Earlier today, in a comment, I suggested that Trump’s constant war mongering rhetoric and his kidnapping of Maduro and Maduro’s wife (who appears to have been rather badly beaten up during the kidnapping) may be largely driven by concerns over his poor polling numbers and the upcoming 2026 midterms.
 Trump says he's "inclined to keep Exxon out" of Venezuela & welcomes other US oil companies:
"I didn’t like Exxon’s response. You know, we have so many that wanted to come in. Exxon is playing too cute."
*Previously, Exxon CEO, Darren Woods said company had its assets seized twice in Venezuela & to re‑enter a third time would require some "pretty significant changes" from what we've historically seen here
There has never been a more dangerous president to America and her people than Trump, in my view.. For many of us, this self-harm must be giving some degree of a devilish glee to see the one eye giant teetering and is about to bite the proverbial dust once and for all.. (from Johannesburg)
"Venezuela now has the United States of America ... to protect them"
So Trump is protecting venezuelans by starving them? He should ask the christians in Syria how protected they feel under the "handsome" man, or the palestinians, or the ukrainians.
The AI-generated fake bot campaign you're describing aligns closely with a large-scale influence operation uncovered in late 2025, primarily aimed at destabilizing Iran's government and promoting Reza Pahlavi (son of the last Shah) as a replacement leader.
This operation, dubbed "Prison Break" by researchers, has been flooding platforms like X with fabricated stories, deepfake videos, and recycled or misrepresented images to incite unrest and create the illusion of widespread support for regime change.
It's been particularly active amid Iran's ongoing economic riots and political tensions in early 2026, which explains why your feed might be overwhelmed—bots amplify content algorithmically, targeting users interested in Middle East politics or following related accounts.
Based on investigations, the operation involves over 50 inauthentic X profiles (many with AI-generated avatars) that were created in 2023 but ramped up in 2024-2025. These accounts spread coordinated narratives calling for revolt against the Islamic Republic, often timed with real-world events like Israeli airstrikes on Iranian sites (e.g., Tehran's Evin Prison in June 2025).
Deepfake videos of explosions, fabricated "eyewitness" reports, and staged clips of protests or defections from Iranian military personnel. For instance, during the Evin strike, bots posted about "explosions in the prison area" minutes before official media reports, then circulated a fake AI video of the event that got picked up internationally.
Inauthentic stories mimicking BBC Persian or other outlets, promoting anti-Khamenei slogans and pro-Pahlavi messaging. Hashtags like #IranRevolution or #FreeIran are artificially boosted to simulate grassroots momentum.
Bot Synchronization: Accounts operate in unison, reposting identical content in Persian to target Iranian audiences and the diaspora. Researchers assess with medium confidence that this is run by an Israeli government agency or closely supervised contractor, funded indirectly through proxies. It's not organic activism but a psychological operation (psy-op) to manufacture chaos and potentially justify foreign intervention.
While it hasn't gained real traction inside Iran (experts note Pahlavi lacks domestic appeal due to his U.S.-based lifestyle and perceived foreign ties), it has successfully polluted social media feeds with disinformation, leading to confusion and amplified fake stories.
On the interwebs, there is a cram-down of bare-knuckle slogans such as "might makes right" and other such philosophical gems which prove you SHOULD do things because "you CAN just do things." This is an emergency, no dithering, there is no time for compromise with Christian thinking about the use of force here, there, anywhere. Christianity weakened Rome and it fell. You don't want to be fallen, do you? We are in the arena!
I'd say Stephen Miller is the retail face of the wholesale effort to keep young white males on-side by coaching them to be tough. He (and his wife) are selling toughness. White people lost the ability to look after their own interests, and need to re-learn how to be tough. So the Jews will teach us how to be tribal, to fight back. Fight, fight, fight. There will be no compromise with Christianity or Christian thinking. It's time to put away childish things like the Truth. Our Jewish brothers will lead the way to a brighter future, a future in which they will keep their hands on the wheel just in case, and that will give white men more time for all the gambling and gaming and gooning they so richly deserve because it was their forefathers, damn it, who settled this country and drove out the Indians who were terrible, just like the Palestinians are terrible.
