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Super Market Challenge

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I go grocery shopping once a week.  I try to go early and on a weekday.  Saturday shopping in a large grocery store can be frustrating.  It will be crowded and people are in a hurry.  Most of the time,  even on weekdays I feel a bit stressed by the time I reach my car to unload my cart. It all starts when I lock my car and take my two large plastic bags over to where I stick in a euro into the cart lock.  The market makes sure that they don't lose any carts to homeless people.  I don't know why they do this as there are no homeless people in my area.  Italy does not have the kind of homeless situation such as found in America.  I will get my euro back when I return the cart, it is just kind of a free rental situation. I head into the market and my first stop is the vegetable area.  Italy has fairly good produce and where it came from is stated above the item.  Cabbage from Germany, apples from Spain, you will know what country it came from.   Even in the fish market we
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I have spent several unsuccessful hours attempting to upload a  video from the Jimmy Dore Youtube site.   This video showed what happened when Guiado decided to visit a barrio in Caracas.  Those Venezuelans don't seem too happy to see him.   He was lucky to have some bodyguards, and he was never able to get out of his car.                                  part of the whole video You can see the entire video and more at:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQPS2fkh3rE&t=410s It was taken from a show by Jimmy Dore. Why won't  CNN, MSNBC, FOX, and other main steam media not show us this video? Do you  know that: There are more people in poverty in the United States than there are people in Venezuela. Will regime change benefit the Venezuelan people?  Or? The Koch Brothers need heavy Venezuelan oil for their refineries on the east coast of the U.S.  Apparently they cannot use Texas oil.  The media will not tell you that. Did you know that Venezuela has more o