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Chavez helps leftist ally Argentina ward off Soros ( Confused ? )
Reuters ^
| Dec 5, 2006
| Alejandro Lifshitz
Posted on 12/05/2006 6:46:33 PM PST by george76
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday stepped in to help his leftist ally Argentine President Nestor Kirchner by bailing out an Argentine firm to prevent its purchase by a fund involving billionaire investor George Soros.
Chavez, whom Kirchner wished good luck before his landslide re-election on Sunday, said he would lend $80 million to Sancor, a struggling private cooperative dairy sought by Adecoagro, a fund in which currency speculator and philanthropist Soros has a stake.
"The capitalist magnate wanted to buy it out. Now I have signed the first part of the deal. We are going to issue credit of $80 million," Chavez told a news conference.
The move is a further sign of Chavez using his abundant oil earnings to forge an alliance of leftist leaders across Latin America, fighting what he sees as the evils of capitalism.
Chavez said an unspecified portion of the loan would be repaid in milk powder and advice on designing dairies -- in line with his other regional deals.
Venezuela already sells discounted oil to Argentina...
(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.com ...
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: argentina; caracas; chavez; energy; georgesoros; hugo; hugochavez; kirchner; latinamerica; nestorkirchner; oil; soros; venezuela
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To: cripplecreek
Very few countries in the world are willing or able to refine Venezuelan oil due to the high sulfur content. We're their biggest buyer and we have the leverage if we're willing to use it. I'm willing to pay a bit more at the pump if it means Hugo has to suffer a bit.
If we'd stop listening to the Godforsaken environmentalist we could suck enough out of the ground beneath us to replace Chavez's stolen slop.
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posted on
12/05/2006 8:39:35 PM PST
by
Jaysun
(Let's not ruin this moment with words.)
To: Jaysun
Remember when 'insurgents' kept blowing up oil pipelines in Iraq near the beginning of the rebuild-phase?
I can imagine 'radical environmentalists' doing likewise here if we went full ahead on drilling in Alaska and etc.
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posted on
12/05/2006 8:48:54 PM PST
by
the anti-liberal
(OUR schools are damaging OUR children)
To: george76
Great picture.
Hugo says, "I wish all Americans were as gullible as you, Jimmy."
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posted on
12/05/2006 8:51:32 PM PST
by
Rocky
(Air America: Robbing the poor, and still unable to stay in business)
To: Rocky
I am sure that Hugo thinks that most Americans are stupid like Jimmah'...
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posted on
12/05/2006 8:54:54 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
Remember, he met with Sheehan, so of course he thinks that!
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posted on
12/05/2006 8:56:44 PM PST
by
the anti-liberal
(OUR schools are damaging OUR children)
To: the anti-liberal
I can imagine 'radical environmentalists' doing likewise here if we went full ahead on drilling in Alaska and etc.
That isn't a stretch. They chain themselves to trees (as renewable as you can get) and have burnt down houses, forest, and vehicles in the name of progress regression. Idiots. If they'd dare look at their Communist roots and admit how asinine the whole idea is we'd be living in a different world.
My question is: "Why do we listen to them?" If we can answer that, and correct it, we can eliminate a lot of the liberal problem.
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posted on
12/05/2006 9:11:38 PM PST
by
Jaysun
(Let's not ruin this moment with words.)
To: Jaysun
"My question is: "Why do we listen to them?" If we can answer that, and correct it, we can eliminate a lot of the liberal problem."
Unfortunately, a lot of it has to do with the liberal influence of public opinion in: newspapers, television shows, music and PACs.
That entire structure has to be infiltrated from within via the planting of 'memes' and other emotively persuasive and 'mainstreamed' thoughts. Among other things.
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posted on
12/05/2006 9:38:00 PM PST
by
the anti-liberal
(OUR schools are damaging OUR children)
To: george76
Jimmy and Hugo - two heavy crudes that can't be refined, with a lot of associated gas
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posted on
12/05/2006 9:45:15 PM PST
by
Rocky
(Air America: Robbing the poor, and still unable to stay in business)
To: the anti-liberal
Unfortunately, a lot of it has to do with the liberal influence of public opinion in: newspapers, television shows, music and PACs.
That entire structure has to be infiltrated from within via the planting of 'memes' and other emotively persuasive and 'mainstreamed' thoughts. Among other things.
And these aren't things that happen quickly. I'm willing to stay the course. Their ignorance will expose them - if it doesn't kill us first.
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posted on
12/05/2006 9:57:54 PM PST
by
Jaysun
(Let's not ruin this moment with words.)
To: Jaysun
"Their ignorance will expose them - if it doesn't kill us first."
Therein lies the rub; how much pain must we endure before we begin to recover?
I suspect it will take place more quickly then we imagine it'll take; liberals tend to be very 'fad' oriented, with short attention spans and short term vision, and without much self-control (control of themselves, individually and collectively - whim takes them).
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posted on
12/05/2006 10:34:07 PM PST
by
the anti-liberal
(OUR schools are damaging OUR children)
To: Rocky
LOL.
Jimmy and Hugo - two heavy crudes that can't be refined, with a lot of associated gas
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posted on
12/06/2006 6:06:21 AM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
"The move is a further sign of Chavez using his abundant oil earnings to forge an alliance of leftist leaders across Latin America, fighting what he sees as the evils of capitalism."
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lol, his oil wealth only exists because of capitalism... :)
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posted on
12/06/2006 1:09:11 PM PST
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/optimism_nov8th.htm)
To: traviskicks
Without capitalism and capitalist workers, their oil will remain in the ground.
Never mind the people and ships to move the oil...
He is a POS.
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posted on
12/06/2006 2:45:58 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: the anti-liberal
I suspect it will take place more quickly then we imagine it'll take; liberals tend to be very 'fad' oriented, with short attention spans and short term vision, and without much self-control (control of themselves, individually and collectively - whim takes them).
Let us hope, though I'm not sure that history supports your assertion.
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posted on
12/06/2006 8:39:53 PM PST
by
Jaysun
(Let's not ruin this moment with words.)
To: Jaysun
We are at a unique point in history.
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posted on
12/07/2006 12:36:29 PM PST
by
the anti-liberal
(OUR schools are damaging OUR children)
To: the anti-liberal
We are at a unique point in history.
Yes we are. Half the populace is actively working to undermine their own country. Bizarre.
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posted on
12/07/2006 2:55:11 PM PST
by
Jaysun
(Let's not ruin this moment with words.)
To: george76
Soros wants a unified world government with soft socialism (AKA Soros wants to keep his money). Chavez, Putin, and Jintao want hard socialism.
To: Seruzawa
Soros is widely hated by just about everyone. His companies are not allowed into China, because Soros backed overthrowing the Chinese government. However, half of the stuff Soros did backfired (See Poland). Soros wants a Soft Socialist (Almost EU Type)world government as I stated in my last post, while guys like Chavez, Jintao, and Putin want what I call "Strong socialism".
To: cripplecreek
Fine with me. We don't buy that much from Venezuela anyway.
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posted on
12/08/2006 1:16:27 AM PST
by
Jezebelle
(Our tax dollars are paying the ACLU to sue the Christ out of us.)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Whatever amount of oil we've been buying would be sold in large part to China if we don't buy it.
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posted on
12/08/2006 1:19:30 AM PST
by
Jezebelle
(Our tax dollars are paying the ACLU to sue the Christ out of us.)
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