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80 Year Old Woman Trampled To Death In Venezuela Supermarket Stampede
With 30% of Venzuelans eating two or fewer meals per day, social unrest is mounting rapidly in President Nicolas Maduro's socialist utopia. As WSJ reports, soldiers have now been deployed to stem rampant food smuggling and price speculation, which Maduro blames for triple-digit inflation and scarcity. "Due to the shortage of food... the desperation is enormous," local opposition politician Andres Camejo said, and nowhere is that more evident than the trampling death of an 80-year-old woman outside a state-subsidized supermarket.
An 80-year-old Venezuelan woman died, possibly from trampling, in a scrum outside a state supermarket selling subsidized goods, the opposition and media said on Friday.
The melee at the store in Sabaneta, the birthplace of former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, was the latest such incident in the South American nation where economic hardship and food shortages are creating long queues and scuffles.
The opposition Democratic Unity coalition said Maria Aguirre died and another 75 people were injured - including five security officials - in chaotic scenes when National Guard troops sought to control a 5,000-strong crowd with teargas.
"Due to the shortage of food ... the desperation is enormous," local opposition politician Andres Camejo said, according to the coalition's website. It published a photo of an elderly woman's body lying inert on a concrete floor.
Camejo said thieves had also attacked the crowd, members of which were seeking to buy cheap food on offer at an outlet of the state's Mercal supermarket chain in Barinas state.
El Universal newspaper reported that Aguirre was knocked to the ground during jostling in the crowd, while the pro-opposition El Nacional said she was crushed in a stampede.
Another person was killed and dozens detained following looting of supermarkets in Venezuela's southeastern city of Ciudad Guayana earlier this month.
President Nicolas Maduro accuses opponents of deliberately stirring up trouble, exaggerating incidents, and sabotaging the economy to try and bring down his socialist government.
Critics, though, say incidents of unrest are symptoms of the increasing hardships Venezuela's 29 million people are facing due to a failed state-led economic model. Low oil prices are exacerbating economic tensions in the OPEC nation.
Venezuelans protest the starvatiion with signs saying 'hunger'...
Shoppers are finger-printed when buying government-controlled foods...
“What’s certain is that we are going very hungry here and the children are suffering a lot,” said María Palma, a 55-year-old grandmother who on a recent blistering hot day had been standing in line at the grocery store since 3 a.m. before walking away empty-handed at midday.
In a national survey, as WSJ reports, the pollster Consultores 21 found 30% of Venezuelans eating two or fewer meals a day during the second quarter of this year, up from 20% in the first quarter.
Around 70% of people in the study also said they had stopped buying some basic food item because it had become unavailable or too expensive.
As The Mises Institute's Carmen Elena Dorobat details,
Millions, Billions, Trillions: The Disaster of Socialism, Once Again
Venezuela’s nearly full-blown socialism is making the news once again. For approximately two years now, the country’s economic crisis has been rapidly unfolding: rising prices, fuelled by increased scarcity of goods and a depreciating currency, were followed by price controls, which brought about even higher prices and more shortages. The list of basic commodities missing from stores, such as toilet paper, has gradually expanded to include cooking oil, corn flour, sugar, sanitary pads, batteries, coffins, and even oil (once the country’s main export). The Cendas survey showed that more than a third of foodstuffs cannot be found on supermarket shelves; moreover, vegetables are 32% more expensive every month, meat prices are going up by 22% every month, and beans are surging by 130%. Basic Venezuelan dishes containing rice and beans have thus become a luxury, as people queue for 8 hours a week, on average, to buy basic goods.
This time it was the bolivar, Venezuela’s currency, which made the headlines, as it tumbled from 82 bolivars to the dollar last year, to 300 bolivars in May, and to a staggering 670 bolivars this August. Because the Venezuelan administration stopped publishing inflation figures in December 2014 (when annual inflation reached 68%), some economists have designed an Arepa (i.e. cornmeal cake with cheese) hyperinflation index, which suggests a current inflation rate of around 400%. Others estimate the annual inflation rate is actually 808%.
A photo of a Venezuelan using a 2 bolivar banknote as a napkin to hold a cheesy pastry (an empanada) has recently gone viral: the banknote is worth less than a third of one US cent on the black market, while the price of a pack of napkins is about 500-600 bolivars. The photo is reminiscent of the Weimar Republic hyperinflationary episode, where the wholesale price index jumped from 100% in July 1922 to more than 2500% in January 1923, which led to German banknotes being used to light fires (right photo).
One can only speculate at the moment the extent of the damage this episode will leave on Venezuelan savings. But if history is any indication, we could soon hear stories similar to those of some of Mises’s acquaintances (recorded from his lectures by his student, Bettina Bien-Greaves):
[A] man made a will according to which this $ 2,000,000 was to be sent back to Europe to establish another orphan asylum such as that in which this man had been educated. This was just before World War I. The money was sent back to Europe. According to the usual procedure it had to be invested in government bonds of this country, interest to be paid every year to keep up the asylum. But the war came, and the inflation. And the inflation reduced to zero this fortune of $ 2,000,000 invested in European Marks—simply to zero.
