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		By: Don		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;i&gt;Snow on Pine on January 3, 2026 at 8:16 pm said:
According to what was said at the President’s 11 A.M. press conference, Maduro’s security apparatus is apparently run by Cubans, and Trump has said that the U.S. intends to run Venezuela until it gets back on the right track.

So how will this work? Do our troops run them out of the country, or fight and eliminate these Cubans,?&lt;/i&gt;

Allende also had Cuban guards.

The Cubans are a key element in Venezuelan security and intelligence.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Snow on Pine on January 3, 2026 at 8:16 pm said:<br />
According to what was said at the President’s 11 A.M. press conference, Maduro’s security apparatus is apparently run by Cubans, and Trump has said that the U.S. intends to run Venezuela until it gets back on the right track.</p>
<p>So how will this work? Do our troops run them out of the country, or fight and eliminate these Cubans,?</i></p>
<p>Allende also had Cuban guards.</p>
<p>The Cubans are a key element in Venezuelan security and intelligence.</p>
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		By: Brian E		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s been revealed! Venezuela&#039;s soon to be deposed vice-president says Maduro&#039;s ouster was a Zionist plot.

It&#039;s all connected.

&lt;b&gt;Iran Threatens FINAL All Out Assault As Protesters TEAR Down The Regime!&lt;/b&gt;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgaPB9DzUK4

There there&#039;s this.   

&lt;b&gt;BREAKING: Netanyahu Approves Attack On IRGC In Iran - Revolution In Tehran&lt;/b&gt;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ESSpzxVbso]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been revealed! Venezuela&#8217;s soon to be deposed vice-president says Maduro&#8217;s ouster was a Zionist plot.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s all connected.</p>
<p><b>Iran Threatens FINAL All Out Assault As Protesters TEAR Down The Regime!</b><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgaPB9DzUK4" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgaPB9DzUK4</a></p>
<p>There there&#8217;s this.   </p>
<p><b>BREAKING: Netanyahu Approves Attack On IRGC In Iran &#8211; Revolution In Tehran</b><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ESSpzxVbso" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ESSpzxVbso</a></p>
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		By: Don		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;i&gt;huxley on January 3, 2026 at 10:02 pm said:
. . .  At this point I question how representative were the previous Death to Israel, Death to America protests in Iran.&lt;/i&gt;

There is a video that&#039;s a few years old now that help understand that. 

It shows a university in Iran with the US and Israeli flags painted on the ground. The Iranian students take extra effort to walk around them. An older man walks right over the flags and the students are very audible in rebuking him.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>huxley on January 3, 2026 at 10:02 pm said:<br />
. . .  At this point I question how representative were the previous Death to Israel, Death to America protests in Iran.</i></p>
<p>There is a video that&#8217;s a few years old now that help understand that. </p>
<p>It shows a university in Iran with the US and Israeli flags painted on the ground. The Iranian students take extra effort to walk around them. An older man walks right over the flags and the students are very audible in rebuking him.</p>
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		By: Gringo		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Turns out that Biden pardoned the narconephews. Once pardoned, they continued their drug-dealing ways. Big surprise. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/12/11/sanctions-venezuela/3901765489340/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow ugc&quot;&gt;U.S. sanctions Maduro family, says it&#039;s keeping oil from tanker&lt;/a&gt;   

&lt;blockquote&gt;Dec. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. Treasury Department officials sanctioned three members of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro&#039;s extended family and others for allegedly trafficking drugs and illicit oil.

Three nephews of Maduro&#039;s wife, a Venezuelan businessman and six shipping companies and associated vessels were sanctioned on Thursday.

&quot;Nicolas Maduro and his criminal associates in Venezuela are flooding the United States with drugs that are poisoning the American people,&quot; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a news release announcing the sanctions.

Two of three sanctioned nephews of Maduro&#039;s wife, Cilia Flores, are identified as Efrain Antonio Campo Flores and Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas.

They are narco-traffickers and &quot;known popularly as the &#039;narco-nephews,&#039;&quot; according to the Treasury Department.

Biden pardons the nephews

Both were arrested in Haiti in 2015 and accused of arranging the transportation of hundreds of kilograms of cocaine to the United States.

They were convicted in 2016, but President Joe Biden pardoned them in 2022, and they have resumed their narco-trafficking activities, according to the Treasury Department.

