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The Associated Pukes earned its new name by promulgating Venezuelan Puke charges against Chavez, which are written by subcontractors at the USAID/CIA, and funneled through USAID-funded rightwing groups in Venezuela to the Puke media. Thus, our war machine gets a drum-beat of false headlines and lede lines against Chavez, lo these many years--ever since the U.S.-supported coup d'etat in 2002 failed to accomplish its purpose: installation of a government that would give Exxon Mobil all the profits from Venezuela's oil--THE biggest oil reserve on earth (twice Saudi Arabia's, according to the USGS)--rather than a leftist government, which insists on about half the profits going to education, medical care, grants/loans to small businesses, pensions for the elderly, land reform and other help to the people of Venezuela.
Chavez is not a "dictator." He is not even close to being a "dictator." But the fact that our war machine wants you to believe it is very, very worrisome, indeed.
Unfortunately--tragically--many of those who read/see Associated Pukes' 'news' stories superficially (without consciousness of how they are being manipulated) may well wake up some day to the shocking reality of Oil War II: South America. Beloved sons and daughters in uniform dying in the Caribbean, in the Andes, in the Amazon jungle, in the border areas between Colombia and Venezuela and in the many Pentagon "forward operating locations" in their "Southern Command." Dying for Exxon Mobil. Dying so that all the oil gets sucked into our war machine and all the profits pad the pockets of the biggest corporation on earth. And billions and billions of our tax dollars headed down yet another corporate/war profiteer rat hole, adding to the billions and billions already spent on setting this war up.
And, believe me, it IS a war plan on the Pentagon's Big Dartboard, with many war assets already in place--including the Bush Junta's reconstitution of the U.S. 4th Fleet (mothballed since WW II) in the Caribbean, USAF spying bases on the Dutch islands right off Venezuela's oil coast, a new U.S./Colombia military base overlooking the Gulf of Venezuela only 20 miles from the Venezuelan border, many other U.S. military bases and "forward operating locations" in Colombia, U.S. military bases in Honduras secured by a rightwing coup d'etat and new ones being created as we speak, and more. The Pentagon has been preparing for "full spectrum" military activity against its "enemies" in Latin America including "countries hostile to the U.S."
That is the worst case scenario for what this particular Associated Pukes 'news' article is about, as one of numerous similar articles aimed at creating a bogeyman "dictator" with which to put everyone to sleep while the war machine takes the oil.
But there is a subplot in progress that is the context and background of this particular article. The Bush Junta had basically a Mob Boss, Alvaro Uribe, running Colombia over the last decade. When you add up all that Uribe was doing, it is nothing less than Murder, Inc.--and it very likely had the purpose of consolidating and directing the trillion+ dollar cocaine revenue stream out of Colombia, along with ridding the country of its labor union leaders and other dissenters, and padding the pockets of U.S. and Colombian war profiteers.
Among other things, Uribe was using the powers of government for vast, illegal, domestic spying--even spying on judges and prosecutors--and the victims of this spy operation were being murdered and/or receiving death threats and other intimidation from the rightwing paramilitary death squads that Uribe is closely associated with (and has been from the beginning of his career). Colombian prosecutors are after him for it. They just arrested his second-in-command of the spying operation. His spy chief, Maria Hurtado--wanted by the Colombian prosecutors--has fled to Panama, where she received instant asylum from Panama's RW president (probably with U.S. help). And FIVE members of a Colombian legislative committee investigating this spying operation--which has called Uribe to testify--have resigned from the committee, two of them admitting that they resigned because of death threats, with death threats the probable reason for the other resignations.
This is an ENORMOUS scandal in Colombia. And there are very likely connectable "dots" to the U.S./Bush Junta. The U.S. military and U.S. military 'contractors' have been on-the-ground in Colombia throughout Uribe's criminal reign, providing "training" and "technical assistance" to the Colombian military along with the USAID (CIA) and other U.S. agencies. Uribe and the U.S. ambassador (Bush appointee Wm. Brownfield) worked closely together.
