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US blockade prevents 18 million boxes of food reaching Venezuela but commentators still blame Bolivarianism

Paul Antonopoulos
Fort Russ News
Mon, 04 Sep 2017 14:23 UTC

The Vice President of Venezuela's National Constitutional Assembly, Aristobulo Isturiz, revealed that the US imposed economic blockade on Venezuela has prevented 18 million boxes of food from reaching the country that is suffering from food shortages.

He then went onto highlight that the sanctions affect ordinary Venezuelan people and not the country's leadership, just as US-imposed sanctions on Syria are having the same effect.

Isturiz then revealed that allied countries had to make payment for the food to be reached as the US sanctions prevents Venezuela from making such purchases.

Comment: That's spreading democracy for ya.

Prominent Yellow Vest activist shot in the head by French police - Becomes 18th protester to lose an eye

RT
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 22:59 UTC

A notable figure among the Yellow Vests, Jerome Rodrigues, has suffered a serious eye injury during protests in Paris. The moment when the man was struck by a projectile, likely grenade shrapnel, was caught on video.

The incident occurred at the Bastille Square in central Paris where chaotic scenes of confrontation between Yellow Vests and law enforcement unfolded on Saturday.

Rodrigues had been live streaming from the site when a riot control grenade exploded right before him. After the hit, presumably, by shrapnel from the device, the man collapsed on the pavement with onlookers rushing to help him.

Other footage from the scene, captured by Sputnik France correspondent, show him lying bloodied on the ground, with paramedics providing first aid.

Comment: That's 18 people (official figure) who have had an eye taken from them by police firing at protesters at head-height.

There was a HUGE turnout across France today for Acte XI of the Yellow Vest movement.

The French state is teetering.

Opioids adviser to FDA accuses agency of 'willful blindness that borders on criminal'

Chris McGreal
The Guardian
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 06:00 UTC

© Jessica Hill/AP
Families and friends who have lost loved ones to opioid overdoses leave pill bottles outside the Purdue Pharma headquarters in protest on 17 August 2018.

The Food and Drug Administration is sacrificing American lives by continuing to approve new high-strength opioid painkillers, and manipulating the process in favor of big pharma, according to the chair of the agency's own opioid advisory committee.

Dr Raeford Brown told the Guardian there is "a war" within the FDA as officials in charge of opioid policy have "failed to learn the lessons" of the epidemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of people over the past 20 years and continues to claim about 150 lives a day.

Brown accused the agency of putting the interests of narcotics manufacturers ahead of public health, most recently by approving a "terrible drug", Dsuvia, in a process he alleged was manipulated.

Comment: The only regulatory "oversight" that the FDA appears to provide with regards to opioids is giving the pharmaceutical companies anything they want:

'Invasion Day' draw thousands of protestors on Australia's national day

Digital Journal/Agence France-Presse
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 04:26 UTC

© Peter Parks/AFP
Thousands of Australians joined an 'Invasion Day' rally in Melbourne calling for a rethink of national day celebrations they say are disrespectful to indigenous people.

Thousands of Australians attended "Invasion Day" rallies across the country on Saturday calling for a rethink of national day celebrations they say are disrespectful to indigenous people.

The annual January 26 Australia Day holiday commemorates the arrival of the first British settlers in 1788, but for many Australians it marks the beginning of colonial oppression of Aboriginal people.

Several thousand joined the annual march in Melbourne Saturday chanting "Always was, always will be Aboriginal land", and holding placards stating "Australia is a crime scene".

Thousands more joined similar demonstrations in major cities around the country, calling for a change of date, or for the day to be abolished altogether.

How identity politics devours itself

Jeffrey A. Tucker
AIER
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 19:47 UTC

I'm writing on the train leaving Washington, D.C. following a normal weekend in the nation's capital which hosted tens of thousands of activists who interrupted traffic flows and traipsed around town shouting slogans at no one in particular under the mistaken impression that their actions would somehow cause the narrative of history to turn in their favor.

They traveled here. They made signs. They walked and walked. They screamed and yelled. They gave speeches to each other. But so far as I could tell this morning, nothing changed because of their efforts. Only the hotels and restaurants benefitted in the end. And good for them: under the free enterprise system that the activists seem determined to hobble and overthrow, customers are always welcome.

Factions Rule

What's striking about the Women's March, if the New York Times is right, is that there is one more result: the organizers hate each other now more than ever before. In fact, there were two separate marches in most cities, one being the original under a new name because the founder was kicked out and the other being the break-off march that is protesting not only the patriarchy and every other imagined evil in the world but also the ruling class of the march itself, which the dissidents regard as being dominated by the wrong demographic.

Comment: How Identity Politics Divides The Left And Has Caused it to Lose Sight of Its Collective Identity And Purpose in The West

Hack Russiagater Molly McKew exposed as paid foreign agent, Podesta operative

Jacob Wohl
The Gateway Pundit
Sun, 07 Oct 2018 19:20 UTC

Molly McKew, a far-left Russia-Gate conspiracy theorist who has written multiple hit-pieces against The Gateway Pundit, Cassandra Fairbanks, Jack Posobiec, Mike Cernovich and other conservatives, is a registered agent of the Georgian government operating inside the United States.

