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Maduro's First Socialist "Decree" - $250 Samsung Trinkets For Every Venezuelan
Days after being granted omnipotent "decree" powers, and a week after the Venezuelan president wielded his mighty Marxist sword and jailed 100s of "bourgeois, barbaric, capitalist parasites"; Maduro has unveiled his latest "keep the masses happy" trick...
- *VENEZUELA TO SPEND $100M ON SAMSUNG IMPORTS: RAMIREZ
- *VENEZUELA TO IMPORT 400,000 SAMSUNG PRODUCTS, RAMIREZ SAYS
Why didn't AAPL get the nod? As Maduro explained yesterday, 15-30% margins are "enough"... Of course, the US is disappointed in the decision to grant Maduro "decree power" - perhaps as they didn't think of it sooner (though they do have the Obamaphone?).
Via Bloomberg (from Venezuelan State TV):
- Venezuela to pay $100m in cash for Samsung product imports, Ramirez says
- Samsung products to arrive before Christmas, Ramirez says
- Govt, Samsung create joint venture, looking for factory sites, Ramirez says
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Panem et Smartphones.
hopefully they'll figure out how to wipe their asses with them
A Galaxy S in every pot.
"Somewhere over the rainbow..."
They are very handy for your "blow"...,
"US is disapponted ...."
Yes, because everyone knows the tried and true formula is to mandate that everyone buy one and to give them taxpayer funded subsidies if they cannot afford it, with "unable to afford" apparently stopping at $60k and magically starting again for select parties who earn $170k and up within the Beltway.
<----- Bunz is a shameless prick
<----- I want to diversify my SHTF fund with free bitcoins: http://freebitco.in/?r=25727
While we all make fun of Venezuela, just remember.
The US government spends WAY more than $400M on free phones for people every single year.
That is the point ... the Venezelans are pikers compared to King O and his court.
Nowhere near as bad as the USSA.
http://twoshortplanksunplugged.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/ussa-emergence-of-socialist-state_20.html
Doesn't Venezuela oil reserves worth $1 million per capita.
Cheap bastard, only $250.
That link is no good. Use this one, instead! http://freebitco.in/?r=39304
Sept 15, 2014 (AP) In his first Decree as Supreme Leader, Mr. Obama announced today that every American will be receiving, and required to eat, one case of peas. This unprecedented announcement is part of Glorious Wife Michelle's directive called "The Eat Healthy or Die Program".
In addition to this Decree, the new Ministry of Health announced a Letter of Intent to convert the old Capitol Building into a vegetable canning factory, in a joint venture with Del Monte.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Health/Del Monte JV was quoted as saying, "This building is the perfect setting for the new factory. Previously it was home to the former legislative branch of government, where 535 tired, old vegetables sat ON their cans. Now, here we will be putting quality GMO vegetables into cans. Hail Supreme Leader and Glorious Wife for their wisdom and blessings upon we, the collective. "
I keep thinking to myself, "Don't these countries remember what happened to previous countries that have tried these same policies and the results that occured, can they be that stupid?"
And then I look at the road the US is on, they are all THAT stupid.
Between Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela this is a race to the bottom. One is going full out Brezhnev, one is going Psudo-Maoist and one thinks he is Eva Peron.
All must think they are immune to a 1986-1992 Debt Crisis.
They have to get past their 1970's experience first.
How do they recharge them.... Blackouts make that tough
Crank-up chargers ... you can get them at Radio Shack and Brookestone.
Try Daka. I heard their stores recently had a big sale.
Hopefully if/when the top pops the survivors round up every single last socialist and make a mountain of skulls for future generations to see and understand.
That pose looks familiar......where have we seen that before?
Somebody should shoot that fuckin' guy before it's too late.
But which guy?
All of them.
Let the devil sort them out.
It is too late.
What's wrong with Commies doing what Commies do? Giving a $250 trinket to every citizen is FAR FUCKING BETTER than giving $80 billion to banksters, each month.
Would the U.S. please stand back, just this time? You can't give "Freedom and Liberty" to other nations, as you don't have those yourself.
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To be followed by one (state controlled) TV channel and one portal.
They are almost there as it is.
dude that's the new 'sieg heil' look, don't you follow fashion? A dance version will be coming out when they have all the 'toadies' and 'running dog' inperialist in jail with the capitalist pigs who were charging 'high margins' (and I'm pretty sure that Agenda 21 covers that horrible assault on human dignity.)
What the fuck is it with fascists raising their hands like that. I just don't get how they don't see it as a dead give away that they are pure fucking evil.
It's the symbol for "Forward". All socialists know each other by this secret salute.
