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Claims (195)
Crypto AG supplied_arms_to
Venezuela book_quoted
“The U.S. and its allies exploited other nations for years, taking their money and stealing their secrets. Besides Malaysia and those listed above, crypto clients included Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Saudi …”
▶ Operation Gladio Malaysia @ 28:56
Vladimir Padrino Lopez member_of
Venezuela documented
“National Guard troops scattered in the streets as though they were being ambushed. As Maduro, his wife, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez, and thousands of National Guard troops present managed to escape without injury, authorities tr…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 5:31
Venezuela member_of
Citgo Petroleum documented
“A ruling that placed Sitco, Venezuela's most valuable international asset, on the verge of liquidation. For those of us in the U.S., Sitco was just another gas station. For Venezuelans, however, the company was a national pride. Venezuelan …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 48:16
Donald Trump funded
Venezuela documented
“Following Guido's ascent, these devious characters ratcheted up Washington's assault on Venezuela to heights previously imperceptible to not only Caracas, but also their own colleagues in the Trump administration. On January 28, 2019, Trump…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 24:30
Donald Trump funded
Venezuela documented
“In August 2017, he signed an executive order that officially banned transactions relating to the issuance of new debt to Venezuela's government in U.S. markets, further restraining Maduro's access to foreign credit lines. In March of 2018, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 17:13
Moody's funded
Venezuela documented
“In August 2017, he signed an executive order that officially banned transactions relating to the issuance of new debt to Venezuela's government in U.S. markets, further restraining Maduro's access to foreign credit lines. In March of 2018, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 17:13
Luis Posada Carriles trafficked
Venezuela documented
“as back as not far as 1973, that Posada was involved in smuggling cocaine from Colombia through Venezuela into Miami. I'm not just making this shit up, people. These are well-documented instances of how the CIA operates. According to the no…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 14 @ 25:00
Donald Trump funded
Venezuela documented
“Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing a fresh round of sanctions on Caracas, describing Maduro's re-election as a sham. Though a vast majority of the world's governments, including Russia, China, and India, accepted Maduro's win, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 1:11:01
John Bolton targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela documented
“Argentina or Venezuela. The White House interventionist policies toward Latin America was further articulated in a landmark address Bolton delivered that November. He was speaking at Miami Dade University. Bolton vowed Trump's administratio…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 19:37
Venezuela funded
Crystallix v. Venezuela arbitration documented
“Cristillex initiated arbitration against Venezuelan's government in February 2011, asserting Caracas owed $3.16 billion plus interest for ex-appropriating a mine they didn't own. They had a concession that was canceled and they had never mi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 41:37
Barack Obama targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela documented
“Three months later, Obama issued an executive order classifying Venezuela as an unusual and extraordinary threat to national security of the United States. They really don't even have an army that can touch the United States. The absurd pol…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 12:02
Marcos Pérez Jiménez overthrew
Venezuela documented
“But there was sort of that circumstance. If I recall correctly, he was working with Kissinger on it as well. Now, one other thing that I did while I was looking at this, looking at all these different connections, was you mentioned the Pere…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 1:19:04
Barack Obama funded
Venezuela documented
“on Venezuela, officially kicking off a campaign of economic terror against Caracas. That has never stopped. It was dubbed the Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act, which basically means it's the exact opposite. The financ…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 11:07
Leopoldo Lopez member_of
Venezuela documented
“You mentioned Leopoldo Lopez. This guy actually received honors. He got the U.S. Florida Medal of Freedom in 2017. And in 2018, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Or in 2018, he got a Nobel Peace Prize nomination. But that said.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 1:21:05
Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“All U.S. funded, all to overthrow the Venezuelan government. So that's crazy. And we're going to find out a lot more about it because, of course, Makedo, the recent Nobel Peace Prize winner, is one of Guaido's protégés, as you're going to s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 43:34
Óscar Pérez carried_out_attack
Venezuela host_asserted
“a former Venezuelan law enforcement officer and B-movie actor who had formed an anti-government terrorist organization in Venezuela. He had hijacked a police helicopter and launched grenades at the country's justice ministry during the Gari…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 7 @ 6:41
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela book_quoted
“The defeat was a huge defeat to U.S. diplomats. Clearly, they underestimated all of the work that the diplomats of Venezuela had been doing in regards to this situation. The majority of U.N. countries clearly understand what the U.S. is try…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 11:14
Jorge Arreaza headed
Venezuela host_asserted
“And the preface is packed with information. So I don't want to skip over that and just start in chapter one. So let's get started. This foreword is written by Jorge Ariza, who was the Venezuelan foreign minister from 2017 to 2021.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 2:23
United States financed_via
Venezuela book_quoted
“in 2002. Since then, our people have overcome Washington's effort to sabotage our industry and economy, as well as open campaigns to finance violent opposition groups and so-called NGOs. Oh, sorry. Bridget's telling me there's no volume ove…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 6:04
Donald Trump ordered_assassination_of
Venezuela book_quoted
“Basically, he's saying that there was a coup in 2002 in Venezuela orchestrated by Washington and their NGOs tasked with destabilizing Venezuela and forcing regime change. And again, I'm speaking for the foreign minister. I was named foreign…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 6:35
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela book_quoted
“And a few weeks after his administration unveiled its first round of so-called sanctions against our economy, oil industry, and in consequence, our people. What I experienced while living in Venezuela's foreign ministry was a true war carri…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 7:07
Lima Group targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela book_quoted
“As part of its regime change campaign, Washington organized coalitions of subordinate countries, such as the Lima Group. The Lima Group was established for the sole purpose of isolating and attacking Venezuela. Washington's obsession with V…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 9:03
Organization of American States carried_out_attack
Venezuela book_quoted
“The U.S. turned the Organization of American States into a main tool of its diplomatic aggression against Venezuela. Following the initiation of Washington's coup, the OAS took the extreme act of invoking the Rio Treaty, an outdated militar…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 10:04
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela book_quoted
“During a meeting in February, Abrams warned us that life in Venezuela would become unbearable, predicting that our electricity, fuel, and food would soon run out. And I'm sure Illini recognizes that rhetoric because that's exactly what they…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 14:27
United States sanctioned
Venezuela book_quoted
“In ensuing months, Venezuela endured every possible obstacle, including gasoline shortages and power outages induced by the US. Years later, we found that despite having enough money in our foreign bank accounts to cover the cost of vaccina…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 14:54
United Kingdom sanctioned
Venezuela book_quoted
“In ensuing months, Venezuela endured every possible obstacle, including gasoline shortages and power outages induced by the US. Years later, we found that despite having enough money in our foreign bank accounts to cover the cost of vaccina…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 14:54
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“the importance of Washington's pro-Guido minority coalition. And this is a quote from Trump. Since I last spoke in the hall, the U.S. and our partners have built a historic coalition of 55 countries to recognize the legitimate government of…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 14:09
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“prevented Sitco from issuing dividends back to its parent company, PDVSA. The order effectively blocked the government in Caracas from accessing its U.S. revenue. Washington turned up its assault on Venezuelan oil industry within days of re…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 49:17
Royal Dutch Shell funded
Venezuela book_quoted
“in 1831. In decades following Grand Columbia's disintegration, Venezuela fell under a military dictatorship and was generally governed by strongmen who maintained friendly relations with the U.S. It was not until 1922 when geologists workin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 21:56
Standard Oil secretly_owned
Venezuela book_quoted
“There was a mad dash for control of the country that continues to this day. By 1929, Venezuela was the world's second largest oil producer, rivaled only by the U.S. Average Venezuelans were not the primary beneficiaries of this newfound wea…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 22:27
Gulf Oil secretly_owned
Venezuela book_quoted
“There was a mad dash for control of the country that continues to this day. By 1929, Venezuela was the world's second largest oil producer, rivaled only by the U.S. Average Venezuelans were not the primary beneficiaries of this newfound wea…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 22:27
Venezuela supplied_arms_to
United Kingdom book_quoted
“Faced with the prospect that domestic U.S. oil reserves were insufficient to sustain Washington's own war effort, the Allies looked to Venezuela to fill the gap. By the time U.S. troops touched ground in the British Isles in 1942, Caracas w…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 23:26
Hugo Chavez headed
Venezuela documented
“are the properties of the republic. They are public domain and therefore inalienable and not transferable. In other words, Venezuela nationalized its vast national wealth, including the oil reserves, the largest in the world, and vowed to i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 35:38
Hugo Chavez attempted_coup_against
Venezuela book_quoted
“As a patriot within the army who understood that his country was not free as long as the U.S. and Europe owned its land and government, Chavez organized a clandestine group dedicated to reviving the vision of Venezuela's neocolonial hero, S…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 41:57
Hank Hernandez trained
Venezuela host_asserted
“I hope I'm saying that word correctly. Example would be like in Venezuela right now. So the two CIA guys who, as you know, were training the Venezuelan, quote, security forces in the dictator Perez's administration, which was loved by U.S. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 3 @ 1:14:11
Manny Pena trained
Venezuela host_asserted
“I hope I'm saying that word correctly. Example would be like in Venezuela right now. So the two CIA guys who, as you know, were training the Venezuelan, quote, security forces in the dictator Perez's administration, which was loved by U.S. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 3 @ 1:14:11
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“When Henry Falcon, the governor of Estado Lara and de facto leader of the Venezuelan's moderate opposition, tossed his hat in the ring, Washington threatened him with sanctions. So that tells you who was behind it all along. The sheer prese…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 1:08:15
