James Corbett: Is most of what we see, read and hear on the Internet generated by Bots?

From [HERE] James Corbett explains that nearly everyone you talk to online is a bot, spy, troll or psyops warrior!

And, as you’re about to see, it gets even worse before it gets (hopefully) better.

Intrigued? Want to know what this means for the future of the internet? Or, much more importantly, what it means for the future of human community? Then read on!

FOREIGN SPIES UNMASKED

If you’ve been “surfing the web” since the early days of the “information superhighway,” you’ll no doubt recall one of the earliest online jokes: “On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”

Now, in 2025, it seems we may need to amend that joke to take it from a pithy observation about online anonymity to a dire warning about the weaponization of online anonymity: “On the internet, no one knows you’re a foreign psyops officer.”

You see, last month the social media platform formerly known as Twitter decided to roll out a new feature: a location tool that reveals the country or region in which a given account is based. The result? A lot of foreign psyops warriors got caught with their pants down.

It seems that particular Trump-loving Ivanka fan is based in the MAGA stronghold of . . . Nigeria?

And it’s not just those accounts. The @BarronTNews_ Barron Trump fan account (that posted heartfelt birthday messages to “Dad” Donald before it was exposed as a fan account)? The “UltraMAGA Trump 2028” account? Those accounts and numerous others were discovered to be originating from similarly far-flung corners of the globe. [MORE]

Non-Representative DeMockery: CBS News Poll Finds Most (70%) Americans Oppose US Military Action in Venezuela

From [HERE]

According to FUNKTIONARY:

demockery – a spectacle of the true nature of democracy. What each political party (the jackass and the elephant) wants is not justice but its own idea of what is just (for themselves and their special interests). “We the people have no say, our duty is to obey and pay for lavish lifestyle of our betters, politicos, bankers and men of letters who talk down to us as though to fools, the working stiff, taxable mules. With intent to confuse the dumbed-down herd, economics, science presented by some nerd, with confident arrogance, talk not plain, why attempt with animals to explain the higher thoughts of lofty mind to junk-gene people left behind. For government you’ll fight, be taxed, labour, next election you’re supplied (again) with another savior.” ~ Alan Watt. (See: Government, Justice, Predictive Programming, Equality, Elections, Voting, Politics, Holodeck Court, Ideology, Collective Delusions, Taxtortion, Slavery, Political Money, Freedom, Control & Violence)

ICE is using Border Patrol mobile facial recognition technology to speed up arrests

Fromm [HERE] Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are deploying mobile facial recognition technology to speed up arrests amid President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, according to a new report.

In recent months, ICE personnel have used a government-created app called Mobile Fortify in order to ascertain the identity of potential detainees, The Wall Street Journal reported.

It’s been hailed as a powerful new tool by administration officials, while privacy advocates have decried it as a form of unchecked government overreach.

The app allows agents to snap a photo of a suspect’s face with their phone and quickly pull up the person’s name, location, social media history — and sometimes their immigration status.

“Mobile Fortify is a lawful law-enforcement tool developed under the Trump Administration to support accurate identity and immigration-status verification during enforcement operations,” a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, ICE’s parent agency, said in a statement.

Agency officials said that the app has been used over 100,000 times so far, helping speed up arrests and leading to fewer instances of people with legal status being detained.

Mobile Fortify was developed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection during President Joe Biden’s term, adapting technology already in use at U.S. ports of entry. Initially, it was only used by Border Patrol agents operating near the southern border.

But its use has expanded under Trump, who has vowed to undertake the largest deportation program in American history. And, now that Congress has allocated an additional $75 billion to ICE — making it the most-funded law enforcement agency in the nation — it has the bandwidth to experiment with and broadly implement new technologies. [MORE]

9th Circuit Court Strikes Down California’s Urban Open-Carry Ban as Unconstitutional

From [HERE] A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday ruled that California’s restrictions on openly carrying firearms in the state’s more populous counties violate the Second Amendment. In Baird v. Bonta, a 2–1 panel affirmed in part and reversed in part the district court’s summary judgment for California Attorney General Rob Bonta, remanding with instructions to enter judgment for plaintiff Mark Baird on his challenge to the state’s “urban open-carry ban.” 

Applying the framework set out in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, the panel held that “the historical record makes unmistakably plain” that open carry is “part of this Nation’s history and tradition,” and that California did not meet its burden to identify a relevant historical tradition supporting its modern restriction. The majority concluded that California’s “urban open-carry ban that flatly prohibits all open carry in the areas of the state where 95% of the people live is thus unconstitutional.”

