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Dramatic Footage: How Venezuelans Get Milk Powder

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It's been a sad week for Venezuela.

First, on Wednesday we showed what happens to local supermarkets when formerly Latin American paradises run out of other people's money.

Then, the next day we showed what happens when in the aftermath of scenes such as the one above the social mood turns violent, and how what was once supposed to be a socialist utopia paradise ends uplooking like a warzone.

Today we show how the local population is forced to act like stampeding animals when it comes to obtaining even the most basic of staples, in this case milk powder.

The clip below speaks for itself.

 

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Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:23 | 6382374 Peter Pan
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Is this where we get the expession, "the milk of human kindness" from?

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:27 | 6382383 38BWD22
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Venezuela under Chavez then Maduro is the logical extreme of what happens under bent Socialism (you can bet that Maduro has money socked away...).

Venezuela does make one wonder what Obama and Hillary have in mind for us.  They'll be OK though, so please have no concern for either of them.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:26 | 6382605 random999
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thats why we love finland.

Sweden used to be a little like it, now it has become an iraq/somalia hybrid from outer space.

Everyone loved to love multiculture. Yet everyone loved to hate the only multicultural country there is, USoA

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 18:18 | 6382754 El Oregonian
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Thank goodness this product (powdered milk) has an extended shelf life, judging by those lines the wait might talk a very long time.

"Hip, hip horay! this is coming to the USA!" -Utopian's wet dream.

 

sarc off//

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 22:15 | 6383420 Four chan
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reminds me of folks here, but they are the same world wide.

Mon, 08/03/2015 - 21:49 | 6387784 Richard Chesler
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Hillary will be a-ok.

She's promised to be a good girl from now on.

 

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 18:19 | 6382759 DIgnified
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Diversity and multiculturalism is a disease and the bane of progress. 

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 22:24 | 6383439 Antifaschistische
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loving multi-culturalism was always a facade for diluting the success of certain cultures.  This sentiment was born out of frustration at why some people collectively could not succeed.  So, rather than focusing on what it takes to be successful...they chose to dilute success with the parasitic.

Example:  When has Obama given a speech at an inner-city school and told them they needed to try harder, study more, put down their basketballs, and shoot for admission to a top college by checking the "caucasion" box on their application.  Never....he thinks their success is impossible.  Which is very sad.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 19:15 | 6382904 tarabel
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Oh, come on, that's an obviously staged photograph.

Why else would he be wearing pants at home?

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:22 | 6382597 robertsgt40
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I'm guessing these are gun free zones

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:42 | 6382651 Tribulation Blues
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Oh, yes, I am an all-consuming fire! And, this part, most wish to leave out! They want to believe that I am love, but My love burns hot! My love cannot look upon evil and be pleased with it! Oh yes! I strive with the sinners! I have striven with you all since the beginning! And, all of you, sinners! For, I am full of love, mercy, and grace toward all! But, even so, I am also an all consuming fire! And, when I warn and warn, and warn through the mouths of My prophets and you despise My warnings, mock My prophets and even throw them out of your midst, oh then, after so much of this, I will turn against the mockers! I will turn against the scorners; and I will set My eye toward you for total destruction! I will utterly destroy the wicked! I will destroy the mockers! I will destroy the rebellious; and My word is replete with such instances of My judgement! But, I do not destroy without warning! And, oh how I have warned you, you, My people all over the world! Oh, yes, I have warned you! But, few and I mean few have listened!

Oh hard-necked and stiff-necked generation! A generation of vipers! Mockers, slanderers, backbiters, accusers, rapists, sodomites, perverts, liars, murderers, and thieves of every description! Undisciplined and unruly! Fit for destruction! Full of every deception! Oh, my whip shall fall hard on you! And, of a sudden, I shall rip the rug from beneath your feet! Of a sudden, I shall take away all that you cherish and hold dear! Of a sudden, I shall break you like a twig in the wind! Of a sudden, I shall destroy your families, destroy your houses, destroy your careers, and take away your easy lives! Of a sudden, I shall lay waste to your cities, to your coastlines, to your high-minded governments, and to you panderers and peddlers of falsehoods and lies! In one instant, I shall deal such a blow to My own house and such a blow to Satan’s Kingdom, that indeed, the New World Order will go forth on wobbly knees!

