Another World is Possible... The World Social Forum 2009, Brazil

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Friday February 06, 2009 · 12:27 PM PST

2009/02/06 · 12:27

The leaders of five South American countries, Fernando Lugo of Paraguay, Evo Morales of Bolivia, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, Rafael Correa of Ecuador and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela attended the meeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil with 100,000 activists and indigenous people.

As the self appointed global elites met in Davos, South American leadership chose to participate at the World Social Forum

The Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a moderate leftist, has previously attended Davos but this year shunned it for Belem and brought with him a dozen cabinet ministers.

His government would invest in industry to create jobs rather than throw public money at banks as Europe and the US had done, he said. "I believe the crisis is much more severe. We don't know how deep it will go."

Latin America still winces at the painful humiliation of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund ordering austerity measures in the 1980s and 90s. "Now, I expect the IMF to go to [the US president, Barack] Obama and tell him how to fix the economy," said Lula.

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Sunday January 11, 2009 · 9:02 AM PST

2009/01/11 · 09:02

In case you missed this report have a gander and let's discuss this development.

As everyone knows, Venezuela is a member of OPEC and has great relations with the president of Iran, Ahmadenajad. However, Chavez has been seen on television by the populations of the various Middle Eastern countries as a man who is a leader of a new socialist movement. Egypt should take note, as well as Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, and of course Iraq, because any country allied with the USA or Israel is now on the wrong side of history.

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Since some here are unfamiliar with Hugo Chavez, I am editing the diary to include this article about the interview Sean Penn conducted with Hugo Chavez and Raul Castro.

http://www.thenation.com/...

more over the fold

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Thursday January 08, 2009 · 1:42 PM PST

2009/01/08 · 13:42

seige for natural gas.

A few years ago a huge amount of natural gas was discovered off the coast of Gaza.

There is a huge amount of natural gas off the coast of Gaza. Israel does not want to pay money to Hamas for the natural gas.

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Friday March 14, 2008 · 9:11 PM PDT

2008/03/14 · 21:11

Remember this:

Who could forget those remarks from Pat Robertson. Pat Robertson's father was a United States Senator.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/...

In 1981, The Council for National Policy was established by Richard Viguery, Paul Weyrich, Richard DeVos and others on the hard right. Eventually, members of the Council for National Policy would include members like Hunt Oil heirs, the Coors Beer folks, Amway, Richard Cheney, Reverend Sun Myung Moon, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.

Here is what a membership list of the Council for National Policy looks like

http://www.politicalfriendster.com/...
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