bin_forgottin: Crook Chavez now needs to steal retailers property to finance his corruption...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8464741.stm

rebuttal:first of all price gouging is illegal,and speculation are crimes against the consumer and people of venezuela.whats more absurd is that this transnational food chain would pull this after president gave tv warning to business's not to dare attempt to rip people off for 2 weeks now.adding 50% proce hikes on top of retail is criminal and illegal,the state intervened,just like it intervened when banks were caugth mishandling public funds and misappropriating the peoples money. heres whats going on...Venezuela closes 619 retail stores for price-gouginghttp://en.apa.az/news.php?id=113978

Baku – APA-ECONOMICS. Venezuela has temporarily shuttered 619 retail stores for price-gouging in the wake of the devaluation of the country’s currency last week, official news agency ABN says.
"Many of the store owners had hiked their prices up to 80 per cent," said Public Defense Institute director Valentina Querales on Thursday.
She said about 1,000 shops were inspected this week to make sure their prices were fair, adding that 619 were closed down.
In addition to being shuttered, the shops accused of speculation must also pay a fine.
On Monday, when the devaluation of the bolivar kicked in, the government closed 70 stores for price-gouging, including the supermarket Caracas, owned by the French-Colombian Exito group.
On Friday, Chavez announced the bolivar would trade at 4.30 to the US dollar for "non-essential" goods - double the previous rate - and a rate of 2.60 bolivars against the dollar for basic goods.
The Venezuelan leader had warned on Sunday that any price speculation by shopkeepers would trigger business seizures, and called on the National Guard to help people fight price hikes.
"To those gentlemen, let’s call them looters of the people... if they want to, go ahead and do it, but we’ll take their business and hand them over to the workers," Chavez said on his weekly radio and TV talk show Alo Presidente.
The announcement sent crowds of shoppers to the stores to buy what they could at the old prices.
The bolivar devaluation was the first since 2005, and was designed in part to bolster public finances that have withered amid dwindling oil revenues and a rapidly contracting economy.
Critics said the move would allow Chavez to boost public spending ahead of elections in September but would severely damage the health of the economy.
Since coming to office, Chavez has sought to remake the Venezuelan economy, vowing to create a more equitable, socialist system.
He has initiated a string of nationalisations of foreign firms and banks, as well as measures that have sent inflation soaring to 25 per cent - the highest in Latin America.
The largest oil producer in South America, Venezuela slipped into a recession in 2009 for the first time in six years due to a drop in oil prices and production. AFP

President Chávez takes Almacenes Exito to the  Woodshedhttp://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_58159.shtml

President Chávez takes Almacenes Exito to the  Woodshedhttp://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_58159.shtmland engaged in price-gouging on food over the last decade is a shot across the bow and a full frontal attack on the speculators. Almost immediately after the government devalued the Bolivar, the "hypermercado", Exito responded by increasing its prices by 50% and in some cases, doubling their prices on everything from food to laundry detergent. Soon after, Exito stores were occupied by the Venezuelan Guardia Nacionál and shut down from Zulia on the Colombian border to Caracas.

In his brilliant, annual State of the Nation speech to the Assembleia Nacionál (Congress) last week, he said the devaluation will be followed with a robust attack on speculation in the markets. 2 days later he began to keep his word. My personal hope is that when the government buys out Almacenes Exito that they'll pay them for their corporation not in cash, but in government bonds. In practical terms, the nationalization of Almacenes Exito means the provision of affordable food for Venezuelans. All other supermercados in the country have got to be watching this closely and reviewing the price tags they place on food. Seller beware!

Chavez: New dollar adjustment does not mean rising prices for productshttp://www.telesurtv.net/noticias/secciones/nota/64911-NN/chavez-nuevo-ajuste-del-dolar-no-implica-aumento-de-precios-de-productos/

We will not accept price increases as a result of exchange controls, "Chavez said during his usual Sunday program"I call (traders) to not do so, and do not let the people steal. There is no reason at this time for increased speculation

 and we will intervene any business of any size that lends itself to speculative oligarchy, "he added.He warned that businesses that engage in speculative activities will be expropriated and "we're going to give workers, the people,"added the Venezuelan president and reiterated his request for support to the organized community to "identify where the 'plusvcuálido' and do so with great maturity 

because it is not take the business to someone just because. We must denounce the stealing of truth. "Chavez said Saturday that the measures announced in the economic field "are taken in time, are just and necessary", which is why said "the government protects the weak,protect and safeguard the Venezuelan people, the popular sectors with investments, with special attention, food, health, all that remains against the dollar to 2.60.

The president said that the actions announced last Friday "are all steps in the short and medium term to enhance the national economy will boost national productivity", ", while ratifying the Venezuelans will begin to consume more goods made in the country .

Commerce Minister warns private sector not to cash in on public panichttp://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=87644

Devaluation: United States will likely suffer from loss of exports to Venezuelahttp://www.miamiherald.com/business/story/1420074.html

Devaluation: Oil contribution doubles; higher revenues offset fall in tax collectionhttp://english.eluniversal.com/2010/01/11/en_eco_esp_oil-contribution-dou_11A3273651.shtml

The additional income will be used, among other purposes, to increase the bicentennial fund, which was created to promote exports and for import substitution.

