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 May 23 2005, 04:09 AM
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Venezuela to Seek Nuclear Power Assist from Iran
May 22 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuela President Hugo Chavez said he plans to seek Iran's help to develop a nuclear energy program. ``It's one of the ways to diversify energy sources,'' Chavez said in a televised speech in Caracas. ``But not to make bombs.'' Chavez did not elaborate on plans for the nuclear program or what help Iran might provide. Chavez in March said Iran can count on his support in its confrontation with U.S. over its nuclear program. The U.S. has accused Iran of disguising its nuclear activities, including uranium enrichment, as a cover for building a nuclear bomb. ``I'm sure Iran is not making an atomic bomb,'' Chavez said. ``They're doing research to advance science.'' -------------------- Abramoff's campaign manager was a radical right-winger named Grover Norquist, and the two of them recruited a zealous younger activist to carry out their orders, Ralph Reed. Reed required College Republicans to recite a speech from the movie "Patton," replacing the word "Nazis" with "Democrats": "The Democrats are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood! Shoot them in the belly!"
.....Norquist was the first to point out the political potential of evangelical churches to Reed, imagining that they could be turned into Republican clubhouses. During the week of George H.W. Bush's inauguration, Reed encountered Pat Robertson, the right-wing televangelist, who recruited him on the spot to run the Christian Coalition. "I want to be invisible," Reed explained. "I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night." ~Sidney Blumenthal That’s probably the most pressing race problem in the United States today -- a de facto affirmative-action program for mediocre middle- and upper-class white men that places a lot of undeserving people in positions of power, where their delusions of grandeur can have profound implications for others.~ROBERT JENSEN We may stand witness to a definitive American moment of democracy. The son of a New York doorman probably has in his hands, in many ways, the fate of the republic. Because far too many of us know and are aware of the crimes committed by our government in our name, we are unlikely to settle for a handful of minor indictments of bureaucrats. The last thing most of us believe in is the rule of law. We do not trust our government or the people we have elected but our constitution is still very much alive and we choose to believe that destiny has placed Patrick Fitzgerald at this time and this place in our history to save us from the people we elected. If the law cannot get to the truth of what has happened to the American people under the Bush administration, then we all may begin to hear the early death rattles of history’s greatest democracy.~James Moore "Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot," Broussard said. "Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot."~Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish near New Orleans "You can tell the pioneers by the arrows in them...."~Aaron Brown "What's called for now I believe, is a sort of Thomas Paine Revolutionary movement converged with the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties movements. It's certainly possible, and it is desperately needed..."~SH "My country right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober." ~ G. K. Chesterton "It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well."~Maureen Dowd " ...if by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties.. if that is what they mean by a "liberal" then I am proud to be a liberal. " ~John F. Kennedyc “Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”~R. Buckminster Fuller1895-1983"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite." -- Thomas Jefferson "TurdBlossom": The affectionate nickname given by the POTUS to the most powerful political hack in the world today-KARL ROVE. |
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May 23 2005, 04:12 AM
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Opec Needs to Consider OutPut Cut
Published: Monday, 23 May, 2005, 12:11 PM Doha Time By Peter Wilson Caracas: Opec, which pumps about 40% of the world’s oil, needs to consider cutting output at its meeting next month to guard against a “collapse’’ in prices, Venezuela’s oil minister said. Venezuelan Energy and Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez said at a press conference on Saturday that prices are in “descent,’’ and Opec members shouldn’t add any more barrels to the market at this time. “At the meeting in June, we have to evaluate a possible cut in output,’’ Ramirez said. “We have to be careful’’ to “avoid a collapse in prices,’’ he said. The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries next meets on June 15 in Vienna. Venezuela is the group’s third-largest producer. Venezuela, the world’s fifth-largest oil exporter, is trying to avert a decline in prices as the government boosts spending on social programmes. Ramirez’s remarks followed charges by former managers of Petroleos de Venezuela that output is now 2.58mn bpd, or about 600,000 barrels less than the government’s estimate of 3.3mn bpd. Crude-oil futures in New York fell below $48 a barrel, a three-month low, after an Energy Department report showed that US oil inventories rose more than expected last week. “We have to protect oil prices,’’ Ramirez said, who said they are being pressured downward by growing inventories and speculators. Venezuela boosted government spending by 38% in February as surging revenue from higher oil prices paid for bigger outlays for social programs. Spending last year jumped 61% from 2003. – Bloomberg -------------------- Abramoff's campaign manager was a radical right-winger named Grover Norquist, and the two of them recruited a zealous younger activist to carry out their orders, Ralph Reed. Reed required College Republicans to recite a speech from the movie "Patton," replacing the word "Nazis" with "Democrats": "The Democrats are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood! Shoot them in the belly!"