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“a vocal critic of U.S. interference in his country's internal affairs, was so threatening to Washington that it apparently prepared to undermine even those candidates who opposed Maduro. Despite Washington's subversive campaign, including a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 1:08:39
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing a fresh round of sanctions on Caracas, describing Maduro's re-election as a sham. Though a vast majority of the world's governments, including Russia, China, and India, accepted Maduro's win, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 1:11:01
Donald Trump targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“for a military deal, he said, well, why would I not back, you know, $500 billion worth of armaments just for the sake of the bloke who got chopped up? And this is, I don't, and, you know, Trump has said things like, you know, like if I was …”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Mr Truthbomb @ 2:44:59
Armed Forces of National Liberation carried_out_attack
Venezuela book_quoted
“Citizens, inspired supposedly by Castro, formed an Armed Forces of National Liberation and set out to discredit the elected president, Benton Court. The FALN wanted to persuade voters to boycott elections the following year. Although the gr…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 6 @ 24:18
Venezuela funded
Colectivos book_quoted
“Furthermore, some may be surprised to learn that Venezuelan's government has allowed for the formation of armed civilian militia known as colectivas. These colectivas are local militia, kind of like back in the, you know, 1700s, that type o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 35:37
Chicago Boys carried_out_attack
Venezuela book_quoted
“orchestrating a lot of what's gone on in Venezuela with the imperialism that followed. U.S. readers should be aware that partisan divides in Venezuela do not carry the same social implications as they do here. For example, Venezuela's revol…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 35:08
Ramon Guillen de Vela trafficked
Venezuela documented
“A far more dramatic involvement of the CIA was acknowledged in 1997 when General Ramon Guillen de Vela, chief of the CIA created anti-drug unit in Venezuela, was indicted in Miami for smuggling a ton of cocaine into the United States. Let m…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 1 @ 25:23
CIA trafficked
Venezuela book_quoted
“I was very interested in Peter Del Scott's comments about there's proof that the CIA trafficked drugs through Venezuela from Colombia and then basically turned around and accused Venezuela as connections with Castro as being the drug traffi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squads and War on Terror Part 1 @ 38:48
Operation Gladio trained
Venezuela host_asserted
“Jim Jones was a CIA asset. He was deployed to Brazil and helped the Brazilian coup that the CIA led there. He was participating in MKUltra experiments in San Francisco. He continued to participate in them when he moved his church down to Gu…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Vietnam Part 5 Phoenix Program @ 1:26:42
Nelson Rockefeller funded
Venezuela host_asserted
“Nelson Rockefeller bought up almost all of the grocery stores in Venezuela. I had no idea. They worked with International Harvester and Monsanto and all of them as far as farming. He went through all of South America and insisted by bribing…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - JFK Files and open mic day @ 59:39
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela book_quoted
“placed Caracas in direct confrontation with foreign corporations that practically owned the country throughout the previous decades. As a result, ever since George W. Bush's heir, Washington's sole interest in Caracas has been regime change…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 31:13
Jeffrey Sachs exposed
Venezuela book_quoted
“According to economists Jeffrey Sachs and Mark Weisbrot, U.S. sanctions not only contributed to Venezuela's soaring inflation rate, but also prevented Maduro's government from redressing the crisis. They noted that in the seven hyperinflati…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 25:17
Mark Weisbrot exposed
Venezuela book_quoted
“According to economists Jeffrey Sachs and Mark Weisbrot, U.S. sanctions not only contributed to Venezuela's soaring inflation rate, but also prevented Maduro's government from redressing the crisis. They noted that in the seven hyperinflati…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 25:17
Freedom House targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“All U.S. funded, all to overthrow the Venezuelan government. So that's crazy. And we're going to find out a lot more about it because, of course, Makedo, the recent Nobel Peace Prize winner, is one of Guaido's protégés, as you're going to s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 43:34
Albert Einstein Institute targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“All U.S. funded, all to overthrow the Venezuelan government. So that's crazy. And we're going to find out a lot more about it because, of course, Makedo, the recent Nobel Peace Prize winner, is one of Guaido's protégés, as you're going to s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 43:34
Mike Pence targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“over his call for the U.S. military to murder Maduro in the streets of Caracas. Ramos's reply, What I can tell you is that many people here in the United States are supporting what we're doing. Marco Rubio, Vice President Pence, and many ot…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 41:17
Elliot Abrams targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“was not only ungrateful for Elliott Abrams' charity, but had deported a foreign journalist for the crime of asking a tough question. When Anya decided her trip was over on February 26th and her partner were leaving Caracas Airport, they not…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 40:12
Jeb Bush laundered_money_for
Venezuela host_asserted
“But I thought that actually there was a bank that was in Houston. They had a branch in Houston, and there was another one. And this is from a book that you did a while back where I'm pretty sure, or maybe I'm misremembering, but he talked a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 1:03:18
Brazil targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“It's got here that Brazil actually vetoed its application to join BRICS. I don't know what the heck that's all about, but I'm trying to see here. Was there one major stumbling block? Brazil vetoed or blocked Venezuela's application accordin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 58:36
Juan Guaidó targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“Yeah, he's good. Yeah, I agree. Okay, so let's get started. We're on chapter four, and I love the name of this chapter. Juan Guaido, Imperial Incubator Baby. And there's probably no better description once you understand the background here…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 0:29
Hugo Chavez headed
Venezuela book_quoted
“ethnically is from your country being president. He had been a coca farmer. His motto for his presidential campaign was coca is not cocaine. This is a view shared by many Latin Americans, including Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, who has p…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2 @ 7:33
Juan Guaidó appointed
Venezuela documented
“He revealed that he would travel to Colombia and participate in the U.S. military effort to cross the Venezuela border on February 23rd. Considering Caracas had placed Guaido under an international travel ban at the start of his coup attemp…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 7:15
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“appeared to be a quote-unquote spontaneous revolt. The U.S. government had been quietly molding Venezuela's student population into a formidable force. In February 2012, the international media group WikiLeaks began publishing the Global In…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 14:00
Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela documented
“that confidentially announced another color revolution was forming in Latin America. Student movements are only at the beginning of what could be a very long effort to trigger revolution in Venezuela, it declared, crediting Canvas for incit…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 24:14
Ron Martin worked_for
Venezuela host_asserted
“R-O-D-I-L. Now, if you look him up, he's an expat Venezuelan who, weirdly enough, worked for the petroleum company that got nationalized, almost like that other guy that was the petroleum company's...…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Pre Turkey Day @ 4:28
Smartmatic owned_by
Venezuela host_asserted
“But they do make a point saying that he was elected with the Smartmatic machines. And they they use Nicaragua, of course, because they hate Nicaragua. And let's see. So they emphatically make the point over and over again that Smartmatic is…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Pre Turkey Day @ 20:01
Srdja Popović targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela documented
“explicitly described a potential outage at that exact same dam as a watershed event, an unprecedented boon to overthrowing Venezuela. The intelligence assessment which Popovich compiled for Stratfor asserted that a hypothetical blackout in …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 30:59
Jorge Arreaza member_of
Venezuela documented
“to request their insight into domestic policies, recognizing the country was far more complex than what is reported in the media. In addition to overseeing direct negotiations with Trump officials, Ariza led consequential delegations to Rus…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 39:17
United States financed_via
Venezuela host_asserted
“Indeed, though the UN Charter included a special mechanism for imposing punitive financial measures on its member states, Washington had increasingly bypassed the debate phase of that and just did it unilaterally. On average, Trump issued m…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 42:17
Venezuela supplied_arms_to
Soviet Union guest_asserted
“All of our military equipment was originally from the States, but they blocked that and we have to defend ourselves. So we went to Russia. And again, that's what we've been talking about throughout this entire three years. We create the mon…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 45:23
Turkey trained
Venezuela host_asserted
“Moscow is not the only friend Caracas gained in light of the sanctions. Turkey and Iran have emerged as reliable training partners. Turkey, a NATO member, has become a top training party for Venezuela. Turkish products like pasta and flour …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 45:54
Iran funded
Venezuela host_asserted
“whatever their denomination was because it wasn't in dollars, contract to repair Venezuela's refinery and was reportedly preparing to revamp the country's largest refining plant. Iran's firm announced plans to restore Venezuela's electrical…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 46:53
Lima Group attempted_coup_against
Venezuela book_quoted
“of the group called the Lima Group that was planning the overthrow, led by none other than Mike Pompeo, eventually, because he was at the CIA and then State Department, and John Bolton. Can we add this to John Bolton's rap sheet? It should …”
▶ Just Because Keith Malinak w ColonelTowner-Watkins 2025-10-16 @ 49:05
India financed_via
Venezuela host_asserted
“has served to push Venezuela into the camp of Iran and Russia. On top of the alliance on Russia, Ankara, and Tehran, Caracas has forged new ties with both India and China. Where Washington halted the sale of Venezuela petro to U.S. markets,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 47:24
United States attempted_coup_against
Venezuela guest_asserted
“Tomorrow represents the last lashes of a prehistoric animal that's going into extinction, he said. Venezuela's foreign minister proclaimed on February 22nd, hours before the attempted U.S. invasion of his country was slated to take place. S…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 51:32
United Kingdom monopolized
Venezuela book_quoted
“would have been impossible without Washington and London monopolizing Venezuelan oil for the war, with Caracas sourced crude, accounting for over 80% of the UK's oil imports by 1942. Venezuela's 1998 revolution and subsequent campaign to as…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 30:45
