These ideologues have been willing to sacrifice our citizens and sow chaos with their recycled experiments in regime change. Next stop: Venezuela.
We are assured that only drug smugglers are the target of U.S. operations in the Caribbean, but these assurances don’t reflect the growing reality in the region — that is, unless the U.S. plans to attack small drug boats with the overwhelming power of an aircraft carrier, which is perhaps akin to killing a housefly with a steamroller. But with over 10,000 U.S. troops, eight warships, a Virginia-class submarine, and a dozen F-35s already in the Caribbean, and now the USS Gerald Ford Strike Group surging toward the region, the stage is clearly being set for something larger.
There are assumptions made that, if the U.S. does pursue regime change, it would be an overwhelming victory. But what if an airstrikes-only strategy doesn’t push Maduro out? What if the country is split or spirals into civil war? Will we have to escalate further and further until Maduro is toppled?
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The Gaza health ministry said on Monday that only 91 of the 315 bodies released by Israel so far as part of the ceasefire agreement have been identified, due to the condition of the bodies.
Most of the bodies showed signs of torture, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
The ministry decided to bury the bodies of 38 Palestinians who were being held by Israel in the Cemetery for the Unknown after it "became impossible to identify them".
The absence of testing equipment due to the Israeli blockade and the destruction of laboratories in Gaza has made the identification process difficult.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/only-91-315-bodies-returned-israel-identified-most-show-signs-torture?nid=430463
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by Joseph Solis-Mullen
As a historian of U.S. foreign policy and a vocal critic of empire’s overreach, I urge restraint. Nonintervention is not isolationism; it is wisdom born of bitter experience. The notion that American military might can resolve Nigeria’s deep-seated religious and ethnic strife ignores the region’s complexities and invites catastrophe.
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/america-must-stay-out-of-nigeria/
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Authored by Armstrong Williams via The Epoch Times,
When a 29-year-old man in Minnesota can post a TikTok video allegedly offering $45,000 for the assassination of former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, we can’t dismiss it as another outburst from an online extremist. It’s a symptom of something far deeper—the moral corrosion of our civic life.
According to the FBI, Tyler Avalos uploaded a video on Oct. 16 captioned “WANTED: Pam Bondi. REWARD: $45,000. DEAD OR ALIVE (PREFERABLY DEAD),” complete with Bondi’s image in a rifle’s crosshairs. This wasn’t done in secret corners of the dark web. It was posted openly on TikTok—the global stage for attention seekers and provocateurs.
That brazenness should alarm every American. It tells us the guardrails that once kept outrage and violence in check have collapsed.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/age-brazen-madness-and-collapse-fear
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By Tyler Durden
More storms clouds are gathering over the torrid, and in some cases chaotic, rollout of US data centers.
Fermi's massive 11 GW energy and data center project in Texas, called Project Matador, which the company has envisioned to be the world's largest AI data center and energy campus in the Texas Panhandle, near Amarillo, is struggling to close the deal with its first major data center tenant. And since Fermi is set up as REIT that allocates income from tenants to shareholders, the delay may raise doubts about attracting other potential money-generating tenants, in a toxic feedback loop.
Fermi's Donald J. Trump campus is an array of solar, natural gas and nuclear power generation, as well as storage and 2.6 million square feet of data-center capacity. With 11 gigawatts of power, including 6 gigawatts of nuclear power and 5 gigawatts of gas-powered generation, Project Matador ranks as the "largest advanced energy and data campus in the world" to deliver next-generation AI at scale, Fermi said.
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/fermis-massive-texas-data-center-struggles-sign-its-first-major-tenant
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The Senate late Monday passed a funding package that would reopen the government and fund the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration. Tucked into the funding bill is a provision that would re-criminalize many of the intoxicating hemp-derived products that were legalized by the 2018 Farm Bill.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) waged a last-minute fight to try to keep the provision out, threatening to drag out the process of debating the underlying bill until he got a vote on an amendment to strip the language.