.....Norquist was the first to point out the political potential of evangelical churches to Reed, imagining that they could be turned into Republican clubhouses. During the week of George H.W. Bush's inauguration, Reed encountered Pat Robertson, the right-wing televangelist, who recruited him on the spot to run the Christian Coalition. "I want to be invisible," Reed explained. "I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night." ~Sidney Blumenthal That’s probably the most pressing race problem in the United States today -- a de facto affirmative-action program for mediocre middle- and upper-class white men that places a lot of undeserving people in positions of power, where their delusions of grandeur can have profound implications for others.~ROBERT JENSEN We may stand witness to a definitive American moment of democracy. The son of a New York doorman probably has in his hands, in many ways, the fate of the republic. Because far too many of us know and are aware of the crimes committed by our government in our name, we are unlikely to settle for a handful of minor indictments of bureaucrats. The last thing most of us believe in is the rule of law. We do not trust our government or the people we have elected but our constitution is still very much alive and we choose to believe that destiny has placed Patrick Fitzgerald at this time and this place in our history to save us from the people we elected. If the law cannot get to the truth of what has happened to the American people under the Bush administration, then we all may begin to hear the early death rattles of history’s greatest democracy.~James Moore "Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot," Broussard said. "Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot."~Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish near New Orleans "You can tell the pioneers by the arrows in them...."~Aaron Brown "What's called for now I believe, is a sort of Thomas Paine Revolutionary movement converged with the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties movements. It's certainly possible, and it is desperately needed..."~SH "My country right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober." ~ G. K. Chesterton "It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well."~Maureen Dowd " ...if by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties.. if that is what they mean by a "liberal" then I am proud to be a liberal. " ~John F. Kennedyc “Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”~R. Buckminster Fuller1895-1983"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite." -- Thomas Jefferson "TurdBlossom": The affectionate nickname given by the POTUS to the most powerful political hack in the world today-KARL ROVE. |
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May 23 2005, 04:16 AM
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Chavez "to review" US Ties...
23.5.2005. 14:38:52 RELATED STORIES - Struggle over terror suspect - US arrests exiled Cuban Venezuela will review its ties with Washington if anti-Castro activist Luis Posada Carriles — wanted by Cuba and Venezuela on terrorism charges — is not extradited, President Hugo Chavez says. -------------------- Abramoff's campaign manager was a radical right-winger named Grover Norquist, and the two of them recruited a zealous younger activist to carry out their orders, Ralph Reed. Reed required College Republicans to recite a speech from the movie "Patton," replacing the word "Nazis" with "Democrats": "The Democrats are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood! Shoot them in the belly!"
