Maduro has been apprehended and taken out of Venezuela

Don Alaska said:
Oh yes, and an investigation has reportedly been launched into Nancy Pelosi's insider trading.:)
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It's about time... Zap her with the usual fine of $200 if she is found guilty. If we were not talking about Congress, I would say pursuing that sort of thing isn't worth the cost. But you know how Congress is. They will probably spend a million or to to collect one $200 fine. Business Insider reported that 78 Members of Congress who failed to properly report their financial trades as mandated by the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012. If I counted correctly (it's always a possibility that I did not) there were 36 Republicans and 42 Democrats. But aren't they lucky? Congress considered banning lawmakers from trading individual stocks, but Democratic leaders didn't do anything with that legislation. Or they could just waive fines get on with more insider trading.

Now before you say that you don't believe anything they say either, and you are not inclined to look up the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012, also known as the STOCK Act, I know you don't so there's no need to waste your time saying it again. But here's a link to the story, if you care to read it. It details each incident.

78 members of Congress have violated a law designed to prevent insider trading and stop conflicts-of-interest

Note: In general I don't really believe anything the government says either. And it is also not my intention to argue with you or anyone else. (That's a key reason why I only got married once. Once was more than enough.) I'm just making conversation. If you don't like what I have to say, don't read it.
 
Shirley Martin said:
That was another outrageous lie.
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I expected that. But it's ok. If you said something and I said it was a lie, would you say "Most of the major news agencies disagree." That's the case here. So I will say it. Quite a few of them, Fox News included, say he said in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Sunday, June 9th, 2024. It may be a lie. It may have been a joke. But a lot of major news agencies say he did say it. And a lot of people, myself included, think he meant what he said.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
The MSM excels at "out of context". Trump isn't able to make a joke without the major networks churning out bullshit and the liberals eating it up like gospel.
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Yeah, the Major News Networks don't amount to much any more since they no longer have a monopoly on information. They used to be able to tell lies uncontested as nobody had contrary thoughts or info. That has changed. Think how simply the "independent journalists" such as Nick Shirley have done investigations that the MSM refuse to do. The so-called news media become less relevant with every failure.
 
Mary Stetler said:
Collapse of Empires:
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While I agree with some of what he said, there are so many problems with his logic and examples that I cannot (or won't take the time) to enumerate his errors. He is spouting conventional thinking and that is generally wrong. While the U.S. is in decline, it was pushed into the "world policeman" role after WWII. The British empire declined mostly because most of its colonies wanted independence and it became entangled in two possibly preventable wars it couldn't (and no country really could) afford. The presenter cherry-picked the Dutch Empire (which most Americans are totally unaware of) because it fit somewhat into his pattern. He ignored all other empires and dominance: Spanish, German, French, Russian, Japanese and others. Most were impacted by major wars. Vietnam was the turning point for the U.S. when Johnson decided to expand the spending to cover both a major long term military commitment and his wonderful expansion of the welfare system "to end poverty forever". We rescued the French in both their Indonesian war and their war against Germany twice, and as a thinks, they began a run on the U.S. dollar to try to support their own failing currency. THAT was what forced Nixon to remove the metal base to the dollar. France was trying to deplete U.S. gold reserves.

The U.S. and Rome certainly have parallels, but they guy even points out that it took Rome 400 years after the beginning of the devaluation for the Western Empire to fall. The Eastern part continued for another 800 years--he leaves that part out because it doesn't fit his pattern. The U.S. was in rapid decline and that decline was paused by Reagan for eight years before it began again. Trump is trying to put a big stop to it now and that is why there is so much hatred against him as the people who have been milking the declining empire are losing their money stream. THOSE are the people leading the attacks against Trump. He is the first President in Modern times to lose money while in office, and he is one of the first to bring inflation down form ~9% under Biden to ~2.5% currently. He is also the first President to have a trade SURPLUS in quite a while, although the surplus is small and the lower inflation is not evenly distributed. Just as Reagan destroyed the USSR, Trump is apparently trying to destroy the Iranian Theocracy that was foisted on the world by France and Jimmy Carter. The largest sponsor of worldwide terrorism may be about to go under.

Gold is a hard asset, but its value is only what people agree to pay for it, just as real estate or anything else. Bitcoin and other crypto systems are scams to enrich a few at the expense of the many. Any government could increase or decrease the value of gold by simple decree. Roosevelt did it and any other strong leader could do the same.

Enough, now back to Maduro.
 
www.cnbc.com

Trump says Venezuela will purchase American products with revenue from oil deal

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Wednesday that the U.S. will control Venezuela's oil sales indefinitely.
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"President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Venezuela will purchase American products with revenue from its oil sales.

“I have just been informed that Venezuela is going to be purchasing ONLY American Made Products, with the money they receive from our new Oil Deal,” Trump said in a post on his social media platform Truth Social.

The president said the purchases will include agricultural products, medicine, medical devices and equipment to improve Venezuela’s grid and energy facilities."
 
Beth Gallagher said:
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Trump says Venezuela will purchase American products with revenue from oil deal

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Wednesday that the U.S. will control Venezuela's oil sales indefinitely.
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"President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Venezuela will purchase American products with revenue from its oil sales.

“I have just been informed that Venezuela is going to be purchasing ONLY American Made Products, with the money they receive from our new Oil Deal,” Trump said in a post on his social media platform Truth Social.

The president said the purchases will include agricultural products, medicine, medical devices and equipment to improve Venezuela’s grid and energy facilities."
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He seized the oil, but he did not really seize the money. It will be pent here and returned to Venezuela. Not the actions of a real imperial power. He did not take down the government either; he just arrested an indicted criminal. He is in fact buying the oil and returning it in a form of "foreign aid". I suppose the Democrats will now demand that he keep the oil and not pay for it since it was Trump's idea.
 
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