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Don't forget to vote for Edmundo Gonzalez and his VP, Juan Guaido, in the US elections

The municipal government of Aarhus, Denmark's second-largest city, has decided to suspend a social educator named Simon el-Zinaib as a result of an Arab-language Facebook post in which he expressed sorrow over the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh who was murdered by a zionist terror attack in Iran.

In the post el-Zinaib referred to Haniyeh as a "great leader" and expressed the wish for Allah to accept him among the martyrs. The post has since been removed by the US-government affiliated platform, citing alleged violations of guidelines.

Public uproar has already pressured el-Zinaib to resign from the national integration council where he has been advising the regime on integration of ethnic minorities. Kaare Dybvad, the virulently anti-immigrant head of the nation's succdem-controlled ministry for foreigners and integration appointed el-Zinaib but has now made statements about how he condemns the statements and how "prising the leader of a terrorist organisation" is irreconcilable with serving on the integration council.

In Aarhus Anders Winneskjold, head of the city's succdem-controlled social affairs and employment department, is equally brash, claiming that such statements are "incompatible" with working for the city. He refuses to make further comments, referring to the now-initiated legal process to fire el-Zinaib.

Prior to being thrown out, el-Zinaib was working in a poor immigrant neighbourhood of Aarhus doing crime prevention.

Why libs with leftist aesthetics argue with serious faces about copmala vp? she is like 60, the vp is absolutely irrelevant to anything, it can be a brick in a costume voting yes in a senate. Is it some sort of tealeaf reading, get in the mind of a pervert type of stuff?

she is uncurious as a rock, has zionist for a husband, and would do exact same shit as biden with a bigger pinch of wall street. why bother thinking about it

US Deputy Ambassador to the UN, Lloyd Austin, some UK Labour party person (don't remember who) all unanimously and vociferously talking about how Iran and Hezbollah must be condemned and must not retaliated right now. And emphasizing the obviously Israeli attack on those Druze children. I think they are expecting Iran will retaliate hard and expecting to use that to escalate.

I am starting to change my mind that the US actually DOES want this to escalate. Biden is out to lunch, Blinken now is in full control of US policy now, and I think he is ready to go.

Mexican President (Still AMLO) condemns OAS's interfering attitude in Venezuela - TelesurSpanish (Translated)

All Latin American nations should leave the OAS and strengthen CELAC.

Poor trans megathread, it might be one of those days

The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will have a telephone conversation with his counterparts from Brazil and Colombia, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Gustavo Petro, about the situation in Venezuela, without interference and respecting the self-determination of the people. Something that the OAS did not do, he stated.

Claudia also repeated what AMLO said about the OAS and Venezuela.

Amal Saad:

How might Hizbullah and the Resistance Axis respond to Israel's new targeted shock and awe campaign, or what Nasrallah has called the "new phase" of the war?

An analysis of the possible retaliation will be shaped in large part by what the Axis believes Israel's aims are, and the extent of US support for these aims. In other words, whether Israel is simply trying to intimidate and coerce its enemies into submission with these very provocative assassinations, or if its trying to bait Hizbullah and Iran into a wider regional war with the aim of forcing the US to step in militarily. Given that their previous deterrence strategies are no longer effective, both Iran and Hizbullah have to go beyond their responses to the attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria and the assassination of al-Arouri, respectively. This entails an abandonment of their signature "sub-threshold" response, and the adoption of a vertical escalation strategy that crosses Israel's red lines forcefully, compelling it to redraw those lines and absorb the counter-strike(s), without triggering an all-out war.

Anything less than this will only embolden Israel to escalate horizontally by striking Dahyeh and Tehran regularly. This could potentially be achieved if the response doesn't target heavily populated areas and civilians (not to be confused with civilian objects), which Hizbullah has been keen to avoid since the start of the war, despite its public rhetoric. For Hizbullah, the real challenge will engaging in such a response while avoiding giving away any new weapons technology, and the location of its missiles and launching positions, among other things, which Israeli intelligence is keen to observe and gather information about. The central aim of any response will not only be to restore deterrence and honour as per Nasrallah's speech, and to prevent all out war, but to ensure that Israel is unable to compensate for its lack of strategic victory with tactical gains.

