February 2006
February 27, 2006 News
Posted: Monday, February 27, 2006
¤ Saudi Police Kill Five Suspected Militants
¤ Iran and Russia reach tenuous deal on nuclear programmes
¤ Embracing a Lethal Tar Baby
¤ US-run jail in Afghanistan 'worse than Guantanamo'
¤ Venezuela Prepared to Stop U.S. Exports
¤ Bush Mired in the Nuclear Fallout
¤ Death Squads, Shrine Bombers, Civil War
¤ Atwar Bahjat: Death of a Fighter for Truth
¤ Chaos in Iraq Sends Shock Waves Across Middle East
¤ The 9/11 USAF Stand Down
¤ Armenian massacre of Azerbaijanis
¤ It's Usually About Money
¤ You Can Do Anything with a Bayonet Except Sit on It
¤ The case for complacency in Iraq
¤ Iran's fate still in US hands
¤ Setting sail away from America
¤ Over 20 dead as Baghdad curfew ends
February 26, 2006 News
Posted: Sunday, February 26, 2006
¤ Sunni call for deal to avert civil war
¤ Bomb Explosions Kill Two GIs, 3 Iraqis
¤ British troops fear backlash as Afghans attack opium crop
¤ U.S. prison in Afghanistan grows to fill Guantanamo's role
¤ War in Error
¤ Lest We Forget
¤ Syria disputes US charges it incited cartoon mobs
¤ "Global War ... For Some Years to Come."
¤ What is Supply-Side Economics?
¤ What the UAE Seaports Deal Teaches Us
¤ Privatizing US Ports
¤ Rewriting History
¤ Minister tells media to fall in line
¤ Ports of Profit: Dubai Does Brisk War Business
¤ It Was Our Mistake That Led To This Desecration and Killing
¤ Bush, Rats & a Sinking Ship
¤ U.S., Europe back the occupier and punish Hamas
February 23, 2006 News
Posted: Thursday, February 23, 2006
¤ Haiti Election Sends World a Message
¤ Creating Stability or Insurgency?
¤ The Unreal Death of Journalism
¤ Is the U.S. Government making anthrax bombs in Utah?
¤ The Truth About Dubya and Dubai
¤ A Coverup Under Two Presidents
¤ Deja Vu All Over Again
¤ New documents show senior officials approved Gitmo abuse
¤ The Great Divide – on the Right
¤ 'I'll tell you when to be afraid''
¤ Deaths soar in Iraq shrine clashes
¤ Five Palestinians killed in Israeli raid
¤ Iraq slips towards civil war after attack on Shia shrine
¤ Revenge attacks kill 20 Nigerian Muslims
¤ Nigerian religious violence kills 96
¤ Democracy & Its Discontents
¤ Shameful: This is the world's view on Guantanamo.
¤ Three Iraqi journalists found killed near Samarra
¤ Outside View: Dragging NATO into a war
¤ Victims of War Are Not To Be Seen Or Heard Or Mentioned
¤ Train Them Like Rats
¤ Watchdogs Urge Full Probe of Bush Propaganda Spending
¤ Former Senate chief Dole hired to lobby for Dubai port deal
¤ America's fleecing in the name of security
¤ The New McCarthyism
¤ Road to Guantanamo describes the «holiday from hell»
¤ How George Bush fabricated the Iraqi WMD myth
¤ The democracy thing
¤ U.S. terror fears, stoked by Bush, now bite him
¤ CBS CORRESPONDENT KILLED STORY AT PENTAGON'S REQUEST
¤ 46 Bodies Found in Wave of Iraqi Violence
¤ Roof Collapse at Moscow Market Kills 31
¤ The silent treatment
¤ Palestinian shot dead by Israeli troops
¤ Dozens killed in Iraq sectarian violence
February 22, 2006 News
Posted: Wednesday, February 22, 2006
¤ Blast destroys Shia shrine
¤ Blast kills 22 as Straw calls for end to sectarianism
¤ Nearly 100 Dead in US Custody in Iraq, Afghanistan
¤ Watchdogs Urge Full Probe of Bush Propaganda Spending
¤ Palestinians Are Being Robbed by Israel
¤ The Wages of Spin
¤ Shiite shrine bombing sparks sectarian killings in Iraq
¤ Explosion in Baghdad Kills 23 In City's Worst Attack in Weeks
¤ A Quailhawk's Cakewalk
¤ Bush vs. Constitution
¤ Curfew after third Nigerian riot
¤ Straw visit to Iraq
¤ Secret Service agents say Cheney was drunk when he shot lawyer
¤ Rumsfeld: Planting Stories Under Review
¤ The Jews And The Concentration Camps
¤ 'President's gone insane' – 9/11 dad
¤ Bio war for dummies
¤ Fee paid to meet Bush
¤ You Can’t Deny the Holocaust!
¤ War, As Seen Through Your Personal Filter
¤ just can't get in a flap about bird flu
¤ Whose Freedom?
¤ Saudi Arabia looks to China and India
¤ Rumsfeld declares war on 'bad' press
February 21, 2006 News
Posted: Tuesday, February 21, 2006
¤ Iran was not referred to the Security Council for Noncompliance
¤ Pandora’s Box Opened in Iraq
¤ Tonight we reveal the consequences of our misadventure in Iraq
¤ Check Your Conscience at the Door: We're Building an Empire
¤ The Ambassador Versus the Ayatollah
¤ An Upside-Down Media
¤ US media drops Abu Ghraib torture issue
¤ Calling the Bluff ... The Not United U.N.
