Most everyone suspected fraud, but these numbers prove
it and our government and media refuse to do anything about it.
As each state reported their final election stats, the evidence
of voter fraud is astounding.
Massive voter fraud has been reported in areas of OH and FL,
with PA, WI and VA, all are deploying personnel to investigate election results.
Here are just a few examples of what has surfaced with
much more to...
* In 59 voting districts in the Philadelphia region,
Obama received 100% of the votes with not even
a single vote recorded for Romney. ( a mathematical and
statistical impossibility).
* In 21 districts in Wood County Ohio, Obama
received 100% of the votes where the GOP
inspectors were illegally removed from their polling locations -
and not one single vote was recorded for Romney. ( another statistical impossibility).
* In Wood County Ohio, 106,258 voted in a county with only 98,213
eligible voters.
* In St. Lucie Co., FL, there were 175,574 registered eligible
voters- 247,713 votes were cast.
* National SEAL Museum, a
polling location in St. Lucie Co., FL had a 158% voter turnout.
* Palm Beach County, FL had a 141% voter
turnout.
* In Ohio County, Obama won by 108% of the total number of
eligible voters.
NOTE: Obama won in every state that did not
require a Photo ID and lost in every state that
did require a Photo ID in order to vote.
Imagine that!
voter fraud
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voter fraud
Never argue with an idiot; He'll beat you to death with stupidity.
I AM NOT SAYING THERE SHOULD BE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR STUPIDITY,
BUT, WHY DON'T WE JUST TAKE THE SAFETY LABELS OFF OF EVERYTHING
AND LET THE PROBLEM SOLVE ITSELF?"
I AM NOT SAYING THERE SHOULD BE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR STUPIDITY,
BUT, WHY DON'T WE JUST TAKE THE SAFETY LABELS OFF OF EVERYTHING
AND LET THE PROBLEM SOLVE ITSELF?"
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Re: voter fraud
You havent got over it yet huh I bet carl rove hasnt got over it yet either 
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Re: voter fraud
its not get over it.jiggin4bass wrote:You havent got over it yet huh I bet carl rove hasnt got over it yet either
its some people trying to still go by rule of law. while guys like you are allowing it to happen.
it almost reminds me of this guy and how he got started
Abuse of Power
Venezuela's judicial and legislative branches of government have become rubber stamps for all policies driven by President Hugo Chávez. Anybody who dares challenge the President’s authority faces harassment at best and legal charges at worst.
This is where we could end up.
But you dont care do you. long as you get your 30 pieces of silver
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Re: voter fraud
does this sound like anyone we know ?
Abuse of Power
Over a decade ago, President Hugo Chávez rose to power promising a moderate course in ending what he called the corruption of Venezuela’s old guard. Yet, it did not take long for Mr. Chávez to take off his mask of moderation and embark upon a radical path, compromising the integrity of Venezuela’s democracy and civil rights guarantees. By systematically striping the rights of his own people and silencing those who oppose him, President Chávez has transformed himself into yet another Latin American caudillo.
The radicalization of the Chávez government is ever intensifying. Since the February 2009 referendum to end presidential term limits – an election Mr. Chávez won by illegally mobilizing state resources – the Venezuelan strongman has escalated his rhetoric and actions against Venezuela’s free press, the private sector, and his political adversaries both at home and abroad. President Chávez’s leftist antics resemble those of the traditional authoritarian leaders infamous in Latin America, rather than those of modern and moderate politicians.
The Venezuelan government has sought to silence the opposition by persecuting and harassing political figures, whether they are elected officials or otherwise. Opposition governors in the states of Miranda and Zulia have seen their budgets significantly reduced by the federal government. Maracaibo Mayor Manuel Rosales was forced into exile after the federal government indicted him on questionable corruption charges, and Sucre’s Mayor Carlos Ocariz is often threatened with being stripped of his official duties.
It is becoming increasingly clear that while Hugo Chávez was democratically elected, he is using authoritarian means to crush any opposition to his government. In doing so, he is eroding civil liberties and the sanctity of private property, as well as banning all effective means of political discourse in Venezuela.
Abuse of Power
Over a decade ago, President Hugo Chávez rose to power promising a moderate course in ending what he called the corruption of Venezuela’s old guard. Yet, it did not take long for Mr. Chávez to take off his mask of moderation and embark upon a radical path, compromising the integrity of Venezuela’s democracy and civil rights guarantees. By systematically striping the rights of his own people and silencing those who oppose him, President Chávez has transformed himself into yet another Latin American caudillo.
The radicalization of the Chávez government is ever intensifying. Since the February 2009 referendum to end presidential term limits – an election Mr. Chávez won by illegally mobilizing state resources – the Venezuelan strongman has escalated his rhetoric and actions against Venezuela’s free press, the private sector, and his political adversaries both at home and abroad. President Chávez’s leftist antics resemble those of the traditional authoritarian leaders infamous in Latin America, rather than those of modern and moderate politicians.
The Venezuelan government has sought to silence the opposition by persecuting and harassing political figures, whether they are elected officials or otherwise. Opposition governors in the states of Miranda and Zulia have seen their budgets significantly reduced by the federal government. Maracaibo Mayor Manuel Rosales was forced into exile after the federal government indicted him on questionable corruption charges, and Sucre’s Mayor Carlos Ocariz is often threatened with being stripped of his official duties.
It is becoming increasingly clear that while Hugo Chávez was democratically elected, he is using authoritarian means to crush any opposition to his government. In doing so, he is eroding civil liberties and the sanctity of private property, as well as banning all effective means of political discourse in Venezuela.
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does this remind u of Obama with GM and some banks
Maybe there is more to come but first That nasty ol 2nd Amendment
Timeline of Expropriations
Hugo Chávez’s government intervention spans from oil and gas to a wide range of other strategic sectors and industries, including aluminum, cement, gold, iron, steel, farming, transportation, electricity, food production (rice, fruit juice, sugar and meat), banking, paper and the media.
2012
OCTOBER
•An analysis by the Venezuelan Confederation of Industries (Conindustria) reveals that from 2002 to 2012 the Chávez government has taken over 1168 foreign and domestic companies.
SEPTEMBER
•President Hugo Chavez’s wave of expropriations reaches pop culture, as the popular Venezuelan band Los Amigos Invisibles their song “Loser” was used in a pro-Chávez campaign plug without the band’s permission.
AUGUST
•N/A
JULY
•N/A
JUNE
•Chávez secures a loan from an off-budget fund to finance the expropriation of Siderurgica del Turbio SA, a steel products company.
MAY
•N/A
APRIL
•N/A
MARCH
•Chávez threatens to expropriate banks that support his political opposition, stating that, “it wouldn’t be bad at all to issue a decree and bring those firms under state control.”
•The government threatens to nationalize the water utility of the State of Monagas, after the water supply was polluted by an oil spill. The state’s governor, Jose Briceño, refused the PSUV’s request to turn on the water pumps, claiming the water supply was still contaminated and not fit for drinking. After doing so, party leaders suspended the governor and took control of Monagas state.
•The Venezuelan Central Bank reports that public and private investment in the Venezuelan economy is 10.3 percent below the 2008 level. Experts suggest that expropriations and other Chávez economic policies are to blame.
FEBRUARY
•Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA claims that it has paid Exxon Mobil Corp roughly $250 million in compensation for nationalized assets, hundreds of millions less than the $908 million ordered by the International Chamber of Commerce. Chávez claims that the difference reflects the debt owed by Exxon to PDVSA.
•The Barbados-based holding company Gambrinus, Corp files an arbitration claim in the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) over the nationalization of a fertilizer project.
•PepsiCo’s Venezuelan subsidiary is given four days by the government to prove that it has complied with Chávez’s latest round of price controls. Chávez has threatened to seize the company, along with one of its partners, Empresas Polar, if it does not comply with the price controls.
•The member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our America (ALPA), an alliance of socialist and socialist-leaning governments that includes Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, declares its support for nationalizations, proclaiming their desire to “strengthen the role of the State as a central player in the economy.”
•The packaging company Smurfit Kappa Group, having posted a strong 2011 business report, reveals fears that its Venezuelan operations will be nationalized by the Chávez government.
•Chávez declares that he will expropriate companies that fail to comply with his price controls, stating that “If a company doesn’t accept the new prices, we will nationalize it. We don’t have any problem doing that.”
JANUARY
•Chávez threatens to expropriate banks that refuse to finance agricultural projects promoted by his government.
•Congresswoman and presidential pre-candidate for the Venezuelan opposition primaries, María Corina Machado, stood up in the middle of on one of Chávez’ notoriously long winded speeches, in defense of Venezuela’s private property, stating that “expropriation is robbery”.
•Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) awarded Exxon a net payment of only $747m, substantially less than the $6.5-7bn it was said to be seeking.
•Chávez government announces plans to leave the World Bank’s international arbitration body potentially affection around 20 companies with unsettle led disputes and putting billions of dollars of foreign investment at risk.
•Chávez’ withdraw from the Washington D.C. based ICSID would mean that disputes with foreign companies, including an unsettled disagreement with ExxonMobil, will be heard by Venezuelan judges.
•Venezuelan Confederation of Industries (Conindustria): Over the past seven years the government has levied more than 1,087 private businesses recording the largest amount of seizures at 497 during 2011.