Donald Trump targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“He had traveled to Florida International University in Miami for a rally with local Venezuelan expats handing out Make America Great Again hats. He promised his fans among the regime change hungry diaspora that a new day was coming in Latin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 7 @ 5:47
Venezuela supplied_arms_to
United Kingdom host_asserted
“things in Venezuela. And I don't know if you guys know, and we're going to go into this, but especially the British, they would have never held on as long as they did in World War II without Venezuela. Venezuela provided 80% of the oil to t…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 1:22:44
Richard Branson targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“Branson had organized and was supposedly using the money to help the country's suffering people. Behind the event, Branson added a fresh front in the foreign aggression against the Venezuelan government. What began as a potential face-off b…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 7 @ 9:14
John Bolton targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“against the military's rank and file aimed at intimidating them to defect. John Bolton didn't even hide that. Quote, this is a John Bolton quote, to the Venezuelan military high command, now is the time to stand up on the side of the Venezu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 7 @ 20:28
Donald Trump targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“So he's baiting the military in Venezuela to turn against its government. Weeks later, during his February 18th rally in Miami, President Trump issued a statement to Venezuelan troops. We seek a peaceful transition of power, but all options…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 7 @ 20:59
Nicole Cram carried_out_attack
Venezuela host_asserted
“Eventually, Venezuelan military boots appeared in the frame as soldiers arrived to carry Cram to safety. Cram had been struck by an armored military vehicle as three Venezuelan soldiers inside hastily sped across the country's border and in…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 7 @ 23:00
Maria Corina Machado targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“the U.S.-backed politician who had served as one of the most radical figures in Venezuela's opposition over a decade, particularly during the 2014 Salida riots. On the afternoon of February 23rd, Mercado rallied supporters outside the airba…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 7 @ 24:58
Marco Rubio targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“coup regime operation and their U.S. handlers had a narrative they could broadcast to the world. Leading the propaganda blitz was Marco Rubio, the Florida senator born in the Cuban expat community. Rubio was once considered a rising Republi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 7 @ 31:02
Roger Waters opposed
Venezuela host_asserted
“Pink Floyd fans, but I mean, Roger Waters kind of went off the deep end. He wanted total control of Pink Floyd. It was like he became kind of a totalitarian himself. So it's just kind of like a little bit of hypocrisy there from a Roger Wat…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 7 @ 1:01:35
Peter Gabriel opposed
Venezuela host_asserted
“Pink Floyd fans, but I mean, Roger Waters kind of went off the deep end. He wanted total control of Pink Floyd. It was like he became kind of a totalitarian himself. So it's just kind of like a little bit of hypocrisy there from a Roger Wat…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 7 @ 1:01:35
Maria Farmer carried_out_attack
Venezuela documented
“Faria, whom Guaido named as his quote unquote ambassador to Costa Rica, had broken into the Venezuelans diplomatic compound in San Jose early that morning. A senior Venezuelan official later said that she had gained access to the embassy by…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 5:26
Delcy Rodríguez member_of
Venezuela documented
“Delcy Rodriguez announced Venezuela's exit from the group in April of 2017, citing OAS vocal support for the riots that was another coup attempt by USAID. While making the announcement, Rodriguez noted that OAS withdrawal process took two y…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 22:43
Venezuela removed_from_power
Organization of American States documented
“Delcy Rodriguez announced Venezuela's exit from the group in April of 2017, citing OAS vocal support for the riots that was another coup attempt by USAID. While making the announcement, Rodriguez noted that OAS withdrawal process took two y…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 22:43
Gustavo Tarre carried_out_attack
Venezuela host_asserted
“of a no-fly zone in Venezuela, a policy that would require member states to use military force against any aircraft flying in the country's airspace. That's crazy. In Syria, there had been the use of force to give food and medicine to peopl…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 8 @ 46:50
John Bolton attempted_coup_against
Venezuela host_asserted
“in my memoir, and it turned out not to be successful. So this is John Bolton admitting on national television that he ran a coup against Venezuela. For Venezuelans, Bolton's confession underscored his already transparent role in directing t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 1:37
Venezuela characterized
2018 assassination attempt on Nicolás Maduro host_asserted
“promptly characterized the incident as a foreign-directed assassination attempt on Maduro, others, including Bolton, hastily dismissed it as a false flag operation. Quote, I can unequivocally say there is no U.S. involvement in any of this,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 5:59
Center for Economic and Policy Research funded
Venezuela book_quoted
“To illustrate the point, she cited a report from the Center of Economic and Policy Research think tank published a few days earlier, which found that U.S. sanctions contributed to thousands of excess deaths in Venezuela between 2017 and 18 …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 9 @ 36:10
United States government targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela book_quoted
“Juan Guaido, be recognized as Venezuelan's leader. While Venezuela and other targets of Western war maintained confidence in the UN system and leaned on it for legitimacy, the US and the European allies' ability to manipulate the organizati…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 4:28
Operation Gideon targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela book_quoted
“Often dubbed the Bay of Piglets in reference to a bungled CIA invasion, attempted invasion of Cuba, Operation Gideon reminded ordinary Venezuelans of the threat they faced as the U.S. actively sought their government's overthrow. It also ra…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 32:06
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela book_quoted
“Often dubbed the Bay of Piglets in reference to a bungled CIA invasion, attempted invasion of Cuba, Operation Gideon reminded ordinary Venezuelans of the threat they faced as the U.S. actively sought their government's overthrow. It also ra…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 32:06
James Story targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“After a brief return to the state, Story established a virtual U.S. embassy in Venezuela to Venezuela, housed in a Washington diplomatic office in Bogota. So he went back to Colombia. From there, he managed a command post for Venezuela U.S.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 14 @ 1:22:27
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela book_quoted
“So the eyes of the U.S. government was firmly fixed on South America well before the Monroe Doctrine ever came into effect. It also foreshadows the centuries of attempted U.S. domination of Latin America, one of the countries of which was V…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 3:32
United States monopolized
Venezuela book_quoted
“would have been impossible without Washington and London monopolizing Venezuelan oil for the war, with Caracas sourced crude, accounting for over 80% of the UK's oil imports by 1942. Venezuela's 1998 revolution and subsequent campaign to as…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 30:45
CIA attempted_coup_against
Venezuela host_asserted
“the CIA was trying repeatedly to overthrow Venezuela. So I don't know how you marry those two things up in your head. If the CIA is trying to overthrow the government of Venezuela, while at the same time, the CIA is putting the government i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 1:30:50
United States paid
Venezuela book_quoted
“from Venezuela traveling to the Middle East to arrange oil for food exchanges to get food to Venezuela because of the U.S. sanctions. And he made a gas stop in Africa and the U.S. paid this country that has no extradition treaty with the Un…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 1:18:26
Mike Pompeo ordered_assassination_of
Venezuela book_quoted
“spent months in jail there. One of his parents died while he was under arrest. And then Pompeo got a backdated Interpol arrest warrant to justify that country who has no extradition treaty to turn him over to the US. And we sent a plane and…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 1:18:55
United States overthrew
Venezuela book_quoted
“in 1998 based on the promise of a political and economic revolution that broke the Washington Consensus. The officials who filled the ranks of Venezuelans' U.S.-backed coup regime in 2019 were leftovers from Caracas' neoliberal heir, local …”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 41:29
Skyway Aircraft Inc. supplied_arms_to
Venezuela documented
“That's not a coincidence. Peter's Skyway aircraft also sold a Beach 200 aircraft to a Venezuelan purchaser in 2004, about a month before it was apprehended in Nicaragua with a thousand kilos of cocaine on it. So the author discovered throug…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 10 @ 8:44
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela documented
“Venezuela, because the US sanctioned them. And the US would tell every single country that if you do business with Venezuela, we're going to cut off your aid. Well, that tells you that the only people that are going to do business with Vene…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 1:17:57
Venezuela removed_from_power
ExxonMobil host_asserted
“involved in election interference is the U.S. corporations that want a concession from Guyana on that oil, because Venezuela has made it well known after having kicked out Exxon and all of the U.S. oil monopolies in their country. So does t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 1:42:38
John Bolton attempted_coup_against
Venezuela host_asserted
“What is actually going on there versus what we're being told in the news. And we started the series back with Elliot Abrams and John Bolton with their failed attempted coup to install Juan Guaido as the fake president. And we're going throu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:28:09
Carlos Vecchio attempted_coup_against
Venezuela host_asserted
“Guaido's quote-unquote ambassador in Washington, D.C. Vecchio was on a mission to complete his shadow regime takeover of the Venezuelan government buildings in the United States, though the U.S. authorities had previously aided his seizure …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 3:59
Pedro Carmona installed
Venezuela documented
“The events of April 11, 2002 was well established in popular history in response to the shakeup at the state-run oil company. Venezuela's business elite collaborated with rogue military forces to kidnap Chavez and detain him on a prison isl…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 29:19
Leopoldo Lopez carried_out_attack
Venezuela host_asserted
“riots that swept the country in the afternoon aftermath of Chavez's death. The anarchy culminated with a Lopez-led political march that concluded with his supporters attempting to set fire to Venezuela's Office of the Attorney General. Foll…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 51:32
Venezuela ordered_assassination_of
Leopoldo Lopez host_asserted
“riots that swept the country in the afternoon aftermath of Chavez's death. The anarchy culminated with a Lopez-led political march that concluded with his supporters attempting to set fire to Venezuela's Office of the Attorney General. Foll…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 51:32
Venezuela ordered_assassination_of
Antonio Vecchiana host_asserted
“riots that swept the country in the afternoon aftermath of Chavez's death. The anarchy culminated with a Lopez-led political march that concluded with his supporters attempting to set fire to Venezuela's Office of the Attorney General. Foll…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 51:32
U.S. Secret Service carried_out_attack
Venezuela host_asserted
“The pinnacle of Vecchio's career came in May 15, 2019, when U.S. Secret Service agents raided the Venezuelan D.C. embassy and arrested the four peace activists who had guarded it.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 54:55
