Ehmm... do you live in Venezuela? are you Venezuelan? or you just believe anything you read?
None of the above.
It is a fact that Venezuela's wealth distibution has historically been very unequal. Provided you can do some research and interpret statistical figures, there's no need be Venezuelan to know that. My opinion was solely based on that.
You might also wanna check out "outfoxed: Rupert murdoch's war on journalism". It's a pretty objective Canadian piece that shows the extent of the US propaganda. If any single individual/lobby had as much power here in Europe (or elsewhere for that matter), people would surely revolt.
If you find the "The revolution will not be televised" you should also go watch this one done by a couple of Venezuelan engineers which shows the background of what was happening and what was actually going on. English subtitles.
What was ACTUALLY going on remains a mistery to this date. I watched your piece and there's too much reliance on gimmicks and cheap shots in it for me to consider it seriously. Heck, the stated mission of "X-ray of a lie" was to discredit "the revolution will not be televised". The former is openly biased while the latter has the stamp of the most respectable European channels (BBC, Arte...).
Forgive me for not buying the fact that a miserable country would rather have a white pro-business puppet-of-Washington president than a Bolivarian indigeneous one who grew up in the slums and wants to distribute the wealth (look at what he achieved thru cooperatives!).
It keeps the oil prices high (good for Hugo Chavez).
I believe Chavez cares more about the well-being of the deprived and misfortuned than a couple more million bucks in the country's treasury. He's giving away heating oil for free to poor families in the US!
The US policies have always benefited the rich while disadvantaging the poor, and that's IMHO the number one reason why he's opposing them.
What the fuck is the point of calling Bush the Devil?
It was a reference to Chavez's latest UN speech in NY.
I mean, if you can't handle living in a country where the government fundamentally keeps its distance from religion (for damned good reasons) then just, please, leave.
Breaking news, buddy! There's a world outside the US. I happen to belong to it and am really glad about that.
Bush is just a stupid politician who panders to specialist interest groups and ignores the larger morally sound issues behind the gripes his country brings to him.
When the most powerful man on Earth is stupid, it's bound to create trouble. And when that trouble causes deaths (childrens for f%#$'s sake!) around the globe, it's not just a moral issue anymore.
People seem to center their hatred of Bush on the war in Iraq. Was it a mistake goin to Iraq? In retrospect, probably yes. But hindsight is 20/20.
In retrospect?????
* It was a blatant violation of international law;
* The meager domestic support was gained thru lies and deceits (WMDs, links to AlQaeda);
* Even Israel (a declared enemy of Saddam by bombing him in 1982) repeatedly pointed out that Iraq did not constitute a threat to anyone.
* Against common sense (look at the polls from 2003 around the world!)
It was so clear that anyone with access to unbiased media and an ounce of intelligence could have figured out what the real motives of the attacks were.
So he made a mistake. And now he's making another mistake by not owning up to it and getting us the hell out of there.
The world is starving Palestine because the majority voted for some fundamentalist nutheads. Lebanon has been destroyed with US weapons because of the same thing. Should the rest of the world hold you responsible because the majority of your fellow citizens voted for Bush? Nobody hates America, but the way your government's behaving seems to be pissing off a lot of people.
Now, try to mitigate the damage by getting your butt off and vote for whoever you think is right. The fate of a great part of the world depends on it!
Before you start bashing Chavez, please take the time to watch "The revolution will not be televised". It's an award winning documentary by an Irish crew who happened to be in Caracas when the coup against Chavez happened back in 2002.
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As much as I hate the mentality, I have to agree in this case: If you are not angry, you are not paying attention.
People in the middle east and latin America are pissed at the US because they are paying attention! Hard to dismiss children bodies lying around and pretend nothing happened.
which when delivered, the FedEx guy asked, "Here's your ammo. You going to go back east and shoot the president now?" with a hopeful tone. And that was sometime in 2003
My laptop upgrade went well, but of course successful upgrades don't make up a story.
However, when I tried to get Beryl working, X got broken and I had to reconfigure it manually. I blame it on Nvidia for not opening up the source though. Kudos to everyone involved in Ubuntu, you did a great job!
