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Food riots grip western Venezuela, mob reportedly slaughters cattle in field
Reuters ^ | 12 January 2018 | By Anggy Polanco and Francisco Aguilar

Posted on 01/12/2018 7:24:31 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken

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To: Flavious_Maximus
May they all suffer the same fate.

They have, they will and they do. The problem is that they bring down the innocent with them.

41 posted on 01/12/2018 10:56:16 PM PST by Concentrate (ex-texan was right and Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election. Podesta the molest)
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To: rlmorel

Brain Dead or Brain Washed. The result is the same.

Slavery on a Mass Scale.

THAT is why the Globalist Pukes are so evil and dangerous.

Imagine a one world controlled by one government. Ultimate Evil.

The devils aim from start.


42 posted on 01/13/2018 3:23:13 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil
If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend this short 4 min video: Bill Whittle: Socialism is for Suckers"
43 posted on 01/13/2018 7:08:52 AM PST by rlmorel (Leftists: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: Publius; Billthedrill
...with no knowledge of the distances ahead, but with the knowledge of death behind them -- moving, to collapse on the roads, in the gullies, in the breaks of rotted bridges.

This, of course, is it in a nutshell. Which I see as a bit of a challenge. We read the book to the end and it comes to an anticlimax, the warnings unheeded bring them to this desperate state but it isn't the end. Just as in the novel the producers and the wealth have expatriated, the engine has stopped and the millions of the Eddie Willers' remain in the ruins, to what end for them?

We have some recent history, witnessing the collapse of the Soviet republics and how many of them have returned to prosperity in our lifetimes, and it seems to me Venezuela is near that stage in its "evolution" where it is time to start thinking about how it is going to come back.

Or am I overthinking it? Is there a role for the outside, for the greater, more prosperous of modern civilization to play in a future re-emergence of a state like Venezuela? I don't know, I have to confess I'm not as well versed in how the old Soviet republics (among others) came back from the brink.

What do you guys see in the yet to be written chapters of this saga?

44 posted on 01/13/2018 10:36:44 AM PST by Clinging Bitterly (I will not comply.)
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To: Clinging Bitterly; Billthedrill
You have to hit rock bottom, crash through that bottom, and find a whole new bottom before people will rethink their premises.

I'm waiting for the Sign of the Dollar scrawled with chalk, lipstick, highlighter, spray paint, or any other means on walls, overpasses, statues -- and government buildings.

45 posted on 01/13/2018 10:41:37 AM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon)
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To: Publius

I guess. I have often heard there are still a lot of wealthy Venezuelans but I have to wonder how many of them are actually still in country and in what way they participate in society today.


46 posted on 01/13/2018 11:27:31 AM PST by Clinging Bitterly (I will not comply.)
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To: Clinging Bitterly

If they’re smart, they keep a very, very low profile. Venezuela is just a few steps away from cannibalism.


47 posted on 01/13/2018 11:28:38 AM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken
Food riots grip western Venezuela, mob reportedly slaughters cattle in field.

OK; I'll ask. Dumb Question.

Why aren't all other areas of Venezuela similarly distressed?

48 posted on 01/13/2018 12:13:55 PM PST by publius911 (CBS: "Asking the right questions is 100% of catching sexual abusers")
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Why aren't all other areas of Venezuela similarly distressed?

to answer my own question 90% of the population lives in the river plain in the north/northwest part of the country, using only about 10% of the total land

49 posted on 01/13/2018 1:37:12 PM PST by publius911 (CBS: "Asking the right questions is 100% of catching sexual abusers")
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