Next U.s. Target - Venezuelan Election

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Next U.S. Target - Venezuelan Election


Maybe the attention generated in the past few years over electronic
voting and rigging has made it difficult to actually pull it off
anymore. I caution against complacency on this issue.


Perhaps all the attention generated by Oliver North's arrival in
Nicaragua, here in the states and abroad, made it more difficult to
affect the outcome of the voting there, where the old nemesis of the
World Anti-Communist League returned to power recently.


After the 2002 attempt by Miami, Bush-associated outfits to oust
President Hugo Chavez from power failed, just maybe they won't get away
with trying to rig the upcoming Venezuelan election. They really do have
some nerve. They no longer care who knows what they are up to and this
may be their undoing. When the voters' opinions no longer matter and
nearly everyone is on the outlook for electronic fraud, such
conspirators inevitably lose.


I once heard insanity defined as the act of doing things the same way
repeatedly while expecting different results. If this is true, then the
seams are just starting to show, as the formula is just starting to not
work. I have always known that politics is the art of playing on
societal amnesia but one can overplay this hand indeed. It seems that
some capacity for at least limited recall still exists.


Enjoy the article:




Bush neocon cabal trying to disrupt Venezuela presidential election
Agitprop Capital of the World (the USA) Exports Its Poison to Venezuela
Stephen Lendman


Agitprop, electoral fraud and dirty tricks may not have been invented in
the US, but they certainly were perfected in “the land of the free and
home of the brave” that no longer is except in the mind’s eye of a
diminishing number of diehards, true-believers and others still unaware
of the real state of things in America. The clearest evidence was the
theft of the last two presidential elections through a process of
massive voter disenfranchisement, black and Latino intimidation in the
inner cities, assorted other dirty tricks and rigged electronic voting
machines programmed and operated by major corporations to assure the
final count gave their man, George Bush, a manipulated electoral victory
both times, with a little help from five corrupted Supreme Court
justices who decided their votes counted more than those of the public
they annulled.


The same fraud was also rampant in recent congressional elections
guaranteeing both houses of Congress stayed in Republican hands allowing
the interests of capital their divine right to rule the world with their
political partner of choice. On the eve of another US election on
November 7, the manipulators of electoral mischief are at it again, and
it hardly matters how things turn out. Systemic corruption is so
entrenched in Washington, it’ll be business as usual on Capital Hill no
matter how many end up on either side of the isle. Little will change
when members of the 110th Congress are sworn in on January 3, 2007,
assuring only disappointment for those believing otherwise.


It’s called democracy, American-style that’s now a staple at home but
doesn’t stop at the border. For many years, whatever administration’s
been in power, the US believes it has a prerogative to decide who holds
office anywhere in the developing world where it routinely meddles in
the electoral process through intimidation, bribery, black propaganda
and direct funding of the candidates of its choice. Those activities are
illegal in the US, and it’s unimaginable how loud the wails of protest
and outrage would be if it was learned another country or foreign
corporation funded political candidates at any level here or interfered
in any way in this country’s electoral process.


Whatever the rules are for others, it doesn’t deter what Washington
claims as its divine right anywhere in the world. It’s done it for
decades as it’s now been interferring for months in the run-up to the
December 3 election in Venezuela when the people of the country will
decide who will lead them for another six years. There’s no suspense who
that will be as the majority of Venezuelans will never allow anyone but
Hugo Chavez to be their president as long as he wants the job.


So with US meddling now in high gear, the strategy becomes if you can’t
beat ‘em, first discredit ‘em in the run-up to election day, then be
ready to roll out whatever scheme is planned to prevent the people’s
overwhelming choice from serving another six years in office. Observers
need only watch and read the daily news reports to follow the scripted
made in Washington dirty tricks campaign as it plays out. Here’s a
sampling of the agitprop poison spewing from Washington.


With the US corporate media as lead agitator and following months of
rumors, it was learned the Bush administration is investigating the
privately owned Venezuelan Smartmatic Corporation’s takeover of a
leading US electronic voting machine manufacturer, Sequoia Voting
Systems, to learn if the parent company has links to Hugo Chavez and his
government. The Venezuelan government contracted with Smartmatic to
replace the country’s election machinery ahead of the August, 2004
recall referendum but has no ownership stake in it. That was confirmed
by its CEO, Antonio Mugica, who called the rumors “baseless allegations
and conspiracy (that) will be put to rest” once the investigation is
complete, but while it continues and is in the news is part of the black
propaganda campaign to attack Hugo Chavez as part of Washington’s
strategy to delegitimize a Chavez victory in preparation for whatever
scheme is planned post-December 3.