If you're not convinced the election has been stolen, check out this excerpt from an article by McNeills:
Victor Romero is a Doctor of physics who specialises in statistics and randomness at the National University of Mexico. He studied the electoral commission computer results closely and he believes there is strong evidence of interference. Dr Romero explained to me a very unusual statistical pattern he noticed with the PRD vote as the tallies came into towards the end. "The PRD was winning and then suddenly at about 70% they start losing and never even gained.01 of a percentage," he explained. It seems incredible that as the last 30% of results came in, the PRD share of votes never increased. "It could be like this and then like that," Dr Romero explains, moving his hands up and down, "More of one party and less than another. But not in order. The order here is completely unexplainable."
Reading your reply, I realize things are much more screwed up than I thought. How can you justify such vile remarks? All I can think of is ignorance.
Try your best to remain civil and keep arguments constructive. If two (supposedly educated) people can't have a discussion free of "a priori", how can we expect the radical nutheads who represent both sides on the international scene to compromise.
Get out of the US once in while to get a sense of how many people share my point of view. http://www.time.com/time/europe/gdml/peace2003.htm l
Imagine if the Bush Junta said "the laws of the sea no longer apply to us." Imagine what kind of a row that would make. It's just the same thing, only in orbit in the vacuum of space.
The US and its offshore military and technological offshore base, Israel, are already regularly violating the airspace of several countries.
The "ownership" of space by a terrorist state such as the USA is definitely a threat to our specie's survival on this planet. What's saddening is that/.ers fail to see that. C'mon folks! With all the RTFM/RTFA posts around here, one would assume you're capable of fetching information and putting two and two together.
A great place to start would be "Hegemony or survival" (get the audiobook if you're lazy).
All my original post was supposed to show was, that in this day and age, it seems OK in the US to bash Islam but getting critical of the Jewish community is clearly off-limits. That said, I don't live in the US (thank God!), so I can't grasp the extent to which that's true. Yet, when such eminent public figures as John Ashcroft says that "Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you", I can't help but notice the mild mainstream response to that. Or the infamous "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity" by Ann Coulter. Contrast with Mel Gibson's latest derogatory comment.
When was the last time a member of the US administration opposed anything Israel does? JFK comes to mind at this point. I'm not claiming he was killed by the Mossad, but merely pointing out to when it was.
Look at the educated analysis of PlanesDragon a few post above; It's not about religion, but simply about power and who's pulling the strings.
As for wanting to throw the Jews in the sea, nobody wants that. Arabs/Muslims are not barbaric savages as Bush&co are trying to depict them. The best example is the row provoked by Ahmadinejad's comment about Israel. Khomeini and Ahmadinejad were referring to the need for regime change, the ending of the regime occupying the Palestinians in violation of international law. They were not talking, as Netanyahu and co claim, about the destruction of the state of Israel or the Jewish people. The Iranian head of state is far from a being a saint, yet compared to Bush, he emerges as one.
Yes, Arabs were jerks for putting their selfish interests above enforcing the intergrity of a Palestinian state and working out with Israel towards peace. And yes, Jews have suffered a great deal throughout human history. Is that a reason to punish innocents in Gaza? Before you attempt to answer that question do me a personal favour and read the following article: http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avner y/1160914974.
I'm curious if this statement is more than marketing speak. What's so great about BCD?
I'm afraid you misunderstood the statement. They're talking about Vista's boot script not BCD. I fail to see what's so great about it though, since it overwrites the MBR "without a second thought".
he (foolishly) wasn't concerned about the US (he never thought we'd actually invade Baghdad) but wanted to make sure that other more dangerous countries thought he might have WMDs, to deter them from invading.
I hate Hussein just as much as you do (maybe even more 'cause he calls himself a Muslim!), but I believe that the guy was watching what happened in Afghanistan and had a clear idea of what was coming.
Also, in late 2002 Saddam Hussein, in a letter to Hans Blix, invited UN weapons inspectors back into the country. Subsequently the Security Council issued resolution 1441 authorizing new inspections in Iraq. The carefully-worded U.N. resolution put the burden on Iraq, not U.N. inspectors, to prove that they no longer had weapons of mass destruction. Now, which kind of world assumes you guilty until you've proven otherwise?
Plus, you theory supposes that the US secret service was unable to get such info. I suspect that there's a report buried somewhere or that they didn't even bother to look into it.