Oh, yes! This is so; and this is at hand! For, when I take My bride, I shall throw the world in such turmoil, that overnight, there shall come about massive starvation! Overnight, millions upon millions will perish in the churning waters! Overnight, millions upon millions will be buried beneath the crumbling rocks of earthquakes that are so great, that your instruments have never measured such things! Oh, yes, overnight millions upon millions without electrical power! Millions upon millions without food! Millions upon millions dead! Banks closing and no money to be had! Wars, terrible wars quickly thereafter breaking out all over the world, as Satan’s own try for world domination! Terrible torture, persecution, and killing of many Christians! Mind control re-education camps in your midst and the new world order mind control teams working feverishly to take over the minds of the weak Christians and to use them for their own! Massive killing camps, which far exceed anything Hitler ever had, as far as their grotesque horrors! A war against the so-called Christians, such as never before, with any and all methodologies used against them to cause them to denounce Me and My Son!

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 19:25 | 6382939 itstippy
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Get the Hell offa our website!

Mon, 08/03/2015 - 02:23 | 6383903 Wannabe_Oracle
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It might be important if you stand back, for a minute or two, and reflect. Is your existence summarized within the thin thread of ones and zeros..../?

Mon, 08/03/2015 - 03:08 | 6383938 SSRI Junkie
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Very pithy

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:43 | 6382655 Tribulation Blues
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Read the Obama antichrist prophecies http;//revelation12.ca

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 19:31 | 6382954 itstippy
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Take a bottle of yer meds and wash 'em down with a quart of whiskey, ya self-righteous deluded megalomaniac! 

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 18:14 | 6382744 Ignorance is bliss
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Chavez failed in his first coup d'etat. After several years in prison he was released and ran for  President / Dictator / Chief. He won the position in the year 2000. The real question I have is how bad was it for the average Venezuelan before Chavez? He was elected to office twice before his death. Let me just say, Miami (Me to Me) has a lot of Venezuelans. I'm sure many of which are economic refuges, but surely there are many that stole the Nation's riches while in a position to do so. It was after all a very rich nation once upon a time. 

Check out the Venezuela before the crazy shit. WTF changed?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXiwAAZDqps

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 20:33 | 6383141 Totentänzerlied
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¡Ayayay viva Chávez viva El Chavismo!

Chavez promised to take from the ("white") aristocracy and give to the ("brown") workers. Blah blah blah, Bolivarian socialism. The new thieves stole from the old thieves. Venezuela thought it could escape the Resource Curse by switching to socialism - rather like trying to fill your gas tank by swapping out your automatic transmission for a manual. Socialism, shockingly, has no effect on physics and geology: Venezuela's all-time crude production peak was 45 years ago.

Mon, 08/03/2015 - 03:26 | 6383958 giovanni_f
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asshole. Do your homework before posting McCainisms.

Chavez was democratically elected. USA tried to oust him in a coup d'etat (as with Correa), failed, but continued through a myriad of so-called NGO's.

Current instability is caused by socialist ignorance but more so by US' dirty hand in supporting sabotage against government companies.

Russia did well to forbid the so-called national endowment of democracy, the worst perpetrator of all.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 18:25 | 6382776 Antifaschistische
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I think it's about time for a speech from Obama, highlighting one family in Venezuela that benefited from their healthcare system.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 19:20 | 6382922 FreedomGuy
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Why is there no open revolution? Time for the sheep to get some teeth, otherwise you WILL get whatever you tolerate.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 20:44 | 6383162 Freddie
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Well the middle class has been destroyed.  Kinda of like Amerika.   You have no opposition because the state is no the savior of last resort.

Mon, 08/03/2015 - 03:35 | 6383964 giovanni_f
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"Venezuela under Chavez then Maduro is the logical extreme of what happens under bent Socialism..." Nice NDE trolling.

As is typical for US-gov trolls, you forgot to mention why Chavez came to power (actually he was democratically elected unlike Bush who had to rig the elections in swing state Florida):  It was after decades of looting by US-sponsored oligarchs. Read history before posting your intellectual lightweight bullshit. The current instability is partly caused by mismanagement but more so by US sabotage, see NDE.

