[Cincinatus' Wife]

Fidel Castro - Cuba

Hugo Chavez - Venezuela

Patterned after Castro's communist neighborhood groups called Defense of the Revolution - Chávez's Bolivarian Circles in South Florida - 17 around U.S. - Spreading around world *** Circle leaders draw strength from what they say is a growing Bolivarian international network. The U.S. circle members will hold their first national assembly in New York in March, and Chávez representatives from Venezuela plan to attend.***

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President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, center, talks to supporters before a lecture to socialists and communists party members at in the northeastern city of Recife, Brazil,Saturday, April 26, 2003. Chavez is on his last day of visit to Brazil, after he met with Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

Rival Protesters Clash at Cuba's Venezuela Embassy*** CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan police fired tear gas to separate opponents and supporters of Cuban President Fidel Castro who clashed on Saturday near the Cuban embassy in Caracas. Around 100 anti-Castro demonstrators and opponents of Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez gathered near the embassy to protest the Cuban government's recent jailing of dozens of political dissidents. Police carrying riot shields kept them a block away from the embassy. National guardsmen shoot tear gas at protesters in Caracas on April 26, 2003. Venezuelan troops and police fired tear gas and shotgun pellets to separate opponents and supporters of Cuban President...***

[Russell Scott]

Global gangster organizations like the UN, which operate either outside or above the law, take your pick, should be forced to leave America, a country based on the rule of law, a soon as it is practical. Leaving the UN in America would be like allowing Saddam to set up his new HQ in New York City. They are massive criminal co-conspirators in the crimes perpetrated on the Iraqi population over the last twelve years. Caracas sounds like the ideal location for their new HQ, in a country who has the same gangster mentality running it.

[xm177e2]

Marx might have been against the "rural idiocy" (the idea that everyone should be farmer because a farmer's life is wonderful) but he certainly thought that was where the food would come from to feed his factory workers! These guys are more Marxist than Karl himself! They're insane!

[LadyDoc]

In WWII we had victory gardens.

I remember as a child that we still were allowed to plant a garden on local public land that was not used (along a gravel road outside a local cemetary).

There are local garden groups in the US that encourages people to plant vegetables and flowers in vacant lots.

This is not a "new" idea.

[LadyDoc]

"...tens of thousands of vehicles belching out polluting gas fumes..."

This is a biased type of writing that should alert people to the writer's ideology.

When I go to Manila, and I see tens of thousands of cars "belching out polluting gas fumes" I remember that poor people don't own cars. Now you can find cars and tvs and cellphones in the local villages. Terrible, terrible.

These people should live in a nice pristine village with no running water, no electricity, no tv, and be forced to walk everywhere.

[texas booster]

Turn your homes into "vertical henhouses," he (Chavez) said.

Yeah, that the ticket. Vertical henhouses.

Now where in the whole world have we seen vertical henhouses before??

Why, in China, amongst the peasants of the land, crammed into slums in the cities of southern China.

I only know this info since doctors mentioned this practice as a probable vector for the SARS virus to jump to humans.

Way to go, Chavez! Kill off all your people, and infect the rest of humanity as well, by copying the Chinese!

Being a Communist means never admitting a mistake. Sheesh.

[Tailgunner Joe]

yikes.