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Chuck Boone posted:I'm partial to this interpretation of our Libertador: I'm Johnny Knoxville. Welcome to Caracas. fnox posted:
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I guess the birthers were right, they were just looking at the wrong president/country.
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My Imaginary GF posted:This is all very correct, and supported by the contemporary discussions going on within Cuba's major commercial stakeholders like United Fruit Co. and associated Cuban financial institutions. Cuba's entire middle class pretty much fled to the US, taking their skills and competence with them. Just as an example, Cuba was the second country after the US to have nationwide commercial Color TV broadcasting -in 1958. It had only been introduced by RCA in the US four years earlier. In early 1960 or 61, the TV studios of Channel 12 in Havana were gutted and all the RCA color broadcast gear was shipped to Moscow to be Reverse engineered. Now I'm not saying that Color TV was affordable or widely adopted at that time in Cuba, but that there was a level of development in the country pre-Castro that many people seem oblivious to. MullardEL34 fucked around with this message at 08:34 on May 31, 2016 |
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Munin posted:I have to say I do like the firm defense of Batista in this thread whose economic numbers were nearly as phony and embezzlement much more brazen than Maduro's. It's not really a defense of the Batista Dictatorship, It's a reaction to the ridiculous hoops people jump through to defend the Dictatorship that succeeded it. Considering that Castro's Cuba only survived from 1961-1991 by being propped up with Soviet aid, as a USSR sponsored finger in the eye of the US, then endured the "special period" when the soviet money hose was turned off with borderline famine and US food aid, and depended on aid from Chavez after that. Even the Raul Castro led Regime saw the writing on the wall after Chavez died and started making back channel overtures to El Imperio. What is Cuba now? A plantation state that makes most of its hard currency from Tobacco Products, cheap All inclusive resort compounds for fat Europeans and Canadians looking for AYCE buffets, cheap rum cocktails with little paper umbrellas in them, and sex tourism. MullardEL34 fucked around with this message at 09:34 on Jun 1, 2016 |
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Jun 1, 2016 09:12
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El Hefe posted:Yeah but I'm just wanna wait until the civil war begins. GET OUT NOW. Any way you can. My great grandparents fled the Hungarian Red Terror of 1919 as quasi-stowaways on an American flagged ship that was there to pick up some commodity that has been lost to my family history. It had a crew that sort of understood what was going on and was sympathetic since my great grandma was pregnant. She lost that Child on the voyage to the USA. Most of their respective family members had already been slaughtered for the crime of owning farmland by the Lenin Boys. My Grandma was born in the Hungarian Enclave of Fairport, Ohio in 1922. She's 93 now. MullardEL34 fucked around with this message at 09:49 on Jun 1, 2016 |
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Jun 1, 2016 09:41
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If any of you Venezuelagoons Make it to Northeast Ohio, I'll buy you dinner and cocktails and find you a couch to crash on with me or my friends.
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Jun 1, 2016 10:32
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Dapper_Swindler posted:wow, is he gonna go full cultural revolution now. I mean mao did it for the same reasons, but would he even get enough youth to act on it? Dapper_Swindler posted:wow, is he gonna go full cultural revolution now. I mean mao did it for the same reasons, but would he even get enough youth to act on it? Maybe the entire PSUV has syphillis?
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mobby_6kl posted:Kimberly Clark is back! I love it that Kimberly Clark's response to the Govt is "welp, go ahead and take it but don't come to us for help, it's your mess now. Have fun running your Potemkin Kleenex factory."
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Jul 12, 2016 09:44
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Venegoons, this is a totally random question, but does your country have any kind of Amateur Radio culture? I'm a technician class Amateur Radio Operator here in the US, the only HF long distance band I have voice privileges on is the 10 Meter band, which has been opening up to the Caribbean and South America almost daily as of late. I made contacts as far south as Rancho Queimado, Santa Catarina Brazil, almost on the Uruguay border this afternoon from Cleveland, Ohio. If poo poo really gets bad and a media blackout comes to pass, are there Venezuelan Ham radio operators that can step up and get information out? If so, US hams will be listening. We helped out Warsaw Pact states when the USSR was falling. We can help now. MullardEL34 fucked around with this message at 09:55 on Oct 30, 2016 |
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TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:Or you know use twitter because it isn't the loving 1940s. 1940's, more like 1990's and early 2k's. The Internet can easily be shut off. Especially if the government has control of the ISP's. Amateur Radio ops helped get information out during the collapse of the USSR, the Balkan wars, The Orange revolution in Ukraine, and in the lead up, and beginning of the Iraq War. Remember, I mentioned this as a worst case scenario situation. Chuck Boone posted:This is a really interesting question. I've never heard of amateur radio culture in Venezuela. That's not to say that it doesn't exist, but I imagine that the costs of the equipment would make it prohibitively expensive as a hobby. Cuba has maintained an active Amateur Radio service (and pirate anti-Castro radio operators even in current year 2016) even after the Revolution. They build most of their equipment out of scavenged parts from Pre-Castro American TV's and radios and broken Soviet made TV sets, computer power supplies, etc. It doesn't take much money to get on the air if you understand basic electronics and have a pile of junk parts laying around. Cuba is a somewhat unique case because despite it's pre-Castro problems, it was basically on par with the USA when it came to the adoption of modern electronics and communications technology before Castro took power. Havana had regular Color TV broadcasts in 1958. So, even after the Revolution, there was a lot of well made American radio gear floating around that lasted for years and has been passed down within families,repaired using Soviet made parts, and a good segment of the population had the aptitude to repair it because this tech was widely adopted before Castro came to power. (not the color TV stuff, Che stripped the studios in Havana and had it shipped to Moscow as a token of solidarity so that it could be reverse engineered) http://dxersunlimited.blogspot.com/ EDIT: Venezuela does have an Amateur Radio association: http://yv5rcv.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Club_Venezolano MullardEL34 fucked around with this message at 09:34 on Nov 1, 2016 |
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Nov 1, 2016 08:55
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Chuck Boone posted:The U.S. Department of the Treasury's press release on the sanctions against El Aissami is Jesus, and this doesn't even mention his ties to Hezbollah.
