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It took a Don-Don to trump all other minor Dons, a Rubio that is little Marco, a Bolton who was always a Johnny and a real criminal called Elliott to engineer what could be the inflection point or (A)bram/s to launch the Caribbean into the geo-political stratosphere as elements of the racist power structure in Washington side with their kindred spirits in Caracas.

What we are witnessing is a real global criminal conspiracy, in broad daylight, to steal the largest oil resources in the world, by far – 300 billion barrels. It happens to be under the feet of the peoples of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Therein lies the most bothersome question for imperialism, for capitalism. The question for the Americans has always been – how do we get ‘our’ oil from under other peoples’ feet?

Those on BU who would want to contend that the USA has become a leading exporter of crude in recent years consistently miss the point. The point is strategic not tactical. It is about control of the tap and denial of access to others. The point was always about connecting real resources to paper currency. These are how the peoples of the world are really robbed! These are the critical questions. Not the puerile BS constantly propagated on the networks. Even the Johnny, that is Bolton, is making crystal clear for the idiots. This is to be a war of conquest. The Conquistadores are still in place, both in Caracas and Washington.

Maybe the point that the Chinese have recently invested 50 billion dollars in a joint venture with the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and its President Nicolas Maduro represented, to the Americans, ‘a clear and present national security threat’ pushing the Americans to up the ante – illegal sanctions as war by other means. Economic warfare, if you will.

That reading of events is one which is quite common for Uncle Sam and his progenitors. In these circumstances, the threat of war had to take centre-stage because all other attempts to remove the legitimate government of Venezuela, over 20 years, including assassinations, had limited affect. Notwithstanding, the great Hugo Chavez had contended that he was given a ‘cancer serum’ and so were several other leftist-leaning leaders of Central and South American countries over recent years, he continued. But who amongst us will see the Americans as the murderers that they have always been!

In addition, the ‘Yankees’ are fearful that a growing and wider alliance between non-dollar trading countries, spawning the rise of the potentially-deadly ‘petro-yuan’, as the currency of choice, will hasten the end of American imperium. And they are quite right! Of course, Venezuela, and the wider Caribbean, has had a long and sordid history of American interventionism, the doctrine of former president Monroe still rules these lands.

This is the classical story of how militarism is deployed in the service of corporations, oil companies and big money-men like Donald John Trump. Trump, who has no qualms about ‘taking other people oil’ at the point of a gun, in true American presidential gangster-style, especially if that gun could be cloaked in all manner of pseudo-legalisms, as have been long practiced by every American president and administration, including bulling-Obama. This is a merely game for this overgrown child (Trump). A game, he will most certainly lose, if he has the guts to try, for Pachamama has ordained it!

So we are made to endure the illegal meetings at the United Nations. Other illegal meetings were held of the Organization of American States (OAS) as part of this criminal conspiracy. All aimed at giving a patina of legitimacy to an illegal destabilization and possible invasion of a sovereign state and rendering a death blow to the Geneva Conventions. An invasion not unlike what was conducted in Syria, in Libya, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Panama, to name a few.

Of course, the ‘Don of all Dons’ is seeking a large payday on demitting office. We would estimate Trump could expect north of 15 billion dollars personally, after leaving office, impeachment or not, should this master caper, be successful.

Anglo-Caribbeans should note that neither Canada nor Britain has shown any hesitation in inviting war to our sacred region. Theresa May, ‘the hunchback of London’ and her foreign secretary, as a matter of course, dutifully and as pre-planned, gave the Americans the public nod to embark on this racist, Christian, crusade in our region. Theresa May’s husband is a notorious arms dealer, selling weapons to kill children in Yemen. Why not the Caribbean? Is he being promised piece of the war materiel action?

You would have thought that we had good relationships with Canada. Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, as the boy scared of the big bad wolf south of him, could not be the son of a man who four (4) former Caribbean prime ministers were once committed to, as he sought to shift the hemispheric, geo-political, equation, fundamentally. This determination should make us re-consider things that too many of us take for granted. We still have titularly Black people talking shiiite about their Scottish blood, etc. We have to stop expecting that the ‘mother country’ or historical trading partners are to be bound to understandings that some special dispensations are to be given us.

At the OAS meeting it was inspiring to see that some small Caribbean states had the gumption to vote against the imperialists, Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonzales, is especially worthy of note. There was a similar number also abstaining, leading to the massive defeat of the America construction of an artificial ‘casus belli’, not dissimilar to the lies around the Invasion of Iraq (2003).

You could rely on the mendicancy of the Mottley regime in Barbados to abstain. But even that could get them in trouble with Trump. A no-vote would have been a monumental surprise. Notwithstanding, it would be too much to expect the likes of David Comissiong, ‘the moral compass for decency’ as venerated in Bridgetown, by some, to be resigning anytime soon. This path to war by Trump should cause Comissiong to rethink his empty rhetoric about regional unity etc. For it has always been highly misconceived!

We doubt it! You see, American policymakers are so drunken by imperial hubris, so intoxicated by a faux exceptionalism, that is seems impossible for any significant faction of elite forces to prevent another Iraq, another Afghanistan, any imperial excesses at all. Not at a time when everybody in America wants to get fabulously rich, and real quick. But maybe, the fate of the USA has been written in the stars. How could it be otherwise possible to elect a modern-day Nero, a modern-day Caligula, advance a neo-Nazi global state where wealth is highly consolidated and not expect the dominance of the madness as foretold, being a lived reality!

