I regret to inform you the Australian man who eloquently yelled at cops has died. The “see that headlock, this is democracy manifest. GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS” guy.

US Muslim group urges Blinken to resign over refusal to sanction Israeli army unit

The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) says the US secretary of state has “knowingly violated US law by backtracking” on plans to sanction the Netzah Yehuda battalion over rights abuse allegations.

The Israeli military unit “has clearly committed gross human rights violations using US weapons”, CAIR Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said in a statement.

“Secretary Blinken’s cowardly, morally reprehensible and blatantly illegal decision confirms what numerous State Department whistleblowers have said: he is disregarding the conclusions of career diplomats, as well as experts on federal and international law,” Mitchell said.

“Secretary Blinken is now as much of a war criminal as the war criminal he will continue to arm, Israeli defense minister Gallant, and he should resign his office in disgrace.”

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy said he was “appalled” by the Israeli military strike and the “tragic loss of life”.

He wrote on X: “Hamas must stop endangering civilians. Israel must comply with International Humanitarian Law”, and called for a ceasefire to “protect civilians, free all hostages, and end restrictions on aid”.

Does Joe Biden know that he still has to be president for six more months?

The SPD-led German ministry of defense is issuing a "tradition decree" (Traditionserlass), which will allow Nazi soldiers to be honored as role models, if they worked for the Bundeswehr post-war. Though they do also note their "impressive" record during the war.

So mask off I guess. (taz | archive)

China has the gold lead with one day left

The U.S. Has Dozens of Secret Bases Across the Middle East. They Keep Getting Attacked (The Intercept, Aug 6 2024)

The US has regularly justified maintaining secrecy about the bases by claiming that, as CENTCOM told The Intercept last year, “in order to protect our forces and maintain operational security, we will not confirm U.S base locations.” Forbeck — a private contractor from the Red Gate Group working for CENTCOM — refused to provide even a count of U.S. bases in the region. “Numbers. Cannot provide that because opsec,” she said, referring to operational security, while failing to explain how providing a simple tally of bases could jeopardize U.S. personnel.

[...] But America’s enemies, specifically Iranian-backed militias, have had no trouble finding and striking U.S. bases since the late 2010s.

Reading this, I immediately thought of all those articles a few years back about how China were uprooting US spy networks.

China Used Stolen Data to Expose CIA Operatives in Africa and Europe (FP, 2020)

Around 2013, U.S. intelligence began noticing an alarming pattern: Undercover CIA personnel, flying into countries in Africa and Europe for sensitive work, were being rapidly and successfully identified by Chinese intelligence, according to three former U.S. officials. The surveillance by Chinese operatives began in some cases as soon as the CIA officers had cleared passport control. Sometimes, the surveillance was so overt that U.S. intelligence officials speculated that the Chinese wanted the U.S. side to know they had identified the CIA operatives, disrupting their missions; other times, however, it was much more subtle and only detected through U.S. spy agencies’ own sophisticated technical countersurveillance capabilities.

Where the hell are my decades Iran

AIPAC has taken out its second "Squad" member: Cori Bush. They dropped $8M on her race to get a "pro-Israel progressive" Wesley Bell to primary her. They ran the campaign through one of their PAC cutouts and didn't mention Israel ones in any of their attack ads.

Between Bowman and Bush, AIPAC spent $22.5M primarying black progessives.

In the follow up to my earlier post about Trump doing the DNC's job of selling Tim Walz:

This is like if Face/Off was about a presidential election.

Looks like the State Department may be backing down on the Venezuelan elections: https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-cne-turns-over-electoral-data-to-supreme-court-us-walks-back-gonzalez-recognition/

In response to a question, US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said that the Biden administration had not recognized González as president, a departure from the position assumed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken who declared González as the “winner” of the election.

Miller instead pointed to ongoing mediation efforts by Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia. He further emphasized the need for Venezuela to “transition back to democratic norms”, stopping short of calling for González to take office.

Remember, 502 Bad Gateway means "nothing ever happens."

504 Bad Gateway means "something has happened."

nginx

so something i don't really grasp about the IDF is how their casualty figures necessitate the extraordinary draft measures. i take it for granted they must be lying and twisting the truth but still, are there any guesses what a 'real' figure is then? ~600,000 minus 700 or so admitted fatalities just doesn't seem like a very desperate situation. is there like x10 that in non fatal casualties or something they're being shy about publicizing? are they desperately filling up the ranks to strengthen the whole occupation just in preparation of things getting wider and deadlier? but then why the hell did they have to redeploy troops from Gaza against their rioters?

sorry if these are stupid questions it's just seems fishy to me

Cori Bush lost her primary after a pro-Israel group spent millions of dollars campaigning against her.

Walz: And I got to tell you, I can't wait to debate [JD Vance]. That is if he's willing to get off the couch and show up.

