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    Quote Posted by Flash (here)
    Justlistened again t Edward Snowden movie.

    Perolator and others, maybe listening to that movie would help understanding the USA and its tentacles. It is on Netflix

    We fully understand (and deplore) US overseas policy and don't doubt that they are playing a hand in Venezuela right now. The point we are trying to make is that Maduro needs to be removed because he is destroying the country and its people. Often, using propaganda lies, the US engineers regime change when the leader is doing something good but is anti US or has an independent banking system but in this case, ANY change is better than carrying on with Maduro.

    As I said before, sometimes there really is an evil dictator who needs to be removed. Even if Venezuela ends up fully in the hands of the US (which is actually still in doubt) it will be better for the Venezuelan people. At the present time, death is a daily possibility.
    The question is, in the minds of the masses who would make or tolerate moves made by the given players...WHO PUT THEM THERE?

    Who and what exactly, put Venezuela in the condition it is in right now?

    How, exactly and specifically, in fine detail, in the hidden aspects, the not obvious aspects....how did Venezuela arrive in the condition it is in right now?

    THAT is the most critical thing to know, as that needed, powerfully needed detail work...that all points at the direction which is correct to go in.

    Saying that Venezuela would be better of right now, with US interference and involvement, can be a lot like some hidden aspects of Stockholm syndrome, -- a case of identifying with dark forces from one's own jailers and killers.

    Almost like saying "I know this guy shot and killed some of my relatives... and my kids and family are starving to death and some are going to die because of him and his actions, but he's our best hope for now and the future."


    So when I see what is said in the post I'm quoting, I think to what I know of the US behaviour in the Latin and southern sphere and their history in such matters says my crazy sounding stuff is very likely quite true.

    As that the the US history in all these things. Across the globe. A dozen times over. And actually far more than a dozen times. The record is one of fascist insanity inflicted on other countries, via clandestine means and clandestine channels. More times than anyone can count or find record of.

    So what, exactly, would suddenly, out of the blue, prove that analysis wrong, when dealing with the most important country in the world right now, regarding global balance and US dark forces desperation - and in their at least 100 year record of involvement, in such noted ways.... in this exact area of the world??
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    (cross-posting this, as I believe it also belongs in this thread)

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    Regardless of what you BELIEVE about trump, he is ACTING AS a deep-state globalist....
    What if the deep state imperialists (Rockefeller's, Bush's, Clinton's, CIA, etc) had placed the current President Nicolas Maduro in power and had destroyed Venezuela, as they have done so often before, in Venezuela and so many other countries?
    This sounds like a Netflix movie plot for a fantasy good guy US president to swoop in...

    Quote Posted by Paul (here)
    What if Trump was actually working to dismantle this US imperialist intervention and to return Venezuela to the people of Venezuela?...
    ... and there it is. Fantasy good guy US president, an emancipator, not just an imperialist scumbag tool like all his predecessors, swoops in, saves the day. Nice. The Trump of which you speak must wear a cape and his underwear on the outside, and navigates by way of his glowing Sacred Heart. That's Supertrump, and his pit vipers Bolton and Abrams, swooping in to make sure that the people of Venezuela get the profits of the sale of that national Venezuelan resource, oil... hey, wait a minuto!

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    What if the deep state imperialists (Rockefeller's, Bush's, Clinton's, CIA, etc) had placed the current President Nicolas Maduro in power...
    Problemo #1: Well, they didn't. Nor did they bring Chavez to power. Sorry, it blows the whole fantasy, but the neoliberals and neocons --> neoliberalcons, to coin a word, the modern flavor components of the deep state globalists, have been marking their territory for decades. We know full well what their footprint looks like. It ain't "socialist." It ain't a class uprising. But they have every reason to squash class uprisings and socialist movements.

    There's that word again, "socialism", that word that has been disemboweled and torn to shreds and stitched back together and reanimated and used as a pejorative to describe its complete opposite. I know it gets confusing, and that's because that word was targeted for destruction. Socialism is the opposite of privatization and power, resource, and wealth ownership consolidation, not the opposite of capitalism. Privatization, and power, resource, and wealth ownership consolidation, on a global scale, is globalism.

    Socialism is "of the people" and "sharing essential resources" and "sharing the commons" and "having decentralized government" and toward an "egalitarian society" or at least toward a society where everyone's basic needs are met. It is decentralized power that the globalists fear most - the loss of their centralized power that they have networked (with mobsters) and worked (clawed, manipulated, murdered) for decades to get political and military power under their mobster family control.

    Globalism is private ownership (privatization)/dissolution of the commons. Globalism is about the autocratic consolidation of governance power and resources and wealth - and, on a global scale, that is the NWO goal. Value of individuals is based on how much they affect the globalists cash-flow, so the poor are ledger debits - ignorable, expendable.

