PRESIDENT CHAVEZ DELIVERS REMARKS AT THE U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 "Representatives of the governments of the world, good morning to all of you. First of all, I would like to invite you, very respectfully, to those who have not read this book, to read it. Noam Chomsky, one of the most prestigious American and world intellectuals, Noam Chomsky, and this is one of his most recent books, 'Hegemony or Survival: The Imperialist Strategy of the United States.'" [Holds up book, waves it in front of General Assembly.] "It's an excellent book to help us understand what has been happening in the world throughout the 20th century, and what's happening now, and the greatest threat looming over our planet. The hegemonic pretensions of the American empire are placing at risk the very survival of the human species. We continue to warn you about this danger and we appeal to the people of the United States and the world to halt this threat, which is like a sword hanging over our heads. I had considered reading from this book, but, for the sake of time," [flips through the pages, which are numerous] "I will just leave it as a recommendation. It reads easily, it is a very good book, I'm sure Madame [President] you are familiar with it. It appears in English, in Russian, in Arabic, in German. I think that the first people who should read this book are our brothers and sisters in the United States, because their threat is right in their own house. The devil is right at home. The devil, the devil himself, is right in the house. "And the devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the devil came here. Right here." [crosses himself] "And it smells of sulfur still today." Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world. I think we could call a psychiatrist to analyze yesterday's statement made by the president of the United States. As the spokesman of imperialism, he came to share his nostrums, to try to preserve the current pattern of domination, exploitation and pillage of the peoples of the world. An Alfred Hitchcock movie could use it as a scenario. I would even propose a title: "The Devil's Recipe." As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And we cannot allow them to do that. We cannot allow world dictatorship to be consolidated. *******Blah Blah Blah******** Here he tries to make a threat. *************************** CHAVEZ (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): Yes, you can call us extremists, but we are rising up against the empire, against the model of domination. The president then -- and this he said himself, he said: "I have come to speak directly to the populations in the Middle East, to tell them that my country wants peace." That's true. If we walk in the streets of the Bronx, if we walk around New York, Washington, San Diego, in any city, San Antonio, San Francisco, and we ask individuals, the citizens of the United States, what does this country want? Does it want peace? They'll say yes. You know it's funny when I read the text I imagine a Spanish version of the aardvark voice used in the Pink Panther cartoon
So now communist friend Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, a democrat, today defended Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's United Nations speech
Chavez is a genius, and one of the few voices of reason emanating from the Americas. As such, he'll be dead inside a year.
All for the theology of liberation myself. At the same time I support the popes right to free speach. Chomsky is a great man and intellectual, but he is not omniscient. I give fuck about wether USA looses its preemminence or not, but a deal has to be reached. The resources are limited and the poor get these children while the rich get them cars. Their souls are the same no matter if they follow the teachings of Ariman, or that of Lucifer. It is the luciferean devils that coax and tempt Bush. Airborn and ethereal. Chaves need to guard against the heavy pondence of the earthladen hells. This is a simplistic dualism as hells and demonkind goes, but Bush and Chaves are two guys after all. I am afraid that we will be torn apart by this dual trap of Rich greed & Poor envy. If the planet falls it is every soul for themselves right ? Chaves scores a point domonologically though. There a not as many rich as there are poor. The devilry thusly thickens. Heroism is needed. StBillGates ? StarGates ? Chaves helping those poor americans gives angelwings as well !
The Poor to which Chavis refers to are better off than middle to upper class people in his own country. Here we have people with all the modern conveniences. They have two or more cars in a driveway that they own, more televisions than people living in the house. Kids playing in either of two choices of gaming systems and a thousand toys half of which are broke. They go out to eat four days out of the week and regularly give there kids a $10.00 and ask them to get the hell out of the house. The "poor" in America although chocked full of self pity are really not so poor.
