Bulletins and News Discussion from July 29th to August 4th, 2024 - Haters Stay Mad(uro) - COTW: Venezuela
Bulletins and News Discussion from July 29th to August 4th, 2024 - Haters Stay Mad(uro) - COTW: Venezuela
Image is of a colectivo: an armed group, usually operating in impoverished areas, which act to support and defend the socialist government of Venezuela. They are often derided as vigilante terrorist groups which prop up the government, because cops are only bad when they are socialist and not murdering minorities, I suppose.
Maduro's party, the PSUV, has won the election after a staggering amount of propaganda by the opposition, who said their polls suggested they were going to win and that Maduro's loss was inevitable. The reaction across Latin America is what one would expect. Left-leaning leaders are generally respecting the results and congratulating Maduro, while those on the right and/or are US puppets (such as in semirecently-couped Peru) are calling for recounts, or even that the election was illegitimate. The US itself is also unhappy about the results. We shall soon see if their unhappiness boils over into yet another coup attempt.
Personally, I think they should have ran Guaido again.
Thank you to @Redcuban1959@hexbear.net for the election coverage here, and everything else they do in the news megathread.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Israel bombed my hometown Beirut. Very strange feeling, because I'm not sad nor angry. The feeling in shia and revolutionary circles is more "thank you Israel", because we want this war. We want to have a direct reason to hit Tel Aviv, we want our troops to burn the occupied Golan, we want our missiles to fill the settlers with fear and panic. Alhamdullilah and may Allah accept the martyrs. My eyes will not be filled with the sight of Beirut for a long time, which really pains my heart, but if our collective sacrifices result in even one hour of pain for the zionists, then it was worth it.
فَٱرْتَقِبْ يَوْمَ تَأْتِى ٱلسَّمَآءُ بِدُخَانٍۢ مُّبِينٍۢ
"Then watch for the Day when the sky will bring a visible smoke"
Quran - Surat Al Dukhan - 10
"Different parts of the IDF are fighting each other, IDF can't coordinate w/ the police, lawmakers are fighting the army & each other, there is attempted violent takeover of military property underway & big (select) groups of citizens are armed.
Closest i've ever experienced to state breakdown. It has all the ingredients for the gov't to try & justify imposing martial law on citizens - unprecedented
Hamas, Hezbollah could never have imagined how much they would succeed. This is better than they even dreamed."
It took 19 days for the US to announce the final results of it's 2000 presidential elections, in which the loser of the popular vote was declared President. But after 4 days, members of Congress have decided the oil-rich nation of Venezuela is moving too slow.
No political death has ever hit me as hard as the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh did today. What a catastrophe. I have been legitimately feeling paralysed today, could barely eat the whole day. I have much to say about this, but we all need to process this tragedy first. God give us all strength and power, these last two days have been draining emotionally and it will only get worse and worse. As for the man himself, our history when we're victorious will be very kind on him, may Allah grant him the highest ranks of Paradise. They killed his children, his grandchildren and then killed him.
I'd like to leave this here, the Martyr Ismail Haniyeh leading friday prayers in Qatar:
Not a bad fucking summary, TBH (it ignores the political importance of some of those people murdered, but that's more on the provocation front than the how-bad-a-crime-it-is front):
Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa)
In 48 hours:
Israel bombed civilians in 5 countries.
Israel debated if it's okay to rape Palestinians.
Israel killed the man they’re negotiating with.
Israel violated UN resolutions, Geneva and Vienna Conventions.
Israel killed the journalists covering these events.
France's gymnastics program is so fucked that one of their gymnasts quit to represent Algeria instead and she just won gold
British fascists set fire to hotel housing asylum seekers
Starmer’s Britain
The International Boxing Association will award the Italian cop boxer Carini the full 100k dollars awarded to Olympic gold medalists as a consolation prize for having to fight a boxer who is better than her. The vast majority of western media also continues to push the false narrative that Imane Khelif is trans, including numerous state propaganda channels.
Edit: I want to add that most of the state propaganda channels that are pushing the conspiracy theories against Khelif do not recognize the authority of the IBA and considers it a corrupt organization but now their secret "gender tests" are the word of God.
Civil war baby, let's fucking go:
https://xcancel.com/BenzionSanders/status/1818013939206357280The IDF is withdrawing multiple battalions from the Gaza Strip and sending them to defend the Beit Lid base which is under siege by fascist militias.
(cw: torture) UN did a report on Zionist treatment of detainees in occupied Palestine
https://xcancel.com/AdHaque110/status/1818742248919777307
gruesome details, don't read if you aren't ready to be engulfed in a red mist of anger
If you really think about it, everytime someone posts on hexbear, that's news. Me posting in the "regular" mega about how I want get Chinese food for lunch? That's news, none of you knew that until I posted it. Someone posting their opinion on a movie? That's news, I didn't know their opinion before on that movie. So really, all posts on this site are news, which makes all posts part of the news mega.
Nicolas Maduro: "Social media creates a virtual reality controlled by our new archenemy, Elon Musk, who'd like to come with an army to invade Venezuela. Thank god you showed your face. We knew you were behind all the bots with your money, with your satellite."
"He intends to control the world. Elon Musk already controls Argentina. He's after your lithium, people of Argentina. He already controls Ecuador. He's the representation of fascist ideology in the world. Economic power supporting the fascist ideology of extreme right"
Erdogan, being Erdogan, has done a piece of political theatre to appease popular opinion and has threatened to intervene in the zionists' genocide against Palestine. The illegal zionist entity, who is not a NATO state, is now demanding that Turkey should be thrown out of NATO and has contacted the US as well as every NATO vassal state to make these demands.
The Gaza Ministry of Health has declared a polio epidemic in the Strip.
The WHO spokeswoman says a variant of polio is spreading rapidly in Gaza due to lack of access to vaccination:
It is actually a variant that originally developed a long time ago. … Wherever we see it appearing, we give it a big vaccination response, and that usually stops it.
But we have to have the security. We have to have the means to get the vaccine to Gaza and to the children. Vaccines are of no use if they are in a vial or on a truck. So there is an answer, but the answer is that we need a ceasefire.
99% of colonial regimes stop killing resistance leaders just before they decide to give up and stop fighting
Israel appears to be gunning for the world record of "how many missiles of differing nationalities can we provoke to rain down on our country," which is certainly an interesting goal. Maybe they'll hit Turkiye next. Maybe they'll get really spicy and try and get the DPRK into the game.
Malaysia issues a travel warning to the UK:
https://xcancel.com/MacaesBruno/status/1820097223910191553In burgerland tech news, the CEO of Bungie invited an employee to see his new cars and then laid her off 2 days later
What a speech by Hassan Nasrallah.
He confirmed that the "support front" in South Lebanon and Northern occupied Palestine is no longer a singular support front, but a front in a wider war in Palestine, Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon and Iran. He also confirmed that the normal pace of operations in the north will accelerate from tomorrow, but also that a direct response to the assassination of Fuad Shukr will be delivered independently and it will be a strong response. He directly threatened Netanyahu and his western backers in the end of the speech. Very energetic and strong speech, that was truly Sayyid Hassan in his prime.
Santucci continued in the Facebook post aimed at unleashing his frustrations, and raising awareness about an agreement imposed by the Cheery Board that he believes is outdated and harmful.
“I have people who would buy them if I could sell them.”.
The type of cherries grown, and left to rot by Santucci because of the rule, are tart cherries, which have a “very short shelf life.” Santucci grows about 30 acres worth of them each year, but a marketing order passed in 1937 (after a notably tumultous up-and-down in the cherry industry left many cherry farmers out of business) imposes limitations on how much can be sold in order to make way for imports, which led to the wasting of a large portion of his cherry crop.
The act is a “vain attempt to prop up the price of cherries,”
Most efficent market economy.
Pack it up. Blinken said it’s a fact that Maduro rigged the election, and he has never lied.
Worth a read, US general wants a Marshall Plan for Latam to combat China. Mainly mentions Belt and Road as the threat they're worried about.
spoiler
A top U.S. military general wants a "Marshall Plan" for Latin America but is likely more concerned about China's encroachment into America's backyard with "dual use" infrastructure than about what poor people in the Global South actually need.
But then again, Gen. Laura Richardson, SOUTHCOM commander, is a military officer,not a diplomat or humanitarian program lead at USAID. Richardson told an audience at the Aspen Security Forum last week that the U.S. has been MIA in the region while Russia and especially China has been exploiting the post-COVID economic downturn with both military outreach (Russia recently in Cuba) and development projects (Beijing's Belt and Road).
That is why Washington needs to offer its own "Marshall Plan" to Latin America, which it views as it its own sphere of influence. She said 22 of the 31 countries in the region have signed on to the Belt and Road development program.
“How are we competing Team USA and Team Democracy with the tenders that are coming out from [other] countries? How are we getting our U.S. quality investment and talking about our U.S. companies investing in the region? We have a lot of companies in the region. I don’t think we’re branding Team USA as we should. It should be better. We’ve got to be bragging about what U.S. quality investment does,” she said.
The Marshall Plan, proposed by Secretary of State George C. Marshall in a speech at Harvard University in 1947, was launched by President Harry S. Truman in 1948 to help Europe rebuild after World War II. The plan provided $13.3 billion in aid to 16 countries through 1951, about $150 billion in today's dollars.
“I really believe that economic security and national security are going hand-in-hand here in this hemisphere,” she said. Security of course, is the optimal word here. "If (Belt and Road is) for doing good in the hemisphere, then I’m all for it. But it makes me a little suspicious when it’s in the critical infrastructure … deep water ports, 5G, cybersecurity, energy, space … I worry about the dual use nature of that,” Richardson said.
“These are state-owned enterprises by a communist government and I’m worried about the flipping of that to a military application very quickly if something were to happen, maybe in the Indo-Pacom region,” she said.
Therein lies the crux of the situation. On one hand she is absolutely right. As in Africa, Global South countries are reacting to economic outreach from China and Russia because a) they need it and America (private nor public) isn't in the game and b) help from China and Russia doesn't appear to come with as many strings as U.S. assistance might demand. She may also be on point that there are a dearth of high-level visits and attention to the region, giving the very real impression that Latin America is an afterthought.
But we should also ask why the military is taking the lead on asking the real questions here. Where are the diplomats? Is this just another argument for putting more military eyes and assets in the region?
