Argentina's President, Supporters Urge Beef Boycott In Ads

[Judi Lynn]

3/17/2006 10:47:00 AM

Argentina's President, Supporters Urge Beef Boycott In Ads

BUENOS AIRES (Dow Jones)--Argentina President Nestor Kirchner and his supporters launched Friday a public relations offensive against the beef industry, urging consumers to switch to other foods if prices remain high.

The president's office, along with the sub-secretariat for defense of the consumer, published advertisements in major newspapers Friday.
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Meanwhile, members of Compromiso K, an organization of Kirchner's political supporters, put up posters expressing a similar sentiment around the city.

The advertising campaigns come after Kirchner told Argentines in a speech Tuesday to "buy less beef if they don't lower the price - let's make them feel the power of the consumer, so that they don't sell to us at whatever price they want."
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http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=23908



U.S. Urges Argentina To Indict Iranians
Link Eyed to '94 AMIA Bombing
By MARC PERELMAN
March 17, 2006

As part of their campaign to isolate Iran, Congress and the Bush administration are pressing Argentine officials and prosecutors to issue a new indictment against Tehran's Islamic regime for the 1994 bombing of the Jewish communal center in Buenos Aires, the Forward has learned.

Senior Bush administration officials and congressional aides recently met with top Argentine political and judicial officials to urge them to charge Iran's top leadership with carrying out the bombing, which killed 85 people and wounded more than 300.

The Americans "clearly want to accuse Iran," said Miguel Bronfman, a lawyer who was briefed on the meetings with congressional staffers and represents the Argentine Jewish communal organization, AMIA, that was targeted in the 1994 bombing. An intelligence source familiar with the meetings between administration and Argentine officials said America is pressing Argentina to issue arrest warrants for senior Iranian officials.
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http://www.forward.com/articles/7499

[Kali]

1. ummm, are these 2 stories related in any way?

besides Argentina?

[Judi Lynn]

4. The second story is too old (1 day) to stand independently in LBN.

but it should be noted, as it tells us _Bush is pressuring Argentina, a sovereign nation, to do his bidding concerning Iran in an INTERNAL matter.

I think it's too important to overlook.

There's nothing about cattle in the second, you're right. I didn't think it would get much traction by itself in G.D. so I added it to the other post.

[Peace Patriot]

2. Regarding the first story, just imagine this: The President of the U.S.

urging citizens to boycott the oil companies--take trains, busses, bicycles or legs to work, or get a carpool together--to punish the oil giants for price-gouging and price-fixing, and to teach them a lesson!

That is, in essence, what Kirchner has done. Beef is a big, big item in the Argentine economy.

Imagine a president being on the side of consumers.

Imagine HAVING an agency called "the sub-secretariat for the defense of the consumer"!

It boggles the mind. We have forgotten what good government looks like!

Kirchner is part of the leftist revolution that has swept South America. He's one of the more centrist of the leftists--and has led an effort to get Argentina out of World Bank debt, and has pledged never to let Argentina ever get into such a position again, with the US/World Bank dictating Argentine economic policy (draconian measures against the poor). South America is in full scale revolt against US-based and other global corporate predators and against local rich elites who work with such entities to steal from the poor. There are leftist governments now covering virtually the entire map of South America--in Argentia, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Venezuela and Bolivia. Peru will likely be next. And the revolution is heading north--to Mexico, which will likely elect the leftist mayor of Mexico City as president this year.

One of the keys to this movement is TRANSPARENT elections. So, if you want democracy here in the U.S., too...

...throw Diebold and ES&S election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW!

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Some resources:

www.votersunite.org (MythBreakers - easy primer on electronic voting--one of the myths is that HAVA requires electronic voting; it does not.)
www.verfiedvoting.org (great activist site)
www.votetrustusa.org (news of this great movement from around the country)
www.UScountvotes.org (statistical monitoring of '06 and '08 elections)
www.solarbus.org/election/index.shtml (fab compendium of all election info)
www.freepress.org (devoted to election reform)
www.bradblog.com (also great, and devoted to election reform)
www.TruthIsAll.net (analysis of the 2004 election)
Sign the petition (Russ Holt, HR 550, great bill-has 169 sponsors). http://www.rushholt.com/petition.html
www.debrabowen.com (Calif Senator running for Sec of State to reform election system)
www.votepa.us (well-organized local group of citizen activists in Pennsylvania, where important legal issues are at stake, including state's rights over election systems)

Also of interest:

Bob Koehler (-- four recent election reform initiatives in Ohio, predicted to win by 60/40 votes, flipped over, on election day, into 60/40 LOSSES!--the biggest flipover we've seen yet; the election theft machines and their masters are now dictating election policy!)
www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/subcategory.jsp?file=20051124ctnbk-a.txt&catid=1824&code=ctnbk

Bob Koehler's latest: "Take this box and stuff it" (3/16/06)
http://commonwonders.com/archives/col337.htm

Amaryllis (Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia lavish lobbying of election officials - Beverly Hilton, Aug. '05)
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x380340

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Throw Diebold, ES&S and all election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW!

:think: :patriot: :woohoo: :patriot: :think:

[Peace Patriot]

3. Regarding the second story, yes, I imagine the Bush junta is using all

sort of pressure on Argentina, and elsewhere, to anathematize Iran.

Hard to say how this will go down in countries that are boldly rejecting imperialism, especially being dictated to by the U.S. I don't know what kind of case the Bushites have, but if it's anything like their case against Iraq, they will likely be laughed out of South America. I also don't know what economic bludgeons they might be threatening. It's the only way they can do 'diplomacy' in a world that hates them from the bottom of its heart. So they might make life difficult for the Argentinian government. Kirchner is less secure, politically, than the stronger leftist governments in Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela and Bolivia. The overall--and overwhelming--trend of the continent is leftist, so kowtowing to Bush might not sit so well with Kirchner's constituency. We'll see what he does.

This kind of interference in South American affairs--telling them who to prosecute, and how, and probably providing manufactured evidence; so akin to their funding of the political opposition against Hugo Chavez, and supporting a coup against that democratically elected president--and smelling so much of the past, with the US toppling democratic governments and installing dictators and torturers--is a good part of what the revolution in Latin America is all about. They DON'T WANT this kind of interference any more, have elected governments specifically to put a stop to it, and are asserting principles of self-determination and regional cooperation AGAINST U.S. power. The president of Brazil, for instance, Lula da Silva, led the third world revolt at the World Trade Organization meeting in Cancun a few years ago. Hugo Chavez has been eloquent on the topic. The Chileans just elected their first woman president, socialist Michele Batchelet, who was tortured by the US-supported dictator Pinochet. Bolivia just elected its first indigenous Indian as president, who campaigned against the murderous US "war on drugs."

They all despise Bush and his dirty rotten war on Iraq. And they know quite well what it's about. And they surely know what THIS is ALSO about--getting control of Iran's oil.

I don't have a good source for Argentine news. A good source on Venezuela, and on the leftist revolution in South America is: www.venezuelanalysis.com.