EXTREMISM: A Dogma of Violence at Home Trafficked abroad

An Unacceptable Brand

World Sees what 

Americans 

Refuse to See

“…They have sown an ideology of hate and of pillage.” For 75 years, with the support of the West, they have planted this ideology …— first, they have executed and caused to be carried out “against the Palestinian people” “raids, extermination, genocide, atomic bombs.” They will also “go after the Arab peoples and all of the Muslim peoples…”

Give your “attention good people of the world” who listen to me. “Attention, men and women of the United States and Europe and the world.” “They have planted an ideology more dangerous than the ideology of Nazism.” (Words of a distinguished South American Head of State paraphrased, minor edit) Orinoco Tribune November 7, 2023, was reporting on a response by Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro following “statements by an Israeli minister who was in favor of dropping an atomic bomb on the Gaza Strip.” https://orinocotribune.com/president-maduro-zionism-is-more-dangerous-than-nazism/]

Anadolu Ajansı, Anadolu Agency: on Sunday November 5, 2023, “Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu (reportedly) … told Israeli media that dropping a ‘nuclear bomb’ on Gaza is ‘an option.’” November 9, 2023 news: “Palestine complains to IAEA about Israel’s threat to drop nuclear bomb on Gaza” https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/palestine-complains-to-iaea-about-israels-threat-to-drop-nuclear-bomb-on-gaza/3048066 News source Anadolu Ajansı, Anadolu Agency (AA), Republic of Turkiye; Headquarters Ankara

Venezuela’s Leader: Context

H.E. President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro Moros

official government website biographical (excerpt): 

Founder of the new Caracas Metro Union (SITRAMECA); Member of the Bolivarian Revolutionary Movement 200 (MBR-200); National Founder of the Bolivarian Workers’ Force (FBT); Founding Member of the Fifth Republic Movement (MVR) and Coordinator of the Parliamentary Team of this political party between 2000 and 2001; Coordinator of the parliamentary team of the Bloc of Change in the National Assembly (AN) and Deputy to the Congress of the Republic of Venezuela from January 23 to December 15, 1999.

Member of Congress of the Republic of Venezuela heading part of Fifth Republic Movement (MVR) and holding membership in various permanent commissions; Member of the National Constituent Assembly (president of its Commission on Citizen Participation and member of the Economic and Social Commission August 1999-January 2000).

• Elected (five-year period 2000-2005) Principal Deputy for the Federal District; Presided over the National Assembly (January-August 2006) then called to assume the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (promoted together with Commander Hugo Chávez creation and consolidation of ALBA (2001), Petrocaribe (2005), UNASUR (2008) and CELAC (2010)

• Executive Vice President (by appointment October 10, 2012); then (by constitutionally mandated appointment to President in Charge of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 

• Elected (April 14, 2013) constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, “first Chavista and working-class president in Venezuela’s contemporary history.” 

The Venezuelan president is a native of Caracas (b. November 23, 1962) who in early life became a “member of the Socialist League,” a “driver in the Caracas Metro” who also became a “member of the Board of Directors and union leader.”  

http://www.presidencia.gob.ve/Site/Web/Principal/paginas/classPresidente.php

“Nicolás Maduro Moros” [biographical source Wikipedia (excerpted): Member of the National Assembly of Venezuela for Capital District (August 3, 2000 – August 7, 2006); President of the National Assembly of Venezuela (January 5, 2005 – August 7, 2006); Minister of Foreign Affairs (August 9, 2006 – 15 January 15, 2013); Vice President of Venezuela (October 13, 2012 –March 5, 2013); President pro tempore of the Union of South American Nations (April 23, 2016 – April 21, 2017); Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement (September 17, 2016 –October 25, 2019); President of Venezuela (March 5, 2013 - ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro

November 9, 2023, Update on UNSPEAKABLE CARNAGE 

“Israeli aggression” has caused Palestinian death toll reaching at least “10,812” people including “195 medics” (51 destroyed ambulances). 

