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Hungry In Venezuela? Take A Number
With Venezuela declaring war on the black-market dollar (and any and all capitalist free-market activity that produces margins above government mandates) the stories of empty shelves of toilet paper and food continue - as do the bloody protests (despite President Maduro's proclamation that the 'terrorists' have been beaten).
#FullCommunism CC: @JAMyerson #SOSVenezuela pic.twitter.com/woFt7RAG4b
— Bill O'Keefe (@DefendWallSt) March 11, 2014
But to truly get a sense of life in Venezuela, the following image may bring back ugly memories for some...
People is marked like this in #Venezuela to be able to buy food pic.twitter.com/A9kXrfvJeJ
— Roberto Rodríguez M. (@esosiquetetengo) March 8, 2014
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Socialism ...Bitchezzzz!
Starvation...the solution to the toilet paper problem.
RIPS
Next time you hear some lame crap about national ID's just remember what it's really for.
Trust us. It's for your own protection.
This is the future of EBT.
looks like one of those fake holocaust tattoos
Sei propio un'idiota!
Let them eat bitcoins... or in foneystars case... a bunch of dicks.
Maybe they should trade oil for meth with N Korea?
Why don't they just come here?
It's not far. Pumping it they are, Kachunk...kachunk... kachunk... Day and night.
It's all free. Food, housing and first world medicine...all FREE in the Federal Reserves' company scrip based company store.
Paradise! Three thousand miles from here. Fresh water. Plenty of sunshine. Nothing to do but breed!
Yes, I'll have the 1832 medium, with a small drink
Si, se puede
to guy above: nobody wants bitcoin until they are under hyperinflation or cyprused. by then, everyone wants but cannot get them.
The financial world as we know it has ended. Would you accept a bitcoin for your last can of coffee/booze/whatever?
For short season, bankster class is absolute rule, but soon, bankster token of exchange is as vapor. If token cannot to eat, keep warm, give shelter, is nothing worthless. Except copper. Long copper.
You forgot lead Boris, preferably lead with brass wrapped around it.
N Korea would but their only tanker is in flames off the coast of libya... Dang, winnin!
But their bitcoins held their value better than their fiat paper. THAT IS THE POINT.
A Venezuelan with bitcoin could flee the country and take 100% of his assets with him via bitcoin. With gold he risks confiscation.
Suppose it becomes like that in the US. What does that say about the state of the rest of the world? There probably won't be too many places to which you might want to and be able to run.
When it happens here, it will not be like Venezuela. There are places to go from there. The world will be burning with us, so to speak. Any parts not falling apart will be very well dictated to.
That's my theory.
This time is different.
When Venezuela is chaos, BitCoin is carry to USA. But when USA is fail, where is carry BitCoin...? USSA is end game, last holdout.
To go with the fake holocast. We're finally learning not to fall for whatever nonsense puked out by The Man.
What's the big deal? It simply washes off with soap and water.
Where you gonna get the soap?
I make soap ! ! ! !
$10.00 a bar ........
"With enough soap you can blow up just about anything..."
Be careful not drop in communal shower!
Be careful, they will jail you for that...
and make soap out of you...and lampshades, wallets, whathaveyou...
never happened.
Not even the Jews believe that silly garbage any longer.
Ike said some sonofabitch would come along and say this never happened
Eisenhower's West Point graduating class yearbook identified him as a "terrible Swedish-Jew."
Other Losses: The Shocking Truth Behind the Mass Deaths of Disarmed German Soldiers and Civilians Under General Eisenhower's Command
"More than five million German soldiers in the American and French zones were crowded into barbed wire cages, many of them literally shoulder to shoulder. The ground beneath them soon became a quagmire of filth and disease. Open to the weather, lacking even primitive sanitary facilities, underfed, the prisoners soon began dying of starvation and disease. Starting in April 1945, the United States Army and the French army casually annihilated about one million men, most of them in American camps" (p. xix).
"Eisenhower's hatred, passed through the lens of a compliant military bureaucracy, produced the horror of death camps unequaled by anything in American military history. In the face of the catastrophic consequences of this hatred, the casual indifference expressed by the SHAEF officers is the most painful aspect of the U.S. Army's involvement" (p. xx).
First rule of Project Mayhem is...
Paper Street Soap Company ;)
You get soap from dumpsters behind twat fatvac clinics. Didn't you see the movie?
Where you gonna get the soap?
