there are lots of questions to be asked in this post, including ones surrounding the transvestite currently being held in jail for refusing to answer their questions. it becomes a question of who do you support and why leading therefore to what would you do;

Reports coming out of Venezuela claim that President Maduro has just seized a shipment of food with the explicit goal of starving the Venezuelan people into submission.

Oh wait, no, sorry, I misread that. Did I say Maduro? I meant America.

“Venezuela’s Vice president Delcy Rodriguez denounced Wednesday that a ship containing 25 thousand tonnes of Soya has been seized in the Panama Canal due to the U.S. blockade while calling on the United Nations to take action against the ‘serious aggression’ that impede Venezuela ‘right to food’,” reports TeleSUR English.

“The shipment seizure comes just days after Trump signed an executive order Monday that imposes a near-total blockade on government assets in that country, which includes an embargo against food suppliers, among other basic inputs,” the report reads.

It is indeed true that the US has just greatly escalated its sanctions upon Venezuela. The Trump administration, which according to a study from the Center for Economic and Policy Research has already murdered over 40,000 Venezuelans by starvation with sanctions geared toward installing a puppet regime in the most oil-rich nation on the planet, increased sanctions to a full economic embargo on Monday. These are the most aggressive sanctions leveled against any western government in decades.

Which of course makes the right-wing talking point that Maduro is “starving his own people” much harder to defend.............https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/08/08/us-empire-tightens-sanctions-on-venezuela-and-manning/

clear logic even a moron might understand, if we're allowed to say moron anymore;

nine minute video with jimmy dore commenting on tv talking heads and their obvious corruption, in this case surrounding interview of tulsi gabbard;


https://youtu.be/yqvJU9iZiAI

does anyone find it ironic that most gun control advocates are anti-police and at the same time are supporting a police state where no citizens are armed?

this is a bit of stuff, which may, or may be so, but if so i'd think you'd want to know;

more evidence about 'our' legal system for those who have the stomach to read it;


Nashville, TN — Cyntoia Brown was born into a family in which her mother and her grandmother were all sex trafficked, repeatedly raped, and abused. Brown was only a child the first time her ‘owner’ Kutthroat would pimp her out to pedophiles who had their way with her. She was sent jail for life for killing one of those pedophiles but after 15 years, she is now a free woman. With just 11 days left to serve his term as governor of Tennessee, Bill Haslam granted Brown clemency earlier this year. On Wednesday, she was released.
“Early this morning offender Cyntoia Denise Brown was released from the Tennessee Prison for Women,” the Nashville District Attorney’s Office said in a statement. “Per the commutation, Brown has now been released to parole supervision.”
As the media devoted attention to Hollywood’s sexual predators, Brown’s story garnered the attention of high profile celebrities like Rihanna and Kim Kardashian West in 2017 who brought new light to the dark story surrounding Brown’s life.
“The system has failed. It’s heart breaking to see a young girl sex trafficked then when she has the courage to fight back is jailed for life! We have to do better & do what’s right. I’ve called my attorneys yesterday to see what can be done to fix this. #FreeCyntoiaBrown,” Kardashian wrote......https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cyntoia-brown-freed-from-prison/

protect and serve? but of course you won't be needing that wheelchair;


Police in Boston Tuesday night reportedly destroyed three wheelchairs belonging to homeless city residents in a garbage truck compactor as part of a crackdown targeting the city's transient population.
"Operation Clean Sweep" began August 2 after a county corrections officer was allegedly struck during a fight involving a number of people on "Methadone Mile," a stretch of the city near Massachusetts Ave. and Melnea Cass Boulevard where there are a number of clinics and treatment centers. The area has a high homeless population, many of whom have been the target of the operation in the five days and counting it has continued.
The destruction of the wheelchairs is only the latest incident involving the trashing of the possessions of homeless people in the operation............https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/08/07/heartbreaking-scene-boston-streets-police-destroy-wheelchairs-belonging-homeless