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"It’s hard to have any sympathy for drug dealers trying to import product into our country," Paul said in an appearance on Newsmax. "But at the same time, I guess, you might ask the question, ‘Where does it end? Are we the world’s policemen?"

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The Kentucky senator said that US authorities wouldn’t bomb a boat if it were off the coast of the US and suspected of running drugs. “We all assume these people were bad people and drug dealers, but if they were caught off the coast of Miami, we would stop the boat. If they don’t shoot at us, we don’t shoot at them,” he said.

Paul said that the “reason we have trials and we don’t automatically assume guilt is what if we make a mistake and they happen to be people fleeing the Venezuelan dictator?”

He added that in the US, even the “worst people” accused of terrible crimes are entitled to a trial.

President Trump claimed that the strike on the boat killed 11 people who were members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang the US government has labeled “narcoterrorists.”

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other US officials have said more strikes are coming and are https://news.antiwar.com/2025/09/03/hegseth-doesnt-rule-out-regime-change-in-venezuela-suggests-more-us-strikes-on-boats-are-coming/

the possibility of pursuing regime change in Venezuela, which may be the real purpose of the deployment of multiple US Navy warships to the Southern Caribbean.

Rand Paul: "The reason we have trials and we don't automatically assume guilt is what if we make a mistake and they happen to be people fleeing the Venezuelan dictator? ... off our coast it isn't our policy just to blow people up ... even the worst people in our country, if we… https://t.co/UpKVFAy5XU

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1963382824880259393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has denied the US accusations that he’s involved in drug trafficking and is vowing to fight if the US attacks his country.

Other Venezuelan officials have downplayed the US strike on the boat, claiming that the video Trump released purporting to show the bombing https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/venezuela-accuses-us-of-faking-drug-ship-attack-video/3678308

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This entire saga gets stranger by the day. Adam Back on Twitter just now:

"Bitcoin is owned by humanity, the protocol developers are stewards, and need consensus from users to change it materially. bitcoin is about money, spam has no place in the timechain. what defaults the bitcoin core project puts in the reference client matter in this"

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Top Secret Seal Team Mission Into North Korea Ended With Massacre Of Civilians & Zero Intel Gained

On Friday The New York Times revealed what may go down in history as the single most ignominious fiasco of US special operations in years, or possibly even decades - a positively wild story which is going to cast a further spotlight on Trump and current and former intelligence officials and elite military commanders.

In early 2019 at a moment President Trump during his first term publicly engaged in high-profile diplomacy with Kim Jong Un, which included chummy summits at the DMZ border and the exchange of letters, a highly secretive operation by the US Navy's SEAL Team 6 ended with a group of North Korean civilian fishermen massacred under mysterious circumstances.

Trump as Commander-in-Chief had ordered a high-risk mission, utilizing low-tech methods to avoid detection, to insert the Seal team on the North Korean coast where they would install a surveillance device capable of intercepting Kim Jong Un’s most sensitive communications. It would be hidden from Congress and the public, and even government officials based on need-to-know access. It's one of those past covert ops which was never intended to see the light of public knowledge.

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The Times report describes the mission's purpose as likely to give the White House a huge leg up as Trump tried to engage Kim on the nuclear front, to achieve hoped-for historic denuclearization on the Korean peninsula. "The objective was to plant an electronic device that would let the United States intercept the communications of North Korea’s reclusive leader, Kim Jong-un, amid high-level nuclear talks with President Trump," it says. But the report notes that the hidden surveillance objective may have had a broader purpose.

"The mission had the potential to provide the United States with a stream of valuable intelligence," https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/us/navy-seal-north-korea-trump-2019.html

continues. "But it meant putting American commandos on North Korean soil — a move that, if detected, not only could sink negotiations but also could lead to a hostage crisis or an escalating conflict with a nuclear-armed foe."

Essentially this would be a small-scale invasion and breach of one of the most militarized and paranoid countries in the region and on earth. It should be noted that it is covert operations like these which give autocrats like Kim Jong Un (or previously: Saddam, Gaddafi, Assad, as well as the Iranians) valid reasons to be paranoid concerning Western spies and elite operatives.

