CALGARY — A former senior executive at agricultural giant Cargill has offered a rare inside look at how that company operated in Venezuela under former president Nicolas Maduro’s regime.
Jeff Kazin, who according to his LinkedIn page served as vice-president of trading, procurement, and risk for Cargill from 2009 to 2022, described operating in a country devastated by a decades-long kleptocracy where bribery, government seizures, and widespread theft were commonplace.
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That Tim Walz is abandoning his reelection campaign for Minnesota governor amid a maddening multibillion-dollar welfare fraud scandal should serve as a big reminder: Democrats are robbing you every day and hardly even trying to hide it.
Recall Walz as the stereotypical self-abasing Democrat white male, presumably heterosexual, who was inexplicably chosen to be Kamala Harris’ running mate in the 2024 election. His stint in that role was the equivalent of a 300-pound belly flop into a pool full of sand, with memorable moments like when he said he rode his bicycle as a child and was “proud of that service” or otherwise was proven to have lied when he referred to “the weapons of war that I carried in war.” (He never saw combat.)
At Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland, Oregon, tens of thousands of people crowded around a massive Douglas fir tree decked with lights. Waiting for the carnage to begin was Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a Somali ‘child’ refugee, who was dreaming of killing them all.
In 2010, Mohamud had urged a friend of his traveling to Mecca to pray “that I will be a martyr in the highest chambers of paradise.” He planned to attack Americans “in their own element with their families celebrating the holidays.” And Christmas was the perfect time of the year to do it.
Some Canadian Jews refuse to refer to themselves as Zionists, but it’s not because they don’t support the right of self-determination for Jews and the existence of a Jewish state, according to a newly published study. It’s largely due to a perceived negative connotation associated with the term, notably since the Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attacks in Israel by Hamas.
Just 24 hours after New York City’s first Muslim mayor, Democrat-Socialist Zohran Mamdani, took office — and just twenty-four years after Muslim terrorists murdered nearly 3,000 New Yorkers in the 9/11 attack that destroyed New York City’s Twin Towers — Kathy Hochul, the Empire State’s Democrat governor, ordered One World Trade Center, built at Ground Zero, to be lit in Islamic green to celebrate Muslim American Heritage Month.
On New Year’s Day 2016, the world woke up to news that the night before around a thousand migrants had swarmed Cologne’s city centre and sexually assaulted hundreds of women. As the horrifying truth of what occurred that evening slowly began to emerge over the course of the following week, people both in Germany and beyond responded with shock. A decade on, it is now clear that the Cologne sex attacks were a pivotal moment in Europe’s history.
Aldrich Ames, the most murderous turncoat in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency, whose betrayal in working for the Soviet Union went undetected for almost a decade, died on Monday.
He was 84 and had been a federal prisoner, serving life without parole, since 1994.
The death was recorded in the federal Bureau of Prisons inmate database. The entry did not cite a cause or say where he died.
The son of an alcoholic C.I.A. officer, Mr. Ames failed upward through the agency ranks for 17 years until he attained a headquarters post of extraordinary sensitivity.
OTTAWA — As 2026 starts with high-consequence geopolitical events in Venezuela and Iran, Canada continues to present itself to the world as stable, prosperous, and benign. Yet the defining lesson of this past year is that our perceived strength is increasingly an illusion — a façade sustained by political denial, regulatory weakness, and the monetization of risk.
Across multiple fronts — land ownership, real estate, immigration, organized crime, and national security — the same pattern has repeated itself. Warnings were issued. Evidence accumulated. And Ottawa largely chose inaction.
New York City’s new renters tsar wasted no time in outraging locals for vowing to make life harder for whites in the Big Apple over their role in ‘racist gentrification.’
But Cea Weaver has kept strangely quiet about her own mother – a white professor who owns a gorgeous $1.4 million home in America’s fastest gentrifying city, where longtime black residents are quickly being priced out.
