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Venezuela's Last Opposition TV Owner Arrested
WrongSizeGlass writes "AP is reporting the owner of Venezuela's only remaining TV channel that takes a critical line against President Hugo Chavez was arrested Thursday. 'Guillermo Zuloaga, owner of Globovision, was arrested on a warrant for remarks that were deemed "offensive" to the president,' Attorney General Luisa Ortega said. This comes on the heels of last week's story titled Venezuela's Chavez To Limit Internet Freedom."
What are you talking about? This was the Fox News channel of Venezuela. I applaud their effort to get rid of the anti-progressive government ideas. They need to do the same thing to Fox News here. Fucking right wing republican morons. We tried freedom, it didn't work, move on.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
I suggest you go back to the dictionary. Your attempt at being pedantic is full of fail.
s/Venezula/United States/g
You sir, have brought a slim amount of reason to this obscene thread. Thanks.
Joshua Purcell
> Every time we tried to let it loose, it crashed hard and fast - we're still going through the consequences of such a crash at the moment..
I think I see your problem. The current mess was not a failure of Capitalism. This mess started with ACORN (The One was their lawyer for some of it) and the rest of the misfit army using legal and threats of physical violence to pressure the banks into making home loans to people who shouldn't have been given a payday loan. When that only produced limited success Freddie and Fannie were recruited by Congress into the deal, agreeing to take bad paper from the banks if they would make a certain percentage of their loans to the moocher population. The banking system still had the problem of what to do with all this toxic paper so the invented various complex financial instruments to pass the hot potatos around the world.
And just to spread the blame widely this problem begins with Carter the Idiot's Community Reinvestment Act and went all the way to Bush the Younger who was in up to his arse in this daft notion that home ownership should be 'universal.' Spread a little blame to Barney the Faggot who was pushing banks to loan to losers to while buggering a senior officer over at Fannie/Freddie. Doddering old Dodd was too busy being a Friend of Angelo to do his job as a member of the Banking Committee.
And of course another heaping helping of blame has to go to whoever allowed the old investment/banking houses of yore to become too big to be allowed to fail public corporations run by snot nosed marxist trained Harvard/Yale MBA types who didn't exactly need a lot of pressure to allow the shareholder assets entrusted to their care to be diverted to 'Social Justice.' The old school Jew bankers who built houses like Goldman and Lehman, with green eyeshades and no time for fools, who OWNED big hunks of the damned bank as partnerships (and would thus lose their ass instead of popping a golden parachute) would have never got goobered into making loans that couldn't possibly be repaid.
Democrat delenda est
Lets start with a slightly more accurate link to the story http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100326/media_nm/us_venezuela_detention_3;_ylt=AukeOQVHjzcSw_2rM1SJtXf9SpZ4, briefly detained not locked up indefinitely. I really have to wonder about "pro-opposition TV station" now what exactly does that mean, I know in most of the modern western world where democracy and free speech are respected, you have 'independent' news services that report the news, not opposition TV stations or opposition news shows.
From what I have come to understand a politically biased TV or cable station stinks to high heaven of corruption, whether it be in Italy, the United States or perhaps even in Venezuela.
The whole Venezuelan political scene has that taint of corruption on one side US corporations with those Venezuelans who gained wealth and powers during colonisation days and on the other those who can trust and believe that only they have the answers and the masses who have yet to understand democracy.
A political system that still has a long way to go mature into a modern egalitarian society. One that will benefit form being left alone and not put under more pressure. Should Venezuela destabilise it will likely ignite the whole region with no winners just tens of millions of losers. Keep in mind the country that is receiving the most US aid in South America is also doing by far the worst. Ending the drug war will likely do more to stabilise South America than anything else possible.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
This dictator should not be allowed to exist.
Guess what? The people keep voting for him, in free and fair elections according to international observers. This makes him a very original dictator.
If we really want to convince Venezuelans to get rid of this guy
Why don't you mind your own business and stop trying to teach people what to do in their own countries? Don't you have enough in the US to keep you busy?
stop refining their frickin' oil.
Yeah, good luck with that. Go ahead.