SpaceX says All Systems GO for Historic May 19 Blast Off to ISS

 SpaceX Dragon approaches the ISS on COTS 2 test flight slated for May 19 liftoff and docking on Day 4. Astronauts will grapple it with the robotic arm and berth it at the Earth facing port of the Harmony node. Illustration: NASA /SpaceX
SpaceX says All Systems GO for Historic May 19 Blast Off to ISS


In less than 48 hours, SpaceX is primed to make history and launch the first ever commercial rocket and spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) early Saturday morning on May 19.
Following today’s Launch Readiness Review (LRR), SpaceX was just given the official “GO” from NASA to proceed with the blastoff of the Falcon 9 at 4:55 a.m. EDT (0855 GMT) from Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. This also marks the first night time liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket.

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...no risky  feasible robotic approach of trial SPACE-X module to ISS...!


...I WONDER WHAT ELSE IS NOT REALLY FEASIBLE...!, OR EVEN WORTH IT...! lets add just merely for the fun of it and what  they claim to be "progress of science" which is a true desire, the only problem is that commercial companies do things more for the money than the experience...!
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...job cuts gov.ca...! absurd...!

...Well, who does create jobs and growth anyway ? Answer: False austerity...!

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/17/federal-public-service-braces-for-10000-more-job-cuts-group/

Federal public service braces for 10,000 more job cuts: group
Kathryn May, Postmedia News  May 17, 2012 – 7:35 AM ET

OTTAWA — Federal departments are girded to lose more than 10,000 jobs over the next three years before they swallow the $5.2-billion spending reductions announced in the federal budget that will wipe out another 19,200 jobs in the same period.

The yearly reports on plans and priorities that departments tabled in Parliament last week show that 10,400 full-time positions will disappear over the next three years, said David Macdonald, chief economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, who tallied the numbers. That means departments are cutting 29,600 jobs between now and 2015.

Departments have handed out more than 18,000 notices to employees, warning them they could lose their jobs, since the federal budget was released — and the numbers continue to rise. The Fisheries and Oceans Department is expected to send notices this week to about 1,000 employees across the country.

The reports, which don’t include the spending cuts in the budget, offer a picture of how many jobs departments are losing before they begin to implement the 2012 budget measures. They also confirm the overall job losses will be much higher than the 19,200 the Conservatives have said would disappear from payroll.


...political false claims, debt budget balancing, and austerity, and spending cuts...! completely absurd, and when they say all this politico, you idiots should know it is non-sense...! they are not creating jobs, they are "cutting jobs", under the false logic of spending cuts, when they are the ones that make and print the money...!

 ...when you hear of the Conservatives claiming to you, that they are doing good, when they cut jobs in government...! if you think it is ok, you are ignorant...!

..when someday you hear that agovernment is increasing spending and doubling the budget, to give work for all in EI, and Welfare, then you will be able to say, finally we got rid of ancient logic nuts in government ...!


...meanwhile in economics the World has not progressed much, as to the logic of por, peasants, homeless, unemplyed, etc., since the Greeks 2000 years ago...!
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...more on nuns and the pope's benedict "edicts"...!

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Op-Ed Contributor
Nuns on the Frontier
By ANNE M. BUTLER
Published: May 15, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/opinion/nuns-on-the-frontier.html?_r=1

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THE recent Vatican edict that reproached American nuns for their liberal views on social and political issues has put a spotlight on the practices of these Roman Catholic sisters. While the current debate has focused on the nuns’ progressive stances on birth control, abortion, homosexuality, the all-male priesthood and economic injustice, tension between American nuns and the church’s male hierarchy reaches much further back.

In the 19th century, Catholic nuns literally built the church in the American West, braving hardship and grueling circumstances to establish missions, set up classrooms and lead lives of calm in a chaotic world marked by corruption, criminality and illness. Their determination in the face of a male hierarchy that, then as now, frequently exploited and disdained them was a demonstration of their resilient faith in a church struggling to adapt itself to change.

Like other settlers in the West, Catholic nuns were mostly migrants from Europe or the American East; the church had turned to them to create a Catholic presence across a seemingly limitless frontier. The region’s rocky mining camps, grassy plains and arid deserts did not appeal to many ordained men. As one disenchanted European priest, lamenting the lack of a good cook and the discomfort of frontier travel, grumbled, “I hate the long, dreary winters of Iowa.”