    Socialism emphasizes shared public ownership of a "commons", distribution of governance power (government decentralization - not autocracy but rather democracy), value of all individuals. Much flatter hierarchy and emphasis on local governance.

    (Communism would seek to dissolve all private ownership. That does not describe socialism. Just wanted to make the point of what socialism isn't. While I'm here, I'll say that communism also would dissolve hierarchical governance, which is why communism has never happened anywhere, and couldn't happen in a social group larger than a large family/commune.)

    Socialist uprisings and legitimate socialist movements are class wars. It's the "have not's", and those that have little, uniting to take control of their own governance and a share of the pie (if there is one.)

    Have we yet established that the globalists are the bad guys? Do we agree there? So, if we see how they operate, their M.O., and recognize they are antisocialist, then we're not going to pretend that when we see class wars erupting all over the planet, that it's the globalists - with the most to lose with the success of any class war- fomenting it. Maybe the word "globalist" should always be followed by the word "mobster", so there is no warm and fuzzy "handshake around the globe" vibe in the word 'globalist.'


    Quote Posted by Paul (here)
    ... when and if the US has done so, and another nation is currently in deep turmoil on account of such intervention, does not the US have a moral obligation to help the people of that nation throw off the tin-pot, banana-republic, dictators that it's imperialist policies placed there, and to allow and support the return of the control of that nation to its people?
    ...
    No. The USA, INC. (the Deep State controlled, mobster government of the USA) is utterly incapable of helping Venezuela, or anyone. The USA, INC. has never ever ever helped another country (other than Israel.) Good examples include Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, where the USA, INC. destroyed the country, killed from hundreds of thousands to millions of innocent humans,... and then says the USA, INC. is going to extract (steal) the minerals, steal the oil, steal the gold - ostensibly to pay for the USA, INC. "intervention"/destruction.

    Quote Posted by Paul (here)
    ...I posted an "Opposing Viewpoint", more in line with the primary thrust of this thread, over at Turmoil in Venezuela -- Post #157.

    In short, I posted there that Maduro is bad...
    I believe I detect a thinly veiled "socialism is bad; Maduro is socialist; Maduro is bad" equivalency from reading a number of your posts.* In using "bad" you're not emphasizing 'incompetent' or 'myopic' or a bumpkin or an idiot... the implication (to me) of someone being "one of the bad guys", i.e., "bad", would be how deeply and thickly associated they are with the mobster class running the world - the globalists, the bad guys. If Maduro had some truly despicable uber-mobster buddies, people on the order of say, Abrams, Bolton, Giuliani, then I would be highly suspect that Maduro is a bad guy - a globalist mobster. So, I don't know, does Maduro have friends at that level of slithering evil? The most common two allegations are that Maduro is a "dictator", and that he is a colossal thief stealing from the Venezuelan commons, rather than admitting that he is a hapless victim of globalist-imperialist economic warfare that he lacks the sophistication and wherewithal to thwart. There is a big difference. Before declaring Maduro as belonging in the same bedpan as the globalist mobsters, "bad", his actual despotic and misanthropic acts would be examined (if they exist) and his sociopathy (if real) ought to be compared to the globalists that we KNOW are "bad", misanthropic, despotic, sociopathic/psychopathic mobsters.

    *(I am actually keen to gain an understanding of the fears of this ideology, and I do appreciate that you and some others take the time to express your understanding of the pros and cons of any form of 'socialism.' I don't qualify as, nor do I want to be, the spokesperson for 'socialism' but I do want to understand which fears are grounded and which are not. All of us operate our home and family life 'socialist.' The foundations of friendship are also 'socialist', not as a political ideology but whom we share with and care for. So, why are the same concepts of taking care of one another in our families and friend circles suddenly frightening when applied to a wider circle of people?)


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    Some excerpts (from here) to give an idea of the hatred of the globalists elite towards the goys/peasants/useless eaters:

    The revised Auschwitz Labor concept of “Work N Starve” in Guatemala and Beyond

    In the 1950’s, the CIA began overthrowing democratically elected leaders, setting up dictator puppet governments, and making a ghetto of the Third World. Their methodology was the same as the Skull and Bones and the Brown Shirts: undermining of international and national laws, intimidation, blackmail, torture, sexual exploitation, propaganda, racial profiling, and unquestioning obedience to authority. They used taxpayer’s money to economically enslave the world for their own private profit. The CIA was a direct continuation of their drugs, slaves, and weapons running operations from WWII and before.

    One of the first things they did in the early 1950’s was to take thousands of daughters of loyal American officers that had beaten the Nazis and enslaved them as a kind of retribution in Operation MKULTRA.