•Think-tank Econoalítica estimates the cost of appropriations at USD 22 billion.The Federation of Spanish Centers of Venezuela (FECEVE) asks the Spanish consulate in Caracas to support the resolution of the pending expropriation cases of approximately 300 Spanish citizens currently living in Venezuela.
•Venezuela’s Energy Minister says an agreement cannot be reached with ConocoPhillips over the company’s expropriated assets.
•President Chávez threatens to ignore any ICSID decision regarding a multi-billion claim for a nationalized oil project by Exxon Mobil Corp., going as far as saying that he will pull out of the arbitration panel altogether.
2011
DECEMBER
•Chávez government expropriates 16,479,300 square meters of land in different states around the country under the banner of the Housing Emergency Law.
•Chávez orders the creation of the Superior Strategic Council for Expropriations, a 15-member council tasked with assisting and facilitating the government’s expropriation policies.
•Venezuelan government expropriates the old headquarters of the Venezuelan newspaper, El Nacional.
•Between 2007 and 2011, only 2.2 percent of the total amount paid by the Venezuelan government to expropriated companies went to domestic companies.
•Chávez government expropriates all assets belonging to Grafitos del Orinoco C.A.
•In a controversial ruling, the Venezuelan Supreme Court endorses the non-enforcement of Criminal Code sanctions against those occupying private landholdings and plots of land in Venezuela, claiming the “right to food.”
NOVEMBER
•Chávez announces that “the plan for the elimination of private property has only begun.”
•Venezuelan government takes control of “Los Guaiqueríes de Margarita,” a basketball team formerly owned by expropriated ferry company Conferry.
•Chávez orders the takeover of 1,429,71 square meters of land from a Caracas car dealership.
•Chávez issues stern warning to a number of national and multinational companies to comply with the newly enacted Law for Fair Costs and Prices. U.S. giants Colgate, Palmolive, Pepsi-Cola, Nestlé, Jonhson and Johnson, and Coca-Cola are among the companies under the government’s watchful eye.
•Chávez threatens to expropriate any bank that fails to provide Venezuelans with long term mortgage credits.
•President Chávez announces “rescue” of 580 hectares in the Quíbor Valley in the state of Lara, where 66 percent of the nation’s onions, 36 percent of peppers, and 16 percent of tomatoes are grown.
•Private Property Rights Observatory records show that approximately 2,534 violations to private property have been registered in Venezuela between 2005 and November 2011.
OCTOBER
•Chávez expropriates popular tourist destination “Los Roques,” beginning its transition into a federally- controlled territory.
•Venezuelan government takes over laboratories owned by Opin Farma in the state of Miranda.
•Thirteen tourism companies operating from the Simón Bolívar Airport in Maiquetía receive a 30-day eviction notice, which forces them to abandon the business places they have occupied for approximately 15 years.
•Chávez launches an investigation of Italian dairy company, Parmalat, for allegedly hoarding powdered milk.
•A year after the expropriation of Owens Illinois, the company’s workers claim production is at half capacity.
•Chávez signs order authorizing the temporary take over and evaluation process of the Orpin Farma laboratories in Guarenas.
•Venezuela’s National Assembly approves law that grants absolute power to the government to regulate rent prices and even force owners to give away their properties after a certain period of time.
SEPTEMBER
•Chávez government says it is willing to pay a combined sum of $2.5 billion out of the $12 billion demanded by Exxon Mobile and ConocoPhillips in their arbitration cases against Venezuela before the World Bank’s International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
•U.S. bottle maker Owens Illinois files an arbitration claim against Venezuela before ICSID, following Chávez’s nationalization of the company’s operations in October 2010.
•Oklahoma-based, oil-services company Helmerich & Payne Inc., files a lawsuit against Venezuela in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia over the 2010 government takeover of 11 drilling rigs.
•Venezuelan government announces that Irish cardboard maker, Smurfit Kappa Group Plc, will not be compensated for its seized 12,000 hectares of forestry plantations.
•Chávez announces the nationalization of Venezuela’s gold industry.
•Chávez orders the nationalization of Conferry, a domestic company that provides ferry services to popular tourist destinations.
•Chávez’s government expropriates storehouse used in the processing of personal hygiene products.
•Three companies (Oci-Metalmecánica, C.A., KSB Venezuela, Carioli C.A) which provide production and assembling services to the automotive industry are expropriated by the Venezuelan government.
AUGUST
•Chávez orders the expropriation of all farmland owned by Irish cardboard maker Smurfit Kappa Group Plc (SKG) in the states of Portuguesa, Lara, and Cojedes.
•The Chávez government announces plans to nationalize entire gold mining industry in Venezuela with the exception of Rusoro, a Russian-Canadian mining company.
•Steel tube-maker Tenaris initiates arbitration proceedings against Venezuela before the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
•Chávez orders the expropriation of any property belonging to aluminum company Aluminios de Barquisimeto, C.A.
•Canadian gold mining company Gold Reserve increases its claim against Venezuela from $1.9 billion to $2.1 billion.
•Chávez threatens to expropriate all water bottling companies, affecting Venezuelan subsidiaries of U.S. companies Pepsi and Coca-Cola.
JULY
•In Maracaibo, 47 expropriated farmlands remain abandoned, 24 farms continue to be partially or completely intervened, and the Peonío de Jesús “Chucho” Meleán farm is militarized.
•Venezuela’s Ministry of Energy and Oil takes control of four gas stations in the Greater Caracas area.
•Texas-based Koch Industries files arbitration case against the Chávez’s government before the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in relation to the government’s expropriation of a fertilizer plant that the U.S. company built in the 1990s.
JUNE
•Venezuela moves forward with the expropriation of Argentine steel company Matesi, declaring all assets to be of “public and social interest.”
•Chávez government confirms the compulsory acquisition of all personal property and real estate of glass company Vivex.
•Chávez approves expropriation of 129 apartments in the Augusto Malavé Villalba complex in Carabobo State.
•Venezuelan government approves the expropriation of 22 plots of land in Miranda State.
MAY
•The Canary Islands’ parliament continues demanding that the Zapatero government intervene on behalf of Spanish companies expropriated by the Chávez government.
•Bolivarian militias take over several parking lots in Caracas.
•At least 18 construction firms are “temporarily” taken over by the Ministry of the Interior and Justice to work on the development of the Uribante Caparo dam.
•Chávez expropriates lots, parcels and apartments belonging to banks under the control of Fogade, the national Deposits Guarantee and Bank Protection Fund.
•Venezuelan president threatens to expropriate large, supermarket chain EPA if they don’t play by the government’s rules.
•Chávez confirms expropriation of a two-hectare plot of land in Sucre.
APRIL
•The Canary Islands’ parliament keeps pressuring the Spanish government to intervene on behalf of Spanish companies expropriated by the Chávez government.
•Chávez authorizes the forceful acquisition of 47 apartments in Carabobo.
•The Venezuelan government initiates process to take over 300,000 hectares of land from an English company.
•Chávez orders the temporary intervention of Viviendas de Salamanca C.A and the immediate takeover of Distribuidora San Juan, C.A.
MARCH
•Venezuela estimates that an international court will award Exxon Mobil Corp. and ConocoPhillips less than $2.5 billion for assets nationalized by President Chávez in 2007.
•Williams Companies Inc. files international arbitration suit against Venezuela, seeking compensation for two natural-gas compression facilities seized by the government in 2009.
•President Chávez legalizes the expropriation of land and real estate across Venezuela deemed “vacant” as a response to country’s housing shortage.
FEBRUARY
•Canadian company Crystallex files arbitration suit against Venezuelan government citing, “breach of the [Canada-Venezuela Agreement for the Promotion and Protection of Investments] treaty’s protections against expropriation, unfair and inequitable treatment and discrimination.”
JANUARY
•President Chávez orders the takeover of more than two acres of land in a western district of Caracas owned by Empresas Polar.
•A survey by Datanálisis finds that 80% of Venezuelans want private property to be respected.
•President Chávez threatens Banco Provincial de Venezuela, an affiliate of Spanish bank BBVA, with expropriation.
2010
DECEMBER
•President Chávez orders the expropriation of 43 lots south of Maracaibo Lake.
•According to Datanálisis, 74% of Venezuelans reject the government’s expropriations of private companies.
•President Chávez threatens to take control of local unit of Spanish bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya and other large financial institutions.
•Venezuelan government threatens to expel and expropriate plants from Toyota and other “Asian and U.S. auto companies operating in Venezuela if they fail to share technology with locals.”
NOVEMBER
•Venezuelan government issues Decree 39.553, ordering the expropriation of all assets from Lomas de la Hacienda, El Encantado, Mata Linda, El Fortín and San Antonio.
•Vice President Elías Jaua announces the expropriation of the entire fleet of Aser Transporte C.A., a Venezuelan transportation company that distributes refrigerated goods.
•Venezuelan government finalizes expropriation of Sambil La Candelaria shopping mall in Caracas.
OCTOBER:
•President Chávez orders the expropriation of six urban residential development projects, accusing the construction companies involved of overcharging.
