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Title: Anyone Buying This Venezuela Bullshit Is A Complete F***ing Moron
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Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
URL Source: https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/0 ... t-is-a-complete-fucking-moron/
Published: Feb 23, 2019
Author: Caitlin Johnstone
Post Date: 2019-02-23 12:43:19 by Deckard
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Views: 5291
Comments: 51
#VenezuelaAidLive is trending on Twitter in the USA as I write this, forced to the forefront of public consciousness and into everyone’s eyeballs by a concert staged by billionaire plutocrat Richard Branson. Branson’s Virgin Group controls hundreds of companies and brings in some $21 billion annually, with Branson himself valued at around five billion dollars. The concert is pure narrative control operation, designed to advance the proven lie that the Venezuelan government is shutting out all humanitarian aid from its people, and the proven lie that it has blockaded a bridge to prevent the aid from getting through, both of which are also currently being promoted by American mainstream media despite being thoroughly disproven. In reality, the Venezuelan government has been taking in humanitarian aid from all around the world to help its people, just not from America’s regime change operation that is so blatant even NPR recognizes it, and the bridge Branson has been posing in front of for his “billionaire philanthropist” photo ops They’re lying to us about Venezuela. Anyone with access to alternative media has access to the fact that they’re lying to us about Venezuela. We know this for a fact. We also know for a fact that Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves on planet Earth, and that in spite of all these appeals to the humanitarian impulses of the US empire the Trump administration is openly interested in controlling that oil. We also know for a fact that US interventionism in modern times is consistently disastrous, and consistently never truly about humanitarianism. We also know for a fact that PNAC neocon Elliott Abrams, who is spearheading this “humanitarian aid” initiative, has previously used humanitarian aid as a pretext for arming militia groups in Nicaragua. If you have access to alternative media, all of these facts are easily available to you. If all of these facts are easily available to you, and yet you still support the US government’s interventionism in Venezuela, you are a complete fucking moron. That’s really all I wanted to say here. I have less than zero respect for those who join with Donald Trump, John Bolton, Elliott Abrams, Benjamin Netanyahu, Jair Bolsonaro, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Fox News and MSNBC in manufacturing consent for this agenda, and I don’t care who gets their feelings hurt by my saying so. If you’ve been a longtime reader of mine and you still support Trump’s starvation sanctions, CIA ops, grooming and attempted installation of US vassal Juan Guaidó, and brazen propaganda war upon the minds of the unsuspecting US populace with the goal of toppling a sovereign nation’s government, then my writing hasn’t gotten through to you and you have gotten nothing out of it. I’ve interacted with so many Trump supporters since I started this gig who claim to be anti-interventionist and anti-neocon, yet once their president started ramping up yet another neocon regime change intervention in yet another resource-rich country just like Bush and Obama before him, they fell right in line just like Bush and Obama’s supporters did. Ask them why and they’ll mumble something inarticulate about the absence of US boots on the ground (a point Obama’s defenders also made about Libya and Syria) or about hating socialism, but in reality the reason they support Trump’s regime change interventionism in yet another oil-rich country is because they are foam-brained human livestock who believe whatever the leader of their tribe tells them to. Not all Trump voters have done this, but many of them have. For the most part those who continue to support this president are at best deadly silent on Venezuela, and are at worst actively cheering this bullshit on with everything they’ve got. I actually have more respect for the people who have always been plugged into the CIA/CNN narrative than I have for those who saw through it during Obama’s interventions but not during Trump’s. Someone who has always been plugged into the mainstream narratives on US regime change interventionism is like a guy with his head up his ass. Someone who saw through Obama’s depravity in Libya and Syria but fails to do the same with Venezuela is like a guy who pulled his head out of his ass, then soaked his hair with lube and willfully re-inserted it. There is no excuse for supporting this administration’s obvious lies and sociopathic interventionism in a sovereign nation. None. Wise the fuck up, people.
