This video… well, just watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SbssOdruPQ&feature=Views&page=1&t=t&f=b

There were thousands who were without air conditioning, lights, refrigeration, internet connections, and, well, modern life generally.What do the consumers do about it? Keep paying the bills, to the same company that let them down. They can’t switch. They can’t influence the production process. They are powerless in more ways than one.

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Chavez to boost Russian arms orders to S3 billion

Chavez has added helicopters, surface-to-air missiles, it’s speculated that they added a submarine to the deal. U.S. officials hoped to talk Russia out of the arms deal, but senior Kremlin officials said that they see no reason to take advice from the United States.

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