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Mar 5, 2019 06:57:35   #
son of witless wrote:
Where do you hear this crap from ? Venezuela is suffering for the same reasons Cuba suffered. It is run by Marxist Dictators who are the enemy of my country and their own people.

Chavez took a nation with vast oil reserves and destroyed the national oil company by stealing it's capital and manning it with political flunkies.


I read sources other than the approved propaganda and lies of the lapdog corporate owned media. Venezuela is suffering from a manufactured crisis because Chavez did not and Maduro will not fall into lock-step with the US and its corporate elite and allow them to exploit Venezuela's vast oil and natural resources for their gain. Chavez was using those profits to actually help the people of Venezuela. Read about his Bolivarian Revolution.

Here is a December 2014 article in Global Research by Mike Whitney. If you care to get a truer perspective of geopolitics and how the US and its "allies" manipulate commodities, especially oil and gas,and use sanctions to destroy other countries' economies and currencies for political and economic gain against those that do not bow to US corporate demands and use the lapdog corporate owned media to brainwash the American sheople into believing wh**ever lying bulls**t narrative they want.

Here is just a smaple:

"Could it be that the media is trying to shape public opinion on the issue and, by doing so, actually contribute to the plunge in oil prices?

Bingo. Alert readers have probably noticed that the oil story has been splashed across the headlines for weeks even though the basic facts have not changed in the least. It’s all a rehash of the same tedious story reprinted over and over again. But, why? Why does the public need to have the same “Saudis refuse to cut production” story driven into their consciousness day after day like they’re part of some great collective brainwashing experiment? Could it be that every time the message is repeated, oil sells off, and prices go down? Is that it?

Precisely. For example, last week a refinery was attacked in Libya which pushed oil prices up almost immediately. Just hours later, however, another “Saudis refuse to cut production” story conveniently popped up in all the major US media which pushed prices in the direction the USG wants them to go, er, I mean, back down again.

This is how the media helps to reinforce government policy, by crafting a message that helps to push down prices and, thus, hurt “evil” Putin. (This is called “jawboning”) Keep in mind, that OPEC doesn’t meet again until June, 2015, so there’s nothing new to report on production levels. But that doesn’t mean we’re not going to get regular updates on the “Saudis refuse to cut production” story. Oh, no. The media is going to keep beating that drum until Putin cries “Uncle” and submits to US directives. Either that, or the bond market is going to blow up and take the whole damn global financial system along with it. One way or another, something’s got to give.

Read it and tell me what is not true:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/did-the-u-s-and-the-saudis-conspire-to-push-down-oil-prices/5421890

The average sheople is not privey to the t***h. But the corporations and the elite, along with their political puppets are and can "capitalize" on those intentional market manipulations to their benefit. Remember it is not against the law for politicans to use insider information for their monetary gain.
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Mar 4, 2019 16:43:40   #
son of witless wrote:
Do you even have a clue how bad things are in Venezuela ? Do you ? It is not the fault of the United States of America. Chavez and Maduro took over, ran sham e******ns, jailed their opponents, and ruined the Venezuelan economy.

As soon as you began talking American Imperialism, I tuned you out. You really really really need to research how bad life has been for citizens of Venezuela.


How many humanitarian crisis around the world has the US ignored because there was no oil or other natural resources for US corporations to exploit?

How many humanitarian crisis has the US manufactured in order to expoit a country's oil or natural resources?
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Mar 4, 2019 16:26:44   #
son of witless wrote:
Do you even have a clue how bad things are in Venezuela ? Do you ? It is not the fault of the United States of America. Chavez and Maduro took over, ran sham e******ns, jailed their opponents, and ruined the Venezuelan economy.

As soon as you began talking American Imperialism, I tuned you out. You really really really need to research how bad life has been for citizens of Venezuela.


Yes, I have a clue and the "bad things" economically are in large part due to the actions of the US.
Inhumane sanctions, seizures and freezing of assets, then redirecting them to the self declared p**********l usurper pro US and US backed Guaido.

What valid basis do you have that the e******ns of Chavez and Maduro were anything but peaceful, fair and t***sparent other than the propaganda and lies of the corporate controlled US lapdog media? Maduro was elected by 2/3 majority.

