Don't expect alot of oil from Venezuela in January. They have their own problems, even if their puters work. See Drudge report.

-- FLAME AWAY (blehman202@aol.com), December 19, 1999

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Yeah but heavy rain, mud and death are a common occurance in this region. Never affected them before.

-- hamster (hamster@mycage.com), December 19, 1999.

Yes heavy rain is a regular occurance, but mudslides caused by deforestation are not.

We, humans, cause much of our own misery.

Multinational corporations aided and abedded by educated, over-indulged white people in the united states who buy their crap are to blame.

Pete

-- Peter Starr (startrak@northcoast.com), December 19, 1999.

Ah yes, the over-indulged white people are to blame, once again.

How about trying this: Take your reverse-racism, roll it tightly into a cylinder and shove it far, far up your arse. Ok?

-- (cavscout@fix.net), December 19, 1999.

You got that right Peter. But you forgot to mention the increasingly extreme weather disasters precipitated by a severe global warming trend, which also happens to have been caused by... that's right, the same greedy cold-blooded bastards running those multinational corporations. If the people in the "civilized" nations do not change their ways and fast, it will be hasta la vista to the human race and most other beautiful life on this planet.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), December 19, 1999.

Peter,

Venezuela, Columbia and Brazil are the mudslide centers of the world.

Always has been, always will.

-- hamster (hamster@mycage.com), December 19, 1999.

Deforestation? Bet the World Bank made a fortune off that; remember Brazil and the internal documents confirming the Bank's scientists told them the ranches would not be profitable in the long run, and cause x, y, and z enviro damages, but the execs new Brazil would payback the loan, so it was a good investment for the World Bank?

How horrible.

-- Hokie (nn@va.com), December 19, 1999.

No, this isn't any normal rain pattern. It is the highest flood-caused death toll since one in India over 20 years ago, and the worst natural disaster in Venezuela in 100 years.

http://CNN.COM/1999/WORLD/americas/12/20/venezuela.floods.01/ index.html

Mother Earth is struggling to maintain her delicate balance that we have thrown way out of kilter. The changes that need to occur to put her back into equilibrium are going to make a nuclear war look like a party.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), December 20, 1999.