I feel Caitlin's pain - Venezuela - Mass media.
The frustration of being able to see, in a blind world.
The problem with most people, is they rely on the MSM, Twit-ter, Farcebook, TV programing (it is called programing for a reason) for their news, and worldly views. I know she was abusive in her approach regards to this article here Though I feel her frustration too.
For many years I have seen what she sees, I understand the way the MSM (corporate) news service parrots the military industrial complex interventionism, mainly in oil rich nations, like Venezuela.
It is always run in parallel with governments desire to free the natives in these resource rich countries.
Freedom by bombs!......
The dollar is not called the petrodollar for no reason after all. & Venezuela is full of it. The proven oil reserves in Venezuela are recognized as the largest in the world, totaling 297 billion barrels.
The information bombs, the propaganda machine that is the MSM sells the idea, well in advance of any conflict, remember Iraq and "weapons of mass destruction" ? There simply "FACT" were none.
All this war rhetoric is pure copy paste journalism via Reuters.
All Western nations are fed the same garbage for the so called news, via this vile operation named Reuters.
If Trumpety Trump, and the American government were really so concerned, for the welfare of the people of Venezuela, all they have to do is click one button on a keyboard to stop economic sanctions, and end the suffering of millions of people. Then the hyper inflation they are suffering would be over in a millisecond!.
Mr Corbyn the labour leader in the UK used to compliment the socialist system in Venezuela, he has not though, now he has turned his back on them, mentioned the sanctions that are crippling the country. Corbyn.
Most people that rely on the TV, MSM for their news, have no idea that the wealthiest people in the world, that own these services, also own large chunks via shares, of the military industrial complex, Raytheon, Boeing etc.
The same people own shares in resource companies, they stand to gain massively if the oil fields in the most oil rich nation in the world, Venezuela, are handed over to them.
They stand to make trillions in any war, they can make any war they want too, via their ownership and control of the narrative via their own so called news services. They also control public opinion with regards to politicians and voting.
Whilst the thought bombs drop, whilst the propaganda for now is Venezuela and the starving people, spare a thought for the sanctions that have caused this situation, seemingly because Maduro, the president in Venezuela, most probably did not want to sell oil cheap enough to the USA.
I dare say after Venezuela gets it's freedom by bombs, which it seems to be heading towards, I wonder if the next target is the joint richest nation in the world for gas resources, you know the one, Iran.
Sanctions of Mass Destruction: America’s war on Venezuela.
American economic sanctions have been the worst crime against humanity since World War Two. America’s economic sanctions have killed more innocent people than all of the nuclear, biological and chemical weapons ever used in the history of mankind.
The fact that for America the issue in Venezuela is oil, not democracy, will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore history. Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves on the planet.
America seeks control of Venezuela because it sits atop the strategic intersection of the Caribbean, South and Central American worlds. Control of the nation, has always been a remarkably effective way to project power into these three regions and beyond.
From the first moment Hugo Chavez took office, the United States has been trying to overthrow Venezuela’s socialist movement by using sanctions, coup attempts, and funding the opposition parties. After all, there is nothing more undemocratic than a coup d’état. Source.
I have no dog in this fight.
Like I have stated time and time before, I detest all politicians equally, I do not like a single one of them, from May to Putin, the lot are rotten to the core.
Though to Caitlin, if you do get to read this, may I ask politely, you soldier on, with truth bombs, not expletives of the four letter word kind, as you write mainly superb articles, and abusing the potentially needed and wanted audience, helps in no way at all. You may have to explain your thoughts and aims over and over again until you - like I - depart this mortal coil, though at least you can say with your last breath "I tried"........
@shepz1 is out of here, enjoy your Sunday, and have a superb week ahead...........
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Great post, @shepz1!
Cheers my friend, I had a bit of spare time today. :-)
good!
:-)
It’s getting to the point that more people see through the bullshit narrative. I was chatting with someone the other day about this farce of a situation in Venezuela and they said they agreed that it was mostly about oil. They did inject that we had to stop the socialism but I didn’t have the energy to argue that point as well (how America is one of the largest socialist countries there is, with all the shit we pay ‘taxes’ for). The tide is turning, albeit slowly, against the government narrative pieces. The mouthpieces despise alternatives like Caitlin but the more we are proven correct, the more people come here first or second for what’s really going on instead of ignoring it completely. They shut down things on YT and people move elsewhere. Thankfully there is natural progression of truth.