The report details that under the cover of night, the Seal team landed on a North Korean shoreline after they swam through freezing waters with untraceable equipment, operating completely blind and with no typical drone, spy plane or overhead surveillance or real-time mapping. Even their weapons and bullets were selected so as to be 'untraceable'.

Apparently there was precedent for this, something also long kept secret: "In 2005, SEALs used a mini-sub to go ashore in North Korea and leave unnoticed, according to people familiar with the mission," NY Times discloses. "The 2005 operation, carried out during the presidency of George W. Bush, has never before been reported publicly."

Every aspect to the 2019 infiltration was ultra high-risk, NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/us/navy-seal-north-korea-trump-2019.html

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The plan called for the Navy to sneak a nuclear-powered submarine, nearly two football fields long, into the waters off North Korea and then deploy a small team of SEALs in two mini-subs, each about the size of a killer whale, that would motor silently to the shore.

The mini-subs were wet subs, which meant the SEALs would ride immersed in 40-degree ocean water for about two hours to reach the shore, using scuba gear and heated suits to survive.

Eight Seals would swim to the target and plant the device, but the mission began to dramatically unravel from nearly the moment they surfaced in the dark of night.

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Given the lack of real-time intelligence and communications black-out, intelligence analysts had studied and monitored the intended landing spot for months prior via satellite, to ensure no North Korean soldiers or bystanders could detect the operation. But it turns out there was a fishing boat very near the https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/us/navy-seal-north-korea-trump-2019.html

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Every few yards, the SEALs peeked above the black water to scan their surroundings. Everything seemed clear.

That might have been a second mistake. Bobbing in the darkness was a small boat. On board was a crew of North Koreans who were easy to miss because the sensors in the SEALs’ night-vision goggles were designed in part to detect heat, and the wet suits the Koreans wore were chilled by the cold seawater.

The SEALs reached shore thinking they were alone, and started to remove their diving gear. The target was only a few hundred yards away.

By that moment, one group of Seals had made it to the shore, while another had stayed with the underwater small subs. Thinking that the fishing boat had likely detected the subs, which may have been exposed due to wake-movement or bubbles at the surface, and possibly underwater lights - a Seal commander at the shore opened fire on the boat.

"As the shore team watched the North Korean in the water, the senior enlisted SEAL at the shore chose a course of action," NY Times details. "He wordlessly centered his rifle and fired. The other SEALs instinctively did the same."

Upon inspection of the shot-up boat, all the crew were dead. They had just been unarmed civilians diving for shellfish. But to conceal their presence, the Seals punctured the lungs of the corpses so the bodies would sink to the bottom of the ocean floor.

From that point, "The SEALs swam back to the mini-subs and sent a distress signal." The report adds: "Believing the SEALs were in imminent danger of capture, the big nuclear submarine maneuvered into shallow water close to the shore, taking a significant risk to pick them up. It then sped toward the open ocean."

The fact that this highly classified incident is being leaked to the press now is significant in its own right...

This is insane. Trump secretly deployed SEAL Team 6 into North Korea to plant a listening device but the mission collapsed when a fishing boat approached. SEAL Team 6 killed every civilian, sank the bodies by piercing their lungs, and escaped. Congress wasn’t told about it. https://t.co/JnnZuSqibt

— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) https://twitter.com/CalltoActivism/status/1964009778109133106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

The Seal team made it back unharmed, and US officials told the NY Times that a flurry of intense North Korean military activity was later observed by satellites at that same shoreline. Pyongyang never made accusations or statements publicly acknowledging there was a deadly incident, and the US gained no intelligence from it - as the listening device was never planted - and there was apparently never accountability.

The whole episode suggests there may be many more such 'secret failures' involving special forces in recent history. Special operations tend to only be made public, and celebrated, when they are a success; however, such missions which end in futility and innocent civilians dying get covered up, often with mission overseers getting promoted. Pyongyang is certainly paying close attention to the Friday Times report.