 

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:28 | 6382393 PacOps
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This is why I tend to hoard and stay out of crowds. Specially when Free Shit is being distributed.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:53 | 6382483 freewolf7
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Future American politicians: "Who could have seen this coming?"

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:34 | 6382410 Realname
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Maybe if these women would do like the little hos do at Mardi Gras theyd get the milk thrown to them more quickly.  /s (kinda)

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:11 | 6382551 surfersd
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Was as that Sean Penn handing out packages? Good to seem donw there supporting his people.

 

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:23 | 6382375 PacOps
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It's free shit!

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:25 | 6382379 Bitcoin Meiser
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Very disturbing.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:41 | 6382409 Fukushima Fricassee
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Obama and Clinton et al are "Very disturbing." You give away Milk powder in any walmart or EBT office in the USSA and take the same fuicking picture.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:44 | 6382450 crazytechnician
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Looks to me like any other release of an Apple product .....

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:48 | 6382671 Handful of Dust
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... free food of any sort if people are hungry. See that guy in the background with the black cap on? He's beginning to chew on that lady's arm next to him!

 

 

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 18:30 | 6382775 Ignorance is bliss
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Duplicate Post

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 18:32 | 6382783 Ignorance is bliss
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The Venezuelans were fighting for the right to purchase milk in Bolivars. Milk prices are set by the government.  They are fighting to pay for the milk in a currency that has no value...therefore...free milk. I suppose you are right. The funny thing is powdered milk tastes like shit. Where is the real milk ? Answer: For sale in a currency not called the Bolivar. 

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 20:50 | 6383176 Freddie
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If only they had EBT.  We reached this event horizon about the time Obola was selected.  EBT/WIC exploded in usage.  The corporate food, agribusiness, grocery and fast food companies go all on board in a lover fest of corporate govt fascism. .

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 23:07 | 6383553 EBT excepted
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if dey wannit, deyca' borrah mah EBT, if dey gon' pay me back wid intrust...

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 19:47 | 6383011 orez65
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"... take the same fuicking picture"

Not true, people go to Walmart with their EBT cards and get free milk without a riot.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 20:15 | 6383091 de3de8
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See it every year with Christmas shopping

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:26 | 6382384 Blackfox
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Meanwhile deep in the venezuelan jungle.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DN3LiztZkQ

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:29 | 6382391 LetThemEatRand
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Hey weekend Tylers, I know you enjoy quoting Margaret Thatcher because she was such a good egg and didn't pander to the MIC, bankers and other oligarchs (/sarc), but can we stop with the simplistic analysis of how Venezuela got into this mess?  Maybe a footnote at least to Confessions of an Economic Hitman?   The bankers took a lot of the other people's money too.  When they ran out, they went to Greece and so forth.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:38 | 6382418 blabam
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When clearly socialist policies lead to econ collapse = blame the economic hitman. You should work for Maduro.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:41 | 6382433 LetThemEatRand
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At the risk of challenging your black and white view of the world, it was both the government policies and the bankers that were to blame.   This may come as a surprise to you, but not all problems have one cause.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:45 | 6382451 The Delicate Genius
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No no no - its because they're commies who don't appreciate the value of ingenuity and the "free" {cough cough} market - don't you get it??

Obama failed his coup in Venezuela
by Thierry Meyssan

Once again, the Obama administration has tried to force the change of a political regime that resists it. On February 12, an Academi (formerly Blackwater) plane disguised as an aircraft of the Venezuelan army was supposed to bomb the presidential palace and kill President Nicolas Maduro. The plotters had planned to place former MP María Corina Machado in power and have her immediately acclaimed by former Latin American presidents.

http://www.voltairenet.org/article186879.html

U.S. Intelligence Terrorizes Venezuela
by Nil Nikandrov

For several months, U.S. intelligence services have ramped up their efforts to destabilize Venezuela. Protests circumscribed to a few neighborhoods have been widely relayed by the media to give the impression that they engulf the entire country. However, there are growing signs that Washington’s hand behind these strange events.

http://www.voltairenet.org/article183856.html

US against Venezuela: Cold War Goes Hot
by Nil Nikandrov

Political analysts are paying attention to the timing of America’s efforts to replace the government in Venezuela and Ukraine. Washington wants to prove that a superpower is still capable of simultaneously directing the course of events in different parts of the world and to discourage those who hope to escape by forging other alliances. In this article, the author focuses on the crisis situation in Venezuela and sets the record straight on what may be the most lied about country in the Western media.

http://www.voltairenet.org/article182588.html

I'm not saying communism works.

