Hugo Chavez --- The Devil Came to the UN Yesterday

[American Patriot]

That is a DIRECT quote from Hugo Chavez.

I hope to God you people are all LISTENING to this smug, son of a Bitch. Calling our President "the Devil", calling the US government names. Calling us immoral, hateful, and saying we "Allowed Israel to destroy Lebanon".

These people are in our hemisphere now. They are Communists. They are going to be a problem for America, and they aren't going to wait for long.

China has a foot in. Argentina is now being led by the hateful, anti-capitalist, Anti-American... Hugo Chavez.

This man is dangerous and he's closer to home than Hammas.

[American Patriot]

Breaking News >> Venezuela's Chavez Calls Bush 'The Devil' During Insult-Filled Speech to U.N.

http://www.foxnews.com/

[American Patriot]

Chavez Signs Anti US Cooperation Pact w/Iran Providing Bases in Venezula (axis of evil!)
Debkafile Global Security Newsletter ^ | sept 20 2006 | Gioria Shamis-retired Ecomonist Magazine reporter



While the leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement nations were making speeches at the 14th conference of their movement in Havana in mid-September, three groups of intelligence experts were off in a well-guarded corner next door to talk about matters far from the conference’s main theme of how to develop backward economies and societies.


Iranian, Cuban and Venezuelan teams were putting their heads together on ways of translating their leaders' hostile rhetoric and slogans into effective war action against the United States.


DEBKAfile’s Exclusive intelligence and counter-terror sources disclose that the three teams were made up of intelligence officers and civilian officials on the staffs of the three rulers; their job is maintaining clandestine ties with underground and terrorist organizations.


After the NAM conference ended, the Iranian and Venezuelan teams moved their talks to Caracas where Ahmadinejad continued his talks with Chavez on Sept 17 and 18.


Interestingly, Iran’s Islamic revolutionary leaders have maintained warm ties of cooperation and mutual assistance with Castro’s Cuba since they came to power in Tehran in 1979. They admired his revolutionary zeal and consistent anti-US policies. Tehran also exploited Cuba’s economic straits to deepen its penetration of the country with a view to setting up an Iranian base in Cuba for its continental operations.


But the relationship suffered ups and downs, especially when Castro declined to give Iranian agents a free hand for subversion and espionage against the United States. In 2003, the Cuban ruler was furious when Iranian diplomats, without asking for permission, installed in their homes in a farm on the outskirts of Havana jamming equipment against television programs bounced from the United States through satellite to Iran. They were trying to stop Iranian opposition-backed television broadcasters in Los Angeles calling on Iranians to rise up against the Islamic regime. Castro made the Iranian diplomats evacuate the farm and remove their gear.
Castro is too old a hand to be manipulated in matters of subversion and terrorism. Chavez in contrast is just as anti-American but also rated by Tehran an easier mark. Although he needs to be handled with kid gloves as head of an oil-exporting country, the Iranians have noted that the Venezuelan leader is also open to cooperation in the politics of oil.


On Sept. 18, he insisted that Ahmadinejad attend a ceremony celebrating the gushing of the 7th Aya Well of the Kuchouy Oil Field developed by a Venezuelan-Iranian partnership. This was to be a landmark on the road to a merger between the two oil industries. Tehran is not too happy about this partnership but is going along with small, symbolic steps while extracting from Caracas – and eventually it hopes from Havana – forward facilities for running Iranian clandestine agents in North and South America.


DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources report that Ahmadinejad also talked persuasively to Chavez about making a show of deploying a few Iranian-made 2,000-km range Shahab-3 missiles – first in Venezuela then in Cuba – as a menace to the United States.


Chavez has not given Tehran his answer. But both he and Castro will think twice about granting this request, for fear of crossing one line too many for the Bush administration to swallow. However, Iranian ambitions to harm American know no limits.


The three-cornered meeting in Havana between the Ahmadinejad, Chavez and Raoul Castro at the beginning of the week reached a number of decisions in principle although they remain to be fleshed out with operational details. Castro was reluctant to make final decisions because he said his brother would soon be back at the helm.


They did agree that anything decided during the Iranian and Venezuelan presidents’ Caracas talks would be put before the Cuban ruler. They also decided that their intelligence teams would meet again during the UN General Assembly session in New York later this week. After discovering this plan, Washington refused the Iranian president’s “aides” – presented as journalists - entry visas to New York on Tuesday, Sept. 19.


The three-way talks have thus far yielded a solid decision for Iranian intelligence agents, some of them sabotage specialists, to be sent soon to Cuba and Venezuela. They will operate in the guise of road network and industrial development experts. Their real mission will be to conduct surveys on the practicability of using Cuba and Venezuela as bases for subversive activities against the United States and other parts of Latin America.


Iran is also busy creating similar bases in E. Africa, favoring Sudan and Somalia.