Bishops relentlessly recruited sisters for Western missions, enticing them with images of Christian conversions, helpful local clergymen and charming convent cottages. If the sisters hesitated, the bishops mocked their timidity, scorned their selfishness and threatened heavenly retribution.

The sisters proved them wrong. By steamboat, train, stagecoach and canoe, on foot and on horseback, the nuns answered the call. In the 1840s, a half-dozen sisters from Notre Dame de Namur, a Belgian order, braved stormy seas and dense fog to reach Oregon. In 1852, seven Daughters of Charity struggled on the backs of donkeys across the rain-soaked Isthmus of Panama toward California. In 1884, six Ursuline nuns stepped from a train in Montana, only to be left by the bishop at a raucous public rooming house, its unheated loft furnished only with wind and drifting snow.

These nuns lived in filthy dugouts, barns and stables, hoped for donations of furniture, and survived on a daily ration of one slice of bread or a bowl of onion soup along with a cup of tea. They made their own way, worked endless hours, often walked miles to a Catholic chapel for services, and endured daunting privations in housing and nutrition.

There appeared to be no end to what was expected of the sisters. In 1874, two Sisters of the Holy Cross, at the direction of Edward Sorin, the founder of the University of Notre Dame, opened a Texas school and orphanage in a two-room shack with a leaky dormitory garret that the nuns affectionately labeled “The Ark.” The brother who managed the congregation’s large farm informed the sisters, who were barely able to feed and clothe the 80 boarders, that he could not give the school free produce — though they could buy it at a discount. The sisters also did 18 years of unpaid housekeeping work on a farm run by the men.

Sisters adapted to these physical, spiritual and fiscal exploitations with amazingly good humor. Still, they chafed against their male superiors’ unreasonable restrictions and harsh dictates. When they directly questioned policy, bishops and priests moved to silence them. A single protest could draw draconian reprisals on an entire congregation.

In 1886, four Texas priests demanded that Bishop John C. Néraz replace a superior, Mother St. Andrew Feltin, saying that she had “spread gossip” and warned her sisters “to beware of priests.”

Bishop Néraz threatened the sisterhood with disbandment and removed Mother St. Andrew from office. He hounded her for years, disciplined other nuns she had befriended, suspended her right to the sacraments, warned other bishops not to grant her sanctuary, undercut her efforts to enter a California convent and even urged her deportation to Europe. Finally, Mother St. Andrew laid aside her religious clothing, returned to secular dress and cared for her widowed brother’s children.

Six years after Bishop Néraz died, Mother St. Andrew petitioned her congregation for readmission. Donning her habit, she renewed her vows amid a warm welcome from sisters who understood too well what she had suffered.

Then as now, not all priests and bishops treated sisters badly, though the priests who reached out to nuns in a spirit of appreciation, friendship and equality could not alter the church’s institutional commitment to gender discrimination. And, as now, some bishops, dismissive of the laity, underestimated the loyalty secular Catholics felt for their nuns.

In the case of Mother St. Andrew, tenacity and spirituality triumphed over arrogance and misogyny. The Vatican would do well to bear this history in mind as it thinks through the consequences of its unjust attack on American sisters.

Anne M. Butler, a professor emerita of history at Utah State University, is the author of the forthcoming book “Across God’s Frontiers: Catholic Sisters in the American West, 1850-1920.”
A version of this op-ed appeared in print on May 16, 2012, on page A25 of the New York edition with the headline: Nuns on the Frontier.


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...nuns whose "chastity" creates a " Sigmund FREUDIAN " sexual inhibitory problem of "false holiness"...! The priests "knowing this", inhibit themselves too...!

...To try to enforce this chastity of Nuns and Priest, their dormitories are in separate buildings...! This creates a "un-known" migratory nocturnal problem between buildings...! Now, many priest not wanting to get into trouble with a "Nun gone holy", they are tempted to pursue more prohibitive sins...!

...MANY BAD APPLES THERE ARE I MUST DECLARE, and a good Miss/Nun is something to admire and contemplate...! But not because of her holiness, but because of her consecration, if not to herself...!

