Ralph Nader is saying that AIPAC demanded a Palestinian-American not be allowed to speak, and that they did the same thing to Jimmy Carter in 2008. I have no idea how in the know he would be, but it seems plausible.

Under strict AIPAC demands, the Democratic National Convention rejected appeals by some of their own delegates and outside protestors to give a few minutes to a Palestinian American pediatrician back from Gaza to describe the horrors of civilian death and destruction and urge a permanent ceasefire. AIPAC demanded and received time on stage for an Israeli hostage family to speak to over 4000 delegates. Astonishing double-standard cruelty that will not be forgotten by millions of Arab and Muslim Americans.

AIPAC made similar demands on the DNC in 2008 to stop Jimmy Carter—who brokered the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel—but later called out the Israeli regime for its apartheid practices. All former presidents usually get a few minutes on the stage. AIPAC humiliated Carter, who had to settle for silently walking across the stage with Rosalynn to mild applause. The power of the "Israeli Government Can Do No Wrong" lobby keeps intensifying to the detriment of the USA and its taxpayers.

https://x.com/RalphNader/status/1826762262004260964

The New York Times is an organ of infamy. It is wrong to read it. Anyone who contributes to this newspaper is socially unacceptable. It would be wrong to be friendly or even polite to one of its editors. You have to be as unfriendly to them as the law allows. They are bad people who do horrible things.

The Democratic Party exists to make sure good people do nothing.

DNC has parents of an “Israeli-American hostage in Gaza” speaking right now, full of Zionist talking points. Honestly I didn’t think they’d go that far. Jesus Christ it’s disgusting

This is not new (2023) but I don't really have anywhere else to put it.

29% of the UK support Communism

53% of the UK support Socialism

39% of the people asked to define Socialism define it correctly

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/blogs/new-poll-finds-strong-support-for-socialism-in-the-uk

Heard Brace saying this in the latest trueanon and I 100% echo the sentiment: "please let some allegations come out about this guy (tim walz)"

Because holy shit I'm tired of the wholesome big chungus posting about him

The DNC kicked Hasan out of the box they gave him to stream, seemingly because of this tweet, but wouldn't tell him what was going on. He was saying on stream that at least the didn't take his credentials away, and then like 5 minutes later a DNC staffer stream sniped him to take his credentials lol.

EDIT: Apparently AOC's team had reached out to the Pod Jons and they were going to let Hasan use their space lol.

A Kennedy becoming leader of the CIA and using it to overthrow a sitting president would be pretty funny, +1 meme point for the right.

Burkina Faso changed the country motto back to Sankara's : Homeland or Death, We Will Overcome

I'm here from the future. The 2032 election is actually THE most important election of our lifetimes, you won't want to miss it

Haven't seen anyone mention that the US Navy is planning to mothball 17 support ships due to a lack of manpower. This includes ships completed as recently as this year!

These cuts will probably not significantly affect the operations of the Navy, but it will hamper their coordination with other branches - the Navy will now have no real troop transports in service.

Yes, I may be a genocide supporter, but in a way, isn't genocide a less serious crime than that of being certain? Don't you damned kids know that you're at a university, a place that "is, in Learned Hand’s famous phrase, “the spirit which is not too sure that it is right,” a spirit that is willing, even happy, to be proved wrong"?

After all, if someone is certain about something and they still disagree with me, their epistemology must be faulty. I've never been more sure of anything in all my life.

P.S. - The university is not taking a political position when it makes "investment decisions" to finance war crimes.

(Do not make the same mistake I did by clicking on this latest from The Bedbug.)

Currently on the front page of the biggest german (state funded) news site:

TL of the headline: Human lives don't count for Hamas

Father down they say that it is the opinion/experience of a german spy that negotiated between Palestine and Isn'treal. But I'm so sick of the the state narrative here. Just pure anti-palestine propaganda and they don't even try to hide it, they call it 'reason of the state'. The GDR should have lived on, I can't wait for the day when happens. Sorry for the small rant.

Looks like the Palestine subreddit has been taken over by Liberals. There's next to no coverage of the open support of genocide at the DNC.

Colombia suspends coal exports to Israel

Bogotá accuses the country of using raw material to 'kill children'

Colombia will officially suspend coal exports to Israel as of August 22. The measure, published in a decree, is a protest against the military actions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government in the Gaza Strip.

