Tuesday, May 7, 2019
the empire, and its minions get more absurd every day, and here is cnn inventing 'elections';
Continuing to try to advance the US narrative that Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido is the “duly elected” president, CNN went to the trouble on Sunday afternoon of inventing an entire election to base this around.
In the CNN report, they declared “pressure is mounting on Maduro to step down, following elections in January in which voters chose opposition leader Juan Guaido over him for president.” There was no election in January.
In reality, Venezuela’s presidential election was held on May 20, 2018. The opposition boycotted the vote, Maduro won with 67.8% of the vote, while Guaido did not participate at all.
Indeed, the only time Juan Guaido participated in a presidential vote of any kind was the 2012 Democratic Unity Roundtable’s presidential primary, which he lost. Guaido’s first claim to the presidency came in January of 2019, when he unilaterally declared himself “acting president.”
Yet the Trump Administration not only endorsed Guaido as president at this time, they’ve begun referring to him as the “duly elected” president despite such an election never taking place. US media outlets have parroted that claim, but CNN took it a step farther to invent the election too.
The CNN article was written by two senior writers, and had four others contribute to it. It is hard to imagine that none of them caught this false claim of a January vote. Yet the article remained unchanged throughout Sunday and overnight, and it was only some time on Monday that it was finally revised to say that Guaido had “declared himself interim president.”......https://news.antiwar.com/2019/05/06/cnn-falsely-claims-venezuelas-guaido-was-elected-president-in-january/
Continuing to try to advance the US narrative that Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido is the “duly elected” president, CNN went to the trouble on Sunday afternoon of inventing an entire election to base this around.
In the CNN report, they declared “pressure is mounting on Maduro to step down, following elections in January in which voters chose opposition leader Juan Guaido over him for president.” There was no election in January.
In reality, Venezuela’s presidential election was held on May 20, 2018. The opposition boycotted the vote, Maduro won with 67.8% of the vote, while Guaido did not participate at all.
Indeed, the only time Juan Guaido participated in a presidential vote of any kind was the 2012 Democratic Unity Roundtable’s presidential primary, which he lost. Guaido’s first claim to the presidency came in January of 2019, when he unilaterally declared himself “acting president.”
Yet the Trump Administration not only endorsed Guaido as president at this time, they’ve begun referring to him as the “duly elected” president despite such an election never taking place. US media outlets have parroted that claim, but CNN took it a step farther to invent the election too.
The CNN article was written by two senior writers, and had four others contribute to it. It is hard to imagine that none of them caught this false claim of a January vote. Yet the article remained unchanged throughout Sunday and overnight, and it was only some time on Monday that it was finally revised to say that Guaido had “declared himself interim president.”......https://news.antiwar.com/2019/05/06/cnn-falsely-claims-venezuelas-guaido-was-elected-president-in-january/
few of us care if facebook bans us and many celebrate it, but look where this is heading and then consider what your potential remedy is;
The biggest threat that social media censorship poses is not you being unable to access Facebook or Twitter, it’s you not being able to get a mortgage or have a bank account.
The end result of Big Tech silencing conservative voices is banks and corporations removing your access to the marketplace and severely restricting your basic right to buy and sell.
We have already seen numerous instances of people being deplatformed by BANKS for the political opinions, from Mastercard telling Patreon to remove Robert Spencer’s account, to Martina Markota and Enrique Tarrio having services terminated by Chase Bank over their support for Trump.
Mastercard also recently indicated that it would hold a vote on whether to cut off payments to “global far-right political leaders”. But this will extend to everyone. Mastercard will ‘monitor’ your financial activity for indications of dissident behavior. That’s chilling........http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=187973
The biggest threat that social media censorship poses is not you being unable to access Facebook or Twitter, it’s you not being able to get a mortgage or have a bank account.
The end result of Big Tech silencing conservative voices is banks and corporations removing your access to the marketplace and severely restricting your basic right to buy and sell.
