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BBC Sunday Worship – William Tyndale from Gloucestershire – who translated the Bible from Latin into English – but was burnt at the stake in Holland. 10 years later his Bible in every Church. In 1526 a book – smuggled into England from the continent – was considered so dangerous that the Bishop of London had as many copies as he could find burnt – in St Paul’s churchyard where I’m standing. The book was the New Testament, translated into English by William Tyndale – His work was to cost him his life – but 12 years after the Bishop’s bonfire Henry’s Monastery-dissolving tyrant Thomas Cromwell ordered a copy of the Bible in English to be placed in every parish church in the land. Today we give thanks for the life and work of Tyndale and for the riches he bequeathed to us. William Tyndale was born in Gloucestershire in around 1494. He was a priest and scholar, a brilliant linguist who famously vowed to “cause the boy who drives the plough” to know more of the scriptures than the powerful and learned. But England in the 1520s was a dangerous place for the work of translation. Diarmaid Macculloch is Emeritus Professor of the history of the church at Oxford University Interview with Professor Diarmaid Maculloch on why translating the Bible into English was so dangerous, how Tyndale died, and Thomas Cromwell’s role in ensuring a copy of the Bible in English was placed in every parish church. Dr Paula Gooder, Canon Chancellor at St Pauls, the Tyndale translation of the New Testament, the cathedral’s copy of Tyndale’s New Testament and his genius for translation. There will be events up and down the country this year, marking the anniversary of Tyndale’s translation. But one Cheshire town has already stolen a march on the celebrations, As part of its annual festival, Churches Together in Lymm organised a Tyndale 500 programme, showcasing the Bible through readings exhibitions and the performing arts. Miranda: Often in a Sunday worship the gospel will be followed by a sermon. But in the spirit of Tyndale who put the scriptures into our hands in our own language I’m here with the some of the people of Lymm to consider what this passage might mean to us today. Almighty God, we thank you for revealing yourself to your world, in the beauty of creation, in the incarnation of your Son Jesus, and in the witness of the Holy Scriptures. We thank you for all those who in countless generations have passed on the scriptures to us. We thank you for the skills of translators and scholars; of readers, preachers, composers and lyricists; and for all those involved in the printing and distribution of Bibles throughout the world. We pray for those who risk danger simply by owning a Bible, or by challenging those who seek to enforce one reading of it. We pray for all those who are persecuted for their faith; and for a world in which your peace, love and justice may prevail. Closing music. Thou whose Almighty Word , from Christmas Oratorio by Bob Chilcott. Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Delphian Records

BBC fake journalism not allowing use of word ‘kidnap’ or ‘Zionism’. Kidnap of Maduro and wife from Venezuela – problems with the trial in US. Trump’s speech about Venezuela operation – he wanders off script and says ‘ attack on sovereignty’. Trump leads world into geopolitical Wild West where might makes right, while laws and rules fall away “American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again,” President Donald Trump declared after United States forces hit various Venezuelan targets and elite commandos carried out the capture and rendition of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife with an audacious raid in the dead of night. “American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again,” President Donald Trump declared Saturday, after U.S. forces hit various Venezuelan targets and elite commandos carried out the capture and rendition of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife with an audacious raid in the dead of night. “Under the Trump administration we are reasserting American power in a very powerful way in our home region.” The world is still digesting the consequences of the U.S. intervention, which the Trump administration has tried to characterize as a “law enforcement” mission against Maduro, indicted in U.S. federal court on charges of narco-trafficking, rather than the clear military operation in a foreign nation that it appeared to be. Some Venezuelan military positions were leveled by U.S. strikes, with officials reporting an unspecified number of casualties. Maduro is already in New York City, awaiting an appearance in court. For many Venezuelans, especially millions of people compelled to flee from the country over the past decade of economic catastrophe under Maduro’s watch, his removal is joyous news, and the first step to a happier future. On that count, the U.S. operation was a clear tactical success in its brazen precision and efficacy. Still, the likelihood of a strategic failure looms. A dark history of failed U.S. interventions and regime-change projects haunt the current action. Boosters of the move liken it to the capture of Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega in 1989, with U.S. criminal investigations into money laundering and drug smuggling justifying the operation. But the analogy to the present collapses amid Trump’s talk of open-ended control over Venezuela and its tremendous oil wealth. By the end of the weekend, the White House had done little to dispel the confusion about what comes next in Venezuela. Trump himself suggested the United States would somehow “run” the South American nation until a proper transition away from the current dispensation could be forged. His lieutenants were more circumspect, emphasizing U.S. interests in dismantling alleged criminal networks within the Venezuelan state apparatus and reasserting American control or influence over Venezuela’s vast oil sector. Venezuela’s pro-democracy opposition voiced fears that they would be cut out in a Trump-brokered deal with the remnants of Maduro’s regime. Speaking to the Atlantic, Trump said that he expected Maduro’s former vice president — and hastily installed successor — Delcy Rodriguez to essentially do the White House’s bidding. “If she doesn’t do what’s right,” he said, “she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro.” The rest of the world has watched with mixed emotions. Many in Latin America, especially among the ascendant, Trump-aligned political right, cheered Maduro’s ouster and what seems a grievous blow to the region’s remaining left-leaning autocracies. Elsewhere, world leaders feared a grim precedent. “The bombing of Venezuelan territory and the capture of its president crosses an unacceptable line,” Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said. “The action recalls the worst moments of interference in Latin American and Caribbean politics, and threatens the regional preservation as a zone of peace.” French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot shed no tears for Maduro in a statement but said the U.S. action “contravenes the principle of the nonuse of force that underpins international law.” He warned that it was part of the steady erosion of international norms, worsened by countries such as Russia that are supposedly the guarantors of the rules-based order. “The growing number of violations of this principle by nations vested with the primary responsibility of permanent membership on the United Nations Security Council will have grave consequences for global security, sparing no one,” he said. Trump’s move into Venezuela is another nail in the coffin of the old postwar status quo. The White House reneged on commitments to receive authorization from Congress before deploying the U.S. military in Venezuela. Ahead of Monday’s emergency U.N. Security Council session on Venezuela, Trump’s U.N. ambassador, Mike Waltz, scoffed at the “hand-wringing” of his diplomatic counterparts. In a Sunday television interview, Secretary of State Marco Rubio waved away concerns about an open-ended regime change mission as a kind of “phobia.”…

Ukraine war – 2 attacks over festive period – one on Putin, the other on a NYE party in Ukraine. NYE fire in Swiss nightclub covered thoroughly in press, but not Ukraine NYE party bombing, so was the Swiss New Years Eve fire deliberate, to distract from NATO’s deliberate Kherson bombing. Russian general accuses UK spies of deadly New Year ‘terror attack’ in occupied Ukraine A senior Russian military official has accused British intelligence services of being involved in a New Year’s Eve drone strike in Russian-controlled parts of southern Ukraine. The attack struck a festive gathering in the village of Khorly, leaving at least 27 dead, including two children, and dozens injured. This accusation comes as Moscow ramps up claims of foreign interference, threatening to derail fragile peace negotiations. call to action icon Major General Apti Alaudinov, a prominent Kremlin figure, unleashed the allegations in a fiery statement, claiming the strike was designed to sabotage any chance of a truce between Russia and Ukraine. ‘The strike carried out against civilians celebrating the New Year in the Kherson region once again proves that the Ukrainian side is doing everything possible to ensure that there will be no peace agreement,’ Alaudinov said. He went further, asserting that ‘behind all these actions stand representatives of foreign intelligence services, first and foremost those of England and European states.’ The incident happened in Khorly, a coastal resort in the Russian-controlled Kherson region, where revellers had gathered at a cafe and hotel to welcome 2026. Regional official Vladimir Saldo, installed by Moscow, painted a grim picture: ‘The bodies of the dead were almost completely burned, like in a nuclear strike,’ he said. Initial reports put the fatalities at 24, but the toll climbed to 27 as more bodies were recovered from the rubble. Among the identified victims was Sergei Bohan, a 55-year-old police chief in the occupied area of Kalanchak, raising questions about whether the site was purely civilian. Russia labelled the event a ‘terrorist attack’ and a ‘massacre,’ withdrawing a list of victims from public view after claiming a Western hack. Ukraine has vehemently denied orchestrating the strike on civilians. Dmytro Lykhoviy, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s General Staff, dismissed the claims as ‘disinformation and fake statements’ aimed at swaying international partners and peace talks. ‘The Armed Forces of Ukraine adhere to the norms of international humanitarian law and strike exclusively at the enemy’s military targets,’ Lykhoviy stated. He emphasised that Kyiv focuses on reducing Russia’s military capabilities, such as targeting oil refineries. call to action icon Independent verification remains challenging in the fog of war, but Reuters reported similar details, confirming at least 24 deaths and noting Russia’s call for international condemnation. Al Jazeera echoed this, highlighting Moscow’s accusation of a ‘war crime’ while underscoring Ukraine’s stance against civilian targets.

