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Chavez planning a new Bolshevik revolution?

He probably plans to take on the army -- which he does not now control and which is the only remaining check on his power

If you remember the chaos that surrounded the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), you know that financial institutions simply cannot operate under conditions of street violence. The tenuous situation in Venezuela could soon reach that state, in light of disturbing new developments that have come to light. Read the details below, and decide for yourself whether a civil war is on the horizon in Caracas. Here is what we know so far:

*.. Four secret flights are scheduled into Venezuela, on TAM Brazilian Airlines, transporting 31.5 tonnes of firearms made in Brazil. The first flight has already arrived, carrying 1.5 tonnes of weapons; each additional flight is scheduled to bring in ten tonnes each.

*.. Whilst the exact types of weapons are unknown, one can safely estimate that between 50,000 and 70,000 weapons will be contained in these shipments, which are not consigned for the Ministry of Defence, but are to be quietly delivered directly to the Miraflores Presidential Palace, on the orders of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez Frias. Why all the secrecy?

*.. In a country where the armed forces and the police are already well-equipped, these weapons can only have one intended use; to arm civilian supporters of the current regime, who will use it upon the opposition in an expected violent confrontation that could degenerate into a civil war.

A civil disturbance would result in the complete shutdown of the financial system in the capital. Watch for any preliminary signs of organised violence, closure of shops and businesses, and attacks upon civilians.

Source

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Brookes News Update

Why America will go into recession: f my email is anything to go by, there are a lot of worried and confused people out there. Basically most want to know why if the US economy is going to slide into recession. Of course it will
Why a carbon tax would hit living standards: A carbon tax is an attack on the capital structure and no amount of abusive language can change that fact. Therefore such a tax dissipates capital, strikes at investment, undercuts living standards and encouragers companies to move offshore
The Cult of Obama: What America truly needs is not a sycophantic public following a cult leader on a path of foolishness. Obama is an empty suit. He is all show and no substance, like so much of modern entertainment. He is the MTV candidate
Monopolistic competition and unions : Monopolistic competition and oligopoly are economic dead-ends that have wasted an enormous amount of intellectual talent while providing enemies of the market with abundant ammunition
Cuba's New and Improved Tyrant: Once again the mainstream media is running interference for the murderous Castro brothers, assuring free world that Raul Castro is a 'pragmatist' and a 'reformer'. What they refuse to tell us is that the freedom-loving Raul is even more sadistic than his ailing brother. This is a man who murdered kids. What counts with our vile media is not the crime but who committed. This is why they give socialist thugs a free pass
Scientific approach to Arab-Israel conflict: Self-hating Jews are promoting ideas that would destroy Israel and create another Holocaust. Are these Jews suffering from misplaced guilt. Or is it no accident that everyone of them is a leftist. For the left Israel is a monstrous capitalist state that has to be destroyed - even if it means another Holocaust
President Lula of Brazil: guilty by confession: President Lula deliberately violated Brazilian sovereignty and has put it at risk by conspiring with FARC (a Colombian narco-terrorist group), Chavez (Venezuela's wannabe Castro) and MIR (a Marxist Leninist terrorist group from Chile) to put the resources of Brazil at their disposal and help them direct 'the internal politics of many Latin-American nations'

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There is a very disturbing article here about the rapid decay of South Africa since it came under black rule. A fall from a first-world country to just another African hellhole seems to be well underway and is probably irreversible.

Colombia: Chavez Funding FARC Rebels : "Venezuela and Ecuador sought Monday to make Colombia pay a high price for killing a leftist rebel leader in the Ecuadorean jungle - expelling its diplomats, ordering troops to the border and cracking down on trade across the border. But Colombia quickly struck back, revealing what it said were incriminating documents seized from the rebel camp that suggest its neighbors have been secretly supporting the leftist rebels' deadly insurgency... Colombia's national police chief stood by its attack that killed Reyes, and said that documents recovered from his laptop showed Venezuela's leftist government recently paid $300 million to the rebels, among other financial and political ties that date back years, and that high-level meetings have been held between rebels and Ecuadorean officials".

Bureaucratic bungles incorrectly kill off thousands: "For a dead woman, Laura Todd is awfully articulate. 'I don't think people realize how difficult it is to be dead when you're not,' said Todd, who is very much alive and kicking in Nashville, Tenn., even though the federal government has said otherwise for many years. Todd's struggle started eight years ago with a typo in government records. The government has reassured her numerous times that it has cleared up the confusion, but the problems keep coming. ... Laura Todd is not alone. She is one of tens of thousands of living, breathing Americans whom the federal government has wrongly declared dead -- by one measure, more than 35 a day."

'Peace partner' at war with Israel in Gaza: "While Israel's ground operation in the Gaza Strip the past few days has been largely reported as a war against the Hamas terrorist group, members of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization boasted they also engaged in clashes against Israeli forces and fired rockets into Jewish population centers. U.S. policy considers Fatah to be moderate."

U.N. sanctions Iran anew over nuclear program: " The U.N. Security Council approved a third round of sanctions against Iran on Monday with near unanimous support, sending a strong signal to Tehran that its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment is unacceptable and becoming increasingly costly. For the first time, the resolution bans trade with Iran in goods which have both civilian and military uses and authorizes inspections of shipments to and from Iran by sea and air that are suspected of carrying banned items."

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