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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
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**** Venezuela's Socialist government arrests bakers because of bread shortage
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This is a baker in Caracas being arrested by a government inspector, with his illegal croissants in plain sight (BBC)
Just when you think that Venezuela's Socialist president Nicolás
Maduro can't make himself look more like a total moron than he already
has, something like this comes along: Bakers are being arrested.
Because flour is in short supply in the Socialist economy,
Maduro has ordered bakeries to produce only French bread,
white loaves, or pan canilla. Furthermore, all of these items
are price-controlled, which means that they must be sold at
the government-dictated price.
Bakers are now being arrested for the following crimes:
Inspectors are visiting all the bakeries to make sure that these rules
are followed, and violators are arrested. Over 700 bakeries
were inspected in Caracas.
For example, the bakers working in two different bakeries in the
capital city Caracas were arrested over the weekend for selling bread
loaves smaller than the government-dictated size. According to
William Contreras, the head of Venezuela’s consumer protection agency,
SUNDDE:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"A loaf should weigh 180 grams. These gentlemen here
> produce [their bread loaves] as 140 grams, and charge it as though
> it were 180."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
While they're in jail, state-appointed bakers, probably one Maduro's
political cronies, will run the bakery.
Venezuela's Socialist economy has been a disaster for years. Citizens
have to queue for hours to get basics like milk, rice, flour, ketchup,
diapers, and toilet paper. Crime and violence are rampant. 75% of
Venezuelan homes are living in poverty. The government has ordered
the jailing of factory owners if their factories cannot produce
products as ordered. Venezuelanalysis and Bloomberg and BBC and Miami Herald
Related Stories
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**** Venezuela's political opposition now publishing inflation data
****
Venezuela's inflation rate is the highest in the world. In fact, it's
gotten so high, that Venezuela's Socialist government has ordered the
central bank to stop reporting it.
This has led to something new. At the beginning of this month,
Maduro's political opposition in congress has started publishing its
own inflation rate. They've enlisted economics students to collect
price data, and they've enlisted economics students to collect price
data in five cities and asked former central bank employees to process
it using the central bank's methodology.
Their measurements show prices rose 741 percent in the 12 months to
February, 20.1 percent last month alone and 42.5 percent in the first
two months of 2017. Reuters (9-Mar)
Related Stories
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**** Suspicions grow that Kim Jong-nam's Malaysia assassination was not with VX nerve gas
****
Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korea's child dictator Kim
Jong-un, was assassinated in Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia on
February 13, minutes after two women each rubbed his face with a cloth
in the middle of the airport.
An autopsy by Malaysian doctors concluded that the poison that killed
him was VX nerve gas. Touching just one drop of VX can kill you
within minutes, which appears to have happened to Kim Jong-nam. The
problem is that questions were immediately raised about why the two
women who applied the poison weren't also killed, and why nobody else
in the airport was harmed, including the medics who initially treated
Kim.
A month has passed, and the Malaysian authorities have released
no forensic evidence to back up the VX claim, and indeed almost
no forensic evidence at all. This is raising suspicions that
something doesn't add up. According to one expert:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"I cannot see how the accused women would have
> administered a fatal dose of VX directly to the victim without
> sustaining corresponding life-threatening injuries themselves.
>
> There is also no report of any trace of VX - or of any cloths or
> containers carrying traces of it - at the 'crime
> scene'."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
However, there is one explanation that might make sense. A "binary"
version of VX, called VX2, has two components that are individually
harmless, but lethal when mixed. There were two women involved, and
each one could have applied one of the components to the victim's
face, so that they were only mixed on the victim's face.
That doesn't explain everything -- like how the medics who treated Kim
escaped contamination. Straits Times (Singapore) and Guardian (London)
Related Articles
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros,
William Contreras,
Malaysia, North Korea, Kim Jong-nam, Kim Jong-un,
VX nerve gas, Singapore
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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Venezuela's Socialist government arrests bakers because of bread shortage
- Venezuela's political opposition now publishing inflation data
- Suspicions grow that Kim Jong-nam's Malaysia assassination was not with VX nerve gas
****
**** Venezuela's Socialist government arrests bakers because of bread shortage
****
This is a baker in Caracas being arrested by a government inspector, with his illegal croissants in plain sight (BBC)
Just when you think that Venezuela's Socialist president Nicolás
Maduro can't make himself look more like a total moron than he already
has, something like this comes along: Bakers are being arrested.