These are captions to the photos of the recent rally. The called it tens of thousands if this were people showing up in DC to an anti Bush rally they would have called it "Tens of Millions". They do love to play the numbers game when they can. As you can see the charming and eloquent Chavez is quite a popular guy. Tens of thousands of people have marched through the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, in support of the main opposition candidate, Manuel Rosales. Police officers detain a man suspected to be a Chavista, center, at Plaza Francia in Caracas, Venezuela, on Dec 7, 2002. Venezuela's opposition stepped up protests against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's government to demand his resignation after at least three people were killed and 28 others wounded at an opposition rally.
Yeah remember the first "Million Man march"? I understand they were all pissed off at anyone who tried to deny that there were a million men there but the numbers were much much less. Like a tenth of that. But they cohersed the media to go along. Here we have a sea of Chavez protesters and they call it "Tens of thousands" I'll be honest I could not guess how many but the media sure does not mind screwing with the numbers as if speaking of fact.
If Hugo Chavez is training Muslims to speak Spanish and giving them citizenship identification so they can pass as Spanish citizens then he needs quite simply for the protection of the United States to be taken out of the picture. Remember the picture of those "tens of millions" of protestors in his country. It would be wrong for them to get caught on the middle of this simply take out Hugo the clown for the crime of not being funny anymore.
GWB attacked Iraq without knowing the difference between sunni and shia. Who do you need to get rid of to protect the united states again ?
All of them. Them with their beady eyes. Their awful breath and pungent odor. Their lack of driving skills. They know who they are...... I actually wish we would pull all of our troops out, protect our borders and say "fuck ya, have at it". Then if someone gets froggy, we just bomb the shit out of them. Fuck free trade.
Venezuelan Police: Student Who Planted Explosives Near U.S. Embassy Detained Monday, October 23, 2006 Artical from Fox News CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan police detained a university student outside the U.S. Embassy on Monday, saying he left two low-intensity explosives on the street outside the diplomatic mission. No one was hurt, and the student's motives remained unclear. Police set off the homemade devices — essentially large fireworks — while they closed the street to traffic outside the embassy. Children were evacuated from an adjacent school. Wilfredo Borraz, police chief for the Baruta section of Caracas, told reporters that one of the explosives was found outside the school and one inside a planter about 50 meters (yards) from the embassy entrance. He said both were in black plastic bags and contained "small fliers with publicity alluding to Hezbollah" — the Lebanese guerrilla group. "The idea was apparently to create alarm and publicize a message," Borraz told reporters, saying the explosives were made to draw attention while scattering the pamphlets. The youth told police "the devices were programmed to explode in 15 minutes, and that he had gone on the Internet looking for pages that talk about explosives" to help prepare the devices. Borraz said the youth's knapsack was holding materials for making the small explosives, along with a card identifying him as a student of the state-run Bolivarian University.
Voting Machines Used in 'Rigged' Chavez Election Reprinted from NewsMax.com Monday, Oct. 30, 2006 11:21 a.m. EST Voting Machines Used in 'Rigged' Chavez Election The controversy swirling around Smartmatic Corp. – which supplies voting machines to many U.S. states – doesn’t begin with the recent reports that the company has links to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s regime. In fact, Chavez insisted on using machines supplied by Smartmatic – which is reportedly owned by Venezuelans – for his 2004 recall election. And that election was so rigged in advance in favor of Chavez that the European Union (EU) refused to play an observer’s role, NewsMax reported at the time. "Unfortunately, it has not been possible to secure with the Venezuelan electoral authorities the conditions to carry out an observation in line with the Union’s standard methodology,” according to a Wall Street Journal report shortly after the election. The recent controversy erupted with the revelation that Oakland, Calif.