Poor Richard's News: Jimmy Carter mourns the loss of socialist dictator Hugo Chavez
America’s Second Worst President offered sad condolences after being informed about the death of Venezuelan socialist dictator Hugo Chavez.
from Jimmy Carter:
Rosalynn and I extend our condolences to the family of Hugo Chávez Frías. We met Hugo Chávez when he was campaigning for president in 1998 and The Carter Center was invited to observe elections for the first time in Venezuela. We returned often, for the 2000 elections, and then to facilitate dialogue during the political conflict of 2002-2004. We came to know a man who expressed a vision to bring profound changes to his country to benefit especially those people who had felt neglected and marginalized. Although we have not agreed with all of the methods followed by his government, we have never doubted Hugo Chávez’s commitment to improving the lives of millions of his fellow countrymen.
President Chávez will be remembered for his bold assertion of autonomy and independence for Latin American governments and for his formidable communication skills and personal connection with supporters in his country and abroad to whom he gave hope and empowerment. During his 14-year tenure, Chávez joined other leaders in Latin America and the Caribbean to create new forms of integration. Venezuelan poverty rates were cut in half, and millions received identification documents for the first time allowing them to participate more effectively in their country’s economic and political life.
At the same time, we recognize the divisions created in the drive towards change in Venezuela and the need for national healing. We hope that as Venezuelans mourn the passing of President Chávez and recall his positive legacies — especially the gains made for the poor and vulnerable — the political leaders will move the country forward by building a new consensus that ensures equal opportunities for all Venezuelans to participate in every aspect of national life.
Good grief. I can’t even believe this drivel. “Recall his positive legacies”? Like what? Stealing elections? Running his country into shambles? Playing footsie with terrorists?
The Feds Arrested Aaron Sandusky Because He Was Too Successful, Says Dan Forman (by ReasonTV)
Interview conducted outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building on June 18, 2012.
Go here for full story: http://reason.com/blog/2012/06/18/pot-dispenary-owner-faces-life-sentence
Produced by Zach Weissmueller.
Cities Using Feds to Seek “Retribution” in Marijuana Battle, Says Don Duncan (by ReasonTV)
Interview conducted outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building on June 18, 2012.
Go here for full story: http://reason.com/blog/2012/06/18/pot-dispenary-owner-faces-life-sentence
Produced by Zach Weissmueller.
Another ObamaCare Fatal Flaw (Jonathan Adler) (by catoinstitutevideo)
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/another-obamacare-glitch
http://www.cato.org/multimedia/daily-podcast/another-obamacare-fatal-flaw
The President’s health care law does not, as it turns out, empower the IRS to punish employers for failing to provide workers with government-approved health insurance when the state in question has refused to create its own state-based health insurance exchange. The IRS, however, is moving ahead without Congressional authorization. Jonathan Adler, a professor of law at Case Western Reserve University, offers his thoughts.
Video produced by Caleb O. Brown and Austin Bragg.
Walter E Williams - The Enemy Of The People (by LibertyPen)
Our founders did their best to protect the people from their natural enemy.
More news on liberty issues at http://www.LibertyPen.com
UFO Briefing Document: International Agreements and Resolutions - United Nations
UFO Briefing Document, Don Berliner
Don Berliner
author’s bio
Summary: In the mid-1970s, the Prime Minister of the new member state of Grenada, Sir Eric Gairy, began a lobbying initiative to incorporate the UFO problem in the United Nations agenda. Prime Minister Gairy and UN Ambassador Wellington Friday raised the UFO issue at a meeting of the thirty-second General Assembly Special Political Committee on November 28, 1977.
