[rockwool]

....Praising Venezuela's economic policies.

Nobel Prize winning economist and former vice-president of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz, praised Venezuela's economic growth and "positive policies in health and education".

"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez appears to have had success in bringing health and education to the people in the poor neighborhoods of Caracas, to those who previously saw few benefits of the countries oil wealth," he said.

In his latest book "Making Globalization Work," Stiglitz argues that left governments such as in Venezuela, "have frequently been castigated and called ‘populist' because they promote the distribution of benefits of education and health to the poor."

"It is not only important to have sustainable growth," Stiglitz continued during his speech, "but to ensure the best distribution of economic growth, for the benefit of all citizens."

and

Stiglitz also criticized the "Washington Consensus" of implementing neo-liberal policies in Latin America, in particular the US free trade agreements with Colombia and other countries, saying they failed to bring benefits to the peoples of those countries.

The Washington Consensus "is undermining the Andean cooperation, and it is part of the American strategy of divide and conquer, a strategy trying to get as much of the benefits for American companies," and little for developing countries, he said.

That Jew needs perfecting.


More over here: http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/2719

 

[rockwool]

What, not a single response to what Stiglitz said even though it goes totaly against everything that this administration and the IMF predictions of the past few years have said? C'mon, you lot haven't been late in hopping on the Chavez witch hunt going on, what's the matter, don't you too love it when common known things and absolute truths like this get punctured?

Why won't anybody play some US-bashing with me. :cyingmyeyesout:

 

[LOOnatic]

I like icecream..

 

[Westy]

I like icecream..

Fvck yeah!!!

 

[MarinR00]

Dude, ice cream is the best.

American Ice Cream is SOOO superior to the European ice cream. Those silly Europeans should spend less time trying to make the world a better place and more time making better ice cream, which will…. Make the world a better place.

World peace through ice cream!

 

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I don't know. Gelado fans and Ice Cream fans don't get along very well.

 

[rockwool]

Dude, ice cream is the best.

American Ice Cream is SOOO superior to the European ice cream. Those silly Europeans should spend less time trying to make the world a better place and more time making better ice cream, which will…. Make the world a better place.

World peace through ice cream!

You're actually right about this, of all the ice creams I can buy at the supermarket Ben & Jerry's and Hägendaaz are the best ones. But when I used to be a bike courrier I had the pleasure of visiting quite a lot of bakerys and about all the places that make home made ice cream in my town. I have the luck to have both my favourite places on a 10min bike ride from me, and the italian ice creame shop I love does match those other two ice creams in pleasure. Different, but just as good.

Its sad that the US is such an evil doing ashole when it comes to its foreign policies because it forces me to boycot their very fine products. I buy a soda or an ice cream some time, but I refuse my self those verry goodies even more times and when it comes to expensive products I look at other options. No tax revenues to fuel your wars from my pocket. I shut you down.



MarineR00, I saw these two clips a few days ago with Noam Chomsky talking about Latin America, starting of with the Monroe Doctrine, which is pretty on topic with the above article and what we was discussing some weeks ago. The interviewer is an amature (don't like how he films him self) but the questions and answers are good. It's 19min if you have the time.

 

[MarinR00]

Rockwool,

I am glad that you and I have finally found a topic we can agree on, that ice cream is great and transcends national boundaries!

I can’t access your videos. I was actually born in Colombia and still have family there, so I know all about everything that’s going on down there from a South American perspective.

 

[$tinkle]

since halloween is upon us, i'm sure you can find some booger flavored ice cream (just like jelly beans). there's someone at work who must know the schwann's guy, b/c it's always available in our break room fridge.

 

[rockwool]

Rockwool,

I am glad that you and I have finally found a topic we can agree on, that ice cream is great and transcends national boundaries!

I can’t access your videos. I was actually born in Colombia and still have family there, so I know all about everything that’s going on down there from a South American perspective.

I have agreed with some stuff you've written pro ice cream era too. A South American perspective differs quite a lot depending on wich South American you ask (this goes for teh rest of the world as well). Looking at Colombia alone the ruling parties of the past decades have been pro US, instead of being pro Colombian (which would sertainly not benefit the pockets of the ruling class).

A good example of what I mean by this (since I don't know Colombia just as well) is the nationalisation of the Bolivian oil and gas exports that in 2005, before Evo Morales became president and nationalized the whole ****, gave revenues to the state of 300million dollars worth yearly. After the nationalization the Bolivian state reseves more than 2billion dollars yearly. Some Bolivians lost a whole lot on this deal.

In Venezuela a similar thing has happened, the majority of the people, who previously hardly benefitted at all from the revenues from their countrys natural resources, since Chavez came to power they've receved a lot (like healthcare, schooling, subsidized basic groceries, highest minimum wages in LA, etc). All you can hear in US mainstream media is that Chavez's gvmnt isn't to the benefit of the Venezuelan people and yada yada, this while the majority of the Venezuelan media (which is private) is violently anti Venezuelan in their stance. The richest 1/4 of Venezuelans prefer the old days of oligarchy and money that went to the pockets of just a few shareholders and the US oil companies (mainly). Those Venezuelans, and in extension South Americans, weren't acting in the best of interests for their country of the majority of its people.

Pitty you couldn't see the clips though as Chomsky has so much knowledge in this subject and can speak about it really well.