Mr. Trump said it would be "very tough" for Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado to take over because she "doesn't have the support within or the respect within the country."
The president said Secretary of State Marco Rubio also had a conversation with Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, who Mr. Trump said has been "sworn in" and is "essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again."
The U.S. under the Biden administration recognized opposition candidateEdmundo González as the president-elect. González fled into exile in Spain in September 2024 after a warrant was issued for his arrest. [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-says-us-will-run-venezuela-for-now-what-do-we-know-about-the-plans/]
Edmundo González Urrutia, the former diplomat chosen by the coalition to replace the fiery leader María Corina Machado on the ballot, drew thousands of supporters to the streets of La Victoria, his hometown.[https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-elections-opposition-candidate-gonzalez-b374012f3f66bba1a05ed1a0c6b8e3f8]
Mr. Trump said the U.S. is "going to run the country" until there is a "safe, proper and judicious transition" in power in Venezuela.
"Seemingly in a warning to Venezuelan officials who remain in place, Mr. Trump said the U.S. is "ready to stage a second and much larger attack" in Venezuela if needed, and that his administration is "not afraid of boots on the ground."
October 22, 2025 Foley Square "ICE out of New York. Abolish ICE! Full rights for immigrants! End the detentions and deportations! End the militarization!"
Hundreds gathered to protest ICE 's raid of street vendors in Chinatown the night before as part of the Trump administration's racist attacks and militarization of U.S. cities.
FLICKR slide show
ICE has no place in our city. Let’s build the movement to stop them.
🚨 EMERGENCY ACTION! ICE OUT OF NY! 🚨
We will NOT tolerate ICE’s terror against street vendors and immigrant communities.....demand freedom for those detained and an end to ICE raids.
🚫 NO to the criminalization of our communities.
https://x.com/i/status/1980746869836816743
ICE agents raided Chinatown’s Canal Street on Tuesday afternoon, detaining several street vendors in an operation that drew immediate and fierce backlash from bystanders and immigrant advocates. https://amny.com/news/ice-agent
CANAL STREET UPDATE: The 9 “street vendors” arrested yesterday were illegals who had a criminal history of: (https://x.com/i/status/1981029302708645978) Savanah Hernandez
Counterfeit - Drug trafficking - Forgery - Possession of drugs - Robbery - Assault (per acting ICE Director Todd Lyons)
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NEXT DAY:
NYC Canal St is CLEAR. There are no counterfeit scammers or drug dealers on the streets today They have been ICED!!
As I post, it is 803 days that one remaining hostage has STILL not been returned home to Israel. (7 min video) from Rachel Herman. She continues to make sure we do not forget! [https://www.instagram.com/rachelherman_magay/#]
Flashback to Sept 23, 2025, 48 hostages remained in captivity for 695 days; about 20 were presumed to be alive nearly two years after the October 7, 2023 attack, when Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups abducted 251 people from Israel.
As I walked thru Central Park to the 500 Days in Hell Rally, I found an enormous crowd assembled at the band shell where you could feel the heartache and frustration. (Flickr Slide show)
At this point, more than 140 hostages had been freed or rescued since the start of the conflict.Short VIDEO with excerpts of a couple speakers as I walked through the crowd.
.And now, December 17, 2025. What confuses me is people I have known...not strangers ...are now so very hostile towards Israel. Not Jews ...they say... but to Israel.
I am at a loss to understand how they can feel these opinions to be OKAY when TODAY we now add the murders at Bondi Beach and Brown University to the anti-Semitism that has grown around the world.
This is NOT okay
[Where indicated pictures and video property of Pamela Hall-VSB]
Slain Israeli hostage Shiri Bibas had ‘no injuries consistent with a bombing’ despite Hamas’ ‘evil’ : “We were met with depths of evil ... of examining the bodies."
“Death to the IDF,” “We don’t want no Zionists here,” “Resistance... take another settler out” and “From New York to Gaza, Globalize the Intifada.”
This would not be acceptable at a mosque entrance, nor at a church entrance.
Yet, according to the claims of MAYOR-Elect Zohran Mamdani, a democrat socialist, “Violations of International Law” were deployed INSIDE Park East ....''
This was an event by Nefesh B’nefesh, a Zionist organization that helps Jews immigrate to Israel,.... NO VIOLATIONS here except those committed by the anti-Jewish MOB,
“It is our duty to make them think twice before holding these events,” one protest leader told the crowd..... We need to make them scared. We need to make them scared. We need to make them scared!” [....]
So, 24 yrs after 9/11 .... the largest Jewish population... outside Israel...voted to elect an anti-Israel/anti-Jewish Muslim, Zohran Mamdani, the next MAYOR of NYC.
Seems they FORGOT what was NEVER to be Forgotten ....
This flashback to April 4, 2025 revisits the "Gaza Unbreakable: Week of Rage". (March 31 to April 4) ... primarily organized by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and related student activist groups on university campuses demanding Institutional Divestment from Israel and to protest the ''War on Gaza.''
The NYPD, under Mayor Eric Adams, allowed both sides to co-mingle outside the main Public Library on Fifth Avenue and the pro-Gazans were not pleased (saw many grumbling).
Flickr slide show of a healthy counter-protest with much truth and fact to challenge the Gazan lies…
The "Week of Rage"slogans "Gaza is Unbreakable" and "The Student Movement is Unbreakable" aimed to show solidarity with "Palestinians" in the face of the ongoing "humanitarian crisis" at the hands of Israel and the IDF aka IOF (Israel Occupying Force) .... leaving the gullible snookered by claims of a GAZA GENOCIDE and looking to the future with Zohran Mamdani as NYC's next Mayor.
Six short videos follow in a you tube playlist
And the LIES continue as.Palawadawarns of another LAND SALE coming up. Will No Fair Play under Mayor "Mamdoomie" become the norm?