Beryl Howell covered_up
Venezuela host_asserted
“As through the looking glass experience, indeed, Judge Howell barred their defense team from discussing the political situation in Venezuela. A gag order. One allowed to talk about it. Explaining the dynamics of the mutual protecting power …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 10 @ 56:09
Juan Guaidó carried_out_attack
Venezuela documented
“where they found sanctuary following Guaido's failed military uprising in April of 2019. Lopez and his family finally relocated back to the capital of the former Venezuelan colonial occupier, Spain. Lopez escalated the opposition delegitimi…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 4:30
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“The vote was touted as a final defeat of the U.S. regime change policy as it left Washington's coup leaders without a legitimate claim to any government office whatsoever. And so what happened was the people in Venezuela was so pissed off o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 13:24
Bank of England blocked
Venezuela documented
“the announcement that he was president in January of 2019. As the U.S. lobbied its allies to do the same, it found no accomplice more zealous than the U.K. Within days of the self-directed swearing-in ceremony, the Bank of England blocked V…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 39:02
Juan Guaidó looted
Venezuela documented
“so we should have used one of them sneaky names like We Support Venezuela Unit. At the time of this book's publication, Caracas' UK-stored gold reserves remain in legal limbo. Regardless, UK's authorities had already allowed Venezuelan oppo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 43:49
Citigroup seized
Venezuela documented
“directly coincided with the U.S. effort to hold Venezuela's New York gold reserves. In March of 2019, Citigroup announced that it would sell off $1.3 billion worth of Venezuelan gold bullion housed in its vaults after the governor, Caracas,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 46:44
Donald Trump sanctioned
Venezuela documented
“Trump's sanctions introduced in 2017 banned all transactions from the Venezuelan government in U.S. financial markets. So you can't pay your debt. So we're going to steal your gold to pay your debt that you would have otherwise paid in oil …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 47:12
Novo Banco blocked_transfer_from
Venezuela documented
“these cases did not constitute the bulk of the international heist committed against Venezuela thanks to Guaido's U.S. direct coup efforts. Portugal's Novo Banco, which is majority owned by a U.S. private equity fund, similarly blocked the …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 49:06
Juan Guaidó paid_salaries_to
Venezuela documented
“state oil company PDVSA. The following April, AP Joshua Goodman revealed Venezuelan opposition lawmakers appropriated a portion of their country's seized assets to pay themselves $5,000 monthly salaries after transferring $80 million to fin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 50:31
Juan Guaidó transferred_funds_to
Venezuela documented
“state oil company PDVSA. The following April, AP Joshua Goodman revealed Venezuelan opposition lawmakers appropriated a portion of their country's seized assets to pay themselves $5,000 monthly salaries after transferring $80 million to fin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 50:31
Elliot Abrams attempted_coup_against
Venezuela host_asserted
“What is actually going on there versus what we're being told in the news. And we started the series back with Elliot Abrams and John Bolton with their failed attempted coup to install Juan Guaido as the fake president. And we're going throu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 1:28:09
United States assumed_control_of
Venezuela documented
“who remains forever encased in an ivory tower of neoliberal delusion. Haasman will never again have the chance to test his failed economic vision on the Venezuelan population and is instead left in Boston with his Saudi-sponsored professors…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 56:33
Delcy Rodríguez member_of
Venezuela host_asserted
“in a book that's about something as serious as stolen elections. I'm reading from page 53. People have speculated the crash, meaning the crash of that aircraft, wasn't an accident because according to rumor, Anzola was the lover of Delce Ro…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 1:29:12
National Endowment for Democracy funded
Venezuela host_asserted
“Those are the riots that were funded by the National Endowment for Democracy, IRI, the Republican part of the National Endowment for Democracy, and reinforces that it's two wings of the same bird. He's doing exactly what a Republican did an…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 11:37
Francisco Rodriguez exposed
Venezuela book_quoted
“Rodriguez remained true to his analytical and balanced character. Rather than fan the flames of hybrid war, Rodriguez employed his academic bona fides to produce a series of reports thoroughly documenting and detailing and exposing the grue…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 30:51
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“One other economist published a review of U.S. policy towards Venezuela that determined Washington's sanctions were comparable to medieval sieges of town with the intention of forcing them to surrender. 21st century sanctions attempt to bri…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 34:09
United States funded
Venezuela host_asserted
“through fake news, aggressive public relations firms funded by NGOs that ultimately reinforced Washington's regime change narratives. Indeed, foreign media typically painted Maduro as a comical, inept autocrat in Caracas, being indifferent …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 34:39
Diosdado Cabello member_of
Venezuela host_asserted
“had also entered into an affair with the wife of the governor of the state of Barada, Hugo Chavez's close confidant and head of the cartel de la Sol, Cabello, pictured in the upper right. So he's alleged at least two different affairs from …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 1:29:41
Cuba funded
Venezuela book_quoted
“Were it not for early preventative measures taken by President Maduro and the solidarity of other countries like China, Russia, Turkey, and Iran, along with Cuba, we may have faced a crisis on par with the dismal tragedies of our neighbors …”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 15:53
CIA attempted_coup_against
Venezuela host_asserted
“who he says in his own words, his dad shared his work with him, is writing a book about election interference and blaming Venezuela. The same Venezuela that they've been trying to coup, they being the CIA, for the last 20 some years. What? …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Pre Turkey Day @ 14:40
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“Um, so those are the only ones that come to mind that were able to hold off, um, NATO and the United States, um, in, in that, in that kind of, because basically, as we've indicated, we coup just about every government in, um, Latin and Sout…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 21 (22) @ 1:01:50
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“When Rodriguez finally took the podium, US officials were forced to confront reality. The world had rejected their fanatical Venezuela regime change. Rather than call for a vote to block her from speaking, US representatives and their allie…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 13 @ 7:11
Iran funded
Venezuela book_quoted
“Were it not for early preventative measures taken by President Maduro and the solidarity of other countries like China, Russia, Turkey, and Iran, along with Cuba, we may have faced a crisis on par with the dismal tragedies of our neighbors …”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 15:53
Turkey funded
Venezuela book_quoted
“Were it not for early preventative measures taken by President Maduro and the solidarity of other countries like China, Russia, Turkey, and Iran, along with Cuba, we may have faced a crisis on par with the dismal tragedies of our neighbors …”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 15:53
Scotland Yard trained
Venezuela host_asserted
“Scotland Yard was in the United States training this guy. And this was early on in maybe like, I don't know if it was the 50s or something. And I kind of over the weekend was digging into the root of Scotland Yard and what they were doing h…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 4 @ 1:07:43
Soviet Union funded
Venezuela book_quoted
“Were it not for early preventative measures taken by President Maduro and the solidarity of other countries like China, Russia, Turkey, and Iran, along with Cuba, we may have faced a crisis on par with the dismal tragedies of our neighbors …”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 15:53
China funded
Venezuela book_quoted
“Were it not for early preventative measures taken by President Maduro and the solidarity of other countries like China, Russia, Turkey, and Iran, along with Cuba, we may have faced a crisis on par with the dismal tragedies of our neighbors …”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 15:53
Saudi Arabia carried_out_attack
Venezuela host_asserted
“The request came as part of the Obama's administration's strategy to force Iran, another top oil producer, into entering the JPOA and comply with limits on its domestic nuclear program. While weakening Tehran, which ultimately signed the JP…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 9:45
CIA funded
Venezuela host_asserted
“Chavez come to power. Not that Chavez is not corrupt. Make whatever argument you want. They were disgruntled elite people that were living off of the CIA propped up government in Venezuela. So when Chavez was elected in 1998, many of those …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 1:42:53
United States supplied_arms_to
Venezuela host_asserted
“And Russia's actually been in Venezuela for a little while, too. So it's not like new kids on the block. They've been there. Oh, and one of the things I found before the battery died on the phone is that just today, Venezuela found the Vene…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 1:35:32
Venezuela member_of
BRICS host_asserted
“And this upcoming summit, they should be finalizing it. So that's what's going on with BRICS in Venezuela. And you know that they're going to admit them because they're already dealing with them on a one-on-one basis, just not as the entity…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Burkina Faso @ 1:38:23
Venezuela front_for
Cuba host_asserted
“Because they're directly tied because they used to live in Venezuela. So that's more my line of thinking that smartmatics definitely interfere in elections and can be manipulated. That's been proven. But the contention that those elections …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 1:37:25
Smartmatic funded
Venezuela host_asserted
“people that are residing in the United States that left immediately after Chavez came to power in Venezuela, setting up an election interference company called Smartmatic. And then broad brushing that to paint the entire Venezuelan governme…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 1:32:29
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“research into Latin America and the Caribbean, almost every single one of the countries has been overthrown by us. So they're very familiar with what we do. That's the only thing about what you said that I'd push back a little bit on. The o…”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 1:12:31
United States funded
Venezuela host_asserted
“I don't even remember the name of the book. I don't think I have it in here. I think it's out in my cottage. But to explain the dynamics and the interconnectivity of all of this. And you're going to see how the international oil market was …”
▶ The Colonel Corner Dark Alliance Part 20 @ 1:22:15
Elliot Abrams funded
Venezuela host_asserted
“He was instrumental in using the Freedom House and the Freedom House funding, along with the International Republican Institute, the Republican piece of the National Endowment for Democracy, in funding the unrest in Venezuela during the fir…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 8:56
Operation Gladio targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“Modern day people like Pompeo, who falls into every single one of these, which we will soon discover when we move on to Venezuela, are the modern day Jesse Helms of the world in wrecking havoc. And once you're able to see how they operate, …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 22 @ 1:44:25