.....Norquist was the first to point out the political potential of evangelical churches to Reed, imagining that they could be turned into Republican clubhouses. During the week of George H.W. Bush's inauguration, Reed encountered Pat Robertson, the right-wing televangelist, who recruited him on the spot to run the Christian Coalition. "I want to be invisible," Reed explained. "I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night." ~Sidney Blumenthal That’s probably the most pressing race problem in the United States today -- a de facto affirmative-action program for mediocre middle- and upper-class white men that places a lot of undeserving people in positions of power, where their delusions of grandeur can have profound implications for others.~ROBERT JENSEN We may stand witness to a definitive American moment of democracy. The son of a New York doorman probably has in his hands, in many ways, the fate of the republic. Because far too many of us know and are aware of the crimes committed by our government in our name, we are unlikely to settle for a handful of minor indictments of bureaucrats. The last thing most of us believe in is the rule of law. We do not trust our government or the people we have elected but our constitution is still very much alive and we choose to believe that destiny has placed Patrick Fitzgerald at this time and this place in our history to save us from the people we elected. If the law cannot get to the truth of what has happened to the American people under the Bush administration, then we all may begin to hear the early death rattles of history’s greatest democracy.~James Moore "Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot," Broussard said. "Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot."~Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish near New Orleans "You can tell the pioneers by the arrows in them...."~Aaron Brown "What's called for now I believe, is a sort of Thomas Paine Revolutionary movement converged with the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties movements. It's certainly possible, and it is desperately needed..."~SH "My country right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober." ~ G. K. Chesterton "It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well."~Maureen Dowd " ...if by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties.. if that is what they mean by a "liberal" then I am proud to be a liberal. " ~John F. Kennedyc “Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”~R. Buckminster Fuller1895-1983"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite." -- Thomas Jefferson "TurdBlossom": The affectionate nickname given by the POTUS to the most powerful political hack in the world today-KARL ROVE. |
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May 23 2005, 12:11 PM
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Venezuela Threatens to Sever Ties with US
http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=D99FAD:2F72C9D President Hugo Chavez asks US to extradite Cuban dissident Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela to face terrorism charges Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is threatening to sever ties with the United States over a Cuban dissident wanted in Venezuela on terrorism charges. The Venezuelan leader's comments could further escalate tensions between the nations. In a national address, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened to severe diplomatic ties with the United States if it does not extradite Cuban dissident Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela to face terrorism charges. Mr. Posada was arrested last week in Miami for entering the country illegally, a violation of the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act. President Chavez accused the United States of harboring Mr. Posada, who he called an "assassin and terrorist." Mr. Posada is wanted in Venezuela for masterminding the bombing of a Cuban jetliner over Venezuela in 1976, killing 73 people. The Venezuelan leader says United States has 60 days to turn over Mr. Posada. Mr. Chavez said, if they don't turn him (Posada) over by the deadline stipulated, we are going to fully revise our diplomatic relationship with the United States. Both Venezuela and Cuba are demanding his extradition to Venezuela. Mr. Posada has also been accused of participating in an assassination attempt on Cuban President Fidel Castro in Panama in 2000 and a series of bombings in Cuba in 1997. He has repeatedly denied his involvement in the 1976 airline bombing. Mr. Posada did admit to participating in the 1997 Havana bombing, only to deny the accusation a year later. According to news reports Mr. Posada was a paid CIA informant and anti-Castro operative in the 1960s and 1970s. The Bush administration has expressed concerns that the leftist Mr. Chavez is pushing Venezuela toward becoming a Cuba-style state. In turn, the Venezuela president says the United States is meddling in Venezuelan affairs and plotting his demise. Mr. Chavez also recently moved to further meld the economies of Venezuela and Cuba. Last month, Mr. Chavez met with Mr. Castro in Havana in hopes of wooing other Latin American nations into an alternative trade pact not led by the United States. |
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May 23 2005, 12:24 PM
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...uban_militant_2
Venezuela's Chavez to Reconsider US Ties |
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May 23 2005, 10:09 PM
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Chavez says Venezuela interested in nuclear energy:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday his government was interested in nuclear energy and could start talks with Iranian partners to study possible atomic and solar power projects. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?t...storyID=8567072 http://snipurl.com/f2nw |
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May 24 2005, 02:35 AM
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/n..._venezuela_dc_1
Brazil wary on nuclear cooperation with Venezuela |
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May 24 2005, 09:37 PM
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Venezuelans see some 'Don Quixote' in their populist leader
Everyone recently interviewed in Caracas's historic Plaza Bolivar was ready to discuss the man of La Mancha. By Danna Harman http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0525/p01s03-woam.html?s=hns |
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May 24 2005, 10:15 PM
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May 25 2005, 01:01 PM
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VENEZUELA: Admitted Cuban Terrorist Poses Tough Test for U.S.
By Humberto Márquez CARACAS - Cuban-born Luis Posada Carriles, an admitted terrorist who was taken into custody in Miami and whose extradition has been formally requested by Venezuela, may be sent by the United States to a third country, like Barbados or Trinidad and Tobago. http://ipsnews.net/new_notan.asp?idnews=28736 |
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May 25 2005, 02:22 PM
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Venezuela to buy more argentin bonds
MAY. 24 8:09 P.M. ET Venezuela plans to buy an additional US$400 million (euro317 million) in Argentine public debt this year, the country's finance minister said. "This year we will purchase the remaining US$400 million (in bonds) if market conditions allow it," Finance Minister Nelson Merentes told foreign reporters on Tuesday. -------------------- Abramoff's campaign manager was a radical right-winger named Grover Norquist, and the two of them recruited a zealous younger activist to carry out their orders, Ralph Reed. Reed required College Republicans to recite a speech from the movie "Patton," replacing the word "Nazis" with "Democrats": "The Democrats are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood! Shoot them in the belly!"
