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Guess what?
There are idiots on the right and left. Religious and non-religious. Christian and Muslim. Male and female. Deal with it.
Pat Robertson is a bag...and there isn't much difference between what he said and what the Mullah's say. This isn't the first stupid thing he's said....except he's not calling for the assassination of an American Leader.
Oh and Chavez is an asshole.
Guess what?
There are idiots on the right and left. Religious and non-religious. Christian and Muslim. Male and female. Deal with it.
Get this, Hugo Chavez is offering cheap gas to help out the poor in the U.S.
CNNHAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, popular with the poor at home, offered on Tuesday to help needy Americans with cheap supplies of gasoline.
"We want to sell gasoline and heating fuel directly to poor communities in the United States," the populist leader told reporters at the end of a visit to Communist-run Cuba.
Chavez did not say how Venezuela would go about providing gasoline to poor communities. Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA owns Citgo, which has 14,000 gas stations in the United States.
The offer may sound attractive to Americans feeling pinched by soaring prices at the pump but not to the U.S. government, which sees Chavez as a left-wing troublemaker in Latin America.
Silly socialist, public handout are for corporations in Bush World.
Chavez publicly disses Robertson
OU DailyChavez lashes back at Robertson
The Venezuelan leader fought back against the '700 Club' host.
by Christopher Toothaker (AP)
August 23, 2005
CARACAS, Venezuela - Pat Robertson's call for American agents to assassinate President Hugo Chavez is a ``terrorist'' statement that needs to be investigated by U.S. authorities, Venezuela said Tuesday. The Bush administration quickly distanced itself from the religious broadcaster.
Robertson's suggestion Monday that the United States ``take out'' Chavez to stop Venezuela from becoming a ``launching pad for communist influence and Muslim extremism'' appeared likely to aggravate tensions between the United States and the world's fifth-largest oil exporting country.
Winding up a visit to Cuba, Chavez said in response to questions from reporters about Roberston's remarks that such comments did not matter to him and that he would prefer to ``talk about life.''
``I don't even know who that person is,'' said Chavez, standing next to Cuban leader Fidel Castro at Havana's airport.
Meanwhile, American officials apologized to the world for our own religious extremist. OK, not really, we give them amazing amounts of money and media attention.
Didn't know that.Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA owns Citgo, which has 14,000 gas stations in the United States.
Buy Citgo!
LMAO..Dan, I don't know who is more stupid...you, for believing he actually means this crap...or Chavez for offering free Oil to the wealthiest nation in the World with nearly 50% of his country living in poverty(15% living in extreme poverty).
I personally think we should take him up on it...I'm game for some free gas...it'll help the US more than just economically as well...
When American commies like yourself watch this guy send his country into total and utter economic collapse perhaps you will see once and for all how stupid Marxism is....
Dan I just want to make sure you remember all the this guy is talking, and how he thinks he king of the entire world based on the 3 million barrels of Oil his country produces per day...
So that when the US drops this guy on his economic ass....you won't think it was the US that did it...You'll know it was something he wanted to happen.
This guy is so economically stupid it just proves that anyone can become the leader of a Latin American country...
Last edited by whottt; 08-24-2005 at 01:44 AM.
http://www.citgo.com/InvestorRelatio...dQuestions.jsp
Q: What is your ticker symbol? How can I buy CITGO stock?
A: CITGO is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A., the national oil company of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. As a result, we have no publicly-traded equity securities and no stock ticker symbol.
Cool name. I bet every kid in that continent knows about Simon Bolivar, "the George Washington of South America."
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americ...z.invasion.ap/
Chavez: U.S. will 'bite the dust' if it invades
Tuesday, August 9, 2005; Posted: 6:41 a.m. EDT (10:41 GMT)
Venezuelan President Chavez called the U.S. the "most savage, cruel and muderous empire" in world history.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told thousands of visiting students that if U.S. forces were to invade the South American country, they would be soundly defeated.
The U.S. government has strongly denied Chavez's claims that it is considering military action against Cuba's closest ally in the Americas.
But Chavez said late Monday that the U.S. government, which "won't stop caressing the idea of invading Cuba or invading Venezuela," should be warned of the consequences.
"If someday they get the crazy idea of coming to invade us, we'll make them bite the dust defending the freedom of our land," Chavez said to applause.
