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Guest Post: The West Has Just Become A Giant Banana Republic
Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man
The West Has Just Become A Giant Banana Republic
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has made an admirable habit of enraging western governments over the last few years, particularly the United States.
Most notably, his release of classified diplomatic documents in 2010 proved ruthlessly embarrassing, shining a spotlight on the absurd, petty little world of international relations.
Ever since, the US government has done everything it can to stop him. Short of assassination. They shut down his website, but mirror sites instantly popped up. They sought legal action, but their efforts have been impeded by the bureaucratic deftness of his attorneys. They froze his bank accounts… but donations have poured in from all over the world.
Along the way, Uncle Sam co-opted a number of allied nations to set aside their principles for the sake of US interests–Switzerland rolled over immediately and shuttered Assange’s bank accounts.
Australia (his home country) has remained conspicuously silent on the matter, raising not a single word of protest in his defense. One high ranking Aussie politician even publicly suggested that Assange should be killed.
Sweden has happily played along, trumping up dubious allegations about Assange and issuing an international arrest warrant.
And now there’s the UK, where Assange has been based. The British government located and arrested him, yet after his legal team was able to secure bail and delay extradition, Assange sought refuge at the Ecuadoran embassy in London. He’s been living there for two months in violation of his bail.
Assange knows that, if extradited to Sweden, he’ll be shipped off to face the death penalty in the US… so the stakes are clearly high. He even petitioned Ecuador’s president Rafael Correa for political asylum, and just hours ago, Correa agreed.
Swarms of British police have now descended on the Ecuadoran embassy in London. This, on the heels of the British Foreign Ministry issuing a warning letter to Ecuador’s government threatening to “take actions in order to arrest Mr. Assange in the current premises of the [Ecuadoran] embassy.”
Such a move would be appalling, to say the least.
Embassies are hallowed sovereign ground, not to be trespassed. Ever. This is the most sacrosanct, fundamental, inviolable principle of international relations, explicitly codified in both the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961) and the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (1963).
Article 27 of the latter, for example, states that “the receiving State [the UK in this case] shall, even in case of armed conflict, respect and protect the consular premises, together with the property of the consular post and the consular archives.”
International law seems pretty obvious here. Yet British police stand ready to storm the embassy, arrest Assange, and tear down decades of diplomatic precedent.
In a way this is almost poetic. Assange is the man who exposed western diplomacy for the fraud that it is. That he would be sent to his death by an egregious violation of its most fundamental principle seems strangely appropriate.
Regardless, the whole affair is perhaps the foulest example that western governments will ignore their own laws, or selectively apply them, whenever they see fit.
Legal precedent means nothing. Rule of law means nothing. Free speech means nothing. Their own treaties mean nothing. It’s unbelievable. Anyone in the west who honestly thinks he’s still living in a free society is either a fool or completely out of touch.
If that seems too radical an idea, consider that ECUADOR is now the only nation which stands to defend freedom and human rights against an assault from the United States, the United Kingdom, and their spineless allies.
The west has just become a giant banana republic. Have you hit your breaking point yet? If not now… when?
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Ecuador may need to source some laborers who dig the drug tunnels at the USA-Mexican border.
Well, Engali----
I don't know. He must have SOMETHING for the brits to destroy their honor----what little is left; this is pretty unimagineable and extreme stuff.
Ecuador is not alone---Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina----practically all of Latin America
and then China, Russia, Pakistan------ I can't even remember all of the banana republics that say 'no' to the anglophile establishment
I live in Ecuador and Correa is hated by the monied interests and old families---the press, pols, and the bankers. However, if they raise a hand against this president, they understand that blood will flow in defense of the people's president. I don't have a hortse except for Ecuador----it is getting harder for me here, but I can't find a better place to reside, and I look every year!
The US is wonderful except for the people----I'd live there in a minute if there was a shred of human intelligence with whom I might socialize, but--------no one home------
Enough, there is room for each of us on the planet if we want to live together om
The Brits have shown long ago that they have no honor. Honor to Brits is conveniently shed when it hampers their ambitions. Sadly it's the same way here.
That's "honour" to you, sir!
