by Peter Koenig for The Saker Blog
The silence is almost deafening. Is it the quiet before the storm? – Or is the US giving up on Venezuela? I don’t think so. It’s more like a regrouping after a first defeat, well, it’s a multiple defeat, if we start counting since the failed coup attempt against Hugo Chavez on 11 April 2002.
However, Washington is not giving up. The first blows come flying. Pompeo to Maduro – open your borders for humanitarian aid, or else…. which implies the usual, “all options are on the table – ’humanitarian’ military intervention is an option”.
Washington – April 10, 2019, high level US and South American (members of the infamous and nefarious Lima Group, naturally) politicians and military held a secret meeting about the strategic next steps to subdue Venezuela, how to “regime-change” the Maduro Government, by ‘military options’, as reported by investigative journalist Max Blumenthal. The meeting was dubbed ‘Assessing the Use of Military Force in Venezuela.’ It was hosted by the DC-based neoliberal thinktank the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Venezuela’s ambassador to the UN, Samuel Moncada, denounces Trump’s preparations for war to the entire UN community. The UN Community is increasingly taking note of the atrocities and lawlessness of the one rogue UN member that has the arrogance of thinking and acting as if it were above the law, above every law, even the laws made by its own lawmakers, the United States of America. In the context of the failed coup attempt on Venezuela, a group of about 60 UN members formed, including Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Iran and many more, representing about half of the world population, in support of Venezuela and especially in support of the UN Charter. The group requests and will enhance actions for UN members to respect the UN principles, the laws and rules upon which the United Nations were created almost 75 years ago. This is a new twist within the UN body.
On 11 April, US Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, met in Washington with 16 ministers of finance and representatives of 20 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Guyana, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Portugal, Peru, Spain, and the UK) – to enhance the support of some 50 countries of the self-declared president Juan Guaidó, and how to support Venezuela, once the Maduro Government “is gone”. – Hilarious, if it wasn’t so serious. It is as if these, otherwise smart people, were falling into the trap of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda Minister – if a lie is repeated enough, it becomes the truth. Indeed, there is no other country in recent history that emulates Hitler and his approaches to world dominance by manipulation as well as Washington. And indeed, it is not quite clear, who was teaching whom.
Venezuela’s Vice-president, Delcy Rodriguez, denounces the preparation of a military intervention in Venezuela by the US, Colombia and Brazil. She warns the world from a humanitarian disaster if the global community, allows the United States and its minions to interfere in Venezuela.
Mexico’s new President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), also vehemently rejects any interference in Venezuela – and offers his Government’s services to mediate a dialogue between the Maduro Government and the opposition, a dialogue to which President Maduro has invited the opposition already many times. To no avail. Mostly because the orders from Washington are clear, no dialogue – no compromise, the Maduro Government must be go.
We will inject the necessary capital into the inefficient oil industry, and our petrol corporations are eager to revive Venezuela’s hydrocarbon industry and make it profitable again. These are the bold and honest words of John Bolton, US National security Adviser. Let’s see where all this hoopla may lead. If it sounds like wishful thinking, it is wishful thinking.
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Even though the true media hero, Julian Assange is for totally illegal reasons behind bars in the UK. And this because laws are made in Washington as Washington sees fit, as Trump signs papers, shows them on TV and they becomes law – and laws of the US are applied throughout the US vassalic world, and especially by its poodle puppets in London. Never mind this minor detail of human derailment. More importantly, it seems that Mr. Assange’s spirit and that of his creation of truth telling, Wikileaks, is increasingly reflected by politicians and journalists – who, though somehow coopted into the ‘system’, feel discomfort with this very system and decide to leak so-called classified information into the non-mainstream truth-telling media.
A classical case may be the secret ‘RoundTable’ that took place in Washington on 10 April to discuss the fate of Venezuela. The news about it was first published by the Grayzone portal on 13 April. Mr. Blumenthal has obtained the information along with a “check-in list” of the high-flying participants to this private ‘round-table’. When confronted and asked for interviews on the event, most members on the list were surprised, even stunned, and refused to talk. Somebody from inside must have leaked the information about the clandestine meeting.
