Heavy gunfire crackled through the Venezuelan capital of Caracas on Tuesday after opposition leader Juan Guaido called for a military uprising to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
Guaido urged protesters and members of the military to join what he called the ‘final phase of Operation Liberty’ in a video taken at La Carlota airbase in the capital Caracas while surrounded by heavily-armed soldiers.
The troops then set up defensive positions around the base before Maduro’s forces arrived and opened fire with teargas followed by live rounds, according to witnesses.
Guaido claimed that Maduro had lost the support of the military, by the President said he had spoken with his officers who had assured him of their ‘total loyalty’.
‘Nerves of steel!,’ Maduro said on Twitter. ‘I call for maximum popular mobilization to assure the victory of peace. We will win!’
Guaido, who has the backing of the US and most Western governments, has been trying to oust Maduro for months using largely non-violent protests.
American National Security Adviser John Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Vice President Mike Pence have since tweeted their support for Guaido, saying: ‘The United States stands with the people of Venezuela.’
2. The giant MK Ultra experiment that was played on Roger Scruton:
3. More on the burka ban in Sri Lanka
4. Segment of interview with Austrian leader, Strache:
Reporter: “Population Exchange” is a term of the right-wing extremist scene.
Strache: That is a concept of reality. We do not want to become a minority in our own homeland. That is legitimate and honest and deeply democratic. Those who are not left today are automatically defamed as right-wing extremists. Only where someone tries to enforce his political goals by force, it is right-wing extremism, which of course has lost nothing in a democracy.
(So yes, the Austrian leader agrees that there is a population replacement program taking place in Europe, and he is against it. This is good. Translation MissPiggy and H/T Oz-Rita)
5. LIVE RT feed from Venezuela military coup attempt
There is a lot going on and some truly stellar videos in translation. Also the full Baghdadi clip is done but its taking forever to publish at B.T. There is another clip being worked on which is of a journalist who was jailed for years in Qutar and talks about the rank corruption and horrors of that state, and how they own EVERYONE. I cannot wait for that one.
But one which will be ready today hopefully, is a short interview with the journalist who went up to a French/Euro-tank driver during a Yellow Vest and asked what the new gas was, that they were spewing on everyone. He was arrested and jailed for that question, anbd forbidden from going to any rallies. He promises he will though, as France is not a country where the public is kept in the dark. That interview is done and in processing but using some antique equipment for the moment so it could be a while.
Thank you Xanthippa, PC., Wrath of Khan, Oz-Rita, M., EB., Johnny U., and all who have been contributing these past few days. So much going on and so much to do! But now is not the time to despair. While tragedy is all around us. great things are also happening. When an election happens, the voices of reason either win, or make great gains against ludicrous conditions against them. So we MUST keep ourselves informed and inform others even at what risk we can afford. The information battlespace is where this war is for the most part. And decent people who, for lack of a better term, ‘identify’ with the left can be turned when you show them and explain to them how the goals they seek are better achieved through reason and truth and power to the people, as opposed to the leftist/Islamic oligarchies they seem to defend.


