Chavez says capitalism may have ended life on Mars

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**Frazzled**

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/chavez-says-capitalism-may-ended-life-mars-20110322-114731-131.html

Chavez says capitalism may have ended life on Mars

By Eyanir Chinea | Reuters – 58 minutes agoShareretweetEmailPrintRelated ContentVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks during a meeting with representatives of …
CARACAS (Reuters) - Capitalism may be to blame for the lack of life on the planet Mars, Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday.

"I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet," Chavez said in speech to mark World Water Day.

Chavez, who also holds capitalism responsible for many of the world's problems, warned that water supplies on Earth were drying up.

"Careful! Here on planet Earth where hundreds of years ago or less there were great forests, now there are deserts. Where there were rivers, there are deserts," Chavez said, sipping from a glass of water.

He added that the West's attacks on Libya were about water and oil reserves.

Earlier this month, the U.S. National Research Council recommended that NASA's top priority should be a robot to help determine whether Mars ever supported life and offer insight on its geological and climatic history.

It would also be the first step in an effort to get samples from Mars back to Earth.

A NASA team recently tested a space suit in a setting with extreme conditions akin to some of those found on Mars -- an Argentine base in Antarctica -- for possible use on a visit to the Red Planet.

(Writing by Frank Jack Daniel; Editing by Daniel Wallis)

**Da Boss**

Best speech ever.

**Tyyr**

Yeah, we're totally bombing Libya for it's water.

**blackclaw1**

he has somewhat of a point about the forests and deserts but we don't have enough evidence to link that to mars but why o'why do all communists come off as nuts in the news , i mean i'm a socialist , but hell i don't rant about capitalist aliens.

**Frazzled**

blackclaw1 wrote:he has somewhat of a point about the forests and deserts but we don't have enough evidence to link that to mars but why o'why do all communists come off as nuts in the news , i mean i'm a socialist , but hell i don't rant about capitalist aliens.

Er...because they are?

**reds8n**

.. I wouldn't have thought John Simms' wage demands were that unreasonable, he's not got that sort of reputation at all. Still, live and learn.

**Kilkrazy**

I liked him as The Master, though I have to say I think a nasty Derek Jacobi would have been even better.

**Ulver**

I thought this was going to be about Lou Diamond Phillips; I now feel disappointed.

**asimo77**

I'm pretty sure communism killed the red planet.

**metallifan**

I was just about to post this story

Always thought he was a little crazy, but this? This is padded-room and straight-jacket type stuff. What a nutter.

**Amaya**

Ahahahahaha

Why are some many leaders completely nuts?

**The Dreadnote**

In the end, it was not war, or their harsh environment that brought the proud Martian civilisation to it's knees...but greed. Clear evidence that even a culture advanced enough to have wiped out the dinosaurs is powerless before the corrupting hand of capitalism.

**helgrenze**

Amaya wrote:Ahahahahaha

Why are some many leaders completely nuts?

Um.. Power corrupts? ... corruption leads to excess... excess leads to madness......

**kronk**

Syphilis. All of the symptoms are there.

**blackclaw1**

Frazzled wrote:
blackclaw1 wrote:he has somewhat of a point about the forests and deserts but we don't have enough evidence to link that to mars but why o'why do all communists come off as nuts in the news , i mean i'm a socialist , but hell i don't rant about capitalist aliens.

Er...because they are?

Not gonna start an argument here but i disagree

**Frazzled**

blackclaw1 wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
blackclaw1 wrote:he has somewhat of a point about the forests and deserts but we don't have enough evidence to link that to mars but why o'why do all communists come off as nuts in the news , i mean i'm a socialist , but hell i don't rant about capitalist aliens.

Er...because they are?

Not gonna start an argument here but i disagree

Thats ok. I'll just hort circuit it buy saying you would be wrong.

But back to the dinosaurs and martians. If only TRex ate meat and not coconuts he would have been able to drive off the martians, alas and alack he could not.

**metallifan**

Frazzled wrote:
blackclaw1 wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
blackclaw1 wrote:he has somewhat of a point about the forests and deserts but we don't have enough evidence to link that to mars but why o'why do all communists come off as nuts in the news , i mean i'm a socialist , but hell i don't rant about capitalist aliens.