I'm suggesting that the anglo-Zionist brand of state terrorism isn't free market capitalism.

Mon, 08/03/2015 - 01:26 | 6383841 HolyfieldsOtherEar
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Voltairenet.org is Russian state propaganda. Approach with caution.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:58 | 6382492 ThroxxOfVron
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"it was both the government policies and the bankers that were to blame.  "

 

So, LTER...

Are you finally willing to agree that BOTH govenment and banking as they are presently constituted MUST BE DESTROYED?

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:03 | 6382517 LetThemEatRand
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I've said more times than I can count that corrupt government and corrupt oligarchs should be destroyed.  You may have come across a post or two where I said I have given up voting, because the system is hopelessly rigged.   Unfortunately, all you seem to able to get out of my posts is that I'm no fan of anyone childish enough to think that human beings will just get along and sell each other widgets and live happily ever after with no government of the people by the people.   Same black and white thinking that creates a debate about whether the bankers had anything to do with the mess in Venezuela.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:10 | 6382540 VWAndy
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Well said LTER!

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:36 | 6382631 Money Counterfeiter
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The bankers are the dope peddlers and the government is the junkie.

Mon, 08/03/2015 - 03:45 | 6383975 bunnyswanson
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The bankers are the front line of the enemy, and our governments are their hostages after a cull of the politicians who understand what the end game is and that the NWO is going to put America into an unrecognizable state, and Americans behind walls to free up rural America to bob cats and squirrels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN4ip9t7JvU

20 min Agenda 21 - Cities surrounded by walls with high-density residential high rise apartments.  Agenda 21's Going Green is the 2nd line of offense of the army attacking America at this very moment.  Environmental justice is Agenda 21's Night of Broken Glass turned into Free Earth from the People.  5 cranes in the sky in Sn Franciso at this very moment.

Mon, 08/03/2015 - 09:51 | 6384584 Me.Grimlock
Sun, 08/02/2015 - 23:50 | 6383650 jaketfs
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I actually think a lot less will die than the millions, dare I say billions that have died by and for governments.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 21:15 | 6383246 Bro of the Sorr...
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it would seem to me that both of the problems you and blabam mention have to do with debt based money being conjured into existence from the ether. ending modern day alchemy and the ridiculous power it gives to the alchemists would solve both problems immediately. 

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:48 | 6382463 Fukushima Fricassee
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No one held a gun to your stupid head fuck your excuses.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:54 | 6382400 Bunga Bunga
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Looks not worse than Black Friday in the US.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:38 | 6382422 giggler321
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Lost for words.  They'll tell you, things like this happen because we're not in control - without acknowledging they were at one point but their time is over.  Blood on the streets, poor folk...

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 21:12 | 6383234 Bro of the Sorr...
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mind-bottling

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:40 | 6382430 Normalcy Bias
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Meanwhile, on a golfcourse somewhere, a tear of envy rolls down Barry Soetoro's face...

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:03 | 6382472 Fukushima Fricassee
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No Tear, That's Reggies jizz rolling down dumb shit's face.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 21:00 | 6383206 Freddie
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While MIC, GI Joe, the Pentagram and intel agencies support it all and do nothing to support The Constitution.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:40 | 6382431 I am Jobe
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Single Mothers in the USSA will soon be selling themselves like hookers. wait they already are

 

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:58 | 6382467 Fukushima Fricassee
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Sugar daddy all the way through college from what I hear. Finish with degree in lesbian studies get 30k year jobs sucking dick of government supervisor

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:58 | 6382708 thamnosma
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Tattoos are expensive.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:41 | 6382437 objectivist
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We should be thankful to Venezuela, Greece and others for volunteering to show us what happens when you let the gov't control the economy.  The world needs bad example, and this is one. 

