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January 24/25, 2019
"Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own." - Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
"We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it." - Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"In the eyes of posterity it will inevitably seem that, in safeguarding our freedom, we destroyed it. The vast clandestine apparatus we built up to prove our enemies' resources and intentions only served in the end to confuse our own purposes; that practice of deceiving others for the good of the state led infallibly to our deceiving ourselves; and that vast army of clandestine personnel built up to execute these purposes were soon caught up in the web of their own sick fantasies, with disastrous consequences for them and us". - Malcom Muggeridge - May 1966
Maduro, like Chavez before him, has committed the unpardonable crime of representing the Venezuelan people instead of American corporate and financial interests. - Continue
Order Prevails in the Arab World: Through butchery and sectarianism, the autocracies of the Arab world have survived this round. But in the long run, any order dependent on murder and bloodshed is doomed to collapse.
In case you missed it: US met with Venezuela officers plotting coup: US officials met secretly with Venezuelan military officers who were plotting a coup against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
House lawmakers approve new NATO protections: The House overwhelmingly approved legislation on Tuesday night that would trigger new protections to ensure the United States remains in NATO and thwart moves by President Donald Trump from quitting the alliance.
