{"id":43938,"date":"2019-02-21T08:49:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T13:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43938"},"modified":"2019-02-21T08:49:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T13:49:55","slug":"everyone-has-fallen-for-the-lies-about-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43938","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Has Fallen for the Lies About Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/articles\/everyone-has-fallen-for-the-lies-about-venezuela\/\">Everyone Has Fallen for the Lies About Venezuela<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/campvenezuela.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are three things I know for sure in this fanciful, sometimes inglorious experience we call life:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>You will never have a safety pin when you need one, and you will have thousands when you don\u2019t need one.<\/li><li>Wild animals are breathtakingly majestic until they\u2019re crawling up your pant leg.<\/li><li>A U.S. presidential administration will never admit that it invaded another country or backed a coup attempt in order to essentially steal the natural resources (oil) of said country.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is why it was so very shocking last week when members of the Trump administration admitted they were backing a coup attempt in order to essentially steal the natural resources (oil) of another country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That country is Venezuela. I\u2019ll get back to this in a moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s take a second to go over the\u00a0<em>big three<\/em>. There are three things that seem to provoke the ornery United States into overthrowing or bringing down a foreign government, no matter how many innocent civilians may die in the process. (If enough die, the perpetrators often get nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.) If your country has\u00a0<em>one\u00a0<\/em>of these things, the U.S. might screw with you. If your country has two of these things, the U.S. will\u00a0<em>definitely\u00a0<\/em>screw with you. If your country has\u00a0<em>three\u00a0<\/em>of these things, then look behind you, because the U.S. is\u00a0<em>currently\u00a0<\/em>screwing you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Being socialist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pretty self-explanatory. If you don\u2019t have the same economic system as we do, we treat it like you have candy and we\u2019re not allowed to have any, so we slip razor blades in yours and tell everyone your candy kills people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Dropping the U.S. dollar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iraq dropped the dollar. We invaded.<br>Syria dropped the dollar. We invaded.<br>Iran dropped the dollar. We want to invade.<br>Libya dropped the dollar. We invaded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone Has Fallen for the Lies About Venezuela There are three things I know for sure in this fanciful, sometimes inglorious experience we call life: You will never have a safety pin when you need one, and you will have thousands when you don\u2019t need one. Wild animals are breathtakingly majestic until they\u2019re crawling up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3215,588,655,1343,827,851],"class_list":["post-43938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-invasion","tag-oil","tag-propaganda","tag-regime-change","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43939,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43938\/revisions\/43939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}