Maduro talks, the US acts.

Under the extreme pressure of the US authorities and military, Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro makes bombastic speeches every day, is trying to unite his broken ‘Bolivarian’ Republic and mobilize his military against what he expects is an imminent attack/invasion of the US forces besieging him.

On the US side, very little is being said, but a lot of activity can be seen.

Watch: Strike on alleged Venezuelan drug boat.

Drone footage of an American strike on a Venezuelan Cartel illegally approaching the United States

Say what you want about President Trump but he knows how to deal with small boats that shouldn’t be here pic.twitter.com/GP1LDZHxRU

— Basil the Great (@Basil_TGMD) September 3, 2025

After an alleged Venezuelan drug boat was pulverized by an airstrike on September 1st, marines from the destroyer USS Jason Dunham boarded and seized a Venezuelan boat on Friday (12).

Described as fishing vessel, it was the object of an inspection related to suspected drug trafficking. No drugs were reportedly found, and the action has been condemned by Venezuela as an act of ‘piracy’ and a violation of sovereignty.

US troops seen SEIZING Venezuelan fishing boat in exclusive economic zone — FIRST visuals

Their craft pulls alongside as they approach the fishermen

American warship USS Jason Dunham visible in background https://t.co/4f5Z9KfGpL pic.twitter.com/qFzoDlDWrE

— RT (@RT_com) September 13, 2025

ABC News reported:

“The Venezuelan government accused U.S. personnel of boarding and occupying a civilian fishing boat on Friday, in the latest example of tensions as the U.S. carries out ‘counter narco-terror operations’ in the Caribbean.

A U.S. official told ABC News that Coast Guard personnel stationed aboard the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Jason Dunham searched the fishing boat for drugs following a tip but did not locate any contraband.

Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry office claimed Saturday that the U.S. Navy deployed ‘eighteen personnel with long-range weapons who boarded and occupied’ the Venezuelan fishing vessel in waters within Venezuela’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). ‘This operation lacks any strategic proportionality and constitutes a direct provocation through the illegal use of excessive military means’, the foreign ministry said in a statement.

A U.S. official with knowledge of the incident confirmed to ABC News that the Jason Dunham received information to board the Venezuelan small craft to see if it was carrying drugs.”

While that was going on, stealth F-35 fighter jets are en route to Puerto Rico, and were spotted over Florida.

The modern Jets will support the operations against the drug cartels.

Read more:

Venezuela’s Embattled Maduro Deploys 25k Troops to Coastal Areas to ‘Combat Drug Traffickers’, as US Forces Up the Pressure, Train Amphibious Landings in Puerto Rico (VIDEOS)

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Over a million people took to the streets of London yesterday to demand freedom of speech and an end to the unchecked mass migration – adding even more pressure on embattled British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

In his 13 months in office, Starmer has gone from one crisis to another – and now a ‘perfect storm’ has formed with pressure from the opposition, the media and even inside his party.

Today, we learned that ‘Starmer appointed Mandelson without proper checks’, and that ‘Labour peer [was] appointed on back of flimsy two-page dossier and light questioning’.

The Telegraph reported:

“Downing Street confirmed the Labour grandee’s elevation to the role before formal security checks on him had begun, The Telegraph has established.

At the time of the announcement in December, Lord Mandelson had only been subject to light questioning on his relationship with the late financier and convicted pedophile.

Prior to the announcement, the Prime Minister was handed a two-page dossier detailing publicly available information about his links to Epstein by the Cabinet Office’s ethics team.”

Sarmer’s aide Morgan McSweeney emailed Mandelson with three questions on behalf of Starmer relating to Epstein.

“His answers appeared to satisfy the Prime Minister and Lord Mandelson was then unveiled by Sir Keir as the incoming ambassador to the US last year.

The formal vetting process carried out by the Foreign Office, which included an in-person interview, only began after the appointment was made public.”

We also learned today that ‘Starmer cried: ‘You’re supposed to be protecting me’. The showdown between PM and key aide that’s the talk of Westminster’.

Daily Mail reported:

“’You are supposed to protect me from things like this!’ a furious Sir Keir Starmer is said to have bellowed at Morgan McSweeney, the man dubbed The Real Deputy Prime Minister.

