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Extremist Christian Mullah issues Fatwa against President of Venezuela
Here's MSM recent report about this "evil" enemy of the United States, and presumably, of the Christian Coalition.......
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http://abcnews.go.com/International/...C-RSSFeeds0312
Chavez Gives Land Titles to the Indigenous
Venezuela President Hugo Chavez Presents Land Titles to Indigenous Groups
By THAIS LEON
The Associated Press
Aug. 10, 2005 - Six of Venezuela's indigenous communities received title to their ancestral lands on Tuesday in a ceremony that Venezuela's president said reversed centuries of injustice.
President Hugo Chavez said he hoped the government would be able to turn over titles to 15 other indigenous communities by the end of the year.
"What we're recognizing is the original ownership of these lands," Chavez said during the ceremony. "Now no one will be able to come and trample over you in the future."
He was joined by Kari'na Indians wearing traditional dress, face paint and strings of colored beads.
But Chavez warned that the process of granting legal ownership must respect Venezuela's "territorial unity," and he urged other indigenous groups not to ask for "infinite expanses of territory."
"Don't ask me to give you the state's rights to exploit mines, to exploit oil," Chavez said. "Before all else comes national unity."
The documents recognize land ownership by six indigenous communities with some 4,000 people and territory covering 314,000 acres in the eastern states of Anzoategui and Monagas.
One woman from the Kari'na community thanked Chavez, saying: "He has been the first president who has kept his word to a people who have been stripped of their lands."
An estimated 300,000 Venezuelans belong to 28 indigenous groups, many living in the country's sparsely populated southeast.
South American countries have made various efforts to grant indigenous groups legal ownership and control over their traditional territories.
In neighboring Colombia, indigenous groups in officially recognized communities can administer justice, receive state funds and have their own government.
Brazil has set aside more than 12 percent of its territory for indigenous communities, and in Peru various laws declare the rights of indigenous groups to ancestral territory in the Amazon.
But problems have arisen in some countries as miners and loggers have moved onto Indian lands. And in various countries, a key debate has revolved around the state's rights to what lies underground, such as oil and mineral wealth.
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Copyright © 2005 ABC News Internet Ventures
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documen...e/chavez.shtml
CHAVEZ: INSIDE THE COUP
Kim Bartley & Donnacha O'Briain, Ireland, 2002
Wednesday 18 November 2003 11pm-12.05am
An intimate profile of the charismatic and unconventional Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the coup attempt against him and his dramatic return to power some 48 hours later. Winner of the 2003 Grierson Awards for Best International Documentary and Best Newcomer.
Commissioner's Comment
Nick Fraser
Storyville Series Editor
When a coup was launched in April 2002 against Hugo Chavez, the elected President of Venezuela, some young Irish filmmakers were lucky enough to be on hand to witness the events.
They were actually inside the Presidential Palace - a filmmakers' dream - when the soldiers came to take Chavez away. But they were also there 48 hours later when the same soldiers switched sides reinstalling the president.
The result is a brilliant piece of journalism but it is also an astonishing portrait of the balance of forces in Venezuela. On one side stand the Versace wearing classes, rich from many decades of oil revenues, and on the other the poor in their barrios and those within the armed forces who support Chavez.
The media, who ought to be merely reporting the conflict splitting the country down the middle, are in fact adjuncts of the coup-makers.
Watch this film and you may truly for the first time in your life understand the term media bias.
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The following quotebox contains a link to the website of the documentary film about the 2002 coup in Venzuela, and a link to the interview with the Irish film makers who witnessed and filmed the coup events as they unfolded.......
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http://www.chavezthefilm.com/html/film/review.htm
http://www.chavezthefilm.com/pdfs/review_ac.pdf
.......In our opinion the crucial factors that defeated the coup
were quite straightforward. Chavez maintained the supp
o rt of the lower ranks within the army, who were [initially]
fooled by the media and by the declarations of the
top brass but who remained loyal. Given a day to regroup
and realise what was actually going on, they decided to
act and to defend democracy and the constitution.
