It’s profit not national security when your former head of security is part of the companies looking at mining in Greenland
We already have complete access to Greenland, including unfettered freedom of navigation into the Arctic.
We have a military base.
We have early warning radar systems in place that will integrate with the “dome.”
And we have allies to help defend it. We don’t need Greenland.
WELKER: Is military action on the table?
BESSENT: I believe the Europeans will understand that the best outcome is for the US to receive control of Greenland
The funds were sent to Qatar, rather than being held in US banks or sent directly to Venezuela, according to a former administration official familiar with the matter. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Newsmax Wednesday evening that the cash from the oil sales would start to flow into Venezuela as soon as Thursday. Venezuelan banks have started advertising cash, suggesting the oil proceeds have arrived in the country, two sources with knowledge of Venezuela’s financial system said.
Venezuela has been sanctioned by Western governments across the globe, essentially cut off from the global banking system for years. Its authoritarian government seized oil assets over the past decades for which foreign energy companies have demanded compensation.
President Donald Trump has complained about Venezuela “stealing” American oil assets there, but he has also said it’s important that proceeds from the oil sales directly benefit Venezuela and prevent those with claims on Venezuelan oil revenue from getting access to the money that the US is now generating from those sales.
Trump issued an executive order Friday in which he said any such attempts to put liens, garnishments or other legal judgments claiming those funds are blocked. The order said if the funds were not free from such legal entanglements it would “substantially interfere with our critical efforts to ensure economic and political stability in Venezuela.”
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A senior trader at Vitol donates more than $6 million to Trump-aligned political action committees. He secures a meeting at the White House. Weeks later, his company receives the administration's first license to purchase Venezuelan oil, a deal requiring discretionary executive approval at a moment when federal courts have already found this administration acted in bad faith, retaliated against perceived enemies, and ignored lawful process in cases from deportations to tariffs.
This is not a claim about motive or corruption in the legal sense. It is an observation about structure. When the sequence runs donor to meeting to favorable discretionary action with this kind of regularity, the burden of explanation shifts. Those defending the arrangement owe the public an account. Those questioning it are simply reading the receipts.
Defenders will argue the deal made commercial sense. Fine. But commercial sense is difficult to verify when the process is opaque, no competing bidders are disclosed, and the beneficiary happens to be funding the decision-makers. The least the public deserves is answers: Who else was considered? What criteria governed selection? Why this company, why this moment?
Absent those answers, we are left with a government that runs like a rewards program for its biggest spenders.
Donation, it turns out, has its privileges.
Van Diemen's Land was the colonial name of the island of Tasmania during the European exploration and colonisation of Australia in the 19th century. The Aboriginal-inhabited island was first visited by the Dutch ship captained by Abel Tasman in 1642, working under the sponsorship of Anthony van Diemen, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies. The British retained the name when they established a settlement in 1803 before it became a separate colony in 1825. Its penal colonies became notorious destinations for the transportation of convicts due to the harsh environment, isolation and reputation for being escape-proof.
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The same people who spent the last 4 years arguing that Russian expansionism is not a problem, and that Ukraine being invaded was the fault of the West, are now arguing the US must take Greenland by force to stop… Russian expansionism.
It is astonishing how dumb their supporters are.
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Peace of Westphalia, European settlements of 1648, which brought to an end the Eighty Years’ War between Spain and the Dutch and the German phase of the Thirty Years’ War. The peace was negotiated, from 1644, in the Westphalian towns of Münster and Osnabrück. The Spanish-Dutch treaty was signed on January 30, 1648. The treaty of October 24, 1648, comprehended the Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand III, the other German princes, France, and Sweden. England, Poland, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire were the only European powers that were not represented at the two assemblies. Some scholars of international relations credit the treaties with providing the foundation of the modern state system and articulating the concept of territorial sovereignty.
"... Danish military leadership were concerned that the United States – informally and without involving Copenhagen – was trying to get Danish colleagues in Greenland to hand over information about military installations, ports and air bases in Greenland"
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In 2021, a convicted fraudster named Adriana Camberos was freed from prison when President Trump commuted her sentence.
Camberos returned to crime.
She and her brother were convicted in 2024 in an unrelated fraud