He spoke during the opening ceremony of a world youth festival bringing together student delegations from across the world and convened under the slogan "Against Imperialism and War."
Chavez called the United States the "most savage, cruel and murderous empire that has existed in the history of the world."
The Venezuelan leader said "socialism is the only path," and told the students the collective goal is to "save a world threatened by the voracity of U.S. imperialism."
Earlier, the students waved flags, danced in traditional dress, and held signs praising socialism, Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
More than 300 students from the United States shouted out their disapproval of U.S. President George W. Bush, chanting "Get out Bush!" Other students chanted: "Bush, fascist -- you're a terrorist!"
Some 15,000 youths from 144 countries traveled to Venezuela for the weeklong festival and conference, organizers said.
Chavez wore a red shirt like many of the students, and embraced delegation leaders as their groups marched past.
The ceremony was held in Venezuela's military headquarters in Caracas. Troops looked on while students passed carrying colored flags and shouting: "We will overcome!"
This year's World Festival of Students and Youth is the 16th. The first, in 1947, was held in Czechoslovakia, and during the Cold War most host countries were aligned with the Soviet bloc.
Apart from the former Soviet Union, other host countries have included Romania, Poland, Finland, Cuba, the former East Germany and North Korea.
The weeklong gathering will include musical performances, panel discussions and an "Anti-imperialist Court," which in past years has condemned the U.S. government's actions.
While tensions have grown between Chavez and Washington, the Venezuelan leader has built close ties with countries from Iran to China.
Chavez expressed his support Monday for Iran's new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying he expects to continue strengthening relations. Chavez said like Venezuela, Iran is a country that has been "attacked" for many years by "the hand of imperialism."
Chavez, whose country remains a major supplier of oil to the United States, also is sharply critical of the U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
North Korea: Chavez's Supply Line?
By Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu
Front Page Magazine
USA
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José Cadenas
Research Dept.
La Nueva Cuba
May 10, 2005
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It may be pure coincidence that within weeks of a quiet visit by North Korean delegates to Caracas, Venezuela to see dictator-in-progress Hugo Chavez, the Koreans test-fired a medium range missile 65 miles into the East Sea (a.k.a. Sea of Japan). On the other hand, trusting to coincidence when evaluating intentions and capabilities of rogue regimes can result in trouble for all concerned.
Americans need to be troubled about increasingly dark developments in our hemisphere, especially regarding Venezuela. Once a budding democracy, Venezuela under Chavez is rapidly turning into an autocratic Marxist state. His growing friendship with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro is no longer conducted in secret. Esteemed Wall Street Journal columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady notes that while many are joking that Venezuela is the "largest Cuban province," that the truth of the matter is that Venezuela may "be in the process of appropriating Cuba."
Considering that Venezuela sits on huge oil reserves and provides America with about 15 percent of our annual consumption, it is disturbing indeed to learn that a nascent democracy is coming unraveled in South America. Having another communist dictatorship in the hemisphere would be bad news indeed. Making the news worse in this case is Chavez's often stated delusions of glory. As with many tin-pot dictators, he sees himself amalgamating vast territories and controlling huge wealth. According to O'Grady Chavez "envisions an axis of power linking Brasilla, Montevideo, and Buenos Aires." He speaks of controlling a sweep of territory ranging from Atlantic to Pacific.
His first target has to be Colombia. He is dedicated to "breaking the spine of democracy" in the Latin region. That means the death of Colombia. While some consider it speculative or highly premature to comment on these activities, it seems reasonable to ask pertinent questions: why would Chavez purchase more than 100,000 Russian-block weapons for his army that is armed with a European-based weapons system? Could it be that his ties with the narcoterrorists in Colombia are firmer than many are willing to admit? It makes perfect sense from Chavez's standpoint to undermine the Colombian democratic government by offering unlimited military assistance and territorial sanctuary to the FARC, Colombia's narcotics based, Marxist revolutionary movement that is waging open guerrilla warfare against the legitimate government. O'Grady reports that a defecting Venezuelan army officer was under orders not to interfere with FARC encampments and base areas inside the Venezuelan border when he was posted in that area not long ago. If Colombia falls to the guerrillas and narcoterrorists, it could generate a Red tide that would sweep less stable governments away.
