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The White House is watching you…

Porto Alegre, August 6, 2009

by Luís Henrique Vieira

This blog could not run out of the most important issue of the blogosphere today.

No one could ever imagine a situation like this. Yes, it is happening. It is happening in the most important democracy in the world. It is happening in the term of the most popular president of the world.

It is there in the website of the White House to check with anyone’s eyes: “There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care.  These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation.  Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov“. (http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Facts-Are-Stubborn-Things/)

Watch out, Barack Obama, you are not the owner of the USA or the world. It seems you think you are.

Equal friends?

Chávez backers protest TV station in Venezuela

Associated Press

CARACAS, Venezuela – Government supporters protested Monday outside the studios of Globovision, the only television station stridently against Hugo Chávez remaining on the open airwaves.

The protesters, riding motorcycles and waving the flags of the radical pro-Chávez party, tossed tear gas canisters at the station. The channel said some assailants fired shots at the studios in Caracas, and it broadcast video showing clouds of tear gas outside the building as employees ran for cover.

Globovision’s director, Alberto Federico Ravell, condemned the violence and urged Chávez to control his backers.

Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami also condemned “this violent action against a television channel” and said authorities were investigating.

The action came two days after 34 radio stations targeted by the Chávez government were forced off the air in what critics say is a campaign to muzzle his foes.

And, on Monday, one of Chávez’s leftist allies, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, announced that many radio and TV frequencies there will revert to the state over what he called irregularities in their licenses. He gave no specifics.

Globovision is facing multiple investigations that could force it off the air.