A comment on this:
"CIA destabilization of Venezuela?"
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"Time, I say, for the Company to get to good business."
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Mark
Ottawa
That damm CIA again, messing with plans for Hugo's dicatorship for life, how dare they.
Thank God the leftie thugs have Dawg on their side.
"Certainly, the oil money Chávez has plowed into poor neighborhoods (at the expense of an oil industry suffering chronic underinvestment) has reduced poverty."
That's where Cohen's encoded bullshit betrays itself. Redistribution of cash has NEVER reduced poverty. It's staightforwardly proven: simply withold the transfers and see what happens... if the people become poor again, they were never wealthy. Wealth requires at it's very base independence. Wealth is the capacity to earn, not to plunder, to suck forever.
It's one of the fundamental errors of the parasitic mindest of socialism that wealth merely requires the redistribution of other people's money. [or rights or power or priveledge or land or, or, or...]
Chavez doesn't get it. Cohen doesn't either. [But then again, neither does Cohen's pathetic boss, judging by NYT's share values and declining market share.]
Ran: See:
"The Perils of Petrocracy"
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Mark
Ottawa
Gawd, Mark! Do I really have to click to the NYT's wrecksite?
NYTimes and it's dead tree flavours are on my media exclusion list. I'll read the Guard, the Nation, Puffington, even the Ecommunist... but not, and only not, Pinky Sulzberger's media. Hell, I even went [once] to Dawg's blog.
"Hell, I even went [once] to Dawg's blog."
Ok, but did you enhale?
What Chavez intends to do, and what will happen are two different things. When you have a lot of money swishing around it makes people greedy, and corrupt, and if someone gets greedy and does not like what Chavez is doing ,well you could have a nother coup in the making ,( and it will not be the CIA,).
Posted at 2007-11-30 03:52:42 [PermaLink]From the Miami Herald.
Stalin Gonzalez, a leader of the student opposition to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. And yes, he was named after you-know-who and raised in a Marxist-Leninist family.
González believes that Chávez's socialist
rhetoric is a lie because the country has not set about to create a working class, instead surviving off its oil wealth.
''This government talks a lot, but it does very little,'' González said. "Chávez isn't a Marxist-Leninist, he's a crazy military officer.''
"Stalin Gonzales?" Really? Where's the fricken T-shirt?
Man, it's hard to tell the players without a program sometimes.
If I ever start a rock band, I'm calling it "Stalin Gonzales."
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