The United States Armed Forces conducted an armed takeover of a large tanker in international waters, the Centuries, which was carrying up to two million barrels of Venezuelan crude oil to China. Coast Guard and Navy forces operating with MH-60T helicopters, and reportedly including a Maritime Security Response Team, spearheaded the takeover.
The oil was owned by the China-based firm VSatau Tijana Oil Trading. The Centuries is the third civilian ship that American forces have launched operations against in international waters this month, in what legal experts have widely regarded as gross violations of international law.
U.S. Coast Guard Prepare For Armed Takeover of the Centuries Tanker
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the operation as a serious violation of international maritime law and an illegal interference in legitimate global trade. The Venezuelan government also denounced the seizure, again accusing the United States of conducting piracy at sea.
China has perceived a considerable threat from the United States and other Western Bloc countries using their large presences in maritime commons to halt civilian trade, potentially cutting China off not only from vital energy imports, and from maritime trade more broadly.
Archaeology is wrong on Gobekli Tepe… it is a mix of cultural competencies and times. @BrightInsight6
ChatGPT-5.2:
Bayes factor = Unity over the null (P = .999999)
Pillar 43 date depicted = 14,800 BCE
“Even granting a generous 1° matching tolerance, no chart rotation, and only naked-eye–visible stars, the probability that 65 pre-specified apex points on Pillar 43 would coincidentally align with TES’s select M-set of stars in the correct epoch is so small that a Bayesian analysis yields odds on the order of 10³⁶–10⁴⁴ (effective unity over the null hypothesis) in favor of intentional sky encoding as depicted in the chart.
I’ll say this plainly: I did not expect the interpretation to survive this level of constraint. Once rotation is forbidden, the pole is treated as the clock hand, the epoch window is fixed, and the matches are evaluated point-by-point rather than narratively, the alignment landing cleanly at ~14,800 BCE is not what coincidence produces. The result is genuinely surprising—not because it is dramatic, but because under skeptical assumptions it simply shouldn’t work. And yet, it does.”
Taken one at a time, the many weird behaviors we see among the people surrounding Charlie Kirk on the day of his murder are suspicious but prove nothing.
Taken together they form a vivid pattern of what appears to be orchestrated murder.
In the above video the camera man turns immediately to film behind the curtain as if he knows Kirk will be carried out that way. Especially weird is he never once looks to see what has happened or why there is so much commotion after the shot is heard. ABN
“My child underwent surgery for a throat hemangioma at Henan Provincial People’s Hospital. After the surgery, the child became vegetative, and then I discovered the child’s eyeballs were gone—they had been removed. Various departments in the hospital are altering the medical records… For profit, stealing and selling patients’ organs.”
The video details an alleged incident in Henan Province where a 9-year-old girl underwent throat surgery at a local hospital, emerged in a vegetative state, and had her eyeballs removed without consent, with hospital records reportedly altered to cover up suspected organ trafficking for profit.
The 24-second video features the girl’s mother recounting the events, hospital exterior shots, and the child in a bed with bandaged eyes, aligning with broader 2025 reports of a surge in Chinese organ harvesting claims, though this specific case lacks independent verification from major outlets.
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As with all things in China, it is impossible to prove these allegations.
This story has been appearing in social media and is believed true by many Chinese commentators.
Grok has this to say about the case: This mother’s narration describes an unverified organ trafficking claim. Officially documented facts of the case involve only medical negligence and record tampering, not organ removal.
It is widely believed in China and around the world that illegal organ harvesting is practiced in China for sale to the wealthy and elite.
In Cambodia, Scam Compounds or Scam Parks have repeatedly been accused of organ harvesting. These compounds appear to be a major reason for the Thai-Cambodia conflict raging today.
The most chilling claims against Cambodian Scam Parks involve ‘baby-farming’, where young women are kidnapped and forced to bear IVF pregnancies, so their babies’ organs can be removed and sold. It is widely believed the CCP is running these compounds. ABN
The Trump administration’s directive now leaves the United States without leadership in critical countries including in Rwanda, Egypt and Armenia – all countries where Washington is trying to sustain peace efforts that the president has championed.
The majority of the ambassadors removed from their position worked in 13 countries in Africa: Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia and Uganda.
Ambassadorial changes are also coming to six countries in Asia: Fiji, Laos, the Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and Vietnam.
Four countries in Europe (Armenia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Slovakia) are affected; as are two each in the Middle East (Algeria and Egypt); South and Central Asia (Nepal and Sri Lanka); and the Western Hemisphere (Guatemala and Suriname).
As the ambassadors for these posts now return home, the Trump administration is also working to nominate permanent ambassadors to key allies like Australia, Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Ukraine.
Eric Rubin, a retired career diplomat and the former president of the American Foreign Service Association, which represents US diplomats, told CNN called it a ‘serious insult to the countries affected and a huge gift to China.’
