Monday, February 21, 2005
Venezuela's Chavez: Bush Wants to Kill Me
From the BBC:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said he believes the US government is planning to assassinate him. "If they kill me, the name of the person responsible is [President] George Bush," Mr Chavez said.... [...] "If, by the hand of the devil, those perverse plans succeed... forget about Venezuelan oil, Mr Bush, " Mr Chavez said during his weekly TV show... "If you try, you will regret it Comrade Mr Bush." Venezuela is one of the world's leading oil exporters - it sells about 1.5 million barrels a day to the US. Mr Chavez has repeatedly accused the US of backing Venezuela's opposition to oust or even kill him, a charge Washington denies. He has alleged that the White House played part in an April coup in 2002, which briefly removed him from power. Mr Chavez's comments echoed the words of Cuban President Fidel Castro who said last week: "If Chavez is assassinated, the blame will fall on Bush." "I say that as someone who has survived hundreds of the empire's (assassination) plans," Mr Castro added. "Now, I am going to say it. Neither Fidel Castro nor I talk nonsense," Mr Chavez said on Sunday.Everybody knows that the Bush junta -- which has strong ties to the archconservative business interests that control much of Venezuelan society, especially its media -- was behind the April 2002 coup attempt. It was only the popularity of Chavez with the army and the people -- and some ham-handed high-handed dictatorial moves on the part of the would-be coupmeisters -- that kept the coup from succeeding. Chavez is one hell of a lot better for Venezuela than the people who are his main enemies. Which is precisely why they are his main enemies. His land and other reforms have dramatically improved the lot of Venezuela's peasants. Remember the recall attempt last year -- the one that failed miserably? The only reason a recall was possible is because the 1999 Venezuelan constitution -- which Chavez approved and helped write -- has a recall provision written into it. Not the sort of thing you'd expect from somebody who the corporate US media depicts as an anti-democratic dictator.
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Let's see, since the Busheviki came to power there has been instability in Venezuela, which took their oil out of production, there has been instability in Nigeria, which has reduced oil production, and a war in Iraq which has stopped their oil production. Result, price of oil soars and remaining producers, including Saudi Arabia benefit.
And who financed the Busheviki? The Saudi's of course.
And who owns our airwaves? The Saudi's of course.
http://gotv.blogspot.com/2005/02/saudis-own-our-airwaves.html
Alice Marshall
GOTV
And who financed the Busheviki? The Saudi's of course.
And who owns our airwaves? The Saudi's of course.
http://gotv.blogspot.com/2005/02/saudis-own-our-airwaves.html
Alice Marshall
GOTV
# posted by 
: 2/22/2005 05:10:00 AM
: 2/22/2005 05:10:00 AM
I read the St. Pete Times article that you reference on your website regarding GE, Alice, and confess that I do not read it that way at all.
The article says that "Its business partners include General Electric, Nortel, Snapple beverages, Motorola and CitiBank."
Being a business partner (presumably in engineering) is different than controlling the telecomm side of GE.
My feeling is that the influence the Saudis have over American media has less to do with the bin Laden family than with the confluence of interests in maintaining the royal family in power. For example, the engines in the F-16 are made by GE . Saudi Arabia buys F-16s. So at the top levels of GE, the Saudis are seen as a paying customer.
And the customer is always right, don't you know?
The article says that "Its business partners include General Electric, Nortel, Snapple beverages, Motorola and CitiBank."
Being a business partner (presumably in engineering) is different than controlling the telecomm side of GE.
My feeling is that the influence the Saudis have over American media has less to do with the bin Laden family than with the confluence of interests in maintaining the royal family in power. For example, the engines in the F-16 are made by GE . Saudi Arabia buys F-16s. So at the top levels of GE, the Saudis are seen as a paying customer.
And the customer is always right, don't you know?
The New Yorker has another article detailing the bin Laden's investment in GE. Yeah, they own enough of GE to excert considerable influence, although, as you suggest, they are also important customers.
This is just the part that has been traced. After all, the press is owned by mutual funds, and there is no public way to know how much Saudi investment there is in those funds.
Alice Marshall
GOTV
This is just the part that has been traced. After all, the press is owned by mutual funds, and there is no public way to know how much Saudi investment there is in those funds.
Alice Marshall
GOTV
# posted by : 2/22/2005 10:42:00 AM
: 2/22/2005 10:42:00 AM
Actually, thanks to help from Brazil's Lula, Chavez was able to keep the oil flowing -- which is the main reason why his enemies pressed for the recall.
See, they'd hoped to keep the oil rigs shut down permanently and trigger popular discontent with Chavez. But within six months, the rigs were all back up and pumping at close to post-coup-attempt rates; after a year, they'd exceeded those rates.
With all hope of an uprising gone, they decided to try and rig a recall election. But even that has failed. So it looks like it's back to square one and another coup/assassination attempt.
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See, they'd hoped to keep the oil rigs shut down permanently and trigger popular discontent with Chavez. But within six months, the rigs were all back up and pumping at close to post-coup-attempt rates; after a year, they'd exceeded those rates.
With all hope of an uprising gone, they decided to try and rig a recall election. But even that has failed. So it looks like it's back to square one and another coup/assassination attempt.
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