{"id":224,"date":"2008-03-27T13:35:39","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T18:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=224"},"modified":"2008-03-27T13:35:39","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T18:35:39","slug":"when-in-doubt-you-know-who-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"When In Doubt, You Know Who To Blame"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trying again to deflect attention from the man behind the curtain, pulling lever and pressing buttons to make people believe he’s a wizard, Hugo Chavez continues the Blame Game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez blamed the United States for violent protests in Tibet during the last two weeks that he said were aimed at trying to destabilize China.<\/p>\n

In comments reported by his press office on Sunday, Chavez said the protests were an example of the U.S. "empire" "going against China" and trying to divide the Asian powerhouse.<\/p>\n

Communist China has occupied Tibet, a Buddhist region previously ruled by monks, since a military invasion in 1950.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In other news, Chavez blames Bush for Vietnam, the Boxer Rebellion, and Adam and Eve’s disastrous choice of trees.  Honestly, protests about Tibet are nothing new, and there may just be a less paranoid explanation.<\/p>\n

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China has been widely criticized for a crackdown against the demonstrators ahead of August’s Olympic games to be held in Beijing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Could those same Olympic games be the reason the monks thought this would be a good time to call attention to their situation?   Yes, but Chavez wasn’t done with the deflection.<\/p>\n

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Chavez is a relentless Washington critic who says he favors a multipolar world to balance U.S. dominance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yes, what the world needs now is another Evil Empire to balance things out.  Wonder if he’s bucking for that position.<\/p>\n

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He also refuses to recognize Kosovo as an independent republic, saying the new European state is a U.S. imposition.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

"Look over there!  And look over there!  Just please, don’t look over here, where the food lines are getting longer."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trying again to deflect attention from the man behind the curtain, pulling lever and pressing buttons to make people believe he’s a wizard, Hugo Chavez continues the Blame Game. Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez blamed the United States for violent protests in Tibet during the last two weeks that he said were aimed at trying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-venezuela"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}