Israeli police in conflict with the IOF and right-wing protestors

People of Saint Lucia celebrate the first gold medal in the country's history at the Olympic Games. This Saturday, Julien Alfred defeated favorite Sha'Carri Richardson at the Stade de France and won the women's 100m at the Olympic Games

This is what Brexit was all about 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.

A 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.

Brazil just beated Isn'treal in Judo and got the gold medal lol

Thank you comrade @Redcuban1959@hexbear.net for the Venezuelan election posting on the prior thread

To quote what a Colombian said, the real electoral fraud was in Chile. The people voted for the left and got a right-wing goverment. Boric sucks so much, it's unbelievable. I fucking bet that when he loses the next election, he will become a critic of any future leftist goverment there.

Sharing a @yogthos@lemmygrad.ml post from Lemmygrad since I think it fits here too:

The Federal Reserve is now saying that the US shot itself in the foot with its export controls on China, as illustrated by Intel's recent staff layoffs.

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.

Introducing a new predictive parameter in the hexbear predictive algo: the N/T loading parameter. It's equal to number of news mega comments vs trans mega comments.

• around N/T = 1 nothing ever happens
• N/T > 1 (anything above 1.2-1.3 really) decades are happening
• N/T <0.5 history is Joever

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PAGINA 12 - Nicolás Maduro against Javier Milei: "Fascist, ugly, stupid, coward. You can't stand for one round against me"

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.

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?

Are we entering the cool zone, comrades? I log off for a ~~week~~ decade 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.

mfw the leopards ate my face
https://xcancel.com/camilapress/status/1818269726336049470

Opposition 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.

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)

https://xcancel.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1818365893967323154

Maduro threatens the west with a full proletarian revolution.

https://streamable.com/af1r3n

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.

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”.

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

Least dumb Sinophobe:
https://xcancel.com/jonst0kes/status/1819764124047540229
https://xcancel.com/jonst0kes/status/1819782521350918334

There's no sugar-coating this so I'll give it to you straight:

1. We don't have a competitive domestic chip industry & we won't have it in the next 10yrs
2. China will take 🇹🇼 & control TSMC
3. We will keep buying chips from TSMC w/ CCP backdoors in them, & pretend it's fine.

Even clickbait YouTuber poll audiences know the truth

Nicolas Maduro is the harm reduction candidate

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.

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.

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

what actual evidence are anti-Maduro libs presenting to demonstrate the election was false other than just a vibe?

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.

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

Nazis trying to burn down a Mosque in Southport in the UK after yesterday’s mass stabbing at a kids dance party….fucking bleak near term future with Keith’s government doing all it can to get Reform elected

Biden said we need to fund the police in his first state of the union address, and now that a cop is running for president, the liberals are pulling out their checkbooks.

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 ~~Carmona~~ ~~Caprilles~~ ~~Guaido~~ ~~Maria Corina Machado~~ Gonzalez won.

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.

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?

Al Qassam dedicated a snipe to Ismail Haniyeh 🔥🔥:
https://xcancel.com/cheriblossom__/status/1819817631123210579

“For your eyes, Abu Al Abed”

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.