One hint of what might have been going on--as to U.S. assistance with the spying (and thus with murder and a reign of terror)--occurred in 2009-2010, when Uribe and Brownfield secretly negotiated, and secretly signed, a U.S./Colombia military agreement giving "total diplomatic immunity" to all U.S. military personnel and all U.S. military 'contractors' in Colombia. The agreement was thrown out by the Colombian supreme court, but it indicates their intent. (Why would the U.S. military need such protection more than a decade into the U.S. military presence in Colombia?)
Another hint comes from a Wikileaks cable, which discloses that Panama's RW president demanded U.S. help in spying on his "enemies." (He is a Uribe pal. Is that where he got the idea that the U.S. would spy for him?).
A third hint that the U.S. is culpable in this spying scandal is the length to which the U.S. has gone to protect and even coddle Uribe, including the midnight extraditions of 30 death squad witnesses to the U.S., on mere drug charges, and their burial in the U.S. federal prison system (by complete sealing of their cases), out of the reach of Colombian prosecutors and over their vociferous objections, and Uribe getting cushy academic sinecures at Georgetown and Harvard (no doubt teaching our future leaders about the law not applying to the rich and powerful and CIA "made men"). Uribe--whom Colombian prosecutors are investigating, and 70 of whose closest cohorts are under investigation or already in jail for ties to the death squads, drug trafficking, bribery, election fraud, land theft, ponzi schemes and other crimes--thus gets his image "laundered" here in the U.S. (and seems to be planning a return to power in Colombia).
Yet another hint of what the U.S./Bush Junta may have been doing in Colombia occurred early this year: The U.S. State Department "fined' Blackwater for "unauthorized" "trainings" of "foreign persons" IN COLOMBIA "for use in Iraq and Afghanistan. (I don't believe the word "unauthorized.")
Now consider this Associated Pukes article --one of their more inferior productions, as to propaganda (a child could deconstruct its innuendos)--which tries to paint a picture of illicit government spying next door in Venezuela. This article is FLAK. Flak is scattershot meant to confuse the enemy. You and I are the enemy. We are supposed to get a FUZZY impression of illicit government doings across the political spectrum in LatAm, to deflect attention away from these godawful doings in Colombia. The article also gives fodder to RW bloggers to chime in, once again, about "dictator Chavez" --to aid in the buildup of a bogeyman, if and when our war machine needs it.
Thousands of innocent people have been murdered in Colombia--trade unionists, human rights workers, teachers, community activists, peasant farmer leaders, Indigenous leaders and others--by Uribe's criminal network--a network that included top government officials, local officials and the RW paramilitaries in the field, as well as Colombian military commanders and units. The Colombian military itself slaughtered about half the trade unionists, according to Amnesty International, with the paramilitaries slaughtering the other half--all funded with at least $7 BILLION in U.S. military aid, politically supported by the Bush Junta and given "training" and "technical" assistance by the Pentagon, the USAID and other agencies (CIA, DEA, FBI, et al). And the other thing Uribe was doing was driving FIVE MILLION peasant farmers from their lands, with state terror--a human displacement crisis that has surpassed the Sudan in magnitude. (This in particular was related to the cocaine trade, in my opinion--driving the peasants off, giving the lands over to big drug lords.)
There is no equivalency here, even if the Chavez government is spying on opponents (which will likely turn out to be bogus like all the other Venezuelan 'tea party'/USAID bullshit). These are more than likely charges concocted to create an impression of equivalency, so that unsuspecting consumers of the crapola news will be immunized to the horror story next door in Colombia, which has been leaking out here and there but is generally ignored by the crapola media.
I have been closely watching this anti-Chavez campaign in the crapola media since the mid-2000s. I do not call the Associated Press the Associated Pukes as a joke. I mean it literally. They are rightwing extremists in the service of badass transglobal corporations and war profiteers, and their crap journalism is serving the purposes of murder, mayhem and theft on an unprecedented scale--in Colombia and other places. We cannot trust their news reports on anything--including Venezuela, which this war machine will turn into Colombia, if they can--mountains of dead leftist bodies, rightwing criminals in charge.
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