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  • The Usual Suspects: Tweaking movie quotes for Bush
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Everything is political, they say. Perhaps you’ll recognize these familiar quotes from famous films, altered "just a tad" for your amusement.
    BUSH: "Frankly, America, I don’t give a damn!"
    MAMA BEADS BUSH: "He coulda’ been somebody, instead of a bum,which is what he is"
    BUSH: "Dicky, I’ve got a feeling wer’re not in favor anymore"
    KERRY TO BUSH: "May the farce be with you"
    HARRY REID: "What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate"
    HOWARD DEAN RE: BUSHSPEAK: "I love the smell (…)

  • VATICAN INFLUENCE ON THE U.S. PRESIDENCY
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    VATICAN INFLUENCE ON THE U.S. PRESIDENCY
    Many Americans are victims of the illusion, carefully crafted, that the Catholic bishops have no significant influence on American presidents. No doubt the degree of influence differs from one president to the next. But they all feel and respond to this influence.
    The National Catholic Reporter, a major national Catholic weekly newspaper, published a most revealing report in its December 29, 1989 issue. Doug Wead, special assistant to President (…)

  • WSJ PUNDIT HARWOOD DEFENDS NIE LEAK
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    John Harwood of the Wall Street Journal appeared on MSNBC last night - in full defence mode of King George W. Bush.... The Leak of the National Intelligence Estimate by Bush and Cheney was no big deal claims John...... "EVERYBODY DOES IT" chirped Johnny ..... Mr. Harwood convienently omits crucial facts.... The information King George leaked to Judith Miller was untrue .... All the information Libby was authorised to disclose to reporters in the runup to the war , classified secrets (…)

  • This is why Chavez is driving them crazy.
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://venezuelasolidarity.org.uk/ven/web/2006/articles/driving_crazy_2.html
    This is why Chavez is driving them crazy. He enjoys 82% popular support according to the latest opinion poll Caracas, March 17th 2006. The recent political opinion polls in Venezuela reflect the still growing popularity of President Hugo Chavez as the country heads towards the December presidential elections.
    The pollster Seijas which worked with the now opposition Democratic Action party (AD) for many years, (…)

  • Group of British MP’s “Friends of Venezuela” to be constituted in London
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    British MP’s Establish “Friends of Venezuela” http://venezuelasolidarity.org.uk/ven/web/2006/labour_friends_venezuela.html
    Next Tuesday, March 28th, the setting up of a group of Labour MP’s “Friends of Venezuela” will take place in the House of Commons in London.
    A press release from the Venezuelan Embassy in London has indicated that the initial number of MP’s making up the group will be 102.
    “This is an extremely unusual initiative which is testimony to the high level of support (…)

  • Why Venezuela has voted again for their ‘Negro e Indio’ president by Greg Palast
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/band081804.shtml
    There’s so much BS and baloney thrown around about Venezuela that I may be violating some rule of U.S. journalism by providing some facts. Let’s begin with this: 77 percent of Venezuela’s farmland is owned by 3 percent of the population, the ‘hacendados.’
    I met one of these farmlords in Caracas at an anti-Chavez protest march. Oddest demonstration I’ve ever seen: frosted blondes in high heels clutching designer bags, screeching, “Chavez - (…)

  • African Venezuelans fear new U.S. coup against President Chavez
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.sfbayview.com/092502/africanvenezuelans092502.shtml
    by Professor Alejandro Correa and Professor Emeritus Willie Thompson
    This month, for the first time in history, Venezuelan people of African descent have total control of their historic Black university, the Instituto Universitario Barlovento. They are already planning a university administered hotel and a restaurant for students, faculty and the community. This is an achievement of a lifetime, and the people of Barlovento (…)

  • VENEZUELA : Hugo Chavez: Bush’s enemy, Blacks’ ally by William Reed
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    www.sfbayview.com/020106/blacksally020106.shtml - 15k - 6 avr 2006 -
    President Hugo Chavez salutes his people. He often speaks proudly of his African and Indigenous heritage and uses Venezuela’s oil wealth especially to uplift those who share his bloodlines. Like their cousins in the U.S., they have long been oppressed.
    Sometimes it’s just hard to go against a guy when you know in your heart that he ain’t as bad as they say he is. So what should you have to say about Mr. Hugo Chavez: (…)

  • How the Vatican influences and supports the Bush Administration
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Vatican Connection: How the Roman Catholic Church Influences the Republican Party.
    John M Swomley on how, in the 1996 elections Robert Dole’s endorsement of the Catholic political agenda, along with a similar endorsement by the Republican Party platform, made the Republican Party in effect a religious or sectarian party, how the Catholic bishops took action to aid the Republican Party and how Henry Hyde, in turn, according to the National Catholic Reporter, invited Catholics to help (…)

  • Breaking Imperial Ties: Venezuela and ALBA
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    www.venezuelanalysis.com/articles.php?artno=1697
    Monday, Mar 27, 2006
    By: Tim Anderson - Green Left Weekly In late 2005, while war raged in the Middle East and oil prices rose drastically, governments and oil companies repeated the “market forces” mantra, saying there was nothing they could do about oil prices. However, the Venezuelan government-owned US-based petrol distribution company Citgo (with eight refineries and 14,000 petrol stations across the US) decided to discount up to 10% (…)