Agreed 100%.
I only have to point to the fact that in the UK, 1 million people marched in London to protest the Iraq war, even though every rag of a newspaper ran brainwashing headlines daily "wmd's in Iraq" and even though the BBC and all the other TV news were saying the same, that 1 million that marched, was backed up by 50 other million people all thinking the same, just without the time to make it to London to do the same. Not bad for a country of only 65 million people.
In the end people want to look at what those who would have a vested interest in becoming involved instead of what led them down that path to being in that fragility in the first place. I'd say what happened there would likely happen anywhere when a new government changes the format that government is run by. Meaning in any final phrase to implement a socialist style government that entails taking over private industry, or, if you want to say those powerful enough or with the means enough to move up against you. In the beginning Chevez probably looked like a rose and smelled like a rose but as more government policy was implemented for government control over industry those people weren't liking it so much. Given that at the highest point in his presidential elections was at about fifty seven percent with most his elections just over the fifty percent line that means you have a country that is about split over your policies and the way you are running your government. For the first few years as he let industry still reign as a free enterprise it was all good because at best they still had the means possible to finance and move into place those more favorable to the security of free enterprise they could run in the next election(s). It wasn't until he made moves to take more government control of private industry did he start facing the bulk of his problems. My bet would be given that he only had the support of little over half his country it wasn't hard to find people to move up against him, including in the military, which, if you ask me is half that countries problem not just back then but currently in that they seem to have more control over what happens then those in government. It was those in the private industry sector combined with some in the military that moved up against him in the coup, which was so widely known, he knew, the UN knew, and yes the US knew and the ambassador to Venezuela told them that only a elected government not one brought in by a coup would be recognized by the US government.
Speaking of propagandizing something, Maduro after Chevez death goes on to sell it as some conspiracy by the US that killed him, they poisoned him he claimed, some even crazy enough to say the US gave him the cancer he supposedly died of. Now why would they do that? To deflect away from the next controversy. Which then was several prominent people within Chevez administration have claimed he died in December and they withheld that from the people until after the election in which Chevez was re-elected. You would think that would be about as crazy as it gets but it's bolstered by the fact Muduro was going to have an open viewing but then claimed they couldn't because the embalming of the body came to late so there was no way to preserve the body. To me that's totally credible to believe, when a man who is sold as being a "hero" to his people don't get immediate attention upon death something as crucial as embalming that just smells a bit weird. Supposedly during that time he was already dead it was said that changes to government policies were implemented which means they'd been forged. The whole thing sounds like a giant circus but oh no it just couldn't be because they weren't evil empirest that they could go down this trail of deceit, I mean come on? ..tactics like these only come from real "evil" people, there's no self serving power hungry evil people in Venezuela, how dare the world to even assume such a thing.
In all due honesty what has transpired here is a power struggle that came sooner rather then later left by the vacuum of Chevez death. He never had more than slightly over fifty percent of his populace behind him so it comes as no surprise that upon his death a bigger power struggle would emerge. You pretty much have a country that is fifty/fifty split that are opposing each other. Just in my opinion anyone who'd take someone's dead body and hide it for months wouldn't be beyond the realm of running corrupt elections...after all hiding the body was about staying in power, granting additional powers and further implementing policies against the other fifty percent to make it harder for them to oppose you. This all being done without any outside influence at all, they created this mess on all their own.
They get their fingers slapped for being so deviously deceptive by the world body and they don't like it. Like other countries who've had their patties slapped they decide they don't want to play anymore. We've gonna go play with the other bullies now. The other bullies are just as interested as the bullies they got rid of. Because lets face it, the world is built on the bully system. The weak depending on the strong to defend them. Now they aren't just going to bring in the other bullies but they are going to take their candy and give it to someone else.
Well depending upon how you look at it you could call it fortunately or unfortunately, depending upon which side of the fence you happen to be standing on when the world according to governments policies was formed but there is serious consequences to going outside the norms.
