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	<title>Comments for Dr. Ulf Erlingsson&#039;s blog</title>
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	<description>This is mostly a Swedish-American blog about Honduras, but also other topics are touched upon</description>
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		<title>Comment on Dick Emanuelsson i blåsväder &#8211; igen by Henrik Klemetz</title>
		<link>http://blog.erlingsson.com/?p=3768&#038;cpage=1#comment-5195</link>
		<dc:creator>Henrik Klemetz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Med sitt eget personnummer backade Dick Emanuelsson upp ANNCOL, FARC-gerillans inofficiella nyhetsbyrå, när dess redaktion och webbsajt öppnades i Sverige i slutet av 90-talet.   I flera år kunde Emanuelsson publicera reportage inifrån gerillan, bl a i DN.   I AB och i svensk fackföreningspress hade han tolkningsföreträde när det gällde Colombia ända tills gerillans renommé naggades kanten av en internationell terroriststämpel (som Sverige i det längsta motsatte sig).  ANNCOL-sajten flyttades till Danmark sedan Swipnet stängt ner den i Sverige.   Svenska tidningar, AB, DN och SvD  t ex, valde att inte informera.  I Danmark där det finns flera konsekvensneutrala tidningar vållade nyheten däremot visst rabalder.  I Danmark har man till skillnad från Sverige också tagit terroriststämpeln på allvar.  Medan vänsterpartiets ungdom i Stockholm ostraffat kunnat samla in pengar till FARC, har en gerillasympatisör i Danmark åtalats och dömts för samma sak.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Med sitt eget personnummer backade Dick Emanuelsson upp ANNCOL, FARC-gerillans inofficiella nyhetsbyrå, när dess redaktion och webbsajt öppnades i Sverige i slutet av 90-talet.   I flera år kunde Emanuelsson publicera reportage inifrån gerillan, bl a i DN.   I AB och i svensk fackföreningspress hade han tolkningsföreträde när det gällde Colombia ända tills gerillans renommé naggades kanten av en internationell terroriststämpel (som Sverige i det längsta motsatte sig).  ANNCOL-sajten flyttades till Danmark sedan Swipnet stängt ner den i Sverige.   Svenska tidningar, AB, DN och SvD  t ex, valde att inte informera.  I Danmark där det finns flera konsekvensneutrala tidningar vållade nyheten däremot visst rabalder.  I Danmark har man till skillnad från Sverige också tagit terroriststämpeln på allvar.  Medan vänsterpartiets ungdom i Stockholm ostraffat kunnat samla in pengar till FARC, har en gerillasympatisör i Danmark åtalats och dömts för samma sak.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Amend the 14th amendment! by billy</title>
		<link>http://blog.erlingsson.com/?p=3764&#038;cpage=1#comment-5171</link>
		<dc:creator>billy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This amendment and its two fellows were &#039;voted&#039; on in the Confederate states only by Union collaborators protected by the bayonets of the military occupation forces.  The majority, Confederates, were disenfranchised.  All three amendments are Constitutional farces and invalid as far as the Southern states are concerned.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This amendment and its two fellows were &#8216;voted&#8217; on in the Confederate states only by Union collaborators protected by the bayonets of the military occupation forces.  The majority, Confederates, were disenfranchised.  All three amendments are Constitutional farces and invalid as far as the Southern states are concerned.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Democracy Advice to FNRP in Honduras by Staffan D.</title>
		<link>http://blog.erlingsson.com/?p=3758&#038;cpage=1#comment-5166</link>
		<dc:creator>Staffan D.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>FNRP are of course pinning their hopes on &quot;Honduras&#039; nemesis, Hugo Chávez&quot;.   Investors.com had an interesting article yesterday about &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/545008/201008251856/The-Killing-Fields-Of-Caracas.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Killing Fields orf Caracas&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.  Well worth reading.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>FNRP are of course pinning their hopes on &#8220;Honduras&#8217; nemesis, Hugo Chávez&#8221;.   Investors.com had an interesting article yesterday about &#8220;<a href="http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/545008/201008251856/The-Killing-Fields-Of-Caracas.aspx" rel="nofollow">The Killing Fields orf Caracas</a>&#8220;.  Well worth reading.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Democracy Advice to FNRP in Honduras by Gerardo Paredes</title>
		<link>http://blog.erlingsson.com/?p=3758&#038;cpage=1#comment-5126</link>