Richardson is right to raise the issue: it is past time that Washington stop whining about China's influence and apply some elbow grease to nurturing productive relations with its neighbors that aren't just about military or political ideological influence. In other words, a two-way street, that if paved well, will mean security and prosperity for everyone. But we should also ask why the military is taking the lead on asking the real questions here, and who, in the end will be providing the answers.
If the US says you should be worried about Belt and Road for its military uses then you should be MORE worried about any US competitor to that given the history of the US in the region.
I hope Iran really goes hard after Israel's power grid / power generation. A country as small as Israel can only have so much in the way of power distribution.
I am a bit embarrassed to admit that a decade or so ago, I got really into prepping. I wasn't a reactionary or anything, but I was fascinated by the question of what could potentially shut down society. Got really into reading about the Carrington Event and EMPs that come from launching nukes in the atmosphere.
I think it's easy to underestimate just how much of our lives depend on electricity. If you don't have power, very few people can work or get around. You can't buy anything and stores can't open. No internet or telecommunications. Basically, society completely shuts down and shit hits the fan. People in Gaza are able to get by without electricity because they are in survival mode and they've had to build their lives around unreliable electricity anyway. But your average Israeli will have no way to cope with losing electricity.
What's causing the Islamophobic riots across the UK, and why now?
- The riots have been instigated by the Zionist asset Stephen Yaxley-Lennon ('Tommy Robinson'), who has been working for the State of Israel since 2009 as part of the so-called 'counterjihad' Islamophobia movement established by that state. When his organisation, the English Defence League, was incorporated in 2011, two years after its inception, it was named the English & Jewish Defence League. The Jewish Defence League, a Zionist terrorist organisation, has been a key part of violent Islamophobic street thuggery in the UK over the past decade.
- Yaxley-Lennon is one of the most high-profile actors in the State of Israel's Online Influencers Programme in response to Operation Al-Aqsa Storm. He and others, like Oli London, Noa Tishby, Hen Mazzig, Arsen Ostrovsky and Emily Schrader (and many others) are paid to distribute Zionist propaganda, of which pushing back against pro-Palestine protests and sowing Islamophobia are two important and interlinked aims.
- The recent Islamophobic riots in the UK should be seen as the latest phase of the State of Israel's war on British Muslims, who it sees as originating the protest movement in the UK. These riots are designed to punish Muslims for their anti-Zionist sentiment after various other methods to suppress opposition to Zionism by the State of Israel have been thwarted. The State of Israel's attempts to use its assets and operatives in the British political and media class — such as Suella Braverman and Michael Gove — to thwart pro-Palestinian protests have failed. Zionist counter-protests have failed to mobilise significant numbers. Sporadic Zionist thuggery and the use of other assets — such as Iranian secularist extremists — have also failed to intimidate Muslims. So now the State of Israel is weaponising its cannon fodder on the white nationalist far-right, who have greater numbers than either Zionist street thugs or Iranian monarchists and secularist extremists.
- Finally, there are also questions about which actor authored the idea that Muslims were responsible for the ostensible triggers for these events. MI6 and its assets (eg Paul Mason) are desperately trying to pretend this was a Russian disinfo op. But the original stories did not come from Russia. Where did they come from?
Hezbollah firing at Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine
The ride is starting!Finally got around to watching that AOC stream about Biden and she legitimately looks and sounds like she took a whole line of coke before crafting her master theory.
January 6th seemed to have really shaken her and she’s one of those libs thinking a Trump victory will awaken Brownshirt sleeper cells to commit mass genocide upon his inauguration.
Fuck Israel and fuck America. Absolute blight on humanity
Authoritarian Venezuela should follow the example of democratic Ukraine by banning all opposition parties.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. has “serious concerns” over the veracity of presidential election results in Venezuela on Sunday, after President Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner by the country’s elections council.
The US is only pro-democracy when it’s convenient to their foreign policy goals.
The US State Department, which has backed several coup attempts in Venezuela, claimed opposition candidate Edmundo González won the presidential election. But as supposed “evidence”, it cited unverifiable accusations by groups funded by the US government. - Ben Norton
Fash in the UK continue with their attempted pogroms. A hotel housing asylum seekers has been attacked and is currently surrounded, with police currently holding a line.
Keir Starmer has described the riots as “far right thuggery” and “racist rhetoric”, finally conceding that there might be some sort of anti-Muslim thing happening.
Edit: video of fascists trying to break into a hotel to attack asylum seekers
Mali tells the Ukronazis to kiss their Malian asses:
https://xcancel.com/marcus_herve/status/1820219050594652360🚨🇲🇱- Just in: Mali cut diplomatic ties with Ukraine 🇺🇦 with immediate effect, and promises to seize the competent judicial authorities, following the statements made by Mr Andriy Yusov and Yurii Pyvovarov which constitute acts of terrorism and apology for terrorism.
In a second night of fascist street violence in the U.K., homes are being targeted alongside mosques.
Amongst the chants today, the Nazis were shouting “stop the boats”, a term used and encouraged by Keir Starmer’s election campaign.
This paper was published in 2023, but is popping up on Twitter for me today - I hadn’t seen the evidence of a non-Chinese origin of the virus laid out so clearly before.
Genome analysis of Covid shows that the dominant strain of Covid that spread during the pandemic neither originated in China, or was the cause of the December 2019 epidemic in China (which was due to 2 other strains).
Based on the estimated tMRCA of the non-redundant global genomes, SARS-CoV-2 appears to have already been circulating globally for at least 10 months before its first discovery in Wuhan. Therefore, focusing only on the genomes in China would make it impossible to reveal the actual origin of the pandemic.
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The tMRCAs of DL and DS were in September and October, respectively. Considering the ancient status of DS and DL compared with the status of GL, these results indicate that the three haplotypes were already separated before April 2019 and have evolved in parallel since then. In other words, GL that caused the global pandemic did not originate from the viral strains that caused the epidemic in China. The ancestor strains (DS0 and DL0) of DS and DL that gave birth to GL were already extinct before the outbreak of COVID-19; therefore, much more recent tMRCAs have been estimated by using only the current genome sequences.
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In contrast to the time order in China, the tMRCA of GL was considerably earlier than that of the two older haplotypes in most regions of the world, including India, Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa, the USA, and South America ( Fig. 4 ). The earliest tMRCA of GL was identified in India, which had a mean of May 9, 2019, followed by Africa, Europe, and the USA with tMRCAs in May to July, 2019, suggesting that GL had spread globally at least 6 months before its discovery.
Oh here comes the United States to lecture Venezuela (and the rest of the non enlightened world) on "popular will" when it comes to voting. You know, the country that elected presidents that didn't even win the popular vote and the country that can't get 70% of it's population out to vote, oh, it's also the country that systematically carries out voter suppression and makes changes to the demographics just to get [GENERIC WHITE GUY WHO IS A MASSIVE FASCIST] elected.
(CW: Fake blood) Opposition rioter in Venezuela dies for the camera; miraculously resurrects and gets on a bike after the picture is taken
The psyop is in full force
They're not sending their best folks
President Maduro of Venezuela has agreed to fight Elon Musk in Poliedro Sports Arena in Caracas. He also said he will accept Elon’s trip to Mars, so long as they travel together.
I hope Elon goes to Caracas and immediatly gets arrested and killed live on Venezuelan TV. I think everyone would pretty much be happy with that.
Biden boarded the Russian plane that brought the exchanged American prisoners back and after everyone had gotten out. He could have ended up in Russia if nobody was paying attention!
White House says he just wanted to personally thank the pilot for bringing the prisoners home. Clip on xcancel
US tells its citizens to leave Lebanon IMMEDIATELY on ANY available flight. It's kicking off.
Defeated candidate in Venezuela was CIA operative in Operation Condor in El Salvador
Article
A far-right candidate, González Urrutia, now portrayed as a 'democrat' by certain media, was in the 1980s an operative in El Salvador of Operation Condor, under the command of the CIA, torturing and murdering in favor of US intervention, denounces former MP Nidia Díaz.
"We can't forget the nefarious role played by Edmundo González Urrutia (the current far-right candidate for the presidency of Venezuela) in El Salvador when he was the second-in-command at the Venezuelan embassy, together with Ambassador Leopoldo Castillo, known as El Mata Curas (The Priest Killer)," said Salvadoran lawyer and leader Nidia Díaz, in an article reproduced by several websites on the continent.
According to the former member of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) and member of the Central American Parliament, "the hidden face of Edmundo González" needs to be illuminated so that we know who he is.
"This happened between 1979-1985, as part of the Condor Plan in El Salvador, the counter-insurgency project that Republican Ronald Reagan pushed against the people of El Salvador to prevent the revolutionary forces from advancing, since the factor that prolonged the civil war was the US intervention."
"The mission of Ambassador Castillo and Edmundo González was to be an agent of death. In the documents declassified by the CIA in February 2009, Castillo was mentioned as co-responsible for the intelligence services that coordinated, financed and gave the order for the execution of Operation Centaur," he denounced.
Remember in 2020 when all the libs got together and pretended for a hot minute that they didn’t love election denial conspiracies?
Israel just bombed Beirut.
https://x.com/aldanmarki/status/1818329359591076167
Israel takes responsibility for airstrikes in Beirut.
Sky News cut off the former chief superintendent of the Met Police as soon as he mentions far-right radicalisation on Twitter since Musk's takeover.
That didn't take long. The most hawkish imperialists in Congress will push for a resolution "recognizing" opposition candidate Edmundo González as "president-elect" (who recognizes posts like that?) and calling for new sanctions. Guaidó 2.0 ladies and gentlemen
Leaked draft of U.S. Reps Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) & Mario Díaz-Balart (R) House resolution to recognize Edmundo González "as the president-elect of Venezuela" and to call for the "imposition of new sanctions" on the Venezuelan gov't and its foreign allies.
US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, said in a note released this evening, that after consulting several US allies, including those who adopted different positions, none came to the conclusion that Nicolas Maduro won the elections.
He concluded by saying that "it is clear to the United States" that Edmundo Gonzalez, candidate on the unitary platform, won the elections.
GUAIDO 2.0!!!
EyupLovely pinpoints an itch I’ve had the last week - Kamala is a speed run of Starmerism:
The Americans are speedrunning 2020-23 Starmerism with the coconut tree lady. Same smugness, same guilt tripping about the danger of the alternative, same certainty, same denialism of everything they did as a prosecutor, same height. They don’t know it, but they are doing it.
