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09-04-25 savo
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/was-deadly-us-attack-venezuelan-vessel-legal-2025-09-04/
WAS THE ATTACK LEGAL UNDER US LAW?
Presidents have generally ordered attacks on enemy combatants, terrorist groups like al Qaeda or militants such as the Houthis in Yemen, who attacked U.S. shipping.
Tuesday's attack marks a departure in the use of the military. Trump said in a social media post that the boat was transporting illegal narcotics, which would normally be the responsibility of the U.S. Coast Guard to intercept. If the Coast Guard had been fired upon when trying to stop the boat, the Coast Guard members would be justified in defending themselves, legal experts said.
However, Trump posted a video to social media that appeared to show a speeding boat being destroyed by an air strike.
The administration did not provide any evidence that the United States was under imminent threat of attack, that the vessel was armed and did not identify targets on the boat who were critical to a terror attack, as past presidents have done in similar attacks. The Tren de Aragua drug cartel that Trump said was operating the boat is not actively at war with the United States in the same way as other terror groups, like al Qaeda.
In the eyes of many people around the world, those on the boat were civilians and the attack will be seen as an extrajudicial killing, said legal experts.
WHAT ABOUT INTERNATIONAL LAW?
The Charter of the United Nations states that in the pursuit of international peace and security, members are to refrain from threatening or using force against other countries. The charter also recognizes the right of member states to self-defense.
The United States can argue it was taking "anticipatory" self-defense action and Trump said Tren de Aragua was under the control of Venezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro.
However, that falls short of international law without evidence of an imminent attack or past attacks by Tren de Aragua, according to legal experts.
Further, Venezuelan officials have disputed that the group is active in the country. Legal experts said the right of self-defense against non-state actors is a matter of debate in international law.
Trump administration officials said the vessel was in international waters, although if it had been a flagged vessel it would mean the attack was considered to have occurred on that country's territory. That would represent a potential major escalation. Administration officials have not said if the vessel was flagged.
WHO CAN CHALLENGE THE LEGALITY OF THE ATTACK?
Given that Venezuela's regime and Tren de Aragua are international pariahs, opponents of the attack may not want to challenge it.
However, that might change if more attacks are carried out, as Pentagon officials have said.
Legal challenges in U.S. courts against the president's authority to carry out the strike will likely face steep hurdles. U.S. courts generally defer to the president on matters of foreign relations and security.
Victims families could try to bring a civil case for damages against the administration in the United States, although it would require years of potentially costly litigation.
Such attacks do carry the legal risk that the administration will kill an American citizen. The administration of President Barack Obama said it had the authority to kill a U.S.-born al Qaeda militant, Anwar al-Awlaki, because he was the "operational leader" of an "enemy force" who posed a continued imminent threat. The deadly drone strike led to U.S. litigation.
The attack could be challenged in an international tribunal, such as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which has led to some countries acknowledging past abuses although the United States is not a party to the court.
While the attack might not lead to successful legal challenges, it could sour U.S. international relations and make it more difficult for Washington to partner with other countries on drug and immigration policies, legal experts said.
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09-04-25 spal
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09-04-25 spal
TORM plc (NASDAQ: TRMD) announced that Hafnia Limited will acquire approximately 14.1 million A shares (14.45% of TORM's issued share capital) from Oaktree Capital Management. The transaction is valued at USD 22 per share, totaling USD 311.4 million.
Removes all selling pressure from Oaktree ... positive
If it presages a combination ... very positive |
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09-04-25 spal
Back from Paris
HSHP
TRMD
doing god's work |
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09-04-25 panasonic
| Veni bonds up schlowly...time to say goodbye and bonds will fly high. |
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09-04-25 panasonic
Nicely done Pilly!
My first call on NVO got whacked, the second one compensated and more.
Rolling spreads in UGL, so far so good.
I'm sticking to my prefs. and bonds, once Fed starts cutting rates it will go fast.
Cheers!
3x daily trading easier than ever. |
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09-04-25 pillz
closed ysd a lot of short puts of NLI AGNC , VNQ closed a few days ago .. closed also a lot of Belgian RE and some holdings ...
Closed also today NVO with a loss, it is the only loss that I had this year, tried to close HMY without success, it is a big win...and I think I will hold it for the longer term...
Still holding short puts and calls of JNUG and GDXJ in a big big way .... |
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09-03-25 savo
civilized country
"El método que usa España desde luego son siempre medios policiales y medios civiles y nunca medios militares", expresó Albares. Asimimo, recalcó que, el papel de España es un rol mediador en América Latina
El canciller de España, José Manuel Albares, expresó estar en contra del "método" utilizado por EEUU para combatir el narcotráfico en el Caribe.