At the Havana NAM conference the Iranian president and Sudan’s Omar Bashir were seen deep in conversation. Tehran believes that the Sudanese ruler will come round now to accepting expanded military and intelligence collaboration between the two countries, whereas in 2003, he threw Iranian agents out of Sudan together with all their development specialists. Bashir is now seeking support for his Darfur policy which aims to remove pro-Western military elements from Sudan.


Iran is on the way to harnessing two more countries to its clandestine anti-US campaign: Somalia and Yemen. In Mogadishu, the Islamic Courts movement headed by Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys is strengthening its grip on Somalia. Like Iran’s Islamic rulers, this group also preaches jihad and martyrdom (suicide attacks) for the sake of Islam.


The Somali movement therefore provides fertile ground for recruiting terrorists for suicide missions on behalf of Iran and al Qaeda alike as part of their subversion and terror campaigns across the African continent.
Mogadishu’s new rulers, whose number includes a group of middle-ranking al Qaeda commanders, are busy training an army to support their regime. Al Qaeda and Iranian Revolutionary Guards instructors are building up a corps of suiciders to attacks US embassies and Israeli targets across the continent.


The Yemeni ruler, Abdallah Salah, and his army chiefs are opposed to giving Iranian agents free rein in their country, but in the last two years, Tehran is paying Shiite extremist groups in Yemen to bring the regime under increasing pressure by acts of murder and sabotage.


Iran’s Islamic rulers believe they are in real danger of an American air attack on their nuclear installations some time in November or December this year. They are therefore pushing hard for new allies in Latin America, Africa and Arabia and points of vantage for hitting back at the United States and its centers of influence on three continents as an effective deterrent to an American attack.

[Sean Osborne]

We need immediate regime change in Venezuela.

Declare war now. Thems fightin' words. Period.

Chavez recieved a large, sustained and enthusiastic applause form the General Assembly.

UN out of the US ... NOW!!!!!

[American Patriot]

I just listened to this slime-ball live at the UN saying the President of the US was "the Devil" and he could still smell the sulphur. This bastard lives in OUR hemisphere and is closer to us than Hammas, and likely just as dangerous if not more so.

Americans had better WAKE the hell up. Sorry, but I have to post this.




http://realitycheck.blogsome.com

[Sean Osborne]

Americans have to demand of our congressional representatives the offical and immediate severance of diplomatic relations between the United States of America and Venezuela.

[American Patriot]

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Chavez Calls Bush 'Devil' in Insult-Riddled Speech to U.N.

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

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NEW YORK — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took his verbal battle with President Bush to the floor of the United Nations Wednesday, calling Bush "the devil" during an insult-riddled address to the General Assembly.

"The devil came here yesterday" Chavez said, gesturing to where Bush had stood during his speech on Tuesday. "He came here talking as if he were the owner of the world."


He later said he was referring to President Bush when he spoke of the devil
Brandishing a book by Noam Chomsky, Chavez urged the assembly and all Americans to read the leftist's ruminations on Washington political power.
Chavez, who joined Iran last week in an alliance against U.S. influence, while not directly naming President Bush, accused Washington of "domination, exploitation and pillage of peoples of the world."


"We appeal to the people of the United States and the world to halt this threat, which is like a sword hanging over our head," he said.


He also said the U.N. in its current system "doesn't work" and is "antidemocratic." He called for reform, saying the U.S. government's "immoral veto" had allowed recent Israeli bombings of Lebanon to continue unabated for more than a month.


"Venezuela once again proposes today that we reform the United Nations," he said.


He later proposed that the United Nations move its headquarters from New York to Venezuela.

[American Patriot]

Ok....

Here's MY take on this:

PDVSA Profile

PDVSA Profile

Petróleos de Venezuela S.A.(PDVSA) is a world energy corporation, owned by the Venezuelan State. Its operations cover the exploration, production, refining, transport and marketing of hydrocarbons, as well as the Orimulsión®, chemical, petrochemical and coal businesses.

Resource Base

Venezuela has the largest hydrocarbon reserves in the Western Hemisphere, representing approximately half the region's reserves, which positions the country as fifth in the world in proven reserves. With the Orinoco Belt reserves, the country possesses the largest accumulation of liquid fuel on the planet.

http://www.citgo.com/AboutCITGO/PDVSAprofile.jsp

So.. what I say....

BOYCOT CITCO GAS!

(That's 7/11 in my area.)

[PanBear]

Did any of you catch the part where Chavez used a Arabic word that means "God willing" in his speech? Something along the lines of "eshalla". Combining that with his repeated calling Bush the "Devil", which is also a favorite name the Islamic extremists like to use for Bush, it is so apparent that Chavez is aligned with & hopes to enrich those ties with the Islamic extremists. His comments were designed to make this very clear. I can almost see him strolling down the streets holding hands with Amajenajad (sp?).