ROTFL!!!...thanks for that!
My pleasure friend
We're ALL being habituated to wearing approval - go to the club - get a stamp. Go the all-inclusive resort - wear a wristband. This isn't much different.
The question is whether your permanent ID will be your cellphone or your implanted RFID chip? or will biometrics make it all blissfully invisible?
As you can see, there is no soap...maybe no water, either...
Not to worry, Venezuelans. All your problems will disappear when you let your Oligarchs take over again, and they align with our American Oligarchs.
Ever notice how Capitalism* + Socialism** works in some countries, and results in a stable society with a high standard of living, but not in others? E.g.
[a] It works in: Canada, Germany, Japan, Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, Gulf Oil Countries
[b] It does NOT work in: Africa, most parts of Latin America...
I think I know why: You have Oligarchs (the richest families who actually 'own' the country) in all these countries. The difference is that in Group [a] the Oli's are "enlightened" and progressive. They actually believe that the strength of their country lies in a healthy and educated population that earns a decent income. The Oli's in Group [b] however are leftovers from Colonial/Feudal days, who think that the sun rises and sets with them -- and screw everyone else. Depending on which type of Oli's you got, there is either healthy or unhealthy 'tension' between the rulers and the ruled.
In the case of Latin America, the Oli's in Argentina and Venezuela are the [b] type, who are closely linked to the Oli's in the US. Both sets of Oli's think that the sun rises and sets on them, and "screw the peasants". The US Oli's (Bankers and Neocons) are simply 'helping' create enough Chaos in these two Latin countries, to bring about Uprisings and Change the "They can believe in", i.e. the kind that brings the Latin Oli's back into power, and bring back Order.
OIW: You Neocons and Feudal Lords and pals with our Neocons and Feudal Lords.
* Capitalism = The Private or Oligarch-driven redistribution of labor and wealth
** Socialism = Government-driven redistribution of labor and wealth
Thas some serious mental masturbation Kirk. Oligarchs (rulers) are oligarchs. Period.
Both A & B types want to trade you something you already have or can easily get for yourself, for something they say, only they can provide FOR YOU.
All you have to do is submit.
I'm not in the habit of submitting to anything or anyone, its very enlightening & progressive, this way of thinking ;-)
National ID's for the citizens and the illegals get to walk around like ... well Americans (of yesteryear)
Yeah, and the real racists get away with calling those that challenge them racists..
Tom Ridge was on orly today predicting DNA/biometrics for international travel. Funny. A plan goes missing and there are already calls for more control.
First they tattoo your arm for food, then you disappear.
One observation about that photo. What are those people shopping for? Are they looking for shelves for their garages?
It's socialism... people pretend to work and the government pretends to pay them
We are much better off - our government said we do not even have to work.
So we got that going for us.
How long will the folks pretend to eat?
They're pushing carts like they're gonna find something. Seems staged.
Or maybe they're desperately hoping that there's at least a hot pocket or something left. So that they can use it as toilet paper.
OF course it's staged. This is pure NED drama, designed to appeal to ignorant adolescents and create tension, just as was done in the ealry 1970s in Chile.
ZeroHedge wants another Pinochet, and they want Milton Friednman's bloated, rotting corpse rewriting the Venezuelan laws into a libertarian paradise, with tanks and political murder.
They're looking to stock up on agitprop from the National Endowment for Democracy freedom fair.
Zombies follow old EBT shopping habits even when the shelves are empty. Like a cat will look at a catfood bowl wondering when food will appear.
Signed in for the green go.
No, no, no, first they tattoo your arm and then they cut it off for food.
The tattoo certifies it as Venezuelan prime grade A
For the greater good of course.
This whole thread reeks of gallows humor.
This year's theme color for Lent, is Green from Organic Soy: SOY LENT GREEN.
i don't want to live in a world with no tp. just shoot me.
Best comment of the day award.
Nope...someone mentioned the return of evil Captain Kirk...i couldn't sign in to upvote but it was comment of the day for me
I missed that one...anyway to link me to it. Funny is good.
Don’t worry, Venezuela’s Central Bank is printing loads of it every day. You are secured a safe supplied forever by your Master Printer.
."Your proposal is acceptable."
I'll bet dogs are still wanting to smell your ass even after wiping with TP 8 times. Washing with soap and water is the way to stay clean.
I truly love ZH humor.
