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To: RMF who wrote (69105)	2/22/2014 11:26:47 AM
From: greatplains_guy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

Is Western Media Ignoring a Violent Political Crackdown in Venezuela? Ed Krayewski Feb. 20, 2014 4:52 pm Venezuela has seen protests against Nicolas Maduro’s failing government for weeks, and they escalated after opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez surrendered himself to government authorities on charges of inciting violence. Francisco Toro at the Caracas Chronicles writes that a state-sponsored campaign of violence in Venezuela last night has changed the nature of what’s happening in the country: There are now dozens of serious human right abuses: National Guardsmen shooting tear gas canisters directly into residential buildings. We have videos of soldiers shooting civilians on the street. And that’s just what came out in real time, over Twitter and YouTube, before any real investigation is carried out. Online media is next, a city of 645,000 inhabitants has been taken off the internet amid mounting repression, and this blog itself has been the object of a Facebook “block” campaign. What we saw were not “street clashes”, what we saw is a state-hatched offensive to suppress and terrorize its opponents. After the major crackdown on the streets of major (and minor) Venezuelan cities last night, I expected some kind of response in the major international news outlets this morning. I understand that with an even bigger and more photogenic freakout ongoing in an even more strategically important country, we weren’t going to be front-page-above-the-fold, but I’m staggered this morning to wake up, scan the press and find… Nothing. Read the whole thing, full of links, here(http://caracaschronicles.com/2014/02/20/venezuela-the-game-changed-last-night/). According to Reuters, a 17-year-old beauty queen shot yesterday was the fifth fatality of the unrest. President Obama criticized the arrest of protesters by the Venezuelan government while in Mexico yesterday, and urged it to address “legitimate grievances.” reason.com

To: RMF who wrote (69105)	2/22/2014 11:35:50 AM
From: greatplains_guy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

There is a hue difference between increasing the money supply in a growing economy and opening the floodgates in a stagnant and by some accounts shrinking economy. I suspect we can agree that Greenspan was not the wizard his contemporaries seem to have thought him to be. I certainly had a better opinion of him then than I do now. He was hands down better than Bernanke. Yellen appears to be another from the stoke inflation crowd. When will you give credit to Obama for what he has done? President GW Bush inherited the Clinton recession. Were you making excuses for President Bush because of Clinton's incompetence? Or is it simply a partisan thing where democrats are good and you claim that Republicans are bad? Thinking that we are somehow immune from the excesses of Tin Pot former democracies is foolish. This anti-American bozo has a phone and a pen and will act like a tin pot dictator rather than deal with pro-American politicians. The slope froma vibrant economy to a mess is very slippery. The signs are becoming more obvious and when it goes, it will crash fast.