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#4. To: EVERYONE (#0)
You, Caitlin Johnstone, “say” it’s a “proven lie” that the Venezuelan government is shutting out all humanitarian aid from its people. Perhaps that is so but you on the other hand show absolutely NO proof that it’s a “PROVEN LIE.” You ask us not to believe what “they” say about Venezuela because you say “they’re lying to us about Venezuela.” Well, I will NOT believe you unless you post validated videos of convoys crossing the borders bringing in humanitarian aid to Venezuela, validated videos of ships unloading humanitarian aid at docks in Venezuela and validated videos of aircraft unloading humanitarian aid at the airports in Venezuela. Then and ONLY then will I believe YOU. You say: “In reality, the Venezuelan government has been taking in humanitarian aid from all around the world to help its people.” I say show the “reality” of this and PROVE your charge. You say: “Anyone with access to alternative media has access to the fact that they’re lying to us about Venezuela.” Since YOU have access to alternative media, then show us the links to prove “they’re lying to us about Venezuela.” Your links show us that Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves on planet Earth. Okay, accept that as a fact, but that in no way shows that Venezuela is receiving humanitarian because of that. What is shown about Venezuela’’ oil is that it is grossly indebted to Russia and China for its current and future production. China has been Venezuela’s other major financial crutch. It views the socialist regime in Venezuela as a geopolitical ally and an important trading partner. Over the past decade, Beijing has lent Caracas some $70 billion, mostly for development projects, in exchange for future oil shipments. Analysts estimate the Maduro regime owes China about $13 billion. Your other link to show that “Elliott Abrams, who is spearheading this “humanitarian aid” initiative, has previously used humanitarian aid as a pretext for arming militia groups in Nicaragua” only shows some guy on a blog making that CLAIM. That’s no proof of anything. You still say: “If you have access to alternative media, all of these facts are easily available to you. If all of these facts are easily available to you, and yet you still support the US government’s interventionism in Venezuela, you are a complete fucking moron.” I have access to alternative media and I cannot find the facts of which you, the author, allege that are “easily available” to support your charges. But then I am an old man with poor eyesight so maybe I am missing them and someone can point them out to me if they find support for the author’s claims.
The U.S.-Venezuela Aid Convoy Story Is Clearly Bogus, but No One Wants to Say It Elliott Abrams—the current quarterback of this latest affair in Venezuela—used humanitarian aid shipments to smuggle weapons to the Nicaragua’s Contras in the ’80s. Ultimately, these shipments allow for massive military buildups, without anyone in the media or Congress asking too many questions. After all, what kind of monster is opposed to helping starving people? It’s impossible to know if the current shipments to Venezuela are being used to transport weapons, although Venezuelan authorities say they have intercepted American arms shipments. But given the history of the U.S. (to say nothing of Abrams’), and the fact that the Trump administration is openly calling for Maduro’s ouster while amassing forces along the Colombian border, it’s not exactly a long shot. Still, our political press dismisses the possibility as tin-foil hat stuff, at least in part because mocking wacky Latin American “conspiracy theories” is a mark of one’s seriousness in foreign policy circles. Elliott Abrams Admits His Guilt On 2 Counts in Contra Cover-Up Elliott Abrams, the former Assistant Secretary of State who was one of the Reagan Administration's fiercest advocates of armed support for the Nicaraguan rebels, pleaded guilty today to two misdemeanor counts of withholding information from Congress about secret efforts to aid the guerrillas. Mr. Abrams's guilty pleas and his promise to cooperate with Iran-contra prosecutors may open another avenue for investigators as they make what appears to be a final push to broaden their search for wrongdoing at the senior levels of the Reagan Administration. The independent prosecutor, Lawrence E. Walsh, was forced on Sept. 16 to drop all charges against a main figure in the case, Oliver L. North, but he has made some headway in pursuing efforts to conceal the affair at the Central Intelligence Agency. The Abrams investigation takes Mr. Walsh for the first time into the Reagan State Department. Uncertainty About Knowledge
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Russia has been a lender of last resort. In late 2017, Moscow bailed Venezuela out by restructuring more than $3 billion in sovereign debt, which allowed the Maduro government to meet its obligations to other creditors. Meanwhile, Russia’s state-backed oil giant, Rosneft, is one of Venezuela’s largest foreign backers, loaning it roughly $2.5 billion in recent years in exchange for future energy shipments. Rosneft also co-owns several oil and gas projects with PDVSA, Venezuela’s state energy company—which was just sanctioned by the United States— and it has a 49 percent stake in Citgo, PDVSA’s U.S. refining arm.
Your bullshit link in no way PROVES your assertion that the “Trump administration is openly interested in controlling that oil.”
#8. To: Gatlin (#4)
Your other link to show that “Elliott Abrams, who is spearheading this “humanitarian aid” initiative, has previously used humanitarian aid as a pretext for arming militia groups in Nicaragua” only shows some guy on a blog making that CLAIM. That’s no proof of anything.
#9. To: Deckard (#8)
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