		<dc:creator>Gerardo Paredes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great article. Too bad the people that supports the resistance at the lowest level, think the national assembly they are proposing is for Mel, maybe only the upper strata believes in change for a better democracy, but most of their base is useless for that point.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great article. Too bad the people that supports the resistance at the lowest level, think the national assembly they are proposing is for Mel, maybe only the upper strata believes in change for a better democracy, but most of their base is useless for that point.</p>
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		<title>Comment on An Economical Rescue Plan for Honduras by safariman</title>
		<link>http://blog.erlingsson.com/?p=3748&#038;cpage=1#comment-5089</link>
		<dc:creator>safariman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I believe they make some good hydro equipment in Russia as well. Seems to me I remember some international bruhaha a few years ago when they won a bis for some equipment for one of the USA hydro-projects.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I believe they make some good hydro equipment in Russia as well. Seems to me I remember some international bruhaha a few years ago when they won a bis for some equipment for one of the USA hydro-projects.</p>
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		<title>Comment on An Economical Rescue Plan for Honduras by Ulf Erlingsson</title>
		<link>http://blog.erlingsson.com/?p=3748&#038;cpage=1#comment-4925</link>
		<dc:creator>Ulf Erlingsson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I would propose that bonds are issued for financing a major project such as Patuca III, and perhaps a couple of smaller ones in other parts of the country, and that the immediate focus is put on developing that or those projects. Of course, there is much more than a dam, a turbine, and a generator involved; there is also roads, distribution system, and temporary supporting infrastructure (campamiento) to build. The local communities must furthermore be considered, they must feel that they gain from it more than they give up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would propose that bonds are issued for financing a major project such as Patuca III, and perhaps a couple of smaller ones in other parts of the country, and that the immediate focus is put on developing that or those projects. Of course, there is much more than a dam, a turbine, and a generator involved; there is also roads, distribution system, and temporary supporting infrastructure (campamiento) to build. The local communities must furthermore be considered, they must feel that they gain from it more than they give up.</p>
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		<title>Comment on An Economical Rescue Plan for Honduras by Ulf Erlingsson</title>
		<link>http://blog.erlingsson.com/?p=3748&#038;cpage=1#comment-4923</link>
		<dc:creator>Ulf Erlingsson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good point, Gerardo :)  ABB also makes some excellent generators by the way (hint hint) hahaha</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good point, Gerardo <img src='http://blog.erlingsson.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />   ABB also makes some excellent generators by the way (hint hint) hahaha</p>
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		<title>Comment on An Economical Rescue Plan for Honduras by Gerardo Paredes</title>
		<link>http://blog.erlingsson.com/?p=3748&#038;cpage=1#comment-4914</link>
		<dc:creator>Gerardo Paredes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>More hydro production in Honduras would also help the swedish economy, Bofors / Saab, ABB are the most dutiful makers of turbines :D</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More hydro production in Honduras would also help the swedish economy, Bofors / Saab, ABB are the most dutiful makers of turbines <img src='http://blog.erlingsson.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Comment on An Economical Rescue Plan for Honduras by Gerardo Paredes</title>
		<link>http://blog.erlingsson.com/?p=3748&#038;cpage=1#comment-4913</link>
		<dc:creator>Gerardo Paredes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ulf, there has been several projects, but none of them made even a dent in production, most newer hydro projects in Honduras are smaller than 1 MW, that&#039;s small considering the 7MW mean that you get with just one engine. Enee had a working group studying the feasibility of several private projects and studying how to reduce losses in the grid, it was called GAUREE and how GAUREE 2, In 2006 as i was working at a thermal powerplant a 1- 2 - 3 MW power plant was finished on Ilama, Central Hidroelectrica Cececapa, near my hometown. 

