Chavez and Morales in trade deals

The "Axis of good" begins

Maybe Morales should have been a bit more diplomatic in his choice of words...

Zimbabwe Opposition Leader, Others Detained Ahead of Election

What passes for Democracy in Zimbabwe

Getting Ready For Launch

Discovery begins rollout to launch pad

So far it looks like we will have our first launch in a year.
On a side note, I just hired Commander Lindsey's daughter Jessica and she begins training with me tonight at 5 o'clock.

Everyone wish them luck!

from CNN

Chavez is Arming up Again

Chavez's 'citizen militias' on the march

Venezuela 'to buy more weapons'

"Speaking in the capital Caracas, Mr Chavez said 100,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles already on order from Russia were not enough.

Venezuela needed a million well-armed men and women, he said.

Mr Chavez also likened US President George W Bush to the German Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler."

Everytime Chavez uses Adolf Hitler as a reference to Bush I can't help but remember what really happened.

"Hitler's 'propagandist reason' for starting the war had already been arranged by Himmler and Heydrich at the Führer's request. The plan was of such importance that it was code named Operation Himmler and involved having the SS stage fake attacks by the Polish Army against German troops along the German-Polish border. At the Gleiwitz radio station, a Polish-speaking German working with the SS would grab the microphone and broadcast an inflammatory speech in Polish declaring that the time had come for Poles to fight the Germans. Concentration camp inmates dressed in Polish Army uniforms would be killed by lethal injections then riddled with bullets and left as evidence of the attacks, to be viewed later by members of the press."

Who knows if his control over the Latin American people will ever grow strong enough to weild this type of propaganda but Chavez is arming up for something... and the whole world knows it's not in preparation for a phony "U.S. invasion".

State Run Media, Here We Come...

Venezuela sets up 'CNN rival'


from BBC

To some, that sounds like propaganda. Last year, the chairman of the US Senate's foreign relations committee, Richard Lugar, referred to the planned channel as a vehicle to spread President Hugo Chavez's authoritarian message around the region.

Alberto Ravell, the head of Venezuela's main private news channel, Globovision, agrees.

"You're going to have a view of Latin America, but you're going to have the view these governments want you to have, not an impartial view," he said.

He told the BBC that all the people working at Telesur are leftist.

"They're all in one political position, and that's the political position of our president that wants to be not only the president of Venezuela but the leader of Latin America."

One Year Anniversary of the Massacre at Andijan

Still waiting to bury their dead


from the BBC

A New Way to Ride That Horse...

Nude Dude Ranch Opens

Sounds a little too adventerous for me.

I'll Take a Large Supreme...Hold the Human Flesh

Man Delivers Pizzas, Corpses In Same Vehicle

Apparently, in the distinguished state of Pennsylvania, there is no law against this...

ChinaRant.com

As reported by the Houston Chronicle last sunday, officials in Beijing are trying to curb the long list of bad manners prevailent among it's citizens before the start of the Summer Olymipcs in 2008.

Here's a cute site where businessmen and visitors share their unique cultural encounters:

ChinaRant.com





Also, check out the Chinese Driving Test for an in depth look into the beauty of driving on urban streets in China.