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Venezuela Expels US Military Attache, Alleges Sabotage Of Electric Grid

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As the world awaits the outcome of Chavez's latest 'severe infection', the Venezuelan headlines appear to have become more and more surreal...

  • *VENEZUELA'S MADURO SAYS CHAVEZ ENEMIES CAUSED HIS ILLNESS
  • *VENEZUELA EXPELS U.S. MILITARY ATTACHE, MADURO SAYS
  • *VENEZUELA HAS INFORMATION ON SABOTAGE TO ELECTRIC GRID: MADURO

As Bloomberg notes, Maduro says U.S. official was meeting with Venezuelan military officials and was seeking to destabilize country. Or perhaps it is all about distraction?

 

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Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:18 | 3301393 Ahmeexnal
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Wait, didn't Chavez say that Ogolfer was his candidate?

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:19 | 3301399 Say What Again
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Can we "expel" the bernank?

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:27 | 3301414 The Juggernaut
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Wait so you're saying that American foreign policy (little known to the American People themselves) is to go into natural-resource-rich countries and TAKE their resources at ANY cost necessary?

 

American and British oil companies always hated a resouce-rich country's president who wanted the oil for their own countrymen.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:37 | 3301453 hedgeless_horseman
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U.S. official was meeting with Venezuelan military officials and was seeking to destabilize country

Libya, check.

Egypt, check.

Venezuela, check.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:45 | 3301486 Dr. Engali
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Call me silly ,but there seems to be a pattern developing.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:46 | 3301502 The Juggernaut
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The guy getting kicked out is

David Delmonaco
Tue, 03/05/2013 - 15:36 | 3301766 imaginalis
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He gave the SV40 handshake to Chavez

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 15:42 | 3301783 Fukushima Sam
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Someone served up some strontium or plutonium or some other radioactive agent to Chavez, and it seems likely to have been the CIA.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 16:41 | 3302030 Say What Again
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Is it me, or does OhBuma have a resemblance to that guy from the BORG collective on Star Trek, or Star Wars, or Lost in Space, or -- well you know one of those sci fi series.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 18:57 | 3302638 smlbizman
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i bet the next guy gives them their gold for safe keepin'.....

 

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 16:49 | 3301509 hedgeless_horseman
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...there seems to be a pattern developing...

That blue tie is the kiss of death.

 

...Shall be born a strong master of Mohammed,
He will enter Europe wearing a blue turban.
He will be the terror of mankind.
Never more horror.
 

http://www.armageddononline.org/nostradamus2.php

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:55 | 3301547 ziggy59
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Since the germophobe era, its now the Handshake of Death instead of Kiss

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 15:27 | 3301719 Poetic injustice
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You silly conspiration theory lover.

It's not true unless person with proper credentials (printed out diplomas) says it is so.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:43 | 3301492 ziggy59
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Did u forget the Rumsfeld handshake with Saddam?

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:47 | 3301506 NotApplicable
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You seem to be forgetting that they were brothers-in-arms. This version is more of a polite choke-hold, complete with insurgents.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:49 | 3301517 BLOTTO
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I believe thats a masonic hand-shake/grip between O and G...

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:53 | 3301539 dontgoforit
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Golf-finger!

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 15:21 | 3301687 mirac
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No...that is just O signaling that he is on the case to "da Boyz"  Chavez ain't in on it...

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 15:46 | 3301809 NotApplicable
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Noted.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:52 | 3301532 resurger
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epic post

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 15:24 | 3301698 IamtheREALmario
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Check the handshakes ... it's an inside job.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 16:35 | 3301996 Getting Old Sucks
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Just sayin good-bye.

Hint to any national leader.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:45 | 3301499 zeroDirkHedge
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you didn't build that ( the oil )

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:51 | 3301526 zerozulu
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Chavez got his PM. he can do/say what ever he wants.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:20 | 3301404 flacon
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Chavez? He died of cancer last summer and he has not been seen since. 

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:29 | 3301433 wee-weed up
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Weekend at Hugo's

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:35 | 3301455 Ahmeexnal
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How do you say Bunga-Bunga in vuvuzelan?

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 16:52 | 3302082 q99x2
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You have to exorcise him first then tar and feather to be sure.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:18 | 3301394 Say What Again
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That's on sick Mo-Fo!!!