Imperial media agencies are reporting that "anonymous officials" affiliated with the IRGC say Khamenei has issued a directive to strike the occupation entity directly (CW: Imperial/pro-Zionist source with all that entails)
Several Resistance-adjacent sources however are suggesting this could be a fake leak planted by the occupation to manufacture justification for "preemptive" aggression against Iran and the axis
Delta and United Airlines (US airlines) and British Airways have suspended flights to Ben Gurion
Kamala Harris Claims She’s Tougher Than Donald Trump on Border Policies
Vice President Kamala Harris: “Our administration worked on the most significant border security bill in decades. Some of the most conservative Republicans in Washington, D.C., supported the bill. Even the Border Patrol endorsed it. It was all set to pass, but at the last minute, Trump directed his allies in the Senate to vote it down.”
Supporters: “Boo!”
Vice President Kamala Harris: “Right.”
This is a pretty funny article on grayzone about trouble with new hires at the NED. On the one hand, critical support for any of these nitwits who join NED without understanding the purpose of the organization (doing coups and regime changes) and then being a wrench in the works out of sheer incompetence. On the other hand, I can think of no more liberal gesture than shredding an Israel flag while being employed as a senior member of the NGO-imperial complex.
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/07/30/grayzone-pr-fiasco-us-govt-regime-change-leaked-emails/
Another fallen comrade
full PFLP commemoration
🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:
With great pride and honor, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine mourns on behalf of its Secretary-General, his deputy, the Political Bureau, the Central Committee, and all its members at home and in the diaspora, their comrade, the martyred fighter Suleiman Mohammed Kanaan, son of the Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, who was martyred during a confrontation with the occupation in the city of Al-Bireh in the occupied West Bank.
As the Front extends its deepest condolences to his family, comrades, and friends, it affirms that it has lost a revolutionary, fighting comrade distinguished by his generosity, courage, and boldness.
Our martyred knight joined the Front from a young age, believing in its revolutionary path and struggle, distinguished by his high revolutionary morals, his generous spirit, and his love for the resistance and its heroes, engaging in the struggle despite his young age, representing a model for his generation.
The Front also mourns the heroic martyr Khalid Hamidat and affirms that this pure blood is our path to achieving our people's goals of liberation, return, and the establishment of the state of Palestine on all Palestinian national soil with its capital Al-Quds, and urges our people in the occupied West Bank to actively participate in the struggle, uniting with our proud people in Gaza of Glory to make the occupation and its settlers pay the price for their presence on our Palestinian land.
Glory and eternity to our heroic martyr and all the martyrs. Victory is inevitably the ally of our people and its valiant resistance.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Central Media Department January 15, 2024
Death to the occupation
China supports Maduro.
China asks countries to respect the election held by the Venezuelan people.
This Tuesday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson stated that: "he people and the government are capable of managing their own internal affairs.” On Monday, the country congratulated Nicolás Maduro on his victory.
The Zionists really think they are untouchable:
https://xcancel.com/PressTV/status/1818478137552027664
🔴 IRGC: Head of Hamas political bureau Ismail Haniyeh martyred in Tehran.
https://xcancel.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1818485325431181657
Hamas announced the martyrdom of the head of the political bureau of the group Ismail Haniyeh along with one of his guards "following a treacherous Zionist airstrike on his residence in #Tehran."
maduro stop doing dumb shit with elon musk, and socialize means of production
No wonder Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger gtfo of ECOWAS:
https://xcancel.com/african_stream/status/1819685234058682871Ivorian representative Adjaratou Traoré errupted into a fit of rage at an ECOWAS Parliament session in Abuja on 20th July, 2024, when her Senegalese counterpart stated that African heads of state impoverished their countries. In her view, certain things should never be said about African leaders and this is one of them.
For the second time this year, the Royal Moroccan Navy will conduct several military exercises along the coast of Western Sahara, approximately 125 kilometres from the Canary Islands.
These exercises will begin in September and end at the end of December. During the hours in which these exercises are taking place, no fishing vessels will be allowed to fish in the area.
The part about fishing being banned is important to remember, because fishing is one of the most important food source for Sahrawis
The propaganda on Venezuela is mind-numbing. A media outlet in Spain invited on ex COUP LEADER and Venezuelan Dictator Pedro Carmona to accuse Maduro of "mega fraud" (with no evidence). Carmona was DICTATOR of Venezuela for 2 days in April 2002, after a US-backed COUP against elected President Chávez.
The Western media is literally inviting on dictators who briefly overthrew Venezuela's democratically elected government in a US-backed coup to accuse elected President Maduro of "fraud". There are absolutely zero standards for media coverage of Venezuela. It is dumpster fire.
US-backed coup leader Pedro Carmona was the wealthy president of Venezuela's corporate lobby group. He met with Bush admin officials a few days before a US-backed coup briefly overthrew elected President Chávez and installed Carmona as unelected dictator.
China (PRC), DPRK, Russia and Syria also recognized Maduro's victory.
I expect Belarus and Serbia to do the same soon. Both Turkey, Brazil and Colombia said the elections were peaceful and they do not agree with the fraud allegations.
Open war with Lebanon is inevitable at this point:
https://xcancel.com/sahouraxo/status/1818328836691656808Israel bombed a residential building in Haret Hreik, Beirut, near the Bahman Hospital.
Venezuela is like the most obvious attempt by the US on trying to take over the Petroleum Resources of a poorer country except from the literal invasion and occupations of oil fields in the middle east.
Blinken informed G7 that Iran and Hezbollah could attack Israel in the next 24 hours. Blinken called a conference call to coordinate with U.S. allies and try to generate last-minute diplomatic pressure on Iran and Hezbollah to minimize retaliation as much as possible.
Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah have promised to respond to Israel's assassinations of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut. Blinken emphasized that limiting the impact of the attacks is the best chance of avoiding a total war.
Reporter from The Bulwark reporting that Josh Shapiro worked as a hasbarist at the Israeli embassy in DC during the summer of 1996.
David Lammy confirms Labour has DITCHED its plans to recognise a Palestinian state. Labour will instead delay recognition indefinitely, making it conditional on Israel feeling "safe and secure" as part of a "credible" and "viable" peace process. (slight editorialization, but not that much)
BREAKING! Tonight, the U.S. State Department released a statement announcing—in contradiction to the official Venezuelan election results—the far-right opposition candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, as the winner of the Presidential election. This inappropriate and blatant meddling in the democratic electoral process of Venezuela is part of the U.S. government’s playbook for destabilizing and intervening in other countries for their own interests.
We saw a similar plot unfold in 2019 when the U.S. recognized “self-declared” Juan Guaidó as President of Venezuela. The U.S. has no place to determine or “verify” the election results of another country’s sovereign democratic elections.
Especially during the Trump presidency, the U.S. imposed hundreds of economic sanctions and coercive measures on Venezuela that were deliberately designed to create economic suffering, hunger, social instability and emigration. As the economic noose was tightened, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans fled the country in an effort to find relief from this economic reality. Economic sanctions are a diabolical warfare that impose suffering and death on the population as a form of collective punishment by the United States and its principle allies in NATO. This policy has been imposed on Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, and other countries in the global south that have tried to chart an independent path.
The people of the world won’t stand for U.S. imperialism’s attempts to defy the democratic mandate of the Venezuelan people. Hands Off Venezuela!
You know the Taiwanese boxer also failed the "hormone test" like the Algerian boxer. Imagine if JK had to fight online with those pro-Taiwan liberals because of this. lol
Might not quite qualify as news, but market indices across the Transpacific satellites have cratered after Monday's opening. Not even close to being a finance person so I might be relaying some information incorrectly; perhaps others who are more informed can chime in.
Nikkei was down ~7 percent over the past 2 days, its largest such drop ever (but has recovered some), nearly 20pct contraction from peakOccupied Korea: KOSPI down 7pct over the past week, triggered a halt when futures precipitously dropped
down nearly 7pct just todayA spontaneous rally is underway in Lebanon's Beirut after the IDF strike. The participants are shouting “revenge against the Zionists”.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out a targeted strike in Beirut on the commander responsible for the murder of the children in Majdal Shams and the killing of numerous additional Israeli civilians, according to the IDF.
Thank you comrade @Redcuban1959@hexbear.net for the Venezuelan election posting on the prior thread
In case you hear bullshit fearmongering about Russian and Chinese bombers off the coast of Alaska
This stuff is normal. We do it too. When I wa a in the Navy crossing the Pacific the pilots would intercept each other all the time. It was normal operations and patrols. They would scramble jets. The jets would Intercept, smile and wave and then turn away. Buisness casual.
Things like this only get published when the empire wants to manufacture a threat that isn't there or sell more weapons.
Hungary blocks the EU from releasing a joint pro-coup statement on Venezuela. Only statement will be from the unelected commissioners, judging someone's elections.
Hungary’s veto underlines a fundamental flaw in EU foreign policy whereby decisions — including potential future sanctions on Venezuela — must be unanimously agreed among the bloc’s 27 member countries. This has led several countries, such as Germany, to advocate taking foreign policy decisions by a qualified majority. The Hungarian government couldn’t be immediately reached for a comment on the motivation for its veto.
Some people are saying this is fake news, but besides one newspaper, no other said it was fake.
Medvedev says a full scale war in the Middle East is the only path to peace.
https://xcancel.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1818762851290591510
Al Jazeera reports that F-16s are landing in Ukraine. Surely this new wunderwaffen will turn the tide and send the muscovite hordes back to the steppe, right? Right?
Lloyd Austin making some concerning comments… stating that the US will defend Israel “if Israel is attacked, we will help Israel defend itself”. That could interpreted in a bunch of different ways. I say “concerning” because Israel I’m sure has a very broad definition of what “being attacked” means. I’m 100% convinced the attack on the Druze children was a false flag, but conceivably doing a major offensive in retaliation could be considered “defending Israel”.
Are we entering the cool zone, comrades? I log off for a
weekdecade and when I come back I find Iran finally ready to commit to a war, there's no way they chose the term "special operation" not knowing everyone would immediately think of the "special military operation" that Russia is doing in Ukraine, right? Such is the power of touching grass.All the fed telegram channels have increased their output. You can tell something is coming because their staff teams are now online non-stop and outputting quadruple the content.
