Today's news from the Islamofascist Republic

Iran, appropriately, is in talks to hire the girlfriend of a murdering terrorist to sue "Hollywood"

Iran is planning to sue Hollywood over the Oscar-winning "Argo" because of the movie's allegedly "unrealistic portrayal" of the country, Iranian media reported on Tuesday.
Several news outlets, including the pro-reform Shargh daily, said that French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre is in Iran for talks with officials over how and where to file the lawsuit. She is also the lawyer for notorious Venezuelan-born terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as Carlos the Jackal.

And in other news, the Islamic Republic's mullahs are upset that their President Ahmadinejad made skin contact with the mother of his "intimiate friend" the decesed quasi-dictator Hugo Chavez:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in tears last week when he brushed cheeks with the mother of president Hugo Chavez at the Venezuelan president’s funeral in Caracas, and clasped her hands, the Los Angeles Times reported. 

And then came another upset – a torrent of Internet-circulated criticism from his foes within Iran’s ultra-conservative clergy. Mr. Ahmadinejad’s misdeed? Violating a tenet within strict Islamic societies that prohibits touching members of the opposite sex who are not relatives.

Former Liberal Prime Minister Chretien joins Iran's Ahmadinejad, Sean Penn and assorted slimeballs at Venezuelan dictator Chavez' funeral

Do us a favor and don't come back

Pathetic old Communists gather in Toronto to mourn Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez

Sure, dead and soon to be a ghoulish tourist attraction Hugo Chavez won elections in Venezuela. He did it by taking control of all media in his country and having opposition leaders imprisoned and assassinated.

Yesterday, a couple of dozen stupid, pathetic old Communists who want Canada to have its own version of the "Bolivar Revolution" gathered in Trinity Bellwoods Park to mourn the passing of their "commandante" and to heap scorn on democracy.

Blogwrath was there and has a report up you can see at this LINK.

Venezuelan government upset with Stephen Harper's "insensitive" comments about the death of their monstrous dictator

OTTAWA — Venezuela has sent a formal protest to the Canadian government for Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s “insensitive” remarks on the death of President Hugo Chavez.  

Harper issued a statement that offered “condolences to the people of Venezuela,” but not the family of the flamboyant 58-year-old leftist leader, who died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer.

A statement from a senior Venezuelan government official says a “card of protest” was sent to Ottawa after Harper expressed what he called insensitivity at a time when their country is grieving.

More at The National Post

Good riddance to dead rubbish

Chávez presided over a political epoch flush with money and lorded over a society riven by fear, deep political divisions, and ultraviolence. Consider the latest crime statistics from Observatorio Venezolano de la Violencia, which reckons that 2012 saw an astonishing 21,692 murders in the country—in a population of 29 million. Last year, I accompanied a Venezuelan journalist on his morning rounds at Caracas’s only morgue to count the previous night’s murders. As the number of dead ballooned, the Chávez regime simply stopped releasing murder statistics to the media.

All of this could have been predicted, and wasn’t particularly surprising from a president who believed that one must take the side of any enemy of the “empire.” That Zimbabwe’s dictator Robert Mugabe was a “freedom fighter,” or that Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko presided over “a model of a social state.” Saddam Hussein was a “brother,” Bashar al-Assad had the “same political vision” as the Bolivarian revolutionaries in Venezuela. He saw in the madness of Col. Gaddafi an often overlooked “brilliance” (“I ask God to protect the life of our brother Muammar Gaddafi”). The brutal terrorist Carlos the Jackal, who praised the 9/11 attacks from his French jail cell, was “a good friend.” He praised and supported FARC, the terrorist organization operating in neighboring Colombia. The list is endless.

Venezuelan Consul General in Miami expelled for helping Iran plan attacks on US

Venezuela has joined its ally Iran in plotting attacks on the USA according to recently published reports.

Now, Livia Acosta Noguera was declared persona non grata by the US State Department and has given her until Tuesday to leave the country.  The State Department had said last month it was looking into “very disturbing”allegations that Ms Acosta was a participant in an alleged Iranian plot to launch cyber-attacks on sensitive US national security facilities.

