"Palast--wars for oil" & "oil for wars" eating up the youth & civilians of our world
"wars for oil" & "oil for wars" eating up the youth & civilians of our world
- Tue, Jan 6 2025 at 10:06 PM
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You remember that rock & roll song
a "Whole lot of shaking going on ...."
Well history might be summed up as:
a "Whole lot of "TAKING" going on ..."
Hello Folks! Buzz Davis here thinking of our new year ahead.
That first picture above is what Trump, his billionaire supporters and some generals are after - the merry-go-round of "wars for oil" and "oil for wars" eating up the youth and civilians of the world.
Baby Trump
We have all seen the little baby who crawls around and takes whatever he/she wishes from other little babies. I WHAT THAT! YOU GIVE ME THAT!!
Yup that's how all of us all would act our whole lives, unless we have been taught that it is better to share.
Trump's parents and family never taught him that most important lesson.
And now we have him as president --- again - after already failing that job once.
So Trump leads us into 2026 in the same way as other, quote unquote,
"Leaders" have taken us for thousands of years down the road of "I'll take what I want! If you don't like it and try to protect what you have, I will try to kill you."
People say this is the "dog eat dog" world and it certainly has been for tens of millions of people.
But we need to be smarter than dogs!
MLK said --- "coannihilation" nearly 60 years ago.
And here we are today:
o Climate Disaster, politely called Climate Warming and
o Nuclear War followed by Nuclear Winter,
o WILL KILL US ALL --- if we're dumb enough to let leaders do this to us!
Above is a beautiful picture. Look closely and you will see it's an oil field as night-fall comes over the land. Do you feel it? We're losing our democracy. Tyranny is on the march!
Greg Palast is an investigative reporter. Below is his column on Venezuela. He writes of Rodriguez, Chavez and Maduro. Here is a link about Rodriguez, former VP, sworn in as President of Venezuela once Maduro and his wife were kidnapped and most of the people at the president's home were killed.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/delcy-rodr%C3%ADguez-sworn-in-as-venezuelan-president-but-who-is-she/ar-AA1TC8HR?ocid=BingNewsSerp "Delcy Rodríguez sworn in as Venezuelan president, but who is she?"
When Venezuela’s President Delcy Rodriguez banged on my door at 2AM by Greg Palast January 3, 2025
It was 2002 when Delcy Rodriguez, sworn in today as President of Venezuela, came to my apartment in London well after midnight to tell me, a BBC television reporter, that the US was planning to kidnap, and likely assassinate, the then-president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez.
The coup, Rodriguez said, was planned for March, but I could not get the BBC to send me there on the basis of Rodriguez’s inside info. In fact, there was no coup in March. Chavez was seized on April 2.
President Chavez was kidnapped and flown by helicopter to a prison on Margarita Island off the Venezuelan coast. But President George W. Bush had let Venezuelan plotters operate the coup, and they were incompetent.
Chavez, the first Black and Indian president in Venezuela’s history, was guarded by a young soldier who was the same color as Chavez. He handed Chavez his cell phone. Chavez reached his Air Force generals who made it clear to the plotters — most of them white (race matters here) — that they would be bombed into oblivion unless Chavez were returned in 48 hours to his desk. The coup leaders brought back Chavez within hours.
But today it’s clear that President Donald Trump took no chances, ordering US troops to kidnap Chavez’ successor, President Nicholas Maduro.
I knew Maduro well, and I have to be straight about the fact that he is not the brightest bulb in the socket. Unlike Chavez, who was elected and re-elected in model democratic polling, Maduro won his re-election only by manipulating the count.
And, unlike the late President Chavez, Maduro does not understand that there is a limit to how much one can taunt Uncle Sam’s oil companies.
The late president Chavez knew that, saying, “Greg, I’m a very good chess player.”
Maduro is not.
The excuse for seizing the president of another country is that Maduro was supposedly some type of “drug kingpin” according to Trump. But the United Nations annual drug trafficking report says that Venezuela neither produces nor is a transit point for drugs going to the US.
So what’s it about? Venezuela has the world’s largest reserve of oil. Venezuela has four times the reserves of Saudi Arabia.
The night President Rodriguez came to my home, she also told me that Chaves refused to give Pat Robertson, the Right-Wing televangelist, a gold mining concession. (Most Americans think of Robertson as the guy who made his money fleecing his born again flock with vitamin Ponzi schemes and huge fees for speaking directly to the Lord on behalf of the Christian coalition schmucks who bought his hoodoo.)'
Robertson’s big money came from diamond mining, but Chavez wouldn’t give him a gold mine concession. So Robertson, on his popular cable show, unashamedly called for Chavez’s assassination, pointing out that Venezuela had parked itself on top of “our” oil.
(Watch Robertson’s death threat in my film, The Assassination of Hugo Chavez,
which you can see for free on YouTube.)
President Rodriguez understands what Maduro does not. You can’t eat or drink your own oil. The US embargo has literally forced 7 million hungry Venezuelans to emigrate because of the siege stopping Venezuela from selling its oil.
President Rodriguez, who is actually to the left of Maduro, has told Trump that he can, as Trump demands, “run” Venezuela because that’s the reality to stop the starvation.
Maduro foolishly blocked British Petroleum from taking over the French oil concession, allowing the UK to seize $10 billion in Venezuela’s cash reserves.
The US then seized Venezuela’s assets here, all Citgo gas stations and refineries.
How does this end?
I fear that President Rodriguez will also be overthrown and replaced with Trump’s puppet Maria Corina Machado, who just won the Nobel Peace Prize.
(A weird choice for a peace prize. Machado called for the invasion of her own country, which could’ve led to Civil War, costing the lives of thousands of your countrymen. And that may still happen.)
And I have one more warning. It’s not a prediction, just a warning. Trump’s overthrow of Venezuela’s government may just be practice for the overthrow of America’s government. The date? How about January 6, 2029.
Greg Palast (Rolling Stone, Guardian, BBC) is the author of The New York Times bestsellers, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and the book and documentary, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. His latest film is Vigilantes Inc.: America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen...
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Thanks for reading, I hope you all are well and wish you each a personal good new year.
For America it will not be a good year.
The Democrats in Congress refuse to do their duty to Expel the 185 Republican Insurrectionists who helped Trump try to overthrow the 2020 elections.
These Traitors and Saboteurs of our government must be removed from power and prosecuted for what they did. Trump and his syndicate must be Impeached and the prosecuted by a new administration for their crimes.
We either do these actions or we and our grandchildren will lose democracy and live under tyranny if we don't die in climate disasters, or nuclear war, or both first.
All we can do is FightBack. We MUST use the Rule of Law.
And the little left of the Rule of Law are those powers of the Constitution delegated by the people to Congress only.
We must make use these tools to preserve our democracy corrupted as it is - for this is the only way we can make the reforms that have been avoided for decades.
Peace! Buzz Davis, Progressive formerly of Stoughton, WI now of Tucson, member of Veterans for Peace
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