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prisoner swap between russia and usa, preservation of nazis in ukraine closer than ~~ever~~ since 2022

Maria Corina Machado, opposition leader, said that her coalition already has 84% ​​of the electoral records from the presidential elections.

But she didn't post the correct fake results with 84% of the votes counted. She posted the one with 75% counted and they claim to no longer have 70% or 80% of the votes, but just 67 x maduro with 29.

The Israel strike on Beirut was basically planned around getting drowned out by the coverage, right? Or am I being too conspiracy brained?

is suing TikTok because THINK OF THE CHILDREN! As if any social media or app isn't doing worse.

On the topic of the PCV conflict with the PSUV, this is something I hadn't seen before:

Orinoco Tribune - 8/11/23 - Communist Party of Venezuela Expresses Solidarity With Far-Right Politician María Corina Machado

My friend’s Venezuelan roommate is saying that his family is calling him and telling him Maduro was sending police to indiscriminately murder people last night at protests, and the police murdered some people in their neighborhood. What’re the possibilities this is true? I googled it and found nothing which is surprising because I feel like the media would eat that up

Pretty well-written article in CounterPunch: Venezuela: An Attempted Coup By Any Other Name

The Venezuelan electoral system, run by the CNE, is so reliable, and was so solid on election day, that the Machado opposition themselves are depending on it, or the idea of it, to derive voting data and then produce a result using their parallel Miami tally. (???)

• The Venezuelan opposition won't present evidence because their intention is to generate doubt, not certainty

• How can you have a parallel result to the CNE when you participated under the rules of the CNE?

• They sang fraud long before even going to elections

I have seen this in both Bolivia and Brazil. Seems like the CIA got lazy and is just a reused coup plan that didn't work before.

NYT:

Ismail Haniyeh, a top leader of Hamas, was assassinated on Wednesday by an explosive device covertly smuggled into the Tehran guesthouse where he was staying, according to seven Middle Eastern officials, including two Iranians, and an American official.

The bomb had been hidden approximately two months ago in the guesthouse, according to five of the Middle Eastern officials.

All of the officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to share sensitive details about the assassination.

Edit: See rebuttal here

Brian Nichols: "We reject calls by Maduro & his inner circle for the arrests of Venezuelan opposition leaders, Gonzalez and Machado. Venezuelans have the constitutional right to express their views freely & without reprisal. Actions to detain or arrest members of the democratic opposition show that lacking any evidence to back Maduro’s electoral claims, he resorts to repression."

The White House and State Department have spoken: They want Maria Corina Machado to administer Venezuela on their behalf and they’ll accept nothing else.

Over 100 West Tex@$$ earthquakes in the last week ~~wrecking havoc~~ "delivering Freedom" on houses

What’s with all the Temu hate? I see Americans referencing Temu products as cheap/counterfeit and throwing fits when their favorite content creator gets sponsored by them. What makes them anymore evil than Amazon?

A growing number of Danish families are applying for financial assistance from humanitarian organisations to buy school supplies for their children. Leading up to the start of each new school year the private organisation Dansk Folkehjælp distributes financial aid for poor families to buy school supplies. This year 2.879 families applied for help, a number that has been steadily rising since 2020 when 1.275 families applied.

An estimated 47.000 Danish children live in poverty and although the number of poverty-stricken Danes has been stagnant, high inflation and price gouging, combined with pensions and benefits being regulated at a lower rate than the general rise in living standards in society has meant that those who have poverty inflicted on them are suffering significantly greater hardships than before.

When applying for the aid, families are providing information about their economic situation. 17 percent of the families who applied stated that after paying fixed expenses like rent and utilities they have less than DKK 1000 (USD 146) left each month.

Denmark's succdem-led right-wing regime has not made poverty-alleviatkon a priority and is even supporting keeping undesirable demographics like non-whites and the unemployed in poverty. Instead they have decided to increase military expenditure to above two percent of GDP and recently they increased the salaries to the royal family by more than 30 percent.

Was there any hard evidence of Iranian drones or cruise missiles being used in the previous strikes against Israel in April? I can't find even a shred of anything concrete. No wreckage or distinctive engine sounds caught on video.

I believe there were some videos from Iranian sources of drones launching, but that could have been intentional misdirection.

I remember there being some discussion that Israel might have exaggerated the size and scope of the attack in order to divert attention from the fact that some of the ballistic missiles got through.

In the interview, Lula da Silva said that he will recognize the result in Venezuela when the electoral records are released by the Venezuelan Goverment.

After note about Maduro, Lula says that PT does not need to ask him for permission. The head of the Executive was asked if the party had been hasty in releasing a note recognizing Nicolás Maduro's victory in the Venezuelan elections.

“I think the PT did what it had to do. The PT does not have to ask the government to do things. The PT is a party that has autonomy, although it is my party, it does not need to ask me for permission: 'Lula, can I do this?'. No. Do what you feel best doing. And the government does what it feels best doing”, said the president.

Edit: I should have clarified that I was not referring to the normal usage, but rather the exceptions.

So the red flag has been raised six times, one was the murder of Soleimani and the most recent was current news.

All I’ve been able to find was that it was also raised for three COVID death milestones. Is that accurate or are those a different count?

It would appreciated if anyone could chime in if the missing sixth instance was a fourth Covid milestone or if it was something else. Or if the Covid ones aren’t included in the count and what the other 4 flag raising were.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has decided to pardon German citizen Rico Krieger, who was sentenced to death for terrorism, Belta reports.

huh