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  Chavez's speech to  UN-is A must read. It is brilliant!

 Address to the United  Nations
 Rise Up Against the Empire

 By HUGO  CHAVEZ

 Representatives of the governments of the world, good morning  to all of
 you. First of all, I would like to invite you, very  respectfully, to
 those who have not read this book, to read  it.

 Noam Chomsky, one of the most prestigious American and  world
 intellectuals, Noam Chomsky, and this is one of his most recent  books,
 'Hegemony or Survival: The Imperialist Strategy of the United  States.'"
 "It's an excellent book to help us understand what has been  happening
 in the world throughout the 20th century, and what's happening  now, and
 the greatest threat looming over our planet.

 The  hegemonic pretensions of the American empire are placing at risk
 the very  survival of the human species. We continue to warn you about
 this danger  and we appeal to the people of the United States and the
 world to halt  this threat, which is like a sword hanging over our
 heads. I had  considered reading from this book, but, for the sake of
 time," "I will  just leave it as a recommendation.

 It reads easily, it is a very good  book, I'm sure Madame you are
 familiar with it. It appears in English, in  Russian, in Arabic, in
 German. I think that the first people who should  read this book are our
 brothers and sisters in the United States ,  because their threat is
 right in their own house.

 The devil is  right at home. The devil, the devil himself, is right in
 the  house.

 Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the  president of
 the United States , the gentleman to whom I refer as the  devil, came
 here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner  of the
 world.

 I think we could call a psychiatrist to analyze  yesterday's statement
 made by the president of the United States . As the  spokesman of
 imperialism, he came to share his nostrums, to try to  preserve the
 current pattern of domination, exploitation and pillage of  the peoples
 of the world.

 An Alfred Hitchcock movie could use it  as a scenario. I would even
 propose a title: "The Devil's  Recipe."

 As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American  empire is
 doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And  we cannot
 allow them to do that. We cannot allow world dictatorship to  be
 consolidated.

 The world parent's statement -- cynical,  hypocritical, full of this
 imperial hypocrisy from the need they have to  control everything.

 They say they want to impose a democratic model.  But that's their
 democratic model. It's the false democracy of elites,  and, I would say,
 a very original democracy that's imposed by weapons and  bombs and
 firing weapons.

 What a strange democracy. Aristotle  might not recognize it or others
 who are at the root of  democracy.

 What type of democracy do you impose with marines and  bombs?

 The president of the United States , yesterday, said to us,  right here,
 in this room, and I'm quoting, "Anywhere you look, you hear  extremists
 telling you can escape from poverty and recover your dignity  through
 violence, terror and martyrdom."

 Wherever he looks, he  sees extremists. And you, my brother -- he looks
 at your color, and he  says, oh, there's an extremist. Evo Morales, the
 worthy president of  Bolivia, looks like an extremist to him.

 The imperialists see  extremists everywhere. It's not that we are
 extremists. It's that the  world is waking up. It's waking up all over.

 

 And people are standing  up.

 I have the feeling, dear world dictator, that you are going to  live the
 rest of your days as a nightmare because the rest of us are  standing
 up, all those who are rising up against American imperialism,  who are
 shouting for equality, for respect, for the sovereignty of  nations.

 Yes, you can call us extremists, but we are rising up  against the
 empire, against the model of domination.

 The president  then -- and this he said himself, he said: "I have come
 to speak directly  to the populations in the Middle East , to tell them
 that my country  wants peace."

 That's true. If we walk in the streets of the Bronx, if  we walk around
 New York, Washington, San Diego, in any city, San Antonio,  San
 Francisco, and we ask individuals, the citizens of the United  States,
 what does this country want? Does it want peace? They'll say  yes.

 But the government doesn't want peace. The government of the  United
 States doesn't want peace. It wants to exploit its system  of
 exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war.

 It wants  peace. But what's happening in Iraq ? What happened in Lebanon ?
 In  Palestine ? What's happening? What's happened over the last 100 years
 in  Latin America and in the world? And now threatening Venezuela --  new
 threats against Venezuela , against Iran ?

 He spoke to the  people of Lebanon . Many of you, he said, have seen how
 your homes and  communities were caught in the crossfire. How cynical
 can you get? What a  capacity to lie shamefacedly. The bombs in Beirut
 with millimetric  precision?

 This is crossfire? He's thinking of a western, when people  would shoot
 from the hip and somebody would be caught in the  crossfire.

 This is imperialist, fascist, assassin, genocidal, the  empire and
 Israel firing on the people of Palestine and Lebanon . That is  what
 happened. And now we hear, "We're suffering because we see  homes
 destroyed.'

 The president of the United States came to talk  to the peoples -- to
 the peoples of the world. He came to say -- I  brought some documents
 with me, because this morning I was reading some  statements, and I see
 that he talked to the people of Afghanistan, the  people of Lebanon, the
 people of Iran. And he addressed all these peoples  directly.

 And you can wonder, just as the president of the United  States
 addresses those peoples of the world, what would those peoples of  the
 world tell him if they were given the floor? What would they have  to
 say?

