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I may not like what tucker has to say but i will defend to the death his right to say it
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I may not like what tucker has to say but i will defend the right to put him to death for it
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I can't wait till the producers are forced to bring middle school students on to defend socialism since even a freshman from college can take out tucker. Cause then this monster will crush the fuck out of tucks:

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xipe posted:



this guy obviously got on because whoever vetted him saw all the weird american nationalism crap they promote and thought they were fully right-wing, which is legitimately hilarious

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Cucker Tarlson.
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in neighboring brasil the right-wing coup president Temer has been filmed bribing witnesses in the Lava Jeto/Carwash investigation, according to right-wing media

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-corruption-idUSKCN18D2XY
https://extra.globo.com/noticias/brasil/pf-filma-indicado-por-temer-recebendo-propina-21354062.html

its been a year since the president Dilma was removed

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/One-Year-On-Temers-Brazil-Becomes-Neoliberal-Disaster-20170513-0009.html

the kind of "anti corruption" protests that removed her!

https://blackwomenofbrazil.co/2016/03/16/protest-against-president-again-features-nearly-all-white-upper-middle-class-displays-of-racism-desire-to-protect-status-and-putting-have-nots-back-in-their-place/
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cant wait for the 1st Galician Division of Blue Helmets to pop up in ukraine
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color helmets for the color revolution
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This causes us to question whether government agencies should continue to identify these agents as guarimbas or as Coordinated Military Operations, carried out by irregular forces disguised as civil groups. The former designation only permits them to expand their range of operations in the escalations of violence and anarchy throughout the country, especially in strategic points of the capital of the Republic.

https://libya360.wordpress.com/2017/05/16/venezuela-the-covert-war-against-the-people-and-their-armed-forces/





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AP's Hannah Dreier, Psy-Op's gonna Psy-Ops.



How the fuck does she sleep at night



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New Meme: NPR in 2017 is what Fox News in 2003. Less bombastic, but even more smug
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circumstances of how people have been killed so far
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Heres-Your-Guide-to-Understanding-Protest-Deaths-in-Venezuela-20170422-0016.html

terrorists destroying buses
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disrupting and destabalising bus transport was an early tactic in the overthrow of the allende gov



also used at the beginning of the syrian 'revolution'


the 2002 respected business leader coup
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xipe posted:

circumstances of how people have been killed so far
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Heres-Your-Guide-to-Understanding-Protest-Deaths-in-Venezuela-20170422-0016.html


ctrl+f "mango tree" no results found. hmmmm not sure if I completely trust this guide

holy shit 4/20 at the bakery was a fucking blood bath. jesus christ.

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pogfan1996 posted:

cant wait for the 1st Galician Division of Blue Helmets to pop up in ukraine




according to the ukrainian "Institute for National Memory" Galician garments are not totalitarian therefore a-ok to wear
http://www.stalkerzone.org/vyatrovich-symbols-ss-galicia-division-not-fall-law-banning-communist-nazi-propaganda/


unclear what colour these Galician helmets are in this meeting with himmler

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hey posted:

xipe posted:

circumstances of how people have been killed so far
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Heres-Your-Guide-to-Understanding-Protest-Deaths-in-Venezuela-20170422-0016.html

ctrl+f "mango tree" no results found. hmmmm not sure if I completely trust this guide

holy shit 4/20 at the bakery was a fucking blood bath. jesus christ.



http://www.eluniversal.com/noticias/sucesos/nueve-muertos-deja-masacre-valle_228433
https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2017/04/21/night-el-valle-burned/
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-idUSKBN17N1SH

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As far as Western discourse goes, if U.S. State and its UK equivalents are really going to start doing it this way, then the majority will probably be fooled into lazy financial support, but the minority of left-leaning types who have already read a couple things here and there about the White Helmets and feel a little wary are going to be much easier to bring around to how

1) the Helmets are fronts for the U.S./UK governments,
2) the groups trying to topple the Syrian and Venezuelan governments are proxies for the U.S./UK governments,
3) the anti-imperialist position is to oppose the Helmets,
4) the liberals in the press who champion the Helmets are either useful idiots or outright imperialists.

So that's a silver lining at least. The same branding that will get people to take out their checkbooks will work against the groups among other people, the people likely to move further left.

