http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/02/19/chavez.rice.reut/index.html?section=cnn_latest

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday warned U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice not to "mess with" him days after Rice described Venezuela as a menace to regional democracy.
"Don't mess with me, Condoleezza. Don't mess with me, girl," Chavez said during his weekly Sunday broadcast, sarcastically offering her a kiss and jokingly referring to her as "Condolence."
The warning comes days after Rice described Venezuela as one of the "biggest problems" for the Western Hemisphere and promised to develop regional alliances as part of an "inoculation" strategy to expose what the State Department calls anti-democratic behavior in Venezuela.
Chavez has repeatedly accused Washington of trying to topple him, and says the United States will attempt to sow chaos this year as he launches a re-election bid.
Diplomatic relations between the United States and Venezuela, the world's No. 5 oil exporter, have been strained since Chavez accused the United States of plotting a coup d'etat that briefly ousted him in 2002.
Chavez, a former soldier turned populist leader, has promised to create socialist revolution in Venezuela and promote regional integration in Latin America to roll back U.S.-supported economic reforms.
The State Department says Chavez is using the nation's bountiful oil wealth to meddle in the affairs of neighboring countries, and has slammed him for boosting ties to U.S. foes like Cuba and Iran.
Tensions between Washington and Caracas increased in February after Chavez expelled a U.S. naval attache for alleged espionage. The State Department responded by expelling a top Venezuelan diplomat.

I suspect Congolezzie was tasked to express the administration's displeasure regarding these actions:

Venezuela Dumps U.S. Assets (http://cryptogon.com/2005_09_25_blogarchive.html)

Venezuela has moved its central bank foreign reserves out of U.S. banks, liquidated its investments in U.S. Treasury securities and placed the funds in Europe, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday.

"We've had to move the international reserves from U.S. banks because of the threats," from the U.S., Chavez said during televised remarks from a South American summit in Brazil.

"The reserves we had (invested) in U.S. Treasury bonds, we've sold them and we moved them to Europe and other countries," he said.

Chavez Threatens to Cut Off Oil to U.S. (http://deconsumption.typepad.com/deconsumption/2006/02/chavez_threaten.html)

"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has warned he could cut off oil exports to the United States if Washington goes "over the line" in what he has said are attempts to destabilize his left-leaning government.

"You create your front Mr. Danger, we will create ours," Chavez said. "We are going to defeat the empire."

How Linux hackers saved the Venezuelan revolution (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/2/9/171241/4703)

Management of IT was at the time contracted to SAIC, (Science Applications International Corp), which has well known political and business connections to Cheney's office, to the U.S. DOD, and the CIA. At first, when the Venezuelan army was called out to secure the oil facilities during the lockout, the SAIC staff created videos of the troops securing the facilities in an attempt to claim they were under attack and tried to persuade the U.S. congress to give Bush war powers to seize the oil fields. When this scheme failed, the SAIC workers fled the country, but changed all the passwords and kept remote control of all of the computer servers of PDVSA. They choose not to destroy the data on them because they thought they'd be back in a few months once the government of President Chavez finally capitulated.

Much of the infrastructure of PDVSA was under Microsoft Windows-based servers, and used proprietary database software such as Microsoft SQL. The IT managers didn't expect a bunch of oil workers to be capable of thwarting their plans. Those same oil workers, working together with local computer hackers, were able to secure control of vital computer servers, and in doing so saved the oil infrastructure.

Venezuelan government switches to Linux (http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=venezuela+linux&meta=)

Good post 8Man... it's becoming very evident that Venezeula is next on the 'smash' list (after Iran).

Great post 8Man. I especially like the info about the computer warfare.

Good stuff 8Man. Hope you don't mind but I copied those links over to the "gold is money" Chavez thread.

http://www.goldismoney.info/forums/showthread.php?p=181355&posted=1#post181355

It's claimed that Venezuela is negotiating Iran's help in working on nuclear energy. Funny, that both nations can produce electricity with oil-fired powerplants

both nations can produce electricity with oil-fired powerplants

That's the jewish line , that all the media is pumping out, "oh , they don't need nuclear power, they have plenty of oil ".

Who the hell would be dumb enough to burn $60 a barrel oil for electricity when it can be sold on the world market and replaced by $2 nuclear energy ?


( Besides, by not burning oil, it makes more available on the world market , which would lower the price of oil. Doing all oil consumers a big favor. The west should be applauding Iran's move to nuclear energy, as it makes more fuel available to our economies. )

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How many barrels of oil would it take to offset the erecting, operating and maintainance of a nuclear reactor and how many years would it take, under such circumstances, for the reactor to start making a profit? Even the Russians will expect payment in hard currencey and those things aren't cheap

So if the nigger bitch can piss off enough other third world countries in the next two years,the US can run out of money and bodies fighting and attempting to invade them, and we can then become a third world country too.There by making US all equally poor,sick and disabled.

Now,I understand.

It's claimed that Venezuela is negotiating Iran's help in working on nuclear energy. Funny, that both nations can produce electricity with oil-fired powerplants


I'm sure the cost of using oil to produce electricity in Iran would not be expensive considering much of the country is without power in the first place. :rolleyes:

Allowing Iran to possess the means to create a nuclear weapon is a hazard to Western Civilization. Even if we could trust Iran to have nuclear weapons I doubt Iran is capable of keeping them safe guarded.

...Management of IT was at the time contracted to SAIC, (Science Applications International Corp), which has well known political and business connections to Cheney's office, to the U.S. DOD, and the CIA...Much of the infrastructure of PDVSA was under Microsoft Windows-based servers, and used proprietary database software such as Microsoft SQL. The IT managers didn't expect a bunch of oil workers to be capable of thwarting their plans. Those same oil workers, working together with local computer hackers, were able to secure control of vital computer servers, and in doing so saved the oil infrastructure.

This is hilarious, 8Man... also shows how history's lessons are lost on arrogant zio-whores.

In 1956 a very similar thing happened in Egypt. Nassar told Britain and Israel to go blow, chosing not to honor the treaty-at-gunpoint Egypt was stuck with when the Suez Canal was built.

The corporate geniuses could not imagine Egypt actually taking and running the canal. The'd hired Egyptians as janitors and grease monkeys, figuring that was all they could do. Bad guess. Nassar got the canal and BritZog got the shaft.

The bad part was that Israel's American-supplied army probed Egypt and got the information they put to use 11 years later in the 1967 war.

You can just bet: The CIA is pumping those IT workers for information to invade Venezuela right now. It might not work out for ZOG anyway. Chavez has Nassar's spunk and military experience. ZOG might not be up to taking him down.