Venezuela

nivek

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This is exactly the kind of thing we always do to destabilize a country before we reduce it to a smoldering cinder of death and despair.

There is already death and despair present that have already reached destabilizing levels, something must be done but it should be a world intervention not just the US...This situation did not pop up overnight, it started years ago, and started getting really bad just over two years ago, but the world ignored it thereby santioning that country to slip further into the abyss...

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nivek

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Now Venezuela's water turns BLACK: Horrified residents wake up to find their taps 'running with oil' after week-long power blackout heavily restricted the supply

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Residents of San Diego, Venezuela, saw their water cut off amid a nationwide blackout before it returned on Wednesday - only to flow black after apparently being contaminated with crude oil. Dozens of people flooded social media with pictures and videos of a thick, black liquid running from their taps and shower heads while blasting the government for failing them yet again. The country has been suffering through a week-long power blackout that has turned off water pumps and left some areas without a supply, while patients have been dying in hospitals.

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Now Venezuela's water turns BLACK: Horrified residents wake up to find their taps 'running with oil' after week-long power blackout heavily restricted the supply

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Residents of San Diego, Venezuela, saw their water cut off amid a nationwide blackout before it returned on Wednesday - only to flow black after apparently being contaminated with crude oil. Dozens of people flooded social media with pictures and videos of a thick, black liquid running from their taps and shower heads while blasting the government for failing them yet again. The country has been suffering through a week-long power blackout that has turned off water pumps and left some areas without a supply, while patients have been dying in hospitals.

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And in the US:

Scientific Study Links Flammable Drinking Water to Fracking — ProPublica

170 Million Americans Are Drinking Radioactive Water. This Interactive Map Shows If You Are Too.

…while the water in Flint, Michigan is still undrinkable due to lead contamination 4 1/2 years after widespread poisoning symptoms became national news:

1,600 days on bottled water: Flint still swamped by water woes

So should somebody invade the US?

Nearly everything we’re hearing in the mainstream media is propaganda aimed at manufacturing consensus for another disastrous regime change operation in Venezuela, so American corporations can seize their oil for profit:

 
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nivek

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Polish reporter tells of being beaten by Venezuela police

A Polish journalist in Venezuela was beaten by police in the troubled South American country, he said in accounts published by his newspaper and Venezuela's press union on Friday.

The account added to a long list of allegations of brutality and arbitrary arrest of media workers in Venezuela, mostly targeting Venezuelans not working for state media but also increasingly foreign correspondents.

Tomasz Surdel, who has been in Venezuela for two months on assignment for Poland's Gazeta Wyborcza daily, said he was grabbed by masked and armed members of the FAES special actions unit of the police in Caracas.

The officers put a bag over his head and started hitting him with blunt objects in the head and ribs, he was cited as saying by the Venezuelan SNTP press union.

"When they finished and removed the bag I saw a pistol barrel in front of my eyes. One of them ordered the gun to be fired in my face. The other one, laughing, pulled the trigger. The gun wasn't loaded," Surdel was quoted saying.

The union published photos of Surdel's bloodied and bruised face.

His newspaper emphasized that the alleged police violence occurred as Surdel was carrying out his journalistic duties.

It urged "a strong reaction from the (Polish) foreign ministry and the Polish embassy in Caracas to the authorities" in Venezuela.

Venezuela's political tensions are bubbling over as President Nicolas Maduro grapples with a challenge to the country's leadership from Juan Guaido, the head of the opposition-run congress who has been recognized as interim president by the US and 50 other countries.


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nivek

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And in the US:

Scientific Study Links Flammable Drinking Water to Fracking — ProPublica

170 Million Americans Are Drinking Radioactive Water. This Interactive Map Shows If You Are Too.

…while the water in Flint, Michigan is still undrinkable due to lead contamination 4 1/2 years after widespread poisoning symptoms became national news:

1,600 days on bottled water: Flint still swamped by water woes

So should somebody invade the US?

Nearly everything we’re hearing in the mainstream media is propaganda aimed at manufacturing consensus for another disastrous regime change operation in Venezuela, so American corporations can seize their oil for profit:



You have not addressed the facts, this isn't about oil, Venezuela is nearing a total societal breakdown, there are tens of thousands of people seeking to flee that country amidst a socialist dictatorship which is an ever growing police state, there are empty store shelves in most stores, little medicine to go around, and even less social stability...Inflation is expected to be at least one million percent later this year, the value of their money isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on, people turn to a barter system because paper money is all but worthless but increasingly they have little in which to barter...Venezuela's fabric of society is tearing apart and is quickly reaching a dangerous apex of despair, starvation, and certain death for its people if something is not done to help them...

