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Mexico's president rejects Venezuela coup - takes stand against US imperialism

José Luis Granados Ceja
MintPress News
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:43 UTC
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
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Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during the presentation of his new economic program for the northern border zone, in Tijuana, Mexico, Jan. 6, 2019.
"AMLO is trying to carve out an autonomous space for foreign policy that signals to the United States especially that Mexico will not be subserviently going along with the United States but also tries to make claims as to what democratic legitimacy looks like in Latin America." - Christy Thornton, Johns Hopkins University

The night before Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó declared himself interim president, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence personally called him up and pledged the support of the U.S. government should he try to seize power.

Sure enough, on January 23, before a large opposition demonstration, Guaidó declared himself interim president of the South American country and set in motion a coup plot that had been in the works for weeks. The United States had once again waded into dangerous water with its latest effort to engage in regime change in Venezuela.

However, it was not just the United States involved in the conspiracy to oust the democratically elected government of Nicolas Maduro. Shortly after Guaidó's declaration, in what suggested a certain degree of coordination, a series of countries immediately came out with statements publicly backing him.
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CNN does its part for the Deep State: Goes 'undercover' to manufacture consent for coup attempt in Venezuela

Kevin Gosztola
Shadowproof
Tue, 29 Jan 2019 14:41 UTC
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CNN's Nick Paton Walsh doing his bit for the Empire
A CNN "exclusive" report from inside Venezuela aired multiple times on the network on January 28. It is a prime example of how influential media outlets in the U.S. effectively create propaganda for the opposition, which now is receiving funds from President Donald Trump's administration.

For the four-minute report, CNN correspondent Nick Paton Walsh went "undercover" amidst what the network described as the "deepening crisis in Venezuela" in order "to capture the desperation gripping the nation."

The segment highlighted hyperinflation at grocery chains, Venezuelans lined up in queues for fuel and food, particularly in Caracas, and opposition demonstrations on January 23, when opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself president of the country.

"This was the day when change was meant to come," Walsh stated.


Comment: What luck! A major MSM reporter on the ground at the precise moment Venezuela's "saviour" steps forward.

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NPC

Russia could 'flip the off switch' on US electricity at any time, warns Maddow in new conspiracy


RT
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:01 UTC
Rachel Maddow
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Rachel Maddow is not known for her cautiousness on the topic of Russia, preferring to head straight for the wackiest conspiracy theories as a matter of priority, but on Wednesday she posed a theory that seems crazy, even for her.

The MSNBC host and Russiagate aficionado used the spate of treacherous winter weather conditions across the US to fear-monger about what might happen if Russia decided to "kill the power" for seemingly no reason other than pure maliciousness.
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Washington is working hard to fan the flames of 'regime change' in Venezuela

Philip M. Giraldi
Strategic Culture
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 12:00 UTC
Venezuela
There is a familiar smell about what is taking place vis-à-vis Venezuela. The official US government line is that the sanctions against the country and the decision to recognize the head of its national assembly Jose Guaido as interim president is based on a flawed election won by populist Nicholas Maduro last May. Guaido was reportedly promised US support for his soft coup by no less than Vice President Mike Pence in a phone call the night before he declared himself acting president while the American State Department is oddly proclaiming that it is intervening to support the Venezuelan constitution. Unfortunately for that argument, a quick perusal of the document itself does not seem to reveal an article empowering the United States to appoint the Venezuelan president.

Indeed, politics in Venezuela have long been particularly incendiary. There may or may not have been electoral fraud, regarding which little in the way of actual evidence has been presented, but the entire affair smacks of a pretext to initiate regime change in Caracas, an objective of the United States government ever since Maduro's predecessor Hugo Chavez was elected president in 1998.

Comment: See also And check out SOTT radio's:


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Biohazard

"Economic interests"? France delays report on mystery cases of babies born without arms


RT
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 09:18 UTC
France baby birth
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France's public health agency has postponed the release of a report on an investigation into the abnormal numbers of babies being born without arms in rural regions - a medical mystery which has baffled experts.

Three infants were born with no arms between June and November 2016 within a 30km radius of Vitrolles in the Bouches-du-Rhône region. That followed another cluster of cases near the area of Ain, where eight babies were born with the defect within a 17km radius. Similar cases have also been observed in other regions of rural France.

A nationwide investigation into the phenomenon began last October and the government had promised an update by January 31, but that date was suddenly pushed back - and the parents of affected children are becoming impatient and suspicious.

Comment: Agricultural business composes a large part of France's economy and, like much of Europe, while the harsh chemicals used are banned for the average citizen, farmers are free to use them despite the risk to public health. And so the suspicion that this report is being deliberately delayed is logical.

For more on the case, see: And for more on the possible causes: And check out SOTT radio's: The Health & Wellness Show: Interview with Brilliant Researcher Dr. Stephanie Seneff

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Eye 1

Macron's push for ban on public demonstrations met with resistance


TeleSUR
Tue, 29 Jan 2019 12:00 UTC
Yellow Vest protests
The draft law could also see protesters who mask their faces fined up to 15,000 euros (US$17,000) and handed a one-year prison term.


Comment: This bill seems designed to remove the protections protesters have adopted because of the brutality of the police. Most wear masks because they're being drowned in tear gas and many have been shot in the face by supposedly non-lethal rounds; one protester had his hand blown off after picking up a flash bomb; and the police have been liberally using water canons - banned throughout Europe because they're so dangerous - despite the frigid winter conditions.


French MPs on Tuesday began debating a controversial "anti-rioting bill" which officially claims to crack down on the violent elements that have been seen during the "yellow vest" anti-government protests since November, despite numerous accounts of violent police repression that has already caused hundreds of injured and at least killed one person so far.