http://archivo.laprensa.hn/pais_nota.php?id04962=15760&amp;t=1153375200
http://www.enee.hn/PDFS/proyecto_gaure.pdf

But ENEE has indeed several big projects (those that really matter) in the oven:
http://www.enee.hn/macroproyectos.htm

Enee has around 76 Million Lempiras, most of them to study feasibility  of several projects just in the deparment i am from, you can read the data here:
http://www.sefin.gob.hn/portal_prod/data/2010/DGIP/Departamentos/SANTA%20BARBARA.pdf

As i am writing a private company is building a 40 MW project downriver Represa Francisco Morazan, you can see the project here, they are actually hiring people for the operation:

http://www.hydrohn.com

Regards
Gerardo Paredes</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ulf, there has been several projects, but none of them made even a dent in production, most newer hydro projects in Honduras are smaller than 1 MW, that&#8217;s small considering the 7MW mean that you get with just one engine. Enee had a working group studying the feasibility of several private projects and studying how to reduce losses in the grid, it was called GAUREE and how GAUREE 2, In 2006 as i was working at a thermal powerplant a 1- 2 &#8211; 3 MW power plant was finished on Ilama, Central Hidroelectrica Cececapa, near my hometown. </p>
<p><a href="http://archivo.laprensa.hn/pais_nota.php?id04962=15760&amp;t=1153375200" rel="nofollow">http://archivo.laprensa.hn/pais_nota.php?id04962=15760&amp;t=1153375200</a><br />
<a href="http://www.enee.hn/PDFS/proyecto_gaure.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.enee.hn/PDFS/proyecto_gaure.pdf</a></p>
<p>But ENEE has indeed several big projects (those that really matter) in the oven:<br />
<a href="http://www.enee.hn/macroproyectos.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.enee.hn/macroproyectos.htm</a></p>
<p>Enee has around 76 Million Lempiras, most of them to study feasibility  of several projects just in the deparment i am from, you can read the data here:<br />
<a href="http://www.sefin.gob.hn/portal_prod/data/2010/DGIP/Departamentos/SANTA%20BARBARA.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.sefin.gob.hn/portal_prod/data/2010/DGIP/Departamentos/SANTA%20BARBARA.pdf</a></p>
<p>As i am writing a private company is building a 40 MW project downriver Represa Francisco Morazan, you can see the project here, they are actually hiring people for the operation:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hydrohn.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.hydrohn.com</a></p>
<p>Regards<br />
Gerardo Paredes</p>
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		<title>Comment on Eva Golinger, Venezuela&#8217;s paid &#8220;girlfriend&#8221; by alek boyd</title>
		<link>http://blog.erlingsson.com/?p=3549&#038;cpage=1#comment-4792</link>
		<dc:creator>alek boyd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thing is Eva, I have evidence to support every single one of my claims about you: from your own emails admitting that you had receive payments through VIO in 2003 -when in fact you passed the bar in 2005. 

Re AILA, I also have emails, from AILA&#039;s Diane Kolbe, stating that no record of you existed in their database, despite the fact that you use to claim in your website that you were a member.

Re 503 (c)(3) status, I happen to have another letter from Marilyn Baker with the IRS, stating &quot;We have no record that [your organization] is a tax exempt organization...&quot; 

Re the millions you got from the Chavez regime for your propaganda rag, there&#039;s much evidence from Venezuela&#039;s Congress and chavista media outlets, so for your own sake, stop pretending.

Re practising law in DC and Miami, please place here evidence that you have registered in the bar of those states. Last time I asked, you hadn&#039;t, and it was also explained to me that without register in the bar, you simply can&#039;t practise, nor advertise your legal services in those jurisdictions. But please, do correct me, with proper documentation, if I&#039;m wrong.

You travel around with Chavez Eva, you&#039;re infatuated with a murderer, you&#039;re deep into chavismo. Your books have been published in Cuba -a beacon of freedom of expression I&#039;ll hear you saying, and Venezuela, in the latter case high officials were present, all with public money. How did you travel to Cuba BTW? When you did first, it was almost illegal for US citizens to do so. How it is that a regular American citizen, without credentials, almost fresh out of uni, manages to get books published in Cuba Eva? Is it your money that&#039;s funded all that, or was it mummy&#039;s? You drool for the narcoterrorist-supporter military putschist. You wear like a badge of honour that the caudillo said that you were &quot;la novia de Venezuela&quot;. Do you think any reasonable person is going to believe that you are this independent person, when your whole life is devoted to propagandise for him? When you moved to Venezuela thanks to connections to his regime? When you&#039;re on record, from Venezuela all the way to Scandinavia and Russia, spreading misinformation and propaganda, in violation to the laws of your native country? 

