Venezuela: Dictatorship, Collapse, And Consequence

[Ares]

If you want to outline the numerous failures of ideological and economic socialism, just name any socialist nation and you are sure to uncover an endless supply of examples. In fact, many countries where socialism is not total but making considerable inroads often suffer from severe decline — the U.S. being one of them. Whatever socialism touches it destroys, because forced interdependency does not work. It is a broken concept with no large scale successes (this includes China, which suffers from considerable poverty and a totalitarian government despite it being the most successful garbage economy out of a host of other garbage economies). Yet, proponents of socialism keep trying again and again claiming that "this time is different."

So ample have been socialism's failures in the past several years that socialists have resorted to a classic blame game in order to maintain the delusion. You see, when you bring up nations at the very end of the socialist cycle on the verge of extinction — nations like Venezuela, all you are going to hear is the argument that it was "the evil western capitalists that sabotaged the experiment."

This is a fascinating journey into cognitive dissonance. Because in order to believe this nonsense, you have to first ignore the cold hard reality that socialist policies and politics have permeated every aspect of most western nations to the point that they can no longer be called free market societies. The fact is, IF sabotage of Venezuela can be proven as the cause of its economic ills rather than the inherent pitfalls of socialism, it would merely be a group of socialist nations sabotaging another socialist nation. "Capitalism" plays no part in this mess whatsoever.

In fact, it has been international banks like Goldman Sachs that continue to fund failed socialist projects like Venezuela through bond investment. If anything, the banks have been artificially keeping the government afloat when it should be allowed to fail so that it can be replaced.

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2017/08/08/20170809_venz.jpg

Venezuela is perhaps the easiest of modern examples of socialist collapse, and maybe it is lazy to pull the Venezuela card when discussing these issues, but consider for a moment that the country is important exactly because it is a cautionary tale. Venezuela as a disaster state is at the end of the path ALL other socialist nations are traveling down. Venezuela is the future, and the future is bleak.

Here is the problem: Human beings need some structure to function as a group, this is true. But, human beings also need participation in a structure to be voluntary, otherwise, they are unlikely to find meaning or happiness within that structure. Without productive and inventive individuals striving to improve a structure, the structure will eventually stagnate or implode. Without individuals to support it, the system is nothing; it does not exist.

Socialists tend to suffer from severe mental blockage when contemplating the idea of "voluntarism." They just can't seem to grasp it. I believe this stems from a core assumption — the assumption that other people need to be forced to do "necessary" things, otherwise they will not do them. So, for example, socialists and big government champions will consistently argue that infrastructure like roads and fire fighting and police and schools could not exist without taxation; taxation being the stealing of other people's money to pay for services that are supposedly vital to everyone. However, all of these services and more can and have been built and maintained in the past through free markets as well as through voluntary efforts. Force and taxation was not required back then, but for some reason it is required today.

What changed? Nothing. We have only strayed so far down the path of interdependency and government interference that most people can't imagine life without it.

Another argument I hear often from pro-socialism types is the argument that interconnectivity is its own rationale. That is, they argue that the community requires dependency, because if you are independent then you are not supporting others and are thus harming the system. "We all have to live together within a society and if you are not helping us then you are hurting us," they state.

See how that works? You MUST participate, because if you don't you are harming everyone else. It is not a victimless crime to walk away or to build a competing structure like those "selfish" libertarians claim. You are a part of the machine and if you stop serving your function then the whole machine may break and then we all suffer. Therefore, the application of force and coercion becomes morally acceptable because the "needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."

This is the horrifying perpetual circle that is collectivism; we all stand together or we all fall together, toe the line or else!

Well, as we have seen many times this ideology is not very practical or successful. If human beings were bugs with a central hive mind then maybe socialism would have some merit. But thankfully, most of us are not bugs and we do not thrive in environments that treat us like drones. We might tolerate them for a while, but we certainly do not thrive in them. Frankly, such systems should be allowed to collapse because they are a hindrance to mankind, not a beacon of progress.

When examining Venezuela, we see the classic big government collapse in motion.

First comes economic strife as the inability of the system to provide "equality" becomes apparent. All high minded socialist and communist (same difference) structures end up with an oligarchy. As long as big government is present, the power mongers will flourish.

Beyond the massive gap that inevitably develops between the power elite and everyone else, socialism is actually highly effective at creating wealth equality; in that it makes all other people equally poor. In Venezuela, the government has hiked the minimum wage three times this year, and surprise surprise, this has done nothing to alleviate the problem. Try explaining this to the leftists in the U.S. demanding a mandatory $15/hr minimum wage and they will dismiss the comparison outright. Explain to them how, just like in Venezuela, hiking minimum wage requirements results in more poverty rather than less, and they'll start talking about what is socially "correct" rather than what is mathematically evident.