¤ One Thousand A Month Tortured To Death In Iraq
¤ “He Shall Direct Thy Paths to the Weapons of Mass Destruction.”
¤ US Force-Feeding Prisoners in Torture Camp
¤ Iraqis beaten by British troops to face murder charge
¤ Cartoon row draws from well of discontent
¤ Africa needs more courage, says Mugabe
¤ When it won't need a tyranny to deprive us of our freedom
¤ Iraqi Province Cuts Off U.S. Forces
¤ A Byzantine Empire of the West?
¤ An Upside-Down Media
¤ Don't Be an Accessory to Murder
¤ Abu Ghraib Is Not Old News
¤ All Weapons of Mass Destruction Are Not Equal
¤ Holocaust denier’s prison sentence shows Western paradox
¤ Big Pharma Pushes "Miracle Cure" For Holocaust Denial Syndrome
¤ Vaccinating For Profit - From Cradle to Coffin
¤ Chavez threatens to cut off oil to US if it ‘crosses the line’
¤ Behind the White House's Billion-Dollar Propaganda Push
February 20, 2006 News
Posted: Monday, February 20, 2006
¤ Iranian minister calls for end to cartoon violence
¤ Where someone's pocket change can feed another's family for a week
¤ Video fallout hits UK Iraq troops
¤ Bush and Blair have brilliantly done Bin Laden's work for him
¤ Propaganda: America's psychological warriors
¤ Eyewitnesses Peel Back Lies on War Debate
¤ The Big Gorilla in the Shadows of Bolivia
¤ The FBI and the Myth of Fingerprints
¤ The Educational System Was Designed to Keep Us Uneducated and Docile
¤ 10-year-old boy prisoner of Guantanamo Bay
¤ Abu Ghraib leaked report reveals full extent of abuse
¤ Death threats and breakdowns
¤ Holocaust Denier Gets Three Years in Jail
¤ Who's Counting Bush's Mistakes?
¤ 'A bush admimistration suffering from xeroderma pigmentosum'
¤ Deadly blasts rock Baghdad, Mosul
¤ Don't Punish the Palestinians
¤ From Che to Chavez: Latin America revolts against the empire
¤ AP Recycles Old Bin Laden Tape For New Propaganda
¤ British troops executed unarmed Iraqi
¤ Sunni clerics complain death squads targeting community members
¤ Bush bankrupts America
¤ Media Misinformation Roundup
¤ U.S. troops kill three civilians west of Baghdad
¤ After Killing Families, U.S. Bars Iraqi Women from Visiting
¤ SBS Torture Video
Iraq Angrily Rejects US Sectarian Warning
Posted: Monday, February 20, 2006
by Michael Georgy
BAGHDAD - Iraq's Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari angrily dismissed on Tuesday U.S. warnings to shun sectarianism in the country's new government, saying Iraqis would not accept interference in their affairs.
Speaking after talks with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who echoed the U.S. call for a government of national unity in Iraq, the normally calm and diplomatic Jaafari said Iraq knew its own best interests.
"When someone asks us whether we want a sectarian government the answer is 'no we do not want a sectarian government' -- not because the U.S. ambassador says so or issues a warning," he told a news conference.
Full Article : commondreams.org
February 19, 2006 News
Posted: Sunday, February 19, 2006
¤ Bombs, Gunmen Kill More Than 20 in Iraq
¤ Who Is Osama? Where Did He Come From?
¤ German plane wreckage found in Iraq, no survivor
¤ Clash leaves 3 police dead in S. Afghanistan
¤ Gunmen kill four Iraqi truck drivers in northern Iraq
¤ Hyde Park Soapbox: Blair's Dumb Gag Law
¤ Why the Quail Was the Only One Not Hit by Cheney
¤ If Hamas Must Renounce Violence, So Should Israel
¤ Lockerbie - new forensic tests suggest evidence was planted by the CIA
¤ Iraq oil sector lost over USD 6 bln. in 2005 -- official
¤ Masters of Deception
¤ The Pentagon is Run by a Madman
¤ Was Cheney Close To Turning An Accident Into Murder?
¤ Alec Baldwin: «Cheney Is A Terrorist…»
¤ End of the U.S. dollar hegemony?
¤ 'Shot through the heart and you're to blame
¤ Swiftboating a shot friend
¤ 'A crack shot — at choreography'
¤ The limits of propaganda
¤ What Bush Is Up To
¤ Nigeria cartoon riots kill 16
¤ U.S. confirms deaths in helicopter crash
¤ Syria slams US 'meddling'
February 18, 2006 News
Posted: Saturday, February 18, 2006
¤ Zimbabwe clears IMF debt
¤ From landless to landowners - the benefits of land reform
¤ Nigeria oil 'total war' warning
¤ UN calls for closure of base at Guantanamo bay
¤ Cheney shooting victim says sorry - to Cheney
¤ At least nine killed in Libya as cartoon protests escalate
¤ 'The Americans are breaking international law...
