A las 4:18 de la tarde de este lunes, el Sí alcanzó 6.310.482 votos (54,85%) y el No 5.193.839 votos (45,14%), con el 99,57% de actas transmitidas
Para la tarde de este lunes 16 de febrero, con el 99,57% de actas transmitidas, la opción del Sí había alcanzado un total de 6.310.482 votos para 54,85% y el No 5.193.839 para 45,14%, de acuerdo con el segundo boletín oficial emitido por el Consejo Nacional Electoral con los resultados del Referendo Aprobatorio de la Enmienda Constitucional, celebrado este domingo.
En este segundo reporte, con un total de 11.710.740 votos escrutados, sólo falta contabilizar 409 actas de escrutinios. De todos los sufragios, 11.501.321 son válidos y 206.419 nulos. La abstención relativa, según actas transmitidas, es de 29,67%, lo que indica un poco más de 70% de participación.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Hugo Chavez buys the right to preside over Marxist stagflation until 2049
All hail, President-for-Life Chavez. Hugo Chavez, the calorifically challenged Venezuelan Marxist bully boy, has won a referendum amending the constitution to allow him to stand repeatedly for re-election as president, rather than being restricted to two terms in office as was previously required. President Chav lost a similar referendum 14 months ago but, on the model of the European Union, he compelled the electorate to vote again until it came up with the right answer.
Warm congratulations were immediately sent to President Chav by Fidel Castro's life-support machine - the twinkling-eyed Cuban mass-murderer has long been Hugo's idol and mentor. Elected dictatorship does not come cheap. Chavez spent a mind-boggling $12 billion on his referendum campaign which, with his control of most of the media, gave him a considerable advantage. The President has announced his modest ambition to rule until 2049, by which time he hopes to have developed a fully Marxist economy.
He is getting there: Venezuela is heading into stagflation, with GDP forecast to fall by up to 2.5 per cent this year, while inflation is expected to rise above 35 per cent. Venezuela had a growth rate of 10.3 per cent in 2005, which slumped to 4.9 per cent in 2008. In the last quarter of 2008 the economy grew by just 2 per cent, compared with 8.5 per cent in the corresponding quarter of 2007.
Venezuela's exports are 93 per cent oil-based, at a time of reduced world demand and falling prices. Chavez' more extravagant plans were bullishly predicated on an eventual oil price of close to $200 a barrel; today it is under $40. The OPEC output cut agreement reduces Venezuela's output by 12 per cent. The investment plan trumpeted by Chavez last June to stimulate the economy has failed. Now there is another in the pipeline.
Hugo Chavez, along with similar loonie-left demagogues such as Morales in Bolivia, represents the phenomenon characterised by Alvaro Vargas Llosa, the insightful Peruvian commentator, as "The return of the Latin-American idiot." The wilful self-delusion of the West in its bogus romanticisation of the sadistic murderer Che Guevara is more reprehensible than the illusions of impoverished Latin-American voters.
They are about to learn the hard way that Red rhetoric does not feed people, in the era of a troubled globalised economy, and that putting a disproportionate percentage of the population on the state payroll produces the same results as in the Soviet Union.
Warm congratulations were immediately sent to President Chav by Fidel Castro's life-support machine - the twinkling-eyed Cuban mass-murderer has long been Hugo's idol and mentor. Elected dictatorship does not come cheap. Chavez spent a mind-boggling $12 billion on his referendum campaign which, with his control of most of the media, gave him a considerable advantage. The President has announced his modest ambition to rule until 2049, by which time he hopes to have developed a fully Marxist economy.
He is getting there: Venezuela is heading into stagflation, with GDP forecast to fall by up to 2.5 per cent this year, while inflation is expected to rise above 35 per cent. Venezuela had a growth rate of 10.3 per cent in 2005, which slumped to 4.9 per cent in 2008. In the last quarter of 2008 the economy grew by just 2 per cent, compared with 8.5 per cent in the corresponding quarter of 2007.
Venezuela's exports are 93 per cent oil-based, at a time of reduced world demand and falling prices. Chavez' more extravagant plans were bullishly predicated on an eventual oil price of close to $200 a barrel; today it is under $40. The OPEC output cut agreement reduces Venezuela's output by 12 per cent. The investment plan trumpeted by Chavez last June to stimulate the economy has failed. Now there is another in the pipeline.
Hugo Chavez, along with similar loonie-left demagogues such as Morales in Bolivia, represents the phenomenon characterised by Alvaro Vargas Llosa, the insightful Peruvian commentator, as "The return of the Latin-American idiot." The wilful self-delusion of the West in its bogus romanticisation of the sadistic murderer Che Guevara is more reprehensible than the illusions of impoverished Latin-American voters.
They are about to learn the hard way that Red rhetoric does not feed people, in the era of a troubled globalised economy, and that putting a disproportionate percentage of the population on the state payroll produces the same results as in the Soviet Union.
Do you belong to Facebook, forever?
Do you belong to Facebook, forever?
12:59 PM CST, February 16, 2009
The blogosphere is abuzz after a popular consumer affairs blog pointed out changes to Facebook's terms of use that the social networking Web site quietly made earlier this month.
Consumerist, a blog owned by the publisher of Consumer Reports, published a post on Sunday that summed up the changes with the alarming title: "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever."
Suzie White, Facebook's corporate counsel for commercial transactions, announced on the company's official blog on Feb. 4 that the site was updating its terms of use. She said Facebook "simplified and clarified a lot of information … including some things you shouldn't do when using the site."
White also wrote that "these updates provide you with the same level of protection you have come to expect from Facebook."
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Twitter has everyone talking, but will the conversation ever be punctuated with a profit? However, Consumerist and other observers believe that Facebook's changes have left its members vulnerable to having their content used without their permission, even if they delete information from their profiles. Both the old and the new terms of use specify that Facebook members grant the site a license to use content "on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof."
The old agreement contained language saying that this license would "automatically expire" if content was removed from the site. Those lines are gone from the new terms of use.
A Facebook spokesman said early Monday afternoon that the company was preparing a response.
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