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21 December 2025 13:37

🇿🇦 🇺🇸 Joost Strydom on X:

INTERNATIONAL FRIENDS; an Explanation of my toast, if you are not familiar with the Great Trek. My ancestors moved away from British colonial rule imposed on them towards freedom.

This is why we Orania is important to us. Freedom cannot be given or grabbed, it must be BUILT. And building something is a conscious decision.
@WietsJBuys

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21 December 2025 05:49

📝 🇺🇸 🏴‍☠️ "We're seeing literally the breakdown of the rules of law on the high seas." - Sal Mercogliano

📎 What's Going on With Shipping

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21 December 2025 05:47

📖 🚢 'Consider those big, fat, slow ships.'

📝 Excerpt from Peter Zeihan's The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization 

"Quick war story, in this case, the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s: By 1983 the conflict had reached a stalemate, inducing both countries to fling missiles at one another’s shipping in attempts to strangle their opponent economically. Altogether some three hundred vessels were struck. About fifty were disabled, and a dozen sunk.Compared to the size of global shipping at the time, it was barely a footnote.

But that handful of events nearly destroyed the
global . . . insurance sector

Imagine if a similar event were to occur today"

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20 December 2025 23:02

🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇻🇪 The boarding and seizing of Centuries, unlike SKIPPER, will raise issues regarding the legality and authoriity for the U.S. boarding. - Sal Mercogliano

MT Centuries IMO: 9206310 is Panama-flagged, Hong Kong-owned, and does not have any sanctions from OFAC or any other country.

She has moved sanctioned cargo in the past and has conducted questionable ship-to-ship transfers at sea.

The ship came in from Singapore and started spoofing AIS on 24 Nov off the northern coast of Brazil.

The ship loaded 1.7 M bbls of Merey crude at the Jose Terminal on Dec 9 which is in violation of U.S. sanctions.

CENTURIES appears to have:
▶️ Valid registry: Panama
▶️Not clear insurance: American Steamship Owners Mutual P&I up to Nov 2024
▶️Classification: Overseas Marine

Since the ship has valid registration, Art 110 (d) of UNCLOS does not apply.

What we dont know is if the US obtained permission from Panama to board the ship and potentially seize the ship.

There are a lot of questions as the U.S. expands this program against tankers servicing Venezuela.

📎 Sal Mercogliano

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20 December 2025 22:32

🇺🇸 🇻🇪 🇨🇳 In a pre-dawn action early this morning on Dec. 20, the US Coast Guard with the support of the Department of War apprehended an oil tanker that was last docked in Venezuela.

📎 Secretary Kristi Noem

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20 December 2025 20:46

🇺🇸🇵🇸⚡️ — The U.S. has drafted a 32-page Gaza reconstruction plan dubbed “Project Sunrise,” aimed at rebuilding the devastated territory into a high-tech coastal metropolis, according to WSJ.

➡️ The plan was developed over the past 45 days by a team led by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, with involvement from senior White House aide Josh Gruenbaum, input from Israeli officials, and consultations with private contractors. The proposal was compiled as a “sensitive but unclassified” PowerPoint presentation.

➡️ The blueprint envisions transforming Gaza from “tents to penthouses” and “poverty to prosperity,” but leaves major gaps: it does not say where Gaza’s roughly 2 million displaced residents would live during reconstruction, does not identify specific funding countries or companies, and assumes a stable post-war political and security environment that U.S. officials acknowledge may never materialize.

➡️ The total projected cost is $112.1 billion over 10 years. The U.S. would act as an “anchor” backer, covering about 20% of the cost through grants and debt guarantees.

➡️ U.S. officials told WSJ that the plan has already been shown to prospective donors, including wealthy Gulf states, Turkey, and Egypt.

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20 December 2025 19:32

🏴‍☠️ 🇺🇸 🇻🇪 The "Blockade" [or Embargo] of Venezuela | John Paul Jones Edition

In this episode, Sal Mercogliano — a maritime historian at Campbell University and former merchant mariner — discusses President Donald Trump's announcement of a "Blockade" of Venezuela and what it means for shipping.

