the Gaza aid ships

Honduras's de facto gov't shoots people and beats crap outta them...FOR PEACE

Middle aged woman protesting? Must be a terrorist..smack her in the head

Borev got the numbers

Honduras Oye got the pictures

Ten Percent got the indignation

Quotha got the bullets.

Machetera got the pro-coup Israeli hit squad in training in Honduras (I kid thee not)

Meanwhile, Reuters and McClatchy got the dumbass lapdogs serving up sterilized news for the coup apologists (see borev link) and the USA got the lilly-livered Prez hiding behind semantics. Pathetic the lot of you.

Axis of Evo confirmed! Bolivia about to nuke YOUR CHILDREN! via Iran

We're all dead, we're all dead
Spud, Trainspotting, 1996

At last we can all relax, pull up a chair and watch as the invasion of South America in the name of Freedom™ moves from mere planning into full scale build-up and FoxNewsMiamiHerald jingo time (not just the boring old "hypothetical scenarios" that the US Military has been musing and mumbling about it).

Today Disassociated Press blows the lid off the commies super sneaky secret plan by reporting (and follow the bouncing ball carefully, dudettes and dudes) on the secret documents obtained by Israel that state that Venezuela AND Bolivia are supplying Uranium to Iran so they can make nuclear weapons and blow up Jerusalem... I think. They also manage to mix in how there are Hezbollah cells "in Latin America" (actually suspected cells in East Paraguay, but hey....no ruining this story, eh?) and how Hugo Chávez has some sort of special power to give out visas that allow Iranians to travel freely through all 11 sovereign states of South America...in the name of freedom.

Of course it doesn't occur to anyone to worry about the shitload of yellowcake that Russia exports to Iran, cos loading 10kg or so on a plane from Caracas makes for a better story and the damning proof that Evo is about to eat YOUR CHILDREN is contained in the blockbuster revelation that, "...recent collaboration with Iran in strategic minerals has generated speculation that Venezuela could mine uranium for Iran...".

No arguing with that one, eh? After all, Iraq...WMDs...you know the score, people. So welcome, officers and troops of the US Army. We'll be so glad to see you down here and be cheering you on as you secure the world's largest oil rese....oops...NOOO!!, nothing to do with it!!....as you secure South America FOR FREEDOM™ and help us all be FREE™.

Freedom Chuños Served.

Venezuela's media love Israel more than Hugo. Surprised?

I love you though you hurt me so
Now I'm going to pack my things and go
Tainted Love, Soft Cell, 1981

Israeli news service Ynet got a telephone interview with Israel's (now ex) ambassador to Venezuela, Shlomo Cohen. Here's the link and go visit and read for yourself, but here are the direct quotes from Cohen. Y'know, sometimes...just occasionally.....you get a glimpse of the reality behind the curtain. No further comment from me. Let's be different about all this and treat you as a thinking human being. Read the man and work it out for yourself.

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"This is the first time I'm being dismissed. We're getting the paperwork together and preparing to close down the embassy as quickly as possible. We don't have much time to waste, since the government has ordered us to leave the country within 72 hours. I don't remember anything like it. This is a new low in the relations between the countries."

"Since yesterday I've been receiving many calls from friends of Israel here, expressing their sympathy and support in light of the president's decision."

"During the Second Lebanon War I was summoned for consultations and Chavez threatened to sever the ties with Israel, but didn't follow through with the threat. This time he did. I estimated that something like this could happen. After all, he is an ally of Iran who maintains very close relations with the government in Tehran."

"Although the parliament lauded the decision and supported it, it's clear to everyone that he is the only one making the decisions. He regularly supports radical states and organizations, and his door is closed to us. Even if the media in Venezuela understands why we embarked on the Gaza operation, the regime is simply uninterested. It supports one side and that's that."

"I hope the economic and cultural ties continue despite the crisis, and I'm hopeful that one day the friendship that characterized the ties in the past will return. I no longer believe I will be back here as an ambassador; after all, I was declared a persona non grate. Perhaps I shall return in the future as a tourist."

The Israeli Ambassador to Venezuela is expelled

Shlomo Cohen and wife are about to travel by aeroplane

Here's AP on the news (in Spanish), and here's the Ottotrans™ of the moneyline.

"Venezuela has decided to expel the Israeli ambassador, Shlomo Cohen, and part of the personnel of the Israeli Embassy, reaffirming its vocation to peace and its demands for the respect of International Rights."

Meanwhile, Minister for Information and Communication Jesse Chacón said:

"This is not a decision against Jews as is being said, but against Israel. Thus as we criticize the Jewish holocaust we (also) criticize the Palestinian holocaust because holocaust is holocaust and should be named by its name."