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2017/06/04 18:29:21
Subject: Are the Beauty Pagent Academy and Telenovelas also contribuited to the downfall of Venezuela?
Lone Cat wrote: You can't have l'Etat c'est Moi in an Industrialized country and prosper.... right?
That's a really good way of putting it, yeah.
“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something.
2017/06/07 14:59:36
Subject: Are the Beauty Pagent Academy and Telenovelas also contribuited to the downfall of Venezuela?
Frazzled wrote: You'll have to cite support for any actual attempted coups by the US against him. I know he liked to make speeches about it, but it was his antics that directly imploded PDVSA and thus stabbed themselves in the face.
Corruption has been a long time thing there, but he took it to whole other level, draining funds from PDVSA to a level they could not even make maintenance capex.
I have to limit what I say further for business reasons, but this is well known.
Considering CIA's long and bloody history in South America and the political situation in Venezuela it is all but guaranteed that CIA has been operating in the country for some time. Of course there probably isn't much hard proof for it right now, we will probably have wait 40-50 years before those archives are opened up.
Of course. Dispite the connected world. There's still lots of very dark shadowy corners to hide in. Thr CIA is very at home in those places.
If the CIA was that awesome we wouldn't suck so bad. The last 30 years has shown us the CIA is closer to Keystone Cops then Wet Works kill teams.
Same for the KGB.
It's not the CIA and KGB were bad, it's just they couldn't match up to The Circus
The Laws of Thermodynamics:
1) You cannot win. 2) You cannot break even. 3) You cannot stop playing the game.
Colonel Flagg wrote:You think you're real smart. But you're not smart; you're dumb. Very dumb. But you've met your match in me.
