... Russian strategic bombers landed in Venezuela on Wednesday as part of military maneuvers, President Hugo Chavez said, welcoming the unprecedented deployment at a time of increasing tensions between Moscow and the U.S. The Venezuelan leader said the two Russian Tu-160 bombers will conduct maneuvers and that he hopes to "fly one of those things" himself. Russian military analysts said it was the first time Russian strategic bombers...

... with Milton Friedman's radical theories. Among other tributes, every two years, Cato hands out the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, worth half a million dollars. (This year it went to a 23-year-old Venezuelan student activist to further his opposition to the government of Hugo Chavez). Since Friedman continues to serve as Cato's patron saint, it has much to lose from a diminishing of Friedman's reputation, as well as a direct ...

....S. (CNN) -- Two Russian bombers have landed at a Venezuelan airfield where they will carry out training flights for several days, ... do many other nations." The U.S. will monitor the Russian-Venezuelan training, said Pentagon officials who asked not to be identified as they... to guard against rogue states such as Iran. Earlier this month, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, whose comments have frequently antagonized Washington, said it ...

... operation to pay for a tunnel's construction? http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/550/how_much_to_build_a_drug_smuggling_tunnel 2. FEATURE: VENEZUELA, US GOVERNMENTS SPAR OVER DRUG FIGHTING Washington and Caracas traded barbs over Venezuelan cooperation (or the lack thereof) with US drug fighters this week. http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/550/US_Venezuela_cocaine 3. CHRONICLE BOOK REVIEW: "ON SPEED: THE MANY LIVES OF AMPHETAMINE...

...Farrar <james.s.far...@gmail.com> wrote: shovelling money into the Venezuelan state oil company Um, that was a Livingstone policy. No, that was taking money *from* the Venezuelan state oil company. Didn't it involve buying fuel from them at... specifically; i imagine some of the diesel we bought was once Venezuelan dinosaurs or whatever. See: http://www.london.gov.uk/assembly/budgmtgs/2007...

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:50:55 -0700 (PDT), John B <spam@johnband.org> wrote: On Sep 2, 5:24 pm, James Farrar <james.s.far...@gmail.com> wrote: shovelling money into the Venezuelan state oil company Um, that was a Livingstone policy. No, that was taking money *from* the Venezuelan state oil company. Didn't it involve buying fuel from them at a reduced price? That's still giving our money to them.

On Sep 2, 5:24 pm, James Farrar <james.s.far...@gmail.com> wrote: shovelling money into the Venezuelan state oil company Um, that was a Livingstone policy. No, that was taking money *from* the Venezuelan state oil company. -- John Band john at johnband dot org www.johnband.org

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 05:12:55 -0700 (PDT), solomonsky@googlemail.com wrote: shovelling money into the Venezuelan state oil company Um, that was a Livingstone policy.

... what was happening here. Anyway, what we’re most likely in for now is a repeat of that consultation, which doesn’t sound to me like a particularly good use of money, but then what with shovelling money into the Venezuelan state oil company, pouring cash down the drain into an unnecessary (and seemingly poorly responded-to) bus competition, lavishing dosh on Porsche, and so forth, it’s not exactly out of line with the rest of Boris’s ‘...

"Humbug" <humbug@tofee.net> wrote in message news:sute94tmqmlufr00hcs7v4ikpelom854p5@4ax.com... OK, 2eggers, what's the largest tip you've had, In the 80's when I was tending bar in a Hollywood club, a Venezuelan businessman used to tip me with a $100 bill every time he came to town. and the best tip you've had? Crazy Sally, a long shot in the 6th race at Remington Park...$2,300! -- v