Four Generals say to Starmer – cut AID to Israel now. Ex-senior army officers urge UK to ‘cut all military collaboration with Israel’ Former servicemen call on Keir Starmer to suspend all involvement with Israel-linked defence firms ‘to avoid the charge of complicity’ Four senior former army officers have written to the UK prime minister calling for a full arms embargo on Israel and a suspension of involvement with any Israel-linked defence firms. The Times reported on Tuesday that the signatories told Keir Starmer that despite the ceasefire in Gaza, “now is not the time to return to business as usual with the Israeli government”. They called on sanctions on the Israeli government to go further. Among the letter’s signatories was John Deverell, who served in the British army for more than three decades. He was also defence attache in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, including at the time of the 11 September terror attacks. The other signatories were Andrew Graham, the former director general of the UK defence academy; Peter Currie, a retired major general, and Charlie Herbert, a former senior army commander in Afghanistan. The letter strongly rejected a claim that Israel’s military followed similar protocols to the British military. A senior defence ministry official said that “Israel appears to have thorough and rigorous processes for the conduct of hostilities and targeting, that in many respects resemble our own” – an assertion that was cited by the UK government in a legal case on arms exports to Israel last July. The former senior officers rebutted the claim, stating that there were clear differences. They cited Israel’s use of indiscriminate munitions that had led to “exceptionally disproportionate and avoidable civilian fatalities and widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure”. They added that evidence of Israeli war crimes was “so well documented and compelling that the British government should cut all military collaboration with Israel forthwith, to avoid the charge of complicity”. The sanctions that should be imposed, the signatories said, include RAF and British contracted aircraft not being used for any purpose connected with the Israeli military, and a suspension of all military technology transfer. In September, the UK announced that it was banning Israelis from enrolling at the Royal College of Defence Studies, a prestigious military academy. The UK was accused of complicity after carrying out near daily reconnaissance flights over Gaza during the war. The flights stopped after the ceasefire. In addition, despite a partial suspension of arms sales to Israel over the war on Gaza, approved UK arms exports to Israel have skyrocketed under the Labour government. Export data released in May showed that 20 different licences in categories such as military aircraft, radars, targeting equipment and explosive devices, were approved between October and December 2024. Arms campaigners said the three-month total was more than what was approved altogether under the Conservative government between 2020 and 2023…

Kier Starmer on US abduction of Maduro. Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, on Venezuela operation. Starmer sticks to strategy of avoiding criticism of Trump over Maduro In Labour’s general election manifesto, on page 117, external in case you wanted to check, the party promised to be “a defender of the international rule of law”. Not a wildly controversial line, nor a surprising one, given Labour’s leader, Sir Keir Starmer, is a former international human rights lawyer. And yet here we are, days after America seized the Venezuelan president and his wife from the country’s capital Caracas, and the prime minister’s language about whether that amounted to a breach of international law is circumspect. In the immediate aftermath of Washington’s extraordinary actions, Sir Keir’s words could hardly have been more bland given the gravity of what we were witnessing. In a social media post, external, he talked about “a transition of power” in Venezuela being something the UK had long supported. But what about how it was brought about? His answers, or lack of them, are the latest case study in No 10’s handling strategy of a maverick US president: don’t commentate, act in what they believe is a pragmatic, sober way and have discussions in private. Notably, the prime minister hasn’t spoken to President Trump since Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were, as Washington puts it, captured. Strategically, the prime minister decided a year or so ago, once he knew Donald Trump was returning to the White House, that he would resist the temptation to offer a running public commentary on what was highly likely to be a – literally – remarkable presidential term. To do so, he calculated, would risk ongoing public spats with not just the most powerful man on the planet, but someone with near zero compunction when it comes to spectacularly falling out with people. Better, instead, Sir Keir concluded, to be cautious and revere the upsides of a decent relationship with the White House, something the prime minister is proud to have secured. His supporters point to, for instance, the deal the government secured with Washington to limit the impact of tariffs imposed by the White House last year – a deal, ministers believe, was the difference between thousands of jobs being retained by Jaguar Land Rover in the UK and them going. Sounding off about President Trump, his allies say, might be tempting but would not only be “juvenile” as one put it, but not be in the UK’s best interests. The government’s equivocation has been pounced on by its critics, within the Labour Party and beyond.

Delta Force dealing drugs to US from Venezuela? Drug Trafficking in U.S. Special Forces: Journalist Seth Harp on ‘The Fort Bragg Cartel’ President Trump recently threatened to use U.S. special forces to fight drug cartels in Mexico. But New America Fellow Seth Harp found that members of the U.S. military elite that Trump wants to deploy have actually collaborated with cartels in narco-trafficking schemes. In his debut book The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces, out today, Harp investigates a string of unsolved murders at America’s premier special operations base and uncovers its connection to drug trafficking, fueled by a culture of cover-ups and corruption. The Fellows program recently caught up with Harp about discovering a dark ripple effect of America’s “forever wars,” telling a true crime story about the military as a veteran, and building more transparent armed forces. How did you first come across this story of corruption in the U.S. military, and what compelled you to pursue it? In December 2020, I learned that two special operations soldiers had been found murdered at a remote training range on Fort Bragg, and that police did not have a suspect. That in itself was worth investigating. But then I learned that one of the victims was an active-duty operator on Delta Force, the most elite unit in the U.S. military, and was suspected of dealing drugs on base. At that point I knew there had to be more to the story—a lot more. You served in the United States Army Reserve and did one tour of duty in Iraq. How did your military experience shape your approach to investigating this story? Were there times where it helped—or perhaps even hindered—your work? I actually served in Iraq at the same time that my main character of the book, Billy Lavigne, did his first tour there. Although it took longer for him to lose faith in the post-9/11 wars, we both became disillusioned with the military and U.S. foreign policy as a result of events in Iraq. That sympathetic connection enabled me to much better understand his state of mind around the time that he went to work trafficking drugs in conjunction with an international drug cartel. The book is classified as true crime, but it also delves deeply into history and politics. What draws you to true crime storytelling? How do you balance the benefits of telling these stories with the ethical challenges that come with the genre—such as the risk of sensationalizing crimes and the exploitation of participants? Concerns about sensationalizing crimes and exploiting participants never entered into my thinking because I was scrambling to keep up with real events that were unfolding in real time. If anything, I was too hesitant in the beginning to publicize some of the most sensational allegations that I heard from my sources, including the existence of a cartel-like structure on Fort Bragg made up of Special Forces soldiers who were trafficking drugs from abroad into the United States. I later came to find out that such claims were no exaggeration at all. Your reporting has uncovered a culture of drug use and trafficking within elite military circles. What have you learned about that culture, and what discoveries surprised you most during your investigation? I was most surprised by how open and accepting my military sources were of widespread drug use in the Special Forces in general and Delta Force in particular. The attitude of tacit acceptance that prevailed was surprising because civilians have a very different picture in mind of elite troops, a carefully cultivated image jointly created by the Pentagon and Hollywood that fails to capture the lawlessness and hard-partying lifestyles of real-life special operations soldiers.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s brother in law is 15 million dollars cocaine trafficker. Marco Rubio’s Brother-in-Law, Orlando Cicilia, Was a Prolific Cocaine Trafficker whose $15m racket earned him 35 years inside While Trump deports immigrants for old drug charges, Rubio’s brother-in-law was the frontman of a drug trafficking operation. Almost 40 years ago, a Cuban immigrant was arrested and convicted of distributing $15 million worth of cocaine as part of a major drug ring operating out of South Florida. The man stored kilos of cocaine in a spare bedroom inside his West Kendall home to later smuggle around the United States in cigarette cases. During Miami’s Cocaine Cowboy era of the 1970s and ’80s, Orlando Cicilia played a major role in an international drug ring, using an exotic animal business as cover. Mario Tabraue, who would later allow spotted leopards to roam free inside his Coconut Grove estate, was the boss of the operation, but Cicilia was the frontman. In 1989, Cicilia was sentenced to 35 years in prison. He was released early in 2000. Decades-old drug offenses, often much less serious than Cicilia’s charges, have come back to haunt immigrants living in South Florida as President Donald Trump unleashes his hard-line immigration agenda. Juan Erles González, a 56-year-old Cuban immigrant who served 18 months in prison for conspiracy to possess with the intent of distributing cocaine nearly two decades ago, now faces deportation. Back in July, 75-year-old Isidro Pérez died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody after immigration officers picked him up at a community center and charged him with “inadmissibility pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act.” In the 1980s, he was convicted of marijuana possession and sentenced to 18 months in prison. In July, 75-year-old Isidro Pérez died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody after immigration officers picked him up at a community center and charged him with “inadmissibility pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act.” In the 1980s, he was convicted of marijuana possession and sentenced to 18 months in prison. While the Trump administration is busy deporting immigrants with previous petty drug offenses, a member of the president’s cabinet, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, has a brother-in-law who served over a decade in prison on federal drug charges after emigrating to the U.S. from Cuba. His name? Orlando Cicilia. When Rubio was 16, Cicilia, who is married to Rubio’s older sister Barbara, was arrested on federal drug charges for dealing cocaine. After Cicilia immigrated to Miami in 1972 when he was 15, he met Barbara in high school, and the pair started dating. Barbara ended up staying in Miami with Cicilia when Rubio’s father got a bartending gig in Las Vegas in 1979. The Rubio family decided to move back to Miami two years later and temporarily lived at Cicilia’s home in West Kendall. The family, including 14-year-old Rubio, lived at the house around June 1985 until July 4. At that point, his brother-in-law played a significant role in the $75 million drug operation, right out of his home. One of Cecilia’s drug runners later testified at trial that he cut and stored massive amounts of cocaine in his spare bedroom between March 1985 and January 1986. Rubio wrote in his memoir, An American Son, that he would visit the home every week to help care for their seven Samoyed dogs, all while his brother-in-law ran this prolific drug operation out of the house. He maintained that he and his family were not aware of Cicilia’s drug dealing at the time, although two law enforcement officials previously told New Times that they found it hard to believe.