In the bigger picture, we have no doubt that the fundamental
factor which led to people taking to the
streets was the emphasis put by Chavez on education,
and on the sanctity of the constitution which was voted
in by referendum in 1999. In itself it is a very progressive
constitution, which allows for any elected member
of government to be removed by referendum halfway
through their term.
Under Chavez, people who never before participated in
the country's political life began getting involved and
educating themselves about their rights, so that when
the coup happened they knew they had the right to
defend what was legally theirs and what they had voted
for. We were constantly amazed by the level of consciousness
in the people we met in Venezuela, even in
the most remote and poorest areas, where illiteracy is
slowly being eradicated.
Can you comment
on the role of the Venezuelan media?
AC: The Venezuelan media, except for the
government network, were virtually a nonstop
anti-government propaganda machine, even to
the point of apparently rehearsing in advance
the coup announcements.
coup to a panel discussion [reproduced in part in the
film], in which they bragged and congratulated each
other on a job well done, revealing all the details of the
plot live on air..............
on the role of the Venezuelan media?
KB and DO: The role played by the media in
Venezuela was very indicative of the power held by the
media today, not just in Venezuela but across the
world, as huge media networks go increasingly global
and their power increases.
.........<b>Chavez's strongest card remains that he has awakened
people to the fact that they have a voice, and they will
not be walked over again. Whether Chavez stays or
goes, that newfound confidence and self-belief will
remain in those who have learned to value their contribution
to their country's development under Chavez's
government</b>............
........As regards to the role played by the United States, it is
something we chose not to set out to prove in any way.
We both feel that the U.S. response to the events -- as
a member of the Organization of American States and
supposedly a signatory of the democratic charter -- was
unforgivable............
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And now comes mullah Pat.....with his murderous rhetoric....can anyone tell me where the extremist, "Christian Right", ends....and the Bushista "Oil Vampires", begin ?
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...300176_pf.html
Televangelist Calls for Chavez' Death
The Associated Press
Tuesday, August 23, 2005; 6:20 AM
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson suggested on-air that American operatives assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to stop his country from becoming "a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism."
"We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability," Robertson said Monday on the Christian Broadcast Network's "The 700 Club."
"We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator," he continued. "It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with."
Chavez has emerged as one of the most outspoken critics of President Bush, accusing the United States of conspiring to topple his government and possibly backing plots to assassinate him. U.S. officials have called the accusations ridiculous.
"You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it," Robertson said. "It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop."
Robertson, 75, founder of the Christian Coalition of America and a former presidential candidate, accused the United States of failing to act when Chavez was briefly overthrown in 2002.
Electronic pages and a message to a Robertson spokeswoman were not immediately returned Monday evening.
Venezuela is the fifth largest oil exporter and a major supplier of oil to the United States. The CIA estimates that U.S. markets absorb almost 59 percent of Venezuela's total exports.
Venezuela's government has demanded in the past that the United States crack down on Cuban and Venezuelan "terrorists" in Florida who they say are conspiring against Chavez.
Robertson has made controversial statements in the past. In October 2003, he suggested that the State Department be blown up with a nuclear device. He has also said that feminism encourages women to "kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
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I post this to inform you of your Bush government, at work, this time in pursuit of control of oil resources in our own hemisphere. IMO, Robertson's fatwa is choreographed to coincide with Rumsfeld's trip to South America.
Bush and Robertson appear to share the same, "adoring faithful" political base. These are busy people....these Bushistas. Your won't find them toppling leaders of countries who do not have large potential petroleum exports, or who do not control the rights of way for the passage of petroleum (Afgfhanistan is the best example of the latter category.....)
It's gonna get worse, folks. Wait till you see what happens when the foreigners who control large pools of oil no longer accept the worthless, green, fiat script that the US prints up in ever growing quantities to purchase
and then burn 25 percent of the daily world oil supply. I suspect that we are only seeing a dress rehersal, in Iraq.....Iran....or where ever these murderous Christian, oil addicts set their sights on. Watch out, Norway !!!
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