-based Sequoia Voting Systems, which has supplied voting equipment in 17 U.S. states, was acquired last year by Smartmatic. Before that, a Venezuelan government financing agency invested more than $200,000 in a technology company that has some of the same owners as Smartmatic. In return, the Venezuelan agency took a 28 percent stake in the technology company and a seat on its board of directors, according to the New York Times. "Sequoia and Smartmatic are not connected, owned or controlled by the Venezuelan government whatsoever,” said Jeff Bialos, an attorney representing the two companies. But Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., said she welcomed the formal review of the two firms’ possible links to Chavez that has been launched by the federal government, and declared: "It’s a national security issue. Having a foreign government investing or owning a company in this country that makes voting machines could raise a question about the integrity of the elections.” The Chavez government’s awarding of the contract for voting machines to Smartmatic back in 2004 – without a transparent bidding process – was just one of many irregularities cited by observers. Exit polls showed that 58 percent of voters favored ousting Chavez and only 41 percent wanted him retained. But election officials conveniently reported that 58 percent of voters wanted to retain Chavez and 41 percent wanted him ousted. As a result, the staunchly anti-American friend of Fidel Castro remained in office. As NewsMax reported in August 2004, Thor Halvorssen, First Amendment scholar at The Commonwealth Foundation in New York and a Venezuelan citizen, spelled out a several of the election’s shocking irregularities, including: Thousands of voters, including Halvorssen, were mysteriously removed from the voting rolls. Citizenship was granted to half a million illegal aliens in a crude vote-buying scheme. Citizens were "migrated" away from their local polling places. One opposition leader was moved to a voting center in a city seven hours away. Another man, Miguel Romero, had for years voted in his neighborhood school in a Caracas suburb, but the Electoral Council computer indicated that he was to vote at the Venezuelan Embassy in Stockholm. Venezuelan diplomatic posts around the world "inexplicably ran out of passports. Many Venezuelan expatriates were thus prevented from returning to their country to vote,” said Halvorssen. His report in the Wall Street Journal also disclosed that bands of Chavez’s thugs brutally assaulted citizens in Caracas who were peacefully protesting the rigged election results, and fired indiscriminately into the crowd. A 61-year-old grandmother was shot in the back and killed, and Halvorssen’s own mother was shot and severely injured. Another report, from two observers working on behalf of the Organization of American States, said the election results did not reflect the will of the people "if the focus includes Mr. Chavez’s pre-election maneuvers that tilted the table in his favor through control of the electoral apparatus and indirect intimidation.” Writing in Canada’s Globe and Mail, Ken Frankel and John Graham also stated that thousands of citizens who had signed the petition that trigged the recall election "lost jobs, pensions or suffered harassment. Many feared that their choice would be known to the government, and the ubiquitous presence of machine-gun-toting soldiers inside and outside the polling stations reinforced this concern.” The most widely heralded outside observer of the election, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, ignored demands that the recall results be investigated, despite the restrains that had been placed on observers. Among the restraints, objected to by the EU, were that observers were not allowed to independently audit the entire vote, and their freedom of movement was restricted. Nevertheless, Carter claimed in a letter to the Wall Street Journal that his monitoring center "observed the entire voting process without limitation or restraint.” The Journal opined that Carter’s "complicity in the prevention of a reliable vote count was a betrayal of Venezuelan democracy.”