•Venezuela’s steel company, Siderúrgica del Turbio (Sidetur), vows to launch a legal challenge to the government takeover of the company ordered by President Chávez.
•President Chávez announces the expropriation of another U.S. company, Ohio-based Owens-Illinois, Inc., a U.S. glassware manufacturer with operations in Venezuela and 20 other countries.
•Mr. Chávez nationalizes Venoco, Venezuela’s largest chemical and lubricant company, as well as Fertinitro makers of fertilizer, after accusing the two firms of price speculation.
•Immediately after the September 26 parliamentary elections, President Chávez orders the expropriation of the corporate headquarters and all nine branches of Gaisa, a Venezuelan agro-industrial corporation made up of three subsidiaries: Friasa, Koma Investments and Delicateses Las Fuentes.
•Following the opposition’s popular vote victory in Venezuela’s September 26 parliamentary elections, President Chávez begins a new wave of expropriations, quickly fulfilling his promise to further radicalize his “21st Century Socialism.”
•Mr. Chávez announces the expropriation of land owned by Agroisleña, a local agricultural company which has been selling farming supplies and equipment in Venezuela for over 50 years.
• Venezuelan strongman orders the expropriation of farms and cattle herds belonging to the local subsidiary of Lord Vestey’s group, a meat production company based in Great Britain.
•Mr. Chávez ordered the expropriation of a mill belonging to Sivensa, a Venezuelan steel manufacturer.
•Venezuelan government seizes the headquarters and nine affiliate offices of food company Gaisa.
•President Chávez promises to seize 250,000 hectares of privately-owned farmland, saying “There will be no deal with the bourgeoisie.”
SEPTEMBER:
•Finance Commission Vice President announces that bankers will be required by law to provide finance to businesses that operate under the social property model.
•Hot dog vendors warn others that President Chávez’s statements about fast-food operators are a sign that such businesses are vulnerable to expropriation.
•New industrial property legislation is proposed to create “new models and reach a new level of social knowledge, and ensure access to medicines and quality products.”
AUGUST:
•Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez expropriates Seguros La Previsora, the fourth-largest insurance company in the country. The private company, which has been serving Venezuelans for 95 years, was taken over by the government and has been under investigation since December 2009 for alleged “irregularities.”
•President Chávez proposes an Urban Agriculture Law that would allow the use of city plots for farming.
•President Chávez calls on Communes to intervene and expropriate private companies that deviate from his policies.
•Government launches the “Made in Socialism” campaign as a vehicle by which to demonstrate the achievements of expropriated companies.
JULY:
•A report by Caracas-based Ecoanalítica, a prominent economic consulting firm, found that, since 2006, the cost of the expropriations executed by President Chávez have added up to $23.3 billion. The Venezuelan government still owes more than $14 billion in payments to the expropriated companies.
•President Chávez takes up again the Social Property Law to advance his socialist agenda.
•President Chávez proposes the expropriation of the Guarenas industrial zone and allocates resources to do it.
JUNE:
•President Chávez seizes the Venezuelan operations of U.S. Oil Company Helmerich and Payne. Helmerich and Payne’s 11 oil rigs had been non-operational for several months due to the Venezuelan government’s inability to pay the money owed to them.
•Venezuela’s National Assembly approves a land reform law which gives the Chávez government control over the production and distribution of food and agricultural products.
•President Chávez issues stark warnings about their water bottling ventures to U.S. giants Pepsi and Coca-Cola, declaring that “water is a social property.” He then orders an investigation of the corporations’ practices.
•Amid a growing shortage of basic food products, over 2,300 container-loads of decomposing imported food are discovered in the port of Puerto Cabello. The scandal is embarrassing to President Chávez and his chain of state-run grocery stores. The Economist reports: “Rather than rethink his statist food and agriculture policy, the president has declared ‘economic war’ on the private sector.”
•In what appears to be a continuation of the Chávez offensive against Globovisión, the Venezuelan government seizes control of Banco Federal, claiming the bank is not meeting its liquidity requirements. Banco Federal’s president is a major investor in Globovisión.
•In a new expropriation binge, Mr. Chávez orders an additional 80 expropriations. Among the affected are four prominent Venezuelan enterprises – aluminum can producer Alentuy CA, food container producer Envases International SA, grocery chain Supermercados Cada, and prepared meat producer Verdugo.
•Speaking to the BBC, Venezuelan economist Angel Alayon, of food industry body Cavidea, says that the government now controls 75% of coffee production, 42% of maize flour, 40% of rice, 25% of cooking oil, 52% of sugar and 25% of milk.
•President Chávez orders the expropriation of textile industries.
MAY:
•A report released by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLA) concludes that, in 2009 alone, Mr. Chávez’s systematic nationalization of major industries has caused a negative inflow of $3.1 billion in foreign investment dollars in Venezuela.
•A report released by a Venezuelan civil leadership group shows that the Chávez government has expropriated 762 companies between 2005 and 2009.
•In 48-hour span, Chávez orders the expropriation of Mexican company Gruma and nationalizes Venezuela’s Santa Inés University.
•Aragua State Governor orders the expropriation of the Maracay Country Club, home of Venezuela’s only public golf course, as well as that of the San Vicente slaughterhouse.
•Venezuelan Vice President Elías Jaua announces government action to expropriate “speculators.”
•Government orders the start of a nationalization process against providers of raw materials for the transportation sector.
•Chávez government announces the nationalization of Santa Inés University.
APRIL:
•Senior member of Chávez’s ruling party asserts that “no private property is sacred because the Constitution doesn’t say so.”
•Empresas Polar fights back against the city government’s expropriation of land and warehouses owned by the company in Barquisimeto by filing a motion with Venezuela’s Supreme Court to nullify the order. In response, Chávez launches vicious verbal attacks against Polar’s owner, Lorenzo Mendoza. Ultimately, the Venezuelan strongman signs a presidential decree ordering the expropriation.
•In compliance with a presidential order, the mayor of San Francisco announces the expropriation of 38 warehouses and 8 asphalts factories in the industrial zone of Maracaibo.
•Chávez issues order to shut down the downtown Caracas McDonald’s and Wendy’s restaurants. A government spokesperson explains that it is an “ideological inconsistency to have two businesses identified with the U.S. Empire in Bicentennial Boulevard.”
•Chávez threatens to nationalize gold mining concessions in Venezuela.
•At least 38 Caracas butchers are under investigation for allegedly violating government-imposed price controls on food.
•Three sugar mills are taken over by the Venezuelan government.
•President Chávez threatens to expropriate empty storages, buildings, parking lots, rubber deposits, and backyards.
•Storages in the Zuliana industrial zone are expropriated.
•President Chávez threatens Empresas Polar with the possibility of eviction.
•President Chávez signs a decree authorizing the expropriation of a series of warehouses belonging to Empesas Polar.
MARCH:
•Chávez touts plans to expropriate two Polar warehouses in the industrial zone of Barquisimeto. The warehouses employ approximately 3,200 Venezuelans.
•In an unprecedented move by a Venezuelan company, Polar fights back. Company files a motion with the Supreme Court to have the Barquisimeto expropriation nullified.
•In a span of 48 hours, Chávez announces the government’s take over of an energy project and two privately-owned sugar mills.
•Venezuelan officials take control of two privately-owned sugar mills in Caracas, after accusing the managers of the Santa Elena and Santa Clara mills of distributing the sugar too slowly. The mills are owned by a Guatemalan businessman.
•Chávez announces the appropriation of U.S. $50 million for the nationalization of Turboven, a joint venture of two electric generation plants and an independent distribution network in northern Venezuela. U.S.-based power company PSEG owns 50% of the project.
•A law approved by the National Assembly grants Venezuelans deeds for homes in popular zones. Yet, the deeds do not allow the “owners” to sell, rent, or leave the property as inheritance to family members.
FEBRUARY:
•Venezuelan government pressures TV stations to pull the plug on a Primero Justicia campaign denouncing Chávez’s threat to private property.
•Workers at an expropriated Cargill plant report a drop in production and a reduction in wages compared to a year earlier.
•In a statement before the National Assembly, Socialist Party Legislator Carlos Escarra states that social property is indirectly controlled by the State.
•President Chávez authorizes the seizure of a cluster of buildings in the center of Caracas in order to “preserve their historical value.”
•Venezuelan leader announces he has accepted an offer by the French business group Casino, by which he would buy 80% of their stock invested in Cativen, the proprietor of expropriated supermarket chains Éxito and Cada.
JANUARY:
•Chávez announces devaluation of the Bolívar (to 4.3 from 2.15 per dollar), and threatens to seize businesses that raise prices in response to Venezuela’s first currency devaluation since 2005.
•Almacenes Exito, a large chain of supermarkets owned by France’s Casino Guichard Perrachon SA, is charged with price gouging and promptly nationalized by the government.
•Caracas’ new mega‐mall, Sambil Candelaria, is expropriated.
•Venezuela’s National Assembly gives initial approval to law expanding Chávez’s authority to expropriate businesses for improperly raising prices, engaging in speculation or hoarding goods.
•Over two weeks, Chávez orders the closing of 1,500 stores for allegedly raising prices.
•During a late night appearance on his TV program “La Hojilla,” Chávez announces the expropriation of three sugar mills with plans “to turn them into social property.”