 

 

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:51 | 6382476 Skateboarder
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No one is paying attention though. There is a live demo going the world largely ignores it while waiting for an in-the-face serving of the real deal.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:38 | 6382640 knukles
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What we need to galvanize serious patriotic opinion and cohesiveness is a New War!
The war on Terror has run its course.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:56 | 6382693 Handful of Dust
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People are too busy Tweeting the latest about Cecil the lion.

The FSA is too busy stuffing their faces with FF, baseball and/or burning the Confederate flags.

MSM is too busy bashing trump.

The financial news is to busy bashing gold 24/7.

Politicans are too busy bending over for Wall Street.

Barry is too busy on th e9th hole.

 

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 21:04 | 6383212 Freddie
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Plent of dumb whites supporting their beloved knock out Trayvons playing college and pro ball like at U of AL, FSU, U of TX,GA, TN, FL, SC, NC Auburn, Tulane, Duke, Clemson, Michigan and the list is endless.  Retards cheering Trayvon thugs. 

Dumb whites including white alumni cheering on the genocide of the white race.  Retards

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:45 | 6382453 Ghostdog
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Coming to an Obama-ecomony near you...

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:52 | 6382478 VWAndy
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TPTB are laughing at us all. This is funny to them. Like flippin video game called the zombie mob. Most all them folks are not there by choice. They were put in that place by a system that is as corrupt as any. They are fighting over worthless scraps.

FFS powdered milk is a byproduct of corruption. Think about it.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:23 | 6382600 Skateboarder
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Tummy don't care what is byproduct of corruption when hungry. These people are gonna be out on the streets starving pretty soon.  :-(

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:27 | 6382606 VWAndy
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Yep.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 21:07 | 6383221 Freddie
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The videos also showed the medians on the road with the grass very high and uncut.  Garbage everywhere.  People who are dirt poor.  Sad.  The elites are importing into Amerika so it falls apart even faster like a third world country.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 23:55 | 6383659 pupdog1
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Powdered milk is a byproduct of cows.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:53 | 6382481 Sudden Debt
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I'm sorry, but I don't know what keeps them there but if my kids would be hungry, I would leave the country.

Not now, but months ago, years ago.

Fighting for milk.... 

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:55 | 6382490 VWAndy
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What planet are you thinking of?

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:46 | 6382669 Sudden Debt
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Not the planet of America if that's what you're meaning.

There's only one thing that matters to enable you to relocate: know the language where you're going because just english isn't going to cut it.

 

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 18:20 | 6382763 OzFan
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Fighting like savages for Powdered Milk, yet somehow you feel these same folks have the intelligence or financial capability to GTFO of Veny dodge...ok then.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 18:45 | 6382828 tarabel
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They did. Or haven't you been to Walmart recently?

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:54 | 6382487 Chuck Knoblauch
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Shoot some Nazis in Argentina.

Take the gold.

Buy some milk.

Easy.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:57 | 6382495 chubakka
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black friday at Walmart. 

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 16:58 | 6382496 The Delicate Genius
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Can you imagine what it will be like in the south side of chicago and east new york and Detroit when TSHF?

Now - I'm just *assuming* that a country that keeps printing its currency as it makes war all over the world, imports skilled and unskilled workers by the millions while deficit spending and making unsustainable promises has a day of reckoning at some point.

Particularly when the American dep state is lousy with Zionists, neoliberals, and other hyperinterventionist war mongering cunts.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:01 | 6382510 Fukushima Fricassee
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Expand that. MLK drive anywhere USSA.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:15 | 6382564 DFCtomm
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What do you think all the fusion centers are for.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 18:34 | 6382806 silverer
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Good point.  The milk crowd above was noisy, but not that unruly.   I'm guessing the guns come out in Detroit and Chicago on the first day.  Maybe NY, too.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:54 | 6382545 Kprime
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Ee-e-e-um-um-a-weh
Ee-e-e-um-um-a-weh
chhururur
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh
Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh

In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
In the jungle, the quiet jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
chhururur


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Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:12 | 6382555 roadhazard
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If they would have just had bitcoin...

