Wednesday, December 17, 2025
The global shadow economy behind Trump’s latest move on Venezuela
Following this week’s seizure of a sanctioned ship off the coast of Venezuela, the Trump administration says it will be targeting more oil tankers off the Venezuelan coast. - Joshua Keating
But it’s also the latest salvo in a campaign by Western governments to crack down on the so-called shadow fleet that has allowed countries like Venezuela, Russia, and Iran to continue participating in the global oil trade, despite international sanctions...
As Vox reported last year, the shadow fleet has been operating for years.
As Vox reported last year, the shadow fleet has been operating for years.
- Shadow fleet vessels tend to have opaque ownership; the nominal owner is often little more than a PO Box in the Seychelles or Dubai.
- The ships operate without standard insurance, are often older and less well-maintained than their above-board counterparts, and frequently manipulate their transponders and navigation system to avoid detection.
- They frequently change names and what country’s flag they sail under...
Case in point, the vessel seized by the US this week was sailing under the name Skipper and the flag of Guyana — but it had been sanctioned by the Biden administration in 2022 when it was known as the Adisa and flew the flag of Panama.
- As the Washington Post reported, the ship allegedly made several trips in and out of Iran last year along with stops in China and Syria, but it frequently turned off its data location transmission to prevent tracking...
What's worse? The judges and liberals are buying it!-----Just Wait Until You Hear the Left's Newest Talking Point Used to Dismiss Migrant Sexual Assaults
Their defense? Those "asylum seekers" raped a girl because of "cultural differences," and they weren't "used to a society where women are free and deemed equal to men," according to their lawyer. - Amy Curtis
That's the case in the U.K., where Reform leader Nigel Farage is pointing to the case of two Afghan "asylum seekers" charged with raping a 15-year-old girl in Warwickshire.
Their defense?
That's the case in the U.K., where Reform leader Nigel Farage is pointing to the case of two Afghan "asylum seekers" charged with raping a 15-year-old girl in Warwickshire.
Their defense?
Those "asylum seekers" raped a girl because of "cultural differences," and they weren't "used to a society where women are free and deemed equal to men," according to their lawyer.
Stanford Researchers Confirm COVID Vax Can Cause Fatal Myocarditis
Stanford Researchers Confirm COVID Vax Can Cause Fatal Myocarditis:
A Stanford Medicine research team has confirmed that mRNA-based COVID vaccines can cause inflammation of the heart muscle, known as myocarditis, which can be fatal.
The study, recently published in the journal “Science Translational Medicine,” concludes that these mRNA vaccines can trigger certain immune cells to produce inflammatory proteins, specifically CXCL10 and IFN-gamma, which can cause heart issues.
More Hospital Tips - by Glenn Harlan Reynolds
From an insider - Glenn Harlan ReynoldsLast night’s “hospital tips” post brought this from a physician at a fancy hospital who doesn’t want me to use his name. (See the final, sad, sentence.)
Lots of good stuff here:
2. Get a pen/pencil and a pad of paper (I used to hand these out before the electronic medical record). Write down your questions whenever they occur to you. Most people think of their most important questions about five minutes after I have left. They should write down their questions whenever they occur to them...
- I have been an ICU doc for over 30 years. When it is clear to me that a patient is going to be in the ICU for more than a few days, I have talk with the family member who has been around the most (this person is often NOT the power of attorney).
2. Get a pen/pencil and a pad of paper (I used to hand these out before the electronic medical record). Write down your questions whenever they occur to you. Most people think of their most important questions about five minutes after I have left. They should write down their questions whenever they occur to them...
History for December 17
History for December 17 - On-This-Day.com 
William Safire 1929 - Newspaper columnist
- 1777 - France recognized American independence.
- 1791 - A traffic regulation in New York City established the first street to go "One Way."
- 1903 - The first successful gasoline-powered airplane flight took place near Kitty Hawk, NC. Orville and Wilbur Wright made the flight.
- 1969 - Television history was made when Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki Budinger were married on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.
- 1973 - Thirty-one people were killed at Rome airport when Arab guerillas hijacked a German airliner.
- 1976 - WTCG-TV, Atlanta, GA, changed its call letters to WTBS, and was uplinked via satellite. The station became the first commercial TV station to cover the entire U.S.
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
FDA Set to Give COVID Vaccines Serious 'Black Box' Designation: Report
FDA Set to Give COVID Vaccines Serious 'Black Box' Designation: Report:
A black box warning is the most serious safety designation the FDA can require — appearing in bold at the top of a drug or vaccine’s prescribing information to alert doctors and patients to potentially serious risks.
According to CNN, the FDA’s proposed action would highlight major risks such as serious side effects and usage restrictions that should be weighed against benefits before administering the shots.
Still hating on Trump's words about Rob Reiner?-----When someone verbally supports terrorism, those words matter.
When someone celebrates a brutal murder or says it was justified, those words matter. - Daniel Jupp
2. Rebuilds western economies.
3. Is honest about Third World migration.
4. Protects nation states.
5. Doesn’t want war with Russia.
6. Recognises the threat from China.
7. Addresses the existential health threats from modern food and drug production.
8. Opposes the insane wealth transfer fraud of Net Zero.
9. Defends free speech.
10. Opposes tyranny within the West...READ ALL!
- When someone who has received more hate and more attacks and more evil aimed at him than anyone else on the planet, is disrespectful about the death of one of the people that tried to encourage others to kill him, that is UNDERSTANDABLE.