On a totally different issue, but equally important for the concept and philosophy of leaking information to the outside world, is the recent disclosure – “leak” – by someone in the French military that sophisticated French weaponry was used by Saudi Arabia to attack and kill defenseless Yemenis. And this, although the French – and especially Roi Macron himself, has always denied that the French were participating offensively in this also illegal US-UK-NATO proxy war. The French narrative was and is that France’s weapons were only defensive. Sounds as stupid as calling the US War Ministry, the Ministry of Defense.
Are we entering a Leak-zone (no pun intended) – an epoch of leaking, of divulging ‘secret’ and classified information? Have we had enough impunity? It’s time to stop it. What is this “classified” and secret information anyway? In a so-called Democracy – why are the elected government officials privileged to hold on to secret information, unknown to the public who lives under the illusion that they elected them, and – more importantly, or even worse – the public, who pays for them. Can’t you see, dear People, what aberration of “democracy” we have moved into? – Please, just open your eyes and see all these contradictions, contradictions for us, but they serve the chosen- and you believe elected-by-you – elite, lining their pockets and increasing their power.
Now the public must know the truth. This new Leak-Culture may take hold. – If so, its high time, but never too late. It would be another sign towards the empire heaving on its last breath, or as Andrew Vltchek so adroitly puts it, when he describing the ultimate crime of the lawless London gang, the police manhandling a sick and defenseless Julian Assange, “By dragging him from the embassy into a police van, it [the empire] has admitted that it already has begun sewing its own funeral gown.”
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Back to Venezuela. Has Washington given up? Most likely not. Although their first coup attempt has failed. The Venezuelan military did not defect. Despite Trump’s warning, even threats, they stood and still stand behind Nicolás Maduro. The humanitarian aid trucks at the border in Cúcuta did not cross into Venezuela. In fact, they were burned by the very opposition, hoping to make believe that Maduro’s troops put them on fire. No. They were indeed the opposition forces and their allies in Colombia. Ironically, the mayor of Cúcuta, after the humanitarian aid stayed stuck at the border, asked Colombian President Duque, whether he, the mayor, might distribute the aid among the poor people of Cúcuta, because this aid was more needed in Cúcuta than in Venezuela.
Second, Juan Guaidó was never able to mobilize the crowds as Washington expected. Guaidó, a US lackey in the first place, lacks any charisma. He does not appeal even to the majority of Venezuela’s opposition. So, he is a dead horse. Bad choice by Washington.
Third, a direct military intervention seems unlikely – at least at this point – as Russia quietly but with considerable force has made known her presence in the country. And so does China. Though China may not have sent military personnel, China’s position was and is: Don’t mess with Venezuela. China and Russia have both huge investments in Venezuela’s hydrocarbon industry.
In the meantime, Bolton and Pompeo have already accused, in addition to Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua as spreading ‘socialism’ in the region. That’s their crime. It’s now in the open – it’s not just the oil, it’s also ideology. They are going to be sanctioned. In Cuba invoking again the 1996 Helms–Burton Act, under which foreign companies are prohibited from doing business in Cuba, lest they are prevented from doing business in the US. In addition, the amount of money Cuban American’s may send home is again limited, after Obama lifted the restrictions. – And exile Cubans – mostly applying to those in Florida – may now sue Cuba in US courts for confiscated and nationalized land after the revolution. And that after 60 years. I wonder, why US courts have to meddle in Cuba. This latest US arrogance stinks to heaven.
Will the world smell it? – Is Washington at the end of the rope with Venezuela? – Will see. Not voluntarily; that’s for sure. But if leakers keep leaking, it’s a sign that even insiders have had it.
Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a water resources and environmental specialist. He worked for over 30 years with the World Bank and the World Health Organization around the world in the fields of environment and water. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for Global Research; ICH; RT; Sputnik; PressTV; The 21st Century; TeleSUR; The Saker Blog, the New Eastern Outlook (NEO); and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance.
“as Russia quietly but with considerable force has made known her presence in the country. ”
Once again I would like to reiterate my firm belief that Russia has sent a small military contingency only to protect its own financial assets in Venezuela, possibly under the auspices of the US.
Considering highly confusing Russian actions in Syria, the presence in Venezuela can be not much different from a geopolitical standpoint. The Alt-Media hype to portrait Russia and Putin as a anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist warrior is far from the truth.