Learn this Eva, el sol no se puede tapar con un dedo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thing is Eva, I have evidence to support every single one of my claims about you: from your own emails admitting that you had receive payments through VIO in 2003 -when in fact you passed the bar in 2005. </p>
<p>Re AILA, I also have emails, from AILA&#8217;s Diane Kolbe, stating that no record of you existed in their database, despite the fact that you use to claim in your website that you were a member.</p>
<p>Re 503 (c)(3) status, I happen to have another letter from Marilyn Baker with the IRS, stating &#8220;We have no record that [your organization] is a tax exempt organization&#8230;&#8221; </p>
<p>Re the millions you got from the Chavez regime for your propaganda rag, there&#8217;s much evidence from Venezuela&#8217;s Congress and chavista media outlets, so for your own sake, stop pretending.</p>
<p>Re practising law in DC and Miami, please place here evidence that you have registered in the bar of those states. Last time I asked, you hadn&#8217;t, and it was also explained to me that without register in the bar, you simply can&#8217;t practise, nor advertise your legal services in those jurisdictions. But please, do correct me, with proper documentation, if I&#8217;m wrong.</p>
<p>You travel around with Chavez Eva, you&#8217;re infatuated with a murderer, you&#8217;re deep into chavismo. Your books have been published in Cuba -a beacon of freedom of expression I&#8217;ll hear you saying, and Venezuela, in the latter case high officials were present, all with public money. How did you travel to Cuba BTW? When you did first, it was almost illegal for US citizens to do so. How it is that a regular American citizen, without credentials, almost fresh out of uni, manages to get books published in Cuba Eva? Is it your money that&#8217;s funded all that, or was it mummy&#8217;s? You drool for the narcoterrorist-supporter military putschist. You wear like a badge of honour that the caudillo said that you were &#8220;la novia de Venezuela&#8221;. Do you think any reasonable person is going to believe that you are this independent person, when your whole life is devoted to propagandise for him? When you moved to Venezuela thanks to connections to his regime? When you&#8217;re on record, from Venezuela all the way to Scandinavia and Russia, spreading misinformation and propaganda, in violation to the laws of your native country? </p>
<p>Learn this Eva, el sol no se puede tapar con un dedo.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Strengthening Democracy in Honduras by Ulf Erlingsson</title>
		<link>http://blog.erlingsson.com/?p=3668&#038;cpage=1#comment-4753</link>
		<dc:creator>Ulf Erlingsson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Actually, the US system is not homogenous as the Swedish one. Each county and city within a county can have, and have, their own rules. In one it may be a mayor, next door it may be very similar to Sweden. So now I have said that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually, the US system is not homogenous as the Swedish one. Each county and city within a county can have, and have, their own rules. In one it may be a mayor, next door it may be very similar to Sweden. So now I have said that.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Eva Golinger, Venezuela&#8217;s paid &#8220;girlfriend&#8221; by Ulf Erlingsson</title>
		<link>http://blog.erlingsson.com/?p=3549&#038;cpage=1#comment-4718</link>
		<dc:creator>Ulf Erlingsson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you for your comment. It is always welcome. As for the 2 year claim, I got that information from the website of the university at which you studied. If it is incorrect, I suggest you alert them to the error. As for the term &quot;doctor&quot;, I have learned thanks to you that that the US of A has corrupted that term, and is using it for non-research degrees. Thus, a JD in the US is equivalent to a professional legal degree in Europe, not a doctorate. My mistake. But the text had been corrected on that point already before you posted this comment.

As for the other things I wrote, I was referring to sources. Personally I think you are being a little bit thin-skinned. People wrote much worse things about me just for a scientific hypothesis I advanced. I was even challenged on a duel. Imagine.

Here is challenge for you: Check out the Italian Wikipedia entry for Alejandro Peña Esclusa. Can you detect the slander in that article? Are you willing to take action to have that corrected, or do you use different scales for friends and foes?

