Allen L Roland

President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez addresses the 61st session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 20, 2006. REUTERS/MikeSegar (UNITED STATES)

Brazil winning the 2016 Olympics and ousting Obama ( Chicago ) in the first round is a shot across the bow to America. There is a moral and spiritual revolution, of the people versus the global elite, occurring in South America and its leader is Venezuela's Hugo Chavez:

When President Obama and his wife, Michelle as well as Oprah Winfrey and their entourage swept into Copenhagen to try and dazzle the International Olympic Committee while representing Chicago ~ they were met with stony indifference and humiliatingly bounced in the first round. The committee then selected Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to host the 2116 Summer Olympics.

This was not a subtle rebuke to President Obama, instead it was a shot across the bow of America that times are rapidly changing and that the people of the world are effectively uniting against the global elite and America be forewarned.

Recently 10,000 activists marched in Pittsburgh with great courage to protest this world disorder, at the G-20 world economic meeting in late September ~ a disorder in which the top 2 percent own 47 percent of the world's wealth, while the bottom 60 percent live on less than two U.S. dollars per day in poverty, misery and despair.

Two in ten American workers are out of a job, and soon it will be 3 out of 10. There are six people trying to get every available job. That means five of them are never going to get a job ~ and it's going to get worse. REAL Unemployment is now at 20% and will most likely go to 30%.

Consumer bankruptcies soared 41 percent in September from a year before and climbed from August, as high unemployment and the housing market crash took their toll, the American Bankruptcy Institute said on Friday.

Against this dire world economic backdrop ~ Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez addressed the UN General Assembly in New York on September 20th and eloquently spoke of a moral and spiritual revolution of the people in South America and " that those who attempt to close the door of this peaceful revolution are opening the door to a violent revolution. "

Chavez said that " this era is giving birth to a heart " and rightfully said that the global elites are increasingly afraid of the people.

In that context, he spoke of the two Obamas ~ or one Obama that speaks out of both sides of his mouth. But compared to his predecessor, who spoke last year and who Mr Chavez rightfully called "the devil" in a previous UN General Assembly speech ~ Chavez said " It doesn't smell of sulphur anymore. It's gone. It smells of something else. It smells of hope and you have hope in your heart. "

Brazil's President Luiz Ignacio 'Lula' Da Silva echoed the same theme ~ " The issues at the core of our concerns - like climate change - have one strong common denominator - the need to build a new international order that is sustainable, multilateral and less asymmetric, free of hegemonies and ruled by democratic institutions... This new world is a political and moral imperative. We must be midwives to the future. This is the only way to make repairs for so much injustice and to prevent new tragedies."

Michael Moore has brilliantly revealed how our Republic has become a plutocracy in his recent film Capitalism: A Love Story ~ see my recent review http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/10/03.html

But now Hugo Chavez gives us the solution ~ the people rising up to claim an economy at the service of humanity ~ not beholden to Wall Street and the global elite.

Take the time to listen to Hugo Chavez as he addresses the U.N. General Assembly: Video http://snipurl.com/s9md8

When our leaders fail ~ we, the people, must lead and the future of our Republic now demands it. The people are already marching in South America and will soon be joined by their brothers and sisters in North America.

Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/10/05.html

Freelance Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations ( allen@allenroland.com ) Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net

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