[The president of a Bank in Vienna] told me that as a young man in his twenties he had taken out a life insurance policy much too large for his economic condition at the time. He expected that when it was paid out it would make him a well-to-do burgher. But when he reached his sixtieth birthday, the policy became due. The insurance, which had been a tremendous sum when he had taken it out thirty five years before, was just sufficient to pay for the taxi ride back to his office after going to collect the insurance in person. Now what had happened? Prices went up, yet the monetary quantity of the policy remained the same. He had in fact for many, many decades made savings. For whom? For the government to spend and devastate (Mises 2010, 30-31).
As news of Venezuela’s suffering keeps coming through, one cannot help but feel a certain sense of dread. All governments control the money supply to essentially the same extent that Maduro’s administration does. All around the world we have monetary socialism, where national currencies are subject solely to political power. And one cannot help but wonder (and fear) how many more such economic disasters it will take before it becomes clear that socialism of all shapes, sizes, and degrees, is unrealizable, unbearable, and unforgivable.
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Don't let her go to waste. Might be a little gamey put a good source of protein
The money counterfeiters are ecstatic with joy buying assets for pennies on the dollar. It is all a game to them, one country falls, more assets, another country falls, more assets. A sick fucking game for these evil MF’s
One of these days people will get tired of this shit and hang every last one of them,
If one chooses to live like a Sheep.
The outcome is to be slautered.
Live and die like a Lion.
Down with Khazarian Warlord Banksters.
All their abundant natural resources and cheap oil still can overcome their folly inherent in their academia and socialism. Oil in Venuzuela costs 1-2 cents a liter, or 4-8 cents a gallon- at the pump.
You'ld think that would make the place a Shangrala for building stuff, manufacturing, industry, ect.
I believe well-meaning socialist idiots (a.k.a. vicisous ideologues), cost a nation as much as piggish bankers. Of course the bankers are also receipients of their own subsidies, (ZIRP, QE) socialism.
"Socialism works until you run out of other people's money". -Maggie T
"If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, run for your life, especially if he's from the government" -Thoureau
"the only thing dumber than a horses ass, is a horses ass with a Humanities degree'' -ZeroHedge adage
Bankers support socialist so as to achieve their utopia...buying assets cheap when the currency collapses.
This would be funny, if Obama was not doing the same thing to America.
bernie sanders could get usa there faster and moarer. go bernie, spend my money moarer and faster and give it to useless eaters so we can be just like venzuala.
bernie for prez, got my vote, ha lol s/
That is ‘clever’: getting your ‘knowledge’ about socialism from a fascist ideologue. Thatcher is one of the reasons we’re in the shit-hole we’re in today. She was one of the prime-architects of the financialization of the economy (together with Reagan) that has turned the economy into a huge Ponzi-scheme/Casino.
That she is the author of a quote about stealing money ('other people's money') is telling – she was the embodiment of a reversal Robin Hood (stealing from the commons to enrich her corporate masters).
What is the cause of the worst famines of our time?
link the to 10 worst famines of the 21st century:
http://www.smh.com.au/world/ten-worst-famines-of-the-20th-century-201108...
I thought Drought, flooding, frost, disease and other acts of god cause famine. These natural disasters are bad but they happen all the time. When you look at the whole globe there is probably a natural disaster going on right now somewhere. In a free market people are free to adjust, to diversify their crops, to trade, to find alternatives, to migrate, to innovate solutions, to profit. In every single example in the top 10 there is massive disruptions in the free market.
#1: Communist China the great leap forward program collectivization of agriculture 1958 - 1962 - 10-30 million dead
#2 #3, and #9: Soviet Union collectivization death toll: #2: 9 million, #3: 7-9 million, #9 - 2 million
#4, and #8: Lawless China 1927, 1929: No effective government leads to regional warlords taking control of large areas of the country and they would just rob the locals to feed their armies. one of these 'warlords' was Mao.
#5 and #7: WWII China and India 1943: "Yeah we are going to need that rice for the war effort" the Japanese (#5) and the British (#7)
#6: North Korea: See the Interview
#10 Cambodia: Khmer Rouge
She tasted like she leather
Think about it as if it were your mother. Still funny? Or is this the same "they are insects"-attitude the US pilots assumed when they burned Vietnamese kids alive with Napalm?
giovanni, you seem to know alot about pilots in vietnam, how did you get your wisdom and facts?
i have a guess, but awaiting your explanation..
giovanni, seems you have no facts to back up your statement about all pilots in vietnam..all your posts should now be viewed by Zh as worthless.
