Sitting leaders of “independent” states are legally immune from prosecution under US law and international norms. But since in January 2019 the US recognised the much ridiculed Juan Guaido as the legitimate president of Venezuela (followed by another 60 countries), they can simply brush that aside....

CITGO isn’t a subsidiary of the Venezuela state-owned PDVSA anymore (technically speaking it still IS, as the sale hasn’t been finalised yet)… On 25 November 2025, a US judge approved the sale of CITGO to Amber Energy, a subsidiary of Elliott Management of Paul Singer, whose net worth is $6.7 billio...

Delcy Rodriguez was recently in contact with Trump’s envoy Richard Grenell. Do I go too far in my conclusion that she made a deal which included the removal of Maduro [/i] Bizarrely it was already reported on 16 October 2025 by the Miami Herald that such a deal was made!!! As far as I can tell NOT ...

A supranational trust company would administer the Gaza Strip for 10 years, with residents of Gaza given the choice of emigrating or staying and being housed in 6 to 8 SMART cities. Those who emigrate “voluntarily” (probably to the EU and UK) will receive thousands of dollars. Isn’t it odd that thi...

For now Venezuela’s supreme court has appointed Maduro’s vice-president Delcy Rodríguez… Is this another sick joke?!? Apparently Maduro is an evil communist narco-terrorist, but his vice president Delcy Rodriguez is a doubleplus good socialist commie. Trump said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...

It isn’t clear what has actually happened, and how much control the Trump administration and US army have over Venezuela. But the US army has started another US invasion/coup of Venezuela. With Maduro captured and flown to the US. The charges against Maduro include: narco-terrorism, cocaine traffick...

AI in the palm of the HIDDEN HAND m AI n - French for HAND What could possibly go wrong? Good to see you posting here again! I was thinking more along the lines of the all-seeing eye (All-seeing I), of Odin, on who Santa Claus and Sinterklaas are based. See another picture of Odin, one eye, in red ...

I’m disgusted with all of this hype about Artificial Intelligence, which isn’t much more than a ‘new’ way of software development. Because it still requires human developers to fix its flaws, it isn’t worth the hype. Surely AI can be used to generate software quicker, but because it often lacks qual...

I think it’s ridiculous that professional athletes can be diagnosed by some doctor to suffer from a disease to get a competitive advantage over ‘healthy’ opponents. It’s an open secret that many endurance athletes get a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) for asthma so they can take performance-enhancin...

In April 1940, the chemist Henry Tizard, scientific advisor to UK PM Winston Churchill (KG in 1953), formed the MAUD committee to “investigate” an atomic bomb. When the MAUD committee had finished its report (basically elaborating on HG Wells' “The world set free”), Tizard proposed to Churchill to ...