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Argentinian opposition politicians have accused the countrys president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, of being completely out of touch with reality after she gave a rambling televised address in which she claimed the US may be behind a plot to overthrow her government and possibly even assassinate her.
If something should happen to me, dont look to the Middle East, look to the North, Fernández said during the address on Tuesday night, in which she alluded to an alleged plot against her by local bankers and businessmen with foreign help.
Fernández had previously claimed to have received death threats from Islamic State (Isis) because of her friendship with Pope Francis. In last nights speech, however, she seemed to suggest the threats against her, received in three emails to Argentinian security officials, had come from the US.
Her claim comes in the wake of a rapid deterioration of Argentinas already rocky relationship with the US after the country went into default in August.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/01/argentina-president-claims-us-plot
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Right?
Cleita
(75,480 posts)malaise
(268,998 posts)hahahahahha -
Anything to control their Central Bank - force them to devalue, deregulate and then divest.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)the water?
MFrohike
(1,980 posts)I just don't see this one. The executive isn't the one screwing her, it's the judiciary. Federal judges seem to have found a secret clause in Article 2 that conveniently mentions their absolute and untrammeled right to conduct foreign policy.
EX500rider
(10,848 posts)Yes, the FreeMasons, Trilateral Commision and the Bilderburgers in conjunction with the Podpeople and BigFoot are out to get her...
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)in the 70s, Kissinger greenlighted Argentina's bloody Dirty War. I wouldn't put it past Kissinger to be advising covert meddling in Argentina.
nationalize the fed
(2,169 posts)The Bombing of La Moneda on 11 September 1973
After a review of recordings of telephone conversations between Nixon and Henry Kissinger, Robert Dallek concluded that both of them used the CIA to actively destabilize the Allende government. In one particular conversation about the news of Allende's overthrow, Kissinger complains about the lack of recognition of the American role in the overthrow of a "communist" government, upon which Nixon remarked "Well, we didn't - as you know - our hand doesn't show on this one."
Peter Winn has argued that the role of the CIA was crucial to the consolidation of power that followed the coup; the CIA helped fabricate a conspiracy against the Allende government, which Pinochet was then portrayed as preventing. He states that the coup itself was possible only through a three-year covert operation mounted by the United States. He also points out that the US imposed an "invisible blockade" that was designed to disrupt the economy under Allende, and contributed to the destabilization of the regime.
Author Peter Kornbluh argues in his book The Pinochet File that the US was extensively involved and actively "fomented" the 1973 coup. Authors Tim Weiner, in his book, Legacy of Ashes, and Christopher Hitchens, in his book, The Trial of Henry Kissinger similarly argue the case that US covert actions actively destabilized Allendes government and set the stage for the 1973 coup.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intervention_in_Chile#1973_coup
Cleita
(75,480 posts)support and I'm very active. Up until the moment of knowing she was so cozy with Kissinger, I could have done a hold my nose vote.
EX500rider
(10,848 posts)Link?
Proof?
EX500rider
(10,848 posts)White House Staff
Chief of Staff
Denis McDonough
Deputy Chiefs of Staff
Rob Nabors
Anita Decker Breckenridge
Kristie Canegallo
Counselor to the President
John Podesta
Senior Advisors
Valerie Jarrett
Dan Pfeiffer
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/staff
nationalize the fed
(2,169 posts)HENRY KISSINGER, the former US secretary of state, has urged President Barack Obama to launch an all-out attack on the terrorist group Isis in Syria and Iraq, warning that Americans have become bystanders in the Middle East.
In an exclusive interview with The Sunday Times, Kissinger said airstrikes should be of limited duration as a punitive measure and not make any distinction between Syria and Iraq. He said: There cant be any debate any more about fighting them (Isis).
Kissinger, an influential force in US foreign policy for more than four decades, accused Obama of failing to appreciate that other countries yearned for American guidance in the Middle East and other crisis areas.
We dont have the power to impose our preference, but without us, and without some leadership from us, the new order cannot be created, he said...
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/article1456033.ece
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Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger yesterday joined the call to arms, urging President Barack Obama to launch an allout attack on the terrorists.
There cant be any debate any more about fighting them, said Mr Kissinger, 91.
Without us and without some leadership from us, the new order cannot be created. ...
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/508100/Kissinger-leads-calls-for-all-out-attack-on-Islamic-State-jihadists
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Not a single US news source turned up in the first pages of the search "Launch all out blitz on jihadists, Henry Kissinger Obama".
Why could that be?
Kerry Seeks Advice on Syria from Henry Kissinger on 40th Anniv of Kissinger-Backed Coup in Chile
11 September 2013
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/11/1238103/-Kerry-Seeks-Advice-on-Syria-from-Henry-Kissinger-on-40th-Anniv-of-Kissinger-Backed-Coup-in-Chile
EX500rider
(10,848 posts)nationalize the fed
(2,169 posts)EX500rider
(10,848 posts)EX500rider
(10,848 posts)Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)But better that she uses this kind of thing to distract her people from her mismanagement of the economy than that she invades a small island.
UTUSN
(70,695 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)The Argentina president has definitely discovered how to say nothing with a handful of words.
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)reddread
(6,896 posts)seveneyes
(4,631 posts)Too many watchers are opting for the brown acid it seems.