•2010 Economic Freedom Index ranks Venezuela the 174th freest economy out of 179 nations, putting it on par with the economies of countries such as North Korea and Zimbabwe.
•President Chávez orders a survey of inactive spaces in Venezuela and the expropriation of those that belong to the “bourgeoisie.”
2009
December:
•Aristóbulo Iszturiz, vice president of the PSUV (Chávez´s political party) declares that private property has to be eliminated to continue the next stage of the revolution and calls for the substitution of methods of production based on private property.
•National Assembly approves law establishing the right of the government to intervene in any economic sector.
•Government launches campaign to promote social property.
November:
•Chávez signs the controversial Urban Land Law, which decrees all urban land to have a social function, by empowering the Executive and Judiciary branches to deem any land in urban areas “inactive” and seize the land and/or private buildings for public use.
•The government nationalizes two coffee companies, Cafea and Fama de América. The latter is one of Venezuela’s largest coffee producers.
•For the first time, Venezuela’s government expropriates the assets of the brand Fama de América, which has existed for more than 120 years and is one of the oldest brands in the country.
October:
•The government announces nationalization of the Hilton Margarita and Suites Hotel.
•The government intervenes in two sugar companies, declaring its expropriation in a few months.
•President Chávez: “The people have given me the right to expropriate.”
•Venezuelan government orders forceful acquisition of the Margarita Hilton Hotel complex.
•Venezuelan government intervenes in sugar industry, as a prelude to the expropriation of various companies.
August:
•Chávez attempts passage of the so-called “Social Property Law,” granting him virtually unrestricted powers to expropriate any private property and do away with owners’ rights to due process.
•National Assembly unanimously approves the Urban Land Law.
JULY:
•The government initiates sanctions against two organizations, Cedice and Asoesfuerzo, for developing an advertising campaign defending private property. Several TV stations are punished for running the ads.
•Venezuela revokes operating licenses of 240 radio stations.
•Venezuelan government formalizes acquisition of Banco de Venezuela, an affiliate of Spanish bank Santander.
JUNE:
•Venezuela’s National Assembly passes law allowing Chávez to hold 50% ownership in all petrochemical projects.
•A long dispute with the government prompts six Japanese companies to back out of the Venalum aluminum smelter project.
•Venezuela bans production of Coca-Cola’s Coke Zero, citing danger to public health.
•Government withdraws concessions for private companies to have warehouses in ports.
•Chávez threatens to expropriate construction companies that index their contracts for inflation or threaten to paralyze construction.
•Venezuela begins process against TV networks, Asoesfuerzo and CEDICE as a result of their campaigns in defense of private property rights.
•President Chávez threatens to expropriate construction companies which halt their operations or increase their fees due to inflation.
MAY:
•Venezuela’s National Assembly passes law allowing government to nationalize the assets of certain domestic and foreign oil service companies.
•Gas injection project owned by Williams Companies is confiscated.
•Chávez ends two concessions in the Brisas gold mining project.
•11,000 hectares are expropriated in Chávez’s home state of Barinas.
•Venezuela pays Argentine-led Ternium approximately US$2 billion for its stake in the country’s largest mill.
•Government orders the takeover of several iron smelters: Matesi, Comsigua, Orinoco Iron, and Venprecar.
•President Chávez nationalizes 60 companies which provide services to the petroleum industry in Lake Maracaibo.
•Venezuelan government initiates “temporary occupation” of pasta producing plant property of U.S.-based Cargill.
APRIL:
•More than 4,000 hectares of sugar cane fields are confiscated in Aragua and Carabobo.
•President Chávez announces that land is not private in Venezuela and continues his policy of land seizures.
MARCH:
•Smurfit Kappa’s eucalyptus plantation is seized.
•During a TV appearance, the Venezuelan president orders the expropriation of various rice plants owned by Cargill.
•Polar is threatened with nationalization.
•President Chávez orders the administration of all ports, airports and roads to be transferred to the central government.
•All rice production in the country is nationalized.
•Food company La Gaviota is seized by the government in Sucre.
•Caracas Mayor signs “friendly” agreement with Coca Cola-Femsa to seize vacant lot.
•President Chávez announces conversion of Aeropostal Airlines to “social property.”
FEBRUARY:
•Venezuelan government orders the intervention and military control of Empresas Arroceras.
2008
•President Chávez nationalizes the cement industry; companies impacted include Cemex, Holcim, Lafarge.
•Siderúrgica del Orinoco C.A., Venezuela’s biggest steel corporation, is nationalized.
•Chávez threatens to expropriate Parmalat and Nestle because of alleged milk supply problems.
•Government announces it will acquire the Bank of Venezuela, though owners never expressed interest in selling.
•Using the phrase “land rescue,” Chávez announces expropriations of farms.
•Venezuelan government nationalizes supermarket chain and milk company, Lácteos de los Andes.
•President Chávez orders nationalization of Sidor, a steel company owned by the Italian-Argentinean group Ternium Techint.
•Venezuelan government agrees to buy French cement factory, Lafarge, and Swiss cement factory, Holcim.
•President Chávez expropriates Cemex, a Mexican cement factory.
•Venezuelan government approves law nationalizing the internal transport of fuel, of which PDVSA already controls 49%.
•Venezuelan government announces nationalization of “Las Cristinas” gold mine, which was run since 2002 by the Canadian company Crystallex.
2007
•President Chávez acquires a majority stake in four oil projects worth approximately US$30 billion operating in the Orinoco river basin.
•Government nationalizes CANTV, the country’s largest telecommunications company.
•In a national referendum, Venezuelans overwhelmingly reject Chávez’s bid to reform the country’s Constitution.
•Venezuelan government buys electric company, Seneca, and over 82% of Caracas’ electricity, both formerly controlled by American capital.
•American-based companies Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips reject an offer to create a mixed enterprise with PDVSA in the Orinoco region; both companies file a lawsuit against the Venezuelan government.
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Timeline of Expropriations
Hugo Chávez’s government intervention spans from oil and gas to a wide range of other strategic sectors and industries, including aluminum, cement, gold, iron, steel, farming, transportation, electricity, food production (rice, fruit juice, sugar and meat), banking, paper and the media.
2012
OCTOBER
•An analysis by the Venezuelan Confederation of Industries (Conindustria) reveals that from 2002 to 2012 the Chávez government has taken over 1168 foreign and domestic companies.
SEPTEMBER
•President Hugo Chavez’s wave of expropriations reaches pop culture, as the popular Venezuelan band Los Amigos Invisibles their song “Loser” was used in a pro-Chávez campaign plug without the band’s permission.
AUGUST
•N/A
JULY
•N/A
JUNE
•Chávez secures a loan from an off-budget fund to finance the expropriation of Siderurgica del Turbio SA, a steel products company.
MAY
•N/A
APRIL
•N/A
MARCH
•Chávez threatens to expropriate banks that support his political opposition, stating that, “it wouldn’t be bad at all to issue a decree and bring those firms under state control.”
•The government threatens to nationalize the water utility of the State of Monagas, after the water supply was polluted by an oil spill. The state’s governor, Jose Briceño, refused the PSUV’s request to turn on the water pumps, claiming the water supply was still contaminated and not fit for drinking. After doing so, party leaders suspended the governor and took control of Monagas state.
•The Venezuelan Central Bank reports that public and private investment in the Venezuelan economy is 10.3 percent below the 2008 level. Experts suggest that expropriations and other Chávez economic policies are to blame.
FEBRUARY
•Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA claims that it has paid Exxon Mobil Corp roughly $250 million in compensation for nationalized assets, hundreds of millions less than the $908 million ordered by the International Chamber of Commerce. Chávez claims that the difference reflects the debt owed by Exxon to PDVSA.
•The Barbados-based holding company Gambrinus, Corp files an arbitration claim in the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) over the nationalization of a fertilizer project.
•PepsiCo’s Venezuelan subsidiary is given four days by the government to prove that it has complied with Chávez’s latest round of price controls. Chávez has threatened to seize the company, along with one of its partners, Empresas Polar, if it does not comply with the price controls.
•The member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People of Our America (ALPA), an alliance of socialist and socialist-leaning governments that includes Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, declares its support for nationalizations, proclaiming their desire to “strengthen the role of the State as a central player in the economy.”
•The packaging company Smurfit Kappa Group, having posted a strong 2011 business report, reveals fears that its Venezuelan operations will be nationalized by the Chávez government.
•Chávez declares that he will expropriate companies that fail to comply with his price controls, stating that “If a company doesn’t accept the new prices, we will nationalize it. We don’t have any problem doing that.”
JANUARY
•Chávez threatens to expropriate banks that refuse to finance agricultural projects promoted by his government.
•Congresswoman and presidential pre-candidate for the Venezuelan opposition primaries, María Corina Machado, stood up in the middle of on one of Chávez’ notoriously long winded speeches, in defense of Venezuela’s private property, stating that “expropriation is robbery”.
•Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) awarded Exxon a net payment of only $747m, substantially less than the $6.5-7bn it was said to be seeking.
•Chávez government announces plans to leave the World Bank’s international arbitration body potentially affection around 20 companies with unsettle led disputes and putting billions of dollars of foreign investment at risk.