Remember: KKKamala is mere months away from becoming president even though she didn't do shit to deserve it.

If it happened to her, it can happen to you!

A Zionist town councilmember in Teaneck, New Jersey alleged that she had been the victim of an anti-Semitic break-in at her home. It turns out she called the cops after forgetting she'd left the light on in her basement. The New York Times refused to correct the story, even when one of the journalists covering it pressed to "give readers a fuller picture."

Make everyone in America forget about healthcare with this one cool trick! Remember our student loan crisis? Remember no more!

God do I hate the Democratic Party

Nicolas Maduro: "Today, on my TV show at 8:00 PM, I will publicly break relations with WhatsApp, because WhatsApp is being used to threaten Venezuela. Little by little, I will move my contacts to Telegram and WeChat, WhatsApp out of Venezuela. It is necessary to do so, say no to WhatsApp. There, criminals threaten the youth, the popular leaders, from phones in Colombia, Miami, Peru and Chile. Cowards hide behind anonymity, but I tell the fascists, you will hide, but the revolutionary youth is in the streets and we will never hide."

I joked some days ago that Maduro would probably use Chinese or create his own Social Media. I guess I was right.

Cuban wrestler Mijaín Lopez is now the first person to win five consecutive golds in an individual event

Seems like fighting in Syria near al omar oil field over the Euphrates is not over yet.

Al-Mayadeen correspondent: "Qasd" forces set up "mortars" in Hawijat al-Busayrah facing the Syrian army's points on the opposite bank of the Euphrates River

Also a drone has reportedly hit the US base.

Genocide Joe has lifted the ban on arms sales to Saudi Arabia. Biden has previously said that the Saudis are willing to recognize Israel in return for the resumation of arms sales and approval for a nuclear facility.

Decades inbound?

Unlike the useless DSA the PSL is calling out the Walz pick

Tim Walz: a fake progressive sent to rescue the sinking Democratic Party.

After Biden's meltdown, the Democrats are hoping to reenergize people with a supposedly "progressive" pick for Kamala Harris' running mate.

Additional interesting theory about why Biden might be scrapping the Saudi arms sale ban.

Burgerlanders really are so fucking losers:
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-08-07/Romanian-PM-to-snub-Paris-closing-ceremony-after-medal-denied-1vSlULmfQ2I/p.html

Barbosu thought she had won bronze after she competed on Monday at the Bercy Arena in Paris as she stood third in the standings. But U.S. coaches for Jordan Chiles, then ranked fifth, appealed for Chiles' score to be revised.

That revision caused Chiles to be upgraded to a bronze medal, leaving Barbosu off the podium and in tears.

Olympic solo 10 meter women's platform diving is about to have a cool podium. China 1st and 2nd, and the DPRK 3rd.

Also Canada who will finish fourth is showing good sportsmanship, congratulating the DPRK and Chinese coaches and athletes.

Seen a lot of videos of Israeli tourists in Japan screaming at locals protesting the genocide.

The obviously takeaway is that they act like they own the place everywhere in the world, but a secondary thought I had: are there an unusually high number of Japanese pro-Palestine protests? Like versus other countries? Or do Israelis just love visiting there?

They'll respond on late saturday evening when the trans mega already has a sizable lead and we won't be able to win. I can feel it.

Our brave minecrafteen

Hey S.Korea you feeling ok?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67540211

https://old.reddit.com/r/MovingToNorthKorea/comments/1emck62/what_the_fuck_is_wrong_with_the_republic_of/

IMANE FIGHT STARTING LEGGOOOOO

EDIT: UNANIMOUS! IMANE KHALIF WINS GOLD!

edit: she's crying on the podium caressing her medal

edit: actually one of the most wholesome medal ceremonies ever

Early reports of the "Tribal Fighters" ( ) having retaken Omar Oil reffinery

(if Truth) this is not only kicks the Angloids out (they must go!) and it takes the Oil revenue back to syria and away from the SDF .. but it also pushes the US away from the Euprath and thereby opens the direct Iranian supply road to Golan.

Who must go ?

ProtonVPN blocked in Venezuela. It appears they're blocking all the common VPNs along with Twitter.

I'm seeing a lot of targeted warnings of about Jill Stein to Arab voters, highlighting her support of Assad.

Russia are still not calling this a "war" in ukraine. They are continuing to call it a Special Military Operation.

The counter offensive they're now mounting in their own territory? "Counter Terrorist Operation"

I really need to learn more about Iraq, but I usually say that for every COTW country.

Americans have no clue what our government did to Iraq. On more than one occasion, I have tried to explain to people here how horrific the destruction of Iraq was (both in terms of human lives and infrastructure), and how much Iraqis despise America for this. Every. Single. Time… the response is “but at least we got rid of Saddam” (with the implication that the Iraqis should be grateful we got rid of him).

Death to America.