Perfidious Albion
Pffffffft - yeah socialist paradise. Wonder how Correa is going to govern AFTER he runs out of other peoples money. Facism - it's called Road to Serfdom - you may want to read it.
Ironically, Ecuador is the prototypical banana republic, world's largest exporter.
Good luck getting Assange to the airport. He may have to do the Casanova and dress as a woman or have some Ecuadorans dig a tunnel under the police lines.
America is the champion of human rights around the world, with the sole exception being the times when those rights conflict with America's desires.
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I like the other story today comparing Assange and Corzine. Amazing, isn't it, how far our government will go to arrest Assange for truth-telling when at the same time it doesn't prosecute an outright crook who stole 100's of millions of dollars! Amazing, I tell you!
"Have you hit your breaking point yet? If not now… when?"
Mr. Black,
The breaking point will be determined by those who don't necessarily even know what an "Ecuador" is.
I can't believe that more people haven't surpassed their breaking point yet. I have always rented so I wasn't aware how completely out of hand taxes for homeowners had gotten. Recently I decided to see if I could afford to buy a decent house instead of renting so I could rry to be more self sustaining. For a $126k house, estimated monthly payment of $525, and the tax payment is $300 PER MONTH!!! If I were a homeowner, I think I would have already flipped out because that is just absolute insanity! I feel for you guys...basically being forced to throw that much money out the window every month. I would have lost my shit by now. Seriously....How on earth have you guys managed to keep from going postal???
Edited to add: I have only had my eyes open for a few years and I am young-ish, so excuse me for being so naive but has owning a home always been taxed like this?
Much of that depends on where you live as to how high. But taxes are always going up.
You rent from the government in the US when you own a home.
Has just???? lol
I thought when our country set free a man whole stole $2 billion from it's investors we became a Banana Republic.
Hypothetically, if Assuage were given Ecuadorean citizenship, and then made an Ecuadorean diplomat, would he then receive diplomatic immunity, which would allow him to leave the premises to travel to Ecuador without being arrested?
Ask any cop and they'll tell you that governments can do no wrong... I know, my uncle is one. Too many years/decades of brainwashing that the government is GOD on earth and whoever questions or exposes it is a threat that must be eliminated.
Expose any truth to them and they'll rationalize it in their brilliant cop mind...
Wait until the gub'mint fucks with their pension and makes them pay for health care. Then ask again.
What worries me is the volunteer military force the USA recruits from Central America and Asia. Our military is not the representative fighting force one would like to believe. It's becoming a mercenary army, unrecognizable to those who don't know any better.
When they come to the states after the draw down, then we will all be very scared; cops included.
The police are very flexible, in 1940 French police had no problem working for a Nazi paycheck, same with the English police in the Channel Islands in 1940!
You'll get no argument from me here... America is a bananna republic, and like any bananna republic, the scum at the top can be replaced at the drop of a hat. Our illegitimate federal givernment is so hated, so hedged against, and so backed into a corner, that a stiff breeze could blow the whole political house of cards down. All it's going to take to change things is for a group of patriotic civilians, active-duty military, veterans, police, and federal marshalls to do their duty and arrest the traitors at top. Believe me, jaded keyboard jockeys, "preppers". and backwoods militiamen aren't going to do the job. Men who know the score and are in the right position to do so will. The Constitution is about to make a roaring comeback after the MASS ARRESTS take place... http://tinyurl.com/cd5cyjo/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-10/uoc-ham102407.php
Macachiavellian Intelligence: How Rhesus Macaques and Humans Have Conquered the World by Dario Maestripieri
1) Struggles for power within a group sometimes culminate in a revolution, in which all members of the most dominant family are suddenly attacked by entire families of subordinates. These revolutions result in drastic changes in the structure of power within rhesus societies, not unlike those occurring following human revolutions.
2) There is one situation, however, in which all of the well-established social structure evaporates: when a group of rhesus macaques confronts another one and monkey warfare begins. Rhesus macaques dislike strangers and will viciously attack their own image in a mirror, thinking it’s a stranger threatening them. When warfare begins, “Even a low-ranking rhesus loner becomes an instant patriot. Every drop of xenophobia in rhesus blood is transformed into fuel for battle,” Maestripieri wrote.
Which situation is most likely for the talking monkeys?