The panel rejected Baird’s effort to invalidate California’s open-carry licensing scheme in less populous counties. It held that Baird waived his as-applied challenge to the rural licensing system by failing to contest the district court’s dismissal in his opening brief, and that a facial challenge to the rural licensing structure conflicted with Bruen’s suggestion that “shall-issue” licensing regimes can be constitutional. The panel characterized California’s rural licensing scheme—at least on its face—as “shall-issue,” under which a general desire for self-defense is sufficient to obtain a permit. 

California’s open-carry restrictions operate through multiple provisions. State law generally criminalizes carrying a loaded firearm in specified public places and streets (Cal. Penal Code § 25850), and separately criminalizes openly carrying an unloaded handgun in similar public locations (Cal. Penal Code § 26350). California also provides for a license to carry a handgun “loaded and exposed” only where the county population is less than 200,000 and only within the within the issuing county (Cal. Penal Code §§ 26150(c)(2), 26155(c)(2)). [MORE]

The God Given Right to Possess and Carry Firearms for Self-Defense Against Tyranny and Slavery is Especially Vital when a Lawless Racist is in the Blight House and He Represents a Racist Majority

From [HERE] and [HERE] The Declaration of Independence established a new nation, acting as “one people,” through “thirteen united States of America.”  James Madison insisted that the Constitution be ratified by special conventions to make clear that ratification would be “not through the intervention of the Legislatures, but by the people at large”—a distinction regarded as “very material.”  For these reasons, incidentally, a state has no unilateral right to secede:  the Constitution is not a compact of states but an agreement among the people.  See Timothy Sandefur, How Libertarians Ought to Think About the U.S. Civil War.

If this is so and the people are sovereign, it has important implications, the most important of which for our purposes here is that sovereignty is inalienable.  This, the first lesson of the American experiment, was demonstrated when our Founders asserted the people’s right to declare independence from the crown and to engage in a legitimate act of revolution.  That right, as the Declaration explains, does not arise from light and transient causes but from a long train of abuses and usurpations, which the Founders took care to enumerate in their appeal to the natural law from which sovereignty and sovereign rights derive.  Moreover, the sovereign people’s right to revolution is limited by the natural bounds of reason—had the Founders’ rational appeal to their fellows failed to persuade enough of them to willingly risk life and limb in taking up arms in revolution, the American self-government project would have foundered without a shot fired or a drop of blood spilled.

Self-government thus requires that the sovereign people enjoy meaningful exercise of the people’s right to associate with one another, their right to speak their grievances and invoke their right to self-government, and the right, in the face of an aggressor sovereign, to bear arms against it.  Mere paper barriers like the rights of habeas corpus and due process are without teeth in the face of unchallenged tyranny. The very essence of sovereignty includes a right to revolution, the right to enforce those rights.  It is the ultimate form of self-defense.

In other words, the rights expressed in the First and Second Amendments are the bedrock of the American project in self-government, and the font of our sovereignty.  That we can post on each other’s Facebook walls and experiment with Zoroastrianism and go duck hunting are happy byproducts of that sovereignty.  But it is silly to suggest these activities are why those amendments exist.  As Judge Alex Kozinski put it in his dissent to the Ninth Circuit’s denial of review in Silveira v. Lockyer:

The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed—where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once. [MORE]

Vijay Prashad discusses the real motive behind the U.S. strikes on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Maduro

War Is a Racket: How Corporations and The Dependent Media Fuel Conflict

Rep Massie Implies Oil Companies Knew of Plan to Kidnap Maduro and Impose Involuntary Rule. Claims Trump is a Puppet of Oil Companies who Seek Unjust Enrichment from Venezuela Colonial Oil Theft

From [HERE] Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) has called out the Trump administration’s attempt to take over Venezuela’s oil industry following the US attack on the country that resulted in the US abduction of President Nicolas Maduro and the killing of dozens of people.

“It’s not American oil. It’s Venezuelan oil,” Massie wrote on X in response to Vice President JD Vance justifying the US military intervention by pointing to the Venezuelan government’s nationalization and expropriation of US-owned oil projects decades ago.

“Oil companies entered into risky deals to develop oil, and the deals were canceled by a prior Venezuelan government. What’s happening: lives of US soldiers are being risked to make those oil companies (not Americans) more profitable,” Massie added.

In another post, Massie noted that one person who stands to gain from the intervention is Paul Singer, a billionaire and GOP mega-donor known for being extremely pro-Israel. Singer has funded a super PAC seeking to oust Massie, who has been under fire from pro-Israel Republicans for his opposition to US aid to the country.