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:13 | 6382561 Ms No
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This isn't shit compared to what this country will look like when the snap cards run out.  I read a Russian account of struggling after their collapse and most people had sufficient stores of rice and beans type of staples but he suggested that people store sauces, salt and spices because you get really tired of eating your plain basic ration. 

He also said that the biggest problem that people weren't prepared for was a shortage of hygeine products and toilet paper... toilet paper... toilet paper.  Food for thought.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 19:20 | 6382921 What you talkin...
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In Thailand they got water sprayers attached to the the toilet, like you have with a sink. Spray the shit away. nice and fresh no skip marks.

Mon, 08/03/2015 - 00:07 | 6383673 jaketfs
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It's called a bidet.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:15 | 6382566 gwar5
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I like the guys prepared with hard hats and orange vests in the crowd, they've done this routine before!

It's all very sad really. Half the people didn't want Chavezism shoved down their throats but here they are. The other half deserve what they asked for. 

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:23 | 6382599 22winmag
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The assholes who were dancing in the streets the night O'Bomber got elected definitely deserve what they have coming!

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:19 | 6382583 22winmag
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That's won't be me.

 

I stack powered milk next to my 100 can cases of sardines and I have stashes in different zip codes!

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:46 | 6382670 Ms No
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Ewww, sardines?  I would be getting skinny really damn fast if all I had was sardines or spam around.  Don't do that to yourself. 

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 18:42 | 6382824 tarabel
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Don't forget the saltines to go with the sardines.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:28 | 6382611 Buster Cherry
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For not having any soap, their clothes sure look clean.

I was thinking with all those people packed in the milk dispensary, imaging the smell from all those unwiped asses.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:35 | 6382627 knukles
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Your New and Improved Democratic Party Free Shit Vision
Coming to YOUR neighborhood.  Soon.  Smile, gimme your food, gas and women.  No, you're dead anyhow. 

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:43 | 6382654 Oldrepublic
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The monthly minimum wage in Venezuela ($11.00) is the same as the hourly minumum wage in Seattle also $11.00

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:57 | 6382701 Kprime
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Money talks
But it don't sing and dance
And it don't walk
And long as I can have you
Here with me, I'd much rather be
Forever in blue jeans

Honey's sweet
But it ain't nothin' next to baby's treat
And if you pardon me
I'd like to say
We'll do okay
Forever in blue jeans

 

Neil Diamond

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 17:59 | 6382709 onceinalifetime
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Watch next: Girls gone wild

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 18:00 | 6382714 scatha
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The guy who wrote never went through economic or rather currency crisis such as it is in Venezuela only due conspiracy of  US banks and US government that is paying of large land owners and factory owner to create shortages by exporting or suppressing production. It is not a characteristic of economic system but consequence of its disruption.

I went through hyperinflation experience and what's going on  in Venezuela that's what would be happening everywhere including US. Double prices every month and you will see proud Americans knifing or shooting themselves while queuing for milk powder while store owner hoarding stuff and is waiting to raise the price following week and sell it with much more profit creating fake shortage.

There is no shortage of goods in Venezuela, it is enough for everybody but raising prices decrease affordability and that's the driver to overbuy anything since money is worth less but fixing prices is no solution since it results in even more apparent shortages at one store and loss of sales to another which raise the prices to pay suppliers from future delivery.

Commodity end up to becomes currency in barter trade and hence demand for them not to use them but to trade them.

Look at stock market in Caracas best performing in the world in local currency. Shocked? No. It is just because it is collapsing due to FX manipulation by US banks and collapse of oil.

This is a fate of any country dependent on import or exports and not on internal closed market. it is excessive import/export negotiated by US dominated world financial system that destroys any economy at will if it refused to submit e.g. Greece.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 18:07 | 6382737 thamnosma
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Is that cocaine or milk powder?

 

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 18:30 | 6382798 silverer
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Probably easier to get cocaine.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 18:29 | 6382792 silverer
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The powdered milk crowd:  This is what it used to be like on the NYSE trading floor, before computers took over trading.  Ah, good to see these scenes.  The good old days!