- And those words DO NOT MATTER compared to the fact that the person uttering them represents the ONLY policy platform in the entire western world that:
2. Rebuilds western economies.
3. Is honest about Third World migration.
4. Protects nation states.
5. Doesn’t want war with Russia.
6. Recognises the threat from China.
7. Addresses the existential health threats from modern food and drug production.
8. Opposes the insane wealth transfer fraud of Net Zero.
9. Defends free speech.
10. Opposes tyranny within the West...READ ALL!
Watch: Australia's PM Now Deflects From Jihadi Attack to 'Right-Wing Extremists'
Where are all these mysterious "right-wing extremists" the left loves to yap about? - Ward Clark
Case in point: The jihadi attackers in the infamous Bondi Beach attack; their motivation isn't hard to work out, but in a statement about that event, Australia's Labor Party Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had to trot out that old bugaboo. Watch:
'Deceased voters': RNC hits Maryland with election integrity lawsuit * WorldNetDaily * by Katelynn Richardson, Daily Caller News Foundation
'Deceased voters': RNC hits Maryland with election integrity lawsuit * WorldNetDaily * by Katelynn Richardson, Daily Caller News Foundation:
Registration in several Maryland counties is "impossibly high," with two of the state's biggest counties reporting more registered voters than adult citizens, according to the lawsuit. Ten other counties have registration rates that exceed 95% of adult citizens, though 2022 U.S. Census Bureau data indicates the state's registration rate is only around 75.6%.
I'm an American Trucker. Illegal Migrants Are Flooding My Industry.
Trucking companies are hiring barely-vetted migrants happy to work long hours for low pay, many of whom don't speak english or understand our driving culture — and they're wreaking havoc on the roads - Gord Magill
- On October 21, a commercial truck collided with an SUV along Interstate 10 a few miles east of Los Angeles. The dashcam footage instantly went viral: we witness the final moments of husband and wife Clarence and Lisa Nelson as their vehicle, stopped in traffic, is vaporized by the truck.
- In August, Harjinder Singh, an Indian migrant who entered America illegally in 2018 and was (again, illegally) issued a commercial driver’s license by both Washington and California, attempted to execute an illegal U-turn with a semi across the Florida turnpike...The impact instantly killed all three people in the minivan...
- On November 9, ICE arrested an Uzbeki illegal migrant and wanted terrorist driving an 18-wheeler in Kansas...
- On November 22, the Wyoming Department of Transportation removed 40 illegal migrants operating big rigs...
What in the hell is going on in trucking?...
- Demand for truckers spiked at the beginning of the pandemic, followed by a trough of almost no work, and a second spike through most of 2021, as Americans were paid to stay home and order everything online...
In response, the White House convened a December 2021 “task force” to ensure trucking jobs are “good, safe, and stable.”
- The results of this “task force” have been catastrophic...
- Deskilling in the industry, and giving the lowest common denominator permission to drive big rigs, hasn’t worked out well for the American motorist.
- Truck fatalities have increased by nearly 50% over the last decade.
Racism accusations shielded Minnesota fraudsters from accountability | Fox News
Racism accusations shielded Minnesota fraudsters from accountability | Fox News:
MINNEAPOLIS, MN - In the aftermath of the massive Feeding Our Future scandal and broader allegations of systemic fraud in Minnesota’s social programs, a troubling theme has emerged: accusations of racism repeatedly used to deflect scrutiny, intimidate investigators and stall accountability.
Rumors and reports of fraud in Minneapolis, primarily within the city’s exploding Somali community, have been circulating for at least a decade, but criticism of the fraud has been largely dismissed by elected Democrats as "racist" or being underpinned by animosity toward foreigners. News stories focused on Somali fraudsters in recent years were shot down as "racist."
Why is there no national outrage at this theft??!!-----𝗠𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗟𝗘𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗪𝗘𝗥 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗦 𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗚𝗘𝗗 𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗜𝗗 𝗙𝗥𝗔𝗨𝗗 𝗔𝗧 𝗦𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗟𝗜-𝗥𝗨𝗡 𝗡𝗚𝗢 — 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗗𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗖𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗦 𝗗𝗢 𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚
This is either 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲, or it’s political protection. - M.A. Rothman@MichaelARothman
This is either 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲, or it’s political protection.
And Maine taxpayers are the ones getting robbed.
A whistleblower says a Somali-immigrant-run NGO billed taxpayers for services that were never performed — and a state audit estimated 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 $𝟵𝟬𝟰,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 from a record sample.
Here’s what’s being alleged in plain English:
• 𝗙𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 / 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀
• 𝗧𝗮𝘅𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 “𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀” 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱
• 𝗕𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘆 (even to brand-new staff)
• 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮
• 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 — 𝗻𝗼-𝗯𝗶𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
• 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝘁 → 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱
This is either 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲, or it’s political protection.
And Maine taxpayers are the ones getting robbed.
A whistleblower says a Somali-immigrant-run NGO billed taxpayers for services that were never performed — and a state audit estimated 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 $𝟵𝟬𝟰,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 from a record sample.
Here’s what’s being alleged in plain English:
• 𝗙𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀 / 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀
• 𝗧𝗮𝘅𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 “𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀” 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱
• 𝗕𝗼𝗻𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘆 (even to brand-new staff)
• 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮
• 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 — 𝗻𝗼-𝗯𝗶𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
• 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝘁 → 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱
• 𝗡𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝘂𝘁𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻, 𝗻𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗻𝗼 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 — they just keep operating...
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