Back on topic, the BBC has a documentary about "Israel's secret weapon", which should give enough background for anyone to draw their own conclusions.
Of course no one wants that kind of raving lunatics[2] to have nukes.
I wouldn't consider myself a "raving lunatic", nor would I consider any of the "raving lunatics" to be true Muslims. Pretty much in the same way any educated Christian would question the methods used during the crusades. The key point here being education. However, our heavy reliance on the media today gives us a rather distorted view of reality. You can't deny the blatant bias of the mainstream media nor can you claim that the west is treating Israelis and Palestinians as equals (In your own words: Israel is more or less a western country).
Also I'd claim that Israel has used its nukes in a rather responsible manner (i.e. not at all, even though being involved in plenty of wars).
Israel's military power is clearly superior to all Arab countries put together. Israel has been the agressor in all its conflicts for the last couple of decades (Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt...) precisely because it knows that (1)- it's superior in sheer force (2)- it's backed (in the security council, economically and on the field) by Washington.
On the paper, I agree that the Israeli government would be seem more trustworthy than the Arab dictatorships. But once you look past the facade and realize that the Israeli secret service often puts some "agent provocateur" to turn peaceful protests into chaos, you might start to be a bit more critical of their tactics.
I sure hope you do agree that said pictures were pretty harmless.
I had knowledge of those before the whole contreversy started. They were even published by Arab papers weeks before the protests began. A cheap Egyptian politician hijacked the pictures for his own agenda, triggering the riots. I was present at one of those demonstrations, and could see first-hand that the anger was more about the "Israel-Palestine", Afghanistan and Iraq than about some scribbles (no matter how vile).
Please don't burn your local austrian embassy over it.
This is/. for heaven's sake; Nobody wants to burn anything besides DVDs here. I understand and appreciate your concern though.
There is much greater specific desire to prevent specific countries, such as Syria and Iran, from developing nukes, but, again, it has nothing to do with ethnicity or race or religion, but rather the fact that amongst the leaderships of those countries the most common hobby is blowing stuff up that doesn't belong to them.
I'm kinda confused here. Who's occupying who's land again? Who's commiting mass murder and instauring an Apartheid state?
If it's not stupid, then I guess if we persecute Muslims for 2000 years, and then it will de facto be their fault.
If they continue to resist pillage of their resources and oppose whatever agendas you may have, I say let them have it for 2000 years. That should teach them a lesson!
No arab country has millions of Jews planning on burning it from existance.
Right again! Yet, Israel is protected by the US. In the light of the Iraq invasion and the obvious alliance between the US and Israel, some could argue that Arabs face a threat from that alliance.
It's entirely possible that they don't have a single nuke of their own, and are just mis-stating the presense of nukes installed by their allies.
Sure! Anything's possible. The question then would be why don't they allow inspections?
After all, Christians and Muslims have exactly the same access to influencing our country; they just need to play their cards right.
Impressive analysis! Reminiscent of the American dream though.
Arabs being of semitic heritage themselves, I fail to see how such a thing is plausible.
Ironically, your post illustrates my point; There's no way to have an intelligent debate when one of the parties dares to say that Jews don't have a monopoly over suffering. Emotions quickly take over and the word "anti-semite" is used as a wildcard.
Do you wake up in the morning and blame the Evil Jews when you can't find your slippers? How about when you bang your toe? The Evil Zionist Conspiracy must have been lying in wait for just the right moment to smack you on your toe.
Wrong! I grew up in a country with a firmly rooted Jewish community. Early on, I learned to judge people based on what they do, not who they are. This wasn't the case for many of the bullies which agressed Jews for religious reasons. I was beaten up many times because I tried to defend the Jews.
I think you'd find that the West would gladly accept mainstream (i.e. from those not born or assimilated into a western culture) Arab culture if the largest Arab countries would stop stealing from and oppressing their people and then blaming their plight on the Evil Jews.
So, you agree that the west isn't accepting mainstream Arab culture? Ok, that was too easy.
The west is backing those same countries making any change of regime very hard. I can only back that claim with my own experience.
