Diosdado Cabello — Venezuela's interior minister and the enforcer blocking earthquake aid and rescue workers — has a $25 million US government bounty on him for narcoterrorism. Trump rails publicly against narcoterrorists while privately backing the very man the DEA is hunting.
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The CNN clip featuring Congressman Carlos Jiménez — one of the MAGA Republicans from South Florida who promised Venezuelan-American constituents that Trump would treat them compassionately — is a masterclass in political evasion [1] — Carlos Jiménez "CNN confronted Congressman Carlos Jiménez with the news that 150 Venezuelans his policies helped deport were at the earthquake epicenter wh…" 10:28 . Asked directly whether DHS has a responsibility to account for the missing deportees, Jiménez refuses. He retreats to process: they were 'deported legally.' He invokes theology: it was 'an act of God.' He claims no one could have foreseen an earthquake in Venezuela 'since last October.' The framing is striking — a congressman who championed deportation policies now disclaiming any connection between those policies and their fatal consequences. Meiselas sets up the clip with biting commentary about how Jiménez and other South Florida MAGA Republicans 'threw their own people to the wolves' after promising them protection under Trump.
CNN confronted Congressman Carlos Jiménez with the news that 150 Venezuelans his policies helped deport were at the earthquake epicenter when it struck. His response: they were deported legally, and what happened after is just 'an act of God.' Nobody could have foreseen an earthquake, he said — despite months of seismic warnings.
Video footage showed Diosdado Cabello actively preventing aid and rescue workers from reaching earthquake victims in Venezuela.
Fei-Fei Li went back to Stanford from Google in 2018 specifically to build a multi-stakeholder governance framework for AI. Her argument: market forces are not societal norms. Just as biology uses IRBs and cars have safety laws, AI needs layered oversight from educators, governments, and the public — not just a few industry titans.
Andrew Santino's personal MCU of political villains is collapsing. He and Bobby speculated that a circulating photo of Mitch McConnell with a Chinese official was AI-generated compositing two separate images.
Mass surveillance is here to stay. The real battle isn't stopping cameras — it's ensuring judges and laws keep that data out of family court and civil disputes, admitting it only for violent crimes and national security. The surveillance economy currently yields more upside than downside, but only if we build the legal guardrails now.
When people cite Scandinavia as proof socialism works, Galloway says they've got it backwards. Northern Europe runs highly competitive free-market economies with more competition in many sectors than the US — they just make sure taxes are actually paid and redistributed. Billionaires and universal healthcare can coexist.
Two percent adjustments to income tax and stamp duty tweaks are deck-chair rearrangements. The UK's competitiveness hinges on four structural levers: currency valuation, energy costs, regulatory burden, and tax rates. Devalue the pound, build 56 nuclear plants, slash red tape, introduce a flat tax — and the country transforms.
Lisbon had one of Europe's worst heroin crises. Then Portugal legalised drugs and redirected all enforcement money into rehabilitation and housing. Crime collapsed. Addiction fell. Then politics moved the money elsewhere, and the problem started creeping back. Chesterton's Fence: you forget why you were spending that money.
Congress passed the Boland Amendment 411 to 0, explicitly banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras. Reagan signed it — then immediately moved the operation deeper underground, essentially responding to a bipartisan prohibition by going more illegal.
The CIA planted mines in Nicaraguan commercial harbors, wrote the Contras' press releases taking credit, and promptly blew up ships from four allied nations. The Wall Street Journal broke the story, Congress erupted, and the Boland Amendments multiplied.
Oliver North was a decorated Marine and devout Catholic with zero covert operations experience. He ran the entire shadow war against Congress — planes, airstrips, arms shipments, shell companies — learning on the job. And by every operational measure, he crushed it.
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