From that January 5th CNN interview,
/quote
MILLER: The United States of America is running Venezuela. By definition, that's true. Jake, we live in... a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world that have existed since the beginning of time.
/endquote
Iron law. From that January 8th NYT interview,
/quote
Asked in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times if there were any limits on his global powers, Mr. Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
“I don’t need international law,” he added. “I’m not looking to hurt people.”
When pressed further about whether his administration needed to abide by international law, Mr. Trump said, “I do.” But he made clear he would be the arbiter when such constraints applied to the United States.
“It depends what your definition of international law is,” he said.
/endquote
We can appreciate the clarity of the challenge to find any other law than "might makes right".
Tamsin, re: white men should "fight, fight, fight," one young, military aged man named Nick Shirley with no weapon except a microphone, a camera, and an internet connection exposed ongoing billions of taxpayer dollars being funneled to fraudulent Somali fake businesses by Minnesota government. Nick Shirley's reports led to Minnesota Gov. Tim Waltz withdrawing his intention to run for another term as Minn. governor. Somalis were dumped into Minnesota and Maine in early 1990s, have had plenty of time to steal and reproduce more generations to steal. Many whistleblowers preceded Nick but they were punished for trying to speak up for defenseless US taxpayers. Americans were finally defended by one white man with a microphone.
Yes. However. I'm skeptical insofar as... we can know both political parties have opposition research queued up to move public sentiment, and they time the drops as best they can.
In recent days, Mr. Shirley was retweeting mass demonstration photos from Venezuela that weren't from Venezuela.
Young people are led by the nose to hit their marks and say their lines because they are young and don't know any better. I should know; I was young once. And I got fooled by the Covid scam when I was old!
Tamsin, thanks for the added info about Nick Shirley's activism--too bad he fell for the Venezuela and El Salvador propaganda. As to the Covid scam, I'm happy to say I never watched a minute of it on tv, never had a PCR test or government injection. When NY Times in March 2020 reported it as something determined by UK computer geniuses and that as such we had to listen--I thought this is just like the global warming scam--UK climate "experts" we had to listen to.
The alleged "power and strength," Jake, is merely that of 300 million enslaved US taxpayers. This is thanks to WWII "security architecture" also known as converting US taxpayers to global slaves in perpetuity thanks to the world's greatest terrorist, Harry Truman. Truman apparently wanted to divert attention from USSR's victory over Hitler who committed suicide on April 30, 1945. And the fact that 25 million Russians and Soviets died in the process. Truman dropped two atom bombs on Japanese civilians in one week, August 6 and August 9, 1945, and proceeded to bask in global glow.
Beautiful righteous anger. No sarcasm . might makes right is sophistry. This thought emerged in greece after the great epoch of the so called pre socratics. The result of this sophistical education was the Peloponesian war, the fall and weakening of the free independent poleis, and the later macedonian and roman subjugations.
(read the Republic, where the aporias of this thought are exposed) .
Still even the sophists thought that the gods needed sacrifices and couldnt be coerced. Today subjectivity turns the world.upside down.
It's important to notice though that the power of the concept, the idea, is the greatest power, because infinite. This is going to be proved in reality pretty soon. America today is where this power is.
Notice in typical Trump/Rubio/Miller fashion, they attacked Venezuela and then bragged about all the oil they'll be getting, and then they talked to the oil companies. LOL
#Bassackwards
I read a Guardian article this morning that quoted a Human Rights News Agency that the Iranian rioters and family members were sorting through dead bodies to find their loved ones. I looked up the "Agency," and it pretended to be reporting from Tehran. However, they are in Virginia and funded by NED. LOL
Everything about these "massive protests" is propaganda, but the MAGA crowd is lapping it up and wanting their Savior to go into Iran. They shoot first and then develop a motive. LOL
How many times has the CIA/Mossad fooled Americans?