¤ The "Teen Sex Slave" Scams
¤ China Rushes to Complete $100B Deal With Iran
¤ U.S. Rejects U.N. Report on Gitmo
¤ Chertoff's Sweetheart Deal For Israeli-Owned Carnival Cruise Cruise Line
¤ US judge tosses deportee's Syrian-torture lawsuit
¤ Orwell wrote Bush's script
¤ See No Evil, Become That Evil
¤ Chechnya: War is continuing
¤ Pakistan recalls envoy from Denmark
¤ Chavez blasts US
¤ Rome struggles to rescue its ancient Palatine ruins
¤ Roadside Bombs Kill U.S. Soldier, 6 Iraqis
¤ Cheney's Dodge: Taking Responsibility
¤ Don't Stop Palestinian aid -- Stop Israeli aid
¤ VP Accident Tale Filled With Discrepancies
¤ Flamethrowers
¤ Palestinians ordered to return US aid
¤ Cheney's Dodge
¤ US to finance Syrian opposition
Cheney, 'A Beer or Two,' and A Gun
Posted: Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Vice President Dick Cheney, who was forced to leave Yale University because his penchant for late-night beer drinking exceeded his devotion to his studies, and who is one of the small number of Americans who can count two drunk driving busts on his driving record, may have been doing more than hunting quail on the day that he shot a Texas lawyer in the face.
Katherine Armstrong, the wealthy Republican lobbyist who is a member member of the politically-connected family that owns the ranch where Cheney blasted his hunting partner, acknowledged to a reporter for MSNBC that alcohol may have been served at a picnic which was served Saturday afternoon on the dude ranch where Cheney shot Harry Whittington.
Full Article : commondreams.org
February 15, 2006 News
Posted: Wednesday, February 15, 2006
¤ Just When You Think it Couldn't Get Worse ...
¤ Rice's Iraq But a Dream...
¤ The Propaganda We Pass Off As News Around the World
¤ The Truthiness and Nothing But the Blah, Blah, Blah
¤ Hidden history of US germ testing
¤ Media Ignores Cheney 'Smoking Gun'
¤ Bin Laden tapes are as phony as Sept. 11's connection to Islam
¤ Iran - Disinformation Phobia
¤ MSNBC Scrubbing Cheney Alcohol Connection?
¤ China Says Web Controls Follow the West's Lead
¤ U.N. Guards Dump Where Vote Boxes Found
¤ Cheney Shotgun Ballistics Don't Match Up
¤ How I spent my 15 minutes of fame
¤ Cheney accused of cover-up over hunter shooting
¤ Weapon of Mass Destruction
¤ Israel 'has annexed Jordan Valley and shut out Palestinians'
¤ A Lesson for Bush Supporters
¤ Hamas Blasts Talk of Regime Change
¤ Dick Cheney goes hunting
¤ Haiti's frontrunner rejects electoral results, calls for more protests
¤ Basra demonstrators burn British flag over army abuse
¤ Still Cherry-Picking the Facts on Iraq
¤ U.S. Money Aids World’s Worst Dictators
¤ Guess Who's Sticking It to the Man?
¤ Can You Say 'Permanent Bases'?
¤ Terror threat: The great deception
¤ US and Israel 'trying to destabilise Hamas'
¤ Cartoon Protests in Pakistan Leave 3 Dead
¤ Goodbye Iraq, hello Afghanistan
¤ If Stupidity Was Impeachable, Cheney Would Be History
¤ The world turned a deaf ear to the Iraqis suffering
¤ Iran demands apology over German cartoon
¤ Who Will Possess Iraq’s Oilfields?
¤ What Freedom? What Democracy? What Civilization?
¤ More Evidence Nuking Iran is on Schedule
¤ Baghdad Embassy Bonanza
¤ American raid story
¤ Revolution Interview
¤ Cheney Shoots Fellow Hunter - Officially, It's The Other Guy's Fault
¤ Eyewitness to U.S. War Crimes in Iraq
¤ Iran: Knight-Ridder bangs the war drums
February 14, 2006 News
Posted: Tuesday, February 14, 2006
¤ The Bush Inquisition
¤ The Axis of Child Abusers
¤ Riding High with Hugo Chavez
¤ Report: U.S. Is Abusing Captives
¤ For the Love of God, Can't you Make him Stop?!
¤ Questions About Cheney's Hunting "Accident"
¤ Who Will Blow the Whistle Before We Attack Iran?
¤ War with Iran on the worst terms
¤ 'If 'FBI agents' were phony, how did they know so much?'
¤ Iran - Deja Vu All Over Again
¤ Dick Cheney's top 10 excuses for shooting fellow hunter
¤ Iran: The Next War
¤ Bush-League Lies
¤ Apocalypse Now
¤ Questions asked of Israel
¤ Atomic Bombs: Race Hatred and Mass Murder
¤ World oil prices nudge higher
¤ Haitians vent fury over poll 'fraud'
¤ Angry crowds on Haiti streets as Preval fails to win vote
¤ U.S. support has allowed Israel to violate Palestinian
¤ What is it with the US Secretaries of State?
¤ Syria switches to euro amid confrontation with US
¤ WMD Pipeline from Iraq to Syria?