At bottom, wage increases and social welfare measures are meaningless in the face of severe currency devaluation. Venezuela has seen its currency value disintegrate by 93% in the past two years. So terrible are the conditions now that starvation is becoming normalized. In Venezuela, they call it the "Maduro Diet".

The next phase of the socialist breakdown is usually dictatorship. When the fantasy of pure equality dies and people are left with very little to show for their faith in the system, they start to become disillusioned and angry. Some citizens will decide to try the peaceful method and walk away from the broken structure so that they can build their own. Ultimately though, this is nothing more than a stopgap.

The Venezuelan government has been cracking down on alternative markets (often called "black markets") for years in order to force the population to remain as cogs within the socialist system. You see, in a socialist framework, people are property to be used for promotion of the system. They are not allowed to leave while the system is in dire straights, because the simple act of leaving stands as a damning indictment of the system itself. Leaving the system or peacefully competing with the system is treated as an act of war on the system.

The mode of dictatorship eventually meets with political opposition. People are only tolerant of tyranny for so long, and they will act. But, being generally moral, the average person will first seek out non-violent strategies to counter overt oppression. Again, this is nothing more than a stopgap. Venezuela has followed the same battle plan multiple dictatorships have followed in the past; namely the imprisonment of political opponents and activists.

This is usually a signal that the subject nation is on the verge of full spectrum collapse or civil war. Within months of any political cleansing, most totalitarian governments either start a war with another country to unify the public through fear, or, they destabilize into civil unrest. It is clear that Venezuela is going to fracture completely in the near term.

In previous articles I have warned about this process within Venezuela in terms of the consequences that will erupt throughout South and Central America. With a breakdown in Venezuela, Donald Trump's border wall will be looking like a rather fantastic idea as millions rush from the ground zero turmoil that will be created when the region melts into factional war and refugees flee.

My first suspicion though is that no such border controls will exist and we will be caught completely unprepared.

My second suspicion is that this turmoil will provide some attractive opportunities to the establishment elites within the U.S. Remember how Europeans were goaded into accepting millions of immigrants from the Middle East in the name of "atoning" for the war crimes of the West? Parts of Europe are now slowly but surely crumbling under the stress of a completely incompatible culture overrunning the existing value structure. Remember how critics of the policy were told that "we created the mess in the Middle East and now had to pay for it?"

Expect the same exact rhetoric if and when the crisis in Venezuela spills over its borders and disrupts the southern hemisphere. American policies such as sanctions will be blamed. Socialists will chide the American public that they should feel guilty and leave the border open as penance for creating the mess in the first place. And, being that there are still no legitimate border controls, many of these refugees will enter the U.S. unimpeded.

At that point, we will perhaps see the next phase of collapse within the American socialist experiment as we are seeing the dismal results of socialist experiments in Europe overwhelmed by too many immigrants with no intention of assimilation. To make a "new world order", as establishment globalists sometimes refer to it, the old world order has to be destroyed. Socialism is in itself a very effective weapon for undermining the coherent structure of nations and cultures, leaving disaster and ashes in its wake.

With the slate wiped clean, as it were, international financiers and other elitists always seem to be in the right place and time to build the next system; a system even more centralized and more oppressive than the one before.

What we see in Venezuela is a potential nexus for greater calamity in the western hemisphere. And, what we also see is a microcosm of the socialist cancer in action. It is not some self-contained rarity, it is the common and predictable outcome of a society based on collectivist servitude and false promises of equality.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-09/venezuela-dictatorship-collapse-and-consequence

[Horn]

this article needs to become viral throughout the younger generations.

[C.Martel]

The younger generations need to realize that Soros and pals don't care about socialism but only care about globalism, "climate change" and getting all nations aligned with the Tel Aviv-London-Washington Axis of Evil.


August mentioned an opinion piece written for CNN by Jose Miguel Vivanco and Tamara Taraciuk Broner, "high-ranking members" of Human Rights Watch, August explained. Human Rights Watch is heavily financed by George Soros, who is known to be a big proponent of regime change around the world.

Vivanco and Taraciuk's piece promotes the narrative that all of the deaths and violence in the country are "rightfully" blamed on Maduro, and that international pressure is needed to restore "human rights and democracy in Venezuela."

https://sputniknews.com/latam/201704261053001976-venezuela-protests-usa-media/

If (((they))) wanted Venezuela to succeed, there would be food on the shelves, a stable currency and no riots in the streets. But jews hate an anti-zionist free society that takes care of the poor. Maduro could even be in on it, he comes from a jewish family.

