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Venezuela empty airspace at this moment according to the flight tracking website.

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Pete Hegseth has Ordered a Military Strike on a Surviors of a Previously Bombed Vessal , apperently with the verbal order "kill them All" ... Meaning ordering Military Strikes on Helpless survivors. (washington Post) This is a clear Violation of the Hague convention :"it is especially forbidden [...] to declare that no quarter will be given" Article 23 (D).

but even that would first need a "War" to be present , so he simply Ordered the Murder of Survivors (kill them all) . Making the hole commandchain liable for "well not even war crimes / but Murder" and explaining this Democrat video . Crime is Punishable by Death in US Law .

JAG (i know that from this Series) , > UNANIMOUSLY considers both the giving and the execution of these orders constitute war crimes, murder, or both.

(proably connected with the Mark Kelly thing)

They (the US media) will just call every strike drug-related. They know it is weak, but what is the job of a journalist if not reprinting US press releases. My guess is that they are begging the government to come up with something better. NYT;

MoA posted a good Venezuela-related analysis today:

"The whole Trump South America policy is not about drugs or Venezuela but about U.S. control over the whole continent with the help of right-wing proxy leaders.

Meanwhile the U.S. military continues to strike random fisherman near Venezuela (archived) with drones and missiles.

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I still very much doubt that Trump will order military strikes on Venezuela. Chances are high that any such operation would end in a quagmire. It would lessen the chances of any other policy success he might want to have."

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/11/trump-pardons-drug-smuggler-threatens-venezuela.html

huh... what are all those US ships in the Caribbean even doing? https://archive.ph/JJn1l

Second Russian Tanker Appears Off Venezuela After Seahorse’s Cat-and-Mouse With U.S. Navy

A second vessel tied to Russia’s shadow fleet has joined the sanctioned tanker Seahorse off the coast of Venezuela, days after the Seahorse was involved in a cat and mouse game with U.S. Navy forces, according to people familiar with the ship movements.

“In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

Hezbollah’s Message to His Holiness, the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV

Your Holiness, The Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV — with utmost respect,

Greetings and peace be upon you,

To begin, we express our full welcome and deep appreciation for your honorable presence and your visit to Lebanon — this beautiful country, blessed by God with its unique geographic location and harmonious religious diversity. This diversity, embodied in a shared life and broad consensus, is essential to the stability of its political system and the security of its nation.

Your predecessor, Pope John Paul II, once declared that Lebanon is “not merely a nation, but a message.” Indeed, Lebanon — with its rich mosaic — represents a civilizational bridge between the followers of the two heavenly messages, Christianity and Islam, and among all religious, cultural, and secular traditions across the world.

When human beings are placed at the center of concern for all faiths — and even for secular ideological systems — one can truly hope for the possibility of achieving lasting peace and security.

We read in your guidance and messages a firm commitment to human rights and the imperative to respect and protect them. These rights, however, extend beyond the individual to the broader sphere of peoples and nations.

The conflicts taking place across the world today stem, in large part, from the refusal of some actors — leaders, parties, groups, or states — to acknowledge or respect the rights of others, whether due to differences in religion, race, language, or interests.

It is no secret that the erosion of respect for human rights by certain entities fuels greed, domination, and the use of force instead of justice.

The tragedy witnessed in Gaza over the past two years — and still ongoing — is the result of the Zionist occupiers stripping the Palestinian people of their rights to their land, homeland, and self-determination, as well as the international system’s failure to embrace justice as the basis for resolving the long-standing conflict between an indigenous people and an occupying force.

Similarly, the suffering of the Lebanese people — caused by the Zionist occupation of parts of our land and its continuous aggressions and threats to our security and stability — reflects the enemy’s ambition to control our waters, land, and gas resources, and to impose political, security, and expansionist conditions without limit.

There is no doubt that the Zionist occupation receives — regrettably — unconditional support from major powers that share its ambitions to dominate our region and exploit its resources, with no regard for the rights of our people.

What the “Israeli” enemy has committed in Gaza against the Palestinian people is an act of genocide; and what it continues to commit in Lebanon is an ongoing and condemned aggression.

We, in Hezbollah, seize the opportunity of your blessed visit to reiterate our commitment to shared coexistence, consensual democracy, internal security and stability, and the protection of national sovereignty. We stand alongside our army and our people in confronting any aggression or occupation targeting our land and our nation.

We also hold firmly to our legitimate right to reject foreign interference aimed at imposing tutelage on our country, undermining our national decision-making, and usurping the constitutional authority of our institutions.

If our religious conviction affirms that the followers of Jesus Christ — peace be upon him — are messengers of love, justice, and human dignity, then we rely on your principled stance in rejecting the oppression and aggression inflicted upon Lebanon by the Zionist invaders and their supporters.