When the world is built upon the financial backs of over half the worlds economy, that little detail that most seem to ignore in this debate, which is crucial, it's pretty hard to sit by and say it's okay if someone whose pissed wants to throw a wrench in the machine. You let one throw in a wrench then there will be another until half the world's economy crashes. At that point you would be about as well off as if a nuclear bomb went off. (I took that little quote from a financial analyst who wrote a story about the big bad bully and how he came to be and why now we are stuck with him) In the end if they let those throwing temper tantrums throw wrenches in the machine there'd be no world left to consume their precious oil anymore, the last thing anyone would be worried about would be oil, billions of people would be starving and struggling just to survive. Lets say that that wouldn't even hold true. You then seriously would have to ask yourself what bully would I rather be living under? There's some serious consequences to that choice, you think you hate your government now just wait until a bully comes along that not only propagandizes to you but completely tells you what you can wear and what religion is acceptable for you to believe in...and believe the option to say none won't exist.
This guy sums it up, extremely well!
You still miss the point, even this guy was closer to it then you when he points out, as I said, that when Chevez took over things started turning around. What you fail to realize, so does this guy, is that despite the turnaround you still had a population that was basically a 50/50 political split or damn near as close to it as you can get because obviously Chevez would have to come in slightly over which he did. But that doesn't negate how hard he had to fight to get those two, three, four percentage points over.
"it was those power struggles that were increasing against him"
"his numbers were declining every year"
He then started implementing taking control over the private sector of industry...it was those people who were driving up against his policies and feeding money into candidates who ran against him.
He's no less guilty than anyone else wanting to selfishly maintain control through selfish means, taking that which belongs to others which in essence denied them the ability to form power against him.
It's all about the power, the greed, the control. When you use your power to take away the power of the people then you have problems, more problems than you can handle.
That happened on his own watch, sure there was fluctuation in the global oil economy, that didn't help matters but still there was no outside influence to what happened to him, pure and simple, he made the bed he ended up laying in.
Maduro's problems stems from the fact that after Chevez death he wasn't willing to be fair and honest, his cheated the people by lying about the death because it was so close to the election, he was next in line to succeed Chevez in death and he needed a larger time frame between the death and the election to implement policy and make changes that would favor him in an election. That's exactly what he did. He set up the dice to roll in his favor. Power and greed corrupt, many people enter politics with well intentions but they get that whiff of power then suddenly they change, it's no longer about the people it's all about them. This all came about because of things they did of their own volition....this is what started it, this was the initial cause....and I grant you due process in the claim sanctions only made matters worse for the people and lifting sanctions would make things better but the underlying dirty dastardly deeds of the politics involved would still be there and regardless if people have a fully belly or not it's still not going to sit well with those who had the most to lose in all this.
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Shame you didn't enlighten me earlier as Mr Corbyn visited my village this weekend and this article would have given him a real headache. Never mind, I am more than aware that's it water off a duck back to his kind. Spot on as per Mr. Shepz1 and thanks for the brilliant links :)
Hey broskie, cheers for the kind words, and yes, no matter what facts you give his kind, he would only answer with a million words totally unrelated to the subject matter to hand.
Well said mate and I hope you also have a top week ahead :)
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Thanks bro, will do, cheers. :-)
I have a feeling this intervention is going to fail, just as I believe the North Korea and Syria ones failed(of course they won't admit it but it couldn't be more obvious).
I believe the days when the US and it's co-conspirators could prance around the World destroying countries with impunity are over. They just don't realise it yet.
All they're really doing now is grandstanding in a last attempt to try and save face, but it won't work.
Unfortunately they might have to find this out the hard way.
I agree, and more.
They raided Iraq and Libya for resources, stole billions in gold, stole even more in resources, though when you run a country like the USA so far into FIAT debt, now over how many trillions of $ , 20?, the debt, becomes due.
Someone is coming calling for it, and we all know who runs the none federal, federal reserve!...
For those of us who can see through the bullshit, and who know what the real game is about, its impossible to have a serious conversation about this with people who are intent on spreading misinformation...and when I say misinformation, I mean the same and lame mainstream media talking points. If you speak about the constant interventionism and sanctions that are placed on anyone who dares to oppose the current world order, then you just get slapped with false labels to shut down any conversation. You are instantly a socialist....go figure - a nice conversation stopper. The parallels between that and being called a conspiracy theorist are identical.
Like all the other little names used to end debate, I take zero notice of them now, and continue to talk, it was getting ridiculous with people hiding behind their own actions or lack of, just by name calling.