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Assassination Teams Begin Targeting Venezuela President
(Sorcha Faal, 23 May 2006)
While American propaganda has successfully diverted their citizens attention towards Iran and the Middle East, Russian Intelligence Analysts are reporting today that the Military Leaders of the United States have this week authorized the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, and whom the US Army has labeled as being the largest threat to them since the Soviet Union, and as we can read as reported the Venezuelanalysis.Com news service in their article titled "Top U.S. Defense Officials Increase Hostility Towards Venezuela", and which says: "Over the past few years, the Bush Administration has funneled millions upon millions of dollars into building up an opposition movement to the Chávez administration in Venezuela, utilizing U.S. tax payer dollars filtered through the National Endowment for Democracy and the U.S. Agency for International Development, and has backed a failed coup d’état against President Chavez and oil industry sabotage that caused billions of dollars in damages to the nation yet failed to oust the government from power. . . . For the year 2006, the U.S. Congress has allocated more than $9 million dollars to opposition groups in Venezuela (again, U.S. taxpayer dollars) and has launched a psychological operations campaign coordinated from the Pentagon's Special Operations Command in Tampa, Florida. In a document published by the U.S. Army in October 2005 entitled "Doctrine for Asymmetric War Against Venezuela," President Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution were labeled as the "largest threat since the Soviet Union and communism." . . . The propaganda rhetoric by the American President against Venezuela has also increased, and as we can read as reported by the Bloomberg News Service in their article titled "Bush Warns of 'Erosion of Democracy' in Venezuela, Bolivia" . . . To the threat of Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador reclaiming the vast wealth of their nations oil for the betterment of their citizens instead of the United States oil giants is the truest American hypocrisy of all.

posted by LoZo 8:54 AM

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New Estimate of Venezuela's Total Oil Reserves Makes It the Grandest of Grandest Prizes for US
(Stephen Lendman, OpEdNews.com, 23 May 2006)
I just finished reading an important new book the author's publisher sent me, which I'll shortly be reviewing for publication. The book is investigative journalist (and in his words "forensic economist") Greg Palast's latest foray into exposing the hidden from view crimes and wrongdoings of the Bush administration. . . . Palast's book is almost encyclopedic in detail, but I only want to focus here on one part of it that relates to Venezuela. In it Palast provides information showing the country may be of far greater strategic importance to the US than we likely realized. . . . Palast makes a key point related to the price of crude. At $10 a barrel the supply is low because only the easy to extract and refine kind are economically feasible. But at $70 a barrel it's a whole new oil market. . . . How This Relates to Venezuela . . . From what we know for sure plus what we think we may know about Venezuelan "total" oil reserves, I suggest the reader first take a seat and buckle up. In previous articles, I reported Venezuela may have reserves of about 350 billion barrels if all their known heavy and light crude are counted. That total is far more than is now officially recognized by OPEC which means unofficially the country has greater reserves than Saudi Arabia by that number alone. . . . But wait, there's more, a lot more. Palast reports a US Energy Department expert believes Venezuela holds 90% of the world's super-heavy tar oil reserves - an estimated total of 1,360,000,000,000 (1.36 trillion) barrels. Let me repeat that - 1.36 trillion barrels. That alone is more oil than Hubbert believed 50 years ago lay under the entire planet. . . . So with a report like this coming from an apparent credible source (according to Palast) in the US Energy Department, it takes little imagination for VHeadline readers to understand more than ever that Venezuela is likely viewed by any US administration as the world's most important source of future oil supply. And to readers who understand US imperial intentions, it takes even less insight to realize the Bush administration intends to go all out to get its hands on it even if it takes a war to do it. The US goal isn't access to the oil. It's control of the supply and its price, what countries get it and how much and which ones don't, what companies profit from it, and overall how this ocean of oil can be used as a strategic resource and weapon. Beyond question, the stakes are enormous, and the battle lines are now drawn more clearly than ever. . . . I've reported before on VHeadline that the US is now planning a fourth attempt to oust Hugo Chavez . . . With the information now available and published here, I feel more certain than ever that US instigated serious trouble is heading toward Venezuela and maybe harsher than we might expect. Venezuela's likely total oil reserves are potentially so great that the country has to be the grandest of grand prizes for the US. It's a virtual certainty the US will do anything it takes to try to seize and control it.

posted by LoZo 7:26 PM