The US, which seems to be governed more and more by p**********l executive orders, since his oliness and now trumpy, without any evidence to the contrary, declared them invalid and immediately forced more sanctions against Venezuela directed at curtailing crucial financial interactions with the Venezuelan State with the intention of “making the economy scream”, as famously stated in the case of Chile in the 1970s.

Oh, I see, rather than hear the t***h about American Imperialism you just "stick your fingers in your ears and hum real loud", "stick your head in the sand", eh? The ugly reality behind the mirror is that the U.S. government has a long and unbroken record of working with f*****ts, dictators, druglords and state sponsors of terrorism in every region of the world in its elusive but relentless quest for unchallenged global hegemony and power and corporate exploitation.

The US government has no interest in protecting democracy or improving the humanitarian crisis, the US is responsible for, in Venezuela, and is mostly concerned with taking control of the oil market and maintaining US influence in Latin America. The sanctions on PDVSA freeze the company's assets in the US, as well as prohibits US firms and citizens from conducting business with PDVSA. According to the Treasury Department's guidance, purchases can be made from PDVSA or its entities until April 28 provided that the payments are made into a blocked account that Maduro's government cannot access.

In fact, you hide and watch, the illegal sanctions the US has levied against Venezuela's state oil company, PDVSA, will cause gasoline prices to rise for US consumers.

For years, the US has sought to o*******w the Venezuelan government partly because of the way Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chavez have used oil as an "instrument of countering US hegemony" in the Western Hemisphere. It is also no secret that Chavez and Maduro have angered the US by seeking stronger economic relations with Iran, China and Russia.

The US' sole purpose is to make Venezuela's economy fail and force regime change to a more pro-US one. Of course, if that doesn't work the standard US response to effect regime change will be a military one.

The US political monkeys and their organ grinding corporations need to let Venezuela buy and sell like everyone else and mind it own fv(k!n9 business and maybe worry more about e******n i**********e and fraud here at home!
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Mar 4, 2019 15:07:54   #
son of witless wrote:
Do you even have a clue how bad things are in Venezuela ? Do you ? It is not the fault of the United States of America. Chavez and Maduro took over, ran sham e******ns, jailed their opponents, and ruined the Venezuelan economy.

As soon as you began talking American Imperialism, I tuned you out. You really really really need to research how bad life has been for citizens of Venezuela.
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Mar 4, 2019 07:41:37   #
Rose42 wrote:
Something i saw recently -

Want to stop drumk drivers from k*****g people? Ban sober drivers. That’s how gun control works.


Just ban cars. Bingo, problem solved and "green new deal" achieved. What a deal, NOT!
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Mar 4, 2019 07:08:29   #
Reaper13 wrote:
Those are all unconstitutional. 2A day “ Shall NOT be infringed!”


You for allowing convicted felons to possess firearms? Hmmm...Seems to me those convicted of felonies have forfeited their rights. Don't commit crimes...especially felonies.

Now, that being said, I would surmise that a lot of felons ignore that ban and all the background checking that can be legislated doesn't preclude them from being able to obtain firearms if they are determined.
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Mar 4, 2019 06:48:18   #
Smedley_buzk**l wrote:
It simply shows Democrat Hypocrisy. Trump may or may not have had an extramarital affair or fling as a private citizen, yet Slick Willie Clinton's steady stream of adulterous affairs while in public office both in Arkansas and the White House are ignored.
If Trump had an affair at least he paid for it on his own dime, unlike Democrats who get the taxpayers to fund their own "indiscretions."


Trumpy hasn't been accused of rape. How many have accused slick willie of rape?
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Mar 3, 2019 21:27:08   #
son of witless wrote:
Do you support leaving Maduro in charge of Venezuela ? Did you support Chavez ? If you are and were please send food and toilet paper to that country.


You do realize the US has been interfering in the internal affairs of Venezuela for years. In 2002 bushie instigated c**p that, though it briefly deposed Chavez, ultimately failed. 10 years later, the US imperialist ruling class tried their hand at regime change in Venezuela again. The ruling elite in the US h**ed Chavez for numerous reasons. Chavez was the leading international voice of US anti-imperialism and resistance to US hegemony. He led the t***sformation of much of Latin America from little more than US markets for exploitation to independent nations capable of managing their own affairs. Because of Venezuela's vast (largest in the world) oil reserves Chavez had leverage over greedy western oil corporations and they h**ed that fact. Chavez represented was an example to other Latin American countries that desired to persue an independent, socialist path of development which of course was anathema to the ruling and corporate elite in the US. And yep, he developed political and economic relations with Russia, China\, Iran, Cuba and other countries the US perceived as their enemies.