According to Foreign Agents Registration Act filings, Molly McKew has acted inside the United States on behalf of the anti-Russian Georgian government under the guise of a consulting company known as Fianna Strategies, LLC.

Comment: More information on the apparently 'unsinkable' Russiagater Molly:

Massachusetts man holds onto hood of speeding SUV for three miles in road rage incident

Phil McCausland
NBC News
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 12:33 UTC

A road rage incident accelerated quickly on Friday afternoon when a sideswipe led a Massachusetts man to hold onto the hood of a speeding SUV for approximately three miles on the state turnpike.

Police told NBC Boston that Richard Kamrowski, 65, jumped onto the hood of a white Infiniti SUV that belonged to Mark Fitzgerald, 37, after a verbal altercation over a minor traffic accident on Interstate 90 about 20 miles west of Boston.

Fitzgerald apparently had enough of the two men's confrontation at some point after their collision and attempted to drive away, but Kamrowski then jumped onto his hood and held on while Fitzgerald drove for "a very significant distance," police said.

Though Fitzgerald pushed his small SUV up to speeds as high as 70 mph during the incident, no one was injured. The driver was eventually stopped by others on the roadway, one going so far as to point a gun at the SUV to convince him to stop the car, NBC Boston reported.

The Truth Perspective: What MAGA-hat Kid Can Teach Us About The Corruption of Ideology

Harrison Koehli, Corey Schink, Adam Daniels
Sott.net
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 17:00 UTC

It shouldn't have been newsworthy. Just a few years ago, it wouldn't have provoked much of a reaction. But a smiling teenager and a drumming Native American have caused a firestorm of commentary, invective, heated emotions, and calls for violence. What is it that causes otherwise intelligent people to seemingly turn into halfwits when confronted by such non-events? What provides the template for the stereotyped and 'proper' response to the encounter we've all seen repeatedly and which has been analyzed to death by mainstream media and the Twitter commentariat?

Today on the Truth Perspective we once again mine Andrew Lobaczewski's Political Ponerology for clues to help us understand the puzzling new reality we find ourselves in: how ideologies degenerate, how and why polarization grips nations, what we had to ignore in order to get to this point, and what we have to learn in order to stop it from progressing or from happening again.

Running Time: 01:28:11

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San Francisco may grant exception to 'sanctuary city' laws to allow alleged rapist's extradition from Canada

Joel B. Pollak
Breitbart News
Thu, 24 Jan 2019 17:29 UTC

The City of San Francisco will decide whether to make an exception to its "sanctuary city" laws in one case, after the federal government refused to allow an accused rapist to be extradited from Canada to face trial unless local law enforcement cooperated to ensure he would not be released into the U.S.

SFGate.com reported Wednesday that a San Francisco Board of Supervisors committee "begrudgingly agreed Wednesday to relax the city's sanctuary law for this one case." The final decision awaits the approval of the full Board of Supervisors.

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Raw video shows CNN colluded with FBI to film Roger Stone SWAT-style raid and arrest

Kristinn Taylor
Gateway Pundit
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:01 UTC

Raw video posted to Twitter by CNN freelance cameraman Gilbert De La Rosa of the FBI arrest of Roger Stone early Friday morning at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, shows De La Rosa was parked right in front of Stone's house waiting for the FBI to show up and that when they arrived the FBI ignored him as he got out of his vehicle to film, instead of treating him as a potentially armed hostile actor or innocent bystander at a heavily armed surprise pre-dawn raid.

That the FBI completely ignored De La Rosa as he got out of his vehicle when they arrived indicates FBI agents were told in advance a CNN cameraman and reporter would be on scene waiting to film the pre-dawn raid and arrest of Stone. Those instructions would have come from higher ups showing that CNN, the FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office colluded to put CNN front and center for the raid.

Comment: See also:

If you read the linked white house statement try not to puke.

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Society's Child

US blockade prevents 18 million boxes of food reaching Venezuela but commentators still blame Bolivarianism

Prominent Yellow Vest activist shot in the head by French police - Becomes 18th protester to lose an eye

Opioids adviser to FDA accuses agency of 'willful blindness that borders on criminal'

'Invasion Day' draw thousands of protestors on Australia's national day

How identity politics devours itself

Hack Russiagater Molly McKew exposed as paid foreign agent, Podesta operative

Massachusetts man holds onto hood of speeding SUV for three miles in road rage incident

The Truth Perspective: What MAGA-hat Kid Can Teach Us About The Corruption of Ideology

San Francisco may grant exception to 'sanctuary city' laws to allow alleged rapist's extradition from Canada

Raw video shows CNN colluded with FBI to film Roger Stone SWAT-style raid and arrest

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