¤ Israel excludes Palestinians from fertile valley
¤ Army of Iraq war veterans 'suffering brain damage'
¤ How drug lobbyists influence doctors
¤ France Invades U.S. (Part 10): “Freedom Isn’t Free”
¤ War Is Hell Graphic Photos
Report: U.S. Is Abusing Captives
Posted: Monday, February 13, 2006
NEW YORK - A draft United Nations report on the detainees at Guantanamo Bay concludes that the U.S. treatment of them violates their rights to physical and mental health and, in some cases, constitutes torture.
It also urges the United States to close the military prison in Cuba and bring the captives to trial on U.S. territory, charging that Washington's justification for the continued detention is a distortion of international law.
Full Article : commondreams.org
February 12, 2006 News
Posted: Saturday, February 11, 2006
¤ Oh, So Now He Tells Us!
¤ Muzzled by Bush: A Distinction or Disgrace?
¤ Billions Wasted In Iraq?
¤ US prepares military blitz against Iran's nuclear sites
¤ Oil used again in another U.S. false campaign
¤ Videofact: Western democracy in action
¤ Why didn't an officer stop these attacks?
¤ Allegations Cloud Haitian Vote Count
¤ Chávez hits back at 'pawn of imperialism' Blair
¤ Oops! Bush Unaware Microphone Still On
¤ BUSH’S BOGUS "TERROR" ALERTS
¤ CIA chief sacked for opposing torture
¤ Revealed: the terror prison US is helping build in Morocco
¤ WHAT THE HECK IS THIS STUFF?
¤ Annan prepares for privatisation of UN
¤ The art of deception: Is it war for oil or war to save the dollar?
¤ Google Copies Your Hard Drive - Government Smiles in Anticipation
¤ Video shows British troops brutally beating Iraqi children
¤ Britain's Breaking Abu Ghraib Scandal
¤ Fair and Balanced?: Death Threats Hit Prominent Political Columnists
¤ The White House Dodge on Katrina
¤ A New Black Power
¤ They Don't Get It
¤ NBC Puts On 2-Week Commercial for US Power
¤ Was Rice Right for Once?
¤ How Not to Spot a Terrorist
¤ Smoking Laptop
¤ 23 killed in Iraq violence
¤ Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter
February 11, 2006 News
Posted: Saturday, February 11, 2006
¤ A terrorist on every corner?
¤ Hey Bush: Obey the Law
¤ Free speech leavened by a thing called judgment
¤ No alternative to opium, say farmers
¤ 13 including two US Marines killed in Iraq violence
¤ All Eyes on Khuzestan
¤ Of "Racist" Ideologies and Nuclear Weapons
¤ Jose Bove's Not Welcome in Bush's USA
¤ VA Nurse Investigated for “Sedition” for Criticizing Bush
¤ Russia should be held to account over human rights abuses
¤ Photos Of Bush And Abramoff
¤ Intel pros say Bush is lying about foiling 2002 terror attack
¤ Canadian dollar parity with US dollar looms
¤ Bush's War Plan includes the Use of Nuclear Weapons
¤ Ivan’s War
¤ Hangu death toll climbs to 40
¤ Nine dead in Iraq mosque bombing
¤ Many Guantanamo detainees not tied to ‘hostile acts’
¤ Take from the poor, give to the military
¤ 'This column doesn't exist'
¤ When crass is called for
¤ For Danish Firms, Boycott in Mideast a 'Nightmare'
Israel unveils plan to encircle Palestinian state
Posted: Thursday, February 9, 2006
The acting Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said yesterday that he plans to annex the Jordan Valley and major Jewish settlement blocks to Israel in drawing new borders, according to a television station that recorded an interview with him yesterday.
In Mr Olmert's first policy statement since he succeeded Ariel Sharon last month, Channel 2 television said that he made clear he intends to carry through his predecessor's vision of creating an emasculated Palestinian state on Israel's terms.
Full Article : guardian.co.uk
Why the US REALLY Exports its Ideals
Posted: Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Will Hutton of the British Guardian wrote on Jan 22nd an article entitled Why the US exports its ideals of "freedom and democracy" – the new mantra. He implored readers that in spite of the cynicism and the blustering arrogance of the Bush administration, to have faith in the sincerity of the increasing call for democracy coming from the US on both sides of the political fence.
Full Article : trinicenter.com
We don't want to deal with Tsvangirai's meetings
Posted: Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Commenting on reports that Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Tsvangirai met former FBI and CIA agents in Zambia last week, Mwaanga said government knew that Tsvangirai had discussions which were inconsistent with the reasons he had given for coming into the country. Mwaanga said Tsvangirai went to Sun Hotel in Livingstone and registered under different names. He said after evaluation, it was found that Tsvangirai's visit was inconsistent with his status hence the decision by the Immigration Department to remove him from Zambia.
Full Article : allafrica.com
February 8, 2006 News
Posted: Wednesday, February 8, 2006
¤ Rothbard on the Fall and Rise and Fall of Liberty
¤ The terror of President Bush
¤ The corporate plunder of Iraq
¤ Iraqi voices are drowned out in a blizzard of occupiers' spin
¤ An Interview with George Galloway
¤ Yet Another Bush Lie
¤ Inequality and War
¤ Bush Balkanizes the world
¤ How one word granted one man so much power and control (commentary)
¤ Iraq stories slowly moved off front pages
¤ Reporters without Borders Keeps silence
¤ Bush Gets Deserved Dressing Down at King Funeral
¤ Danish cartoons are latest in a campaign of racist abuse
¤ Covering Iraq
¤ Sweden plans to be world's first oil-free economy
¤ Israel unveils plan to encircle Palestinian state
¤ Exxon: America will always rely on foreign oil
¤ Fear of US Drove Iran's Nuclear Policy
Flashback ¤ Nuclear Iran?