The mystery of Argentina’s gold: Milei admits that it was transferred abroad, without specifying the quantities or destination (Jul 28)

While the government acknowledges that gold reserves have been sent outside the country, there’s no official information available regarding the purpose of the operation. The gold is now exposed to the risk of being seized, due to long-standing claims against Argentina made by foreign creditors

AIPAC is a hate group

The sun is now rising in Iran it is 5.10am there. Not happening.

Mexico just said that the elections in Venezuela were peaceful, they are waiting for the final results. Same thing as Brazil, Colombia and Turkey, and the Carter Center. Basically denies any fraud accusation.

At long last, a second bulletin from Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE). According to CNE president Elvis Amoroso, the process has been affected by cyber attacks against the CNE website and telecom firms. With a reported 96.87% of centers processed, the CNE has Maduro with 51.95%, González with 43.18%. The CNE pointed out that 99.59% of valid votes and 0.41% of invalid votes were counted.

Full Electoral Results of Venezuela 2024:

Nicolas Maduro (Leftist, Chavista): 51,95%

Edmundo Gonzalez (Far-Right, US Puppet): 43,18%

Luiz Matinez Hernán (Minor Liberal Candidate): 0,24%

Antonio Ecarri (Anti-Chavista Liberal): 0,94%

Benjamín Rausseo (Anti-Chavista Conservative): 0,75%

José Brito (Liberal, Anti-US? The US seems to hate him for some reason.): 0,68%

Javier Bertucci (Christian Democrat): 0,52%

Claudio Fermín (Anti-Chavista, Socdem): 0,33%

Enrique Márquez (Anti-Chavista, Leftist, has the support of the Anti-Chavista branch of the PCV): 0,24%

Daniel Ceballos (Socdem): 0,16%

While I'm watching the rumour machine I'mma post cool shit I find as well.

China has drones disguised as birds.

https://streamable.com/ugyad5

The self-proclaimed DICTATOR of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, described the results issued by the CNE as a “fraud” that has “no relation with reality”. “We broke diplomatic relations with Maduro 4 years ago. We will not reopen them until his people can elect their leaders in real elections”, expressed the president in his X account.

Dude says this shit without any irony lol

Israel’s armed forces confirmed that they killed Hamas’s military commander, Muhammad Deif, in an air strike on Khan Younis, a city in southern Gaza, in July. Mr Deif was responsible for orchestrating the militant group’s attacks that killed nearly 1,200 Israelis on October 7th. The announcement comes a day after the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s political leader, in Iran. Yoav Gallant, Israel’s defence minister, claimed that Mr Deif’s death showed that Israel was “achieving the goals of the war”.

This is from the Economist. Another assassination. Been some serious killings, attempted and successful, over the past few days.

Nicolas Maduro said he was willing to return to dialogue with the United States government, if "popular sovereignty was respected", and if the country "stopped threatening Venezuela", and "Qatar's commitment" was fulfilled.

President Maduro speech today: "We have defeated the first part of the criminal fascist coup d'état. Let's go for them and fascism in Venezuela will not pass! I will protect the people, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, from the fascists, murderers, country sellers and imperialists."

Nicolas Maduro announces that maximum security prisons will be set up for people who are at opposition protests, which will serve as re-education centers for opponents.

Maria Corina Machado, opposition leader, called on Venezuelans to gather in the streets this Saturday, August 3rd, to "show the strength of the people".

I guess Gonzalez is already out of the picture? Maybe he already went to Argentina or Miami.

The entire world if the US didn't exist

DEATH TO AMERICA

DEATH TO ISRAEL

First sleepless night with three weeks old lil Hassan yesterday, stayed up until 6 am with him crying in my lap while I was focusing on nuking America in my Civ 6 game. That mf Roosevelt had better progress on his science victory, so I had to do it.