Those here on BU, misguided and supportive of the musings of the ‘humanitarian’ interventionists in Washington should remember Libya or Puerto Rico after two hurricanes, one after the other. Is this the same Trump presenting that he now cares about Venezuelans? Should there not be a wall to prevent these kinds of people from ‘shithole’ countries coming to America? Or maybe, the honorary Whites of Venezuela and those living in Miami, prepared, as they are, to sell out their country to neo-Nazis are truly exceptional idiots.

Yesterday Colombia was saying that its territory will not be used in any aggression against the Bolivarian Republic. Today, the Americans are announcing that their troops are deployed in Colombia. But Russia has a battalion (up to 800) stationed in Venezuela and they come with the whole arsenal of the defenses of the Russian Federation. And Venezuela has other friends in the world. These include the peoples of Cuba and those of Haiti. Internally, many supporters of the revolution are willing to die for this just cause. They also have contacts with several popular forces which have resoundingly defeated the Yankees, many times over. Did a president of the United States not ordered the leader of Syria to leave office in a manner not dissimilar to the present idiot? And is Assad not still in office, and dominantly so? So too will be Maduro many moons after Trump resides in the dustbin of history! We remain less certain about the American neo-Nazi state.
Donald John Trump is a coward! His band of armchair generals has but a solitary military success in over a hundred years – poor Grenada. They have been beaten or failed to meet their targets in every military adventure. These include WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Korea and all others. Recently the Iranians, the Syrians, the Russians, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Taliban have either defeated America and/or its proxies, in hot and/or cold confrontations, sometimes more than once, within a short period of time. The truth is that nobody is afraid of America. In military matters when once a belligerent has lost the spectre of invincibility, it can never be regained. The Zionist state is a perfect example. Such is the American imperium as it seeks its long-awaited death in the swaps of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Long live the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela as inspired by Hugo Chavez Frias, long live!


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308 responses to “Venezuela – The Caribbean Emerges At The Centre Of Our Worlds”

  1. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    Why wunna fellows treating Pachamama so?

    It is obvious that he feels strongly about this matter and is calling a spade a spade.

    Let me see if I can bring a parallel to show why on would have as vitriolic a response as he has against what he sees as the US meddling and CARICOM FRIGGING SPIDERS

    In past times de ole man has come here and spoken out against non topics, things dat most uh wunna does run from.

    For example de Royal Baygon Police Force and their usual modus of investigatory skills, beating out confessions

    Sometimes, in the heat of the moment, the helplessness one feels about this blatant disregard of the law makes a feller angry and you may say that the rogue cops want killing or something like that.

    That stance is not to promote Dr. Rat like drivebys and dynamite throwing at central police station.

    It is just that when you see police doing things that criminals do, bile rises up in your throat and you can say some extreme things.

    Slavery was abolished in the early 1800’s yet, as late as 1860 there were still illegal kidnappings and transport of negroes to the colonies.

    For me, when I think about slavery in general, acts like this are even more egregious because it underscores the nature of slavery.

    There is not one recorded instance of these “officially kidnapped post abolition slaves” being sent back to Africa.

    So, it means that the very last of the blacks so transported to the colonies were free kidnapped men!

    De ole man is holding back my righteous indignation euphemism for the nasty cuss words reserved for these slavers whom society permitted to operate for another 70 years.

    And de ole man is even more “subdued” in me speech as it relates to the ongoing endorsement of a different yet same type of slavers that exist at 2019.

    Both the white ones as well as the black ones premiere of whom is Mugabe.

    Pachamama is a “guillotine man ” and his speech reflects this.

    he is unapologetic in his pronouncements against the scourge of imperialism under the guise of democracy a la US style.

    His beliefs have not changed here on BU, nor elsewhere, and though if late he might be a little more effusive in his pronouncements against the anticommunism tag team, it certainly does not merit all the extreme suggestions to the Blogmaster

    But den again what Pachamama is to US imperialism de ole man is to Mugabe’s Despotism I can see why he is being hounded like dis

    I sure dat Eddie and Dale wukking pun similar strategies for de ole man and me grandson and others here too yet the Honourable Blogmaster has continued to protect us.

    Vive Pachamama!


  2. I see you are a coward David. How sad.

  3. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @ the Honourable Blogmaster your assistance please with an item here thank you


  4. @ Hal – I am always in the wrong in the blogmaster’s eyes, even when he cannot justify it, nor himself.


  5. Man Chad99999
    If you don’t like how the man runs his own blog then piss off do.

    Go back to Stormfront.


  6. Wow. We will have people here who would strenuously condone bulling but the lingua franca as consecrated by the late great John Cumberbatch is ‘common’ and not to be likened to communism – a currently dead political philosophy of they favourite White people.

    Let lingua franca live!

    What could be more ‘common’ than that – bulling. In any event, we do not recognize ‘common’ as a social measurement. For it is from the mind of white people! Aim at denigrating non-white constructs.