Here is a quote from Andrew Korybko’s latest article:
“After all, none other than Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov loudly proclaimed in 2016 that “Assad is not our ally” so it doesn’t matter to Moscow whether he remains in office or not. Alt-Media won’t admit it, but it looks like President Putin is no longer afraid of the “Assad must go” curse.”
I seem to recall that the “Assad is not our ally” statement meant that Russia’s ally was the nationstate of Syria, not a particular politician. I think Putin stated that Syrians must decide who their president is, not any foreign count Putin was defending the legitimate political process in Syria, which was under attack by “rebels” and their sponsors.
I should think the same is true in Venezuela. Foreign Minister MZ (name can’t recall) stated that for Russia the highest authority is international law. I think that means: No unlawful regime change/coup, in particular orchestrated from abroad.
Katherine
Please take this discussion to the MFC as it is going off-topic. The commentary should be based on Mr Koenig’s article which is about Venezuela. Mod.
This is what Mr. Lavrov said: “Assad is not our ally, by the way. Yes, we support him in the fight against terrorism and in preserving the Syrian state. But he is not an ally like Turkey is the ally of the United States.”
And, above the quote, there is this: MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The United States, the European Union, as well as their allies in the Middle Eastern region consider Syrian President Bashar Assad to be illegitimate and call for his resignation, while Russia and Iran insist that it was up to Syrian people to decide the fate of their country and leadership. (You can check here: https://sputniknews.com/politics/201605041039060941-assad-russia-ally-lavrov/)
So Katherine is right.
A couple things to keep in mind. Mr. Bashar Assad is still in charge. And Mr. Putin’s prime objective is to look after Russia’s interests first. Everything else is secondary.
Venezuela is very big issue for USA Empire.
Because if America fail to conquer Venezuela then it can say good bye to Monroe Doctrine and hegemony over Latin America. Venezuela example can be and will be contagious and deadly for Empire hegemony. Other Latin America countries will start to get rid of Empire’s brutal colonial domination.
And then there will not be giant profits for Empire because there will not longer be possible robbery and exploitation of Latin America and its peoples.
That’s why Empire MUST defeat Venezuela. Empire’s future is at the stake.
The Real Evil Empire has been working on destroying Venezuela and the Bolivarian movement for twenty years. Their malice and resources are boundless. If this attempt fails, they will just return to other measures like sanctions, economic strangulation, sabotage, hate propaganda etc. Nowhere on Earth is safe from Thanatopian malevolence.
It is obvious that the USA will go to plan X. As their puppet Guaido is becoming more and more useless. Now before he becomes basura and totally an embarrassment to the empire and the other useless morons that follow this freak of nature he will be used in a very useful manner. Only look at Israel and their many affairs to get their victimhood out. Don’t be surprised if Guiado ends up getting eliminated and the fall guy will be Maduro.
If they have no use alive then the alternative can be very accommodating as a cadaver.
Although probably on the periphery…..any update on the EU Mogherini…Lima group and AOS or whatever it was -is thingies…?
Thought I had read the EU group was going to meet Maduro…
Maduro should arrest any EU swine and put them on trial for subverting the Venezuelan state. It’s time that these petty stooges of the Real Evil Empire, yearning for the days of Western Imperialism, were put in their place.
Bravo. Precisely. Well said, Mulga.
Today, we proudly proclaim for all to hear: the Monroe Doctrine is alive and well”, Bolton told the Bay of Pigs veterans group in Miami on Wednesday, lauding the Americas as an “incredible region” which he said “must remain free from internal despotism and external domination”.
He claimed that “the destinies of our nations will not be dictated by foreign powers” and that “they will be shaped by the people who call this Hemisphere home”.
Russia has delivered aid under WHO programme…..V foreign minister says will be regular aid deliveries under IRC programme…..
As I’ve said many times before, nothing is going to stop US behavior until:
1) a major economic meltdown, which triggers major public active discontent which causes a “regime change” in the US government, and/or
2) a major military defeat (and by that, I mean not a “defeat” where the US just gives up and goes home, but one in which a significant portion of its conventional military power is destroyed – unfortunately, nuclear war would qualify.)
Both of which are quite likely in the next few decades.
I don’t think most persons appreciate the geopolitical implications of what is at stake in Venezuela, but it is huge.