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:19 | 3301398 youngman
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I just listened to him for 20 minutes..he is not going to take over...he speaks terribly....but his boogiemen are all standard leftist crap....its the Repulicans fault...always

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:20 | 3301402 Say What Again
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ES got a rise out of the news

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:22 | 3301409 flacon
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Horny little bugger, innit?

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:21 | 3301405 MarkD
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The Devil made him say that

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:30 | 3301416 Dr. Engali
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Bush told him to say that?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKCSSHLCCME

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:22 | 3301407 ebworthen
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Chavez likely on his way to eternal slumber.

The infighting is probably intense right about now to decide who replaces him and how.

And if they have no money to fix the electrical grid and people are pissed off - how convenient to blame it on a U.S. Diplomat.

What...did he do it with his briefcase?

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:29 | 3301430 bugs_
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Yes - sounds like a shakedown to me - only problem is the leader of the free world is MISTER SHAKEDOWN.   Amateurs should sit down.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:51 | 3301528 dontgoforit
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He's faltering.  I think his health may be failing as well.  Maybe FBI or NSA is doing more to watch out for us than we know?

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:24 | 3301412 Dr. Engali
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I enjoy a good Maduro cigar....oh we were talking about Chavez...he's dead.

Wed, 03/06/2013 - 02:03 | 3303875 mkhs
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So are we, but we don't quite realize it.

 

At least those of use vaccinated for polio.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:56 | 3301418 SDRII
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Venezuela says U.S. detainee was a Marine, August 11, 2012 Venezuelan Government Criticized in Deadly Refinery Blast,August 27, 2012

 

Capriles Seeks Destabilization in Venezuela - VP Maduro

 

Chavez's cancer was "attack" by enemies - Venezuela VP

 

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 15:17 | 3301627 Broomer
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Before I drown in a sea of red arrows, a disclaimer. I do know that "cancer" is a blanket word for many different diseases with several causes. Anything where there is uncontrolled cellular division is called "cancer". With that said...

http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/05-01-2012/120158-south_america-0/

"Over 18 months period four progressive leaders of Latin America and their fellow citizens were shocked by the diagnosis delivered by their physicians - cancer. Fernando Lugo, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, Hugo Chavez, and recently Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner were given this diagnosis. The Presidents of Paraguay, Brazil, Venezuela and Argentina suspiciously simultaneously turned out on the verge of survival."

By the way... the current Brazilian president, Ms. Rousseff, also had cancer when she was the most likely person in Lula's party to get the nomination to compete for the presidency as successor. Nothing to see here, move along...

Edit: let's also not forget Mr. Castro's cancer.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 15:17 | 3301657 InTheLandOfTheBlind
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thank you for pointing out this odd convergence.   

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 15:44 | 3301794 Dapper Dan
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I'll just leave this here..............

 

Advertising executive Ed Haslam discussed how his investigation of the 1964 murder of a cancer researcher led him to a story which connects a massive contamination of the polio vaccine to our current cancer epidemic and even the JFK assassination. "When you look at the story, each piece fits in with each other piece, very cleanly and very logically," Haslam observed, "it's only when you stand back and look at it, that it looks as strange as it does."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL1FNhZlOs0

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 15:49 | 3301825 SDRII
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  • Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah made a television appearance Wednesday to deny reports that he was suffering from cancer

  • Russia to join international probe into Arafat's death; the results are due anyday

  • Russia to Take Part in Litvinenko Inquest

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 15:53 | 3301843 SDRII
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Mr. Capriles, a 40-year-old known as "El Flaco," or "The Skinny One," says he would normalize relations with Washington and multinational companies, which have been hit hard by nationalizations under Mr. Chávez.

 

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Henrique Capriles Radonski: Hugo Chavez Foe A Target Of Anti-Semitism
Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:26 | 3301419 youngman
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You can bet there is a big scramble for the power and the money of course....got their gold now...so that too.....I bet our military has contactred their military to see if they are on the right side of things..its our job to do that...not unusual at all....

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:30 | 3301422 tony bonn
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of course the cia / usa terrorist organizations were trying to sabotage the electrical grid and i would not be the least bit surprised to discover that the cia infected chavez - lord knows how many times they tried to kill off castro. and then there was the usa murder of allende, the ousting of arbenz in the 1950s, the contra activities in nicaragua, the murder of a panamanian president, the invasion of panama to silence another panamanian leader....my god, the murders and coups by the bush crime syndicate's cia are innumerable and legion...oh and we can't forget their murder of jim jones and his 900+ followers in their colony in guyana....