I loved this quote: "Iran is successfully jamming Starlink and GPS through which the US and Israel coordinate protests." - Al Jazeera reports
"Iran is successfully jamming Starlink and GPS through which the US and Israel coordinate protests - Al Jazeera reports"
Suggest a GoFundMe to send Elon Musk to Iran. He can kiss the tomb of Cyrus. Or the weed-strewn walls of the US Embassy. Or read poetry in Shiraz. Or all of the above.
Like most Americans, Elon had two options, the democrat party or Trump. Democrats didn't want him which was lucky for the US because Trump likely wouldn't have won without him and his enthusiastic efforts, especially in Pennsylvania.
FWIW, Maduro boasted of severe military consequences if the empire attacked Venezuela. Nothing happened, and we apparently waltzed in and took what we want, setting up a puppet regime that will do what the empire wants (or we'll waltz in and kidnap someone else, until we get what we want.) Something is not right when countries warn the empire in fiery language about resistance to invasion or retaliation, and then nothing happens. Could it be that all these world leaders are in lock step (like they were during covid) and are coordinating behind the scenes to help the U.S. empire construct the one world government?
There's propaganda for domestic consumption, and then there's reality. That's the case in Venezuela as well. What are they supposed to do, start launching missiles at US naval assets, and give them an excuse for a full-scale bombing campaign? They could go full Houthi, but the civilian death toll would be high, and they would likely end up losing the country.
Much too soon to say "nothing happened" especially given the brutal methods US organized crime used to capture Venezuela's elected president and his wife. "Waltzing" wasn't involved. Further, US has been trying to overthrow Venezuela ever since Chavez was elected and has never succeeded. They did remove Chavez for a day or two but he got away and was back in power. Bush #2 tried, Obama tried, and Trump tried and failed in 2019, having announced in early 2017 that he wanted to remove Maduro. Trump also banned US Major League Baseball players from playing in Venezuela's popular winter league in 2019. Trump has no soul, isn't human.
Extremely scary concept to explain cowardice inwardly, of the persons, and outwardly on the world stage. I can see your perspective as viable through the lens of Zionist/Anglo-zionist technology for "mission" surveillance, including every mis-, dis-, and mal-information "newsy suggestion" propagated through the owned media and social media corporations. Still, the individual conscience that is attended to by the reasoning mind of the person, times millions of such persons, can and will vanquish the oppressors' intentions to force their plans by any means necessary. Be aware. Stay committed. Pray for God's assistance. Do not quit and do not grow despairing nor despondent.
Further supporting that Iran situation is now stable is that neither Netanyahu nor Trump has spoken or posted to media about Iran in more than 24 hours.
No revolution.
Mossad lost 400 more agents.
Countless infiltrated mercenaries were killed across border regions.
In the light of a potential US strike, I can recommend MES on Telegram as a pro-Iranian source with strong local ties. They're biased, of course, but useful to balance western sources.
Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo
7h
 Trump says he's "inclined to keep Exxon out" of Venezuela & welcomes other US oil companies:
"I didn’t like Exxon’s response. You know, we have so many that wanted to come in. Exxon is playing too cute."
*Previously, Exxon CEO, Darren Woods said company had its assets seized twice in Venezuela & to re‑enter a third time would require some "pretty significant changes" from what we've historically seen here
A much more mundane explanation for Trump's outburst of lunacy: a distraction from Epstein.
He seems to be petty and narcissistic enough to do it.
There has never been a more dangerous president to America and her people than Trump, in my view.. For many of us, this self-harm must be giving some degree of a devilish glee to see the one eye giant teetering and is about to bite the proverbial dust once and for all.. (from Johannesburg)
"Venezuela now has the United States of America ... to protect them"
So Trump is protecting venezuelans by starving them? He should ask the christians in Syria how protected they feel under the "handsome" man, or the palestinians, or the ukrainians.