He got the vote on Monday; Paul and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) were the only Republicans who voted in favor.
https://thehill.com/newsletters/5601265-federal-thc-ban-send-hemp-companies-scrambling/
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The US president was asked about the potential lawsuit by Fox News' Laura Ingraham in an interview that ran Tuesday and was filmed just hours after director-general Tim Davie quit the BBC on Sunday.
Mr Trump said: 'I guess I have to, why not? They defrauded the public and they've admitted it, this is within one of our, supposedly, great allies. That's a pretty sad event.'
He also claimed that the public broadcaster changed his 'beautiful, calming' speech on January 6 to 'something radical'.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15282737/Donald-Trump-confirms-BBC-lawsuit.html
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Kathy Hochul, who endorsed Mamdani's free bus push, now says she cannot remove fare revenue because the entire transit system depends on the money
https://citizenwatchreport.com/kathy-hochul-who-endorsed-mamdanis-free-bus-push-now-says-she-cannot-remove-fare-revenue-because-the-entire-transit-system-depends-on-the-money/
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US senior Special Operations officers in a briefing last month did not provide a comprehensive explanation why the Trump administration needed a massive military presence in the Caribbean for strikes on a few small boats allegedly used by drug cartels, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing sources with the knowledge.
At the moment, there is no public information from the Pentagon on what the military is using to conduct the strikes, but the sources told CNN that MQ-9 Reaper drones are used for US attacks on alleged drug boats, as well as AC-130J gunships and fighter jets.
The sources told CNN that the Pentagon officials also could not provide an exact amount of taxpayers' dollars spent on the counternarcotics campaign. However, administration officials have stated that each strike costs up to hundreds of thousands of dollars, the report said.
A significant part of all deployed US naval assets worldwide have been located in US Southern Command since last month, and even more US military assets are about to be placed in the Caribbean, the report added.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20251111/us-officers-cannot-explain-why-so-much-military-needed-for-strikes-in-caribbean---reports-1123101287.html
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Illegal workers are being used to drive down wages while taxpayers are forced to subsidize the very system pushing them out of their own jobs
https://citizenwatchreport.com/illegal-workers-are-being-used-to-drive-down-wages-while-taxpayers-are-forced-to-subsidize-the-very-system-pushing-them-out-of-their-own-jobs/
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California Democrats are hiring new San Diego Enforcement Officers to visit every home in San Diego every year
These new enforcement officers called “Lid lifters” come to your home and will lift your trash cans lids to ensure you are recycling properly
They are paid $70k per year plus benefits. This is real and they’re already on camera lifting San Diego residents trash can lids
“Have you seen the lid lifters in San Diego? They are city employees that are literally lifting the lids onto your trash cans to make sure you are placing your waste in the correct bins. Every house in San Diego will be visited once a year by a team of city compliance officers that walks the streets and inspects each trash can. The effort is part of a state bill, 1383, that requires cities to implement a compliance program and divert organic waste from trash and recycling bins into the organic waste bin.”
“Your new trash fees are paying for these lid lifters at $70,000 per year plus benefits”
https://citizenwatchreport.com/san-diego-now-has-government-workers-lifting-your-trash-can-lids-for-compliance/
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This deployment aims to strengthen capabilities against narcotics trafficking and transnational criminal organizations in the region encompassing Central and South America, the Caribbean Sea, and adjacent waters.
The group, comprising over 4,000 personnel and multiple air and surface assets, integrates with existing joint forces to enhance detection, monitoring, and disruption of illicit activities.
https://www.defconalerts.com/p/uss-gerald-r-ford-carrier-strike-eda?utm_source=post-email-title
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“President Trump’s signing of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act marked the beginning of a new chapter for oil and gas development in the Gulf of America and Alaska’s Cook Inlet,” acting BOEM Director Matt Giacona said in the statement.
“BOEM is now moving forward with a predictable, congressionally mandated leasing schedule that will support offshore oil and gas development for decades to come.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/trump-admin-expands-oil-gas-drilling-gulf-america-eyes-alaska-next
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