.....Norquist was the first to point out the political potential of evangelical churches to Reed, imagining that they could be turned into Republican clubhouses. During the week of George H.W. Bush's inauguration, Reed encountered Pat Robertson, the right-wing televangelist, who recruited him on the spot to run the Christian Coalition. "I want to be invisible," Reed explained. "I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night." ~Sidney Blumenthal That’s probably the most pressing race problem in the United States today -- a de facto affirmative-action program for mediocre middle- and upper-class white men that places a lot of undeserving people in positions of power, where their delusions of grandeur can have profound implications for others.~ROBERT JENSEN We may stand witness to a definitive American moment of democracy. The son of a New York doorman probably has in his hands, in many ways, the fate of the republic. Because far too many of us know and are aware of the crimes committed by our government in our name, we are unlikely to settle for a handful of minor indictments of bureaucrats. The last thing most of us believe in is the rule of law. We do not trust our government or the people we have elected but our constitution is still very much alive and we choose to believe that destiny has placed Patrick Fitzgerald at this time and this place in our history to save us from the people we elected. If the law cannot get to the truth of what has happened to the American people under the Bush administration, then we all may begin to hear the early death rattles of history’s greatest democracy.~James Moore "Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot," Broussard said. "Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot."~Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish near New Orleans "You can tell the pioneers by the arrows in them...."~Aaron Brown "What's called for now I believe, is a sort of Thomas Paine Revolutionary movement converged with the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties movements. It's certainly possible, and it is desperately needed..."~SH "My country right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober." ~ G. K. Chesterton "It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well."~Maureen Dowd " ...if by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties.. if that is what they mean by a "liberal" then I am proud to be a liberal. " ~John F. Kennedyc “Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”~R. Buckminster Fuller1895-1983"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite." -- Thomas Jefferson "TurdBlossom": The affectionate nickname given by the POTUS to the most powerful political hack in the world today-KARL ROVE. |
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May 25 2005, 02:24 PM
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Venezuela 1st Qtr GDP Grows 7.9%-Jump in Spending
May 24 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuela's economy grew for a sixth straight quarter in the January-March period as manufacturers such as automakers Toyota Corp. and General Motors Corp. benefited from a surge in consumer demand. Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of a country's production of goods and services, expanded 7.9 percent in the first quarter from the year-earlier period after growing a revised 12.1 percent in thefourth quarter, a central bank report showed. -------------------- Abramoff's campaign manager was a radical right-winger named Grover Norquist, and the two of them recruited a zealous younger activist to carry out their orders, Ralph Reed. Reed required College Republicans to recite a speech from the movie "Patton," replacing the word "Nazis" with "Democrats": "The Democrats are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood! Shoot them in the belly!"