‘That’s exactly what I was trying to do!’ Mr. McSweeney roared back.”

This happened after Starmer was harshly criticized in the House of Commons over Peter Mandelson’s links to Epstein.

“But what is not in question is that the Mandelson scandal has turned into a full-blown political crisis which could lead to the end of Starmer’s premiership.

[…] Even the previously loyal Guardian newspaper has turned on Sir Keir, writing yesterday that ‘an operation to dethrone Starmer is now under way’.

In lines which will have sent a chill down the Prime Minister’s spine, the Left-wing paper wrote: ‘The question being asked in the tea rooms and bars and corridors of Westminster is whether Starmer is up to the task of finding the solutions the country needs. And, increasingly, the conclusion reached among MPs is: “No”… the doubt has set in. Not just that Starmer has shown a lack of political judgment, ideological vision, or – especially when compared with the charisma of Nigel Farage – personality. But that he never had it in the first place’.”

Read more:

Faling British PM Keir Starmer Faces Internal Labour Party Rebellion Over Former US Ambassador Peter Mandelson’s Epstein Ties Scandal

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In Germany, free speech is under siege, and the latest victim is Björn Höcke, the chair of the Alternative for Germany (AfD)’s Thuringian state branch. Höcke, a true patriot fighting for his nation’s self-determination, achieved AfD’s inaugural first-place finish in a state election.

Höcke was slapped with fines totaling around $35,000 for simply uttering the phrase “Alles für Deutschland” – “Everything for Germany” – in public speeches.

The ruling parties in Germany have been weaponizing the judicial system against the AfD, and this latest outrageous ruling from the Federal Judicial Court seeks to silence patriots who dare to put their country first.

Björn Höcke ( AfD), the German superstar for the patriotic AfD, speaks on the ruling of the Federal Judicial Court against him, an additional massive attack on free speech in Germany.

For only stating in a public speech 2021 the wording „Alles für Deutschland“ [ Everything for… pic.twitter.com/dT4kAYJsmF

— Wolfgang Schütt (@WolfgangSchuett) September 13, 2025

Höcke’s troubles began in 2021 when he ended a rally speech in Merseburg with the words, inspiring crowds with a call to national pride. Prosecutors claimed the slogan echoes Nazi-era, leading to his first conviction and a €13,000 fine in May 2024.

He faced a second trial for a 2023 event in Gera, where he prompted the audience to complete the phrase, resulting in another €16,900 penalty.

The slogan “Alles für Deutschland,” however, has deep roots in German history. Originating in the 16th century, it became a rallying cry in the 19th century for national unity during the Unification Movement.

King Ludwig I of Bavaria famously used it in an 1848 proclamation, declaring “Everything for my people! Everything for Germany!” to inspire his people during revolutionary times.

The Nazis later co-opted the phrase as the paramilitary SA Storm Division’s motto, engraving it on daggers and belts, which is the basis for the judicial ruling against Höcke, despite the fact that Social Democrat and Christian freedom fighters were using the slogan in opposition to the Nazi Party.

Post-World War II, during the Marshall Plan era, the slogan returned to symbolize dedication to national recovery amid economic revival.

Yet, the slogan gradually became restricted under laws against unconstitutional symbols. These laws have been slowly weaponized to wage lawfare against opposition figures like Höcke.

Germany’s anti-free speech laws stifle debate in ways unimaginable under our First Amendment. While U.S. populists can proudly say “Make America Great Again” without fear, Germans like Höcke are fined for expressing their love for their nation.

Höcke is not backing down and has offered a powerful message to the people of Germany: “We want a free world, and we want to move into the future as free people. And arguing for it, fighting for it, and sometimes even suffering for it, is worth it, despite everything.”

Höcke vows to fight on for a sovereign and free Germany. His supporters now chant “Alles für Höcke!” in defiance of the globalist regime that wants to stomp out the free expression of the German people.

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Charlie Kirk, one of the most prominent conservative voices in America, was assassinated on September 10 while delivering a speech to students. 

He was a husband, a young father, and the founder of the largest conservative student organization in the nation. 