The Ukraine was not turned into a socialist paradise by the CIA and Soros, but into an anti-Putin pro-West government by a CIA coup/takeover in 2014 sparking Putin to go along with the wishes of Crimea to reject the coup and join Russia.


Here is the problem: Human beings need some structure to function as a group, this is true. But, human beings also need participation in a structure to be voluntary, otherwise, they are unlikely to find meaning or happiness within that structure. Without productive and inventive individuals striving to improve a structure, the structure will eventually stagnate or implode. Without individuals to support it, the system is nothing; it does not exist.

This is not true, Gaddafi was taking care of his people ("socialism") using the nations wealth, like Venezuela. But he had a gold back dinar so (((they))) could not collapse his currency, so (((they))) took him out. And he had much less people to take care of, Venezuela has 5X the population of Libya, so Gaddafi was even more of a threat because he could succeed without outside help even if oil goes to $40-50/barrel.


In fact, it has been international banks like Goldman Sachs that continue to fund failed socialist projects like Venezuela through bond investment. If anything, the banks have been artificially keeping the government afloat when it should be allowed to fail so that it can be replaced.

So the jews in jew york will allow Venezuela to go under and not pay back the jews their bond money. Did Argentina get such special treatment? The jew Henrique Capriles is waiting to be "elected" to serve Goldman Sachs and the rest of the jews.

If Venezuela ever goes ZOG in the near future, those at zerohedge will be praising it and promoting it. If Venezuela was spending this money not on the poor but on wars for Israhell, the jews would be propping it up and saying it is an example to the world.

Gasoline prices are $1. When minimum wage was $4-5/hr and silver was $4-5/oz gas was $1. Now minimum wage is $8-10 and silver is $15-16/oz and gas is $2/gallon. Fast food prices are probably up 50%, so taking that into account gas is $1.50 in late 90s dollars. Gas/Oil/Nat Gas are extremely cheap. This is why Venezuela is struggling, along with declines to their oil output due to needed repairs and needed new fields. If there was some ZOG agent in Venezuela, multinational corporations would be investing in Venezuela oil. Now, since the money is going mostly to be people, not the friends of Rothschild, not much investment in Venezuelan oil.

Venezuela should cut services to stay afloat and save money even if oil prices rise so they have enough monetary reserves to pay the bills when TPTB decide oil prices should be low (global economy stagnant/commodities deflationary).

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[Neuro]

It's interesting that socialist economy worked only in Venezuela and Libya, with high oil prices...

[Horn]

Gadaffi is also a bad example of socialism, cause you'd place all eggs in his one individual support basket.

And now he's dead along with his form of socialism.

Durden's statements are true.

[crimethink]

Venezuela collapsed not because it is "socialist," but because it is a non-White (partly Nigger) Turd World country, that did well until Capitalists decided they simply want to take her resources (e.g., oil).


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[PatColo]

a good little mini-docu from vlogger ReallyGraceful:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/O3laKncBzE0/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEXCNACELwBSFryq4qpAwkIARUAAIhCGAE=&rs=AOn4CLB8RbGwqPtYOOORYFmvU-H_teZoZg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3laKncBzE0) 9:03
What the Media Won't Tell You About Venezuela (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3laKncBzE0)

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[C.Martel]

Well according to jewish standards, Ancient Greece was "socialist" because it nationalized the most important industries: silver mines.


At Athens, there was an exceptional concentration of slave worker personnel in the state-owned silver mines, who were economically vital: the product of their labours paid for Athens' navy and a wide variety of other public and political services.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/nov/07/ancient-world-greece

Perhaps even Ancient Rome was "socialist" too, having the mining industry state-owned too. Along with free bread for Roman citizens, they would be full on "Marxist communist" according to the jews today.

Maybe according to the jew supporters here, the Romans should have employed the Pharisees to run the mines and lend money. But if the state does it for the benefit of the people, that is "socialism", like a national bank not Rothschild owned but for the benefit of the people. Once it is privately owned Rothschild bank, that is ok and not socialist. Sure, according to the jew supporters.

[Joshua01]

This is but a snapshot into our own near future
a good little mini-docu from vlogger ReallyGraceful:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/O3laKncBzE0/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEXCNACELwBSFryq4qpAwkIARUAAIhCGAE=&rs=AOn4CLB8RbGwqPtYOOORYFmvU-H_teZoZg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3laKncBzE0) 9:03
What the Media Won't Tell You About Venezuela (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3laKncBzE0)



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[C.Martel]

The last free places on earth. Minus (((Saudi))) Arabia, here is the last free and true nations on earth:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Foreign_relations_of_Israel_Map_July_2011.PNG

They are either "socialist" where they take care of their people or they are Muslims, except Bhutan and Taiwan (who both out of dumb luck are still legitimate).