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“calling for the overthrow of Venezuela as the world's largest narco trafficker. They're not even in the top five people, not even in the top five. It doesn't mean I like Maduro. I don't. I don't like what I read in the news about him or tha…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Dark Alliance Part 25 (Final) @ 23:43
Venezuela supplied_arms_to
Cuba caller_asserted
“have helped the Cuban people, not the government really. Right now they are being in petroleum. When Venezuela is still giving them, they are giving them petroleum. But I also believe that helping them is because the government keeps everyt…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 2:01:40
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“Asserting Chavez's death presented the country with an opportunity to turn the page on one of the darkest periods in its history. That's a quote. And embark on a new albeit difficult path to restore the rule of law, democratic principles, s…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 38:58
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“The U.S. and its allies unleashed an unprecedented assault on his ability to govern. It arrived in the form of a hybrid regime change war, stifling economic sanctions, covert destabilization tactics, and violent foreign-backed riots designe…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 47:30
United States targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“Asserting U.S. officials lobbied for Mudd's withdrawal on part of their effort to delegitimize the upcoming presidential vote, which was slated for May 20th. Now, what dictator do you know that actually decides to have an election out of cy…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 1:06:54
Juan Guaidó carried_out_attack
Venezuela host_asserted
“Enabled by the U.S. and Europe's outsized command of the global finance system, the characters behind Guaido's coup regime would eventually execute an extraordinary heist of Venezuelans' internationally stored wealth on behalf of their fore…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 1:11:59
Elliot Abrams supplied_arms_to
Venezuela host_asserted
“And he was actively involved in this entire effort. So they had every right to believe that this was more than just about aid. In anticipation of the U.S. move, Venezuelan's government set up a blockade consisting of oil tankers and shippin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 4:39
Venezuela carried_out_attack
Jorge Ramos host_asserted
“Long before any footage of the exchange was published, reports emerged that local authorities had detained him. The news anchor eventually surfaced on social media to claim the Venezuelan police had indeed sequestered his team, held them fo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 9:12
Venezuela targeted_for_regime_change
United States host_asserted
“On the other side, Venezuela's government constructed physical blockades and deployed National Guard troops to secure their border. February 12th, on a boulevard in eastern Caracas, a fluent district, a crowd of Venezuelans who yearned for …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 1:24
United States carried_out_attack
Venezuela host_asserted
“plant that produced between 70 and 80 percent of the country's power. According to Caracas, foreign actors had targeted the hydroelectric plant located in one of the largest reservoirs on Earth with a cybernetic attack. Oddly, the debilitat…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 27:04
Marco Rubio spied_on
Venezuela host_asserted
“that the backup generators had failed at the time Marco Rubio announced that they had failed. So how did he know it? How had the Florida senator secured accurate information about the outage before Venezuelan's own government? The charge th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 29:00
John Bolton ordered_assassination_of
Venezuela host_asserted
“Not a good thing. Why are we doing it? Iran stepped up to breathe new life into Venezuela's oil sector, which experienced a sharp decline after U.S. sanctions crafted by John Bolton barred Caracas from purchasing products and parts necessar…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 46:24
Richard Branson funded
Venezuela host_asserted
“Branson had organized and was supposedly using the money to help the country's suffering people. Behind the event, Branson added a fresh front in the foreign aggression against the Venezuelan government. What began as a potential face-off b…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 7 @ 9:14
Venezuela front_for
Cosa Nostra host_asserted
“In Italy's major mafia trials ended in the non-convictions of most of the mafia bosses. Some of the clan went to the Italian mainland, a seashore resort near Rome. Some went to the UK. Some remained in Caracas, while others remained in Mont…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner LIVE RESEARCH INTO OPERATION GLADIO @ 1:00:25
CIA funded
Venezuela book_quoted
“and other entities. The model also served in the 2005 elections in Iraq, where charges of covert U.S. roles were made. Venezuelan government leveled the same accusations. This kind of activity harkens back to the CIA's National Student Asso…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 41:45
Venezuela targeted_for_regime_change
Guyana host_asserted
“have an interest in the election. Yes, they do. I would be very skeptical of anyone's assertion that they are involved in election meddling. I would take that with a grain of salt because the people that would have been generally…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 1:42:12
CIA secretly_owned
Venezuela host_asserted
“Chavez, it's interesting to note that despite the U.S. government constantly being in Venezuela with USAID, they actually owned one of the major newspapers the CIA through a front company did. So if Chavez is supposed to be the dictator,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 1:49:52
Jose Ignacio Hernandez seized_assets_from
Venezuela host_asserted
“Venezuela's prized international asset. It is worth recalling the company's peril is primarily the result of maneuvering coordinated by Guaido's top legal advisor, Jose Inacio Hernandez, and a Canadian mining company, Crystal X, to seize th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 51:33
Soviet Union supplied_arms_to
Venezuela host_asserted
“Zelensky, OK, we could probably supply you with this and that. And then Russia's point is, OK, well, if you do that, we're going to supply Venezuela. So they supply Venezuela. But I think it's all down to money laundering. The cartel, what …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 15 Final @ 1:43:22
Manuel Artime carried_out_attack
Venezuela host_asserted
“They haven't even talked about, and I forget in this book if they do, because there's still a little bit more about Cuba here. But our time, he was a terrorist. He's the one that blew up that airplane that had the fencing team on it that le…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 27 (28) @ 1:00:16
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“maybe even more than that. We came across in looking at all of the, when we were doing our around the world tour of all of these CIA orchestrated coups, we came across Albert Einstein Institute. It kept coming up in some of the more recent …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 1:20:10
North Atlantic Treaty Organization targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“But NATO ensured their continued label as that for decades. Only now are you seeing the reemergence of fierce leaders and breaking free of that financial, economical, political colonialism throughout the continent of Africa. End of soapbox.…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 3:20
Operation Gladio overthrew
Venezuela host_asserted
“The Rockefellers, along with the mining interests and everybody, the whole international oligarch was going throughout Latin America and Operation Condor. They're overthrowing governments and installing military dictators. You can view that…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 58:40
Turkey supplied_arms_to
Venezuela host_asserted
“That's a great point. That is a great point. Yeah, Turkey actually was doing business because they don't give a shit anymore. And Turkey was providing them with a lot of food. And nobody wants to talk about that because, of course, they're …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 1:18:19
China supplied_arms_to
Venezuela host_asserted
“infrastructure or something like that were they trying to get in there and do business so anybody any foreign country um they were so that's kind of a misnomer yes there was activity from china and russia but that's only because that the u.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 1:17:31
Soviet Union supplied_arms_to
Venezuela host_asserted
“infrastructure or something like that were they trying to get in there and do business so anybody any foreign country um they were so that's kind of a misnomer yes there was activity from china and russia but that's only because that the u.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 1:17:31
Iran supplied_arms_to
Venezuela host_asserted
“Venezuela, because the US sanctioned them. And the US would tell every single country that if you do business with Venezuela, we're going to cut off your aid. Well, that tells you that the only people that are going to do business with Vene…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 1:17:57
Smartmatic founded
Venezuela host_asserted
“Chavez come to power. Not that Chavez is not corrupt. Make whatever argument you want. They were disgruntled elite people that were living off of the CIA propped up government in Venezuela. So when Chavez was elected in 1998, many of those …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 1:42:53
AFL-CIO funded
Venezuela host_asserted
“And they would use that money to go to Venezuela, Chile, Nicaragua, Guatemala, everywhere throughout Latin America. Now, we have found them over in Angola and some African countries as well. But their primary focus initially was in Latin Am…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner welcomes BellaLiberTea @ 13:26
Office of Public Safety (Venezuela) covered_up
Venezuela caller_asserted
“In the early 1970s, the Office of Public Safety was in fact there, and they set those prisons up and tortured and disappeared people as if it was one of the players in Operation Condor. They didn't treat Venezuela any differently than they …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-The Mafia, CIA & George Bush Part 6 @ 1:26:44
U.S. State Department targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“regime change aspect. You had the chamber portion of the slush fund of the NED doing the business interests. And then the union would go into places like Venezuela and Chile and Nicaragua, and they would then orchestrate basically fake unio…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins-War Hamster Brady, Ghost of Based Patrick Henry live dig on USAID @ 9:59
Venezuela trafficked
China host_asserted
“Warhamster, go ahead, and then we'll go to all along. Yeah, I'm pretty much on the same page with the colonel on this. You know, right when the Venezuela stuff started, you know, we recognize the Venezuelans selling their oil to China. We k…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 1:27:22
Mossad spied_on
Venezuela host_asserted
“The explanation for what happened here is Mossad, you know, helps out the United States with intelligence, you know, with the, you know, Mexican cartel head that, you know, we ultimately engaged, you know, in a lethal form. And also they pr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 1:42:40
Rafael Trujillo attempted_assassination_of
Venezuela host_asserted
“Trujillo made the ultimate mistake and reached out to because he's starting to get cut off by because he's doing these crazy ass things. He starts to get cut off by the US and they're starting to distance himself. He even tries to assassina…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Dominican Republic @ 17:54
Donald Trump targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela host_asserted
“Okay, yes, there was a Gladio playbook. Yes, they had word processors and Xerox machines, so they used it in a lot of places and a lot of times, and this was one of them. But I'm trying to get into motivations here. It's like, why are we go…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 6 @ 1:11:56
Nelson Rockefeller secretly_owned
Venezuela host_asserted
“During the time that the West had basically occupied Venezuela because of their oil, people like Nelson Rockefeller had bought up all the grocery chains and many other aspects of the country. So when the Americans were expelled, there was a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 5 @ 18:40
Iran trafficked
Venezuela host_asserted