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 18:32 | 6382800 OzFan
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An example of the human nature of unelightened people who fail to prepare (ie 90% of ppl)....nothing new here...but what is new is the speed up and intensity of nations falling apart because of stupid govt, bankers and people.  Veny and Greece and Puerto Rico and Argentina are wake up calls to get smart, get your shit together and get ready.  I give it two years before every city in the US has its powdered milk moment.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 18:52 | 6382847 redd_green
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Ahhh, failure to prepare.  That explains everything.   Thanks, Oz.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 18:38 | 6382812 tarabel
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After sampling some of the other comments on this thread, it occurs to me that the bottom line on this issue is that there are an awful lot of people everywhere who are depending on someone else to provide their food for them in one way or another. Doesn't matter if its a purchase, a ration, or a charitable giveaway. It is all coming out of somebody else's field. 

What is breaking down is not capitalism, communism, or zoroastrianism, its commerce.

People depend on everyone else to do their part of the job in order for every society to function, and everyone everywhere is increasingly doubtful that the other fella is doing it right, if at all.

This is pointing towards at least a temporary resort to an "each against all" economic state of nature. What comes afterwards is anybody's guess but it is not likely to be good.

When trade resumes, I got plenty of tomatoes, beans, corn, and peppers to offer. By then, I'll be so sick of the damned things that I will probably never eat them again so long as I live.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 20:37 | 6383151 redd_green
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Re "there are an awful lot of people everywhere who are depending on someone else to provide their food for them in one way or another." Well, ... unless your a FARMER... 

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 21:43 | 6383316 tarabel
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No doubt.

But many people have land and water, yet no desire to put it to any use. You'd be surprised how much you can grow on a 50x50 plot if you put some muscle into it.

When the time comes, it will be too late to start. Seeds or stock will be as easy to get as milk powder is to those poor people down there. They will not possess any knowledge base built up from previous experiments. Tools will be unobtainable. Mistakes will be potentially fatal and not just annoying monetary setbacks cured via a quick trip to the grocery store.

I am no fan of the Nazis but I do think they had a great slogan for their early years.

"Deutschland, erwacht!!"

Germany, wake up.

America, erwacht.

Canada, erwacht.

UK, erwacht.

Europe, erwacht.

Everywhere, erwacht.

 

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 18:50 | 6382839 redd_green
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Ahhh, those IMF and World Bank loans and "austerity measures", really worked out well for Venezuela.  

 

Greeks: are you watching?

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 19:16 | 6382906 NubianSundance
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I think offering 500-1 leverage on a CFD or ForEx account is a bit OTT.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 19:44 | 6383000 Trahald
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Give New Zealand a call they have tones of milk powder they cant give away; shit Fonterra will take thier IOU's all day.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 20:02 | 6383063 ShakaZulu
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Did I hear a "puta" or two in there?

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 21:21 | 6383259 fowlerja
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Do not understand what is happening..did a store employee start throwing the powder milk bags out to the crowd or did a customer break open a door and start throwing the stuff...either way the lucky ones should pay for the milk at the stores friendly check out register..

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 21:38 | 6383306 idontcare
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Just like Sedano's on Flagler on any Saturday afternoon.

Sun, 08/02/2015 - 21:50 | 6383345 TalkToLind
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Get some fucking price controls in there quick!

Mon, 08/03/2015 - 03:13 | 6383942 Magooo
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This is what happens when you refuse to kiss America's ring....

Mon, 08/03/2015 - 04:41 | 6384020 Thom_333
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Milk powder...? What´s allt this with milk powder. What did they do with all their cows. Used to be alot of vacas down there. Oh well...guess it´s the same old story again. Socialism.

 

Where´s Milton Friedman? Paging Professor Friedman...

Mon, 08/03/2015 - 07:26 | 6384188 OutaTime43
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This is what happens when an oil exporter hits peak oil production. This is starting to happen in the middle east as well. Just wait until Saudi Arabia hits peak. It won't be pretty.

Mon, 08/03/2015 - 13:25 | 6385587 uhb
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Those who voted for Chavez and his cronies, ie the freeshitters,  just get what they deserve.

But its a pity for the decent part of the population.

 

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