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Sunday’s Forum

Steven L. Taylor
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  1. charontwo Avatar
    charontwo

    I don’t usually have the patience to watch videos, but this is really good – Jamelle Bouie on yesterday’s action:

    ETA: Also suggest mosey over to BJ to catch Adam Silverman’s take yesterday, main points:

    The US has illegally attacked Venezuela, kidnapped, and renditioned its president and his wife to New York for trial.

    Trump has claimed that the Venezuelan Vice President will be running things under US command and control.

    The Venezuelan Vice President denies this and has issued a defiant statement.

    I didn’t mention it above, but the far left ELN paramilitary has pledged to defend the Venezuelan state, so we’ve got one win in that we’re reconciling Venezuela’s factions (that was sarcasm)

    This is all to give Stephen Miller the ability to try to have DOJ and DHS reinvoke the Alien Enemies Act so he can turbocharge, ramp up, and expand his anti-immigrant and anti-anyone who looks like an immigrant pogroms.

    Lil Narco thinks this will bring down the Cuban government. It will not do so.

    I’ve seen no reporting on or anyone even asking about where the Russian general Putin sent to Venezuela back in November, as well as his train, advise, and assist soldiers are and what they’re up to.

    Similarly, I’ve seen no reporting on or anyone even asking about where the Russian mercenaries (PMC) formerly known as Wagner, which have been operating under cover of being a professional security company in Venezuela and the region since at least 2023 are.

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/072Vg9dVecY

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  2. becca Avatar
    becca

    Just want to share that Mr becca is up and about and making a pretty miraculous comeback. I credit stubborn Yankee genes.

    I would wish everyone a Happy New Year, but that sounds so hollow with the horror show going on here in America. I just hope we make it through the year as a nation.

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  3. Gregory Lawrence Brown Avatar
    Gregory Lawrence Brown

    @becca:..

    Good news from your household!
    Keep us posted.

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  4. CSK Avatar
    CSK

    @becca:

    I’m delighted to learn of Mr. Becca’s comeback. Yep, it’s those Yankee genes. Trust me on this.

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  5. gVOR10 Avatar
    gVOR10

    NYT has a map of proven oil reserves. Looking at it, it’s easy to speculate that Trump, or some minion, is looking at a US/Saudi coalition controlling almost all the world’s oil. Perhaps with Putin included. If so, it would seem to be arguably feasible, and an effective limit on China. But it seems such a 20th century ambition.

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  6. charontwo Avatar
    charontwo

    @gVOR10:

    That map is incredibly misleading, as most of the so-called “reserves” in Canada and Venezuela are heavy oil that is very expensive to produce – the Athabasca tar sands and the Orinoco heavy oil. The Orinoco oil even more difficult and expensive than the Athabasca glop. (These countries do also have more conventional oil, most of Venezuelan current production is conventional crude).

    I put “reserves” in scare quotes because, back in the day, the term reserves was understood to be what is economically recoverable.

  7. gVOR10 Avatar
    gVOR10

    @charontwo: Economical is a matter of technology and oil prices. We keep putting off oil exhaustion, but we can’t forever. And Canadian and Venezuelan quality issues aside, that map shows a real dearth of oil in the Asia Pacific area. (Perhaps a false picture due to lack of exploration or poor reporting.)

    That said, I didn’t say it was a good plan, only that it might be some Trump minions plan.

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  8. Kathy Avatar
    Kathy

    At around 1:25 in this video you can see an engine fail on an A330 at the best possible time.

  9. CSK Avatar
    CSK

    Dan Bongino has resigned from the FBI’

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  10. Richard Gardner Avatar
    Richard Gardner

    For what it is worth, the Organization of American States (OAS) “Permanent Council to Consider Recent Events in #Venezuela” on Jan 6. I really haven’t heard them mentioned. They are a 10-minute walk across The Eclipse from the White House (OEOB).

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