People Who Died (15 Viewers)

[Psycho Punk]

You can watch it here.
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php...ew&id=767&Itemid=74&jumival=9798#.UTdx0xzALCI

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

William Moody, aka Paul Bearer

RIP

 

[therealjohnny]

Alvin Lee RIP

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[pavlos]

Alvin Lee RIP

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Ah here. I must have watched that footage of him at Woodstock dozens of times. RIP

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Reduced food imports by 60%? That probably explains the the shortages in the country.

 

[Psycho Punk]

Nope, made the country more self sufficent.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Self sufficiency does not involve the shortage of staples such as flour,oil,sugar etc.

 

[Psycho Punk]

well definitely a shortage of skyscrapers/

AP: Chavez Wasted His Money on Healthcare When He Could Have Built Gigantic Skyscrapers
By Jim Naureckas 16 Comments

One of the more bizarre takes on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's death comes from Associated Press business reporter Pamela Sampson

Chavez invested Venezuela's oil wealth into social programs including state-run food markets, cash benefits for poor families, free health clinics and education programs. But those gains were meager compared with the spectacular construction projects that oil riches spurred in glittering Middle Eastern cities, including the world's tallest building in Dubai and plans for branches of the Louvre and Guggenheim museums in Abu Dhabi.

That's right: Chavez squandered his nation's oil money on healthcare, education and nutrition when he could have been building the world's tallest building or his own branch of the Louvre. What kind of monster has priorities like that?

In case you're curious about what kind of results this kooky agenda had, here's a chart (NACLA, 10/8/12) based on World Bank poverty stats–showing the proportion of Venezuelans living on less than $2 a day falling from 35 percent to 13 percent over three years. (For comparison purposes, there's a similar stat for Brazil, which made substantial but less dramatic progress against poverty over the same time period.)

Of course, during this time, the number of Venezuelans living in the world's tallest building went from 0 percent to 0 percent, while the number of copies of the Mona Lisa remained flat, at none. So you have to say that Chavez's presidency was overall pretty disappointing–at least by AP's standards.
http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/03/06...hen-he-could-have-built-gigantic-skyscrapers/

 

[pavlos]

Larry Marks, producer of the Flying Burrito Brothers Gilded Palace of Sin.

...and the singer of the Scooby Doo theme tune.

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[magicbastarder]

http://gawker.com/5989302/venezuela-is-permanently-preserving-and-displaying-hugo-chavezs-body

how very sane and not at all a sign of an insecure 'we just needed more love from our parents' despotic leadership.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

http://www.tvr.by/eng/president.asp?id=84136

Hardly auspicious company to keep.

 

[therealjohnny]

yeah..had a bit of a shudder when I read that

 

[ann post]

maybe its cheaper and a more effective tourism strategy than building a rake of statues?

 

[Unicron]

yeah..had a bit of a shudder when I read that

Is the president of Belarus a bad'un?

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

There's worse but he's up there.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Just, cos, you know

[video=youtube_share;9bOjc70f4p8]http://youtu.be/9bOjc70f4p8[/video]

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Is the president of Belarus a bad'un?

Europe's last dictator.

 

[Unicron]

Europe's last dictator.

Are places like Tajikistan and Uzbekistan classed as Asia? I know those regimes aren't all that nice.

I should probably know this stuff given the name of my band.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Are places like Tajikistan and Uzbekistan classed as Asia? I know those regimes aren't all that nice.

I should probably know this stuff given the name of my band.

They're Central Asia. Apparently there's a wee bit of Kazakhstan in Europe but rest is central Asia like all the stans except Pakistan which I think is South Asia. I think.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

The Urals can usually be taken as the border between Europe and Asia.
As far as central Asian dictators go,the Uzbek leader,Islom Karimov is probably the worst,there's tales of him boiling dissidents to death and then there's the Andijan massacre where hundreds of people were shot dead by security forces. A thoroughly reprehensible individual but he backs the war on terror and so is left to his devices.