.....Norquist was the first to point out the political potential of evangelical churches to Reed, imagining that they could be turned into Republican clubhouses. During the week of George H.W. Bush's inauguration, Reed encountered Pat Robertson, the right-wing televangelist, who recruited him on the spot to run the Christian Coalition. "I want to be invisible," Reed explained. "I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night." ~Sidney Blumenthal That’s probably the most pressing race problem in the United States today -- a de facto affirmative-action program for mediocre middle- and upper-class white men that places a lot of undeserving people in positions of power, where their delusions of grandeur can have profound implications for others.~ROBERT JENSEN We may stand witness to a definitive American moment of democracy. The son of a New York doorman probably has in his hands, in many ways, the fate of the republic. Because far too many of us know and are aware of the crimes committed by our government in our name, we are unlikely to settle for a handful of minor indictments of bureaucrats. The last thing most of us believe in is the rule of law. We do not trust our government or the people we have elected but our constitution is still very much alive and we choose to believe that destiny has placed Patrick Fitzgerald at this time and this place in our history to save us from the people we elected. If the law cannot get to the truth of what has happened to the American people under the Bush administration, then we all may begin to hear the early death rattles of history’s greatest democracy.~James Moore "Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot," Broussard said. "Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot."~Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish near New Orleans "You can tell the pioneers by the arrows in them...."~Aaron Brown "What's called for now I believe, is a sort of Thomas Paine Revolutionary movement converged with the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties movements. It's certainly possible, and it is desperately needed..."~SH "My country right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober." ~ G. K. Chesterton "It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well."~Maureen Dowd " ...if by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties.. if that is what they mean by a "liberal" then I am proud to be a liberal. " ~John F. Kennedyc “Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”~R. Buckminster Fuller1895-1983"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite." -- Thomas Jefferson "TurdBlossom": The affectionate nickname given by the POTUS to the most powerful political hack in the world today-KARL ROVE. |
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May 25 2005, 11:13 PM
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vENEZUELA: CITGO MAY TRY TO RECOVER TAXEShttp://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8AADKPO0.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down
MAY. 25 4:04 P.M. ET Venezuela's Citgo Petroleum Corp. could seek to recover excess taxes paid in recent years to tax authorities in the United States, Venezuela's oil minister said Wednesday. During a speech to lawmakers, Rafael Ramirez said Venezuela's oil ministry is currently conducting a study of petroleum sales to the United States since 1999. -------------------- Abramoff's campaign manager was a radical right-winger named Grover Norquist, and the two of them recruited a zealous younger activist to carry out their orders, Ralph Reed. Reed required College Republicans to recite a speech from the movie "Patton," replacing the word "Nazis" with "Democrats": "The Democrats are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood! Shoot them in the belly!"
.....Norquist was the first to point out the political potential of evangelical churches to Reed, imagining that they could be turned into Republican clubhouses. During the week of George H.W. Bush's inauguration, Reed encountered Pat Robertson, the right-wing televangelist, who recruited him on the spot to run the Christian Coalition. "I want to be invisible," Reed explained. "I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night." ~Sidney Blumenthal That’s probably the most pressing race problem in the United States today -- a de facto affirmative-action program for mediocre middle- and upper-class white men that places a lot of undeserving people in positions of power, where their delusions of grandeur can have profound implications for others.~ROBERT JENSEN We may stand witness to a definitive American moment of democracy. The son of a New York doorman probably has in his hands, in many ways, the fate of the republic. Because far too many of us know and are aware of the crimes committed by our government in our name, we are unlikely to settle for a handful of minor indictments of bureaucrats. The last thing most of us believe in is the rule of law. We do not trust our government or the people we have elected but our constitution is still very much alive and we choose to believe that destiny has placed Patrick Fitzgerald at this time and this place in our history to save us from the people we elected. If the law cannot get to the truth of what has happened to the American people under the Bush administration, then we all may begin to hear the early death rattles of history’s greatest democracy.~James Moore "Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot," Broussard said. "Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot."~Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish near New Orleans "You can tell the pioneers by the arrows in them...."~Aaron Brown "What's called for now I believe, is a sort of Thomas Paine Revolutionary movement converged with the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties movements. It's certainly possible, and it is desperately needed..."~SH "My country right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober." ~ G. K. Chesterton "It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well."~Maureen Dowd " ...if by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties.. if that is what they mean by a "liberal" then I am proud to be a liberal. " ~John F. Kennedyc “Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”~R. Buckminster Fuller1895-1983"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite." -- Thomas Jefferson "TurdBlossom": The affectionate nickname given by the POTUS to the most powerful political hack in the world today-KARL ROVE. |
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May 28 2005, 11:08 PM
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1632118,00.html
'New Castro' threatens to take his feud with America nuclear |
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May 30 2005, 02:32 AM
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Venezuela Rallies Over Cuba Exile
BBC News - UK The march comes a day after the US rejected Venezuela's request for it to arrest Cuban-born Luis Posada Carriles, saying there was not enough evidence. ...  US Urged to Extradit Posada and Accomplices Prensa Latina - Havana,Cuba ... Prensa Latina) Journalist Alicia Herrera, author of the book on the Cuban civilian plane bombed in 1976, urged the US to extradite to Venezuela terrorist Luis ... Venezuela Trains Voluteeers to Bolster Army Contra Costa Times - CA,USA CARACAS, Venezuela - Scores of men and women crawl through a mud-filled ditch, ducking barbed wire and coughing in a mixture of tear gas and smoke while ... -------------------- Abramoff's campaign manager was a radical right-winger named Grover Norquist, and the two of them recruited a zealous younger activist to carry out their orders, Ralph Reed. Reed required College Republicans to recite a speech from the movie "Patton," replacing the word "Nazis" with "Democrats": "The Democrats are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood! Shoot them in the belly!"