Here's a pilot that ought to be remembered. Chief Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson.
How did Hugh react when reason failed? Hugh was furious, ready to do anything to save these innocent people. Just then Glenn spotted some people in an earthen bunker, saw faces peering out of the entry. We surveyed around the bunker and saw that squad approaching. Hugh said: “These people are going to die. I’m not going to let this happen, we’ve got to do something. Are you guys with me?”
http://www.historynet.com/interview-larry-colburn-why-my-lai-hugh-thompson-matter.htm
Here's an American pilot talking about the joys of napalm:
"We sure are pleased with those backroom boys at Dow. The original product wasn't so hot — if the gooks were quick they could scrape it off. So the boys started adding polystyrene — now it sticks like shit to a blanket. But then if the gooks jumped under water it stopped burning, so they started adding Willie Peter [white phosphorous] so's to make it burn better. It'll even burn under water now. And just one drop is enough, it'll keep on burning right down to the bone so they die anyway from phosphorous poisoning."
Too soon?
Now THAT, is funny.
"Yes we can!"
With all the firearms here, it will be much more interesting.
Then again maybe not. A well armed society is by necessity a polite society.
Salient comment and relevant beyond the USA (you think you are they only ones with such tools?). One can find some degree of confort in owning the "Black rifle", which is, the world wide symbol for the individual.
Let the cards fall as they will.
You and I both know when this happens in the US, it will be hell on earth. We are a selfish people and believe the bad won't happen to us. But when you can't get food to eat and your money is in hyperinflation then you will have a nation of killers and hate going at people.
You said "when this happens", not "if". You are correct.
remember the oil embargo and how polite mericans were, ha-hunger and guns, an interesting mix...
Because of course, learning to feed yourself is totally out of the question...
This shows you what is truely valuable: #1 of course is health. After that, you gotta eat.
Do you have a years supply of food stored up? If so great. It's a start. No THAT is true wealth.
I eat, precisely, one meal a day. It might be breakfast, lunch or dinner, but I can only do one meal a day. My planning provides my family with four 'meals' a day. (Plus another fifty a day for the neighborhood, but they're on my feeding schedule...once a day.)
I don't know why, but I'm good on eating once a day (once in a while I'll snack on nuts and shit, but I'm not a big eater.) I ordered 1" steaks and can only accomplish, at most, half of one,
I think it comes from when I was a kid. I just learned to do it.
No point to this story, just reflecting on the three times a day vs once a day meme. Though I look at "Eating once in a while" as actually normal. I don't get emotional about this. But to my immediate left is enough to feed the entire neighborhood for two years. Water, though, I really have to work on that. I'm really fucking short there.
+1000
The former commander of JSOC, Bill McRaven, is renowned for eating 1 meal per day.
Even during combat deployments, one meal per day.
Gubmints everywhere are fukt. Politician miedras everywhere are corrupt lying bastardos. Fukem all.
No doubt the government and its policies played a major role, but let's not forget what Perkins taught us about the role of the bankers in this fiasco. Blaming "socialism" alone is a bit propagandistic, if not pro-banker.
Here's the rule. If an enemy of the US spreads a portion of its oil wealth among the people (i.e. Gaddafy's Libya, Venezuela, Iran), they're nasty socialists and really should be taken out.
If a friend of the US does the same (e. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar), it's perfectly natural. Why, it's only fair that the people should benefit, but only after the elite have taken the lion's share of course.
We're just jealous we're not elite, Khazarian, scumbag Bankers
The rule is currently being enforced in Venezuela and Ecuador. Correa committted the unforgiveable crime to kick out the IWF and Word bank bastards from the country and the spaces the were occupying on the governement premises proper. There are constant protests instigated against him by the oligarch-controlled media. But in the moment he would try to limit the agitation power of the oligarchs no doubt the western media whores would squeal like pigs about a jeopardized "freedom of press".
I can't help but detect a smidgen of anti-socialist propaganda in this article.
There is a difference between evidence and propoganda.
So what's your point?
Dig deeper, their is more than a smidgen. ......
Agree.
And I don’t have the time to reformulate/redo the following (from a former reply to an indoctrinated ‘Ayn Rand’-type/US-born-ideologue - before it's spewed “fascism is socialism” all “state-centered-policies” are socialist or whatever):
My (the European/historical – not blurred by decades of capitalist propaganda) definition of the two terms:
Capitalism: an economy centered on the private ownership of the means of production. THAT IS WHAT WE’VE GOT! Everything of importance (including the state itself) is privately owned by a small group (the 0,01%). There’re around the world attempts to take some of the capital back to were it belongs (the people) but those attempts are ALWAYS (attempted) countered by US/Western intelligence-institutions (for instance read ‘Confessions of an economic hitman’).
Socialism: an economy centered on the common/social and/or the public ownership of the means of production.
