>>Just a little addendum to the subject of media control:
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>>http://www.uexpress.com/tedrall/site/viewru.cfm?uc_full_date=20030218&uc_comic=ru&uc_daction=X
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>HA! You are cracking me up. One one hand you complain about the US media, while on the other hand you seem to have no problem believing what anyone puts on a web page.

Wrong - Ted Rall is widely published. I'm reading his column in the local newspaper here for years now. If he's so bogus, he would have been canned from their pages long ago.

> For starters, I was well aware, through the US media, that Chavez was democratically elected. Secondly, there have been a million people protesting against Chavez. Those aren't just a few wealthy oil managers.

Deja vu. So have the truckers protested against Allende.

It's all too easy to close the plants - the workers will protest (specially if there's someone to organize them and tell them Chavez is to blame), and the cameras will be there.

In years of Milosevic I've seen all the possible ways to manipulate what you see on TV. I've seen a rally with 500 people (pro-government) look like there's 5000 people, and a rally with 150,000 people look like there was only 200.

>This is one guy, who apparently has never even been to Venezuela during the crisis, writing his rant against the United States.

No, he spent the time in Afghanistan.

>I will flat out not waste my time chasing down anymore of your bogus leads. You find a legitimate site, feel free to post.

Did I say "I trust this guy, and so should you"? I said "addendum" as in "additional stuff" and "audiantur et altera pars".

And... may I assume you agreed with him on the other two accounts?

>In the meantime, here are some for you to look at concerning crimes against humanity:
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>http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/02/27/plavsic/index.html

She confessed and got 11 years. I know about that. I could add a few dozen people who should join her, so may the shame be washed off the history of my people.

One of the causes of the trouble we had in the last 15 years is that the cunning class of politicians has brought up the worst scum imaginable, unchained the dogs, and gave them free reign as they deemed needed. It was calculated somewhere that it's enough to have 10% of people who want a war to actually create one. It's our shame that we ("we" as in "all of former Yugoslavia) had more than these 10%, and that the remaining 80% were too confused and gullible, easily manipulated, to do anything against it until it was far too late.

Many of the Bosnian Muslims were saved by their Serb neighbors and vice versa, which is less known. Those 80+% of people managed at least that, if they couldn't reverse the political will of the warmongering minority.

>>and British spy novelist John le Carré authored an "America gone mad" essay accusing "President Bush of being driven to war by the thirst for oil and power." on an entirely different subject:
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>>http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/lecarre.htm

No comments on this one? It's easy to check. The full article is on http://www.sundayherald.com/30700 if you think Urban Legends website has misquoted it.