I doubt it's happening today, probably anywhere between 1 day and 4 weeks from now. It sincerely depends on the size of the "special operation" Iran intends to perform. If we're using the term the same way the Russians did then a military build up is necessary first followed by a deployment. I'm thinking it will be sooner rather than later because I can't imagine a deployment at all, the only way to deploy to Israel is through the Red Sea and that's where all the western forces are countering Yemen, they can't do it. So this leaves ballistic strikes which should be quicker to organise.
Unless someone can make an argument for how they're supposed to get equipment through Iraq and Syria?
Portuguese communist party put out a statement congratulating Maduro and denouncing attempts to overthrow the election, followed by the expected outrage and indignation of the professional media class (in debates and tv media where the party is not invited to) and the twitter ultra-left. So "what about vuvuzela, you support maduro dictator" is back as the main anti communist party talking point for now, beating out "skava ukraini you support putin".
There's always this same type of indignation from the soft-left and center as if THIS is the time the communists will drop our support for peace and non-aggression and adopt whatever narrative NATO wants us to, like the other left groups in this country do.
Maybe people will have forgotten all this by the time the party's Onward summer festival rolls around in september 6/7/8 and the PSUV sends a delegation with venezuelan goodies and stuff (last year I got a chavez poster), it's a fun time to be here if anyone wants to visit portugal btw.
Update on the case of the Gusano girl who supported the prostest until the protests destroyed her store.
By instructions of the re-elected president Nicolás Maduro through the Digital Worker Bank, the necessary and timely support and attention was provided to the young merchant who was a victim of vandalism in Catia la Mar.
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After proclaiming his victory in the elections and amid questions from the opposition, Maduro dedicated part of his speech to confronting Milei.
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, accepted the game proposed by the Argentine government and responded to Javier Milei during the speech in which he announced his electoral victory. "From Caracas I say: no to Milei's Nazi fascism. He has the face of a monster, too. He's ugly, stupid. You can't stand against me for one round, you cowardly insect," the Bolivarian president dedicated to Milei, who hours before had conceded the electoral victory to the Venezuelan opposition and called for "the Armed Forces this time to defend democracy and the popular will."
"You are a complete fascist. These people have already said no to savage capitalism, no to fascism, no to Milei, no to Milei's Nazi fascism. We are giving an example to the world," said Maduro in the early hours of Caracas, after giving to know the official figures that left him the winner with 51 percent of the votes; figure that is yet to be recognized by the opposition led by the candidate Edmundo González Urrutia (44 percent), under the wing of María Corina Machado.
24 States Have Implemented More Restrictive Voting Policies Since 2020
The wave of anti-voting laws over the past four years disproportionately affected Black voters and voters in the South and Midwest. According to the data, at least 65% of Black voters now live in a state that has implemented at least one restrictive voting law. Altogether, 57% of eligible voters live in a state with more restrictions on casting a ballot than they faced four years ago.
But vuvuzela irregularities
Bernie promises to coach KKKopmala on how to sound more "progressive", so she can better fool voters.
Oops. I mean, Sanders pledges to do 'everything I can' to get Harris elected
GAMMONS IN SOUTHPORT, UK HAVE BEGAN RIOTING AFTER THREE CHILDREN WERE STABBED TO DEATH BY A 17 YEAR OLD BOY
THERE WERE CONSPIRACY THEORIES POSTED ONLINE THAT THE BOY ARRIVED TO THE UK VIA A SMALL BOAT LAST YEAR, THOUGH THIS IS FALSE. A MOSQUE HAS BEEN ATTACKED, POLICE HAVE ALSO BEEN ATTACKED
EXAMPLES VIDEO BELOW (REMOVED SOME LINKS BECAUSE I CAN'T VOUCH FOR AUTHENTICITY BUT IF YOU SEARCH SOUTHPORT ON TWITTER YOU'LL SEE HOW VIOLENT SOME OF THE CLASHES HAVE BEEN)
Intel Slava Z is egging on the nationalists and saying stuff like “British nationalists are attacking a hotel where Islamist asylum seekers are living off the money of British taxpayers” and gleefully showing footage of them starting the hotel on fire.
How soon they have forgotten Odessa. Cheering on racist hooligans doing arson against civilians. Shameful
⭕️ Summary of Hezbullah's operations in the past 300 days against the Israeli enemy
How many attacks took place on what
- Border locationzs: 1328
- Barracks: 391
- Settlements: 422
- Border posts: 198
- Military bases: 102
- Jets and drones: 59
Israeli's damages and losses:
- Houses in settlements: 1,050
- Infantry positions: 825
- Infantry fortifications: 663
- Spy equipment: 450
- Leadership HQs: 182
- Vehicles: 125
- Artillery: 61
- Iron Dome parts: 12
- UAVs: 8
- Military factories: 4
- Spy balloons: 2
Weapons used by Hezbullah (times used):
- Rockets: 914
- ATGMs: 742
- Artillery: 485
- Direct weapons: 178
- Air force (drones): 148
- Small arms: 88
- Air defense: 69
- Engineering (IEDs): 25
Status of the Israeli homefront:
- 230,000 refugees
- 35 km attack radius by Hezbullah
- 43 settlements evacuated
- 5 km evacuated military zone in Israel
The DPRK almost got a bronze medal in gymnastics just now. Came in 4th place
Marg bar amrika
Marg bar israel
All strength to the Resistance
Sharing a @yogthos@lemmygrad.ml post from Lemmygrad since I think it fits here too:
Abstract
Amid the current U.S.-China technological race, the U.S. has imposed export controls to deny China access to strategic technologies. We document that these measures prompted a broad-based decoupling of U.S. and Chinese supply chains. Once their Chinese customers are subject to export controls, U.S. suppliers are more likely to terminate relations with Chinese customers, including those not targeted by export controls. However, we find no evidence of reshoring or friend-shoring. As a result of these disruptions, affected suppliers have negative abnormal stock returns, wiping out $130 billion in market capitalization, and experience a drop in bank lending, profitability, and employment.
Jumping down to the summary:
5. Conclusion
By forbidding U.S. firms to export to a selected list of Chinese firms for national security reasons, export controls aim to generate a selective decoupling of U.S. firms from China. We indeed show that they prompt a supply chain reconfiguration away from Chinese customers, both those targeted by export controls and those that are not. This broad-based decoupling of U.S. firms from China is not offset by the creation of new supply chain relations in other countries. Indeed, the total number of customers declines, potentially inflicting collateral damage upon the same U.S. firms whose technology export controls are trying to protect.
We indeed find that export controls impose significant collateral damage on the affected U.S. firms.
"We InDeEd FiNd" this phrasing pisses me off for no rational reason
We estimate a negative cumulative abnormal return of 2.5% and a decline in revenues and profitability following the introduction of Chinese customers in the export control lists. These costs ought to be weighed against the expected benefits of such measures.
Moreover, the benefits of U.S. export controls, namely denying China access to advanced technology, may be limited as a result of Chinese strategic behavior. Indeed, there is evidence that, following U.S. export controls, China has boosted domestic innovation and self-reliance, and increased purchases from non-U.S. firms that produce similar technology to the U.S.-made ones subject to export controls. We lack a comprehensive framework to assess the optimality of these geopolitical tools.
What no theory does to a mf
If national security is a public good, are these export controls a way to make firms internalize their negative externalities? Is it actually beneficial to penalize the same domestic firms that produce cutting-edge technologies? Some may argue that if the government forbids U.S. firms from exporting to certain foreign customers, it should indemnify those U.S. firms. This could be achieved by boosting domestic demand for the restricted goods, in what may look like an industrial plan to reshore or friend-shore high-tech supply chains.
China could be your friend shore if you could act normal.
In addition, export controls imposed by a single country, the U.S., may not have the desired effect since Chinese firms can potentially buy similar goods from non-U.S. firms. The benefits of U.S. export controls may also be diminished if they trigger an increase in domestic Chinese innovation or in IP theft.
Who could have guessed?
More research, both theoretical and empirical, is needed to better understand the costs and benefits of using economic linkages in the geopolitical arena.
Maduro threatens the west with a full proletarian revolution.
I'm interpreting this as "if you keep pushing me I will upend this demsoc shit Chavez started and we'll just fucking do it the old way with a full DOTP, I fucking dare you, I double dare you".
Source is fash shit do not visit the source unless you want your brain to rot.
mfw the leopards ate my face
https://xcancel.com/camilapress/status/1818269726336049470Opposition rioter cries when she sees that guarimberos looted her retail stand where she worked.
One minute she’s supporting the guarimbas in the street, the next minute she’s seeing the guarimbas themselves vandalizing her small business in La Guaira.
Israeli police in conflict with the IOF and right-wing protestors
CW: SA
The Israel government has finally decided to do the bare minimum and interrogate soldiers suspected of commiting a wide variety of sex crimes on Palestinian hostages. The IOF and many right wingers are outraged at this, not disputing that it happened but enraged at the idea of the soldiers facing any punishment. This has escalated to protestors storming and then wandering around the military base where the Palestinians are being held, kind of a mini Jan 6th. No arrests have been made.
What's that saying "ownership is 9/10 possession"? Maduro needs to do that. Do what USA republicans did with Bush v Gore. Announce that the election is OVER AND DONE! Look into the camera and say "any further questions can be answered by my t-shirt" and point to his chest (he's wearing a t-shirt that says MADURO WON) the croud laughs it's a hit on twitter. Own it like it was a fact of nature.
Lula da Silva and Joe Biden will talk on the phone tomorrow about the situation in Venezuela. Conversation was requested by the American government.
Will Lula say to Biden to tell Blinken to stop fucking writting about Maduro, like he did with Bush and Condoleezza Rice when they were attacking Chavez?
The Workers' Party (Brazil, Lula's Party) recognized Maduro's victory in free, peaceful and fair elections.
Not all westoids are sad about Yemeni sanctions against zionist-related shipping, Danish shipping giant Mærsk has adjusted their expected operating profit to between USD three and five billion, up from earlier expected profits of one to three billion as zionist-related shipping now has to take the longer and more expensive route around Africa, allowing shipping providers to extract greater profits.
The Danish-language article I got this from describes the situation in the Red Sea thus:
It is still not straightforward to transport goods in the Red Sea, where the Houthi movement in Yemen has fired missiles at ships several times over the past few months.
This description actively makes readers dumber by making Ansar Allah look like a group of cartoon villain terrorists who fires at random ships for no apparent reason.
Uh, so the Venezuelan opposition released their "results" which is Gonzalez 69.46% x Maduro 30.54%. But what about the other candidates? The CNE results show that the other candidates accounted for 4.6% of the votes.