Essentially, the US wants to get access to, and ultimately, control of, Venezuela’s hydrocarbon resources. It wants Venezuela’s oil, or at a minimum, have a government installed in Caracas that will do what the US wants.
And if successful, it would have negative implications at varying degrees and at different levels for Russia, China, Iran and those allied to, or associated with them.
Conversely, if the US’ Regime-Change gambit fails, so close to home, it would be a huge psychological blow to the empire’s psyche, that could actually speedup the unravelling of the Empire.
The stakes are high.
If the US gets control of Venezuela’s hydrocarbon resources, invariably cited as the “largest amount of proven oil reserves in the world”, estimated at 300,878 million barrels, it would see them being able to manipulate the world’s energy market, to the detriment of established energy players like Russia and Iran.
For China, aside from its considerable investments in Venezuela that are at stake, if Venezuela’s resources should fall into US hands, it would create a huge crater in the One Belt One Road project, because energy supplies from countries like Venezuela are prominent features of the project.
Iran, already under countless sanctions from the empire, would also not benefit from having the resources of this friendly country fall into the hands or under the influence of the US.
The stakes are very high indeed.
Selah
Not in disagreement.
But, my own view is: When the stakes are high, it is better not to play an *obviously* high-stakes, confrontational game. Because then there is no room to maneuver if anything goes wrong. No face saving. No strategic retreat. Etc. So maybe Bolton and Pompeo are forcing this issue so aggressively on purpose to destroy any other options but total confrontation to the point of nuclear war.
The USA could get effective control of a lot of Ven’s oil without threatening the existing government. Just through business. So, they must really want to *loot* the oil and other resources and disenfranchise and spit on the poor and indigenous. I cannot imagine the Ven. people allowing this. A huge urban and jungle guerrilla situation would soon develop and would also be sending suicide bombers into the USA, or US consulates and businesses throughout Latin America. All latinos speak Spanish or Port. They can network. Virtually no gringos do. I just don’t think the warmongers in DC have any idea of the kind of hornets’ nest they are kicking. None of them have been in the military, right? They are all armchair chicken hawks, right? Are there any Vietnam vets among them?
But I am just an editor sitting at my desk. Bolton must know better . . .
Katherine
I rhink a lot of it is USA deliberately finding any situations where they make provocations to try to turn them into confrontations as a test of strength whether physically and psychologically against Russia and China….Venez. is so far away from both …there were hints some days ago of USA thinking about blockading V apart from oil tanker fleet…then of course that would disrupt the whole region.
“The US has called on the international community to deny Russian planes flying to Venezuela a right of passage through their airspace, following the example of such a move by Malta. Ortagus said that such a decision could help stop Russian support for the country’s President Nicolas Maduro.” Sputniknews
Hotting up folks…desparation leads to disaster….ie a “hot “confrontation….???
That would soon become more costly to the west than you’d think. What about Russia closing its airspace to these 50 pro-Guaido countries so no great-cirkel flights over the largest country in Asia and the world? London-Tokyo direct will become something like Amsterdam-somewhere in India to refuel and then on to Tokyo. Expensive joke that is… Well, let them have it.
An excellent, long-overdue, proposal. The European stooges of the Really Exceptionally Evil Empire have gotten away with their dirty imposture of posing as ‘moral’ agents while following Imperial and Zionazi diktat all the way in practise, that they truly deserve to have their snooty noses rubbed in it, to teach them some manners. Hopefully the EU elections will rock the corrupt Euro elites to their rotten cores.
I can just see Malta enforcing its ‘no-fly zone’. Perhaps they are angling for a ludicrous Congressional Medal of Freedom, to go with their George Cross.
Venezuela’s hydrocarbons are useless. If burned, they will hasten anthropogenic climate destabilisation, although it has already proceeded so far, so fast, that Near Term Human Extinction is almost certainly already inescapable. When that happens the tar will revert to utter worthlessness, save for any micro-orgainsms that survive and live on hydrocarbons. It is really quite bizarre to see all the actions, prognostications, lies, hypocrisy and general wastes of energy being pursued while the only topic that matters is studiously ignored as if it does not even exist.
Mulga Mumblebrain – “anthropogenic climate destabilisation, although it has already proceeded so far, so fast, that Near Term Human Extinction is almost certainly already inescapable.”