Victims of the carnage include “4,412 children,” “2,918 women,” “676 elders”; plus, more than “26,000” wounded; trapped in ruins are an estimated “2,650 people” (among them “1,400 children”), Source Press TV News “Heavy fighting continues in Gaza as Israel, US reject ceasefire, November 9, 2023, https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/11/09/714312/Palestine-Gaza-Israel-UN-OCHA-Red-Cross

“Palestine complains to IAEA about Israel's threat to drop nuclear bomb on Gaza,” https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/palestine-complains-to-iaea-about-israels-threat-to-drop-nuclear-bomb-on-gaza/3048066

 U.S. Leaders (C - S)

  in the Wings

GOP Candidates’ Staged Game of Blame and Violence

C

Bio brief: NO U.S. MILITARY/NATIONAL VOLUNTEER SERVICE Christopher James CHRISTIE: Son of New Jersey laborer and CPA; a Millionaire former United States Attorney for the State of New Jersey and New Jersey Governor

Recklessly Spreading Ignorance and Promoting Violence, Christie slanders the People’s Republic of China as “the enemy”; and advocates increasing U.S. military might with “Navy nuclear submarines” as “… the greatest deterrent to [nonexistent] Chinese aggression.”

D

Bio brief: U.S. MILITARY SERVICE Ronald Dion DESANTIS: Son of USA Rustbelt/Floridian laborer and health worker; a millionaire former teacher, coach and soldier, formerly elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and current governorship of Florida.

Recklessly Promoting Violence as advisor to the Prime Minister of Israel, DeSantis says: “Finish the job once and for all” … “They’re terrorists. They’re massacring innocent people. They would wipe every Jew off the globe if they could.”

DeSantis as bullying belligerent addressing officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran: “You harm a hair on the head of an American service member, and you are going to have hell to pay.”

H

Bio brief: NO U.S. MILITARY/NATIONAL VOLUNTEER SERVICE Nimarata Nikki Randhawa HALEY: Daughter of business owners of India (immigrants to USA); a Millionaire raised Sikh, formerly an elected member of the State of South Carolina House of Representatives and a South Carolina Governor

Recklessly Promoting Violence as advisor to the Prime Minister of Israel, Haley says: “Finish them.” “They (Israeli officials and militarists) are the tip of the spear when it comes to this Islamic terrorism and we need to make sure that we have their (Israeli officials and militarists’) backs in that process.”

Recklessly (Adolescently) Promoting Violence as bully and belligerent against the Islamic Republic of Iran, Haley declares: “Iran responds to strike.” “You punch them once, and you punch them hard, and they will back off.”

[Haley blames the People’s Republic of China for the drug problem in the United States of America. She claims erroneously and ridiculously that the Chinese are “murdering Americans with fentanyl” (a powerful synthetic drug used as a painkiller); and her presidency would “end all formal trade relations with China” … “until they stop murdering Americans.”]

Blame comes easier to pandering politicians (and lazy news agencies) than substantive and impartial education, diligent governance and diligent reporting.

Some of the Story of the Pain Killer Epidemic

In a 2021 article at Scientific American titled “We’re Overlooking a Major Culprit in the Opioid Crisis: Pharmaceutical companies and drug dealers have been part of the problem—but so have policy makers” Maia Szalavitz wrote that drug manufacturers saw the chance to make tons on money, so they began cutting “heroin with illicitly manufactured fentanyl and various other synthetic opioids, which are both cheaper to make and more potent.” A crackdown ensued. But “few have called for accountability for those who initiated the medical supply crackdown that drove the rise of fentanyl.” There has never been “a reckoning for policy makers—from the DEA to the CDC to the U.S. Congress and state legislatures—who closed pill mills and wrote laws, guidelines and regulations to decrease prescribing while making no significant effort to immediately treat the abandoned patients whether they were addicted or in pain or both.

“Once again, addiction worsened.”

The ignored fact is “that most opioid addictions start when people take drugs that are not prescribed to them,” the article said. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/were-overlooking-a-major-culprit-in-the-opioid-crisis/

A 2019 article at Peoples World by John Bachtell notes that “Millions became addicted to opioids like (Perdue-produced, DEA and FDA approved) OxyContin.” And once people were hooked (addicted), “they turned to heroin, a cheaper opioid to satisfy their craving.

“Fentanyl is far cheaper and easier to produce than even heroin and gives a powerful high.…”

“Amphetamines, street heroin, and cocaine are being cut with fentanyl—100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more potent than heroin—to bolster profits. Users are put in “immense danger of overdose.”

