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atomheartbevo

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  1. I've pretty much always trusted OSINTTechnical - when mistakes were made, they were corrected. That account does a lot of geo location stuff as well, and they would be looking out for any fakes or anything.

    This still doesn't feel like the full-blown attack that would precede an invasion.

  2. President of Colombia passing along info, machine-translated

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    This is the official statement from the Government of Venezuela.

    OFFICIAL STATEMENT

    BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA

    The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela rejects, repudiates, and denounces before the international community the extremely grave military aggression perpetrated by the current Government of the United States of America against Venezuelan territory and population in the civilian and military locations of the city of Caracas, capital of the Republic, and the states of Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira. This act constitutes a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter, particularly its Articles 1 and 2, which enshrine respect for sovereignty, the legal equality of States, and the prohibition on the use of force. Such aggression threatens international peace and stability, specifically in Latin America and the Caribbean, and places the lives of millions of people in grave danger.

    The objective of this attack is none other than to seize Venezuela's strategic resources, particularly its oil and minerals, attempting to break the Nation's political independence by force. They will not succeed. After more than two hundred years of independence, the people and their legitimate Government remain steadfast in defense of sovereignty and the inalienable right to decide their own destiny. The attempt to impose a colonial war to destroy the republican form of government and force a "regime change," in alliance with the fascist oligarchy, will fail just like all previous attempts.

    Since 1811, Venezuela has confronted and defeated empires. When foreign powers bombarded our coasts in 1902, President Cipriano Castro proclaimed: "The insolent boot of the foreigner has profaned the sacred soil of the Fatherland." Today, with the spirit of Bolívar, Miranda, and our liberators, the Venezuelan people rise once again to defend their independence against imperialist aggression.

    People to the streets

    The Bolivarian Government calls on all social and political forces in the country to activate mobilization plans and repudiate this imperialist attack. The people of Venezuela and its Bolivarian National Armed Forces, in perfect popular-military-police fusion, are deployed to guarantee sovereignty and peace. Simultaneously, the Bolivarian Diplomacy of Peace will raise the corresponding complaints before the United Nations Security Council, the Secretary-General of that organization, CELAC, and the Non-Aligned Movement, demanding condemnation and accountability from the United States Government.

    President Nicolás Maduro has ordered all national defense plans to be implemented at the appropriate time and circumstances, in strict adherence to the provisions of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Organic Law on States of Exception, and the Organic Law on National Security.

    In this regard, President Nicolás Maduro has signed and ordered the implementation of the Decree declaring a State of External Commotion throughout the national territory, to protect the rights of the population, the full functioning of republican institutions, and to immediately proceed to armed struggle. The entire country must mobilize to defeat this imperialist aggression.

    Likewise, he has ordered the immediate deployment of the Command for the Comprehensive Defense of the Nation and the Comprehensive Defense Directorate Bodies in all states and municipalities of the country.

    In strict adherence to Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, Venezuela reserves the right to exercise legitimate defense to protect its people, its territory, and its independence. We call on the peoples and governments of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the world to mobilize in active solidarity against this imperialist aggression.

    As Supreme Commander Hugo Chávez Frías stated, "in the face of any circumstance of new difficulties, no matter how great, the response of all and all patriots... is unity, struggle, battle, and victory."

    Caracas, January 3, 2025

  3. I trust Reuters and the AP to try and get it right and get contacts within Venezeula to verify stuff.

    As an example of where misinformation could come in, this organization has been caught pushing misinformation before (they publish plenty of good/exclusive stuff, but their background is murky).

  4. 4 hours ago, lilMAC25 said:

    That’s so white people activity that it fucking offends me (and I’m far and away the whitest person on this board).

    2 hours ago, El Squared said:

    Cosplay steeplechase with an equine dildo….I guess this is what happens to the “furrys” when they get to college. Hope she cleans her litter box and stable..How fucking pathetic, and Ithought quidditch was bad….