Notice that both economic systems can have STRONG STATES – or no state. Yes, socialism does not necessarily equates a huge state and/or bureaucracy. A capitalist state can have that as well. STRONG POLITICAL INTERVENTION IS NOT EQUAL SOCIALISM. There’re in socialism (like in capitalism) many branches – from anarchist socialism (the real/historical and in all parts of the world except US libertarianism) to state socialism.
In capitalism you have ‘monopoly capitalism’ (the end result of all forms of capitalism) to laissez-faire capitalism (the wet dream of Ayn Rand disciples). The latter will naturally (due to the accumulative nature of capitalism) end in the former = the concentration of power/wealth in fewer and fewer hands.
What we’ve got today – as the dominant and global ideology – is FASCISM/capitalism.
To say that fascism is socialism is an insult to all the socialists that were murdered/executed/killed fighting by fascists regimes – together with labor-unionist, communists, anarchists/libertarians (the real sort that fight all forms of authority and not just the state) and left-wing intellectuals. Hitler banned the communist parties and the socialist parties. You will have a very hard time finding anyone from Europe (who have experienced full-blown fascism in recent history) who doesn’t know that fascism is an extreme right-wing ideology. We know who supported the fascists – in Denmark many of the right-wing newspapers that welcomed Hitler’s rise to power and later invasion of Denmark are still active today (Jyllands Posten, Berlingske Tidende), the conservative party of Denmark marched in brown-shirts and black boots with Swastikas and the big business owners profited by the German war-machine (like they do today by the US war-machine) etc. etc. The same is true for all other European countries.
The absolute majority of freedom-fighters during WWII in Europa was left-wing + the international brigade that fought Franco’s fascism was comprised of anarchists and socialists (by the way they fought Stalin’s brigades just as fiercely as they fought the fascists). Orwell and Hemmingway have written extensively about this.
Here is the deal. Socialism whether it’s the Lenin version or the Hitler version puts forth the same big lie. The state will take care of you. This causes people to abandon all the traditional networks of family and community that supported humanity through the millennia. Parents do not need their children to look after them in their old age. The state will do it. Women do not need husbands to look after their families, the state will do it. Individuals do not need to set aside resources to take care of themselves in their golden years, the state will do it.
Now that the states are universally bankrupt we find that we now have generations of helpless, hapless mooks who don’t have a clue on how to fend for themselves.
I don’t know why I read your comment – you clearly didn’t read mine. I can guess – based on your ignorance on these matters – that you’re US-born ‘n raised.
States making promises does not equates socialism (nor fascism for that matter). Most of the ‘welfare’-institutions were implemented by capitalist (and historically also by Kings and Emperors) who feared rebellious masses. The defining principle of socialism vs. capitalism/fascism is still the ownership of the means of production (quo bono of the economic system – who get to keep the spoils?). Our system is rigged to benefit the 0,01%. Including for example policies like ‘Obama’-care and food-stamps (that I guess in your indoctrinated mind are ‘socialist’ (?)) – these are capitalist policies forcing people to buy necessities from their capitalist masters.
Second: both capitalism and socialism has a state-centered branch and a stateless branch. To be a socialist is not the same as being pro-state. I’m a libertarian. The real sort. Look it up.
You are blurred with socialist propaganda! Monopoly capitalism is a product of GREED, not capitalism. Fascism is NOT an extreme right position, as we in the US are finding out the hard way with our First, Second, and Fourth Amendments under daily attack by radical progressives. A century ago the CPUSA, realizing the word "communist" was/is toxic, started calling themselves "progressives".
The goal of socialism is communism.
-Lenin
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-Marx
First, Lenin and Marx both supported the state-centered version of socialism. I don’t. For contemporary writers (with Lenin and Marx) read Bakunin, Kropotkin, Goldman and Proudhon about stateless socialism/anarchism. Marx – by the way – was a huge supporter of capitalism (as an improvement in relation to feudalism/mercantilism). He was just imaginative enough to try to envision what would (or in his more political works should) come after capitalism (yes, all students of history knows that all paradigms have a shelf-time – that includes capitalism).
Second, I would write similar arguments as you if I had followed the curriculum at the Universities I’ve studied at (including a private University in US: Willamette). I only know about real anarchism/socialism and it’s history through my own studies and my social networks. Anarchism/socialism is only mentioned in mainstream-outlets with a negative connotation – why do think that is? Were do I find the ‘socialist propaganda’ you speak of? Give me a couple of links?
Third, greed is the fuel of capitalism.
“In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.”
- Matt Taibbi, Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America
Fourth, there’re no left-wing in US of importance. Both your ‘parties’ are bought and paid for by your capitalist masters. All your medias are (90%+) are privately owned. If there’re any ‘progressives’ (which basically just translates to being ‘pro change’ – and who is not in these times?) with any airtime/platforms of importance considered them as disinformation-agents/paid shills. Give me a name or two of these 'progressives' and I can help you 'follow the money'. OK, maybe not completely true, Bernie Sanders seems to be one who is not bought. Good luck to him (I’m not sarcastic).