“With Colombian coal, [the Israelis] make bombs to kill children in Palestine,” wrote the South American country's president, Gustavo Petro, on the social network X. With the decision, Israel will only be able to buy coal from Colombia under agreements that have already been negotiated. According to the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, the conflict in the region has caused the deaths of more than 40,000 Palestinians since it began in October 2023.

So I commented the other day about the British billionaire whose boat sunk in a freak storm off Sicily, two days after his codefendant in a fraud trial was run over and killed.

After reading this Twitter thread:

1. He was absolutely, without doubt, a product of the intelligence services, making Keir Starmer’s intelligence connections look innocent
2. He’s entered the Blowback universe due to his connection with no less than fucking Richard “The Prince of Darkness” Perle

Was at the Palestine DNC protest earlier, tons of folks out which was great. Saw a huge diversity of leftist organizations and parties. Speakers were great. There was a Palestinian boy missing a foot in a wheelchair. Press were taking pictures of him. Literally one million cops out, and they kept idling a helicopter right over the protest to intimidate and drown out the speakers. People in pageant suits and dresses walking with their lanyards past the protest and to the DNC

Mujica says he's 'destroyed' after cancer treatment: “Time to go”

Former Uruguayan president Pepe Mujica has announced that his radiotherapy treatment for oesophageal cancer has been successful. However, at the age of 89, he feels “destroyed”. Mujica also expressed the feeling that he is losing his life and that “it's time to leave”.

“They did a radiation treatment on me. According to the doctors, everything went well, but I'm destroyed,” Mujica told the New York Times.

“Life is beautiful. With all its ups and downs, I love life. And I'm losing it because it's my time to go. What meaning can we give to life? Man, compared to other animals, has the ability to find a purpose.”

He criticized consumerism and the incessant creation of needs by the market, advocating a simpler lifestyle connected to nature. “It [the market] has made us voracious buyers. We live to buy. We work to buy. And we live to pay. Credit is a religion. So we're kind of screwed,” he said. The former president, who declares himself an atheist, also reflected on religion and the search for consolation in the face of mortality. Mujica wants to be remembered as a “crazy old man”, highlighting his life dedicated to social justice and happiness.

In French news, you may recall that the left pulled off a surprise victory, trouncing Macron's party especially but also the right.

That was seven weeks ago, and Macron... has simply ignored the results. He has refused to nominate a new PM, at first saying it should wait until after the Olympics but now just generally slandering the French left. The endgame of this remains to be seen - the left is popular with average people (they won the election, after all), but there's a lot of money and power behind the center and right.

Quick edit: Didn't realize someone beat me to the punch on this one, check out their thread for more discussion

I've been watching some clips of the DNC because I hate myself and like to torture myself. It's still a freak show, but I give the Democrats credit for being significantly less freaky than the Republicans. I think that the main takeaway from watching all the speeches and the reactions is that it's so clear that Obama is the greatest modern American politician when it comes to charisma and presence. I wish that he was on our side, it's a shame that such a natural talent is evil. You look at the rest with their boring soulless speeches and lack of charisma, then comes Obama and makes everyone look like an absolute noob. I genuinely believe that both parties won't produce anything close to him even in 50 years if the corpse of the US continues even fighting for so long.

DNC putting Bill Clinton on stage in 2024 like

[...] liberals freaking out and throwing tantrums when people just describe what's happening in Gaza. They start going EWWW EWW EEWW AHHH!!!! AHHHH!!!!, I'm not kidding. Like you've thrown acid on them. [...]

https://nitter.poast.org/BTnewsroom/status/1826479453414850813#m ugh right on schedule. huge salute to these demonstrators I will save my breath about how ineffectual just imitating cold war style activism out of context is

Richard Medhurst on being held up in solitary confinement and facing political persecution for his journalism and political beliefs:
https://xcancel.com/richimedhurst/status/1825663412904288585

Politico Europe: French left (Socialist Party) looks to UK Labour as a model for booting out Mélenchon

France’s centrist socialists are eyeing Britain’s experience of how to purge the hard left.

Get ready for some CHOICE QUOTES, people

“By turning the page on Corbyn, British Labour allowed itself to turn the page on right-wing populism. We’re going to do that here,” the French MEP told Le Point, comparing Mélenchon to former British left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn, who opened up years of devastating rifts on the British left.