[PanBear]

Just to clarify about the "God Willing" comment. Here's the quote it came from with proper spelling.

"The United States empire is on its way down and it will be finished in the near future, inshallah"

[Sean Osborne]

So.. what I say....

BOYCOT CITCO GAS!

(That's 7/11 in my area.)

Rick,

Welcome to the club...

http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/si...hp?storyid=560

UPDATED 5 SEPTEMBER 2006 2 PM EDT

Sending a Message

What can we American’s do to send a very strong message to Hugo Chavez, the Chavista’s and Venezuela? It’s quite simple actually. All across America we should boycott CITGO. Your local CITGO gas station is owned by PDV America, Inc., an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., a/k/a/ the national oil company of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela


That’s right, we can as individuals initiate a grass-roots set of economic sanctions against Hugo Chavez and his regime. Simply refuse to purchase any gasoline, diesel and other petroleum product from CITGO stations or CITGO-related products wherever you may find them in the continental United States, Canada or Mexico. In fact, if you decide to embark on this course of action and you purchase gasoline or petroleum product at 7-Eleven stores, please check to see if those products are not in fact CITGO products.

To be perfectly clear, this is much more than sending Chavez a message, or our own governments a message, it is about reinforcing American self-reliance and control over our own national infrastructure as well as combating on a very personal level the direct threats governments like Hugo Chavez’ Venezuela and his new-found anti-Semite Hezbollah and Tehran-sponsored allies pose to the over 900 million residents of this hemisphere.

This is a World War after all, don’t you agree? Well then, this is a World War that you can personally participate in wherever you may live.

UPDATE

I have come to learn in the past 36 hours that there are many, many conservative groups who have also called for a boycott of CITGO within the past year or so. This is great news and leads me to reconsider that what is needed at this point is for something similar to following to occur.

Realizing there has recently been taken a strategic decision by CITGO to realign its commercial “footprint” in CONUS, and that this realignment is based upon the transition or elimination of CITGO retail operations in certain Midwestern states, Kentucky, Oklahoma and north Texas simultaneously with an increased presence in other Midwestern states, Northeastern states, Mid-Atlantic states and Southern states no later than March 2007, here’s what I propose we do.

Phase I: “Operation Screw You Hugo”

Calls for the immediate unification and indefinite continuation of all CITGO boycott efforts in the United States. If you live in the regions identified above do not buy a single drop of CITGO petroleum products and thereby fund Hugo Chavez’ military buildup and his announced plans to “bring down the American government” - a government established by “We The People”.

Phase II: “Operation American Freedom”

Call for a grass roots demand that Congress enact and the President sign a bill nationalizing all CITGO operations in the continental United States to be conducted in phases to mitigate or make as transparent as possible any economic fallout upon US citizens employed by CITGO. This action to be defined as follows:

A.) Identify the current regime of Hugo Chavez’ Venezuela as a state sponsor of terrorism, an ally of known terrorist states (Iran and Syria), as well as an enemy of the United States in the War on Terror;

B.) Pursuant to and as a direct result of the above, we call for the federalization or nationalization of all physical CITGO operations in the United States in the cause of National Security;

C.) The seizure, freezing and blocking of the transfer of any revenue or funds to the Venezuelan parent of CITGO;

D.) The limited and very short-term US government oversight of the current US-based CITGO Corporate functions and the emergence of an American-owned corporation in its place;

E.) Whatever else it takes for the legislators and governors of the affected states to maintain former-CITGO operations and sales to the benefit of American employees and the American people.

[Sean Osborne]

http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1213


Iran’s Terror-cum-Intelligence Networks Thrown across Three Continents
DEBKAfile Exclusive Intelligence Report
September 20, 2006, 5:53 PM (GMT+02:00)

While the leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement nations were making speeches at the 14th conference of their movement in Havana in mid-September, three groups of intelligence experts were off in a well-guarded corner next door to talk about matters far from the conference’s main theme of how to develop backward economies and societies.

Iranian, Cuban and Venezuelan teams were putting their heads together on ways of translating their leaders' hostile rhetoric and slogans into effective war action against the United States.

DEBKAfile’s Exclusive intelligence and counter-terror sources disclose that the three teams were made up of intelligence officers and civilian officials on the staffs of the three rulers; their job is maintaining clandestine ties with underground and terrorist organizations.
After the NAM conference ended, the Iranian and Venezuelan teams moved their talks to Caracas where Ahmadinejad continued his talks with Chavez on Sept 17 and 18.

Interestingly, Iran’s Islamic revolutionary leaders have maintained warm ties of cooperation and mutual assistance with Castro’s Cuba since they came to power in Tehran in 1979. They admired his revolutionary zeal and consistent anti-US policies. Tehran also exploited Cuba’s economic straits to deepen its penetration of the country with a view to setting up an Iranian base in Cuba for its continental operations.