¤ Venezuela's Chavez Wins Hearts Among the Poor
¤ Suicide bomber kills 13 in attack on Afghan police
¤ Russian MP Says US To Attack Iran Late March
¤ Nine Iraqis, four US troops killed in attacks
¤ Three Palestinians killed as Israel vows to continue attacks
¤ We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there
¤ Thousands of Katrina Victims Evicted
¤ Four die in attack on Nato base
¤ Angry voters storm booths
February 7, 2006 News
Posted: Tuesday, February 7, 2006
¤ Now Lebanon is Burning
¤ Colin Powell's Career as a "Yes Man"
¤ The Secret Corporate Funding Behind Health Research
¤ "Stuff Happens"- Rumsfeld Comes to New York
¤ Bush 2007 budget quietly omits impact of policies on deficit
¤ George Washington Tapped Phones!
¤ Kicking the Oil Addiction: Bush Lied, Again
¤ Ex-U.N. Inspector: Decision Already Made To Attack Iran
¤ US plans 20-year war on terror
¤ Masked Israeli settlers stone Palestinian infants
¤ Guantánamo: A life sentence of suffering and stigmatization
¤ International Commission Delivers Verdicts on Bush Administration
¤ Just As 'Legal' As Hitler was in 1933
¤ FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS: Locations and Executive Orders
¤ Bush's Tyranny For A Bankrupt Nation
¤ The Show Must Go On
¤ Following Orders Is No Excuse
¤ Chechen Rebel Leader Reshuffles Ministers
¤ Top 10 'Conspiracy Theories' about George W. Bush, Part 1
¤ Katrina evacuees face hotel deadlines anew
¤ Corrupt Iraq officials 'fund rebels'
¤ The Iran Crisis -- "Diplomacy" as a Launch Pad for Missiles
¤ More Defense Dollars, Less Security
¤ BP posts record profits
¤ Quiet but Not Necessarily Calm in Haiti
¤ 11 killed in Iraq violence
¤ 13 Killed, 11 Hurt in Afganistan Bombing
¤ Maoists kill eight in Nepal
¤ Militants hit Pakistan gas pipeline
¤ US prepares to hack the world
Billboards With Secessionist Messages In Maracaibo, Venezuela
Posted: Tuesday, February 7, 2006
By Jesus Nery Barrios
Billboards showing secessionist messages in the state of Zulia's capital Maracaibo are causing alarm in Venezuela and are bringing up an old aspiration of some zulianos. All those signs have a logo with the map of the state of Zulia (in yellow) and a white arrow coming out from it (meaning Zulia must take its own path), with the legend (in red): "An Own Course for Zulia!", and show different messages in every one of them. One of them says: "Family, Market and Private Property: Pillars of a Free Society". Another one says: "Yes to the Statute of Autonomy, No to Socialism and enough with the Lefts". And the last spotted one says: "Liberal Capitalism, Hope for the Poor", with all of them displaying two phone numbers and an e-mail account to contact this ideas promoters.
Even when these messages are very obvious by themselves, within the venezuelan and world context today some notes are necessary to fully understand why they appear now and why in Zulia, specifically.
It's well known in Venezuela the state of Zulia (west of Venezuela, next to Colombia) is the richest one of the country, not just for its oil but for its agrarian and cattle production, which supplies 80% of its consumption, having in the lake of Maracaibo (biggest of Southamerica) a very important sweet water reservoir. With a population of almost 4 million people where its capital is populated by more than 2 million people (from which 1 million are legal and illegal colombian citizens), this state has always showed with pride its "regionalism" given its historical geo-political situation (the port of Maracaibo has always had an independent life from La Guaira's port and from Barranquilla (Colombia's nearest port) as well as its internal socio-economic dynamics, which have given them their own cultural features: a special way to speak (or "voicing"), similar to and old version of the spanish language, and even their own folkloric music: the gaita, within the context of a very conservative way of living and thinking.
It's not casual they live and think conservatively, since already during the independence war (18th Century) led by Simon Bolivar he himself had to invade Zulia to force it to be one of the provinces who proclaimed and were fighting for freedom and self-determination, and a good proof of that conflict can be found even today in Maracaibo's current coat of arms: a gift from the King of Spain to thank their loyalty to the Spaniard Crown after Caracas proclaimed independence on the 5th of july, 1810.
It's not casual most "maracuchos" (as zulians are called in Venezuela) today feel proud of having a governor from anti-Chavez opposition, of not being "communists" or "chavistas" as is the rest of Venezuela, even when they seem to forget the fact all social missions created and developed by Chavez Bolivarian Revolution exist in Zulia too and are very accepted and loved by the impoverished zulianos, meaning they are a little chavistas and communists after all, and the proof is their splendid governor had no choice but to develop his own misiones. (See below).