Chavez is also expecting delivery of a squadron of MiG-29 aircraft. These high performance fighter aircraft are top line fighters, far superior to most aircraft in the region. Appearance of Soviet-type war planes in South America seems like déjà vu all over again. In the early 1980s America worked hard to unseat the Marxist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua and even launched an invasion of the island nation of Grenada when military airfield construction began. The U.S. took on a mission to rid the hemisphere of a serious military threat then. We many have to do so again. Pentagon planners are undoubtedly formulating contingency plans to deal with Chavez's new weapons systems. Meanwhile, sending a decidedly confusing signal, President Bush continues to speak favorably of Russia's Vladimir Putin. Considering that Putin is supporting our enemies in the Middle East – Syria and Iran, and now selling sophisticated fighter aircraft to a budding dictator and anti-American thug in our hemisphere, it is past time for the president to toughen his inexplicably soft stance with Russia.
Making a difficult situation even more troubling is the under-the-radar visit by North Koreans. When we consider plausible reasons for a North Korean visit to a territorially ambitious Hugo Chavez, none portend good news. They are certainly not in Caracas to sell some of the low quality, slave labor manufactured junk they produce in their euphemistically named "New Economic Zones." For the past decade North Korea's main export has been missiles. North Korea has been an equal opportunity proliferator. It sold missiles to Iraq under Saddam, to Iran, Syria, Libya, and possibly Pakistan. Just prior to the War in Iraq American ships intercepted a North Korean freighter bound for Yemen with a load of missiles. America insisted that the missiles remain in Yemen. It is probable that the missiles were intended to be transshipped to Syria by road. This batch was intercepted but more leak through untouched.
The North Koreans can offer Chavez a variety on their menu of death: SCUDs are typically at the bottom of the rung, a kind of "start up package" for international thugs. Short range, about 300 km, rather inaccurate, capable of being more of a terror weapon than a precise military missile, the SCUD was been bothersome in Gulf War I. But North Korea has made significant improvements on the basic SCUD-C, known in its inventory as Hwasong-6. Now with a boosted range of approximately 700 km, carrying a 700 kg payload and engineered with improved accuracy, a Hwasong launched from Venezuela could attack Bogota easily and hit targets in the Panama Canal region. However, this is hardly the limit of North Korean technology. They can also provide Chavez with the Nodong and the Taepodong class missiles. When these systems are present the price of intimidation rises dramatically in the region.
For example, the basic Nodong class missile is capable of reaching approximately 1,500 km. It threatens targets as far away as Mexico and possibly the coastal southern United States. With a payload lighter than the 800 kg for which it is rated it might stretch range a bit longer. On the other hand, a Taepodong I, the basic intermediate range missile that North Korea has tested by firing it over the Japanese islands, can hit targets as far away as Atlanta. Perhaps more germane to Chavez's megalomaniac concept of himself as head of an imperial South America is the fact that such weapons would be extremely intimidating to his neighbors who have neither the finances nor the capabilities to counter his threats. The specter of an oil-rich, highly-armed, anti-American dictator who makes his own law could be extremely appealing to regional revolutionary groups and criminal enterprises that might see him as providing a protective umbrella. Chavez might be a magnet to pull all anti-democratic forces together in his region.
To date these threats have not materialized and it is unwise to panic over them. That said, it would be equally unwise to delay contingency planning until missiles and high performance aircraft begin unloading on the docks of Caracas or worse, bullying Venezuela's neighbors.
Kim Jong Il, a Chavez role model
Johan Freitas, in Caracas
Venezuela, already an ally of Cuba and Iraq, is now making overtures to also align itself with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
Monday, in Caracas, a spokesman for the Hugo Chavez government sent a signal of support to North Korea's capital Pyongyang, and re-affirmed the ideological similarities of the two regimes.
Education minister Hector Navarro, while attempting to open the country's leading university, Universidad Central de Venezuela, declared that he and the Bolivarian government stood firm in their principles, and that those principles would not change. He then extended a salute of "solidarity" to "friendly nations", naming, specifically, Algeria, Cuba, Iran, and North Korea.
Students and teachers of the university have joined in refusing to follow Hugo Chavez down the Cuban path to ruin, and are striking to force the government to hold early elections.
