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	<title>Comments on: The good, the bad, the ugly and Coca Cola Zero</title>
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	<description>Observations focused on the problems of an underdeveloped country, Venezuela, with some serendipity about the world (orchids, techs, science, investments, politics) at large. A famous Venezuelan, Juan Pablo Perez Alfonzo, referred to oil as the devil&#039;s excrement. For countries, easy wealth appears indeed to be the sure path to failure. Venezuela might be a clear example of that.</description>
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		<title>By: EMS Test</title>
		<link>http://devilsexcrement.com/2009/06/10/the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-coca-cola-zero/#comment-21710</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[EMS Test]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ofc ^.^Everyone knows Coca Cola cmon man!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ofc ^.^Everyone knows Coca Cola cmon man!</p>
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		<title>By: Badspiegel mit Beleuchtung</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Badspiegel mit Beleuchtung]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a chain email going round a couple of months ago saying that in Latin America, they put some chemical in Coca Cola Zero that is banned in North America and Europe.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There was a chain email going round a couple of months ago saying that in Latin America, they put some chemical in Coca Cola Zero that is banned in North America and Europe.</p>
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		<title>By: Alan Furth</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Furth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, the sad thing is this episode sums up the Venezuelan tragedy. We&#039;re stuck in a civil war that uses flagrant propaganda emanating mainly from two recalcitrant camps: those who defend the brainless, coca-cola-gulping, corporate-enshrining values of the worse versions of Western consumerism; and those trapped in the uber-populist, neo-Leninist Chavista Matrix.

&#039;tamos chévere!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You know, the sad thing is this episode sums up the Venezuelan tragedy. We&#8217;re stuck in a civil war that uses flagrant propaganda emanating mainly from two recalcitrant camps: those who defend the brainless, coca-cola-gulping, corporate-enshrining values of the worse versions of Western consumerism; and those trapped in the uber-populist, neo-Leninist Chavista Matrix.</p>
<p>&#8216;tamos chévere!</p>
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		<title>By: Kepler</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kepler]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think Larry has said it: only when beer gets banned shall the courageous Venezuelan folk rise in arms against tyranny.

I understand Daniel&#039;s reaction, but I would not ban it like that. 
Here in Europe we also have that &quot;light&quot; crap, but less people eat
like that because there are options, there is ready information, there is education and people still remember some traditions.  People are also getting fatter here, but not as in Venezuela and not everywhere (Britons are fattier, for instance, than Scandinavians or Dutch or Flemish).
Germans in particular force companies to present the ingredients in ways that leave little to the imagination, even if you go to McDonald&#039;s.


I would force the industry to present the right information: 

&quot;this product contains blablabla&quot; (big letters, etc, etc)

And children should get some good education at school about what they should eat. The only thing I remember in Venezuela was seen the &quot;food pyramid&quot; very briefly. That was decades ago with top teachers. I wonder what the average Venezuelan knows these days. It was mostly rote learning back then, now it is rotten all the way through.

There are other things that can be done but they are hard to implement in Venezuela, where people are afraid of walking to the corner. Here I can walk at 1am in the city centre, no problem. In Venezuela you spend hours on end in traffic jams and then you have your own garden to do stretch your legs.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think Larry has said it: only when beer gets banned shall the courageous Venezuelan folk rise in arms against tyranny.</p>
<p>I understand Daniel&#8217;s reaction, but I would not ban it like that.<br />
Here in Europe we also have that &#8220;light&#8221; crap, but less people eat<br />
like that because there are options, there is ready information, there is education and people still remember some traditions.  People are also getting fatter here, but not as in Venezuela and not everywhere (Britons are fattier, for instance, than Scandinavians or Dutch or Flemish).<br />
Germans in particular force companies to present the ingredients in ways that leave little to the imagination, even if you go to McDonald&#8217;s.</p>
<p>I would force the industry to present the right information: </p>
<p>&#8220;this product contains blablabla&#8221; (big letters, etc, etc)</p>
<p>And children should get some good education at school about what they should eat. The only thing I remember in Venezuela was seen the &#8220;food pyramid&#8221; very briefly. That was decades ago with top teachers. I wonder what the average Venezuelan knows these days. It was mostly rote learning back then, now it is rotten all the way through.</p>
<p>There are other things that can be done but they are hard to implement in Venezuela, where people are afraid of walking to the corner. Here I can walk at 1am in the city centre, no problem. In Venezuela you spend hours on end in traffic jams and then you have your own garden to do stretch your legs.</p>
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		<title>By: The fifth wave &#171; vulgar morality</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[The fifth wave &#171; vulgar morality]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] binary choice:  with us or against us.  In this way, unofficial voices in countries like Cuba and Venezuela, which might have been happy talking baseball, are driven together in political [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] binary choice:  with us or against us.  In this way, unofficial voices in countries like Cuba and Venezuela, which might have been happy talking baseball, are driven together in political [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Otro Roberto</title>
		<link>http://devilsexcrement.com/2009/06/10/the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-coca-cola-zero/#comment-942</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Otro Roberto]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I lean towards maria gonzalez and LD points of view. It keeps you away of important issues (pan and circus idea, but with almost no bread) and get you used to the feeling that resistance is futile.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I lean towards maria gonzalez and LD points of view. It keeps you away of important issues (pan and circus idea, but with almost no bread) and get you used to the feeling that resistance is futile.</p>
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		<title>By: dillis</title>
		<link>http://devilsexcrement.com/2009/06/10/the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-coca-cola-zero/#comment-926</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[dillis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GeronL, it is what they call Diet Coke in Venezuela]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>GeronL, it is what they call Diet Coke in Venezuela</p>
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		<title>By: GeronL</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[GeronL]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never heard of Coca-Cola Light and I am an American]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have never heard of Coca-Cola Light and I am an American</p>
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		<title>By: HalfEmpty</title>
		<link>http://devilsexcrement.com/2009/06/10/the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-coca-cola-zero/#comment-886</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[HalfEmpty]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&lt;i&gt;they also leave a weird aftertaste in my mouth.&lt;/i&gt;
Embrace the peculiar!
Drink 21st Century TAB.... it&#039;s oddly mechanical.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>they also leave a weird aftertaste in my mouth.</i><br />
Embrace the peculiar!<br />
Drink 21st Century TAB&#8230;. it&#8217;s oddly mechanical.</p>
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		<title>By: Larry Nieves</title>
		<link>http://devilsexcrement.com/2009/06/10/the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-coca-cola-zero/#comment-881</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Larry Nieves]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, please. Mad? Venezuelans will get mad the day Chavez bans beer. Otherwise he will continue sticking it to them, and laughing while at it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, please. Mad? Venezuelans will get mad the day Chavez bans beer. Otherwise he will continue sticking it to them, and laughing while at it.</p>
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