Another Venezuela Thread :)

yes. Blumenthal... his 'laundry list' sounds like he likes to get paid. He has spanned the infiltrated media spectrum.
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This network is obsessively fixated on the supposed spread of Muslim influence in America. Its apparatus spans continents, extending from Tea Party activists here to the European far right. It brings together in common cause right-wing ultra-Zionists, Christian evangelicals, and racist British soccer hooligans. It reflects an aggressively pro-Israel sensibility, with its key figures venerating the Jewish state as a Middle Eastern Fort Apache on the front lines of the Global War on Terror and urging the U.S. and various European powers to emulate its heavy-handed methods.

Little of recent American Islamophobia (with a strong emphasis on the “phobia”) is sheer happenstance. Years before Tea Party shock troops massed for angry protests outside the proposed site of an Islamic community center in lower Manhattan, representatives of the Israel lobby and the Jewish-American establishment launched a campaign against pro-Palestinian campus activism that would prove a seedbed for everything to come.
(...)

By now, the Islamophobic crusade has gone beyond the right-wing pro-Israel activists, cyber-bigots, and ambitious hucksters who conceived it. It now belongs to leading Republican presidential candidates, top-rated cable news hosts, and crowds of Tea Party activists.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175334/tomgram:_max_blumenthal,_the_great_fear_

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https://www.stopfake.org/en/russia-s-un-mission-tags-friends-on-twitter-to-spread-message/
 
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Venezuela's @SMoncada_VEN explains:
"Article 45 of the Geneva convention stops the US invading Venezuela's embassy, even in the case of when relations are severed."

Embassy Protection Collective spokesperson:
"I was there because I strongly believe in the rights of Venezuela, and I believe in Americans' right to the first amendment"

"The US is violating it's local laws. They allow gangs to attack us and attack the property of the embassy"

"The US secret service is going to have numerous lawsuits on their hands after this, and they know that"
 
Remember when people in another country invaded our embassy and kidnapped people? If this behavior is so horrible, then why is the US government doing the same thing? So much for Ron Paul's foreign ploicy of the Golden Rule.

https://sputniknews.com/us/201905161075061944-us-venezuela-embassy-activist/
Activists inside the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington were arrested by the Department of State with the assistance of the US Secret Service, a spokesman has confirmed to Sputnik.

Code Pink activist Ariel Gold told Sputnik that there were no activists or press representatives near the Venezuelan Embassy when the US authorities detained the remaining four activists who were protecting the facility in Washington from any attempt by the United States to seize control of Venezuela's diplomatic mission.

"Nobody was at the scene at the time, no other activists and no press. By the time we arrived, you can see that the building and the entire scene looks empty", Gold said. "So, we don't have any idea if they are still in fact carrying out the arrest inside, if they are being hauled out the back […] or if our friends are in fact already now in police custody".

She added that they got a phone call from one of the activists that were inside, Kevin Zeese, who told them that police were breaking into the building.

"Adrienne Pine, who is also inside the building, put out a tweet saying they are breaking down the door", she said.


https://www.rt.com/news/459511-police-raid-venezuelan-embassy-dc/
In clear violation of international law, police broke into Venezuela’s embassy in Washington DC, arresting activists invited by staff. They prevented the building from being seized by US-backed coup leader Juan Guaido’s people.

After spending over a month camped out in the embassy, the final four activists of the Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective have been placed under arrest after police broke down doors and entered the premises on Thursday.

Photos of the raid show heavily armed police with battering rams, cutting tools and body armor surrounding the building.
Shortly after the break-in, an ambulance arrived at the scene and a gurney was wheeled inside. It is still unclear who needed the help and why.


http://www.radiohc.cu/en/noticias/internacionales/190872-us-police-illegally-invade-venezuelan-embassy-in-washington-dc
U.S. security forces broke into the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC Thursday morning and arrested four members of the Embassy Protection Collective. The announcement was made by the organization and confirmed by their attorney, Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, who affirmed that such action violates several articles of the Vienna Convention and is a total violation of international law.

Reports described the scene at the diplomatic mission, with heavily armed DC police officers and Secret Service forces gathered at the back entrance. According to teleSUR, authorities dressed in military gear took up position in the embassy's basement where there are no surveillance cameras. This allowed U.S. authorities to make the arrests out of the site of the public and the media.