Fifth, can you not imagine other forms of tyranny than socialism/communism? (Since you see the attacks on the ‘Amendments’ as a priori ‘socialist/communist’).
Sixth: What is your definition of socialism, fascism and capitalism respectively?
So...I should go fuel my truck up at Citgo?
I only had one meal today. 40oz porterhouse. LOL.
Being on the topic of food made me hungry again. Now i'm having a large piece of pumpkin cake drenched in cream cheese frosting and washing it down with milk.
I don't think I would fare well with empty grocery store shelves.
Just imagine how your average Venuzuelan would feel about that 40 oz porterhouse and slice of pumpkin cake.
You think they might be willing to rip your heart out with their bare hands for the opportunity to get a taste?
It's GOOD to be King, ain't it?
Despite my off-color humor, you're mistaken if you think I don't feel sorry for them. It's not like I can fedx half the thing to them. I'm just feasting before it's our turn.
I don´t feel sorry for them .... they loved Chavez !
50/50 just like Amerika. And even if it was 40/60 the elections are rigged.
Most of us in the know... Don't drink milk.
Beer...the milk of MEN!!
Probably why I only want to eat once a day....Liquid bread.
The rumor is out that BlueBell ice cream is gonna come.back soon.
I hope there.wont be a sea.of.humanity camped on the store sidewalks awaiting the opening.....
Still got that umbilical cord attached and your mamma's tit in your mouth. Ladies - We are ON OUR OWN.
It is difficult to believe this is the thought you came up with and actually took the time to type in a comment section. You boys enjoy watching you mothers, sisters, daughters, nieces, grandbabies suffer at the hands of the Chozen Ones...they will pay for you failure to act. Death is too good for men like you. You know that don't you? Women and children become toys and the men are worked to death. Maybe we can chop off that little penis you lovingly caress when your not holding a mirror.
Here is a guy willing to do something about the Chozen Ones.
http://news.yahoo.com/white-supremacist-admits-three-kansas-murders-seek...
The real question is ---> after the the Chozen Ones who will be next? Because blood lust is not so easily slaked by a few millions.
Too bad they didn't get Einstein, Bohr, and Feynman - eh? Or how about Andy Grove?
I remember the good old days when it was Bill Gates. Who knew he was one of THEM?
I believe their are many more of us quietly doing what needs to be done.
We see what is coming, and are taking active measures, and disguising them to our spouses, sisters, mothers (not to my father, he's doing the same at 80+ years old).
My grandson is NOT fucking going to be left wanting, his mother, my daughter in law, will never be left wanting, my older son, whose income dwarfs mine, will never be left wanting (if he ever gets his ass back home from 13 years in Afghanistan), my younger son will never be left wanting (and whatever boyfriend we have to accept), nor will my valiant wife of 37 years (so far, may have to trade in for two twenties when we hit 40 years.)
A lot of us talk shit here. But a lot of us have actual morals, way more than we show in our comments.
For example, I'm actually a pretty nice, normal asshole. But touch my family and I will fucking kill you, immediately, with prejudice. I will make you a bloodspot on the dirt.
Other than that, you can't insult me, try to piss me off, or offend me. I take it all with humor. It all rolls off my back. Until you touch one of my family. Then it's absolute war.
I'm kind of old school.
Oh, and I have an extensive family. And I'm not the only one thinking this way. My family, and we're not a mob or mafia, just normal people, extends across the nation, but has hubs in Commiefornia, Utah, Arizona, Nebraska, Kansas, Florida, Oregon (I have a tranny cousin that will avenge me if necessary), and a gypsy mother that was Senior Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force and one of the first Nurse Practitioners, with the first clinic, with her own successful Supreme Court decision (in her name). We have morals and we live by them, as our bettors have taught.
Piss us off, as a familiy, though we will totally fuck you up. Though we have weirdness throughout. (Another cousine is in Helter Skelter where Manson offered him a few girls.) Yeah, we're weird, we're fucked up, but we'll absolutely FUCK YOU UP in a second if required. We're wired that way. (Not directed at you personally, just at large.) Our Coat of Arms sports severed hands nailed to it.
We're the people that you do not want to rise up. So far, we've only been bitchy, sarcastic and warning. [blotted out everything I just typed because I don't want the FBI back on my door. But it was epic! https://www.google.com/search?q=byrne+ireland+kings&biw=1366&bih=588&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CEAQsARqFQoTCJzIxqeV08cCFcpwPgodGnwGyQ#imgrc=2r9OKlUTuEZ4wM%3A
We all have a great sense of humor, but cross the line...Hatfields and McCoy's will look like a game show. We're here, we're aware, and we're informing each other. Like the fight club film, we're the medics, the firemen, the teachers, the janitors, the small town politicians, the accountants,...we're here (well, I'm the only asshole on zero hedge), and we're aware.