Albares se pronunció así en una entrevista de la radioemisora Onda Cero al ser preguntado por el ataque de las fuerzas armadas norteamericanas a una embarcación que, según EE.UU., trasladaba drogas en el Atlántico.
El ministro español señaló que, por ahora, la única información sobre lo sucedido es la facilitada por el Gobierno de Donald Trump, e insistió en que la lucha contra el narcotráfico es una auténtica prioridad, pero España usa siempre medios policiales y civiles, y nunca militares.
El papel de España en América Latina tiene que ser, según el titular de Exteriores, "el de unir, el de mediar, el de estar junto a todos los pueblos de América Latina", y nunca "en la división".
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, aseguró este martes que las fuerzas armadas de su país ejecutaron un "ataque cinético" contra una embarcación que trasladaba drogas en el Atlántico.
El presidente norteamericano publicó en la red Truth Social un vídeo del Comando Sur del Ejército estadounidense donde se observa una embarcación siendo monitoreada segundos antes de ser eliminada con un misil.
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09-03-25 savo
murderers
https://www.eluniversal.com/internacional/215149/exasesor-de-biden-dice-que-eeuu-usa-informacion-falsa-sobre-buque-en-el-caribe-y-despilfarra |
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09-03-25 savo
with compliments to MCM and the Cuban Cartel
Venezuela's oil exports rise to 9-month high as cargoes return to US
By Marianna Parraga
September 3, 20259:59 PM GMT+2Updated 1 hour ago
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/venezuelas-oil-exports-rise-9-month-high-cargoes-return-us-2025-09-03/ |
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09-03-25 victor
J6 Rioters Received Pardons—Now They Want Money
September 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM CST
Jan. 6 rioters want cash to follow their newfound freedom.
Some in the group, pardoned en masse by Donald Trump within hours of the president’s January inauguration, have been lobbying the administration for restitution, The New York Times reports.
Lawyer Mark McCloskey revealed last week that he has proposed to the Justice Department a “voluntary nonjudicial resolution committee” to determine financial damages that the government would pay to the 1,500 or so individuals who had their sentences pardoned or commuted. Amounts would be settled on a case-by-case basis, he told far-right website The Gateway Pundit.
McCloskey, known for pointing a gun at social justice protesters near his house in St. Louis in 2020, added that his preference was for Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, to run the panel.
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09-03-25 victor
is it fair that dt has the ability to pardon whoever he wants, for whatever reason he wants?
the january rioters? no problem, pardoned. etc
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09-03-25 victor
i can just imagine what sanchez would do if he had the kind of executive powers that dt has, in a presidential system.
how he would abuse the system at every step. |
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09-03-25 victor
carib, in theory.
then you end up with a guy like dt, who oversteps, threatens soros with rico, etc. nothing fair about it either. |
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09-03-25 carib
in a civilised system a judge cannot act as a prosecutor, and the prosecutor cannot be a judge.
the judge must be a fair arbiter between the citizens and the state, or between different citizens, ruling on the basis of the law. |
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09-03-25 victor
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09-03-25 carib
| Victor: my personal easy practical solution is.. "avoid Spain". |
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09-03-25 victor
carib, franco was so much a believer of empowering institutions, that he criticized former kings for NOT having a "consejo del reino" - which franco created, ironically..
what this consejo del reino would have done is taken away power from inept kings, like el hechizado, and others who were not fit to rule. |
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09-03-25 victor
carib, remember franco's famous quote..
"todo queda atado y bien atado"
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Discurso Francisco Franco "Atado y bien atado". 30-12-1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoJE6Na06Y0
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09-03-25 carib
Victor: Spain is a legal mess, clearly.
Wrongly or insufficiently well structured by the democratic constitution adopted 40 years ago.
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09-03-25 victor
| carib, also worthy to note that a spanish judge orders the civil guard to investigate A or B, and the civil guard answers directly to the judge.. bypassing the fiscalia general. |
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09-03-25 victor
in the cerdan case, the judge investigating and arresting him is leopoldo puente.. he doesnt care what the fiscalia says.
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30 junio 2025
Prisión preventiva y sin fianza. Fue lo que dictaminó el juez este lunes para Santos Cerdán, el ex alto cargo del Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) que lidera el presidente Pedro Sánchez, por considerarlo una pieza clave en la trama corrupta que cobraba coimas a cambio de adjudicar obras púbicas en diferentes municipios de España.
Cerdán era el secretario de organización del PSOE, el tercer puesto en importancia del partido y un hombre de extrema confianza para Sánchez, quien la asignaba tareas delicadas. Como fue la negociación fuera de España con el ex presidente catalán Carles Puigdemont para que su partido independentista apoyara la reelección de Sánchez en 2023.
