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Sep 29

Commentators are discussing Venezuela’s oil revenue, or rather where it is and who takes a share on or off the books, even creating the books and the companies, where there is no law, only imperial extraction of the lifeblood of others.  

While it is fascinating to follow the money on the grab of Venezuela’s oil, it is par for the course. If you steal the oil, would you not steal the money? If you steal the President and his wife despite international law, would you not steal the last hope?

A short moment to review international law on stealing leaders of other counries: According to the International Court of Justice and long-standing custom, certain high-ranking officials have strong protections:
• Who it covers: Heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers.
• What it does: It blocks foreign national courts from arresting, suing, or prosecuting them.
• Why it exists: It ensures that leaders can do their jobs without foreign interference and respects the sovereign equality of nations.
• Timeframe: It applies only while the leader holds office.

On the gold, note this is post-Maduro and not the gold that was deposited in the vaults in Britain, for safekeeping. Venezuela will get none of anything. We need to also mention that the US is now saturating Venezuela with US food products, and literally destroying the local agriculture with cheap food. The new type of unbridled colonialism is exceedingly harsh and brutal. That that have a good knowledge of the Rape of Russia in the early ’90’s, can viscerally see and sense the trajectory.

The Trump administration and its business allies sold the resumption of imports of Venezuelan gold as a move that would benefit the US, develop Venezuela’s mining sector and clear out gangs profiting off the minerals trade.

Instead, “hundreds of millions of dollars” of unrefined gold now sits “untouched” in warehouses in the US, lacking ‘ethical production’ certification that would enable refiners to refine it, sources told NYT.

Caracas hasn’t seen dollar one of this money, because Washington strongarmed it into an import agreement under which revenue payouts would be held in US Treasury-controlled accounts and doled out under the latter’s discretion.

Commodities giant Trafigura – which secured a license to market Venezuelan oil, contacted the White House about the right to import gold as well shortly after Maduro’s January kidnapping.

It got the waiver, and has been bringing in up to 400kg worth of gold monthly (refined value: $53.5M), partnering with Venezuelan state gold producer Minerven.

But because the gold was extracted at mines forced to pay protection to local gangs, and allegedly linked to official corruption, it can’t be refined. Venezuela doesn’t get its money, and it’s not clear what will happen to the physical gold now stuck in US vaults.

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Iran war is ‘defining confrontation’ toward a genuinely multipolar world order: Mohammad Marandi

“If the United States fails – and it will – it will be a diminished power. It won’t collapse or go away, but it will be diminished. And the rise of a multipolar world will be strengthened; it will benefit enormously,” the prolific political analyst told Sputnik on the sidelines of the Valdai Discussion Club forum.

A victory against Iran would put Washington in “a much stronger position to maintain control over the global order,” Marandi explained.

The attack on Iran was an attack on the BRICS bloc, “because Iran symbolizes defiance against a cruel order that allows genocide in Gaza, that can kidnap presidents as in Venezuela, that can threaten to strangle Cuba and obliterate Iran.”

🔊“Any failure” on Iran’s part in this war “would create much greater momentum for the United States to crush and manage adversaries…So this confrontation is central to the establishment of a new world order – it’s the testing ground for whether multipolarity can actually hold,” the Tehran University professor said.

Asked to comment on the prospects for a new peace deal Dr. Marandi expressed skepticism that an agreement could materialize, “because the fundamental problem is not the mediator – it’s Washington’s unwillingness to abide by what it signs.”

Iran’s terms haven’t changed, and are the same as they were in the Memorandum of Understanding the US committed to and signed in June, but then violated. Iran will not “give any new concessions to the Untied States,” the professor assured.

“At the end of the day, the question is: will the United States implement and carry out its obligations? I don’t see any sign of that now,” Marandi said, predicting “further confrontation” and continued US aggression.

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The Israeli regime’s prime minister Bloody Bibi flew to the United Arab Emirates on Sunday in a desperate bid to persuade President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to publicly reject reports that Abu Dhabi had warned the Zionist regime in advance of the Palestinian resistance’s historic Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, 2023. (Imagine a writhing nest of cutworms). Everyone is denying everything.

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Last night the Russian Armed Forces carried out a mass strike using ground-based precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles against logistics centers, port and transport infrastructure facilities, and sea vessels used in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

As a result of the strike, the following were hit:

in Kiev:
➡️a locomotive depot where a warehouse for ground-based cruise missiles FP-5 “Flamingo” and their components was set up;

➡️the “Bimobile” data processing center, one of the main points for internet traffic exchange, ensuring the stability of information transmission, including intelligence, in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces;

➡️the “Parkovy” data processing center – which provided data processing for state and commercial services, including in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces;

➡️in Kiev region – the “Belogorodka” warehouse terminal, where the production and storage of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles took place;

in Odessa region
➡️the “Usatovo” electrical substation, supplying electricity to Ukrainian port infrastructure facilities;

➡️a workshop for the production of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles in the settlement of Velykodolynske;

➡️in Izmail port – port infrastructure facilities ensuring the unloading of military cargo;

➡️ Odessa port, a “dry cargo” type sea vessel was hit, which had delivered military property to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

➡️In addition, at sea, a “dry cargo” type sea vessel transporting military cargo to Odesa port was hit.

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A comment from FM Lavrov at his press conference on the Islamabad Memorandum (MoU), after his speech at the UNGA: pointed, scathing, directly at Trump, and quite hilarious:

We believe that the Islamabad Memorandum (https://t.me/MFARussia/30546) was, as they say, a fair deal. Since it was signed at the highest level, it was presumably done consciously. So why not return to it?

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