Chavez related on several occasions he admired the people of the US, it was the ruling class of the US, the same ruling class that exploited and oppressed Venezuela and the rest of Latin America for decades, which he despised which dispelled the distortions and lies told by the mainstream media in the US. His successful socialist polices in combating poverty, illiteracy, r****m, oppression of indigenous peoples, infant mortality and countless other indicators of social progress, of course, made him US' public enemy number one.

As Eric Draitser wrote in Stopimperialism.com in 2012:

"Hugo Chavez has come to symbolize everything that the US imperialist ruling class despises: independent economic development, independent foreign policy, and a deep commitment to social justice. He has openly challenged, not just the US Empire, but imperialism in all its forms. Moreover, Chavez represents a viable future for Latin America, one that is free of the chains of US bondage. For these reasons, the ruling class is set on trying for regime change once more. Anti-imperialists the world over must stand now and defend Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution, not because we agree or disagree with all of its tenets, but because it stands in opposition to empire, colonialism, and domination."

Now the US, starting with his oliness, is at it again. The sanctions and confiscation of Venezuelan assets in the US and using them to support Guaido, who would be another US puppet, is causing devastating humanitarian suffering in Venezuela despite the lies of the corporate controlled US media. Maduro was democratically elected and the US should mind its own fv(k!n9 business and stop doing the bidding of greedy corporations and their oligarch!
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Mar 3, 2019 20:34:17   #
Bad Bob wrote:
That's very silly. What would you have done if it was your granddaughter?


Run a red hot poker up his ass and watch the mfer die a slow painful death.
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Mar 3, 2019 18:05:24   #
son of witless wrote:
During the Cold War we supported Democracy in the Eastern Block. This is the same thing. Venezuela has a Dictatorship oppressing it's people and stealing it's wealth. That Dictatorship is supported by America's enemies Russia, China, and Iran. To not be involved in over throwing that regime would be foolish.


Another believer/victim of US ideological and humanitarian propaganda who can't see that it is the US who is engaging in illegal economic warfare against Venezuela causing the economic and humanitarian crisis. The illegal sanctions imposed by the US are what is preventing Venezuela from being able to borrow money, the US has seized billions of dollars in assets connected to Venezuelas's state-owned oil company, PDVSA, a primary source of income and foreign currency for the country and is funneling them to US puppet Guaido. And of course the US is threatening military action if Maduro (Venezuela's democratically elected President) doesn't step down and let the US install a friendly puppet regime, something the US is known for around the world.

All of this and more done intentionally by Washington and its corporate financiers to gain control of Venezuela's vast oil and resource reserves for their exploitation. It is NOT a matter of socialism vs capitalism or dictatorship vs democracy-- it is one of hegemony versus national sovereignty, of centralized unipolar power versus an increasingly multipolar world.

The US cares nothing of political ideologies or how brutal a dictator might be to hi own people as long as he follows in lock-step to the wishes of corporations and their oligarchs.

The EMPIRE strikes again!
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Mar 3, 2019 15:04:29   #
From Moonbattery:

Bill de Blasio was a great deal for NYC l*****ts because as with Bill & Hillary Clinton, they received two moonbats for the price of one. In addition to the smirking c*******t de Blasio, they also got a co-mayor in his wife, politically active lesbian poet of color Chirlane McCray. However, this was not such a great deal for taxpayers:

Bill de Blasio’s wife Chirlane McCray cannot explain where $850million given to the mental health program she champions has gone, according to reports.

In the three years it has been running, organizers at ThriveNYC have largely failed to keep records of the initiative’s achievements…If there even are any.

That could be because the main achievement has been siphoning money from the pockets of hard-working New Yorkers to bestow upon the city’s corruptocracy and its beneficiaries.

Despite that, the program has been granted an even bigger budget going forward and is now on track to spend $1billion over five years.

There is nothing Big Government loves more than failure. That’s why it is rewarded so lavishly with ever more public money.