The School of the Americas (SOA) is a U.S. military-training institute for Latin American security personnel located at Fort Benning, Georgia. Renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) in 2001, the school has trained assassins, death-squad leaders, and human-rights abusers for dirty work in Latin America since its founding in 1946. Dubbed the “School of Assassins,” the SOA/WHINSEC has become synonymous with torture and military repression for millions around the world. – The SOA’s activities first came to public light in connection with a series of highly publicized murder and torture cases–some involving U.S. citizens. In 1980, a Salvadoran death squad assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero. Just months later, Salvadoran soldiers raped and murdered three American nuns and one missionary. Then, in 1989, Salvadoran soldiers executed six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her 16-year-old daughter at Central American University. As the death toll mounted, the murders were coming closer to home. Sister Diana Ortiz, an American nun, brought the story of her abduction, rape and torture in 1989 at the hands of an SOA graduate to Washington D.C., where she held a week-long vigil that embarrassed Washington officials.  –  Graduates have a long history of participating in and orchestrating killings, rapes, targeted violence, and the suppression of popular movements. Research continues to turn up SOA grad involvement in human-rights violations across the Americas. Around 1,000 students per year receive training at the SOA/WHINSEC. Courses are taught in Spanish. The SOA/WHINSEC is paid for with U.S. taxpayer dollars, money for foreign military training that is authorized by Congress each year. In 1996, the Pentagon, under intense public pressure, released training manuals used at the school for at least a decade that advocated torture, extortion, and execution. Despite this shocking admission—as well as hundreds of documented human-rights abuses connected to soldiers trained at the school over its long history—no independent investigation into the training facility has ever taken place. Among those targeted by SOA graduates are educators, union organizers, religious workers, student leaders, and others who work for the rights of the poor. Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans have been tortured, raped, assassinated, “disappeared,” massacred, or forced into refuge by those trained at the School of Assassins. The purpose of the School of the Americas has always been to control the economic and political systems of Latin America by aiding and influencing Latin American militaries. One former SOA instructor, U.S. Army Major Joseph Blair (Ret), explained: “The hope is that close personal contacts developed at Fort Benning will result in future U.S. potential to influence Latin American governments.” Unjust economic policies opposed by the majority of Latin Americans cannot be implemented and enforced by governments without strong military support. George Kennan, a central policymaker for the U.S. State Department, explained in 1948: The SOA is part of a tradition and system of white supremacy. The purpose of the school is to maintain U.S. hegemony over the Western Hemisphere, and it is also a tool to maintain white supremacy over the non-white populations of this hemisphere. Working for justice for the people of the Americas in a principled way means that we have to address white supremacy as one of the root causes of oppression. From police killings of black and brown people inside the United States, to attacks on Muslim communities, to the U.S.-supported military coup in Honduras, we’ve seen that the school is not an aberration of U.S. policy, but a clear illustration of it.

Maria Corina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader, in power? Assange has a case against her win. Chavez poisoned? – unusual cancer. Bolivarian tradition of socialism in South America. The Strange Death of Hugo Chavez: An Interview with Eva Golinger Investigative journalist Eva Golinger argues that the late Venezuelan leader may have been assassinated by close aides who fled the country following his death. “Hugo Chavez defied the most powerful interests, and he refused to bow down….I believe there is a very strong possibility that President Chavez was assassinated.” MW– Do you think that Hugo Chavez was murdered and, if so, who do you think might have been involved? Eva Golinger– I believe there is a very strong possibility that President Chavez was assassinated. There were notorious and documented assassination attempts against him throughout his presidency. Most notable was the April 11, 2002 coup d’etat, during which he was kidnapped and set to be assassinated had it not been for the unprecedented uprising of the Venezuelan people and loyal military forces that rescued him and returned him to power within 48 hours. I was able to find irrefutable evidence using the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), that the CIA and other US agencies were behind that coup and supported, financially, militarily and politically, those involved. Later on, there were other attempts against Chavez and his government, such as in 2004 when dozens of Colombian paramilitary forces were captured on a farm outside of Caracas that was owned by an anti-Chavez activist, Robert Alonso, just days before they were going to attack the presidential palace and kill Chavez. There was another, lesser-known plot against Chavez discovered in New York City during his visit to the United Nations General Assembly in September 2006. According to information provided by his security services, during standard security reconnaissance of an event where Chavez would address the US public at a local, renowned university, high levels of radiation were detected in the chair where he would have sat. The radiation was discovered by a Geiger detector, which is a handheld radiation detection device the presidential security used to ensure the President wasn’t in danger of exposure to harmful rays. In this case, the chair was removed and subsequent tests showed it was emanating unusual amounts of radiation that could have resulted in significant harm to Chavez had it gone undiscovered. According to accounts by the presidential security at the event, an individual from the US who had been involved in the logistical support for the event and had provided the chair was shown to be acting with US intelligent agents. There were numerous other attempts on his life that were thwarted by the Venezuelan intelligence agencies and particularly the counterintelligence unit of the Presidential Guard that was charged with discovering and impeding such threats. One other well known attempt was in July 2010 when Francisco Chavez Abarca (no relation), a criminal working with Cuban-born terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, responsible for bombing a Cuban airliner in 1976 and killing all 73 passengers on board, was detained entering Venezuela and later confessed he had been sent to assassinate Chavez. Just five months earlier, in February 2010, when President Chavez was at an event near the Colombian border, his security forces discovered a sniper set up just over a quarter of a mile away from his location, who was subsequently neutralized. While these accounts may sound like fiction, they are amply documented and very real. Hugo Chavez defied the most powerful interests, and he refused to bow down. As head of state of the nation without the largest oil reserves on the planet, and as someone who openly and directly challenged US and Western domination, Chavez was considered an enemy of Washington and its allies. So, who could have been involved in Chavez’s assassination, if he was assassinated? Certainly it’s no far stretch to imagine the US government involved in a political assassination of an enemy it clearly – and openly – wanted out of the picture. In 2006, the US government formed a special Mission Manager for Venezuela and Cuba under the Directorate of National Intelligence. This elite intelligence unit was charged with expanding covert operations against Chavez and led clandestine missions out of an intelligence fusion center (CIA-DEA-DIA) in Colombia. Some of the pieces that have been coming together include the discovery of several close aides to Chavez who had private, unobstructed access to him over prolonged periods, who fled the country after his death and are collaborating with the US government. If he were assassinated by some kind of exposure to high levels of radiation, or otherwise inoculated or infected by a cancer-causing virus, it would have been done by someone with close access to him, whom he trusted.