Simon's best ever post, I think.
It's an insult to bananas!
Aww man i just got simon black'd
The West and Western markets are a f*cking embarrassment. Pathetic. We look like weak, stupid, desperate a-holes indebted to the East.
We deserve what is coming...
I think we are giving Banana Republics a bad name
Imperialistic twits: their sole objective is to enrich, protect and cover their asses...whatever the cost.
Julian Assange is likely an ASSET of the UK and/or US.
This would be an excellent way for the US to get a prime asset into a South American nation that will be targeted in the future for "regime change"...as soon as they switch the military to the South American front.
I hope the Ecuadorians see through this set up.
South America is connected to China. What is the US connected too? The Federal Reserve.
The US has NO swing over South America anymore, none.
Right now, Asia more so China is f*cking with the Fed manipulated yield curve. Buying up USDs and driving up rates. Wake up call to the money printers who wields economic power in the world. And it isn't America.
Empires die.
hope you are right as SA is where we are heading. Unfortunately, SA has been infiltrated heavily by Israelis and other zionists.
Interesting angle... One would have to wonder whether the price of cratering international law (and law in general) is worth it. Something tells me that no matter what plants are put in place the West/US isn't going to win over the SA populace.
The US is not going to "win" against anyone. You can't look at this as a national thing. The Occult responsible for the world distress cares nothing for "nations"; it has no loyalty. So it does not matter to them that the US cannot "win" the SA.
This is not like historical battles. We are dealing with psychological warfare.
The effort to destroy the middle class and working class wealth in the U.S. has been going on for a few decades. One of the Rockefellers spoke about it back in the 60's....I guess they were not satisfied with their billions and wanted a bigger cut of the worker's production.
One aspect we don't hear about much is the British and their hand in terror, financial terror, and empire. They've never really got over themselves.
The British really went bad back in the days of Queen Elizabeth I, who was a prominent member of the Occult. One of the British people's most esteemed figures in history is Alister Crowley, who was another occultist. That's who the Brits find to be an important historical figure!! (by survey). In our present time, the Zionist controlled British government and "City of London" are working hard to wipe out the indigenous whites....encouraging young women to sterilize themselves and bringing in people from Islamic countries. (then they turn around and butcher the same brown people)...This is the nation that gives us the "Population Trust". The Brits are still ran by the same Occult. I think we should be keeping one eye on the UK.
assange can be extradited from sweden, thats a fact, but he isnt being charged in sweden for any political reasons, the two women he slept with have laid charges of rape against him..
the fact is that assange can easily be extradited from the UK, the extradition processes are way easier than with any process in sweden. the swedish procees is so conveluted and twisted i doubt the US would try
1/ the arguement that he only being charged with rape for a political motivated US extradition process later is pure fantasy
2/ assange is facing rape charges, and has peeved off everyone with the costly process of appeal after appeal. for him to try and duck 2 rape charges just because he has raped a few women gets none of my support.
the world is supporting an alleged rapist, and he has clouded it with some half cocked conspiracy theory of athe US forcing 2 women to make false allegations against him.. man the heck up assange and get your arse over to sweden and prove them wrong..
think it through... the assange supporters think US agents have brainwashed and forced 2 swedish nationals to lay false rape charges against him.. but fail to say how they did it?? has the secret service got those flashy pens from men in black and have zapped their minds???
if the us wanted assange on their soil, they could extradite him through the UK in a heart beat.. they can do it today..
one huge beat up by assange supporters..
how come with all these wiki leaks from he defence force, not one leak on the assange file?? come on all you hackers.. can they get one email? one file? what about one peice of proof that assange is about to be wiped and the swedes have been programed and are forcing women to cry rape??? lol
load of garbage this assange story...
You idiot.
Pond scum like Assange should be in prison where the key gets lost, not lionized a' la this dimwit.
We are not a Republic but a kleptocracy governed by rival mafias. Assange is alive because he is useful, a useful idiot. As Bansky's new book title says
You are an acceptable level of threat, and if you were not you would know about it. Assange lives. If he was a threat he would be dead.
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Absolutely. Powerful people do not waste time suppressing non threats to them. They might stage threats to themselves to draw benefits.
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These men have no need of you, your civil order, your customs, or your consent.