That, and the blood on your hands. And the empty shelves. And so on.
Yeah, like all them guitar players that hold one hand in the air. And all them singers ...
Pardon me, it's time for my nap.
It was "let them eat iPads". This Samsung shit isn't going to work.
That is peanuts The Fed gives $1,000,000 per person with its QE of $1020 billion a year - but only to the 0.1%.
QE= $1,000,000,000,000 per year
US Population 314,000,000
QE/Person is $3,184.71 per year
Keep looking, your check is in the mail.
That would get people spending again, would it not?
I suppose it's that velocity of money thing, though.
At that point I think we would be seeing plaid in that particular form of velocity.
Yeah the velocity of money is real slow these days. That's why yours hasn't got here yet.
hahahahahaha!
Smart, but the voting population is maybe 1/3 to 1/2 of that. So say, $8,000-$16,000 per voter. Enough to buy a....car?
Smart, but the voting population is maybe 1/3 to 1/2 of that. So say, $8,000-$16,000 per voter. Enough to buy a....car?
Smart, but the voting population is maybe 1/3 to 1/2 of that. So say, $8,000-$16,000 per voter. Enough to buy a....car?
Hedgeless, recalculate that with the denominator as actual taxpayers for an even scarier result.
But I can't wipe my ass with a samsung!
Whelp, I did just hear that Samsung was coming out with a Curved-Screen shaped Phone, so maybe that feature put them over the top?
"But I can't wipe my ass with a samsung!"
Then you just aren't trying hard enough. No wonder the country is falling behind the rest of the world.
Samsungs enginnering team has brought a new phone to the market, "The Galaxy on a Stick". (For select markets Only!)
Why would you want to wipe your ass with it? I thought you were going to eat it. Eeewww.
It seems the Snapchat crowd would disagree with you.
Can't buy me love...
I'll buy you a Samsung TV my friend if it make you feel alright
He may not have a lot to give but what he's got I'll give to you...
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This is not going to end well...
Guess they have their own Free Shit Army down there.
The entire population(at least those not in prison) are now FSN.
If you like your Iphone, you can have a Samsung.
Samsung should demand payment in gold, in advance. Then say it was lost in a riot.
Scary, scary symbols. Quick call Schindler, get him on the ready.
Over.
--> yes
--> no
--> your fucking problem
Off topic
Anyone else getting "denial of service error 403" at "noliesradio.org"?
Thanks
I was getting 418's. But I couldn't tell if was coming from my new forward appliance.
Over.
That settles it. I'm taking my family to Venezuela!!
400K products imported at $250ea. 30 million population. One gadget for every 75 Venezuelans. Riots anyone?
Once the ruling junta doles them out to their snot nose brats, around ten carefully picked TV citizens will get theirs.
Like fridges in Cuba.
There are 100 less people they need to give phones to. Maybe they just need to jail another few million?
Math: Ruining Socialist Utopian pipe dreams since 1848
yeah, the usa gubbermint decrees i-crap and pays for it too. fascist phucks.
Last I checked, I was paying for it. At least in Venezuela the oil pays for it.
Over.
He is a clownish and tragic character all right and I feel sorry for the people of Venezuela.
But in a way he is no worse than our Western central banks printing their balance sheets into oblivion and enabling our politicians to drive our welfare state economies into the ground through unsustainable spending. At this point, I'm afraid we're not so different from him anymore.
"Govt, Samsung create joint venture, looking for factory sites, Ramirez says"
Why would Samsung want to build a factory there?
Because the government is paying for it?
Can you wipe your ass with 'Samsung trinkets'?
Those flip-phones make a good scaper.
Not very comfortable, but in a pinch...
It is funny, in the past you had countries in South America (and other parts of the world) that were either a Coca Cola country or a Pepsi country. Seems now perhaps the trend is if a country will be a Samsung country or an Apple country.
iPhone is deader than shit now, all the teenage girls got Samsung here in asia,... its game over for USA spynet
These samsung gadgets will come with a bitcoin wallet installed?
*VENEZUELA TO SPEND $100M ON SAMSUNG IMPORTS: RAMIREZ
And possibly Maduro is sending $200M to his personal Swiss bank account as well? I'm sure he is going to have a merry Christmas.
Tylerz that was poor...
Verison is having some good sales on tablets. The price is a little better than Walmart so if you're in the market, check them out.
Verizon ... chuckle ... isn't that Latin for truthful and visionary? Talk about classic 1984 newspeak boiled down to one word.
