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NEWS FLASH: 10PM Dec 16: from Narco News:
America Reborn: 32 Nations Back Venezuela!
One hour and some minutes ago, the Organization of American States (OAS), for the first time in the organization's history, rejected a major United States initiative. The OAS backed, by a vote of 32-0 with two countries not counted, a resolution to support the continuance of the democratically elected government of Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.
Monday, Dec 16, 2002 - Start Audio !["for]()
-00:00 Dennis Bernstein: introduction: Haitians protest US policy in NYC and Port-a-Prince.. Narco News update on the dwindling *strike* in Caracus.. interview with the publisher of the only African American newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi
-00:54 !["AUDIO]() Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert: Chavez takes control of oil executive insurrection.. says he will not let US interfere.. Uruguay senator says CIA involved in coup planning.. Israeli envoy in DC to meet Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice to beg more billions.. Bush gives hit list to CIA death squads.. Bush picks new 9/11 investigator.. Gore quits 2004 race.. Trent Lott, good news and bad news.. bad news: Repubican Senators to reconsider Lott's role.. good news: all white jury for Lott.. historical audio of *white noise* from 1948 and later.
-20:22 music break
-07:30 Dennis: audio of ongoing protests in New York City !["AUDIO]() in support of president Aristide.. now w Elena Sixto in NYC.. Elena: in front of the United Nations.. we want peace in Haiti.. our children are dying..!["Aristide"]() we love Aristide, we want Aristide.. (shouting and bullhorns).. now w Kevin Pina in Port-a-Prince, Haiti.. Kevin: on Dec 16, 1990 the first election of Aristide.. 1000's of people on the street.. ominous signs that Bush is greenlighting a civil war or coup in Haiti.. today extraordinary militant.. talk of Otto Reich.. this is no accident.. Bush administration attacking popular democracies in Latin America.. we demand the international community respect Haiti democracy.. NY Times item today calls for Aristide to resign.. call to exclude Lavalas.. all the media ignoring the larger demonstrations in support of Aristide.. the people here 100% conscious of what is happening to them.. the corporate media trying to present.. this will lead to tremendous bloodshed and violence.. (background audio of NY protests).. Aristide elected with 66% of the vote.. the US wants to end this 'dirty little experiment in democracy'.. US doesn't want democracy in Haiti, is used to working with corrupt 'elites'.. the people behind the first coup of Aristide: Haiti Democracy Project
-21:55 Dennis: Venezuela update.. !["AUDIO]() now w Al Giordano of Narco News.. Al: Thank you, Dennis, and thank you Flashpoints for breaking the information blockade.. there is no strike, never has been a strike.. was a lockout.. smaller and smaller everyday.. the strike has failed, the shops all open.. 90% of oil workers back at work.. now the opposition is blocking highways to stop people from going to work.. Dennis: AP says this is a 'deepening' of the strike.. Al: they say that everyday.. about CNN saying long lines at the gas stations, and showing video of the gas stations, but no lines.. says gas shortages, but also saying car caravans.. frustrating.. but demonstates that AP and Rueters being knowingly dishonest.. hell to pay later.. since last Monday night, when the poor came down from the hills and surrounded the TV stations with peaceful protests.. the situation improving daily.. the *strikers*, the elite oligarchy class, simulating a strike.. maintaining the fiction of a growing movement.. Dennis: Bush called for a regime change in Venezuela.. Al: a violation of the !["Hugo]() Venezuelan constitution.. six elections in the last four years, Chavez and party won all six.. the White House, what's their problem?.. they only accept elections where the party with the fewest votes wins?.. about Organization of American States (OAS) negotiator, Roger Noreiga, a protege of Jesse Helms.. the Venezualan proposal.. Canada has broken with the US.. nervous, they also are an oil exporter to the US, fear a future US attack on them.. US rushing to beat the seating of Lula (link2) in Brazil and Lucio Gutierrez.. !["new]() in Ecuador.. about the terrible role that the OAS has played.. Che once said that the only role of the OAS is to administer 'the colonies'.. about disgraced Colombian OAS general secretary Cesar Gaviria installed by the US in Caracus as a mediator.. everything he says to the press is to underscore the lie of a strike.. part of the problem, the press is lazy.. also idiologues among the press.. see Narco News for more stories and background information.. even the illusion of a strike disappearing.. the corrupt old oligarches that have been siphoning off 80% of the oil revenues have been fired.. the School Of The Americas types that supported the last coup have been fired.. progressive administrations popping up throughout Latin America.. the dream of Simon Bolivar .. Brazil is key.. US can't lay a finger on Lula.. US wants to get Chavez out of the way.. as long as Chavez is taking the hits, they can't get to Lula.
-36:00 music break
-36:50 Dennis: now w Charles Tisdale.. !["AUDIO]() !["Charles]() publisher of the Jackson Advocate newspaper in Jackson Mississippi.. Charles: we're glad to be the voice of black Americans in Mississippi.. we've been machine gunned, firebombed.. in the last 22 years, we've had 29 attacks.. the chief of police said.. Dennis: when I was there, surprised that the head of State Police was Jim Engram, a key player in CoIntelPro.. a picture in his office, shaking hands with J Edgar.. investigating the church burnings.. Charles: said the killing of civil rights workers a ploy by NAACP.. Dennis: do you accept Trent Lott's apology?.. Charles: about a speech he made to the White Citizens Council (link2) .. WCC intimidated black voters.. beat workers into submissions.. one woman later died.. I've never met Trent Lott.. he has never ventured into the African American community.. blacks here make only 1/3 of what whites do.. the rest of us are homeless.. about Lott's friend, Richard Barrett.. skinheads.. terrorist raids on the African American community.. racist killings in Washington state.. Nissan building a big plant, no jobs for blacks.. you can count Lott's (wealthy) black supporters on one hand.. about Strom Thurmond's 1948 white segregationist run for president.. Segregationist delegates marched out of the Democratic Convention during a Hubert Humphrey speech.. the governor of Alabama was the VP candidate.. their platform: 'segregation forever'... is the Klan alive and well in Mississippi?.. they had a march recently.. hangings still taking place.. a young man in Kokomo hung from a small tree, would not support his weight.. not being investigated.. the police very angry that we didn't support the suicide finding.. Mississippi still flying the confederate colors, and Trent Lott comes down on the side of the Confederate flag.. IT IS TIME FOR THE US TO RECOGNIZE.. ONE PEOPLE, ONE COUNTRY..
-55:10 Mary Bishop: wrapup
-54:55 End today's show. today's review by john lionheart
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