“According to Grok,” Massie wrote on X, referring to the AI chatbot, “Paul Singer, globalist Republican mega-donor who’s already spent $1,000,000 to defeat me in the next election, stands to make billions of dollars on his distressed Citgo investment, now that this administration has taken over Venezuela.”

A US judge recently approved the sale of Citgo, the US-based oil refiner that’s owned by a subsidiary of Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA, to an affiliate of Elliott Management, a firm founded by Singer. Since 2019, the US has frozen all of PDVSA’s assets in the US, cutting off the Venezuelan government from Citgo.

Installing a US-friendly government in Caracas could be extremely beneficial for Amber Energy, the Elliott Management affiliate purchasing Citgo for about $5.9 billion. Though, as things stand now, the Trump administration remains a long way from that goal, as Maduro’s vice president, Delcy Rodriguez, is now serving as the acting president.

According to a report from POLITICO, the Trump administration has asked private US oil firms that seek assets from Venezuela to be prepared to go back into the country and invest heavily. “They’re saying, ‘you gotta go in if you want to play and get reimbursed,'” an oil executive told the outlet.

The report said that the offer has been on the table for 10 days, signaling oil companies may have been aware of Trump’s plans to kidnap Maduro, something Massie suggested in response to Trump saying that US oil firms will go into Venezuela and spend billions.

“It seems obvious from this video that the administration worked with big US oil companies before the attack to line up billions of dollars in capital for developing Venezuela’s oil reserves, yet they couldn’t be bothered to consult Congress,” Massie said. [MORE]

Mass Protest in Venezuela Condemns U.S Aggression, Involuntary Rulership and Undermines US Massa Media False Narratives

Willie D: Trump Gets Surprise Response From Colombia’s President After Warning “You’re Next”

Barbaric IsrAliens are Silencing the Palestinian Press by Murdering, Injuring and Permanently Disabling Journalists

From [HERE] The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) said on Saturday that Israel is “implementing a policy of “silencing the press” to “undermine the Palestinian narrative” and “prevent the documentation of crimes.”

In a statement, the Freedoms Committee of the syndicate said, “The Israeli occupation shifted from a policy of restricting journalistic work to a policy of neutralising the press through deadly force, with the aim of silencing witnesses, preventing the documentation of crimes, and undermining the Palestinian narrative on the ground.”

By the end of November 2025, at least 76 Palestinian journalists had been killed and wounded by Israel, in a “dangerous indicator of the escalating targeting policy” pursued by Israeli occupation authorities.

“Journalists are no longer merely ‘potential targets’, but rather confirmed and frequent targets,” the committee said.

According to the Gaza Government Media Office, Israeli forces have killed at least 257 Palestinian journalists in its genocidal war on Gaza since October 2023.

Muhammad al-Lahham, head of the Committee for Freedoms at the syndicate, said the scale and consistency of the attacks amount to international crimes.

The attacks in the past year, he said, “constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, and represent a systematic targeting of a protected group, journalists, within the framework of an official policy to silence the media by force”.

Al-Lahham rejected claims that journalists had been caught accidentally in hostilities, describing instead a deliberate operational logic. What Israel was enforcing, he said, was a “field doctrine based on the principle of ‘no witnesses, no narrative, no image'”.

In December, a report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) found that Israel killed more journalists in 2025 than any other country. It was the third year running that Israel was named the top killer of journalists by the NGO.

Nearly 300 journalists and media workers have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza in 26 months of genocidal war – or about 12 journalists every month – according to a tally by Shireen.ps, a monitoring website named after Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in 2022. [MORE]

Rules for Thee, Force for Me: America’s Doctrine of Leader-Capture

From [HERE] Here we are watching the rules (for thee but not me) based order perform its favorite magic trick, of turning performative flexing of might into virtue by simply narrating it as law.

The United States has kidnapped Venezuela’s sitting president, Nicolás Maduro, along with his wife, via an operation carried out by Delta Forces and removed them from the country. The choreography matters. The message matters more: we can reach into your capital, take your head of state, and call it “justice.” But hey, we’ll own that it’s about oil and minerals in the next breath, so at least we are honest bandits

And the world is meant to accept it because the banner says narco-terror and the megaphone says freedom.

But strip the branding off and you’re left with something brutally simple: a doctrine of unilateral capture, the right claimed by one state to arrest another state’s leader by force, without a UN mandate, and without an authorization of war by any recognized international mechanism. This sets an extremely dangerous precedent and raises serious questions under the UN Charter.

And that’s the point isn’t it?

