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  • Chavez Offers Cheap Gas to Poor in U.S.
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    AVANA, Cuba - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, popular with the poor at home, offered on Tuesday to help needy Americans with cheap supplies of gasoline.
    "We want to sell gasoline and heating fuel directly to poor communities in the United States," the populist leader told reporters at the end of a visit to Communist-run Cuba.
    Chavez did not say how Venezuela would go about providing gasoline to poor communities. Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA owns Citgo, which has 14,000 gas (…)

  • Rev. Jesse Jackson Condemns Pat Robertson’s Calls to Kill Venezuela President
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By: Cleto Sojo
    U.S. civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr., condemned calls by conservative Christian Coalition leader Pat Robertson’s to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
    “These comments are morally reprehensible and dangerously suggestive. The international community repudiates Robertson’s remarks, and calls upon him to retract his remarks,” Jackson said in a press release.
    “Calling for the assassination of world leaders is inciteful and wildly provocative. It is (…)

  • Christian Coalition leader Pat Robertson calls for assassination of Venezuelan president
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Levine and David Walsh
    Pat Robertson, the Christian fundamentalist politician and broadcaster with close ties to the Bush administration, has publicly called for the assassination of the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez.
    Robertson issued his Mafia-like appeal for the US government to “take out” Chavez on his television show “The 700 Club,” broadcast to over one million viewers on his own Christian Broadcast Network and Disney’s ABC Family Network. After a ten-minute news clip (…)

  • Human Rights and Religious Groups Condemn Pat Robertson’s Attack on Venezuela
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By: Venezuelanalysis.com
    Caracas, Venezuela, August 23, 2005 -The U.S.-based Human Rights group Global Exchange and the National Council of Churches issued separate statements in which they condemned fundamentalist televangelist Pat Robertson’s call for the assassination of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez.
    Global Exchange said it strongly condemns the actions of Bush supporter Pat Robertson in his call for the assassination of democratically-elected President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela. (…)

  • Pat Robertson - There’s no fool like an old fool!
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pat Robertson - There’s no fool like an old fool! (23.08.2005)
    Republican "Christian" broadcaster Pat Robertson has suggested that the U.S. government should assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez!
    Pat Robertson told viewers of his "The 700 Club" show that "We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability" and that "We don’t need another $200 billion war to get rid of one strong-arm dictator. It’s a whole lot easier to have some of (…)

  • Why not use the Patriot Act against religious fanatics like Pat Robertson?
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    Just yesterday in his broadcast on the 700 Club Reverend Pat Robertson called for the assassination of President Hugo Chavez who is the President of Venezuela.
    I find this outrageous coming from an alleged man of God.
    I find this equally outrageous that a man who believes in the sanctity of all human life would call for this.
    By calling for a world leader’s assassination, this proves that he is NOT PRO LIFE, but part of the sick machine that has taken hold of our (…)

  • Simply Red : Cuba’s Unique, Says British Rocker
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Visiting Havana for two concerts this weekend, member Mick Huncknall of the British rock group “Simply Red” described Cuba as “a unique country in the world.”
    Huncknall, the bands vocalist and composer, said he was surprised by the lack of commercial ads along Havana’s streets. “It’s different to the rest of the world, where all the cities seem to be the same,” he added.
    The singer praised Cuban music, particularly the island’s wind and percussion instrumentalists, whom he said add (…)

  • IAC Condemns Pat Robertson’s Statements on Venezuela
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Demands Immediate Retraction and calls for an end to U.S. Hostility against Venezuela
    The International Action Center strongly condemns Pat Robertson’s recent public statements on Venezuela. Robertson is a founder of the Christian Coalition of America and a former presidential candidate.
    On August 22, Robertson stated on the Christian Broadcast Network’s “The 700 Club” that President Chavez is a “terrific danger" to the United States and is turning Venezuela into a “launching pad for (…)

  • All US military leave has been cancelled ... something big is in the works!
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER editor Bob Chapman writes:
    The US military is building a new base and conducting secretive operations in Paraguay ... our Embassy there refuses to acknowledge a base exists and describes the military activity as routine.
    The base is in Mariscal Estigarribia, 200 km (127 miles) from the Bolivian border and will handle large aircraft and accommodate 16,000 troops.
    There are now 500 of our troops there with planes, weapons, equipment and ammunition. Either (…)

  • Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson called on Monday for the assassination of Venezuelan President
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Televangelist Calls for Chavez’ Death
    VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson called on Monday for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, calling him a terrific danger’’ to the United States.
    Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition of America and a former presidential candidate, said onThe 700 Club’’ it was the United States’ duty to stop Chavez from making Venezuela a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism.’’
    Chavez has (…)