The Venesuelans should capture, cook and eat the politicians that keep this shit going, and when it does happen, film it, so we can show our politicians their future.
With any of these regimes, you take out the leader and maybe ten people around him and the whole thing crumbles.
The fact that government buildings are not burning is evidence as to how much people will endure rather than fight. At some point, it is your own fault.
The elected the complete narcissistic idiot Chavez and his even dumber replacement, Maduro has doubed down on the socialist bet.
But, the important thing is Maduro and his family have plenty to eat, right? The starvation is for the good of the people.
Most are cowards. The gang bangers and cops are the only ones with a pair down there.
But once again, I bet there's not one politician down there who has missed a 7-course meal prob with that pumpkin pie+thick cream afterwards, followed by a cigar.
It's only the 99% who taste the bitterness of austerity.
mmmmm, blackened politician with some fava beans and a nice chianti... i think im getting a puffy...
Eat our political leaders, wtf.....
Ours are some of the most rancid, rotten mother f-ers. Not sure i could, even to prove a point. VLAD THE IMPAILERI'm, that sends a massage. If not a wacked out sight. .. The shit storm comes.........duck and cover
Can you imagine cleaning all the shit out of one of them?! It would take weeks!
Fuck, I'd rather eat a bueraucrat...At least their shit is filed and identified. It'd be like zipping a finger down a file chest. (Solid thumps to the finger for each drawer, of course, similar to cleaning a rabbits ass. No idea why I had to do that to 20,000 rabbits, but that was the job.)
And I thought the lines at Costco were bad...............
look - the avg person is dumb fuck stupid - but - the avg person - 80, 50, 30 - does not deserve this - its high time the avg people - in fact all people who are being ass raped by the fucking cabal - its high time we trample the mother fucking cabal
Or move to Minnesota.
Western central banksters to Maduro: You want your gold back? Fine, now watch what happens.
Fingerprint scanners and no food. It is like a dystopian sci-fi novel in real life.
One of the problems with tech. Bunch of people sitting around behind computers, producing nothing of real value, or nothing that couldn't be whisped away with a power failure.
I tried to cash a check the other day and they told me it was the Law that I must give my finger print cash it.
I turned around in the lobby and said, "Would anyone like to represent me when I sue this bank for not cashing a check because I refuse to give my finger print and telling me they are required to do so by law?"
Two hands go up.
They cashed the check.
Victor, good for you and the two raised hands.
It is about time someone pushed back.
I went to a spine clinic for.an exam. I wasn' t seeking a prescription, just wanting to see where I stood. They wanted a DNA sample and piss test. I said no. The girl behind the desk said I wouldnt get pain meds without the tests.
I told her I wasnt seeking drugs, just an opinion, but what the fuck???
Priceless...as that stupid bank commercial used to say.
Good job, Victor!
Don't worry. MMT (Modern Monetary Theory) folks can fix this. They just need a plane ticket to Venezuela.
Bernie Sanders will help us out on this process.
Ask a Venzuelan - How much is an ounce of gold worth?
gold price in venezuela
http://www.goldrate24.com/gold-prices/south-america/venezuela/
If gold is the ultimate money, the question isn't what the price of gold is in terms of dollars or bolivars or whatever. The question is what is the price of dollars or bolivars or whatever in terms of gold.
From that point of view, the price of a dollar today is 1/1128.35ths of an ounce of gold; the price of a bolivar is 1/7090.78ths of an ounce of gold.
Technically, it's saying the same thing in a different way. But if gold is the ultimate money, it would be worth our while to change our perspective to see gold as the standard of price, not the fiats.
But Hugo and Merde Boy are all about helping the poor Chavismos. They are so much better off now in derilect shitholes and eating less than 500 calories a day (if they can get that) and washing it down with ditch water.
I know Sen Penn and Danny Glover and all other limo lefty cock buffers are all pitching in and fighting Yanqui imperialismo. So put on your Che t-shirts and snappy track suits the Ven 'elite' prefer and get on the socialist bandwagon.
At least they trample people for food. People trample each other for waffle irons on Black Friday in the banker-owned paradise of 'Murca.
When there is food on the table, there are many problems. When there is no food on the table, there is only one problem.
soldiers have now been deployed to stem rampant food smuggling
Or rather, soldiers have now been deployed to confiscate any food
Here is an Idea for Russia.
Confinscate the food from the embargoes countries trying to smuggle it in, and sell it at a discount to Venezuela, giving them cheaper food and Russia the profit with absolutey no cost in anything other than transport.
Even at $50bbl, there is no way that this can happen in Venezuela unless it is total poor management, which is the case at hand. How could anyone be so stupid as to let this crap happen? Wouldn't the government in power see that what will hurt their ability to stay in power, is having people go hungry?
