FREAK CITY REVIEW: December 2004

VERA'S ANALYSIS

Vera's analysis. I will include all of Vera's articles here.

Here is my blog on China. I've had WAY too much information to put on a single blog. This blog, FREAK CITY REVIEW, will be my main blog and i will sub-blog out to these other sites. STAY TUNED FOR NEWS!

FUTUREWAR: VENEZUELA

New blog dedicated specifically to the issues of future warfare in VENEZUELA and the surrounding area in South America. Especially Colombia...

FUTUREWAR: CHINA

Venezuela promises China more energy
Venezuela plans to increase oil and gas production to satisfy the needs of developing nations like China, Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez said Monday in Caracas.

Venezuela and China strengthen ties with President Hugo Chavez’ visit

Venezuela's Chavez arrives in China with eye on oil deals

China Emerging as U.S. Rival for Canada's Oil

Musings: China's Contradictions

ISRAEL TRANSFERS AMERICAN SECRETS TO CHINA

XYMPHORA ANALYSIS
You can't kill that many people, and cause that much disruption and destruction, without having the whole world furious with you. It is therefore imperative to have the biggest motherfucker on the block to watch your back, and the United States is that motherfucker. It would be impossible for the Israelis to treat the Palestinians the criminal way they do without the aiding and abetting of the United States, and furthering the Project would be impossible without similar help.

Problem. The United States is a giant turd circling the toilet bowl, and George Bush is flushing as fast as he can.

FUTUREWAR: RUSSIA

Putin hints at China alliance for Yukos oil

Putin slams West over 'double standards' in Ukraine, Iraq

Elections in U.S. and Ukraine Equally Bad — Putin
“We’re also not too happy about what’s going on in the United States,” the Russian Information Agency Novosti quoted him as saying. “Do you think that the electoral system in the United States is without problems? Is it necessary to recall how the elections went this time and the previous time?”

Putin asks whether West trying to isolate Russia

Yukos, Game Over

The power struggle in Ukraine and America’s strategy for global supremacy
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/ukra-23d.shtml
US ambitions for global supremacy are encompassing ever-larger parts of the globe. In the course of the struggle for the Ukrainian presidency, American and Russian interests have clashed in a manner and sharpness that vividly recall the period of the Cold War. Following the bloody conflict in the Balkans and the forcible subjection of Iraq, Ukraine and Russia itself threaten to become the scene of violent struggles.

Drilling Wells in the New World
Favorable political conditions give Russian oil companies a unique chance to gain a foothold in Venezuela and on the American market, for just one billion dollars. This relatively small amount is the price Russian companies will pay for risk.

INDO-RUSSIAN TIES-I Continued Convergence Of Interests

FUTUREWAR: COLOMBIA

Suspicions Gather Where 3 Nations Converge
Brazilian officials acknowledge they can't monitor the triple border, but
reject claims that the area is a caldron of support for terrorists.
By Henry Chu, Times Staff Writer

Colombia's president escapes death plots
On Thursday, police in the capital, Bogota, said they discovered a car bomb that the FARC intended to use against Uribe.

Witness puts Plan Colombia in sharp focus: Bush praises the Killing Fields of Colombia

US-sponsored Plan Colombia program is obvious ... it is to disrupt Venezuela
There is no question the elitists who control Washington are pursuing what Mr. Chavez called imperialist ambitions just as they have in the bogus invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Justice: U.S. can fund effort to disarm Colombian guerrillas

'No Benign Explanation' For Farc Visit

Putin's visits : can you connect the dots?

Putin in India – Musharraf in Washington for F16s – the Geopolitical Chess Board ready for the next round

Brazil, Russia Sign Pact On Space Cooperation

China, Russia Discuss Military Cooperation

PUTIN: RUSSIA WILL DEVELOP OIL AND GAS, MILITARY AND TECHNICAL COOPERATION WITH VENEZUELA

GOP Leaders Join Chorus of Rumsfeld Detractors

Rumsfeld infuriates the NEOCONS, because he won't send enough troops to increase the military conflagration.

VENEZUELA ANALYSIS

Christian Science Monitor: Venezuela flush with cash extends regional muscle
Now, freed from worries about domestic political opposition, Mr. Chavez is using his new wealth to extend his influence beyond his nation's borders -- and perhaps escalate his long-running confrontation with Washington, say observers.

