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by the time he done ask, and the people figure out what he asking, it would be the 2020 election...Numb3r4 wrote:Ah quick question, 'yuh tink' we could still get some 'ah dat dragon gyas'?
Maybe Moses should ask.
sMASH wrote:by the time he done ask, and the people figure out what he asking, it would be the 2020 election...Numb3r4 wrote:Ah quick question, 'yuh tink' we could still get some 'ah dat dragon gyas'?
Maybe Moses should ask.
FordeG wrote:sMASH wrote:by the time he done ask, and the people figure out what he asking, it would be the 2020 election...Numb3r4 wrote:Ah quick question, 'yuh tink' we could still get some 'ah dat dragon gyas'?
Maybe Moses should ask.
Rowley did everything he could to protect this deal and imagine we have Trinis gloating over the fact this deal could fall through.
No one can say for sure, but the reality is we may lose it.
FordeG wrote:sMASH wrote:by the time he done ask, and the people figure out what he asking, it would be the 2020 election...Numb3r4 wrote:Ah quick question, 'yuh tink' we could still get some 'ah dat dragon gyas'?
Maybe Moses should ask.
Rowley did everything he could to protect this deal and imagine we have Trinis gloating over the fact this deal could fall through.
No one can say for sure, but the reality is we may lose it.
maj. tom wrote:Step 1 of being a successful fascist: pay and fatten up your military officers so good that they will never revolt even when looking into the tears of suffering of their own people. You could see it in the eyes of those men on the border just following their orders, doing their duty. Shame on all those senior officers under Maduro for not doing what they know is right for their own people.
Things getting ripe for a bloody revolution.
maj. tom wrote:Step 1 of being a successful fascist: pay and fatten up your military officers so good that they will never revolt even when looking into the tears of suffering of their own people. You could see it in the eyes of those men on the border just following their orders, doing their duty. Shame on all those senior officers under Maduro for not doing what they know is right for their own people.
Things getting ripe for a bloody revolution.
New York Times wrote:By Nicholas Casey, Christoph Koettl and Deborah Acosta
March 10, 2019
CÚCUTA, Colombia — The narrative seemed to fit Venezuela’s authoritarian rule: Security forces, on the order of President Nicolás Maduro, had torched a convoy of humanitarian aid as millions in his country were suffering from illness and hunger.
Vice President Mike Pence wrote that “the tyrant in Caracas danced” as his henchmen “burned food & medicine.” The State Department released a video saying Mr. Maduro had ordered the trucks burned. And Venezuela’s opposition held up the images of the burning aid, reproduced on dozens of news sites and television screens throughout Latin America, as evidence of Mr. Maduro’s cruelty.
But there is a problem: The opposition itself, not Mr. Maduro’s men, appears to have set the cargo alight accidentally.
Unpublished footage obtained by The New York Times and previously released tapes — including footage released by the Colombian government, which has blamed Mr. Maduro for the fire — allowed for a reconstruction of the incident. It suggests that a Molotov cocktail thrown by an antigovernment protester was the most likely trigger for the blaze.
rt wrote:Marco Rubio blames Venezuelan power outages on explosion at imaginary ‘German Dam’
Sen. Marco Rubio was besieged by social media mockery after declaring that power outages in Caracas were caused by an explosion at a ‘German Dam’ – the name of journalist who reported on the blackouts.
The Florida lawmaker and devout Juan Guaido supporter took to his Twitter podium on Saturday to once again proselytize about the evils of Nicolas Maduro’s government. Commenting on the recent waves of blackouts in Venezuela, which Caracas has blamed on US-backed sabotage, Rubio shared some insightful Senate intelligence.
“Today another transformer explosion at the German Dam in Bolivar State caused another massive blackout. The result? Critically ill patients have died, the #Caracas metro remains out of service & few if any flights have arrived at or departed from Caracas in over 20 hours,” he tweeted.
There’s only one problem with Rubio’s otherwise watertight dam theory: There is no “German Dam” in Bolivar State or any other part of Venezuela. It seems that the senator confused the name of a journalist covering the power outages, German Dam, with an imaginary (but combustible) inanimate object.
Responding to Rubio’s tweet, Mr Dam informed the senator that he was a human and not a barrier constructed to hold back water that mysteriously blew up.
