Poor Eyes
There was an interview along with a speech given in the past few days that probably won’t make the MSM, (Main Stream Media), as the first is from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the second was given by Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. The differences between the President of Venezuela and the USA are striking. Watching the video of Chavez being interviewed for Democracy Now, during the breaks it seems that this is a leader that is well liked by his constituents and the elections were fairly held. Contrasted that to the USA where the voters are not allowed to see the tabulation, and outside scrutinizers to ascertain the fairness of the election are strictly verboten.
While the northern President was spending the first couple days after Hurricane Katrina’s landfall eating cake and strumming a guitar, Chavez talks about being glued to the TV coverage of the disaster unfolding. While Vice-President Cheney was shopping for a new house and the poor were drowning in their, (rental), homes, Chavez filled two cargo planes with 18 generators for electricity, two mobile medical units, and tons of food and water. They are still sitting on the tarmac at the airport in Caracas, refused by the US govt. along with tons of food that actually landed in the States from Britain. That food was incinerated, burned to ash unused.
In step with Kennedy’s speech, Chavez nails the US for it’s waste and ecologically disastrous overtaking of the government by big corporations and neocons. He also invokes the Kennedy name along with Noam Chomsky and along the way offers hope that the public will one day control it’s own destiny.
It should be obvious why Hugo Chavez’s interview won’t make the MSM, would be simply explosive, as in it he talks about “The Miracle Project” created with the help of Fidel Castro of Cuban fame. This project is ready today, and at the disposal of the USA if it so desires:
“If you know someone - tomorrow when you show this broadcast this show and you have people who have eye problems and they cannot afford an eye surgery, please, go to the Venezuelan Consulate in the U.S. Go to the U.S. Embassy in Washington. Go to CITGO. We can guarantee the transportation of these people to Caracas and Havana free, totally free of charge.”
Well, might be difficult to get a plane out of the USA to Havana, but pretty sure they can make it to Caracas. The logistics of such an undertaking are mind boggling, but even if not a single person is able to take him up on the offer it must be remembered that there is nothing even remotely being offered by the US govt. of the same value to it’s poor.