Their historical trends make them an easy prey for secessionist projects, like the one the SONY Oil Corp. launched at the beginning of the oil exploitation in Venezuela (in the 1920's) in order to install a puppet government and so extract all the oil they wanted almost for free. The "new" project of the 21st Century comes to life within the context of the Bolivarian Revolution, the Peak Oil crisis and the Oil Oligarchy that holds power in the U.S.A., hungry for fuel and ready to do whatever necessary to acquire it, even to divide sovereign countries (as was the case with Iraq, when the United Kingdom "created" Kuwait; or with Colombia when the U.S. "created" Panama). What is not new is the method and the characters involved in the comedy: divide et impera and the always needed local traitors ready to sell their souls to obey their masters' wishes, in this case it's Zulia's governor turn: Manuel Rosales (or "Manny" as he's being known from some time now), a pretended leader who wasn't able to finish his high school (while anti-Chavez opponents always refer to Venezuela's President as being ignorant, even when he's a Graduate in Military Arts in the Military Academy of Venezuela with a post-grade in political science -even when he has not presented his final thesis yet) but has been able to become a big land owner in his state and a mall owner in Miami, Florida in a very fast manner. Recently he has been accused of having secret meetings with Chavez' opponents in Colombia, of giving shelter and financial support to extreme-right terrorist paramilitaries within Zulia's territory and of being very close and extremely kind to U.S. ambassador William Brownfield in the latter 's more and more frequent visits to Zulia saluting it as "the best state of Venezuela". As stated above, his mediocrity and manipulating ability is such he didn't have the option but to develop social programs which are copycats of those from Chavez only changing their names. For instance. Mision Barrio Adentro was named Barrio a Barrio; Mercal (Mercado de Alimentos -Food Market) was named Mezul (Mercados del Zulia); Mision Milagro (free eyes operation for the poor) was named Con Buenos Ojos (With Good Eyes), and so on. (http://www.gobernaciondelzulia.gov.ve/lista2.asp?sec=18). Even the logos are plain copycats from those in the bolivarian misiones.
The ironic part of the story is that these special compatriots has always complaint about centralism from Caracas where Zulia, being Venezuela's wealth producer, remained one of the less developed states within the old Republic of Venezuela (poorly built streets, bad basic services, low life standards), and in 40 years of the so-called "democracy", with pro-market governments and politicians and full liberal capitalism its leaders were unable to give Zulia what they deserved, but now with President Chavez Zulia enjoys the benefits of the new Law of Special Assignments, which fairly distributes the oil and tax revenues the central administration receives to the most productive states (including Zulia, Bolivar -where gas, iron and water reserves are, and Anzoategui).
That's why it's not so difficult to understand why the U.S. choosed Zulia and the zulianos to divide the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and proclaim an independent Republic of Zulia (or whatever new name the U.S. want them to put in it, since they are the real authors of such an absurd idea), to kill two birds with one stone: take over Zulia's oil, and to weaken Chavez and the people of Venezuela, as they tried in the past with the coup-de-etat/oil strike in december 2002-january 2003. But the maracuchos should take note of the following: once you set dissent within a population it can turn against you too. What would happen if the guajiros (ethnic group living inside Zulia's territory with 2000 years old culture) decided independence is a good thing and declared themselves independent from Zulia? That's something very crucial to take into account since there's a lot of coal (Guasare), water (Tule) and quarries (Isla de Toas) within La Guajira's territory; the only one suitable beaches in Zulia (Cojoro, Caimare Chico) are within goajiro's territory, and as if it were not enough with this, the Guajira's Gulf is a strategical point and the entrance to Lake of Maracaibo's wealth, with huge gas and oil reserves under its surface. So maracuchos, think it very well before listening to not so advisable gringo's advice, because you will suffer a lot without the cheap and high quality vegetables and fruits you consume from the Andes region, without the cheap and assured electric energy you get from El Guri dam (which supplies almost 60% of the electric energy of Venezuela), and very very much without the cheapest gasoline of the western hemisphere refined in the Paraguana Refining Complex located in the state of Falcon (biggest of the world), as the rest of Venezuela witnessed during the above mentioned oil strike.
If you want to listen to your gaitas, say "vos" instead of "Usted" (You), and elect your opposition leaders to save you from "communism" and "chavism" that is your very special and constitunionally-granted choice. What you should not do is to give support to crazy ideas like the independence of a state that has been part of Venezuela since 1810, to silly propaganda campaigns aimed at ignorant minds to confuse them and to use them as cannon fodder for the imperialist goal of total domination of oil resources using the local traitors like Manny Rosales, who last year did his bit to this lost cause by promulgating a State Constitution who says, in its second article: "Exerting the Right to Autonomy, the State of Zulia will induce its Self-Government, fully exerting its political, administrative, organizative, juridical and tax autonomy, according to what is established in the Republic's Constitution, based on the federal regime and ruled by the principles of territorial integrity, solidarity, concurrence and responsibility"; apart from creating the related symbology for their purposes, like "La semana de la zulianidad" (week of zulian spirit) (http://clezulia.gov.ve/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=41&Itemid=44)
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is One since 1810, and will be One when she unites around her legitimate leader Hugo Chavez to defend its sovereignity and integrity from any divisional attempt from the decadent and dying american empire.