But the relationship suffered ups and downs, especially when Castro declined to give Iranian agents a free hand for subversion and espionage against the United States. In 2003, the Cuban ruler was furious when Iranian diplomats, without asking for permission, installed in their homes in a farm on the outskirts of Havana jamming equipment against television programs bounced from the United States through satellite to Iran. They were trying to stop Iranian opposition-backed television broadcasters in Los Angeles calling on Iranians to rise up against the Islamic regime. Castro made the Iranian diplomats evacuate the farm and remove their gear.

Castro is too old a hand to be manipulated in matters of subversion and terrorism. Chavez in contrast is just as anti-American but also rated by Tehran an easier mark. Although he needs to be handled with kid gloves as head of an oil-exporting country, the Iranians have noted that the Venezuelan leader is also open to cooperation in the politics of oil.
On Sept. 18, he insisted that Ahmadinejad attend a ceremony celebrating the gushing of the 7th Aya Well of the Kuchouy Oil Field developed by a Venezuelan-Iranian partnership. This was to be a landmark on the road to a merger between the two oil industries. Tehran is not too happy about this partnership but is going along with small, symbolic steps while extracting from Caracas – and eventually it hopes from Havana – forward facilities for running Iranian clandestine agents in North and South America.

DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources report that Ahmadinejad also talked persuasively to Chavez about making a show of deploying a few Iranian-made 2,000-km range Shahab-3 missiles – first in Venezuela then in Cuba – as a menace to the United States.
Chavez has not given Tehran his answer. But both he and Castro will think twice about granting this request, for fear of crossing one line too many for the Bush administration to swallow. However, Iranian ambitions to harm American know no limits.

The three-cornered meeting in Havana between the Ahmadinejad, Chavez and Raoul Castro at the beginning of the week reached a number of decisions in principle although they remain to be fleshed out with operational details. Castro was reluctant to make final decisions because he said his brother would soon be back at the helm.

They did agree that anything decided during the Iranian and Venezuelan presidents’ Caracas talks would be put before the Cuban ruler. They also decided that their intelligence teams would meet again during the UN General Assembly session in New York later this week. After discovering this plan, Washington refused the Iranian president’s “aides” – presented as journalists - entry visas to New York on Tuesday, Sept. 19.
The three-way talks have thus far yielded a solid decision for Iranian intelligence agents, some of them sabotage specialists, to be sent soon to Cuba and Venezuela. They will operate in the guise of road network and industrial development experts. Their real mission will be to conduct surveys on the practicability of using Cuba and Venezuela as bases for subversive activities against the United States and other parts of Latin America.

Iran is also busy creating similar bases in E. Africa, favoring Sudan and Somalia.

At the Havana NAM conference the Iranian president and Sudan’s Omar Bashir were seen deep in conversation. Tehran believes that the Sudanese ruler will come round now to accepting expanded military and intelligence collaboration between the two countries, whereas in 2003, he threw Iranian agents out of Sudan together with all their development specialists. Bashir is now seeking support for his Darfur policy which aims to remove pro-Western military elements from Sudan.
Iran is on the way to harnessing two more countries to its clandestine anti-US campaign: Somalia and Yemen. In Mogadishu, the Islamic Courts movement headed by Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys is strengthening its grip on Somalia. Like Iran’s Islamic rulers, this group also preaches jihad and martyrdom (suicide attacks) for the sake of Islam.

The Somali movement therefore provides fertile ground for recruiting terrorists for suicide missions on behalf of Iran and al Qaeda alike as part of their subversion and terror campaigns across the African continent.
Mogadishu’s new rulers, whose number includes a group of middle-ranking al Qaeda commanders, are busy training an army to support their regime. Al Qaeda and Iranian Revolutionary Guards instructors are building up a corps of suiciders to attacks US embassies and Israeli targets across the continent.

The Yemeni ruler, Abdallah Salah, and his army chiefs are opposed to giving Iranian agents free rein in their country, but in the last two years, Tehran is paying Shiite extremist groups in Yemen to bring the regime under increasing pressure by acts of murder and sabotage.
Iran’s Islamic rulers believe they are in real danger of an American air attack on their nuclear installations some time in November or December this year. They are therefore pushing hard for new allies in Latin America, Africa and Arabia and points of vantage for hitting back at the United States and its centers of influence on three continents as an effective deterrent to an American attack.

[falcon]

Chavez: New arms deals to make Venezuela 'impregnable fortress'
Sep 20, 2006, 6:22 GMT

Caracas - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced further purchases of Russian weapons, saying his country is to become 'an impregnable fortress.'

Venezuela has ordered Antonov airplanes and 14 gunship helicopters, the nationalist-leftist told the air force academy in a speech Tuesday night in the central city of Maracay.