The opposition site doesn't work, always giving me a connection error. A bunch of people saying the site doesn't work. Wikipedia source is literally an El País article that doesn't mention the opposition results.
Update 1: It seems the website doesn't show the results, but to see if your vote was counted...
Update 2: None of the links they provided work or show the results. Really great job, congrats to the CIA for being this lazy.
Update 3: All of the websites ask for a Venezuelan id. Probably stealing people's ID to use in scams. The people who posted prints of what shows after they insert the ID is the place they voted... I know Maduro said letting these people free is better than arresting them because they are dumb. But they are really fucking dumb.
Update 4: The website doesn't work, Machado and Gonzalez probably went to sleep inside the Argentine Embassy. My guess is that they fucked up the made up results didn't have anything ready beside "MUH GONZALEZ WON WITH 99% with 99 BRAZILLIONS VOTES FROM VUVUZELANS". This is like when Bolsonaro in 2022 presented ULTIMATE proof that there was electoral fraud. And his proof was that his didn't use all his time on the radio. Then the Supreme Court told him to go fuck himself and gave him a 22 million reais penalty to pay.
Update 5: Now Machado gave up on the whole Website idea, and sent out a whatsapp message to her supporters saying they won now with 81%. Can't wait to see soon that they won with 100% of the votes.
The Undercover Policing Inquiry hearings continue to rumble on here in the UK. Amongst more details on what we already knew was this casually dropped bit of saying the quiet part out loud, when a spy cop is talking about his infiltration of the Stephen Lawerence Family Campaign:
"We're about gathering intelligence, not smearing individuals. That's a security service job. Let them do that."
Followed by mild panic from the officer, questioner, and them cutting the livestream.
Tom Fowler is a good follow on Twitter and hosts the SpyCops Info Podcast.
CW: Animal Mistreatment
Watching the Jon Stewart /
interview and you tell me if the moment where Jon Stewart brings up 's dog-killing service record and 
first recoils and then tries to turn the movement into a bellyful chuckle by leaning back and going "Thanks a lot." through tightly-gritted teeth was a genuine human reaction.Least dumb Sinophobe:
https://xcancel.com/jonst0kes/status/1819764124047540229
https://xcancel.com/jonst0kes/status/1819782521350918334There's no sugar-coating this so I'll give it to you straight:
- We don't have a competitive domestic chip industry & we won't have it in the next 10yrs
- China will take 🇹🇼 & control TSMC
- We will keep buying chips from TSMC w/ CCP backdoors in them, & pretend it's fine.
Both links dead, use download link instead: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/602949850027393040/1269771275497242687/video_2024-08-04_21-49-57.mp4?ex=66b14627&is=66aff4a7&hm=e1d64592a26130fc06e166888abc9ad25cf56b7eaf5163096912a84f71ce12f5&
https://streama ble.com/hy7n6hhttps://stream able.com/kzas7uNotable video of Al Qassam shooting armoured vehicles.
That is a Chinese Type-69-1 RPG
good thing i didnt stay on watch ...
okay so here is my "Dream" -Scenario .
-- , apperantly Iran is keeping complete radio silence with the USA , last time they informed the US of their Response ahead , now they are keept in the same silence as Israel. That makes sense with nethanyu doing it just after his returntrip. It seems that Iran is holding the USA 100% complicit , (they obviously are look ate the Media framing it and the Radio Silence on Isreal murdering the "Herold" it is Negotiating with in a Foreign country) . That makes the US Bases a very juice target for Iran .. they dont have much airdefense at all , they are just around the corner . And Targeting the US would finally put a direct cost on it for its unhinged Support , and end this stupid "Israeli Logo on the US Fist" game they play so succesfully..
Isreal has literally killed the man it was negotiating with , to the Loud Applause of the US Establishment , in their Countrys Capital , after its Presidents inaugration. A President that was "moderate" / "pro West" .. its sooooooo insane ...
Most War worthy Diplomatic insult in so many many years . ....
I mean we had wars over Buckets and Wars over "Emser Depeschen" ...
TFR issued for northern israel and southern Lebanon
What gives israel the authority to close off Lebanese airspace remains to be seen
Al Qassam dedicated a snipe to Ismail Haniyeh 🔥🔥:
https://xcancel.com/cheriblossom__/status/1819817631123210579“For your eyes, Abu Al Abed”
Diplomatic battles continue as the Venezuelan government breaks relations with Peru after the Boluarte government decided to "recognize" Edmundo González as "president-elect" (who recognizes that?)
Still, pretty ironic for Peru's unelected coup government to be spouting nonsense about democracy
Maduro should recognize Pedro Castillo as the President.
Fash channels are currently live reporting a "uprising" in the UK because someone set fire to a police station in Sunderland
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnl0lkrxgvxo
This is starting to look like a contagion that lumpen are all jumping on up and down the country. The contagion is similar to the 2011 riots, a lot of the poorest in the UK using it as an excuse to go out and wreck anything and everything for a bit of a laugh. No goal in mind, just wanna smash shit up. They're falling in with the fascists acting as a vanguard but the contagion is roughly the same energy as back then.
I remain convinced that Starmer had a pact with Farage, which led to Labour pulling support for their candidate in Clacton when he started gaining ground on Farage. Actions like this make me think it is an ongoing thing.
There has been an assassination attempt against Sudanese President Abdel Fattah al-Burhan by means of an explosives-laden drone during a military graduation ceremony in Port Sudan. Al Burhan has not suffered injuries but 5 other soldiers have died.
Venezuela’s authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro, was declared the winner of the country’s tumultuous presidential election early Monday, despite enormous momentum from an opposition movement that had been convinced this was the year it would oust Mr. Maduro’s socialist-inspired party.
The NYT's opening paragraph from its Venezeula article. A thing of beauty. The blue meth of pure ideology.
During the 25 years Mr. Maduro’s party has been in power, it has presided over an economic contraction unlike any seen outside war
The election was being watched closely in Washington, which has spent years trying push Mr. Maduro from office, levying brutal sanctions in 2019 that have strangled the country’s already crippled economy.
For a time it did. But in recent years, the socialist model has given way to brutal capitalism, economists say, with a small state-connected minority controlling much of the nation’s wealth.
Mr. Chávez swept to power in 1999 following a democratic election, vowing to remake a system led by a corrupt elite. Today, his movement runs a state widely viewed as corrupt, and his party’s leaders are the elite — and Ms. Machado and Mr. González had promised to oust them.
Are they trying to appeal to Trotskyists here?
Venezuela Supreme Court: So, we need everyone to presents their electoral results minutes to verify the election and the votes.
Maduro: Ok.
Gonzalez: I WON! I won't release any document to prove it. BUT I WON WITH 99% and 99 brazillion votes!
US: Clearly
CarmonaCaprillesGuaidoMaria Corina MachadoGonzalez won.President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro denounced late Friday, a false flag attack being planned by the opposition. According to intelligence received, it would take place in the Bello Monte area of Caracas.
Opposition woman acts like they're begging police for mercy in front the camera. Full video shows Venezuelan police signaling for her to move her child off the road. The media psyop factory is on full blast
The president of Iran, Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian, wrote in his user account on the X social network:
Today, dear Iran is mourning its partner in sorrow and joy, the eternal and proud companion of the path of resistance, the brave leader of the Palestinian resistance, the martyr of al-Quds, Haj Ismail Haniyeh. Yesterday I raised his victorious hand and today I have to bury him on my shoulders.
Martyrdom is the art of men of God. The bond between the two proud nations of Iran and Palestine will be stronger than before, and the path of resistance and defense of the oppressed will be followed stronger than ever. The Islamic Republic of Iran will defend its territorial integrity, honor and respect, and make the terrorist invaders regret their cowardly action.
"Indeed, Allah is the Most Merciful and Vengeful"
Source: https://xcancel.com/drpezeshkian/status/1818549280694477182
Abdul Malik Al Houthi speaking at 16:00 Jerusalem time, so 4 hours left until the speech. He needs to be quick, because Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah is speaking one hour later, at 17:00 Jerusalem time.
Remember the official news mega rule when it comes to speeches, nothing will happen because no "underdog" will ever announce a war on live TV without the surprise factor. Well of course except Ukraine who made a commercial for their counter offensive. I recommend listening to the Nasrallah speech, fantastic speaker and he shines in these situations.
Hearing that after the success of the "White Women: Answer The Call! Show up for Kamala Harris" and "White Dudes for Harris" zoom calls, the Harris campaign will be organizing a southern outreach zoom call titled "White Knights for Kkkamala".
Brazil, like Mexico, rejects OAS note against Venezuela.
Brazil has been saying behind the scenes that the ideal is for the OAS not to take a position in any way, as it would be counterproductive for it to do so. Brazilian diplomats believe that the body has lost its ability to deal with issues relating to Venezuela because it is considered by Brazilian sources to be biased and close to the United States, which has a critical view of Venezuela.
Diplomats report that the OAS, for example, accepted Venezuela's entry into the body after the country's self-declared president Juan Guaidó, an opponent of Maduro, expressed interest in joining the collegiate body. After the crisis with Guaidó, the country never rejoined the OAS, which limits, according to Itamaraty sources, the possibility of the country taking a position on itself. For this reason, there is a perception that any manifestation by the OAS could be used politically by Maduro himself, given the organization's history against the regime
Other countries, such as Paraguay and the Dominican Republic, which initially supported the note, considered it a bad move behind the scenes. Since the OAS is considered to be very biased against Venezuela.
All Latin American countries need to exit the OAS asap
Korea Herald: Covert agent identity leaks trigger alarm over S. Korea's intelligence operations
An ongoing investigation into the leak of military secrets, including personal details of South Korean covert agents abroad, has raised serious concerns about the potential impact on the human intelligence operations critical for gathering information on North Korea.
South Korea's Defense Ministry confirmed Tuesday that its central military court issued an arrest warrant for a civilian military employee of the Korean Defense Intelligence Command "on charges including leaking military secrets" in a statement.
The official has been accused of leaking sensitive information of the intelligence command, including the names, locations and other personal details of South Korean covert agents, including those who engaged in human intelligence operations abroad, to a Chinese citizen of Korean ethnicity.
Not able to find any violence reported in Machester today where trans pride was happening. Fash failed to muster more than antifascist counter demonstrators.
It's take a few days to get organised but antifascist action looks like it's going to make this fizzle out now.
