if the americans wanted to get rid of maduro, they'd run an oil blockade for five minutes and watch the military take over.

very little is what it seems to be in venezuela, which is in truth just another american-dominated plantation. i don't think the americans actually want a change of government in the country.

whatever you think of the situation - and i would have difficulty taking a side here - the fact is that the current venezuelan election system has been monitored for years, and is freer and fairer than most nato countries. maduro is a dictator in the same way that iraq had weapons of mass destruction - it's an easily debunked lie. on the other hand, it is deeply irregular for the opposition leader to declare himself president like this, and whatever protests are happening are clearly not reflective of an actual mandate. the fact that he's openly calling for a military coup is really rather troubling.

but, this is nothing new.

i crashed this morning while inspecting the hive, so the day is again lost. i'm going to try to sleep most of the rest of the day to get back into a normal nocturnal schedule.

if i don't see an answer tonight, i'll just reinstall and deal with the consequences....

i don't know where the idea that a trudeau government would support something like this is coming from, given that it's messaging has been neo-liberal and pro-market to the core.

i would rather expect the existing liberals to support some kind of market liberalization scheme that pushes that myth that increased competition will lower prices. they'd be more likely to run on cutting red tape, on decreasing regulations.

this is not a government that believes in these kinds of social systems, and without a strong ndp to push for them, i don't know how you even get a government of this type to mention something like this.

if the ndp were a more serious option, you might expect the liberals to come up with a more market-friendly alternative that sounds like pharmacare but isn't. with the ndp out of the picture to the point that the liberals think they can compete in saskatchewan on the strength of ndp defections, this kind of thing is a pipe dream in the minds of liberal activists - and, like talk of a federal gai, merely a scare tactic by the business press.

https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/trudeau-spreads-the-big-pharmacare-myth-that-scores-of-canadians-cant-afford-medicine