'If you want peace, prepare for war, and that is what we are doing,' he said, adding that he wanted to significantly raise the level of the entire 'anti-imperialist armed forces.'

'We have to safeguard our national sovereignty against the aggressors of always,' said the president who has had an antagonistic relationship with the United States since he took office in 1999.

Chavez said Russia is to supply Venezuela by year's end with the first of 24 Sukhoi SU-30MK2s, Russia's most sophisticated fighter planes, and 30 Mil Mi-35 assault helicopters that were part of an arms order worth about 1 billion dollars that he placed in July during a visit to Russia.

At that time, the United States urged Russia to back off from weapons deals with Venezuela.

Such an arms purchase exceeds Caracas' defence needs and is 'not helpful in terms of regional stability,' US State Department spokesman Tom Casey argued, but Russia rebuffed the US concerns.

'Nothing and no one, will be able to move against Venezuela,' Chavez said Tuesday night. '... Venezuela will be an economic, social and energy power in this part of the world.'

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/s...nable_fortress

[American Patriot]

Chavez Hands Out Discounted Oil in Harlem

Thursday, September 21, 2006

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NEW YORK — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was applauded Thursday as he arrived at a Harlem Church to announce more sales of discounted home heating oil to qualified low-income American families.

The appearance came after reports circulated early Thursday morning that the Venezuelan president had left the country overnight after delivering an insult-riddled speech at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday in which he called President Bush the 'devil.'


The crowd chanted "Chavez, Chavez, the people are with you" in Spanish as he walked into the Mount Olivet Baptist Church on Lenox Ave. in Harlem.
Chavez, who was dressed in his signature red shirt, was introduced at the podium by the activist actor Danny Glover.


The event, one of a series designed to boost the Venezuelan leader's popularity in the U.S., was organized by Citgo, a Houston-based energy company that is owned and controlled by the Venezuelan government. Under a Citgo program, families from low-income neighborhoods in New York, Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia have the ability to purchase discounted home heating oil over winter months.

Venezuelan officials and Citgo employees handed out T-shirts prior to the event with the name of the program — "From The Venezuelan Heart To The U.S. Hearths" — printed across the front.

[American Patriot]

RISE UP AGAINST THE EMPIRE

Hugo Chávez


Representatives of the governments of the world, good morning to all of you. First of all, I would like to invite you, very respectfully, to those who have not read this book, to read it. Noam Chomsky, one of the most prestigious American and world intellectuals, Noam Chomsky, and this is one of his most recent books, "Hegemony or Survival: The Imperialist Strategy of the United States." [Holds up book, waves it in front of General Assembly.] “It’s an excellent book to help us understand what has been happening in the world throughout the 20th century, and what’s happening now, and the greatest threat looming over our planet.


[More:]


The hegemonic pretensions of the American empire are placing at risk the very survival of the human species. We continue to warn you about this danger and we appeal to the people of the United States and the world to halt this threat, which is like a sword hanging over our heads. I had considered reading from this book, but, for the sake of time,” [flips through the pages, which are numerous] “I will just leave it as a recommendation.
It reads easily, it is a very good book, I’m sure Madame [President] you are familiar with it. It appears in English, in Russian, in Arabic, in German. I think that the first people who should read this book are our brothers and sisters in the United States, because their threat is right in their own house.


The devil is right at home. The devil, the devil himself, is right in the house.
“And the devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the devil came here. Right here.” [crosses himself] “And it smells of sulfur still today.


Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.


I think we could call a psychiatrist to analyze yesterday’s statement made by the president of the United States. As the spokesman of imperialism, he came to share his nostrums, to try to preserve the current pattern of domination, exploitation and pillage of the peoples of the world.


An Alfred Hitchcock movie could use it as a scenario. I would even propose a title: “The Devil’s Recipe.”


As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And we cannot allow them to do that. We cannot allow world dictatorship to be consolidated.
The world parent’s statement — cynical, hypocritical, full of this imperial hypocrisy from the need they have to control everything.


They say they want to impose a democratic model. But that’s their democratic model. It’s the false democracy of elites, and, I would say, a very original democracy that’s imposed by weapons and bombs and firing weapons.


What a strange democracy. Aristotle might not recognize it or others who are at the root of democracy.


What type of democracy do you impose with marines and bombs?


The president of the United States, yesterday, said to us, right here, in this room, and I’m quoting, “Anywhere you look, you hear extremists telling you can escape from poverty and recover your dignity through violence, terror and martyrdom.”


Wherever he looks, he sees extremists. And you, my brother — he looks at your color, and he says, oh, there’s an extremist. Evo Morales, the worthy president of Bolivia, looks like an extremist to him.


The imperialists see extremists everywhere. It’s not that we are extremists. It’s that the world is waking up. It’s waking up all over. And people are standing up.