That isn't socialism or communism - that's fuckedupism
Which is otherwise known as szocialism and communism.
...or Pelosism
Its like Funemployment waiting in line!
We get to work on all those major projects we always put off when we were busy making money to buy food and shelter and electricity...like painting (cept, we can't afford paint & canvas) and writing poetry (cept, its all dark & brooding now) and flying kites!
Whoops, we lost our place in line ;-)
Why make fun the bamster voters eat that socialist funployment shit up.. ~S~ New sarcmark
We just have to continue to try socialism - eventually it will work.
Visa applications to North Korea will take a jump.
You know, before Obama leaves office a whole lot of Murkans are going to be down to their fighting weight. Thats something, at least.
Then a few years of bicycle gladiator combat and we'll be ready.
Don't worry. The US will get some snipers in there and stir up shit like in the Ukraine. Then we'll give them some more crony capitalism like they had before instead of socialist paradise. What a fucking choice huh?
They already are minus the snipers. Cut through ideology Capitalist left/right paradigms part and read it for context to get what they are doing here.
http://revolution-news.com/venezuela-mcrevolution-attempts-regime-change/
The current uprising in Venezuela is quite confusing, as they are enduring a slew of anti-government protests. But amid a storm of manipulations, lie dangerous traps that could really hurt movements fighting for social justice around the world. Some of the current dialogue surrounding these protests could trap social movements into defending police brutality, which later on could be used as leverage by governments against left wing activists. The situation in Venezuela was quite possibly provoked by fanatical right-wing opposition members terrorizing neighborhoods, but wouldn’t capitalists just love to see anti-capitalist social movements praise the state’s police forces and even worse? Wouldn’t the CATO institute and CANVAS, the vanguard of capitalist “McRevolution” in Venezuela, just be in heaven to see that happen?
Praising police, even when it serves some leftist government, serves to de-legitimize radical anti-capitalist social movements.
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The last wave of protests have had student anti-government groups at the front lines. Some of these students have ties with conservative-founded organisations in the United States, or with their “capitalist revolutionaries” from CANVAS, known for its strategies to use anti-government discontent in other countries for the benefit of US interests. The fact that the Libertarian Koch-brothers funded CATO Institute is backing the Venezuelan student movement and other US trained “economic experts” is no secret, and a recently leaked document shows that CANVAS, known for overthrowing regimes in the interest of the United States, are deeply involved in Venezuela too.
Conservative CATO has rewarded a student opposition leader for leading protests back in 2007 against the non-renewal of the public broadcast license of Radio Caracas Televisions (RCTV), and against the constitutional reform in 2007. Yon Goicoechea, the students leader back in 2007, has received a $500,000 award from the U.S. libertarian NGO. They called it the “Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty.” “Goicoechea was chosen because he is “a passionate opponent of the erosion of human and civil rights under the government of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez,” according to the Cato Institute website. Quite relevant, the awarded student was not among those anti-authoritarian anarchist students attacked by Chavistas back then.
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What is clear is that organisation JAVU seems to carry the identification marks of CANVAS’, as showed by its leader.
CANVAS’ ties with Strafor, a private intelligence company in the US, have been already exposed by Wikileaks. Strafor and CANVAS have been working on their McRevolution in Venezuela for many years: “I talked to Meredith about the upcoming visit by Canvas to the U.S. The leader — Srdja Popovic — is interested in following up on George’s invitation from 2008 to come and talk to Stratfor about their work.”
“They are currently very active in Venezuela and would like to share details of what they are doing there with us. They also want to give us a run down of their “McRevolution” strategy, which is a fascinating topic in and of itself. Meredith has instructed me to ask you how we can best arrange for visit. We would have to cover their air-fare and hotel stay… I am guessing about $1,300 in total (two tickets for $600 each and $100 for hotel room),” as this it can be read here. Of course, this McRevolution can actually help the government get stronger and escape real criticism and discontent from the working people for the slow pace of the Bolivarian revolution.
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Venezuelans are already aware of CANVAS’s presence in their country. An article released in 2010 discusses the connection between CANVAS, Stratfor and the CIA and their involvement in opposition movements in the 2010 election.
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very interesting.
ahve the breakdown of how egypt went down?
agreed. very interesting
It's socialism and not some capitalist plot that is destroying Venezuela.
Living under a leftist run government will always lead to economic and social breakdown and eventually slaughter followed by revolution for freedom. Real freedom not some leftist version of it which will only work if everyone is implanted with ant brains.