A third nephew, Carlos Erik Malpica Flores, is a former &quot;national treasurer of Venezuela&quot; and a vice president of state-owned Venezuelan oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA.

He was sanctioned by the United States in 2017, but the Biden administration removed the sanction in 2022 amid a failed effort to resume democratic elections in Venezuela.

Despite existing sanctions against Venezuelan oil, Biden in 2023 signed an agreement allowing the limited sale of Venezuelan oil to buyers in the United States, the BBC reported. &lt;/blockquote&gt;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Turns out that Biden pardoned the narconephews. Once pardoned, they continued their drug-dealing ways. Big surprise. <a href="https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/12/11/sanctions-venezuela/3901765489340/" rel="nofollow ugc">U.S. sanctions Maduro family, says it&#8217;s keeping oil from tanker</a>   </p>
<blockquote><p>Dec. 11 (UPI) &#8212; U.S. Treasury Department officials sanctioned three members of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro&#8217;s extended family and others for allegedly trafficking drugs and illicit oil.</p>
<p>Three nephews of Maduro&#8217;s wife, a Venezuelan businessman and six shipping companies and associated vessels were sanctioned on Thursday.</p>
<p>&#8220;Nicolas Maduro and his criminal associates in Venezuela are flooding the United States with drugs that are poisoning the American people,&#8221; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a news release announcing the sanctions.</p>
<p>Two of three sanctioned nephews of Maduro&#8217;s wife, Cilia Flores, are identified as Efrain Antonio Campo Flores and Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas.</p>
<p>They are narco-traffickers and &#8220;known popularly as the &#8216;narco-nephews,'&#8221; according to the Treasury Department.</p>
<p>Biden pardons the nephews</p>
<p>Both were arrested in Haiti in 2015 and accused of arranging the transportation of hundreds of kilograms of cocaine to the United States.</p>
<p>They were convicted in 2016, but President Joe Biden pardoned them in 2022, and they have resumed their narco-trafficking activities, according to the Treasury Department.</p>
<p>A third nephew, Carlos Erik Malpica Flores, is a former &#8220;national treasurer of Venezuela&#8221; and a vice president of state-owned Venezuelan oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA.</p>
<p>He was sanctioned by the United States in 2017, but the Biden administration removed the sanction in 2022 amid a failed effort to resume democratic elections in Venezuela.</p>
<p>Despite existing sanctions against Venezuelan oil, Biden in 2023 signed an agreement allowing the limited sale of Venezuelan oil to buyers in the United States, the BBC reported. </p></blockquote>
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		By: om		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[F:

You forgot the gender-confused/insane contingent, sometimes in black with masks, sometimes in multicolors without masks.

The same question applies to them as to the AWFLs, who died and made them kings (or queens)?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>F:</p>
<p>You forgot the gender-confused/insane contingent, sometimes in black with masks, sometimes in multicolors without masks.</p>
<p>The same question applies to them as to the AWFLs, who died and made them kings (or queens)?</p>
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		By: Niketas Choniates		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[@F:&lt;i&gt;older white women... What makes those women think they have standing to speak for groups they are not members of?&lt;/i&gt;

It may not be that they think this. It may be that they&#039;re the only ones willing to show up to protest without getting paid.

It&#039;s important to remember how fake most of what we see in the news is. There&#039;s multiple layers of fakeness. There&#039;s legacy media making up their stories and selectively reciting facts to give them an illusion of truth, but the things they are reporting on are also often fake to begin with, as in staged for the purpose of being written about.

On another thread I referenced the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/03/12/coffee.party.people/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow ugc&quot;&gt;&quot;Coffee Party&quot;.&lt;/a&gt; Remember that? It was the leftist version of the Tea Party and it got tongue baths from the NYT and WaPo and all the other legacy media about how quickly it was growing and how enthusiastic every one in it was.

Or how &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.mediaite.com/media/nprs-new-rule-for-2026-stop-quoting-the-same-professor-over-and-over/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow ugc&quot;&gt;NPR had to make a rule this year that their news reports can&#039;t quote University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias anymore.&lt;/a&gt; He&#039;s a real person, and real law professor at a real university, but he&#039;ll say anything an NPR reporter wants him to say on pretty much any topic, and in that sense his expertise is fake. (And he&#039;s also frequently quoted in NYT and WaPo.)