Jose Pertierra, an international law expert, said this tactic of trying to remove the protectors through the basement was being done "in order to avoid a war of images where they can have police act without the public seeing them." Pertierra added that this security force operation violates international law that prohibits a host nation from invading the sovereign territory of another country’s embassy. The legal expert said the protesters who were arrested will likely sue the U.S. administration, "which is not in the interest of the government."
 
good dog. sit. stayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy........

U.S. and Ecuador sign new agreement after Assange expelled
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article230402254.html


USAID returns to Ecuador for the first time since being expelled from the country in 2014 by former President Rafael Correa.

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Mark Green, USAID Administrator, and Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Jose Valencia, stand during a signing ceremony in Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday, May 15, 2019.

Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno said on April 11 that the country had taken a “sovereign decision” to withdraw Julian Assange’s asylum status.
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Venezuela Peace Talks Open In Norway; US Neocons Raging Mad!

May 16 - The last time negotiations were planned between Venezuelan government and opposition forces, opposition leader (and US puppet) Guaido launched his ill-fated coup and the talks were scuttled. Today a new effort, brokered by Norway, is being launched to solve the conflict without further bloodshed. What kind of monkey wrench will the neocons throw into the mix this time? Tune in to today's Liberty Report:

 
Interesting to note the other countries that apparently are attempting to avoid an outright war

https://sputniknews.com/latam/201905171075073733-venezuela-maduro-meets-icg-representatives/
"The meeting with the International Contact Group to inform them about the consequences of the blockade and sanctions on the part of the US empire against Venezuela," the caption for the video, published on Maduro’s Twitter late on Thursday, read.
An anchorperson said in the video, recorded by the VTV broadcaster, that the high-level meeting had been held for the first time and had included the representatives of Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands.
 
Meanwhile, at the embassy. Have we just set ourselves up for blowback directed at our embassies elsewhere in the world?

https://sputniknews.com/us/201905171075071141-activists-arrested-venezuels-appear-usa-court/
The four activists arrested in the Venezuelan embassy in Washington on Thursday will remain in detention overnight and appear in US federal court on Friday morning, director of the advocacy group Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) Brian Becker said.

"The US government violated the Vienna Convention this morning by arresting the Embassy Protection Collective," Becker said on Thursday. "The four individuals who have been arrested will be held overnight in jail and will appear in federal court tomorrow morning."
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has praised the activists for their bravery, while accusing his US counterpart, President Donald Trump, of violating the rule of inviolability, which covers embassies worldwide.
Becker said the activists are now facing an obscure charge called "interference with certain protective functions."

https://sputniknews.com/latam/201905171075071824-maduro-orders-security-usa-caracas-embassy/
"I have ordered to boost the legal police protection of the building of the former US embassy which belongs to the US government. We will protect it because Venezuela follows conventions and international law. Criminals are sitting in the White House," Maduro said on Thursday.

https://sputniknews.com/us/201905171075072186-activists-protest-usa-venezuela-embassy-seizure/
Activists will stage a protest in front of the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington on Saturday to denounce the US government’s decision to forcibly enter the diplomatic facility in violation of international law and arrest four activists residing there, organizer Ariel Gold said on Thursday.

"We will gather on Saturday to say no way to US war in Venezuela, to say no way to the US coup in that country and say no way to violating the Vienna Convention and international law," said Gold, a national co-director for Code Pink and activist with the Embassy Protection Collective. "So we are having an all-out for Venezuela, an all out for hands off Venezuela Saturday at noon right here at the embassy, and we encourage all people to come and show up for that."
 
Just when you thought that trump couldn't deal a blow any lower, attempting to confiscate passports? Permission to travel required for a misdemeanour charge? WTF

https://sputniknews.com/us/201905181075114533-venezuela-embassy-washington-protesters-arrested-raid-us-police/
Members of the Embassy Protection Collective who were arrested by armed US police inside the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC have been released, pending a hearing on various conditions.

The four protesters — Kevin Zeese, Margaret Ann Flowers, Adrienne Pine, and David Vernon Paul — could face up to a year in jail for reportedly trying to prevent the takeover of the building by the US-backed opposition.

The misdemeanour charge of “interfering with a federal law enforcement agent engaged in protective functions” carries a maximum sentence of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine. The activists, however, claim the US police had no legal right to enter the building, reflecting the opinion of the Venezuelan government.
As a condition of their release, the activists have been ordered by the judge to steer clear of 10 locations currently controlled by representatives of the Venezuelan opposition and to check in weekly with authorities.