    When Allan Dulles headed the CIA, he covered-up Rockefeller’s illegal business operations. He also ran black-ops and overthrew the democratically elected leader of Guatemala, Arbenz, to help Rockefeller’s United Fruit Company in which he also owned shares. President Arbenz wanted to buy United Fruit’s unused land at market value to give it to the poor so that they could grow their own food (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbenz). United Fruit refused to sell. Children starved to death when their parents worked for United Fruit because the wages were so low. The Rockefellers wanted depopulation. Arbenz’s policies would have allowed the peasants to get out of having to work for United Fruit. Dulles’s overthrow of Arbenz meant decades of enslaved labor and starvation of children for the Guatemalan people. It also meant decades of massacres, torture, and over 100,000 deaths by CIA trained death squads to repress those who rebelled.

    Note: The historians writing about the coup had their work overseen by David Rockefeller! […]

    The coup even had the same CIA villain E. Howard Hunt, who lead this CIA campaign, appointed by Vice President Nixon. He was later in the WaterGate burglary of the Democractic Convention which ended in the resignation of Nixon. E. Howard Hunt figures prominently in the book Plausible Denial: Was the CIA involved in the JFK assassination? as a suspect for the assassination.

    It was in their selfish interests to starve the peasants and to make them willing to work for next to nothing, as serfs dependent on them for their food. The CIA overthrew Arbenz to put their own puppet in power. That continued the severe poverty and starvation of children in Guatemala. The Guatemalan government carried out systematic massacres over decades against its indigenous peoples while the US government funded that with military aid and I know of instances in which US Generals were present at the massacres of whole villages down to every man, women, and child, in order to try to ensure a thorough job was done of it. Clearly, had that killing of the indigenous people been against what the CIA/Cabal wanted done, they would just have gone back in and changed the government again. But the Guatemalan government doing those massacres was in the CIA/Cabal’s good graces—they were doing what the Cabal wanted and the funding and military aid to do it kept flowing like a broad river towards it.
    "Why should we worry about the death squads? They're bumping off the commies, our enemies. I'd give them more power. Hell, I'd give them some cartridges if I could, and everyone else would too...Why should we criticize them? The death squad - I'm for it."
    -- Fred Sherwood, the former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Guatemala, September 1980
    […]
    “For decades, United Fruit had controlled Guatemala through pliable dictators” ...Rockefeller’s chosen PR man [Ed Bernays] said,

    “The only way to deal with the public was to connect with their unconscious desires and fears. ...Instead of trying to reduce people’s fears of Communism, one should actually encourage and manipulate the fear." In such a way it became a weapon in the Cold War.

    Larry Tye, Boston Globe Journalist stated--
    “What United Fruit had to do was change this from being a popularly elected government which was doing some good things for people there, into this being a threat to American democracy close to its shores ...He transformed this into the issue of a Communist threat...taking United Fruit as a commercial client out of the picture and making it look like a question of American democracy and American freedom and values being threatened."
    Regarding how the Rockefeller-engineered coup in Guatamala was intended, Howard Hunt says:
    “What we wanted to do was have a terror campaign...to terrify Arbenz particularly, and his troops, much as the German Stuppabombers [Stukas] terrified the population of Holland, Belgium, and Poland at the onset of WWII and just rendered everybody paralyzed.” [Reminds me of “Shock and Awe” in Iraq].
    It was as if the CIA had been created at the end of WWII precisely to allow those Americans who funded/profited from Nazi violation of human rights to continue their reign of death, terror, and enslavement. President Truman later said, “Had I known the CIA would become the American Gestapo, I never would have signed it into existence!” Not only did the CIA help many Nazi war criminals escape prosecution, it continued committing war crimes unabated!

    […]

    Those at the top ordering the war crimes were desperate to keep the workers of countries from uniting and keep stealing from them their labor, their resources and their lives. To do that they keep up the perception of an external threat. Those in the West were told that the Russians and the Cubans were coming and that Communism was the threat. But at the same time the Rockefellers were instructing their people inside the Russian govt. and the KGB that the Americans and the British were the threat. By playing on the fears of each side they kept the workers from uniting to form true democracies and have the right to organize for fair wages. Europe was able to largely seek a middle ground of socialism, and some measure of rights and the rule of law. That is better than failing completely prey to the Robber Barons. But much needs to be done still to prevent the corporations from destroying the environment.
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    Quote Those at the top ordering the war crimes were desperate to keep the workers of countries from uniting and keep stealing from them their labor, their resources and their lives.
    I would say the "Yellow Vests" are sensing that pincer coming in... hence the urge to drive cheap labor into various nations so as not to pay for pensions, welfare and fair wages... and get legitimate owners dispossessed.


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    Quote Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)
    So, why are the same concepts of taking care of one another in our families and friend circles suddenly frightening when applied to a wider circle of people?)
    Because that's exactly what is to be feared -- consolidation of power.

    When one thinks of a large group of people as one big family, then some institution or individual ends up exercising the decision making powers so consolidated, and then there is an almost inescapable tendency for the most power hungry, psychopathic, sociopathic, ... individual(s) to spend the most effort seeking the reins of control of that centralized power.