    There is something about the Bajan which must die, for us all to live. It has to do with a colonial, maybe now a genetic, commitment to whiteness. That acts to maintain the 11-plus mindset of a WILLIAM SKINNER. It represents an ultra conservatism which does not even permit them (him) to recognize words migrating from the oral traditions into the dictionaries of their masters.

    What a colossal set of assshoooooooooooooooooool! Pun intended!


  7. From those things Perpetuated on this Blog I have been impressed upon to Share the following…The Foundation of the Lord’s Teaching…Now the Lord is that Spirit: and Where the Spirit of the lord is there is liberty…The Opposite is Tyranny and Oppression!

    https://biblepic.com/53/28859.jpg


  8. Jesus is our Saviour not our Condemner, he does not condemn us in this world we have been given a Conscience or Compass that influences and to direct us to CHOOSE Good over Evil…

    Free Agency was given to each Individual it is our Sovereign gift when we are born into this world. Our Choices Determine our Eternal Destiny we are free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil. To Choose Life through the great Mediator to live in the Eternities with God or Death where we will be separated from God and Live as Dammed Souls in the Infinities where there is no Light (Enlightenment and no Progress) where there is such Anguish of a Seared Conscience as described as Weeping and Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth, the full measure of this torment no one knows but God himself and those who receive it.

    A Portion of his Spirit was given each individual born in this earth as a guide… The Light of Christ is defined in the scriptures as “the Spirit [which] giveth light to every man that cometh into the world” “the light which is in all things, which giveth life to all things, which is the law by which all things are governed” John 1:4–9;
    4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
    5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
    6 ¶ There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
    7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
    8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
    9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

    https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9e/53/7a/9e537a640cce312ad2bf6c0097fcb01b.jpg

    And the Light of Christ is also described in the scriptures as “the Spirit of Jesus Christ” “the Spirit of the Lord” (2 Cor. 3:18; 18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. (IF WE ALLOW HIM!)

    http://www.donnalcampbell.com/uploads/3/2/0/5/32054983/1276781_orig.jpg


  9. Regardless of whether this inner light, this knowledge of right and wrong, is called the Light of Christ, moral sense, or conscience, it can direct us to moderate our actions—unless, that is, we subdue it or silence it. We are admonished to “quench not the Spirit” (1 Thes. 5:19). Thus we can see that “[all] are instructed sufficiently that they know good from evil and every man may be accountable for his own sins in the day of judgment… They have their agency, and they are accountable.

    Conscience affirms the reality of the Spirit of Christ in man. It affirms, as well, the reality of good and evil, of justice, mercy, honor, courage, faith, love, and virtue, as well as the necessary opposites—hatred, greed, brutality, jealousy. Such values, though physically intangible, respond to laws with cause-and-effect relationships as certain as any resulting from physical laws (see Gal. 6:7–9).

    7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

    8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

    9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

    https://cdn.hipwallpaper.com/i/39/14/ACUQMw.jpg


  10. The Spirit of Christ can be likened unto a “guardian angel” for every person.

    This inner Light can warn and guard and guide. But it can be repulsed by anything that is ugly or unworthy or wicked or immoral or selfish.

    With the eyes of our understanding, we see things that are spiritual. With our spirits reaching out, we can touch things that are spiritual and feel them. Then we can see and we can feel things that are invisible to the physical senses. Remember, they are some who are past feeling, that do not not feel his words.

    Paul wrote to the Corinthians that “God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. …

    We have been warned that “the devil … persuadeth no man to do good, no, not one; neither do his angels; neither do they who subject themselves unto him.

    http://www.quotesvalley.com/images/64/for-god-gave-us-a-spirit-not-of-fear-but-of-power-and-love-and-self-contorl.jpg


  11. The Light through which we may Judge All Things…

    “[Now] seeing that ye know the light by which ye may judge, which light is the light of Christ, see that ye do not judge wrongfully” This Light of Christ, which gives life, is within you. The evil one will attempt to obscure it. It can be so clouded with confusion so far as to convince you that it does not even exist.

    https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Inspirational-Images/large/Psalms_27-1.jpg

    Every soul, no matter who or where or when, is a child of God. Our responsibility is to teach that “there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding” (Job 32:8).

    We are admonished to “Search diligently in the light of Christ that ye may know good from evil; and if ye will lay hold upon every good thing, and condemn it not, ye certainly will be a child of Christ”

    http://cathedraloftheking.org/media/k2/items/cache/04af3f34de2f909b68ae5d07ed6ca171_XL.jpg

    “That light never entirely goes out … [speaking of the Light of Christ] unless we commit the unpardonable sin. Its glow may be so dim that we can hardly perceive it, but it is there for us to fan into a flame that shall burn brighter with understanding and with knowledge. Except for that, we wouldn’t be able to achieve.

    Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and the Only Begotten of the Father. And from Him Emanates the Light of Christ to all mankind. Therefore, “feast upon the words of Christ; for behold, the words of Christ will tell you all things what ye should do. Repentance is an ongoing process and Continuous. The Gospel is unto Repentance…

    Remember Jesus is our Saviour not our Condemner in this world and because of his Mercy he has given us this earthly Probation to learn the difference between Good and Evil and to choose the better part.

    https://files.logoscdn.com/v1/files/11060614/content.png?signature=Vlt8yRnc7Epl79UdSr_-RewmMb8


  12. If only you could boast an 11plus level of education.

  13. WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog Avatar
    WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog

    The unbelievably stressed out US citizens are trying to wrap their heads around the reality of their situation in the best way they can…I can certainly commensurate with them until they can rid themselves of the evil now immersed nearly completely around them, until they get this garbage out of the WH…everyone is at risk.

    https://youtu.be/W2yAAGQLE1o?t=5


  14. “Commensurate” WARU? I suspect even our lexiconically challenged contributor would tell you you that you probably mean sympathise. You would also be wrong – Trump is a breath of fresh air in the foetid swamp.


  15. @ Pacha

    😂😂😂😂😂😂

    Have a wonderful weekend.

  16. WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog Avatar
    WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog

    @Forty-Five…I agree as far as having the knowledge that the present WH swamp…does not get even remotely more foetid than it is at present…I don’t think you know Americans very well…the orange swamp rat just nearly starved to death over 800 thousand federal employees in the dead of winter….ah think people are taking that quite personally…I know that I am…

    think on that…

  17. WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog Avatar
    WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog

    the orange swamp rat just nearly starved to death over 800 thousand federal employees AND THEIR FAMILIES…in the dead of winter..


  18. Starved to death? A bit of over dramatisation there.
    I know quite a lot about America, have lived there, and my sister and my children live there. The last time I visited the US the private jet I was on parked right next to Trump’s at PBI.


  19. pieceuhderockyeahright
    February 1, 2019 8:34 AM
    “Why wunna fellows treating Pachamama so”
    Pieceuhderocky…Have you witnessed those on here Profaning to the extent that Pachamama does?
    Do they advocate Killing people because they disagree with their views as Pachamama does?
    What they are against is the Killing Ideology he is trying to foster on them.

    And if you are supporting him you also believe in his Killing Ideology and his Killings as Solutions.

    If you do as you say Vive Pachamama, then you are Ultra-Leftist as he is and would have also agreed with the latest Political Scandal in America of Killing Babies in the third Trimester at the point of dilating and even post birth and yet you pretend to care about people. Hey hey!

    I believe that if someone did that to puppies or other animals there would be a great outcry coming from the likes of those like you spouting cruelty to animals lock up the perpetrators!!

    But Lefties find this heinous crime against the innocent acceptable calling it “reproductive health” for Killing New Born Babies.

    The same Lefties say we have too many people on the planet, when God says multiply and replenish the earth there is enough to spare. You believe the population should be reduced from 31/2 Billion to 700 Million. So we see in Reality why you believe in killing on a scale that is unimaginable.…

    Pieceuhderocky have you heard of “Thou shalt Not Kill” or have you conveniently Forgotten, while rubbing shoulders with an OUT RIGHT COMMIE AND HIS IDEOLOGY?? Beware of who and what you Support. Pachamama is using you to get you to commit Suicide by CHOOSING his Killing Ideology!

    Too bad that some Bajan men have chosen to support what has been expressed here by Pachamama it is inevitable that you will Reap your Rewards…

    WAKE UP! WAKE UP!! WAKE UP!!!

    https://www.facebook.com/PatriotPost/photos/a.82108390913/10156165551225914/?type=3&theater

    YUP!!!
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10218674775919598&set=a.4260675714174&type=3&theater

    LEFTIST LOGIC!
    https://www.facebook.com/LTNNEWS/photos/a.477456275920247/815125812153290/?type=3&theater


  20. @ WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog February 1, 2019 12:01 PM

    TRY TO UNTANGLE YOUR BRAIN AND RECOGNIZE WHAT IS REAL!!!

    POOR KID STILL BALLING AS MORE & MORE STATES ARE ADAPTING THE SAME EVEN CALLING FOR THE MURDER OF CHILDREN AFTER BIRTH!!
    POOR STALK UNSURE WHERE TO LAND AS MORE AND MORE STATES ARE CALLING FOR THE MURDER OF CHILDREN AFTER BIRTH!!

    https://grrrgraphics.com/fly-the-unfriendly-skies-new-york-abortion-law/?fbclid=IwAR03bI1pwYL0SjVO-XgTNJpEpukSbPIob-f925pubU3Ox_GD1mutNIwrf3A

    CHOOSE LIFE!!!

    ‘President Trump celebrates life. NY democrats make it legal to kill life at any time during pregnancy. Thank you President Trump for speaking for those who cannot speak for themselves. Shame on NY. Their state was already in bad shape- this is only going to add to their debasement and failure’
    https://www.facebook.com/ijrredpresents/videos/146514776048580/

  21. WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog Avatar
    WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog

    the word I started typing was commiserate ..but the auto correct demon does not stop.

    that is not going to change the fact that these federal employees started to visit food pantries just too eat, some could get no medication, many others had empty fridges and no food for their children, most people live pay check to pay check until retirement..

    and had many of them died…am sure the WH skunk would have borrowed the evil Dick Cheney’s default excuse…collateral damage..


  22. @ WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog February 1, 2019 12:30 PM

    WHAT ABOUT THOSE ENTERING THE US ILLEGALLY IN THE DEAD OF WINTER… do you think some of them will loose their lives in the voyage and afterwards?

