CarrZee (story under construction): There are a bunch of signals that clearly show the kidnapping by the United States of the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro earlier Saturday is NOT about narcotics.
The first relate to how the mainstream western press are reporting it, according to my survey of several media outlets.
Hardly anyone calls it a kidnapping, even though that’s clearly what it is.
They say Maduro has been captured, taken, removed or seized … like the US has some sort of jurisdiction that it clearly does not have.
Just imagine how bat-shit crazy Americans would go should some other country have audaciously grabbed President Trump like this … in similar circumstances….say, for shooting missiles at the country’s citizens …. ignoring international law.
Few news reports focus on the breach of Venezuela’s national sovereignty, even if they mention it.
The way most people consume news, they focus on the headlines, so many people won’t be aware of the illegality of the Trump administration’s kidnapping crime.
That’s hidden by the US-dominated global propaganda machine.
The most telling signal is the timing.
It came straight after the close of the crude oil markets Friday night.
So doing the bad behavior in the weekend window of closed markets is clear evidence of an attempted cover up of the real motive.
The jump in oil prices will be a little less obvious.
So clearly, to me at least, Trump’s move is related to buttressing the falling price of oil.
Trump governs the world’s biggest petro state, after all (something the mainstream press largely ignore, too).
Crude price evaporates
Brent crude oil threatened to drop below $60 a barrel on Friday (see chart below) and futures have fallen from near $80 in the middle of last year (see second chart).
Demand is being hurt by electric vehicles — and OPEC+, which already rigs the market, is struggling to keep prices high enough to satisfy the greedy, polluting, deadly, climate-killing, yet still very powerful, crude industry.
Having “your fossil fuel man” as US president has its benefits.
Warmongering is a common playbook for boosting oil prices and distracting climate negotiations during the past 35 years.
The USA, the biggest oil producer, knew starting violence in Venezuela would help boost prices Sunday night.
It’s already tested that system by stealing oil vessels, which already boosted prices after they sunk below $60 in the middle of last month.
Supporting USD
Supporting oil also buttresses the US dollar, because buyers need to buy USD before they buy crude.
Venezuelan oil producers have been selling oil to China and increasingly using the Chinese Yuan for transactions, moving away from the U.S. dollar to circumvent sanctions and “spread the joy”, with payments sometimes routed through complex deals involving digital assets or re-labeling oil as Malaysian …to reach Chinese refiners.
Trump is also simultaneously threatening Iran and Taiwan, which will further widen the “risk premium” in oil prices Sunday night London time.
Venezuela’s gold is also in the frame.
The resulting ignorant news coverage Saturday was a clear example of how controlling global propaganda helps the corrupt US’s financial interests (these is no other way to see this behavior than corruption and racketeering).
It’s helping US government and corporate interests while hurting the 90% rest of us 8.1 billion people, living here on earth.
Everyone pays more for nearly everything because of higher oil prices.
Oil prices will plunge once global demand falls to reach capacity ….because capacity is still mostly rising (because the rigged markets rewards investment …yet it is not sustainable).
Trump is seeking to delay the “plunge moment” to help his fossil fuel and hedge fund mates for as long as possible.
His actions (opposite to his words) show he clearly cares little for downtrodden drivers and inflation-hit mums, dads and kids.
Brent crude nearly falls below $60 on Friday. ICE Futures Europe.
Brent has been dropping as OPEC loses control of prices because demand is barely rising. 2-year chart
The other crude oil-market manipulation is Mr Trump’s brazen grab for control of Venezuela’s crude reserves, the world’s biggest.
This grab is better reported by the press than the price manipulation, according to my survey.
For me, the most astonishing thing is the lengths Mr Trump will go to protect the oil price — and world leaders /competition regulators / the press let him get away with it … without hardly any comment.
And he gets away even though it hurts the finances of every reporter and editor employed by the mainstream press. Astonishing, how hypnotized they are.
In 2026, the world’s humans are the most propagandized in global history.
Notes
Example snips …check out the bad, ugly ….and a little good.
Venezuela scenario remarkably similar to on exactly 36 years ago in Panama, which is evidence it is statecraft, deep state bullying
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