The_Honourable wrote:Well damn... Venezuela army set 2 trucks with food and medicine on fire at the Colombia border.
By Nicholas Casey, Christoph Koettl and Deborah Acosta
March 10, 2019
CÚCUTA, Colombia — The narrative seemed to fit Venezuela’s authoritarian rule: Security forces, on the order of President Nicolás Maduro, had torched a convoy of humanitarian aid as millions in his country were suffering from illness and hunger.
Vice President Mike Pence wrote that “the tyrant in Caracas danced” as his henchmen “burned food & medicine.” The State Department released a video saying Mr. Maduro had ordered the trucks burned. And Venezuela’s opposition held up the images of the burning aid, reproduced on dozens of news sites and television screens throughout Latin America, as evidence of Mr. Maduro’s cruelty.
But there is a problem: The opposition itself, not Mr. Maduro’s men, appears to have set the cargo alight accidentally.
Unpublished footage obtained by The New York Times and previously released tapes — including footage released by the Colombian government, which has blamed Mr. Maduro for the fire — allowed for a reconstruction of the incident. It suggests that a Molotov cocktail thrown by an antigovernment protester was the most likely trigger for the blaze.
At one point, a homemade bomb made from a bottle is hurled toward the police, who were blocking a bridge connecting Colombia and Venezuela to prevent the aid trucks from getting through.
But the rag used to light the Molotov cocktail separates from the bottle, flying toward the aid truck instead.
The same protester can be seen 20 minutes earlier, in a different video, hitting another truck with a Molotov cocktail, without setting it on fire.
The burning of the aid last month has led to broad condemnation of the Venezuelan government.
More than three million people have fled the country because of the humanitarian crisis caused by Mr. Maduro’s mismanagement of the economy. Political opponents who have remained in the country face repression by his security forces, with many jailed, tortured or forced into exile. Many demonstrators have been killed and even more injured during street protests.
Many of Mr. Maduro’s critics claim that he ordered medication set on fire during the border standoff — even though many of his people have died of medicine shortages in hospitals.
Yet the claim about a shipment of medicine, too, appears to be unsubstantiated, according to videos and interviews.
The United States Agency for International Development, the principal supplier of the aid at the bridge, did not list medicine among its donations. A top opposition official on the bridge that day told The Times that the burned shipment contained medical supplies like face masks and gloves, but not medicine. And video clips reviewed by The Times show some of the boxes contained hygiene kits, which the Americans identified as containing supplies like soap and toothpaste.
Yet the claim that Mr. Maduro burned medicine has persisted.
“Maduro has lied about the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, he contracts criminals to burn food and medicine intended for the Venezuelan people,” wrote John R. Bolton, President Trump’s national security adviser, in a message posted on Twitter on March 2.
After being contacted by The Times about these claims, American officials released a statement describing how the fire began more cautiously.
“Eyewitness accounts indicate that the fire started when Maduro’s forces violently blocked the entry of humanitarian assistance,” the statement said. It did not specify that Mr. Maduro’s forces lit the fire.
American officials also noted that, whatever the circumstances, they held Mr. Maduro responsible because he blocked the aid trucks that day, punishing Venezuelans in need.
“Maduro is responsible for creating the conditions for violence,” said Garrett Marquis, a spokesman for the National Security Council. “His thugs denied the entry of tons of food and medicine, while thousands of courageous volunteers sought to safeguard and deliver aid to Venezuelan families.”
The_Honourable wrote:da faq...
sMASH wrote:Seems accidental though. While pelting the army, one of the flambo separated, and the rag flew off on a truck.
And apparantly, aid IS accepted into the country, but from other countries But America.The_Honourable wrote:da faq...
matr1x wrote:Nice skies for star gazing
shake d livin wake d dead wrote:https://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/local/t-t-blanked-as-trump-invites-caribbean-leaders-to-meeting/article_f0f836c4-4b17-11e9-80c2-37e538bbccf4.html
they blank we mc
U.S. President Donald Trump has invited the leaders of the Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica and Saint Lucia to his Florida resort on Friday to discuss Chinese "predatory economic practices" and the crisis in Venezuela.
Also to be discussed is security cooperation and potential opportunities for energy investment, the White House said in a statement issued on Tuesday.
No invitation was extended to Trinidad and Tobago.