Also, CTD is having two sales:
1) DPMS AR-15 $(772.74) can't beat that price for a decent disposable AR.
http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/product/8-DPMS-RFA2AP4LCH
2)"Cute Deer" ~$13
http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/product/7-472
Over!
I feel kinda sorry for Venezulan's, the communists are still dickin around with their toilet paper...I mean, this is revolutionary type shit we're talkin about here.
Pun intended ;-)
"A frustrated Foreign Minister Elias Jaua only made things worse when he admitted the government “had work to do” (edit, where have I heard that line before?...lol) to overcome shortages and asked: “Do you want to have the fatherland or do you want toilet paper?”
(Just the toilet paper, apparently)
Critics tweeted their disapproval using a fitting hashtag, #LosChavistasSeLimpianElCuloConLaPatria (#ChavistasWipeTheirBehindsWithTheFatherland),..."
(ROTFL!!!)
From each according to their ass wiping one sheet abilities, to each according to how long they can actually hold it...lol.
Good grief...fucking communists.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-27/venezuela-is-running-out-of-toilet-paper-.html
They won't need much asswipe when they're starving.
Its the "collective insanity" of it all that gets to me Bastiat...the complete suspension of ones simple incredulity, that allowing someone/something to have dictatorial powers over ones self interest and life...while in the suspension of it...believing the one(s) you gave that power to...has no self interest.
You laugh now, but the low-flow plumbing they insist you have to help conserve water is wreaking havoc on the ability of the sewage systems to handle your shit and its accompanying toilet paper. It is only a matter of time before they come for your toilet paper.
Clearly calls for massive amounts of life killing chlorine dumped into the sewer...like in Frisco...but it smells cleeean!...lol.
My experience.
Water saving shower head: Have to run after the water drops to try and get wet. Have to turn the water up so it feels like acupuncture to try and get wet.
Water saving toilets: Have to flush three times and even then there's shit stuck to the bowl.
The plumbing inventors got it right the first time. Anyone promoting the new stuff needs to be shot.
I don't feel sorry for them just like I don't feel sorry for the people being screwed by Obamacare. Why because Obamacare just like Chavez had massive public support a few years ago. What makes Socialism attractive is the idea that people have that they can gain more than they can put in and thus live like parasites on the labor of others.
What planet are you from? Obamacare never had public support.
Capitalist LIES. With Maduro running thing Venezuela always has ass wipes.
The scores are:
China 1
USA 0
Dont complain about Mr Maduro.
He wouldnt even exist if it was for evil american interventions in South America and everywhere else.
Its not like anyone else has a better leader but go ahead and tout your pretend democracy and how great it is. Now vote for one of two guys i have presented to you and paid off.
Personally i think its all shit so i say give them samsung products. At this point, why not. Certainly beats giving them Obamacare.....
Why buy samsung on a 30% margin when they can buy HTC on zero?
With ACA this will be the next free give away
each new tv will be equipped with hidden camera and eavsdropping device. So their leadership can overhear each households "wishes and dreams."
In completely unrelated news, the bolivar cratered to 60 this month, from about 20 at the beginning of the year.
When is some enterprising junior army officer going to roll the tanks to the tv station and yank this ass clown out of power?
A decree! Isn't that kinda like an "executive order"?
Drone strikes, isn't that kind of like murder?
Don't the Venezuelans know they can just go to Best Buy with a credit card they can never afford to pay back, haven't we taught them anything? They don't need to listen to that fascist fool with his Samsung rainbow dreams... Just in time for "Feria de la Chinita".
Comes the revolution everybody will eat strawberries and cream for breakfast!
*shout from the crowd* I hate strawberries and cream
Comes the revolution, you will eat your strawberries and cream - and like it.
(1930s anti Communist joke)
You beat me to it. The version I heard was:
"Come the revolution, everyone will have a brand new, big, black Cadillac."
"Come the revolution, everyone will have a beautiful, long legged blonde wife by their side."
"Come the revolution, everyone will smoke a huuuge cigar."
"But I don't want a cadillac or a blonde wife or a cigar."
"Come the revolution, and you'll do as you're goddamned told."
so their currency will be backed by smartphones now? petro-smartphones to replace petrodollars? hey, China could do that with Iran!
Genius!
NOT SMARTphones: SMARTtelevisions.
Specially designed ORWELL/Maduro Edition Designer Samsung Television Sets for Everyone so that 'The Dear Leader Show' can be watched ( and watch THEM ) every day.
This new Fascism is going to be ever so more entertaining now that the technology has matured...
Calisthenics and patriotic songs make Everyone's mornings bright and cheerful !
Maduro is doing whats necessary - kicking out monopolies and crony capitalism.
