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  1. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-carrying-out-strikes-venezuela-us-official-says-2026-01-03/
  2. CNN’s team on the ground in Venezuela witnessed it https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/03/world/video/caracas-venezuela-explosion-digvid
  3. Lot more video coming out, so looking legit
  4. I've pretty much always trusted OSINTTechnical - when mistakes were made, they were corrected. That account does a lot of geo location stuff as well, and they would be looking out for any fakes or anything. This still doesn't feel like the full-blown attack that would precede an invasion.
  5. I just screen-capped this from Flight Aware
  6. President of Colombia passing along info, machine-translated This is the official statement from the Government of Venezuela. OFFICIAL STATEMENT BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELA The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela rejects, repudiates, and denounces before the international community the extremely grave military aggression perpetrated by the current Government of the United States of America against Venezuelan territory and population in the civilian and military locations of the city of Caracas, capital of the Republic, and the states of Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira. This act constitutes a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter, particularly its Articles 1 and 2, which enshrine respect for sovereignty, the legal equality of States, and the prohibition on the use of force. Such aggression threatens international peace and stability, specifically in Latin America and the Caribbean, and places the lives of millions of people in grave danger. The objective of this attack is none other than to seize Venezuela's strategic resources, particularly its oil and minerals, attempting to break the Nation's political independence by force. They will not succeed. After more than two hundred years of independence, the people and their legitimate Government remain steadfast in defense of sovereignty and the inalienable right to decide their own destiny. The attempt to impose a colonial war to destroy the republican form of government and force a "regime change," in alliance with the fascist oligarchy, will fail just like all previous attempts. Since 1811, Venezuela has confronted and defeated empires. When foreign powers bombarded our coasts in 1902, President Cipriano Castro proclaimed: "The insolent boot of the foreigner has profaned the sacred soil of the Fatherland." Today, with the spirit of Bolívar, Miranda, and our liberators, the Venezuelan people rise once again to defend their independence against imperialist aggression. People to the streets The Bolivarian Government calls on all social and political forces in the country to activate mobilization plans and repudiate this imperialist attack. The people of Venezuela and its Bolivarian National Armed Forces, in perfect popular-military-police fusion, are deployed to guarantee sovereignty and peace. Simultaneously, the Bolivarian Diplomacy of Peace will raise the corresponding complaints before the United Nations Security Council, the Secretary-General of that organization, CELAC, and the Non-Aligned Movement, demanding condemnation and accountability from the United States Government. President Nicolás Maduro has ordered all national defense plans to be implemented at the appropriate time and circumstances, in strict adherence to the provisions of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Organic Law on States of Exception, and the Organic Law on National Security. In this regard, President Nicolás Maduro has signed and ordered the implementation of the Decree declaring a State of External Commotion throughout the national territory, to protect the rights of the population, the full functioning of republican institutions, and to immediately proceed to armed struggle. The entire country must mobilize to defeat this imperialist aggression. Likewise, he has ordered the immediate deployment of the Command for the Comprehensive Defense of the Nation and the Comprehensive Defense Directorate Bodies in all states and municipalities of the country. In strict adherence to Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, Venezuela reserves the right to exercise legitimate defense to protect its people, its territory, and its independence. We call on the peoples and governments of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the world to mobilize in active solidarity against this imperialist aggression. As Supreme Commander Hugo Chávez Frías stated, "in the face of any circumstance of new difficulties, no matter how great, the response of all and all patriots... is unity, struggle, battle, and victory." Caracas, January 3, 2025
  7. If you search YouTube for "caracas venezuela", there are a shitload of live-streams from mostly Asia (India, etc.) who are pushing the same videos from above, and they've got hundreds of thousands (if not more) watching.
  8. I trust Reuters and the AP to try and get it right and get contacts within Venezeula to verify stuff. As an example of where misinformation could come in, this organization has been caught pushing misinformation before (they publish plenty of good/exclusive stuff, but their background is murky).
  9. Hey now, UT was world (or maybe national) quidditch champions for quite a few years.
  10. AP has photographs At least 7 explosions and low-flying aircraft are heard in Venezuela's Caracas | AP News Pedestrians running after hearing explosions. La Carlota airport That just does not seem like much of an attack to me. This whole thing is fucking weird, @RPM you're up late posting about it, you feel this is the real deal?
  11. I'm not going to repost the DT stuff here, but there's a chance we are going at Venezuela hard right now. There's also a chance somebody released a bunch of altered/AI videos on the internet and fooled some decent media organizations.
  12. I'm still like 50/50 that this is real vs somebody releasing a bunch of AI/altered stuff out there on the internet. If I were releasing AI videos of fake attacks on Caracas, last weekend or this weekend would have been the best timing, because a lot of people are on vacation. Last weekend, you might have had media crews on location in various capitals preparing for various New Year's celebrations, but they would have been breaking things down and getting back home/going on vacation yesterday and today. Obviously, your Caracas citizens could verify this with cell phone footage, which that's all we've seen, but I want to see a lot more of it from different locations before I'm ready to buy it. Or Whiskey Pete or Trump out there saying "hell yeah we're going to war".
  13. I keep thinking this has to be somebody that took a few videos and added some explosions and turned them loose on the internet, but it seems like more stuff is coming in. Reuters seems to believe it's real. NOEL Reports does as well.
  14. If this looks like what it sounds like and we wake up tomorrow to Trump trying to justify invading Venezuela, I'm going to enjoy CBS News interviewing Cletus Kinfucker out of Backwoods, Louisiana.
  15. Column of smoke seen, loud noises heard in Venezuelan capital | Reuters
  16. I'm having a hard time believing some of this, because there are claims that there are US Army helicopters flying over Caracas, and I don't buy that without A) a massive "shock & awe" campaign that eliminates most/all air defenses and anything larger than 7.62mm. Chinooks are not stealthy or fast, and it only takes one RPG or one Dushka to take one out. B) A staging area near by - if they were flying those helicopters from the US Navy ships as they were positioned recently, that's a helluva long way, and the Venezuelan military would have picked up on them long before now and be waiting for them.
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