BBC – Michelle Fleury – record highs on US stock exchange after Venezuela operation. US Takes Maduro Hostage For Oil: BBC Business Market Reaction after US Markets close on Mon05Jan25 The U.S. is planning big changes for Venezuela’s oil industry after ousting the country’s president. Shares of a handful of U.S. companies stand to benefit from the upheaval. Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Wednesday said that the U.S. will control Venezuelan oil sales “indefinitely,” funnelling proceeds to American banks and rolling back sanctions that have choked the country’s crude exports for years.1 Refiners Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) and Phillips 66 (PSX) rose on the news. Chevron (CVX) is the only U.S. oil major still operating in Venezuela. That head start could be worth billions if the Trump administration follows through on its promise to rebuild the country’s energy sector. Venezuela has more proven reserves than any other country, but years of economic turmoil, corruption and sanctions have dramatically curtailed its ability to produce and export oil. So which stocks are positioned to gain from a revitalization of Venezuela’s oil industry? Stocks Positioned For Gains Normally, U.S. investors can access foreign markets through brokers who can trade stocks on foreign stock exchanges or American depositary receipts (ADRs) that let them trade foreign stocks on U.S. exchanges. There are also exchange-traded funds covering many countries and regions. Venezuela offers none of these. No ADRs trade on American exchanges, and no Venezuela ETF exists, though Teucrium Investment Advisors filed for one on Jan. 5.2 That leaves indirect plays: U.S.-listed companies with exposure to Venezuela’s potential recovery. Those companies fall into four categories: producers already there; other major oil companies, some with outstanding debts from before they exited Venezuela; the services firms that would win reconstruction contracts; and the Gulf Coast refiners built to process the heavy crude Venezuela produces. The One Oil Major Left in Venezuela Chevron (CVX): It’s the only American major still in Venezuela. It operates joint ventures with PDVSA, the state oil company, that account for about a quarter of the country’s output and exports about 140,000 barrels per day.34 Morningstar analyst Allen Good has said it’s the best-positioned among the oil majors to benefit.5 Oil Majors That Could Return to the Country ConocoPhillips (COP) and Exxon Mobil (XOM): They left Venezuela after the 2007 nationalizations but have up to $12 billion and $1.4 billion, respectively, in outstanding claims for property the government expropriated.67 JPMorgan analysts say the companies could return to recover seized assets, should the Venezuelan government allow it.8 Companies That Build Oil Infrastructure Halliburton (HAL) and SLB (SLB): Many of Venezuela’s pipelines are more than 50 years old, its refineries run at 20% capacity or less, and estimates suggest it would cost at least $100 billion over a decade or more to return production to 1990s levels.9 That’s years of contracts for service firms, should any money for them materialize.

Jorge Rodriguez releasing 900 prisoners in Venezuela.

Why did Russian air defence and intelligence fail to warn Maduro an attack was incoming? – To mask the extent of what they knew?? Three days after the fall of the Venezuelan president, Putin remained silent. The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed its concern and called for Maduro’s release and negotiations between the US and Venezuela. According to official reports, after a phone call in early December, Maduro received a New Year’s greeting from the Russian president. Maduro was one of the few heads of state who supported Russia in February 2022 when Moscow recognized the separatist pseudo-republics of Donetsk and Luhansk before launching its major attack on Ukraine. In December 2018, Russia sent two Tu-160 strategic bombers to Venezuela for exercises, which experts interpreted as a sign of support for Maduro. They landed at Caracas airport — the same airport used by the US to fly out the Venezuelan leader in handcuffs. But Russian air defenses were unable to protect the disputed leader during last week’s operation, as US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has pointed out. “Russia’s support for Venezuela has been more symbolic than practical,” Neil Melvin, an expert at the Royal United Services Institute, told DW. In his view, Russia is not in a position to challenge the deployment of US forces in the neighboring region. Felix Riefer, a German political scientist and author of a book on Russian foreign policy, also said he was not surprised by Putin’s response. After Trump’s return to the White House led to a rapprochement between Moscow and Washington, Russia responded to “American hints toward Venezuela with relative restraint,” he said. “Russia had already abandoned Maduro.” Both experts said a key explanation for Putin’s silence is Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine and the US shift from being Kyiv’s partner to acting as a mediator in talks. Russia is keen to avoid harsh criticism of Washington because it does not want to cause offense, according to Melvin. In his opinion, Moscow’s rhetoric on the events in Venezuela would be “significantly harsher” if it weren’t for the war against Ukraine. The British expert saw no immediate consequences for the war in Ukraine. This could change if Trump does not stop at Venezuela but goes further and, for example, attempts to annex Greenland, which belongs to Denmark — something the US president recently hinted at again…

Did Venezuelan army collaborate with US? Coup plan to put Smedley Butler in power instead of Roosevelt.  Prescott Bush’s 1933 fascist coup attempt in the US – Business Coup stopped by Smedley Butler The “Business Plot” (also the Plot Against FDR and the White House Putsch) was an alleged political conspiracy in 1933 wherein wealthy businessmen and corporations plotted a coup détat to overthrow United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1934, the Business Plot was publicly revealed by retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler testifying to the McCormack-Dickstein Congressional Committee. In his testimony, Butler claimed that a group of men had approached him as part of a plot to overthrow Roosevelt in a military coup. One of the alleged plotters, Gerald MacGuire, vehemently denied any such plot. In their final report, the Congressional committee supported Butler’s allegations of the existence of the plot, but no prosecutions or further investigations followed, and the matter was mostly forgotten. On July 17, 1932, thousands of World War I veterans converged on Washington, D.C., set up tent camps, and demanded immediate payment of bonuses due them according to the Adjusted Service Certificate Law of 1924. This “Bonus Army” was led by Walter W. Waters, a former Army sergeant. The Army was encouraged by an appearance from retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler, who had considerable influence over the veterans, being one of the most popular military figures of the time. A few days after Butler’s arrival, President Herbert Hoover ordered the marchers removed, and their camps were destroyed by US Army cavalry troops under the command of General Douglas MacArthur. Butler, although a self-described Republican, responded by supporting Roosevelt in that year’s election. In a 1995 History Today article Clayton Cramer argued that the devastation of the Great Depression had caused many Americans to question the foundations of liberal democracy. “Many traditionalists, here and in Europe, toyed with the ideas of Fascism and National Socialism; many liberals dallied with Socialism and Communism.” Cramer argues that this explains why some American business leaders viewed fascism as a viable system to both preserve their interests and end the economic woes of the Depression.

History of US meddling in South America. Zionism influence. Costa Gavras films.  STATE OF SIEGE (1972) [WATCH AND DOWNLOAD HERE] Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay’s government and theTupamaro guerrillas. Dan Mitrione got what he deserved – maybe less, actually.  The subject of State of Siege is the activities of CIA-like organizations that were being undertaken in various South American territories. The plot is about an American, Philip Michael Santore (Yves Montand) who worked for USAID as a “Communications Expert.” I used quotes for his job title because we’re not sure exactly what he did during his various travels. Was he a benefactor or was he a terrorist? That answer is not provided, although it is strongly hinted that he was at least aware of the latter activities, if not a direct participant. I am about to reveal a major plot point, but not to worry. It is not a spoiler, at least unless you consider the beginning of Sunset Blvd a spoiler. Our operative friend, Mr. Santore dies at the beginning of the film in Montevideo, Uruguay. The film begins with a shot of a shiny Cadillac followed by a series of roadblocks and an exhaustive search by the authorities. We do not know what they are searching for initially, but minutes later when they discover a carcass in a car, we know. Soon after the discovery, we see a highly ceremonial funeral, with an American flag draped over the casket. We get the impression that something is awry because the archbishop and academics are not present, yet the funeral is well attended, implying that this was the passing of an important, political person. Is Mr. Santore a good person? That’s another tough question. He comes off sympathetically, some of which has to do with the ever-likeable performance by Yves Montand, who was also a popular political figure at the time. As the film flashes back to the kidnapping and interrogations, we wonder which is the truly righteous, Santore or his kidnappers? He is accused of, at the very least, knowing of torture, and at worst, guilty of perpetrating war crimes. Yet he is part of a system. If he was guilty, was he simply doing his job? That does not mean that he deserves to be kidnapped and killed. His captors also are sympathetic. We learn through Santore’s observations that they do not intend or want to kill him. They are merely fighting a battle with limited weapons. We are not spoon-fed who to like or root for. One could make an argument that the kidnappers and kidnapped are both right to some respect, and simply pawns in a chess game between people far more powerful. The real evil could be the state that infringes on the rights of the people, or those who choose to not compromise and therefore through inaction lead to the creation of a martyr.

BBC – Luke Moffit – US illegal abduction of Maduro and wife. BBC – Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell, lawyer – violation of international law of UN.Trump says he doesn’t need international law amid aggressive US policies UN rapporteur tells Al Jazeera she is concerned that the world may be returning to an ‘age of imperialism’. United States President Donald Trump has dismissed international law, saying only his “own morality” can curb the aggressive policies he is pursuing across the world after the abduction of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro. “I don’t need international law. I’m not looking to hurt people,” Trump told The New York Times on Thursday. Asked whether he needs to abide by international law, Trump said he does, but it “depends what your definition of international law is”. Trump has shown a willingness to use the brute force of the US military to achieve his foreign policy goals. On Saturday, the US launched an early-morning attack on Venezuela, with explosions reported across the capital Caracas and at Venezuelan military bases. US troops ultimately abducted Venezuelan President Maduro from Caracas in what critics say was a clear violation of the United Nations Charter, which prohibits “the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state”. The attack on Venezuela appears to have supercharged the belligerence of the US president, who received the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize Award last month. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, Trump said the US would “run” Venezuela and exploit the country’s vast oil reserves, though his administration has said it would cooperate with interim President Delcy Rodriguez. Still, the Trump administration said it would “dictate” policy to the interim government and repeatedly threatened a “second wave” of military actions if US demands were disobeyed.

