Israel just bombed Beirut.

https://x.com/aldanmarki/status/1818329359591076167

Israel takes responsibility for airstrikes in Beirut.

https://x.com/sockol/status/1818334584817201465

https://streamable.com/t97rib

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.

I think it's happening tonight folks. All flights in and out of Ben Gurion canceled, airspace is closed over all of Israel, shelters are open, Iranian media buzzing about us "witnessing interesting things" over the next few hours. We'll see, but I've a feeling it's tonight.

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.

• https://xcancel.com/eyuplovely/status/1818833691226853731

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I just went back and checked, the Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus took place on April 1

But the Iranian response didn't take place until April 13

So things do indeed happen, but the lag is real

It is so funny that the psyops show their whole ass. The accouny Bimbo University which used to explain things with a leftist tinge is now talking about rigged elections in venezuela.

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!!!

This assassination, why now?

They've had a long fucking time to do this and they've not done it. What caused the decision to tip over to "we need to do this now before x happens" ?

Speculation: Was it the coming together of Palestinian groups and the agreement made in Beijing?

Another fallen comrade

Death to the occupation

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.”

New slammer

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

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/

@peoplesforumnyc on twitter:

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!

maduro stop doing dumb shit with elon musk, and socialize means of production

Elon Musk shares some images from 2017 in Venezuela as if they were current. The tantrum of the fascist international is historic.

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."

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.

In sturmer regime news

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)

No wonder Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger gtfo of ECOWAS:
https://xcancel.com/african_stream/status/1819685234058682871

Ivorian 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.

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?

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.

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.

Dear Mr Ali Khamenei and Mr Masoud Pezeshkian,

Please stop edging!

Best regards,

News Mega Nerds

So anyone want to tell me why Intel laying off 15% of their staff isn't an indication of how the CHIPS Act introduced state-sunsidized oversupply into the semiconductor industry?

No? American companies can't possibly contribute to oversupply? I see.

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

British Nationalists should be rounded up and thrown in the Ocean

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.

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

Open war with Lebanon is inevitable at this point:
https://xcancel.com/sahouraxo/status/1818328836691656808

Israel bombed a residential building in Haret Hreik, Beirut, near the Bahman Hospital.

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.

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.

⭕️ 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

Reporter from The Bulwark reporting that Josh Shapiro worked as a hasbarist at the Israeli embassy in DC during the summer of 1996.

https://x.com/MarcACaputo/status/1819794823278182866

Love seeing China dominate all the gun competitions.

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.

Medvedev says a full scale war in the Middle East is the only path to peace.

https://xcancel.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1818762851290591510

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 peak

Occupied Korea: KOSPI down 7pct over the past week, triggered a halt when futures precipitously dropped

down nearly 7pct just today

This is what Brexit was all about btw.