    Such centralized power should be splintered into a thousand pieces and scattered to the winds, to misquote JFK's comment about the CIA.

    Where practical, individual people and families should retain the power to make decisions, and where common agreement or collective action is desirable, it should be incorporated into a wide number of institutions, each with a narrow scope of authority, operating as much as is practical independently from the others.

    The difference between the individual and the nation IS the key difference.
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    Quote Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)
    ... and there it is. Fantasy good guy US president, an emancipator, not just an imperialist scumbag tool like all his predecessors, swoops in, saves the day. Nice. The Trump of which you speak must wear a cape and his underwear on the outside, and navigates by way of his glowing Sacred Heart. That's Supertrump, and his pit vipers Bolton and Abrams, swooping in to make sure that the people of Venezuela get the profits of the sale of that national Venezuelan resource, oil... hey, wait a minuto!
    Trump is most certainly not like his predecessors and that's precisely the reason the MSN are desperately trying to get rid of him. Yes, he is a globalist but not for the current corrupt Banker backed economic system based on funny money, drug money, war and global crime in general. He is certainly on record as saying that the US policy of regime change must end. He is backed by the Corporatocracy who's economic model is based on trade and creating something tangible.

    As Bill Ryan says, if the media hate him so much, he is obviously a good guy!

    I suggest you listen to Daniel Estulin (Russian Think Tank adviser to both the US and Putin) if you want to understand how Trump is attempting to genuinely change US policy and introduce a new economic model to the world. If he doesn't succeed and is replaced by the likes of the old order as represented by Hillary Clinton, the only solution the Bankers have to an impossible several quadrillion worldwide debt is nuclear war.

    So, we need SuperTrump and his cape to survive and win if we are to have any hope of a future...

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    So, why are the same concepts of taking care of one another in our families and friend circles suddenly frightening when applied to a wider circle of people?)
    Because that's exactly what is to be feared -- consolidation of power.
    Good point both of you. Let me add my two cents. Socialism is good and not to be feared on a bigger scale if the people will learn how to be responsible and not have faith, or at least have faith based on transparency to the governing authority. And the governing authority should not have any power over the police or the police should be totally dissolve and arm the people. I recon the big majority of people 99% are good. How is the 1% going to win if armed equally. As of now implementation of new systems is impossible without first defeating and rounding up the 1%. This is where we should focus right now. Any consolidation of power whether its named socialist imperialist democracy not identified with Russia and China is of the globalist and should be shunned

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    As Bill Ryan says, if the media hate him so much, he is obviously a good guy!

    .
    That use to be the trick but not anymore. you see profiling is constantly at work and innovating follow its footprints. Maybe the majority of Americans now are aware of the lies of the media. so the media is acting in a different manner. You need to be one step ahead than one step behind one step is all it takes. "Lets hate Trump so much so that the people who are now aware of our garbage will think that Trump is not on our side".

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    Believe what you want. You are free to decide what is good and bad.
    Its more of what you believe than mine. My family is not in Venezuela.

    I think Paul, sum up the whole situation very accurately. God help Venezuela. The battle ground between the two mammoth force on the planet is now in your place. I'm taking the side of China and Russia in any case. They dont have a record of deliberately destroying nations such as this one.
    I beg to differ with China - where's Tibet, Hong Kong, the real Mongolia nowadays, (soon to consume the rest of South East Asia as they have tried to in the past) - have you seen the crazy new silk road initiatives? Pumping and dumping and cutting deals with corrupt governments with fake loans and forcing them to repay the debt incurred by infrastructure projects in South East Asia leaving the peasants continually destitute without any land compensation? Have you seen their housing developments in Africa? What about the take over of all the Philippines' waters? All these horrendous things by taking the same pages out of the Confessions of an Economic Hitman book.
    Lets say china has its own demons I'll say its about 10% of what's with the globalist. Have you seen the map of the military bases of US globalist around China and Russia. Would not it be a dire need for them to to make a buffer zone. Do you remember when did China start claiming forcefully territories belonging to Philippines? Its only recently at the peak of the tension. They need a buffer zone. No I am not against China claiming Philippine territory In fact I welcome them and will assist in anyway I can. Its for world security indirectly. But the China must return it afterwards I mean after Globalist defeat,

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    Oh, I fully assume Maduro is about to be ousted or killed. Once the "Americans" have it all wrapped up in Venezuela and have installed their temporary "interim" puppet, they will be forced to have another election. If the published election results were anywhere close to correct, and if the "Chavista Movement"/Bolivarian Revolution has anywhere near the real support that it appears to have, the American Globalists are going to have a problem. What if the new election results show that a different person (let's assume they "Noriega" Maduro) wins, that is socialist. Then what? What if more than 51% of the voters keep choosing socialism? Will the Globalist Mobsters, er, I mean the United States accept it? hahahahaha We all know the answer. Somehow, miraculously, the election results will be a victory for the Globalist Mobsters, and shortly thereafter, the USA, INC. will be "managing" the oil, you know, as a favor to Venezuela. Globalist Privateers, coming your way, Venezuela, and don't worry, socialism and democracy will be crushed as well. The Americanos can multitask.


    pssssssst: The USA, INC. is a (or the) top-tier NWO Globalist mobster family. The US government has been completely taken over by mobsters. It is not US citizens. We US citizens have absolutely no control over anything that happens in either foreign or domestic policy. It makes no difference what we citizens think, we can't do anything. All we can do is to warn you, even though it probably is moot to warn you - you probably can't do anything either.