Because rules for thee but not for me, isn’t a slogan anymore. It’s long established Imperial hypocrisy. [MORE]

White Federal Judge Dismisses Louisville Police Reform Agreement Spurred by the Police Murder of Breonna Taylor

From [HERE] A federal judge in Kentucky has dismissed Louisville’s proposed settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over police reforms after the department withdrew its support of the plan.

The Justice Department announced in May it was canceling proposed consent decrees with Louisville and Minneapolis that sought to curb police racial bias and abuses after the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor that spurred nationwide protests in the summer of 2020.

U.S. District Judge Benjamin Beaton wrote in a Dec. 31 ruling that “the responsibility to lead the Louisville Metro Police Department in compliance with federal law must remain with the city’s elected representatives and the people they serve.”

A judge in May dismissed Minneapolis’ proposed consent decree, which places a federal officer in charge of tracking the progress of reforms laid out in the agreement. [MORE]

President Trash Announces that “He’s In Charge of Venezuela Now.” Imposes Involuntary Rulership Over His New Subjects Based Solely on Force/Slavery. Explains to US Sheeple Venezuela “Stole Their Oil”

From [HERE] and [HERE] The U.S. says it has carried out a direct military operation inside Venezuela and abducted President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who has been pushing for regime change in Venezuela, claimed the move was a “law enforcement action” tied to drug trafficking charges filed in New York.

The direct attack on Venezuela follows months of escalations by the U.S. that were first sold as a counter-narcotics operation. The U.S. has mobilized a large force off the coast of Venezuela, with 15,000 personnel operating in the area, and engaged in kinetic strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats that eventually saw over 100 people killed in what UN experts called “extrajudicial executions.”

Trump called it a “spectacular assault… in the heart of Caracas” from a press conference in Mar-a-Lago, comparing the attacks to similar U.S. attacks in Nigeria and against Iranian military official Qasem Soleimani, referencing his assassination by the first Trump administration in January 2020. Trump added that “American dominance in the western hemisphere will never be questioned again.”

“We are going to run the country,” said Trump, contrary to speculation that the U.S. would not try to occupy the country. Trump added that the U.S. was prepared to launch a second wave of attacks, warning Venezuelan leadership that they are at risk of a similar kidnapping operation. Trump said he was prepared to put “boots on the ground.”

The U.S. president also spoke of facilitating the entry of U.S. oil companies into Venezuela, repeating his claim that Venezuela had “stolen” their oil. He added that this revenue would pay for the United States’s administration of the country and some would be used as reparations.

Earlier in the day, Trump did not endorse a takeover by Venezuela’s far-right opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize and wrote “The time for freedom has come!” in a letter posted on X. In the afternoon press conference, Trump said of Machado that “It would be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn’t have the respect of her country.”

Numerous countries from the region and beyond condemned the U.S. operation, including Mexico and Brazil, with the former calling on the UN to act “immediately.” China, whose special envoy for Latin America was in meetings with Maduro in Caracas, said it was “deeply shocked and strongly condemns the U.S. for recklessly using force against a sovereign state and targeting its president.” [MORE]

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Trump-Bush Bombed Seven Countries in 2025 [the 'America Last/Piece President']

2025 saw a major increase in US airstrikes due to President Trump loosening the rules of engagement for military commanders and launching new interventions in the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.

According to a report from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) released earlier this year, Trump launched nearly as many airstrikes in just his first five months in office as President Biden did during his entire four-year term.

If Trump’s claims are true, the US has bombed seven countries this year, on top of the alleged airstrikes targeting alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific Ocean. Somalia, Nigeria, Yemen, Iraq and Syria, Iran, The Caribbean and Eastern Pacific and Venezuela [MORE].

Do Trump/Bush's Strikes in Nigeria Serve any Valid Purpose?

4 ways Puppet Trump Reminded us of Bush-Cheney in 2025. Earlier this month, Republican Congressman Thomas Massie mocked the idea of a potential U.S. regime change war with Venezuela, ostensibly over drug trafficking.

"Do we truly believe that Nicholas Maduro will be replaced by a modern-day George Washington? How did that work out? In Cuba, Libya, Iraq, or Syria?"

"Previous presidents told us to go to war over WMDs, weapons of mass destruction, that did not exist,” he added, taking a direct dig at President George W. Bush. Now it's the same playbook, except we're told that drugs are the WMDs."

In 2016 Trump ran for president as the anti-Bush, slamming the Iraq War justifications on the Republican primary debate stage. “Obviously, the war in Iraq was a big, fat mistake, all right? They lied. They said there were weapons of mass destruction. There were none, and they knew there were none,” Trump said then.