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Yes, I know this is sourced from a Breitbart article, but the CFR and senate testimony PDF's are pretty damning when it comes to PSUV collusion with the Sinaloa and Los Zetas Cartels. http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/03/03/narco-state-u-s-confirms-venezuelan-officials-engage-drug-trade/ http://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/030217_ONeil_Testimony_REVISED.pdf http://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/venezuela-options-for-us-policy-030217 I guess we have the plot for season 3 of "Narcos." MullardEL34 fucked around with this message at 09:59 on Mar 4, 2017 |
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Mar 4, 2017 09:56
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Sinteres posted:The government has openly rejected it. Even sicker is the PSUV's flat out of refusal of Medical Aid and supplies, while children are dying of sepsis from skinned knees due to the profound lack of basic antibiotics and sterile dressings. Socialismo o Muerte indeed. MullardEL34 fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Mar 18, 2017 |
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Mar 18, 2017 00:34
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Lightning Lord posted:“Mr. Trump, please open the leez!” he said. “Mr. Trump, open your hair. Don’t let them got to you.” I thought you were joking, then I googled it. I wish I hadn't googled it. What the hell is he even saying?
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Mar 18, 2017 04:00
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In other news, the government seized the General Motors Venezolana plant in Valencia yesterday. I can't wait to see the first Chavista built cars. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-gm-venezuela-idUSKBN17M08I
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Pharohman777 posted:Venezualas attempt to accept charity sounds interesting, can you guys tell me more about this and the aftereffects when it was found that ration packs were being sold? It was never charity. It was a program designed to ensure that bags of subsidized foods made it only to PSUV loyalists, run by the military. This being Venezuela, most of the supplies intended for the program were diverted and sold by the military on the black market.
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May 16, 2017 00:23
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Protesters Burned down the childhood home of Hugo Chavez today. https://apnews.com/85710834dfe045c6a4a5563d5fea6839/Lawmaker:-Hugo-Chavez's-childhood-home-burned-by-protesters
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May 23, 2017 05:43
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Sergg posted:LOL It's the only line of attack they have left, scream racism.
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Jun 14, 2017 14:36
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A fat goony tankie approaches an emaciated Venezuelan child eating out of the trash. "Keep it up Lil' Comrade, your Revolutionary struggle will finally expose the evil of the Yanqui empire to the world!"
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Jun 28, 2017 22:04
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This isn't intended to be political, but I just found this old film that was intended to prepare American Oil workers for jobs in Venezuela in 1956. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaVEKcpUQe8 Question for Venegoons- When did Venezuela nationalize the oil industry? MullardEL34 fucked around with this message at 08:38 on Jul 16, 2017 |
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Jul 16, 2017 08:27
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Ha, I hadn't thought about that. Assholes. During the 2015 elections they went as far as making a fake political party that had an almost identical name and logo as the opposition so that it would dilute the opposition vote.
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Jul 16, 2017 22:03
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Chuck Boone posted:One more fatality, this one in San Cristobal, Tachira: 18 year old Gustavo Villamizar, shot in the head while protesting this evening. Assailants unknown. I was the one who asked about Amateur Radio organizations in Venezuela. I did some more research since then, and it turns out that there are several clubs in Caracas alone! http://gdxc.org/ http://yv5rcv.org/ http://hfdx.org/ MullardEL34 fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Jul 29, 2017 |
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Jul 29, 2017 04:20
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M_Gargantua posted:You can make a fair shortwave SDR (Software defined radio) with a $30 tuner plugged into whatever computer you have. Attach it to some wire strung between two trees and youre in business. That will give you some ability to cover an urban area as long as your aiming for antennas without too much obstructing the line of sight. The off the shelf 100W radios go for about $1,000 here, and those can cover a whole municipality. Even for those without a lot of money, a used CB radio with SSB and a cheap chinese 2m-440 handheld would be better than nothing for local communication, and the CB could work DX when the conditions are right. Most CB's can easily be modified for the 10m amateur radio band if necessary.
