A glimmer of hope in Venezuela
Posted By: PageTurner, 9/16/2021 7:08:48 AM
The news in our country and abroad has been relentlessly bad ever since we entered the calamitous Biden Era just months ago, but there are a few hopeful signs out there still. One of the best is a story receiving almost no coverage in the larger press: the Venezuela elections this November. The democratic opposition has agreed to participate after years of boycotting the Maduro regime’s rigged voting. The EU will send a large team of election monitors and Maduro has already been releasing some political prisoners in a bid to end sanctions.
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and the establishment (read: Facebook)
is banning them 4 replies
and the establishment (read: Facebook)
is banning them 4 replies
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A glimmer of hope in Venezuela
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The news in our country and abroad has been relentlessly bad ever since we entered the calamitous Biden Era just months ago, but there are a few hopeful signs out there still. One of the best is a story receiving almost no coverage in the larger press: the Venezuela elections this November. The democratic opposition has agreed to participate after years of boycotting the Maduro regime’s rigged voting. The EU will send a large team of election monitors and Maduro has already been releasing some political prisoners in a bid to end sanctions.
After showing in a custom evening gown at the Met Gala extravaganza, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is starting to sound nervous
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The full Versailles: Met Gala ruling class
pour on the hypocrisy -- led
by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 24 replies
pour on the hypocrisy -- led
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Here she is preening and showing it off for the cameras, every inch the center of attention:
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Afghan interpreter beaten, tortured by
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"The Taliban came to our house and beaten me and tortured me
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Taliban fighters celebrate around the beheaded body of a former police chief. Screenshot
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NRRT president and executive director Adam Kincaid highlighted that Pompeo and Christie “will be tremendous assets as we raise
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I hope his guy is right, he does seem to know what he's talking about.