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...aquellos tiempos...! - those times...!

http://youtu.be/RctwxBu_zQU

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[ img - squiggles - those times !]

THOSE TIMES - aquellos tiempos ...!

Folks amazing Fonseca, as to particular squiggles...!

http://anagrammatt.tumblr.com/post/23171743079/fonseca-those-times



...remembering those days when even in Venezuela [Perez Jimenez] you could go out in complete safety and even leave your door "unlocked"...!

...will they ever "come back"...!???
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...more venezolanismos of venezuela [lest we forget]...!

...some more news of Venezuela, that time will tell...!
...is venezuela and/or chavez a narcotrafic connected state...? well somebody said narcotics are even in usa.gov and the senate...!


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Car Bombs for Colombia...!
...Any other parts of the World other "methods" are used...!

http://www.noticias24.com/internacionales/noticia/37234/dos-muertos-y-varios-heridos-por-explosion-de-una-bomba-en-el-norte-de-bogota/

(Bogotá, 15 mayo. EFE) Un atentado contra el exministro colombiano Fernando Londoño dejó al menos dos muertos y 29 heridos en Bogotá, horas después de la desactivación de un coche bomba y en coincidencia con la entrada en vigor del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) con Estados Unidos.

El comandante de la Policía Metropolitana de Bogotá, general Luis Eduardo Martínez, atribuyó a las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) el atentado perpetrado hoy contra el exministro colombiano Fernando Londoño, en el que resultó herido.
Video: Telesur, 15 de mayo de 2012

“A nadie más se le puede atribuir y tenemos los elementos para poder decir lo que estamos diciendo”, manifestó el alto mando policial en declaraciones a los periodistas, horas después del atentado con bomba que causó dos muertos y 39 heridos.

“Pero lo que sí puedo afirmar con mucha contundencia, con mucha vehemencia y mucho dolor de patria es que detrás de esto están los terroristas de las Farc, los dementes, los desquiciados de las Farc“, denunció enérgicamente al exigir que la guerrilla tenga “berraquera” (valentía) para reconocer la autoría del ataque.

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15 May 2012 Last updated at 19:48 ET
Bomb targeting Colombia politician kills at least two
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18080104

At least two people have been killed in an attack on a politician in the Colombian capital, Bogota.

Police said an unidentified assailant attached an explosive device to the car of former Interior Minister Fernando Londono.

The blast killed his driver and a bodyguard, but Mr Londono, 68, was not seriously injured.

Earlier reports had spoken of five dead, but a Bogota police commander said he could only confirm two deaths.

Around 40 people are reported to have been injured in the blast.

Mr Londono was hit by shrapnel and is having surgery to remove a piece of metal lodged near his clavicle.

Hospital sources said he was in a stable condition.
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Fernando Londoño Hoyos: Si Chávez muere
Chávez besando a una cruz al lado de su hija Rosa Virginia en La Habana.
http://www.reportero24.com/2012/05/fernando-londono-hoyos-si-chavez-muere/

“Los venezolanos se haran cargo de su verdad
y su destino. Ya es mucha ganancia..”


■ Si Chávez muere, el pueblo venezolano tendrá que enfrentar el problema de los centenares de miles de predicadores cubanos de marxismo que lo invaden, y que no saben hacer cosa de provecho. Si lo supieran, hace rato que lo hicieran en Cuba.

Tranquilos, lectores, que no agregaremos una versión más a las innumerables que circulan sobre la salud de Hugo Chávez. Nuestro trabajo intelectual es distinto. Porque simplemente vamos a suponer que el Coronel está moribundo, lo que es altamente probable, o que sufre de una enfermedad que no le permitirá el ejercicio del poder, lo que nadie descarta, o que algún día se muera, lo que es seguro. De lo que se trata es de averiguar qué pasará cuando Chávez falle y cómo manejará la sociedad venezolana ese vacío.

Cuando Chávez muera, los venezolanos tendrán que hacerse la más obvia de las preguntas: ¿dónde está mi dinero? Porque no hubo otro país de América Latina que recibiera tanto. Si Venezuela hubiera conservado razonablemente lo que la fortuna le trajo en esta bonanza petrolera, sin milagros ni exageraciones, sería el país más rico del continente. Y a fe que no lo es.

