Major US Oil Supplier In Trouble
World oil supplies faced a new threat last night after hundreds of youths armed with machetes and assault rifles poured into Port Harcourt, capital of Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta, demanding the immediate release of the turbulent area’s most influential warlord.
Boats carrying the militants — members of the separatist Niger Delta Volunteer Force (NDVF) — converged on the country’s oil capital from across the swamps after the arrest on Tuesday of Alhaji Dokubo Mujahid Asari, the self-styled “Lord of the Creeks”.
The NDVF said in a statement that, unless the authorities released their leader within 24 hours, it would unleash “grave mayhem” and bring all activities in the Delta to a halt. It ordered all foreign oil companies and oil workers to leave the Delta’s “soil and waters”.
Nigeria is the world’s eighth largest oil exporter and the fifth largest supplier to the US...Chet
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Hugo Goes After George Bigtime; Talks Too Long
UNITED NATIONS, 17 September 2005 — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took President Bush to task in front of a global summit for waging war in Iraq without UN consent and won rousing applause for his critique.
The leftist leader told a UN summit on Thursday that fighting the war without UN authorization showed Washington did not respect the world body.
“There were never weapons of mass destruction but Iraq was bombed, and over UN objections, (it was) occupied and continues being occupied,” Chavez said.
World leaders at the summit had been asked to speak for five minutes but Chavez ran long and when the presiding diplomat passed him a note saying his time was up, he threw it on the floor. He said if Bush could speak for 20 minutes, so could he.
When he finally stopped, he got what observers said was the loudest applause of the summit.
Relations between Chavez and Washington/Bush have become increasingly strained especially after religious right leader Pat "crosshairs" Robertson called for Chavez' assassination...Chet
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Chavez: "I love the American people." "I just don't like George Bush." (paraphrased)
NEW YORK (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Saturday that he would attempt to improve his relations with Washington, which have been rocky in recent months.
"Sometimes I make mistakes, I tend to respond to any official from the government of Mr. Bush who verbally attacks Venezuela,'' Chavez said during a speech at a Manhattan church.
Chavez said the Rev. Jesse Jackson and U.S. Rep. Jose Serrano, D-N.Y., who sat with him at the church, had advised him "not to be provoked'' by representatives of the U.S. government.
He said his criticism of the Bush administration has sometimes been misunderstood as attacks against the American public.
"I love the people of the United States,'' he said.
In reference to the U.S.-led war in Iraq, Chavez said it was justifiable for people in an invaded country to defend themselves.
"The true war we ask for is the war against poverty and misery,'' he said to rousing applause.
Venezuala is the 5th largest exporter of world oil...Chet caracasnews
Russians Say Nobody Likes Us Anymore, Nohow
USA continues to lose new and staunch allies in the world.
In addition to those countries situated thousands of miles away from the US coastline, anti-American sentiments have been growing in Latin American.
Russia, China and India have expressed their protests against Washington's war plans. China and India experience a growing need in oil from the Middle East. Russia used to have multi-billion contracts with Iraq, and still continues the construction of a nuclear power plant in Iran. The EU's point of view does not coincide with the opinion of the US administration either. France, Germany and several other members of the European Union did not deploy their troops in Iraq. European leaders attempted to become mediators between Iran and the USA to try to convince Iran of the need to freeze the nuclear program. To crown it all, such irreconcilable rivals as Pakistan and India stood up against the USA's plans in Iran too.
Anti-American sentiments have been growing in Latin American states as well. Hugo Chavez, the President of oil-rich Venezuela, suggested the UN Headquarters should be removed from New York. Other more moderate leaders from the region's largest countries such as Brazil, Mexico and Argentina support Chavez's ideas and do not rush to give a positive answer to the establishment of the free trade zone in the Western hemisphere from Chile to Canada. Economic conflicts between Europe and the USA have become rather frequent, when the USA introduced extra duties on the import of certain groups of European goods. To crown it all, the USA vehemently rejects the Kyoto Protocol, whereas all European states ratified the document. It is worthy of note that the USA's closest neighboring state in the north, Canada, disagrees with the US administration more and more frequently. Japan continues to act more independently too and has already become one of the central economic rivals for the USA.
As a result, one may come to conclusion that the USA has just a few staunch allies: Great Britain, Australia and several countries of Eastern Europe.