The naming of Cuba comes as no surprise. Chavez is the Cuban leader's life support. Iran and Algeria can also be explained: Last week, Algeria sent oil workers in an attempt to restart Venezuela's oil industry, and Sunday a government delegation from Iran arrived in Caracas, also to help break up the strike, now in its sixth week.
But why single out North Korea? For that, we must look at the background of Hector Navarro and other members of the Chavez inner circle. Before taking power, Navarro hailed North Korea as a model to follow, and in a do ent co-authored with former Chavez industry and commerce minister Jesús Montilla and former Chavez central planning minister Jorge Giordini, he wrote:
"Socialism survives [...] in North Korea which, although isolated and alone, has achieved a strong economy."1
While this opinion may be shared by other graying leftists who have hitched their star to Hugo Chavez's Marxist experiment -- having previously bet the farm on socialist dreamlands like Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba, Nicaragua, Cambodia and El Salvador -- more clear-headed analysts plainly disagree.
North Korea is one of the world's most centrally planned and isolated economies, and faces desperate economic conditions. Far from having "achieved a strong economy", industrial capital stock is nearly beyond repair as a result of years of underinvestment and spare parts shortages. Industrial and power output have declined in parallel. In North Korea, large groups of the population survive by eating grass and bark off the trees.
This, however, does not affect Navarro, nor his boss Hugo Chavez, who in a recorded message took to the airwaves late Sunday and again Monday at noon, repeatedly reminding Venezuelans that "We have burned our boats. There is no turning back. We will carry on consolidating and deepening this Revolution,"2 and promising the country's 24 million citizens to take their country a few hundred decades back in time: "If we have to cook with firewood for 2 years, we will. Or for 20 years, if we have to."3
The belief that a pure revolution can only be born once all remnants of the previous society has been destroyed is a popular theory among followers of Pol Pot's illfated Cambodia and of Mao's Cultural Revolution. And, according to Chavez-watcher Richard Gott, several of the president's closest advisers were once associated with a Chinese-oriented split from the Venezuelan Communist Party, and Chavez himself has declared that "I have always been a maoist".4
In Caracas today, with a government spokesman who is holding up North Korea as a model to follow, it is no wonder that millions of ordinary Venezuelans have taken to the streets demanding free and democratic elections.
A nuclear weapons power, the one-man dictatorship of North Korea is clearly a danger to Asia. In South America, another strongman, Hugo Chavez, is also bent on going nuclear. This was one of the plans discussed in late December 2002 with Marco Aurelio Garcia, a known terrorism sponsor who visited Chavez personally in Caracas. But if Garcia can not bring the bomb, maybe Pyongyang can.
" - It is too early to determine with certainty what the nuclear weapons plans of Hugo Chavez are", says Brigadier General Nestor Gonzalez Gonzalez, a former Chavez-loyalist who broke with the president when his totalitarian ambitions became clear, and who is today one of the leaders in Venezuela's military resistance movement, Militares Democraticos.
" - But Monday's re-affirmation of support for North Korea is a troubling sign," warns Gonzalez. "I personally know Chavez very well, and he is capable of anything."
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/ar...6venezuela.htm
10/6/03
Terror Close to Home
In oil-rich Venezuela, a volatile leader befriends bad actors from the Mideast, Colombia, and Cuba
By Linda Robinson
The oil-rich but politically unstable nation of Venezuela is emerging as a potential hub of terrorism in the Western Hemisphere, providing assistance to Islamic radicals from the Middle East and other terrorists, say senior U.S. military and intelligence officials. Bush administration aides see this as an unpredictably dangerous mix and are gathering more information about the intentions of a country that sits 1,000 miles south of Florida.
One thing that's clear is that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is fast becoming America's newest nemesis, U.S. officials say. He has forged close ties with Cuba's Fidel Castro and has befriended some of America's other notorious enemies, traveling to Saddam's Iraq and Qadhafi's Libya. Now, after surviving an attempted coup and a nationwide pe ion demanding his recall, Chavez is flirting with terrorism, and Washington is watching with increasing alarm.