Después de los trece años en los que pasaron por las manos del paracaidista más de un billón doscientos mil millones de dólares ( USD 1 200 000 000,oo ) , leído que sea literalmente y sin figuraciones ni metáforas ni hipérboles, Venezuela dejó perder toda la infraestructura que tenía y no construyó alguna nueva; se ha endeudado hasta los tuétanos; ha destruido su industria y su producción agropecuaria; volvió pedazos a PDVSA, arrasó con todo el talento humano que la servía y le hizo perder, al menos, un millón de barriles diarios de producción; porque nunca la mantuvo, ni la acrecentó, se le esfumó la producción de energía; perdió el crédito internacional y no ha entrado en “default” porque los altos precios del petróleo le ayudan a tal cual malabar evasivo; tiene la inflación más alta del mundo y los peores sistemas de salud del Continente. Tanto, que cuando el Camarada se siente mal, o muy mal, busca cura en Cuba, el país más miserable de América.

A los venezolanos no les han dejado mirar estas tozudas realidades. Si Chávez muere, o se va, o queda postrado, quedarán a la intemperie las corruptelas gigantescas que explican buena parte del desastre. Y se sabrá el valor real de los regalos que el pueblo venezolano le ha entregado por la mano providente del Presidente a todos sus socios del Socialismo del Siglo XXI. Y quedarán a la vista los costos fabulosos de las confiscaciones o expropiaciones o tomas de la propiedad privada, nacional o extranjera. Y no habrá manera de ocultar el precio que se ha pagado por la ineptitud sin orillas de la más mediocre burocracia que nunca trató de administrar una Nación.

Si Chávez muere, no quedará duda de la influencia nefasta que el narcotráfico tiene en la sociedad venezolana. Los escandalosos índices de inseguridad que matan a la gente del que fuera hace poco país tranquilo, están ligados a las mafias que transportan y venden las trescientas toneladas métricas de cocaína que anualmente las alimentan y conservan.

Si Chávez muere, no quedará quién siga ocultando el alcance de los juegos peligrosos, extremadamente peligrosos, que ha entablado el Dictador con Irán, con Libia, con la Eta y con las Farc. Los gringos siempre son lentos y suelen ser ingenuos. Pero cuando descubren que se los maltrata, rara vez son piadosos.

Si Chávez muere, Venezuela tendrá que enfrentar el problema de desmontar una autocracia. Reestructurar un poder judicial que no conoció por años sino voces de mando; crear organismos de control, independientes y respetables; darle vía a un Congreso deliberante y plural; conformar una administración ilustrada y seria, sobre las ruinas que dejó el capricho, es tarea de titanes. Y fundar partidos sólidos, darle espacio a un periodismo libre, educar un ciudadano honrado y ecuánime, es una misión colosal.

Si Chávez muere, Venezuela tendrá que hacerse cargo de su verdad y su destino. Ya es mucha ganancia.

Es lo mismo que le va a pasar al Ecuador cuando desaparezca Correa, tal cual como cuando los conquistadores llegaron con los espejitos y los indios que nunca se habian visto se quedaron maravillados que se podian ver hasta que se rompieron los espejitos y se dieron cuenta de la cruda realidad. Unas cuantas generaciones despues de la nuestra va a tener que reparar los estragos de este socialismo XXI.

* Fernando Londoño Hoyos, ex ministro del Interior de Colombia.

Por: Fernando Londoño Hoyos
El Tiempo de Colombia
Politica | Opinión
Martes 08/05/2012
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...whatever conexion makes Fernando Londoño Hoyos, a "bomb" attack objective, only those who did it might clearly know, or will the perpetrators and/or master minds be found...?!

...but the sad story of Venezuela is slowly cooming out, and to do imprisonment of a few "escape goats" will not clear up the main issue...!
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...rover oportunity back to life...! and Obama on "Mars Hill"...!

Apollonia-Polonia-Poland ; do not detail nor the 'A', nor the 3 stars...!

Spirit and Opportunity
Mars Exploration Rovers
Mission News

OBAMA on "Mars Hill - Athens_Greece", and to the un-known God of all the Gods...!