The four are due back in court on 12 June.


https://www.rt.com/news/459639-protesters-venezuela-embassy-court/
The judge ordered the protesters to steer clear of 10 locations now controlled by representatives of the Venezuelan opposition and check in weekly with authorities as a condition of their release. While the US government asked for their passports to be confiscated, that request was denied, though they must notify authorities if they plan to travel abroad.
 
And of course trump's NWO regime change foreign policy will push Venezuela into doing business with the Russians, instead of us.

https://www.rt.com/business/459594-venezuela-russia-ruble-settlement/
Caracas is in talks with Moscow over the possibility of using the Russian ruble in mutual trade settlements and abandoning dollar transactions, according to Venezuela’s representative to the UN office in Geneva Jorge Valero.
Numerous sanctions introduced against Venezuela by the US have forced the Bolivarian Republic to stop using the dollar for its international transactions. It switched to the euro last October. In addition, the country started swapping crude oil for imported products.
Valero added that Caracas counts on the Kremlin’s support in restructuring Venezuela’s foreign debt.
 
good dog. sit. stayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy........

U.S. and Ecuador sign new agreement after Assange expelled
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article230402254.html


USAID returns to Ecuador for the first time since being expelled from the country in 2014 by former President Rafael Correa.

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Mark Green, USAID Administrator, and Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Jose Valencia, stand during a signing ceremony in Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday, May 15, 2019.

Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno said on April 11 that the country had taken a “sovereign decision” to withdraw Julian Assange’s asylum status.
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cross posting this. it's purfektamundo.

 
yeah... this belongs here. for context.

Pathetic. this guy is so disappointing... watching Victor Orban licking boots. sad.
He built a wall to stem the immigrant hordes in defiance of EU.
His 'people' would come first...
so
have immigrants suddenly started flying jets???
WTF does a poverty stricken country NEED with billion dollar missiles????


Hungary’s PM Orban confirms plan to buy air defense missiles from US
https://www.rt.com/newsline/459624-hungary-orban-missiles-us/


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According to Orban, he belongs to a group of elected leaders – including Trump and the leaders of Israel, India, Poland and Italy – who “put their own country’s interests first… and expressly oppose building” a world government, AP said.
Read it. Read it again. What a complete load of crap.

why. Why would EU 'defiant' , Hungarian patriot Victor Orban suddenly squat like this??
ans:
Hegemons are holding his poverty stricken country hostage.

An ice cold message has been delivered from the global mafia: 'We will turn the Hungarian economy on its head.'
Orban caved.

Trump's administration has a set of sanctions against Orban's closest allies if he won't follow Washington's orders
(ie. if he continues cooperation with Russia).

U.S. Keeps Sanctions at the Ready Even as Trump Courts Hungarian Leader
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-ke...-as-trump-courts-hungarian-leader-11557867566

of course....the day after WH denied the reports. right.

Envoy Denies Report U.S. Is Readying Sanctions on Orban Allies¨
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ort-u-s-is-readying-sanctions-on-orban-allies





Look for USAID coming to Budapest.
 
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yeah... this belongs here. for context.

Pathetic. this guy is so disappointing... watching Victor Orban licking boots. sad.
He built a wall to stem the immigrant hordes in defiance of EU.
His 'people' would come first...
so
have immigrants suddenly started flying jets???
WTF does a poverty stricken country NEED with billion dollar missiles????


Hungary’s PM Orban confirms plan to buy air defense missiles from US
https://www.rt.com/newsline/459624-hungary-orban-missiles-us/


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Read it. Read it again. What a complete load of crap.

why. Why would EU 'defiant' , Hungarian patriot Victor Orban suddenly squat like this??
ans:
Hegemons are holding his poverty stricken country hostage.

An ice cold message has been delivered from the global mafia: 'We will turn the Hungarian economy on its head.'
Orban caved.

Trump's administration has a set of sanctions against Orban's closest allies if he won't follow Washington's orders
(ie. if he continues cooperation with Russia).

U.S. Keeps Sanctions at the Ready Even as Trump Courts Hungarian Leader
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-ke...-as-trump-courts-hungarian-leader-11557867566

of course....the day after WH denied the reports. right.

Envoy Denies Report U.S. Is Readying Sanctions on Orban Allies¨
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ort-u-s-is-readying-sanctions-on-orban-allies





Look for USAID coming to Budapest.
War is coming to the EU.
 
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