“The market in physical gold is tiny, and largely comprised of nut cases.”
Turns out transporting 211,000 kg. of gold to Caracas isn’t exactly straightforward. The basic problem is insurance. Felix Salmon has the skinny: I have no idea how many...
Life
Exponential
It used to be that when the government wanted to shut down a TV station, or a radio broadcaster, they’d at least go through the motions of couching...
The Libyan uprising through rojo-rojito-tinted glasses
AVN: “Obama demands Gaddafi’s resignation as a condition to stopping the blood-bath in Libya.” TeleSUR: “Cameron affirms that aggression against the Libyan people was ‘necessary'” Aporrea: “NATO using sonic...
Stand By Your Man Chronicles
Showcasing once more his impecable sense of timing, Hugo Chávez picked Sunday evening for…a stirring denunciation of the Gaddafi Regime’s foes. And that, my friend, is how the...
"I don't ask why patients lie, I just assume they all do"
The quote is from everyone’s favorite cantankerous physician, Dr. House. I thought about it today when reading that, in the next few days, Hugo Chávez will return to...
The Loudmouth and the Scorpion
The AP’s roundup on the latest batch of VTV Wiretap broadcasts is well worth a read. The highlight? Mario Silva’s hilarious line of defense. The recordings, it turns out,...
Judging-a-book-by-its-cover Chronicles
Just look at the pretty stuff your tax bolivars pay! I mouth off in the Spanish language site…
Where were you seven years ago?
August 15th, 2004. The day of the failed Recall Referendum against Hugo Chavez. For months we planned, we signed, we went to Reparos, we trusted that we had...
Secrets and Lies
In a way, the most remarkable thing about El Universal’s front page story on the murder rate today isn’t that 8,839 Venezuelans have been murdered so far this...
Dystopia Unarmed
Four days of rioting in seven cities. Hundreds of shops looted. Mass disorder on a scale unseen in 30 years. Five dead. Why? It’s simple. In England, nobody...
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