    Are you aware of the Huge Drug Bust yesterday on the Border that could have cost the lives of over 50 Million Americans?

    Yet you persist in your warped thinking that Trump is putting peoples lives in Jeopardy….STUPSE!!!

    The People in the US will get their Wall!

    https://www.facebook.com/GreatAmericanMovement/photos/a.1855732658020357/2199967390263547/?type=3&theater


  23. Ronald Sanders is asking for Uruguay to mediate. This approach alignes with the Caricom position.


  24. I gine keep mah mout shut… cause I en want nah troubul…but wunnah cah fool some aa de people some aa de, time but wunnah can’t fool all aa de people all aa de time..

  25. WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog Avatar
    WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog

    Pacha…note the bullshit games UK monarchy likes to play in other countries..ah told yall they are playing the ass, until they are ready, with islands like Barbados where the monarchy is STILL HEAD OF STATE, DON’T BLINK.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/01/gibraltar-colony-row-flares-as-eu-makes-travel-visa-free-for-britons

    “A straightforward change in EU law guaranteeing visa-free travel for Britons in Europe after Brexit has sparked a diplomatic row after Brussels described Gibraltar as “a colony of the British crown” in its no-deal legislation.

    The footnote containing the contentious description of the Rock was attached to the EU’s regulation on the insistence of Spain, with whom the UK has been in dispute over Gibraltar for three centuries.

    During a meeting on Friday morning with his EU counterparts, the UK’s ambassador in Brussels, Sir Tim Barrow, expressed Downing Street’s angry rejection of the description, officials disclosed.

    “It is completely unacceptable to describe Gibraltar in this way,” the prime minster’s official spokesman said. “Gibraltar is a full part of the UK family and has a mature and modern constitutional relationship with the UK. This will not change due to our exit from the EU.”

    The UK would resist any attempt to negotiate the status of the territory even if it succeeded in reopening the withdrawal agreement treaty, the spokesman added.

    The Conservative MEP Daniel Dalton accused Spain’s government of treating Gibraltar “as a political football”. “To read that EU officials have made the same mistake is at best insensitive, if not breathtakingly incompetent,” he said.

    Spain ceded Gibraltar to Britain in perpetuity in the treaty of Utrecht in 1713. It formally became a crown colony in 1830 but its constitutional status was rejigged over the centuries as the British empire receded.

    From the archive: Gibraltar votes to remain with Britain – 1967
    Read more
    In 1983, along with all other former crown colonies, Gibraltar became a dependent overseas territory, only to be rebadged again as a British overseas territory in 2002.

    It has its own parliament, with 17 representatives, but its head of state is the Queen, who is represented by the governor of Gibraltar, responsible to UK government for the Rock’s defence, internal security, foreign policy and governance.”,


  26. What on earth is the relevance of Gib? The crown is NOT responsible for any of those things in INDEPENDENT Barbados.

  27. WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog Avatar
    WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog

    Would love to hear Jeff’s thoughts….

    “Dr Tanzil Chowdhury, from Queen Mary’s school of law, said the EU’s claim that Gibraltar was a colony “has weight, given the UK parliament and crown still retain unlimited powers to legislate for the Rock and that it has been listed by the UN as a non-self-governing territory since 1946”.

    “However, as Gibraltar has a high level of self-government and GDP, a flourishing tourism and gaming industry and is conventionally a party to its own trade deals, the picture is more intricate,” he said. “Indeed, whilst others may reasonably label it as a colony, the Gibraltarians have voted to remain under UK sovereignty.”

    @Forty-Five….ah think the world just ZOOMED…right past you…lol


  28. Freedom Crier February 1, 2019 12:18 PM

    CORRECTION…Too bad that some Bajan men and WOMEN who have chosen to support what has been expressed here by Pachamama it is inevitable that you will Reap your Rewards…


  29. WTF are you on about WARU? The Gibraltarians, like the Falklanders have sensibly voted without any ambiguity to remain part of the UK.
    Now that may not give with your hatred of Britain, but you have no say. In plain words it is none of your business.
    I wonder if you are even aware of the scale of Spanish hypocrisy in that they retain control of an enclave in Morocco called Ceuta. The Moroccan govt has repeatedly called for Spain to return it, but guess what??

  30. WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog Avatar
    WARU, Crazy & Unstable, Hogging the Blog

    “Those accusations have been bolstered by admissions from top US officials that oil is a key part of their calculations in siding with Guaidó.”

    Well…since power has gone to el estupido Maduro’s head….it is too late for him to do anything but be brought down, because those of us with a little intelligence knew the intent…was always about TIEFING THE VENEZULA PEOPLE’S OIL…and….el estupido played right into their hands..

    Really @Forty-Five…all of them are thieves…they will trade islands, countries and whatever they stole centuries ago…as they see fit and when it suits them…ah don’t think rebadging is a crime…..

    Let me tell you something…I was BORN before any type of INDEPENDENCE in the Caribbean…meaning I was born as a British citizen and only became a dual since independence…which means…IT IS MY GODDAMN BUSINESS..