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You have not addressed the facts, this isn't about oil, Venezuela is nearing a total societal breakdown, there are tens of thousands of people seeking to flee that country amidst a socialist dictatorship which is an ever growing police state, there are empty store shelves in most stores, little medicine to go around, and even less social stability...Inflation is expected to be at least one million percent later this year, the value of their money isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on, people turn to a barter system because paper money is all but worthless but increasingly they have little in which to barter...Venezuela's fabric of society is tearing apart and is quickly reaching a dangerous apex of despair, starvation, and certain death for its people if something is not done to help them...
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This is 100% about oil. Venezuela has oil reserves twice as large as Saudi Arabia - that's why the US is trying to topple their government via sanctions that make it illegal for Venezuela to sell their oil to other nations - a crippling blow aimed at increasingly instability and violence to foment a US-sponsored revolution. This fact - that Trump and the Deep State are after the Venezuelan oil reserves - came out in Andrew McCabe's book.

Here's what it's actually like today in Caracas, Venezuela - this footage was taken today by independent journalist Eva Bartlett who's actually there right now - it's as peaceful as ever:

Eva Bartlett on Twitter

Here's the video (again) about the revelation in McCabe's book, when Trump initially pitched the idea of invading Venezuela for their oil back in 2017:



Here's what it's like in the shopping stores in Venezuela:



Look: the entire corporate news media and every government agency told us that "we had to invade Iraq" because Saddam Hussein had WMDs. There were no WMDs in Iraq - that was just a pretext to build public consensus to invade and bomb Iraq back to the Stone Age.

Then they did the same thing in Libya, and then Syria - lies upon lies to build a public consensus for another disastrous invasion that would leave each and every one of those nations a smoldering heap of civilian corpses.

You're helping them do it again by promoting MSM propaganda.

Stop doing that, or the next rash of mutilated corpses will be partly your fault.

Yes Venezuela has its problems - the biggest one now being the US oil sanctions imposed against them, to topple their democratically elected government. We should lift those sanctions and let those people work out their own problems. The people of Venezuela don't want our brand of "help," and if you were in their shoes, you'd feel the exact same way.
 
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Shadowprophet

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Wow, I have so little to add and so much to read, Oil in their tap water. is this a freak accident or some kind of attack?
 
Wow, I have so little to add and so much to read, Oil in their tap water. is this a freak accident or some kind of attack?
Given the scale of the outage, and the fact that cyberattacks on the power systems of nations the US deems adversaries has been a matter of policy for decades, it's perfectly plausible that the power outage was caused by a covert US operation to further destabilize Venezuela and to help manufacture public consensus for greater US intervention:

Did the US Recycle a Bush-Era Plan to Take Out Venezuela’s Power Grid?

It's virtually impossible to prove either way though. And given that the US corporate news media is always pro-war and lies constantly about everything on behalf of the US war machine, I don't see how we can arrive at a clear assessment unless a whistleblower comes forward (and since we jail and torture whistleblowers in the US, that's not likely to happen).
 

Shadowprophet

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Given the scale of the outage, and the fact that cyberattacks on the power systems of nations the US deems adversaries has been a matter of policy for decades, it's perfectly plausible that the power outage was caused by a covert US operation to further destabilize Venezuela and to help manufacture public consensus for greater US intervention:

Did the US Recycle a Bush-Era Plan to Take Out Venezuela’s Power Grid?

It's virtually impossible to prove either way though. And given that the US corporate news media is always pro-war and lies constantly about everything on behalf of the US war machine, I don't see how we can arrive at a clear assessment unless a whistleblower comes forward (and since we jail and torture whistleblowers in the US, that's not likely to happen).
I could be wrong, But I've been hearing a lot of chatter in many places about how cultures are clashing and this growing cultural conflict is causing a lot of the movements and hate and violence we see, While the internet is a wonderful thing, I've wondered if this modern always connected environment has contributed to social intolerance?
 