In the mid-1970s, the Prime Minister of the new member state of Grenada, Sir Eric Gairy, began a lobbying initiative to incorporate the UFO problem in the United Nations agenda. Prime Minister Gairy and UN Ambassador Wellington Friday raised the UFO issue at a meeting of the thirty-second General Assembly Special Political Committee on November 28, 1977. Grenada was proposing the “establishment of an agency or a department of the United Nations for undertaking, coordinating and disseminating the results of research into Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and related phenomena.” 154
Grenada made further statements on November 30 and December 6, 1977. As a result of this effort, at the 101st plenary meeting on December 13, 1977, “the General Assembly adopted Decision 32/424,” which acknowledged “the draft resolution submitted by Grenada” and further stated that:
“3. The General Assembly requests the Secretary-General to transmit the text of the draft resolution, together with the above-mentioned statements, to Member States and to interested specialized agencies, so that they may communicate their views to the Secretary-General.”155
Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim duly forwarded “Decision 32/424” to the Member States by a “note verbale” on March 13, 1978. However, only three governments responded (India, Luxembourg and Seychelles) and only two specialized agencies (International Civil Aviation Organization and UNESCO) replied with a flat “no comments to offer.”156 Not deterred, Grenada launched a new offensive during the thirty-third General Assembly.
A group of recognized experts was brought to testify before a Hearing of the Special Political Committee on November 27, 1978. Besides Sir Eric Gairy and Wellington Friday, the Hearing included testimony by Drs. Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallee, and a first-hand witness account by Lt. Col. Lawrence Coyne of the U.S. Army (Reserve) on the famous 1973 UFO-helicopter near collision case in Ohio (see Quotations, section on Military/Intelligence). A letter of endorsement by astronaut Gordon Cooper, who was then Vice-President of Research & Development of Walt Disney Enterprises, was also read into the record (see Quotations, section on Astronauts).
At the 87th plenary meeting of the General Assembly on December 19, 1978, Decision 33/426 was adopted with the same heading to the previous Decision 32-424 cited above, “Establishment of an agency or a department of the United Nations for undertaking, coordinating and disseminating the results of research into unidentified flying objects and related phenomena.” The “consensus text” informed in its Point 1 that the General Assembly had “taken note” of the “draft resolutions submitted by Grenada” and that:
“2. The General Assembly invites interested Member States to take appropriate steps to coordinate on a national level scientific research and investigation into extraterrestrial life, including unidentified flying objects, and to inform the Secretary-General of the observations, research and evaluation of such activities.
“3. The General Assembly requests the Secretary-General to transmit the statements of the delegation of Grenada and the relevant documentation to the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, so that it may consider them at its session in 1979.”157
Point 4 finally stated that the Outer Space Committee would permit Grenada “to present its views” in 1979 and the Committee’s deliberation would be included in its report to the thirty-fourth General Assembly. The Grenada initiative was gradually opening the door to UFO cooperative international investigation, but unfortunately the effort came to an abrupt halt when the Gairy government was overthrown by a Marxist revolution led by Maurice Bishop. The new government launched a publicity campaign to discredit Gairy as a believer in voodoo and flying saucers. Decision 33/426 was never implemented, but its mere existence provides a useful framework for any future initiative on the matter.
October 6, 1981 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated
Over his 11 years as Egypt’s third president, Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat charted a new course for the country. He expelled Soviet advisors from Egypt and began to reform the economy. On October 6, 1973, he launched a surprise attack against Israeli forces in the Sinai in order to reclaim this Egyptian peninsula captured during the 1967 Six Day War.
In spite of new western investment and U.S. aid, the economy continued to decline, resulting in work strikes and riots over food shortages. Sadat, convinced that war was too costly for his people, took an unprecedented step onto the world stage. He traveled to Jerusalem at the invitation of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and addressed the Israeli Knesset (parliament) on November 20, 1977, calling for peace in the Middle East.
The following year, the Camp David meetings began between Prime Minister Begin, President Sadat, and President Jimmy Carter. Three scheduled days turned into thirteen intensely frustrating ones. However, on September 17, 1978 the Camp David Accords were signed and the groundwork laid out for the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty. Both Sadat and Begin were awarded the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize for their negotiations.
Three years later, in 1981, President Sadat was killed by fundamentalists dissatisfied with the concessions that had been made in the peace process.
(via npr)
Amy Carter catches a fish while vacationing in the Grand Tetons. August 30, 1978.
-Carter White House photographs from the Carter Library
