When Venezuela asked various oil companies to honor their revenue sharing contracts, all oil companies agreed except Exxon-Mobil and ConocoPhillips. Therefore Venezuela nationalized those two companies’ oil projects in the Orinoco River basin, one of the world’s richest oil deposits.

Since then, Exxon Mobil has been attacking Venezuela, and the Bush regime says it might designate Venezuela a “state sponsor of terrorism.” 

Last month, Exxon Mobil got a British judge to freeze $12 billion in assets belonging to Venezuela’s state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA).

Therefore PDVSA has stopped selling crude to Exxon Mobil, and will no longer allow Exxon Mobil to do any business in Venezuela at all.

Exxon Mobil is the world’s biggest publicly traded oil company.

Venezuela’s oil minister and PDVSA president, Rafael Ramirez, said Venezuela would cut all oil supplies to the United States if Bush starts an “economic war.” Such a move would push gasoline prices even higher (but the zio-media would blame all problems on Venezuela).

At this point, however, it will be difficult for Bush or Chavez to carry out their threats. Venezuela is the USA’s fourth largest supplier of oil, and the USA is the Venezuela's biggest buyer of oil. Also, Venezuela owns refineries in the USA that can handle Venezuela heavy crude.

PDVSA said it would honor any existing contracts it has with Exxon Mobil for joint investments abroad, but reserved the right to terminate them if permitted by the terms of the contracts.

Other oil companies including Chevron Corp., France’s Total, Britain’s BP PLC and Norway’s StatoilHydro ASA negotiated deals with Venezuela to continue as partners in projects -- but ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil have worked to steal any Venezuelan assets in foreign banks.

Venezuelan state television has begun airing short anti-Exxon segments, with a message appearing on the screen in red text reading: “Exxon Mobil turns oil into blood.”

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23133939/

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In other news, the ExxonMobil-funded Cato Institute -- which champions “free market” agreements, plus the privatization of Social Security, plus Milton Friedman’s notorious “shock doctrine” approach to stealing foreign assets – has given a $500,000 Milton Friedman award to a Venezuelan student Yon Goicochea (pronounced “goy-ko-CHEE-ah”).

Milton Friedman's ideas guided the brutal policies of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and the IMF throughout the 1980s and 1990s. In 1976 Friedman was given the Nobel Prize in economics. In 2006 he rejoined Satan.

The Cato Institute is funded by contributions from dozens of corporations, including ExxonMobil, Wal-Mart, FedEx, Microsoft, several automobile companies, tobacco companies, and communications companies including Time Warner and Comcast.

The selection committee for the award included zionist Jews such as Charles Koch, who is head of the chancellery of the Republic of Georgia, and the CEO of the transnational Koch Industries, Inc.

Goicochea is a 23 year-old law student at the private and exclusive Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, where the tuition is 5,820 Bolivares Fuertes per year, one of the highest in Venezuela. He helped organize demonstrations among Venezuela’s privileged elite against the non-renewal of the public broadcast license of Radio Caracas Televisions (RCTV) and against the constitutional reform in 2007.

Venezuelan-U.S. lawyer Eva Golinger said the USA uses such awards to keep funding the opposition to Chavez, since traditional CIA fronts such as the National Endowment for Democracy have been shut down in Venezuela. (The National Endowment provided money for Bush’s failed coup against Chavez in April 2002.)

In 2007, Goicoechea-led student protesters demanded the renewal of the public broadcasting license of RCTV. The license was not renewed because RCTV participated in the failed 2002 coup, and because it had over 500 lawsuits against it for violations of the Law for Responsibility in Radio and Television. (RCTV continues to broadcast on cable television, but no longer gets government money.)

After spending weeks denouncing the totalitarian character of the "Chávez regime", Yon Goicoechea and his friends demanded their "right" to be heard at the government National Assembly. The National Assembly invited them to express their concerns. It was the first time a student representative had ever been invited into the National Assembly.

When Goicochea was given the microphone to advance his points, he immediately said he and his friends were leaving. With that, they walked out.

Student groups led by Goicoechea fiercely opposed the constitutional reform proposal. Had it passed, it would have banned the funding of Venezuelan political groups by foreign interests such as the Cato Institute.

The Cato institute will fly Goicochea to New York to give him the prize.

Source

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1208870480518

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In still other news, Abe Fucksman of the Anti-Defecation League has once again denounced Chavez for “anti-Semitism.”

In an Op-Ed piece for the Washington Post, Fucksman writes,

“Certain government officials and commentators in the official media frequently resort to anti-Semitic displays, including rehashing the ancient canard about Jewish control, vilifying Jews and Israel as agents of imperialism, and adopting anti-Semitic stereotypes about Jewish financial control. As dangerous and hurtful as this is for the small Venezuelan Jewish community, it is a symptom of something much deeper and far riskier for all Venezuelans: the breakdown of democratic ideals and institutions.”

“Throughout the ages, Jews have been the canary in the coal mine, with any downturn in their status signaling the decline of democracy. The people of Venezuela deserve better.”

Source:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/04/AR2008020402428.html

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