The big dick struggle is real:
https://xcancel.com/Glodyswotcher/status/1819673693897031898PressTV is reporting the murder of Haniyeh in a likely attack by the entity.
Death to Amerikkka
Death to Israel
US Deputy Ambassador to the UN, Lloyd Austin, some UK Labour party person (don't remember who) all unanimously and vociferously talking about how Iran and Hezbollah must be condemned and must not retaliated right now. And emphasizing the obviously Israeli attack on those Druze children. I think they are expecting Iran will retaliate hard and expecting to use that to escalate.
I am starting to change my mind that the US actually DOES want this to escalate. Biden is out to lunch, Blinken now is in full control of US policy now, and I think he is ready to go.
Why libs with leftist aesthetics argue with serious faces about copmala vp? she is like 60, the vp is absolutely irrelevant to anything, it can be a brick in a costume voting yes in a senate. Is it some sort of tealeaf reading, get in the mind of a pervert type of stuff?
she is uncurious as a rock, has zionist for a husband, and would do exact same shit as biden with a bigger pinch of wall street. why bother thinking about it
Amal Saad:
How might Hizbullah and the Resistance Axis respond to Israel's new targeted shock and awe campaign, or what Nasrallah has called the "new phase" of the war?
An analysis of the possible retaliation will be shaped in large part by what the Axis believes Israel's aims are, and the extent of US support for these aims. In other words, whether Israel is simply trying to intimidate and coerce its enemies into submission with these very provocative assassinations, or if its trying to bait Hizbullah and Iran into a wider regional war with the aim of forcing the US to step in militarily. Given that their previous deterrence strategies are no longer effective, both Iran and Hizbullah have to go beyond their responses to the attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria and the assassination of al-Arouri, respectively. This entails an abandonment of their signature "sub-threshold" response, and the adoption of a vertical escalation strategy that crosses Israel's red lines forcefully, compelling it to redraw those lines and absorb the counter-strike(s), without triggering an all-out war.
Anything less than this will only embolden Israel to escalate horizontally by striking Dahyeh and Tehran regularly. This could potentially be achieved if the response doesn't target heavily populated areas and civilians (not to be confused with civilian objects), which Hizbullah has been keen to avoid since the start of the war, despite its public rhetoric. For Hizbullah, the real challenge will engaging in such a response while avoiding giving away any new weapons technology, and the location of its missiles and launching positions, among other things, which Israeli intelligence is keen to observe and gather information about. The central aim of any response will not only be to restore deterrence and honour as per Nasrallah's speech, and to prevent all out war, but to ensure that Israel is unable to compensate for its lack of strategic victory with tactical gains.
With much of the world's attention directed toward West Asia, there was another large-scale
drone attack against targets within the pre-2014 borders of the Russian Federation last night. The attack appears to have saturated air defences. Targets where strikes were successful include several oil facilities, an apartment block, and an ammunition depot on the grounds of the Morozovsk airfield.Sources that follow are from Twitter, so standard CWs apply: reactionary and pro-imperialist content is ubiquitous in the comments.
Pro-Russian source (summary from Rybar)
Pro-Ukrainian "OSINT" source (satellite imagery of Morozovsk after the ammo depot was blown)
(edit: word order)
A coup attempt is underway in Venezuela as protests from right-wing groups break out seeking to paralyze the cities and overturn the Presidential elections results.
A few hours earlier the electoral court formally declared Nicolás Maduro as the winner, shortly after groups descended on the capital attempting to reach the presidential palace but we're forced back by security forces. Some groups have reached the international airport of the capital but no signs of a breach thus far.
Opposition supporters are also circulating videos from protests in 2017 and 2019 in an attempt to exaggerate the size of the current mobilizations. While the US State Department and right-wing governments in the region have questioned the results, international observer reports are yet to publish their findings, with no significant irregularities reported on the day of the vote.
Venezuela’s right-wing opposition and US media outlets claim there was fraud in the July 28 election based on an exit poll done by US government-linked firm Edison Research, which works with CIA-linked US state propaganda organs and was active in Ukraine, Georgia, and Iraq.
low energy coup
Poor trans megathread, it might be one of those days
Latest Jeremy Scahill interview
Does Israel Really Believe It Can Win a War Against Hezbollah?
Amal Saad, a leading expert on the Lebanese resistance movement, says all-out war could lead to Israel’s downfall
Lots of good reasons why Hezbollah didn't do the missile strike the other day.
While the government acknowledges that gold reserves have been sent outside the country, there’s no official information available regarding the purpose of the operation. The gold is now exposed to the risk of being seized, due to long-standing claims against Argentina made by foreign creditors
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will have a telephone conversation with his counterparts from Brazil and Colombia, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Gustavo Petro, about the situation in Venezuela, without interference and respecting the self-determination of the people. Something that the OAS did not do, he stated.
Claudia also repeated what AMLO said about the OAS and Venezuela.
Mexican President (Still AMLO) condemns OAS's interfering attitude in Venezuela - TelesurSpanish (Translated)
Article
López Obrador asserted that it is necessary for all countries to respect Venezuela's autonomy.
The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, condemned this Tuesday during his morning conference at the National Palace the interfering attitude of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Venezuela's internal affairs.
López Obrador affirmed “the OAS has to get involved. That is interference, that is why the OAS has no credibility”. The Mexican president asked: “On what grounds does the OAS maintain that the other candidate won? Where is the evidence?
Likewise, he urged to respect the self-determination of the peoples, to avoid violent demonstrations and to stop political incitement.
In this sense, he referred to international actors, internationalist experts and advisors, and stressed that each country is free, independent and sovereign.
The Head of State criticized the hypocrisy of former Presidents Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón, who opposed the recount of votes in Mexico and are now “international observers”.
All Latin American nations should leave the OAS and strengthen CELAC.
The municipal government of Aarhus, Denmark's second-largest city, has decided to suspend a social educator named Simon el-Zinaib as a result of an Arab-language Facebook post in which he expressed sorrow over the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh who was murdered by a zionist terror attack in Iran.
In the post el-Zinaib referred to Haniyeh as a "great leader" and expressed the wish for Allah to accept him among the martyrs. The post has since been removed by the US-government affiliated platform, citing alleged violations of guidelines.
Public uproar has already pressured el-Zinaib to resign from the national integration council where he has been advising the regime on integration of ethnic minorities. Kaare Dybvad, the virulently anti-immigrant head of the nation's succdem-controlled ministry for foreigners and integration appointed el-Zinaib but has now made statements about how he condemns the statements and how "prising the leader of a terrorist organisation" is irreconcilable with serving on the integration council.
In Aarhus Anders Winneskjold, head of the city's succdem-controlled social affairs and employment department, is equally brash, claiming that such statements are "incompatible" with working for the city. He refuses to make further comments, referring to the now-initiated legal process to fire el-Zinaib.
Prior to being thrown out, el-Zinaib was working in a poor immigrant neighbourhood of Aarhus doing crime prevention.
Israel’s armed forces confirmed that they killed Hamas’s military commander, Muhammad Deif, in an air strike on Khan Younis, a city in southern Gaza, in July. Mr Deif was responsible for orchestrating the militant group’s attacks that killed nearly 1,200 Israelis on October 7th. The announcement comes a day after the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s political leader, in Iran. Yoav Gallant, Israel’s defence minister, claimed that Mr Deif’s death showed that Israel was “achieving the goals of the war”.
This is from the Economist. Another assassination. Been some serious killings, attempted and successful, over the past few days.
The self-proclaimed DICTATOR of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, described the results issued by the CNE as a “fraud” that has “no relation with reality”. “We broke diplomatic relations with Maduro 4 years ago. We will not reopen them until his people can elect their leaders in real elections”, expressed the president in his X account.
Dude says this shit without any irony lol
While I'm watching the rumour machine I'mma post cool shit I find as well.
China has drones disguised as birds.
At long last, a second bulletin from Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE). According to CNE president Elvis Amoroso, the process has been affected by cyber attacks against the CNE website and telecom firms. With a reported 96.87% of centers processed, the CNE has Maduro with 51.95%, González with 43.18%. The CNE pointed out that 99.59% of valid votes and 0.41% of invalid votes were counted.
Full Electoral Results of Venezuela 2024:
Nicolas Maduro (Leftist, Chavista): 51,95%
Edmundo Gonzalez (Far-Right, US Puppet): 43,18%
Luiz Matinez Hernán (Minor Liberal Candidate): 0,24%
Antonio Ecarri (Anti-Chavista Liberal): 0,94%
Benjamín Rausseo (Anti-Chavista Conservative): 0,75%
José Brito (Liberal, Anti-US? The US seems to hate him for some reason.): 0,68%
Javier Bertucci (Christian Democrat): 0,52%
Claudio Fermín (Anti-Chavista, Socdem): 0,33%
Enrique Márquez (Anti-Chavista, Leftist, has the support of the Anti-Chavista branch of the PCV): 0,24%
Daniel Ceballos (Socdem): 0,16%
Nicolas Maduro said he was willing to return to dialogue with the United States government, if "popular sovereignty was respected", and if the country "stopped threatening Venezuela", and "Qatar's commitment" was fulfilled.
President Maduro speech today: "We have defeated the first part of the criminal fascist coup d'état. Let's go for them and fascism in Venezuela will not pass! I will protect the people, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, from the fascists, murderers, country sellers and imperialists."
Nicolas Maduro announces that maximum security prisons will be set up for people who are at opposition protests, which will serve as re-education centers for opponents.
Maria Corina Machado, opposition leader, called on Venezuelans to gather in the streets this Saturday, August 3rd, to "show the strength of the people".
I guess Gonzalez is already out of the picture? Maybe he already went to Argentina or Miami.
F-16 fuel bombed
OhioMichigan parking lot.Had to drop tanks because the plane wasn't reading them. No one hurt.
Sanders Unveils “Moonshot” Bill to Fund Research Into Long COVID
The Long Covid Research Moonshot Act of 2024 would provide the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with $1 billion in mandatory funding per year for a decade to support studies, the pursuit of treatments, and the expansion of care for U.S. patients impacted by the condition.
That's actually the legislation name? The This Has No Chance of Passing, But Sure is Ambitious Act?
Also - only $1 billion?
Ibrahim Traore on establishing a new national bank:
https://xcancel.com/CapitaineIb226/status/1819314679392469144This Friday, August 2, 2024, I officially launched the activities of the Banque des Dépôts du Trésor.