US prepares to hack the world
Posted: Monday, February 6, 2006
Critical sections of the UK IT infrastructure will come under attack this week as the US Department of Homeland Security runs Operation Cyber Storm, a global penetration test to assess how vulnerable the nation is to online attack.
An anonymous source has confirmed to US publication Federal Computer Week that the exercise will be global in scale and include attempted penetration of key UK infrastructure, as well as targets in the US, Canada and Australia.
The US National Cyber Security Division is funding the testing programme and Donald Purdy, its acting director, told Congress in October that such a test was being planned.
Full Article : computeractive.co.uk
February 6, 2006 News
Posted: Monday, February 6, 2006
¤ Anger over ferry disaster turns to violence
¤ Alberto Gonzales Should be Under Investigation, Not Overseeing Them
¤ Crude Oil Rises a Second Day as Dispute With Iran Escalates
¤ Venezuela coup linked to Bush team
¤ Bottled Water: Nectar of the Frauds?
¤ The gullibility that led us into the last war could yet bring us a new conflict
¤ Those Danish Cartoons
¤ Who Will Save America?
¤ "Beam Me Up, Scottie!"
¤ Numbers
¤ U.S. may have to go it alone in Iran
¤ This Presentation May Be Too Graphic
¤ Petition Filed Against US as Haiti Approaches Elections
¤ Exclusive: Can the President Order a Killing on U.S. Soil?
¤ Why Russia caved-in on Iran
¤ Israeli missiles kill three Palestinians in Gaza
¤ Democracy and blackmail
¤ No moral high ground
¤ Does Bush Have Pre-Senile Dementia?
¤ 'Not with a bang, but with a whimp
¤ 'Beware Osama bin Hugo Saddam Chavez'
¤ 'If we can say nothing else, at least we can say 'I told you so!''
¤ 'Hitler's clone: Chavez or Bush?'
¤ ''Talkin' Texan' means lyin' big'
¤ 'A strange symbiosis: Bin Laden, Bush both want Iraq war to continue'
¤ When Promoting Truth Obscures the Truth
February 5, 2006 News
Posted: Sunday, February 5, 2006
¤ Surveillance Net Yields Few Suspects
¤ U.S. is back in assassination business
¤ Revealed: secret plan to keep UK troops permanently in Iraq
¤ Assaults Kill 41 in Afghanistan, Pakistan
¤ Clash of civilisations - manipulation by the media
¤ Chavez aims to repel US «invasion»
¤ 'Hitler a baby next to Bush'
¤ Rumsfeld's Hitler Analogy
¤ KBR-Halliburton Get $385 million contract to build detention centers
¤ State of America's union
¤ Again, not too bright
¤ Embassies ablaze as Muslim anger spreads
¤ 'The new Afghanistan is a myth.
February 4, 2006 News
Posted: Saturday, February 4, 2006
¤ The Story Behind the Other Downing Street Memo
¤ Whatever happened to what’s-his-name?
¤ Iranian "Democracy" and the "Intelligence" Summit
¤ Christiane Amanpour: Iraq is a disaster
¤ State of the Union: Disaster
¤ The cliché of US sponsored “democracy” to justify invasion and mass murder
¤ IAEA Reports Iran to U.N. Security Council
¤ Three Pakistani soldiers killed in blast near Afghan border
¤ Does the right to freedom of speech justify printing the Danish cartoons?
¤ A Parliament of Prisoners
¤ RSVP to Bush
¤ Oil Sands Frenzy in Canada
¤ Rumsfeld's Scheme to Spy on Your Kids
¤ When Two Worlds Collide
¤ How Do They Know Who Is a Terrorist?
¤ US crops left to rot as Mexicans leave the fields
¤ Cost of wars soars to $440bn for US
¤ 1,000 feared dead as ferry sinks in Red Sea
¤ 73 Dead in Stampede at Philippines Sports Stadium
¤ Tribals blow up Pakistan's gas pipeline
¤ 38 killed in fierce Afghan battles
¤ Dancing to Washington's tune
¤ The gathering storm
¤ Palestine and the Politics of Aid
¤ Fighting is continuing between Taliban and puppet karzay formation
¤ U.S. soldiers tear up the Qur’an in Guantanamo
¤ we're F*CKED
¤ British lawmaker barred from Egypt for mock trial of Bush, Blair
¤ Robertson again calls for Chavez's assassination
¤ Child investigated for homework threat to Bush
¤ Army Teaches Troops How to Pick a Spouse
February 3, 2006 News
Posted: Friday, February 3, 2006
¤ Sunk ferry 'may have been short of lifeboats'
¤ European elite scrambles to defuse furore over caricatures of Muhammad
¤ Blair-Bush deal before Iraq war revealed in secret memo
¤ Defending the Double Standard
¤ Next on 'Oprah' -- Leaders Who Lie
¤ Jewish contractors found guilty of Iraq corruption...
¤ Israelis kill 15-year-old inside Lebanon
¤ Venezuela expels US naval 'spy'
¤ Avoiding the hard questions
¤ War, What War?
¤ George W. Bush – The New Carter
¤ The Forkball Isn’t Moving
¤ Iraq the Disaster, Officially Speaking
¤ Cartoons and the clash of 'freedoms'
¤ Rebels Without a Clue, Revisited
¤ Nuclear Proliferation
¤ Is Bush Serious?