The older white ladies are real, and they are really showing up with their signs, but that they represent anything of significance is fake. The big protests have the backing of big money, and those people are paid to pretend to be indignant, and it&#039;s fake in a different way in that the protest represents the views of a few organizations with lots of funding and not the people paid to hold the signs and yell.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@F:<i>older white women&#8230; What makes those women think they have standing to speak for groups they are not members of?</i></p>
<p>It may not be that they think this. It may be that they&#8217;re the only ones willing to show up to protest without getting paid.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s important to remember how fake most of what we see in the news is. There&#8217;s multiple layers of fakeness. There&#8217;s legacy media making up their stories and selectively reciting facts to give them an illusion of truth, but the things they are reporting on are also often fake to begin with, as in staged for the purpose of being written about.</p>
<p>On another thread I referenced the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/03/12/coffee.party.people/" rel="nofollow ugc">&#8220;Coffee Party&#8221;.</a> Remember that? It was the leftist version of the Tea Party and it got tongue baths from the NYT and WaPo and all the other legacy media about how quickly it was growing and how enthusiastic every one in it was.</p>
<p>Or how <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/media/nprs-new-rule-for-2026-stop-quoting-the-same-professor-over-and-over/" rel="nofollow ugc">NPR had to make a rule this year that their news reports can&#8217;t quote University of Richmond law professor Carl Tobias anymore.</a> He&#8217;s a real person, and real law professor at a real university, but he&#8217;ll say anything an NPR reporter wants him to say on pretty much any topic, and in that sense his expertise is fake. (And he&#8217;s also frequently quoted in NYT and WaPo.)</p>
<p>The older white ladies are real, and they are really showing up with their signs, but that they represent anything of significance is fake. The big protests have the backing of big money, and those people are paid to pretend to be indignant, and it&#8217;s fake in a different way in that the protest represents the views of a few organizations with lots of funding and not the people paid to hold the signs and yell.</p>
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		By: Gringo		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Drug trafficing and corruption: It&#039;s a family affair.
Caracas Chronicles Dec 14, 2017:&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2017/12/14/law-order-stupid-venezuelans-unit/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow ugc&quot;&gt;Law &#038; Order: Stupid Venezuelans Unit&lt;/a&gt;   
&lt;blockquote&gt;That pipedream was one beat in the thumping 1,500 page narcosobrinos trial transcript I spent a few weeks reading. Today, Efraín and his cousin Franqui Francisco Flores (AKA the narcosobrinos) were sentenced to 18 years of imprisonment and to pay a $50,000 fine by a U.S. federal judge, after being found guilty of conspiring to transport cocaine to the United States. &lt;/blockquote&gt;Why are these two referred to as narcosobrinos (narco-nephews)? Because   Efraín  Antonio Campo Flores and Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas are nephews of  Venezuela’s first couple, Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores.

Caracas Chronicles July 26,2019:&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2019/07/26/a-vast-corruption-network/ &quot; rel=&quot;nofollow ugc&quot;&gt; A Vast Corruption Network &lt;/a&gt;   
&lt;blockquote&gt;The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions against 10 individuals and 13 companies tied to Nicolás’ regime and the web of corruption that characterizes the purchase and distribution of food for the Local Committees of Supply and Production (CLAPs). The Treasury sanctioned the main CLAP supplies, the pair of Colombian businessmen Alex Saab and Álvaro Pulido Vargas, accusing them of leading “a vast corruption network” with a “global network of shell companies” to import food. They also sanctioned Saab’s sons and Pulido Vargas’ step-son, who’s not the only step-son in the list, because &lt;b&gt;Walter, Yosser and Yoswal Gavidia Flores, sons of Cilia Flores (Nicolás’ wife) were also sanctioned&lt;/b&gt;, as well as Yosser’s partner, Mariana Staudinger.

