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Postby MacCruiskeen » Sun Jan 27, 2019 2:38 pm

^^Gold Mansacks. WSJ. WaPo. The White House. Putting it all out there in black and white, quite shamelessly.

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A WH official explains that the US has tried to "organize the internal opposition" in Venezuela, but "that internal piece was missing." The coup leader it now recognizes, Juan Guaidó, "was the piece we needed for our strategy to be coherent and complete."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... 376a37e3a0

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By the way, has Alexandria Occasionally-Coherent said even one fucking word about this outrageously blatant coup attempt?
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Postby MacCruiskeen » Sun Jan 27, 2019 3:43 pm

Dr. Jill Stein wrote:What does Trump want with Venezuela? He said it clearly in 2011 when asked how he'd deal with Libya & Iraq: the US should topple their governments & reward ourselves by taking their oil. Asked how that would affect those countries, Trump said: "Who cares?"



https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=63&v=eWTCB0ueqXk

The murderous psycho Abrams:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=98&v=dXrxQghfuxA
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Postby MacCruiskeen » Sun Jan 27, 2019 6:26 pm

More about the loathsome Abrams, by Jon Schwarz:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1088 ... 75618.html
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Postby Belligerent Savant » Mon Jan 28, 2019 11:02 am

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Postby JackRiddler » Mon Jan 28, 2019 1:45 pm

BS, I wish you or someone would finally do a step-by-step on how you do that image capture and upload from Twitter. Whether or not, thanks.

While the CIA-US-Colombia-Brazil-Canada et al. intervention in Venezuela threatens to eventually turn into a US-led military action, the model so far would be more like the Ukraine in 2013-14. The differences in VZ are huge: the majority reject the opposition, the largest political force on the ground remains the Bolivarian movement, and Maduro has the backing of the military and state. The opposition may be as thoroughly fractured as it was the day before relative unknown Guaido (with the phone-blessing of Pence) parachuted himself in as the new president of a supposedly united front. But it's worth reading up on the Ukrainian example, and I think the interview transcript at the post below is very informative.

Full transcript posted at
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Postby Belligerent Savant » Mon Jan 28, 2019 2:03 pm

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BS, I wish you or someone would finally do a step-by-step on how you do that image capture and upload from Twitter. Whether or not, thanks.


Here's what I do (using a Windows-based OS):

1. generate a 'print screen' of the page/site/tweet I'm currently viewing on my screen (displaying the content of interest in full, of course).
2. Paste the 'print screen' in MS Paint (comes with every version of Windows), though you can use any other photo editor for this.
3. Use the "select" tool to cut out the tweets (and exclude any other non-pertinent stuff from the screen capture) -- you may need to first 'zoom out' your view in Paint to ensure you cut/crop the entire tweet of interest.
4. Save the resultant cropped version to your local drive as a jpg
5. When responding to a post in RI, scroll down below the 'text window'; you'll see a tab called, "Upload Attachment", as shown below.
6. Next to "Filename:", select the "Browse..." button, which will then allow you to navigate to the directory where you placed your saved jpg on your computer.
7. Click, "Add the file".
8. I believe there's a limit of 3 uploads per posting.

(others may have a less burdensome method for doing this. I don't always have time to go through this process, but it typically takes me about 3 minutes or so)
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Postby JackRiddler » Mon Jan 28, 2019 3:49 pm

Thank you.

I keep asking (was asking Rory once), and that always ends up being the answer I was afraid of. ;-)
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Postby conniption » Tue Jan 29, 2019 3:42 am

Attempted Coup in Venezuela with Abby Martin, Greg Wilpert, Paul Jay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cymO3x5LigU
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Re: Venezuela - U.S. Again Tries Regime Change...

Postby JackRiddler » Tue Jan 29, 2019 3:43 am

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Watch at least the first couple of minutes of this one: a video of Trump laying out the thinking that clearly also animates the US push on Venezuela.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMplqEpfGhs

With Abby Martin and Mark Prysner, and continues in this one.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98pBLXe7Bmk
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Postby JackRiddler » Tue Jan 29, 2019 2:40 pm

National security adviser John Bolton held a legal pad in a White House press briefing Monday with the words "5,000 troops to Colombia" written on it. Reporters noticed the scribbled note on Twitter, with the first line appearing to say "Afghanistan — welcome to talks." Economic adviser Larry Kudlow turned the notes away from reporters during the briefing.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bolton-hol ... ten-on-it/



Without a doubt, as Grandin (last page) put it, foreign policy is also a means for imposing new domestic ideological hegemonies. It's the outside lever allowing the state to rewrite the meaning of "unity." Attacking Venezuela now has a clear domestic function: to unite parties in a battle against "socialism." It's like a Trump campaign move, but the Democrats don't care, they go along with this one. He drops the nuclear threats and tries a Korean peace process, or suspends the annual wargames, it's treason. All the Democratic PR machinery howls it. He merely talks to Putin: treason. Ditto. But he bombs Syria, it's presidential, the same Trump-Always-Wrongers go along with it. Saudi Arabia, thanks to the Khasshoggi effect, briefly went otherwise, and anyway that alliance allows its degree of dissent. But this? They're all like, YEAH DO IT! Their preferred good-looking presidents, Macron and Trudeau, are on board. Get those socialists! Boo, Bernie! Boo, AOC! Once the Mueller thing is over, there can even be Get Russia Unity (GRU).