Socialism/communism kills.
Whoever downvoted this needs that big red one shoved up their ass after scaled 100X
... or maybe they have a historical memory that goes further back than the latest tweet of disposable paper.
You evidently know nothing of Venezuela before Chavez. For a brief education, ask the NSA to tell you about the Curacazo.
I suppose you want the nation once again strangled into debt peonage at the ha
Your oligarch buddies lose 15 elections in a row and decide that their only possible avenue to taking power is to post tweets of grocery stores and shoot up rallies. Hopefully the military can come on board their plans for a fascist coup and Pincochet can come back to life, with Milton Friedman and the rest of the pro-fascist free marketeers.
That would be paradise indeed, yes?
Agreed.
Been to Cuba a couple of times. Standing in line waiting for rations is nothing new in Cuba. In fact, it's only gotten worse since the former USSR fell and stopped supporting the country back in the late 80's.
CATO is my kinda terriisss
....and the truly ignorant people where I am now think something like this is impossible. IMHMFO, not only is it possible, but I think it's right around the corner. The "system" is about to blow up and I am absolutely preoccupied about my friends and family. I don't see a good way out of this. I feel really sorry for those in Venezuela. This is truly horrible to watch.
Totally agree. I can't tell you how many supposedly very smart people I work with and am around a lot who have that same "can't happen here" attitude. Mind-blowing.
Ya' know it's really difficult trying to convince people that shit is about to hit the fan when they look out the window and see everything normal, birds singing, people lining up to buy some ice cream and taking a cigarette break from work. When the protests started here blocking traffic all the way to Rome, I freaked out and took my fiance to the store and bought a bunch of food and supplies. We had four carts of food and everyone was lookiing at me like I was crazy when I took the change and paid it towards the couple behind us. Everything calmed down and now everyone thinks I over reacted. I guess only time will tell, but I still feel like its right around the corner for us. I just hope I'm not right. Now people talk behind my back and say how crazy I was to over react. It's not something I want to be able to say "I told you so", but I really think, to my chagrin I will be correct. I dunno, it's something that plagues me giving me nightmares all the time.
Might be easier for you if you don't try to convince people. It is hard to grasp when everything around us still looks the same. The timing of collapse is impossible to predict so don't. Make your own preps, get satisfied that you have done all you can, then keep prepping. No need to nightmare over it. This too, shall pass. Good luck to you and yours.
I totally agree with Mike in GA on this. Don't try to convince people, cause you won't.
We all live in a world of our own perception that has been carefully constructed over a lifetime. A generous helping of our worldview has been spoonfed by media. There are daily inconsistencies in the narrative. Eeveryone is capable of mental gymnastics to paper over little bits of cognitive dissonance - forgetting things you once knew makes the world look more sensible, or there's always the ever-present "bad apple", bad politician story.
The central key to the myth is that our country is basically good, and our place as a citizen and tax-payer (for are we not all 'good people' in our own minds?) confirms the rightness of our lives.
Start to screw with any part of the story and people get upset pretty fast, because you are basically threatening their egos. "You pay taxes to a government that kills innocent people" or "fiat money, out of nothing, is how the elites rob you" quickly equals (in their minds) 'you are not a hero, you are a drone". reaction: 'DOES...NOT...COMPUTE.... ATTACK...PERSON...THREATENING....ME!'
Plus, the longer things stay 'normal' (which, hats off to the bastards, they've managed for much longer than anyone could imagine) the more you will be mocked and they will feel smug.
Then, when it does go off the rails, they'll either agree "no one could have seen this coming" (cause that's what Big Brother will tell them) OR they'll say "well, everyone knew this was coming."
Do your own thing and remember you're being kind by not letting facts get in the way of their beautiful delusions.
Man, you got to go stealth. Tell all the "talkers" that they were right and that you over-reacted. Then tell them that you consumed and donated the balance of your supplies. When tshtf, you do not want the zombies to know you are better prepared.
Rumor is the company that designed the chip for our improved implantable version of this just lost 20 of their designers (after completing the project) in a mysterious plane crash. Of course I'm just being paranoid listening to such rumors.
Seal team six to the rescue...oh nvmd
By "something like this" do you mean some wretched oligarch tweeting?
Boy, the people in the picture look like there is in fact too much food??
