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Info Guru |
Unfortunately it was unsuccessful, but I'm sure security details around the world are watching. https://heavy.com/news/2018/08...sassination-attempt/ Around the 1:34 mark of the video. More details at the link. “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | ||
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Peace through superior firepower |
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He was blathering on about private auto ownership and the good of society. Yada yada yada. Noticeably missing were Venazuelans not happy with El Presidente. Just rows of military P229 | |||
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wow. The red beret point, over El Presidente's left shoulder, had his eyes all over; and in the sky. We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." ~ Benjamin Franklin. "If anyone in this country doesn't minimise their tax, they want their head read, because as a government, you are not spending it that well, that we should be donating extra...: Kerry Packer SIGForum: the island of reality in an ocean of diarrhoea. | |||
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Noticed the same thing. Looked like he may be anticipating, or just ever aware of surroundings? It's all about clean living. Just do the right thing, and karma will help with the rest. | |||
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Frangas non Flectes |
He saw the blast. ______________________________________________ “There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.” | |||
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E for effort. Better luck next time. --------------------------------------- It's like my brain's a tree and you're those little cookie elves. | |||
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Go ahead punk, make my day |
Dang nice try fellas. | |||
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semi-reformed sailor |
Handgrenade has a five second delay...should try that next time "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
It wouldn't be the first time a dictator set up a failed assassination attempt on himself or his family in order to galvanize the nation and take its attention from the current ailings and also to cement more power for himself. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Frangas non Flectes |
Also wouldn’t be the first time a dictator’s own men tried to kill him with explosives and failed. I referenced it earlier, but the guy behind him gives me a bit of a Von Stauffenberg vibe. Eyes up, lots of deep sighs. ______________________________________________ “There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.” | |||
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Wait, what? |
Flying the damn thing directly to him for detonation would have had a better chance for success. That, or drop a gravity device set to explode on impact from high enough where it couldn’t be heard. Try, try again... “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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PopeDaddy |
They should have gotten one of the eleven year olds from my neighborhood. 0:01 | |||
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Slayer of Agapanthus |
Missed? Its a danged shame. If at first you don't succeed... "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre. | |||
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Lawyers, Guns and Money |
Yeah it's a shame they didn't. A failed coup attempt makes it harder next time. But maduro should sleep with one eye open. "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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Might be, might not be?
https://www.rt.com/news/435136...nation-versions-gas/ ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm. |
Right on cue, he's blaming "right-wing" or "'far-right' groups" (i.e., anyone opposing him) for it. No doubt a new (or renewed) crackdown on them is coming next. | |||
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The Unknown Stuntman |
Should have used a Reaper. The seasons, the sun, the wind and the rain may not fear it - but pretty much everyone else starts shittin' kittens when the Reaper arrives. | |||
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Now in Florida |
In fairness to him, it usually IS the groups that are opposing you that go for the assassination attempts. | |||
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Mensch |
JEFE, I'M COMING!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt" "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris | |||
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