    ….I never RENOUNCED any british citizenship…and as long as I don’t apply for a British passport… that citizenship can never be taken away…so they get the misery and pleasuring of hearing me and can’t do shit.


  31. ‘In 1913, Woodrow Wilson a DEMOCRAT was the newly elected president. Wilson and his fellow progressives scorned the Constitution and the Declaration (THEY STILL DO). They moved swiftly to replace the Founders’ republic with a New Regime.

    By the time he left office, the American republic was, as they say, history. The fundamentals of the New Regime were in place, and the expansion of government under FDR, LBJ, and Obama was made easy, perhaps even inevitable.

    EXCEPT A MAN LIKE TRUMP HAS COME ALONG & PUT A SPOKE IN THEIR WHEEL!

    https://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/45/41/1333688427-funny-communist-posters-i3.jpg

    THE 45 COMMUNIST GOALS AS READ INTO THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, 1963

    Read more at https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/watchwomanonthewall/2011/04/the-45-communist-goals-as-read-into-the-congressional-record-1963.html#DaPAxlH3MV86vwWt.99


  32. On this Venezuelan thing,the last I read was that the opposition refused to take part in the presidential election so that Maduro was elected with the full knowledge of the opposition refusing to participate.The opposition was at fault.Blame the opposition for Maduro


  33. Freedom Crier

    Trump, is no Republican and he even when as far as to say that he isn’t even a politician in the traditional sense of the term…

    He is a man in my opinion and I am quite sure in the opinion of most the world that have no business being in the White House, but on a guided tour.


  34. Don’t be silly Gabriel the opposition were locked up! Pretty easy to win ‘elections’ on that basis.


  35. PEOPLE TRY TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE GOAL OF SOCIALISM IS COMMUNISM!

    https://pics.me.me/the-goal-of-socialismis-communism-vladimir-lenin-why-cant-liberals-31373175.png


  36. Pacha,

    I have no problem with your passion but could you leave the mother imagery out of it just for me? Just the mother imagery. That’s all.


  37. Communism, socialism and capitalism are just different ideologies folks. I do not feel contempt or hatred for persons who favour any of them. I simply disagree without rancour because I know that no system is perfect. As for the US of A dirty dealings, the history is there. No-one can deny it. Unless you are Donald Trump who will deny even though we have it all recorded. Anyone who calls him a breath of fresh air must have been living in a sewer. Or perhaps they have problems with flatulence.

    SMH.


  38. Morally and economically, the welfare state creates an ever accelerating downward pull.

    Morally, the chance to satisfy demands by force spreads the demands wider and wider, with less and less pretense at justification. Economically, the forced demands of one group create hardships for all others, thus producing an inextricable mixture of actual victims and plain parasites. Since need, not achievement, is held as the criterion of rewards, the government necessarily keeps sacrificing the more productive groups to the less productive, gradually chaining the top level of the economy, then the next level, then the next. (How else are unachieved rewards to be provided?)

    There are two kinds of need involved in this process: the need of the group making demands, which is openly proclaimed and serves as cover for another need, which is never mentioned—the need of the power-seekers, who require a group of dependent favor-recipients in order to rise to power. Altruism feeds the first need, statism feeds the second, Pragmatism blinds everyone—including victims and profiteers—not merely to the deadly nature of the process, but even to the fact that a process is going on.

    A real turning point came when the welfare statists switched from economics to physiology: they began to seek a new power base in deliberately fostered racism, the racism of minority groups, then in the hatreds and inferiority complexes of women, of “the young,” etc. The significant aspect of this switch was the severing of economic rewards from productive work. Physiology replaced the conditions of employment as the basis of social claims. The demands were no longer for “just compensation,” but just for compensation, with no work required.

    So long as the power-seekers clung to the basic premises of the welfare state, holding need as the criterion of rewards, logic forced them, step by step, to champion the interests of the less and less productive groups, until they reached the ultimate dead end of turning from the role of champions of “honest toil” to the role of champions of open parasitism, parasitism on principle, parasitism as a “right” (with their famous slogan turning into: “Who does not toil, shall eat those who do”).

    https://quotefancy.com/media/wallpaper/3840×2160/2942169-Ayn-Rand-Quote-The-difference-between-a-welfare-state-and-a.jpg

  39. SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife Avatar
    SirSimpleSimonPresidentForLife

    What if both Maduro and the new boy, whatsis name? and his American handlers are both in the wrong?

    What if whatever happens the majority of the Venezuelan people are being screwed/will be screwed?

    What if it is just a bunch of big boys fighting to gain more money for themselves.

    What if nobody cares a rat’s ass about the Venezuelan people?


  40. By the way, Freedom Crier, I would rather stand with Pacha than with you any day. How could I stand with you when you stand with that vile creature named Trump?????

    See Pacha’s heart is in the right place. He has righteous anger at the injustice in the world and the oppression of the majority of its people. I may not agree with his ideology or his method but I share his righteous anger. There are billionaires in this capitalist system who are nothing but bloodsuckers. They suck the life out of the world. But you portray them as the world’s saviours. All the have saved so far are themselves and their families. But that safety is temporary. For what they failed to understand is that ultimately, in the long run, their salvation is tied to the salvation of the masses.

