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Venezuelan farmers ordered to hand over produce to state
UK Telegraph ^ | July 21, 2015 | Harriet Alexander

Posted on 07/22/2015 8:31:43 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: C19fan

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”


81 posted on 07/22/2015 10:08:42 AM PDT by Marko413
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To: C19fan

This is what they voted for. They simply loved Hugo and elected him twice. Congratulations!


82 posted on 07/22/2015 10:10:06 AM PDT by Obadiah (Mr. Obama, the time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end.)
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To: Obadiah
This is what they voted for. They simply loved Hugo and elected him twice. Congratulations!

Just as in the Soviet Union during Stalin's time, when Stalin would do something bad, people would say, "Lenin would have never done this." It's the same denial in Venezuela with those who oppose Maduro, "Chavez never would have done this." Guess what, Lenin and Chavez would have done the same exact things that Stalin and Maduro have done.

83 posted on 07/22/2015 10:12:19 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Old Sarge

Hopefully the Watchmen will!


84 posted on 07/22/2015 10:12:22 AM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

Until I’m blue in the face...


85 posted on 07/22/2015 10:13:20 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Kartographer

“...going around counting and measuring and taking off to storage,” supposedly “for fair distribution.”

My small garden in back of my townhouse has a high solid brick wall around it. It is so tall, a man has to use a ladder to get over it. I had 135 pots growing food one year and no one could know that unless the brick wall was scaled, but to get to my walls, which every townhouse has, a man would have to start at one end and move a ladder with him until he got to mine which is in the middle of all those walls.

On one of my walls, there is a climbing rose and those thorns are the worst I have ever seen on a rose vine. The termite man does take a ladder and climb over all those walls. One time I saw the termite man in my garden and went out. He was bleeding from all those thorns grabbing him. I apologized for the vine but he said never to cut down that vine because a man would give trying to get over that wall.

Except for my walls, I don’t know how a farmer or suburb liver could grow food and people not know it. In a bad emergency, even the neighbors not growing food, would know there is food near them and they would go after it. Is the grower of food going to kill those people? I don’t know the answer to that.


86 posted on 07/22/2015 10:15:57 AM PDT by Marcella (TED CRUZ ; Prepping can save your life today.)
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To: Lazamataz

“In 1932. It was called the Holodomor. Millions died.

My grandfather fled the country and that is why I am here today.”

I’m glad your grandfather made it out. Which part of the Ukraine? Western I’m guessing. Did he have to evade the NKVD?


87 posted on 07/22/2015 10:17:35 AM PDT by Justa
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To: C19fan

I hope that pope F. visits Venezuela to see his ideology in action.


88 posted on 07/22/2015 10:23:55 AM PDT by grumpygresh (My real thoughts have been self censored.)
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To: driftdiver
So when the farmers stop farming where will the state get its food?

The Soviets socialists will eliminate those Kulaks farmers and install their own.

89 posted on 07/22/2015 10:24:40 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: C19fan

And Frankie the imbecile pope thinks that unfettered capitalism is the problem. What a moron.


90 posted on 07/22/2015 10:31:38 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: dfwgator

Looking at wikipedia kulak is Russian colloquialism for tightfisted, it literally means fist. So a Spanish equivalent would be tacano (n = squiggly n).


91 posted on 07/22/2015 10:39:27 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: Justa

Details are not available, never got to speak to the guy (dad-side grandfather and dad divorced mom young), but mom told me the general story. He must have been to the west.


92 posted on 07/22/2015 10:49:10 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("In a very short period of time, these will be the good old days." -- unknown Freeper, 2015)
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To: Lurker
“When toilet paper is a luxury good you have achieved socialism.”

Good one Lurker

93 posted on 07/22/2015 10:56:06 AM PDT by GOPJ (They are not undocumented and they are not immigrants. They are illegal aliens. Lurkinnamloomin)
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To: Verbosus

Feel free to use it. I was sure I’d heard it somewhere but I can’t find a source. So of course you may attribute it to me. LOL


94 posted on 07/22/2015 11:00:36 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Wholly shit your intelligent, why didn’t you suggest that to them before. lol


95 posted on 07/22/2015 11:00:50 AM PDT by depenzz ("it isn't a chance you take, its a choice you make")
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To: driftdiver

From the farmers.


96 posted on 07/22/2015 11:15:51 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: driftdiver
Take note of those "No Farms, No Food TM" green bumper stickers you see on every hipster's Suburu Outback on its way to some Farmers' Market to buy kale.

Those stickers are put out by leftist open space "preservationists" ("Land... See Snatch"). Note the registered trademark symbol... yeah, really... like that. They would LOVE to have Venezuela right here in the USA. It's their wet dream.

The message by less totalitarian-minded, more Farming Rights centered groups is No Farmers, No Food. The focus on the farmer rather coveting that family's private property is what makes a HUGE difference.

97 posted on 07/22/2015 11:24:46 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Marcella

Charmin Extra Soft is proof to me that we have a great country. Yes, it clogs up my septic tank more quickly, but it’s a trade-off I’m willing to put up with.

Bernie Sanders wants to reduce the number of choices we have at the supermarket. Totalitarians are the same all over.


98 posted on 07/22/2015 11:34:21 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
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To: varyouga

Ewwwww


99 posted on 07/22/2015 11:35:21 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: GraceG

He is/was a funny guy.


100 posted on 07/22/2015 11:42:42 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Powered by RAGE)
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