The Devil's Excrement





  The Devil's Excrement
Observations focused on the problems of an underdeveloped country, Venezuela, with some serendipity about the world (orchids, techs, science, investments, politics) at large. A famous Venezuelan, Juan Pablo Perez Alfonzo, referred to oil as the devil's excrement. For countries, easy wealth appears indeed to be the sure path to failure. Venezuela might be a clear example of that.
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Monday, July 10, 2006



The revolution can be truly amazing. None other than the Armed Forces University (UNEFA), gave this week an Honorary Doctorate degree to Mikhail Kalashnikov for his research in the area of weapons manufacturing and his contributions to the defense of the sovereignty of Nations. To make the matter even more hilarious supposedly Kalashnikov said that it was an honor to be part of “such a body of well known scientists”. Well, he must known something we don’t, there are hardly any scientists at UNEFA, let alone well known. Some General or other even went as far as calling Kalashnikov a scientist, which goes to show that these ignorants can be easily fooled. He is an inventor, not a scientist and honoring him in the name of sovereignty and peace is in my own opinion absolutely immoral and absurd.

Venezuelan military officials seem to have trouble with certain concepts. Sovereignty is not only the defense of our territory, but also the defense of what we have and own and how we think. Where is sovereignty when Chavez gives away billions to other countries? When ill prepared Cuban Doctors take the jobs of Venezuelan Doctors? (BTW check out this, a former Minister of Health saying 4,000 Cuban Doctors have defected). Science is something they have yet to understand as nutty scientific planners and theorists of science have taken over science and the scientific bureaucracy in Venezuela.

Actually, given the high consumption of hard liquor in Venezuela, mostly Scotch whisky, UNEFA should have given the Honorary degree to Kalashnikov for inventing, owning and selling his own brand of vodka, another one of his “scientific” contributions.

I can still remember some twenty years ago when a very humble 80 year old man came and visited Venezuela. Nobody paid much attention, as he gave a couple of lectures, visited labs and friends and was honored by the Venezuelan Academy of Sciences. He was John Bardeen two-time Physics Nobel Prize winner, the Government and UNEFA ignored his visit, they could not recognize a true scientist if they saw one. They still can’t!


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