    Capitalism needs fixing. Ask the billionaires who just met in Davos. Even they can no longer deny it. But they only say it because they know that the people no longer extol them. The people are turning against them. Soon they will need more than a few bodyguards.

    And so it is their own freedom they are worried about. And that of their children. But they are so greedy and addicted to money that they are powerless to do anything about it.

    Perhaps Pacha will have his day with the guillotine. Who knows?


  41. Simple Simon,

    You can cut out the what ifs. Ya dun know.


  42. Donna you are Soooo missing everything, you want to pretend that you care for people but not enough, you want to get rid of the Billionaires with the pitch fork. You like most people feel that if they Rob the Billionaires you might get something. What you do not realize is that communism does not create wealth it consumes wealth. And because of your desires to hope that people like Pachamama get in charge they will feather their nest first and you may get a feather but because of their policies you would lose four feathers.

    Also what you are not thinking about is that even Billionaires die normally, and the funny thing is they do not take their wealth with them and they would have to answer for their deeds as you would have to answer for your deeds as well as your Envying heart, the same way that you think the same Billionaires have greed in their hearts. Go and work for yours and stop Envying.

    https://www.azquotes.com/image-quotes/Quotation-Winston-Churchill-Socialism-is-a-philosophy-of-failure-the-creed-of-ignorance-5-62-82.jpg

    But people like Pachamama do not kill the wealthy they become friends with them even while taking their money but they kill ordinary people like you and I. Do not allow your Sin of Envy to make you commit Suicide by letting people like Pachamama get power. You seem to be advocating force by pretending to sit back while encouraging people like Pachamama to go forward with his guillotine.

    You really have not thought these things through you are driven by your emotions. Emotions do not have directions, it goes around in a loop and you never get out of it. You have to think and exercise reason and get out of the loop of your raw emotions and think for yourself instead of Swallowing the Fake News.

    Pachamama wants to Kill the Demonstrators in Venezuela he Stands with Maduro, the Dictator who has starved and plundered his people…You believe that being in the ling with his kind will somehow elevate your status on this Blog… A word of advice, it is Better to Walk Alone than with those going in the Wrong Direction.

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOCMAvDVoAMqa_I.jpg


  43. Very well said Freedom Crier, there are none so blind as those who will not see.


  44. https://www.facebook.com/VoxBorders/videos/586851518401649/

    PRESS RELEASE

    FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 01, 2019

    THE VENEZUELAN ASSOCIATION OF BARBADOS ADVISES THE

    BARBADIAN PUBLIC THAT A PROTEST AGAINST THE ILLEGITIMATE

    MADURO REGIME WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY FEBRUARY 02,

    2019 AT ROCKLEY BEACH CAR PARK FROM 10.00 -11:30 AM

    THIS PROTEST IS BEING HELD IN COORDINATION WITH THE

    NGO, A WORLD WITHOUT GAGS; (MUZZLES) A WORLDWIDE

    ORGANIZATION THAT PROMOTES THE RETURN OF

    DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIC PRACTICES TO VENEZUELA.

    THE BARBADOS PROTEST CALLS FOR:

    AN END OF THE USURPATION OF THE VENEZUELAN PRESIDENCY BY NICOLAS MADURO

    FORMING OF AN INTERIM GOVERNMENT AS PER ARTICLE 233 OF THE VENEZUELAN CONSTITUTION

    DEMOCRATIC, FREE AND TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS TO BE HELD AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

    WORLDWIDE PARTICIPATION AS OF TODAY FEBRUARY 01, 2019

    IN SIMILAR PROTESTS AS OURS IS BEING HELD IN 38

    COUNTRIES FROM REGIONS AS FOLLOWS:

    LATIN AMERICA 7 COUNTRIES

    CENTRAL AMERICA 5

    NORTH AMERICA 2

    CARIBBEAN 5

    EUROPE 14

    5 OTHERS INCLUDING AUSTRALIA, JAPAN, DUBAI,KUWAIT.

    IN THE USA PROTESTS WILL BE HELD IN 44 CITIES. IN SPAIN 21 CITIES. IN MEXICO 16 CITIES

    WE CALL ON BARBADIANS WHO CARE ABOUT DEMOCRACY,

    FREEDOMS AND THE RIGHT TO HAVE A DIFFERENT OPINION

    THAN THAT OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY TO PASS BY AND

    MEET US AND LEARN MORE OF WHAT ORDINARY CITIZENS ARE

    ENDURING UNDER THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE MADURO

    REGIME.

    Mirna Hughes


  45. Oh dear, your friend Pachamama won’t like that!!


  46. Venezuela’s collapse is a window into how the Oil Age will unravel

    Published by INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a crowdfunded investigative journalism project for people and planet. Please support us to keep digging where others fear to tread.

    For some, the crisis in Venezuela is all about the endemic corruption of Nicolás Maduro, continuing the broken legacy of Chavez’s ideological experiment in socialism under the mounting insidious influence of Putin. For others, it’s all about the ongoing counter-democratic meddling of the United States, which has for years wanted to bring Venezuela — with its huge oil reserves — back into the orbit of American power, and is now interfering again to undermine a democratically elected leader in Latin America.

    Neither side truly understands the real driving force behind the collapse of Venezuela: we have moved into the twilight of the Age of Oil.