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:32 | 3301446 Ahmeexnal
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Don't forget the genocide of Branch Davidians in Waco. That was Bush too, huh?

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 15:18 | 3301667 InTheLandOfTheBlind
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ever looked at what was going on in mena arkansas when clinton was governor?  you might find a connection or two there that may make you re-evaluate your assessment of what constitutes the "bush crime family".

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 17:23 | 3302194 12ToothAssassin
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And lots of Monarch MK Ultra tie-ins.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:34 | 3301454 DblAjent
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Unfortunately, that's what it has come to: play ball with the US or suffer severe consequences. What happens to the market when we blast Iran next?

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:40 | 3301474 dontgoforit
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Nosedive

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 18:04 | 3302365 TBT or not TBT
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Smart bombs only hit markets when we want them to.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:37 | 3301462 SDRII
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Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah made a television appearance Wednesday to deny reports that he was suffering from cancer.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:28 | 3301424 Seize Mars
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Chavez. The Great Eye would love to have a map dotted with dictators. The problem is, he nationalized an Exxon facility. Silly. Shortly thereafter, he, um, "got cancer." At least Saddam got a second chance, more than Hugo or muhammar ever got.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:40 | 3301469 dontgoforit
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Yeah - and they don't have the know-how to keep the Exxon plant running.  The Venezuelans did the same 'nationalization' thing with the aluminum industry in the early '80's and after a couple years those plants sat idle as well.  Grab and weep.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 15:45 | 3301804 Fukushima Sam
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On the bright side, Chavez probably won't be sodomized with a knife at the end.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 18:10 | 3302402 TBT or not TBT
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Castro nationalized a whole country and lasted another half century

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 18:34 | 3302534 Seize Mars
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Yes Castro expropriated oil company assets, but the Cuban peso is pegged to the USD. So who knows, maybe he is a little more polite to the Great Eye behind closed doors than Hugo was?

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:28 | 3301427 thisandthat
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Totally out of character...

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:28 | 3301428 PUD
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A NEW WAR CLOSER TO HOME WOULD BE BEST.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:31 | 3301440 bugs_
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the ladies are not off limits in the south american theatre as they are in the ME theatre.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:29 | 3301435 Ahmeexnal
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Meanwhile, in the crumbling Kingdom of Spain, the catalan revolt goes full steam ahead with a referendum next year.
The House of Bourbon has responded with full out war if the referendum takes place:

http://www.thelocal.es/page/view/madrid-fights-catalan-independence-refe...

And while the king of spain fights to keep catalonia under chains, the EU has brutally refused to hand over more cash to insolvent spaniard bankers:

http://www.thelocal.es/page/view/spain-banks-dont-need-more-rescue-cash-...

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:37 | 3301464 dontgoforit
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Sounds like the 15th century all over again.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 18:11 | 3302412 TBT or not TBT
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More like the Crimea.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:30 | 3301436 ParkAveFlasher
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The one who blows hardest against the American scarecrow, gets the CIA contract.  And I don't mean assassination, I mean that one gets the CIA to support his puppet regime.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:32 | 3301444 dick cheneys ghost
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Not to worry.......The MIC has been has been busy taking over neighboring Colombia

 

http://rt.com/usa/colombia-us-military-base/

 

https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/07-6

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:37 | 3301458 dontgoforit
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Anyone so consumed with hate as Chavez is will ultimately cause their own illness and die.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:41 | 3301476 alien-IQ
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Yet Dick Cheney and Henry Kissinger are still alive and kicking in their advanced years.

I guess it's true what they say...only the good die young.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 18:16 | 3302442 TBT or not TBT
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They must love what they do, according to the "if hate then cancer" theory of the disease. OTOH love gives you heart disease, or is it just unrequited love?

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:38 | 3301465 alien-IQ
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Yeah, it's gotta be a distraction. the US Military or CIA would NEVER try to sabotage a nation that possess large oil reserves and has a leader the US hates. Total conspiracy theory.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:41 | 3301480 insanelysane
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Destroying the grid was payback for Chavez's crew flying drones in the US recently.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:42 | 3301485 resurger
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conspiracist Maduro, The US cares about the "freedom" of the Venezuelans more than Chavez, why the people are not appreciating anything that we do?!

The same goes for Iraq, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Iran... why!