•Chávez’ withdraw from the Washington D.C. based ICSID would mean that disputes with foreign companies, including an unsettled disagreement with ExxonMobil, will be heard by Venezuelan judges.
•Venezuelan Confederation of Industries (Conindustria): Over the past seven years the government has levied more than 1,087 private businesses recording the largest amount of seizures at 497 during 2011.
•Think-tank Econoalítica estimates the cost of appropriations at USD 22 billion.The Federation of Spanish Centers of Venezuela (FECEVE) asks the Spanish consulate in Caracas to support the resolution of the pending expropriation cases of approximately 300 Spanish citizens currently living in Venezuela.
•Venezuela’s Energy Minister says an agreement cannot be reached with ConocoPhillips over the company’s expropriated assets.
•President Chávez threatens to ignore any ICSID decision regarding a multi-billion claim for a nationalized oil project by Exxon Mobil Corp., going as far as saying that he will pull out of the arbitration panel altogether.
2011
DECEMBER
•Chávez government expropriates 16,479,300 square meters of land in different states around the country under the banner of the Housing Emergency Law.
•Chávez orders the creation of the Superior Strategic Council for Expropriations, a 15-member council tasked with assisting and facilitating the government’s expropriation policies.
•Venezuelan government expropriates the old headquarters of the Venezuelan newspaper, El Nacional.
•Between 2007 and 2011, only 2.2 percent of the total amount paid by the Venezuelan government to expropriated companies went to domestic companies.
•Chávez government expropriates all assets belonging to Grafitos del Orinoco C.A.
•In a controversial ruling, the Venezuelan Supreme Court endorses the non-enforcement of Criminal Code sanctions against those occupying private landholdings and plots of land in Venezuela, claiming the “right to food.”
NOVEMBER
•Chávez announces that “the plan for the elimination of private property has only begun.”
•Venezuelan government takes control of “Los Guaiqueríes de Margarita,” a basketball team formerly owned by expropriated ferry company Conferry.
•Chávez orders the takeover of 1,429,71 square meters of land from a Caracas car dealership.
•Chávez issues stern warning to a number of national and multinational companies to comply with the newly enacted Law for Fair Costs and Prices. U.S. giants Colgate, Palmolive, Pepsi-Cola, Nestlé, Jonhson and Johnson, and Coca-Cola are among the companies under the government’s watchful eye.
•Chávez threatens to expropriate any bank that fails to provide Venezuelans with long term mortgage credits.
•President Chávez announces “rescue” of 580 hectares in the Quíbor Valley in the state of Lara, where 66 percent of the nation’s onions, 36 percent of peppers, and 16 percent of tomatoes are grown.
•Private Property Rights Observatory records show that approximately 2,534 violations to private property have been registered in Venezuela between 2005 and November 2011.
OCTOBER
•Chávez expropriates popular tourist destination “Los Roques,” beginning its transition into a federally- controlled territory.
•Venezuelan government takes over laboratories owned by Opin Farma in the state of Miranda.
•Thirteen tourism companies operating from the Simón Bolívar Airport in Maiquetía receive a 30-day eviction notice, which forces them to abandon the business places they have occupied for approximately 15 years.
•Chávez launches an investigation of Italian dairy company, Parmalat, for allegedly hoarding powdered milk.
•A year after the expropriation of Owens Illinois, the company’s workers claim production is at half capacity.
•Chávez signs order authorizing the temporary take over and evaluation process of the Orpin Farma laboratories in Guarenas.
•Venezuela’s National Assembly approves law that grants absolute power to the government to regulate rent prices and even force owners to give away their properties after a certain period of time.
SEPTEMBER
•Chávez government says it is willing to pay a combined sum of $2.5 billion out of the $12 billion demanded by Exxon Mobile and ConocoPhillips in their arbitration cases against Venezuela before the World Bank’s International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
•U.S. bottle maker Owens Illinois files an arbitration claim against Venezuela before ICSID, following Chávez’s nationalization of the company’s operations in October 2010.
•Oklahoma-based, oil-services company Helmerich & Payne Inc., files a lawsuit against Venezuela in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia over the 2010 government takeover of 11 drilling rigs.
•Venezuelan government announces that Irish cardboard maker, Smurfit Kappa Group Plc, will not be compensated for its seized 12,000 hectares of forestry plantations.
•Chávez announces the nationalization of Venezuela’s gold industry.
•Chávez orders the nationalization of Conferry, a domestic company that provides ferry services to popular tourist destinations.
•Chávez’s government expropriates storehouse used in the processing of personal hygiene products.
•Three companies (Oci-Metalmecánica, C.A., KSB Venezuela, Carioli C.A) which provide production and assembling services to the automotive industry are expropriated by the Venezuelan government.
AUGUST
•Chávez orders the expropriation of all farmland owned by Irish cardboard maker Smurfit Kappa Group Plc (SKG) in the states of Portuguesa, Lara, and Cojedes.
•The Chávez government announces plans to nationalize entire gold mining industry in Venezuela with the exception of Rusoro, a Russian-Canadian mining company.
•Steel tube-maker Tenaris initiates arbitration proceedings against Venezuela before the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
•Chávez orders the expropriation of any property belonging to aluminum company Aluminios de Barquisimeto, C.A.
•Canadian gold mining company Gold Reserve increases its claim against Venezuela from $1.9 billion to $2.1 billion.
•Chávez threatens to expropriate all water bottling companies, affecting Venezuelan subsidiaries of U.S. companies Pepsi and Coca-Cola.
JULY
•In Maracaibo, 47 expropriated farmlands remain abandoned, 24 farms continue to be partially or completely intervened, and the Peonío de Jesús “Chucho” Meleán farm is militarized.
•Venezuela’s Ministry of Energy and Oil takes control of four gas stations in the Greater Caracas area.
•Texas-based Koch Industries files arbitration case against the Chávez’s government before the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in relation to the government’s expropriation of a fertilizer plant that the U.S. company built in the 1990s.
JUNE
•Venezuela moves forward with the expropriation of Argentine steel company Matesi, declaring all assets to be of “public and social interest.”
•Chávez government confirms the compulsory acquisition of all personal property and real estate of glass company Vivex.
•Chávez approves expropriation of 129 apartments in the Augusto Malavé Villalba complex in Carabobo State.
•Venezuelan government approves the expropriation of 22 plots of land in Miranda State.
MAY
•The Canary Islands’ parliament continues demanding that the Zapatero government intervene on behalf of Spanish companies expropriated by the Chávez government.
•Bolivarian militias take over several parking lots in Caracas.
•At least 18 construction firms are “temporarily” taken over by the Ministry of the Interior and Justice to work on the development of the Uribante Caparo dam.
•Chávez expropriates lots, parcels and apartments belonging to banks under the control of Fogade, the national Deposits Guarantee and Bank Protection Fund.
•Venezuelan president threatens to expropriate large, supermarket chain EPA if they don’t play by the government’s rules.
•Chávez confirms expropriation of a two-hectare plot of land in Sucre.
APRIL
•The Canary Islands’ parliament keeps pressuring the Spanish government to intervene on behalf of Spanish companies expropriated by the Chávez government.
•Chávez authorizes the forceful acquisition of 47 apartments in Carabobo.
•The Venezuelan government initiates process to take over 300,000 hectares of land from an English company.
•Chávez orders the temporary intervention of Viviendas de Salamanca C.A and the immediate takeover of Distribuidora San Juan, C.A.
MARCH
•Venezuela estimates that an international court will award Exxon Mobil Corp. and ConocoPhillips less than $2.5 billion for assets nationalized by President Chávez in 2007.
•Williams Companies Inc. files international arbitration suit against Venezuela, seeking compensation for two natural-gas compression facilities seized by the government in 2009.
•President Chávez legalizes the expropriation of land and real estate across Venezuela deemed “vacant” as a response to country’s housing shortage.
FEBRUARY
•Canadian company Crystallex files arbitration suit against Venezuelan government citing, “breach of the [Canada-Venezuela Agreement for the Promotion and Protection of Investments] treaty’s protections against expropriation, unfair and inequitable treatment and discrimination.”
JANUARY
•President Chávez orders the takeover of more than two acres of land in a western district of Caracas owned by Empresas Polar.
•A survey by Datanálisis finds that 80% of Venezuelans want private property to be respected.
•President Chávez threatens Banco Provincial de Venezuela, an affiliate of Spanish bank BBVA, with expropriation.
2010
DECEMBER
•President Chávez orders the expropriation of 43 lots south of Maracaibo Lake.
•According to Datanálisis, 74% of Venezuelans reject the government’s expropriations of private companies.
•President Chávez threatens to take control of local unit of Spanish bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya and other large financial institutions.
•Venezuelan government threatens to expel and expropriate plants from Toyota and other “Asian and U.S. auto companies operating in Venezuela if they fail to share technology with locals.”
NOVEMBER
•Venezuelan government issues Decree 39.553, ordering the expropriation of all assets from Lomas de la Hacienda, El Encantado, Mata Linda, El Fortín and San Antonio.
•Vice President Elías Jaua announces the expropriation of the entire fleet of Aser Transporte C.A., a Venezuelan transportation company that distributes refrigerated goods.