To keep it news-mega related, lots of movement on the Ukrainian front recently. Russians have crossed the canal into the real parts of Chasov Yar, captured the main part of Krasnogorovka, and they've also initiated a mini-collapse west of Prohres in Avdeevka - Pokrovsk front. Away from the Donbass, they've also broken through the Oskil stalement front that has been dead since September 2022, with a big push beyond the village of Pishchane. Lots of new names for us village name-enjoyers, they're finally moving fast enough for a healthy learning pace. Gone are the days where of being stuck in fucking Opytne, Marinka and Yahidne. I'm personally waiting for a real push on Ugledar, hate that place so much. The Ukrainian strategy on the Avdeevka - Pokrovsk front is completely incomprehensible to me, they keep trying to set up makeshift defences in every village as they keep getting pushed back, which has resulted in full brigades getting chewed up in indefensible locations. Like what's the damn point, the Russians proved in Robotyne and Svatove that a fixed line is way more defensible and saves so many lives, and even Ukraine themselves proved this recently in Kharkov and in Ugledar before that. Instead they're doing this strategy where they're losing both lives and ground, when they could've saved some lives that are desperately needed with the manpower issues.

Seems like protests in Venezuela have died down now. The US probably told Machado and Gonzalez to shut the fuck up.

It's been raining all day in Caracas. If you've seen any protest videos alleging to be from today in which it's not raining, they are using old footage.

As of right now (3:54 PM) there have been a few small protests around the city. There could be more when the full results are announced. But there are also old videos being misrepresented in bad faith on the social media networks.

Sanders Unveils “Moonshot” Bill to Fund Research Into Long COVID

The Long Covid Research Moonshot Act of 2024 would provide the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with $1 billion in mandatory funding per year for a decade to support studies, the pursuit of treatments, and the expansion of care for U.S. patients impacted by the condition.

That's actually the legislation name? The This Has No Chance of Passing, But Sure is Ambitious Act?

Also - only $1 billion?

can't wait for Iran to give them another 2 weeks to prepare their defenses before responding

F-16 fuel bombed ~~Ohio~~ Michigan parking lot.

Had to drop tanks because the plane wasn't reading them. No one hurt.

Recently, Danish authorities began employing teenagers as "agents" to check whether retailers were selling alcohol to minors. Naturally, retailers are grumpy about this impediment to the free flow of commerce but "I want to make money by getting minors drunk" is not a good PR message so they had to come up with something else. And this is what they came up with: The enforcement of the age limits is making their employees sad and scared, sometimes to a degree in which they have to call in sick or go into therapy.

Won't somebody think of the poor employees who now have to ask young people for ID before handing them a bottle of vodka?

biden is the lamest duck there has ever been

Venezuela's Army backs the Goverment

Venezuela's defense minister, Padrino Lopez, has aligned himself with the Nicolás Maduro goverment and said that the country is undergoing an attempted coup d'état perpetrated by fascists.

Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López issued a statement condemning "violent actions" promoted by the Venezuelan far-right yesterday. Mentioned 23 servicemen and 25 police officers wounded, as well as the death of a National Guard Sargent who was shot.

In his press conference, Padrino said Venezuela is facing a coup attempt orchestrated by the far-right and vowed it would be defeated

Why is trump questioning kamala's blackness when he can just ask joe, The Decider?

Norway's succdem-led regime is trying a novel method to raise declining birth rates: Improving material conditions for families.

Preschool childcare rates will be lowered from USD 275 to USD 183 per month. In municipalities with low birth rates the rates will be halved. Norwegian parents are already only required to pay for the care of their first two children.

Ibrahim Traore on establishing a new national bank:
https://xcancel.com/CapitaineIb226/status/1819314679392469144

This Friday, August 2, 2024, I officially launched the activities of the Banque des Dépôts du Trésor.

With integrity as its compass, this bank is a tool and a symbol of economic and financial sovereignty of Burkina Faso. It will be closer to the populations and will contribute to the socio-economic development of our country through a more adapted method of financing structuring projects and programs.

I invite the Burkinabè, public and private development organizations and economic operators to use the “Burkindlim” bank to participate in the work of collective construction of a sovereign economy serving the development of our country.

Great success at the Banque des Dépôts du Trésor!

They're not English Nazis, they're just really big fans of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Fuck the whole twitter community note system, any political figure going against the fraud narrative in spanish and portuguese language twitter is getting hit with "uhm achstually there's fraud"

EDIT: Political commentator on portuguese television right now: "Venezuelans WISHED they lived under Salazar or Marcelo's dictatorship" instead of Maduro

Venezuelan opposition in shambles