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Watch: Israel Systematically Flattens High-Rise Buildings In Gaza City

The war on the 'high rises' has begun, as shocking footage shows Israel's military has begun pulling down buildings one by one as part of its operation to take over Gaza City, through powerful missile strikes at their base.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has sought to justify its actions by saying Hamas and Islamic Jihad hide in the buildings, as use them to organize assaults on Israeli troops.

IDF started flattening high-rise buildings in Gaza City in what looks like the 1st significant phase of its new offensive. IDF claims Hamas used this building for military purposes https://t.co/wrpTmHN9pG

— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1963927176132342065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Widely circulating images show that large buildings in the city center have been completely collapsed into their own footprint.

And on Friday, Al Jazeera reports that more are being targeted, amid IDF warnings issues to residents of certain buildings, saying that must immediately evacuate the premises.

"In the past half an hour, the Israeli army has issued a forced evacuation order for people living in Gaza City’s largest residential building," https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/9/5/live-israel-kills-18-overnight-as-intense-strikes-flatten-gaza-city?update=3927913

to Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud.

"We’re talking about a 16-storey building that houses at least 65 residential apartments and lots of department stores at the bottom of this residential tower," Mahmoud described.

Another angle of the collapse...

Gaza City high-rise crumbles in new angle of IDF's missile assault on Mushtaha Tower

Israel's Defense Minister marked strike as 'removing bolt from GATES OF HELL in Gaza'

'When the door is opened, it will not be closed, and IDF activity will intensify' https://t.co/J3Sr7Q6UXr

— RT (@RT_com) https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1963994614265741812?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Palestinian residents are receiving phone calls telling them they have a very short window of time to get out of their homes, leading to fear and panic among civilians.

Previously the 12-story Mushtaha Tower (above and below) was blown up after Israel called it "Hamas infrastructure". At this rate it's expected that the entire central Gaza City area will be flattened.

The IDF called it "terrorist infrastructure" and utterly destroyed it...

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Israel's military has also been regularly destroying tunnel networks under the city, as Hamas has frequently use these for guerilla warfare tactics. Hamas has been ambushing IDF infantry units by sending small teams from these tunnels.

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So, turns out that Nature is anarchy 🏴

Makes sense.

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https://x.com/food_health_joy/status/1963897393042059463?s=12&t=tYpu_qr0VC3-b6lyU0fszg which one?

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Quinn: WW3 Is Inevitable, Compromise Isn't An Option During 'The Fourth Turning'

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/09/05/ww3-is-inevitable-compromise-isnt-an-option-during-the-fourth-turning/

Fourth Turnings never fizzle out.

They build to a crescendo of death and destruction.

Is there any indications whatsoever that we are not on a course towards all-out war?

How it started...

"We gave categorical assurances to Gorbachev that if a United Germany could remain in NATO, NATO would not be moved Eastward" Jack Matlock, US Ambassador to the Soviets 1987-1991 speaking 30 years ago.

"We gave categorical assurances to Gorbachev that if a United Germany could remain in NATO, NATO would not be moved Eastward"

Jack Matlock, US Ambassador to the Soviets 1987-1991 speaking 30 years ago

NATO did, however, move Eastwards towards Russia, and the rest is history https://t.co/21EjyDetYm

— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) https://twitter.com/BowesChay/status/1963330356838338827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

NATO did, however, move Eastwards towards Russia, and the rest is history

How's it going?

Professor Jeffrey Sachs explains:

Now, we have the return of the most primitive kind of Russophobia imaginable.

So Europe meets, as, as you note, every two or three days in terror of Russia with these fools around the table, without talking to the Russians at all.

If you just watch these people, they don't know anything, and they don't want to learn anything, and they don't want to hear anything.

And especially, in Europe, the most desperate thing is, for God's sake, don't talk to the other side. It may be a little annoying.

And so we actually have a spectacle of grown people like Starmer, Merz, Macron, grown people that won't even have ... a discussion with President Putin.