Also we can now just refer to these groups as "the Helmets" which is pretty bad publicity for them IMO.

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World Helmet tour
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Fascists burned out the department of housing as well as the ombudsman.



Venezuela built 1.4 million homes free or cheap for poor families 2010-2016

http://embaveneindia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=192:venezuela-builds-14-mil-homes-for-poor-families&catid=1:latest-news&lang=es&Itemid=
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Actually angry about this
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xipe posted:

in neighboring brasil the right-wing coup president Temer has been filmed bribing witnesses in the Lava Jeto/Carwash investigation, according to right-wing media

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-corruption-idUSKCN18D2XY
https://extra.globo.com/noticias/brasil/pf-filma-indicado-por-temer-recebendo-propina-21354062.html

its been a year since the president Dilma was removed

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/One-Year-On-Temers-Brazil-Becomes-Neoliberal-Disaster-20170513-0009.html

the kind of "anti corruption" protests that removed her!

https://blackwomenofbrazil.co/2016/03/16/protest-against-president-again-features-nearly-all-white-upper-middle-class-displays-of-racism-desire-to-protect-status-and-putting-have-nots-back-in-their-place/





Temer deploys army to suppress protests and apparently suspended rule of law


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So on the general theme of the reporting of the unrest being a Psy Op. Here's a good section from Carl Bernstein on the historic relationship between the CIA and journalists, including the "impartial" AP and Reuters:

Sulzberger claims that he was never formally “tasked” by the Agency and that he “would never get caught near the spook business. My relations were totally informal—I had a goodmany friends,” he said. “I’m sure they consider me an asset. They can ask me questions. They find out you’re going to Slobovia and they say, ‘Can we talk to you when you get back?’ ... Or they’ll want to know if the head of the Ruritanian government is suffering from psoriasis. But I never took an assignment from one of those guys.... I’ve known Wisner well, and Helms and even McCone I used to play golf with. But they’d have had to he awfully subtle to have used me.



More evidence of these deep state guys being a bunch of self serving jackasses that will sell whole countries out just to feel important

http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php

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Foreign Aid from Us to Venezuela: Trains paramilitaries, counterrevolutionary parties, tries to overthrow a democratically elected government

Foreign Aid form Venezuela to the USA:

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State Department Adopts the Rhetoric of We Are the 99%

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walkinginonit posted:

State Department Adopts the Rhetoric of We Are the 99%



I'm just imagining an alternate Hell where Bernie got elected and we hear everyday on the radio Assad is cahoots with Goldman Sachs

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These Protestors Wanted 4/20 Munchies - What they got Instead will SHOCK you!
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classic NYT

With yesterday's resignation of President Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan democracy is no longer threatened by a would-be dictator. Mr. Chávez, a ruinous demagogue, stepped down after the military intervened and handed power to a respected business leader, Pedro Carmona.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/13/opinion/hugo-chavez-departs.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/13/world/uprising-venezuela-man-manager-conciliator-pedro-carmona-estanga.html
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So what's the take on price controls on food here?
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A good 15 min on the US's last failed coup attempt on Venezuela and how that failure only incentized the US to make further coup attempts better funded and better organized



Footage captured from the 2002 coup. Haven't watched this one yet, but it comes from journalists that were documenting the Bolivarian revolution for years

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OTPOR! colour rev godfathers weigh in on how to 'save' venezuela

http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2017/06/02/the_blueprint_for_saving_venezuela_112366.html


1. Successful movements have a vision and clear plan of action. Gandhi wanted independence from the British; the American civil rights movement demanded anti-discrimination legislation; the color revolutions in former Soviet states fought for changes in their national leaderships, and so on. These were all tangible goals -- they gave activists something to build a strategy around.

2. Successful movements must target the right pillars of support. The turning point in every successful nonviolent movement is flipping certain key institutions. Autocracies are always supported by coercive pillars. In Venezuela, these are the Constitutional Court, the police, and the military.

3. Successful movements expand the battlefield and pull third parties toward their goals. Venezuela’s crisis has caused regional instability, and there are reportedly links between the Venezuelan government and drug smuggling into the United States and other Latin American countries. Furthermore, Venezuela`s economy is sinking fast, and the country now has the largest number of political prisoners in Latin America. The regime is on the defensive regionally. Venezuela, once perceived as a leader of a leftist anti-Western coalition of Latin American countries, filed two weeks ago to leave the Organization of American States (OAS). Brazil, Argentina, and Peru, historically strong regional allies of Venezuela, have called for Caracas to release political prisoners and to provide for free and fair elections.