Mental illness has reach epidemic levels in NYC, or Chirlane McCray would not be where she is. Putting her is charge of curing it through ThriveNYC is itself a symptom of mental illness.

In other NYC tax & spend news,

Meanwhile de Blasio announced earlier this week that he is mothballing his failed Renewal school program after spending $773million.

Great, now taxpayers will get their $773 million back. Just kidding. The l**t has already been dispersed to the four winds.

There is plenty more waste where that came from:

How many other big-bucks initiatives are in similar straits is unknowable — mostly because bureaucrats never blow the whistle on themselves and also because Gotham’s formal watchdog, city Comptroller Scott Stringer, is among the most incurious individuals ever to hold the office.

You might say it is his job to be incurious.

New Yorkers v**ed for this and will do so again next e******n.
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Mar 3, 2019 15:00:41   #
All mooslimes are terrorists, which is true by definition in the sense that they dev**e themselves to an ideology that has entailed terrorism from its inception.

Does this poster touch a nerve? Ilhan omar is a rabidly anti-American islimist congresscritter and the i***t v**ers of Minnesota's 5th congressional distract should be ashamed.


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Mar 3, 2019 13:43:21   #
After the death of Chavez in 2013, US-based special interests openly stepped up efforts to finally overturn the political order he built. Corporate financier policy think tank, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) created a checklist of US foreign policy goals it sought to achieve in Venezuela. They included:

1. The ouster of narco-kingpins who now hold senior posts in government
2. The respect for a constitutional succession
3. The adoption of meaningful e*******l reforms to ensure a fair campaign environment and a t***sparent v**e count in expected p**********l e******ns; and
4. The dismantling of Iranian and Hezbollah networks in Venezuela

In reality, AEI is talking about dismantling entirely the obstacles that have prevented the US and the corporate-financier interests that direct it, from installing a client regime and extracting entirely Venezuela’s wealth while obstructing, even dismantling the geopolitical independence and influence achieved by Chavez in Venezuela, throughout South America, and beyond.

The think tank continued by stating:

"Now is the time for US diplomats to begin a quiet dialogue with key regional powers to explain the high cost of Chávez’s criminal regime, including the impact of chavista complicity with narcotraffickers who sow mayhem in Colombia, Central America, and Mexico. Perhaps then we can convince regional leaders to show solidarity with Venezuelan democrats who want to restore a commitment to the rule of law and to rebuild an economy that can be an engine for growth in South America."

By “Venezuelan democrats,” AEI means proxies created, funded, and directed by Washington, including Primero Justicia and the street mobs and paramilitary units it commands.

More recently, another Wall Street-Washington policy think tank, the Brookings Institution, would publish in a paper titled, “Venezuela: A path out of crisis,” a 5-point plan toward escalating the crisis in Venezuela (emphasis added):

1. The United States could expand its assistance to countries that until now have been dependent on Venezuelan oil, as a means to decrease regional support for and dependence on the Maduro government.

2. The United States could increase monetary assistance to credible civil society organizations and nongovernmental organizations able to deliver food and medicines to Venezuelans. By doing so, the United States should make clear that international pressure aims to support democracy, not punish the Venezuelan people.

3. The United States could support efforts by the opposition in Venezuela to build an “off-ramp” that would split moderate elements of the government away from hardliners, encouraging the former to acquiesce to a t***sition to democracy by lowering their costs of exiting government.

4. The United States could coordinate with international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to offer financial incentives for holding free and f**r e******ns in 2018, and for the opposition to unify and compete in those e******ns. Such coordination would also involve developing and publicizing a credible plan to restart Venezuela’s economy.

5. As a last resort, the United States could consider raising economic costs to the government through an expanded sanctions regime that aims to limit Venezuelan earnings from oil exports and block further financing. This policy is risky, given that the Maduro government would be able to more credibly shift blame for the economic crisis onto the United States, and should be accompanied by well-publicized efforts to deliver humanitarian aid through credible civil society and nongovernmental organizations.

While the Western media attempts to frame Venezuela’s crisis as a result of “socialism” and “dictatorship,” it is clear by reading the West’s own policy papers that it is owed instead to a systematic assault on Venezuela’s sociopolitical stability and economic viability, spanning decades.

Venezuela is not the first nation in South America that the US has sought to overturn by undermining its economy.