    So how does a country like Venezuela with the largest reserves of crude oil in the world end up incapable of developing them? While various elements of socialism, corruption and neoliberal capitalism are all implicated in various ways, what no one’s talking about — especially the global oil industry — is that over the last decade, we’ve shifted into a new era. The world has moved from largely extracting cheap, easy crude, to becoming increasingly dependent on unconventional forms of oil and gas that are much more difficult and expensive to produce.

    Oil isn’t running out, in fact, it’s everywhere — we’ve more than enough to fry the planet. But as the easy, cheap stuff has plateaued, production costs have soared. And as a consequence the most expensive oil to produce has become increasingly unprofitable.

    SNIP

    A deeper look reveals that the causes of Venezuela’s oil problems are slightly more complicated than the ‘Chávez killed it’ meme. Since peaking around 1997, Venezuelan oil production has declined over the last two decades, but in recent years has experienced a precipitous fall. There can be little doubt that serious mismanagement in the oil industry has played a role in this decline. However, there is a fundamental driver other than mismanagement which the press has consistently ignored in reporting on Venezuala’s current crisis: the increasingly fraught economics of oil.

    The vast bulk of Venezuela’s oil is not conventional crude, but unconventional “heavy oil”, a highly viscous liquid that requires unconventional techniques to extract and flow, often with heat from steam, and/or mixing it with lighter forms of crude in the refining process. Heavy oil thus has a higher cost of extraction than normal crude, and a lower market price due to the refining difficulties. In theory, heavy oil can be produced at below break-even prices to a profit, but greater investment is still needed to get to that point.

    The higher costs of extraction and refining have played a key role in making Venezuela’s oil production efforts increasingly unprofitable and unsustainable. When oil prices were at their height between 2005 and 2008, Venezuela was able to weather the inefficiencies and mismanagement in its oil industry due to much higher profits thanks to prices between $100 and $150 a barrel. Global oil prices were spiking as global conventional crude oil production began to plateau, causing an increasing shift to unconventional sources.

    That global shift did not mean that oil was running out, but that we were moving deeper into dependence on more difficult and expensive forms of unconventional oil and gas. The shift can be best understood through the concept of Energy Return on Investment (EROI), pioneered principally by the State University of New York environmental scientist Professor Charles Hall, a ratio which measures how much energy is used to extract a particular quantity of energy from any resource. Hall has shown that as we are consuming ever larger quantities of energy, we are using more and more energy to do so, leaving less ‘surplus energy’ at the end to underpin social and economic activity.

    SNIP

    The coming oil crisis
    It is not entirely surprising that Bolton is particularly eager at this time to extend US energy companies into Venezuela.
    North American exploration and production companies have seen their net debt balloon from $50 billion in 2005 to nearly $200 billion by 2015. “[The fracking] industry doesn’t make money…. It’s on much shakier financial footing than most people realize,” said McLean, who has just authored the book, Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It’s Changing the World. Indeed, there is serious gulf between oil industry claims about opportunities for profit, and what is actually happening in those companies:

    “When you look at oil companies’ presentations, there’s something that doesn’t make sense because they show their investors these beautiful investor decks with gorgeous slides indicating that they will produce an 80% or 60% internal rate of return. And then you go to the corporate level and you see that the company isn’t making money, and you wonder what happened between point A and point B.”

    https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/venezuelas-collapse-is-a-window-into-how-the-oil-age-will-unravel-f80aadff7786

    See the blog OurFiniteWorld (dot) com for further explanation of oil pricing and the state of the world economy as a greater and greater proportion of the world’s oil supply by default has to come from expensive to develop and refine oil (as the supply of “cheap to develop oil” shrinks) to meet energy demands. Back in the glory days of the post WWII era, a very high percentage of the world’s oil supply could be obtained just by drilling a deep, or even not so deep, hole, sticking a pipe in the ground and letting the light, sweet (cheap to refine) oil flow out under pressure into storage tanks and pipelines. When the natural pressure forcing the oil out dropped too much, secondary recovery techniques could be employed at some cost, but the oil coming out what was still pretty much of the light, sweet type, uncontaminated by suflur, that is easy and cheap to refine.

    By contrast to get oil and/or its refined products to the market today, the energy companies have to use more expensive (in both monetary and energy terms) methods to get the oil out of the ground in the first place and then refine into useful products. The additional cost of this newer oil cannot be passed onto the consumer ad infinitum, as at some point the consumer can’t afford oil based products or the goods made and transported with this newer oil derived energy. Economies then slip into recession, and prices consequently drop. However for the oil industry a price drop in oil means that the market price of oil is not enough for them to develop the new oil and make a profit. The longer low prices stick around, the worse the economic consequences for the oil industry.


  47. @Green Monkey

    Do you know if the same methodology affects oil extraction in Trinidad?


  48. You think this is about oil,rather than the grabbing for the brass ring, I love socialism all pigs in the farm are equal just some pigs are more equal than others.


  49. Lawson

    The thing the Framers of the American Constition feared most were a Republican majority House and Senate or vice versa …. at this point the Republican form of governance becomes a dictatorship … All the pigs in the farm are equal just one pig has all of the power …

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