El ex secretario de organización socialista se presentó este lunes en el Tribunal Supremo para declarar en una investigación que lleva adelante el juez Leopoldo Puente a partir de un informe de la Guardia Civil que apunta a Cerdán, al ex ministro de Transportes, José Luis Abalos, y a su ex chofer y asesor, Koldo García. Se los señala como presuntos integrantes de una asociación ilícita que se quedaba con “mordidas” a cambio de conceder a empresas privadas la construcción de obras con dinero público. Están acusado de cohecho, organización criminal y tráfico de influencias.
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09-03-25 victor
carib, another example is santos cerdan, sanchez right-hand man, and in charge of negotiating with P.
cerdan was arrested by a judge..
the judge doesnt care what the fiscalia says. |
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09-03-25 victor
carib, i understand. best example with what you are saying is puigdemont.
if things were as you describe, then judges would have no say against P..
and since sanchez controls the fiscalia, then P would be in spain right now, without worry.
P is not worried about the fiscalia..
P is worried about the judges, who are going to arrest him if he returns to spain, regardless of what the fiscal general says.
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09-03-25 carib
PS: you might be very right about that particular lady magistrate.
In my experience, the judiciary is seldom less dirty than politics itself, in a given country. |
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09-03-25 carib
Victor: I do read the spanish press.
In my opinion, the spanish judicial system has never been duly restructured after the return of democracy, this appears self evident to me.
In civilized legal systems, the judge and the prosecutor are two very different roles, carreers and functions.
Prosecutors might or might not be independent from the political power, but judges should really be independent servants of the law and of the rights of citizens, not of the political leader of the moment.. or of the prosecution.
This Peinado guy, as far as I understood, is a prosecutor with apolitical agenda, not an independent judge presiding over a trial.
Please note that I do not want more politics (right or left) in the judicial arena, but advocate strong limits to the political use of prosecution (for or against a current government)and to any invasion by the judiciary of matters that belong to the executive or legislative powers.
Anyway, the whole thing has little to do with bonds.. |
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09-03-25 victor
carib, this is the one going against sanchez & co.. since september 2024.. she is head of both, cgpj and supremo.
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María Isabel Perelló Doménech
Presidenta del Tribunal Supremo
Desde el 4 de septiembre de 2024
Presidenta del Consejo General del Poder Judicial
Desde el 4 de septiembre de 2024
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09-03-25 victor
carib, and the reason sanchez is complaining so bitterly is because he does not control the cgpj..
ever since sanchez made that awful deal with the PP at the european commission's office, of electing isabel perello to head the cgpj.. everything is now crashing on him.
the former cgpj head, lesmes was his name, didnt want any trouble, and left sanchez and his people alone..
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09-03-25 victor
carib, a prosecutor is a magistrate, not a judge
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in spain, you start off as a judge..
then get promoted to magistrado..
then promoted again to magistrado del tribunal supremo..
regardless of "rank", you work for the cgpj.. not for the fiscalia general.
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09-03-25 victor
carib, the fiscal general would never go against sanchez. sanchez controls the fiscal general, garcia ortiz.
and the cgpj is going after sanchez' fiscal general.
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(*) Actualización 09/06/2025
El Tribunal Supremo ha acordado este lunes procesar al fiscal general del Estado, Álvaro García Ortiz, y a la fiscal jefe provincial de Madrid, Pilar Rodríguez, por un delito de revelación de secretos en relación a la difusión de información sobre el procedimiento por presunto fraude fiscal de Alberto González Amador, pareja de la presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
https://www.newtral.es/guia-investigacion-supremo-garcia-ortiz/20241018/ |
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09-03-25 victor
carib, Sanchez, in my opinion, is correct about the prosecutor going after his wife (a prosecutor is a magistrate, not a judge).
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peinado is a judge.. Juzgado de Instrucción número 41 Madrid..
a judge with with ties to the pp, afaik
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09-03-25 carib
Just for a good laugh.. just imagine Peinado going after the Trump family, on the same line of action: he might identify 5.000 more serious crimes..
This is politics, not justice. The guy should be removed, IMHO. |
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09-03-25 carib
Victor: Sanchez, in my opinion, is correct about the prosecutor going after his wife (a prosecutor is a magistrate, not a judge).
I am not sure on the case concerning his brother, and I note that the corruption in the Abalos case was most likely very real.
It was also very real in cases concerning the previous PP government.
Spanish judiciary in my opinion tried to exceed its natural function in the catalan case. Making or not making a deal with regional parties is a matter of political decision, not judicial one.