 And I think I have some inkling of what the peoples of the  south, the
 oppressed people think. They would say, "Yankee imperialist,  go home."
 I think that is what those people would say if they were given  the
 microphone and if they could speak with one voice to the  American
 imperialists.

 And that is why, Madam President, my  colleagues, my friends, last year
 we came here to this same hall as we  have been doing for the past eight
 years, and we said something that has  now been confirmed -- fully,
 fully confirmed.

 I don't think  anybody in this room could defend the system. Let's
 accept -- let's be  honest. The U.N. system, born after the Second World
 War, collapsed. It's  worthless.

 Oh, yes, it's good to bring us together once a year, see  each other,
 make statements and prepare all kinds of long documents, and  listen to
 good speeches, like Abel's yesterday, or President Mullah's .  Yes, it's
 good for that.

 And there are a lot of speeches, and  we've heard lots from the
 president of Sri Lanka , for instance, and the  president of Chile .

 But we, the assembly, have been turned into a  merely deliberative
 organ. We have no power, no power to make any impact  on the terrible
 situation in the world. And that is why Venezuela once  again proposes,
 here, today, 20 September, that we re-establish the  United Nations.

 Last year, Madam, we made four modest proposals that  we felt to be
 crucially important. We have to assume the responsibility  our heads of
 state, our ambassadors, our representatives, and we have to  discuss it.

 The first is expansion, and Mullah talked about this  yesterday right
 here. The Security Council, both as it has permanent and  non-permanent

 

 categories, (inaudible)  developing countries and LDCs must be given
 access as new permanent  members. That's step one.

 Second, effective methods to address and  resolve world conflicts,
 transparent decisions.

 Point three, the  immediate suppression -- and that is something
 everyone's calling for --  of the anti-democratic mechanism known as the
 veto, the veto on decisions  of the Security Council.

 Let me give you a recent example. The  immoral veto of the United States
 allowed the Israelis, with impunity, to  destroy Lebanon . Right in front
 of all of us as we stood there watching,  a resolution in the council
 was prevented.

 Fourthly, we have to  strengthen, as we've always said, the role and the
 powers of the  secretary general of the United Nations.

 Yesterday, the secretary  general practically gave us his speech of
 farewell. And he recognized  that over the last 10 years, things have
 just gotten more complicated;  hunger, poverty, violence, human rights
 violations have just worsened.  That is the tremendous consequence of
 the collapse of the United Nations  system and American hegemonistic
 pretensions.

 Madam, Venezuela a  few years ago decided to wage this battle within the
 United Nations by  recognizing the United Nations, as members of it that
 we are, and lending  it our voice, our thinking.

 Our voice is an independent voice to  represent the dignity and the
 search for peace and the reformulation of  the international system; to
 denounce persecution and aggression of  hegemonistic forces on the
 planet.

 This is how Venezuela has  presented itself. Bolivar's home has sought a
 nonpermanent seat on the  Security Council.

 Let's see. Well, there's been an open attack by the  U.S. government, an
 immoral attack, to try and prevent Venezuela from  being freely elected
 to a post in the Security Council.

 The  Imperium is afraid of truth, is afraid of independent voices. It
 calls us  extremists, but they are the extremists.

 And I would like to thank  all the countries that have kindly announced
 their support for Venezuela  , even though the ballot is a secret one and
 there's no need to announce  things.

 But since the Imperium has attacked, openly, they  strengthened the
 convictions of many countries. And their support  strengthens us.

 Mercosur, as a bloc, has expressed its support, our  brothers in
 Mercosur. Venezuela, with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay,  Uruguay, is a
 full member of Mercosur.

 And many other Latin  American countries, CARICOM, Bolivia have
 expressed their support for  Venezuela . The Arab League, the full Arab
 League has voiced its support.  And I am immensely grateful to the Arab
 world, to our Arab brothers, our  Caribbean brothers, the African Union .
 Almost all of Africa has  expressed its support for Venezuela and
 countries such as Russia or China  and many others.

 I thank you all warmly on behalf of Venezuela, on  behalf of our people,
 and on behalf of the truth, because Venezuela, with  a seat on the
 Security Council, will be expressing not only Venezuela's  thoughts, but
 it will also be the voice of all the peoples of the world,  and we will
 defend dignity and truth.

 Over and above all of this,  Madam President, I think there are reasons
 to be optimistic. A poet would  have said "helplessly optimistic,"
 because over and above the wars and  the bombs and the aggressive and
 the preventive war and the destruction  of entire peoples, one can see
 that a new era is dawning.

 As  Sylvia Rodriguez says, the era is giving birth to a heart. There  are
 alternative ways of thinking. There are young people who  think
 differently. And this has already been seen within the space of a  mere
 decade. It was shown that the end of history was a totally  false
 assumption, and the same was shown about Pax Americana and  the
 establishment of the capitalist neo-liberal world. It has been  shown,
 this system, to generate mere poverty. Who believes in it  now?

 What we now have to do is define the future of the world. Dawn  is
 breaking out all over. You can see it in Africa and Europe and  Latin
 America and Oceanea. I want to emphasize that optimistic  vision.