John Sawyers, Bilderberger and former MI6 Chief, on Venezuela operation. Former MI6 chief on implications of Trump’s actions in Venezuela Former MI6 chief Sir John Sawers looks at what the implications of Donald Trump’s actions in Venezuela might be. The former MI6 chief told Sky’s Trevor Phillips that whilst there were questions in terms of legalities and what comes next, the “operation itself was very effective”. He also said that whilst the capturing of Maduro was a problem for the regime, “it wasn’t regime threatening”.

Jeffrey Sachs, at UN Security Council – UN charters crumble, what next?  The issue before the council today is not the character of the government of Venezuela. The issue is whether any member state by force, coercion, or economic strangulation has the right to determine Venezuela’s political future or to exercise control over its affairs. This question goes directly to article 2, section 4 of the United Nations Charter, which prohibits the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state. The council must decide whether that prohibition is to be upheld or abandoned. Abandoning it would carry consequences of the gravest kind. Let me offer some background. Since 1947, the United States foreign policy has repeatedly employed force, covert action, and political manipulation to bring about regime change in other countries. This is a matter of carefully documented historical record. In her book, Covert Regime Change, political scientist Lindseay Oor documents 70 attempted US regime change operations between 1947 and 1989 alone. These practices did not end with the Cold War. Since 1989, major United States regime change operations undertaken without authorization by the Security Council have included, among the most consequential, Iraq 2003, Libya 2011, Syria beginning in 2011, Honduras 2009, Ukraine 2014, and Venezuela from 2002 onward. The methods employed are well established and well documented. They include open warfare, covert intelligence operations, instigation of unrest, support for armed groups, manipulation of mass and social media, bribery of military and civilian officials, targeted assassinations, false flag operations, and economic warfare. These measures are illegal under the UN charter and they typically result in ongoing violence, lethal conflict, political instability, and deep suffering of the civilian population.

Sky News – Former DG of Private UK Military Think Tank Michael Clark – now Sky News ‘Expert’ – seize of oil tanker in Atlantic – who is Micheal Clark? Our security and defence analyst, Michael Clarke, tells Sarah Jane-Mee how and why British armed forces got involved with the US seizing an oil tanker linked to Iran and Russia. He said: “If any ship needed to be intercepted, then we ought to be involved in that, because in a sense, it’s not our territorial waters, but it’s a part of the North Atlantic for which we take responsibility.”

The Venezuela Propaganda: David Stockman article.

Fake Greens 1: Oliver Tickell and the US energy platform. They Kidnapped Maduro Because The World Is Ruled By Unaccountable Tyrants Caitlin Johnstone Jan 04, 2026 Well, Trump finally did it. US special forces attacked Venezuela and abducted President Maduro from Caracas, reportedly killing at least 40 people in the process. And now that it’s all over, the White House is getting a lot more honest about the real motives behind its actions. After all those months of babbling about fentanyl and “narcoterrorism” and freedom and democracy, the Trump administration has come right out and admitted that its regime change interventionism in Venezuela has always been a good old-fashioned oil grab. “We’re gonna take back the oil that frankly we should have taken back a long time ago,” Trump told the press following Maduro’s abduction, saying “We’re going to be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground, and that wealth is going to the people of Venezuela, and people from outside of Venezuela that used to be in Venezuela, and it goes also to the United States of America in the form of reimbursement for the damages caused us by that country.” “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country, and we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so,” Trump said. “We have tremendous energy in that country. It’s very important that we protect it. We need that for ourselves, we need that for the world,” the president added. Ben Norton@BenjaminNorton After bombing Venezuela and abducting President Nicolás Maduro, Donald Trump said the US government is “going to run the country” until there is a “transition” to pro-US leadership. He boasted that “very large” US corporations will exploit its oil.

Fake greens 2:ITV report – Ken Goodwin – river’s low – water companies extracting water. Water bills – privatisation – cost of living crisis. 

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Attack on Jewish Hanukkah party at Bondi beach Australia. Times Radio – Michael Wegier, Deputies of British Jews, on the Bondi beach attack.

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Possibility of false flag attack? ‘Globalise Intifada’ or ‘World Uprising against genocide’ chant must be banned say the Met Police. Western elites fear a ‘globalised intifada’ because they are its targets, not Jews While western publics are being demonised as racists, the technology and strategies used today against Palestinians will become the walls of tomorrow’s prisons for us all Western establishments’ fear of the phrase “Globalise the intifada” has little to do with any danger supposedly posed to Jewish populations from its use. The threat is posed by the slogan’s central idea, not by some specific target. “Globalise the intifada!” is the modern equivalent of “Power to the people!” – a slogan long used by anti-colonial movements, by revolutionary socialist parties, by the ANC in its fight against South African apartheid, and by the Black Panthers in their struggle against white supremacy in the US. The emblematic anti-colonial struggle of our times is in Palestine. It is hardly surprising that any emerging, popular mass movement against oppressive, unaccountable, increasingly anti-democratic western elites should look to the language of that struggle. “Intifada” refers to “uprising”, “shaking off” a system of oppression. We can all see where Israel’s ethnic supremacist agenda has led for the Palestinians: to military occupation, apartheid and genocide. Many of us sense too that this is where our own societies are heading. The ultimate destination of the technological developments – from smart phones to social media – that have atomised and pacified us over the past two decades is absolute control over our lives through surveillance, facial recognition and more militarised and robotic policing, and our ever-greater redundancy and powerlessness in the face of artificial intelligence and greater mechanisation. These technologies have been tested and refined for at least a quarter of a century in the Palestinian territories illegally occupied and ruled by Israel. Why is Israel viewed as so essential to western elites that they are willing to be seen openly backing its genocide in Gaza? Because Israel is creating a vision of the near-future, it is developing the template for how they deal with surplus sections of western populations in a world of diminishing resources and an ever-more hostile climate. And all the better for our rulers, any resistance on our part to the Palestinians’ enslavement and slow extermination – and to our own growing servitude and abuse – can be characterised as antisemitism. In outsourcing this project to Israel, western establishments have devised the ultimate cover story. Every time some deluded group or individual falls for this ploy and blames Jews collectively for what Israel and its patrons are really responsible for, the noose tightens a little more round the neck of those trying to liberate our minds before the confinement of our bodies becomes permanent. While we are being demonised as racists, the technology and strategies used today against Palestinians will become the walls of tomorrow’s prisons for us. “Globalise the intifada” isn’t a call for harming Jews, though western establishments would love you to think it is. It’s a call for showing solidarity with Palestinians before it is too late for them, and for us. It is about throwing sand in the cogs of a machinery of oppression before it grows too powerful to be confronted…

Israelis killed Iraqi Jews in 1950-51 [Zionist obsession with false flag terrorism] Avi Shlaim says he has ‘proof of Zionist involvement’ in 1950s attack on Iraqi Jews British-Israeli historian claims in new memoir that Mossad carried out bombings to drive Jews out of Iraq and hasten their transfer to Israel British-Israeli historian Avi Shlaim has claimed in his new book to have uncovered “undeniable proof” of Israeli involvement in attacks on Jewish communities in Iraq in the early 1950s. Shlaim’s autobiography, Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew, which details his childhood as an Iraqi Jew and subsequent exile to Israel, was published last week. According to a review of the memoir printed on Saturday in the Spectator magazine, Shlaim unveils in his book “undeniable proof of Zionist involvement in the terrorist attacks” which prompted a mass exodus of Jews from Iraq between 1950 and 1951. The historian concluded, after extensive personal research, that while a grenade assault on the Masuda Shemtov synagogue in Baghdad – which killed four Jews in January 1951 – was carried out by an Arab, other bombings were allegedly the work of Mossad, Israel’s spy agency. These were carried out to quicken the transfer of 110,000 Jews in Iraq to the then-newly created state of Israel, he said. Middle East Eye has reached out to Shlaim for comment. Over 800,000 Jews either left or were expelled from countries in the Middle East and North Africa between 1948 and the early 1980s. The majority of them settled in Israel. As of 2005, 61 percent of Israeli Jews were of full or partial Mizrahi ancestry – the sociological term coined to refer to Jews from the region following the creation of Israel. Family fled Iraq In his book, Shlaim describes how he was one of those who fled violence in the region. Born in 1945 in Baghdad, his parents were well-connected and well-to-do members of Iraq’s millennia-old Jewish minority. But at the age of five, Shlaim was forced to flee with his family following the bombings targeting Jews in the Iraqi capital. The attacks came less than two years after the ethnic cleansing that took place in what Palestinians call the Nakba (catastrophe), which led to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Zionist forces killed 13,000 Palestinians, destroyed and depopulated around 530 villages and towns, committed at least 30 massacres, and expelled 750,000 people during the Nakba. More than 6,000 Israeli Jews, including 4,000 soldiers and 2,000 civilians, were killed, as well as around 2,000 troops from Arab countries.

