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Venezuelan lawmaker Jose Guerra dropped a bombshell on Twitter Tuesday: The Russian Boeing 777 that had landed in Caracas the day before was there to spirit away 20 tons of gold from the vaults of the country’s central bank. The claim set off a welter of social media speculation and outrage. Just another outlandish comment from a lawmaker trying to draw attention to the plight of crisis-torn Venezuela? Perhaps not. For one thing, Guerra is a former central bank economist who remains in touch with old colleagues there. For another, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg News Tuesday that 20 tons of gold have been set aside in the central bank for loading. Worth some $840 million, the gold represents about 20 percent of its holdings of the metal in Venezuela, the person said. He provided no further information on plans for those bars. ______________________________________________ Life is short. It’s shorter with the wrong gun… | ||
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^^^^ This would be in any way shocking. Socialists are well known for jumping ship with the money that belongs to the people. Because the elite in socialist countries are more equal than the peasants. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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In other breaking news, Forbes has listed Maduro as one of its top ten richest men in the world for the first time. | |||
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Tinker Sailor Soldier Pie |
Well yeah, he just increased his wealth by $840 million. ~Alan Acta Non Verba NRA Life Member (Patron) God, Family, Guns, Country Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan | |||
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Low Speed, High Drag |
Well I'd bet it was more like $420 million.... You know Old Vlad has ta get his cut "Blessed is he who when facing his own demise, thinks only of his front sight.” Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem Montani Semper Liberi | |||
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| Something wild is loose  |
More like 40/60. Or 30/70. You want out Bugsy? Ya gotta pay.... "And gentlemen in England now abed, shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's Day" | |||
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| Lawyers, Guns and Money  |
Maduro will soon be dead. Vlad will keep the gold. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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That's what I'm thinking. Talk about a dead man walking. | |||
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He probably leaked it so they know where to start looking for a motive. | |||
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| Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
"No, no, no! They had to cache it somewhere safe so that the Yankees wouldn't get to steal it when they invade, and so that the Chavistas can fund the countercountercountercounterrevolution!!" Yeah, that marching powder can get pricey, especially when the girls decide they want to go on a power shopping binge. | |||
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| Knows too little about too much  |
Talk about your "Golden Parachute"! RMD TL Davis: “The Second Amendment is special, not because it protects guns, but because its violation signals a government with the intention to oppress its people…” Remember: After the first one, the rest are free. | |||
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| Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
Well, maybe it's like the Duvaliers - letting them steal before they ran out of Haiti turned out to be the cheapest way of getting rid of the bastards. | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
You load 16 tons, whadda ya get? The other 4 tons go to Vladimir, comrade. Rope is cheap and plentiful, and trees are abundant. ____________________________________________________ "I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023 | |||
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| Just because you can, doesn't mean you should |
Should make those supporting Maduro a little nervous and that's probably the idea behind leaking the story. The thugs behind him might want to check to verify their ticket on that last helicopter out. They don't hold all that many passengers. ___________________________ Avoid buying ChiCom/CCP products whenever possible. | |||
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Looks like Maduro is preparing his nest when he will make his escape. Then mid air something will go wrong with his jet somewhere over the deepest part of the ocean making Vladimir 840 million richer. ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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| 4-H Shooting Sports Instructor  |
If he was smart he should have been on that plane with the gold.. along with his newly appointed Russian body guards. _______________________________ 'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but > because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton NRA Endowment Life member NRA Pistol instructor...and Range Safety instructor Women On Target Instructor. | |||
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I hear you can buy a lot of Polonium-210 with that much gold... Bet he get's a great deal on that. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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| Green grass and high tides  |
This exactly what cracks me up with all these idealistic idiots who think that socialism and this social justice crapola is so good for everyone. They have no concept of history or think history has no affect on the future. They have no clue. It is so farcical. "Practice like you want to play in the game" | |||
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Tennessee Ernie Ford | |||
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delicately calloused |
He knows it's over. Now he's just gutting the house before the sheriff comes to evict him. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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