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otis · Joined: 02 Jun 2006

A guy in his swimming trunks?

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

otis · Joined: 02 Jun 2006

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

otis · Joined: 02 Jun 2006

Hey, no problem.

Now they can look at a fat actress.

animalbirdfish · Joined: 04 Feb 2004

As Jon Stewart said yesterday, Chavez's routine makes anyone who disagrees with Bush (but isn't completely insane) look bad. Calling Bush "Satan" is intellectually weak and does a disservice to his own rhetoric. He has a right to dislike Bush but he could certainly put forth a more intricate argument than "the UN smells of sulfur."

otis · Joined: 02 Jun 2006

blaseblasphemener · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:15 am Post subject:

I think the point is that the UN is the joke, in it's present form, and with regard to what it's supposed to do compared to what it actually does do. The big bully is able to invade a sovereign nation without world approval, on dubious grounds which are later proven to be false. Israel is able to bomb Lebanon back to the stone age, while the world, and the security council, twiddles their thumbs. Chavez and Akmoudinedjad are saying the world is built on a double-standard, while the UN was supposed to be an entity that stood for a brotherhood of nations. I found it refreshing that a head of state would speak so frankly. Why the hell not? I love Jon Stewart, but Americans don't care about what the rest of the world thinks, and they don't know what is going on in the rest of the world, for the most part. America's voting is to a large degree controlled by a bunch of hay-seeds who couldn't find Mexico and Canada on the map, let alone Iran or Venezuela. They certainly aren't going to change their vote based on a speech by Chavez. Kofi Annan said the world is in desperate need of reform. Does that get reported? Does anyone in the U.S. care? Of course not. They leave millions behind in their own nation. They couldn't even be bothered to organize an air-drop of food and water to the Superdome, and it was on every channel 24-7. What the U.S. has become is an embarassment to the legacy of T. Roosevelt, FDR, Kennedy (Bay of Pigs aside), and even Bush Sr., who did not hold a neo-conservative agenda, at least not to the degree his son does. If you believe that the U.S. has the right to control the world, "because we have to fight terror", than a "1984"-like world is right around the corner, and has already shown itself in many forms. All for oil, multi-nationals, and profits. It's a simple game, and I applaud the likes of Chavez for at least saying what a farce the ideas of an even playing field, democracy, and the UN are.

Big_Bird · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:44 am Post subject:

blaseblasphemener · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 2:08 am Post subject:

And Venezuela's Citgo is going to double it's discount gas for the American poor program. Does any American-based mulitnational do such a thing? I doubt it, or I'm sure we'd see lots of those ridiculous infomertials about how Chevron, Exxon, and BP are saving the environment.

ChuckECheese · Joined: 20 Jul 2006

Chavez is a nut! All he's trying to do is get some attention from the world and try to act like someone important from an insignificant country. The only reason he is not being ignored by some countries is because they want to tap into his oil. Without oil, what would he be? He'll be just another peasant S. American leader(more like dictator) looking for handouts from the U.S.

Big_Bird · Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:15 pm Post subject:

Chomsky has reason to smile...