The London Independent reports another Bush administration accusation
denouncing the Chavez government along with Myanmar (formerly Burma) for
“failing demonstrably to make substantial efforts” to meet its
international anti-narcotics agreements obligations to eliminate drugs
trafficking. It’s another made-in-America phony anti-Chavez pre-election
smear that holds no water when held to the light. A separate US State
Department report shows that from 1998 to 2004, Venezuelan drug seizures
rose from 8.6 to 19.1 tons, and Caracas claims in 2005 the number rose
to 58.5 tons of cocaine, 18.3 tons of marijuana, 869 pounds of heroin
and 1600 pounds of crack cocaine. A little egg on the hegemon’s face is
noticeable, and it looks like its neocon right hand better check what
its State Department left hand is doing and saying before it makes a
bloody fool of itself which it did.


Venezuela’s Minister of Interior and Justice, Jesse Chacon, slapped down
the false accusation and flatly stated his country is neither a major
producer or consumer of drugs although it’s true Venezuela suspended
cooperation with the US Drug Enforcement Agency (notorious for being
corrupted as exposed by former agents who left for that reason) but not
because the Chavez government isn’t committed in the “war on drugs.”
Rather it’s because the DEA routinely breached Venezuelan law acting as
a front for CIA covert mischief to destabilize the Chavez government -
another stunt CIA operatives have been pulling for decades in their role
as hired assassins and masters of strong-arm troublemaking.


It’s also an open secret the CIA, since its inception in 1947, has
actively participated in drugs trafficking worldwide as an important
source of its revenue and has now partnered with the Northern Alliance
warlords in Afghanistan to turn the country into a narco-state. This
year alone it brought to harvest a record 6,100 tons of opium, or 92% of
the total world’s supply, in contrast to the Taliban who wiped out
practically the entire poppy crop and in the process angered Washington
for destroying this important revenue source not just for the CIA but
also for the major US money center banks.


According to Washington-think, drugs trafficking is fine as long as
their operatives control and profit from it, but electoral politics is
bad when Hugo Chavez does it in ways like handing out $3 billion in
Christmas bonuses to one million public workers 6 weeks in advance.
That’s the charge, and Chavez opponents spoke of his “spending spree”
that included free commuter train rides, a free rock concert and free
T-shirts with pro-Chavez slogans. Heavens - send the man to the gallows.


What was left out of the Washington report is that these tactics and
much more are routinely done in the US along with improper and illegal
electoral activities hidden from public view. They include billions of
corporate dollars to buy influence, slush funds for under-the-table
handouts, lush jobs for political relatives who needn’t even show up for
work and plenty more. But most important and unmentioned is that
Venezuela doesn’t interfere in US or other countries’ elections while
the US always does it with a heavy hand as it’s now doing in Venezuela.
It’s poured millions of dollars into the country funding the opposition,
chose the candidate it wanted to oppose Chavez, and has serious mischief
planned ahead to destabilize the country and likely try again to oust
Hugo Chavez after his reelection and assassinate him to assure he never
runs again.


Imagine how Washington would react if another country meddled in the
electoral process here in any way. It would be condemned as an act of
Terrorism and likely dealt with harshly to include economic sanctions or
worse - a little “shock and awe” maybe.


Now the latest Chavez smear is the phony accusation that the PDVSA state
oil company president and Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Rafael
Ramirez, improperly told company managers to back Hugo Chavez in the
December election. A surreptitiously recorded and leaked video suddenly
appeared and was presented by opposition candidate Manuel Rosales’
spokesperson Gerardo Blyde claiming what Mr. Ramirez said violates the
constitutional provision prohibiting state employees from any
involvement in political activities.


Mr. Blyde has good reason to spew anti-Chavez vitriol because, as
VHeadline.com commentator Patrick O’Donoghue reported on November 4, he
was involved in the 2002 US-staged coup d’etat ousting Hugo Chavez for
two days and stood to become Venezuela’s Attorney General in the Pedro
Carmona government had it prevailed. He was also involved in the 2002-03
crippling oil strike that devastated the country’s economy and by those
actions committed acts of treason against a democratically elected
government. Despite that, he’s a free man and now has resurfaced as a
key player in the opposition’s campaign. Like Carmona, he’s a criminal
and stooge for Washington and the Venezuelan oligarchs who’ll resort to
any underhanded and illegal tactics to discredit Hugo Chavez and try to
prevent his serving another term in office.


It didn’t work before and won’t this time either. Mr. Ramirez is a
high-level state minister and head of the state-owned oil company. He
broke no law and did what anyone loyal to his government and president
should do - support them and ask his employees to do the same thing in a
show of solidarity and loyalty to him and the “Bolivarian project” the
Venezuelan people voted for and rightfully demand. That’s how things are
supposed to work in a democracy. Hugo Chavez supports Mr. Ramirez and
told him “to repeat the same message a hundred times in PDVSA” affirming
Venezuela is living a revolution and the state-owned oil company is a
revolutionary institution.


Thousands of PDVSA workers feel the same way and rallied to support Mr.
Ramirez right after the video’s release. Venezuelan parliamentarians in
the National Assembly agree and announced they would endorse a
resolution supporting the minister, rejecting any Washington and
oligarch-directed efforts to destabilize the country’s oil industry.