Hi Mulga, I totally agree that pollution and waste of energy must be stopped and ought to be punishable by law. But OTOH I’ve some good news for you. There is no such thing as anthropogenic climate destabilisation concerning carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is a really small and even uncertain player. Water vapour is your biggest enemy as a greenhouse gas. But the climate crazies don’t count it in because ‘it remains in the athmosphere so briefly’. Funny! Better even, the rate at which CO2 may, eventually, help warm the athmosphere is a logarithmic phenomenon. Thus if for instance a 200ppm to 400ppm rise causes lets say a 1 degree centigrade rise then you’d need 400ppm to go to 800ppm to rise another degree and to 1600ppm for yet another degree. You’ll be hard pressed to get anywhere near 1000ppm because plant life will explode and consume much more CO2.
The world was a better and much greener place when CO2 levels were around 800ppm and higher. You say you would like to lower levels, well, if we would manage to lower CO2 levels to say 100ppm then all plant life on earth would die off because of a lack of CO2. Look it up. Is that what you had in mind? 400ppm is not a whole lot of carbon dioxide…
The earth’s crust releases more carbon dioxide than anything else, by far, but unfortunately that process is over (long) time gradually slowing down. I expect the so-called climate experts who told us in the ’80s that they were afraid of the world going to a new ice age and now tell us to all go drive electric cars (that would need a 5 fold increase in traditional electricity plants, even for a country like France with the highest % nuclear), to tell us sometime soon that we must go produce greenhouse gasses to save plant life and keep the planet warm enough.
And by the way, what are the insulating/heating/cooling properties of your home(s), how big is your carbon footprint, consumption (of anything), etc.? We should begin putting our money (actions) where our mouth is. Our homes are often the worst wasters of energy, summer and winter.
I’d only recommend dropping it to 350 ppm, although it was c.280ppm for several thousand years before the Industrial Revolution, and the world was a rather pleasant, green, much wooded, place in those days. Climate science says that CO2 is the primary greenhouse gas, and I’ll go with 200 plus years of science, thanks, and a hypothesis agreed to by ALL the Academies of Science and scientific societies on Earth. And then there is methane. much more potent in the short-term, and also rising rapidly, from melting permafrost, gas extraction and consequent fugitive emissions, rice cultivation etc, and nitrous oxide, also rising rapidly due to the derangement of the nitrogen cycle caused by industrialised agriculture and animal husbandry.
Water vapour is most definitely NOT ignored in climate science and modelling. The rise in atmospheric water vapour, c.7-8% for every one degree Celsius rise in global average temperatures, is a positive feedback to anthropogenic climate destabilisation, like the albedo flip in the Arctic north from white, reflective, sea ice to dark, heat-absorbing, sea and the melting of permafrost and release of greenhouse gases etc. The fact that water vapour precipitates out quickly is not much recompense when that leads to ever increasing massive deluges and floods, and the water vapour is quickly replaced by more of the same.
All studies until now have shown that temperature rise was never preceded by rise in CO2, but rather the opposite instead. Let’s all reduce waste as much as we possibly can but stop aiding the climate cabal, their antropogenic climate change story is a scheme that’s run by the same people this website is directly or indirectly opposing.
No, Jacques-not ‘all’ studies. Research from ice-cores showed that CO2 has risen after the ends of glaciations, and that rising CO2 was a positive feed-back to rising temperatures and the advent and progression of inter-glacial periods like the late, lamented, Holocene of fond memory. That proves the thesis that CO2 is a primary greenhouse gas, which you deny.
The situation now is radically different. The ebb and flow of glaciations and inter-glacial periods over the last few millions of years was principally driven by the Milankovitch Cycles, which are, first, the Earth’s eccentricity ie the shape of its orbit around the Sun, which varies over a 100,000 year cycle. Then there is the Axial tilt, the degree of angle, from 21.5 to 24.5% in the deviation from the plane of orbit, which oscillates over a period of 41,000 years, and third is the Earth’s precession, the wobble as it spins on its axis, which has a periodicity of 23,000 years. The intersections of these cycles, and the relative activity of the Sun, commence the descent into glaciation, and the retreats from it, that are then exacerbated by feed-backs such as the increase or decrease in albedo, as the ice-fields wax and wane, and the release of greenhouse gases like CO2 and methane from bacteria munching on unfreezing organic matter in the permafrost regions. So your proposition is, in fact, incorrect and has long been refuted, but remains a denialist favourite-of course.