Professor Jeffrey Sachs "FIRED" Starmer, Merz & Macron

Now, we have the return of the most primitive kind of Russophobia imaginable. So Europe meets, as, as you note, every two or three days in terror of Russia with these fools around the table, without talking to the Russians… https://t.co/GVUrNc69uy

— Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848) https://twitter.com/ivan_8848/status/1963553537377337636?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

And what happens next?

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https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1963515368141467821?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

"The United Kingdom has sent Ukraine $1.3 billion obtained as profit from the use of frozen Russian assets.

This was said by the English idiot Lammy.

Well, this means one thing: British thieves have handed over Russian money to the neo-Nazis.

The consequences?

Britain has committed an offense, and Russia has, as lawyers say, a claim against it and the current Banderite Ukraine.

But considering that these funds cannot be recovered through legal proceedings for obvious reasons, our country has only one way to reclaim the assets.

To return what was seized in kind. That is, with "Ukrainian land" and other real estate and movable property located on it.

(I am obviously not talking about the lands of the new Russian regions, they are already ours.)

So any illegal seizure of arrested Russian funds or income from them must be converted into additional territories and other property of country 404. Or by confiscating the valuables of the British Crown.

There are still enough of them in various places, including those located in Russia."

The path has been set on the Fourth Turning - it's now when not if.

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The Power-Bill Crisis Keeps Energy Secretary Wright Up At Night

Weeks after Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Glenn Beck that the power-bill crisis would last for "https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/power-bill-crisis-here-stay-few-years

," America's top energy official told Fox Business on Tuesday that rising electricity costs remain his top concern.

"It's what I worry about most seven days a week," Wright told Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo. "We want to stop the rise in electricity for Americans and reshore jobs and opportunity there."

The Trump administration is racing to restore and expand stable fossil-fuel power generation (https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/trump-says-hes-authorizing-use-coal-energy-production

), after parts of the nation's grid were left in a fragile state by the Biden-Harris regime's unreliable green-energy policies, amid surging power demand from data center buildouts - all in an effort to compete with China.

In mid-August, Goldman analysts led by Hongcen Wei told clients, "We find that 9 out of 13 US regional power markets have already reached critical tightness this summer, while expecting all but one to reach critical tightness by 2030."

Wei https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/price-spikes-blackouts-americas-power-crisis-just-getting-started

: "Critical tightness could lead to power price spikes and blackouts with significant social and economic losses."

By the end of the summer, nine of the 13 U.S. regional power grids have already reached dangerously low spare capacity levels, which are at or below the critical reliability threshold. This raises blackout threats and results in power price spikes during high-demand usage hours.

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This tightening is most evident in the Mid-Atlantic region...

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The epicenter of the power crisis is in Maryland.

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Bloomberg suggested earlier that the power bill crisis could become a political liability for Republicans ahead of the midterms. However, the real-world example playing out in https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/maryland-governor-wes-moore-polling-data-plummets-amid-power-bill-hyperinflation

.

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Maryland Democrats are pointing fingers at the regional grid operator. Still, it was their own party that spent years championing unreliable solar and wind while retiring coal plants, leaving the grid in a state of chaos - on the brink of collapse last month (https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/prepare-now-substation-failure-puts-baltimore-risk-widespread-blackouts

.

Now comes the informational war used by both parties that will blame each other for the power bill mess.

In one year, this will be the most popular chart on this site https://t.co/h93gWXMoNL

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1954980347030163526?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Wright told Congress earlier this year that solar and wind subsidies have been disastrous for the grid.

Lobbyists' worst nightmare: 4 minutes of Energy Secretary Chris Wright telling Congress why solar and wind subsidies must be terminated ASAP. https://t.co/GlBNv75pDp

— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) https://twitter.com/AlexEpstein/status/1932868745531437270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Recently, Wright told Fox Business about Trump's plan to add "more energy to the grid."

Sec. Chris Wright: "For 30 years... we've paid people to build intermittent sources that only work when the wind's blowing or when the sun's shining. The more of that you put on the grid, the more expensive electricity becomes for Americans."https://t.co/P0iXZKlFMj