We have already seen numerous instances of people being deplatformed by BANKS for the political opinions, from Mastercard telling Patreon to remove Robert Spencer’s account, to Martina Markota and Enrique Tarrio having services terminated by Chase Bank over their support for Trump.
Mastercard also recently indicated that it would hold a vote on whether to cut off payments to “global far-right political leaders”. But this will extend to everyone. Mastercard will ‘monitor’ your financial activity for indications of dissident behavior. That’s chilling........http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=187973
why venezuela and why now?;
Venezuela, Venezuela, Venezuela! Does
anybody know what’s really going on? While American President Donald
Trump wobbles the White House position and Russia’s alleged role,
western mainstream pundits act out a whacky war of imbecilic words.
Meanwhile, Venezuelan citizens starve in the streets of a country being
torn to shreds.
The Guardian runs a headline “Russia
urges US to abandon ‘irresponsible’ plan to topple Maduro,” and
underneath U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo does his version of a
Looney Tunes character jumping up and down about the U.S. not have a
monopoly on “messing up” Latin American countries. In The Guardian
piece, the Secretary of State is cited lambasting Russia for meddling,
saying: “We don’t want anyone messing around with Venezuela.” This
wobbly policy/news befuddlement came on the wings of President Trump and
Vladimir Putin holding a 90-minute phone call the in which the U.S.
leader understood Vladimir Putin was “not looking at all to get involved
in Venezuela, other than he’d like to see something positive happen.”
The Wall Street Journal reported on “Venezuela’s Rebellion That Wasn’t,”
and Bloomberg is telling the story of Canadian Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau trying to leverage Cuba out of the Venezuela affair?
Now to the point, Forbes’ BRICs expert Ken Rapoza spells out
many of the real cause of the Venezuela regime change in a post about
what Russia has to lose in the Latin American country. In short, there’s
money and prestige at stake in Nicolas Maduro’s broken country. But a
couple of $billions invested by Russia’s Rosneft is a drop in the bucket
compared to the bigger stakes the U.S. is betting on its regime change
doctrine. Rapoza cites Agathe Demarais, global forecasting director for
The Economist Intelligence Unit in London saying:
“In contrast with Syria, which hosts Russian military bases and lies on the periphery of Russia’s sphere of interests, Venezuela has limited strategic significance.”
The economist is clearly wrong since the
grand geo-strategic play is about energy and economic warfare. Syria,
Venezuela, Ukraine, the Arctic or Antarctic, we’re witnessing the most
refined form of warfare ever carried out on this planet. The Forbes
piece brings to light the role of Cuba’s Raul Castro in keeping Maduro
in power, but Russia needs a Washington puppet in power in Venezuela
like a hole in the head. The Venezuela takeover is about gas prices and
energy flows – period. It’s time analysts look at geo-policy in a more
holistic way. The west is applying the big squeeze to Russia, and the
last thing Washington needs Saudi Arabia’s last glugs of cheap heavy oil
competing with Venezuela’s. So few news reports dig in to show the real
story of the Latin American country surpassing the Saudis in proven oil
reserves. Just looking at Trump Tweets and gesticulations can speak
volumes about the Saudi role in all this. The 1.4 trillion barrels or
more of Venezuelan crude are quadruple what the Saudis have even
according to official estimates.........https://journal-neo.org/2019/05/07/on-venezuela-and-corralling-mother-russia/
looks like this wasn't only a possible plan but the ongoing action we see in things like facebook and youtube;
In June of 2016, prior to the current social media purge, Bilderberg elites discussed implementing an Internet ID in Dresden, Germany.
The Bilderberg group has served as a secretive gathering of world elites for decades. Decisions made at the meetings are often implemented by attendees working to establish a world order.
Paul Joseph Watson reported on the 2016 meeting, “According to our source, the creation of a virtual passport that web users will need to obtain before they can use many Internet services is high on the agenda.”