CPC willing to promote China-Venezuela ties: official

Chavez Heads to China to Expand Venezuela Energy Ties

Venezuela reiterates intention to normalize ties with US

Testing the currents of multipolarity
At present, the US has lost the position that it was perceived to have after the fall of the Soviet Union as the undisputed global superpower presiding over an economic order integrating a world of market democracies.
By Dr. Michael A. Weinstein

Cuba and Venezuela pen Alternative against US-Backed Free Trade Agreement

Activists Urge Venezuela to Expose Abuses by the National Endowment for Democracy
Open Letter to President Hugo Chavez, and to the People of Venezuela

Venezuela: An inspiring example of struggle for all the Latin American peoples
At the end of November supporters of the Hands Off Venezuela campaign in London interviewed Zona Marginal ... a Colombian hip hop band that came to Britain invited by the Colombia Solidarity Campaign.

Bankruptcy scrambles; Venezuela well advised to look to its own currency
People in resource-rich producer countries like Venezuela would be very wise indeed to sell off dollars and other US assets, like CITGO, before the effects of this crooked chicanery and voodoo economics cause more problems than they already have.

China to further energy cooperation with Venezuela

Cuba, Venezuela reject US-sponsored FTAA, back Chavez plan

Cuba and Venezuela slam US Free Trade Area of the Americas
Both nations proposed a more equal alternative based in mutual cooperation rather than in pure pro-market policies.

Colombia Captures 'Chancellor' of FARC Rebel Group
The US is against the FARC because they wont invest their drug money in WALL STREET. -vig

KAZINFORM: Venezuela seeks cooperation with Russia in oil, gas spheres

Gazprom may participate in oil/gas production of Venezuela.

Venezuela cracks down on dollar dealers

VENEZUELA: Chavez calls for world ‘anti-globalisation' network
Stuart Munckton
At a government-sponsored World Forum of Intellectuals and Artists in Defence of Humanity, held in Caracas on December 2-3, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's radical left-wing president, “pledged to provide an office and resources in Venezuela to initiate a ‘network of networks' of social organisations and institutions around the world working to build alternative models of development in the face in globalisation”, the Venzuelanalysis.com website reported.

Hugo Chavez' Lat - Am "Axis Against the USA"
By Alexandra Beech
Summary: An editorial on Chavez's talk of Venezuela/Brazil/Argentina
alliance against U.S. free-trade practices. Editorial is pro-U.S.

Top Secret U.S. Army Document
Reveals U.S. Interference in Venezuela's Political Affairs
by Roy S. Carson
Inasmuch as Venezuela is the fifth largest oil producer in the world, and the third largest supplier to the United States, it appears plausible to conclude that oil must be a significant factor in the US drive to effect regime change in the country. Yet Washington has opposed governments and movements throughout Latin America and elsewhere in the world with equal determination, without oil or any other resource being a factor. Hugo Chavez is against the excesses of US foreign policy and globalization and has let the world know this, which makes it plain to Washington that he's not of suitable client material. For the empire to let him get away with this would be to set a very bad example for other non-believers.
William Blum, Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire [Monroe, ME, Common Courage Press, 2005] pp. 181-182.

U.S. and Latin America at Odds Over Terrorism Threat
By Kieran Murray

VENEZUELA KEEN ON STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH RUSSIA
* RUSSIA * CHAVEZ * VISIT * INITIATIVE *

Fannie Mae's Institutional Arrogance

By Bill Mann

"The absolute brazenness of Fannie's actions is dumbfounding. It asked regulators for permission to account for its derivatives using its own method, was told no, and did it anyway. How did it think it could get away with this?
"The answer is arrogance, and the fact that Fannie Mae has such a powerful lobbying force in Washington. Politicians are terrified of the potential economic impact of challenging Fannie Mae's credibility -- there may be no more important financial institution in the country save the Federal Reserve.
"The best case for Fannie Mae at this point would be a management sweep, a capital raise, and some fierce new oversight and strictures on the company. The worst case is almost too awful to contemplate ..."

Fannie Mae dismisses CEO and CFO in response to critical report by SEC
By Robert Schroder
CBSMarketWatch.com
Tuesday, December 21, 2004

Sibel Edmonds: Still Silenced, But Why?

by Jim Hogue

It is fair to say that the Bush administration, through the efforts of Attorney General John Ashcroft, has confirmed its complicity in the 9/11/01 attacks.

PRESIDENT PUTIN, ROTHSCHILD AND THE 'BIG GAME'

Foreign Press Foundation
THE REAL STORY ON THE YUKOS OIL SNATCH
by Henk Ruyssenaars - the Netherlands

"This $40 billion giant was bought for about $300 million, thus looting the entire Russian economy for the benefit of a handful of Israeli citizens living in Russia."