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09-03-25 victor
carib, and the legal problems of his wife are getting worse, not better.
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El juez Peinado solicita a Moncloa todos los correos de Begoña Gómez desde 2018
El magistrado adelanta al día 10 la declaración como investigada de la esposa del presidente por la contratación de su asesora
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Además, Peinado acuerda nuevas diligencias respecto de su asesora en la Moncloa, Cristina Álvarez, imputada por un delito de malversación junto a Begoña Gómez, quienes están citadas a declarar de nuevo los próximos 10 y 11 de septiembre, si bien el juez tiene pendiente de responder a una petición de la defensa de Gómez, que ha solicitado un aplazamiento por coincidir con un señalamiento previo.
De esta forma, pide a Moncloa que informe de las personas que han desempeñando el cargo de secretario general de Presidencia del Gobierno desde el 11 de julio de 2018, cuando fue nombrada Cristina Álvarez, como personal eventual para ocupar el puesto de Directora de Programas del Gabinete de Presidencia del Gobierno.
Igualmente quiere que se le informe de las personas que "han venido autorizando, aprobando y/o ordenando el pago de las retribuciones percibidas" desde entonces a la asesora de Gómez.
https://www.europasur.es/espana/juez-peinado-adelanta-dia-10_0_2004690657.html |
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09-03-25 victor
carib, in all fairness, sanchez is now attacking the judges.
trying to paint this picture of persecution by the judges against his family: himself, wife and brother.
he criticizes dt, but he's behaving like dt..
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Sánchez contra los jueces
EDITORIAL
03 de septiembre 2025 - 03:07
La estrategia del presidente del Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez, ante el cerco judicial al que está sometida su familia no es nuevo, pero el pasado lunes la volvió a mostrar en la entrevista que Televisión Española le realizó para inaugurar un curso político que se promete turbulento, con un Ejecutivo de inciertos apoyos parlamentarios y cuestiones sumamente candentes, empezando por la imposibilidad de dotar al país de unos Presupuestos Generales del Estado con los que intentar embridar los muchos problemas internos y externos de España. A la pregunta de la periodista Pepa Bueno sobre las imputaciones de su mujer, Begoña Díaz, y su hermano, David González, por malversación de fondos públicos y prevaricación y tráfico de influencias, respectivamente, el presidente respondió acudiendo, sin ningún tipo de rubor, al más elemental manual de populismo y cargando contra los “jueces que están haciendo política” y sometiendo a “pena de telediario” a sus familiares. Estos jueces desviados, por supuesto, son los que investigan el presunto comportamiento delictivo de los parientes de Sánchez, no los que indagan en otras tramas corruptas que sí benefician políticamente al presidente y líder socialista. Acusar de politización y lawfare a los jueces cuando sus investigaciones te perjudican es un síntoma evidente de populismo. Lo hemos visto con Trump o Maduro, por poner dos ejemplos de tendencias ideológicas muy distintas (en esto, como en otras tantas cosas, las diferencias entre derecha e izquierda son mínimas). Las políticas de Justicia del Gobierno a la vez están siendo sumamente polémicas, como denotan cuestiones como la resistencia decidida que levanta entre los jueces la llamada Ley Bolaños, la colonización del Tribunal Constitucional o el hecho de que Sánchez apoye a un fiscal general del Estado que no dimite pese a estar imputado, algo completamente insólito. Urge un giro que tenga como objetivo el respeto más absoluto a la independencia del Poder Judicial, algo que por ahora brilla por su ausencia.
https://www.europasur.es/opinion/editorial/sanchez-jueces_0_2004683690.html
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09-03-25 victor
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09-03-25 carib
El secretario de Defensa de Estados Unidos, Pete Hegseth, advirtió este miércoles que Nicolás Maduro es «el único que debería estar preocupado», tras el ataque militar de fuerzas estadounidenses en el Caribe contra una embarcación acusada de traficar drogas desde Venezuela, en el que murieron 11 personas.
“El único que debería estar preocupado es Nicolás Maduro, quien actúa como un capo de un narcoestado y tiene una recompensa de 50 millones de dólares por su captura”, afirmó Hegseth en entrevista con Fox News. |
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09-03-25 panasonic
Three amigos in a peaceful parade, EU should take a closer look:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr1reyr059o |
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09-03-25 panasonic
| Carib, it's a joke Victor will understand :-) |
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09-03-25 carib
| Panas: the "black sheep" in Europe are Hungary, Slovakia and Serbia, not Spain. |
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09-03-25 panasonic
| Vic, couldn't find Sanchez in the Chinese military parade, weird he skipped this candid picture opportunity :-))) |
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