I don't blame the Jews for anything. Heck, I know most people in Israel are against the massacre the IDF is perpetrating. I'm not gullible enough to believe in an organised racist conspiracy. Yet, I recognize a genocide when I see one; And the Israeli government is responsible for it. Granted, the Arab leaders are jerks and should have acknowledged Israel's right to exist early on but there are not actively responsible for the victims.
I can only assume that you live in the US, but perhaps you live in Ireland/the UK - in either case, this point is still valid.
Indeed you can. But you'd be wrong again. I live in Sweden ('cause of all the blondes and pirates).
FYI - I did a small amount of research, and the only place I could find a source for the Kissinger quote above came from either blatantly racist sites or whackjob International Banking Conspiracy idiots
It was originally quoted in a book by Walter Isaacson, "Kissinger - A Biography", on page 561.
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It is a fact that Venezuela's wealth distibution has historically been very unequal. Provided you can do some research and interpret statistical figures, there's no need be Venezuelan to know that. My opinion was solely based on that.
You might also wanna check out "outfoxed: Rupert murdoch's war on journalism". It's a pretty objective Canadian piece that shows the extent of the US propaganda. If any single individual/lobby had as much power here in Europe (or elsewhere for that matter), people would surely revolt.
Forgive me for not buying the fact that a miserable country would rather have a white pro-business puppet-of-Washington president than a Bolivarian indigeneous one who grew up in the slums and wants to distribute the wealth (look at what he achieved thru cooperatives!).
The US policies have always benefited the rich while disadvantaging the poor, and that's IMHO the number one reason why he's opposing them.
In retrospect?????
* It was a blatant violation of international law;
* The meager domestic support was gained thru lies and deceits (WMDs, links to AlQaeda);
* Even Israel (a declared enemy of Saddam by bombing him in 1982) repeatedly pointed out that Iraq did not constitute a threat to anyone.
* Against common sense (look at the polls from 2003 around the world!)
It was so clear that anyone with access to unbiased media and an ounce of intelligence could have figured out what the real motives of the attacks were.
The world is starving Palestine because the majority voted for some fundamentalist nutheads. Lebanon has been destroyed with US weapons because of the same thing. Should the rest of the world hold you responsible because the majority of your fellow citizens voted for Bush? Nobody hates America, but the way your government's behaving seems to be pissing off a lot of people.Now, try to mitigate the damage by getting your butt off and vote for whoever you think is right. The fate of a great part of the world depends on it!
Before you start bashing Chavez, please take the time to watch "The revolution will not be televised". It's an award winning documentary by an Irish crew who happened to be in Caracas when the coup against Chavez happened back in 2002.
Knowledge is the main weapon in this day and age!
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My laptop upgrade went well, but of course successful upgrades don't make up a story.
However, when I tried to get Beryl working, X got broken and I had to reconfigure it manually. I blame it on Nvidia for not opening up the source though. Kudos to everyone involved in Ubuntu, you did a great job!
If you're not convinced the election has been stolen, check out this excerpt from an article by McNeills:
Reading your reply, I realize things are much more screwed up than I thought. How can you justify such vile remarks? All I can think of is ignorance.m l
Try your best to remain civil and keep arguments constructive. If two (supposedly educated) people can't have a discussion free of "a priori", how can we expect the radical nutheads who represent both sides on the international scene to compromise.
Get out of the US once in while to get a sense of how many people share my point of view. http://www.time.com/time/europe/gdml/peace2003.ht
The "ownership" of space by a terrorist state such as the USA is definitely a threat to our specie's survival on this planet. What's saddening is that
A great place to start would be "Hegemony or survival" (get the audiobook if you're lazy).
Sir Homer,
r y/1160914974.
All my original post was supposed to show was, that in this day and age, it seems OK in the US to bash Islam but getting critical of the Jewish community is clearly off-limits. That said, I don't live in the US (thank God!), so I can't grasp the extent to which that's true. Yet, when such eminent public figures as John Ashcroft says that "Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends his son to die for you", I can't help but notice the mild mainstream response to that. Or the infamous "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity" by Ann Coulter. Contrast with Mel Gibson's latest derogatory comment.
When was the last time a member of the US administration opposed anything Israel does? JFK comes to mind at this point. I'm not claiming he was killed by the Mossad, but merely pointing out to when it was.