"We are not disinterested spectators," says Roger Noriega, the new assistant secretary of state for Latin America. "Any actions that undermine democratic order or threaten the security and well-being of the region are of legitimate concern to all of Venezuela's neighbors." U.S. officials are monitoring three sets of developments:
Middle Eastern terrorist groups are operating support cells in Venezuela and other locations in the Andean region. A two-month review by U.S. News, including interviews with dozens of U.S. and Latin American sources, confirms the terrorist activity. In particular, the magazine has learned that thousands of Venezuelan iden y do ents are being distributed to foreigners from Middle Eastern nations, including Syria, Pakistan, Egypt, and Lebanon.
Venezuela is supporting armed opposition groups from neighboring Colombia; these groups are on the official U.S. list of terrorist organizations and are also tied to drug trafficking. Maps obtained by U.S. News, as well as eyewitness accounts, pinpoint the location of training camps used by Colombian rebels, a top rebel leader, and Venezuelan armed groups.
Cubans are working inside Venezuela's paramilitary and intelligence apparatus. The coordination between Cuba and Venezuela is the latest sign that Venezuelan President Chavez is modeling his government on Castro's Cuba.
The Venezuelan government denies supporting Middle Eastern terrorist groups and says that no Cubans are operating inside its intelligence agencies. Venezuela has long denied providing aid to the Colombian guerrilla groups.
Venezuela is providing support--including iden y do ents--that could prove useful to radical Islamic groups, say U.S. officials. U.S. News has learned that Chavez's government has issued thousands of cedulas, the equivalent of Social Security cards, to people from places such as Cuba, Colombia, and Middle Eastern nations that play host to foreign terrorist organizations. An American official with firsthand knowledge of the ID scheme has seen computer spreadsheets with names of people organized by nationality. "The list easily totaled several thousand," the official says. "Colombians were the largest group; there were more than a thousand of them. It also included many from Middle Eastern `countries of interest' like Syria, Egypt, Pakistan, Lebanon." The official adds: "It was shocking to see how extensive the list was." U.S. officials believe that the Venezuelan government is issuing the do ents to people who should not be getting them and that some of these cedulas were subsequently used to obtain Venezuelan passports and even American visas, which could allow the holder to elude immigration checks and enter the United States. U.S. officials say that the cedulas are also being used by Colombian subversives and by some Venezuelan officials to travel surrep iously.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/ar...enezuela_2.htm
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/ar...enezuela_3.htm
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/ar...enezuela_4.htm
By the way....
It should be noted that one of this guys cloest compadres in South America is Argentina's President...
Someone let me know the first time they see an Argentine that doesn't hate America...I haven't seen one on this site yet.
And I know...because I started out liking Argentina until I realized they were mostly anti-American heads.
Don't Count on Argentina to Help Fight Terror
Posted by Daniel Q. Kelley, 7/14/05 at 2:00:49 PM.
(from the Wall Street Journal)
By MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY
July 8, 2005; Page A11
Is Argentina becoming a "national sanctuary for foreign terrorists?" That's the question posed on the Argentine Web site Ambitoweb.com this week. As suggested by the provocative commentary, it's a possibility that alarms more than a few Argentines these days.
It is also a question worth the attention of U.S. policy makers. More and more, Argentina is looking like the pre-9/11 Saudi Arabia of South America. While official engagements between the U.S. and Argentina are cordial, what is being cultivated on the Southern Cone home turf hardly qualifies Argentina as an ally in the war on terror. Having been served the fruits of Saudi double talk four years ago, the U.S. would be well advised to be twice shy.
The concern raised on Ambitoweb.com came on the heels of a decision by an Argentine judge to reject Chile's request to extradite Sergio Galvarino Apablaza. Otherwise known by the nom de guerre Commandante Salvador, the Chilean is a former leader of a left-wing extremist group called the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front. He stands accused of the assassination of Chilean Senator Jaime Guzman in 1991 and the kidnapping of Cristian Edwards, the son of the owner of Chile's El Mercurio newspaper.
They did it in WWII....old habits are hard to break.
Enough said.
So, whott, you back mullah Robertson's fatwa to murder Chavez because of VZ's connections with NK?
Why didn't the Repugs start a war with NK or Iran, which are real, serious, and increasing threats to USA and are supporters of terrrorism?