Because flour is in short supply in the Socialist economy,
Maduro has ordered bakeries to produce only French bread,
white loaves, or pan canilla. Furthermore, all of these items
are price-controlled, which means that they must be sold at
the government-dictated price.
Bakers are now being arrested for the following crimes:
- Producing croissants or brownies or other "luxury" items that
are not price-controlled, and so can be sold at any price.
- Producing a loaf of bread which is smaller than the
government-dictated size.
- Selling a loaf of bread at higher than the government-dictated
price.
- Not producing bread all day long, from 7 am to 7 pm, even if
there's no flour to make it with.
Inspectors are visiting all the bakeries to make sure that these rules
are followed, and violators are arrested. Over 700 bakeries
were inspected in Caracas.
For example, the bakers working in two different bakeries in the
capital city Caracas were arrested over the weekend for selling bread
loaves smaller than the government-dictated size. According to
William Contreras, the head of Venezuela’s consumer protection agency,
SUNDDE:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"A loaf should weigh 180 grams. These gentlemen here
> produce [their bread loaves] as 140 grams, and charge it as though
> it were 180."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
While they're in jail, state-appointed bakers, probably one Maduro's
political cronies, will run the bakery.
Venezuela's Socialist economy has been a disaster for years. Citizens
have to queue for hours to get basics like milk, rice, flour, ketchup,
diapers, and toilet paper. Crime and violence are rampant. 75% of
Venezuelan homes are living in poverty. The government has ordered
the jailing of factory owners if their factories cannot produce
products as ordered. Venezuelanalysis and Bloomberg and BBC and Miami Herald
Related Stories
- Venezuela's currency becomes worthless, as Zimbabwe introduces new currency (08-Dec-2016)
- Venezuela's economic crisis is hitting Cuba hard (06-Aug-2016)
- Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Puerto Rico - three amigos in Marxist economic destruction (01-Jul-2016)
****
**** Venezuela's political opposition now publishing inflation data
****
Venezuela's inflation rate is the highest in the world. In fact, it's
gotten so high, that Venezuela's Socialist government has ordered the
central bank to stop reporting it.
This has led to something new. At the beginning of this month,
Maduro's political opposition in congress has started publishing its
own inflation rate. They've enlisted economics students to collect
price data, and they've enlisted economics students to collect price
data in five cities and asked former central bank employees to process
it using the central bank's methodology.
Their measurements show prices rose 741 percent in the 12 months to
February, 20.1 percent last month alone and 42.5 percent in the first
two months of 2017. Reuters (9-Mar)
Related Stories
- Hugo Chávez dismantled Venezuela's businesses on purpose to create Socialist Paradise (29-May-2016)
- Venezuela economy close to collapse as Maduro orders jailing of factory owners (15-May-2016)
****
**** Suspicions grow that Kim Jong-nam's Malaysia assassination was not with VX nerve gas
****
Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korea's child dictator Kim
Jong-un, was assassinated in Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia on
February 13, minutes after two women each rubbed his face with a cloth
in the middle of the airport.
An autopsy by Malaysian doctors concluded that the poison that killed
him was VX nerve gas. Touching just one drop of VX can kill you
within minutes, which appears to have happened to Kim Jong-nam. The
problem is that questions were immediately raised about why the two
women who applied the poison weren't also killed, and why nobody else
in the airport was harmed, including the medics who initially treated
Kim.
A month has passed, and the Malaysian authorities have released
no forensic evidence to back up the VX claim, and indeed almost
no forensic evidence at all. This is raising suspicions that
something doesn't add up. According to one expert:
> [indent]<QUOTE>"I cannot see how the accused women would have
> administered a fatal dose of VX directly to the victim without
> sustaining corresponding life-threatening injuries themselves.
>
> There is also no report of any trace of VX - or of any cloths or
> containers carrying traces of it - at the 'crime
> scene'."<END QUOTE>[/indent]
However, there is one explanation that might make sense. A "binary"
version of VX, called VX2, has two components that are individually
harmless, but lethal when mixed. There were two women involved, and
each one could have applied one of the components to the victim's
face, so that they were only mixed on the victim's face.
That doesn't explain everything -- like how the medics who treated Kim
escaped contamination. Straits Times (Singapore) and Guardian (London)
Related Articles
- Malaysia expels North Korean ambassador as relations deteriorate (05-Mar-2017)
- Malaysia - N. Korea relations turn toxic over assassination of Kim Jong-un's half brother (24-Feb-2017)
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros,
William Contreras,
Malaysia, North Korea, Kim Jong-nam, Kim Jong-un,
VX nerve gas, Singapore
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