“And so when you are able to take that entire network down, number one, but leave the country intact, then great. So the next node in that operation is Iran. I don't know if you're aware of, but Iran had been dealing directly with Venezuela …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 51 (53) @ 1:23:24
Rockefeller secretly_owned
Venezuela host_asserted
“intricately involved in normal everyday things the Rockefellers were throughout all of Latin America. In Venezuela, Nelson Rockefeller basically owned every freaking grocery store in the country. There was so much of everyday life in these …”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Corporate Coup (Venezuela) A. Parampil Part 1 @ 59:59
United States Armed Forces carried_out_attack
Venezuela host_asserted
“in Venezuela that connected to that. And Matt Aret, my co-host, who Brady actually introduced me to Matt, not personally, but just his content years ago. And so it's kind of serendipitous that I do a show with him now. But him and his wife …”
▶ Live Research Dig w WarHamster and GBPH @ 41:24
Smartmatic front_for
Venezuela host_asserted
“being ran in Miami was from Venezuela as in their government, not just the expat community that's relocated to Miami. That's number one. Number two, they want you to believe that the entire time Smartmatic has existed and been working, supp…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 1:30:20
Venezuela targeted_for_regime_change
Hugo Chavez host_asserted
“Chavez come to power. Not that Chavez is not corrupt. Make whatever argument you want. They were disgruntled elite people that were living off of the CIA propped up government in Venezuela. So when Chavez was elected in 1998, many of those …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Devil’s Chessboard Part 1 @ 1:42:53
Venezuela member_of
Bank for International Settlements host_asserted
“Yeah, that's accurate. That's pretty close to being accurate for the reason Gaddafi got taken down. There's a couple other reasons to go with it, but that was a big one. Well, if you look at the – there's only like – it used to be seven, bu…”
▶ ColonelTowner-Watkins-War Hamster Brady, Ghost of Based Patrick Henry live dig on USAID @ 1:30:02
George de Mohrenschildt founded
Venezuela host_asserted
“in Cuba. And then it's even weirder when you find out George DeMorgan Shield was part of setting up a Venezuelan Cuban oil company with a completely different name that once they couldn't get Cuba back, went bankrupt. And it had actually be…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 10 @ 40:02
Donald Trump ordered_assassination_of
Venezuela host_asserted
“This is someone I'm going to pay attention to. I'm hesitant. I just don't want to throw under the bus completely. That was the only reason I brought it up. Yeah. Okay, go ahead. What other points did you have? Well, we're back to Venezuela.…”
▶ Operation GLADIO and Election Day—-How CIA interferes in elections @ 1:06:13
CARICOM carried_out_attack
Venezuela host_asserted
“roll out the red carpet form, had this massive, uh, uh, um, convention and basically was saying he wanted to establish like deep ties with, with the Caribbean. And then suddenly right after that, that was when Guyana, uh, like these militia…”
▶ Live Research Dig w WarHamster and GBPH @ 44:04
BRICS targeted_for_regime_change
Venezuela guest_asserted
“the BRICS organization is immediately attacked. Venezuela, Iran, Slovakia, Georgia, you know, there's either an attempted coup, there's some type of an attack that happens immediately. And I think that that is because there are certain peop…”
▶ Operation Gladio Malaysia @ 1:25:32
Venezuela targeted_for_regime_change
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“algorithm thingy. And like I said, it does break through and it's awesome. We are pushing the needle. People are actually, you know, we're getting more and more where people are mentioning Gladio now. Big, big account. Well, and that's just…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 3 @ 2:02:30
CIA supplied_arms_to
Venezuela speculative
“Trump administration officials publicly denied any role in the drone attack and a dissident member of the Venezuelan army later claimed responsibility. There are a lot of evidence. There's a lot of people that believe that was actually a CI…”
▶ Operation GLADIO and Election Day—-How CIA interferes in elections @ 6:43
Mentions (120)
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regime change aspect. You had the chamber portion of the slush fund of the NED doing the business interests. And then the union would go into places like Venezuela and Chile and Nicaragua, and they would then orchestrate basically fake unio…
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understand real history which is why the three of us collectively work so well together because we understand the importance i just said like yesterday and the day before that venezuela brazil all of these places that and um they never clos…
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Yeah, that's accurate. That's pretty close to being accurate for the reason Gaddafi got taken down. There's a couple other reasons to go with it, but that was a big one. Well, if you look at the – there's only like – it used to be seven, bu…
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basically Venezuela that they couldn't overthrow and then British Guyana because it shows in the light blue where they were in Guyana because they overthrew that country twice. I'm telling you, that's the coup map. Check this out. Places th…
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that there's no organic terror. And let me just throw out an example for people to understand this. We're supposed to believe that, and I know we'll get to this later, but Venezuela is this narco-terrorist country. But 80% of the cocaine in…
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Do you think that there was some speculation that maybe this Qatar and Idaho was part of the peace deal? Have you seen anything? It was absolutely not. I told you it started in 2016. Yeah. Yeah. No. Okay. Very good. Okay. So can we now talk…
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Even if we are doing covert operations in Venezuela or some country that we're not getting along with, while it's on brand for us as a nation to go and meddle like that, do you think that that's definitely happening? So, such an interesting…
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coup orchestrated under the Trump administration, under the tutelage of Bolton with Guaido during his first administration. So that's the guy who, correct me if I'm wrong, isn't that the guy that we say legitimately won the election? Am I m…
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There were CIA people in Venezuela at the time to overthrow the government and forcibly put him in the seat. Now, my perspective is I don't give a crap who's president. Under no circumstances should the CIA be regime changing, period. Agree…
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on record saying it was absolutely ridiculous. We should not be doing that. But I thought it was very interesting in 2017 that supposedly our election equipment in the United States came from people in Venezuela. So how do you have an illeg…
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That was elected and the guy that wasn't elected, elected. And it's a corrupt election while you come up to 2020 and say that those machines work perfectly. Well, if they're correctable, they're corruptible. So explain that to me. You can't…
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I don't know. Honestly, I don't know what to believe about the CIA possibly being involved in Venezuela. I'm not calling the president a liar. I'm wondering if he is playing head games with Maduro. Because here's the tragedy in all of this …
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Whether it has anything to do with President Trump saying what he said yesterday in the Oval Office, it's going to be linked to him that this tragedy only occurred because now Venezuela was looking for our agents down there because the pres…
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Go through every one of those lists and I can name the companies that exploited the country in the aftermath of the coup. You know, I am learning. I am learning because yesterday when I heard that about the CIA in Venezuela, the first thing…
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She was funded by USAID, which has been outed as a CIA front. She has gotten shit tons of money from the CIA. Oh, no. Yes. And she just did an interview that said if she's elected, she's going to open the oil market to U.S. corporations. Oh…
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When she won the Nobel Peace Prize, and I heard her name for the first time ever, Monday or whatever the hell day it was, that she was receiving that prize, I was thinking to myself, I wonder if she's a – because I didn't know anything. Is …
▶ 47:37
President Trump referring to the CIA in Venezuela. And now I hear you saying this, shame on me for not knowing this, if she's elected. So what's her background? Like, what are we, what's this? Is she, is her background in politics? USAID CI…
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Oh, damn. OK, now now it's so obvious. OK, so this is in a book called Corporate Coup, which I read and I wanted to pull it out. It's about Venezuela. Let me just read something to you. This is talking about 2017 in the original coup that W…
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Now, I would argue that's not true because they obviously don't know about all the ones I do. And using all possible means to achieve it. It was Trump's national security advisor, John Bolton himself, who confessed that U.S. oil companies w…
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I'm going to, again, ask you unfairly to look into your crystal ball. Where do you see Venezuela ending up with all this nonsense? I have no idea. There are people in Venezuela, just like every place. There's people that don't like Maduro a…
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It's like Assad in Syria, that he has stood the test of time against an onslaught from the United States. There are countries around the world that admire him for taking the beating, both politically, economically and militarily, being cut …
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And then reading articles about and books about the fact that the CIA, because they didn't like Chavez or Maduro, was trafficking cocaine secretly through Venezuela so that they could later state that Venezuela was the narco trafficker. Whe…
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Colombia, all of it is coming from Colombia. Let me ask you something. Is anything real? I mean, seriously, how much of that how much of that minutiae was President Reagan? You know what? Don't just do answer that. How much of this?…
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And also someone who doesn't like to see us meddling in other countries' affairs. Where do you come down in the whole shooting those boats out of the water, the drug boats coming from Venezuela that Trump is very proud of? Interesting quest…
▶ 59:47
So it was a very strong signal to the people that are trafficking drugs, especially at the lower levels. Don't do it. If they don't. So let me just explain this to the waterway that goes up between Guyana and Venezuela is a maritime drug tr…
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I can't even begin to tell people the capability and not because it's classified. It's just hard to imagine. Our satellites can read your license plate number. They have the ability to literally track from the labs in Colombia, not Venezuel…
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This is the take that I wrote about it in the Badlands News Brief. This was on August 2nd of last year. And the story I was responding to was this one, which is UK charges Glencore's billionaire ex-head of oil over corrupt payments. And the…
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as well as his client's information. So he is pivotal to that. And what I find most interesting about the timing of your research on Maduro is, isn't that when all of the CIA, they were manipulating the media in Venezuela, they were launchi…
▶ 41:24
in Venezuela that connected to that. And Matt Aret, my co-host, who Brady actually introduced me to Matt, not personally, but just his content years ago. And so it's kind of serendipitous that I do a show with him now. But him and his wife …
▶ 41:51
conflict with um colombia guyana will be the other one so on the other border of venezuela on the eastern border guyana which is the only country by the way in central and south america that's part of the british commonwealth very interesti…