The US is imperialistic. You(and various red bashers) talk about Chavez ruining Venezuala's economy, but show me the figures on how rich and wonderful they were before Chavez. I'll bet you(prove me wrong) that there were the rich elites and the very poor. Now that the resources are nationalized, the people may be better off. Just my opinion, and guess. I'm sure whott will just call me anti-american, because he is somehow the authority, and prove nothing.
Anyone who said Robertson's opinion means nothing and criticized Dan's thread is stupid. The man has more TV coverage than Oprah, yet he has no influence, don't kid yourself.
Chavez is a ing idiot. He will run Venezuela down to the ground. It will take 20 yrs at a minimum to dig Venezuela out of the ditch this idiot will dig the country into.
Buy Citgo, Dan? Why? To help that idiot?
that.
You got that right!
The less attention you give people like this the better.
The problem is the guy does attract a lot of media attention, both in the US and worldwide.
And you know, because whottt has told us so so many times, people outside the US are very stupid, and they will blame all the 300MM inhabitants of this country for what one guy says (i.e. they will hate on the US for this).
The problem is this guys power comes from the attention he gets for saying stupid stuff. When people make a deal of what he said, more nut jobs rally to his side. If he has no voice he will have no draw.
[QUOTE=whottt]Kim Jong Il, a Chavez role model
North Korea is one of the world's most centrally planned and isolated economies, and faces desperate economic conditions. Far from having "achieved a strong economy", industrial capital stock is nearly beyond repair as a result of years of underinvestment and spare parts shortages. Industrial and power output have declined in parallel. In North Korea, large groups of the population survive by eating grass and bark off the trees.
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It's worse than that. Last week I saw a really sickening do entary about the terrible conditions in North Korea. People are resorting to eating far worse things eating grass.
This is from the Daily Telegraph, but Google turned up over 59,000 articles on this subject :
Famine-struck N Koreans 'eating children'
By Mark Nicol
(Filed: 08/06/2003)
Cannibalism is increasing in North Korea following another poor harvest and a big cut in international food aid, according to refugees who have fled the stricken country.
Aid agencies are alarmed by refugees' reports that children have been killed and corpses cut up by people desperate for food. Requests by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to be allowed access to "farmers' markets", where human meat is said to be traded, have been turned down by Pyongyang, citing "security reasons".
Anyone caught selling human meat faces execution, but in a report compiled by the North Korean Refugees Assistance Fund (NKRAF), one refugee said: "Pieces of 'special' meat are displayed on straw mats for sale. People know where they came from, but they don't talk about it."
The NKRAF, an aid body set up in China five years ago which helps to smuggle food and medicines into parts of North Korea off-limits to WFP officials, interviewed 200 refugees for the report.
"If a funeral takes place during the day and the burial is performed that evening, the grave may be dug open and the body stolen before morning," said one refugee.
Another witness, named only as Lee, 54, said he feared that his missing grandsons, aged eight and 11, had been killed for food. As he searched widely for them, they boys' friends said they had vanished near a market.
Mr Lee said police who raided a nearby restaurant found body parts. The business's owners were shot.
Gerald Bourke, the WFP's representative in Beijing, said it was difficult for his organisation to substantiate the reports of cannibalism as they were unable to get to the markets. "As in any desperately poor country, it is something we might stumble on," he said. "It's not just a problem for us, but also our donors." Because of the food shortages, many people were having to survive on nine ounces of rations a day - less than half the recommended minimum daily intake.
North Korea's ability to feed itself has been hit by floods, deforestation and lack of farm fertilisers and equipment.
The WFP says Japan provided 500,000 tons of food aid in 2001, making it the biggest donor, but sent nothing last year. Food aid from America has been cut from 340,000 tons in 2001 to 40,000 tons so far this year. Washington has pledged to send a further 60,000 tons if Pyongyang lifts restrictions on the operations of agencies such as the WFP.
This is pure and absolute nonsense. Chavez may have illusions of power, but he can't even send a boy scout outside Venezuela.Considering that Venezuela sits on huge oil reserves and provides America with about 15 percent of our annual consumption, it is disturbing indeed to learn that a nascent democracy is coming unraveled in South America. Having another communist dictatorship in the hemisphere would be bad news indeed. Making the news worse in this case is Chavez's often stated delusions of glory. As with many tin-pot dictators, he sees himself amalgamating vast territories and controlling huge wealth. According to O'Grady Chavez "envisions an axis of power linking Brasilla, Montevideo, and Buenos Aires." He speaks of controlling a sweep of territory ranging from Atlantic to Pacific.