Trump is doing the opposite of protecting. His active definition of protect is maltreat. He starves, exposes, and torments.
IRAN I have never gotten more Iran feeds ever
all the claimed Iran protests - most of them fake
The greatest/most often repeated one - the woman smoking a cigarette
who happens to be CANADIAN and it was from 2022
protest image—showing a woman lighting a cigarette off a burning photo of Ayatollah Khamenei— CANADA 2022 "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement -
https://x.com/Blackrobe_Regt/status/2010512946158252359?s=20
------ Just indicates US is pushing justification to attack Iran
IMHO
-------------------
I ASKED GROK:
The AI-generated fake bot campaign you're describing aligns closely with a large-scale influence operation uncovered in late 2025, primarily aimed at destabilizing Iran's government and promoting Reza Pahlavi (son of the last Shah) as a replacement leader.
This operation, dubbed "Prison Break" by researchers, has been flooding platforms like X with fabricated stories, deepfake videos, and recycled or misrepresented images to incite unrest and create the illusion of widespread support for regime change.
It's been particularly active amid Iran's ongoing economic riots and political tensions in early 2026, which explains why your feed might be overwhelmed—bots amplify content algorithmically, targeting users interested in Middle East politics or following related accounts.
Based on investigations, the operation involves over 50 inauthentic X profiles (many with AI-generated avatars) that were created in 2023 but ramped up in 2024-2025. These accounts spread coordinated narratives calling for revolt against the Islamic Republic, often timed with real-world events like Israeli airstrikes on Iranian sites (e.g., Tehran's Evin Prison in June 2025).
Deepfake videos of explosions, fabricated "eyewitness" reports, and staged clips of protests or defections from Iranian military personnel. For instance, during the Evin strike, bots posted about "explosions in the prison area" minutes before official media reports, then circulated a fake AI video of the event that got picked up internationally.
Inauthentic stories mimicking BBC Persian or other outlets, promoting anti-Khamenei slogans and pro-Pahlavi messaging. Hashtags like #IranRevolution or #FreeIran are artificially boosted to simulate grassroots momentum.
Bot Synchronization: Accounts operate in unison, reposting identical content in Persian to target Iranian audiences and the diaspora. Researchers assess with medium confidence that this is run by an Israeli government agency or closely supervised contractor, funded indirectly through proxies. It's not organic activism but a psychological operation (psy-op) to manufacture chaos and potentially justify foreign intervention.
While it hasn't gained real traction inside Iran (experts note Pahlavi lacks domestic appeal due to his U.S.-based lifestyle and perceived foreign ties), it has successfully polluted social media feeds with disinformation, leading to confusion and amplified fake stories.
Much appreciated.. (from Johannesburg)
On the interwebs, there is a cram-down of bare-knuckle slogans such as "might makes right" and other such philosophical gems which prove you SHOULD do things because "you CAN just do things." This is an emergency, no dithering, there is no time for compromise with Christian thinking about the use of force here, there, anywhere. Christianity weakened Rome and it fell. You don't want to be fallen, do you? We are in the arena!
I'd say Stephen Miller is the retail face of the wholesale effort to keep young white males on-side by coaching them to be tough. He (and his wife) are selling toughness. White people lost the ability to look after their own interests, and need to re-learn how to be tough. So the Jews will teach us how to be tribal, to fight back. Fight, fight, fight. There will be no compromise with Christianity or Christian thinking. It's time to put away childish things like the Truth. Our Jewish brothers will lead the way to a brighter future, a future in which they will keep their hands on the wheel just in case, and that will give white men more time for all the gambling and gaming and gooning they so richly deserve because it was their forefathers, damn it, who settled this country and drove out the Indians who were terrible, just like the Palestinians are terrible.
