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Breaking News / Re: Trump Says US Military Took Out 'Big Facility' in Venezuela
« Last post by Texacon on December 29, 2025, 12:34:04 PM »I've seen nothing about this anywhere. I mean, anywhere. Not even the DUmp.
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President Donald Trump said the U.S. military destroyed a Venezuelan facility, which would mark the administration’s first airstrike on Venezuelan soil.
Up to this point, the administration limited its strikes to Venezuelan boats alleged to have been carrying narcotics to the United States. At least 100 people have been killed in the strikes so far.
Now, it appears the White House is escalating its military pressure on the Venezuelan regime, according to NBC News.QuoteIn the short phone interview on Friday, Trump responded to a comment about Venezuela by touting the administration's attacks on alleged drug boats before referring to a strike on a "big plant or big facility" that he said took place two nights earlier.
"We just knocked out — I don't know if you read or you saw — they have a big plant or big facility where they send the, you know, where the ships come from," Trump said in the interview. "Two nights ago we knocked that out. So we hit them very hard."
Trump did not provide further details about the apparent attack on the facility, which if correct would be the first known land strike in the U.S. counternarcotics efforts against Venezuela. NBC News has not independently confirmed the strike. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the president's remarks.
A Jewish security organization warned police there was a high risk of a terror attack during the Chanukah by the Sea event in Bondi, just weeks before their fears became a reality, a leaked document reveals.
The confidential document produced by the Community Security Group NSW (CSG NSW) raised the alarm about the threat of Islamic extremism and Jihadist-inspired lone-actor attacks, the ABC reports.
In the notice, CSG NSW specifically told authorities the Chanukah by the Sea event at Bondi Beach on December 14 carried a high risk of being the target of violent antisemitism.
Ukraine dealt Russian dictator Vladimir Putin a humiliating Christmas Day blow when it routed Kremlin troops to wrest back control of its key eastern city of Kupyansk, a vital railroad hub, Kviv said.
The staggering setback for the Kremlin occurred as fighting continued between both sides for nearly the fourth straight year and a US-brokered peace plan remained stalled.
“Kypyansk currently has several dozen [Russian troops], they are surrendering, Viktor Trehubov, the spokesman for Ukraine’s Joint Forces, told the Kyiv Post on Thursday. “There have even been cases of foreigners — foreign mercenaries for the Russians — giving themselves up.
“Even Russian propagandists have switched to a line acknowledging that the city is no longer under their control,” Trehubov said. “In reality, it was never fully taken by them in order to be lost, aside from a short period in 2022.”
This past year, the Left crossed a Rubicon in normalizing political violence.
The year opened with many on the Left praising a man who allegedly murdered a health care CEO, and it ended with Virginia Democrats overwhelmingly voting for a man who fantasized about shooting his political opponent and wished death on his opponent’s children.
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... Here are 10 incidents of threats or violence aligning with the Left’s attacks on Trump and his party.
1. Targeting ‘Nazi’ Pete Hegseth
On Jan. 28, Capitol Police arrested Riley Jane English, 24, after she told officers she was carrying a folding knife and two Molotov cocktails. English traveled to Washington, D.C., intending to kill War Secretary Pete Hegseth, whom she referred to as a “Nazi,” or House Speaker Mike Johnson, according to a police affidavit. She also reportedly mentioned wanting to burn down The Heritage Foundation.
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2. Tesla Vandalism
As the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, headed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, cut wasteful and ideological spending in the early months of this year, vandals targeted Tesla vehicles, dealerships, and charging stations. Agitators burned vehicles to the ground, and protesters marched with a banner reading, “Burn a Tesla, Save Democracy.”
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4. National Jewish Museum
In May, a gunman yelling, “Free Palestine,” shot and killed a Jewish couple—Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim—outside the National Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Elias Rodriguez, 31, faces local and federal murder charges, to which he has pleaded not guilty.
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8. Annunciation Church Shooting
On Aug. 27, a man who legally changed his name to affirm a transgender identity shot and killed two children and injured thirty others at a school mass at the Church of the Annunciation in Minneapolis.
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9. Kirk Assassination
On Sept. 10, a man in a relationship with another man who identifies as transgender allegedly murdered Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. The shooting came a few months after the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is notorious for comparing mainstream conservative and Christian groups to the KKK by putting them on a “hate map,” added Turning Point USA to that map.
I'm posting this entire press release, since it's on a government webpage:
Chairman Barry Loudermilk Releases New Information in the January 6, 2021 Gallows Investigation
https://cha.house.gov/2024/2/chairman-barry-loudermilk-releases-new-information-in-the-january-6-2021-gallows-investigation
OK:
* For 45 minutes not crazy-early in the morning, the 5 men built a gallows on a public space. No one interrupted the, and no law enforcement people interfered with their violation of the law. This suggests coordination with pertinent law enforcement.
* For over 5 1/2 hours, their structure was not dismantled by any law enforcement, again suggesting coordination.
* Then, in mid day, the men returned and spent somewhere between 10 and 30 minutes adding the crossbeam, to their structure. Again, no law enforcement people interfered.
Between the law enforcement dog not barking and LIEden's InJustice Department's incuriosity in finding the guy who planted the pipe bombs, I think this gallows was probably Dem Party and/or Prog group theater. And given the presence of FBI agents and operatives in the crowds at the Capitol, it's at least fair to wonder/ask whether the chants were started and chanted by FBI provocateurs.
WASHINGTON - Committee on House Administration's Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk (GA-11) released the following information related to the construction of the infamous gallows of January 6, 2021.
