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    5 months ago

    I’m anticipating strife and reporting from additional sources. This could get ugly and people should be aware of it.

    Note that al-jazeera itself reported this in the article you linked:

    “Everything we have seen so far indicates the results of the government are just produced,” Phil Gunson, International Crisis Group’s senior analyst for Venezuela, told Al Jazeera. He claimed the tallies announced by the government-controlled electoral authority did not correspond to the votes cast.

    “The result that the opposition claims is the correct one … corresponds very closely to what opinion polls have been saying for the last several months,” Gunson said. “All the partial results we have seen so far indicate the opposition got something like three-fifths of the vote.”

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      5 months ago

      Looking at this International Crisis Group’s list of donors:

      BP

      Chevron

      ENI

      Open Society Foundation

      Rockerfeller Brothers Trust

      As well as various Western European & gulf state governments, billionaires and billionaire-founded NGOs. Of course they’re coping: their backers were hoping to get a piece of PDVSA.

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      Al-Jazeera also posts bullshit. They’re useful for specific issues in the Middle East because they aren’t totally bought off against Palestine or Iran. They still suffer from the core fallacies of corporate journalism.

      Ask certain NGOs and governments for takes, reoeat them uncritically or have some criticise others. Easy way to create or support a nonsense narrative.

      A ton of countries send delegations to Venezuela to monitor elections and they always report boring results or are vague (from oppositional countries).