The Spanish language network Univision broadcast an investigative report last month detailing the cooperation between Venezuela, Iran and Cuba to ready terror cells in Mexico and Latin America to launch attacks on the US.




This video is the first segment (in Spanish) of the Univision documentary La Amenaza Irani (The Iranian Threat):



h/t Confessions of a Closet Republican

The New Nexus of Narcoterrorism: Hezbollah & Venezuela

"..A recent New York Times front-page article (December 14, 2011) revealed the extensive and intricate connections between Hezbollah and South American cocaine trafficking. Far from being the passive beneficiaries of drug-trafficking expats and sympathizers, Hezbollah has high-level officials directly involved in the South American cocaine trade and its most violent cartels, including the Mexican gang Los Zetas. The “Party of God’s” increasing foothold in the cocaine trade is facilitated by an enormous Lebanese diaspora. As I wrote in my May 2011 e-note, in 2005, six million Muslims were estimated to inhabit Latin American cities. However, ungoverned areas, primarily in the Amazon regions of Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil, present easily exploitable terrain over which to move people and material. The Free Trade Zones of Iquique, Chile; Maicao, Colombia; and Colón, Panama, can generate undetected financial and logistical support for terrorist groups. Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru offer cocaine as a lucrative source of income. In addition, Cuba and Venezuela have cooperative agreements with Syria, Libya, and Iran.

Some shocking revelations into the global interconnectedness of Latin American governments and Middle Eastern terrorist groups have come from Walid Makled, Venezuela’s latter-day Pablo Escobar, who was arrested on August 19, 2010 in Cúcuta, a town on the Venezuelan-Colombian border. A Venezuelan of Syrian descent known variously as “El Turco” (“The Turk”) or “El Arabe” (“The Arab”), he is allegedly responsible for smuggling 10 tons of cocaine a month into the US and Europe—a full 10 percent of the world’s supply and 60 percent of Europe’s supply. His massive infrastructure and distribution network make this entirely plausible, as well as entirely implausible the Venezuelan government did not know. Makled owned Venezuela’s biggest airline, Aeropostal, huge warehouses in Venezuela’s biggest port, Puerto Cabello, and bought enormous quantities of urea (used in cocaine processing) from a government-owned chemical company.

After his arrest and incarceration in the Colombian prison La Picota, Makled gave numerous interviews to various media outlets. When asked on camera by a Univisión television reporter whether he had any relation to the FARC, he answered: “That is what I would say to the American prosecutor.” Asked directly whether he knew of Hezbollah operations in Venezuela, he answered: "In Venezuela? Of course! That which I understand is that they work in Venezuela. [Hezbollah] make money and all of that money they send to the Middle East."

Read the entire article at the Foreign Policy Research Institute website

Actress Confronts Sean Penn Over His Support for Chavez: ‘You Are a Communist A**Hole!’

Cuban-born, Venezuelan-raised actress Maria Conchita Alonso and actor Sean Penn had a contentious exchange at Los Angeles International airport recently, in which Alonso called Penn a “communist a**hole“ and Penn called Alonso a ”pig.”

More at The Blaze

Hugo Chavez in hospital for kidney failure

Aw...Chavez' health condition made him have to indefinitely postpone a meeting with his bestest buddy, Iran's insane president Ahmadinejad.

I assume Oliver Stone is arranging for flowers to be delivered as you read this.

Michael Moore New Documentary: Imperialism is Killing Chavez - from The People's Cube

Caracas, Venezuela -- Michael Moore has announced his latest explosive documentary: Hugo Chavez, Martyr to Socialized Medicine 

 ...When the symptoms worsened for the embattled President of Venezuela, this true advocate of socialized medicine went to get treatment in Cuba. The island's Chief Surgeon Rafael Bernardo explains: "When we first operated on President Chavez we'd thought he had an abscessed Wish Bone - a misdiagnosis caused by the criminal Yankee war of imperialism and the inhuman blockade of Cuba. After several unsuccessful operations on a Funny Bone, his Spare Ribs, and Water on the Knee we realized Chavez had cancer of the Bread Basket." 