Think about what you wrote, govt management, an oxymoron, IS the problem.
This shit just got real... Can't even buy toilet paper without someone being trampled to death.
Where's the MSM offering humanitarian aid?
To busy renaming a mountain? To messed up to even try to figure out what is up or down
Where's Danny Glover?
And just where the fuck is Sean Penn?
They need to get there, stat, and help their heroes. They need to pass the plate around Hollywood. Start flying shit in. They are as responsible for this as anyone. They gave sis boom bah to these fucking clowns.
Fucking idiots. With money.
My "giving a fuck" meter is at Zero.
If you would have given a hint you were going to sit "this one out," the women of this world would have prepared to defend the weakest amongst us. This, in case you wonder, is why we created communities. So our grandmothers and babies would not be the victims of a lawless society. Your helmet on your avatar must be the shape of your condom dick face.
Aww.. did I hurt you your feelings fuck stick? Look, they voted it in. They wanted it.. they BEGGED FOR IT LIKE A DICK IN THE ASS!!! They scraped for it, clawed for it and they mother fucking got what they mother fucking wanted. Get it? The fact that this lady ended up as collateral damage of this depravity of an ideology is testament to the abject failures of statism at this level.
So while you lambaste me for not giving a fuck, I remind you that they didn't give a fuck FAR longer than myself, for if they had, this lady would still be alive.
So fuck you sideways, cunt.
The Kana-bono cannibal girls say all hell breaks out when the tummy starts growling.
If the banksters were smart they would allow an alternative publicly operated open source financial system to start up. Which bitcoin is so maybe they aren't too crazy.
Like Venezuela Dudes. You can order long term storage foods on the Internet with Bitcoin and have it delivered.
This is what happens when you don't kiss the ring of the global thug - America.
Assad is also finding out what the consequences of that are....
yes, remember when chavez was going to send heating oil to poor americans
I don't know why it didn't dawn on me until now but it's not going to be at home that most people are killed it's going to be hitting the grocery store or getting your allotment out of the cash machine. If it gets this bad going to work wont be worth it because you will be cleaned out by the time you get home.
I met a woman from the Philippines on a flight to Japan once and we had a drink together on layover, I asked her how the economy was and she said that her family had to have security guards go with them to the grocery store. Good times.
What do you call a Venezuelan with one dog? Very fortunate...
What do you call a Venezuelan with two dogs? A rancher...
How's that environmental protocol working out for you?
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South Korea can ship dog meat under WHO/FDA fast track approval.
Call it filet migon. Just marinate it. Are dog farm meat tastes like chicken and Kobe beef.
That fingerprinting bullshit will be here soon.
Actually, Tim Cook fingerprinted his anal hole to gain access to his iPhone.
McDonald's will be placing a patent pending idea thru Amazon robot delivery service. Pre-pay within you phone application. Sorry if your order got mixed up with Google GPS delivery destination point.
We'll give you a $20 reward card towards the next purchase to fly on United Airlines. After you get through TSA, use our value card to buy a bottle of water.
/LMFAO.
Just a taste of what is coming to Merica
if rice and beans are luxury... wtf are they eating? Cake?
Hey, anyone seen my butterfly collection?
Printing Quantitative Easing cake is a party favor landing on the peasant DNC party.
Grab your goodies before the candles are blown out.
I love how the Real Shit Story in the world plays out in the middle of ZH and the RanSquawk headlines repeat the Ministry of Truth's official lies that the economic indicators are just dandy.
It's like listening to the neighbors scream, to gun shots and sirens and crying while watching Mr Rodgers interview PeeWee Herman on mute.
Surreal.
When that poor, 80 y.o. woman's horror reaches you, what then mother fucker?
Ransquawk> AKA; After the fact.
I love watching how banks post option expiries for the Ny Cut.
The SNB can't manage it's peg, and we're looking at a couple yards of F/X expirations.
The options are DNT, for corporate macro to re~adjust their portfolios.
Anyone that knows how to read a CoT chart knows the Spec. trading figures are like riding a horny bear. ;-D
I just received a email from Wells Fargo on a dormant bank account with zero money in it. It was compromised according to alert.
Tomorrow will be fun. You can imagine the hoops I'll put them through. I opened two accounts and remained with BB&T. Wells Fargo gave me a stuffed animal. Mrs Atomizer was the non collateralized recipient.
Seriously? This is a catastrophic 'problem' now?
I eat one big meal a day, why the hell would I want to spend three hours eating every day? Who says it's natural for humans to eat 3 to 5 meals a day? Did we evolve to do that? Doubt it.
Nail it with one decent meal and move the fuck on people, dieticians are there to scam morons.
Buy my healthy living recipe book!
Sorry, but my blood sugar problems dictate that I eat 3 times/day, hungry or not.