With integrity as its compass, this bank is a tool and a symbol of economic and financial sovereignty of Burkina Faso. It will be closer to the populations and will contribute to the socio-economic development of our country through a more adapted method of financing structuring projects and programs.
I invite the Burkinabè, public and private development organizations and economic operators to use the “Burkindlim” bank to participate in the work of collective construction of a sovereign economy serving the development of our country.
Great success at the Banque des Dépôts du Trésor!
Fuck the whole twitter community note system, any political figure going against the fraud narrative in spanish and portuguese language twitter is getting hit with "uhm achstually there's fraud"
EDIT: Political commentator on portuguese television right now: "Venezuelans WISHED they lived under Salazar or Marcelo's dictatorship" instead of Maduro
It's been raining all day in Caracas. If you've seen any protest videos alleging to be from today in which it's not raining, they are using old footage.
As of right now (3:54 PM) there have been a few small protests around the city. There could be more when the full results are announced. But there are also old videos being misrepresented in bad faith on the social media networks.
Norway's succdem-led regime is trying a novel method to raise declining birth rates: Improving material conditions for families.
Preschool childcare rates will be lowered from USD 275 to USD 183 per month. In municipalities with low birth rates the rates will be halved. Norwegian parents are already only required to pay for the care of their first two children.
Recently, Danish authorities began employing teenagers as "agents" to check whether retailers were selling alcohol to minors. Naturally, retailers are grumpy about this impediment to the free flow of commerce but "I want to make money by getting minors drunk" is not a good PR message so they had to come up with something else. And this is what they came up with: The enforcement of the age limits is making their employees sad and scared, sometimes to a degree in which they have to call in sick or go into therapy.
Won't somebody think of the poor employees who now have to ask young people for ID before handing them a bottle of vodka?
Venezuela's Army backs the Goverment
Venezuela's defense minister, Padrino Lopez, has aligned himself with the Nicolás Maduro goverment and said that the country is undergoing an attempted coup d'état perpetrated by fascists.
Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López issued a statement condemning "violent actions" promoted by the Venezuelan far-right yesterday. Mentioned 23 servicemen and 25 police officers wounded, as well as the death of a National Guard Sargent who was shot.
In his press conference, Padrino said Venezuela is facing a coup attempt orchestrated by the far-right and vowed it would be defeated
biden is the lamest duck there has ever been
Iran edging
First sleepless night with three weeks old lil Hassan yesterday, stayed up until 6 am with him crying in my lap while I was focusing on nuking America in my Civ 6 game. That mf Roosevelt had better progress on his science victory, so I had to do it.
To keep it news-mega related, lots of movement on the Ukrainian front recently. Russians have crossed the canal into the real parts of Chasov Yar, captured the main part of Krasnogorovka, and they've also initiated a mini-collapse west of Prohres in Avdeevka - Pokrovsk front. Away from the Donbass, they've also broken through the Oskil stalement front that has been dead since September 2022, with a big push beyond the village of Pishchane. Lots of new names for us village name-enjoyers, they're finally moving fast enough for a healthy learning pace. Gone are the days where of being stuck in fucking Opytne, Marinka and Yahidne. I'm personally waiting for a real push on Ugledar, hate that place so much. The Ukrainian strategy on the Avdeevka - Pokrovsk front is completely incomprehensible to me, they keep trying to set up makeshift defences in every village as they keep getting pushed back, which has resulted in full brigades getting chewed up in indefensible locations. Like what's the damn point, the Russians proved in Robotyne and Svatove that a fixed line is way more defensible and saves so many lives, and even Ukraine themselves proved this recently in Kharkov and in Ugledar before that. Instead they're doing this strategy where they're losing both lives and ground, when they could've saved some lives that are desperately needed with the manpower issues.
The protestors in Venezuela that Elon Musk et. al. support have set fire to a hospital tonight.
Hospitals have traditionally been a favourite target of the Venezuelan right-wing
Opposition supporters have burned down a pharmacy in Caracas that catered to underprivileged Venezuelans.
The Governments of Russia and China condemned the destabilization attempts in Venezuela and reaffirmed their support for President Maduro.
Seems like protests have died down during the night. Chavistas will be marching around Caracas today, so we might see some fights, or this could scare off the opposition.
"An Israeli official told me the target was Fuad Shukr also known as al-Hajj Mohsin- a senior advisor on military affairs to Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah and in charge of all Hezbollah's military operations. Shukr is wanted by the FBI for his involvement in the bombing of the marines barracks in Beirut in 1983 which killed 241 U.S. service members"
South Africa congratulated Maduro's election victory. Election observers from South Africa also stated the elections were free and fair, with them also praising the abundance of voting stations, prompt audits, ID and biometric verification, electronic voting also with backup paper ballots. The observation was supported by COSATU, ANC, EFF, SACP, A4P, among others. The live radio station Salaamedia also stated that it should come as no surprise the usual Western suspects disputed the election results.
Death to AmeriKKKa
What I think will happen in the next days. The opposition was saying yesterday that they won with 70% to 80% of the vote, without any irony. They were 100% serious, and Machado, Gonzalez, was literally silent for most of the event, said that the army should stage a coup. Milei also said that. By the way, the opposition was saying that they won from 10 o'clock in the morning, because most of their voters vote in the morning, and they were "leaking" polls and votes showing how they won 99 brazillion votes and Maduro only won 2.
Today they are saying that they won with 60% of the vote against Maduro's 32%, which are still absurd figures. What I think will happen is that, apart from the far-right and really pro-US governments in Latin America. Most governments will recognize Maduro as the winner.
The US will tell the opposition to back off its aggression. They will probably change the whole fraud issue to “Actually, there was no fraud, but it was an unfair election! Because they didn't let the neo-Nazi Ivan Duque personally count every vote!”. The US will maintain some sanctions, but will still buy oil from Venezuela and deport Venezuelans back to Venezuela.
More ecosocialist adventurism/strategy of tension:
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-07-29/news-1vDe78DWt0I/p.htmlFrench authorities have arrested an activist for an ultra-left wing movement at an SNCF rail company site, days after sabotage attacks paralyzed the network, a police source said Monday.
The man was detained at Oissel in northern France on Sunday and had access keys to SNCF technical premises, tools and literature linked to the ultra-left, said the source, asking not to be named.
By the time Iran attacks Israel, Half-Life 3 is out.
Bangladesh PM has resigned and fled to India after killing several student protestors
This is the voice of the Iranian people's anger and hatred towards the Zionists who assassinated their friend and guest in their country
https://xcancel.com/Itshosniye/status/1818901188814758172
[huge chorus chanting in unison "death to Israel"]
It's being alleged that WhatsApp was used to help track Ismail Haniyeh for assassination. Zionisted by the Fuckerberg?
If wonder if that pathetic little clapping seal display in the US Congress last week emboldened Israel at all? I mean, Israel already knew they had overwhelming support in Congress… but just the way all those reps and senators completely debased themselves. That had to have made the Israelis feel that congressional rep will start engaging in fistfights over who can give them more money. I wouldn’t be surprised if Fetterman proposes we just literally hand over every US military asset and personnel to Israel.
Alaska gang here, it's not even dinner time yet and I'm here going "hell yeah" to the fact I'm gonna actually be awake for some possibly wild shit to go down while I'm awake for once.
lol
"I want to reassure Australians probable does not mean inevitable, and it does not mean it is intelligence about an imminent threat or danger," Mr Albanese said.
"[But] when the temperature of the security environment is rising, we must lower the temperature of debate."
Mr Albanese said Australians must be able to resolve their differences peacefully and debate political issues like the conflict in Gaza peacefully.
"No one is suggesting people should have conformity to particular views, but the way people express things is important," he said.
"It is not normal to have people in occupations for months outside electorate offices, where the work of those electorate offices is to assist people."
The official terror alert level was last raised to "probable" in 2014 with the emergence of the Islamic State terrorist group.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-05/asio-lifts-terror-threat-level-to-probable/104141650
Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay express “deep concern about the conduct of the elections” in Venezuela and request an urgent meeting of the OAS on the matter.
All currently under right-wing puppet regimes. In Paraguay's case, a one-state party, all the opposition candidates questioned the legality of the previous election lol.
Uruguay, Peru and Ecuador are really funny because soon there will be presidential elections there and the current presidents won't be able to get reelected due to unpopularity. Theres literally an energy blackout in Ecuador rn. Panama elected a guy who was hiding inside an embassy as their president.
Argentina is under an ancap, their opinion is irrelevant. Doubt Milei will last next year.
When you annoy the local organizing groupchat arguing with the fed/plant who has been continuously posting on behalf of US state propaganda against Iran, Hezbollah and the resistance even if nominally being in the 'pro-Palestine' group, after he starts caping for the right wing color revolution in Venezuela
Btw, the statue they destroyed wasn't one of Chavez, but one of Dr. José Gregorio Hernández, a doctor and catholic saint in Venezuela.
Seeing what happened in Venezuela and Lemmy liberals still defending the opposition really shows how hard liberals have faith in their institutions without question. Even citing questionable anecdotes that said institutions refer to as “proof” of rigged elections.
Reminds me of when Destiny fans kept referencing Twitter posts from “reputable sources” to prove that Hamas did indeed behead Israeli babies.
President Maduro remarks Elon Musk's posts to X last night, claiming that a photo served as evidence that NM stole the elections. "Elon Musk, you're so desperate..control yourself." "You want a fight? I'm prepared. I'm a son of Bolívar and Chávez. I'm not afraid of you."
"You show [Elon Musk] a map and ask him where Venezuela is, he'll show you Asia. He doesn't even know where it is." "The Empire, the Pentagon create technologies and puts them in the hands of private people.."
Lula criticizes the press for treating the crisis in Venezuela “like the 3rd World War”
In an interview, Lula spoke for the first time about the elections in Venezuela and the challenge to Maduro's victory
“The statement from the Workers' Party praises the Venezuelan people for the peaceful elections that took place. At the same time, it recognizes that the electoral court has already recognized [Nicolás] Maduro as victorious. But the opposition hasn't yet. So, there is a process. There's nothing serious, there's nothing scary. I see the Brazilian press treating it as if it were the Third World War, but there is nothing unusual”
In the interview, Lula also stated that, if the voting minutes are published, the government has an “obligation to recognize” the result of the election that gave victory to Nicolás Maduro.
