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U.S. intelligence officials fear Venezuelan coup, government crackdown
Hot Air.com ^ | May 14, 2016 | JOHN SEXTON

Posted on 05/14/2016 1:23:57 PM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

An lesson about what the US would be under Bernie!


21 posted on 05/14/2016 2:00:09 PM PDT by Forty-Niner (The barely bare, berry Bear formily known as Ursus Arctos Horrilibis (or U.A. Californicus))
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To: Kaslin

Well duh, this has been over a decade in the making.

Chavez wanted to be the new castro,

The news is obama is playing kissy face with them all when we should be bringing the fist down


22 posted on 05/14/2016 2:01:58 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Travis McGee

Not sure how you lump China in with those other two basket cases. They are certainly a dictatorial political system, and the ruling party calls themselves communists, but they haven’t been a communist economic system for decades. In case you haven’t noticed, they have used trade with the USA to lift themselves from a third world economic joke to basically tied with us for the largest economy in the world, and their growth rate while having “cooled off” is still 3 times ours. And they have stolen much of our manufacturing base while doing it.


23 posted on 05/14/2016 2:04:13 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: wastedyears
Who cares?

U.S. intelligence officials fear Venezuelan coup, government crackdown

US now coping with unconstitutional Obama crackdown.
Patriots fear Obama Islamo/Socialist coup.


24 posted on 05/14/2016 2:08:36 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Islam is Islam. Democracy is the train we ride to our ultimate victory. (Recep Erdogan))
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To: Kaslin

The only reason they should fear it is if We the People took notes and did the same.


25 posted on 05/14/2016 2:09:53 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Kaslin

Ooooooh...those fun-loving socialists!!! Who cares if they tumble into their self-imposed abyss. Maybe they’ll learn a lesson.


26 posted on 05/14/2016 2:10:45 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: wastedyears

Why would a revolution something to fear in Venezuela? The only way out of their present situation is through and up, as they are very definitely a failed state now.

Long-term mismanagement by peasants turned tyrants is no way to run any country. There are plenty of other forms of government administration that have no such problems.


27 posted on 05/14/2016 2:13:21 PM PDT by alloysteel (The Triumph of Trump - finally, does the hegemony of the Republican elites get broken?)
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To: Kaslin

All these idiots have to do is blame the U.S. for all their failures and most of the population eats it up.

I remember that murderer, Ira Einhorn traveled around Europe and all he had to do was tell some Euroidiot that the CIA was setting him up. That was the magic word, “CIA”.

Women would swoon, men would admire him. The fact that he was physically ugly, never bathed, stank to high heaven and had murdered his stupid girl friend, stuck her body in a trunk and lived with it in his room didn’t seem to bother them at all.

Same with Venezuela and Cuba. It is the CIA making their life miserable.


28 posted on 05/14/2016 2:24:08 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Kaslin

The country was very successful with many Americans working there and many companies from all over the world. Then came Chavez.


29 posted on 05/14/2016 2:25:04 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (The day Trump is sworn in I'm changing my screen name.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

And here we have hilldabeast and bernie


30 posted on 05/14/2016 2:36:14 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Kaslin

Hey Venezuela, I hear socialists taste like chicken!


31 posted on 05/14/2016 2:41:56 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Kaslin

You can hear the ice cracking. You know there’s a crisis coming,” one U.S. official said.


Some could say the same about our nation.


32 posted on 05/14/2016 2:50:35 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (The government is the problem, not the solution.)
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To: Kaslin

U.S. intelligence officials never noticed what was going on there until now ,well D’oh , Obama must want to save another Communist Dictatorship before he leaves


33 posted on 05/14/2016 2:52:02 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: piasa

Just what I was Thinking.


34 posted on 05/14/2016 2:52:24 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: VTenigma

“I’m so glad they’re on top of it.”

The post of the day !!!!

:-)

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35 posted on 05/14/2016 2:54:09 PM PDT by Mears (i)
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To: Kaslin

You can tell how concerned the US officials are because they don’t mention that Venezuelan opposition leader German Mavare was assassinated eight days ago. The Hot Air article doesn’t mention it, nor the Reuters article.

I guess last Friday was such a remote part of the past that it’s not worth bringing up when you’re talking about dictators cracking down.


36 posted on 05/14/2016 2:58:32 PM PDT by Colinsky
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To: KyCats
It’s amazing to me how much suffering the people will actually tolerate.

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." - D of I

37 posted on 05/14/2016 3:02:50 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Reno89519
So long as we don’t let any Venezuelans to come here, so long as it does not threaten the US, WHO CARES?!

I am glad the French did not think this way in the early 1780s.

38 posted on 05/14/2016 3:04:36 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Kaslin

Get a Pinochet and warm up the helicopters.

The only good commie is...


39 posted on 05/14/2016 3:05:20 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Cruz never could have outfought Trump.But I didn't know until this day that it was Romney all along.)
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To: Kaslin

Nothing new. I still remember 1973 when Salvador Allende put Chile on the socialist path and soon the same thing happened. Stores were empty. The women took up pots and pans, clanged them together as they marched for FOOD! Loved the photo of him hunkered down in the Presidential Palace with a helmet and a sub machine gun when “THEY” (THE ARMY) came for him.


40 posted on 05/14/2016 3:25:36 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (DAD, Why did you drag us kids kicking and screaming from the Rockys to the tick infested Ozarks!)
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