Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?
quote by Jose Saramago
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This has been a great victory for the Venezuelan people.
quote by Hugo Chavez
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What do we plant when we plant a tree?
What do we get when we plant the tree?
We plant the ship which will cross the sea;
We plant the pencils to scribble our notes,
We plant the ballots to cast our votes;
We plant the paper in which we read,
The news that o'er wooden poles we speed,
We plant the piles to erect our docks;
We plant the rayon for shirts and socks.
What do we plant when we plant a tree?
We plant the houses for you and me;
We plant the rafters, the shingles, the floors,
We plant the studding, the lath, the doors,
The beams and siding, all the parts that be;
We plant the house when we plant the tree,
We plant the barrel, the box, the crate;
In which to ship all sorts of freight.
What do we plant when we plant a tree?
A thousand things that we daily see,
We plant the spire that out-towers the crag,
We plant the staff for our country's flag;
We plant the shade from the hot sun free,
We plant all these when we plant the tree.
poem by Henry Abbey
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
quote by J.D. Hayworth
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We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.
quote by Hugo Chavez
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There is no turning back.
quote by Hugo Chavez
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Venezuela has changed forever.
quote by Hugo Chavez
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They do not walk in... the path of Christ.
quote by Hugo Chavez
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A Visit From Hell
There came a knock,
a knock on my door.
I looked out the window.
My heart fell on the floor.
The knock came again.
I covered up my ears
for standing outside
confirmed all my fears.
Two military gentlemen
with sad looking eyes
asked to come inside
and tried to sympathize.
My son, they said had died
bravely in the war.
The flag they handed me
I lay gently on the floor.
This flag did not deserve to fly.
It was the reason my son did die.
The war is still going on,
however my son now is gone.
I'd begged him not to go
but in the end he did not listen.
As the gentlemen left
my eyes started to glisten.
I cried and cried and asked myself
'Why did he have to die? '
There's no one on the face of this earth
that can tell me why?
For he was my son, my only one.
I never had another.
Thank you God for giving me no more
for I'd probably have lost his brother.
poem by Edwina Reizer
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Long live the Unity of Latin America.
quote by Hugo Chavez
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I remember. How many minutes do I have left President? About one, one minute.
quote by Hugo Chavez
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Imagine the World
Imagine the world ……………………….
Imagine the world without wars…
Imagine the world without your laws
Imagine your life without fear
Imagine your eyes without a tear
Imagine all men were real men
Imagine…imagine…imagine…
Imagine life without hate
Imagine you knew your own fate
Imagine all children were happy
Imagine all nations were free
What would life be like?
Imagine no-one were blind
Imagine all the woes behind
Imagine…….imagine……..imagine….
Imagi ne earth were flat
Imagine man without a heart
Imagine the day without light
Imagine the dark without the night
Imagine……….imagine……imagine……
Imagine faces without a smile
Imagine birds without a nightingale
Imagine …imagine…imagine
What would life be like?
poem by Bouche Cousue
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I am a President held prisoner, that I haven't resigned and I will not resign.
quote by Hugo Chavez
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This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction.
quote by Martin Sheen
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I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
quote by Hugo Chavez
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We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.
quote by Hugo Chavez
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No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.
quote by Hugo Chavez
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The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys.
quote by Hugo Chavez
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Jobism-According to Uncle Bob
'Jobism'
he said
'the real disease of the 2Oth century'
Bob was warming up to the topic.
'Now you take my grandfather,
what he wanted was his own piece of land
the ability to run his own life
he didn't work all his life for a job.
He worked for land and the independence
that land meant.
It has been that way for all of history of the human race.
From the cave man marking up the cave walls
to the rancher, the farmer
and the homesteader,
all we have ever wanted was a piece of land
to call our own.
My people came here to America not for a job
but for freedom.
Now we are settling for cubicles.
Mere one-hundred years ago
they taxed us off the land
gave to the corporations;
the farmers left the land,
got herded
into the dirty cities
plopped down into factories
becoming wage-slaves.
My Grandad is still bitter about that.
Now our kids are taught be good,
get a good education
and try to get a good wage-slave job.
One hundred years ago
it was get your own piece of land,
be independent,
don't be beholden to any man,
don't let the authorities run your life.
What a change huh?
This has had for more impact
than we think.
Hitler's minions asked why did they gas the Jews
and their answers were, 'it was my job.'
People in experiments will kill other people
if scientists in white lab coats tell them its ok to do so.
Whole nations go to war and maim
because somebody told them it was their job to do so.
Job one
means obedience is number two,
obedience to those that you might not ever obey
except for they tell you
obey me or your family starves.
or you can't get a good job.
We need to sever the wage-slave
from the job
which enslaves.
Cities never really worked
they create wealth for the few
and poverty for the many. Still does.
My idea, ' he said'
is I don't want no job:
I want independence.
Then he smiled.
poem by Lonnie Hicks
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In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.
quote by Linda Chavez
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Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.
quote by Linda Chavez
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