James Alexander McQuirter, the former Grand Wizard of the Canadian Ku Klux Klan.

When we first revealed here that former KKK Grand Wizard and convicted coup plotter James Alexander McQuirter worked for an MLM scheme called Emerald Passport here in Panama, the response from that outfit was mainly that McQuirter had served his time in prison and "changed his ways" since. That, however, appears to be a lie according to a recent story in the Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail. The article describes an elaborate plot to cause an ecological disaster with either fruit flies or virus strains that would harm North American food supply, by much the same cast of characters that was involved in the Dominica coup plot. At the end of the story, McQuirter is mentioned:

Mr. Macdonald has said in earlier testimony that he received a German SS sword as a hospitality gift from James Alexander McQuirter, for letting him stay at his residence. Mr. McQuirter is a former grand wizard of the Canadian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

As we said: The man is a neo-Nazi and will always be a neo-Nazi. Another source just wrote us about the relation between McQuirter and Emerald Passport owner Sam Lajic:

What is equally interesting is I received a phone call from an Emerald Passport distributor who told me that in the past year, Sam Lajic repeatedly introduced James Alexander as his good friend for ``more than a quarter of a century``. This distributor said that he along with a number of others quit in disgust as when they did the math, it became clear to them that Sam Lajic must have become good friends with McQuirter during ``Operation Red Dog`` or at the very least during the KKK days.

So, again we wonder: Whom or what is being funded by Emerald Passport?

Martin Lamb

It has been one of those weeks again, dear readers. Our good friend Eric Jackson has gone bonkers and accused us of working for the Mossad because we happen to agree with Israel and not Hamas. And Templar Panama, the Hizbollah of Panamanian real estate once started by the flood profiteer and now in the hands of a coke snorting madman, the former lottery scammer Martin Lamb, is afraid they might be bombed in retaliation of the hacking of our website!

One of Templar's profoundly stupid morons brilliant employees, Colin Ellis, has written our hosting service, declaring terrorism alert threat level code red, not seen in our small country since their publicist Don Winner was hunted down by the police.

In his current webpage, [bananama republic] threatens to bomb and destroy our office in Panama City. Go to his website and double click the
following words: ā??presentedā?¯ and ā??who you areā?¯. ā??Slowly we're
reconstructing this site, a lot of work for which the bill will
eventually be presented to those responsible. We know who you are!ā?¯

Since our office happens to be below the Russian Embassy, and joining to
the Crowne Plaza Hotel, they have been alerted. Security forces may
want to typify [bananama republic's] threat as a ā??terroristā?¯ act ā?¦ although I think [bananama republic] is just a ā??webā?¯ terrorist, not a real one. The owner of the Crowne Plaza Hotel is one Herman Bern, also a target of (...) bananamarepublic.

The terrorist threat is obviously concerning our visitors and we request
you take down the offending material that is harming our business.

Muhahahaha! "Terrorist threat" - a link to a picture? Who are they trying to fool here?

Herman Bern a "target of Bananama Republic"? Bern is our friend. We admire him not just for being a real developer instead of some Templar flim-flam artist, but also because he didn't hesitate to take down the corrupt Omar Wong. The Russians are our friends too, and we hear the KGB microphones are registering everything discussed inside Templar clearly. So good luck with those "security forces".

But the good thing in all this is of course that the Templar hustlers are getting scared, as they should be. These web terrorists are behind hacking our beloved website and, since these Hamas realtors are not willing to discuss a peaceful solution, there will of course be hell to pay.

UPDATE 1: Templar's president Gonzalo de la Guardia sent a similar email to our friends over at The Scarlet Pimpernel. Needless to say that didn't get anywhere.

UPDATE 2: It seems the only person in the world to buy into the Templar bullshit was the manager of the datacenter where we were hosted. So they censored our site. So we moved! Juicy story to follow...

Well, we're back on the air after our database was hacked and destroyed. Slowly we're reconstructing this site, a lot of work for which the bill will eventually be presented to those responsible. We know who you are!

Meanwhile, our avid readers will need to have some patience as we get our stories back on line. Unfortunately, all your valued comments have been erased as well by Martin Lamb that coke-snorting scam artist who hangs out every night on Calle Uruguay with transvestite prostitutes. So thank you for your patience and your support.

Our eyes filled up with tears here in the Bananama Republic newsroom when we read the heartbreaking story of how convicted con man Martin Lamb went to the Hard Rock Café to make donations and hand gifts to the poor and needy children of our country on behalf of the Templar Panama real estate outfit where he works. Do the poor children live in the Hard Rock Café? No, but the orphanages are too far from the city and it's easier to get publicity if anyone reporting on the charade - nobody did - doesn't have to travel beyond city limits.

Touching, right? We think so too. And what does a scammer do to get the message out? Hire the scam pimp of course!

How many ways are there to fall flat on your face? Don Winner is determined to find out. As is Andrew Beatty, our local Margaritaville correspondent from Reuters. Both were writing down this crap that Richard Fifer's Petaquilla mine would produce its first gold before the end of the month. The facts were and are that this is impossible. And guess what? Otto reports that Petaquilla delayed the date of production - again - and now even has filed an appeal against the very permit from ANAM they were hyping just weeks ago!

Again: This mine will NEVER go in production. Forget it.

See this guy in the picture in his klepto-suit? That's Kevin Bradley, who runs an insurance agency in Panama when he's not busy seizing money with his HSBC buddies. He's one of this clique of right-wing Americans who try to uphold the myth that the so-called "expat community" should only do business with them, you know, Charly Garcia, Hunter Schultz, Don Winner and a whole bunch of others. On top of it all, he calls himself "what a guy!".

