{"id":43998,"date":"2019-02-24T18:31:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T23:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43998"},"modified":"2019-02-24T18:31:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T23:31:19","slug":"anyone-buying-this-venezuela-bullshit-is-a-complete-fucking-moron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43998","title":{"rendered":"Anyone Buying This Venezuela Bullshit Is A Complete Fucking Moron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2019\/02\/23\/anyone-buying-this-venezuela-bullshit-is-a-complete-fucking-moron\/\">Anyone Buying This Venezuela Bullshit Is A Complete Fucking\u00a0Moron<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-23-at-11.35.42-AM-1.jpg?fit=1039%2C690&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#VenezuelaAidLive is trending on Twitter in the USA as I write this, forced to the forefront of public consciousness and into everyone\u2019s eyeballs by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/roger-waters-slams-richard-branson-fronting-us-trojan-horse-aid-venezuela\/255460\/\">a concert<\/a>&nbsp;staged by billionaire plutocrat Richard Branson. Branson\u2019s Virgin Group controls&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110303202728\/http:\/\/www.thisislondon.co.uk\/standard-home\/article-23897620-londons-1000-most-influential-people-2010-tycoons-and-retailers.do\">hundreds of companies<\/a>&nbsp;and brings in some&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.virgin.com\/virgingroup\/content\/about-us\">$21 billion annually<\/a>, with Branson himself valued at around&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/virgin-group-richard-branson-net-worth-spending-2018-10\/?r=AU&amp;IR=T\">five billion dollars<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The concert is pure narrative control operation, designed to advance the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MoonofA\/status\/1099009785863856128\">proven lie<\/a>\u00a0that the Venezuelan government is shutting out all humanitarian aid from its people, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/western-media-fall-in-lockstep-for-cheap-trump-rubio-venezuela-aid-pr-stunt\/\">proven lie<\/a>\u00a0that it has blockaded a bridge to prevent the aid from getting through,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimesworld\/status\/1098998873387864065\">both<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cnni\/status\/1098600098341273600\">which<\/a>\u00a0are also currently being promoted by American mainstream media despite being thoroughly disproven. In reality, the Venezuelan government has been taking in humanitarian aid from all around the world to help its people, just not from America\u2019s regime change operation that is so blatant\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/02\/16\/695154567\/u-s-masses-aid-along-venezuelan-border-as-some-humanitarian-groups-warn-of-risks\">even NPR recognizes it<\/a>, and the bridge Branson has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HollyBranson\/status\/1098968412825489409\">posing in front of<\/a>\u00a0for his \u201cbillionaire philanthropist\u201d photo ops\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/western-media-fall-in-lockstep-for-cheap-trump-rubio-venezuela-aid-pr-stunt\/\">has never been open for travel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HollyBranson\/status\/1098968412825489409\/photo\/1\">View image on Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HollyBranson\/status\/1098968412825489409\/photo\/1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/D0BR5ppXgAAPmQL?format=jpg&amp;name=small\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HollyBranson\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/961870001123684353\/z-l7wb1h_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HollyBranson\"><strong><\/strong><strong>\u2714<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HollyBranson\/status\/1098968412825489409\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are on a bridge. Today we want to build a bridge of hope&#8221; \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/richardbranson\">@RichardBranson<\/a>.  I\u2019m  so proud of my dad and everyone involved in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VenezuelaAidLive?src=hash\">#VenezuelaAidLive<\/a>. You can live stream the concert all around the world, right now: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/admXOC4LAe\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/venezuelaaidlive.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They\u2019re lying to us about Venezuela. Anyone with access to alternative media has access to the fact that they\u2019re lying to us about Venezuela. We know this for a fact. We also know for a fact that Venezuela has the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ceoworld.biz\/2017\/05\/04\/top-20-countries-with-the-worlds-largest-proven-oil-reserves\/\">largest proven oil reserves<\/a>\u00a0on planet Earth, and that in spite of all these appeals to the humanitarian impulses of the US empire the Trump administration is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WTE0SQA2jU8\">openly interested in controlling that oil<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone Buying This Venezuela Bullshit Is A Complete Fucking\u00a0Moron #VenezuelaAidLive is trending on Twitter in the USA as I write this, forced to the forefront of public consciousness and into everyone\u2019s eyeballs by&nbsp;a concert&nbsp;staged by billionaire plutocrat Richard Branson. Branson\u2019s Virgin Group controls&nbsp;hundreds of companies&nbsp;and brings in some&nbsp;$21 billion annually, with Branson himself valued at [&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":[17039,496,24469,3142,851],"class_list":["post-43998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-mainstream-media","tag-richard-branson","tag-us-empire","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43998","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=43998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44000,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43998\/revisions\/44000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}