I never denied that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but question the importance of its influence. Besides, earth’s warming may be much more complicated than what you scientists agree about. Another player may well be the rise in intergalactic energy.
But lets assume you are completely right and this world is going to the dogs. What exactly are you doing about it other than telling other people off?
As I asked you before but was left unanswered, what about your own carbon footprint? Did you indeed up the insulation values of your home up to a R value (metric) of R=10 for the roof and R=5 for the rest of the dwelling? How about the dephasing of that insulation? How about the car(s) you drive and the mileages?
Ever take the bike or walk to the store to reduce your footprint? On vacation by bike/train/car/airplane or not (staying home). Etc., etc.
Nicolas Hulot always made me sourly laugh when I heard him say what you’re telling me and then hopping into his V-10 almost 400 horses Volkswagen to drive off to the other side of France. What a joke.
In the Netherlands the current plans of the government are to waste up to 1000 Billion Euros (up to 2050) for this small country alone to make a difference in the world’s production of CO2 of 0.0007% or something. As if spending these billions will pass without the typical for governments waste of energy… What should we call these people? Climate heroes or climate idiots?
For myself I have solar PV for electricity (and plan to get a subsidised battery, soon)and solar hot water. I burn wood from my place for heat. I don’t eat meat, except sometimes in restaurants, but not red meat. I travel everywhere by public transport, which means buses here (three to and from work). I’ve planted hundreds of trees over the years, c.200 here over twenty years. I practise ‘no-till’ gardening for food and pleasure. Rare overseas trips are, regretably by plane, but when traveling once there, I prefer bus or train to further plane trips. Not perfect, by any means, but getting near the best I can manage now.
As for your reference to ‘intergalactic energy’, could you be more specific? The only fluxes in cosmic rays and other energy from outside our galaxy, or outside our solar system, seem to me to be pretty inconsequential in comparison to the energy we derive from our Sun, and that which is derived from geo-thermal energy, vulcanism and radio-active minerals. Still, I’m sure that if such factors do exist and are of sufficient strength to be involved in the climate system, then any true scientist will take them into account, after a proper peer review, of course.
Hi Mulga,
Have not much time to answer today but will do telegram style.
PV: Huge initial waste of energy. Can only be produced ‘economically’ when cheap energy (oil/gas) is available. Hot water: very OK. Most important: well done insulation of your house: I’m afraid you don’t like to talk about that one too much. ;-) Batteries: about same as for PV. Try looking into Ni-Fe batteries (only real Edison invention, and a good one). Exide (Edison) stopped making them but some Chinese companies have started production and possibly one Russian company. They’re low energy density but made for life (like 15 years of warranty). The ones Edison produced more than 100 years ago are still functional and can easily be renewed just by a rinse and new electrolyte. Planting trees: Thanks, you’re my brother. :-)
The current state of renewables:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-yALPEpV4w
Cosmic energy levels (just one link but will give you a start to look into it):
http://www.biocab.org/Cosmic_Rays_Graph.html
Cheers! Have a nice day.
Jac
Am insulated with woolly stuff and the old place is stone, so there’s a deal of thermal inertia there, ie it stays warm once heated by the fire in winter, and cool in summer until the 40 degree plus days mount up. The west facing side of the house is now shaded by numerous trees, and has a nice verandah. The trees are deciduous, so the heat gets in during winter. And are not cosmic rays quite inconsequential in comparison to solar radiation?
for the Mafia, Guaido has only one use left – assassinate him and blame the outrage on Maduro. Demand that he face international justice.
Saker/Mulga
I notice that for the last few days Caitlin Johnston’s Ausy site [caitlinjohnston.com] has been taken down.
In NZ I cannot access it…is that the case also in Aus to Mulga? She is a tireless fighter against US Hegemony and what is currently going down in Venezuela. She has also been making a lot of noise about Assange’s plight.
Apparently, the pathetic Australian poodle vassal state can’t lift a finger to help one of their most heroic citizens of all time, but it appears they will shut down a site that supports Assange…how obscene is that!!