The bill aims to ban individuals identified as habitual hooligans from taking part in demonstrations, and force protesters involved in acts of violence to pay for the material damage. Some MPs also want more severe penalties for organizers of unauthorized demonstrations as well as people who cover their faces during violent protests.

But the bill has drawn fire - even within President Emmanuel Macron's own conservative party - from critics who argue the proposals represent a threat to civil liberties.

Comment: See also: Also check out SOTT radio's: Warning disturbing footage of police brutality at the Yellow Vest protests in the last week:



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Light Sabers

Do not be fooled into accepting martial law, it only empowers the globalists

Brandon Smith
alt-market.com
Wed, 30 Jan 2019 07:31 UTC
police state
In the midst of the three ring circus known as the false Left/Right paradigm it is sometimes easy to forget that there is a motive behind the chaos; that there is an intended end game. Part of that end game, I believe, is the eventual erasure of individual liberties and the implementation of martial law in the US. However, the establishment quest for government lockdown requires something very special in order to succeed - They need a considerable percentage of the population to support and defend it.

Governments rarely attempt outright martial law. The reason should be obvious; no military, no matter how advanced, has the capacity to suppress a unified citizenry. If the public is armed, the task becomes even more impossible. The laws of attrition alone would make the conflict bloody and costly.

Martial law is a mechanism that cannot be exploited in a vacuum. The-powers-that-be understand that it can only be used when a large percentage of the public is conned into supporting it. This is usually accomplished through the triggering of engineered crisis events, but there is also another method for getting the masses to back martial law, and that is to push both sides of the political spectrum to extreme zealotry until one side decides to use government as a weapon against the other.

Whether by disaster or political division, the public can be influenced to rationalize government dominance of every aspect of life.

The agenda to engineer crisis is evident. In past articles such as 'The Federal Reserve Is A Suicide Bomber With A Deeper Agenda', I have outlined the facts behind economic decline and how it is often utilized by central banks and their international banking partners to accumulate and centralize wealth while also manipulating society into accepting reduced living standards for generations to come. There is another more important motive, though. The banking elites also use the controlled demolition of the economy as a tool to create fear.

Comment: Considering the militarization of the police over the last few years, there may not be much anyone can do once enacted. Although there does need to be an event that will light the fuse and considering the left's growing insanity and the right's patience growing thin, it could be very well sooner than later that one sees something like that happen. Let's hope the those that remain capable of rational thought can hold out a bit longer. See also:

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Italy does not recognize Guaido as Venezuela's interim president


Sputnik
Fri, 01 Feb 2019 07:14 UTC
Italian flag
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Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Manlio Di Stefano said Italy has not recognized Venezuelan opposition leader and the head of the National Assembly, Juan Guaido, as the country's interim president amid the escalating political crisis in the South American country.

"Italy does not recognize Guaido because we absolutely oppose the fact that a country or a group of third countries can determine internal policies of another country. This is called the principle of non-interference and has been recognized by the United Nations," Di Stefano, told the Tv2000 broadcaster on Thursday.

Di Stefano also emphasized the importance of avoiding the eruption of a military conflict, similar to the war in Libya, in Venezuela.

Meanwhile, Italy's another Deputy Foreign Minister Guglielmo Picchi, wrote on Twitter on Thursday that his party believed the presidency of Maduro was coming to its end, calling for a new election to be held in Venezuela with the participation of independent observers.

Italian Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi said on Wednesday that his country shared the position of the European Union on the Venezuelan crisis, calling for free and transparent presidential elections to be held in the country.

Comment: See also:

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Propaganda

Mueller claims the evil Russians are using discovery evidence to discredit his 'investigation'

Tom Winter
NBC News
Thu, 31 Jan 2019 17:38 UTC
mueller
Russians are using materials obtained from special counsel Robert Mueller's office in a disinformation campaign apparently aimed at discrediting the investigation into Moscow's election interference, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.

One or more people associated with the special counsel's case against Russian hackers made statements last October claiming to have stolen discovery materials that were originally provided by Mueller to Concord Management, Mueller's team said in court documents filed on Wednesday in the Russian troll farm case.

That discovery - evidence and documents traded between both sides of a lawsuit - appears to have been altered and disseminated as part of a disinformation campaign apparently aimed at discrediting the ongoing investigations in Russian interference in the U.S. political system, according to the documents.

Comment: So nonsensitive documents that contained irrelevant files were published online. If Mueller's team of investigators actually have damning 'evidence', then what is all the fuss about? Seems much ado about nothing, but that is pretty much par for the course at this point. There's no need to try to discredit the Mueller investigation when they already do a great job discrediting themselves.

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Afghanistan: US revisits Vietnam Syndrome after 17+ years of war, destruction

Finian Cunningham
RT
Wed, 30 Jan 2019 16:47 UTC
2US troops
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US troops walk at their base in Logar province, Afghanistan August 4, 2018.
It is America's longest war, costing huge amounts of "blood and treasure" as US leaders claim. Yet, the signs are that Washington is finally accepting a historic defeat in Afghanistan comparable to the ignominious Vietnam War.

Intensive negotiations between American officials and Taliban insurgents have produced the "biggest tangible step" towards ending the nearly 18-year war in Afghanistan, according to the New York Times.

More talks are scheduled in the coming weeks to firm up details, but already it is reported that the US is to withdraw its remaining 14,000 troops from the Central Asian country over the next year without any guarantees of reciprocation by the enemy.

That unilateral pullout is not yet officially admitted by Washington, but analysts believe the US has tacitly accepted the long-held demand by the Taliban for foreign troops to get out.


Comment: The US military has been subjugated to the machinations of power-addicted pathocrats and deemed expendable for unsubstantiated threats, empire-stoking and geopolitical upheaval. No one, except the MIC, benefits. What are they told they are fighting for?

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