On December 1, the Palis used barricades that were shoved between the NYPD and Pro-Palestine Protesters outside of John Jay College on West 59th Street, as they protested the event inside featuring Stav Cohen, an Israeli IDF reservist listed as the evening’s speaker.
.Bret Baiercalled it the “Occupied West Bank.” ... It isn’t “occupied,” it belongs to Israel, and it isn’t the “West Bank,” it is Judea and Samaria.
.IMPORTANT: Whenever and wherever this crap appears, every decent person should rise up and strike it down: the territory known by the media as the West Bank is actually known by its historic and biblical names,Judea and Samaria. Am Yisrael Chai !
Do not cede ground.
[Where indicated pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall-VSB]
Childrens' Rights are Never Wrong. Discovered this was a short rally; came 30 minutes late. Sorry to miss what the speakers who were there to promote: To thank and to encourage RFK JR.
"Helene Schuckwas INJURED by the PFIZER Vaccine and it is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who is restoring her faith in the medical industry. "@seckennedy
"Thank you RFK Jr. for raising awareness that vaccine injuries are real and that we must protect the livelihoods of our children and advocate for all those who have been injured / silenced." [cafecitobreak.org]
A few shots as they marched to the front of Pfizer NYC headquarters. [Flickr Slide Show] Hope to catch the next one on time.
The health secretary noted that deaths from contagious disease dropped before the introduction of vaccines.
Measles deaths, for example, numbered about 13,000 a year in 1900, but had declined to a few hundred by 1960, Kennedy said. The first measles vaccine was not released until 1963.
In the case of tuberculosis, he said, there was a sharp decline in deaths before the vaccine was introduced.
Kennedy said that vaccines “are a critical part of public health” that “can prevent infections like measles altogether” but that “blind faith in vaccination alone as our only recourse against death by infection has inclined our medical system to discount the role of therapeutic drugs and vitamins and diet exercise and other lifestyle changes that might fortify human immune systems against all kinds of sickness.”
Sept 5, 2025 The Day NEW YORK City accepted ISLAM .... no longer is "Harlem the New Mecca"(Muslim revert, NYC Councilman Robert Jackson, was heard to proclaim “Harlem is the NEW Mecca” ) MANHATTAN is becoming the NEW MECCA. (We Were Warned)
At a presser on Sept 5, Mayor Adams elevated Muhammad’s Birthday to “Holiday” Status in NYC ("... just days before the anniversary of 9/11 , New York City surrendered itself to Islam") SHAME SHAME on you, Mayor Adams.
While DETROIT hosted the second annual People’s Conference for Palestinebringing together thousands of activists, journalists, labor leaders, and "people-of-conscience".
"The genocidal core of Zionism has been exposed and revealed to the world. There is no going back. Our path is clearer than ever: Only a constant and consistent march of freedom and liberation for Palestine and its people."
A look back to March 10, 2025, the day after the Palestinian activist and Columbia Univ grad Mahmoud Khalil was arrested by ICE . The speeches, the agitprop. devoured by the gullible kafirs who believe Khalil to be a victim....
Playlist - 5 short videos- include:
1. Manolo De Los Santos, founder , Exec Dir The People’s Forum
2. Taher DahLeh from The Peoples Forum introduces Tal from Jewish Voice For Peace
3 . Alexa Avilés, NYC Council Member, District 38. Chair of NYC Council's Committee on Immigration. [Spewing SHAMEFUL propaganda]
"They are coming for all of us, and it is us who will protect each other,” CM Alexa Avilés said. “They will not come for our trans siblings. We got your back. They will not come for our Palestinian siblings. We got your back, You will not come for undocumented siblings: We got your back. ..Lets keep fighting y'all” (y'all seems to be how they "talk to the people")
4. The 4th speaker wraps up the indoctrination for the crowd.
THE 5th video is the 4 min march as it passes (trying to catch as many signs)
Flickr slide show ....
Why was Mahmoud Khalil Arrested ?
The Agency:Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
The Reason:His activism for Palestinian rights and involvement in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University.
"Mahmoud Khalil was only here for two years. We gave him free housing, free food, and an Ivy League education. As soon as his feet touched our soil, he began to foment hatred and incite violence. He's leaving with nearly half a million dollars. But fuck America, right?"
After all that noise, HE WAS RELEASED on June 20th:
NPR: After 104 days in a Louisiana immigration detention center (arrested March 8, 2025) Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil has been released on bail.
Mahmoud Khalil was released from federal custody on Friday, June 20, 2025, more than three months after immigration agents arrested and detained him as the first student targeted for deportation by President Trump's crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters.
Khalil's legal team said they planned to quickly get him on a plane back to New York, where he'll reunite with his wife and his two month old son, who was born while he was in detention. NPR
Khalil plans to continue advocating for Palestinian rights and protesting the war in Gaza, according to NPR.
He has also expressed interest in continuing to engage with lawmakers to promote his cause, reports Al Jazeera. ....
“Let’s be clear, Mahmoud was detained for his political speech,” said Professor Nadia Abu El-Hajj, co-director of Columbia’s Center for Palestine Studies.
Another Columbia professor, Marianne Hirsch, the daughter of Holocaust survivors who grew up in communist Romania, said the arrest “brought back my most tormenting childhood memories.”
Khalil is thought to be the first person targeted by the Trump administration as part of its pledge to deport international students involved in protests against the war in Gaza.(JVP- Religion News)
Now that we have a MUSLIM running for MAYOR of NYC, can we expect radical change? What will the future hold under Sharia Law? Be careful what you vote for cause things will CHANGE with a Socialist/Commie MUSLIM Mayor in charge. (whether you like it or not)
You were warned
[Where indicated pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall-VSB]
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