Venezuela: Rodríguez Hosts US Chargé d’Affaires Dogu in Presidential Palace

(After Trump killed 100+ bombing boats off their coast and hijacking several tankers and then killing a bunch more Venezuelans and 32 Cubans (in fact it was Delcy's generals who did that part) and flying away with the rightful president of the country, Delcy and her corrupt brother Jorge have completely sold out the people of the country and handed everything over to U.S. business interests.) 

from Venezuelan Analysis

Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez met with US Chargé d’Affaires Laura Dogu in Miraflores Presidential Palace on Monday afternoon.

According to Communications Minister Miguel Pérez Pirela, the meeting took place “in the context of the working agenda” between Caracas and Washington. National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez was likewise present.

Dogu confirmed the high-level audience with Venezuelan leaders via social media, saying that she reiterated Washington’s intended “three-phase plan” for the Caribbean nation.

“Today I met with Delcy Rodríguez and Jorge Rodríguez to reiterate the three phases that Secretary of State Marco Rubio has proposed for Venezuela: stabilization, economic recovery and reconciliation, and transition,” she said.

The US diplomat, who was previously stationed in Honduras, arrived in Caracas on Saturday, vowing that her team is “ready to work.” US State Department officials had visited the Venezuelan capital previously to assess conditions for the reopening of the US embassy.

Former Israeli Defense Minister: Israel’s ideology of ‘Jewish supremacy’ resembles Nazi race theory

from Mondoweiss

In the late 1980s, Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz made the controversial warning that the 1967 occupation risked turning Israelis into “Judeo-Nazis.”

Leibowitz recently found a surprising supporter for this opinion –  Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon.

On Friday, Ya’alon tweeted that “Yeshayahu Leibowitz was right, and I was wrong”. This was no benign reference – it referred directly to the late professor Leibowitz’s “warnings… concerning the process of bestialization towards us becoming ‘Judeo-Nazis’…”. Ya’alon says that the “ideology of ‘Jewish supremacy’” has become “dominant in the government of Israel”, and that it “is reminiscent of the Nazi race theory”. 

This was said in relation to Ya’alon’s participation in a ceremony to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27. In his tweet, he repeatedly mocks the commonly held reluctance to compare anything that Israeli Jews do today to what the Nazis did during World War II.

Leibowitz was an ultra-orthodox professor and intellectual, whom the late Israeli President Ezer Weizman eulogized as “one of the greatest figures in the life of the Jewish people and the State of Israel,” and “a spiritual conscience for many in Israel.” Leibowitz was vehemently opposed to Israel’s 1967 occupation and referred to Supreme Court Judge, Meir Landau, as a ‘Judeo-Nazi’ in 1987 after the court had legalized the torture of Palestinians. In the same interview, Leibowitz also referred to the discussion of Israeli democracy as “sterile” and labeled Israel as “the only dictatorship in the enlightened world.”...

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War-torn Ukraine is being sold as an ‘investment bonanza’ – but there’s a catch

from RT

Ukraine offers far better investment opportunities than Russia for Western businesses, according to the influential US think tank RAND Corporation, known for its close defense ties. But the pitch to ‘big capital’ comes with caveats.

In a Barron’s commentary two weeks ago, RAND Corp. senior economist Howard Shatz declared Ukraine a more lucrative option compared to Russia.

“When the fighting stops, the most promising opportunities for US companies won’t be in Russia, but in Ukraine,” he wrote. “With US and European support, Ukraine is poised to emerge as a secure sovereign state deeply integrated with the global economy.”

Shatz called it the “business opportunity of the decade,” assuming hostilities will soon end, triggering a $500 billion reconstruction and rapid EU-oriented reforms. Early movers will have an advantage, he said...

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Epstein pitched ‘many opportunities’ in post-coup Ukraine to Rothschild exec

(I wonder how those investments are working out now for Jeffrey. Anyone ever think about tracking his dividend payments from his investment portfolio to see where they are going now?) 

from RT

Convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein discussed potential business opportunities in Ukraine following the 2014 Western-backed coup in Kiev, newly released documents show. He discussed the matter with Ariane de Rothschild, head of the Swiss private banking firm Edmond de Rothschild Group.

Last week, the US Department of Justice released its additional batch of Epstein-related files. Among them is a March 2014 email exchange in which de Rothschild said she wanted to discuss Ukraine in an upcoming meeting. Epstein’s reply stated: “ukraine upheaval should provide many opportunites , many [sic].”

Earlier document releases highlighted business ties between the two. In 2015, after de Rothschild became CEO of the group, she negotiated a $25 million contract with Epstein for “risk analysis and the application and use of certain algorithms” for the bank. In 2013, he asked for her help in hiring a female personal assistant, whom he said should be “multilingual, organized.”...