As Infowars reported based on sources within the meeting, the proposed Internet ID would allow Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to “use the online passport to revoke posting permission if a user violates terms of agreement.”
Under the Obama administration, a National Internet ID was proposed. CBS News reported in 2011,
Those involved said that the ID needed to be created by the private sector because if the government did it, “it wouldn’t be trusted.”
When discussions were taking place on how to implement this ID system, Facebook emerged.
MIT Technology Review reported in 2011 that “Facebook wants to supply your Internet Driver’s License.”
Google and Facebook have the infrastructure and databases necessary to implement this Internet ID system. Facebook is developing a cashless payment system. These companies have our personal data, and a monopoly over the Internet. They have also shown a malicious intent to ban nationalist, Christian and conservative voices from their platforms........https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/bilderberg-elites-planned-free-speech-crackdown-prior-to-trump-win-internet-id-next-step/246297
In June of 2016, prior to the current social media purge, Bilderberg elites discussed implementing an Internet ID in Dresden, Germany.
The Bilderberg group has served as a secretive gathering of world elites for decades. Decisions made at the meetings are often implemented by attendees working to establish a world order.
Paul Joseph Watson reported on the 2016 meeting, “According to our source, the creation of a virtual passport that web users will need to obtain before they can use many Internet services is high on the agenda.”
As Infowars reported based on sources within the meeting, the proposed Internet ID would allow Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to “use the online passport to revoke posting permission if a user violates terms of agreement.”
Under the Obama administration, a National Internet ID was proposed. CBS News reported in 2011,
President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans.The program was sold as being “voluntary,” and was never fully implemented.
Those involved said that the ID needed to be created by the private sector because if the government did it, “it wouldn’t be trusted.”
When discussions were taking place on how to implement this ID system, Facebook emerged.
MIT Technology Review reported in 2011 that “Facebook wants to supply your Internet Driver’s License.”
Google and Facebook have the infrastructure and databases necessary to implement this Internet ID system. Facebook is developing a cashless payment system. These companies have our personal data, and a monopoly over the Internet. They have also shown a malicious intent to ban nationalist, Christian and conservative voices from their platforms........https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/bilderberg-elites-planned-free-speech-crackdown-prior-to-trump-win-internet-id-next-step/246297
to protect and serve;
Editor’s Note: Over the years, the NMA has received occasional contact from law enforcement officers who have complained about department policies, sometimes crafted to avoid direct violation of state anti-ticket-quota laws, which force officers to write a predetermined number of citations during each work shift. The following commentary recently submitted to us by “Officer Frank” is perhaps the most heartfelt and eloquent that we have seen on the topic. These are his words, altered only to protect his identity and location.
My city has a small police department consisting of less than 50 commissioned officers. The population is under 50,000 surrounded by several hundred thousand more within commuting distance. A large portion of low-income minorities lives within the land-locked city limits.
As you read further, you’ll begin to understand why this is important information. Over the past several years, the police administration (due to pressure from the courts and mayor) has placed unwritten rules and conditions on our employment. That is a direct violation of our FOP (Fraternal Order of Police) contract and an officer’s sworn oath to serve and protect. One of those unwritten rules is what they refer to as “required contacts” objectives for all patrol officers.
Contacts are, simply put, traffic stops. Officers are required to perform traffic stops─yes I understand this is part of our job─or face discipline up to termination if goals are not met. Since the quota has been in effect, I have personally resisted by performing traffic stops but only issuing written or verbal warnings.