.....Norquist was the first to point out the political potential of evangelical churches to Reed, imagining that they could be turned into Republican clubhouses. During the week of George H.W. Bush's inauguration, Reed encountered Pat Robertson, the right-wing televangelist, who recruited him on the spot to run the Christian Coalition. "I want to be invisible," Reed explained. "I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night." ~Sidney Blumenthal That’s probably the most pressing race problem in the United States today -- a de facto affirmative-action program for mediocre middle- and upper-class white men that places a lot of undeserving people in positions of power, where their delusions of grandeur can have profound implications for others.~ROBERT JENSEN We may stand witness to a definitive American moment of democracy. The son of a New York doorman probably has in his hands, in many ways, the fate of the republic. Because far too many of us know and are aware of the crimes committed by our government in our name, we are unlikely to settle for a handful of minor indictments of bureaucrats. The last thing most of us believe in is the rule of law. We do not trust our government or the people we have elected but our constitution is still very much alive and we choose to believe that destiny has placed Patrick Fitzgerald at this time and this place in our history to save us from the people we elected. If the law cannot get to the truth of what has happened to the American people under the Bush administration, then we all may begin to hear the early death rattles of history’s greatest democracy.~James Moore "Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot," Broussard said. "Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot."~Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish near New Orleans "You can tell the pioneers by the arrows in them...."~Aaron Brown "What's called for now I believe, is a sort of Thomas Paine Revolutionary movement converged with the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties movements. It's certainly possible, and it is desperately needed..."~SH "My country right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober." ~ G. K. Chesterton "It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well."~Maureen Dowd " ...if by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties.. if that is what they mean by a "liberal" then I am proud to be a liberal. " ~John F. Kennedyc “Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”~R. Buckminster Fuller1895-1983"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite." -- Thomas Jefferson "TurdBlossom": The affectionate nickname given by the POTUS to the most powerful political hack in the world today-KARL ROVE. |
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May 30 2005, 04:24 AM
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ExxonMobil Progresses in Venezuela
ExxonMobil is moving ahead with a US$3 billion project to build a petrochemicals plant in Venezuela despite an ongoing tax row with the government, a representative of ... -------------------- Abramoff's campaign manager was a radical right-winger named Grover Norquist, and the two of them recruited a zealous younger activist to carry out their orders, Ralph Reed. Reed required College Republicans to recite a speech from the movie "Patton," replacing the word "Nazis" with "Democrats": "The Democrats are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood! Shoot them in the belly!"
