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The Venezuela ordeal has been pretty transparent.
Maduro has been an illegimate leader for years. The only reason the US threw a hissy fit is because recently PUTIN!!! landed a handful of strategic bombers on their airfield.

As for 'could it be worse?'

After 3 days of war caused by the public execution of the interum President the US announces and end to hostilities.
Mick Mulvaney Jared Kusher will be acting president of Venezuela until elections can be held.

The only thing the vipers want is the oil. Add the oil of Venezuela to the US sphere of influence and OPEC is finished.
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maybe venezuela should be given back their gold and have all sanctions lifted  :-[
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Here we go.
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https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1088173560919658496

Welp, that's it. The coup can't fail now.

https://twitter.com/evagolinger/status/1088176035261231104

US/Canada: Support coup
Russia/Turkey: Support Maduro
South America: Divided (Mexico: Maduro, Brazil: supports the coup)
Europe: Undecided as of yet


El Jeb:  supports Trump
https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/1088172812551049218


Looks like the big conservative money for the army didn't come through. 4 deaths and arrests reported already
https://twitter.com/ReutersVzla/status/1088176743658278914
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CROOKED Hillary should self declare herself as president.
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"Acting President" as Pence speaks  :lol

Well played Russia, Well played.

Did that fucker really start out with: "Ola"  :dead
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https://twitter.com/SenRubioPress/status/1088185846803648512

Apparently they met with Trump yesterday to get his blessing for the coup.
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Wonder how epic fail guy this Venezuelan coup will be, there's a long record to live up to.

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if you started from kara's post and read up you could be mislead into thinking marco rubio had taken over Venezuela, er i mean, some people could, unnamed people

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Trump should appoint Ben Shapiro as acting President of Venezuela.

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The kids are all right.

benjipwns

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wait, that House Committee tweet is from almost two weeks ago :thinking

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rick sanchez is one of my fave's

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they said after nuclear war, the next war would be fought with rocks and sticks...little did they know about the troll war

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https://mobile.twitter.com/IDF/status/1087360814644899841

Is every war going to be like this now
Pretty sure Israel is the last country that wants to be calling people out on being in other country's internationally accepted boundaries. Just sayin' :hitler
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- The military has sided with Maduro.
- US tells all non-essential personel and US citizens to leave Venezuela.

https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1088581097217318912

Acting President Pence: "Venezuela should be more like us"  :american
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/world/americas/jean-wyllys-brazil-gay-lawmaker.html

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/yw8zwv/suspects-in-marielle-francos-murder-have-ties-to-bolsonaro-family

Gay lawmaker flees Brazil after death threats and two suspects in the assassination of a lesbian socialist lawmaker last year have ties to Bolsonaro's son

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epic antisemitism dude xD

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/24/world/americas/jean-wyllys-brazil-gay-lawmaker.html

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/yw8zwv/suspects-in-marielle-francos-murder-have-ties-to-bolsonaro-family

Gay lawmaker flees Brazil after death threats and two suspects in the assassination of a lesbian socialist lawmaker last year have ties to Bolsonaro's son
How to save the economy and lower crime rates.

Step 1:
Intimidate the gays.


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I know there isn't a lot to have hope and faith in these days Mandark, but there aren't words that can convey how ludicrously inept the Venezuelan opposition is. Well, except the G word.

In 30 years I'm going to have to hear some baby ultra-leftist tell me how unassailable Chavismo was because it built from the bottom up while we argue about whether the party should endorse the provisional American government and it's going to take all my energy to not just bust up laughing.

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Yes, I went hopepunk during my last sabbatical. No I will not be taking questions.

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Food insecurity and inflation have always been rampant in Latin America and everywhere in the perifery of capitalism (Africa, Asia).
Suddenly because of Maduro the world elites are worried about that, very weird.