Sadly
Col
Dunno what happened to his site, but I do know I like his writings :-)
Cheers
The Saker
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/
It’s working in pindoland as of right now. She has a fantastic article up about the smearing of Assange by web propagandists, the techniques the slime use and how to debunk the things.
Ten Tips For Arguing Against Assange Smears
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/04/16/ten-tips-for-arguing-against-assange-smears/
“This is an excerpt from the beginning of the upcoming mega-article “Debunking All The Assange Smears”, which is still under construction. I’m putting together a comprehensive list of all the major smears and disinfo that’s being circulated about Julian Assange, and refuting those arguments with the help of information brought to me by my readers and social media followers. Keep a lookout for the full article; it should be out in a few days, and it’s gonna be good. If you have any articles, tweets or short videos you’ve found which do a good job of refuting any Assange smears, please send them to me at admin@caitlinjohnstone.com, along with any smears you”d like to have more help addressing.”
The infro, she dives into it after that.
The Guardian feminazis reach a new low today with that execrable, self-obsessed, narcissist, Hadley Freeman, smearing Assange with utter lies recycled from the Moreno regime’s stooges, delivered in her trade-mark sneering and snide fashion. What utterly foul creatures they all are, and how in love with their unlovely selves.
Col, I believe the term for Austfailia as it currently exists is a ‘Moronic Inferno’. Believe me-every even half decent, rational, intelligent and principled individual has been driven from public life and the fakestream media, business and politics are dominated by Evil imbeciles, and they are getting worse. I think that ubiquitous pollution from chemicals, micro-wave radiation and CO2 levels (over 400 ppm start to affect cognition, and cities are often >1000 ppm and poorly ventilated buildings even higher)and other neurological insults are beginning to have an appreciable and noticeable effect on the population.
I often see her articles on OpEdNews.com. Hopefully that is not being blocked in New Zealand. I heard of New Zealand blocking Zero Hedge after the mosque shootings, though Zero Hedge never shared the dreaded video, just expresses dissident views. It looks like they can get away with such blatant censorship in your country, and perhaps Australia too, which has a lot to be ashamed of with regard to what happened to Assange. In essence they’ve aided and abetted a serious crime.
This is a well done article by Koenig. I think “the leaks” will continue being an important tool of the resistance in defeating the zpc/nwo. I appreciated how he made the connection.
Psychopaths almost never reveal themselves because they live in absolute fear of being found out. They control a bunch of people who act out the puppeteer’s psychosis by dramatising the behaviour of their puppeteer who has something on them they have been forced to believe, by the puppeteer, that they absolutely would not want 99.99% of other people to know.
This is a clinically observed and classified fact; antisocial personalities.
Prisons and Mental Health full time care are full of puppets. The criminally insane are almost always puppets too, but you’ll some puppeteers amongst them.
Who was putting the thumbscrews in on Pol Pot? Pinochet?
Washington’s key figures beating the war drums incessantly are dramatising who is their terrifying puppet master. So it’s not Washington thinking up what is being done to Venezuela. What’s being done to Venezuela is actually what is being done to those incessantly beating the war drums, being done to them in their personal and private lives. It’s time to look for who is pulling their strings.
To find the puppet master, the psychotic, is easy because the USA Corp, yes it’s a Corp as anyone the least bit politically investigative should know, just by looking at their incessant war drum beating.
Who but psychotically oriented, or influenced, would consciously enact such draconian sanctions on any one, let alone a whole population?
Like how did Abrams suddenly arrive as if out of the blue? Abrams has famously acted out his puppeteer’s psychopathic behaviour.
Who actually ordered the genocide of Fallujah, who never get’s a cold or any illness enforced it?
Now, it’s not any one in the public view or common private view either because the puppet master, the psycho, lives in a constant terror fear of being found out. The puppet master has covered his/her tracks very very well so it’s not easy to know who it is but those puppets are acting out the psychopaths behaviour forced upon them.
So we simply look amongst the puppets connections, a very personal private connection that fits the puppets’ dramatisations/acting out.
Let’s look at a historical figure; Hitler. We know that Hitler was being treated with heavy drugs by a person who was not medically trained yet Hitler was in daily contact with that quack, he had to be to get his ‘hit’ once he got hooked. So we need to look at who was pulling the quack’s strings to find his psychotic controller. We look for addicts and others who often get ill is very good sign post. This is what old school detectives did, the successful ones.