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in the water north of Venezuela that goes to Guyana. And so Guyana basically is saying that there's disputes now where Venezuela is not allowed to dig for oil in its own waters because Guyana claims that it's actually its territorial waters…
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roll out the red carpet form, had this massive, uh, uh, um, convention and basically was saying he wanted to establish like deep ties with, with the Caribbean. And then suddenly right after that, that was when Guyana, uh, like these militia…
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And like the ancestral homeland or hometown of the Saudis. So that's the reason I was sharing. It wasn't really because of the CARICOM thing. But then all of a sudden we had CARICOM involved in this blow up with between Guyana and Venezuela…
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All right, let me get us back on track here. That was a fun little diversion. If I can get my screen back up. And by the way, I've been diving off a lot of those islands that you're right off the coast of Venezuela. Really? Gorgeous water. …
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element of Intel agencies. And the same is true with the rags over in London and all of the other places. As a matter of fact, one of the lessons that we learned in Operation Gladio is in each and every case, you look at Venezuela, as crazy…
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Pretty much functions as kind of a CIA cutout PR quote unquote media entity, but very anti-Trump. We'll just leave it at that. So here's the name of the article. The untold story of Trump's failed attempt to overthrow Venezuela's president.…
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title is A Successful CIA Hack of Venezuela's Military Payroll System, Insider Fights for Spy Agency Resources, and Messy Opposition Politics. A Wired Investigation Reveals a Secret Trump Air Attempt to Oust an Autocratic Rule, Nicholas Mad…
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some disgruntled Trump administrative people. And so let me get into the article. On September 26th, 2018, Venezuelan President Maduro approached the lectern at the UN in New York wearing a black suit, red tie, blah, blah, blah. At home, Ma…
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Back to the article. But he was facing stiffer than expected pushback. Anti-government protests were racking the oil-rich South American nation. Hyperinflation was obliterating its economy. More than a million Venezuelans had fled, triggeri…
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Not necessarily an ally. They're just the only other people that are allowed, because they don't give a shit what the U.S. says, to even talk to Venezuela. Because if anybody else so much as talks to Venezuela, let alone do business with th…
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Trump did not call them a communist and socialist regime. This person who's writing this did. The U.S. president then announced the imposition of new sanctions, basically on members of the Maduro government. When Maduro began his U.N. addre…
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by an imperialist United States, he and all of the rest of Latin America. He said Venezuela's attempt at geographical independence and huge oil and petroleum reserves had aroused the ire of the, quote, oligarchs of the continent and those w…
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Trump administration officials publicly denied any role in the drone attack and a dissident member of the Venezuelan army later claimed responsibility. There are a lot of evidence. There's a lot of people that believe that was actually a CI…
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In recent days, Maduro had even said he was considering skipping the U.N. meeting altogether because he was worried about another assassination attempt, and rightfully so. As bitter adversaries, the Trump administration and Maduro's regime …
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After the U.N. meeting, the Trump administration amped up their efforts around the world to isolate and depose the leader, including levying additional punishing sanctions against his regime. Much of that diplomatic maneuvering played out i…
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to the U.S. regime change campaign, a covert CIA-run initiative to help overthrow the Venezuelan strongman. The campaign would pull off at least one disruptive digital sabotage operation against the Maduro regime in 2019. Now, I'm going to …
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80 times, particularly when they are not aligned with larger U.S. foreign policy objectives, not U.S. foreign policy objectives, the international syndicates policy objectives. And it provides new insight into how a second Trump administrat…
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whose latest sham reelection in July of 2024 has again thrust his country into chaos. The details of that covert CIA-assisted campaign told exclusively to Wired by eight Trump administration and former agency officials with knowledge of the…
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Good conservatives, more like Khan Inc. Okay, according to the article, on January 23rd, Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaido, the guy that was basically trying to get himself installed instead in Venezuela, stood before cheering protest…
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With his right hand held aloft, he declared himself the interim president of Venezuela with the full backing of the National Assembly, the country's highest legislative body. That day, he vowed to reestablish the Constitution, which many be…
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Pay enough people in their General Assembly, which is exactly what they did in Chile and what they tried to do. Let me rephrase that. And then, you know, say, get Trump to recognize him not having told him any of the actual details and then…
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the administration recognized him as Venezuela's rightful acting leader and went to work lobbying other countries to do the exact same thing. So where have we seen this before? In every freaking country. Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras. This is…
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In late January, the Trump administration also announced its harshest Venezuelan related sanctions targeting the country's state owned oil company, which it had taken back from the U.S. oligarch oil interest and also freezing billions of do…
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Around the time the administration turned to the CIA to seek the agency's help in ousting Maduro, according to former U.S. officials familiar with the secret program, so secret that Wired magazine is writing about it, sources requested anon…
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The CIA quickly assembled a Venezuelan task force. That group had its work cut out for it before the Trump administration directives. Venezuela was a low priority for Langley and capabilities had to be built from the ground up, according to…
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and Russia, and they're a low priority because they're in our backyard for the CIA? Really? Who the hell buys this shit? They should have been one of the highest priorities if, in fact, he's a communist living in our backyard with billions …
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That is going supposedly to fund other communist dictators, i.e. Cuba, you know, because we hate Cuba because of how communist they are. And Russia, who we blame on, we blame everything on because they're all communist over there, too. And …
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Go and basically create it from scratch? I'm just, the more I read this, the more livid I get at how fucking stupid they think we are. One of the task force's first goal, an expansion of efforts to hack Venezuela's government networks, very…
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Ultimately, the CIA successfully carried out a disruptive strike. Do you know what that destructive strike was? They managed to hack in to the military payroll system to keep the Venezuelan military from getting paid one time and was bettin…
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that it was a digital sabotage operation enabled by agents on the ground. Who gives a crap? Who gives a crap? It's ridiculous. And they spend an entire, I'm not even going to go through all, they spend an entire paragraph talking about some…
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And in response, miraculously, Gulf Oil got the oil concessions for Bolivia. Imagine that. In the two years following the disappearance of Che Guevara from public view, in early 1965, rumors had placed him at different times in the Dominica…
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are under arrest. President Morales, on his arrival to Venezuela this morning, claimed that the GOB had been aware of the group for some time and that the group was linked to rightist foes of his administration. Note, last Sunday, President…
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And a lot of even in South America countries with all of these things that have been going on, look at Venezuela. A lot of them have been using digital assets. Some of the countries in South America even use Bitcoin as a form of currencies,…
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Great. Thank you so much. Okay. Anybody else have any questions? Can I ask something that's off topic? Sure. Okay. So like what's going on in Venezuela? So the Maduro guy, we have two evil people that are really bad. One was inserted in and…
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They being the oil industry in the United States and in the West, whether it's BP at UK, they have attacked them and attacked them. Who do you think is helping Guyana with their oil production? Oh, that would be us. And why would they do th…
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in a contested area of sovereignty that has been contested for decades. So are they stealing Venezuela's oil by saying they found this new oil in Guyana? There's so much to this story that most people don't dig down deep enough to realize w…
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So when I went back and looked at the underneath of how Chavez came to power, how Maduro came to power, do I think that everything that has gone on there is great? I absolutely do not. But I also understand that 99.9% of the information tha…
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You really have to go to alternative sources of information to find out. What I unequivocally know today is that Maduro knows that the multiple coups that have been launched against him are at the hands of the CIA, and he says so on a daily…
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Is there any privately owned media in Ukraine? No. No, there's not. It was all shut down. Why didn't the dictator Maduro shut down the media in Venezuela when the guy that's supposedly the most democratic thing that ever has been hatched on…
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foreign leaders and at what point and at what grade does anybody in the united states think it just it's justified that we go in and overthrow a government i number one don't think we ought to be grading anybody and number two i don't think…
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the heart of your question about him wanting in bricks, that tells you everything. So he has had to in the past because of our sanctions against Venezuela. And again, we're the 300 pound or 3000 pound elephant in the room. So we decided tha…
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Because he is no national security threat to the United States at all. Zero. Absolutely zero. Like a negative zero. He could have stayed down there until he passed away. God rest his soul. Get another leader, whatever. We don't have to be i…
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We've got to assassinate them. We've got to overthrow them, whatever it is that we're going to do. In doing that, you unleash this crazy apparatus called the United States in a tiny little...…
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Again, he's no threat to anybody. So who else is he going to deal with other than other BRIC nations? Because they've now nationalized or unionized against the United States. And the more BRIC nations unionize against us and the dollar, the…
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We are going to collectively have a peer competitor through the unionization into the BRICS alliance. But what I found the most disturbing when I was looking at that is the fact that in order to be able to sell the oil because of our sancti…