•Venezuelan government finalizes expropriation of Sambil La Candelaria shopping mall in Caracas.
OCTOBER:
•President Chávez orders the expropriation of six urban residential development projects, accusing the construction companies involved of overcharging.
•Venezuela’s steel company, Siderúrgica del Turbio (Sidetur), vows to launch a legal challenge to the government takeover of the company ordered by President Chávez.
•President Chávez announces the expropriation of another U.S. company, Ohio-based Owens-Illinois, Inc., a U.S. glassware manufacturer with operations in Venezuela and 20 other countries.
•Mr. Chávez nationalizes Venoco, Venezuela’s largest chemical and lubricant company, as well as Fertinitro makers of fertilizer, after accusing the two firms of price speculation.
•Immediately after the September 26 parliamentary elections, President Chávez orders the expropriation of the corporate headquarters and all nine branches of Gaisa, a Venezuelan agro-industrial corporation made up of three subsidiaries: Friasa, Koma Investments and Delicateses Las Fuentes.
•Following the opposition’s popular vote victory in Venezuela’s September 26 parliamentary elections, President Chávez begins a new wave of expropriations, quickly fulfilling his promise to further radicalize his “21st Century Socialism.”
•Mr. Chávez announces the expropriation of land owned by Agroisleña, a local agricultural company which has been selling farming supplies and equipment in Venezuela for over 50 years.
• Venezuelan strongman orders the expropriation of farms and cattle herds belonging to the local subsidiary of Lord Vestey’s group, a meat production company based in Great Britain.
•Mr. Chávez ordered the expropriation of a mill belonging to Sivensa, a Venezuelan steel manufacturer.
•Venezuelan government seizes the headquarters and nine affiliate offices of food company Gaisa.
•President Chávez promises to seize 250,000 hectares of privately-owned farmland, saying “There will be no deal with the bourgeoisie.”
SEPTEMBER:
•Finance Commission Vice President announces that bankers will be required by law to provide finance to businesses that operate under the social property model.
•Hot dog vendors warn others that President Chávez’s statements about fast-food operators are a sign that such businesses are vulnerable to expropriation.
•New industrial property legislation is proposed to create “new models and reach a new level of social knowledge, and ensure access to medicines and quality products.”
AUGUST:
•Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez expropriates Seguros La Previsora, the fourth-largest insurance company in the country. The private company, which has been serving Venezuelans for 95 years, was taken over by the government and has been under investigation since December 2009 for alleged “irregularities.”
•President Chávez proposes an Urban Agriculture Law that would allow the use of city plots for farming.
•President Chávez calls on Communes to intervene and expropriate private companies that deviate from his policies.
•Government launches the “Made in Socialism” campaign as a vehicle by which to demonstrate the achievements of expropriated companies.
JULY:
•A report by Caracas-based Ecoanalítica, a prominent economic consulting firm, found that, since 2006, the cost of the expropriations executed by President Chávez have added up to $23.3 billion. The Venezuelan government still owes more than $14 billion in payments to the expropriated companies.
•President Chávez takes up again the Social Property Law to advance his socialist agenda.
•President Chávez proposes the expropriation of the Guarenas industrial zone and allocates resources to do it.
JUNE:
•President Chávez seizes the Venezuelan operations of U.S. Oil Company Helmerich and Payne. Helmerich and Payne’s 11 oil rigs had been non-operational for several months due to the Venezuelan government’s inability to pay the money owed to them.
•Venezuela’s National Assembly approves a land reform law which gives the Chávez government control over the production and distribution of food and agricultural products.
•President Chávez issues stark warnings about their water bottling ventures to U.S. giants Pepsi and Coca-Cola, declaring that “water is a social property.” He then orders an investigation of the corporations’ practices.
•Amid a growing shortage of basic food products, over 2,300 container-loads of decomposing imported food are discovered in the port of Puerto Cabello. The scandal is embarrassing to President Chávez and his chain of state-run grocery stores. The Economist reports: “Rather than rethink his statist food and agriculture policy, the president has declared ‘economic war’ on the private sector.”
•In what appears to be a continuation of the Chávez offensive against Globovisión, the Venezuelan government seizes control of Banco Federal, claiming the bank is not meeting its liquidity requirements. Banco Federal’s president is a major investor in Globovisión.
•In a new expropriation binge, Mr. Chávez orders an additional 80 expropriations. Among the affected are four prominent Venezuelan enterprises – aluminum can producer Alentuy CA, food container producer Envases International SA, grocery chain Supermercados Cada, and prepared meat producer Verdugo.
•Speaking to the BBC, Venezuelan economist Angel Alayon, of food industry body Cavidea, says that the government now controls 75% of coffee production, 42% of maize flour, 40% of rice, 25% of cooking oil, 52% of sugar and 25% of milk.
•President Chávez orders the expropriation of textile industries.
MAY:
•A report released by the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLA) concludes that, in 2009 alone, Mr. Chávez’s systematic nationalization of major industries has caused a negative inflow of $3.1 billion in foreign investment dollars in Venezuela.
•A report released by a Venezuelan civil leadership group shows that the Chávez government has expropriated 762 companies between 2005 and 2009.
•In 48-hour span, Chávez orders the expropriation of Mexican company Gruma and nationalizes Venezuela’s Santa Inés University.
•Aragua State Governor orders the expropriation of the Maracay Country Club, home of Venezuela’s only public golf course, as well as that of the San Vicente slaughterhouse.
•Venezuelan Vice President Elías Jaua announces government action to expropriate “speculators.”
•Government orders the start of a nationalization process against providers of raw materials for the transportation sector.
•Chávez government announces the nationalization of Santa Inés University.
APRIL:
•Senior member of Chávez’s ruling party asserts that “no private property is sacred because the Constitution doesn’t say so.”
•Empresas Polar fights back against the city government’s expropriation of land and warehouses owned by the company in Barquisimeto by filing a motion with Venezuela’s Supreme Court to nullify the order. In response, Chávez launches vicious verbal attacks against Polar’s owner, Lorenzo Mendoza. Ultimately, the Venezuelan strongman signs a presidential decree ordering the expropriation.
•In compliance with a presidential order, the mayor of San Francisco announces the expropriation of 38 warehouses and 8 asphalts factories in the industrial zone of Maracaibo.
•Chávez issues order to shut down the downtown Caracas McDonald’s and Wendy’s restaurants. A government spokesperson explains that it is an “ideological inconsistency to have two businesses identified with the U.S. Empire in Bicentennial Boulevard.”
•Chávez threatens to nationalize gold mining concessions in Venezuela.
•At least 38 Caracas butchers are under investigation for allegedly violating government-imposed price controls on food.
•Three sugar mills are taken over by the Venezuelan government.
•President Chávez threatens to expropriate empty storages, buildings, parking lots, rubber deposits, and backyards.
•Storages in the Zuliana industrial zone are expropriated.
•President Chávez threatens Empresas Polar with the possibility of eviction.
•President Chávez signs a decree authorizing the expropriation of a series of warehouses belonging to Empesas Polar.
MARCH:
•Chávez touts plans to expropriate two Polar warehouses in the industrial zone of Barquisimeto. The warehouses employ approximately 3,200 Venezuelans.
•In an unprecedented move by a Venezuelan company, Polar fights back. Company files a motion with the Supreme Court to have the Barquisimeto expropriation nullified.
•In a span of 48 hours, Chávez announces the government’s take over of an energy project and two privately-owned sugar mills.
•Venezuelan officials take control of two privately-owned sugar mills in Caracas, after accusing the managers of the Santa Elena and Santa Clara mills of distributing the sugar too slowly. The mills are owned by a Guatemalan businessman.
•Chávez announces the appropriation of U.S. $50 million for the nationalization of Turboven, a joint venture of two electric generation plants and an independent distribution network in northern Venezuela. U.S.-based power company PSEG owns 50% of the project.
•A law approved by the National Assembly grants Venezuelans deeds for homes in popular zones. Yet, the deeds do not allow the “owners” to sell, rent, or leave the property as inheritance to family members.
FEBRUARY:
•Venezuelan government pressures TV stations to pull the plug on a Primero Justicia campaign denouncing Chávez’s threat to private property.
•Workers at an expropriated Cargill plant report a drop in production and a reduction in wages compared to a year earlier.
•In a statement before the National Assembly, Socialist Party Legislator Carlos Escarra states that social property is indirectly controlled by the State.
•President Chávez authorizes the seizure of a cluster of buildings in the center of Caracas in order to “preserve their historical value.”
•Venezuelan leader announces he has accepted an offer by the French business group Casino, by which he would buy 80% of their stock invested in Cativen, the proprietor of expropriated supermarket chains Éxito and Cada.
JANUARY:
•Chávez announces devaluation of the Bolívar (to 4.3 from 2.15 per dollar), and threatens to seize businesses that raise prices in response to Venezuela’s first currency devaluation since 2005.
•Almacenes Exito, a large chain of supermarkets owned by France’s Casino Guichard Perrachon SA, is charged with price gouging and promptly nationalized by the government.
•Caracas’ new mega‐mall, Sambil Candelaria, is expropriated.
•Venezuela’s National Assembly gives initial approval to law expanding Chávez’s authority to expropriate businesses for improperly raising prices, engaging in speculation or hoarding goods.