PROJECT HAMMER RELOADED

The Ties That Bind – Mapping The Covert Connections
David Guyatt
2003

see David's EXCELLENT site: www.deepblacklies.co.uk

Study: Breast Baring Popular in 1600s

By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News

"Though women outside the upper circles may well have taken to this style, it began as a very high-class fashion which demonstrated high class and classical ideals of female beauty. The husband of a woman dressed like this would be proud to have his classical beauty on display, and for a woman it was part of her honor that she could display her virtue in this way."

A Fascist Philosopher Helps Us Understand Contemporary Politics

By ALAN WOLFE

To understand what is distinctive about today's Republican Party, you
first need to know about an obscure and very conservative German
political philosopher. His name, however, is not Leo Strauss, who has
been widely cited as the intellectual guru of the Bush administration.
It belongs, instead, to a lesser known, but in many ways more important,
thinker named Carl Schmitt.

Why Say No to FTAA

by Jorge Robledo

“For centuries England has relied on protection, has carried it to extremes, and has obtained satisfactory results from it. There is no doubt that it is to this system that it owes its present strength. After two centuries, England has found it convenient to adopt free trade because it thinks that protection can no longer offer it anything. Very well then, gentlemen, my knowledge of our country leads me to believe that within two hundred years, when America has gotten out of protection all that it can offer, it too will adopt free trade.”

Ulysses Grant, president of the United States, (1868-1876)

Romanian ex-president framed up by CIA

In a graceful move, CIA framed up the Romanian ex-president Ion Iliescu.

Planning to remove the only Romanian politician who had certain ties with Moscow, the American diabolic thinkers have considered a horrifying scenario, according to which the removal of any trace of dignity from Iliescu's face in the moment of his official withdrawal from the presidential chair was needed, in order to help the US to finally take the exclusive control over Romania, in a “democratic” way.

"FRAUD BY COMPUTER" IN FLORIDA

Election Official Thwarts Recount Using Phony Vote Totals
In the Middle Ages it was “God’s Will.” Today its "a computer glitch.”

Even as testimony indicated a Florida computer firm was asked to create a program to 'hack the vote' at the request of a top Florida Republican, a “mistake” in the office of the seriously-compromised Supervisor of Election in Pinellas County spiked hopes for a state-wide recount in Florida that might have thrown a spotlight on dark corners of the election process critics say hide widespread and even systemic vote fraud in the Sunshine State.

Recounting the state's gambling initiative offered the opportunity to correlate the results with tallies from the Presidential election.

But when Deborah Clark's official tally recorded 34,000 more votes for YES on the gambling initiative than were actually cast, the margin was sufficient to legally preclude a mandated recount. Supervisor of Elections Clark's husband, a longtime top executive with the election company counting more than half the U.S. vote, must have breathed a sigh of relief...

Richard Clark probably had more to lose from a recount than almost anyone alive.

Read the whole story at:
TheMadCowMorningNews
“When Matt & Katie aren’t enough.”

TWO SHOTS FOR SUICIDE

Coroner Robert Lyons said his office had been swamped with calls. "It's unusual in a suicide case to have two shots," he said, "but it has been done in the past, and it is in fact a distinct possibility."Gary Webb's Death Confirmed as Suicide

R.I.P. Gary Webb -- Unembedded Reporter
by Jeff Cohen

Trashed by the CIA's Claque
Gary Webb: a Great Reporter
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
and JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

Ricky Ross, one of Gary Webb's primary sources had spoken to Gary in the days before his death. Gary told Ricky that he had seen men scaling down the pipes outside his home and that they were obviously not burglars but 'government people'. Gary also told Ricky that he had been receiving death threats and was being regularly followed. It was also mentioned that Gary was working on a new story concerning the CIA and drug trafficking.
Evidence Begins To Indicate Gary Webb Was Murdered
Webb Spoke Of Death Threats, 'Government People' Around His Home

MIKE RUPPERT ON GARY WEBB
GARY WEBB - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER, AUTHOR OF DARK ALLIANCE CIA-DRUG SERIES DEAD OF REPORTED SUICIDE

Press Accounts Fail to Mention His Vindication by CIA Inspector General Reports and Congressional Investigations
by Michael C. Ruppert

US missile defense test fails

US missile defense test fails
So, do we have STAR WARS or not?

ANALYSIS: CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN

CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN
One of the most valuable and dangerous books of our time
An analysis by G. Edward Griffin

Coming geopolitical quakes

Coming geopolitical quakes
By Arnaud de Borchgrave