| Chavez Nationalizes Fuel Transport |
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| by Tom McGregor | Fri, Sep 5, 2008, 06:03 PM |
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The BBC News reports that, “they will now have a limited role in transporting fuel to the country’s petrol (gas) stations. This is the latest in a series of state takeovers of private companies by The national energy company of Yet until now, the transport of gas was in the hands of dozens of private firms that included some major multinationals. Mr. Chavez said they were making money at the nation’s expense. According to the BBC, “many transport operators will be forced to sell their businesses or face expropriation. Critics have suggested the huge state company won’t distribute petrol as efficiently as private firms.” To read the entire article from the BBC News, link here:
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written by Boo , September 06, 2008 The people comparing our politicians running for elected office in our fine democracy to Hugo Chavez should be ashamed of themselves. Just to get started our founding fathers were smart enough to create what can only be described as a brilliant system that prevents totalitarian nut jobs like Chavez from ever coming into power. The checks and balances along side a living constitution are one of the greatest works of governance the world has ever seen. For Hector and Casron Long to compare any main stream politician(please note I said main stream) to Chavez should be offensive to all freedom loving people. Spewing foolish rhetoric comparing Obama to Chavez has no place in intelligent discourse. Just like comparing Bush or McCain to Hitler has no place in intelligent discourse. All three comparisons are wrong, invalid, and quite simply wrong. If anyone wants to talk about facts, lets go. Let's talk about solid, substantial facts. If idiots like these two stooges want to compare Obama to Chavez then maybe we should all abandon Dallasblog to the extremists of both parties who occupy Dailykos and Freep. The people who deal not in facts, intelligent discourse, and good governance but the imbeciles who parrot the party line. As a proud resident of Dallas this site will have to take the word 'Dallas' off it's name before I abandon it to extremist elements from either party who spew talking points like this though.
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written by Danbridge Wright , September 06, 2008 This guy Chavez is really much like Mr. Hitler, isn't he? Remember that when Mr. Hitler was doing terrible things during the 1930's, he always had a ready excuse and it always was one of great necessity, and each thing he did was portrayed as something occurring in isolation; as if it would, if simply tolerated by the civilized world, be a singular occurrence, a sort of abberration motivated by sheer need. Chavez is doing this sort of thing right here, in relation to this present big theft, this present terrible deed; and, like Mr. Hitler, Chavez has in the past used this same ploy, or public relations strategy, as he gobbled up other enterprises, properties, and freedoms. Whenever Mr. Hitler did something bad, and "covered his tracks" in this way, he waited for a while to digest what he had "consumed"; and then he struck out again, and again, and again; and so we see Hugo Chavez following the same path. Chavez,like Mr. Hitler, is a sorry, small, low, lying, cowardly little "bum", who is getting by rather quite literally with murder, and certainly also with grand theft of property and human rights. Like Mr. Hitler, Chavez knows no respect for persons or freedoms. Both share frightening traits, tendencies, and patterns of sociopathic misbehavior. When Mr. Hitler went unchecked, he caused terrible sufferring for the world, as we all know. Mr. Hitler could have been stopped early, but nobody stepped up to stop him, or to silence him. The world would have been better off if Mr. Hitler had become dead sometime around 1930. The world will suffer, and greatly, if someone does not find some effective way to halt Mr. Chavez.
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written by Happy GOP , September 07, 2008 See what happens when a radical community organizer gets a little power! Don't think this can't happen in the U.S. If Dems control Congress, the White House and the Supreme Ct, they can change the rules as they want. Nobama -- thank you very much.
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written by ElHombre , September 07, 2008 "Bring in the CIA!!! This creep needs to go." The CIA already tried back in '02. Its failure just strengthened Chavez's position with the Venezuelan public.
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written by Danbridge Wright , September 07, 2008 The fiasco if 2002 was not a failure of the C.I.A., which if permitted to do so could have cured the Chavez problem then, and permanently. It was instead a failure of leadership at high levels, levels "above the paygrade" of any government employee at C.I.A. Anyway, why bother with C.I.A. : the problem of Chavez can be cured permanently, and quickly, if the leader of the free world simply will it. The problem can be cured very directly, without any covert inolvement, and that will let Putin and the CHICOM, and other cowardly "tinhorn dictators" and "nickel and dime brutes" around the globe know that they cannot get by with certain sorts of misbehavior. This task can be done by the good people of the free world. And they should do this, and do so now; and this time, they need to make certain that they do not lose nerve, or fail in the execution of the task. Were I to be permitted to serve as U.S. President for 72 hours, I should think that in that time it would definitely be possible to cure the Chavez problem permanently, with at least one day left after that to effect a similarly permanent cure for the Castro problem. These things are capable of accomplishment, and should get accomplished sooner, not later.
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written by Dr. Little , September 08, 2008 Dear El Hombre : The debacle of 2002 has NOT made Chavez more popular with the people of beleaguered Venezuela : they would be glad to see him gone. What did happen as a result of the failed 2002 action was that the pricipal foreign sponsors of Chavex, and principally they are the same CHICOM who not coincidentaly are the principal sponsors of the "Clintons", made efforts to "beef up" security around their "prize asset" [who is of course, Chavez]. A cure for the "pox" of the Chavez regime would bring the fresh breath of freedom to Venezuela, and would show the CHICOM, and other foreign powers from out of this hemisphere that want to "dabble" in Western Hemisphere political affairs, that a thug like Chavez is not going to be tolerated : and this might well make them think twice about their own foreign policy operations and aggressions.
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written by ElHombre , September 09, 2008 "The fiasco if 2002 was not a failure of the C.I.A., which if permitted to do so could have cured the Chavez problem then, and permanently." Time for a reality lesson. First off, Chavez is not a 'problem'. He's, at worst, a nuisance to the US. Kind of like Castro, only flashier. Next, has it occured to any of you folks that your hot-headed rhetoric just spurs him on? He's an attention seeker and you're giving it to him. And the most important part: When will it occur to you dolts that this 'regime change' behavior you love to inflict on other countries tends to blow up in our face? Iraqis have no love for us. The Iranians certainly have better memories of how the US treated them than Americans do. Ditto Cubans. Most of the reason the Vietnamese fought for so long is that we picked the French over the Vietnamese. Do you even want to hear about the list of problems the US has caused for itself in Latin and South America? I hate to break the news to you, but Americans don't really like being Empire biulders. So put down your copies of Gibbon and deflate your windbags.
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written by Dallasite1 , September 09, 2008 "Next, has it occured to any of you folks that your hot-headed rhetoric just spurs him on? He's an attention seeker and you're giving it to him." I'm sure he reads Dallasblog on a daily basis. Oh, and do you have any evidence that the CIA was involved in Venezuela in 2002 other than a dictator-wannabe's claims that they were? Write comment
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