Blue indicates illegitimate "governments" that cooperate with the evil.

But to those here, Germany is the land of the free and the home of the brave:

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Or even worse, the jew S A.

Back onto state-run oil companies are "evil" and "socialist".

King Henry VIII instituted a "socialist" religion that was state run. The queen or king was/is head of the religion of England.

So all the American colonists are were "socialists" in their religion.

When a nation nationalizes its mining and oil/gas industry for the benefit of the people, that is not socialism, that is common sense.

Trade between people, shops, markets can and will still continue. But Ancient people knew that such national wealth in the hands of the few would be bad for everyone else and even bad for the government.

What marx called for was not state run mining as sane and logical governments did since antiquity. Like the government-run salt mines in Austria. The profits when into the state coffers.


Not long after the occupation, Austrian state monopolies on goods like tobacco and salt were extended into Bosnia, along with Austrian freight and customs rates. This measure helped to finance the Bosnian administration but pushed many local small merchants into bankruptcy because they could not compete with better-financed firms outside the province. Local enterprises were replaced by government-run salt mines and tobacco factories.

http://staff.lib.msu.edu/sowards/balkan/lect12.htm

It is not socialist for the government to run mines and oil/gas industry. Unless you are saying Ancient and Medieval times had socialism. That socialism did not begin with Marx and Lenin. Then we have a new definition of socialism that is not the Soviet Union, but Ancient Greece/Rome, Habsburg Austria and Spain, probably the Middle Kingdom of China did this too. Practically any thinking government throughout ancient/classical times and medieval times did this "socialism". Because the jew convinces you through the media that what your ancestors did was "bad" and "evil" thus Venezuela is "evil" too.

And most often the governments of ancient times ran the religion (state-run) too - from Egypt to Babylon, this was all pre-Marx and is not socialist either like state-run oil industry is not socialist.

Socialism is the jew taking over every aspect of society, culture, laws, tradition and the economy to make them atheistic, anti-Christ and toward the benefit of the jew. Amerika is socialist. Venezuela simply feeding the poor and owning the oil industry is not socialist. It is like the people who say the US is fascist or this is fascist or that is fascist. These people are stupid. All four fascist states of Italy, Austria, Germany and Spain were all against judeo-masonry and judo-communism and were generally opposed to judeo-zionism, which was under development at the time. You could not be a mason and a government employee of any sort in free Fascist Italy. Masons were barred from being a member of the Fascist Party and this was a per-requisite of being an Italian employee.

When Target and the other corporations go along with the CFR and the other terrorist masonic acronyms, they are proving who runs these corporations and where their loyalties reside. The jew runs the economy. Calling the ancient Greeks and Romans and many governments throughout the history of man "evil" because they ran some mining operation and did not hire some jews to run it? This ruins man's traditions and reference points, it ruins the path out of the hellish jewish "world" we live in. If all your ancestors were all evil because they did not do what they jew expected them to do and the choice of jew vs jew is the only options you fall for, then you are stuck in hell with the jewish demons. Jews corrupt everything they touch and promote filth to the goyim because they hate the goyim. Why listen to (((them))) as standards and reference points? Benjamin Freedman put it so well: "They got you so fooled you don't know if you are coming or going".

[Horn]

I'm sure those yellow/green nations take care of their people as well as any institutionalized penitentiary can.

While continuing to pay guards to smuggle in chocolate and other niceties as toilet tissue. Control specimens in petridishes.

While we hash out intentions of Jong Trump entire nations disbanding in exodus goes with slight notice.

Libya went into history books like some bum lost a slipper under his bed.

Why? So another bum can lose a slipper under his bed.

[crimethink]

The last free places on earth. Minus (((Saudi))) Arabia, here is the last free and true nations on earth:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Foreign_relations_of_Israel_Map_July_2011.PNG

Gee, they're all shitholes.

Even if they worshiped the Jew, they'd still be shitholes.

I'll pass on this form of "freedom."

Personally, I don't really care if we have "diplomatic relations" with so-called "Israel." I only care about the fact we're forced to be their Golem. If they behave towards us, we behave towards them.

[C.Martel]

What is socialist is taxpayers funds to support this:

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If Venezuela funds it, they are socialist, but that is not what is being attacked by the MSM and the jewish capitalists. Funding chemical and procedural abortions is promoted by capitalist jews as a fundamental "right" that taxpayers should pay for, because it promotes the jew agenda of socialism. Yes, jewish capitalists are socialists.