Look at the educated analysis of PlanesDragon a few post above; It's not about religion, but simply about power and who's pulling the strings.
As for wanting to throw the Jews in the sea, nobody wants that. Arabs/Muslims are not barbaric savages as Bush&co are trying to depict them. The best example is the row provoked by Ahmadinejad's comment about Israel. Khomeini and Ahmadinejad were referring to the need for regime change, the ending of the regime occupying the Palestinians in violation of international law. They were not talking, as Netanyahu and co claim, about the destruction of the state of Israel or the Jewish people. The Iranian head of state is far from a being a saint, yet compared to Bush, he emerges as one.
Yes, Arabs were jerks for putting their selfish interests above enforcing the intergrity of a Palestinian state and working out with Israel towards peace. And yes, Jews have suffered a great deal throughout human history. Is that a reason to punish innocents in Gaza? Before you attempt to answer that question do me a personal favour and read the following article: http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avne
Please?
Also, in late 2002 Saddam Hussein, in a letter to Hans Blix, invited UN weapons inspectors back into the country. Subsequently the Security Council issued resolution 1441 authorizing new inspections in Iraq. The carefully-worded U.N. resolution put the burden on Iraq, not U.N. inspectors, to prove that they no longer had weapons of mass destruction. Now, which kind of world assumes you guilty until you've proven otherwise?
Plus, you theory supposes that the US secret service was unable to get such info. I suspect that there's a report buried somewhere or that they didn't even bother to look into it.
Back on topic, the BBC has a documentary about "Israel's secret weapon", which should give enough background for anyone to draw their own conclusions.
I wouldn't consider myself a "raving lunatic", nor would I consider any of the "raving lunatics" to be true Muslims. Pretty much in the same way any educated Christian would question the methods used during the crusades. The key point here being education. However, our heavy reliance on the media today gives us a rather distorted view of reality. You can't deny the blatant bias of the mainstream media nor can you claim that the west is treating Israelis and Palestinians as equals (In your own words: Israel is more or less a western country). Israel's military power is clearly superior to all Arab countries put together. Israel has been the agressor in all its conflicts for the last couple of decades (Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt
On the paper, I agree that the Israeli government would be seem more trustworthy than the Arab dictatorships. But once you look past the facade and realize that the Israeli secret service often puts some "agent provocateur" to turn peaceful protests into chaos, you might start to be a bit more critical of their tactics. I had knowledge of those before the whole contreversy started. They were even published by Arab papers weeks before the protests began. A cheap Egyptian politician hijacked the pictures for his own agenda, triggering the riots. I was present at one of those demonstrations, and could see first-hand that the anger was more about the "Israel-Palestine", Afghanistan and Iraq than about some scribbles (no matter how vile). This is
I understand and appreciate your concern though.
A very interesting read on the issue; http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?Secti
Right again! Yet, Israel is protected by the US. In the light of the Iraq invasion and the obvious alliance between the US and Israel, some could argue that Arabs face a threat from that alliance.
Sure! Anything's possible. The question then would be why don't they allow inspections?
Ironically, your post illustrates my point; There's no way to have an intelligent debate when one of the parties dares to say that Jews don't have a monopoly over suffering. Emotions quickly take over and the word "anti-semite" is used as a wildcard. Wrong! I grew up in a country with a firmly rooted Jewish community. Early on, I learned to judge people based on what they do, not who they are. This wasn't the case for many of the bullies which agressed Jews for religious reasons. I was beaten up many times because I tried to defend the Jews. So, you agree that the west isn't accepting mainstream Arab culture? Ok, that was too easy.
The west is backing those same countries making any change of regime very hard. I can only back that claim with my own experience.
I don't blame the Jews for anything. Heck, I know most people in Israel are against the massacre the IDF is perpetrating.
I'm not gullible enough to believe in an organised racist conspiracy. Yet, I recognize a genocide when I see one; And the Israeli government is responsible for it. Granted, the Arab leaders are jerks and should have acknowledged Israel's right to exist early on but there are not actively responsible for the victims. Indeed you can. But you'd be wrong again. I live in Sweden ('cause of all the blondes and pirates). It was originally quoted in a book by Walter Isaacson, "Kissinger - A Biography", on page 561.