Looks like Venezuala is really going to shit. Corruption in Venezuela Hits Record Levels Under Hugo Chavez NewsMax.com Wires Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006 Higher oil revenues have enabled mismanagement and abuse of power in Venezuela, leading to record levels of corruption, argues a new policy analysis by the Cato Institute. In the study released Monday, "Corruption, Mismanagement, and Abuse of Power in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela," author Gustavo Coronel, member of the first Board of Directors of Petroleos de Venezuela from 1976 to 1979 and Venezuelan representative to Transparency International from 1996 to 2000, details how the Chavez regime is squandering the country's wealth through rampant official and personal corruption. Dubbing Chavez's government "hypercorrupt," Coronel identifies four main reasons for the nation's rapid decline to the bottom of global corruption and economic freedom indices. Misused oil income, mediocre management, Chavez's determination to play a "messianic" role in world affairs, and political populism designed to garner the affection of the people rather than promote the creation of new wealth have also contributed to the rise of graft. Coronel classifies Venezuelan corruption into three categories -- grand corruption, bureaucratic corruption and systemic corruption -- and details disturbing examples of graft, incompetence and flagrant disregard for both the rule of law and the welfare of Venezuelans. For example, the operations of at least two state-run financial institutions are completely opaque and the institutions spend funds at the discretion of Chavez alone. The management of national funds is done in secrecy and without accountability to the people. Venezuela has received up to $225 billion from oil and new debt. Using Venezuela's oil reserves as a tool of public diplomacy, Chavez has repeatedly signed agreements with neighboring countries to buy loyalty -- one example being the oil supply agreement with Cuba. Currently, Venezuela supplies Cuba with 90,000 barrels of oil per day. Says Coronel: "In total, therefore, Venezuela is giving Cuba a subsidy on the order of $2.2 billion to $2.3 billion per year." From suspect voter rolls (Venezuela has 17,000 voters born in the 19th century, with one person 175 years old and still working) to state-owned corporations, all levels of society have been affected. Failed social programs, faulty infrastructure, and a judicial system in the pocket of the executive have created an authoritarian system. Unfortunately, prospects for reform seem bleak. Prominent cases of corruption have not been punished. Coronel concludes: "Meaningfully reducing corruption in Venezuela would require eliminating motives and opportunities for corruption and punishing those responsible. After eight years of Hugo Chavez, it's entirely clear that the battle against corruption in Venezuela cannot begin until Chavez has gone." [/url]
CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez wants Venezuelan clocks turned back half an hour and he wants it done in record time -- next Monday. "I don't care if they call me crazy, the new time will go ahead, let them call me whatever they want," Chavez said on his weekly TV show. "I'm not to blame. I received a recommendation and said I liked the idea." The shift will allow children to wake up for school in daylight instead of before sunrise, Chavez said. That may seem reasonable to many Venezuelans but ordering the change with little notice and scant public education has raised questions over how much thought was given to the plan. It also highlights how the anti-U.S. president's governing style can sometimes be eccentric, improvised and rushed in his self-styled revolution to turn one of the world's biggest oil exporters into a socialist state. Chavez himself has not had time to get to grips with the practicalities of the clock shift. In his live show, he called on his brother, the education minister, so that the two men could explain the measure. But they mistakenly told Venezuelans to move their clocks forward at midnight on Sunday, when the policy is to move them back. Chavez dismissed criticism that moving the time only a half hour was quirky, questioning why the world had to follow a scheme of hourly divisions that he said was dictated by the imperial United States. The change will put Venezuela on its own time zone, shared by no other country. Several countries have adopted times that put them half an hour ahead or behind neighbors, and Nepal's official time is just 15 minutes ahead of that of India. Venezuelan businesses are now scrambling to call in technicians to reprogram their computers for the time change. Most countries advertise in the media any planned changes in clock times for months before the implementation date. But Chavez's government has only aired slots promoting the idea in principle without educating people on how to do it. "I'd like them to explain it to me so that I can understand what the new time is. I don't get it at all," said Esperanza Alcala, a 46-year-old office cleaning worker. TIME FOR CHANGE Since first announcing last month that Venezuela would shift from four hours behind Greenwich Mean Time to four and a half hours, Chavez, his brother and other senior officials have given varying dates for the change. This week, Chavez plumped for Monday, but his science and technology minister then said coordination with international organization might postpone the move until January. Venezuelans could be forgiven for not taking the government at its word. In a year of change when Chavez is overhauling the constitution and nationalizing swathes of the economy, some other attention-grabbing proposals have come to nothing. Most notably, Chavez announced that Venezuela was immediately withdrawing from the International Monetary Fund. Venezuela's debt then plunged and four months later the country remains an IMF member. Still, for Chavez, the clock move is simpler than people think. It is a one-off change and he notes that Venezuela does not follow many other countries in regularly moving clocks an hour forward for summer and back for winter. "It's something that's done around the world each year and several times a year and here we are just doing it once in a century."