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Jul 29, 2017 04:44
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M_Gargantua posted:Yeah, handhelds will be super useful, especially if someone could grab a whole pile and batteries to boot. Venezuela's local version of ebay is actually loaded with used ham gear. https://www.mercadolibre.com.ve/
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Jul 29, 2017 04:58
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Chuck Boone posted:Yes, it's looking like 8-10 killed so far. The explosion in Altamira was intense: It looks like a big Mortar firework, only not fired from a tube.
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Saladman posted:That piece of poo poo, Ciccariello-Maher, has an op-ed on that piece of poo poo website, Jacobin. I feel kind of bad linking it here, but he's a prominent-enough scumbag that I guess it's not any worse than linking to something Trump said. Violence is good when it furthers their chosen ideology. These are people that jerk off to fantasies of the Russian Revolution and Cuba in 1959. MullardEL34 fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Jul 30, 2017 |
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Jul 30, 2017 23:23
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Chuck Boone posted:The biggest show on TV tonight will be the head of the CNE, Tibisay Lucena, looking into a television camera and telling Venezuelans how many people voted the election today. The MUD is estimating that there was approximately 10-12% voter turnout, which would put the number of votes at around 2-2.2 million. These people are comic book villains except they're real and hold an entire country hostage. Smh.
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Thug Lessons posted:I am not trolling. I would actually prefer Venezuela have a left-wing government rather than a right-wing one, while acknowledging the current government has been terrible. gently caress the starving people as long as my my ideology retains a chokehold over the country! Socialismo o muerte!
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Ah, we have entered the AND YOU ARE LYNCHING NEGROES phase of tankie shitposting. Tankies never change.
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Celexi posted:what the gently caress happen in this thread while I slept The Tankies saw their hammer and sickle bat signal and descended on the thread.
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gobbagool posted:The main D&D mod is a literal, non-ironic tankie. I'm sure he feels justice swelling in his bosom every time bob lamoche or thug lessons shits up the thread with their middle school level understanding of what's happening in VZ and to whom the blame belongs. It's a disgrace. How the hell did that happen?
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ComradeCosmobot posted:There's a story about that. Welp, that backfired spectacularly then...
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How much can the CIA even do when the opposition is completely disarmed and the military, state security forces, and armed criminal gangs are firmly under regime control? This isn't a situation where there is some kind of armed insurgency or rogue military element that can be supported, it's a bunch of civilians with wooden shields building street barricades out of trash trying to protect their neighborhoods from armed thugs on motorbikes.
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Feinne posted:The funny thing is that I'm pretty sure the US government will take any government that will actually sort out the PDVSA's poo poo. I feel bad for any government that will have to take on that mess. I'm surprised that PDVSA's crumbling infrastructure hasn't caused a massive environmental disaster yet.
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The disappearing has begun. It's pretty revealing when a regime claims to be leftist but uses 80's death squad tactics against dissidents. They aren't going to start killing people, are they?
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fishmech posted:The Soviets at least knew how to keep their oil industry afloat, that's for sure. Soviet oil tankers weren't getting blocked from ports across the world because they spilled a huge chunk of their oil while being loaded due to rusty pipes, unlike modern Venezuelan tankers.
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In other Batshit Crazy PSUV news, Diosdado Cabello may have attempted to order a hit on Senator Marco Rubio. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article166981822.html
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Pharohman777 posted:The PSUV really has degenerated into becoming a gang of criminals if Cabello did this. I mean, its crazy, but it is something I could totally see Cabello doing.
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Feinne posted:Holy poo poo if there's any actual evidence that Cabello actively has people trying to kill Rubio then could turn really ugly really fast. Apparently US intelligence intercepted communications between Cabello and Cartel affiliated hitmen in Mexico, and thought the threat was credible enough to provide Rubio with an extra security detail that included undercover Miami-dade police officers. Considering that Cabello is a Druglord that makes insane threats against opposition politicians on his TV show almost daily, him personally being in contact with cartel hitmen isn't much of a stretch. MullardEL34 fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Aug 14, 2017 |
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M_Gargantua posted:Also. Why Rubio? I mean thats a pretty stupid person to try to kill. Real low hanging fruit on the political spectrum. Rubio speaks fluent Spanish, is Cuban, ardently anticommunist, and is probably the most vocal critic of the Maduro and Castro regimes in the US Senate. He also gives speeches in Spanish directly to the Venezuelan opposition. To make it even more dumb, this hit may have originated in Cabello being pissed off over a twitter feud with Rubio. MullardEL34 fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Aug 14, 2017 |
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