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/nasa-rover-driving-again-staying-put-1-spot-224637839.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/index.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/news/mer20120105.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/multimedia/pia15276.html
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-131&rn=news.xml&rst=3364

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to capture this view of a northward-facing outcrop, "Greeley Haven," where the rover will work during its fifth Martian winter. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech › Full image and caption

This mosaic was acquired by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's Panoramic Camera (Pancam) on Sol 2793 (Dec. 2, 2011). This mosaic was acquired by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's Panoramic Camera (Pancam) on Sol 2793 (Dec. 2, 2011). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ.
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This mosaic was acquired by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's Panoramic Camera (Pancam) on Sol 2793 (Dec. 2, 2011). This mosaic was acquired by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's Panoramic Camera (Pancam) on Sol 2793 (Dec. 2, 2011). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ.
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity will spend its fifth Martian winter working at a location informally named NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity will spend its fifth Martian winter working at a location informally named "Greeley Haven." Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UA
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity will spend the next several months at a site informally named "Greeley Haven." The name is a tribute to planetary geologist Ronald Greeley (1939-2011), who was a member of the science team for the Mars rovers and many other interplanetary missions.

The site is an outcrop that provides a sun-facing slope to aid in maintaining adequate solar power during the rover's fifth Martian winter. It also provides targets of scientific interest for the rover's robotic arm to examine.

Closer to the equator than its twin rover, Spirit, Opportunity did not need to stay on a sun-facing slope during previous winters. Now, however, Opportunity's solar panels carry a thicker coating of dust than in the previous winters. Unless an unlikely wind cleans the panels in coming weeks, the team will use a strategy employed for three winters with Spirit: staying on a sun-facing slope. For several months of shortened daylight before and after the southern Mars winter solstice on March 30, 2012, the sun will pass relatively low in the northern sky from the rover's perspective, and Opportunity will work on the north-facing slope.

Plans for research at Greeley Haven include a radio-science investigation of the interior of Mars, which began this week; inspections of mineral compositions and textures on the outcrop; and recording a full-circle, color panorama: the Greeley Panorama. Greeley taught generations of planetary scientists at Arizona State University, Tempe, until his death two months ago.

The radio-science investigation studies tiny wobbles in the rotation of Mars to gain insight about the planet's core. It requires many weeks of radio-tracking the motion of a point on the surface of Mars to measure changes in the spin axis of the planet.

The winter worksite sits on the "Cape York" segment of the rim of Endeavour Crater. Opportunity reached the edge of this 14-mile-wide (22-kilometer-wide) crater five months ago after three years of driving from smaller Victoria Crater, which it studied for two years.

Opportunity and Spirit completed their three-month prime missions in April 2004 and continued for years of bonus, extended missions. Both rovers have made important discoveries about wet environments on ancient Mars that may have been favorable for supporting microbial life. Spirit ended communications in March 2010 as its energy declined after losing the use of two of its six wheels, which prevented it from being able to gain a sun-facing tilt for its fourth Martian winter.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Exploration Rover Project for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. More information about Opportunity is online at: http://www.nasa.gov/rovers and http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov . You can follow the project on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/marsrovers and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/marsrovers .


Guy Webster 818-354-6278
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov

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...why not send more rovers to the moon to send back better photos of the apollo's and moon car...!?

...to believe by faith or to not believe by any means, that is "la question"...!

...particularly and to purelogic, i find it very a "hard logic" to even suppose a little probability of the Mars Rovers to be true...!

...do not think my problem today, started in june2011, or one month after http://articles.cnn.com/2011-05-27/politics/obama.europe.trip_1_president-barack-obama-europe-trip-visit?_s=PM:POLITICS . no, my problems started from "birth"...!

...USA and Rovers, a country on a "mission-mis_sion"...!
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...Venezuelanisms from a "half breed" Venezuelan for Monday 14 May...!

...Venezolanismos de un "mestizo" Venezolano para Lunes 12 Mayo...!