📎 What's Going on With Shipping?

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20 December 2025 19:23

🛰 🌏 🏴‍☠️ "You might think that in a time of satellite megaconstellations all of the Earth's surface would be imaged regularly, & if something big happened, we'd see it.

⬛️ Well, you'd be wrong...

🔶️ The truth is that most well-known EO satellites don't image areas of the ocean away from land.

🔶️ It is surprisingly difficult to get an exact answer for 'why' here. I've heard different combinations of power-saving, downlink limitations, & land-optimized instrumentation.

🔶️ It's worth noting here, that I am talking about satellites with a high enough resolution to monitor human activity on the open ocean (eg. vessels), not lower resolution sats that monitor sea state or help with weather forecasting (eg. Sentinel-3).

🔶️ The coverage of major EO satellite platforms used by OSINT researchers, including Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Landsat can be seen below.

🔶️ The (non-open-source) PlanetScope constellation of Dove/SuperDove satellites, is also frequently used by OSINT researchers and covers coastal areas, the Mediterranean, Persian Gulf, and South China Sea. Govt. clients may be able to access more areas.

🔶️ Outside of these platforms (and the areas they cover), your only option would be to task a high-resolution optical or SAR satellite to image an area of the ocean at an extremely high cost. Moreover, you would need forewarning about where/when something was about to happen.

🔶️ Notably, the same trade-offs (likely) exist for current generation spy satellites, in that high resolution = narrow field of view, and thus necessitates foreknowledge when combined with the limitations imposed by orbital mechanics.

🔶️ The end result of this is that >50% of the Earth's surface is simply unmonitored in any useful way. A ship with its AIS transponder off, or spoofed, can simply disappear. Illegal cargos can be traded, sanctions can be dodged, and fisheries plundered."

📎 Michael Cruickshank

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20 December 2025 19:20

🚢 🌍 🏴‍☠️ Taken Vessels | Tanker Trackers

"This is a publicly-accessible page showing the latest whereabouts of vessels that are being held by the Iranians and the Houthis. We are doing this for the benefit of the crews' families as well as stakeholders."

https://tankertrackers.com/report/taken

📎 Tanker Trackers

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20 December 2025 19:09

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 At least 10th tanker attacked in the Mediterranean in the past year

On December 19th, Oman-flagged sanctioned Crude Oil Tanker MT QENDIL (IMO 9310525) was attacked in the Mediterranean with multiple drones.

MT QENDIL is listed under EU/UK sanctions and associated with Russia’s shadow fleet.

QENDIL departed the Gulf of Kutch, India on 30 Nov after discharging. India continues to import Russian crude oil that is subject to Western sanctions.

Ukrainian media, including RBC-Ukraine, reported that the vessel was struck by drones in neutral Mediterranean waters by Ukraine’s SBU.

⚡️ Interesting difference between this and previous attacks is the use of UAV rather than limpet mine at such range. Also that it dropped what appears to be a small munition (grenade or similar). Which also suggests the drone was small and did not fly from Ukraine

📎 Martin Kelly

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20 December 2025 18:48

🇺🇸📁⁉️ — In addition to the EFTA00000468 file, which included a picture of Trump, at least 18 other documents and files were found to have been removed overnight by the Department of Justice from the Epstein files released yesterday.

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20 December 2025 17:26

🏹 🇵🇬 Man dodges arrows during inter-tribal shootout in Papua New Guinea.

📎 Clash Report

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20 December 2025 16:33

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇷 Netanyahu plans to brief Trump on possible new Iran strikes

Israeli officials believe Iran is expanding its ballistic missile program. They are preparing to make the case during an upcoming meeting with Trump that it poses a new threat.

Israeli officials also are concerned that Iran is reconstituting nuclear enrichment sites the U.S. bombed in June, the sources said. But, they added, the officials view Iran’s efforts to rebuild facilities where they produce the ballistic missiles and to repair its crippled air defense systems as more immediate concerns.

Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are expected to meet later this month in Florida at the president’s Mar a Lago estate. At that meeting, the sources said, Netanyahu is expected to make the case to Trump that Iran’s expansion of its ballistic missile program poses a threat that could necessitate swift action.

They said part of his argument is expected to be that Iran’s actions present perils not only to Israel but also to the broader region, including U.S. interests. The Israeli leader is expected to present Trump with options for the U.S. to join or assist in any new military operations, the sources said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/netanyahu-plans-brief-trump-possible-new-iran-strikes-rcna250112

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20 December 2025 12:01

📢 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 Chinese Foreign Ministry on X:

"The U.S.’s massive arms sales to China’s Taiwan region grossly interfere in China’s internal affairs, undermine China’s sovereignty, security and territorial integrity, disrupt peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, and send a seriously wrong message to “Taiwan independence” separatist forces and others."

"China strongly deplores and firmly opposes this. No one or force should underestimate the strong will and capability of the Chinese government and people to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity."

"The real threat to peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait is the separatist activities of the Lai Ching-te authorities and external interference. The so-called “assistance in response to threat” to Taiwan will only embolden “Taiwan independence” separatists, put the people in Taiwan on a “powder keg,” push the Taiwan Strait towards danger, and inevitably increase the risk of China-U.S. conflict and confrontation."

📎 Chinese Embassy in US

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20 December 2025 01:55

🇺🇸⚡️- Republican Congressman Thomas Massie, the creator of the Epstein Transparency Act, has issued a warning to leaders of the DOJ and FBI, stating that they have violated the prohibited grounds for withholding information for not releasing the entirety of the Epstein files, which carries a potential punishment of up to 20 years in prison.

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21 December 2025 12:42

What is Patriot Front's goal?

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21 December 2025 05:47

For future reference if/when Russian, Chinese tankers are impounded.

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21 December 2025 04:18

🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇻🇪 The U.S. Seized a Second Tanker from Venezuela | Sanctioned Oil in the Crosshairs

🚢 In this episode, Sal Mercogliano — a maritime historian at Campbell University and former merchant mariner — discusses the United States seizure of the MT Centuries off the coast of Venezuela on December 20, 2035

📎 Sal Mercogliano

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20 December 2025 22:44

🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇻🇪 The vessel, which was flying a Panamanian flag, was not on a list of tankers under U.S. sanctions.

🛢 But the vessel involved in the recent boarding, called the Centuries, is not on a list of tankers under U.S. sanctions that is publicly maintained by the Treasury Department. Industry sources said the cargo belongs to an established China-based oil trader with a history of taking Venezuelan crude oil to Chinese refineries.

🇵🇦 International law states a ship may be boarded if there are reasonable grounds to believe it is not legitimately registered to the state whose flag it is flying. The U.S. official said that the Coast Guard was trying to determine if the tanker’s Panama registration was valid.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/us-coast-guard-venezuela-oil-tanker.html

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20 December 2025 21:20

🇺🇸 🇻🇪 🇨🇳 The U.S. Coast Guard, with assistance from Navy, interdicted and seized the Panamanian-flagged, Chinese-owned sanctioned crude oil supertanker M/T CENTURIES, today in the Southern Caribbean Sea, off the coast of Venezuela, as the Trump Administration escalates its campaign of pressure against the the Government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, officials told the Wall Street Journal.

Previous reports that the ship was the Comoros Islands-flagged, Indian-owned tanker M/T DIANCHI, appear to have been false, though the vessel does remain a target of sanctions and is currently operating off the coast of Venezuela.

📎 OSINTdefender

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20 December 2025 20:32

🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Trump: "We have to be unified. China is unified because they have one vote -- that's President Xi. He says 'do it' and that's the end of that. We have a different system."

📎 unusual_whales

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20 December 2025 19:23

🛰 🌏 🏴‍☠️ "It never ceases to amaze me how much you can get away with on the open ocean.

🔶️ Beyond the fascinating fact that there are still places one can hide from a government in 2024, better global coverage of the kind of data needed to fill in the black areas of the map, would certainly be in the public interest.

