...Yet again, the snarky or 'attack' response to a valid criticism. Instead of saying 'whoops, my bad', being a man... and taking it to heart.

Have a beer on me.

I'm sorry Phil, in future I won't pause to mock anti-semite paranoids.  My bad.

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any news from the doctor on the state of your cauli-formed Rhino nob?

Kevin, Scott, Duncan, Jameson....

....Yet again, thanks for hijacking another thread and ignoring still one more topic.

Have a beer on me.

Meet Kevin...

But Lindsay - if he posts a photo, then the Jews will know who he is and be able to track him down and kill him.

Seriously, he's a deranged anti-semitic loon and / or troll.  Do you really think he'll submit a photo?

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... is moderated till he supplies a photo.

Hello Kevin - still checking under your bed for the Mossad?

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So your position is that Chavez shut down the station because it played the movie "Pretty Woman" instead of covering something Chavez found newsworthy.  And, Chavez is shutting the station down now, in mid-2007, for its alleged role in the coup--in 2002?

You're reaching here, and it is painfully obvious.

Scott DeSalvo

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!

What allows Chavez in Venezuela, Putin in Russia, the Iranian mullahs and many parts of Central Asia and the Middle East to get away with moving toward totalitarianism, countering any trend to globalization and capitalism, is that they are examples of what Tom Friedman and Fareed Zakaria have identified as Petro-Autocracies.

They are major oil-producers with stagnant and unproductive economies (and societies) otherwise. They bribe their citizenry with oil dollars. They keep many parts of the West silent or non-hostile because they are dependent on them for oil.

Most totalitarianisms collapse because of economic inefficiency and internal unrest. But as long as they can keep pumping, the collapse can be postponed for a long time.

By contrast, places like Ireland and Estonia today and the "Four Tigers" before them (Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore) and Japan before that and England in the Nineteenth Century (and New England with its rocky soil in the Seventeenth Century) did not have natural resources, so they had to become aggressively capitalistic, entrepreneurial, trading, relatively free-market types of places.

Same for Greece and the Phoenicians in the ancient world.

"(I've been busy)"

Lemme guess... writing op-eds to the Guardian on how Chavez’s multi-billion dollar theft of ConocoPhillips, Chevron, and Exxon Mobil’s oil interests is actually an act of goodwill?... Chavez offers oil to Europe's poor ... Or perhaps you've been translating The Communist Manifesto into Portuguese for the local Venezuelan mestizos?

Nobody has bothered to post in response to you, so I thought it might be nice if I did.
I assume that you are the only one here who is not aware of the truth (you remember what TRUTH is?)

"latest egregious step"

Adj. 1. egregious - conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "RANK TREACHERY"

Now, with that in mind, go have a look at just how one can recognise "RANK TREACHERY"

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3107

http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,2088662,00.html

(I've been busy)