Posted on 02/22/2007 11:28:19 AM PST by Kitten Festival
US President George W. Bush tour in Latin America -Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Uruguay and Mexico) is the end of Washington's present diplomatic offensive against Hugo Chávez' Bolivarian revolution, and shows agreement -following years of divergences (2004-2007)- between the Pentagon hawks and the US political-oil strata as to the need to counter the Bolivarian projects' ambitions in the domestic arena (socialism of the 21st century), in the hemisphere (the planned Bolivarian Confederation of Nations) and worldwide (a multi-polar world).
The US counterattack is aimed at several targets. First, preventing Chávez from continuing to move southwards. In this sense, Washington intends to neutralize both Brazil and Argentina by negotiating on issues of common interest such as energy (with Brazil) and Iran-related topics (with Argentina). The ultimate goal is to stop Chávez' plans to turn the Common Market of the South into a Latin American body where political anti-US stances prevail over plain economic integration. Washington's proposal is simple: it intends to acknowledge Brazilian and Argentinean regional leaderships in South America, while warning them not to meddle with the impending Andean conflict.
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How about cutting off Venezuela from Russia and China???
Hey,I did fairly well with an M-14 at rifle range about 40 years ago.Give me a first class ticket to Caracas (with a stopover in Rio) and I'll see what I can do.
The only real thing the Chavez and his terrorist buddies are really achieving is momentum within the scientific community and the public in general to find something to replace oil as fuel. We are close and they are providing the incentive (higher oil prices) for people to switch to something else. I really, really look forward to the day, which I firmly believe will be sooner rather than later, when the world can tell OPEC, find another revenue source. Chavez's government, the House of Saud and many Middle Eastern countries will collapse economically and frankly, I can't wait to see it.
You do it by offering one of his body doubles or advisors $50 million and US citizenship to "do the right thing".
Well me too and just about the same time 1968. Give 'em a third eye. He would look good with one
We can still shoot the bastard even after he is cornered.
Especially because he's cornered, maybe that is the whole idea.
Why not produce our own resources including the 100s of Billions of Barrels in Oil Shale?
Great increase in BTU's. Has anyone found a use for the 'byproducts'?
With Shell's in-situ process, there is not much in the way of by-products.
Seebach: Shell's ingenious approach to oil shale is pretty slick
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/news_columnists/article/0,1299,DRMN_86_4051709,00.html
September 2, 2005
Who knows? It's looking like fuel cells but, you never know.
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