4. Successful movements often join forces with religious institutions. The church has been an important pillar in many successful movements. “Once people decide to be free, nothing can stop them.” This is a famous quote from Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu, one of most prominent men of God that led the nonviolent movement in South Africa. Similar figures include Martin Luther King Jr., cardinal Jaime Sin of the Philippines, Cardinal Raul Silva Henriquez of Chile, or, in Poland, the iconic figure of Jerzy Popiełuszko, “the messenger of truth,” whose sacrifice encouraged hundreds of thousands to oppose a totalitarian regime. Successful movements can craft mighty relationships with religious institutions when defending freedom and democracy. After many appeals by cardinals to Pope Francis, and even “regime affiliated mobsters” breaking into procession in Basilica St. Teresa and attacking Archbishop of Caracas Jorge Urosa Savino, it may be time for the Venezuelan opposition to coin a joint strategy of protecting Christian values with the Roman Catholic Church.

Change in Venezuela, despite what at this moment seems like violent a stalemate, may be closer than we perceive. We are living in a world where topics like terrorism, international crises, and the rise of populism are making headlines all over the world, but it may well be the time put democracy, freedom, and human rights back atop the list of global priorities. Without these values, Venezuela may soon become a tragic example of a state that failed completely despite having every reason to succeed.
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matt tabby chatting shit
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/A-Response-to-Rolling-Stones-Matt-Taibbi-on-Venezuela-20170602-0029.html
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So what's the take on price controls on food here?



damb rhizzone

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https://www.rt.com/news/391338-us-journalist-venezuela-threats/

‘Burn her alive’: US reporter tells RT about death threats from Venezuela opposition protesters

A US journalist covering mass opposition protests in Venezuela told RT she received numerous death threats during her work on the ground. She says protesters threatened to lynch and burn her alive if she tried to contradict their narrative.

Abby Martin, the host of the Empire Files investigative program on the pan-Latin American TeleSUR TV network has been reporting on the events of the opposition riots in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas.

“Here in the Western press we hear one narrative that (Venezuelan President Nicholas) Maduro’s forces are cracking down and killing en masse peaceful protesters. The reality on the ground is very different. There are tens of thousands of people peacefully protesting either with the government or against the government,” Martin told RT.

However, some protesters are involved in actions called ‘guarimbas’, which means making “giant flaming barricades,” Martin said, adding that by this a small contingent of protesters are “provoking an international response from media and state forces.”

Martin said she saw firsthand what those people do.

“They attack police lines with Molotov cocktails and explosives. And these are the same people who are attacking hospitals, carrying out political assassinations.”

Martin said that what her crew did was “simply reporting on the opposition violence.”

“We just reported on this and the result of this was a ... lynch mob, death threats. I’ve never had so many death threats in my life. It (the mob) actually calls ‘Lynch her, Lynch her, burn her alive’.”

Martin said she saw mobs at the protests burn alive those people whom they see as infiltrators.

“It’s no small thing to be called an infiltrator. It was extremely scary and dangerous. The second you try to contradict their narrative, they threaten to kill you.” ...

“They (opposition protesters) did threaten me. They asked: ‘Where are you from?’ And I said: ‘I am American.’ They said: ‘Good. Film what the government does to us! Don’t film what we do!”

And threats are being transformed “into real-life actions,” Martin said.

“It’s extremely scary. They don’t want their narrative to be punctured,” she added.

Martin said there were “major opposition figures, academics, Emmy award-winning journalists, people based in Miami” among those who issued threats.



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tchau querido

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Brazils-Attorney-General-Accuses-Temer-of-Corruption-20170626-0013.html
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a dude tossed a grenade at the supreme court I guess?



it is funny how:
- not a single news story I've seen includes the line "We wear this armband with the color of truth and Jesus Christ, who is with us."
- every comment thread on every story is full of American children seeing this evil-Robocop-looking motherfucker and saying "he seems like a patriot!"
- in 2017, contras post their mission statements on Instagram