GE, MSNBC, GE Healthcare, Obama, and The Bailout Cash… “The Power of Change”

by Scott Creighton

***UPDATE*** I guess GE wants to buy an industry in Honduras – “Clinton said today the U.S. government is refraining from formally declaring the ouster of Honduras’s president a “coup,”".

You’re gonna like this: GE helped push Obamalust to the change junkies of America. Now they are getting MASSIVE paydays from every angle imaginable; Banker Bailout cash, defense contracts, green economy contracts, and even GE Healthcare is primed to profit from Obamacare.

Regulators under the Obama administration “loosened” restrictions on one of their “Banker Bailout” plans (Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program) so that General Electric (defense contractor, mega-corporation, and financial institution (GE Capital)) could become “… the biggest beneficiary of one of the government’s key rescue programs for banks.” according to the Washington Post.

Two Military Battalions Turn Against Honduras Coup Regime

By Al Giordano, NarcoNews (H/T to mymarkx)

(click on map for larger image)

Community Radio “Es Lo de Menos” was the first to report that the Fourth Infantry Battalion has rebelled from the military coup regime in Honduras. The radio station adds that “it seems” (“al parecer,” in the original Spanish) that the Tenth Infantry Battalion has also broken from the coup.

Rafael Alegria, leader of Via Campesina, the country’s largest social organization, one that has successfully blockaded the nation’s highways before to force government concessions, tells Alba TV:

“The popular resistance is rising up throughout the country. All the highways in the country are blockaded…. The Fourth Infantry Battallion… is no longer following the orders of Roberto Micheletti.”

Angel Alvarado of Honduras’ Popular Union Bloc tells Radio Mundial:

“Two infantry battalions of the Honduran Army have risen up against the illegitimate government of Roberto Micheletti in Honduras. They are the Fourth Infantry Battalion in the city of Tela and the Tenth Infantry Battalion in La Ceiba (the second largest city in Honduras), both located in the state of Atlántida.“

(You can see Tela and La Ceiba on the map, above, along the country’s northern coast.)

Leaders from Obama to Chavez blast Honduras coup

from the AP

Police and soldiers clashed with thousands of protesters outside Honduras’ national palace Monday, leaving at least 15 people injured, as world leaders from Barack Obama to Hugo Chavez demanded the return of a president ousted in a military coup.

Leftist leaders pulled their ambassadors from Honduras and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala would cut trade with neighboring Honduras for at least 48 hours. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for Hondurans to rise up against those who toppled his ally, Manuel Zelaya.

[read the rest, here]

Images from The Coup that Wasn’t

by Scott Creighton

stirring images by the Wall Street Journal of “The Coup That Wasn’t“.

More images from the BBC

A 9 p.m. curfew was imposed, but in the evening the protesters, many carrying sticks and rocks, began adding chain-link fences to the burning tires as barricades to try to block the military from moving to break up the demonstrations. “I love Zelaya, he’s a good president,” said Esther Ortiz, a 46 year old doctor, as she helped block off a street by the palace. WSJ

"Democracy"... Sneaking in under a fence?

Zelaya’s Referendum Was Not an Attempt to Keep Him In Power

by Scott Creighton

This is something that has bothered me since the beginning of all this: it has been claimed by all the “law abiding” supporters of  “The Coup That Wasn’t” in Honduras, that the military acted according to the law because President Maunel Zelaya was attempting to remain in power by “changing the constitution” with his scheduled referendum vote that was supposed to take place yesterday, Sunday June 28th, 2009.  However, when you look at the details of the referendum… he wasn’t attempting to do that at all.

UN General Assembly president slams Honduras coup

from The Times of India

The president of the UN General Assembly, Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, has strongly condemned the army coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras.

D’Escoto “firmly and categorically condemns the criminal action by the army in the Republic of Honduras that has broken the constitutional order by carrying out a coup d’etat against President Manuel Zelaya,” his office said in a statement yesterday.