 We have to strengthen ourselves, our will to do battle, our  awareness.

 

 We have to build a new and  better world.

 Venezuela joins that struggle, and that's why we are  threatened. The
 U.S. has already planned, financed and set in motion a  coup in
 Venezuela , and it continues to support coup attempts in  Venezuela and
 elsewhere.

 President Michelle Bachelet reminded us  just a moment ago of the
 horrendous assassination of the former foreign  minister, Orlando
 Letelier.

 And I would just add one thing: Those  who perpetrated this crime are
 free. And that other event where an  American citizen also died were
 American themselves. They were CIA  killers, terrorists.

 And we must recall in this room that in just a  few days there will be
 another anniversary. Thirty years will have passed  from this other
 horrendous terrorist attack on the Cuban plane, where 73  innocents
 died, a Cubana de Aviacion airliner.

 And where is the  biggest terrorist of this continent who took the
 responsibility for  blowing up the plane? He spent a few years in jail
 in Venezuela . Thanks  to CIA and then government officials, he was
 allowed to escape, and he  lives here in this country, protected by the
 government.

 And he  was convicted. He has confessed to his crime. But the U.S.
 government has  double standards. It protects terrorism when it wants to.

 And this is  to say that Venezuela is fully committed to combating
 terrorism and  violence. And we are one of the people who are fighting
 for  peace.

 Luis Posada Carriles is the name of that terrorist who is  protected
 here. And other tremendously corrupt people who escaped from  Venezuela
 are also living here under protection: a group that bombed  various
 embassies, that assassinated people during the coup. They  kidnapped me
 and they were going to kill me, but I think God reached down  and our
 people came out into the streets and the army was too, and so I'm  here
 today.

 But these people who led that coup are here today in  this country
 protected by the American government. And I accuse the  American
 government of protecting terrorists and of having a completely  cynical
 discourse.

 We mentioned Cuba . Yes, we were just there a  few days ago. We just came
 from there happily.

 And there you see  another era born. The Summit of the 15, the Summit of
 the Nonaligned,  adopted a historic resolution. This is the outcome
 document. Don't worry,  I'm not going to read it.

 But you have a whole set of resolutions  here that were adopted after
 open debate in a transparent matter -- more  than 50 heads of state.
 Havana was the capital of the south for a few  weeks, and we have now
 launched, once again, the group of the nonaligned  with new momentum.

 And if there is anything I could ask all of you  here, my companions, my
 brothers and sisters, it is to please lend your  good will to lend
 momentum to the Nonaligned Movement for the birth of  the new era, to
 prevent hegemony and prevent further advances of  imperialism.

 And as you know, Fidel Castro is the president of the  nonaligned for
 the next three years, and we can trust him to lead the  charge very
 efficiently.

 Unfortunately they thought, "Oh, Fidel  was going to die." But they're
 going to be disappointed because he  didn't. And he's not only alive,
 he's back in his green fatigues, and  he's now presiding the nonaligned.

 So, my dear colleagues, Madam  President, a new, strong movement has
 been born, a movement of the south.  We are men and women of the south.

 With this document, with these  ideas, with these criticisms, I'm now
 closing my file. I'm taking the  book with me. And, don't forget, I'm
 recommending it very warmly and very  humbly to all of you.

 We want ideas to save our planet, to save the  planet from the
 imperialist threat. And hopefully in this very century,  in not too long
 a time, we will see this, we will see this new era, and  for our
 children and our grandchildren a world of peace based on  the
 fundamental principles of the United Nations, but a renewed  United
 Nations.

 And maybe we have to change  location. Maybe we have to put the United
 Nations somewhere else; maybe a  city of the south. We've proposed
 Venezuela .

 You know that my  personal doctor had to stay in the plane. The chief of

 

 security had  to be left in a locked plane. Neither of these gentlemen
 was allowed to  arrive and attend the U.N. meeting. This is another
 abuse and another  abuse of power on the part of the Devil. It smells of
 sulfur here, but  God is with us and I embrace you all.

 May God bless us all. Good day  to you.

  

[TimeStar] 1 psychopath, 2 psychopaths and a baby: "Chavez's speech to UN-is A must read. It is brilliant! Address to the United Nations Rise Up Against the Empire By HUGO CHAVEZ Representatives of the governments of the world, good morning to all of you. First of all, I would like to invite you, very respectfully, to those who have not read this book, to read it. Noam Chomsky, one of the most prestigious American and world intellectuals, Noam Chomsky, and this is one of his most recent books, 'Hegemony or Survival: The Imperialist Strategy of the United States.'' 'It's an excellent book to help us understand what has been happening in the world throughout the 20th century, and what's happening now, and the greatest threat looming over our planet. The hegemonic pretensions of the American empire are placing at risk the very survival of the human species. We continue to warn you about this danger and we appeal to the people of the United States and the world to halt this threat, which is like a sword hanging over our heads. I had considered reading from this book, but, for the sake of time,' 'I will just leave it as a recommendation. It reads easily, it is a very good book, I'm sure Madame you are familiar with it. It appears in English, in Russian, in Arabic, in German. I think that the first people who should read this book are our"