h/t Richard
Venezuela today
h/t Richard
“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
h/t Richard
To think it was a pleasant winter vacation destination a few years ago. How fast it crashed.
Socialism breaks the entrepreneurial spirit. There are no risk takers. The plantation relies on thei wage-increment slave masters.
They would rather sit and starve and wait for another stronger new savior to lead them.
– reports on raids on the Jewish community’s school, sports center, and syngaogue
http://www.reportero24.com/2016/10/04/migracion-adios-venezuela-dice-la-comunidad-judia/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_Venezuela
http://web.archive.org/web/20131010045049/http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2004/venezuela.htm
http://www.delacole.com/cgi-perl/medios/vernota.cgi?medio=lavozjudia&numero=tribuna%2010¬a=tribuna%2010-16 [fear after police attack a synagogue]
http://www.centrotampa.com/content/Judios-venezolanos-festejan-ano-nuevo-en-Florida-09042013_ [half of the Jewish population left in the last decade, 2013 dated]
————– non-Jews, too
http://www.reportero24.com/2014/09/10/emigracion-venezuela-se-queda-sin-jovenes/ 143 mil venezolanos salieron del país entre los años 2005 y 2010. [143,000 left in a country without young adults]
http://www.reportero24.com/2016/07/21/migracion-oleada-migratoria-a-ecuador-y-peru/
http://www.reportero24.com/2016/07/03/migracion-los-que-se-van-y-los-que-se-quedan/ [those who go and those who stay — many have left]
This is what the alt left wants to bring to the entire world, they believe that they have to destroy all of civilization to be able to rebuild their version of utopia. However once they have destroyed civilization they discover they don’t know how to rebuild anything and the result is starvation, cannibalism and a long barbaric rebuild of civilization.
Describes the path towards class polarization before nationalizing private businesses and property.
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/88901/the-dispossessed (January 2012)
Two years later, on Nov. 2, 2010, agents encircled the structure and declared [the large, safe indoor shopping mall] nationalized. Fences were erected, and within months, over 3,000 “damnificados,” or people left homeless by acts of God, had been moved in to ramshackle dwellings in the parking garage. Chavez: “The construction of socialism cannot deliver vital areas of the people to shopping and excessive consumerism.”
more:
– any establishment consuming more power than it had the same month two years earlier would be sanctioned with rations and charged at higher rates, for not doing its part to help reduce demand.
– The municipality had passed an ordinance requiring all signage to be standardized, “so that no shop has an advantage over another,”
– fine for not displaying flag on Simón Bolívar’s birthday
– what happens to people when their physician leaves the country?