One may thus infer that the USA may soon find itself alone in the world, although victims of US-led bombings will not feel happier because of it. pravda
World oil supplies faced a new threat last night after hundreds of youths armed with machetes and assault rifles poured into Port Harcourt, capital of Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta, demanding the immediate release of the turbulent area’s most influential warlord.
Boats carrying the militants — members of the separatist Niger Delta Volunteer Force (NDVF) — converged on the country’s oil capital from across the swamps after the arrest on Tuesday of Alhaji Dokubo Mujahid Asari, the self-styled “Lord of the Creeks”.
The NDVF said in a statement that, unless the authorities released their leader within 24 hours, it would unleash “grave mayhem” and bring all activities in the Delta to a halt. It ordered all foreign oil companies and oil workers to leave the Delta’s “soil and waters”.
Nigeria is the world’s eighth largest oil exporter and the fifth largest supplier to the US...Chet
times
Hugo Goes After George Bigtime; Talks Too Long
UNITED NATIONS, 17 September 2005 — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took President Bush to task in front of a global summit for waging war in Iraq without UN consent and won rousing applause for his critique.
The leftist leader told a UN summit on Thursday that fighting the war without UN authorization showed Washington did not respect the world body.
“There were never weapons of mass destruction but Iraq was bombed, and over UN objections, (it was) occupied and continues being occupied,” Chavez said.
World leaders at the summit had been asked to speak for five minutes but Chavez ran long and when the presiding diplomat passed him a note saying his time was up, he threw it on the floor. He said if Bush could speak for 20 minutes, so could he.
When he finally stopped, he got what observers said was the loudest applause of the summit.
Relations between Chavez and Washington/Bush have become increasingly strained especially after religious right leader Pat "crosshairs" Robertson called for Chavez' assassination...Chet
caracasnews
Chavez: "I love the American people." "I just don't like George Bush." (paraphrased)
NEW YORK (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Saturday that he would attempt to improve his relations with Washington, which have been rocky in recent months.
"Sometimes I make mistakes, I tend to respond to any official from the government of Mr. Bush who verbally attacks Venezuela,'' Chavez said during a speech at a Manhattan church.
Chavez said the Rev. Jesse Jackson and U.S. Rep. Jose Serrano, D-N.Y., who sat with him at the church, had advised him "not to be provoked'' by representatives of the U.S. government.
He said his criticism of the Bush administration has sometimes been misunderstood as attacks against the American public.
"I love the people of the United States,'' he said.
In reference to the U.S.-led war in Iraq, Chavez said it was justifiable for people in an invaded country to defend themselves.
"The true war we ask for is the war against poverty and misery,'' he said to rousing applause.
Venezuala is the 5th largest exporter of world oil...Chet caracasnews
Russians Say Nobody Likes Us Anymore, Nohow
USA continues to lose new and staunch allies in the world.
In addition to those countries situated thousands of miles away from the US coastline, anti-American sentiments have been growing in Latin American.
Russia, China and India have expressed their protests against Washington's war plans. China and India experience a growing need in oil from the Middle East. Russia used to have multi-billion contracts with Iraq, and still continues the construction of a nuclear power plant in Iran. The EU's point of view does not coincide with the opinion of the US administration either. France, Germany and several other members of the European Union did not deploy their troops in Iraq. European leaders attempted to become mediators between Iran and the USA to try to convince Iran of the need to freeze the nuclear program. To crown it all, such irreconcilable rivals as Pakistan and India stood up against the USA's plans in Iran too.
Anti-American sentiments have been growing in Latin American states as well. Hugo Chavez, the President of oil-rich Venezuela, suggested the UN Headquarters should be removed from New York. Other more moderate leaders from the region's largest countries such as Brazil, Mexico and Argentina support Chavez's ideas and do not rush to give a positive answer to the establishment of the free trade zone in the Western hemisphere from Chile to Canada. Economic conflicts between Europe and the USA have become rather frequent, when the USA introduced extra duties on the import of certain groups of European goods. To crown it all, the USA vehemently rejects the Kyoto Protocol, whereas all European states ratified the document. It is worthy of note that the USA's closest neighboring state in the north, Canada, disagrees with the US administration more and more frequently. Japan continues to act more independently too and has already become one of the central economic rivals for the USA.
As a result, one may come to conclusion that the USA has just a few staunch allies: Great Britain, Australia and several countries of Eastern Europe.
One may thus infer that the USA may soon find itself alone in the world, although victims of US-led bombings will not feel happier because of it. pravda
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