•Over two weeks, Chávez orders the closing of 1,500 stores for allegedly raising prices.
•During a late night appearance on his TV program “La Hojilla,” Chávez announces the expropriation of three sugar mills with plans “to turn them into social property.”
•2010 Economic Freedom Index ranks Venezuela the 174th freest economy out of 179 nations, putting it on par with the economies of countries such as North Korea and Zimbabwe.
•President Chávez orders a survey of inactive spaces in Venezuela and the expropriation of those that belong to the “bourgeoisie.”
2009
December:
•Aristóbulo Iszturiz, vice president of the PSUV (Chávez´s political party) declares that private property has to be eliminated to continue the next stage of the revolution and calls for the substitution of methods of production based on private property.
•National Assembly approves law establishing the right of the government to intervene in any economic sector.
•Government launches campaign to promote social property.
November:
•Chávez signs the controversial Urban Land Law, which decrees all urban land to have a social function, by empowering the Executive and Judiciary branches to deem any land in urban areas “inactive” and seize the land and/or private buildings for public use.
•The government nationalizes two coffee companies, Cafea and Fama de América. The latter is one of Venezuela’s largest coffee producers.
•For the first time, Venezuela’s government expropriates the assets of the brand Fama de América, which has existed for more than 120 years and is one of the oldest brands in the country.
October:
•The government announces nationalization of the Hilton Margarita and Suites Hotel.
•The government intervenes in two sugar companies, declaring its expropriation in a few months.
•President Chávez: “The people have given me the right to expropriate.”
•Venezuelan government orders forceful acquisition of the Margarita Hilton Hotel complex.
•Venezuelan government intervenes in sugar industry, as a prelude to the expropriation of various companies.
August:
•Chávez attempts passage of the so-called “Social Property Law,” granting him virtually unrestricted powers to expropriate any private property and do away with owners’ rights to due process.
•National Assembly unanimously approves the Urban Land Law.
JULY:
•The government initiates sanctions against two organizations, Cedice and Asoesfuerzo, for developing an advertising campaign defending private property. Several TV stations are punished for running the ads.
•Venezuela revokes operating licenses of 240 radio stations.
•Venezuelan government formalizes acquisition of Banco de Venezuela, an affiliate of Spanish bank Santander.
JUNE:
•Venezuela’s National Assembly passes law allowing Chávez to hold 50% ownership in all petrochemical projects.
•A long dispute with the government prompts six Japanese companies to back out of the Venalum aluminum smelter project.
•Venezuela bans production of Coca-Cola’s Coke Zero, citing danger to public health.
•Government withdraws concessions for private companies to have warehouses in ports.
•Chávez threatens to expropriate construction companies that index their contracts for inflation or threaten to paralyze construction.
•Venezuela begins process against TV networks, Asoesfuerzo and CEDICE as a result of their campaigns in defense of private property rights.
•President Chávez threatens to expropriate construction companies which halt their operations or increase their fees due to inflation.
MAY:
•Venezuela’s National Assembly passes law allowing government to nationalize the assets of certain domestic and foreign oil service companies.
•Gas injection project owned by Williams Companies is confiscated.
•Chávez ends two concessions in the Brisas gold mining project.
•11,000 hectares are expropriated in Chávez’s home state of Barinas.
•Venezuela pays Argentine-led Ternium approximately US$2 billion for its stake in the country’s largest mill.
•Government orders the takeover of several iron smelters: Matesi, Comsigua, Orinoco Iron, and Venprecar.
•President Chávez nationalizes 60 companies which provide services to the petroleum industry in Lake Maracaibo.
•Venezuelan government initiates “temporary occupation” of pasta producing plant property of U.S.-based Cargill.
APRIL:
•More than 4,000 hectares of sugar cane fields are confiscated in Aragua and Carabobo.
•President Chávez announces that land is not private in Venezuela and continues his policy of land seizures.
MARCH:
•Smurfit Kappa’s eucalyptus plantation is seized.
•During a TV appearance, the Venezuelan president orders the expropriation of various rice plants owned by Cargill.
•Polar is threatened with nationalization.
•President Chávez orders the administration of all ports, airports and roads to be transferred to the central government.
•All rice production in the country is nationalized.
•Food company La Gaviota is seized by the government in Sucre.
•Caracas Mayor signs “friendly” agreement with Coca Cola-Femsa to seize vacant lot.
•President Chávez announces conversion of Aeropostal Airlines to “social property.”
FEBRUARY:
•Venezuelan government orders the intervention and military control of Empresas Arroceras.
2008
•President Chávez nationalizes the cement industry; companies impacted include Cemex, Holcim, Lafarge.
•Siderúrgica del Orinoco C.A., Venezuela’s biggest steel corporation, is nationalized.
•Chávez threatens to expropriate Parmalat and Nestle because of alleged milk supply problems.
•Government announces it will acquire the Bank of Venezuela, though owners never expressed interest in selling.
•Using the phrase “land rescue,” Chávez announces expropriations of farms.
•Venezuelan government nationalizes supermarket chain and milk company, Lácteos de los Andes.
•President Chávez orders nationalization of Sidor, a steel company owned by the Italian-Argentinean group Ternium Techint.
•Venezuelan government agrees to buy French cement factory, Lafarge, and Swiss cement factory, Holcim.
•President Chávez expropriates Cemex, a Mexican cement factory.
•Venezuelan government approves law nationalizing the internal transport of fuel, of which PDVSA already controls 49%.
•Venezuelan government announces nationalization of “Las Cristinas” gold mine, which was run since 2002 by the Canadian company Crystallex.
2007
•President Chávez acquires a majority stake in four oil projects worth approximately US$30 billion operating in the Orinoco river basin.
•Government nationalizes CANTV, the country’s largest telecommunications company.
•In a national referendum, Venezuelans overwhelmingly reject Chávez’s bid to reform the country’s Constitution.
•Venezuelan government buys electric company, Seneca, and over 82% of Caracas’ electricity, both formerly controlled by American capital.
•American-based companies Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips reject an offer to create a mixed enterprise with PDVSA in the Orinoco region; both companies file a lawsuit against the Venezuelan government.
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jiggin4bass
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Re: voter fraud
ROD ITS NOT ME ITS YOUR BUDDY'S IN WASHINGTON YOU VOTED FOR THERE GIVING IN TOO THE DEMOCRATS AND WILL KEEP CAVING IN TOO THEY HAVE NO CHOICE A BUNCH OF GOOD OL BOY'S JUST GOING ALONG WITH THE SYSTEM. THEY ALL ARE GETTING RAISES WHAT DO THEY CARE 
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Rod Martin
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Re: voter fraud
no each time you put the little laugh face on and say nothing can be done YOU'RE the problem.jiggin4bass wrote:ROD ITS NOT ME ITS YOUR BUDDY'S IN WASHINGTON YOU VOTED FOR THERE GIVING IN TOO THE DEMOCRATS AND WILL KEEP CAVING IN TOO THEY HAVE NO CHOICE A BUNCH OF GOOD OL BOY'S JUST GOING ALONG WITH THE SYSTEM. THEY ALL ARE GETTING RAISES WHAT DO THEY CARE
But you already know that , you just want it left alone till you're gone. dont bother you. let someone else fix it later
i think last response to you. one thing you are right about. You're not worth th effort.
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Good posts Rod, its obvious the disenfranchised voter argument is smoke and mirrors, the real agenda is to steal elections. Guessing the country will have to fail under this democrat leadership before it rights itself but its up against a tuff obstacle. For years now kids have been indoctrinated in our public school system, gets amplified when they reach the colleges, its something progressives have been trying to keep under the radar for a long time. But these new graduates are finding the real world is not quite what their schools and professors have been promising them, something like 50% of college grads can't find work and when they do the pay is much less than what they were told it would be. Kind of bursts their liberal bubbles, maybe they will wake up and realize the govt. can't employ everyone, remains to be seen.
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Good Post Rod. There are people in this world that have no clue and believe what is told to them by the media and political party that they have trusted all of their life. They can’t believe that they would change without their say so. They believe what is told to them and don’t have the never to really find out the truth for themselves. They will live the lie as long as it does not affect them directly. They are the first to go and wonder why, them! Then wonder why there is no one will help them. They are the sheep of the world that humiliate the sheepdog but praise the wolf.
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LOL if you guys actually took the time to get informed on the issues you would know that it was the Republicans who based much of their election strategy on voter fraud and suppression. Case in point, the PA state representitive who had the gall to claim publically that the new voter ID law would "win the state of PA for Romney". Well that didn't work too well for you huh?
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I can stand to lose an election.Jeff C. wrote:LOL if you guys actually took the time to get informed on the issues you would know that it was the Republicans who based much of their election strategy on voter fraud and suppression. Case in point, the PA state representitive who had the gall to claim publically that the new voter ID law would "win the state of PA for Romney". Well that didn't work too well for you huh?
But having a drivers lic. and being required to show it to, drive, buy booze,buy cig. go to a topless bar. apply for welfare. and passport to enter the country, Then be able to vote without even showing that you are who you claim to be or that you are a citizen. now thats intelligent. almost makes you think the Dems want to slide a few extra votes by.