This is the message we deliver to Your Holiness during this visit, in which you express your care, affection, and solidarity with all Lebanese. We wish you comfort and safety during your stay, praying to Almighty God to grant justice, security, and relief to the oppressed across the world.

With our sincerest regards,

#Military_Media”

https://t.me/mmirlb/33816

I love flying planes long past their expected retirement! USA! USA! https://archive.ph/GHJ17

USAF plan to fly C-5, C-17s even longer elicits concern

Service says it needs to hedge against delays to planned Next-Generation Airlift plane.

As part of the Brandon-ization of America, in addition to every politician now being an ancient husk, we will also make sure that every vehicle in use by the military is ancient too! Every man a Brandon, every plane a Brandon, every ship a Brandon!

New telegram for DPRK info. I think most of it is kcna reposts but the admin also intends to write original posts on the DPRK.

https://t.me/PyongyangNews/100

“KCNA: New Houses Built at Vegetable Farms in Pyongyang.

New houses have been built at the Ryokpho Vegetable Farm in Ryokpho District and the Oryu Vegetable Farm in Sadong District, the historic places associated with the leadership exploits of the Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang Municipality.

The modern houses demonstrating the validity and vitality of the programme for the rural revolution in the new era picture the future of the countryside thriving day by day along with a new life and civilization.

Present at the ceremonies of moving into new houses held on the spots were officials of the Party and power organs, builders and agricultural workers in Pyongyang Municipality and Ryokpho and Sadong districts.”

In Canadian Indigenous news, here is a story about the relationship between the Tahltan Central Government (TCG) and Skeena resources, owners of the Eskay Creek mining project, which is on Tahltan land in northern BC. This article is not written with a Marxist lense, but it is not hard to see the material forces at work. I encourage reading the whole thing.

As Canada's role in the future world economy is likely to be driven by the resource sector, I believe these issues are worth understanding for news heads. This is where the rubber meets the road with respect to the political economy of Indigenous decision making. Canada is by far the most obvious location for friendshoring to serve American resource needs, and the vast majority of the Canadian resource sector falls under Indigenous consultation obligations.

Questions are being raised inside a B.C. First Nation after $10,000 was offered to each member ahead of a crucial vote on the future of a major gold mine.

Unlike other mines, Eskay Creek is subject to Canada’s first ever consent-based decision-making agreement with a First Nation. Signed in 2022 between the province and the Tahltan Central Government, the agreement explicitly states the project cannot proceed without the nation’s free, prior and informed consent.

The nation's leadership stoked some members’ concerns even further when, on Nov. 20, it said it had negotiated a $40-million “upfront payment” that would be distributed in $10,000 payments to eligible individuals.

The article goes on to describe different financial and ownership relationships between parties as well as potential conflict of interest.

TCG has a lot of capacity compared to most First Nations governments in BC and are located in a highly desirable area for resource extraction, colloquially known as the Golden Triangle. TCG has a strong track record of negotiating agreements with resource extraction companies and the province which give them an unprecedented amount of say in project development, and implementing UNDRIP.

Nisga'a Lisims Government, home of the first modern BC treaty from 2000 (The Nisga'a Final Agreement) and benefactor/partner in the Ksi Lisims gas terminal project is also in the same general area. See my previous post on Ksi Lisims from a few months ago.

One of the key constraints to understand is the size of First Nations governments relative to the economic size of the projects in question. TCG is about 3000 people and Eskay alone is a several billion dollar project, which is one of several major mines in the territory, with more in development. The possibility for regulatory capture increases in these circumstances. It's the regulatory equivalent of the old joke that if you owe the someone a thousand dollars you've got a problem, if you owe someone a million dollars, they've got a problem. This issue is common to anytime a large industry player comes to a small jurisdiction (think of the sway Walmart has in a small town).

There are also limits to what specialized technical expertise exists in a community of 3000. There is tremendous traditional knowledge in First Nations communities, but this experience does not extend to the detailed design and operation of large open pit mines, tailings dams, pipelines, or shipping terminals. It's easy to dunk on technocracy, but the reality is that if a community decision is made to support resource development in a Nation's territory and to use the economic activity associated to support the Nation's community, then there is need for people with a high degree of training to understand, regulate, and make decisions related to these complex resource projects. That kind of person ideally comes from the community itself, but there is a limited local workforce to draw from, especially Indigenous communities that have suffered from genocide, residential schools, poverty etc. in living memory.

The Canadian legal system including the Indian Act is structured to support assimilation. It does so more softly than it did 100 years ago and there is less focus on cultural assimilation, but incentives for economic assimilation are just as strong as ever in a country founded to be hewers of wood and drawers of water.