This decade has seen a roaring comeback for political economy and the associated antagonist ideologies, class consciousness, and explicit class war. Capitalism, imperialism and nationalism are again primary and socialism is the specter - however "real" it may be.

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Postby MacCruiskeen » Tue Jan 29, 2019 3:32 pm

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This is daylight robbery.

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BREAKING U.S. gives Guaido control over some Venezuelan assets (link: http://dlvr.it/QxkVKn) dlvr.it/QxkVKn



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Postby JackRiddler » Tue Jan 29, 2019 3:54 pm

@TulsiGabbard

It’s about the oil … again.

Bolton just exposed real motive for intervention in Venezuela: "We're in conversation with major American companies now...It would make a difference if we could have American companies produce the oil in Venezuela. We both have a lot at stake here."


6:49 pm - 28 Jan 2019


On the life of Guaido - thorough. (Uh oh! Max Blumenthal! I'm being run by Russia again!)

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The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela's Coup Leader

The Grayzone - January 29, 2019

Juan Guaidó is the product of a decade-long project overseen by Washington’s elite regime change trainers. While posing as a champion of democracy, he has spent years at the forefront of a violent campaign of destabilization.

By Dan Cohen and Max Blumenthal


Before the fateful day of January 22, fewer than one in five Venezuelans had heard of Juan Guaidó. Only a few months ago, the 35-year-old was an obscure character in a politically marginal far-right group closely associated with gruesome acts of street violence. Even in his own party, Guaidó had been a mid-level figure in the opposition-dominated National Assembly, which is now dissolved.

But after a single phone call from from US Vice President Mike Pence, Guaidó proclaimed himself as president of Venezuela. Anointed as the leader of his country by Washington, a previously unknown political bottom dweller was vaulted onto the international stage as the US-selected leader of the nation with the world’s largest oil reserves.

Echoing the Washington consensus, the New York Times editorial board hailed Guaidó as a “credible rival” to Maduro with a “refreshing style and vision of taking the country forward.” The Bloomberg News editorial board applauded him for seeking “restoration of democracy” and the Wall Street Journal declared him “a new democratic leader.” Meanwhile, Canada, numerous European nations, Israel, and the bloc of right-wing Latin American governments known as the Lima Group recognized Guaidó as the legitimate leader of Venezuela.

While Guaidó seemed to have materialized out of nowhere, he was, in fact, the product of more than a decade of assiduous grooming by the US government’s elite regime change factories. Alongside a cadre of right-wing student activists, Guaidó was cultivated to undermine Venezuela’s socialist-oriented government, destabilize the country, and one day seize power. Though he has been a minor figure in Venezuelan politics, he had spent years quietly demonstrated his worthiness in Washington’s halls of power.

“Juan Guaidó is a character that has been created for this circumstance,” Marco Teruggi, an Argentinian journalist and leading chronicler of Venezuelan politics, told the Grayzone. “It’s the logic of a laboratory – Guaidó is like a mixture of several elements that create a character who, in all honesty, oscillates between laughable and worrying.”

According to Teruggi, “Guaido is more popular outside Venezuela than inside, especially in the elite Ivy League and Washington circles. He’s a known character there, is predictably right-wing, and is considered loyal to the program.”

While Guaidó is today sold as the face of democratic restoration, he spent his career in the most violent faction of Venezuela’s most radical opposition party, positioning himself at the forefront of one destabilization campaign after another. His party has been widely discredited inside Venezuela, and is held partly responsible for fragmenting a badly weakened opposition.

“‘These radical leaders have no more than 20 percent in opinion polls,’ says Luis Vicente León, Venezuela’s premier non-partisan pollster. Leon added that they remain isolated because the majority of the population “does not want war. ‘What they want is a solution.’”

But this is precisely why he Guaidó was selected by Washington: he is not expected to lead Venezuela towards to democracy, but to collapse a country that for the past two decades has been a bulwark of resistance to US hegemony. His unlikely rise signals the culmination of a two decades-long project to destroy a robust socialist experiment.

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Postby MacCruiskeen » Tue Jan 29, 2019 4:11 pm

"concerning"

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Trump, Pompeo, Bolton, Abrams and the CIA are opening the veins of Latin America again, again. Miss Astroturf 2019 is, you know, still figuring out her response, you know.

Hence, y'know, all that adoring wall-to-wall corporate-media coverage, climaxing with a standing ovation at Sundance.
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Postby Harvey » Tue Jan 29, 2019 6:06 pm

Parallels to a minor celebrity and failed businessman being catapulted to president of the USA by media saturation?
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Re: Venezuela - U.S. Again Tries Regime Change...

Postby Elvis » Tue Jan 29, 2019 11:32 pm

Harvey » Tue Jan 29, 2019 3:06 pm wrote:Parallels to a minor celebrity and failed businessman being catapulted to president of the USA by media saturation?


No, I don't think so. AOC won her Congressional seat by going out in her district and introducing herself; people liked what they heard, she knocked out an established Democrat incumbent in the primary and won the general election. She did not get where she is by media saturation.

I will be watching her Venezuela stance closely. The anti-Maduro propaganda has, unfortunately, been quite effective.

Also want to note it's good to see Democracy Now! doing some decent reporting on the coup. It took them a long time to come to their senses on Syria.
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