From that January 5th CNN interview,
/quote
MILLER: The United States of America is running Venezuela. By definition, that's true. Jake, we live in... a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world that have existed since the beginning of time.
/endquote
Iron law. From that January 8th NYT interview,
/quote
Asked in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times if there were any limits on his global powers, Mr. Trump said: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
“I don’t need international law,” he added. “I’m not looking to hurt people.”
When pressed further about whether his administration needed to abide by international law, Mr. Trump said, “I do.” But he made clear he would be the arbiter when such constraints applied to the United States.
“It depends what your definition of international law is,” he said.
/endquote
We can appreciate the clarity of the challenge to find any other law than "might makes right".
Tamsin, re: white men should "fight, fight, fight," one young, military aged man named Nick Shirley with no weapon except a microphone, a camera, and an internet connection exposed ongoing billions of taxpayer dollars being funneled to fraudulent Somali fake businesses by Minnesota government. Nick Shirley's reports led to Minnesota Gov. Tim Waltz withdrawing his intention to run for another term as Minn. governor. Somalis were dumped into Minnesota and Maine in early 1990s, have had plenty of time to steal and reproduce more generations to steal. Many whistleblowers preceded Nick but they were punished for trying to speak up for defenseless US taxpayers. Americans were finally defended by one white man with a microphone.
Yes. However. I'm skeptical insofar as... we can know both political parties have opposition research queued up to move public sentiment, and they time the drops as best they can.
In recent days, Mr. Shirley was retweeting mass demonstration photos from Venezuela that weren't from Venezuela.
Young people are led by the nose to hit their marks and say their lines because they are young and don't know any better. I should know; I was young once. And I got fooled by the Covid scam when I was old!
Shirley has been an activist for a few years now, e.g. visiting El Salvador's prisons to showcase law and order there under Bukele two years ago. https://www.tiktok.com/@nickshirleyy/video/7395933568804850986
Tamsin, thanks for the added info about Nick Shirley's activism--too bad he fell for the Venezuela and El Salvador propaganda. As to the Covid scam, I'm happy to say I never watched a minute of it on tv, never had a PCR test or government injection. When NY Times in March 2020 reported it as something determined by UK computer geniuses and that as such we had to listen--I thought this is just like the global warming scam--UK climate "experts" we had to listen to.
Trump said "It depends what your definition of international law is."
Trump's way of dodging blame is to obscure, as Bill Clinton did in 1998: ""It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."
The alleged "power and strength," Jake, is merely that of 300 million enslaved US taxpayers. This is thanks to WWII "security architecture" also known as converting US taxpayers to global slaves in perpetuity thanks to the world's greatest terrorist, Harry Truman. Truman apparently wanted to divert attention from USSR's victory over Hitler who committed suicide on April 30, 1945. And the fact that 25 million Russians and Soviets died in the process. Truman dropped two atom bombs on Japanese civilians in one week, August 6 and August 9, 1945, and proceeded to bask in global glow.
Beautiful righteous anger. No sarcasm . might makes right is sophistry. This thought emerged in greece after the great epoch of the so called pre socratics. The result of this sophistical education was the Peloponesian war, the fall and weakening of the free independent poleis, and the later macedonian and roman subjugations.
(read the Republic, where the aporias of this thought are exposed) .
Still even the sophists thought that the gods needed sacrifices and couldnt be coerced. Today subjectivity turns the world.upside down.
It's important to notice though that the power of the concept, the idea, is the greatest power, because infinite. This is going to be proved in reality pretty soon. America today is where this power is.
Notice in typical Trump/Rubio/Miller fashion, they attacked Venezuela and then bragged about all the oil they'll be getting, and then they talked to the oil companies. LOL
#Bassackwards
I read a Guardian article this morning that quoted a Human Rights News Agency that the Iranian rioters and family members were sorting through dead bodies to find their loved ones. I looked up the "Agency," and it pretended to be reporting from Tehran. However, they are in Virginia and funded by NED. LOL
Everything about these "massive protests" is propaganda, but the MAGA crowd is lapping it up and wanting their Savior to go into Iran. They shoot first and then develop a motive. LOL
How many times has the CIA/Mossad fooled Americans?