Toroid

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Venezuela is hit by second massive power outage in two weeks as 91% of the country goes offline | Daily Mail Online
Power cuts in 91 percent of Venezuela closed schools and businesses Tuesday
  • New outages began Monday, forcing people to scour neighborhoods for food and find areas to get a signal on their mobile phones
  • There was some light in Caracas and people got buses instead of trains
  • Shops gave away meat and dairy products that would spoil without refrigeration in hope they'd be paid later because card payments were unavailable
  • Authorities detained six people in connection with a fire causing the outage
  • The US and Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido say allegations of sabotage are an attempt to deflect attention from government failures
  • Last blackouts started on March 7 and many lost access to water as pumps failed
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nivek

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Corruption in Venezuela has created a cocaine super-highway to the US

Cocaine trafficking from Venezuela to the United States is soaring, even as the country collapses. And US and other regional officials say it's Venezuela's own military and political elite who are facilitating the passage of drugs in and out of the country on hundreds of tiny, unmarked planes.

A months-long CNN investigation traced the northward route of cocaine from the farmlands where much of it is grown in Colombia, and found that the number of suspected drug flights from Venezuela has risen by up to 50 % from 2017 to 2018, according to one US official - from about two flights per week in 2017 to nearly daily in 2018. This year, the same official has seen as many as five nighttime flights in the sky at once.

Planes loaded with Colombian cocaine used to depart from Venezuela's remote southern jungle regions. Now they take off from the country's more developed northwest region to reduce their flying time, US and regional officials also said.

(more to read on the link)

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Toroid

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People are run over by armored vehicles in Venezuela.
Venezuela: Heavy gunfire in Caracas after Juan Guaido calls for uprising | Daily Mail Online
Juan Guaido called for uprising against Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday from the La Carlota airbase in Caracas
  • Guaido made the announcement surrounded by troops who then began setting up a defensive perimeter
  • Maduro's forces fired tear gas before a heavy exchange of gunfire, with protesters caught in the middle
  • Video footage shows a Venezuelan National Guard armoured vehicle plough into a group of protesters
  • US, which backs Guaido, said President was aware while Putin, backing Maduro, was in talks with top officials

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE-DmNEq-EY
 

nivek

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In 1950 Venezuela was the world's 4th richest country per capita, then socialism happened...

How Venezuela Fell Apart

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I guess that would mean socialism is a contrived suppression tool.
No. What's happening with Venezuela has everything to do with collapsing oil production and prices, corruption, and US sanctions, and virtually nothing to do with socialism (which is working out great in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France, and many other of our closest allied countries, like Canada).

The corporate news media is blaming "socialism" for these problems because they want to convince you that a government that works for >you< instead of just the billionaires and global corporations is some kind of crazy fairy-dust dream that will destroy the country.

If you want to actually understand what's going on with Venezuela, these will give you a reasonable overview of the reality (not the propaganda):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...13965c-425b-11e9-85ad-779ef05fd9d8_story.html

http://cepr.net/images/stories/reports/venezuela-sanctions-2019-04.pdf
 
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nivek

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No. What's happening with Venezuela has everything to do with collapsing oil production and prices, corruption, and US sanctions, and virtually nothing to do with socialism (which is working out great in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France, and many other of our closest allied countries, like Canada).

Changing the economic and political policies to an extreme socialist system which didn't even come close to reflecting the Democratic socialist systems of European countries, then using oil profits to fund such a change to that country's systems is what led to its downfall...Yes oil prices dropping and socialist corruption dealt the blow which brought the country down, if they had left their proven systems of governance and economic policies in place oil price drops would not have affected the economy the way it did...US sanctions were the result of Hugo Chavez and he alone is to blame for bringing that upon his people, his arrogance in thinking he could change an entire country to suit his personal whims and desires ruined his once great nation...

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As a finn, i can tell you that socialism works in some doses, when its mixed with capitalism, like the system we have in nordic countries. It produces happier people and lower crime rates. Both extremes of capitalism and socialism are bad, find something in the middle. Theres no perfect country, we have problems here in Finland like everywhere else, but comparitively it is one of the best places to live on this planet, for now. I would gladly pay higher taxes if it means the hospitals give treatment even to the poorest people, my children have a good education no matter where they start off from and are safer in the streets, and people have a roof over their head, not a cardboard box, tent or a bridge. Alot of finns also share this belief, we take care of each other and everyone benefits. But Finland has a generally homogenous and small population, im not sure if this would work in countries where theres a melting pot of cultures and ideals.
 
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