His murder should have been met with silence, mourning, or at the very least human decency. Instead, it was met with cruelty.

Only days after Kirk’s assassination, Jasmine Frye—a staffer tied to Virginia’s Democrat gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger—took to social media to celebrate his death. 

“F around and find out,” she wrote. “His entire brand was hate and violence. You attract what you preach.” 

These are not the words of an anonymous agitator. Frye works inside Virginia politics, a state with national attention and one of the most competitive races in the country. 

Spanberger is campaigning to govern more than 8.5 million people. 

Yet her campaign has not condemned Frye’s remarks. Not a single word of disavowal. And in a moment like this, silence is not neutrality—it is complicity.

The claim that Kirk somehow “attracted” violence is false. 

He was targeted for doing what he had done thousands of times before: speaking to young people on a college campus. 

He was killed because he gave students an alternative to progressive ideology. 

His so-called “brand,” as Frye dismissively labeled it, was built on empowering students, defending constitutional freedoms, and challenging institutional leftism. To suggest that such work makes someone deserving of assassination is to endorse political violence.

This is not an isolated case. We are watching a pattern develop where left-wing activists and even political staffers openly justify violence if the victims are conservative. 

Conservative speakers are shouted down and physically assaulted at universities. Republican campaign workers have been harassed in public spaces. 

Supreme Court justices have faced threats outside their homes. And now, in the aftermath of an assassination, a government-affiliated staffer mocks the victim and shifts blame onto him.

The accusation that Kirk “preached violence” collapses under scrutiny. 

His last tour, the one cut short by his assassination, was called the American Comeback Tour—a campaign centered on debate, outreach, and rebuilding American values.

Frye’s remarks go beyond poor judgment. They reduce a man’s life and death to a partisan punchline, erasing the reality that Kirk was a husband, a father, and a national leader with millions of supporters. 

When assassination becomes fodder for political mockery, civil society fractures. A democracy that tolerates the celebration of political murder cannot sustain itself.

If the murder of a political leader and young father cannot unite Americans in basic decency, then the question becomes unavoidable: what can?

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The conservative Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is continuing to make gains across the country.

The AfD secured nearly 15 percent of the vote in North Rhine-Westphalia, placing third, according to preliminary results reported by Politico.

That marks a sharp rise from the 5.1 percent it received in the state’s last municipal elections five years ago.

“A huge success: According to initial projections, the AfD’s result in NRW has tripled,” AfD leader Alice Weidel wrote on the X platform.

”Heartfelt thanks to all campaigners and to our voters!”

Ein riesiger Erfolg: Nach ersten Prognosen hat sich das Ergebnis der AfD in NRW verdreifacht. Herzlichen Dank an alle Wahlkämpfer und an unsere Wähler! pic.twitter.com/5eim5eDxfP

— Alice Weidel (@Alice_Weidel) September 14, 2025

In Gelsenkirchen, once a hub of heavy industry, the AfD’s candidate is expected to advance to a mayoral runoff against a center-left rival.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) maintained a clear lead, winning about 33 percent of the vote.

Its coalition partner, the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) — historically dominant in the region’s industrial cities — followed with roughly 22 percent.

Both parties’ tallies were slightly lower than in the previous municipal vote.

In February’s federal election, the AfD captured 20.6 percent of the vote, finishing second overall and achieving the strongest showing ever for a far-right party in postwar Germany.

Its performance was driven by sweeping victories across nearly all of the former East German states.

Since then, support for the AfD has continued to grow, even as Germany’s left-wing intelligence agencies classify it as an extremist organization.

Meanwhile, the ruling parties have even threatened to ban the party altogether on the grounds that it represents a threat to German democracy!

Last month, a national poll found that the AfD’s overall support had surged to some 26 percent, which would make it the most popular party in Germany and give it the power to potentially form the next government.

BREAKING: For the first time ever:

The FPO are polling 1st in Austria
The RN Party is polling 1st in France
The AfD are polling 1st in Germany
Reform UK are polling 1st in Britain

Europeans are voting for the most right-wing party available. pic.twitter.com/eE1xPJ1SPc

— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) August 12, 2025

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