    These mobsters have been coveting, and scheming towards, Venezuela's oil, the largest reserve of oil known in the world. Now there is an opening, an angle to cover their crimes, and blood in the water. Maybe some of the Venezuelan middle to upper (financial) class people don't care at all about the oil revenues - they don't see themselves as recipients, only the poor are the recipients. So, maybe they don't care and will unroll the red carpet for the globalists to come in and "bring law and order" down to the colony. Get things back to the way they were. Make Venezuela great again. Let Exxon have the oil, who cares, right?

    But, for those Venezuelans that care about ALL Venezuelans: If you were walking and about to step near a poisonous viper, I'd try my best to warn you.

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    Chavez Was a Formidable Opponent to US Imperialism

    The US plans to overthrow Chavez I'm sure have been many more than we hear about, and there's a profound possibility his cancer was induced by CIA/Mossad operatives.
    It's standard procedure, along with,
    • heart attacks
    • getting suicided
    • plane crashes,
    ...and the like.
    Chavez was supposed to have been taken out after the staged 9/11 event as one Rockefeller confided to Aaron Russo, who also suspiciously died of an aggressive cancer after he blew the whistle on all this.

    Here's Russo's talk to an interviewer...

    Listen all the way through, it's one of the greatest exposes of the cold, calculated elite mindset you'll see from a first hand encounter and specifically mentions their designs for Venezuela:


    Quote Posted by Hervé (here)
    [...]
    Regarding how the Rockefeller-engineered coup in Guatemala was intended, Howard Hunt says:
    “What we wanted to do was have a terror campaign...to terrify Arbenz particularly, and his troops, much as the German Stuppabombers [Stukas] terrified the population of Holland, Belgium, and Poland at the onset of WWII and just rendered everybody paralyzed.” [Reminds me of “Shock and Awe” in Iraq].
    It was as if the CIA had been created at the end of WWII precisely to allow those Americans who funded/profited from Nazi violation of human rights to continue their reign of death, terror, and enslavement. President Truman later said, “Had I known the CIA would become the American Gestapo, I never would have signed it into existence!”

    [...]
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    These mobsters have been coveting, and scheming towards, Venezuela's oil, the largest reserve of oil known in the world.
    Ron Paul, on The Liberty Report, agrees.

    The US Neocons and oil interests (rhymes with Rockefeller) are hell bent on destroying the arrangements that Venezuela has made with China and Russia to trade Venezuela's oil for investment in Venezuela's economy and petro industry, and instead insuring that US Petro companies have that business.

    So ... it seems to me:
    • that Chavez was notoriously non-compliant with the American imperialists,
    • that covert US Neocon operators killed Chavez,
    • that Maduro is a populist, sometimes thuggish, follow on to Chavez,
    • that Maduro (and perhaps Chavez earlier?) had been developing stronger connections with China and Russia,
    • that the US had been actively working behind the scenes to destroy the economy of Venezuela,
    • that many Venezuelans really and legitimately want Maduro out of there, and
    • that the US Neocons are energizing and leveraging this crisis in Venezuela to regain control over it.
    We're seeing the culmination of a many year effort by US Neocons to rape and pillage yet another nation.
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    Awkward: Max Blumenthal confronts lawmakers on what America's doing in Venezuela - 'Are we meddling?'

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    US members of Congress freeze, fumble and deliver bewildering answers to award-winning journalist Max Blumenthal as he asks Capitol Hill politicians what they think of the US' open support for Venezuela's opposition.

    Many members of the US Congress are greatly concerned by supposed 'Russian meddling' in American affairs. But what do they think about Washington openly getting behind the opposition in Venezuela? In a video, published on his website, the Grayzone Project, Blumenthal asked lawmakers just that.

    The politicians were visibly caught off guard by pretty simple and straightforward questions. Several lawmakers couldn't provide a definitive answer to whether the US public support for opposition leader Juan Guaido could be considered 'meddling' in a foreign nation's affairs.

    "Haven't thought about that," a baffled lawmaker was heard saying when asked how he would react if Russia recognized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as president of the US.

    Washington did something similar to that last week, when President Donald Trump recognized the speaker of Venezuela's opposition-controlled parliament, Guaido, as the legitimate leader of the country.