Capriles se deslinda de cualquier injerencia extranjera: el pueblo decidirá el futuro de Venezuela [Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela ?]
Capriles disconects from any foreign influence: the people will decidethe future of Venezuela ["Republica Bolvariana of" Venezuela ?]
http://www.noticias24.com/venezuela/noticia/107215/capriles-responde-a-uribe-y-dice-que-nuestro-pueblo-sera-quien-decida-el-futuro-de-nuestra-venezuela/

"...(Caracas, 14 de abril. Noticias24) El candidato presidencial por la Unidad, Henrique Capriles Radonski aseguró que “los problemas de los venezolanos los vamos a resolver los venezolanos y nuestro camino es la democracia y votos el 7 de octubre”, a propósito de las criticas que lanzó el expresidente colombiano Álvaro Uribe, a través de su cuenta en Twitter.

Capriles Radonski dijo que “nuestro pueblo será quien decida el futuro de nuestra Venezuela y no tenemos ninguna duda que viene un camino de Progreso para todos” a través de su cuenta @hcapriles.

Este domingo Uribe tomó su cuenta en Twitter para lanzar fuertes comentarios en contra del presidente Chávez y manifestar su apoyo al opositor Capriles Radonski. “#Capriles Presidente: ojalá Venezuela le ponga término a la dictadura y elija la democracia, la justicia social, las libertades”, escribió.

“#Chavez (asesino) quiere tapar el impune asesinato de 19 mil venezonanos por año”. Continuó escribiendo que el presidente Chávez “quiere tapar que convirtió a Venezuela en paraiso de narcotráfico”..."


...if people decided the future of communist dictator countries like China, or like Canada where very few vote and the vote counts are done manually for the next day...!, they claim then that something bad or worse than Chavez might win and take over a Country...!
...hence people only manage some influence to vote regionally as of Canada, and so it seems is what is happening in Venezuela State Governors...! As to USA see how shut up the independent - Joe Lieberman - http://lieberman.senate.gov/ is lately, and most independents or too out of the main stream either are gone or go by sickness and death...!

...so the people know what they want, they sometimes do not know how or by whom...! and what is worse the "status quo" power does not want to give the people much more, anyway, and is why their "fist control" over their "democracy_demo-crazy"...!

...old political power of this sort and nature, believes in poordom and peasants, for the "control" of power...!

...in a pure logic country, we believe in direct governance, all most medium class and educated freely, and full work for all, under "money stamps" or true money, and educated well living population do not need any " Police RCMP-opressive-nazism-mental health-inquisition control and submission"...! rather the more educated and with good economical being, they serve themselves for more progress ...!

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...What Greece did: the Senate [I do not know what the Senate of Canada is for, do you ?]
...And folks " Canada polis-city, or polis Country ":

An Introduction to Ancient Greece
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/worldhistory/introancientgreece1.htm
Part 1: The City-State and Sparta
Ancient Greece wasn't one large empire but a collection of smaller city-states. The term the Greeks used was polis, which meant (more or less) "city-state." A polis was bigger than a city but smaller than a state. They were scattered throughout the Mediterranean area. Some were sea-ports; others were more inland. Some of the more famous city-states were Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Delphi, and Thebes.
The people living in these city-states were all Greek, coming from a common heritage. But the people of each city-state did different things and had different beliefs.
Sparta, for instance, was a place of great determination. The Spartans believed in a strong army. All Spartan boys were trained to be soldiers. When the Persians invaded Greece, the other city-states looked especially to Sparta and its army to keep them safe.
The creation of the Spartan military state is credited to Lycurgus, a legendary man who gave Sparta is laws. He said that land should be divided equally among all people. He also said that all people should eat meals together in large halls, so the rich couldn't enjoy food while the poor starved. Most famous, perhaps, is the Senate, a part of government that made laws and kept tyrants in check.
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...BUT AS ALWAYS THE OLD LOGIC IS ALWAYS WRONG, IF IT IS OLD OR NOT AS GOOD AS PURE LOGIC...!


SADLY CONTROL BY FORCE AND EXCESSIVE POWER AND LACK OF HUMAN RIGHTS, is a "leit motiv" very hard for Governments and populations to grow out of or grow up from...! NEVER ASK A POLICEMAN OR R.C.M.P. OR CANADA MENTAL HEALTH OFFICIAL IF THEY KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS AND SELF-DEFENSE...!
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