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Trump has cut his own throat with this failed coup, and exposed himself as just another Deep State person who believes in the development and protection of a Jewish nation Neocon Swamp Pig. The total disregard for International law, Democracy and the Sovereignty of Nations is sickening. From reading the comment sections for the last 2 days it's clear that Trump has lost over half his base with this political suicide. Trump is toast and must go. When Chavez Nationalized the oil in Venezuela the CIA who work for Corporations not the American people took this as a vengance job they killed Chavez with weaponized Cancer delivered to him at the U.N. As the Great Awakening andYellow Vests are showing us the days of the war criminals are ending, and a pointed reckoning awaits these criminals. Mark my words Karma is coming.
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I think some clarification is needed. First off, I don't identify with the US, so saying "we" is nonsensical and my interests are divorced from those of the global finance monstrosity that sits on top of the American imperial system. Second of all, how I specifically feel about "what should happen" over there given the pressupposition of regimes remaining the way they are is global investment should increase, esp. from China and Russia, Iran should grow into a much larger power, and everyone becomes economically tied to everyone else so the cost of pursuing national interests becomes too high. Neoliberalism. But thirdly, I would even more prefer that, given the ME has the highest income inequality in the world and all states are effectively undemocratic corporations, that people seize the wealth and undergo a violent, pan Arab socialist revolution, sort of like what Assad Sr. or Gaddafi envisioned, but better, and without ending up as dictatorships this time.

So noting that "their" interest was in pursuing a Saudi hegemony in the middle east as a contracts maximizing and alliance hoarding goal did not mean I was advocating it, and I'm still wondering how that analysis was wrong.
I wrote this nonsense only 84 days ago
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The only real nonsense was advocating violent revolution.

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NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO :noooo

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https://twitter.com/M3t4_tr0n/status/1089521238228242432

Pro-tip: If you start a coup don't forget to bribe the military.
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I'm so hyped for this proxy war between US opportunists and Russian Chinese interests fighting to preserve their serious investment in Venezuela, the proxies being genuine Chavistas, the Venezuelan military (which has had substantive desertions), Cuban military support, Colombian right wing paramilitaries, US mercenaries, and genuine anti Chavez democratic opposition forces :noah

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This one's for you, Assimilate. RIP.



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Hm, p sure that's a photoshop as I've been assured by reliable sources that Bolsonaro is a "populist."

Nintex

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Our Prime Minister also recently met with Bolsonaro



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In his defense. Tim Cook looks miserable in that photo.
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Lol may crawling back to brussels

Hope eu leaders tweet something like "dont book a flight theresa, negotiations are over"

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https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1090335270162087936

Meanwhile the house of commons is voting on a number of Brexit things of which none will pass.
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Very cool that the Hard Brexiteers are on the fast track to win by voting down a negotiated deal but helping the prime minister who negotiated it survive a vote of no confidence because there was a nontrivial chance of them losing a general election after the public saw that they were in the driver's seat. Very American, tbh. Use FPTP brehs.

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Barnier refuses to reopen negotiations, especially not for the backstop.

Meantime, Barclays is transferring €190bln in assets from London to Dublin.

It's all going great :lol

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On March 29th the UK will finally have agreed among themselves to postpone.

And the EU will be like  :comeon
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On March 29th the UK will finally have agreed among themselves to postpone.

And the EU will be like  :comeon

The EU is more concerned how Paris is still revolting, whilst they pour in their (NOT YET PASSED PROPOSAL) EU tanks to silence dissenters to their criminal bullshit. The Whole brexit scenario is fear tactics and distractions.

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Eyal   :-* :-[



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Eyal Weizman studied the philosophy that guides Aviv Kochavi, the officer who was just appointed commander of the Israeli military. It is a philosophy that objectifies Palestinians and ignores the human suffering caused by new Israeli technologies and tactics of repression


As bad as things already are, probably going to get worse  :-\
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Gotta start somewhere, I guess.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47071874

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Gotta start somewhere, I guess.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47071874

Mr Jope said Unilever was also stockpiling deodorant in mainland Europe in case of Brexit-related delays.

Sacrebleu !  :omg
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why would the people of mainland Europe want deodorant ???

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As a likely climate refugee in the future it's comforting to know that the corporate powers that be will stockpile junk food that requires energy to keep it from spoiling instead of canned food when I have to travel across inhospitable terrain.

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Our prime minister has announced he 100% agrees with the US for doing this.
Because Russia has been violating this agreement for years.
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We've got 2019's first election coming up, El Salvador will elect its President on February 3rd.

Polls say the "new politics center-right" one dude will win in a first round landslide or it'll be a tight race with ARENA's guy where he falls short of 50%. Really, like every poll for the last year has either one of these scenarios, no inbetween. In any case FMLN is supposed to get smashed.

Nigeria's got next. Then Cuba's referendum to end the Revolution.