Our American problem is that once the caloric intake for a LARGE number of people in this country is no longer sustainable on government subsidized "nutrition" programs, they will get very angry. I can't believe they don't have any lard leftovers in Venezuela to make all sorts of candy and staples from. As long as people get the calories they need, they don't care how unhealthy the nutrition is. Point in case, the American obesity problem.
The Venezuelan FSA wanted affordable prices and the socialist genie granted their wishes. Careful what you wish for.
Neat!
Line up civilian, the government will feed you.
Line up civilians the government will feed on YOU.
It seems to me that they already are...
Think a 1911 would get you to the front of the line?
Obama and the democrats are envious we don't have that here.
Well - Obama essentially did it to healthcare....if he stops delaying it. (pro-tip - If you want the cost of healthcare to PLUMMET while the quality to go up: make health insurance illegal in conjuction with tort reform)
Chavez imported free health care from Cuba which had surplus
doctors because of perfected nutrition only central planning
could produce : whole populace slim and healthy !
Walk 10 miles a day to work , get tiny allowances of beans and rice and none of the prodigious amounts of pork and
cigars and rum your lower desires would demand !
Cheap pretty flesh gives tourism a go and just keep exporting that vice to Miami...
If the US ever had suffering people on her mind,
Cubans should have been free for long. Phony
wars justified with cynical versions of human rights ?
Apartheid state at our doorstep is the visiting card.
Chavez made critical errors.
1. Insufficient legacy capital
2. Lacked globally dominant military
3. Didn't have reserve currency
Here in Norte Venezuela there's still enough drip feed and uh let's call it unconventional enterprise to go around. Screw the too lazy to steal.
"Screw the too lazy to steal."
Another good reason for our American 2nd Amendment. Some houses and businesses will be easy pickin's.
Others will have robbers' & looters graves in the back yard fertilizing the corn and fruit trees.
Until they start eating the looters and robbers like in that movie "The Road"
Nothing is normal. I saw five robins in the woods in northern Illinois the last day of archery deer season. Mid January. The whole world is upside down including nature. Typically the robin is a harbinger of spring and in my 58 years the earliest I had seen robins is first week of March. There is an unease in this country. Just a spark. If EBT goes down for three days the big cities and surrounding suburbs will become something worthy of classic horror movies. I met a Chicago man who was a rookie cop in 1968 and he was sharing with me about seeing the city on fire. He had just returned from 4 years in Vietnam and said he had not seen anything burning like that including the napalm he witnessed. It could happen. My hope for all is you have a plan. Something. There are rules until there are none. If it goes that quickly it will not be pretty. Head for the woods and stay there if you have a plan.
Robins winter in all lower 48 states. They don't seem like they're around because in the winter they eat things from high in the tree line other than the their usual Summer ground food like worms.
Had to down vote ya man.
"Bambi, to the thicket." Says the wise owl.
;)
RIPS
I don't tweet and don't want to but I get the picture, saw the story about Venezuela govt buying $40 mil worth of TP some time ago. Guess they ran out and things are getting shitty
Bullish on Charmin.
Their new Auschwitz theme park looks fun. One of the attractions is that you need to swallow gold so the feds don't steal it.
I'm from the government, I am here to help
“The Plan’s 15 “action points” cover sabotage, “massive mobilizations,” food shortages, “insurrection inside the army,” and control of publicity. The authors anticipate “crisis in the streets that facilitate the intervention of North America and the forces of NATO, with support of the government of Colombia.” The resulting 'violence should cause deaths and injuries.'”
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2013/11/neoliberal-dictatorship-threa...
Why does Roberto Rodriguez need a number when the National Endowment for Democracy is paying him so well?
Good thing we have hundreds of millions of privately owned firearms here in the *homeland*, and to think... they haven't even "spoken" yet on subjects such as this.
Based on the photo I saw on the homepage next to this story:
apropos?
" And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark.. "
Mark of the beast.
What BS. Think about it people. Felt pen marker number on your arm. Yeah that's a foolproof system. Lame attempt at exaggeration. The Onion would do better.
Chavez and Obama ran very similar political contests In Chavez's first election he signaled the poor and weak population as his primary concern as did Obama. He made it clear that central government would play a far larger part to-their plight. Chavez kept saying efficiency to assist the "People" necessitated removing from power and not allowing votes by people who did not agree. President Obama has said the same. Chavez then took over the Government to rule as a single authority because of emergencies required such a step. President Obama is on that same path