Mélenchon never ceased from escalating tensions within the already fragile pan-left coalition. Earlier this week, discomfort reached a new peak after Mélenchon called to impeach French President Emmanuel Macron. He has been a divisive on topics ranging from Ukraine to support for Palestinians.

As the traditional left kept losing ground, anti-establishment Mélenchon became unstoppable. The hard leftist, who wants to “disobey” EU treaties and admires former Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez, got over 20 percent of votes in the 2022 presidential election (10 times more than the Socialists) and became the líder máximo of the French left, with his party leading the left-wing coalition in the French parliament. Things started to look slightly brighter for the moderate left this summer, when the Socialists and Glucksmann scored better than Mélenchon’s France Unbowed at the European parliament election.

Mélenchon and Corbyn have much in common, noted Sébastien Maillard, a London-based advisor to the Jacques Delors Institute, citing “their opposition to economic liberalism, their strong support for Palestine and their ambiguity regarding Hamas, their accusations of anti-Semitism, their Euroskepticism.”

The moderate left would like to focus more on economic issues, job policies, and security, in a bid to bring the country together instead of fuelling divisions, Socialist Geoffroy said. “The labourists did it quietly, calmly. They finally broke with the more radical positions and it worked, people trusted them,”

Fucked situation, whoever "is seen as" breaking the coalition is going to get punished by voters for sure though

It has been less than two months since the day when Donald Trump almost ended up behind bars, and the Western left has a new victim - the head of Telegram, Pavel Durov.

-Rybar in English this morning posting about the Telegram founder being arrested.

This is why I love Russian telegram. You just don't get brain worms like these on the western internet. Tbf I had to leave most of them like Intel Slava Z because the brainworms there are too advanced and cause me psychic damage

Rep. Omar: it’s been unconscionable “to witness my colleagues in this administration refusing to recognize the genocidal war that is taking place in Gaza … working tirelessly for a ceasefire is really not a thing and they should be ashamed of themselves”

https://x.com/akela_lacy/status/1826302251113349500

The second part in bold is a sub at AOC, who praised Kamala and the Biden admin for "working tirelessly" towards a ceasefire.

EDIT: Before anyone wants to stan Ilhan too hard:

Mexico's planned judicial reform is 'major risk' to democracy, says US ambassador

The controversial reform, set for a congressional vote in September, proposes that judges, including all Supreme Court justices, be elected by popular vote.

Letting people vote on more stuff is... a risk to democracy

"Direct elections would also make it easier for [...] bad actors to take advantage of politically motivated and inexperienced judges," [U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar] said.

"My investors are concerned, they want stability, they want a judicial system that works if there are problems," [Canadian Ambassador Graeme Clark] said.

You barely even have to read between the lines here...

Ambassadors should be instantly expelled after saying shit like that.

The Liberal Party of Canada is the latest major group to withdraw from the annual Ottawa Pride parade after organizers pledged solidarity with Palestinians in a statement earlier this month. Among several others, including some Children's hospital board, the CHEO. Really putting all the cards on the table.

(cw: discussion of a twitter video showing death, gore) soooooo there's a recent video on twitter of the most recent zionist school massacre bombing going around of a Palestinian father holding his kid and his kid's head is like, flopping open and mostly gone and it's uhhh I think I'm gonna be sick death to america.

I was wrong in my assessment of AOC. A zoomer liberal opened my eyes today. She’s a politician and not an activist! She’s just appealing to the center to “hide her power level.”

So her going on a cocaine-fueled monologue about Biden being a victim is really just her going out of her way to be a politician and not an activist. Because what kind of activist would have the political chops to continue backing Biden right before he drops out?

Non western people I have a question. Does "Palestinian people hate your people" propaganda exist in your country too? Such propaganda exists in Turkiye for turks, we all know it exists for lgbt. I wonder if there are other groups that get this propaganda

Some of the sights in the ongoing Arbaeen pilgrimage in Iraq:

During a three-day visit to Beijing, Vietnam's new president, [To] Lam, and Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to strengthen political and economic ties, emphasizing their shared communist ideology. They signed 14 cooperation agreements across various sectors. China remains Vietnam's largest trading partner, with bilateral trade reaching $172 billion in 2023. Lam affirmed Vietnam's support for China's territorial claims, despite historical tensions over the South China Sea.

https://www.newsminimalist.com/articles/china-and-vietnam-strengthen-ties-sign-14-agreements-9c76774f

anyone else forget the DNC was happening today?