Hello everybody, Happy New Year's. Welcome back. This is the first cognitive dissidents of

2026. I'm Parall mic, and I'm joined by.

I'm Monica Perez from the Monica Perez show. I'm Hruhehrwe from Geom Politics and Empire.

Well, happy new year to you both. It's nice to see you again. You know, I thought for the first show of the year, would be a quiet one, but nope, it's already all kicking off. We've got invasions and kidnappings. Actually, we're not allowed to call it that apparently. We're meant to say, what is it, some kind of extraction. We'll get to all of that. But yeah, Donald Trump now claims that he runs Venezuela. So I think we've got a lot to discuss on this one.

It feeds into so many of the other narratives that we always comment on to do with technocracy

and one world systems. So where do we start with this one? Actually, maybe the best bit is just

to discuss the very first part of it, which was the extraction, as the calling it,

of Maduro and his wife. What did you guys make of that? It seemed very smooth, very, almost

cinematic, went in, got him, and then there's all these videos of him being paraded by the

DEI in the US, which again, it just looks a little bit to Hollywood for me, but yeah, I'll

hand it over to

one of you two. What do you make of it? Well, I mean, I was completely, first of all, it happened

on like the Friday night, Saturday morning of the new year. It wasn't even in the Saturday

Wall Street Journal, so it had already been digested by it came out on Monday.

I think there's like a picture of Maduro with a thumbs up, Masonic symbolism and his first

court appearance supposedly. But what struck me the most was that, yes, they're calling it in an

extraction. I sent you guys a clip from NPR or whatever,

hat tip to Sir Tim that said that he was extracted

and that the CIA had been there since August

to make sure it went smoothly.

And in my mind, it was so smooth, so seamless.

And to call it an extraction, kind of, you know,

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