Can’t use word Zionism in BBC. Propaganda & Co – Bondi attack – people shot at, actively involved in Gaza genocide. Father and son attackers at Bondi visited Mindanao in Philippines – Muslim separatist region. BBC training tells staff not to criticise Zionists The training, rolled out to BBC staff last week and seen by Middle East Eye, says people should criticise the Israeli government rather than Zionists The BBC’s new antisemitism training course says people who “have no intention to offend Jewish people” should not “criticise Zionists”. The training, rolled out to BBC staff last week and seen by Middle East Eye, says: “Antisemites frequently use the word ‘Zionist’ (or worse, ‘Zio’), when they are in fact referring to Jews, whether in Israel or elsewhere. “Those claiming to be ‘anti-Zionist, not antisemitic’, should do so in the knowledge that many Jewish people consider themselves to be Zionists.” The training adds: “If these individuals mean only to criticise the policies of the government of Israel, and have no intention to offend Jewish people, they should criticise ‘the Israeli government’, and not ‘Zionists’.” The course was made by the BBC Academy in conjunction with the Jewish Staff Network, the Antisemitism Policy Trust and the Community Security Trust (CST). The CST, which monitors antisemitic hate crimes and works with the government and police, has previously claimed that pro-Palestine marches in London were “disrupting the peace and the basic rights of Jews” and called for them to end. The BBC training also incorporates the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which the British government has adopted but which legal experts have warned could lead to a “curtailment of debate”. The definition says that claiming that the existence of the state of Israel is a “racist endeavour” is an illustration of potential antisemitism. Its critics say it conflates antisemitism with anti-Zionism, or with criticism of policies that led to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 and the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes in modern-day Israel. ‘Against any form of discrimination’ Asked for comment, the BBC directed MEE to comments previously made by outgoing director general Tim Davie. In an email to BBC staff on 4 December, Davie said that the “BBC is for everyone, and we are clear that everyone working here should feel they belong. As an organisation we stand united against any form of discrimination, prejudice, or intolerance”. “In response to this, the BBC Academy has spent the last few months developing new anti-discrimination training. We’re starting with e-learning modules on antisemitism and Islamophobia, which we expect staff across the BBC to complete,” he added. Davie said that the “module on antisemitism is available from today, while the Islamophobia module is just being finalised, to launch in February”. Davie resigned last month amid a row over the broadcaster’s editing of a speech by US President Donald Trump on 6 January 2021 for the BBC’s Panorama show. The public broadcaster has also been embroiled in several scandals over its coverage of Israel and Gaza. BBC Middle East editor at centre of ‘bias’ row said Mossad made him ‘proud’ MEE reported last month that the BBC’s online Middle East editor Raffi Berg said in 2020 that it was “wonderful” to be in a “circle of trust” with current and former Mossad agents while writing a book on the Israeli intelligence agency, and that the Mossad’s “fantastic operations” make him “tremendously proud”. A study published in June by the Muslim Council of Britain-linked Centre for Media Monitoring (CFMM) claimed the BBC’s coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza is “systematically biased against Palestinians”, according to an analysis of over 35,000 pieces of content. The study found that the BBC gives Israeli deaths 33 times more coverage than Palestinian ones, uses emotive terms four times as much for Israeli victims and applies “massacre” 18 times more to Israeli casualties than Palestinian ones…

EXCLUSIVE: Mohanad Mahar calls in live from Gaza – he explains what it’s like there now, living in make-piece tents in winter, the food situation, having no electricity so can’t follow the news, and is there any hope? Had to walk 5km to reach internet and make this call. He’s part of 16th October Group. If you would like to help him and his family donate to www.gofund.me/a4b4fca5f My name is David Mowat and I’m fundraising for Mohanad Maher. I’m also fundraising for many families and informal aid workers in Gaza. Mahanad asked me to set up a platform just for him. He’s in Gaza City with his Dad, Mum, 4 sisters and 2 brothers. And that donkey. Pictures and updates from Mohanad: This picture I took it before the sunset. It’s where I’m going to sleep tonight with my father and 2 brothers. Sept 1st 2025: “We put my mother and 4 sisters in the neighbour’s tent they accept to take them for a few days until we find a place”. Caption for pic with all the stuff. I’ve known Mohanad about 5 years. He used to translate Arabic to English for the Oct 16th journalist group. Their leader Wafaa Al Udaini was assassinated by Israel 2 years ago along with nearly all her family. I and a group of solidarity activists and Oct 16th journalists would meet in zoom meetings and became close. So I feel a special connection for Mohanad and his colleagues and mourn the loss of the wonderful Wafaa. For a long time Mohanad has not asked for money. But seeing his Dad age rapidly as home is destroyed and people close to them killed , he feels broken hearted. He’s a brilliant English speaker and has been offered an MA course in Ireland. The trauma of a taxi flight for life out of Gaza City end of August 2025 as Israeli forces intensify the bombardment means “I’d forgotten about that offer!” he tells me in WhatsApp. Instead his focus on survival. All funds raised go straight to him and his family via my bank account, though a PayPal agent will take an unavoidable commission.

Gaza – Israel luring Palestinians back in to confrontation. BBC report on Palestine Action hunger strikers. Names of hunger strikers. Prisoners for Palestine is a prisoner-led collective in the UK representing all those detained under charges related to Palestinian liberation. We coordinate with activists, organisers and supporters to continue resistance from both sides of the prison walls. With our solidarity, we combat the isolation and hopelessness that the prison system attempts to impose on prisoners. There are currently at least 33 people in the UK illegally detained by the British state for their actions against genocide, and this number may increase as the state implements ever more draconian measures against protest. These measures include the calculated use of counter-terrorism legislation in an attempt to silence legitimate dissent, which has been widely condemned by lawyers, human rights experts and international organisations alike. This is an open call for the free people of the world to overcome the indignity of feeling helpless. To know that even those who have experienced the brutality of counter-terrorism policing, refuse to be passive in the ongoing genocide. And to reaffirm that the abolition of prisons is predicated upon the liberation of Palestine. What we do We organise mobilisations, political education and urgent campaigns that amplify the demands of prisoners and ex-prisoners. We work to sustain an international network to accompany them and facilitate their struggle for freedoms. We also work with those who may be facing prison sentences in the near future as a result of their actions for Palestinian liberation. Shut Elbit Down To the free people of the world, Prisoners for Palestine say shut Elbit down. Elbit Systems is Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer. Producing 85% of Israel’s drones fleet and land-based military equipment. They consider themselves to be ‘the central operating system’ of the IOF. Many comrades now sitting in prison cells are there because they took necessary action to disrupt Elbit’s supply chain. The movement to shut Elbit down is a global effort, led by ordinary people who refuse to be complicit in the war machine and who reject the idea that the business of war can continue, un-challenged, on our doorsteps. Our responsibility is clear: to interrupt, dismantle, and end this business of death.

Richard Saunders, Double Down News, Gaza – Israeli army genocide. In the next few weeks, a number of Palestine action hunger strikers may die in British prisons. But the British government and the bulk of the British media appears entirely indifferent to their fate. In fact, recently when David Lammy was confronted by family members of hunger strikers, he actually claimed that he didn’t even know what they were talking about. He seemed to be entirely unaware of the case. My my brother is on day 25. MPs even laughed when the plight of the hunger strikers was brought up in parliament to help the situation. Would the minister be able to meet their legal representatives and families if necessary in order to discuss this situation and try and move forward to help the safety of these particular prisoners? Minister, no. Luckily, the hunger strikes began at the beginning of November and a number of the hunger strikers are now in a dangerous condition. and a number of them have been taken to hospital. It’s important to note that none of these people have been convicted of any crime. They are also not accused of any crimes of violence against people. They were arrested before Palestine Action was prescribed as a terrorist organization. Nevertheless, they appear to be being treated as terrorists. They were arrested by counterterror police, some of them at gunpoint. their communications with the outside world have been restricted and they say that prison guards frequently abuse them and refer to them as terrorists. Now let’s get clear what these people are actually in prison accused of. Half of them are accused of taking part in the operation at the Elbbit Systems Research and Development Center at Elbbit in Bristol. Elbot is Israel’s largest arms manufacturer. Elbbit makes the weapons that kill Palestinian children. It also makes enormous profits marketing its weapon systems around the world as being battle tested. That is as having been used against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank. It makes millions and millions of pounds from this selling among others to the British government. The other half of the hunger strikers were involved in the operation where they sprayed paint on RAF planes at RAF Brize Norton. Brize Norton is the base in Britain which supplies RAF Acriteri in Cyprus. RAF Acriteri is the hub for Western complicity in the genocide in Gaza. Huge quantities of American munitions have flowed through RAF Accretier on their way to Israel for use against the population of Gaza. And the British have been running daily surveillance flights out of RAF Ackroteri over Gaza. They have accumulated thousands of hours of footage which they admit is passed over to the Israelis, but they claim it’s used only for hostage rescue, which is an explanation which is frankly an insult to the intelligence of the British people.

