice-President
9th cousin 2 times removed via Robert White
https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=42333+donny+osmond
THIS LIST WORTH PERUSING!

And it is also interesting to note that one of Humphry Osmond's friends / coworkers /co-authurs, John Smythies, expanded the time/space/perception even further:
A second book "The Walls of Plato's Cave" followed in 1994 (17) on the same topic. This book was reviewed by Robert Almader (29) who said: "This is certainly one of the four or five most arresting and compelling books written on the nature of consciousness, the mind-brain problem, and human personality." The theory extends our concepts of consciousness and analyses possible geometrical and topological relations between phenomenal space and physical space linked to brane* theory in physics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Raymond_Smythies

*In string theory and related theories such as supergravity theories, a brane is a physical object that generalizes the notion of a point particle to higher dimensions. Branes are dynamical objects which can propagate through spacetime according to the rules of quantum mechanics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brane

SMYTHIES AND HUMPHRY OSMOND COAUTHORED THIS: pic "yet we are still entirely ignorant of the cause of this disease."
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-mental-science/article/schizophrenia-a-new-approach/8298D2CF421A5D0D9F4A689AED993318

#2644485 at 2018-08-17 16:21:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3338: Fresh Bread Served Daily Edition

The President uses Rigged Witch Hunt alot!

There has to be some meaning…

R W H
W
1) Robert Mueller (M is W FLIPPED) White
H
Hat??

2) Robert White Hat

3) Rosensein White Hat


Then on two times he has said

Rigged Russia Witch Hunt

Maybe this is the one dealing with Rod Rosenstein

RR White Hat

#2281412 at 2018-07-25 17:27:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2875: Happy Days Ahead

Sauce on Cohen's Lawyer Lanny Davis
"If you want to understand who the real power behind the [Honduran] coup is," says Robert White, president of the Washington-based Center for International Policy, during a recent interview, "you need to find out who's paying Lanny Davis."

Davis, an ally of the Clinton family who is best known as the lawyer who defended Bill during the presidential impeachment proceedings, was recently on Capitol Hill lobbying members of Congress and testifying against exiled President Manuel Zelaya before the House Foreign Relations Committee. White, who previously served as the United States ambassador to El Salvador, thought that such information about Davis' clients would be "very difficult to find."

But the answer proved easy to find. Davis, a partner at the law firm Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe, openly named them – and his clients are the same powerful Hondurans behind the military coup.

"My clients represent the CEAL, the [Honduras Chapter of] Business Council of Latin America," Davis said when reached at his office last Thursday. "I do not represent the government and do not talk to President [Roberto] Micheletti. My main contacts are Camilo Atala and Jorge Canahuati. I'm proud to represent businessmen who are committed to the rule of law." Atala, Canahuati, and other families that own the corporate interests represented by Davis and the CEAL are at the top of an economic pyramid in which 62 percent of the population lives in poverty, according to the World Bank.

For many Hondurans and Honduras watchers, the confirmation that Davis is working with powerful, old Honduran families like the Atalas and Canahuatis is telling: To them, it proves that Davis serves the powerful business interests that ran, repressed, and ruined Honduras during the decades prior to the leftward turn of the Zelaya presidency.

"No coup just happens because some politicians and military men decide one day to simply take over," White says upon hearing for whom Davis is working. "Coups happen because very wealthy people want them and help to make them happen, people who are used to seeing the country as a money machine and suddenly see social legislation on behalf of the poor as a threat to their interests. The average wage of a worker in free trade zones is 77 cents per hour."

"The tragedy," adds White, "is that the Canahuatis and the Atalas and the other big businesspeople don't understand that it's in their best interest to help to do things like help people make a decent living, reduce unemployment, and raise the minimum wage."

Davis disagrees. He believes that the tragedy of Honduras lies with Zelaya and that the president brought the coup upon himself. "It is an undisputed fact that Mr. Zelaya has violated the constitution. It's my job to get the facts out."

Asked if he had qualms about representing businesspeople linked to a coup government denounced and unrecognized by the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and many countries across the globe (including the United States), Davis responded, "There are facts about Mr. Zelaya that the world community may not be aware of. I'm proud to represent clients who support the decision of Secretary of State [Hillary] Clinton to back the mediation of President Arias in the conflict [between Zelaya and coup leaders]. But my biggest concern is safety and security of the Honduran people." Read the rest here: https://prospect.org/article/our-man-honduras#.W1iQYKsobK8.twitter

#2280248 at 2018-07-25 16:01:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2873 We are Going to Mars Edition

Sauce on Conen's lawyer L. Davis

"If you want to understand who the real power behind the [Honduran] coup is," says Robert White, president of the Washington-based Center for International Policy, during a recent interview, "you need to find out who's paying Lanny Davis."

Davis, an ally of the Clinton family who is best known as the lawyer who defended Bill during the presidential impeachment proceedings, was recently on Capitol Hill lobbying members of Congress and testifying against exiled President Manuel Zelaya before the House Foreign Relations Committee. White, who previously served as the United States ambassador to El Salvador, thought that such information about Davis' clients would be "very difficult to find."

But the answer proved easy to find. Davis, a partner at the law firm Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe, openly named them – and his clients are the same powerful Hondurans behind the military coup.

Rest of sauce here:
https://prospect.org/article/our-man-honduras#.W1iQYKsobK8.twitter