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"Pope Leo calls for Venezuela to remain an independent country": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46497035

sipofwateron Pope Leo calls for Venezuela to remain an independent country

"Why 2026 Will Be the Year of Leo" "AI, electoral politics, and spiritual renewal in America are other themes set to shape the year ahead.": https://www.ncregister.com/news/new-pope-why-2026-will-be-th... (www.ncregister.com/news/new-pope-why-2026-will-be-the-year-of-leo), https://archive.ph/EAGVx

sipofwateron Pope Leo calls for Venezuela to remain an independent country

* "Trump Boasts of New ‘Donroe Doctrine’ – but What Is It?": https://www.newsweek.com/trump-boasts-new-donroe-doctrine-11... (www.newsweek.com/trump-boasts-new-donroe-doctrine-11304308), https://archive.ph/8LtMO

* "What happened to America First, US asks as Trump strikes Venezuela" "Seizing Nicolás Maduro jars with the isolationist views of much of Trump’s voting base — but he believes America’s back yard is his domain": https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/donald... (www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/donald-trump-america-first-venezuela-attack-us-3whcbw2tl), https://archive.ph/jOSKe

* "Trump's snatching of Maduro shows a new level of unrestrained global power": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46476061

* "Trump's Venezuela operation polarizes world leaders": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46481753

* "Mafia States: Organized Crime Takes Office (2012)": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46486260

sipofwateron Pope Leo calls for Venezuela to remain an independent country

Mirror: https://archive.ph/quPVT

sipofwateron NAS file sharing: Why I use both NFS and SMB protocols (2025)

"[GUIDE] How to share directories on the phone running Android via NFS as non-root user" by bnsmb: https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-how-to-share-directories-on-th... (xdaforums.com/t/guide-how-to-share-directories-on-the-phone-running-android-via-nfs-as-non-root-user.4756743/) via "Testing: Termux, proot-distro, Network File System (NFS)" at https://gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote/e1719f4029b91918d99621... (gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote/e1719f4029b91918d996216939d5bff2)

* Kodi has an NFS client, "Downloads for Android": https://kodi.tv/download/android/

* VLC for Android, Android TV and ChromeOS, "Network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...) and servers (UPnP, DLNA)": https://github.com/videolan/vlc-android , https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-android.html

* "NFS Clients VLC & KODI on Android TV": https://www.hallergard.com/Blog/NFS_Android.html

* "exportfs Command: Tutorial & Examples" "Manage and display NFS exported file systems on a Linux server": https://cleveruptime.com/docs/commands/exportfs

* "NFS Security: Identifying and Exploiting Misconfigurations": https://www.hvs-consulting.de/en/blog/nfs-security-identifyi... (www.hvs-consulting.de/en/blog/nfs-security-identifying-and-exploiting-misconfigurations)

sipofwateron NAS file sharing: Why I use both NFS and SMB protocols (2025)

NFS server on an Android smartphone without root access, "Testing: Termux, proot-distro, Network File System (NFS): https://gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote/e1719f4029b91918d99621... (gist.github.com/NoteAfterNote/e1719f4029b91918d996216939d5bff2)

sipofwateron Pete Hegseth says U.S. intervention in Venezuela is "exact opposite" of Iraq

* "What happened to America First, US asks as Trump strikes Venezuela" "Seizing Nicolás Maduro jars with the isolationist views of much of Trump’s voting base — but he believes America’s back yard is his domain": https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/donald... , https://archive.ph/jOSKe

* "Trump's snatching of Maduro shows a new level of unrestrained global power": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46476061

* "Trump's Venezuela operation polarizes world leaders": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46481753

* "Mafia States: Organized Crime Takes Office (2012)": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46486260

sipofwateron Pete Hegseth says U.S. intervention in Venezuela is "exact opposite" of Iraq

Mirror: https://archive.ph/QcU1V

sipofwateron Mafia States: Organized Crime Takes Office (2012)

* "Trump's snatching of Maduro shows a new level of unrestrained global power": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46476061

* "Trump's Venezuela operation polarizes world leaders": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46481753

sipofwateron Mafia States: Organized Crime Takes Office (2012)

* Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20120530173101/www.foreignaffair... (web.archive.org/web/20120530173101/www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137529/moises-naim/mafia-states) , https://archive.ph/vNq9f , https://archive.ph/2022.12.03-233756/https://www.foreignaffa... (archive.ph/2022.12.03-233756/https://www.foreignaffairs.com/mafia-states)

* "Mafia States" by Moisés Naím -- April 25, 2012: https://web.archive.org/web/20120508024342/www.moisesnaim.co... (web.archive.org/web/20120508024342/www.moisesnaim.com/writings/mafia-states)

* "Mafia States: Organized Crime Takes Office" by Moisés Naím -- April 20, 2012: https://www.moisesnaim.com/my-columns/2020/1/27/mafia-states

sipofwateron Trump's Venezuela operation polarizes world leaders

"Trump's snatching of Maduro shows a new level of unrestrained global power": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46476061

sipofwateron Trump's Venezuela operation polarizes world leaders

Mirror: https://archive.ph/oFiQ4

sipofwateron Trump's snatching of Maduro shows a new level of unrestrained global power

