I moved your post to the existing thread and deleted the duplicates (please just post a post once - thanks).

	From:  Franz J. T. Lee (FRANZJUTTA)    8:14 pm  To:  ALL  (1 of 1)
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	TRUE, REAL NEWS ABOUT AND FROM VENEZUELA January 4, 2003 Folks, Visitors, Friends, If you are interested in first-hand information about the current crisis in Venezuela, then kindly visit our VENEZUELA NEWS BULLETIN at: http://www.franz-lee.org/venezuela00001.html In this age of infowarfare, the official global mass media are the main agents of distributing one-sided half-truths against progressive or truly democratic governments. We are sitting right here in the voracious oil beak of the "noble eagle", of Behemoth, in Venezuela, and we are trying to inform the world what is really and truly happening here. New Year Wishes, Franz. -----oOo----- Prof. Dr. Franz J. T. Lee Universidad de Los Andes Merida, Venezuela. http://www.franz-lee.org http://www.franzjutta.com http://www.franzjutta.org. Franz. I encourage all to visit your site, and ask themselves how the Venezuela crisis affects their daily lives. Here's how it affects mine: Carl From a forum: A massive negative that has come about since the end of the Cold War has been corporate dominance of the individual here in the US.  http://www.commondreams.org/views02/1226-04.htm Then trade unions here have been  beaten  down to the point of near nonexistence.  Why?  Well there is really no competition for the hearts and minds of the laboring class  The corporations use and abuse their employees with a merry abandon these days an d who can say where it is all going to end?  Corruption in the corporate boardrooms has a long history here and the recent scandals were just some of the more outrageous.  There is no longer Marxism out there to freeze the blood of the fatcats but maybe the new laws will help.  If not we are doomed to evolve into a Roman type society with the wealth/power in the hands of the few and the rest living the life of modern day helots.