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Emergency Dispatch - Illegal Business
🕑 Added 2026-01-07 02:11:00 +0000 UTCThis week we are dropping our episode early because there is just too much going on for us to sit on the sidelines until Friday. Recorded on Sunday, January 4th, 2026, in this episode we weigh in on the outright violation of international law that occurred in the dead of night on Saturday, January 3rd in Caracas, Venezuela, when Nicolas Maduro and his wife were kidnapped by the United States Military Industrial Complex and brought to the center of empire to answer to federal charges of narcoterrorism.
Even though we (and the rest of the world) knew this was a long time coming - and we predicted it in our Geopolitik 7 episode - the actual event was still a shock when it happened. Whatever happens next, this invasion marks the entry into a new era of U.S. world policing, one in which the United States will straight up go out and bag any head of state it dislikes, under cover of darkness, in order to get what it wants. This is a violation of international law. It is a violation of domestic law. And beyond strongly worded letters and statements, the international community seems to be okay with letting it go unanswered. At least for now, it seems like the United States’ policy of “might makes right” is going to carry the day.
Meanwhile, the U.S. mafia-state under the helm of King of K-K-Krime Donald Trump is wearing its criminality like a mink coat. U.S. friendly drug dealers like the recently pardoned ex-Honduran kingpin/president Juan Orlando Hernandez, Ecuadoran billionaire/president Daniel Noboa, and crypto fraudster/torture-dungeon-master Nayib Bukele laugh their way to the bank. The empire’s reasons for flouting the law are beyond transparent, they are blatant and brazen. Under the laughable pretext of curbing drug trafficking into the United States, the Trump administration has openly asserted that the reason they took Maduro was to open up the Venezuelan oil and mineral market to multinational corporations.
It’s all so basic. It’s all so annoying. We have come back to the 19th Century policy of going out and taking control over places and peoples simply so that we can extract their resources to enrich our psychotic rulers. And at this point, the default is that the billionaire class, the powers that be, and whatever hangers on who worship that group are just going to keep doing mafia shit to consolidate capital as long as everyone else goes along with the shakedown racket.
Let’s get digging.
Comments
Medieval Cat
I’ve felt they all have rapist demeanors for a while too, pushy and coercive. Gross.
Don and Dick
And in light of this week's events, "Sound of da Police" is ringing in my ears...
Don and Dick
Thank YOU!
Don and Dick
It's always important to rely on music in these times as a reminder to the soul that life is worth living and that people of soul can communicate with one another across time, space, and cultures. Some other hard-times recs from my faves are the later Bob Marley albums: Exodus, Uprising, and Survival, and of course Love's Forever Changes.
David
A defendant may be charged by information in a felony case, like your example of a crime happening in the presence of a police officer, but they still have a right to have the case presented to a grand jury before the case moves forward.
David
Oh man I hate to be "that guy" but I actually just wrote a lengthy motion on this. A crime happening in the presence of a police officer is not an exception to the 5th Amendment right to indictment. The case on point in California v Hurtado from 1884 (I know it hasn't been revisited since then). The Supreme Court created a "dual track" right to indictment. In Federal Court absolutely every defendant has an absolute right to be indicted before a grand jury on every felony charge. In state court though, the state may either indict via a grand jury or hold a probable cause hearing in front of a judge.
chooglincharley
join the unofficial discord server, created to join like-minded "diggers" together through that medium. https://discord.gg/ayVayJtBjk
Liam Keenan
I keep coming back to this line from Apathy’s “Jack Ruby” (a song featured in the Ruby miniseries) — “The gutterest motherfuckers dont always appear rugged They regal and equally lethal and even as evil as some of the wickedest people you believe would deceive you…” This and a bunch of stuff off of “3rd World” by Immortal Technique are keeping me sane.
Hana
From the granddaddy evil empire, the UK, thank you thank you thank you for the revolutionary optimism of that wrapping up. I badly needed that. ¡¡Viva los Arqueólogos!!
Salex
And I've decided to start referring to the US as a narco-terrorist state. Actually, the US is THE narco-terrorist state. I'm not going to be granted an entry visa anytime soon so may as well!
Salex
Appreciate the legal explanations, D&D! We don't have grand juries in Australia, and reasonable and probable grounds is interpreted differently here, so it's great context
Mirjam Dornauer
Thank you so much for this!
Caleb Neubert
The Truth lyric drop on the Christmas episode and this episode being called Illegal Business, KRS-One come to start some hysteria! Great stuff as always you two.
Liam Keenan
Thank you for
Emme
B”H thank goodness much need 😓❤️🩹
