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In reply to the discussion: Weekend Economists Revelations and Reviews April 26-28, 2013 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)5. Nicolas Maduro Did Not Steal the Venezuelan Election By Greg Palast
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/nicolas-maduro-did-not-steal-the-venezuelan-election
Greg Palast is a New York Times bestselling author and fearless investigative journalist whose reports appear on BBC Newsnight and in The Guardian. Palast eats the rich and spits them out. Catch his reports and films at www.GregPalast.com, where you can also securely send him your documents marked, "confidential".
The guy in the cheap brown windbreaker walking up the dirty tenement steps to my New York office looked like a bus driver.
Nicolas Maduro, elected President of Venezuela last Sunday, did indeed drive a bus, then led the drivers union, then drove Chávezs laws through the National Assembly as Venezuelas National Assembly chief.
And this week, the US State Department is refusing to accept the result, suggesting Maduro hijacked the vote count. But did he?
Maduro came to me that day in 2004 on a quiet mission, sent by President Hugo Chávez to give me information I needed for my investigation for Rolling Stone and to get information from me that might save Chávezs life...
Greg Palast is a New York Times bestselling author and fearless investigative journalist whose reports appear on BBC Newsnight and in The Guardian. Palast eats the rich and spits them out. Catch his reports and films at www.GregPalast.com, where you can also securely send him your documents marked, "confidential".
The guy in the cheap brown windbreaker walking up the dirty tenement steps to my New York office looked like a bus driver.
Nicolas Maduro, elected President of Venezuela last Sunday, did indeed drive a bus, then led the drivers union, then drove Chávezs laws through the National Assembly as Venezuelas National Assembly chief.
And this week, the US State Department is refusing to accept the result, suggesting Maduro hijacked the vote count. But did he?
Maduro came to me that day in 2004 on a quiet mission, sent by President Hugo Chávez to give me information I needed for my investigation for Rolling Stone and to get information from me that might save Chávezs life...
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I see someone noticed that we noticed they were not posting bank failures, well done.
kickysnana
Apr 2013
#17
Our new Chair of the Florida Democratic Party was a lobbyist for ChoicePoint in 2000.
Fuddnik
Apr 2013
#31
Also ex-mployees who have survived the worst will not do anything to keep their jobs.
kickysnana
Apr 2013
#18