“Mass addiction caused by the pharmaceutical companies and distributors is the basis for an alarming new crisis of overdoses from the synthetic opioid (fentanyl). https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/big-pharma-companies-are-the-drug-kingpins-of-the-opioid-crisis/

Politicians should be mindful of

Propaganda and the Ricochet Effect

An early 2023 Statista article showed that in 2022 the estimated “total value” of the U.S. trade in goods with China was “$690.6 billion” of which “153.8 billion” was “export value” and “$536.8 billion” was “import value.” “Total value of U.S. trade in goods with China 2012-2022” by Yihan Ma, February 8, 2023 https://www.statista.com/statistics/277679/total-value-of-us-trade-in-goods-with-china-since-2006/#

“U.S. imports of trade goods from China 1985-2022,” published by Tugba Sabanoglu February 14, 2023 “In 2022, Chinese exports of trade goods to the United States amounted to about $536.75 billion.” https://www.statista.com/statistics/187675/volume-of-us-imports-of-trade-goods-from-china-since-1985/

R

Bio brief: NO U.S. MILITARY/NATIONAL VOLUNTEER SERVICE / NO U. S. ELECTIVE OFFICE credentials Vivek Ganapathy RAMASWAMY: Son of law and engineering and healthcare professionals of India (immigrants to USA); a Billionaire hedge fund investor and pharmaceutical industrialist

NDTV quoted Vivek Ramaswamy on why the United States Cannot “Get Tough with China” The Defense industrial base of the United States depends on China for the supply chain:

• For the F-35 jets
• For the shipbuilding
• For pharmaceuticals
• For semiconductors

“We can’t get tough with China,” Ramaswamy is quoted saying “because we depend on them for our modern way of life.”

And pulling out the “enemy” canard, he declared “we have to declare economic independence from our enemy.” NDTV November 9, 2023, https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-cant-get-tough-with-china-because-vivek-ramaswamy-4559998

S

Bio brief: NO U.S. MILITARY/NATIONAL VOLUNTEER SERVICE Timothy Eugene SCOTT: Son of nursing-assistant divorcée; a Millionaire formerly a South Carolina insurance man and an elected member of the State of South Carolina House of Representatives and the United States House and Senate

Recklessly (Adolescently) Promoting Violence as bully and belligerent against the Islamic Republic of Iran, Scott declares: “You actually have to cut off the head of the snake, and the head of the snake is Iran….”

Unacceptable

Brand in need of 

Correction

This brand of United States of America manifest in a duopoly of extremism and belligerence are grounds for permanent divorce. The time has long past for a responsible citizenry to exercise their citizenry duty:

• Upend the internally corrupt system by which public officials are chosen.

• Remove the for-sale sign, ban money (foreign, domestic, private, vested interest) from candidacy, elections, voting, districting, public office.

• Mandate truly democratic decision-making and choice.

• Mandate and maintain strict across-the-board rules and standards.

• Search diligently, and with determination find rational and moral (principled) human beings, competent and caring individuals with relevant experience and qualifications who are willing to contend for and responsibly assume the helm of good governance and provide public service for the general welfare of the citizenry of the United States of America.

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President Maduro said the following:







Asia InternationalNews

President Maduro: Zionism is More Dangerous Than Nazism

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

https://orinocotribune.com/president-maduro-zionism-is-more-dangerous-than-nazism/



Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro referred to Zionism as an ideology that is more dangerous that Nazism and ratified his solidarity with the people of Palestine who are falling victim to the crimes and genocide committed by the Israeli apartheid regime. Israeli attacks on Gaza have now continued for 31 days of relentless murder, largely of defenseless Palestinian women and children, constituting a crime against humanity by any standard. “Let us stop the Zionist genocide against the beloved Palestinian people,” stated president Maduro.



This Monday, November 6, the Palestinian ambassador to Venezuela, Fadi Alzaben, attended the broadcast of President Nicolás Maduro’s Con Maduro+.



Regarding the statements of an Israeli minister who was in favor of dropping an atomic bomb on the Gaza Strip, President Maduro said the following:





Original text as reported







…They have sown an ideology of hate, of pillage.”



“They have planted it for 75 years with the support of the West,” continued the president. “Attention, good world that listens to me. Attention, men and women of the United States, Europe and the world. They have planted an ideology more dangerous than the Nazi one. First, against the Palestinian people: raids, extermination, genocide, and atomic bombs. Then, they will go after the Arab peoples and all the Muslim peoples…”



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,…--

” continued the president.



“Attention,