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2010-02-09 14:11
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez finally declares a national electricity emergency
VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reports:
Electrical Energy Minister Ali Rodriguez Araque has welcomed the decree as necessary to enable the government advance quickly in putting into action a plan he has drawn up in the weeks he has been Minister. Rodriguez Araque insisted that the p ..
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2010-02-09 14:09
VENEZUELA: Households with excessive consumption of electricity must cut down or pay up
VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reports:
High consumers of electricity will be targeted to pay extra tariffs as one way of curbing excessive and unnecessary use of electricity, as people apparently are failing to heed the government rational use campaigns.
It is not only the big c ..
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2010-02-09 14:06
Ortega: Bill on penalties vs. Venezuelan deputies jumping ship cannot be rushed
VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reports:
President Chavez launched the idea over the weekend when he was talking about the upcoming legislative elections, stating he would request the National Assembly to pass a law on the matter.
Ortega said he thinks there is definitely an injus ..
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2010-02-09 14:03
VENEZUELA: PSUV decides on method of electing candidates to the National Assembly
VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reports:
The party vice president for the eastern region made the announcement during the habitual Monday press conference.
This Thursday, delegates to the 1st extraordinary congress will decide on the method of electing aspirants to the National As ..
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2010-02-09 14:01
Alfredo Bremont // Capitalism subsists on inequality
VHeadline's Paris (France)-based commentarist Alfredo Bremont writes:
The coming sanctions against Iran, as strange as they might seem, are aimed at Venezuela, as the tactic behind those sanctions is to discourage and weaken Iran’s economic partners.
More precisely, Washington is waging an ..
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2010-02-09 13:57
The vanguard of Venezuela's rural proletariat is being armed and trained
VHeadline commentarist Arthur Shaw writes:
The peasant militia units are receiving weapons training, mobility experience, basic tactics, and the establishment of intelligence and counter-intelligence elements and networks. Concretely, some of these peasant militia units are already guarding idle ..
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2010-02-09 08:43
Biz Coach: Kudos for Sen. Cantwell in Grilling Geithner on Derivatives, Wall Street
Seattle Biz Coach Terry Corbell applauds U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell for working to help small business get funding, which is hampered by Wall Street’s risky behavior with derivatives – http://www.bizcoachinfo.com.
“Not only is Sen. Cantwell (D-WA) working to regulate risky derivative games o ..
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2010-02-09 00:15
Arias Cardenas: Thomas Shannon has nothing to teach Venezuela on democracy
VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reports:
Arias Cardenas called the comments "meddling" and "disrespectful," especially since they were made in a country friendly to Venezuela.
Shannon, on landing in Brazil to take up his post and speaking Portuguese, called on the Venezuelan gover ..
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2010-02-08 12:53
VENEZUELA: Federal Council bill cited as Chavez promises special tourist and industrial region
VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reports:
The new bill, Chavez said, will allow the government to decree special development regions in strategic zones.
One of the first measures he will take, once the law is returned to him for promulgation, he promised, is to have El Junquito dec ..
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2010-02-08 12:52
VENEZUELA: Expropriation of Plaza Bolivar buildings provokes prompt opposition rebuttal
VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reports:
Chavez made the move while holding his Sunday radio address in the historic square. The expropriation, he insisted, is motivated by the government's desire to turn the square into an historical center and there was no reason whatsoever for the ..
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2010-02-08 12:50
Venezuela's President Chavez confirms 184 nascent communes implementing 709 social projects
VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reports:
Each commune, Chavez said, has a "social battle" room where the projects are discussed and analyzed.
The concept of the commune is a fundamental part of the 21st century Socialism Chavez wants to inspire and see taking shape. The communal c ..
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2010-02-08 12:49
Venezuelan opposition leaders in trouble as loners pitch their candidacies regardless
VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reports:
The opposition is not falling for the jibe and prefers to gamble instead on winning the parliamentary elections in September. They are being urged on by strident media messages that Chavez is on his last legs and the government is about to col ..
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2010-02-08 12:47
Giant screen on Aruba's US FOL monitors military bases in sensitive western Venezuela
VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reports:
This time Rangel provided evidence in the report of an unknown Venezuelan, who managed to enter the so-called Forward Operating Location (FOL) on the Dutch colony. Rangel reports that a security lapse allowed the "visitor" to stay for a good wh ..
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2010-02-07 20:49
Arthur Shaw: It's true however that worldwide reactionaries detest Chavez
VHeadline commentarist Arthur Shaw writes:
"So much for 'Bolivarian socialism.' By his own words and deeds, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is proving beyond all doubt that he's a dangerously tyrannical Marxist," the TBR alleges. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_665897. ..
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2010-02-07 20:46
Arthur Shaw: There is no "repression apparatus" to rev up...
VHeadline commentarist Arthur Shaw writes:
The truth is that it doesn't "look that way at all.
The people of Venezuela, not just Hugo Chavez, are setting up a working class state to replace a bourgeois state. The working class state will have a pristine democratic form, largely defined by the ..
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2010-02-06 18:17
"Iraq Defence & Security Report Q1 2010" now available at Fast Market Research
The convincing victory for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law coalition in January's provincial elections is attributable to his government's negotiation of the US-Iraq security pact and to the tangible improvements in security of the past two years or so. As a result of increasing stabil ..
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2010-02-06 04:42
Ben Lowe Earns 100% of Votes Cast in 6th District Democratic Primary
Wheaton, IL: February 5, 2010: In Tuesday’s primary, pro-life Democratic candidate Ben Lowe earned 100% of all votes cast for the 6th Congressional District Democratic nominee: this included 17,294 votes in DuPage County and 6,147 in Cook County, a total of 23,441 votes.
Renewing Our Voice
In ke ..
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2010-02-05 22:54
Oscar Heck: Chaderton giving the right-wing Canadian government hell...
VHeadline commentarist Oscar Heck writes:
I love it! Chaderton is giving the right-wing conservative Canadian government hell ... as it should be.
Regarding the issue ... according to one recent AFP article entitled, Canada concerned over free speech rights in Venezuela: "Canada decried Thurs ..
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2010-02-05 22:51
VENEZUELA: Latest statistics: extreme poverty dropped 6% ... poverty at 24.2%
VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reports:
The figures represent a quadruple reduction compared to figures for 2002 translating into 55% and 25% respectively.
Eljuri attributed the results to the President Chavez' social investments ... $330 of 535 billion went to health, education, ..
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2010-02-05 22:51
VENEZUELA: Latest statistics: extreme poverty dropped 6% ... poverty at 24.2%
VHeadline News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue reports:
The figures represent a quadruple reduction compared to figures for 2002 translating into 55% and 25% respectively.
Eljuri attributed the results to the President Chavez' social investments ... $330 of 535 billion went to health, education, ..
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