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A few extra votes -- maybe, although the fact of the matter is that when the voter ID laws were taken to court over and over again in the last election cycle the proponents of the laws were unable to present any proof at all that widespread voter fraud is a problem. As a Psychologist that doesn't surprise me at all. The fact is, people engage in risky and criminal behavior when they have a chance to gain something that is at least as great as the risk involved in the behavior. The penalty for voter fraud is substantial, while the potential benefit of a single vote diluted by a million times is infinitesimal. On the other hand, voter ID laws have been shown to disenfranchise a significant proportion of the electorate and some segments more than others, like people who don't drive because they are poor, or elderly, or students. Think about it, are you so naive that you don't recognize that Republicans are pushing voter ID strictly because it helps their cause to keep some people from voting? This is why the courts largely struck down the voter ID laws of the last election. That's not to say they didn't have an effect-- on the contrary, when it became apparent that Republicans were basing a lot of their strategy on preventing minorities and young people from voting there was a backlash where young people and minorities turned out to vote in greater numbers than anyone expected.Rod Martin wrote:I can stand to lose an election.Jeff C. wrote:LOL if you guys actually took the time to get informed on the issues you would know that it was the Republicans who based much of their election strategy on voter fraud and suppression. Case in point, the PA state representitive who had the gall to claim publically that the new voter ID law would "win the state of PA for Romney". Well that didn't work too well for you huh?
But having a drivers lic. and being required to show it to, drive, buy booze,buy cig. go to a topless bar. apply for welfare. and passport to enter the country, Then be able to vote without even showing that you are who you claim to be or that you are a citizen. now thats intelligent. almost makes you think the Dems want to slide a few extra votes by.
So keep it up... the more conservatives show their true colors the more they will lose.
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As it appears now, there is no risk. But I would think that this will be an on going fight.Jeff C. wrote:A few extra votes -- maybe, although the fact of the matter is that when the voter ID laws were taken to court over and over again in the last election cycle the proponents of the laws were unable to present any proof at all that widespread voter fraud is a problem. As a Psychologist that doesn't surprise me at all. The fact is, people engage in risky and criminal behavior when they have a chance to gain something that is at least as great as the risk involved in the behavior. The penalty for voter fraud is substantial, while the potential benefit of a single vote diluted by a million times is infinitesimal. On the other hand, voter ID laws have been shown to disenfranchise a significant proportion of the electorate and some segments more than others, like people who don't drive because they are poor, or elderly, or students. Think about it, are you so naive that you don't recognize that Republicans are pushing voter ID strictly because it helps their cause to keep some people from voting? This is why the courts largely struck down the voter ID laws of the last election. That's not to say they didn't have an effect-- on the contrary, when it became apparent that Republicans were basing a lot of their strategy on preventing minorities and young people from voting there was a backlash where young people and minorities turned out to vote in greater numbers than anyone expected.Rod Martin wrote:I can stand to lose an election.Jeff C. wrote:LOL if you guys actually took the time to get informed on the issues you would know that it was the Republicans who based much of their election strategy on voter fraud and suppression. Case in point, the PA state representitive who had the gall to claim publically that the new voter ID law would "win the state of PA for Romney". Well that didn't work too well for you huh?
But having a drivers lic. and being required to show it to, drive, buy booze,buy cig. go to a topless bar. apply for welfare. and passport to enter the country, Then be able to vote without even showing that you are who you claim to be or that you are a citizen. now thats intelligent. almost makes you think the Dems want to slide a few extra votes by.
So keep it up... the more conservatives show their true colors the more they will lose.
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Re: voter fraud
The country swings back and forth, always has always will until it abandons its capitalist principles and adopts a more socialist system, not sure where it goes then. Since 1901 Republicans have controlled the white house 61 years the Democrats have controlled it 51 years. Both parties will push their ideologies when in power and that is not a bad thing its healthy to have different ideas as we continue to be an ongoing social experiment. Its the overreaching by either party that is not good for the country. Democrats (liberals) believe more in Federal govt. legislation and spending as the answer to most things, Republicans (conservatives) believe in less govt., lower taxes and more state rights, ok, should be some middle ground there. I said liberals and conservatives because probably a lot of middle of the road democrats and republicans are not all that far off from agreeing with each other, the battle should always be for the middle between two reasonable views, we absolutely do not have that now. I think without question this is the most leftist administration the nation has ever seen and is exposing the extreme elements of the Democratic party, its policies will begin to have full effect these next four years many of which were rammed thru along strict party lines and behind closed doors when they did have control of the presidency and both houses. The outcomes and effects of this legislation and policy changes will be theirs and theirs alone, its then we will really see how the nation responds to this administrations agenda.
You also have to remember as recently as 2010 the Democrats were spanked hard in that mid term, only halfway thru Obama's first term, 2014 is coming up quickly. Thankfully checks and balances are still at work, somewhat, the democrats do not own the house. Personally I don't think its healthy for either party to have absolute power no matter how trusting you are of your flavor. But, admittedly Democrats will probably have an edge going forward, demographics in the country have become much more in their favor thru decades of allowing masses of no skilled, low skilled and uneducated people in the country which in turn made it possible to bring their extended families in after they settled. Majority of these people came from countries where it was normal to depend on but also fear their governments. We are headed for more takers than makers and you can't be that naive to not know who the takers will vote for, until the money dries up. Bumpy ride ahead.
You also have to remember as recently as 2010 the Democrats were spanked hard in that mid term, only halfway thru Obama's first term, 2014 is coming up quickly. Thankfully checks and balances are still at work, somewhat, the democrats do not own the house. Personally I don't think its healthy for either party to have absolute power no matter how trusting you are of your flavor. But, admittedly Democrats will probably have an edge going forward, demographics in the country have become much more in their favor thru decades of allowing masses of no skilled, low skilled and uneducated people in the country which in turn made it possible to bring their extended families in after they settled. Majority of these people came from countries where it was normal to depend on but also fear their governments. We are headed for more takers than makers and you can't be that naive to not know who the takers will vote for, until the money dries up. Bumpy ride ahead.
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jiggin4bass
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Re: voter fraud
grumpy is there any republican out there that can beat hillary in 2016 My moneys on hillary it a gamble but thats why vegas is there HUH. Voter fraud who know it better than the republicans went i went into vote the only question i was asked are you a republican or democrat they didnt even asked for and ID or my address. I told them my name that all i needed and i voted did it do any good no. So you say we have no clue how about the people manning the voting places. All they wanted was for 8 pm to come so they could get the hell out of dodge. It go on on both sides dont kid yourself, SO YOU NEED TO STOP CRYING ABOUT IT MAN UP AND MOVE ON.
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Skeeterman
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Re: voter fraud
Jiggin,I do not know where you vote at because your voting area sounds like its ran by abunch of libs because where I vote they ask for my name and address than I have to sign by my name and address.So what is the big deal for asking for I D when you vote?I do not see anything wrong with it.
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jiggin4bass
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Re: voter fraud
i didnt say there was nothing wrong with showing your id they just didnt ask they did ask my name i was on the list i signed on the line next to my name but they didnt even ask my address i dont know if they were dems or reps running that place. Alot of people voted there it was busy all day. Are there flaws in the system yes there is on both sides and you know it. SO STOP JUMPING ON THE LIBS EVERYTIME SOMETHING HAPPENS IT LIKE OBAMA BLAMING BUSH IT GETS OLD AFTER WHILE.
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Skeeterman
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Re: voter fraud
Now you know how the RIGHT fells about odumma and the lefty libs blaiming Bush all the time. 
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jiggin4bass
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I look at it as blaming both sides With this new gun bull$h*& thing obama trying to pass it will only divide this country and the democrats and republicans that much more further apart.
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Re: voter fraud
they just caught a democrat poll worker back east who admitted to voting for OBAMA 10 times and here family members and fellow poll workers doing the same.......
but wait theres was no voter fraud in PA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ya right
but wait theres was no voter fraud in PA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ya right
Never argue with an idiot; He'll beat you to death with stupidity.
I AM NOT SAYING THERE SHOULD BE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR STUPIDITY,
BUT, WHY DON'T WE JUST TAKE THE SAFETY LABELS OFF OF EVERYTHING
AND LET THE PROBLEM SOLVE ITSELF?"
I AM NOT SAYING THERE SHOULD BE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR STUPIDITY,
BUT, WHY DON'T WE JUST TAKE THE SAFETY LABELS OFF OF EVERYTHING
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Re: voter fraud
another one just caught in ohio doing the same thing as PA.......voted 6 times and didnt see a problem with her or others poll workers and friends voting multipule times....... question will be how far they investigate or if there are any criminal charges against these POS.....
Never argue with an idiot; He'll beat you to death with stupidity.
I AM NOT SAYING THERE SHOULD BE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR STUPIDITY,
BUT, WHY DON'T WE JUST TAKE THE SAFETY LABELS OFF OF EVERYTHING
AND LET THE PROBLEM SOLVE ITSELF?"
I AM NOT SAYING THERE SHOULD BE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FOR STUPIDITY,
BUT, WHY DON'T WE JUST TAKE THE SAFETY LABELS OFF OF EVERYTHING
AND LET THE PROBLEM SOLVE ITSELF?"
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