I have the feeling, dear world dictator, that you are going to live the rest of your days as a nightmare because the rest of us are standing up, all those who are rising up against American imperialism, who are shouting for equality, for respect, for the sovereignty of nations.


Yes, you can call us extremists, but we are rising up against the empire, against the model of domination.


The president then — and this he said himself, he said: “I have come to speak directly to the populations in the Middle East, to tell them that my country wants peace.”


That’s true. If we walk in the streets of the Bronx, if we walk around New York, Washington, San Diego, in any city, San Antonio, San Francisco, and we ask individuals, the citizens of the United States, what does this country want? Does it want peace? They’ll say yes.


But the government doesn’t want peace. The government of the United States doesn’t want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war.


It wants peace. But what’s happening in Iraq? What happened in Lebanon? In Palestine? What’s happening? What’s happened over the last 100 years in Latin America and in the world? And now threatening Venezuela — new threats against Venezuela, against Iran?


He spoke to the people of Lebanon. Many of you, he said, have seen how your homes and communities were caught in the crossfire. How cynical can you get? What a capacity to lie shamefacedly. The bombs in Beirut with millimetric precision?


This is crossfire? He’s thinking of a western, when people would shoot from the hip and somebody would be caught in the crossfire.


This is imperialist, fascist, assassin, genocidal, the empire and Israel firing on the people of Palestine and Lebanon. That is what happened. And now we hear, “We’re suffering because we see homes destroyed.’


The president of the United States came to talk to the peoples — to the peoples of the world. He came to say — I brought some documents with me, because this morning I was reading some statements, and I see that he talked to the people of Afghanistan, the people of Lebanon, the people of Iran. And he addressed all these peoples directly.


And you can wonder, just as the president of the United States addresses those peoples of the world, what would those peoples of the world tell him if they were given the floor? What would they have to say?


And I think I have some inkling of what the peoples of the south, the oppressed people think. They would say, “Yankee imperialist, go home.” I think that is what those people would say if they were given the microphone and if they could speak with one voice to the American imperialists.


And that is why, Madam President, my colleagues, my friends, last year we came here to this same hall as we have been doing for the past eight years, and we said something that has now been confirmed — fully, fully confirmed.


I don’t think anybody in this room could defend the system. Let’s accept — let’s be honest. The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It’s worthless.


Oh, yes, it’s good to bring us together once a year, see each other, make statements and prepare all kinds of long documents, and listen to good speeches, like Abel’s yesterday, or President Mullah’s . Yes, it’s good for that.


And there are a lot of speeches, and we’ve heard lots from the president of Sri Lanka, for instance, and the president of Chile.


But we, the assembly, have been turned into a merely deliberative organ. We have no power, no power to make any impact on the terrible situation in the world. And that is why Venezuela once again proposes, here, today, 20 September, that we re-establish the United Nations.


Last year, Madam, we made four modest proposals that we felt to be crucially important. We have to assume the responsibility our heads of state, our ambassadors, our representatives, and we have to discuss it.
The first is expansion, and Mullah talked about this yesterday right here.
The Security Council, both as it has permanent and non-permanent categories, (inaudible) developing countries and LDCs must be given access as new permanent members. That’s step one.


Second, effective methods to address and resolve world conflicts, transparent decisions.


Point three, the immediate suppression — and that is something everyone’s calling for — of the anti-democratic mechanism known as the veto, the veto on decisions of the Security Council.


Let me give you a recent example. The immoral veto of the United States allowed the Israelis, with impunity, to destroy Lebanon. Right in front of all of us as we stood there watching, a resolution in the council was prevented.


Fourthly, we have to strengthen, as we’ve always said, the role and the powers of the secretary general of the United Nations.


Yesterday, the secretary general practically gave us his speech of farewell. And he recognized that over the last 10 years, things have just gotten more complicated; hunger, poverty, violence, human rights violations have just worsened. That is the tremendous consequence of the collapse of the United Nations system and American hegemonistic pretensions.


Madam, Venezuela a few years ago decided to wage this battle within the United Nations by recognizing the United Nations, as members of it that we are, and lending it our voice, our thinking.


Our voice is an independent voice to represent the dignity and the search for peace and the reformulation of the international system; to denounce persecution and aggression of hegemonistic forces on the planet.
This is how Venezuela has presented itself. Bolivar’s home has sought a nonpermanent seat on the Security Council.


Let’s see. Well, there’s been an open attack by the U.S. government, an immoral attack, to try and prevent Venezuela from being freely elected to a post in the Security Council.


The imperium is afraid of truth, is afraid of independent voices. It calls us extremists, but they are the extremists.


And I would like to thank all the countries that have kindly announced their support for Venezuela, even though the ballot is a secret one and there’s no need to announce things.


