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2016-02-25 Caribbean-Latin America
The Game Changed in Venezuela Last Night
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Posted by Steve White 2016-02-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 And this is the state economic and social model that Bernie and his useful idiot supporters want to implement in the US.
Posted by Lone Ranger 2016-02-25 01:22||   2016-02-25 01:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Show this at the next bernie rally.
http://mobile.reuters.com/news/picture/venezuelas-crackdown-on-dissent?articleId=USRTR4SMY7
Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-02-25 02:43||   2016-02-25 02:43|| Front Page Top

#3 "Rule by Decree" Ain't Socialism grand?
Posted by DepotGuy 2016-02-25 02:46||   2016-02-25 02:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Gutted a country and its population for a few billion dollars.
Posted by gorb 2016-02-25 03:50||   2016-02-25 03:50|| Front Page Top

#5 this story on the original at the link is dated February 20, 2014

so it is 2 years old...

Thank you. Missed that. Aargh...
Posted by anon1 2016-02-25 06:59||   2016-02-25 06:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Just remember Jimmy Carter 'certified' a fraud racked election. Virtue signalling on his part to avoid a potential civil war. The price has been paid for years now by the people of Venezuela and will continue to accrued interest.

That's the same Jimmy who didn't back the Shah of Iran, giving the world the resurgence of fundamental Islam, the hostages, the signal for the Russians to invade Afghanistan and the opening for Saddam to initiate the Iran-Iraq War, followed by the invasion of Kuwait. However, Jimmy was virtuous in not backing that strong man in Iran.
Posted by Procopius2k 2016-02-25 08:01||   2016-02-25 08:01|| Front Page Top

#7 The only thing Socialists concentrate on is perfecting a turd with another roach coach vendor with a license to Racketeer (RICO)

They take 90% of profit
Posted by newc 2016-02-25 08:02||   2016-02-25 08:02|| Front Page Top

#8 this story on the original at the link is dated February 20, 2014

so it is 2 years old...
Posted by anon1

Sir, Yes.
But the Lesson is Eternal.

There are two types of people: Those that use the law to enrich themselves, and those who are to pay for it.

If you Need Government, you lost any Moral Sovereign
Posted by newc 2016-02-25 08:14||   2016-02-25 08:14|| Front Page Top

#9 i agree with you. communism is evil. i do like public health care, being from australia we are used to it. also roads, fresh water, sanitation services and education.

plus police and military

but apart from that.... nothing should get funded. No public housing for a start. And no CGT tax - tax on inflation. No property taxes (if you buy it you own it, why should the govt charge you rent on what you own??)

However there is a point -- if you post stuff that is 2 years old, and it appears to be a crisis unfolding, maybe let the readers know the date so that they know it is not breaking news, of something happening right now.

otherwise people will be thinking Caracas is about to go up in flames ...
Posted by anon1 2016-02-25 09:02||   2016-02-25 09:02|| Front Page Top

#10 There is no reason to treat 5% of an issue as 95% of the marketed bullshit. And eat everyone's money for a bullshit program that was bankrupt before it's start - MR $250 BRILLIANT in Un-funded Debt future. Time to ignore it and build a choooo chooooooo train to ignore this?
Posted by newc 2016-02-25 10:38||   2016-02-25 10:38|| Front Page Top

#11 That strategy worked on voters for the Affordable Care Act.
Posted by Skidmark 2016-02-25 10:51||   2016-02-25 10:51|| Front Page Top

#12 No property taxes (if you buy it you own it, why should the govt charge you rent on what you own??)

Can't argue with that.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-02-25 12:22||   2016-02-25 12:22|| Front Page Top

#13 But ACA is a cock up.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-02-25 12:23||   2016-02-25 12:23|| Front Page Top

#14 There's lots of socialist water in Flint, Anon1, and lots of free education in LA, if you speak spanish.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-02-25 12:59||   2016-02-25 12:59|| Front Page Top

#15 The fact the article is almost 2 years old is telling. It's just now getting out.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2016-02-25 13:51||   2016-02-25 13:51|| Front Page Top

#16 Still screwed up:

Scroll down for English version of corruption chart
Posted by KBK 2016-02-25 17:37||   2016-02-25 17:37|| Front Page Top

#17 The If’s, When’s and How’s of Regime Change
Posted by KBK 2016-02-25 17:40||   2016-02-25 17:40|| Front Page Top

#18 I remember reading something like this, if not this article, possibly here at the 'Burg.

Seems like a couple weeks before that model was shot during protests

(looks it up)

Genesis Carmona, Feb 19, 2014.

Oh yeah, sort of like Neda in Iran, it was at the time a desperate attempt for any international recognition, in retrospect the last best chance.

Perhaps Sad Panda could enlighten me on dutiful reciprocity of action between two political groups not of the same moral obligations?

But yeah, it is remarkable so many sites, not just here, are just now seeing it for the first (remembered?) time.
Posted by swksvolFF 2016-02-25 18:39||   2016-02-25 18:39|| Front Page Top

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