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in Aravac aircraft to Cuba for medical treatment because they didn't have the supplies because of sanctions to do the medical care. And more importantly, they had to have some currency, if you quote unquote currency, in exchange. So they sa…
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And so he just went country by country and started a bartering system. And who's going to barter with him? The people that are in BRICS because they don't give a shit anymore because they don't need our dollar. Go ahead, Cousinette. Well, o…
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from people that were embezzling from the companies and from the country. So that's pretty interesting. And yes, he is opening up the contracts to the BRICS nations. That's already in the deal. They're talking about it in Russia, on the Rus…
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And Russia's actually been in Venezuela for a little while, too. So it's not like new kids on the block. They've been there. Oh, and one of the things I found before the battery died on the phone is that just today, Venezuela found the Vene…
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I posted on my feed before, again, my battery died, that they're arming the stay-behind units in Venezuela. And they have arrested a couple of Americans that are involved with that. I don't know how old the news is, but you're going to prob…
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I don't know. We'll see what happens with that. But yeah, they did open up the contracts to the BRICS countries yesterday or today. And what's important about what Cousin It just said is to the west you have Colombia and to the east you hav…
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Drugs has only increased in their frequency in the United States. So they've obviously been doing something else with that money. And we discovered that they have trained over 20,000 terrorists that they now rent to both NATO and the UN to …
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And this upcoming summit, they should be finalizing it. So that's what's going on with BRICS in Venezuela. And you know that they're going to admit them because they're already dealing with them on a one-on-one basis, just not as the entity…
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Let me just say this, Stellar. What is one of the major news articles being talked about the most with Venezuela? Isn't there airplane loads of gold being flown out of Venezuela? Where would they put them on deposit in order to get BRICS me…
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My opinion is it is to secure and pay off as their application is processed for BRICS so that they can be given BRICS status. Yep. And then that way they can sidestep just like NATO and all the other stuff like with Ukraine. Pay off all the…
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Well, that's actually interesting, too, because a different South American country by the name of Argentina, their gold reserves have disappeared. I believe that they also applied for BRICS. No, come on now. He's out there kissing the wall …
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So my data is that Argentine, Argentinian gold went to London or Basel. So where, where do you have the data about Venezuela's gold? As far as it being shipped out of Venezuela? Where did it, where did it go? Well.…
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And I would tell you that Deloitte, I've actually talked about in the show that I was on with Ash in America, where we were talking about the H-1B visas. They are all working in collaboration with the CIA. So here we go. DAI was contracted …
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Wait a minute, Venezuela? Just two months after the failed coup against Hugo Chavez, prior to this date, USAID had no operations in Venezuela at all. None. Okay, so not even an office at the embassy. Why would somebody that's a civilian com…
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Trujillo made the ultimate mistake and reached out to because he's starting to get cut off by because he's doing these crazy ass things. He starts to get cut off by the US and they're starting to distance himself. He even tries to assassina…
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successor regime can be induced to take over with the assurances of U.S. political, economic, and, if necessary, military support, unquote. Trujillo continued to live up to his gangster reputation during this time, and in June, his henchmen…
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All right. All right. Thanks for following, Liza. Just teasing. Big shock. Big, big shock. All right. Let's see. Where were we at? All right. So they're drawing up schemes. They actually even have a special group that they constitute. A tra…
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where they set up Jonestown, just throwing that out there. It was literally right across the border, like they were running out of Jonestown to Venezuela after the Jonestown massacre in order to get out of the country. So that's very intere…
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I had recently married my husband in, let's say, like six years ago. We visited Margarita Island, which is off the coast of Venezuela. And we all know that Venezuela, we just talked about Venezuela. Craps happen in there all the time and no…
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We're standing in a line. Now, I had traveled several places internationally with my husband, but not any that were suspect. And so we're standing in line at this event in an organized tourist event that was organized by the all-inclusive r…
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They were equipped with weapons and supposedly they had about 20 or 200 locals. That's another disputed number. Join in with them. And that was Haitians that had been exiled over in Venezuela. And basically there was U.S. military.…
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Here is the boogeyman. It's communism. And who are the allies? The Republicans. So, see, they've even figured it out. A network of former Cold Warriors and Republicans in Congress loudly encouraged Honduras' de facto regime and criticized t…
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$10 million in profit annually. Cuban guerrillas overthrew the Batista dictatorship and imposed a radical social and political program around that same time in the 1960s. Other dictators fell in Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, and Argentina. A r…
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algorithm thingy. And like I said, it does break through and it's awesome. We are pushing the needle. People are actually, you know, we're getting more and more where people are mentioning Gladio now. Big, big account. Well, and that's just…
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Well, I had already came across evidence that Jonestown existed long before Jim Jones moved his church there. And it was used as a terrorist training camp for Operation Condor in Latin America. So he had ships. He was going from Brazil to G…
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Rockefeller's oil interest in Venezuela. So anybody in Venezuela that became a problem was taken out, launched from Jim Jones, Jonestown in Guyana. So all these people show up and if you go back and you read the autopsy of the local Guyana.…
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And that's why they're trying to control Canada. Saudi Arabia is number two. But do you know what number one on oil is? What country? I think it's ask. Venezuela. Well, maybe active oil fields. But if you look at the one in Haiti, it's bigg…
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As easy as that, you know, it's a system, I think, that's just used and abused so easily by, you know, states and non-state actors. And so this becomes another one of those hypocritical things that this is exactly what they were just saying…
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100%. So let's see. And can I throw one thing in there? And it sure seems like exactly to the letter what is going on right now over in Europe that we've been seeing so many videos. Well, I would say it's what's happening in Venezuela as we…
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We're going to defeat them by being able to call out their bullshit like in Venezuela right now and in the attempted assassination of Slovakia. What's happening in Bangladesh? We'll go into that when we get to Asia. But what's happening rig…
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with members of the OAS, and that's the Organization of Americas, and that is also a CIA cutout, and the U.S. government to vouch for the PPP while using excuses such as Guyana is near Venezuela. So they are basically saying that...…
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And we know that the CIA, well, actually, the CIA's been involved in Venezuela for decades. But we also know that they overthrew the government in Guyana. We know that they had Jonestown terrorist training camps in Guyana. And the close pro…
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county, state, whatever you want to call it, in Venezuela, just as soon as I found that map in that article that I posted earlier, I was like, what the hell? Because I mean, it's literally right on the border. So I found that very interesti…
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of a prison. Now, you don't do that type of thing without everybody knowing about it. To include the CIA that has been present in Venezuela during this whole time through non-profits. So, there cannot be any doubt that the…
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As October 2009, a project overseen by the USAID, read that as CIA, sent Venezuelan, Costa Rican, and Peruvian young people to Cuba in hopes of ginning up rebellion. The travelers worked undercover, often posing as tourists, and traveled ar…
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The U.S. and its allies exploited other nations for years, taking their money and stealing their secrets. Besides Malaysia and those listed above, crypto clients included Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Saudi …
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I found it very interesting that Venezuela was on that list, given that all of that crap goes on for all of those years, and we knew everything that was going on inside of Venezuela. But, of course, we have to act surprised. The U.S., NATO'…
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the BRICS organization is immediately attacked. Venezuela, Iran, Slovakia, Georgia, you know, there's either an attempted coup, there's some type of an attack that happens immediately. And I think that that is because there are certain peop…
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for a military deal, he said, well, why would I not back, you know, $500 billion worth of armaments just for the sake of the bloke who got chopped up? And this is, I don't, and, you know, Trump has said things like, you know, like if I was …
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George Soros was the funder of the Dominion systems that took out the Venezuelan government because they used those Dominion systems down in Venezuela. And then they turned around and opened up a corporation in Florida and then now started …
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And he died in his second plane crash. So this is three assassinations, the last in his second plane crash for the largest working class. Wait a minute. Isn't the left kind of don't they claim to be, you know, supporting the working class? …
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Well, if that actually happened, they got the money from somebody like the CIA because they didn't have the money. Where does, okay, I said, where does that podunk company get that money? Well, they get it from the CIA who does that shit al…
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Venezuela is behind it, not the CIA, is how they do that. It's the wrap-up smear. The only new part of any of it was that 100% blame being on Venezuela as some big drug cartel. Venezuela has been so completely isolated, they couldn't even p…
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When you have somebody sitting online going, you know, hey, I'm a whistleblower and I'm going to tell you blah, blah, blah, which is basically all bullshit. Like, yeah, Venezuela is the world's largest drug dealer, not the CIA that I worked…
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And the point that I made is Venezuela had their entire, anything that leaves a port from Venezuela is confiscated as far as the ship goes. They had to ship oil to an island and have tankers pick up the oil there so that the tankers from ot…