Drug dealers who don’t use are very close to psychotics, but not necessarily the actual psychotic.
Who is pulling Hillary’s strings is a good easy start? She has accidents, gets sick, makes a lot of mistakes and dramatises often. Her famous statement about Gaddafi,”We came, we saw, he died,” is frighteningly psychopathic.
Psychopaths never get colds or any physical illnesses, by the way.
McCain took the fall for his puppeteer.
Obama’s parents were key players in the Indonesian genocide, they had the list of targets to be assassinated and their job was to make sure the list was fully done.
Look online for the common characteristics of anti-social personalties to get familiar with your quarry.
Over to you sleuths.
Al, one group of ancient and hereditary psychopaths is the Zionazi Jews. They have carefully selected, through endogamy and religious brainwashing, for millennia, for the attributes of xenophobia, group and individual egotism and grandiosity, and extreme aggression when opposed. Over the millennia the Rabbis kept a firm grip, and apostates etc were very harshly dealt with. Indeed in Holland the authorities had to protect Spinoza from their lethal wrath.
The extremism of Orthodox, Talmudic, Judaism was reinforced by selective forces. Those who had the stomach for it, and could avoid the Rabbis’ violence, converted to other religions, or none at all. That process accelerated after the emancipation of the Jews, with many Jews out-marrying, a practise still considered anathema and ‘the loss of precious Jewish souls’ by the Talmudists.
The colonial enterprise of Israel and the settler, racist, ideology of Zionism, ie a simulacrum of Nazism or similar ideology for the Jews, has only exacerbated all the negative features of Judaism and ‘Jewishness’ and suppressed many of the best. It has fed the hatred inherent in Judaism, of the other, the goyim and the apostate Jew, and of the Indigenous untermenschen, the Palestinians, who must be exterminated or driven away so that the European, Western ubermenschen may steal their land, as God-ordained lebensraum. The Zionazis wickedly describe this settler invasion as ‘redemption’ and openly speak of their victims as ‘two-legged animals’, ‘cancer’, ‘human dust’, ‘drugged cockroaches in a bottle’ etc, etc.
Now the Zionazi enterprise has reached a stage of global dominance, through control of Western finance, politics and the brainwashing systems, all bought by straight money power accumulated over centuries (all bizarrely denied although it is as plain as the nose on your face), and is setting out on a plan so grandiose and gargantuan in its impious ambition as to almost defy belief. Faced with a huge preponderance of antipathy towards its brutish and barbaric colonial venture, its terrorism, racism and apartheid-style oppression of the Palestinians, among human populations (despite near total propaganda service by the Western fakestream media scum)the Zionazis have embarked on a campaign to make ANY criticism of Israel, and its barbarous acts, illegal in the West, and punishable by Draconian imprisonment and fines. Moreover they are actively engaged in campaigns of ferocious viciousness and mendacity to destroy ANY support for the Palestinians or ANY criticism of the actions of ANY Jew anywhere, ever, on the pretext that they are all motivated, not by any moral or ethical qualms, but simply by raw, inexplicable, Jew-hatred, ie that mythical, all-purpose, beast, ‘antisemitism’. The campaigns to destroy Corbyn, such a threat to elite misrule in the UK, based on utterly and comprehensively fraudulent accusations of ‘antisemitism, is the template for such campaigns in the future, and the manner in which Sabbat Goy vermin like the swine at the Guardian have joined in shows just how utterly morally corrupt they are.
The Zionazis have no real chance of enforcing this regime of total supremacy over the goyim through appealing to the masses, so, in time-honoured fashion, they have simply bought the political elites, who like loyal stooges, will impose these measures and then await their Masters”gratitude’. Oddly enough, although quite plainly, such actions in the past have always ended in disaster for the Jews as a whole, which would be tragic and unfair for decent Jews who actually put their humanity on a level plane with their Jewishness. Such individuals probably amount to a majority or near majority in the Diaspora, particularly among the young, but in Israel, Bibi, King of the Jews (Self-Anointed)is leading a garrison, Masada state towards ever greater depths of racism, fascism, terror and, inevitably, towards self-destruction. Now that is psychopathy in action.