The hardline leftist’s mother Celia Applegate, a professor German Studies at prestigious Vanderbilt University, resides at a pretty, roomy 1930s Craftsman home in one of Nashville’s leafiest neighborhoods.
Mayor Zohran Kuame Mamdani @MayorNYC, we regret to inform you that, as per Cea Weaver, your newly appointed Director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants @NYCMOPT, your multi-millionaire mother, @MiraPagliNair, must relinquish ownership of your family’s luxury gated compound.… pic.twitter.com/ZeAeGvvb29
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) January 5, 2026
The role assigned to ‘trusted flaggers’ under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) has been a target for criticism from Republican lawmakers in Washington, who have argued that the legislation risks making Europeans and, more specifically, European governments the arbiters of what even Americans can and cannot say online. The DSA requires online platforms, like Facebook or X or TikTok, to maintain “notice and action” mechanisms that allow “individuals and entities” in the EU to flag content for suppression, and it empowers EU member state governments to appoint organizations whose notices the platforms are required to give priority treatment. These are the ‘trusted flaggers.’
A sitting Member of Parliament (MP) should not be serving a foreign government. That principle ought to be uncontroversial in a parliamentary democracy.
Yet it is now being tested by Chrystia Freeland’s decision to accept an advisory role with the Ukrainian government while continuing to hold a seat in Canada’s House of Commons.
It’s so shady but so normal for the Liberal Party.
More … Canada co-signs pledge to secure Ukraine under future peace deal
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The U.S. raid-and-capture operation in Venezuela that ended the rule of Nicolás Maduro and upended power politics in the Western Hemisphere was unusually complicated. The motivations behind it were perhaps even more complex – and so are the lessons that the Delta Force blitz provide for Americans and for governments across the globe.
Here are some of the important political currents running beneath the surface of the astonishing episode, which has provided a template for evaluating the early 21st-century Trump Corollary to the early 19th-century Monroe Doctrine – two policies that have no legal basis but still establish distinct American spheres of influence and behaviour and enforce them …
US President Donald Trump has been discussing “a range of options” to acquire Greenland, including use of the military, the White House said.
In a statement, the White House told the BBC that acquiring Greenland was a “national security priority”.
It comes after Trump repeated over the weekend that the US “needed” Greenland – a semi-autonomous region of fellow Nato member Denmark – for security reasons.
🚨 JUST IN: Denmark is PANICKING after President Trump insisted the US NEEDS Greenland, and Denmark isn’t treating it properly
“We need Greenland! For national security.”
“You know what Denmark did to ‘boost security?!’ Added ONE MORE DOG SLED! It’s true!” 😭
“Greenland is… pic.twitter.com/t7lijNpX4J
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 5, 2026
Update: Rubio Tells Lawmakers Trump Wants to Buy Greenland
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has told lawmakers that President Trump plans to buy Greenland rather than invade it, while Mr. Trump has asked aides to give him an updated plan for acquiring the territory, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.
Mr. Rubio made his remarks in a briefing on Monday with lawmakers from the main armed services and foreign policy committees in both chambers of Congress. The same day, Mr. Trump told aides to deliver an updated plan.
Donald Trump said the Venezuelan oil industry could be booming again in 18 months. Here in Canada, we might have finished the first round of consultations on a new pipeline, but we won’t have concluded the court challenges to it.
This is the dilemma Canada is facing: We are still moving at Ottawa speed, meaning slow, while the Americans are talking about a breakneck pace in restoring Venezuela’s oil industry.
Carney has not changed his spots.
Venezuela: Trump announces plan to get up to 50M oil barrels
US President Donald Trump has announced that “interim authorities in Venezuela will be turning over” between 30 to 50 million barrels of sanctioned oil to the US.
“This oil will be sold at its market price, and that money will be controlled by me, as president of the United States of America, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States!”
Please enjoy my new short film, titled Libs Gone Wild, Uncensored.
The real title should be Liberal Women Lose Their Minds for Two Minutes, but I had to shorten it. pic.twitter.com/JzTKrg00EE
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) January 6, 2026
