Straight up, cut and dry: America has given Iraq the gift of less death this Christmas, and anybody who can’t celebrate less death is unpatriotic. Here is somebody who agrees with me in saying that less death is a “gift”, a lot like less rape.

Did you know that in the month of December only 11 U.S. soldiers died as a result of combat action in Iraq? That’s only 11 more deaths than Canada suffered in Iraq this month.

And did you know that there were only 371 Iraqi civilian deaths this month? In fact, there were so few deaths, that people are throwing celebrations instead of mourning every time somebody dies. It’s that good! Besides, under the Saddam Hussein regime, 533,170 people were dying every day! At that rate the population of Iraq would have been wiped out in less than a month.

Lastly, there were only 60 Iraqi security forces deaths this month. And if you combine these deaths with the number of American soldier deaths you get 71, which is only 3 deaths less than the overall American soldier deaths in April 2003 after the invasion when there were no Iraqi security forces.

The progress is plain to see:

American forces deaths in April 2003 - 74

American forces deaths combined with Iraqi security forces deaths in December 2007 - 71

See? 3 less deaths! HOOAH!

Chavez, in a tight race, lost a referendum on constitutional changes 2007/12/02.
I am obviously disappointed; especially that it was very close. 51% to 49%. But I am not disappointed because of the defeat. The cause of the defeats is very disappointing.

Quick summary:
In the western world a lot of people glued to their usual media did not understand that Chavez was only proposing to change the constitution so that ANY president can be president as long as he/she gets reelected.
It is not as if he was trying to change HIS term and make it to an unlimited one.
One could argue that giving the opportunity for a same president to be reelected an unlimited amount of time is a danger to democracy.
But if the people are happy with a president and want to reelect him, i think the most democratic solution is to give them the chance to do so. And this is what Chavez was doing through his referendum on the changes for the Venezuela constitution. Remember, in France, Italy, Australia, Japan… the president/prime minister can be elected an unlimited number of times… Did you ever heard about their consititution being undemocratic, or controversial ?
Happened that the Venezuelan people did not want of this opportunity of being able to vote for a president running again for presidency.

I tried to understand why. I was following quite closely the events previous to the referendum. The typical western medias took down Chavez as much as they could. The referendum was making headlines 2 weeks before it had happened.
Of course, as usual we have the “new bourgeoisies”, who want to exploit the rest.
But a new element I noticed before the referendum were the protests from students.

Yes, the students. The students who in the past were the origin of a lot of new ideologies and various social movements were protesting against socialist Chavez who wanted only to ensure a better future for the Venezuelan people.
This only confirms a trend in the new young generation. Generation facebook, MSN and car tuning.
The new generation with their idocity culture. Completely out of touch with what is really happening in the world. In pursuit of a big car, a big house.
The new generation being completely brainwashed through modern hip-hop, r&b and pop music. A generation with no culture, values and moral.
The new generation, youngsters are like animals. Consuming, sleeping and destroying. It’s all about the “gangster” attitude, and working out. Not to be healthy… but too look “big”. Consuming protein shakes like cows are being fed to make them bigger.
And I see it happening all around me. Recently two video games giants merged. Blizzard and Activision. The biggest shareholder: Vivendi.
When I see from the youngest people playing games from Vivendi such as Crash Bandicoot to the oldest playing World of Warcraft I can understand why the new generation is not so much in social movements anymore.

Sunday night, I followed and stayed up past midnight to find out about early results. Chavez had lost. The same weekend there were elections in Russia.
After midnight Chavez defeat made the headline, but early in the morning the information was gone. You actually had to really read in depth to find about his defeat. However on the other hand Putin’s victory stayed in the headlines for a week. Not because he had won, but because there was “fraud” according to the media.

Chavez accepted the defeat, called the people to be united. Medias did not really report this information unless you really wanted to look for it. 2 weeks before it was everywhere.
When the terror bill was passed in the US, when Bush decided to go to War did he propose a referendum?
When the EU governments were trying to push the people to vote YES to the adoption of the EU constitution were they qualified as dictators? or controversial ?
Democracy does not seem to have the same definition from one country to another. On top of that there is always this continuous downgrading of certain number of countries.
How many people imagine Russia as a ’scary’ place? With a very dangerous police? A lot.
I was in Russia, various places. None of these is true. The problem is that western countries such as the US & Co have given such a bad image about Russia, that most of us have it printed in our brain. Same thing with China. Heard so many things about crossing the border. Lies & propaganda.
The real problem is that the people in these countries end up not liking their own country. The propaganda machine from the west… the TV shows, showing the “beautiful American life? makes this people think that this is actually how life would be in the Western world.

I was away for a while from CSC. Busy preparing various things.
Lots of interesting things are going to come out. Stay tuned.

Solidarity, Vinceremos.

Zoroxstar