Reply #2: The Associated Pukes strike again, with Bushwhack-CIA 'talking points' on Chavez...

[Peace Patriot]

These 'talking points' have begun to stick out like diseased thumbs--so putrid with flesh-eating bacteria that the only remedy is amputation...

The article's going along, like a normal article, about how important Brazil is (no question), and who Lula da Silva is (a mediator, true enough), and what-all this Obama/da Silva meeting might cover, then, bang, the awful-smelling thumb sticks up...

"Brazil has become a major U.S. trading partner, and its cautious economic policies have helped it weather the global economic crisis better than almost all other major economies. South America's largest country, Brazil also has huge new sources of offshore oil and abundant ethanol, which could give it a key role in helping the U.S. wean itself off Venezuelan crude and shift to cleaner sources of energy."

Actually, the sick thumb could be smelled in the previous sentence: Brazil's "cautious economic policies have helped it weather the global economic crisis better than almost all other major economies."

The truth is that the Chavez government's socialist policies--and in particular its strong action to curtail global corporate predators like Exxon Mobil and the World Bank--have also greatly helped not just Venezuela but also its neighbors and allies to "weather the global economic crisis" (i.e., Bushwhack Financial 9/11). Due the "cautious" Chavez government government policy of not giving away all of Venezuela's oil profits to multinationals, and its excellent management of the economy, Venezuela has $42 billion in international cash reserves--basically a three year cushion against drops in the price of oil--and has furthermore socked money into the Bank of the South, to help its neighbors avoid getting "shocked and awed" by US/World Bank opportunistic ruination. Also, by pouring oil profits into health care, education, adult literacy and re-training, land reform, local manufacturing and development, and regional infrastructure (such as the new bridge between Brazil and Venezuela over the Orinoco River, and the new highway being built from Brazil's Atlantic coast to the Pacific, through Bolivia), Venezuela has one of the most forward-looking social and economic situations in the western hemisphere. The bankrupt U.S. population can only look with envy at the priorities in Venezuela, while jobs bleed out of our country, and our medical, educational, infrastructure and political systems fall apart. The Venezuelans have had ten years of progress--including an astonishing economic growth rate of 10% for the last five years (most of it in the private sector, not including oil), while we have had ten years of fascist looting.

Now re-read the Associated Pukes: Brazil's "cautious economic policies have helped it weather the global economic crisis better than almost all other major economies."

What other major economy is weathering the Bushwhacks' Financial 9/11? Venezuela! But, nope, they don't say it. And their next sentence tells you nakedly, putridly, sore-thumbwise, what AP's (and the Bushwhack-CIA's) agenda is: Brazil also has huge new sources of offshore oil and abundant ethanol, which could give it a key role in helping the U.S. wean itself off Venezuelan crude and shift to cleaner sources of energy."

Divide. And. Conquer.

Then comes the non-surgical amputation of the rotting thumb and AP reporters bleeding to death for lack of medical care:

"Silva, who runs the world's fifth-most-populous nation and ninth-largest economy, has close ties with leaders across the political spectrum. He's been asked to lobby Obama for free trade on behalf of conservatives in Colombia and for dropping the U.S. embargo against communist Cuba.

"Even Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has had a prickly relationship with the U.S., has asked his Brazilian counterpart to put in some good words for him."

This putrid lie is also set up by its prior sentence, which equates the universal outcry in Latin America against the US embargo of Cuba, with the narco-thugs in Colombia wanting their reward--US "free trade"--for slaughtering thousands of union leaders with military-connected death squads and hosting the biggest US military boondoggle on earth outside of Iraq and Israel ($6 BILLION in US-Bushwhack military aid to Colombia, which has one of the worst human rights records in the world). Most of South America has rejected both US-dominated "free trade" and the corrupt, failed, murderous US "war on drugs." Colombia is an isolated, undemocratic, fascist, putrid sore thumb in South America. To give such prominence to what their corrupt leaders may have dropped into da Silva's ear is an enormous distortion.

Here's how distorted it is:

The new political alignment in South America...

Venezuela - left
Bolivia - left
Ecuador - left
Argentina - left
Uruguay - left
Paraguay - left
Brazil - center-left (allied with the left)
Chile - center-left (allied with the left on important issues like non-US interference and the new South American common market, UNASUR)

Peru - run by corrupt Bushwhacky "free tradists" (will go left next election)
Colombia - fascist; total Bushwhackdom.

Central America/Caribbean: Nicaragua - left. Guatemala - center-left. El Salvador - likely electing a leftist as president this weekend. Cuba - left. Costa Rica - center-left. Honduras - leaning left. Mexico - will go left next election.

The prominent issues in this OVERWHELMINGLY leftist trend are, a) how to fight off US-dominated "free trade" and US bullying and interference; b) social justice for Latin America's vast poor population; c) local control of economics, finance and development and Latin American integration (UNASUR) against the tottering behemoth to the north.

US-dominated "free trade" ain't in it. "Free trade" is dead. So is the US "war on drugs" which is almost universally perceived as US military domination and bullying of sovereign countries.

Now re-read the Associated Pukes' sentences above, then the anti-left capper: "Even Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has had a prickly relationship with the U.S., has asked his Brazilian counterpart to put in some good words for him."

This is not only an insulting little snipe, it is a lie. Lula da Silva, on his own volition, by his own account, in his own words, months ago said that he wanted to meet with Obama to help apprise him of the truth about Venezuela and Bolivian democracy in particular. Why? He did not say this, but it is the truth: Because of the lies, disinformation and psyops of putrid 'news' monopolies like AP, which serve the CIA, global fascists and the super-rich, and which copy and paste their 'news' from US State Dept. talking points.

Amputation. That's what's needed to rid our society of the stinking, oppressive, lying, warmongering assholes of corporate journalism. The 'news' monopolies need to be dismantled--their corporate charters pulled, and their assets seized for the common good, and distributed to small business people, to create a new, truly competitive "marketplace of ideas." Their diseased members are stinking up democracy throughout the western hemisphere and the world.