Everyone can join in the chorus against him, but instead of jumping on the intellectual bandwagon, try some independent thinking.
Yep,
Nobody in Venezuela talking about OBama-Care,
There you get sick and for less than $5, you can see a doctor and get a bag of pills.
They're following the CUBAN model of medicine, flood the world with doctors and make them cheap.
Then you might ask, why does the USA biz model hate Venezuela and Cuba? Because they care about the little people.
I would like to think that people on a site like this are able to exercise nuanced thinking and dig below the surface to understand things, but all I see is cynicism and ignorance (and the occasional glib witticism). Many here are drinking deeply from the electric kool-aid chalice fed to them by the corporate media.
This is really not too hard to understand.
Since 2003 Venezuela has operated a multiple exchange rate regime, with a limited supply of dollars at a cheap rate (the CADIVI rate) and a slightly higher legal rate, and an even higher black market rate.
Importers in Venezuela bring in goods with cheap dollars that they obtain through the state. These dollars come from the petroleum rent. While this can have legitimate purposes such as subsidizing imports for Venezuelans with the nation's oil money, it also creates quite large incentives for illicit gains by exploiting the difference between the different prices.
Agents with access to dollars, such as importers, can arbitrate the difference in the rates to create huge profits. They can buy dollars at the low official rate and sell them at the higher black market rate instead of spending them on imports. They can also buy imports with dollars purchased cheaply, but sell them as if they were paid for with expensive black market dollars by marking the products up by 200% to to 2000%.
The core government decision is to limit the markup on certain products imported with subsidized dollars.
The government’s idea is to limit the markup to 30% for agents using the subsidized rate. For this reason, state institutions such as INDEPABIS are now revising importers’ books.
C'mon brothers! Let's go get a fucking clue shall we?
yes let's get a sound fucking clue like they wouldn't have to do any of this bull shit if they had sound money. fucking fixed it for ya...
Gee,thanks for fucking it up...er, "fucking fixing it up" for me.
Sure, Venezuela has huge and numerous problems, but not the one your ignorant self chose to "fix".
Public Debt is about 26.8% of GDP (go on, compare that to the real US debt).
Venezuela currently has slightly under 70% of their national reserves in physical gold. It used to be over 70%, but it has slipped with the decline in gold price. This phyzz was repatriated and is now held inside the country, not in some phantom foreign vault where it may get "loaned out" rehypothecated, manipulated, or otherwise disappeared through well-known shenanigans.
They also have gold and diamonds as natural resources. In 2011 the export of bullion was banned and all mined gold stays in the country. At the current and ridiculously anemic rate of exploitation (all foreign mining carpetbaggers were told to fuck off and sent away), it adds about 12 metric tonnes (or $525,215,179.00 at gold's price this minute) to the coffers each year. Any increase in the pace of mining their reserves will increase this number exponentially.
Venezuela is the country with the largest (proven) oil reserves in the entire planet; more than than Saudi Arabia. Can you say Petro-Bolivar?
Allrighty then, let's look at your cogent contribution-
"they wouldn't have to do any of this bull shit if they had sound money. fucking fixed it for ya..."
To which I could reply- whether gold-backed or petro-dollar, Venezuela has a very strong hand and is in an enviable position. In addition, they have the brass in their cojones to put hundreds of parasitic financial criminals behind bars.
Go on, make a list of the worst financial criminals in the US.
How many of these banksters are in jail?
Thanks for fu... sorry, "fixing it" for me.
You can go back to pissing in the wind and screaming about "big gub'mint" now.
BTW, when was the last time we looked over the vampire squid's books?
Was that before or after we looked at the Fed's books?
[quote] Govt, Samsung create joint venture, looking for factory sites, Ramirez says [/quote]
What kind of drugs/idiocy is going on in Samsung mgmt? Venuzuela will nationalize anything Samsung is dumb enough to set up in the country, once the honeymoon is over...
Don't tell me you seriously believe that fucking drivel.
Samsung say they don't even know who this fuckwit is, let alone deal with him, and as for sending $100 million dollars of anything to Venzuala they want the fucking cheque cashed and the money locked up in a secure vault before they will even open any paperwork to send even one fucking memory stick.
Is it true the dumb fuck has such a deeply stained brown face because obummer had it up his jacksie for the last 15 years
Why the Nazi Salute ( on maduro ) ZH OPS?
Its god-damn fucking USA that is FULL RETARD NAZI FASCIST
At the very least put a NAZI ObAMA near him, ... for a comparison with a real fucking jack booted nazi ( obama )
Ulike iPads, Galaxy Tabs are edible.