    Hey now, UT was world (or maybe national) quidditch champions for quite a few years.

  5. ·

    Edited by atomheartbevo

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    AP has photographs

    At least 7 explosions and low-flying aircraft are heard in Venezuela's Caracas | AP News

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    Pedestrians running after hearing explosions.

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    La Carlota airport

    At least seven explosions and low-flying aircraft were heard around 2 a.m. local time Saturday in Venezuela’s capital, Caracas.

    It was not immediately clear what was behind the explosions. Venezuela’s government, the Pentagon and White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

    Smoke could be seen rising from the hangar of a military base in Caracas. Another military installation in the capital was without power.

    People in various neighborhoods rushed to the streets. Some could be seen in the distance from various areas of Caracas.

    “The whole ground shook. This is horrible. We heard explosions and planes,” said Carmen Hidalgo, a 21-year-old office worker, her voice trembling. She was walking briskly with two relatives, returning from a birthday party. “We felt like the air was hitting us.”

    Venezuelan state television did not interrupt its programming and aired a report on Venezuelan music and art.

    That just does not seem like much of an attack to me. This whole thing is fucking weird, @RPM you're up late posting about it, you feel this is the real deal?

  6. I'm not going to repost the DT stuff here, but there's a chance we are going at Venezuela hard right now.

    There's also a chance somebody released a bunch of altered/AI videos on the internet and fooled some decent media organizations.

  7. ·

    Edited by atomheartbevo

    I'm still like 50/50 that this is real vs somebody releasing a bunch of AI/altered stuff out there on the internet.

    If I were releasing AI videos of fake attacks on Caracas, last weekend or this weekend would have been the best timing, because a lot of people are on vacation. Last weekend, you might have had media crews on location in various capitals preparing for various New Year's celebrations, but they would have been breaking things down and getting back home/going on vacation yesterday and today.

    Obviously, your Caracas citizens could verify this with cell phone footage, which that's all we've seen, but I want to see a lot more of it from different locations before I'm ready to buy it. Or Whiskey Pete or Trump out there saying "hell yeah we're going to war".

  8. 5 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

    So is Trump going to invoke he Monroe Doctrine now and the U.S. military attack the U.S. military?

    I keep thinking this has to be somebody that took a few videos and added some explosions and turned them loose on the internet, but it seems like more stuff is coming in. Reuters seems to believe it's real. NOEL Reports does as well.

  9. On 12/30/2025 at 9:32 AM, Brisketexan said:

    This admin just says whatever the fuck it wants, and nobody fucking calls them on it.

    If this looks like what it sounds like and we wake up tomorrow to Trump trying to justify invading Venezuela, I'm going to enjoy CBS News interviewing Cletus Kinfucker out of Backwoods, Louisiana.

  10. Always Sunny Sweet Dee GIF by It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

    Column of smoke seen, loud noises heard in Venezuelan capital | Reuters

    Jan 3 (Reuters) - Airplanes, loud noises and at least one column of smoke were being heard and seen in Venezuelan capital Caracas in the early hours of Saturday morning, according to Reuters witnesses, and the southern area of the city, near a major military base, was without electricity.

    U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly promised land operations in Venezuela, amid efforts to pressure President Nicolas Maduro to leave office, including expanded sanctions, a ramped-up U.S. military presence in the region and more than two dozen strikes on vessels allegedly involved in trafficking drugs in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea.

    The Pentagon did not immediately respond to request for comment.

  11. I'm having a hard time believing some of this, because there are claims that there are US Army helicopters flying over Caracas, and I don't buy that without

    A) a massive "shock & awe" campaign that eliminates most/all air defenses and anything larger than 7.62mm. Chinooks are not stealthy or fast, and it only takes one RPG or one Dushka to take one out.

    B) A staging area near by - if they were flying those helicopters from the US Navy ships as they were positioned recently, that's a helluva long way, and the Venezuelan military would have picked up on them long before now and be waiting for them.

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