Russian serfdom to Christian lords is not socialism, Christian "serfdom" to a jewish controlled "state" is socialism, because the jew will seek to ruin every aspect of the Christian's life because the jew hates Christians. This is partly why Kim is not socialist, but quasi-fascist. The jews sent one of their own to NK to stir up problems and humiliate NK, the North sent the jew back in a condition showing they do not submit to the jew.

[crimethink]

What is socialist is taxpayers funds to support this:

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If Venezuela funds it, they are socialist, but that is not what is being attacked by the MSM and the jewish capitalists. Funding chemical and procedural abortions is promoted by capitalist jews as a fundamental "right" that taxpayers should pay for, because it promotes the jew agenda of socialism. Yes, jewish capitalists are socialists.

Russian serfdom to Christian lords is not socialism, Christian "serfdom" to a jewish controlled "state" is socialism, because the jew will seek to ruin every aspect of the Christian's life because the jew hates Christians. This is partly why Kim is not socialist, but quasi-fascist. The jews sent one of their own to NK to stir up problems and humiliate NK, the North sent the jew back in a condition showing they do not submit to the jew.

Socialism is a value-neutral term. When socialism is used an epithet, what is referred to is Marxism. But most of those who do so are philo-Semites, and want to avoid the "anti-Semitic" implication.

[old steel]

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[Bigjon]

Familiar Pattern: The West’s Marginalization of VenezuelaAUGUST 11, 2017 BY 21WIRE (http://21stcenturywire.com/author/21wire/) 3 COMMENTS (http://21stcenturywire.com/2017/08/11/familiar-pattern-the-wests-marginalization-of-venezuela/#disqus_thread)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Readers should also note that just a few months ago in May, a new US Senate Bill (http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/US-Senate-Bill-Allots-20M-Toward-Regime-Change-in-Venezuela-20170505-0011.html) allotted a further $20 million in American taxpayer funds toward regime change in Venezuela. This only scratches the surface of a vast destabilization campaign being run out of Washington DC.

http://i1.wp.com/21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/venezuela-maduro-CIA.jpg?resize=610%2C410Image: US-backed opposition take aim at embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.Daniel Margrain
21st Century Wire (http://wp.me/p3bwni-oUX)
The corporate mass media are well aware what side of the class war their bread is buttered. Their reporting of the events in Venezuela is a case in point.
“Venezuela Leaps Towards Dictatorship,” said (https://www.economist.com/news/americas/21719954-government-usurps-powers-congress-venezuela-leaps-towards-dictatorship) The Economist.
“Venezuela Flirts With Outright Dictatorship,” exclaimed (http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/nicolas-maduro-dictatorship-venezuela-latin-america-congress-a7661176.html) The Independent.
The New York Times headlined (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/opinion/venezuelas-descent-into-dictatorship.html) with “Venezuela’s Descent Into Dictatorship,” while The Guardian’s (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/17/venezuela-nicolas-maduro-dictatorship-elections-jeremy-corbyn) “Let’s Call Venezuela What it is under Maduro: a Dictatorship,” was even more forthright in it’s message.
To top it all, Newsweek went for the double whammy (http://www.newsweek.com/putin-steps-bolster-venezuelas-dictator-maduro-579095?amp=1), “Putin Steps In To Bolster Venezuelan Dictator, Maduro.”
The sensationalist headlines that present a totally distorted picture of the events unfolding in the country, illustrate the extent of the anti-Venezuela government propaganda witnessed since president Nicolas Maduro augmented the Venezuelan constitution spearheaded by his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, in 1999.
We have been here before. In May, 2006, The Independent stoked up fear of the rise in grass roots democracy throughout Latin America with their headline (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-big-question-should-we-be-worried-by-the-rise-of-the-populist-left-in-south-america-476675.html):
‘The Big Question: Should we be worried by the rise of the populist left in South America?”
Rather than emphasizing the widespread growth in bottom-up democracy throughout the region as a positive development, the paper instead implied that this popular movement of the left represented a threat to democracy. The unspoken assumption is that Washington has a right to intervene in a country like Venezuela to curtail these “threats.”
Then, as now, the aim, is to divert public attention away from the fact that, historically, the US and its proxies have wrought terrible destruction on the country. Instead, the media continue to characterize democratic forces that are resisting the external meddling in Venezuela’s internal affairs and attempts to undermine its sovereignty, as the enemy within.
Meanwhile, opposition forces who are tearing the country apart, are depicted as true democrats fighting an illegitimate fascist government. Since Maduro’s Constituent Assembly election victory (http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/07/president-nicolas-maduro-hails-referendum-victory-170731042650530.html) last week, this inverse of reality has been peddled as a stated fact almost daily in the corporate media. Joe Emersberger writes (https://zcomm.org/zblogs/remarkable-deceit-from-nicholas-casey-of-the-new-york-times-on-venezuela/):
“Readers will not also know that the convening of a Constitutional Assembly is provided for under Venezuela’s 1999 constitution which was ratified in a referendum. The debate over its constitutional validity hinges on whether an initiating referendum is required. The relevant articles (347, 348 (https://venezuelanalysis.com/constitution/title/9)) are far from explicit or clear that either an initiating or final referendum is required. The indirect constitutional arguments for a final referendum, for obvious reasons, are much stronger, but Maduro has committed to one. Also, the opposition did not just boycott the vote: its supporters perpetrated lethal acts of violence (https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/13276) to prevent people from voting.”
The Constituent Assembly process initiated by Maduro has mass popular support (http://hinterlaces.com/monitor-pais-79-opina-que-quien-quiera-votar-lo-haga/) among Venezuelans, a majority (http://hinterlaces.com/54-de-acuerdo-en-mejorar-constitucion-para-no-perder-conquistas-sociales/) think the process will defend social gains of recent years, and 65 per cent (http://www.noticierodigital.com/2017/04/hinterlaces-65-prefiere-esperar-las-elecciones-de-2018-antes-que-salir-ya-de-maduro/)agree that elections should take place in 2018.
Pejorative labels
One of the ways the establishment media set out to deceive the public is through their use of pejorative labels. For instance, the popular support for Maduro among the Venezuelan people, has been termed “Populist”. After the Russian Revolution, “Bolshevik” or “Bolshie” became, for a short while, the buzz word of choice. Then, especially during the Cold War, the favoured propaganda word became “Communist”, which was particularly effective in ensuring Washington’s bloodbath throughout Central America under Reagan continued during the 1980s.
Often used to justify the kind of mass murder outlined, these words are also used when the establishment – who are characterized as being of the centre – perceive themselves losing ground to mainly left-wing forces. Populist has become almost universal and used without explanation and as if it were a politically neutral statement of fact.
The purpose is to depict ordinary people on the left angered by injustice and inequality, as naive and irresponsible. By contrast, the implication is that those on the right are responsible citizens and that the hardships people face are the result of foreseen and preventable socioeconomic circumstances. Any pain and suffering is thus depicted as being the fault of both the individuals concerned and the political forces on the left they vote for, not the fault of a corrupt corporate controlled media and government that systematically undermine both.