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Human Rights Watch Israel-Palestine Team Quits Over Blocked Report on Right of Return

(I lost my faith in Human Rights Watch a long time ago)

from Common Dreams

Two Human Rights Watch employees—the group’s entire Israel-Palestine team—resigned after senior staffers blocked a report calling Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees’ right of return to their homeland a crime against humanity.

Jewish Currents’ Alex Kane reported Tuesday that HRW Israel-Palestine team lead Omar Shakir and assistant researcher Milena Ansari are stepping down over leadership’s decision to nix the report, which was scheduled for release on December 4. Shakir wrote in his resignation email that one senior HRW leader informed him that calling Israel’s denial of Palestinian right of return would be seen as a call to “demographically extinguish the Jewishness of the Israeli state.”

“I have lost my faith in the integrity of how we do our work and our commitment to principled reporting on the facts and application of the law,” Shakir—who is also member of Jewish Currents’ advisory board—wrote in his resignation letter. “As such, I am no longer able to represent or work for Human Rights Watch.”... 

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Homan says D.H.S. is pulling 700 officers out of Minneapolis.

 from the NYT

Tom Homan, the White House border czar, said on Wednesday that the federal government would immediately withdraw 700 law enforcement officers from Minneapolis, scaling down the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the area.

The change comes after the Trump administration sent thousands of federal officers and agents to Minnesota, a deployment that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said was the agency’s “largest operation to date.” About 2,000 personnel would be left in the state, Mr. Homan said...

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Trump’s $45 billion expansion of immigrant detention sites faces pushback from communities

from the AP

With tensions high over federal immigration enforcement, some state and local officials are pushing back against the Trump administration’s attempts to house thousands of detained immigrants in jails, converted warehouses and privately run facilities in their communities.

Federal officials have been scouting cities and counties across the U.S. for places to hold immigrants as they roll out a massive $45 billion expansion of detention facilities financed by President Donald Trump’s recent tax-cutting law.

The fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by immigration enforcement officers in Minneapolis have amplified an already intense spotlight on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, increasing scrutiny of its plans for new detention sites.

A proposed ICE facility just north of Richmond, Virginia, drew hundreds of people last week to a tense public hearing of the Hanover County Board of Supervisors...

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Epstein Files Teaching/Distracting the Plebes

They gave us what we wanted and folks still can't can't seem to understand they haven't won a damn thing. It's chaff. Manipulated or outright manufactured documents designed to feed our hunger for exposition while simultaneously distracting us from their even worse crimes against humanity they are laying the groundwork for. 

Mike Palecek https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/mike-palecek/805061/?srsltid=AfmBOopW3pqKfY9URYWieYooRE9ULZxBwCf-dI9SLIkfuf5HNhz8lRoU

Melissa Redpill  https://x.com/melissaredpill/status/2018505032371413380?s=46

Common Dreams https://www.commondreams.org/news/military-contract-concentration-camps 

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Rally for Maduro, Flores and Venezuela

by Scott Creighton

 

Today there will be rallies for the release of Nick Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores in NYC at the detention center and in Venezuela.

You see, only Delcy Rodriguez, her brother and her corrupt cabinet have given up on returning the rightful president to their country and the Bolivarian revolution to Venezuela. The people haven't. 

But you wont hear about that because the corrupt Western media suppress that story just like they never once mention the fact that Delcy never tried to use the oil contract she just signed to get Maduro and his wife back and she has never once gone before the UNSC to demand the world take action.

Why?

Because she's a corrupt whore who sold herself and her nation to the U.S. business interests CHEAP.

 As millions rally in Venezuela, on Tuesday, Feb 3, one month after the kidnapping of President Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores, join a rally at Metropolitan Detention Center, NYC (where they are held),  to demand:
Free Maduro!
Free Cilia!

TUESDAY, FEB 3 at 5:30pm

On MTA subway take R train to Brooklyn to 25th St, 4th Ave. Walk across 29th St to 3rd Ave - MDC at 80  29th St

Israeli violations continue in Gaza despite ceasefire, killing five

from al Mayadeen English

Ahmed Muhammad Ahmed Abdel Aal, a 19-year-old Palestinian youth, was killed by Israeli occupation forces (IOF) south of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported on Tuesday. His killing marks the latest in a series of ongoing Israeli ceasefire violations. Despite the truce being in effect for 116 days, the occupation continues to carry out deadly operations.

Local sources confirmed that five Palestinians have been killed by occupation forces in the past 24 hours alone, including Ahmed, who was killed at dawn.

Israeli tanks heavily shelled central and southern Khan Younis, while gunboats opened fire from the western coastline of the city. Meanwhile, in the Sheikh Nasser neighborhood east of Khan Younis, Civil Defense units reported evacuating an injured citizen shot by the IOF. Further north, Israeli quadcopter drones targeted residential areas in the al-Safatawi neighborhood, north of Gaza City, wounding an elderly man.

At night, the occupation forces demolished several residential buildings in Rafah and Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, adding to the widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure across the region...

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