One of the most well-known images from January 6, 2021, is the gallows erected on the grounds of the United States Capitol that morning, perfectly framing the Capitol dome. Photos of the gallows were featured prominently by the Select Committee to investigate January 6th, and have also become a symbol used by President Biden’s Administration when discussing the events of January 6 and included in his re-election campaign. Despite the infamy of this image, the individuals who constructed the gallows have never been identified.
Today, the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight is releasing information and asking: who are these people and why did they build the gallows?
“It is inconceivable that a gallows could be constructed on U.S. Capitol property and left up all day,” said Chairman Loudermilk. “These men arrived early in the morning, several hours before the rally even started or anyone had gathered, to construct the gallows platform, yet this structure was allowed to stay intact for all to see. These actions raise more serious and troubling questions. Why didn’t the U.S. Capitol Police take down the gallows once it was seen on Capitol property, and why have the individuals never been identified? I plan to get to the bottom of this."
Summary of Investigative Findings:
At approximately 6:30 a.m. on January 6, 2021, a white full-size van parked north of Constitution Avenue, where three passengers unloaded a large bundle of lumber with wheels. After unloading, the group walked the bundle across Constitution Avenue and onto the grass at Union Square. They were then joined by two more people arriving by cab at the corner of 1st and C Streets NW.??
Between 6:30 a.m. and 7:15 a.m., the group constructed the platform and two main pillars of the gallows, only leaving off the crossbeam. During this time, the apparent group leader along with one other person, left the group and walked down 3rd Street, heading north. They returned a few minutes later with coffee, and the entire group left the scene. Despite the leader’s distinctive clothing—he was wearing a long trench coat, long white scarf, fedora-type hat, and walking with a cane—he has never been identified publicly.
At approximately 1:00 p.m., the group of five returned to the scene and the presumed leader, now wearing a baseball cap, installed the final crossbeam and added the noose made of bright orange rope. Shortly after construction was complete, all five men left the grounds.
Background:
The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol showed a video during its first hearing of protestors appearing to breach the Capitol chanting, “Hang Mike Pence,” followed by an image of the gallows, which had been erected hundreds of yards away. The Select Committee overlapped these chants with the image of the gallows, implying the crowd of Trump supporters built the gallows as a threat of violence against then-Vice President Pence. Later, witness Cassidy Hutchinson told the Select Committee she overheard a conversation where Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said President Trump agreed with the chants to hang the Vice President.
After January 6th, the noose from the gallows was recovered by an Australian journalist and turned over to the FBI. However, three years later, the FBI still has no suspects. Additionally, the Select Committee on January 6th seemingly did not review the USCP CCTV footage to identify the culprits behind the gallows, or if they did, they never released information about when the gallows were built and who built them—which can all be seen on CCTV footage from early in the morning on January 6.
The Capitol Police Guidelines for Conducting an event on United States Capitol Grounds explicitly state, “(t)emporary structures of any kind may not be erected on Capitol Grounds,” which would imply that a gallows—a temporary structure—may not be allowed on Capitol Grounds and would immediately be addressed and/or removed once discovered. However, these gallows were left untouched by USCP officers from 6:00 a.m. on January 6 until later that evening.
To date, the FBI has not named any suspects in this case. See below for pictures from our investigative findings:
Cole was arrested earlier this month for planting two pipe bombs near the DNC and RNC headquarters on the night of Jan. 5, 2021. Cole faces two federal felonies: transporting an explosive device in interstate commerce with intent to kill, injure, intimidate, or damage property, and malicious destruction or attempted destruction of property by fire and explosives. Cole’s detention hearing is expected to take place on Tuesday. Ahead of that detention hearing, the DOJ filed a memorandum in support of Cole's pre-trial detention.
Ahead of that hearing, the Trump Justice Department filed a 23-page detention memo that lays out Cole's own words about why he did what he did. And those words don't match the conspiracy theory that the left wanted to blame.
Cole told investigators he followed the 2020 election controversy on YouTube and Reddit after things "started happening" and felt "bewildered" by what he saw. But it wasn't just one side that captured his attention. He believed that both major parties were ignoring legitimate concerns from voters who felt something was wrong. The real trigger? How both parties were dismissing and labeling those concerns.
"I really don't like either party at this point," Cole told agents when they asked him why he targeted both the RNC and DNC.
He wasn't some Trump cultist. He was angry at everyone in charge.
A batch of just-released text messages and other communications between California officials and the Los Angeles Fire Department from the run-up to the Pacific Palisades Fire reveals a system more concerned with a few endangered plants than with massive destruction and death.
Twelve people died in the fires during three weeks of January 2025, with 6,837 structures destroyed (and another thousand or so damaged), more than 23,000 acres burned, and total damages currently estimated at about $25 billion with a B in the Palisades, Topanga, and Malibu areas of Los Angeles County.
We learned why on Saturday in a Los Angeles Times report so shocking that it led to a city-wide epidemic of shattered teeth from jaws hitting the floor at velocities approaching the speed of light.QuoteAn hour after midnight Jan. 1, as a small brush fire blazed across Topanga State Park, a California State Parks employee texted the Los Angeles Fire Department’s heavy equipment supervisor to find out if they were sending in bulldozers.
“Heck no that area is full of endangered plants,” Capt. Richard Diede replied at 9:52 a.m, five hours after LAFD declared the fire contained.
“I would be a real idiot to ever put a dozer in that area,” he wrote. “I’m so trained.”