http://i2.wp.com/21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/hugo-chavez.jpg?resize=243%2C183The late Hugo Chavez

Ever since Chavez’s Bolivarian revolution in 1999 became established, attempts have been made by the corporate media to systematically demonize the Venezuelan leadership and its supporters as justification for the US to procure the natural resources of the country and to crush any resistance towards regional self-determination.
John Pilger observed (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/may/13/venezuela) that western media attacks “resemble uncannily those of the privately owned Venezuelan television and press, which called for the elected [Chavez] government to be overthrown”.
Myth
The attempt to justify Chavez’s overthrow largely stemmed from the myth that the former Venezuelan president came to power as a result of an illegal coup and therefore had no democratic legitimacy. This myth continues today. However, the truth, as Media Lens observed, (http://medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2006/459-the-system-works-the-independent-on-latin-america-and-hugo-chavez.html) is “that Chavez actually came to power in the general election of 1998, taking 56 per cent of the vote.”
Citing the December 7, 1998, Post-Election Statement on Venezuela (https://www.cartercenter.org/), the media analysts go on to describe (http://medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2006/459-the-system-works-the-independent-on-latin-america-and-hugo-chavez.html) how the Carter Centre – a human rights organisation which monitored the election – described the process as “transparent and peaceful that clearly reflected the will of the Venezuelan people”. Chavez was re-elected (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_general_election,_2000) in 2000 with an increased share of the vote (60 per cent) and won again by a similar majority (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_presidential_election,_2006)in 2006. He won a fourth term (https://www.reuters.com/article/venezuela-election-idUSL1E8L70WK20121008) in the October 2012 election, five months before his death in Caracas on 5 March 2013.
Craig Murray points out (https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2017/08/of-venezuela-and-hypocrisy/)that “Hugo Chavez’ revolutionary politics were founded on two very simple tenets:
1) People ought not to be starving in dreadful slums in the world’s most oil rich state
2) The CIA ought not to control Venezuela.”
What the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela inspired by Chavez represents to the establishment – as is the case with Jeremy Corbyn in Britain and Podemos in Spain – is the threat of a good example. Of the hundreds of media reports on Chavez, almost none depicted events in Venezuela as a fundamentally positive and urgently needed attempt to improve the condition of impoverished people who had been exploited by a succession of right-wing Washington-friendly governments that asset-stripped the country and reduced vast swaths of the population to paupers.
According to John Pilger (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/may/13/venezuela), three years before Chavez was elected, the rate of poverty in the country increased from 18 per cent in 1980 to 65 per cent in 1995. The renowned investigative journalist cited (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/may/13/venezuela) 95 year old Mavis Mendez who said that Chavez “planted the seeds of true democracy, and I am full of joy that I have lived to witness it.”
Cultivate
The seeds of Chavez’s legacy are what current president Nicolas Maduro is continuing to cultivate. But this is what the fascist opposition want to destroy so that the fabulously wealthy corrupt elites who own politics and control the corporate media, can enrich themselves even more. Maduro, represents a threat to this form of socialized wealth usurpation.
As Media Lens point out (http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2006/450-lining-up-the-next-victims.html), for many decades “Washington have funneled money, weapons and US-trained death squads battling independent nationalism across Central America” to achieve their nefarious objectives. John Pilger argued (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/may/13/venezuela) that as part of this process, Venezuela was being “softened up” as a precursor to its subsequent destruction. According to the journalist (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/may/13/venezuela) “a US army publication, Doctrine for Asymmetric War against Venezuela, described Chávez and the Bolivarian revolution as the ‘largest threat since the Soviet Union and Communism‘.”