Gideon Levy, society that kills children with glee – Israel. Israel business community leverage. Gideon Levy: an Israeli journalist standing up for Gaza | VPRO Frontlinie Frontlinie Gideon Levy is an award winning Israeli journalist who brings to light the injustices faced by the Palestinian people. Dutch journalist Bram Vermeulen spoke with Gideon Levy a few weeks before the ceasefire. They discuss the destruction of Gaza, recognition of Palestine by European countries, and the ways in which the genocide is denied through daily life in Tel Aviv – where people in the streets can hear the bombs but choose to ignore them. Actually, all the Israelis we spoke to this week um are 100% behind the actions of Israel inside Gaza. And they are even saying that the images coming out of Gaza are fake news. That’s a typical product of a very efficient brainwash system that the Israelis are unfortunately exposed to. They choose it. The media chooses not to tell Israelis what’s going on in Gaza. And the Israelis are very happy about it. They don’t want to know. And instead, we are still all of us on the 7th of October with all the atrocities and crimes which were horrible and the hostages which is also a horrible scene. But what about 2.3 million people who are dying in starvation, who are killed in dozens every day systematically. What about making Gaza an unlivable place on a systematic basis? Every day. Every day. Another neighborhood, another village, another quarter. Yeah. So, is that proof of that um the citizens of this country are in complete denial or or does everyone know what is going on? Israel is in denial for many years because they deny also the occupation. For them, the occupation is a normal phenomena. The fact that 5 million people have no rights for them, for most of the Israelis, it’s normality. not to speak about it that it is legitimate. And now the 7th of October also gave them much more power to deny because all of a sudden we are the victims. They are comparing it to the Holocaust. They say it’s the second catastrophe after the Holocaust as if it’s comparable at all. Right. But are you saying that Israel has actually always been like that or the 7th of October has radicalized? Israel has both both are true. Israel always lived in denial. By the way, ever since it was born, ever since the first lie about a people without a land which arrives to a land without a people. This was the first denial of Zionism. But it lives in a denial. After the 7th of October, we came out of the closet.

11th Global Vision Escatology Conference – Moheen. Olsi Jazexri, in Malaysia – Netanyahu and West plan for Greater Israel – Zionist Messiah Antichrist. Yinon plan. Israel destabilised Middle East.  Global Vision 2000: 11th Escatology Conference: December 2025 Posted on December 12, 2025 by Mary Fee THE 11TH GLOBAL VISION 2000 ESCHATOLOGY CONFERENCE will be held on SUNDAY DECEMBER 14th 2025 – 23 JUMADA AL THANI 1447 Focussing on the Eschatologies of Peace and Justice in an age of Genocide and the Great Reset. GLOBAL VISION 2000 will hold this in association with the following organisations: • AFRICA ISLAMIC ECONOMIC FOUNDATION • AFRICA PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT NETWORK • INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PEACE STUDIES AND GLOBAL PHILOSOPHY SESSION 1 – 0830 UK time /1130 Turkiye time Zoom Registration: 0900 Uk time/ 1200 Turkiye time. INTRODUCTION Abraham Accord Prayers: • Baba Yunus • Imam Abdel Khalek Ebrahim • Canon Peter Challen • Canon Perminus Muir • Rabbi Dovid Feldman Setting the scene • Moeen Yaseen, Global Vision 2000 Opening Speech • Hasan Turan – Grand National Assembly of Turkiye, Turkiye-Palestine Inter-parliamentary Friendship Group SESSION 1: ESCHATOLOGY OF PEACE AND JUSTICE IN THE HOLY LAND AND WORLD • Transhumanism and Millenarian Christian Zionism: Two sides of the same heresy – Matthew Ehret, Rising Tide Foundation • Messianic Zionist Ideology from Jabotinsky to Netanyahu – Dr. Olsi Jazexhiu – International Islamic University of Malaysia • Post Genocide : A Decolonised secular democratic state in Palestine based on the Andalusian Convivencia – Professor Haim Zabner, SOAS associate • The Terrorist Sect in Palestine – Dr James Thring – Ministry of Peace • Towards an interfaith eschatology of peace: Solomon Option – Dr. Thomas Daffern, International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy SESSION 2 – THE DAY AFTER: PANEL SESSION ON PALESTINE AND KASHMIR • Rabbi Dovid Feldman – Neturei Karta International • Fra Hughes – Palestine Aid Ireland • Dr. Mubeen Shah – Kashmir Diaspora Coalition SESSION 3 – ESCHATOLOGY OF PEACE AND JUSTICE AND THE GLOBAL RESET • Return of the gunpowder mind of Western civilisation & the looming shadow of WW3 – Baba Yunus, Africa Islamic Economic Foundation • The Great Plan, Great War and Great Defeat – Tony Gosling • The Global political economy and the Global reset – Dr. Simon Mouatt, Christian Council of Monetary Justice • The Hindutva Zionism Alliance, Kashmir, Indian Muslims and Pakistan – Professor Dr. Imtiaz Khan, World Kashmir Awareness The Global Vision 2000 Think-tank Is Holding Its 11th Eschatology Conference On The Eschatologies Of Peace And Justice In An Age Of Genocide And The Global Reset On Sunday December 14 2025- Jumada Al Thani 23 1447. This Conference Follows The Horrendous Genocidal Gaza War And Ongoing Israeli Expansionism To Create A Greater Israel. It Also Coincides With The Storm Of The Global Reset And Ab Ordo Chao. At A Time When The Sun Is Setting In The West And Rising From East. As The World Is In A State Of Transition Moving From An Unipolar To Multipolar World It Is Time For Global Islam To Rise And Shine In This Dark Era. As There Is Still War And Extreme Volatility In Both Ukraine And The Holy Land It Is Pulling In Regional Military Powers. We Can State That We Have Entered The Start Of Regional Wars Which Are Dragging In World Powers. This Dangerous Escalation Is Heightening Fears Of Ww3. This Only Makes It Vitally Important To Understand And Prepare At All Levels To Effectively Navigate These Times. The Treacherous Path The World Is Now On Does Not Bode Well For 2026. It Is Clear That These Two Global Crises Will Dominate The World At Least For Several Years. As We Also Have The End Of The Western Monetary Era. The Conference Is Marked By Having An Interfaith Dimension To The Discussions On Eschatology. Leading Jewish, Christian And Muslim Scholars, Thinkers And Journalists Will Be Charting Out New Perspectives On A Very Turbulent Era. It Will Be Started With The New Abrahamic Accords Prayers.

Afshin Rittanzi show – Susan Miller, CIA Chief in Tel Aviv, on Israel. Israeli Influence, Al Qaeda, Assassination: Afshin Rattansi Challenges Ex-CIA Tel Aviv Station Chief Afshin Rattansi’s Going Underground On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Susan Miller, Former Chief of the CIA’s Station in Tel Aviv. Afshin Rattansi asks her about the close relationship between the CIA, Mossad and Shin Bet, Israel’s level of influence over US foreign policy, Israel and the CIA’s involvement with ISIS and Al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria, Syria’s Al-Sharaa/Al-Jolani being welcomed to the White House by Donald Trump, the CIA’s role in the assassination of Iran’s Qassem Soleimani, whether the CIA’s policy of assassinations are actually successful in furthering US foreign policy objectives, the Trump Administration’s bogus pretext of narco-trafficking for pushing regime change against Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, the CIA’s own history of being involved in drug trafficking, and much more.