¤ 27 dead in Iraq violence
¤ Civilian surveillance 'no big deal'
¤ Troops encircled by suspected Taliban in Afghanistan; 19 killed
¤ Iraq, Niger, And The CIA
¤ Washington's Iraq Blindness
¤ Venezuela Chavez To Receive Unesco Award In Cuba
¤ Iraq war is costing $100,000 per minute
¤ Cartoons, consumed by hypocrisy, looses its humor
¤ Former weapons inspector warns of US-Iran war
Bush 'Plotted to Lure Saddam into War with Fake UN Plane'
Posted: Friday, February 3, 2006
by Andy McSmith
George Bush considered provoking a war with Saddam Hussein's regime by flying a United States spyplane over Iraq bearing UN colours, enticing the Iraqis to take a shot at it, according to a leaked memo of a meeting between the US President and Tony Blair.
The two leaders were worried by the lack of hard evidence that Saddam Hussein had broken UN resolutions, though privately they were convinced that he had. According to the memorandum, Mr Bush said: "The US was thinking of flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours. If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach."
Full Article : commondreams.org
Venezuela defends Aljazeera tie-up
Posted: Friday, February 3, 2006
Venezuela has hit back at a US congressman's criticism of a recently unveiled alliance between Aljazeera and Latin America's Telesur network.
On Thursday, Connie Mack, a Florida Republican, criticised the agreement between Aljazeera and Telesur to share content and co-operate in gathering news.
Full Article : aljazeera.net
February 2, 2006 News
Posted: Thursday, February 2, 2006
¤ Bush to seek $120 billion more for wars
¤ Car bombs kill 16, wound 90 in Iraq
¤ Suicide Bomber Kills Five in Afghanistan
¤ On Iran, the French are from Mars and the Americans are from Venus
¤ Bush told Blair we're going to war, memo reveals
¤ Didn't See It Coming, Again
¤ Oil Prices Fall As Supply Fears Abate
¤ Danes Finally Apologize to Muslims (But for the Wrong Reasons)
¤ Buildings Down, Heroin Up
¤ Foreign Minister Taro Aso's Dirty Secret
¤ 'Marlboro Man' Turns Against War He Symbolised
¤ Bush's War on T-Shirts
¤ The Problem With the "Terror" Thingy
¤ A Mis-Statement of the Union Address
¤ The White House memo
¤ Out of jail, into the Army
¤ We did not need to go into Iraq
¤ Hellfire and Damnation: The Washington Consensus for Murder
¤ Iran’s real crime?
¤ Iraqi academics in the killing zone.
Experts Claim Official 9/11 Story is a Hoax
Posted: Thursday, February 2, 2006
Duluth, MN (PRWEB) January 30, 2006 -- A group of distinguished experts and scholars, including Robert M. Bowman, James H. Fetzer, Wayne Madsen, John McMurtry, Morgan Reynolds, and Andreas von Buelow, have concluded that senior government officials have covered up crucial facts about what really happened on 9/11.
They have joined with others in common cause as members of "Scholars for 9/11 Truth" (S9/11T), because they are convinced, based on their own research, that the administration has been deceiving the nation about critical events in New York and Washington, D.C.
Full Article : news.yahoo.com
February 1, 2006 News
Posted: Wednesday, February 1, 2006
¤ Enron and the Bush Administration
¤ Tales of Power
¤ The True State of the Union
¤ The Biggest Secret
¤ Decoding the State of the Union
¤ Hooked On Petroleum
¤ More Dishonesty from Bush in State of Union
¤ They'll take the shirt off your back!
¤ "Americans, the beatings will continue until morale improves"
¤ 2,245 Dead — How Many More??
¤ Iran condemns nuclear 'bullying'
¤ Why They Hate Us So Much: 100 Facts
¤ 'Who will succeed as 'King of the World' — the US dollar, or oil?'
¤ 'Bush's dangerous delusions'
¤ 'Dead man talking'
¤ 'Proof that Bush policies have made global terror worse'
¤ Iranian leader defiant over nuclear programs
¤ Bush's world
¤ It's Still the Occupation...!
¤ "Bush's Presidency Is Illegitimate!"
¤ Hamas rejects Western aid threats as «blackmail»
¤ Boycotts and outrage towards Denmark continue
¤ The Evil War on Drugs
¤ Bodies Of Executed Iraqis Found In Baghdad
¤ Bush skips complex realities in address
¤ 'The Garbage Collection Theory of History'
¤ He's Not Your Commander in Chief
¤ Spying, Lying, and Saying No
¤ U.S. troops fire on Canadian vehicle in Iraq
¤ At least eight killed in Baghdad bombing
¤ Photogs Slam White House Use of Staged Pictures
¤ Secrecy and fear take over White House
¤ Top 12 media myths and falsehoods on the administration's spying scandal
¤ Cindy Sheehan Arrested Inside Capitol Chamber
¤ A False Balance
¤ Resistance grows to US assumption of primacy
¤ Pressure mounts on Blair as British fatalities reach 100
¤ Iran nuclear crisis sent to security council
¤ Bush urges end to US 'oil addiction'
¤ George Bush At His Best Video
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