His first target has to be Colombia. He is dedicated to "breaking the spine of democracy" in the Latin region. That means the death of Colombia. While some consider it speculative or highly premature to comment on these activities, it seems reasonable to ask pertinent questions: why would Chavez purchase more than 100,000 Russian-block weapons for his army that is armed with a European-based weapons system? Could it be that his ties with the narcoterrorists in Colombia are firmer than many are willing to admit? It makes perfect sense from Chavez's standpoint to undermine the Colombian democratic government by offering unlimited military assistance and territorial sanctuary to the FARC, Colombia's narcotics based, Marxist revolutionary movement that is waging open guerrilla warfare against the legitimate government. O'Grady reports that a defecting Venezuelan army officer was under orders not to interfere with FARC encampments and base areas inside the Venezuelan border when he was posted in that area not long ago. If Colombia falls to the guerrillas and narcoterrorists, it could generate a Red tide that would sweep less stable governments away.
Chavez is also expecting delivery of a squadron of MiG-29 aircraft. These high performance fighter aircraft are top line fighters, far superior to most aircraft in the region. Appearance of Soviet-type war planes in South America seems like déjà vu all over again. In the early 1980s America worked hard to unseat the Marxist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua and even launched an invasion of the island nation of Grenada when military airfield construction began. The U.S. took on a mission to rid the hemisphere of a serious military threat then. We many have to do so again. Pentagon planners are undoubtedly formulating contingency plans to deal with Chavez's new weapons systems. Meanwhile, sending a decidedly confusing signal, President Bush continues to speak favorably of Russia's Vladimir Putin. Considering that Putin is supporting our enemies in the Middle East – Syria and Iran, and now selling sophisticated fighter aircraft to a budding dictator and anti-American thug in our hemisphere, it is past time for the president to toughen his inexplicably soft stance with Russia.
First, his internal situation doesn't allow him to move troops. He has 60% of support, but the other 40% is a very strong alliance between religious organizations, business federations, the upper-class, even a part of the military, and other sectors. Since he doesn't have the full support of the military, any troops movement will end in a coup.
Second, we like it or not, Chavez was elected. He has a military background (he lead a coup in 1992), but he was democratically elected in 1998. Not only that, he was forced to call for a referendum, which he won with 59% of the votes. Some people might like it, others don't, but his supporters have the right to be annoyed by these comments, just like Republicans were annoyed by the support Kerry received outside the US (mind you, no one asked for Bush to be murdered).
Third, Chavez can dream all he wants about Brasilia, Buenos Aires and Montevideo (WTF? Uruguay? He should look to Chile or Peru first if he has such expansionist fantasies), but that is all, a dream. He certainly can't defeat Brazil, nor make the Brazilian goverment his puppet, and the chance of moving to any other country is blocked by this fact. This paragraph is the biggest nonsense, I'm pretty sure Chavez is an asshole, but not even on Peyote he would talk about an axis containing Buenos Aires and Brasilia, that's overrating his power, ambition and abilities.
If he was ever to break "the spine of democracy", he certainly wouldn't start in Colombia, a country which is divided between the democratic goverment, paramilitary forces and the FARC. If Colombia ever falls to the narcoterrorists (which is highly unlikely, the paramilitary group is better armed and has more conections in the goverment), it wouldn't unleash a so called "Red Tide". Perú, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil certainly wouldn't fall into that tide, while currently the situation in Bolivia and Ecuador is more delicated, I doubt that they will join an Axis formed by Chavez.
Robertson is a terrorist
can you imagine if some Islamic leader called for the assasination of Leader W. Bush? there would be no question he's a terrorist
i mentioned the 700 club and CBN in my posts a while ago
i watch that , it comes on at like 10pm where i live on abc family, he says some crazy , crazy! and people send this chode money...bogus
Pat Robertson, said he was misinterpreted..."I said our special forces could take him out... Take him out could be a number of things including kidnapping," Robertson said on his "The 700 Club" television program... "There are a number of ways of taking out a dictator from power besides killing him...DUH...
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