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Some good news that I don't think is worth a shit. Be reminded I only quote crap from the AP, the American Propagandists, because I trust you're not dull-witted enough to buy the relentless repetitions of lies designed always to give the impression that the United States is a good faith actor on the world stage. For instance, this coup would not have happened without our approval. We knew about it weeks in advance, if you want to be generous enough to believe it was the Hondurans' idea to begin with, and one phone call from Clinton would have halted it in its tracks. Obama wanted the coup. And so, likewise, our brokering a deal to return Zelaya to office five minutes before an election in which he's not allowed to run is just totally outrageous nice guy theater.

I read something yesterday that went on as though Zelaya will be a candidate in this election, and maybe I missed something, but I don't think that's right. I wish it were. Here this point comports with my understanding, but I remember being shocked that someone I thought had a handle on the scene, on foreign intelligence, was speaking about people voting for Zelaya in the upcoming election. Maybe he just meant as a protest or something but it sounded as though he meant it as Zelaya actually being on the ballot for another term... which supposedly was the whole shtick to try to excuse the coup to begin with... that they thought Zelaya was trying to get another term, when he was merely trying to see if the people wanted the option of having a president for two terms... sometime in a future after the constitution could be duly amended. Somebody please tune me up if I've got it wrong.

Ousted Honduran leader: Pact will restore me
By JUAN ZAMORANO, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 6 mins ago

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Deposed President Manuel Zelaya and his opponents have agreed to a U.S.-brokered deal that he said will return him to power four months after a coup shook faith in Latin America's young democracies.

The power-sharing agreement reached late Thursday calls for Congress to decide whether to reinstate the leftist Zelaya. While the legislature backed his June 28 ouster, congressional leaders have since said they won't stand in the way of an agreement that ends Honduras' diplomatic isolation and legitimizes presidential elections planned for Nov. 29.

Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Thomas Shannon said Friday that the two sides finally made concessions after realizing the international community wouldn't recognize the elections or restore aid without a compromise.

"There was no more space for them to dither," he said.

Shannon cautioned that "there are a variety of moving parts to this agremeent" and said he would stay in Honduras while the two sides negotiate the details.

Under the plan, a government of national unity would take office to oversee the elections and the transition to the next president, who will be inaugurated on Jan. 27. Neither Zelaya nor interim President Roberto Micheletti is running.

Most polls show lawmaker Porfirio Lobo of the National Party leading Elvin Santos of the Liberal Party to which both Zelaya and Micheletti belong.

"We are willing to be cooperative in Congress with the agreement of the negotiators," Lobo said Friday. "The best decision for Honduras will be taken."

The plan does not include a deadline for congress to act, but Zelaya told The Associated Press that he expects a decision in "more or less a week." Meanwhile, he said, he will remain at the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, where he took refuge after slipping back into the country Sept. 21 from his forced exile.

"I'm not going anywhere," he said Friday.

Soldiers still surrounded the embassy and floodlights still interrupted sleep, but it has been several days since troops have crowed and meowed in the wee hours to keep those inside awake.

Backers hugged Zelaya after hearing the news and one asked him to autograph a white cowboy hat resembling the one the deposed leader always wears. The hat already bore Shannon's signature.

The breakthrough was a major foreign-policy victory for Obama. Speaking to reporters in Islamabad, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called it "an historic agreement," saying: "This is a big step forward for the inter-American system."

Zelaya was ousted after ignoring orders from the Supreme Court to abandon a referendum aimed at rewriting the constitution. Opponents said his secret plan was to lift a constitutional ban on presidential re-election; Zelaya denies that.

During his three years in office, Zelaya had alienated Honduras' elite by forming an increasingly strong alliance with Venezuela's socialist president, Hugo Chavez.

The new agreement would create a power-sharing government and bind both sides to recognize the presidential elections, as well as putting the armed forces under the command of electoral officials to ensure that the vote is legitimate.

It also creates a truth commission and rejects amnesty for political crimes.

Micheletti called the pact a "significant concession" on his part.

Pfeh.

Fuck Micheletti and fuck Clinton and Obama.

On top of all this, we, of course, have the plain fact of never being able to be reasonably certain of the veracity of polls or election returns since the fascist "democracies" have realized that manipulating them saves SO much trouble.

So. Anyway. Nope. This was a shot across ALBA's bow, pure and simple.