But since the imperium has attacked, openly, they strengthened the convictions of many countries. And their support strengthens us.
Mercosur, as a bloc, has expressed its support, our brothers in Mercosur. Venezuela, with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, is a full member of Mercosur.


And many other Latin American countries, CARICOM, Bolivia have expressed their support for Venezuela. The Arab League, the full Arab League has voiced its support. And I am immensely grateful to the Arab world, to our Arab brothers, our Caribbean brothers, the African Union. Almost all of Africa has expressed its support for Venezuela and countries such as Russia or China and many others.


I thank you all warmly on behalf of Venezuela, on behalf of our people, and on behalf of the truth, because Venezuela, with a seat on the Security Council, will be expressing not only Venezuela’s thoughts, but it will also be the voice of all the peoples of the world, and we will defend dignity and truth.


Over and above all of this, Madam President, I think there are reasons to be optimistic. A poet would have said “helplessly optimistic,” because over and above the wars and the bombs and the aggressive and the preventive war and the destruction of entire peoples, one can see that a new era is dawning.


As Silvio Rodriguez says, the era is giving birth to a heart. There are alternative ways of thinking. There are young people who think differently. And this has already been seen within the space of a mere decade. It was shown that the end of history was a totally false assumption, and the same was shown about Pax Americana and the establishment of the capitalist neo-liberal world. It has been shown, this system, to generate mere poverty. Who believes in it now?


What we now have to do is define the future of the world. Dawn is breaking out all over. You can see it in Africa and Europe and Latin America and Oceanea. I want to emphasize that optimistic vision.


We have to strengthen ourselves, our will to do battle, our awareness. We have to build a new and better world.


Venezuela joins that struggle, and that’s why we are threatened. The U.S. has already planned, financed and set in motion a coup in Venezuela, and it continues to support coup attempts in Venezuela and elsewhere.
President Michelle Bachelet reminded us just a moment ago of the horrendous assassination of the former foreign minister, Orlando Letelier.


And I would just add one thing: Those who perpetrated this crime are free. And that other event where an American citizen also died were American themselves. They were CIA killers, terrorists.


And we must recall in this room that in just a few days there will be another anniversary. Thirty years will have passed from this other horrendous terrorist attack on the Cuban plane, where 73 innocents died, a Cubana de Aviacion airliner.


And where is the biggest terrorist of this continent who took the responsibility for blowing up the plane? He spent a few years in jail in Venezuela. Thanks to CIA and then government officials, he was allowed to escape, and he lives here in this country, protected by the government.
And he was convicted. He has confessed to his crime. But the U.S.
government has double standards. It protects terrorism when it wants to.
And this is to say that Venezuela is fully committed to combating terrorism and violence. And we are one of the people who are fighting for peace.


Luis Posada Carriles is the name of that terrorist who is protected here.
And other tremendously corrupt people who escaped from Venezuela are also living here under protection: a group that bombed various embassies, that assassinated people during the coup. They kidnapped me and they were going to kill me, but I think God reached down and our people came out into the streets and the army was too, and so I’m here today.


But these people who led that coup are here today in this country protected by the American government. And I accuse the American government of protecting terrorists and of having a completely cynical discourse.


We mentioned Cuba. Yes, we were just there a few days ago. We just came from there happily.


And there you see another era born. The Summit of the 15, the Summit of the Nonaligned, adopted a historic resolution. This is the outcome document. Don’t worry, I’m not going to read it.


But you have a whole set of resolutions here that were adopted after open debate in a transparent matter — more than 50 heads of state. Havana was the capital of the south for a few weeks, and we have now launched, once again, the group of the nonaligned with new momentum.


And if there is anything I could ask all of you here, my companions, my brothers and sisters, it is to please lend your good will to lend momentum to the Nonaligned Movement for the birth of the new era, to prevent hegemony and prevent further advances of imperialism.


And as you know, Fidel Castro is the president of the nonaligned for the next three years, and we can trust him to lead the charge very efficiently.
Unfortunately they thought, “Oh, Fidel was going to die.” But they’re going to be disappointed because he didn’t. And he’s not only alive, he’s back in his green fatigues, and he’s now presiding the nonaligned.


So, my dear colleagues, Madam President, a new, strong movement has been born, a movement of the south. We are men and women of the south.
With this document, with these ideas, with these criticisms, I’m now closing my file. I’m taking the book with me. And, don’t forget, I’m recommending it very warmly and very humbly to all of you.


We want ideas to save our planet, to save the planet from the imperialist threat. And hopefully in this very century, in not too long a time, we will see this, we will see this new era, and for our children and our grandchildren a world of peace based on the fundamental principles of the United Nations, but a renewed United Nations.


And maybe we have to change location. Maybe we have to put the United Nations somewhere else; maybe a city of the south. We’ve proposed Venezuela.