You see, the quota removes the individual officer’s discretion and forces him into an unethical position of simply generating revenue for the city under threat of losing his job, his livelihood. I worked very hard for many years to become a police officer. I earned an education and strived to meet the standards required for the occupation. During my time in law enforcement, I’ve earned my basic, intermediate, and advanced police certification as well. Yet all the administration cares about is how much money other officers and I make for the city. Many of us feel that the public good that we do is being ripped from us, and our lives are being placed in additional danger over the pursuit of revenue. It’s all about the money; even the mayor has indicated that fact in open city council meetings.......https://www.motorists.org/alerts/officer-frank-nma-e-newsletter-538/
Editor’s Note: Over the years, the NMA has received occasional contact from law enforcement officers who have complained about department policies, sometimes crafted to avoid direct violation of state anti-ticket-quota laws, which force officers to write a predetermined number of citations during each work shift. The following commentary recently submitted to us by “Officer Frank” is perhaps the most heartfelt and eloquent that we have seen on the topic. These are his words, altered only to protect his identity and location.
My city has a small police department consisting of less than 50 commissioned officers. The population is under 50,000 surrounded by several hundred thousand more within commuting distance. A large portion of low-income minorities lives within the land-locked city limits.
As you read further, you’ll begin to understand why this is important information. Over the past several years, the police administration (due to pressure from the courts and mayor) has placed unwritten rules and conditions on our employment. That is a direct violation of our FOP (Fraternal Order of Police) contract and an officer’s sworn oath to serve and protect. One of those unwritten rules is what they refer to as “required contacts” objectives for all patrol officers.
Contacts are, simply put, traffic stops. Officers are required to perform traffic stops─yes I understand this is part of our job─or face discipline up to termination if goals are not met. Since the quota has been in effect, I have personally resisted by performing traffic stops but only issuing written or verbal warnings.
You see, the quota removes the individual officer’s discretion and forces him into an unethical position of simply generating revenue for the city under threat of losing his job, his livelihood. I worked very hard for many years to become a police officer. I earned an education and strived to meet the standards required for the occupation. During my time in law enforcement, I’ve earned my basic, intermediate, and advanced police certification as well. Yet all the administration cares about is how much money other officers and I make for the city. Many of us feel that the public good that we do is being ripped from us, and our lives are being placed in additional danger over the pursuit of revenue. It’s all about the money; even the mayor has indicated that fact in open city council meetings.......https://www.motorists.org/alerts/officer-frank-nma-e-newsletter-538/
those of you who support trump may wish to consider the following opinion by pat buchanan;
Last week, it was Venezuela in America’s gun sights.
“While a peaceful solution is desirable, military action is possible,” thundered Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “If that’s what is required, that’s what the United States will do.”
John Bolton tutored Vladimir Putin on the meaning of the Monroe Doctrine: “This is our hemisphere. It’s not where the Russians ought to be interfering.”
After Venezuela’s army decided not to rise up and overthrow Nicholas Maduro, by Sunday night, it was Iran that was in our gun sights.
Bolton ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln, its carrier battle group and a bomber force to the Mideast “to send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime that any attack on United States interests or those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force.”
What “attack” was Bolton talking about?
According to Axios, Israel had alerted Bolton that an Iranian strike on U.S. interests in Iraq was imminent.
Flying to Finland, Pompeo echoed Bolton’s warning:.......https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/05/patrick-j-buchanan/is-bolton-steering-trump-into-war-with-iran/
Last week, it was Venezuela in America’s gun sights.
“While a peaceful solution is desirable, military action is possible,” thundered Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “If that’s what is required, that’s what the United States will do.”
John Bolton tutored Vladimir Putin on the meaning of the Monroe Doctrine: “This is our hemisphere. It’s not where the Russians ought to be interfering.”
After Venezuela’s army decided not to rise up and overthrow Nicholas Maduro, by Sunday night, it was Iran that was in our gun sights.
Bolton ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln, its carrier battle group and a bomber force to the Mideast “to send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime that any attack on United States interests or those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force.”
What “attack” was Bolton talking about?
According to Axios, Israel had alerted Bolton that an Iranian strike on U.S. interests in Iraq was imminent.
Flying to Finland, Pompeo echoed Bolton’s warning:.......https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/05/patrick-j-buchanan/is-bolton-steering-trump-into-war-with-iran/
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