I think it really boils down to how many calories a day are you eating. You can nibble all day to your 2000, or pack it all down in one meal. Either way, I think the main thing in Venezuela is things have changed big time, and the people just want normalcy back. Looks likely there will be political change, because I don't see oil going up anytime soon.
They should stop trading in US dollars
They should join BRICS in order to avoid American sanctions & source cheap food & goods from BRICS allies.
Sick fucker's running a global agenda. They reside in the White House. NGO'S are funding puppet figure heads. Once a BOLO is placed. Lock and load. The con men working for the Wallstreet casino will talk or be flown to GITO. Perhaps the below movie link will persuade you rat out your fellow comrades. Remember comrade
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This is a sick fucking world
People going hungry, dying while waiting in line for a hand out from the 'masters'. Sending armed people after food 'smugglers'.
What was their crime?
Their government was an 'ist', you know, socialist, communist, fascist, capitalist.
It doesn't matter, build another nuke to blow them to hell, God fobid they may come over to this fine area of the world where they may live in peace and eat.
How many mouths would that nuke feed? If we filled up an aircraft carrier with food and toilet paper, parked it in Venezuala, how many would it feed? How many would feel grateful instead of angry?
That is how you change the world folks for the better. Food, shelter, water, a little love and compassion.
But they're criminals and rapists!
At 8 years old or 10 or 6 or a woman with a few kids to feed or little old men or women.
Most are not criminals or rapists
Meanwhile .gov is too worried about snooping on us, looking for 'terrorists', spending money figuring out what kills the best.
But they aren't white, the only pure race is white
Fuck that and those who believe it.
The only pure race is NASCAR.
Answer seems simple to this problem:
Liquidate Maduro, and anyone who supports his regime. Including Sean and Danny since they love this suffering wrought by socialism so dearly, it seems only fitting that they be victims of the resulting violence that it has created.
How long are we going to take this contrived artificial construct instituted to control US ALL through name it; socialism, democracy, communism,monarchy, tribal leadership what ever? Why would anyone listen to these pompous self appointed busy body assholes?
One narcissistic jerk off in a country says it is so and everyone follows along including to their own death sentence. FUCK THAT I am not helping some self important pussy to execute me for offending them.
I'll bet Maduro isn't going with out food nor his government officials nor his Army. So Maduro's actions are the salvation of the country? He is just a poor son of Venezuela trying to help his country through some rough times?
He is a fucking monster. You don't negotiate with a monster, or obey it, you fucking KILL IT.
Make the world an unsafe place for dictators, tyrants, and others such as their ilk. Make them fear again that is the problem there no longer is any fear because there is no presumption of punishment and that is why the world is in the state that it finds itself in.
7+ Billion vs. how many super wealthy elite and their paid for government stooges and lackies? Million, ten million, a hundred million? Seems like pretty shitty odds for the oligarchs.
All of the wealth of Soros or Buffett is meaningless if no one will sell to them or visit violence upon them on sight.
look all the socialists want what is best for "the people"..weight loss is good, so what's up with zh making venezuela look like hell? socialism ,"it's what's not for breakfast"..high crimes - outright theft of property by .gov -is not the system to solve everyman's problems, but it sure works for the elite.
waiting for the deniers to say venezuela is not really "socialism" the fault is they have not gone far enough and become fully communist..moar .gov will solve these minor problems.
playing devils advocate "the absence of evidence etc etc" A socailist country is alway thrown roadblocks, economic sabotage, infiltrated by the CIA etc=they are never allowed to make it work
Like North Korea? They all look incredibly fit. But the average North Korean is about three inches shorter than the average South Korean.
I asked a grocery store manager if there was a plan for a dollar collapse. He said the plan was to bring in the National Guard.
She wasn't being trampled, she was being tenderized
Why don't they mine and sell their gold?
Price is too depressed by paper trades which make it barely profitable if at all.
Socialism: Sooner or later you run out of other people's productivity. Because they're spending their days standing in line.
TP for sale only 1000 bolivars / roll on the black market
Socialism is godless people trying to be compassionate. This kind of Socialism is rooted in Pride, and arrogance.
True help for the poor comes from people who believe in God. That compasson and charity comes from the heart.
Communi Socialm is about acquiring Power, and Control. True Charity is about self Sacrifice, and Love.
Don't kid yourselves, it's the frackers fault. We need a new chant:
"No 80 Year Old Trampled Women for Oil!"
"No 80 Year Old Trampled Women for Oil!"
"No 80 Year Old Trampled Women for Oil!"
The march through downtown Gonzales starts tomorrow noon, comrades!
Niggrobama could have done it better and faster. Now if only Chavez and Maduro only used their teleprompters.....
Niggrobama could have done it better and faster. Now if only Chavez and Maduro only used their teleprompters.....
How`s that different from Black Friday in the "Western world"?
#FEELTHEBERN