Second opinion from Iran:  Chavez's illness caused by Jews

The People Cube's columnist Dr. Leonid Fuku reports from Tehran:

A selected group of doctors, approved by the Guardian Council of Iran, have offered their professional second opinion on the ailing Venezuelan President's condition:

DIAGNOSIS: The stress and anxiety from seeing the suffering of righteous Muslims at the hands of Zionist occupiers, have led to Chavez's spontaneous expulsion of blood from the rectum as a sign of solidarity with the murdered mujaheddin.

Read the rest at The People's Cube

Chomsky vs Chavez: Battle of the crackpots

Earlier this year Chávez even suggested Washington make Chomsky the US ambassador to Venezuela.

The president may be about to have second thoughts about that, because his favourite intellectual has now turned his guns on Chávez.

Speaking to the Observer last week, Chomsky has accused the socialist leader of amassing too much power and of making an "assault" on Venezuela's democracy.

The entire transcript of the Chomsky interview is at The Guardian.

More on the story here

Someone's idea of a joke?.. Hugo Chavez awarded prize for "Press Freedom"

Kind of like Fidel Castro winning the Muammar Gaddafi Human Rights Award:

Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNN) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was given a prestigious journalism award in Argentina on Tuesday, despite his frequent and outspoken criticism of media outlets at home and abroad.  

Chavez received the Rodolfo Walsh journalism award from Argentina's Universidad Nacional de La Plata "for his unquestionable and authentic commitment to support the freedom of peoples." 

..Flush with petrodollars, Chavez's government in 2005 helped create Telesur, a state-funded television network that covers news from throughout Latin America and the globe. Telesur has been championed as an alternative voice to privately owned media conglomerates, but also criticized for its one-sided coverage of Chavez. Ironically, at Tuesday's award ceremony, private television networks were prohibited from broadcasting the event with their own cameras and instead had to air the signal provided by Telesur. 

Journalists and politicians in Argentina criticized the choice of Chavez as the award recipient, claiming that he has continually worked to silence his critics and suppress freedom of the press throughout Venezuela. 

"Chavez has closed more than 30 radio stations and six television channels and constantly threatens to take away broadcast licenses of any media that is at all critical of his administration," said Jorge Macri, a congressman from Buenos Aires province. "That's why I consider it a lack of respect for the people who have received this award previously that it is now being awarded to the Venezuelan president."

The rest is at CNN

Latin American Tinpot Dictators stand by Gaddafi

The world has become a lonelier place for brutal totalitarian leaders in the last few weeks. The few who remain have formed a small support group.

Cuba's Fidel Castro, Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega and of course, Crazy Hugo Chavez are all standing by Muammar Gaddafi while he slaughters his own populace in his hour or need.

Gaddafi flies to Venezuela to unload some costumes

Word has it that Lybian dictator Muammar Gaddafi has fled to Venezuela to escape the uprising in his country and be sheltered by his ideological comrade, Hugo Chavez.  It's more like a barter-exchange. Muammar has plenty of dictator costumes that he won't be needing much longer. Hugo's command-economy fashion-flare and proletariat bargain-hunting skills have combined to pick up a few steals from his fellow fuhrer.

More baubles always makes for a more
impressive dictator outfit.

The Iran-Venezuela Axis

Chavez has been a familiar face in Tehran for a decade now. This week's visit will be his ninth since 2001, when he stated during his first trip to Iran that he intended “to prepare the road for peace, justice, stability, and progress for the 21st century.” Ties between the two countries only grew stronger after Ahmadinejad was elected in May 2005.

From the very beginning, the main thing that united these two populists was their shared condemnation of what they describe as “U.S. hegemony.” Chavez has been a staunch supporter of Tehran’s controversial nuclear projects and in 2008 declared Iran has a legitimate right to develop its nuclear program. At the same time, he said Venezuela is also “interested in developing nuclear energy.”


.. In May 2008, an Israeli website published a dossier purportedly drafted by the Israeli Foreign Ministry that detailed Iran’s activities in South America. Among other things, the dossier asserted that Venezuela has been supplying Iran with uranium. It also alleged that Tehran has set up Hezbollah cells in northern Venezuela and on Margarita Island.

More at Radio Free Europe