every day I wake up a circle of hell dug deeper

This is a pretty bizarre story of Russian billionaire stuff. Husband and wife dispute over a major Russian tech company merger which seems like a terrible deal, the worst deal folks, he doesn't want it to happen and comes to the office, there's an altercation with security and 9 people get shot. It's hard to tell what's going on here

https://archive.is/k2LNE

There are 2 assassination attempts to trump and even the most unhinged tinfoil hat type is not blaming China. It is so over

Just realised that Zelensky is basically vlogging everyday on twitter.

Ukraine is now losing ground in five different sections of the front line simultaneously. In Kursk, near Kupiansk, around Chasiv Yar, near Pokrovsk and near Vuhledar.

US provincial governor of Kentucky signs an executive order banning conversion therapy for children. He cites his religion for the policy, saying that all children originate from the divine, and that the brutal practice hurts children and thus goes against his religion.

We can unfortunately assume this will only be a temporary victory as Kentucky is a huge red state and his election as a democrat was a fluke due to strong mobilization from labor unions against the previous governor in the 2019 election. Crossing my fingers that this might hurt the organisation of the christofascists enough to slow them down a bit but I'm not holding my breath.

blowback S5 trailer

Some combat footage from the Kursk front.

Russian drones obliterated a German-built Leopard 2 tank: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/newtank:4

Russian drone strike destroyed a German-built “Marder” infantry fighting vehicle: https://lostarmour.info/media/videos/news/22875.mp4

Russian strike destroyed a US-supplied “Stryker” armored personnel carrier: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/precision-strike:7

Closed: All Taco John’s Michigan locations shutter

Franchise owner Meritage Hospitality Group has closed all of its locations, including the Taco John’s in Wyoming, Hudsonville and Caledonia. Those three locations all opened in February of last year.

“We did make the difficult decision to close our Taco John’s restaurants. We appreciate our employees’ commitment and hard work as well as the community’s patronage as we have endeavored to make this concept a success,” a Meritage spokesperson said in a statement to News 8.

closes all Southwest Ohio locations

Less than a year after it opened a Kettering restaurant has closed

Economy is doing fine

By the fucking way, does poland still ban abortion? I remembered their great euro party was elected to dump that law, but i'm checking it now and its still banned?

It does, fucking incredible:

On July 12, however, Tusk suffered what looks like an ominous defeat when a parliamentary vote to stop prosecuting people who assist with abortions failed — by a wafer-thin 218-to-215 margin — because of conservatives within his ruling coalition.

Coming to democrats near you, seppos

Peruvian MP Hitler Saavedra found dead in his hotel at Cusco.

Get yourself a big heavy sword so you can bisect a zionist someday.

A lot of rumours going around that the pager attack was indiscriminate and that it was 5000 pagers? Any confirmation of this anywhere that could be lib-friendly?

EDIT: Also if you have a phone, walkie talkie or pager it might be worth opening it up and giving it an inspection for anything that weighs 20grams that looks out of place. I assume it will likely be touching the battery as it requires heat as the trigger mechanism. The explosives used in these devices were 20grams of PETN.

EDITEDIT: Another thing I'm not understanding is how the trigger mechanism works actually. The temperature detonation point of PETN is 4230°C

EDITEDITEDIT: My guess is they are connected to the circuit. So there must be electronics added too. The energy needed for direct initiation by electric spark is 10-60 mJ.

EDIT4: Another question that needs answering is how the trigger was delivered to devices simultaneously. If the devices were triggered via the pager's own network transmissions then the pagers that are turned off would not have exploded, meaning there's tonnes of unexploded ones out there. However it might also have electronics added that are independent of this and pagers that were off may have also exploded. I suspect this is the most reliable explanation.

CNN Portugal (a disgusting rag that installed itself here a few years ago) guy almost hit by explosion during fires.

Also check these stats, 84% of forest area in portugal is privatized, community-held area is 13%, only 3% is owned by the state.

Huge fires in the north of portugal (again). Haven't looked into this in a while but usually I see the huge, dry, eucaliptus plantations as the reason for the rapid spread of these fires, there's been a major increase in that because it's an export crop that portugal carved out a small niche for itself in the eu market.

Last week the defense minister (from a party that can't even get elected to parliament anymore outside of a coalition with the main center-right party), said something about Olivença being portuguese and Portugal not abdicating sovereignty over it, which is a small 11k people city on the frontier with spain that was supposed to be given back to portugal after the napoleonic wars (there was a treaty or something), but never was (I think this is a trueanon rule) and just kept being spanish. He was mostly mocked because no one really cares, and imagine being from Olivença and seeing your minimum wage reduced from 1k euros to 840 euros.

RE: Federal interest rate cut.

Okay so the graph shows that a cut in interest rates precipitates a recession. While that's true, I think we're still in uncertain waters because the US economy is unlike it's ever been. The 8 years of near zero interest rates was unprecedented and shifted so much of the capital into assets rather than real production. So I don't know if the typical rules about borrowing and reinvestment will apply.

Do the high priests of the economy think a recession is coming? They're saying they don't think so, but they also could be lying. The rate hikes were intended to slow down inflation, which they largely did. But prices are still high compared to wages. What will people do with lower interest rates? Is it enough to boost general consumption? Or just enough for financial types to move money away from production and into financial instruments. I don't know.

Most Global South currencies are appreciating after US rate cut. Question is for how long since US economy will shrink without fiscal stimulus and reduce export demand....

Who must go?
https://xcancel.com/DrJillStein/status/1836902886535492091

At least 38 killed in Israeli strike on suburb in Lebanon’s Beirut

Newest info from hungary (tho its anonymous sources of one of the biggest lib journo so take it with a grain of salt) is that the original order was made by a bulgarian company who arranged manufacturing and transport of the pagers from Taiwan to Lebanon and the hungarian company was only used as cover.