Venezuela's devaluation will cost some United States companies.http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1115806520100111

bin_forgottin: amusing to see these tinhorn dictators claim they are helping the masses by stealing private property...lol

bin_forgottin: Career military officer, Chávez founded the left-wing Fifth Republic Movement after orchestrating a FAILED 1992 coup d'état against former President Carlos Andrés
bin_forgottin: Pérez....14 killed and 130 injured….Why didnt he pay the price?

rebuttal:he didnt pay price because he fled to miami and wa sgranted asylum,had the dummy known about what he commented on i wouldnt have to school him,after all how do u mention and incident and not know the outcome?heres what happened...

In 1998, he was imprisoned again, this time for holding joint bank accounts with his mistress, Cecilia Matos. As he was elected Senator of the State of Táchira in 1998, he gained his liberty. Pérez lost this position when Chávez dissolved the Senate as an institution and created a unique National Assembly. He then left Venezuela and went into exile in Miami. He has since gained notoriety by being one of the most vehement opposers of President Hugo Chávez.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Andrés_Pérez

bin_forgottin: Re Israel & Turkeyhttp://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20100118_israel_turkey_and_low_seats?utm_source=GWeekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=100118&utm_content=readmore

rebuttal:how sad bin is now posting from stratfor site wich ahs zero credibility see for yourself...

Stratforhttp://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stratfor

Stratfor - which is also known as Strategic Forecasting, Inc. - is a private company that provides strategic and issues management intelligence analysis to corporations and governments.

The company, founded in 1996, is based in Austin, Texas and boasts that it has "an intelligence network located throughout the world."

"Stratfor is the world's leading private intelligence firm providing corporations, governments and individuals with geopolitical analysis and forecasts that enable them to manage risk and to anticipate political, economic and security issues vital to their interests," it states on its website. [1]

Al Giordano [2], details what he calls "20 Stratfor Lies about Latin America":
Stratfor is one of these snake-oil disinfo sales firms that traffics in "intelligence briefings" for people gullible enough to pay for them. Imagine that: you can get lied to for free all over this great land, but some people actually pay to be deceived!
Stratfor's track record in Latin America is abhorrent (how many years in a row did it predict that Hugo Chavez would not survive that year as Venezuela's president?). It's "spin" is ideological: pro-corporate, which is no surprise, given that it's undisclosed clientele purchases something called "Business Intelligence Services."
In my opinion, Stratfor engages in circulating disinformation into the datasphere through its free and paid email memos in ways that seem aimed to help the agendas of that very same corporate world that contracts its services.

In March 2004, Bart Mongoven from Stratfor's Washington D.C. office appeared on a panel - Strategies for Dealing with Environmental Litigation - at the National Petrochemical and Refiners Association annual meeting in San Antonio, Texas. (Also appearing on the panel were Marc Sisk, Dorsey & Whitney, Washington, DC and Stephen Brown from The Dutko Group LLC). [3]

Mongoven warned industry leaders about the increasing collaboration between environmental groups and patients groups on the issue of exposure to chemicals. Washington D.C. trade magazine, Inside EPA, reported Mongoven told the NPRA that "in five years, the environmental community would like to see all debates [be about] the environment and health." Mongoven nominated Collaborative on Health and the Environment as an example of the new approach.[4]

According to Inside EPA, Mongoven said that the collaboration was broadening the debate beyond exposure to pesticides to the health impacts of industrial emissions. According to Inside EPA, he suggested that one option for industry to counter this development was to dismiss advocates stated public health goal and instead portray them as being "anti-chemical".

bin_forgottin: Artist....The world is fragmented and few of them trust each other...And the US is so powerful they are afraid

rebuttal:the simpleton having no grasp of whats ocurring outside his own backyard ignorantly thinks would i sitting around too afraid to organize itself and build alliances. heres  afew examples

South American leaders launch new alliance Unasurhttp://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/south-american-leaders-launch-new-alliance-unasur_10052145.html

ALBA Summit Creates New Model for Latin American Integrationhttp://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/2362

Summit of South America - Arab Countrieshttp://www.qatar-conferences.org/south/english/news_website_details.php?id=36

South American-Arab summit aims to undercut US influencehttp://app1.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2005/0512/cn11-2.html

Bank of the South - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_the_South

China and Brazil: Dump the Dollar - BusinessWeekhttp://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2009/05/it_is_just_the.html

Abandoned U.S. Dollar and Paradigm Shifthttp://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article12253.html

Mercosur Dumps U.S. Economic Lunacyhttp://www.larouchepub.com/other/2006/3331mercosur_v_us.html

Communists of the world unite against capitalismhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Communists-of-the-world-unite-against-capitalism/articleshow/5259116.cms

Capitalist Collapse http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/1998/1198kotz.html

Venezuela Bolivariana: People and Struggle of the Fourth World Warhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1797179074001054188&ei=KgYUS6-ZCsSXlAfgh-2zDg&q=world+against+capitalism&hl=en&client=opera