Genocide Joe/Kkkopmala supporters:
First they came for the Palestinians, and I
did not speak outactively cheered it on,
Because I was not a Palestinian (and I fear they might've come for me next if I didn't).Pro-coup protesters in Venezuela have torn down the statue of the historic Indigenous Chief Coromoto and shouted “long live Christ!” as they dragged it through the streets. Racism has long been a feature of right-wing mobilizations in the country.
The Venezuelan right wing’s attack on an Indigenous statue — a “spiritual symbol of Chavismo” — shows exactly what kind of violent racism US political elites and billionaires like Elon Musk support. This isn’t about an election. This is about bringing back the old colonial order.
What will the liberal Venezuelans living in the US, who are scared of Project 2025, say about this?
Meanwhile Maduro after meeting with LGBQ+ organizations:
In November 2017, President Nicolás Maduro expressed his personal support for same-sex marriage, and said that the Constituent Assembly would agree to discuss legalising same-sex marriage.
In September 2018, There were discussions to allow same-sex marriage under the new Constitution of Venezuela, and that there was majority support in the Assembly. Discussion on the new Constitution was expected to begin at the end of 2018 or early 2019,[but has been postponed since then due to the Guaidó's crisis.
Lula da Silva talks about the Venezuela Situation.
"I think it was a normal and free process. But they have to solve the dispute. If the opposition has a problem, they should go to the judicial system and follow the correct procedures to file a complaint. They have that right. Now, the government also has the right to demonstrate that it has won, freely and cleanly.”
"We will wait for the electoral process to be published, and we will respond in the right way when it is published.”
Very similar to AMLO's speech. I believe Petro will do the same soon. I think the Venezuela opposition will burn all the good will they have with some leftist and latino liberals. I have been checking twitter and the liberals were first 100% with Gonzalez, calling Maduro a dictator.
Then the Venezuela Opposition begun literally doing the same as Bolsonaro and Trump did. And the Liberals begun then both siding the two. It also didn't help the opposition keeps changing the numbers from 80% to 75% to 70% to 73% to 69% and finally recently: 68%. I doubt this will affect Petro and Lula's popularity too much. Can't say the same for Boric.
What really made the liberals angry at Gonzalez and Machado, were they posting numbers on a site that does not work, changing the numbers all the time, and self-proclaiming themselves as an interim government.
Not that USAian elections mean anything but it is hilarious that the guy survived an assassination , had a -let's face it- very iconic, almost cinematic moment and then he managed to completely f this up by selecting the biggest dufus on the planet as his VP and not being able to shut up for a second. It's like you score from the middle of the court and then your shorts come of for the world to see your tiny dick with a "I love furniture" tattoo in it. Just sit in front of a camera and say "I love Jesus" for 3 months dude and you win.
Opposition deputy (and presidential candidate) Jose Brito: "Where the fu*k are your children, Maria Machado? If Milei or Noboa were governing here, there would not have been a bone left unbroken last night!"
Maria Machado, the main US puppet in the opposition, infamously sent her children to the USA before calling for violent uprisings.
Yeah fuck the communist party of venezuela I'm convinced there's something very very wrong with its central committee.So in Portugal a journalist from "Radio Observador", the radio branch of the online right wing publication Observador, an outlet known for never having turned a profit but still getting funding due to its role in promoting right wing ideas in the country's discourse, said that someone from the PCV left THEM OF ALL PEOPLE a note saying, and they quote, "the portuguese communist party are our brothers, but you think you know venezuela better than us?", due to the party having congratulated maduro instead of appealing for intervention.
The journalist could be speaking figuratively or just lying, but then it would be pretty weird to put that note part in quotes making it look like a citation.
Also ironic that this outlet, who never invites the communist party to anything finally found space in its website for communist ideas, they just had to be ideas that align with impearealism.
In fact a whole lot of people from the far-left especially and to the far-right, who don't give a flying fuck about the IMCWP communist parties like the PCV (and just call them stalinists or whatever) suddently love this party and use it to legitimate their own pro-interference position. Really shows how fucked of a statement the PCV put out if ANYONE can quote it to be like "see see, we should keep sanctioning this country".
Apparently—according to some political consultant on some KPFA show, so probably at least somewhat trustworthy at least as far as the facts go—they are going to coronate KKKopmala by Monday evening (remotely, via Zoom and shit), and she'll announce her VP running mate on Tuesday.
Gonna be another nausea week.
IRGC report that Haniyeh killed by short range missile. Maybe a shoulder launched missile? https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2024/8/3/haniyeh-killed-by-short-range-projectile-fired-from-outside-home-irgc
Trump: I have been the best president for the black population since Abraham Lincoln!
LMFAO! You cannot make this shit up!
I have not seen major protests today in Venezuela, mostly some Chavista demonstrations, but they were peaceful. It seems that the Bolivarian Police and Militia have brought the situation under control before more damage could be done. Also SEBIN (Venezuela's FBI) has been tracking and arresting those spreading fake news and promoting terrorist attacks through social networks.
The US Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt unexpectedly left the Persian Gulf and arrived in the Strait of Hormuz. Another “bell” of an imminent strike from Iran and the Pentagon’s readiness to intercept Iranian UAVs and missiles.
US and Israeli intelligence agencies say they expect a retaliatory strike from Iran tomorrow. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will lead the deployment of additional US troops to the Middle East to bolster Israel's defenses to “respond to the evolving crisis,” the Pentagon said.
They added that the deployment of additional military forces will mean an increase in the number of personnel, but a decision on the exact size of the contingent and specific units has not yet been made.
Maduro proclaims Gonzalez: "Guaido 2.0"
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro gave a broadcast this afternoon. Stated that authorities had dismantled a criminal group with ties to the far-right leadership and called opposition candidate Edmundo González "Guaidó 2.0"
With torrential rains falling in central Caracas, a first, soaked march arrives at Miraflores Palace. Chavismo is mobilizing in defense of the government and opposing fascism
Larger and larger crowds, including the ever present motorcyclist contingent, continue to gather in the vicinities of the presidential palace. A show of force from Chavismo
Communist Party of Brazil (Under coalition with the Workers' Party) also recognized Maduro's victory.
Italy's Meloni signs deal to 'relaunch' ties with China - DW
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is in Beijing to boost ties as concerns of a trade war with Europe grow. The two countries agreed to collaborate on green technology, including electric cars and renewable energy.
The Chinese company Huawei will train 5000 young Burkinabé people:
https://en.reseauinternational.net/lentreprise-chinoise-huawei-va-former-5000-jeunes-burkinabe/Seems like South Africa also recognized Maduro's election.
Election observers, including members of the African National Congress (ANC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), have stated their unreserved confidence in the legitimacy of Venezuela’s presidential election.
Incumbent, President Nicolas Maduro, and his nearest challenger Edmundo Gonzalez both claimed victory once the polls closed on Sunday, with Maduro declared the winner by Monday morning with 51% of the vote.
“Voting has been free, fair and transparent. Claims or allegations of fraud have been found to be baseless and mischievous with Venezuela’s electoral system considered one of the best in the world,” said a joint statement issued by the observers. The South Africans present include Cosatu General Secretary Solly Phetoe, ANC NEC member Obed Bapela and SACP Deputy General Secretary Madala Masuku.
Venezuelan opposition candidates recognize CNE results - Telesur Spanish (Translated)
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Rausseo said that he accepts the “CNE's ruling and what corresponds is to turn the page of the election and start writing the new chapter”.
Once the Venezuelan presidential elections, which will mark the next six years of government and which after an arduous audit, the Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) gave the victory to President Nicolás Maduro Moros, began the pronouncements of opposition sectors.
Among the first responses were the declarations of presidential candidate Benjamín Rausseo, who exercised his right to vote in peace and celebrated the democratic celebration that took place on Venezuelan soil.
The candidate congratulated the Venezuelan people for their massive participation and called for the conciliation of the citizens to peace, accepting the defeat in this electoral process in order not to incite confrontation among compatriots.
In his message, the now former presidential candidate assured to accept the “CNE's ruling and what corresponds is to turn the page of the election and start writing a new chapter”, he said.
Rausseo congratulated Nicolás Maduro for his victory and committed himself to promote peace in Venezuela to close his electoral participation with his willingness to “turn the page”.
Presidential candidate José Brito Rodríguez, of Primero Venezuela, Primero Justicia, Unidad Visión Venezuela and Venezuela Unidad, issued a video recording in which he acknowledged the trend announced by the first bulletin of the CNE, which gave the victory to ruler Nicolás Maduro.
Brito, in his message, made a call for reconciliation, calm, peace and harmony. “Today's Venezuela demands reconciliation, reunion, union among Venezuelans and a great pact for Venezuela”, he said.
Unitary Platform “fulfills its agenda”.
On the other side of the sidewalk, right-wing presidential candidate Edmundo González, accompanied by María Corina Machado, addressed the nation after the pronouncement of President-elect Nicolás Maduro, who celebrated his victory in Caracas.
In this case, being the most radical opposition in their statements, they rejected the electoral victory of the Gran Polo Patriotico. In the same criteria, Machado and Gonzalez said that in the next days they would communicate with their supporters to “defend the vote”.
Nicolás Maduro warned about plans of the right wing
Recently, President Nicolás Maduro denounced that groups of the ultra-right are orchestrating actions to prevent the victory of the Gran Polo Patriótico Simón Bolívar in the upcoming presidential elections.
These statements were ratified after the electoral triumph celebrated in Miraflores, Caracas, before his followers, where he warned that the “right wing will seek to generate a climate of violence”.
With this warning, Maduro said that the right wing will manipulate the population through the media in the next few days to generate a matrix of opinion in order to generate conflict among the Venezuelan people.
These actions would violate the agreement signed by eight of the ten candidates before the CNE, where they committed to recognize the electoral results.
The remaining opposition candidates have not made any statement, as of the publication of this informative guideline.
Seymour Hersh's latest, in which he recounts how he learned about the My Lai massacre and tracked down William Calley, has no paywall.
Elon Musk himself retweets a video purporting to show protestors tearing down a statue of President Hugo Chavez today. But this video is from 2017
Most of the Statue videos are either from 2013 or 2017. The actual new videos have much high quality footage. Mostly around Caracas and some small cities.
liberals when racist right wing goons try to steal an election in the USA.
liberals when racist right wing goons try to steal an election in the global south.
just dropped, they have wire guided missiles now
my man would soon give endorsements for a pat on the back (D).