    Some, like Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez outright refused to answer questions on Venezuela, saying she is "working on a response." Others denied that the wholesale US support for Guaido against President Nicolas Maduro constitutes 'meddling,' albeit failing to coherently explain why.

    "I think we're just supporting the people and supporting what they are deciding needs to happen, and so I think it's good of us since we are the bastion of freedom," Vicky Hartzler, a Republican from Missouri, stated.

    Her Democratic colleague, Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, was passionate about protecting Robert Mueller's probe into the so-called 'Trump-Russia collusion.' When asked about meddling in Venezuela, she mumbled: "I don't know. There's been a lot against Maduro, who's awful."

    Only Missouri Democrat Lacy Clay said that the US policy in South America and the Caribbean is "something we should not be proud of." He opposed the "embargo" on Caracas because its people "will suffer more." However, even he wasn't sure whether it was "good meddling or not," saying that Venezuela wasn't his "issue."

    Alongside the US, Juan Guaido was recognized as the interim president of Venezuela by a majority of South American countries, including neighboring Colombia and Brazil. France, Spain and Germany vowed to follow suit unless Nicolas Maduro calls a snap election. Their ultimatum was firmly rejected by Maduro. States including Russia, China, Iran and Turkey continue to recognize Maduro as the democratically elected leader of Venezuela.
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    One said "The fact is that people are starving in an oil rich nation."

    I thought, well hell, there are people here starving, in an oil rich nation.

    I can't believe those liars and goons are in charge.
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    Quote Posted by Paul (here)
    We're seeing the culmination of a many year effort by US Neocons to rape and pillage yet another nation.
    This Lew Rockwell article spells out in considerably more detail the effort by the US to build up Juan Guaidó, destabilize Venezuela, and regain control of its natural resources, especially oil: The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela’s Coup Leader.
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    Quote Posted by Paul (here)
    Quote Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)
    These mobsters have been coveting, and scheming towards, Venezuela's oil, the largest reserve of oil known in the world.
    Ron Paul, on The Liberty Report, agrees.

    The US Neocons and oil interests (rhymes with Rockefeller) are hell bent on destroying the arrangements that Venezuela has made with China and Russia to trade Venezuela's oil for investment in Venezuela's economy and petro industry, and instead insuring that US Petro companies have that business.

    [utube video was here]

    So ... it seems to me:
    • that Chavez was notoriously non-compliant with the American imperialists,
    • that covert US Neocon operators killed Chavez,
    • that Maduro is a populist, sometimes thuggish, follow on to Chavez,
    • that Maduro (and perhaps Chavez earlier?) had been developing stronger connections with China and Russia,
    • that the US had been actively working behind the scenes to destroy the economy of Venezuela,
    • that many Venezuelans really and legitimately want Maduro out of there, and
    • that the US Neocons are energizing and leveraging this crisis in Venezuela to regain control over it.

    We're seeing the culmination of a many year effort by US Neocons to rape and pillage yet another nation.
    (highlight emphasis on "many" and "Neocons" are mine)

    on "many":
    I'd say, [*]that some financially middle and upper class Venezuelans really and legitimately want Maduro out of there
    (It makes logical sense: the people that do not need social services don't care about social services, or the Venezuelan oil revenue that is the source of those services. For them, their lives have been disrupted, they don't care who is really creating violence and just want the violence to end. The easiest thing for these financial classes to do is to pay the bosses of the local thugs to stop creating the scripted part of the violence: USA, INC. and its CIA. So, they welcome a "soft" takeover of Venezuela by the USA, and restoration of the pre-Chavez status quo.

    It also makes sense that the word "some" is a much more honest representation than "many." for exactly the same reason that the Ruling Class Globalists have bought - taken control of - mass media: those with more money have exponentially amplified voices. I'm sure there really is a group of middle and upper financial class Venezuelans who were content with the pre-Chavez status quo, and they have used their means to greatly amplify their voices. I'll bet Western corporate media also logs EVERY negative comment, like "the violence must stop!" as an integer added to the "wants Maduro ousted" sum.)


    on "Neocons":
    Don't leave out the other half of the snake, the neoliberals. Or, is 'neocon' versus 'neoliberal' more of just a variation of strategy toward the same duopoly-globalist agenda, rather than an actual different political ideology? If we can really divide the factions of the US-based globalists into 2 piles, the other stinking heap would be the neoliberals, which maybe better describes the clintons and obama sect. Duopoly-D leaders pelosi and schumer, for example, act as old-school neocons, so are they now neocons or are they globalist-aligned duopoly members labeled as 'neoliberals', using formerly neocon tactics? My hunch is it is just a semantics word game, and just more of the kabuki theater of the pretense of the phony dichotomy within the duopoly. It is the duopoly (in US politics) that are the pampered handmaidens of Empire - they are all Globalist agents.