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:49 | 3301514 alien-IQ
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they hate us for our former freedoms.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 16:41 | 3302028 machineh
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So that's why Freedom Fries are off the menu, never to return ...

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 18:27 | 3302505 TBT or not TBT
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Awesome

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:48 | 3301507 john milton
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can somebody insert this lovely foto obama kissing chavez here.. http://www.cnbc.com/id/45326469/Why_Is_President_Obama_Kissing_Hugo_Chavez

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:49 | 3301511 medium giraffe
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If only there was some sort of anti-commie third party 'Warrior for Peace' the US could call on to help smooth things over. 

Hmmm, how about this guy?:

https://twitter.com/AbbyMartin/status/307359267525124096/photo/1

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:54 | 3301544 dontgoforit
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We need Mitch Rapp and we need him now!

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 14:49 | 3301512 LFMayor
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They have electricity in that pestilent shithole?  Who knew...

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 18:19 | 3302455 TBT or not TBT
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The problems in V have nothing to do with Chavez' policies. It is all anti revolutionary saboteurs and foreign agents.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 15:10 | 3301623 Bicycle Repairman
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To all you security "buffs" out there: the national grid is one big sign on the back of Uncle Sam that says "kick me".

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 18:20 | 3302465 Mi Naem
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I agree with you, but would add that this is one of many ripe opportunities for our aspiring fascist overlords to create even greater popular demand for their pervasive surveillance, confiscation, and liberty trouncing to the applause of the growing population of sleepwalkers. 

"Who could ever have foreseen such a diabolical thing?!  Lets go get those terrorists"! 

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 18:26 | 3302500 TBT or not TBT
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Get yourself an inverter and 0guage cables, one with enough surge to handle your fridge and tv. If you need microwave popcorn figure at least a 2200w inverter.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 15:32 | 3301742 Flakmeister
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Lets see:

(Orinocco Heavy Crude) + (Monroe Doctrine) + (Gulf Coast Refiners optimized for low API oil) + (Dictator on death bed) = ??

Bueller?? Bueller??

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 16:38 | 3301991 Cathartes Aura
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let's see:

5th largest US Embassy Haiti, completed just before the devasting earthquake that allowed the US military to IMMEDIATELY occupy (within days, still there)  deep water ports  +  the "discovery of oil" most likely a part of Venezuela's "stores" off shore  = well, we all know what it equals.

there will be blood.  as always.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 15:43 | 3301782 Joe A
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That speech Chavez made at the UN about the devil that was just there and he (Chavez) could still smell the Sulphur, apparently didn't go down well with some people.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 18:23 | 3302487 TBT or not TBT
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Achmedinnyjihad territory. Chavez and Ajihad had military cooperation ongoing, something about a missile base. Venezuela needed some, see, and Iran being so culturally and geographically aligned with Venezuela....

Wed, 03/06/2013 - 02:47 | 3303943 Joe A
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Like the US is culturally and geograpically aligned with oh let's say Saudia Arabia?

It is all geopolitics of course and today's enemies are tomorrow's allies and vice versa.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 16:49 | 3302074 Lord Koos
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"Surreal", my ass.  The CIA has done crazier stuff than sabotaging an electrical grid.  Not saying that that it is really happening, but it's not outside the realm of possibility by any means. 

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 16:52 | 3302081 Quantum Nucleonics
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This action is for local consumption.  Maduro, Venezuela's charisma challenged VP and heir apparent, is trying to earn some anti-gringo points to burnish his street cred with the various pro-Chavez street thugs and military.  Based on who is saying what, Chavez looks to be in his last few days.  Probably a MDR bug he picked up in Cuba.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 16:54 | 3302088 q99x2
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News articles have hated Venezuela ever since they got involved with oil. Go figure.

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 17:16 | 3302168 NoWayJose
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I didn't think anyone who followed Chavez as leader of Venezuela could be anywhere near as crazy.  Maduro may prove me wrong...

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 17:59 | 3302322 alex_g
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Chavez has died, per the vice prez

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 18:32 | 3302528 TBT or not TBT
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Plugs is grounded right now. Sequester....

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 19:22 | 3302734 Erwin
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And now Chavez seems to be dead. Heads up everybody, something's up.

A 3-letter word that begins with the letter "W" and ends with "ar".

Tue, 03/05/2013 - 20:32 | 3302970 Herdee
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Chavez was a smart dude,he got his gold back early.Good luck Germany and Mexico.

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