You know that my personal doctor had to stay in the plane. The chief of security had to be left in a locked plane. Neither of these gentlemen was allowed to arrive and attend the U.N. meeting. This is another abuse and another abuse of power on the part of the Devil. It smells of sulfur here, but God is with us and I embrace you all.
May God bless us all. Good day to you.



Found this on a leftist site... best I could do



http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-b...nst_the_empire



(The mission of the site, so you know...:

Mission: The mission of peoplesvoice.org is two fold:
► To inform the public about news and information, which a corporate media aligned with the Bush administration will not.
► To provide people with a way of expressing their views publicly concerning issues that effect the quality of life, our freedoms, and our environment. Other areas of interest also include, but are not limited to; articles about politics, human rights, economic, democratic, scientific, and social justice issues.


Message: Unless the people stand together and take back their country from this handful of greedy megalomaniacs who have stolen it, their freedom will be lost and everything that America once was and once stood for will also be lost. The quality of life for the American people will be reduced to a 'third world' level by the neocons as they march forward with their robber baron's agenda. * and on and on and drones on and on*)

[Sean Osborne]

Rick,

Welcome to the club...

http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/site/modules/news/article.php?storyid=560

Excerpt:

That’s right, we can as individuals initiate a grass-roots set of economic sanctions against Hugo Chavez and his regime. Simply refuse to purchase any gasoline, diesel and other petroleum product from CITGO stations or CITGO-related products wherever you may find them in the continental United States, Canada or Mexico. In fact, if you decide to embark on this course of action and you purchase gasoline or petroleum product at 7-Eleven stores, please check to see if those products are not in fact CITGO products.

Congrats and a pat on the back to all involved .. we have a partial victory

7-Eleven stores will no longer sell CITGO gas. They will offer instead their own brand of fuel.

http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/si...hp?storyid=612

*26 September 2006: AM 540 WFLA Exclusive: Bud Hedinger of WFLA AM 540 in Orlando, Florida has obtained a copy of a letter from Janey Carpenter, Manager of Consumer Affairs that states 7-11 Stores are ending their 20-year supply agreement with CITGO Petroleum Corp. According to Carpenter, the contract ends next week and 7-11 is now making the switch to its own branded gasoline. Details here: Bud Hedinger Live . According to Citgo's website, the company is "owned by PDV America Inc., an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Petrleos de Venezuela, S.A., the national oil company of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela."

Note from NEIN staff: The only true answer is to become less dependent on foreign oil supplies and begin drilling in the US until we find a viable and alternative fuel source. Otherwise, we are simply moving our funding from one terrorist-led country to another.

[falcon]

Sean thanks

Note from NEIN staff: The only true answer is to become less dependent on foreign oil supplies and begin drilling in the US until we find a viable and alternative fuel source. Otherwise, we are simply moving our funding from one terrorist-led country to another.

Yep; now all we need to do is to get that message across to our law makers. The Commie left and the EPA need to be dumped in the hole we drill for the oil.

We have the oil and just found a new field in the Gulf.

[Jag]

Navy's Citgo Gas Stations

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaking at the U.N. about President George W. Bush] "Yesterday, the devil came here. Right here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today."


Tough words from Venezuela's totalitarian ruler Hugo Chavez at the U.N. In recent years, Chavez has called America a terrorist state and the Count Dracula of the world. He's appeared on Al-Jazeera TV pleading for allies to bring down American society. He's pledged solidarity with Iran and he supports Iran's nuclear program.


Chavez has hinted he would back Iran in a confrontation with the U.S. military. So picture the irony. Our servicemen and women who fill up their cars at Navy bases across America are buying Citgo gas. Citgo is owned by the Venezuelan government. The Navy operates 53 Citgo gas stations nationwide including this one in Annapolis, Maryland. Citgo has annual contracts worth $60 million. The longest is set to expire in the year 2010.


Navy officials point out the original contract was awarded in 1989. That was three years before Chavez launched a coup attempt and ten years before he became President.


That aside, now is time for Navy lawyers to find a way to cancel this contract for good.


And that's The Point. In Annapolis, Maryland


This is coming off of Drudge Report today.
Jag

[American Patriot]

Venezuela's Chavez granted approval to rule by decree
ABC News Online ^ | January 19 2007



Venezuelan legislators have voted unanimously to grant leftist President Hugo Chavez initial approval to rule by decree for 18 months.


The move comes a week after he began a second six-year term, vowing to seek to become president for life.


Legislative president Cilia Flores says the Bill authorises Mr Chavez to "rule by decree ... with the force of law".


"We welcome this enabling law, with the support of the National Assembly, which backs our leader," she said.


Mr Chavez, in power since 1999, began serving a new term a week ago, with his allies controlling Venezuela's unicameral legislature.


Opponents called the special law a "totalitarian abuse" of power.


(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...