Er...because they are?

Not gonna start an argument here but i disagree

Thats ok. I'll just hort circuit it buy saying you would be wrong.

But back to the dinosaurs and martians. If only TRex ate meat and not coconuts he would have been able to drive off the martians, alas and alack he could not.

Maybe the martians had a monopoly on Coconut farms, and were selling to T-Rex at an unfair markup, causing the T-Rex to, as a race, declare war on the martians. They built a spaceship from Coconut husks, flew to Mars, and ate them all, then ate their coconut farms before returning to Earth.

...I think I just made the most important discovery of our brief, and 100% scientifically proven, 6000 year existance

*snicker*

**Frazzled**

That explains so much!

**Kilkrazy**

Frazzled wrote:
blackclaw1 wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
blackclaw1 wrote:he has somewhat of a point about the forests and deserts but we don't have enough evidence to link that to mars but why o'why do all communists come off as nuts in the news , i mean i'm a socialist , but hell i don't rant about capitalist aliens.

Er...because they are?

Not gonna start an argument here but i disagree

Thats ok. I'll just hort circuit it buy saying you would be wrong.

But back to the dinosaurs and martians. If only TRex ate meat and not coconuts he would have been able to drive off the martians, alas and alack he could not.

Not if the Martians were giant intelligent vegetables!!!

I think we're on to something now.

**sebster**

Amaya wrote:Why are some many leaders completely nuts?

I think it's probably in about the same ratio nuttiness in the regular population. It's just that when you become a world leader you don't have social pressure put on you to keep you fairly normal, so your mind goes free and starts making up all kinds of ridiculous gak.

This also explains why so many people on the internet are also bugfuck crazy.

**Mike Noble**

helgrenze wrote:
Amaya wrote:Ahahahahaha

Why are some many leaders completely nuts?

Um.. Power corrupts? ... corruption leads to excess... excess leads to madness......

And madness leads to..........the dark side(?)

**Andrew1975**

God I would love to get this guy and Imgonnaneedajob in the same room and just listen to the craziness commence.

**youbedead**

Andrew1975 wrote:God I would love to get this guy and Imgonnaneedajob in the same room and just listen to the craziness commence.

Only if we had Qaddafi and kim jong il

**sebster**

youbedead wrote:
Andrew1975 wrote:God I would love to get this guy and Imgonnaneedajob in the same room and just listen to the craziness commence.

Only if we had Qaddafi and kim jong il

And Mugabe.

**Albatross**

sebster wrote:
youbedead wrote:
Andrew1975 wrote:God I would love to get this guy and Imgonnaneedajob in the same room and just listen to the craziness commence.

Only if we had Qaddafi and kim jong il

And Mugabe.

...and Glen Beck.

**Mike Noble**

Albatross wrote:
sebster wrote:
youbedead wrote:
Andrew1975 wrote:God I would love to get this guy and Imgonnaneedajob in the same room and just listen to the craziness commence.

Only if we had Qaddafi and kim jong il

And Mugabe.

...and Glen Beck.

That's not fair to the other crazy people though, he's a professional!

**LordofHats**

If Qaddafi is the crazy uncle on the Middle East, I guess Chavez must be the crazy uncle of South America XD.

**Andrew1975**

Albatross wrote:
sebster wrote:
youbedead wrote:
Andrew1975 wrote:God I would love to get this guy and Imgonnaneedajob in the same room and just listen to the craziness commence.

Only if we had Qaddafi and kim jong il

And Mugabe.

...and Glen Beck.

NO, that much nonsense could conceivably tear a hole in the fabric of space-time creating a veritable vorpal hurricane of chaos

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Albatross wrote:
sebster wrote:
youbedead wrote:
Andrew1975 wrote:God I would love to get this guy and Imgonnaneedajob in the same room and just listen to the craziness commence.

Only if we had Qaddafi and kim jong il

And Mugabe.

...and Glen Beck.

.....and a starving Tiger.

Now you are talking!

**samusaran253**

What a fething idiot.

**Andrew1975**

Can we throw Palin in there too?