Israel and UK/US NATO sponsored ISIS now run Syria: The Cradle – Syria PM former ISIS – ISIS is Mossad. Shadow rule: How the Sharaa family and a foreign-born operative built Syria’s new deep economy Beneath Syria’s ministries and decrees lies a shadow economy controlled by the Sharaa brothers and a foreign-born operative, whose journey from Idlib militancy to the heart of Damascus exposes how power and profit intertwine in the post-Assad state. Since the fall of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s government, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has consolidated control over Syria’s military, security, educational, and economic sectors. A formal civilian facade – councils, committees, and ministries – masks a much narrower circle directing the levers of governance. Nowhere is this gap between appearance and reality more visible than in the economic sphere. Self-appointed Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa (formerly known as Abu Muhammad al-Julani when he was an Al-Qaeda chief) has issued decrees establishing a new lattice of economic bodies under his direct authority or under the “General Secretariat of the Presidency,” led by his brother Maher al-Sharaa. These include the National Committee for Import and Export, the General Authority for Border Crossings and Customs, a sovereign fund, the Development Fund, and the General Authority for Civil Aviation. Some are reconstituted entities once belonging to ministries of transport, economy, or finance; others are inventions of the new order. All now feed power upward into the Sharaa family’s command structure. On paper, the economy is supervised by Minister of Economy and Industry Mohamed Nidal al-Shaar, Minister of Finance Mohamed Yasar Barniyya, and Central Bank Governor Abdel Qader al-Hasriyya. Yet businessmen, technocrats, and insiders who speak to The Cradle describe a system where these officials serve largely as clerical fronts. Decision-making lies in a “deep economic state” operated by the president’s brothers and enforced by an unexpected figure: Ibrahim Sukkarieh, known inside the system as Abu Maryam al-Australi. The enforcer The ascent of Sukkarieh – or “Abu Maryam the Australian,” born in Australia to a Lebanese father from Akkar and an Australian mother, and raised in Brisbane – has become one of the most revealing stories of Syria’s post-Assad transformation. He arrived in Syria in 2013, at a moment of deep turmoil, and under circumstances that would only later become clear. He left Australia a day before his brother, Ahmed, carried out a suicide car-bomb attack in rural Damascus – an attack that made Ahmed the first known Australian suicide bomber. Another brother, Omar, was sentenced to four and a half years in Australia in 2016 for financing the precursor to HTS, the Nusra Front, placing the family under intelligence scrutiny on both sides of the world. In Idlib, Ibrahim first cultivated a profile as an English-speaking commentator, appearing on podcasts and social media to discuss the region’s governance. Using names such as “Ibrahim Massoud” and “Ibrahim bin Massoud,” he portrayed himself as a researcher and analyst, even identifying himself playfully on some platforms as a “businessman, cricket lover, shawarma lover.” Yet beneath this crafted persona lay a different story. According to Syrian sources and multiple internal reports, Sukkarieh held military and organizational positions inside HTS, serving as a sector emir prior to 2020. In October 2022, he joined the group’s “general follow-up committee,” headed by Abd al-Rahim Attoun, the former HTS mufti who now directs the presidency’s “religious consultation office.”

Kier Starmer on farmer’s inheritance tax – suicides before April? Keir Starmer blasted for refusing to U-turn on farm inheritance tax despite suicide fears Prime Minister faces intense scrutiny over controversial tax policy that has sparked emotional turmoil among farmers. Keir Starmer quizzed on farm tax by Cat Smith Sir Keir Starmer was attacked for refusing to drop his “cruel” tax raid on farmers despite warnings that some may kill themselves. Reports claim some elderly and terminally ill farm owners are considering taking their own lives before the inheritance levy begins in April. Sir Keir suggested during a grilling by cross-party MPs that he was aware of the claims but insisted the changes were a “sensible reform”. His comments reignited calls from opposition parties for ministers to ditch the move. Tory Shadow Environment Secretary Victoria Atkins said: “I have repeatedly raised, both in the House of Commons and outside of it, the tragic stories shared with me about the human cost of this cruel tax. “Keir Starmer cannot pretend he doesn’t know the damage this will do to the lives and livelihoods of farmers. “He must now keep his pre-election promise to farmers and axe this vindictive tax.” Reform UK Deputy Leader Richard Tice added: “The fact that Sir Keir Starmer is determined to press on with his tax on family farms despite the very stark warnings he’s had just goes to show how cruel and vindictive Labour’s war on our farming community is. “Family farms are the backbone of British agriculture, and should be supported, not taxed to death. Only Reform stands up for our farmers and will scrap the family farms tax.” Mo Metcalf-Fisher, director of external affairs at the Countryside Alliance, said the “incredibly heartless remarks” were “made in defence of the indefensible”. He added: “The Prime Minister should stop, listen and reflect on the outpouring of concerns from the rural community and his own MPs and immediately reset his relationship with the countryside by rethinking this disastrous policy before it’s too late.” The Government has faced an ongoing backlash for slapping inheritance tax on farms worth over £1 million in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s first budget, with the changes due to be implemented next April.

Farmers protest in France and Brussels. Black Rock want to bankrupt all family farming via governments. Farmers saying more disruptive protests coming. Angry farmers block Brussels roads with tractors over Mercosur trade deal Thousands protest as EU leaders clash over trade pact farmers fear will flood Europe with cheaper South American goods. Hundreds of tractors have clogged the streets of Brussels as farmers converged on the Belgian capital to protest against the contentious trade agreement between the European Union and South American nations they say will destroy their livelihoods. The demonstrations erupted on Thursday as EU leaders gathered for a summit where the fate of the Mercosur deal hung in the balance. More than 150 tractors blocked central Brussels, with an estimated 10,000 protesters expected in the European quarter, according to farm lobby Copa-Cogeca. It made for a twin-tracked day of febrile tension outside and inside at the EU summit as leaders were perhaps more focused on a vote to determine whether they are able to use nearly $200bn in frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine over the next two years. Outside the gilded halls on the streets, farmers hurled potatoes and eggs at police, set off fireworks and firecrackers, and brought traffic to a standstill. Authorities responded with tear gas and water cannon, setting up roadblocks and closing tunnels around the city. One tractor displayed a sign reading: “Why import sugar from the other side of the world when we produce the best right here?” “We’re here to say no to Mercosur,” Belgian dairy farmer Maxime Mabille said, accusing European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen of trying to “force the deal through” like “Europe has become a dictatorship”. A protester throws an object, as farmers protest against the EU-Mercosur free-trade deal between the European Union and the South American countries of Mercosur, on the day of a European Union leaders’ summit, in Brussels, Belgium, December 18, 2025. REUTERS/Yves Herman A protester throws an object, as farmers protest against the EU-Mercosur free-trade deal in Brussels, Belgium [Yves Herman/Reuters] Protesters fear an influx of cheaper agricultural products from Brazil and neighbouring countries would undercut European producers. Their concerns centre on beef, sugar, rice, honey and soya beans from South American competitors facing less stringent regulations, particularly on pesticides banned in the EU. Advertisement “We’ve been protesting since 2024 in France, in Belgium and elsewhere,” said Florian Poncelet of Belgian farm union FJA. “We’d like to be finally listened to.” France and Italy now lead opposition to the deal, with President Emmanuel Macron declaring that “we are not ready” and the agreement “cannot be signed” in its current form. France has coordinated with Poland, Belgium, Austria and Ireland to force a postponement, giving critics sufficient votes within the European Council to potentially block the pact. Get instant alerts and updates based on your interests. Be the first to know when big stories happen. However, Germany and Spain are pushing hard for approval. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned that decisions “must be made now” if the EU wants to “remain credible in global trade policy”, while Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez argued the deal would give Europe “geo-economic and geopolitical weight” against adversaries…

Marketing Boards. Thatcher revolution. Agricultural Commodity Marketing Boards Hector W. McNeill SEEL-Systems Engineering Economics Lab, The George Boole Foundation Limited Introduction: This paper is an introduction to the role and benefits of Agricultural Commodity Marketing Boards herein referred to as MBs. This has been motivated by the current discussions surrounding the Farm Inheritance Tax, recently introduced by the government. It is hoped that for reasons related to sector survival that this proposed tax will be withdrawn. In the meantime, this paper is being prepared as a contribution to a review of an option for farmers to improve their market positions which for over a century have faced a declining terms-of-trade or the comparison of rising prices of inputs to stable or stagnant output prices. Besides this farm gate issue of unsatisfactory prices there is also a downstream supply chain concern that some operators have margins that far exceed those of farming enterprises involving issues more related to the general macroeconomic policies and regulations which lie outside the remit of MB legislation. However, this does indicate that any developments introduced for MBs to help improve farm gate prices and profitability, can become more effective through macroeconomic policy legislation that can smooth or even out the distribution of margins within downstream supply chain segments. This is not a statement of suggesting that the agricultural sector become the tail wagging the whole macroeconomy dog but rather to explain that this type of legislative change would benefit all sectors of the economy and in particular SMEs that remain responsible for approximately 50% of all output and employment in the United Kingdom.

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