Finally I note that you are not saying anything about the accusation that Chavez was behind the murders at the airport, or that the deposing of Zelaya was a legal action justified by his violating a Supreme Court order.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you for your comment. It is always welcome. As for the 2 year claim, I got that information from the website of the university at which you studied. If it is incorrect, I suggest you alert them to the error. As for the term &#8220;doctor&#8221;, I have learned thanks to you that that the US of A has corrupted that term, and is using it for non-research degrees. Thus, a JD in the US is equivalent to a professional legal degree in Europe, not a doctorate. My mistake. But the text had been corrected on that point already before you posted this comment.</p>
<p>As for the other things I wrote, I was referring to sources. Personally I think you are being a little bit thin-skinned. People wrote much worse things about me just for a scientific hypothesis I advanced. I was even challenged on a duel. Imagine.</p>
<p>Here is challenge for you: Check out the Italian Wikipedia entry for Alejandro Peña Esclusa. Can you detect the slander in that article? Are you willing to take action to have that corrected, or do you use different scales for friends and foes?</p>
<p>Finally I note that you are not saying anything about the accusation that Chavez was behind the murders at the airport, or that the deposing of Zelaya was a legal action justified by his violating a Supreme Court order.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Eva Golinger, Venezuela&#8217;s paid &#8220;girlfriend&#8221; by Eva</title>
		<link>http://blog.erlingsson.com/?p=3549&#038;cpage=1#comment-4713</link>
		<dc:creator>Eva</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This post does not deserve any response because it is so ridiculously distorted and full of extreme lies that just seek to defame my character. Nonetheless, I cannot allow for any criminal or fraud allegations against me to remain in the public sphere without response. Since you refuse to remove them, committing clear defamation, I will respond briefly. First of all, I have never misrepresented myself in any way. I have never accepted payments for legal work without credentials. Upon graduating law school, I worked as a law graduate under attorney supervision while studying for and passing the New York Bar and gaining admittance to the New York Court System as an attorney. This is a normal practice in the US. By degrading the US system of legal studies, which is a 3-year Juris Doctorate program of study with intense research and analysis (not a 2-year system, as you erroneously claim) you are degrading and discrediting millions of US attorneys and everyone who has ever studied law in the US. We also have to complete a 4-year university study degree in order to even be eligible for a Juris Doctorate, therefore making the entire course of study to become a lawyer in the US seven years.

I never lied about membership in AILA, I was part of a law firm with membership in AILA and attended AILA events and had access to AILA services as such. I did briefly run a non-profit in New York City that does has 501 (c)(3) tax exempt status - this can be verified easily by the IRS, although the organization is no longer active. Such status is retroactive once granted and therefore applies to the organization from the time of founding. 

I have never and will never conduct propaganda or anything political on behalf of any government or anyone. Everything I have said, written, published and done has been of my own will, based on my own beliefs and objectives. No one, no government, no official has ever told me what to do. I act entirely on my own volition. I have never, ever benefited from millions of dollars from Venezuela or anywhere, that is an absolutely ridiculous claim. And I have never violated any laws in the US or elsewhere.

You are obsessed and sick with trying to degrade me and discredit me personally, precisely because you can&#039;t repudiate the facts and evidence of the information I present. You are infringing on crimes of defamation and slander by maintaining information on this website that lies about my profession, my credentials and my character.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This post does not deserve any response because it is so ridiculously distorted and full of extreme lies that just seek to defame my character. Nonetheless, I cannot allow for any criminal or fraud allegations against me to remain in the public sphere without response. Since you refuse to remove them, committing clear defamation, I will respond briefly. First of all, I have never misrepresented myself in any way. I have never accepted payments for legal work without credentials. Upon graduating law school, I worked as a law graduate under attorney supervision while studying for and passing the New York Bar and gaining admittance to the New York Court System as an attorney. This is a normal practice in the US. By degrading the US system of legal studies, which is a 3-year Juris Doctorate program of study with intense research and analysis (not a 2-year system, as you erroneously claim) you are degrading and discrediting millions of US attorneys and everyone who has ever studied law in the US. We also have to complete a 4-year university study degree in order to even be eligible for a Juris Doctorate, therefore making the entire course of study to become a lawyer in the US seven years.</p>
<p>I never lied about membership in AILA, I was part of a law firm with membership in AILA and attended AILA events and had access to AILA services as such. I did briefly run a non-profit in New York City that does has 501 (c)(3) tax exempt status &#8211; this can be verified easily by the IRS, although the organization is no longer active. Such status is retroactive once granted and therefore applies to the organization from the time of founding. </p>
<p>I have never and will never conduct propaganda or anything political on behalf of any government or anyone. Everything I have said, written, published and done has been of my own will, based on my own beliefs and objectives. No one, no government, no official has ever told me what to do. I act entirely on my own volition. I have never, ever benefited from millions of dollars from Venezuela or anywhere, that is an absolutely ridiculous claim. And I have never violated any laws in the US or elsewhere.</p>
<p>You are obsessed and sick with trying to degrade me and discredit me personally, precisely because you can&#8217;t repudiate the facts and evidence of the information I present. You are infringing on crimes of defamation and slander by maintaining information on this website that lies about my profession, my credentials and my character.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Chávez&#8217;s Dictatorship is Consolidated by Ulf Erlingsson</title>
		<link>http://blog.erlingsson.com/?p=3670&#038;cpage=1#comment-4660</link>
		<dc:creator>Ulf Erlingsson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Than you for the comments. I don&#039;t disagree with you on any of the points. 

