Good God--watching the degradation of what used to be better than most
@BestBuy
Delivered pkg to old address (4yo) & no resp nearly 24 hrs later. & they want 8 bucks to put glass on phone (bought both products from them).
*yes, I'm GenX . . . But still.
Good God--watching the degradation of what used to be better than most
@BestBuy
Delivered pkg to old address (4yo) & no resp nearly 24 hrs later. & they want 8 bucks to put glass on phone (bought both products from them).
*yes, I'm GenX . . . But still.
Venezuela and Truth
- by Craig Murray, January 4, 2026, part 1
The mainstream media covered Venezuela non-stop yesterday. They many times mentioned Delcy Rodríguez, Vice President, because Trump stated she is now in charge.
They never mentioned that 2026 marks the 50th anniversary of the torture to death of her father, socialist activist Jorge Rodríguez, by the CIA-backed security services of the US-aligned Pérez regime in Venezuela.
That would of course spoil the evil communists versus nice democrats narrative that is being forced down everybody’s throats.
Nor did they mention that the elected governments of Hugo Chávez reduced extreme poverty by over 70%, reduced poverty by 50%, halved unemployment, quadrupled the number receiving a state pension and achieved 100% literacy.
Chávez took Venezuela from the most unequal society for wealth distribution in Latin America to the most equal.
Nor have they mentioned that María Corina Machado is from one of Venezuela’s wealthiest families, which dominated the electricity and steel industries before nationalisation, and that her backers are the very families that were behind those CIA-controlled murderous regimes.
Economic sanctions imposed by the West – and another thing they have not mentioned is that the UK has confiscated over £2 billion of the Venezuelan government’s assets – have made it difficult for the Maduro government to do much more than shore up the gains of the Chávez years.
But that Venezuela is a major production or trafficking point for narcotics entering the USA is simply a nonsense. Nicolás Maduro has his faults, but he is not a drug trafficking kingpin. The claim is utter garbage.
The willingness of the West to accept the opposition’s dodgy vote tallies from the 2024 Presidential elections does not legitimise invasion and kidnap.
Yesterday almost every Western government came up with a statement that managed to endorse Trump’s bombing and kidnap – plainly grossly illegal in international law – and simultaneously claim to support international law. The hypocrisy is truly off the scale. It is also precisely the Western powers that support the genocide in Gaza that support the attack on Venezuela.
The genocide in Gaza demonstrated the end of hopes – which were extremely important to my own worldview – for the rule of international law to outweigh the brutal use of force in international relations. The kidnap of Maduro, the rush of Western powers to accept it, and the inability of the rest of the world to do anything about it, have underlined that international law is simply dead.
In the long list of appalling awards of the Nobel peace prize, none can be worse than the latest to the Venezuelan traitor María Corina Machado, intended actively to promote and bring forward the imperialist attack on Venezuela by the United States.
It takes a great deal of effort to come up with a worse decision than to award Kissinger immediately after the massive bombing of Laos and Cambodia. It was a dreadful award, but it was intended to recognise the putative Paris peace deal and prod the United States towards honouring the peace process. Initially it was a joint award with Vietnamese negotiator Lê Đức Thọ (who sensibly declined).
The Kissinger award was a terrible mistake, but the Committee were seeking to end a war, starting from a willingness to cooperate with unprincipled realpolitik. In the award to Machado, they are deliberately seeking to endorse and promote the start of a war. That is a very different thing.
Photos: #1 Vicepresident Delcy Rodriguez delivering a speech at a rally. #2 Her father, socialist activist and student leader, Jorge Rodriguez, who was tortured to death on July 25, 1976.
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The U.S. corporate media is lying to you:
The Venezuelan people do not support the United States bombing, invading, and kidnapping their country’s president.
They continue to protest against the U.S. invasion and are calling for Maduro to be released.
Extraña "dictadura" la de Venezuela, donde la gente sale a las calles a defender al presidente secuestrado por el imperio.
Se les ha caído la FARSA HEGEMÓNICA que montaron 25 años en contra de Venezuela.
Las mentiras de los medios globalistas han quedado en EVIDENCIA.
🚨NYC EMERGENCY PROTEST: No war on Venezuela! Stop the bombings!
📆 Sat. Jan 3
🕑2PM
📍Times Square
Early this morning, Caracas was bombed following weeks of threats from Trump that a land invasion of Venezuela would begin soon.
This could be the start of yet another war, based completely on lies. Over 70% of people in the United States oppose a new war –– our public funds should be used for people's needs instead! This violence is not in our names. We must refuse another endless war for profits!
Not in NYC? Find an emergency action to stand against a new war on Venezuela TODAY, SATURDAY JANUARY 3 –– visit https://t.co/GHub9MZpFH to learn more.
Tell me you don’t practice medicine without telling me you don’t practice medicine.
Hepatitis B/C wasn’t a problem for some, until it caused liver cancer later.
HPV was “handled well by the young” until it’s linked to cervical/esophageal cancer.
EBV was no big deal until MS.
@scott_pianowski Question for you, Scott--a buddy and I co-manage a team down 25.
Play Warren (if he plays) or go Hail Mary Galaxy Brain and play Jaylen Wright on the chance that Achane not as healthy as we've been told?
@ghhughes How might these compare to the breathability of the blue surgical masks? (Trying to convince a loved one to ditch those for something better)