.....Norquist was the first to point out the political potential of evangelical churches to Reed, imagining that they could be turned into Republican clubhouses. During the week of George H.W. Bush's inauguration, Reed encountered Pat Robertson, the right-wing televangelist, who recruited him on the spot to run the Christian Coalition. "I want to be invisible," Reed explained. "I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night." ~Sidney Blumenthal That’s probably the most pressing race problem in the United States today -- a de facto affirmative-action program for mediocre middle- and upper-class white men that places a lot of undeserving people in positions of power, where their delusions of grandeur can have profound implications for others.~ROBERT JENSEN We may stand witness to a definitive American moment of democracy. The son of a New York doorman probably has in his hands, in many ways, the fate of the republic. Because far too many of us know and are aware of the crimes committed by our government in our name, we are unlikely to settle for a handful of minor indictments of bureaucrats. The last thing most of us believe in is the rule of law. We do not trust our government or the people we have elected but our constitution is still very much alive and we choose to believe that destiny has placed Patrick Fitzgerald at this time and this place in our history to save us from the people we elected. If the law cannot get to the truth of what has happened to the American people under the Bush administration, then we all may begin to hear the early death rattles of history’s greatest democracy.~James Moore "Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot," Broussard said. "Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot."~Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish near New Orleans "You can tell the pioneers by the arrows in them...."~Aaron Brown "What's called for now I believe, is a sort of Thomas Paine Revolutionary movement converged with the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties movements. It's certainly possible, and it is desperately needed..."~SH "My country right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober." ~ G. K. Chesterton "It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well."~Maureen Dowd " ...if by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties.. if that is what they mean by a "liberal" then I am proud to be a liberal. " ~John F. Kennedyc “Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”~R. Buckminster Fuller1895-1983"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite." -- Thomas Jefferson "TurdBlossom": The affectionate nickname given by the POTUS to the most powerful political hack in the world today-KARL ROVE. |
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May 31 2005, 01:39 AM
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Venezuela warns U.S. over judge's canceled visa:
Venezuela may stop allowing visits by American officials after U.S. immigration authorities canceled the tourist visa of the Venezuelan Supreme Court president, the country's vice president said. http://snipurl.com/f8w9 US Rejects Venezuelan Request on Posada : Posada, is wanted by Venezuelan authorities for his alleged role in the bombing of a Cuban passenger plane in 1976 that killed 73 people. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0...5036883,00.html http://snipurl.com/f8x9 Venezuela to Continue to Seek Posada's Extradition: Venezuela said it will continue to seek the extradition of terrorism suspect Luis Posada Carriles, even after the Bush administration rejected a provisional request that he be arrested. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=100...r=latin_america http://snipurl.com/f8xb Cuban militant worked for U.S. in covert Contra supply network: Shortly after escaping from a Venezuelan prison twenty years ago, Luis Posada Carriles turned up as "Ramon Medina" at a Salvadoran airfield that was part of a secret White House project to funnel weapons to U.S.-backed Contra rebels waging war against Nicaragua's Sandinista government. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8976.htm http://snipurl.com/f8xc Oil giants owe more than $2 billion to Venezuela: Most of the 22 foreign oil companies that owe back taxes to the Venezuelan government have agreed to pay up, the country's tax agency chief said. http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/b...ss/11773000.htm http://snipurl.com/f8xe Chávez leads the way : In using oil wealth to help the poor, Venezuela's leader is an example to Latin America http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,...1495260,00.html http://snipurl.com/f8xf |
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May 31 2005, 01:56 AM
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Russia and Venezuela Start Negotiation Round
Caracas, May 30 (Prensa Latina) Russia and Venezuela began their first round of negotiations Monday, with the participation of 80 businesses from both countries with the purpose of significantly reinforcing economic cooperation. -------------------- Abramoff's campaign manager was a radical right-winger named Grover Norquist, and the two of them recruited a zealous younger activist to carry out their orders, Ralph Reed. Reed required College Republicans to recite a speech from the movie "Patton," replacing the word "Nazis" with "Democrats": "The Democrats are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood! Shoot them in the belly!"
.....Norquist was the first to point out the political potential of evangelical churches to Reed, imagining that they could be turned into Republican clubhouses. During the week of George H.W. Bush's inauguration, Reed encountered Pat Robertson, the right-wing televangelist, who recruited him on the spot to run the Christian Coalition. "I want to be invisible," Reed explained. "I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night." ~Sidney Blumenthal That’s probably the most pressing race problem in the United States today -- a de facto affirmative-action program for mediocre middle- and upper-class white men that places a lot of undeserving people in positions of power, where their delusions of grandeur can have profound implications for others.