Now Team Trump talks about fentanyl being a WMD and teases war. Massie had a point in comparing Trump to Bush and Dick Cheney in more ways than one. [MORE]

Racist Terrorcrat Trump Launches Unprovoked Attack on Venezuela, Kidnaps President to Steal Oil, Resources from Non-White Country on Behalf of Elites; Now Seeks to Control US Minds w/False Narratives

From [HERE] US President Donald Trump said American forces had “captured” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday during what he described as large-scale strikes in the country.

The US president did not receive congressional authorization for any of the strikes, and he said Saturday’s operation was carried out in collaboration with American law enforcement. [MORE]

Trump said Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, had been flown out of Venezuela.

Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, who is next in line to succeed the president, said the whereabouts of Maduro and his wife were unknown and called on Trump to provide proof that he was alive.

The Venezuelan government in a statement said it "rejects, condemns and denounces the extremely serious military aggression" of the US on its territory and population. 

"The objective of this attack is nothing other than the seizure of Venezuela’s strategic resources, particularly its oil and minerals, through an attempt to forcibly break the nation’s political independence," the statement said.

"The attempt to impose a colonial war to destroy the republican system of government and force a 'regime change', in alliance with a fascist oligarchy, will fail like all previous attempt," it added. 

Trump announced the operation on his Truth Social platform hours after explosions were reported near civilian and military facilities in the capital, Caracas, as well as in the states of La Guaira, Aragua and Miranda.

Venezuelan officials said several people were killed and wounded in the US attacks but did not provide a death toll. US authorities said there were no American casualties.

US officials told CBS that the operation to “capture” Maduro was carried out by the elite Delta Force unit. Trump later described the mission as “brilliant” in a phone call with The New York Times.

Sky News reported that senior Venezuelan opposition sources said Maduro’s exit had been “negotiated” with the United States.

Russia, one of Venezuela's closest allies, condemned the US strikes, calling it an "act of armed aggression" that is "deeply concerning and condemnable". 

Iran, also an ally of Venezuela, also slammed the US for "the flagrant violation of [Venezuela's] national sovereignty and territorial integrity".

"When a person realises the enemy is arrogantly trying to impose something on the country, on the officials, on the government, and on the nation, one must stand firmly against the enemy and bare one’s chest in resistance. We will not yield to the enemy."

Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who was previously threatened by Trump as the next target after Venezuela, said his country "rejects the aggression against the sovereignty of Venezuela and of Latin America" and called for the UN and the Organization of American States to convene immediately.

The European Union's top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, stopped short of condemning the US, saying that "Maduro lacks legitimacy". [MORE]

According to FUNKTIONARY:

territorial gangsters – individuals (masquerading as “the State” so-called) who skillfully use fraud, coercion, and terror to claim “jurisdiction” (so-called) over their victims who happen to be in some geographic territory. Territorial gangsters brainwash their victims (the pixelated populace) so that they will work for them not only like slaves but actually as slaves. (See: Stationary Bandits, Statutory Oppression, Jurisdiction, Allegiance, Involuntary Servitude, Slave & Tyrant-Paradigm)

terrorism – the implementation of the principle/concept of limited liability. 2) “A system of government that seeks to rule by intimidation.” ~Funk & Wagnalls New Practical Standard Dictionary, 1946. All acts of terrorism, even those carried out by those outside of the fold of the machinations of Corporate State and its minions (territorial gangsters), are either political or religious expressions. One’s man’s ideology is another man’s religion and vice-versa. Terrorism is never sudden, it emerges when marginalized or powerless people feel profoundly aggrieved. When and where they are precluded from participating in the central functioning of voluntary society or the involuntary Corporate State, they communicate with religious fanaticism, indiscriminate secular violence and hate. Terrorism and the terrorists who carry it out is a kind of psycho-economic Thug-of-War—leaving countless shattered lives of innocents in its horrid wake. (See: Statism, Authority, Violence, Genocide, War, Corporate State, Territorial Gangsters, Patriot Act, Mononright, Wargasm, Racism White Supremacy, Cryptocracy, Sovereignty, CrimethInc., Coercion, Oppression, BOP & Gangbanking)

terrorist – a name or label for anyone that the over-rulers (ruling elite families) of these United (against us) States have declared war on. 2) anyone who challenges America’s hegemonic self-appointed right to rule the world. The distinction between a so-called freedom fighter and a terrorist is in the hands of those who have the power to define and propagandize their own subjective reality to make it an objective truth of others. A freedom-fighter typically is fighting an invader or occupier of his native land that has been stolen, whereas as terrorist is typically the one who has invaded or carried out acts of violence to take the land from an indigenous people. (See: War On Terrorism & Wargasm)