Venezuela Seizes Last Private Oil Fields - Examiner.com

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Venezuela Seizes Last Private Oil Fields - Examiner.com
President Hugo Chavez’s government took over Venezuela’s last privately run oil fields Tuesday, intensifying a struggle with international firms over the development of the world’s largest known petroleum deposit.

Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez declared that the Orinoco fields had reverted to state control just after midnight. Television showed oil workers in hard hats raising the flags of Venezuela and the national oil company over a refinery and four drilling fields in the Orinoco River basin.

Chavez, a strong critic of U.S.-style capitalism and a leader of the leftist movement in Latin America, planned a more elaborate celebration later on May Day, the international workers’ holiday, with red-clad oil workers, soldiers and a flyover by Russian-made fighter jets.

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Looks like Comrade Chavez is seriously pining for some twentieth century soviet style communism.

VOA News - Iraq Funding Bill Vetoed by Bush

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VOA News - Iraq Funding Bill Vetoed by Bush
President Bush has vetoed more than $124 billion worth of funding for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq because the measure includes a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns has the story.

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Not a surprise. Unfortunately. He’s an arrogant SOB with ratings in the toilet and Congress united against him. Time to impeach on any of the multitude of things he’s done wrong.