    Anyway, I just didn't want the faction of duopoly labeled as "neoliberals' to avoid our microscope and our flyswatter. All of the Globalists, neocon and neoliberal in lockstep, are after Venezuela's oil and to undermine or crush nascent socialism/anti-globalism. Yes, socialism is anti-globalism, so the Globalists have to stamp it out.


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    Quote Posted by Paul (here)
    Quote Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)
    These mobsters have been coveting, and scheming towards, Venezuela's oil, the largest reserve of oil known in the world.
    Ron Paul, on The Liberty Report, agrees.
    ...
    We're seeing the culmination of a many year effort by US Neocons to rape and pillage yet another nation.
    This Collective Evolution article comes to the same conclusion, with some more history and detail: Globalists Want Venezuela As The Next Jewel In Their Crown.

    Here are some excerpts from this article:

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    Globalists Want Venezuela As The Next Jewel In Their Crown

    Published January 30, 2019, By Richard Enos, Staff Writer

    In Brief
    The Facts: Juan Guaidó, the 35-year-old leader of Venezuela’s opposition-controlled national assembly, recently declared himself president of Venezuela, as part of a globalist-backed coup in attempt to overthrow recently inaugurated president Nicolas Maduro.

    Reflect On: What are the ways in which we are continuing to condone these geopolitical activities? Are we having trouble separating Western propaganda from our basic human values?
    The attempted coup taking place in Venezuela right now is very instructive for those seeking to better understand the current geopolitical power struggle, as it is one of the most transparent illustrations of the well-worn tactics employed by the forces behind Western hegemony.

    Ideologies such as ‘socialism,’ ‘economic growth’ and ‘democracy’ continue to be bandied about in mainstream discourse with the highest degree of distortion. This is often intentional in order to justify political and military action that simply enriches the global elite at the expense of humanity at large. The problem is that much of the general public in the West continue to support these tactics by failing to see the thinly-veiled hypocrisy inherent in them.

    What Is Happening In Venezuela

    Venezuela under Hugo Chavez (1999-2012) was a thorn in the side of Western globalists, as Chavez became one of the greatest and most vocal critics of Western exploitation of his time. He named Nicolas Maduro as his successor in 2012. Maduro has been in power ever since, winning elections in 2013 and 2018.

    While Maduro amassed over two-thirds (67.8%) of the popular vote in 2018, his inauguration a few weeks ago was soon followed by statements from the European Union and others that they did not accept Maduro as the legitimate president based on election ‘irregularities.’

    In a move that seems impossible to justify on constitutional grounds, Juan Guaidó, the 35-year-old leader of Venezuela’s opposition-controlled national assembly, recently declared himself president of Venezuela, despite the fact that he did not even run in the presidential election.
    ...
    Battle Lines Drawn

    The parameters of this battle are easily delineated. Those nations under the control of globalists–and we must include the United States in this until proven otherwise–are offering their support to Guaidó. This is simply because support for Guaidó is support for the Globalist agenda, which in this case is bringing Venezuela’s vast resources, including the largest proven oil reserves in the world, under the control of Globalist oligarchs.
    ...
    Meanwhile, it is those few nations who have resisted globalism that unsurprisingly support the autonomy of Venezuela and hence the constitutional right of Maduro to retain power.
    ...
    Nicolás Maduro Is No Saint

    Supporting Nicolás Maduro’s constitutional right to serve out his term is not necessarily an endorsement of the man himself, his failed policies, or his allegedly unlawful suppression of dissent. But like Hugo Chavez before him, who espoused a form of socialism in an attempt to address the ills of poverty and economic disparity in his country, we could at least hold out hope that he is a leader with some regard for the welfare of his people.
    ...
    The main push behind this Western-backed attempted coup is the exploitation of a nation, which includes the enslavement of its people.

    Yes, Venezuela is currently suffering economic hardship right now, and some blame has to be put on the government. But we should not forget the impact of sanctions from the Western world, who do everything in their power to bring about economic hardship to countries that are not aligned with imperialistic policies. The Globalists don’t want to support oil-rich nations benefiting economically from the oil industry unless they get the lion’s share.
    ...
    How We Continue To Enable Western Imperialism

    By and large, the Western public continues to turn a blind eye to the attempts on the part of Western powers to use strong-arm tactics to ‘persuade’ countries like Venezuela to fall in line with the way the globalists want their country to operate. Why? Because many of us still believe that our political and economic systems are the best, and are more than willing to disregard the notion that other nations are sovereign if we can be convinced that forcing other nations to do things the way we do them will ultimately benefit us.

