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President Hugo Chavez has refused to renew a licence for Radio Caracas TV, claiming the station actively tries to undermine his government.

Opponents say the president is limiting freedom of expression.

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Police in Zimbabwe have raided the headquarters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in Harare and arrested as many as 200 activists.
The activists were taken away in police vans, though the MDC's Nelson Chamisa said police had no search warrant.

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Originally posted by fredgiblet:
Is this the new Fascist Idol?

I'm gonna vote for Mugabe, what number I send the text message to?

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
This is like showing up with a fuel tanker and trying to use it to put out a tire fire, none of the results can possible be good.

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Originally posted by Geezer:
Oeverything is America's fault. What a world. What a world.

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
It's called cause and effect, Geeze, a simple, logical process even other mammals can generally figure out on their own, why not politicians ?

Prolly cause they're freakin reptiles or something.

We meddle, and it boomerangs, every time we go stickin our tax dollars into something overseas it's like a goddamned monkeytrap - only eventually a MONKEY *WILL* let go of the banana!

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Originally posted by Geezer:
Oeverything is America's fault. What a world. What a world.

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Everything is the fault of whoever's fault it is. We have more money and resources, so we do more of the stuff there's fault to be had for, that's all.

Do the math Chrisisall

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Originally posted by AURaptor:

both men are moronic, egocentric tryants who will let thier people suffer in the name of their leaders.

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(Warning: May contain vaguely psychotic ranting and small traces of nuts or nutlike products)
(Patriot Act anyone ? I. Told. You. So.) never are.

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Same principle here in the states, what with the Bush administrations concept of a Unitary Executive... regardless of how matters turn out, my one hope that brings a snarky smile to my face is just how fast the next sumbitch we elect is gonna USE that "Unitary Executive" power to bend Bush [...]

I wanna see the tears roll down that [his] face when the new administration railroads [him] in a rigged military tribunal and ships [him] off to Gitmo with extreme prejudice for a couple rounds of waterboarding.

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Second Venezuela TV is under fire

Venezuela's government has accused a TV station of inciting a murder attempt on President Hugo Chavez, hours after taking another network off the air.
It said footage shown on Globovision implicitly called for Mr Chavez to be killed. The station denies the claim.

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Communications Minister William Lara said Globovision had called for the death of Mr Chavez by airing footage of the 1981 assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II with the song "This Does Not Stop Here" sung by Ruben Blades, now Panama's tourism minister.

"The conclusion of the specialists ... is that (in this segment) they are inciting the assassination of the president of Venezuela," Mr Lara said, as he filed a lawsuit against the news network at the state prosecutor's office.

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Globovision was the only TV station to air footage of a large demonstration against the government's growing control over the media.

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
That bein said, Venezuela ain't my county, and ain't my business how they run their affairs, we should just leave that the hell alone.

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Our meddling and nitpicking actually helped Castro remain in power by giving him an acknowledged opponent to rally his people against other than him, and here we are repeating the exact same mistake - if we don't like Chavez, just ignore him and snub him diplomatically, rather than pissing our tax dollars down a hole for black ops to piss off his whole country at us.

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Originally posted by Geezer:
Oops. I had forgotten that the ends of dictators justify the means, because everything is America's fault. What a world. What a world.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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