VENEZUELA

Another Friday roles around this time the Ides of March. I don't have anything particular to say about that. Today looks beautiful out my study window. The back of Winter might be broken, however I see mountains of snow glimmering in the bright Sun. I would be pleased if it would melt a little faster. It it is just about freezing according to my thermometer.

I haven't commented on the world distress in a long time. I have been content to observe the disintegration of the American Empire. Many Americans still do not realize we have an empire it has been so well camouflaged. It began with noble words like Manifest Destiny and egged on by The Monroe Doctrine. Land grab after land grab to save the people from their former tyrants to replace them with our corporate tyrants. Most governments of South America only could exist with the blessing of the American Corpocracy. If the governments got too uppity the leaders were eliminated one way or another and a puppet installed.

Every so often a new excuse is created to continue world domination, lately it has been the war on terror. Huh, who do you think the greatest terrorist is?

As I say, I have been content to just enjoy the love around me and rarely get upset by the horridness of the larger world. I have such a powerful belief in the power of love and the coming tsunami of love that I can generally be peaceful while watching the news as I know the madness won't last.

But sometimes, and lately, it has seemed as unending as this brutal Winter. I don't often get angry, I most often get overwhelmed with sadness and weep a bit. However, lately I have been getting angry whenever the subject of Venezuela comes up. I can't believe the newscasters spread the propaganda with a straight face, especially Chanel 2[PBS]. I sense sometimes they would like to say more. Venezuela was a very successful state. They were on the verge of eradicating poverty. They distributed their oil wealth back to the people.

Their only sin was attempting to stay free of the American Empire. They had the temerity of being friendly with Cuba and they committed the outlandish sin of wanting more control and profit from their own oil. If we would have left them alone they would be a happy successful country. Oh but no, they had the largest untapped oil reserves in the world, how could we leave them alone? [When I say we, I don't mean you and me and the rest of the folks of the United States who want to just go on living their lives. I mean a collection of corporate interest who seem to control factions of the government that meddle in the affairs of the world.]

We did everything to destroy their economy. We used sanctions, control of banking, outright theft of their resources and as the government lost power and the people suffered we blamed the government. These shenanigans have not been hidden at all. If I know it everybody could. I don't go digging for information.

We are now on the verge of invading the country. We are just looking for that excuse that will fit the propaganda smokescreen.

I get angry about this because I have watched it happen over the last ten years or so and there has been little official protest from folks who could make a difference. Are all of these supposed liberal and progressive candidates willing to make a sacrifice of the Venezuelan people just because they don't want to buck the corruption of the empire? This is really an awful thing, millions of people driven to desperation so a few oil companies and bankers can become richer! Where is the protest? Why the deadly silence as this crime against humanity unfolds? Where is the leadership?

Well I do have faith that things in the long term will work out and it is possible that the Empire will fail in this endeavor. I know people are waking up and they won't put up with this nuttiness much longer.

I know the World we want is waiting for us. We have been shaping it in our hearts and minds with the only energy there is Unconditional Love. There are so many of us. We cannot fail.

Let us not dilute our energy with anger. I won't. Instead I am going to go to my quiet place and will unconditional love on the Venezuelan people and the rest of the world.

And I will remember to forgive, for they know not what they do.

Happy Friday!

Love and Peace, Gregg