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Venezuelan embassy goes dark as standoff intensifies on streets of Washington
lmtonline.com ^ | 5/9/19 | Marissa J. Lang

Posted on 05/09/2019 2:20:02 PM PDT by ransomnote

Edited on 05/09/2019 4:38:59 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

WASHINGTON - The sun had just dipped below the horizon Wednesday evening when the lights flicked off inside the Venezuelan embassy in Washington.

Waves of cheers rolled up and down the ordinarily quiet street in the elite Georgetown neighborhood at the center of an intensifying standoff between backers of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaid

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 201905; codepink; cuba; embassy; juanguaido; nicaragua; nicolasmaduro; russia; turkey; venezuela; washington
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1 posted on 05/09/2019 2:20:02 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote
About two weeks into Code Pink's residency, Venezuelan and Venezuelan-American protesters began to gather outside. They have not left since

Odd that this hasn't been reported in the so-called 'news media'.

/s

2 posted on 05/09/2019 2:23:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: ransomnote

Send in The Marines....


3 posted on 05/09/2019 2:27:56 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ransomnote

They probably didn’t pay their utility bills.


4 posted on 05/09/2019 2:34:50 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Paladin2
"Send in The Marines...."

That would let them off easy and in fact save them. The code pinko Maduro supporters are surrounded by the opposition to Maduro - many of who have relatives and/or friend in Maduro;s Venezuela...

...They should turn it into a siege/blockade and force those Commie supporters to live as Maduro and Communism is forcing Venezuelans to live: starving without food, denied the most basic medical care and even deprived of clean water.

6 posted on 05/09/2019 2:51:31 PM PDT by drpix
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To: drpix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=24&v=eFvxqQTh3m4

Tom Lehrer - Send the Marines


7 posted on 05/09/2019 2:59:10 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: BenLurkin

“”Odd that this hasn’t been reported in the so-called ‘news media’.””

I know you meant to be sarcastic but I’m surprised that this hasn’t been covered here if it’s been going on for a month. I commented last week on a thread and was jumped on because I thought people were talking about protests IN VENEZUELA...but I was put straight immediately that “this is at the embassy in DC which is Venezuela’s territory.” I know I’m trying to avoid the TV news - network or cable - but to have it going on for this long and not commented on before is weird.


8 posted on 05/09/2019 3:03:12 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Paladin2
I could never decide who was a more nauseating smug pansy - Lehrer or Dick Cavett.
9 posted on 05/09/2019 3:06:08 PM PDT by drpix
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To: BenLurkin

Code Pink sh*ts love being human shields. They were completely silent for eight years of the Kenyan Administration years.


10 posted on 05/09/2019 3:06:13 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: SpaceBar

*** They probably didn’t pay their utility bills. ***

Photos of the Embassy’s “paid in full” w/ 0 balance are posted on line.

Also not shown widely, a 70 year old vet bleeding from head wounds after Secret Service beat him up, then refused to call an ambulance.

If the US is going to start using the Macron Model of brutality and violence against peaceful protestors, I have great concern.

BTW, the People in the Embassy are there with Maduro’s blessing. Guaido, who neither ran for President, nor was elected, is not the legitimate President under the Venezuelan Constitution.


11 posted on 05/09/2019 3:11:19 PM PDT by sockmonkey (I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

*** Chain the doors shut and burn it down. ***

Janet Napolitano, is that you? A little Waco, TX Tribute?


12 posted on 05/09/2019 3:12:56 PM PDT by sockmonkey (I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
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To: drpix

I think Lehrer had “Modern Math” pegged [And I liked modern math but could easily see that it was not a good math curriculum for those were were not destined to be Math Majors - it was, however, WAY better than the more recent Common Core Math...]:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIKGV2cTgqA


13 posted on 05/09/2019 3:13:43 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Thank You Rush

Most “News” is FAKE News, in the various categories of same.

FAKE News drives out most real reporting on real events of the day.


14 posted on 05/09/2019 3:24:55 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Any 70 year old ‘vet’ protesting alongside Code Pink is not a vet but rather, just an old communist. Probably an old communist with a ketchup packet.


15 posted on 05/05/2020 7:47:04 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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