I loved this quote: "Iran is successfully jamming Starlink and GPS through which the US and Israel coordinate protests." - Al Jazeera reports
Oh brother...
I wonder if I could make lots of money selling "TEXAS SECEDE" bumper stickers etc. ???
I'm so sick of this . . .
Or even "Texas secedes from US wars."
"Iran is successfully jamming Starlink and GPS through which the US and Israel coordinate protests - Al Jazeera reports"
Suggest a GoFundMe to send Elon Musk to Iran. He can kiss the tomb of Cyrus. Or the weed-strewn walls of the US Embassy. Or read poetry in Shiraz. Or all of the above.
I would contribute, so long as Bill Gates was being sent too.
Like most Americans, Elon had two options, the democrat party or Trump. Democrats didn't want him which was lucky for the US because Trump likely wouldn't have won without him and his enthusiastic efforts, especially in Pennsylvania.
I'd prefer he got sent to Mars
What a choice -- Democrats or Republicans!
Uniparty over 90% of the time, in other words not a real choice at all.
FWIW, Maduro boasted of severe military consequences if the empire attacked Venezuela. Nothing happened, and we apparently waltzed in and took what we want, setting up a puppet regime that will do what the empire wants (or we'll waltz in and kidnap someone else, until we get what we want.) Something is not right when countries warn the empire in fiery language about resistance to invasion or retaliation, and then nothing happens. Could it be that all these world leaders are in lock step (like they were during covid) and are coordinating behind the scenes to help the U.S. empire construct the one world government?
There's propaganda for domestic consumption, and then there's reality. That's the case in Venezuela as well. What are they supposed to do, start launching missiles at US naval assets, and give them an excuse for a full-scale bombing campaign? They could go full Houthi, but the civilian death toll would be high, and they would likely end up losing the country.
Much too soon to say "nothing happened" especially given the brutal methods US organized crime used to capture Venezuela's elected president and his wife. "Waltzing" wasn't involved. Further, US has been trying to overthrow Venezuela ever since Chavez was elected and has never succeeded. They did remove Chavez for a day or two but he got away and was back in power. Bush #2 tried, Obama tried, and Trump tried and failed in 2019, having announced in early 2017 that he wanted to remove Maduro. Trump also banned US Major League Baseball players from playing in Venezuela's popular winter league in 2019. Trump has no soul, isn't human.
Donald Trump is human, but his soul is Godless.
“setting up a puppet regime that will do what the empire wants”
It remains to be seen to what, if any, degree the Venezuela regime is now a U.S. puppet. Given what Mark reports here, I wouldn’t bet on it.
Extremely scary concept to explain cowardice inwardly, of the persons, and outwardly on the world stage. I can see your perspective as viable through the lens of Zionist/Anglo-zionist technology for "mission" surveillance, including every mis-, dis-, and mal-information "newsy suggestion" propagated through the owned media and social media corporations. Still, the individual conscience that is attended to by the reasoning mind of the person, times millions of such persons, can and will vanquish the oppressors' intentions to force their plans by any means necessary. Be aware. Stay committed. Pray for God's assistance. Do not quit and do not grow despairing nor despondent.
Kathleen Tyson @Kathleen_Tyson_
Further supporting that Iran situation is now stable is that neither Netanyahu nor Trump has spoken or posted to media about Iran in more than 24 hours.
No revolution.
Mossad lost 400 more agents.
Countless infiltrated mercenaries were killed across border regions.
No change.
In the light of a potential US strike, I can recommend MES on Telegram as a pro-Iranian source with strong local ties. They're biased, of course, but useful to balance western sources.
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator
Never underestimate your adversary