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No. In US citizenism, rulers govern with the consent of the governed.
The governed are mostly the middle class.
The poor usually vote in smaller numbers while the rich are not enough to sway an election and have to buy the voting process in order to get their points of view accepted.
US citizen upper class no longer need wars to achieve their goals. But as servants to the middle class, they have to keep providing wars as the middle class wants the opportunities coming with wars.
The issue is not whether Jukian Assange is a sinner or saint. The issue is the sanctity of the embassy of a soverign state. If Equador wants to grant Assange asylum that's their business and no one elses. An embassy is soverign ground and exempt from the laws of the hosting nation. Is the UK really ready to lower themselve to the level of Iran in 1978 just to extridite one man to Sweden? With their economy like the rest of Europe on the brink of disaster can they really afford to risk financial warfare with all of South America?
Only an imbecile would think the west has "just" become an Obanana republic.
Wake up already you muthermuppet!
After WWII, nazis went to two places in the world: South America and North America. The former was already full of banana republics, the latter was about to be turned into one by the nazis brought there with operation paperclip. Some of these nazis then went back to Germany. Germany btw, never rid themselves of 'middle management' nazis. Judges, civil servants in place during WWII colaborating with the nazis just kept their places after the war.
I welcome the likes of a Wernher Von Braun over a blankfiend any day!
The former brought jobs and the moon, the latter corruption and collapse.
You cannot compare apples with pears. Von Braun was quilty of warcrimes because thousands of slave laborers died making the facilities to launch his V1 and V2 weapons, which by the way also killed scores of people at the places where these rockets landed. But hey, what are thousands of lives lost when it brings you people to the moon, right? And there are many other nazis with blood on their hands that went to the Americas. I guess the experiments that Mengele did in a way also created jobs later. Apparently that doesn't matter to some. As long as it doesn't concern you, right? War, the most profitable of all human endeavors. Humans, the cheapest commodity.
Are you one of those who NEVER remembers who was responsible for the 20,000,000 or more who perished in the BOSHEVIK REVOLUTION?
We talked about nazis. If you want to talk about bolshevism or communism, go ahead. Yes, bolshevist killed millions, Mao killed even more. So that makes nazis crimes right then? To me they all are the same rotten fruit.
Are you one of those that say "my country, right or wrong"?
You may call me a revisionist. ; )
Revisionism:
1. Advocacy of the revision of an accepted, usually long-standing view, theory, or doctrine, especially a revision of historical events and movements.
2. A recurrent tendency within the Communist movement to revise Marxist theory in such a way as to provide justification for a retreat from the revolutionary to the reformist position.
oh goodie, multiple choice! Can we do true or false next?
Come on! You have a 50% chance. That is much better than on your high school exams. If you win, you get a free subscription to the Phoenix capital research newsletter on how the European banking system will collapse.
sure, I choose #1, you take #2
I see more evidence of blankfein turning this country into a banana rep. than any Nazi's, just sayin
I am not playing. With nazis you won't have a republic left.
These nazis you speak of are some covert sons-of-bitches Joe! Where are they, what great influences are they exercising within our government? Educate me, I'm curious.
Nowhere have I said that there are nazis in the US government. Your assumption. I just said that nazis were brought to the US with operation paperclip. Any country that cooperates with mass murderers such as the nazis turns its country into a banana republic because it is a sliding scale from there on. This whole left/right or nazi/commie debate is a false one. Both have in common collectivism and statetism. But tell me, do you think that the changes in civil liberties after 9/11 in the US aren't that much different from what the nazis did after the fire in the Reichstag?
You're original comment seemed to suggest that we are in the position we are in due to the singular fact that we allowed Nazis a place in our society. I'm simply arguing that there is more evidence that in todays western society, Jewish bankers, judges, and politicians seem to be steering us down the path to ruin.
It would be easy to suggest that I am anti semitic, I prefer to say that is not the case. I know that many Jewish people feel the same way I do, the so called self hating Jews. Its hard to know what to believe anymore with all of the information out there. Certainly it is true that the victors write history. Looking at the facts on the ground, it is plain that Israel has far too much influence over what happens here. Seeing who is at the helm of many of the institutions that rule our economy, and our lives, its hard not to believe that the whole thing is not some zionist plot for a NWO.
