Comments on: Chavez Close To Enacting Laws By Decree

Venezuelan Leader Gets Initial Approval From National Assembly For Sweeping Powers For 1 1/2 Years

[scouser691]

Hamas, Chavez, Ortega. Isn't democracy wonderful.

[Syndicate]

We should allow the tv station to set up operations here in the US. we could beam the signal into Venezuela on every channel. This should serious pi$$ this SOB off. I gave this guy the benefit of the doubt since he was "Elected", But if he is going to start acting like Hitler he should be eliminated.

[processor2]

Like most leftist-liberals , Chavez doesn't like alternative ideas.

Kind of like how leftist-liberals (aka Democrats) in the USA that want to silence FOX news & Rush Limbaugh......... No wonder the left-wingers in the USA adore Chavez/Castro, etc.

Liberals just do not like alternative ideas for some reason ?!?!?

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[agnim]

"You know, Agnim's arguments in favor of Chavez sound an awful lot like the Bush supporter's arguments against the US media.

Posted by shingles1 at 03:32 PM : Jan 18, 2007"

The big difference is that Chavez isn't killing people by the hundreds of thousands.

And our lost leader didn't not even suffer and impeachment, much less a coup!

Chavez, the elected leader of Venezuela was overthrown by that treasonous media and their overlords in the US white house!

That station should have been closed a long time ago and its treasonous owners rotting in Venezuelan jail!

[Syndicate]

shingles1: I'm being generous/careless with the word. Basicly they Supressed information unfavorable to the regime to protect thier personel. They slanted their reporting world wide to protect a few people in bagdad. They should have pulled out of Iraq.

[exusmcsgt]

JohnShaft4-

If Chavez shuts off the valve, just think how Exxon and the other multi-nationals, that Cheney still refuses to admit participated in the formation of the energy policy, will reap their windfalls.

[johnshaft4]

PS...Read over the past weekend how Chavez reiterated and strengthened his alliance with Iran? When der Fuhrer Bush and his co conspirators, the Israelis go and drop tactical nukes on "make believe" Iranian nukes (just like Iraq 'WMDs'), how long do you think it will Chavez to cut off the 3nd largest supply of crude oil to the US? Start thinking $6 @ gal. gasoline.
What are we even doing hanging around with the Israelis anyway. They haven't got a drop of oil. Some 'promised land'. Jeez...

[johnshaft4]

Chavez could very well be a dangerous, psycho/sociopath. He is acting like he thinks he's AG Gonzales.

[exusmcsgt]

Bubba Dubya achieves the same thing through signing statements.

[bill1fj]

When its all over Chavez will be remembered as just another dictator.

here is Latin America articles with Global Research


http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=region&regionId=3

why is it so many people get lied to by the mainstream media, and keep believing what corporate owned mainstream media keeps printing.

how about trying some different sources, and see how they compare.

search for:

Robert Fisk, Jonathan Cook, Richard Bulliet, Michel Chossudovsky, Scott Ritter, Colonel Sam Gardiner, Noam Chomsky

try: Global Research, Media Lens, GNN

insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. So why keep going to the same mainstream media to be informed, when they are infamous for mis-information.


Imagine if this debate was about: pre the Iraq war, and the debate was about %u2018the threat Iraq was to the world and the WMD%u2019. In that case and in hindsight, which is 20/20 - notblue, and the rest supporting mainstream media would most definitely be wrong. Yet now they argue like they are most definitely right, all the while using the exact same information sources as the Pre Iraq debate.

this logic, is insane

peace


re links in earlier post, copy and paste them in your web browser
here is media lens, a must see look at big media and their slant
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/index.php

notblue

could you please give us the source that states Chavez took power by force ?



The reason corporate America has it in for Chavez are:
1 - Oil revenues from Venezuelan oil are now split 33% for Venezuela's government, and the rest for the corporations; the split before Chavez took office, 1% for the government, and 99% for the corporations.
2- Chavez chaired an OPEC meeting in which he put forward the idea that all oil producing countries start selling their oil in Euro based funds, instead of American dollars
3- Venezuela is helping other Latin American countries buy out their debts to the World Bank and IMF, meaning the West no longer has a strangle hold on the economies of these countries, which means no more deals that heavily favor the corporate west.

Chavez was just re-elected with 63% of the votes in Venezuela, and no one is disputing the elections when it comes to fairness, or them being corrupt. Chavez got voted in 6 years ago, with promises to take more of the oil revenues away from the corporations to help the poor. Then he does exactly that, poverty drops dramatically, and he gets re-elected with a massive victory. This is how democratic systems work.

[tibu987]

Chavez will have a limited run.
What is done, as an example, is give a man who is making ten pesos a day twenty pesos a day. The guy is elated and becomes a Chavez fan. The cost to the country is negligible but it keeps the little people happy. In the meantime, Chavez, lives in a palace, has limousines and jets at his disposal. Cooks and maids, all the ultimate luxuries, while the country, like Cuba, deteriorates.
Stories like this are many. The Shah of Iran, Bautista, Castro, Ortega, Kim, Morales, Emperor Helassie of Ethiopia, The Nicaraguan General, The Chilean General,(I forget their names), et al.
All were, are, destined for ultimate failure, but in the meantime, these despots live like kings and they and their families and cohorts become filthy rich.
It is an old story. So easy to pacify the poor while they steal from them. Been going on for years in Mexico, a supposedly democratc nation.
Socialism will always be destined for failure because it is human nature to want to be individually successful. Socialism can only work for the short term, eventually, people wake up and find that they want better. Re: China, Russia, East Germany, et al.

[notblue]

Chavez is a grotesque pig, a dictator that took power by force, made in the same mold as all the other fascist despots left such as Castro, Kim Jung Il, Achmanajad, etc.

[shingles1]

You know, Agnim's arguments in favor of Chavez sound an awful lot like the Bush supporter's arguments against the US media.

[annd2302]

gunnerv1

Wadda you read then, MAD Magazine, TV Guide, Prevention, or Good Housekeeping? Get a life, grow-up dude read a man book, Playboy, Hustler, Big Boobs and so on. Just maybe you can expand your thought process or reasoning ability.

I feel the image of a hermit type person. I bet you do not believe in GOD either do you?

Only in America, land that I love.

You should read a little bit further,

A statement found on Citgo's homepage of their website. "CITGO Petroleum Corporation decided to allow its gasoline-supply contract with 7-Eleven to expire at the end of Sept. 2006."

[canaima]

Chavez sees himself as the new "Simon Bolivar" of Latin America. The difference is that he doesn't really care about the Latin American people, as Simon Bolivar did, but rather cares only about the accumulation of power.

Latin America as a whole will NEVER allow Chavez to be the regional leader he wants to be, however. Most latin leaders, except for those of Bolivia, Ecuador, & Nicaragua, will let him THINK he's in a position of leadership as long as they can get free or reduced-price oil from him. And Chavez is a sucker for it because he thinks he can buy "sincere friendship" with his oil. In the end, Chavez is really not too smart.

[glidescube]

What? Silence the media? Steal from the rich to give to the poor? Is this the best Socialism can offer?

[canaima]

Agnim, you're being too obvious at being an opinionated "Chavista" with your anti-democratic and, quite frankly, foolish statements.

"Treasonous behaviour", eh? Yeah, right! What a joke of a statement!