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  • ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN IN VENEZUELA
    7 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN IN VENEZUELA From first of August the electoral campaign in Venezuela began of official way. The prognoses of all the encuestadoras give to an important margin of advantage to the candidate and present President him of the Bolivariana Republic of Venezuela Commander Hugo Chavez Frías.Tanto who the owners of encuestadoras but recalcitranly bound to the opposition even admit that advantage, and all have showed that there is no possible way that some candidate of the (…)

  • Why Are Americans So Angry?
    7 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Why Are Americans So Angry?
    HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS, June 29, 2006 Before the U.S. House of Representatives
    I have been involved in politics for over 30 years and have never seen the American people so angry. It’s not unusual to sense a modest amount of outrage, but it seems the anger today is unusually intense and quite possibly worse than ever. It’s not easily explained, but I have some thoughts on this matter. Generally, anger and frustration among people are related to economic (…)

  • Deal Maker Details the Art of Greasing the Palm
    7 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON - In 1992, Brent R. Wilkes rented a suite at the Hyatt Hotel a few blocks from the Capitol. In his briefcase was a stack of envelopes for a half-dozen congressmen, each packet containing up to $10,000 in checks.
    Mr. Wilkes had set up separate meetings with the lawmakers hoping to win a government contract, and he planned to punctuate each pitch with a campaign donation. But his hometown congressman, Representative Bill Lowery of San Diego, a Republican, told him that presenting (…)

  • US Officials speak truth about Israel
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    US Officials speak truth about Israel
    My fellow Americans
    I think you should watch this five minute video
    US Officials speak truth about Israel
    IF AMERICANS NEW
    In my opinion, I think is is time that Citizens of America begin using Israeli tactics against members of Congress, the Senate and the President. Perhaps if they experience them first hand, they may not be so inclined to continue supporting the use of such tactics by Israel, against Arabs.
    In fact, I think we may do far (…)

  • ENVIRONMENT: 100 Million Trees for Venezuela
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Humberto Márquez *
    CARACAS, Jul 27 (Tierramérica) - Venezuela has launched a five-year reforestation project for Orinoco headwaters and tributary rivers in which more than 900 conservation committees and students from more than 100 schools will help plant 100 million trees in a 150,000-hectare area.
    "Campesinos who used to clear land for crops or cow pasture are now turning to agroforestry, which is more profitable and better for the local environment," Miguel Rodríguez, vice minister (…)

  • Political Arena / Wanted: A winning image
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Aluf Benn
    Borrowing from the world of soccer beloved to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, the Israel Defense Forces operation in Lebanon went into overtime yesterday.
    Olmert wants to take another stab at a decisive conclusion before the UN Security Council blows the final whistle. That’s why he convened the cabinet yesterday to approve a wide-scale ground operation targeting villages used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
    Olmert is fighting the battle over public opinion, both at home and (…)

  • Bloodshed and hope
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    After years of terrorising an occupied people, the rogue regimes of Washington and Tel Aviv may finally have met their match.
    by John Pilger
    Remember Kosovo and the rest of the stricken Balkans? Remember the Kurds in northern Iraq? What moving dispatches those crises generated in the west, together with such damnation for their tormentors. According to my memory, they were each called "the most moral cause of our generation." There was no question, said the crusaders, of right and wrong; (…)

  • VENEZUELA RETIRES ITS AMBASSADOR IN ISRAEL
    5 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Saturday 5 August 2006 (21h45): Por.Faustino Rodríguez Bauza From the beginning of the genocida invasion of Israel, with the support of the North American government, to Palestine and Lebanon, in Venezuela a movement of solidarity of a great amplitude has taken place and throughout all the country. President Chávez by ricochet gave a declaration to the invasion, from the first day that this one began. At the same time in all Venezuela concentrations were made and simultaneous marches in all (…)

  • On arrival in Venezuela, Chavez announces three important measures
    5 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    On arrival in Venezuela, President Chavez Frias has made several significant announcements. The first is domestic, making August 3 Official Flag Day.
    At a civilian-military parade in la Vela de Coro (Falcon) where Francisco de Miranda landed with the Venezuelan Republic’s independence flag 200 years ago, the President decreed that as of 2007 Flag Day will be on August 3 and not March 12, which the opposition undoubtedly will continue to celebrate by flying its seven-star flag.
    * The (…)

  • Unrest and alternative goverment in mexico?
    4 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    With 2.4 million mobilising in mexico city last sunday the biggest march in its history and a 10km long permanent tent city established until ALL the votes are recounted from the July 2 elections, mexico is becoming a very interesting place. In one region, the movement seems to have take a tentative step forward..... Oaxaca Initiates Alternative Government Popular Assembly Reclaims Government Palace for the People
    By Nancy Davies Commentary from Oaxaca
    July 7, 2006
    The Popular Assembly (…)