"The world without hegemony" "As Pax Americana ends, a multipolar order is emerging. The history of Southeast Asia holds lessons for what’s to come": https://aeon.co/essays/what-southeast-asian-history-tells-us... (aeon.co/essays/what-southeast-asian-history-tells-us-about-a-multipolar-order) via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771497 ; https://archive.ph/wBrLt

sipofwateron Trump's snatching of Maduro shows a new level of unrestrained global power

* "The Histomap. Four Thousand Years Of World History. Relative Power Of Contemporary States, Nations And Empires." by John B. Sparks: https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~2... (www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~200375~3001080:The-Histomap--Four-Thousand-Years-O), https://web.archive.org/web/20130813230833if_/alanbernstein.... (4194 x 19108 pixels, web.archive.org/web/20130813230833if_/alanbernstein.net/images/large/histomap.jpg) via https://web.archive.org/web/20130813230833/alanbernstein.net... (web.archive.org/web/20130813230833/alanbernstein.net/images/large/histomap.jpg); https://archive.ph/1wEk8/332f1c70b1ffd9854847dbfa7ad77b4915c... (4194 x 19108 pixels, archive.ph/1wEk8/332f1c70b1ffd9854847dbfa7ad77b4915cbd50a.jpg) via https://archive.ph/1wEk8

* "(Covers to) The Histomap. Four Thousand Years Of World History. Relative Power Of Contemporary States, Nations And Empires.": https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~2... (www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~200374~3000299:-Covers-to--The-Histomap--Four-Thou)

sipofwateron Trump's snatching of Maduro shows a new level of unrestrained global power

"Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level" "In his first year back in the White House, President Trump has greatly expanded executive power while embracing the trappings of royalty in ways not seen in the modern era.": https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/us/politics/trump-imperia... (www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/us/politics/trump-imperial-presidency.html) ... Mirror: https://archive.ph/YGtu3

sipofwateron Trump's snatching of Maduro shows a new level of unrestrained global power

Mirror for "Trump's snatching of Maduro shows a new level of unrestrained global power": https://archive.ph/eIX3a

sipofwateron 'Doomsday fish': Once-in-a-lifetime sea creature encountered in Monterey Bay

Mirror: https://archive.ph/Gfz0g

sipofwateron The Pentagon Calls Them Demons. The Ancient Greeks Called Them Daimons.

"A Big Picture View -- A Sweeping View Measured In Many Centuries -- Of The Impact Of The Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) Phenomenon": https://old.reddit.com/r/411ExperiencedReaders/comments/ebi0... (old.reddit.com/r/411ExperiencedReaders/comments/ebi0fi/ufo_india_1958_four_entities_emerged_two_boys_who/fb4wgwb/)

sipofwateron The Pentagon Calls Them Demons. The Ancient Greeks Called Them Daimons.

Mirror for "The Pentagon Calls Them Demons. The Ancient Greeks Called Them Daimons. Both Might Be Right" "How a 2,000-year-old terminology collapse explains why UFO officials sound like medieval priests": https://archive.ph/ZmZDW

sipofwateron Calvo on 'CHamoru' spelling: It's for government efficiency, cultural accuracy

* Mirror: https://archive.ph/werH1

* "My 1st Time In Guam, USA’s Most Isolated Territory [video]": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45731295

sipofwateron NASA could be weeks away from its biggest test in decades

Mirror: https://archive.ph/8vtdN

sipofwateron The Fed admits it can't easily fix an economic problem it helped create

Mirror: https://archive.ph/lui9I

sipofwateron Bill would formally adopt spelling of 'CHamoru'

* Mirror: https://archive.ph/ZKXV4

* "My 1st Time In Guam, USA’s Most Isolated Territory [video]": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45731295

sipofwateron LETTER: The politics of evil

Mirror: https://archive.ph/t3Gcn

sipofwateron Pilot reports UFO hovering beside jet, leaving air traffic control stunned

"A Big Picture View -- A Sweeping View Measured In Many Centuries -- Of The Impact Of The Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) Phenomenon": https://old.reddit.com/r/411ExperiencedReaders/comments/ebi0... (old.reddit.com/r/411ExperiencedReaders/comments/ebi0fi/ufo_india_1958_four_entities_emerged_two_boys_who/fb4wgwb/)

sipofwateron Pilot reports UFO hovering beside jet, leaving air traffic control stunned

Mirror for "Pilot reports UFO hovering beside jet, leaving air traffic control stunned: 'Good luck with the aliens'": https://archive.ph/vXS2x

sipofwateron Creating an Alpine Linux Repository

"Alpine Package Keeper": https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_Package_Keeper

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"Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level" "In his first year back in the White House, President Trump has greatly expanded executive power while embracing the trappings of royalty in ways not seen in the modern era.": https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/us/politics/trump-imperia... (www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/us/politics/trump-imperial-presidency.html) ... Mirror: https://archive.ph/YGtu3

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"The world without hegemony" "As Pax Americana ends, a multipolar order is emerging. The history of Southeast Asia holds lessons for what’s to come": https://aeon.co/essays/what-southeast-asian-history-tells-us... (aeon.co/essays/what-southeast-asian-history-tells-us-about-a-multipolar-order) via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771497 ; https://archive.ph/wBrLt