http://i0.wp.com/21stcenturywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Marco-Rubio.png?zoom=1.875&resize=200%2C182US Senator Marco Rubio

With the death of Chavez and the election of Maduro in 2013, the opposition have seized their opportunity to up the ante. This has been bolstered by what US senator Marco Rubio (image,left) absurdly described (http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/democratic-order-needs-be-fully-restored-venezuela) as Maduro’s attempt to “permanently change the democratic order”. In reality, the purpose (https://twitter.com/EmpireFiles/status/891790157921177600) of the newly constituted assembly is to make the democratic gains made by Chavez irreversible.
As independent investigative journalist, Abby Martin shows (https://twitter.com/EmpireFiles/status/891790157921177600), the calls to defend the gains of the revolution refer mainly to the social programmes known as “Missions” which cover everything from infrastructure investment and affordable housing, through to free education, healthcare and cultural and art projects for the poorest.
The gains have been phenomenal (https://twitter.com/EmpireFiles/status/891790157921177600). Since the Bolivarian revolution was established, poverty has fallen from 43 per cent in 1999 to 26 per cent in 2017 and extreme poverty from 17 per cent to less than 7 per cent. Moreover, children’s attendance at school increased from 6m to 13m, while college attendance has more than quadrupled. Because of the expanding free universal healthcare in the country, infant mortality dropped by 50 per cent.
Preserving gains
The constituted assembly under Maduro is about preserving these gains, not advancing the revolution (https://twitter.com/EmpireFiles/status/891790157921177600) in any significant way. But rather than viewing these gains as a positive, the opposition seem determined to reverse them no matter what. Their method of achieving this is to overthrow the elected government through violent insurrection and thereby assume absolute control of the apparatus of the state.
Since April, organized violent attacks have included the use of explosives (https://www.rt.com/news/396039-venezuela-blast-national-guard/) directed against the National Guard, and the targeting of constituent assembly members. Last week, a lawyer working for the assembly was killed (http://metro.co.uk/2017/07/30/candidate-shot-dead-hours-before-venezuelan-election-6816823/) in the middle of the night in his home in the southeastern city of Ciudad Bolivar and another burned alive (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8w7CKp1FM0).
The tally of the protest related deaths (https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/13081) (as of August 8, 2017) are below:
Deaths caused by authorities: 14
Direct victims of opposition political violence: 23
Deaths indirectly linked to opposition barricades*: 8
Accidental deaths: 3
People killed in lootings**: 14
Deaths attributed to pro-gov’t civilians: 3
Deaths still unaccounted for / disputed: 61
The end game for the fascist opposition and their allies in Washington, is regime change in Venezuela. Rex Tillerson admitted as much after Wikileaks revealed (https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/892643810542538752) that the US Secretary of State said:
“Either Maduro decides he doesn’t have a future and wants to leave of his own accord, or we can return the government processes back to their constitution.”
In other words, Tillerson is threatening to remove Maduro if he doesn’t “leave on his own accord.”
With millions of US dollars (https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/08/03/rexxon-tillersons-petro-imperially-perfect-regime-change-threat/) flowing into the country to fund opposition groups, this is the clearest signal yet that Washington is preparing for an illegal coup to oust another democratic leader of a sovereign state. Regardless, the Western corporate media will continue in their Orwellian fashion to depict the opposition fascists as democrats and the democrat Maduro as a dictator.
Thankfully, we have alternative social media to enable us to make better sense of the situation. RT did a particularly good job of presenting both sides of the story (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Mri7VtJnAc), while independent investigative journalist Abby Martin, who was in the midst of opposition demonstrations, exposed the regime change agenda (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8w7CKp1FM0) for what it is.
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21WIRE contributor and author Daniel Margrain is political analyst and writer is a graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London. This article originally appeared on his blog Culture and Politics.org (https://cultureandpolitics.org/2017/08/07/the-medias-depiction-of-venezuelas-president-maduro-as-a-dictator-follows-a-familiar-pattern) – the view from the dark side: politics, media, cities & culture.
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[crimethink]