I have scrutinized electronic voting back when it was being introduced in Florida (before it was abandoned again), and in my opinion it is an entirely unacceptable form of voting since the one who controls the machines (i.e., the state) can determine the outcome. Cheating is possible in any machine-voting system, but it is much easier with electronic voting machines than other systems. The only fool-proof method is hand counting ballots in open view of the public.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Than you for the comments. I don&#8217;t disagree with you on any of the points. </p>
<p>I have scrutinized electronic voting back when it was being introduced in Florida (before it was abandoned again), and in my opinion it is an entirely unacceptable form of voting since the one who controls the machines (i.e., the state) can determine the outcome. Cheating is possible in any machine-voting system, but it is much easier with electronic voting machines than other systems. The only fool-proof method is hand counting ballots in open view of the public.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Chávez&#8217;s Dictatorship is Consolidated by Armando Daniel Sug</title>
		<link>http://blog.erlingsson.com/?p=3670&#038;cpage=1#comment-4637</link>
		<dc:creator>Armando Daniel Sug</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear sir,

I agree with everything in your article. However, for the sake of your own credibility I believe you should straighten up a couple of facts that are not true in the paragraph below.
&quot;There must be a free opposition media, and there must be independent election observers, both during the election campaign and the actual election and vote counting. However, remember Stalin’s words, “it is not who votes that counts, but who counts the votes.” Venezuela uses its own, state-controlled electronic voting machines&quot;

1. There has been, so far, a free opposition media in all past elections in Venezuela. The danger however, is that every day there is less and less. 
2. Election observers have also participated in all previous elections including Carter Center, OAS, the EU and election commissioners from around the world. Let&#039;s hope they keep going there.
3. And last, the electronic voting machines are not state-controlled, they are outsourced to a multinational corporation that is the largest election technology and services provider in the world. Radical Chavistas are working hard to kick them out, and then get state control. But let&#039;s also hope that doesn&#039;t happen.

the biggest problem Venezuelans have is that Chavez populist money-giving to the poor still harbors him a lot of support among the poor majorities...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear sir,</p>
<p>I agree with everything in your article. However, for the sake of your own credibility I believe you should straighten up a couple of facts that are not true in the paragraph below.<br />
&#8220;There must be a free opposition media, and there must be independent election observers, both during the election campaign and the actual election and vote counting. However, remember Stalin’s words, “it is not who votes that counts, but who counts the votes.” Venezuela uses its own, state-controlled electronic voting machines&#8221;</p>
<p>1. There has been, so far, a free opposition media in all past elections in Venezuela. The danger however, is that every day there is less and less.<br />
2. Election observers have also participated in all previous elections including Carter Center, OAS, the EU and election commissioners from around the world. Let&#8217;s hope they keep going there.<br />
3. And last, the electronic voting machines are not state-controlled, they are outsourced to a multinational corporation that is the largest election technology and services provider in the world. Radical Chavistas are working hard to kick them out, and then get state control. But let&#8217;s also hope that doesn&#8217;t happen.</p>
<p>the biggest problem Venezuelans have is that Chavez populist money-giving to the poor still harbors him a lot of support among the poor majorities&#8230;</p>
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