Surveillance Camera Footage of Honduras Coup Invasion of Channel 36

Awesome job Al, as always. I think a lot more people should be seeing this.

what awesome kak-handedness: at one point (1' 42" in on the first tape = 6:10:13 de la madrugada) an unmasked thug looks straight into the lens. all that was missing was "hi mom i'm on teevee at the teevee".

On the videos, it looks like all they took are some audio and vision mixers and a couple of computers, but maybe there's more? Is there a list of stuff missing, or better said, what would be needed in terms of equipment to get them back on the air?

Right out of Woody Allen, ca. 1971.

TeleSur reports that Lanny Davis and the rest of his cronies got a total of $292 grand to spin the coup. Not too bad considering they got a lot of time on Fox News, an Op-Ed piece in the Times and positive comments from Rep. Ros-Lehtinen. Grrr!!!

According to the report:

"El gobierno de facto hondureño precedido por Roberto Micheletti, contrató a la firma estadounidense, Chlopak, Leonard, Schechter y Asociados, por un monto de 292 mil dólares para que desarrollara una plan de comunicación que ayude mejorar su imagen internacional , dañada tras el golpe de Estado de junio."

Frightening and perfect video of the coup regime in action. This is great material. We've published a little story about this on the BALASC website which begins with a quote from Micheletti's Washington Post article about what is and isn't a coup. It all links back to Narco News; you can see it at http://balasc.org/184/narco-news-publishes-video-of-coup-regime-dismantl...

Yesterday, BALASC participated in a protest in front of the San Francisco Federal Building on the 8th anniversary of the Afghanistan War. For a week day and for a protest of this type, the turnout was overwhelming. The police also turned out in full force, with riot geat and snitch squads in action, which is also rare for a protest like this. As people become disillusioned with the Obama Administratation, the tide may be turning in the US towards more people wanting to take action and organize against the war oligarchy. If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area and aren't already spending at least some of your time taking action (outside of the internet), please get in touch!

Thank you for this film.

I have written State to request an explanation for why remarks by PJ Crowley from 10/7 are missing and have not been provided one.

Basically, La Tribuna reported that Crowley had done press rounds. So I went to the website to get the text of the remarks. Nothing present, not on 10/7, not on 10/6; I'm on their e-mail distribution list for anything having to do with Latin America: bupkis.

I went back to the website today, and the press was grilling Ian Kelly. One of the press, who Kelly calls Jill, asked this tough question: "Ian, this has been dragging on for so long. Why are we not to draw the conclusion that it’s dragging on because the U.S. won’t do anything – really do anything about this because there is significant support for the members of the coup, business connections with the United States, conservative organizations that support the coup that do not like Zelaya. So why are we not supposed to, you know, draw some conclusion that it’s simply foot-dragging on the part of this Administration?"

Good question, Jill. 

But they also asked about Crowley's remarks, the ones that are nowhere to be seen:

QUESTION: And Mr. Crowley said yesterday that Venezuela needs to cooperate in a more constructive way in the region. What did he mean by that? It was regarding Honduras, or could you be more specific?

MR. KELLY: (Laughter.) I agree with my boss that Honduras needs to play a constructive role. We’re calling on all the countries in the region to play a --

QUESTION: Venezuela.

I get the sense from the briefing that Crowley may have gone over the edge and State is concealing the remarks. 

its the blue men group... but i can't hear the music...better fix the audio before publishing!!???

Someone whose parents evidently didn't teach him manners showed up on my site to provide the link to Crowley's presser.  But manners or not, I have the link, which is what counts. It is this. There's one near-the-edge comment, where Crowley goes after Chavez. It's possible they didn't want that out there, though by Crowley's standards, this is much less clumsy than his usual. Or maybe they didn't like the Notimex reporter's reference to "Goraleti."

As I pointed out to my commenter, I searched for this presser four ways: by e-mail subscription which is supposed to cover all things Latin American, by a general search for Crowley, by looking at the Honduras link, and by looking at daily press briefings. Maybe it's findable some other way, but that doesn't make it accessible to the general public. So, the question remains whether State is fulfilling its duties to get information out there. It's something to watch for.

Quite a lot of people fuming on the right and on the left. I think it is great.

I think its great, too.  One year ago, many of us were working our collective ass off to get Barack Obama elected.  Obviously there is plenty of work to do all over the world in the promotion and actual "Living Peace".

A question:  How much $$ does he get?  Maybe he could kick in a bit to the School for Authentic Journalism...Hell, give it all away!

Today is John Lennon's Birthday.  Imagine Peace.

Now, about all the wars...

It looks like the golpistas are trying to close the radio again by so call "legal means". We, the poeple who are aginst the golpistas can't le that happen. We need to do something to help the poeple from radio Globo who seems to have lost, faith. This battle is wearing them out, they need our support, monetary if needed, logistically, morally and in any possible way.

If we let the golpisas to shut down their frequency, we are admitting that they can defeat the people.

Let's all come out with ideas  and actions, so we can keep this radio transmitting the truth.

60% progress ?

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