~ROBERT JENSEN We may stand witness to a definitive American moment of democracy. The son of a New York doorman probably has in his hands, in many ways, the fate of the republic. Because far too many of us know and are aware of the crimes committed by our government in our name, we are unlikely to settle for a handful of minor indictments of bureaucrats. The last thing most of us believe in is the rule of law. We do not trust our government or the people we have elected but our constitution is still very much alive and we choose to believe that destiny has placed Patrick Fitzgerald at this time and this place in our history to save us from the people we elected. If the law cannot get to the truth of what has happened to the American people under the Bush administration, then we all may begin to hear the early death rattles of history’s greatest democracy.~James Moore "Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot," Broussard said. "Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot."~Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish near New Orleans "You can tell the pioneers by the arrows in them...."~Aaron Brown "What's called for now I believe, is a sort of Thomas Paine Revolutionary movement converged with the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties movements. It's certainly possible, and it is desperately needed..."~SH "My country right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober." ~ G. K. Chesterton "It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well."~Maureen Dowd " ...if by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties.. if that is what they mean by a "liberal" then I am proud to be a liberal. " ~John F. Kennedyc “Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”~R. Buckminster Fuller1895-1983"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite." -- Thomas Jefferson "TurdBlossom": The affectionate nickname given by the POTUS to the most powerful political hack in the world today-KARL ROVE. |
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Jun 1 2005, 12:14 AM
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Michigan's Miller Among US Lawmakers to Visit Venezuela
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Michigan Rep. Candice Miller joined four other US lawmakers for a meeting with Venezuela's justice minister ... Bush Meets Leading Opponent of Venezuela's Chavez Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA ... Venezuela is a major supplier of oil to the United States. Bush and Machado discussed "the current situation confronting Venezuela's ... Venezuela to Inform Sincor of Tax Changes BusinessWeek - USA MAY. 31 3:46 PM ET Venezuela's oil minister said Tuesday the government will hold meetings with its partners in the Sincor heavy crude project to explain the ... Retalix Partners With Venezuela's Eniac for Latin American Market Globes Online - Israel ... Nasdaq: RTLX; TASE: RTLX) announced today that it has entered into a partnership with Eniac, a software and services company based in Venezuela, to market and ... Chavez Leads The Way Venezuelanalysis.com - Caracas,Venezuela ... villages that perch on the hills above Caracas, a permanent reminder of the immense gulf between rich and poor that characterizes oil-rich Venezuela. ... -------------------- Abramoff's campaign manager was a radical right-winger named Grover Norquist, and the two of them recruited a zealous younger activist to carry out their orders, Ralph Reed. Reed required College Republicans to recite a speech from the movie "Patton," replacing the word "Nazis" with "Democrats": "The Democrats are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood! Shoot them in the belly!"
.....Norquist was the first to point out the political potential of evangelical churches to Reed, imagining that they could be turned into Republican clubhouses. During the week of George H.W. Bush's inauguration, Reed encountered Pat Robertson, the right-wing televangelist, who recruited him on the spot to run the Christian Coalition. "I want to be invisible," Reed explained. "I do guerrilla warfare. I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night." ~Sidney Blumenthal That’s probably the most pressing race problem in the United States today -- a de facto affirmative-action program for mediocre middle- and upper-class white men that places a lot of undeserving people in positions of power, where their delusions of grandeur can have profound implications for others.~ROBERT JENSEN We may stand witness to a definitive American moment of democracy. The son of a New York doorman probably has in his hands, in many ways, the fate of the republic. Because far too many of us know and are aware of the crimes committed by our government in our name, we are unlikely to settle for a handful of minor indictments of bureaucrats. The last thing most of us believe in is the rule of law. We do not trust our government or the people we have elected but our constitution is still very much alive and we choose to believe that destiny has placed Patrick Fitzgerald at this time and this place in our history to save us from the people we elected. If the law cannot get to the truth of what has happened to the American people under the Bush administration, then we all may begin to hear the early death rattles of history’s greatest democracy.~James Moore "Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot," Broussard said. "Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot."~Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish near New Orleans "You can tell the pioneers by the arrows in them...."~Aaron Brown "What's called for now I believe, is a sort of Thomas Paine Revolutionary movement converged with the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties movements. It's certainly possible, and it is desperately needed..."~SH "My country right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober." ~ G. K. Chesterton "It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well."~Maureen Dowd " ...if by a liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, their civil liberties.. if that is what they mean by a "liberal" then I am proud to be a liberal. " ~John F. Kennedyc “Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”~R. Buckminster Fuller1895-1983"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite." -- Thomas Jefferson "TurdBlossom": The affectionate nickname given by the POTUS to the most powerful political hack in the world today-KARL ROVE. |
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Jun 1 2005, 11:10 PM
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Bush meets opponent of Chavez :
President George Bush has met a prominent opponent of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the White House. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10328462 http://snipurl.com/fauk “Working Behind the Scenes”: The Details of U.S. Government Support for the Venezuelan Opposition http://www.narconews.com/Issue37/article1307.html http://snipurl.com/faul |
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