Familiar Pattern: The West’s Marginalization of Venezuela

(((The West))).

There is but one reason Venezuela is under assault by the so-called "West":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil_reserves

Rank #1, above Saudi Arabia.

The retard excuse of "socialism" is not the reason Venezuela is in turmoil. Their Kosher bank already worked with the Mother in London to collapse the economy; Rothschild Holdings Latin America dba Banco Central de Venezuela answering to N. M. Rothschild & Sons, Ltd. dba the City of London. The BCV's President is in full cooperation with the (((International Monetary Fund))).

Tillerson creams his pants when he thinks of Venezuelan oil being extracted "in partnership" with his boys.

It also doesn't help that Maduro doesn't have the Venezuelan People's best interests at heart; his grandparents were Maranos. It's likely Chavez's cancer was induced, to make way for Maduro.

[C.Martel]

Trump threatens Venezuela with "military option" in response to the country's growing unrest


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSw1QVRiwiA

Venezuela better get nukes quickly or else they may get Gaddafied for not having nukes.

Proving why NK is smart.

[Horn]

Trump threatens Venezuela with "military option" in response to the country's growing unrest


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSw1QVRiwiA

Venezuela better get nukes quickly or else they may get Gaddafied for not having nukes.

Proving why NK is smart.

Was that like a peanuts gang spot or what?

Were it Lucy and Linus to his left?

[cheka.]

https://alethonews.wordpress.com/2017/08/23/venezuela-wests-battle-against-multipolarism-reaches-far/

Venezuela’s “Opposition” are US-Backed Agitators

Many of those involved in the failed 2002 coup are now leading US-backed protesters in the streets in a bid to overthrow the government of President Nicolás Maduro, who succeeded Chavez after his death in 2013.

The opposition includes former presidential contender, Henrique Capriles Radonski, who heads Primero Justicia (Justice First) which was co-founded by Leopoldo Lopez and Julio Borges, who like Radonski, have been backed for nearly a decade by the US State Department.

Primero Justicia and the network of foreign-funded NGOs that support it have been recipients of both direct and indirect foreign support for at least just as long.

All three co-founders are US educated – Radonski having attended New York’s Columbia University (Spanish), Julio Borges attending Boston College and Oxford, and Leopoldo Lopez who attended the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (KSG), of which he is considered an alumni of.

The Harvard Kennedy School, which hosts the notorious Belfer Center, includes the following faculty and alumni of Lopez, co-founder of the current US-backed opposition in Venezuela:

John P. Holdren, Samantha Power, Lawrence Summers, Robert Zoellick, (all as faculty), as well as Ban Ki-Moon (’84), Paul Volcker (’51), Robert Kagan (’91), Bill O’Reilly (’96), Klaus Schwab (’67), and literally hundreds of senators, ambassadors, and administrators of Wall Street and London’s current global spanning international order.

Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (KSG) is one of several universities that form the foundation of both creating corporate-financier driven international policy, as well as cultivating legions of administrators to execute it. This includes creating cadres of individuals to constitute Wall Street and Washington’s client regimes around the world.

[Horn]

That'd have to be all they are is agitators, i cant see anyone actually wanting the leadership responsibility there, yet.

Whatever happened to the GM plant that were taken over? Is it producing vehicles in exchange for toilet paper?

[Neuro]

Trump threatens Venezuela with "military option" in response to the country's growing unrest


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSw1QVRiwiA

Venezuela better get nukes quickly or else they may get Gaddafied for not having nukes.

Proving why NK is smart.
Didn't seem he didn't consider any other option than the military option, in that he mentioned that twice, and didn't mention anything else.

[Ares]

Didn't seem he didn't consider any other option than the military option, in that he mentioned that twice, and didn't mention anything else.

He who surrounds himself with generals is always looking and ready for war.

America = A Hammer
World Problems = Nails