Alex Saab Morán and Álvaro Pulido Vargas were accused of eight crimes in the Southern District of Florida with a charge of conspiracy and money laundering. The accusation alleges the loss of over $350 million, and estimates that between 2011 and 2015, Saab and Pulido conspired to launder the product of a bribery scheme from bank accounts in Venezuela and accounts in the U.S.&lt;/ blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Drug trafficing and corruption: It&#8217;s a family affair.<br />
Caracas Chronicles Dec 14, 2017:<a href="https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2017/12/14/law-order-stupid-venezuelans-unit/" rel="nofollow ugc">Law &amp; Order: Stupid Venezuelans Unit</a>   </p>
<blockquote><p>That pipedream was one beat in the thumping 1,500 page narcosobrinos trial transcript I spent a few weeks reading. Today, Efraín and his cousin Franqui Francisco Flores (AKA the narcosobrinos) were sentenced to 18 years of imprisonment and to pay a $50,000 fine by a U.S. federal judge, after being found guilty of conspiring to transport cocaine to the United States. </p></blockquote>
<p>Why are these two referred to as narcosobrinos (narco-nephews)? Because   Efraín  Antonio Campo Flores and Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas are nephews of  Venezuela’s first couple, Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores.</p>
<p>Caracas Chronicles July 26,2019:<a href="https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2019/07/26/a-vast-corruption-network/ " rel="nofollow ugc"> A Vast Corruption Network </a>   </p>
<blockquote><p>The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions against 10 individuals and 13 companies tied to Nicolás’ regime and the web of corruption that characterizes the purchase and distribution of food for the Local Committees of Supply and Production (CLAPs). The Treasury sanctioned the main CLAP supplies, the pair of Colombian businessmen Alex Saab and Álvaro Pulido Vargas, accusing them of leading “a vast corruption network” with a “global network of shell companies” to import food. They also sanctioned Saab’s sons and Pulido Vargas’ step-son, who’s not the only step-son in the list, because <b>Walter, Yosser and Yoswal Gavidia Flores, sons of Cilia Flores (Nicolás’ wife) were also sanctioned</b>, as well as Yosser’s partner, Mariana Staudinger.</p>
<p>Alex Saab Morán and Álvaro Pulido Vargas were accused of eight crimes in the Southern District of Florida with a charge of conspiracy and money laundering. The accusation alleges the loss of over $350 million, and estimates that between 2011 and 2015, Saab and Pulido conspired to launder the product of a bribery scheme from bank accounts in Venezuela and accounts in the U.S.</ blockquote></p></blockquote>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Am I right in noticing that most of the protests of ANY Trump policy are mostly older white women, even as they claim to be representing BIPOC and Hispanic concerns?  What makes those women think they have standing to speak for groups they are not members of?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Am I right in noticing that most of the protests of ANY Trump policy are mostly older white women, even as they claim to be representing BIPOC and Hispanic concerns?  What makes those women think they have standing to speak for groups they are not members of?</p>
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		By: Barry Meislin		</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nothing at all new here: the NYT et al. decides what it is that you really ought to know…and what it is that you really ought NOT know. 

It (they) publishes and embellishes the former (using a lot of innuendo and flat out lies); and totally blocks/covers up—or weasels around—the latter (using a lot of innuendo and flat out lies).

Constantly. Continuously. Consistently. 

And if it (they) doesn’t respond to a huge Democratic Party scandal (or significant Trump achievement) immediately, it means that it (they) hasn’t yet decided on what line to take on that particular scandal (or achievement). 
And if it (they) still doesn’t come up with something, it means that it’s (they’re) coordinating the “story” with the rest of the Lying Legacy Media…and/or waiting for another “story” to bump the scandal (or achievement) off the radar—e.g., the upcoming government shutdown. 

IOW, “All the news that’s fit to print”…]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nothing at all new here: the NYT et al. decides what it is that you really ought to know…and what it is that you really ought NOT know. </p>
<p>It (they) publishes and embellishes the former (using a lot of innuendo and flat out lies); and totally blocks/covers up—or weasels around—the latter (using a lot of innuendo and flat out lies).</p>
<p>Constantly. Continuously. Consistently. </p>
<p>And if it (they) doesn’t respond to a huge Democratic Party scandal (or significant Trump achievement) immediately, it means that it (they) hasn’t yet decided on what line to take on that particular scandal (or achievement).<br />
And if it (they) still doesn’t come up with something, it means that it’s (they’re) coordinating the “story” with the rest of the Lying Legacy Media…and/or waiting for another “story” to bump the scandal (or achievement) off the radar—e.g., the upcoming government shutdown. </p>
<p>IOW, “All the news that’s fit to print”…</p>
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		By: CICERO		</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The NYTimes is truly revolting. It says Maduro has been charged with nacrotrafficking &quot;and other crimes&quot;. Those &quot;other crimes&quot; are many but NYT readers need not trouble themselves.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The NYTimes is truly revolting. It says Maduro has been charged with nacrotrafficking &#8220;and other crimes&#8221;. Those &#8220;other crimes&#8221; are many but NYT readers need not trouble themselves.</p>
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