There is little doubt US and other nations sanctions have intentionally worsened humanitarian conditions. The main reason is that harsher sanctions imposed in mid-2017 severely curtailed Venezuela’s ability to incur debt, and in so doing decimated Venezuelan oil production. This has lessened the public resources available to an increasingly desperate population. Far from being an accidental side effect, this seems to be one of the intents of US policy: make Venezuelans so desperate that they turn against Maduro. The inhumanity of such a policy and the underlying objective is crystal clear. Control of Venezuela's oil and natural resources for corporate profits and control.

Considering America’s extensive list of illegal interventions, illegal wars, and illegal occupations it is currently involved in worldwide and the manner in which each was presented to the public – with ideology and humanitarian propaganda used to manipulate public perception, and considering Venezuela’s opposition is a documented recipient of US support, it is clear that yet another illegal intervention is under way, for the benefit of the corporate financiers.

Unipolar vs Multipolar

In a world moving toward multipolarism and greater decentralization on all levels, Venezuela’s collapse and a victory for Washington would undo an increasingly balanced distribution of geopolitical power – both in South and Central America, as well as across the world.

As a major oil producing nation, US control over its people and natural resources would further allow the US and its allies to manipulate energy prices toward achieving future goals – particularly in terms of encircling, isolating, and dismantling other centers of political power dependent on oil production for economic prosperity.

One needs not be a fan of “socialism” to understand that the ultimate outcome of Venezuela’s collapse will be a further concentration of power in Washington and Wall Street’s hands. Such power, regardless of wh**ever ideology it is superficially wielded behind, will always be abused. Regardless of the alleged form of government a nation may take, as long as it is a step away from unipolar globalization, it is a step in the right direction.

The crisis in Venezuela is not one of socialism versus capitalism or dictatorship versus democracy – it is one of hegemony versus national sovereignty, of centralized unipolar power versus an increasingly multipolar world.

A sovereign and independent Venezuela allowed to pursue its own destiny is one in which its own people will naturally seek to decentralize and distribute power. While the current government may not provide the ideal conditions to accomplish this, conditions under a US client regime – as US-wrecked Libya, Afghanistan, or Iraq prove – would be even worse.

For geopolitical analysts, moving away from ideological talking points and examining the actual government and opposition, their interests, associations, and funding, as well as their base motives reveals a much simpler and consistent narrative, one that any analyst could discern, and a discernment that will stand the test of scrutiny and time. Those entrenched in left/right ideology risk being betrayed by the government’s floundering desperation and the true nature of an opposition that most certainly is not “capitalist” or “pro-democracy.”
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Mar 3, 2019 13:01:43   #
Reaper13 wrote:
Where in the second amendment does it say a person who has been found guilty of a felony and has done the time and has paid their debt to society can not own a gun?

I’m pretty sure there are laws about double jeopardy!


It doesn't in the 2nd but is covered elsewhere:

As spelled out in Chapter 44 of Title 18 of the United States Code (U.S.C.), federal law bans convicted felons from possessing firearms or ammunition. (The U.S.C. is a compilation of congressional laws organized by topic and subtopic: Title 18 defines federal crimes and criminal procedure, and Chapter 44 (Sections 921-931) covers firearms.)

According to Section 922(g)(9), no one "who has been convicted in any court of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year" may own or possess a gun. This rule covers all felonies, but does not apply to state misdemeanors that carry less than a two-year sentence. It also exempts several kinds of felonious white-collar crime, as well as felony convictions handed down in foreign countries [sources: 18 U.S.C. § 921; 544 U.S. 385; Williams].

Lest you think Section 922(g) is too lenient, however, read on: It also bans guns for (among others) fugitives, illegal users of controlled substances, mental defectives, i*****l a***ns, dishonorably discharged soldiers, renounced citizens, subjects of certain court orders and persons convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence. Violating these statutes can net you 10 years of imprisonment and/or a $250,000 fine [source: Rhode Island Probation].

As for persons convicted of a federal crime, they can always apply to the president for a pardon [sources: 28 C.F.R. § 1; DOJ].

LOL ... good luck with that.
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Mar 3, 2019 12:51:26   #
Bad Bob wrote:
Better than your mother?


My mother has been dead for 18 years. But one thing about it, she believed in the right to own guns and had several and knew how to use them. Your ass might have got shot if you even came near her.
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