Yeah, what a guy indeed: Bradley is also a disaster profiteer. Like, after hurricane Katrina hit, you had these people showing up with a pick-up truck and a ladder and they'd offer to fix the damage quickly at hugely inflated prices because they were in the know about where to get plywood and other materials on the black market. They'd only target the rich who could afford to pay these hustlers, while the poor were drowning. Well, that's Kevin Bradley for you. While civilized people are trying to find out how to help the 140,000 victims, many of whom have literally nothing left, Bradley thinks about how to make money from the disaster and posts a blurb on his buddy Don Winner's Panama Misguide to tout his stupid storm and flood insurance for the expat elite. Chic, huh?

Emerald Passport, the Panamanian/Canadian MLM scheme about which we wrote earlier that it employed former Canadian Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizzard James McQuirter, continues to lie about its involvement with the convicted neo-Nazi.

On its website, Emerald Passport has posted a statement alleging "falsehoods and blatant misinformation" being spread about the troubled enterprise.

It also says that "Mr. McQuirter joined Emerald Passport under the name James Alexander, first as a customer in 2005 and then as an independent distributor and, from time to time, was contracted as a marketing consultant."

But that is, in their own terms, blatant misinformation. James McQuirter was and continues to be one of the principals of Emerald Passport and they knew who he was all the time. And we have proof!

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Remember "LifeFlight Panama"? A bunch of helicopter addicts who said they were going to start an air ambulance service in Panama. Well, the only thing they started was a scheme to collect membership fees. And now they have disappeared. Gone. Check that website: "LIFEFLIGHT® is no longer operating in Panama." No longer? They were NEVER operating in Panama!

First they owned a helicopter ambulance service without owning a helicopter. Then they said they were going to buy a helicopter. Then a consultant for them told us that the helicopter they were going to buy sucked big time. It would have to hop from gas station to gas station when flying you to a Panama City hospital with a heart attack. They had no medical staff. It was all criminal amateurism, which of course didn't stop them from collecting membership fees to get the "cash flow" to get things going. They even tried an MLM affiliate downline bullshit scheme! Get in on the ground floor before take-off! Oh, and they sold "landing kits". Your own helipad for a heli that doesn't exist! How many suckers have fallen for this nonsense, we wonder?

Needless to say: Our resident scam pimp Don Winner was involved promoting them together with his drinking buddies who use names like "Panama Bob". How many times do we have to say this? If the Wanker is involved: hand on your wallet and run!

UPDATE: This just keeps getting funnier. Lee Zeltzer of the Boquete Guide is one of the few who advocated this wacky scheme, apparently believing that this helicopter could fly to Boquete, which it could not! Anyway, he is all sad and grieving now, and quotes one of the anonymous principals - always a bad sign - of the flying funeral squad on his website: "I have been told all member funds have been refunded and no checks were ever cashed". Ah. Funds that were never cashed have been refunded. That is the sort of logic one may expect from a helicopter ambulance service without a helicopter, we presume?

Haha! More proof that when Don Winner writes something, he is always wrong. Like when he launched this vicious smear campaign against Leslie Aldredge on behalf of Michael Taylor, one of his cross-dressing lowlife friends. Winner refers to Leslie Aldredge as "the fugitive from justice who hauled ass to Cuenca, Ecuador after ripping off members of the expatriate community in Panama".

Well, we just had lunch last week with the "fugitive from justice". In Panama. Leslie Aldredge flew in from Ecuador, came through customs without any incident and took care of her business without being arrested, prosecuted or anything like that. She even visited the police! Here's a picture of yours truly and Leslie, with another friend holding up the Miami Herald of last Thursday 23 October. Taken at the New York Bagels place in Via Argentina. We're sure Don Winner will recognize it; it is one of his favorite hang-outs.

The truth: There are no criminal cases pending against Leslie Aldredge. She is not a fugitive from justice anywhere. She didn't rip off anyone. But Winner, supported by a number of wacko sponsors and offshore hustlers, doesn't care about what's true or not. He just accuses people of being scammers, drug traffickers or even murderers because he is a pompous self-aggrandizing mentally disturbed nitwit.

Because we are not like La Critica or El Periodico here at Bananama Republic, we always respect the so-called derecho a replica, the right to reply even though we don't have to. Our comments are open. We didn't really expect that Omar Wong needed 300 inebriated voice mail messages or 700 emails (we'll spare you those) to make his point, if indeed there was a point, but the tensions of the last few days perhaps became too much or maybe the evildoer Herman Bern sequestered his brain too, so who are we to complain or care anyway.

He doesn't care either, because nobody reads this site he says, that's why he calls all night and sends hundreds of emails with threats and stuff (he's gonna find us without however spending any more time on this unimportant affair so that we can face the consequences of our journalistic terrorism or whatever AND he doesn't know Cabal BUT has conversations with him AND we shouldn't forget that he is a real journalist because he has traveled abroad to Lala-land AND soon he'll move to a bigger office because of all the Pulitzers except that he didn't say that). Trainwreck is the word. Sorry to see such a talent wasted in a country without any psychiatric care to speak of.

He can't even read - we never said that he worked for La Cronica and we never said his story on Bern was wrong (but of course it is, so there) which is what he seems to have understood somehow in outer space from aliens. Anyway, you can listen to this raving lunatic as soon as we've cleaned up the audio. And then we don't want to hear anything more about or from this jerk, ever, the end.

Oh, and you know how he signs his insane emails?

LA FELICIDAD ESTÁ EN LA FAMILIA

If this doesn't make the case for stem cell research we don't know what does.