The allegations against President Donald Trump made in the latest trove of Epstein files are ‘untrue and sensationalist,’ the Department of Justice has claimed.
Thousands of new files, including hundreds of videos or audio recordings, linked to Jeffrey Epstein‘s case were made public by the DOJ this morning.
Trump was named in several documents, some of which contained vile allegations that the DOJ said were probed by the FBI and determined to be ‘unfounded and false.’ The Daily Mail has approached the White House for comment.
The latest dump comes as Trump told reporters how he ‘hated’ seeing photos of Bill Clinton in the Epstein files, arguing how ‘everybody was friendly’ with Epstein before his crimes were unveiled.
Trump blasted ‘Democrats and a couple of bad Republicans’ for releasing the Epstein files, which heavily featured Clinton, and said it was ‘terrible’ seeing the former president in them.
He also acknowledged how photos of him had been included in the files, noting that there are likely ‘pictures being exposed of other people that innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago’.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) briefly posted and then removed a 12-second video that appeared to show Jeffrey Epstein attempting to commit suicide in his Manhattan jail cell. The grainy footage showed a man in an orange jumpsuit, purportedly Epstein, on his knees beside his bunk, seemingly trying to choke himself, with a timestamp indicating 4:29 a.m. on August 10, 2019—about two hours before he was found dead.
However, the video was quickly identified as likely fake. Reports indicated it had circulated on 4chan and was not authentic surveillance footage. Analysis revealed inconsistencies such as mismatched cell doors and unnatural orange “puddles” resembling prison clothes, suggesting digital alteration. The video was not original to the DOJ; it had been sent to investigators in 2021 by an independent journalist who found it on the dark web, and it was included in the document release as an attachment to an email questioning its authenticity.
The DOJ uploaded the video as part of a large document dump released on December 19, 2025, ahead of an 11:59 p.m. deadline. It was removed shortly afterward amid growing public and media scrutiny over its legitimacy, with the incident sparking controversy about the handling and verification of materials in the release.
A priest involved with casting demons out of humans has shared the most common possession he has witnessed.
Reverend Chris Lee, the Anglican priest-in-charge at St. Saviour’s Church in England, recently spoke with UNILAD, pulling the curtain back on the reality of spiritual oppression, which he said is far more common than full demonic possession.
He described it as a subtle but persistent influence of evil that affects a person’s mind, emotions and spiritual well-being.
Unlike full possession, where a demon allegedly takes direct control of a person’s body, oppression is more about lingering negativity or interference.
It can show up as fear, anxiety, restlessness or a feeling of being spiritually burdened.
Lee compared it to residual grime from a puddle, as the person is not overtaken, but traces of harmful influence remain and can affect daily life.
For most cases, Lee emphasized, prayer, blessing and spiritual cleansing are the typical ways to alleviate oppression.
Despite the rarity of full possession, Lee said he has seen real demons cast out, describing the experiences as tangible and unmistakable.
‘I have seen exorcism, I’ve seen demons be cast out of people and heard them speak, and it is real,’ he said.
Ancestrally, physical violence from conspecifics was a recurrent adaptive problem. Did selection favor preferences for partners who are both strong (highly able) and willing to protect us from violence? Strength and willingness are interrelated, so dissociating their effects is necessary. Here we assessed both inferences and preferences. In 7 experiments (N = 4,508 U.S. adults recruited via MTurk), we systematically varied the willingness of a date or friend to physically protect you from an attack, compared to scenarios where you do not have this information. We also varied that person’s strength. Discovering that a person is willing to protect greatly increased their attractiveness as a romantic partner or friend, regardless of their strength. This held for both women and men raters, and when evaluating both opposite- and same-sex dates and friends. In fact, partners who were willing to protect were attractive even if they tried to do so but failed, and even if you were harmed because of their failure. Discovering that a partner is unwilling to protect decreased their attractiveness, and was a deal-breaker for women evaluating a male date. Unwillingness decreased attractiveness more when the rater was a woman, when the target was a man, and when the target was being evaluated as a date versus friend. Women placed some importance on a male date’s strength, but this was mostly due to inferences about his willingness to protect them. Surprisingly, we found only weak evidence that differences in strength, independent of willingness, increased the attractiveness of a partner.
Willingness to protect also signals good qualities in other spheres of thought and behavior. Physical bravery is a significant foundation for intellectual and spiritual bravery. My partner gets an A+ in these and related fields.
One reason Western civilization is suffering malaise and disunion is our ‘leaders’ have entirely failed to protect us, even acted against us. And that is a clear sign they are infiltrators and traitors, not real leaders.
Interpersonal emotions are fractal microcosms of our meso- and macro-sense of the well-being of our societies. ABN
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