I'm constantly in search of the truth of it all, but I gotta say, yes, I am getting a biased view the more I search for answers. Frankly, I wish I could just go back to when I didn't give a shit about what was going on politically. I'm no smarter than I was, and I am powerless to cause change.
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'American' nations are not banana republics.
They are the result of their success in turning so many nations around them into banana republics.
Running an extortion of the weak, farming of the poor business comes with certain responsibilities.
US citizen Assange is just another of those entertaining pieces US citizens are fond of.
The guy released weak material, most damaging concerning negroes'treatment (no 'Americans' could care) or some fun acts by the US military (which is worshipped in the US and no one would dare tainting the rep of the US military so no one will take into account the revelations)
But by dogging Assange, US citizen nations send the message that what is revealed is very dangerous, is nocuous.
Of course, it is just a trick to turn the eyes away from the much more serious 'American' acts around the world.
When you are stealing entire continents, it is not that bad to perceive as a candy bars robber.
Another US citizen trick in action.
US citizen nature is indeed eternal.
we're a fuking banana smoothie, A2!
julianA is one thing; US bananrama is another! plantation! you have been listening to our detractors again!
please try to understand us! ...you seem so unkind to people who may be bigger than you are...
Bigger? The US citizen rule: when bigger than biggest is not big enough...
You're talking to a wall. This has been shown time and time again on ZH. At this point, it is best to simply ignore. Give a down arrow and move on or don't even read the posts. AnAnonymous will never get it. That is the way of liberalism.
And what do you mean ``has just become``?? Where have you been the last 3 decades??
no shit!
it's the "drama" around j.a. that makes it so grating too!
we were doing continuous "havabanana" strings in may of 2011 [while dancing with zombies if i recall... like annCoulter...]
[...have you heard? mittens is gonna have annCoulter support prez0...]
[...simon suggested it...]
[...l0l...]
All the King's horses, and all the King's Men,
Rather than chase the real wankers,
Those City Bankers,
Would rather pound the dirt,
Then hang the lone bloke,
who's just blogging away, minding his business,
And verily lead us astray,
From all the assholes who fucked us.
"The west has just become a giant banana republic."
So the actions of Britian, Sweeden and the US condemn all of the West? What a jackass statement.
Just?
To say this is a dollar short and a day late would be a huge understatement. Western governments have been unsurping its own citizens at a dramatically increasing rate, to the point where we now have drones flying around the world to assassinate ANYONE without any transparency or due process. The west has been a banana republic for sometime. Perhaps Simons travels have distracted him from this fact. The Assange situation is just ANOTHER exclamation mark on the point.
Assange released the documents. Everything else about him is speculation.
Sidenote- It's funny we refer to the Negro as subhuman when the European is the one who speculates his origins come from an ape. Slavery existed here in the Americas not only among the Negros but among the Whites as well. That's a fact. Virginia had to pass a law to keep Negros from owning White slaves. Not to even mention all the European slaves taken on the coast of North Africa by the black moors. So enough with dehumanizing the negro race.
Just focus on the facts and do not allow misinformed guest to post nonsense in this site. UK will not enetr any ecuadorian premises in the UK as they will stick to the vienna onvention. However they will not grant a safe passage to Assange. That is a different situation. Get informed. Moreover, defending Ecuador while his president Mr Correa has imprisoned journalist that disagree wuth his administration, shut down tv stations and newspapers that think differently and has been trying to impose in congress a media bill that will provide govt control of all sort of media, is absolutely ridiculous and not the ZH style. Tyler, you are against central planning, what the hell are you doing defending ecuador? I have been in emerging markets, and particularly in Latin America for more than 20 years. I know my stuff and I am well informed an aware of the situation in most of the regions counties. It is my job. Shame on you.
I live in Quito. It beats the crap out of living in London.
I think it highly ironic that Correa has offered Assange asylum and I wish him safe passage (Assange, not El Pres).
Maybe they should organise 30 people of the same build & all wearing Anonymous masks to exit the embassy at the same time.
As for President Thin-Stap (sic: Google)- I just hope they can find someone better before the elections next year although I'm not holding my breath.