Mr. Blyde feels otherwise and said he’ll complain to the country’s
National Electoral Council (CNE), the Organization of American States
(OAS), the European Union (EU), and unmentioned, his paymaster in
Washington who had to have put him up to this stunt that hasn’t worked.
Still Mr. Ramirez, in a show of magnanimity, said he’ll respect and
abide by any ruling of the CNE which is far more than
US-oligarch-controlled Blyde and his candidate would do. The only rule
of law for them is what they say it is. It’s the same way things now
work in Washington - the HQ of the Venezuelan branch of the Bush cabal.


Much more is going on besides what’s covered above, most of which is sub
rosa, unknown so far and very sinister and threatening to the
“Bolivarian project.” One thing that is known came out in an accusation
by the corporate-controlled Inter American Press Association (IAPA) that
the Chavez government restricts press freedom. It’s a resurfaced echo of
many similar past oligarch-directed complaints that are as much bunk now
as in the past. Venezuelan Information and Communication Minister
William Lara righteously denounced it and rightfully said his country is
in the top rankings among the nations of the world with the most press
freedom.


The minister got it right, but might have gone further to contrast how
free the press is in Venezuela compared to the US where the dominant
corporate-controlled media function as a de facto collective
state-controlled ministry of information and propaganda suppressing all
information vital to the people and reporting only what’s friendly to a
Bush crime syndicate posing as a legitimate government.


Reports are also emerging of Chavez slipping in the polls - at least the
easily fabricated ones run by the oligarch opposition in preparation for
one of their likely transparent schemes to be hatched right after Chavez
wins big again. An example is one released by Alfredo Keller’s AKSA
Partners and reported by that most reliable of sources - Bloomberg.com
run by the same man who’s also mayor of New York. Michael Bloomberg,
serving in a dual role as corporate media tycoon and mayor, suppressed
the information he had after succeeding former mayor Rudolph Giuliani in
2002 about how contaminated and dangerous many square blocks were around
the World Trade Center site after the 9/11 attack and likely still are
as he’s done little to remediate them.


The Keller poll shows Rosales’ support miraculously rising (like the
mythical phoenix) to 48% (after hovering around half that level) against
Hugo Chavez who overnight mysteriously plummeted to just 52%. Anyone
believing this also likely thinks the US financial markets Mr. Bloomberg
reports on with religious reverence are free from manipulation, there
really are WMDs in Iraq not yet found, Saddam brought down the twin
towers and the Bush administration supports democracy, human rights and
the rest in the Middle East and everywhere else. Incredibly some
independent polls in the US still show a substantial percent of the
public believes all that which says a lot about how uninformed and
misinformed people in the country are and how dangerous that is to their
own welfare.


What’s really going on with the Keller poll is a set-up plot to cry foul
on December 4 when the election results are tabulated showing Hugo
Chavez won another convincing victory. He’ll probably do it with about
the same 60% or so majority he got in 2000 which most independent
consensus poll numbers now show him at, but wait for the protest wails
to emerge as soon as the results are announced along with whatever
scheme Washington has cooked up to prevent another Chavez term in
office. This is when the rubber will meet the road and the fate of
President Chavez will be decided in the next round of Hugo Chavez vs.
the Bush neocon cabal determined to oust him by any means.


And then there’s Aleksander Boyd who’s built a career out of spewing
hate and lies and never found an indisputable fact about the Chavez
government and Bolivarianism he didn’t denounce and try to discredit.
Boyd holds court on his VCrisis web site where any relationship to what
he and his fellow-columnists report and the truth is merely in the eyes
of his jaded beholders. Take a recent column denouncing an October Zogby
poll showing Chavez’s approval just below the 60% level and agreeing
with other independent poll results reporting about the same number.


VCrisis calls the poll “fatally flawed” and that Zogby’s client list
includes…….are you seated and ready?……”Islamic fanatics and terrorists
who are strategic partners of Chavez - Yassir Arafat (the writer must
have forgotten he died in November, 2004), Hamas, Islamic Jihad,
Hizbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran, etc. (the “etc.” is
unidentified).” What is evident is how racist Boyd and his crew are
along with spewers of hate, vitriol and lies. With that kind of
reporting, we’ll breathlessly await VCrisis post-December 3 cries of
fraud claiming those organizations interfered to put Hugo Chavez over
the top, or something like that.


All of the above adds up to a clear bottom line. With the December
election less than a month away, events are building toward a climax
when Washington-orchestrated fireworks are sure to erupt. Expect them to
be even uglier than the tactics used in the previous three failed
attempts to oust Hugo Chavez. Chavez knows it’s coming and is likely
well insulated and prepared. Proud supporters of his “Bolivarian
project” stand with him in a powerful alliance of solidarity, are ready
to help him take his revolution to the next level, and will resist any
forces trying to undermine him. It won’t be long to see how things will
play out.

[greenyeti]

bah thats useles.. there is no way chaves will lose the elections...their opponentes are just a bunch of clowns that the same chaves promoted...