🔶️ 'Here There Be Monsters' is a choice, and better (or cheaper) data would help OSINT investigators, researchers, environmental advocates, and public agencies in poorer countries, track and understand the problems caused by these dark vessels."

📎 Michael Cruickshank

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20 December 2025 19:22

🚢 🇻🇪 The current tanker AIS picture off Venezuela is pure fiction.

Massive spoofing and misidentification are taking place.

📎 Sal Mercogliano

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20 December 2025 19:12

🇷🇺 🇹🇷 🇺🇦 Analysis | Russia struck two Turkish-operated vessels near Odesa and framed the attacks as intentional warnings to Kyiv. Turkey responded by shooting down a Russian reconnaissance drone over the Black Sea.

Turkey is one of the few NATO states still providing Russia commercial and diplomatic space. Turkish ports handle oil products and dual-use components Russia struggles to source elsewhere. Turkish banks help navigate sanctions. Turkish firms keep Russian logistics chains running.

President Erdoğan publicly demanded Putin stop attacks on ports and energy infrastructure. Turkish officials warned against turning the Black Sea into a confrontation zone.

If Ankara rethinks this relationship, Russia faces slower trade, fewer loopholes, and tighter restrictions on the goods sustaining its war economy.

📎 Euromaidan Press

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20 December 2025 18:48

🇺🇸 Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie are planning to draft articles of impeachment and pursue inherent contempt against AG Pam Bondi for failing to fully release the Epstein files.

📎 AF Post

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20 December 2025 18:48

🇺🇸⚡️- File 468 has been removed from the Epstein files. It was one of the few files showing Trump’s involvement. A clear sign of a cover up.

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20 December 2025 17:07

🇺🇸 🇻🇪 🇨🇳 US interdicting sanctioned vessel off Venezuelan coast, officials say

Dec 20 (Reuters) - The United States is interdicting a sanctioned vessel off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, three U.S. officials told Reuters on Saturday.

🛢 China is the biggest buyer of Venezuelan crude, which accounts for roughly 4% of its imports, with shipments in December on track to average more than 600,000 barrels per day, analysts have said.

For now, the oil market is well supplied and there are millions of barrels of oil on tankers off the coast of China waiting to offload. If the embargo stays in place for some time, then the loss of nearly a million barrels a day of crude supply is likely to push oil prices higher

As of this week, of more than 70 oil tankers in Venezuelan waters that are part of the shadow fleet, around 38 are under sanctions by the U.S. Treasury, according to data from TankerTrackers.com. Of those, at least 15 are loaded with crude and fuel, it added.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-interdicting-sanctioned-vessel-off-venezuelan-coast-officials-say-2025-12-20/

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20 December 2025 12:56

🤖 🇨🇳 "Tech companies would be less hated if their buildings inspired awe in people". - Pablo A. Peniche

📝 factorydoge: "huawei campus btw."

📎 factorydoge

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20 December 2025 02:27

🇺🇸📁 — Newly released FBI interview notes describe the deliberate and systematic nature of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse:

➡️ The notes show he rejected victims based on race, repeatedly refusing girls he described as “Spanish or dark,” and instructed recruiters to continue finding others.

➡️ He also demanded to see identification not to avoid minors, but to confirm that the girls were under 18.

➡️ The documents describe periods when he was “running out of girls” and detail how recruiters were paid to procure victims, underscoring an organized operation built around exploitation.

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20 December 2025 01:04

🇺🇸📁 — Jeffrey Epstein eating a boob cake with the Talmud right behind him.

📝Talmud, Sefaria Sanhedrin 54b:20:

A girl who is three years and one day old, whose father arranged her betrothal, is betrothed through intercourse, as the halakhic status of intercourse with her is that of intercourse in all halakhic senses. And in a case where the childless husband of a girl three years and one day old dies, if his brother the yavam engages in intercourse with her, he acquires her as his wife; and if she is married, a man other than her husband is liable for engaging in intercourse with her due to violation of the prohibition against intercourse with a married woman.