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Venezuela: Further Protests as Country Begins Running Out of Water
Breitbart ^ | 2 Jul 2018 | Ben Kew

Posted on 07/02/2018 2:34:51 PM PDT by detective

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To: detective

Where is Sean Penn? Oh that’s right, his coke connection Chavez is dead.


21 posted on 07/02/2018 2:46:03 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Vox populi, vox dei)
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To: detective

Maduro is just doing it wrong.


22 posted on 07/02/2018 2:46:16 PM PDT by henkster (Monsters from the Id.)
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To: detective

You can always drink urine.

(Just thought I’d point that out!)

Ain’t Socialism great!


23 posted on 07/02/2018 2:48:23 PM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: detective

And everybody in Venezuela gets a guaranteed wage and free health care.

I dunno what they’re complaining about.


24 posted on 07/02/2018 2:48:26 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: detective

But this time Socialism will work!


25 posted on 07/02/2018 2:50:36 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation has ended!)
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To: detective

Ain’t socialism grand?

Calling Danny Glover and Sean Penn. Please pick up the red courtesy phone in the lobby. Stat! Maduro needs some help.

5.56mm


26 posted on 07/02/2018 2:51:39 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: detective

What...no CBS or NBC report.?? No photos?? Well Hmmm...


27 posted on 07/02/2018 2:52:23 PM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: detective

Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez say it can’t happen here.


28 posted on 07/02/2018 2:52:55 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: detective

Greedy capitalist pigs again! Trump has ownership in the water through his cronies!


29 posted on 07/02/2018 2:54:31 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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To: redfreedom

Got an iron cannonball?

Socialism will screw it up bare-handed.


30 posted on 07/02/2018 2:57:44 PM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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To: M Kehoe

Bear in mind that we are in the RAINY season. If you don’t have water during the rain, what it will it be like during the dry season.


31 posted on 07/02/2018 2:58:36 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: Red Badger
http://theconversation.com/venezuela-how-a-water-crisis-brought-an-entire-country-to-its-knees-59932

It looks like a situation for Cuffy Meigs to deal with.

32 posted on 07/02/2018 3:01:43 PM PDT by Wissa ("Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult." - Michael Corleone)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Reminds me of the movie about a guy stuck in a rock slide. He has to drink his own urine for 5 days until he frees himself by cutting off his own arm.


33 posted on 07/02/2018 3:02:46 PM PDT by pabianice
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Isn’t the UN supposed to intervene in these types of social calamities. Oh, that’s right, most of the countries in the UN are dictatorships with a very and mostly starving and unarmed populations. And it’s the Democrat socialists and the RINO establishment types in DC who want to disarm all America citizens. Are the American people really that suicidally stupid?


34 posted on 07/02/2018 3:03:40 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: rovenstinez

Wow.

Venezuela is a few months from total collapse.
I posted here (6 years ago) that the oil platforms and pipelines, and pumping stations would burn. I’m sorry that I was correct.

I like Venezuelans. Buena suerte.

5.56mm


35 posted on 07/02/2018 3:04:20 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: NorthMountain

But Marx, Lenin, Mao, Fidel, Che and Hugo never talked about maintenance and repairs so they must not be needed. The problems are coming from right wing sabotage. /s


36 posted on 07/02/2018 3:05:29 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: redfreedom

I agree but the best I can figure is they ran out of chemicals to treat it.


37 posted on 07/02/2018 3:06:54 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: Maine Mariner

O&M ain’t sexy, but it makes the world go ‘round. Commies don’t get that.


38 posted on 07/02/2018 3:08:40 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: redfreedom

Lets just think of the ways.

1: No electricity to run the pumps
2: No chemical deliveries for the treatment process
3: No parts for maintenance and repairs
4: Not enough money (or money that is worth anything) to
hire and retain the Water Quality Control lab people
5: Not enough money (see above) to keep a maintenance and
repair staff in the Facility
6: No Electricity, no Chemicals, no Parts, no Personnel,
no money to train new personnel.

In short the vendors who would normally supply the plant personnel with the tools and materials to do their jobs are not going to give their stuff away for free, the mechanics and chemists who actually operate the plant are not going to give their knowledge and labor away for free.
If you were one of those mechanics or chemists, would you take what you know to be worthless currency in exchange for your labors, or would you take your knowledge and experience into the Black Market in order to KEEP your FAMILY FED?
I worked full time in Water Treatment and Distribution for many years (grade 3 Treatment, grade 4 distribution), there are thousands of ways to shut down a plant, primarily logistics and maintenance.
Same holds true for Waste Water Plants.


39 posted on 07/02/2018 3:13:09 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: FatherofFive

Why does everyone keep saying that they have the largest oil reserves in the world? The oil they have is a low quality crude that there was only refinery in the world that could process it. The refinery was located in St. Croix in US Virgin Islands. The refinery is now closed. No one wants their oil.


40 posted on 07/02/2018 3:13:35 PM PDT by BubbaBobTX ("The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other peoples money." Margaret Thatcher)
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