    Ending this kind of behavior is not founded in defeating the globalists, but rather in gaining enough awareness as a collective to reject the pro-Western propaganda we are being fed. This falls in line with the message of John Perkins, author of the classic Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.:
    Quote “It is driven not by a small band of men but by a concept that has become accepted as gospel: the idea that all economic growth benefits humankind and that the greater the growth, the more widespread the benefits. This belief also has a corollary: that those people who excel at stoking the fires of economic growth should be exalted and rewarded, while those born at the fringes are available for exploitation.”
    The Takeaway

    Our Western Powers, as invincible as they may seem, can only continue to perpetrate economic and political intimidation of sovereign nations as long as the majority of people in the West either approve of it or turn a blind eye to it. If indeed we want to create a world in which there is fairness, respect, freedom, and many of the other things that we value, then we have to look upon world events with a discerning mind, seeing through the propaganda enough to become fully aware of when the basic human values that we espouse are not being maintained.
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    My current understanding agrees with this Collective Evolution article.
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    From Larouche's Executive Intelligence Report, here is further insight into what's happening in Venezuela, that extends on the previous post just above: British Two-Part Operation in Venezuela Includes Interim President Guaidó, and Trump Is a Target:

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    British Two-Part Operation in Venezuela Includes Interim President Guaidó, and Trump Is a Target

    Jan. 30, 2019 (EIRNS)—As investigative journalists Max Blumenthal and Dan Cohen demonstrate in an article published Jan. 29 by the Grayzone, Venezuela’s self-proclaimed “interim president” Juan Guaidó is really a nobody, something like a Manchurian Candidate. Far from being the savior of Venezuelan democracy, the unelected 35-year-old president of Venezuela’s National Assembly is a creation of the global, London-spawned “Project Democracy” apparatus—funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), USAID, and assorted George Soros-linked entities—for the sole purpose of launching a color revolution in Venezuela.

    But what Blumenthal and Cohen fail to mention or understand is that the apparatus they accurately describe is only one part of a two-pronged assault on Venezuela which began with the installation of the London-created and -directed Jacobin operation in the 1990s, first with Hugo Chávez and continued by his successor Nicolas Maduro—an operation which EIR has thoroughly documented. “Chavismo,” which the leftist Blumenthal defends, forged a strategic alliance with the FARC cocaine cartel (also run out of London), and wrecked the country, economically and politically, setting it up for what is occurring today: a Gene Sharp color revolution, also run from London, in which Guaidó, and many others like him, are just useful fools carrying out their assigned tasks.

    Nota bene: This is part and parcel of London’s coup against the U.S. President, as Trump is being urged to buy into the “defend democracy” fraud, perpetrated by the London-backed war-mongers in his cabinet—Pence, Pompeo, Bolton—and elsewhere. Trump today spoke to Guaidó by phone and congratulated him on his efforts.
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    Yes - this sounds spot on to me.

    Gain more control over a nation and its resources (something that the British empire is still quite adept at) by first wrecking that nation by installing a government that ruins it, economically and politically, and then operate some variation of a color revolution to overthrow that government with a puppet that you directly control.

    If, along the way, this puts Trump in a bad spot, having his foreign diplomacy controlled by war-mongers operating contrary to both his preferences and the preferences of most Americans, then so much the better.
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    Quote Posted by Dennis Leahy (here)
    on "many": I'd say that some financially middle and upper class Venezuelans really and legitimately want Maduro out of there
    In support of your estimates, here's some polling data showing that 81% do NOT want the US economic and financial sanctions being applied against Venezuela to remove Maduro, 78% of Venezuelan's do NOT want international intervention to remove Maduro from power, and even more, 86%, do NOT want international military intervention to remove Maduro:

    86% of Venezuelans Oppose Military Intervention, 81% Are Against U.S. Sanctions, Local Polling Shows (Information Clearing House)

    Here also is a report that Venezuelan President Maduro, in an interview with Sputnik, complained that US National Security Adviser John Bolton (the war hawk with the unruly mustache) is refusing to pass along to US President Trump Maduro's request to speak with Trump. Maduro is convinced that if he and Trump could speak personally, then a better result could be worked out, and that he's quite willing to hold new parliamentary elections.

    So ... both Maduro and over 80% of Venezuelan's do NOT want Maduro kicked out of office by the US war hawk neocons (operating apparently at the behest of their UK masters, not at the behest of US President Trump.)
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    Given that we know Maduro imprisons many who oppose him and pays those who support him (often supermarkets only allow food to confirmed supporters) why should we believe this poll?

    It would fit the pattern if Hinterlaces who made the poll and run by Oscar Schemel was paid to fix the results. You have to realise that everything is tightly controlled in Venezuela.

    Of course it may be genuine but I object to the fact that 'evidence' is present as gospel if it confirms with your viewpoint and questioned if it does not. All mainstream information coming out of Venezuela is censured by the government and so certainly should be questioned. I agree it is most likely that Venezuelans don't want US intervention but I would be sure that more than 22% want international intervention to remove Maduro.

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    Quote It appears Maduro is responsible for Venezuela's condition. He put everybody on the payroll and then the oil price collapsed.
    What's not said, is that the oil price collapse, orchestration and protracted implementation was designed to undermine Venezuela's oil revenues... along with the financial, import/export sanctions imposed on the country and which is detailed in this thread.
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