It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
Everyone have your "I love Hugo" celebration. Not everyone agrees....but that doesn't seem a right we have anymore. Disagreement is ignorance or stupidity or buying propaganda. Disagreement can't even be a lack of information... Nope.. it's outright stupidity or being a fool. So I've been told now...repeatedly.
Originally posted by Podius1
N Korea, Iran, Venzuela, & Cuba have one particular thing in common....they won't sell out their countries to the Banker Cabal who uses the U.S. to sacrafice their men and women
there is a direct tweeter er Twitter link in the article.
Venezuelans still don’t know what kind of cancer Chavez has or what his prognosis is. And Chavez was too ill to attend his own inauguration on Jan. 10, leaving a leadership vacuum in his wake. In fact, the president’s most public appearances these days are on Twitter, where he sends messages like this one: “We have returned again to the Venezuelan homeland. Thank God!! Thank you beloved homeland!! Here we continue treatment.”
and what do we know? not that much
AP/ February 28, 2013, 2:09 PM
Hugo Chavez fighting for his life, Venezuela's vice president says again.
He might be dying after all, but hes not dead yet.
Maduro also called for Venezuelans to keep praying for Chavez and to remain loyal to the president. He said Chavez's health had suffered because he had dedicated himself "body and soul" to his work as president.
Chavez himself has previously acknowledged that he was neglecting his health in recent years, often staying up late and drinking dozens of cups of coffee a day.
The president has undergone surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation treatments since June 2011, when he first announced his cancer diagnosis. He hasn't specified the type of cancer or the exact location in his pelvic region where his tumors have been removed.
Originally posted by SloAnPainful
reply to post by boymonkey74
He's a socialist.... president.
Hugo Chavez
ETA: I guess he's not a dictator...
-SAP-
N Korea is a totalitarian communist state while Venezuela is pretty much the opposite, being a socialist democracy. Cuba is somewhere in between with it's marxist-socialist semi presidential govern.
i suppose that is an offshoot of his personal anti-American Imperialism stance... or was that just refusing to be swindled by the power structure of the Anglo-American empire over global financial; systems
Originally posted by TheComte
The reason there were food shortages was because the owners of the manufacturing facilities cut production of food as a protest against Chavez's price fixing.
You see, people were speculating with food and driving up the price so it was unaffordable for the poor. Chavez imposed price restrictions. The owners of the factories cut production because they didn't like it. Chavez sent in the army and forced the factories to manufacture food at full production.
Food shortages were the fault of the wealthy owners in the food industry. They would have starved their own people because Chavez cut into their profits.
edit on 28-2-2013 by TheComte because: (no reason given)
A price ceiling set above the equilibrium market-clearing price is usually as irrelevant as a law limiting joggers to 65 miles per hour. But price ceilings below equilibrium create shortages and drive up opportunity costs–only the legal monetary price is kept from rising. Shortages waste resources because less efficient mechanisms prevail when prices cannot adjust. Price ceilings induced shortages of thousands of items (e.g., gasoline, auto parts, and some types of food and clothing) during World Wars I and II. Widespread shortages also followed President Nixon's 1971 wage/price freeze, which was phased out and then largely abandoned by 1976.[1]
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
reply to post by Exitt
N Korea is a totalitarian communist state while Venezuela is pretty much the opposite, being a socialist democracy. Cuba is somewhere in between with it's marxist-socialist semi presidential govern.
The problem with this argument is that even though communists and socialists get mad and argue, they are essentially cut from the same leftist ideology, and socialism is a bridge to the more drastic communism. Fabian socialism, in particular, represents an incremental implementation toward communism. Even Karl Marx said socialism was just a bridge toward communism.
Antony Sutton explained Hegelianism and how TPTB use it today to achieve their goals, which is a One World Totalitarian govt, and yes socialism is part of that.
www.prisonplanet.com...
Well, if you look at the current situation, wouldn't you say it is totally obvious, consumerist capitalism IS the one world totalitarian government of today, while all the other political models are slowly disappearing. I think their plan worked just fine.
Plenty of socialist states in the world where things are going well and no signs of communist tendencies.
Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology, officially based upon the theories of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Lenin, that promotes the development and creation of an international communist society through the leadership of a vanguard party presiding over a revolutionary socialist state that represents a dictatorship of the proletariat.[1]
A society organised through a vanguard party on Marxist-Leninist principles seeks to purge anything considered bourgeois, or idealist from it;[2] in addition, it seeks to implement universal atheism through the abolition of religion.[3][4] It supports the creation of a single-party state; it rejects political pluralism external to communism, claiming that the proletariat need a single, able and unifying political party through which to represent themselves and exercise political leadership.[5] Through the policy of democratic centralism, the communist party is the supreme political institution of the Marxist-Leninist state and is the prime legal force of societal organisation.[6]
The Marxist-Leninist state utilizes a state socialist economy, based on scientific planning and democratic consensus.[7] It supports public ownership and organisation of the economy through the abolition of private ownership of land and the means of production, which become common property utilised by the people through the state.[8] In the past, it typically replaced the role of market in the capitalist economy with centralized state management of the economy, which is known as a command economy.[8] However in recent decades an alternative Marxist-Leninist economy that exists is the Socialist market economy that has been used by the People's Republic of China and the socialist-oriented market economy in the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam