Bulletins and News Discussion from July 15th to July 21st, 2024 - It's Joever
Bulletins and News Discussion from July 15th to July 21st, 2024 - It's Joever
Image is of Joseph Robinette Biden, who has stepped down and will not run against Trump in the 2024 election.
In the aftermath of Trump surviving an assassination attempt, many professional opinion-havers are now talking about the scourge of "political violence" that has overtaken, or will soon overtake America, and how we must not let chaos rule. This is, of course, patently absurd. The American government and its allies have been the greatest force of political violence on the planet since the beginning of colonialism, and the foundations of the country are made of corpses. Today, America commits political violence by forcing Ukrainians into the maw of Russian artillery instead of trying to reach a peaceful settlement, which Russia has repeatedly expressed interest in and offered Ukraine relatively favourable terms. They supply Israel with endless weaponry to destroy entire cities and populations, while Biden supporters insist that somehow things could be worse than daily massacres and mass starvation.
In May 1945, French police fired on protestors, causing retaliatory attacks on French settlers, killing about a hundred. In response, the French murdered 45,000 Algerians in a little under two months, in a frenzy of political violence called the Sétif and Guelma massacre. As the massacre was being completed, the International Court of Justice was established. It goes without saying that Algeria never benefited from the ICJ, and the War of Independence from 1954 to 1962 was made inevitable. Over a million Algerians were killed before France could bear the fighting no longer and gave up, and Algeria won itself a state. Comparisons to the ongoing war of independence and genocide in Palestine are obvious.
While the means of colonial violence have evolved over the centuries, the basic structure of it has not. As in Algeria, Vietnam, and Cuba, resistance groups in and around Palestine are fighting for a world with less political violence. The American government would drown every city in the developing world in blood to prevent peace.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Joe Biden just stepped down? Wow. I didn’t know that. You’re telling me now for the first time.
He led an amazing life. What else can you say? He was an amazing man. Whether you agree or not, he was an amazing man who led an amazing life. I’m actually saddened to hear that. I am saddened to hear that.
According to an aussie think tank China is going to achieve its 2030 climate goals by the end of this month
NYT on Crooks' motive...
"When the F.B.I. was able to finally access Mr. Crooks’s cellphones and other electronic devices, agents could see that he had searched for images of Mr. Trump as well as President Biden, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and even F.B.I. Director Christopher A. Wray.
Mr. Crooks also had at typed in “major depressive disorder” and searched for dates and places for appearances for both Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump.
One of Mr. Trump’s planned appearances happened to be about 50 miles from Mr. Crooks’s house in Bethel Park, Pa."
Motive might have just been that Trump was a shorter drive than Biden or others.
Extremely American.
https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeBiden/comments/1e8vnow/im_sitting_here_taking_in_the_news_a_manual/
Which one of you wrote this highly upvoted masterpiece on /r/JoeBiden?
I'm in shock. I don't know what was the final straw for the President, a man who I have considered -- and still do consider -- to be a real-life Jed Bartlett hybridized with Captain America.
I trust the President and always have. He has never let me down. For him to make such a move means he must have compelling reason to do so.
I keep thinking back to 2020. That year, in a moment of somber and morbid inspiration, we lost Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an icon to whom, if she were a religion, I would convert despite my pro-life -- yet otherwise liberal -- tendencies. Her death was like a clarion call for all of us to rise up and remove the now-convicted-felon donald trump. I wondered much these last few weeks what would be the move which would propel us in this election.
Starting now, we must quickly pick up the pieces and, just as Captain America said in Endgame, we must "Assemble". We have a convention coming up. The delegates, democratically chosen by the voters, will democratically elect at that Democratic convention the nominee of the Democratic Party.
ICJ !!!!! WELCOME TO THE RESISTANCE !!!!
ISRAEL IS A APARTHEITSTATE !
ISRAEL IS ENGAGED IN RACIAL SEGREGATION !
ISRAEL HAS TO REMOVE ALL SETTLERS AND ALL SETTLEMENTS FROM THE OCCUPIED PALESTINE TERRITORIES !
Edit : this comes directly after the german intervention .. hilarious..
EDIT. nOt , fuck fucking fuckermy
just learned that not a single president has won a second term with an approval rating below 48% before election day (dubya in 04 was the lowest and only won by a pretty small margin)
lmao joe biden's at 37%. lyndon johnson dropped out of the race when he was slightly higher than that (from 538, data since 1945, scroll down n hover around day
1,8351,385)Apparently there is some MASSIVE IT fuckery afoot right now. We are almost certainly in the midst of the single largest IT outage in history. Will update the list below as necessary, and I’m sure there’s a lot more than this too
911 services disrupted in AK, AZ, IN, MN, NH, OH
London stock exchange major disruptions
Payment systems in UK and Australia major disruption (Australian government has called for an emergency meeting)
Several major banks experiencing payment issues
Widespread outages in USA hospital EMR systems
Major Microsoft services out
FAA has grounded delta, American, United flights
Berlin has suspended flights
UK and Australian supermarkets experiencing widespread outages
ALL airports in Spain impacted by outage
Sky News went off air for three hours, came back on air for 5 minutes, is now back off air
Singapores Changi airport only able to do manual checkins. Same situation in Hong Kong
Telegraph reporting that ALL of their PCs are down
Airports around the world reaching deadlock as flights are grounded, delayed, and then unable to be rescheduled or rebooked
University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein is forced to cancel all planned operations today
JFK Airport checkins are backed up out of the door at 5:20am
Widespread reports of PCs being stuck BSoDing (Blue Screen of Death)
Washington DC suspends ALL rail service
MTA claims that NYC transit will remain functional for use but is having back end issues providing information to riders
Pharmaceutical companies reporting widespread outages
Belfast airport being forced to resort to using whiteboards for updates on flights
NHS reporting outages impacting critical systems
Widespread rail service disruptions across the US and UK
Stores across Japan unable to do business
Systems at Paris Olympics are not functioning properly
Container ships unable to load or unload cargo at some ports
I would advise that if you have a PC that you
don’t
update it
for now.Ok you should be good to update it now. A fix has been rolled out but like… don’t update to fix it yet if you could just keep not doing work and getting away with it. And we certainly haven’t seen the last of the impacts yet so I’ll keep updating if anything else juicy happens
A drone has exploded in the middle of Tel Aviv, less than 100m from a US consulate building. At least 8 settlers have been wounded with at least 1 death, and Netanyahu has reportedly cancelled his US visit in response. Yemen is claiming responsibility for the strike, which reportedly entered "Israeli" airspace from over the Mediterranean.
Gov. Newsom signs first-in-nation bill banning schools’ transgender notification policies
This is good, and honestly pretty common sense: a trans kid is scared of telling their parents they are trans, so they can be out at school and not have to worry about consequences at home (like a forced detransition).
Of course the evangelical nuts are losing it over this. And this is Musk’s response:
Palestine Action continues to show how it's fucking done:
Palestine Action UK broke into a facility and proceeded to smash shit:
https://xcancel.com/Pal_action/status/1812817029180567674Palestine Action Austria fucked up a bunch of solar panels among other things:
https://xcancel.com/Pal_action/status/1812894782294769862No matter what hellish fate awaits us, we can always cherish in our hearts the week where Biden sat alone in his house, sick and sad and betrayed by everyone around him.
This is a battle long lost, but it's amazing that he's pissing and shitting himself (literally I assume) at the prospect of the Democrats doing to him what they did to Bernie four years ago. Fuck you old man, I hope the China virus eats your brain to death.
Also, for all the articles that make it seem like he's about to step down, I have a feeling the libs are going to "learn" what we've all known forever: that beneath the dementia and the goofy old heehaw bullshit, Biden is actually just a huge stubborn fucking asshole.
GERMAN TROOPS TO EXIT NIGER, ANOTHER NEOCOLONIAL DOMINO DOWN:
https://xcancel.com/african_stream/status/1813979908277719450#mBiden held 'tense' call with group of House Democrats over concerns he can't win
"Tell me who enlarged NATO, tell me who did the Pacific basin! Tell me who did something that you've never done with your Bronze Star like my son --- and I'm proud of your leadership, but guess what, what's happening, we've got Korea and Japan working together, I put Aukus together, anyway!" he said.
Brandon trying the Trump strategy of insulting veterans to increase his popularity
Biden’s legacy will be ‘Genocide Joe’: Arab American advocate
Abed Ayoub, executive director at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), says despite some domestic achievement, Biden’s will rank as “one of the worst” presidents in US history because of his unconditional support for Israel.
“He’ll be remembered for the hundreds of thousands killed, injured and displaced in Gaza,” Ayoub told Al Jazeera. “There is no way around it. Genocide Joe is what he’s going to be remembered as.”
@mkultrawide@hexbear.net did it
I have heard of tech companies keeping an employee after making a million dollar mistake, because they know they will never make the same mistake again. I wonder if they will keep an employee after making a trillion dollar mistake. 🤔
The fact that it is even possible for an INDIVIDUAL to make such a costly error indicates a vast systemic failure. We are all only human.
Not gonna lie, part of me wanted him to stay in so we could continue to harp on "Genocide Joe" and say "I told you so" when he inevitably lost against Trump.
The other part of me does recognize that the real problem isn't a single person but rather the entire system. It just sucks that all the crimes against humanity committed under Biden's genocidal regime will be forgotten by many people due to a different puppet steering the ship.
BREAKING: Grindr experiencing outages due to unprecedented traffic in Milwaukee, WI.
https://xcancel.com/computer_gay/status/1813392864094687268
Al Jazeera It's Joever coverage
We also have the first reaction from Moscow.
“The elections are still four months away, and that is a long period of time in which a lot can change,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
“We need to be patient and carefully monitor what happens. The priority for us is the special military operation,” he added, referring to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Peskov noted that Russian President Vladimir Putin had characterised Biden as a predictable candidate, who Russia would have preferred.
Biden was the Russian candidate all along!
In Communist North Korea, supporting the victims against the oppressor is illegal and you will be put under house arrest.
Strait Times - Self-radicalised S’porean teen, 14, and ex-public servant, 33, given ISA restriction orders
The 33-year-old, on the other hand, staunchly supported the Axis of Resistance, a network of Islamist militant and terrorist organisations, including Hamas and the Houthis, and advocated violence against Israelis and Jews, said the ISD.
“militant and terrorist” - comprador
Since the two people have been issued restriction orders, they cannot change their residence or employment, or travel out of Singapore, without the ISD director’s approval.
They also cannot access the internet or social media, issue public statements, address public meetings, or print, distribute or contribute to any publication, or hold office in or be a member of any organisation, association or group without prior approval.
Both Malaysia and Singapore have these ISA laws that were initially used against Communists and labour unionists, originating from the colonial era before independence. So much for “Asian values” while retaining colonial laws.
It's officially Joeover. Biden is dropping out of the 2024 election. Now the chaos begins to replace him. What a shitshow.
Edit: source is https://xcancel.com/JoeBiden/status/1815080881981190320
Viet Namese communist party leader Nguyen Phu Trong dead. Weeks where decades happen. Probably more capitalist reforms in store for Viet Nam. Sigh. Let's hope they at least get someone pro-China and pro-Russia to strengthen the anti-West alliance
There’s already a new babushka/umbrella man conspiracy theory. People are pointing out some lady with sunglasses standing behind Trump who calmly started recording instead of ducking when the shots rang out
This is why I never want to be on camera for any video that goes viral. I rather not be doxed and murdered because some brainwormed yakubian determines that I’m part of a cabal of assassins
⚡️🇷🇺WOW: The craziest Russian motorcycle assault of the entire war so far. Dozens of motorcycle troops blaze through explosions to successfully storm and capture Urozhaynoye. And since we have subsequent footage of the flag being raised on the town, any Ukrainian claims of "motorcycle meat-assaults" are cope.
Cavalry bros we are so back
Yemen is claiming to have hit Tel Aviv with a second drone strike.Self crit: I was not immune to propaganda and there was not a second attack claimed by Yemen. There was an oxygen tank explosion that people were speculating was another attack and I didn’t vet my source well enough!That being said, the following remains true:
A new age of warfare is truly upon us. Yemen flew a drone over 1000 miles through some of the most heavily layered air defense and hit an extremely well protected target deep within the enemy’s borders.
this is panning out to be the funniest failed assassination attempt ever:
Local SWAT was supposed to be on top of the building where the shooter took his shot, but they just.. weren't
Scientists find "tunnel" on the Moon
spoiler
Scientists have found a tunnel under the surface of the Moon.
The study could help space agencies as they plan to go back to the Moon – and perhaps even stay there for significant amounts of time. The caves could be an important way of protecting those astronauts from the extreme environment on the lunar surface.
The breakthrough discovery seems to confirm decades of speculation about caves that might run under the lunar surface.
Now scientists have found what appears to be an underground cave. It marks the first time that researchers have confirmed an accessible cave – likely a tube left by flowing lava – under the Moon’s surface.
The data was actually gathered in 2010, as part of Nasa’s ongoing Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter or LRO mission. But years on, researchers re-anlaysed that data with new signal processing techniques – and found that suggested that there is an “underground cave conduit”.
“This research demonstrates both how radar data of the Moon can be used in novel ways to address fundamental questions for science and exploration and how crucial it is to continue collecting remotely sensed data of the Moon,” said Wes Patterson, from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. “This includes the current LRO mission and, hopefully, future orbiter missions.”
The caves might serve as an important shelter for astronauts who are spending significant time on the lunar surface.
Surface temperatures on the Moon can reach 127 degrees Celsius when it is hit by the Sun, and can drop to -173 degrees away from the Sun. Cosmic and solar radiation can be 150 times more powerful than it is on Earth, and anyone on the surface is in constant danger of being hit by a meteorite.
As such, space agencies hope that the caves – and potential networks of them – could be used to build safe habitats for lunar explorers.
The researchers suggest that the newly discovered cave could be a promising spot for a future lunar base. The new techniques could also prove useful in finding other caves, they say.
Astronomers have already found more than 200 pits on the Moon’s surface, some of which appear to have been formed when a lava tube collapsed underneath.
The work is published in a new paper, ‘Radar Evidence of an Accessible Cave Conduit below the Mare Tranquillitatis Pit’, in the journal Nature Astronomy.
For the last 4 weeks, each period of Thursday to Saturday held some major event:
- Biden's disastrous debate performance
- UK elections
- Trump Shooting
- Crowdstrike outage
Given that Israel already telegraphed its intentions for this month, I can conclude that Israel will attack Lebanon between July 25th and July 27th.
PSL statement about the assassination attempt related to the megathread topic: https://www.liberationnews.org/psl-statement-the-attempted-assassination-of-trump-and-its-political-fallout/
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In an instant, the political situation in the United States was transformed when a gunman shot Donald Trump while he was on stage at a rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania on July 13.
The situation is still evolving, but the initial political impact is highly favorable for Trump. Instructing his Secret Service detail to pause as they evacuated him from the stage, Trump pumped his fist and yelled to the crowd, “Fight!” — instantly creating iconic images that make Trump look heroic and strong. The contrast between his (self-created and false) image as an unstoppable fighter and Biden’s feebleness has never been greater.
Immediately following the shooting, the Biden campaign suspended its advertisements. Practically every major Democratic Party elected official rushed to express their sympathy for Trump and wish him well. A range of corporate leaders, perhaps seeing Trump’s victory as now inevitable, issued statements embracing him.
The main argument the Democratic Party had in the campaign up to now was that Trump was an aspiring dictator and pathological liar who represented an existential threat to democracy. They instantly dropped all these talking points in the name of “coming together” and “turning down the rhetoric.” The furthest Biden now goes is to say Trump has a “competing vision” for the country.
The right wing, on the other hand, immediately went on the attack. J.D. Vance, a vice-presidential contender, directly blamed Biden’s rhetoric for the shooting. Donald Trump, Jr. immediately said after the shooting that his father “will never stop fighting to save America, no matter what the radical left throws at him.” There is zero indication the “radical left” had anything to do with this, as the shooter himself was a registered Republican, but such comments have saturated the far-right political ecosystem. They are meant to cow Trump’s liberal critics into silence, lest they be seen as supporting violence. It also lays the groundwork and creates a pretext for a new wave of repression, either under a second Trump presidency or even now under Biden.
Already the White House has signaled Biden is planning to go on a new political offensive this week against the campus encampments in solidarity with Palestine as an example of “violent extremism.” This is absurd. The encampments were launched to stop the genocidal violence against the Palestinian people; the student protesters attacked no one and were, in fact, targets of violence themselves.
Trump is headed to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention. His speech at the RNC will set the tone for the next phase of the campaign. Trump is reportedly rewriting his speech, which had originally been an all-out attack on Biden, to focus more on themes of national unity. With leading capitalists extending him an olive branch, Trump could calculate that his best move would be to move in a “moderate” direction and demonstrate to fellow members of the ultra-rich elite that he can be a unifying, “presidential” figure and present strength for the Empire. Trump has no fixed ideology and solely cares about his image and legacy.
In another sign that an elite consensus was emerging around Trump as the next president, the judge in the classified documents criminal case against Trump suddenly dismissed all charges two days after the assassination attempt. Soon, a DC judge will have to decide if other charges relating to the plot to overturn the 2020 election can go forward in light of the Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.
Fake pacifism and a new cycle of political violence
“There is no place in America for this kind of violence,” Joe Biden says. “No exception.” It is important not to lose sight of the extreme hypocrisy of the powerful figures now issuing blanket condemnations of violence.
The same people who are so appalled that someone would shoot at a politician did not bat an eye at the news the same Saturday morning that Israeli fighter jets had just killed 90 Palestinian civilians in a failed assassination attempt of a resistance leader in Gaza. They normalize and defend all the violence carried out by the state — whether in oppressed neighborhoods inside the United States, at the U.S.-Mexico border, or overseas. But then they turn around and say, “violence has never been the answer.”
All the politicians who have suddenly become pacifists for a weekend don’t really mean it. This is about their own safety and no one else’s.
More than anything, they are concerned about a new wave of political violence that could destabilize their rule. Contrary to Biden’s assertions that such political violence is “unheard of,” working-class leaders and social movement leaders have been targeted by violence throughout U.S. history. There have also been periods of U.S. history where violence and assassination have been the methods used to resolve disputes within the ruling class. The U.S. Civil War came about after years of escalating political violence. A century later, the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy in 1963 and 1968 profoundly reshaped the presidential campaigns that were underway in each of those instances. Then came the shooting that left George Wallace paralyzed in the 1972 election, an election which also saw President Nixon order the break-in to the offices of the DNC. The impeachment of Nixon, and the subsequent appointment of an unelected president and vice-president, Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller, capped off this period of extreme instability in the ruling class — and to end it, Nixon was pardoned in the name of “national unity.”
In periods of major upheaval domestically and internationally, the tendency to resolve struggles within the ruling class using violence grows stronger, as does the tendency to use violence against the people.
Lest we forget: from 2017 to 2020, Democratic Party leaders attempted to undo the 2016 election with the phony Russiagate conspiracy, asserting that Trump was elected because of Russian interference in the election. From Day One of the Trump presidency, the Democratic Party leadership and their supporters were looking to impeach him for being a “puppet” of Putin. Then, in turn, Trump tried to undo the 2020 election by mobilizing fascist forces to seize the Capitol at the moment the vote was to be ratified. And in between these two events, there was a mass uprising against police killing of unarmed civilians, during which the National Guard was called out, Democratic mayors complied with Trump to impose curfews and conduct mass arrests, and Trump itched to invoke the Insurrection Act and call out the military to occupy cities in the United States. Talk about instability.
Headed into the 2024 election, there remains all the same explosive potential around the election and the transfer of power. The underlying social crises — of job destruction, climate destruction, military confrontation, state violence, the cost-of-living crisis, etc. — cannot be solved by either faction of the capitalist class. Neither party can control the two egomaniacs who lead them. The trust in Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court are at record lows. There are already hundreds of millions of guns in circulation among the population. The country appears to be on a collision course. No wonder they’re saying, “Cool it.”
All this is more important than who, if anyone, the shooter was connected to politically. Theories already abound, and there will now be extensive investigations by multiple different arms of the government with contradictory political interests. There is intense speculation about how the gunman was able to position himself so close to the stage and why police did not stop him. Some of that may become clearer in the coming weeks, but it also may remain shrouded in mystery. Rather than focus on that, class-conscious workers should pay more attention to how the ruling class will politically utilize this assassination attempt in the here and now.
Real working-class unity — no unity with the ruling-class establishment!
The Democrats now want to invoke “unity” and American patriotism to silence criticism of the institutions whose legitimacy has been rapidly in decline. The Republicans also talk of unity and wrap themselves in the flag, but they want to use this event to blast through any opposition to their radical pro-corporate agenda.
The hypocrisy of elite politicians aside, they are playing on a sincere feeling among many working class people that the United States has become deeply divided in a way that has dangerous consequences. People do desire peace over instability, unity over division. The question, then, is what is the answer to “polarization”?
Socialists desire working-class unity, but no unity with the tiny billionaire class that has doubled their profits in the last four years by exploiting people of all backgrounds. The problem is not that people are politically polarized, but that we are polarized on totally the wrong basis.
Working-class people who vote for Biden or for Trump, or neither, have more in common than they may think. They share the same problems paying for rent, mortgage, a tank of gas, and a dozen eggs while dealing with stagnant wages, disrespectful bosses, decrepit schools, exorbitant child care, and parasitic insurance companies. They have almost no democratic say in any of it. They generally want to stay out of wars abroad and would much prefer to see their tax dollars used to build stronger communities.
Japan considers formal recognition of Palestinian state, says top diplomat - Press TV
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Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa says her country is considering plans to formally the State of Palestine, taking into account the progress of the so-called peace process in West Asia.
During a meeting in the capital Tokyo, the 71-year-old Japanese politician stated that her government supports the purported two-state solution to the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
She said Japan understands the Palestinians' aspiration for the establishment of an independent sovereign state, and that it supports the ongoing efforts to achieve such a goal.
“With regard to recognition of the Palestinian state, we want to continue to address this issue comprehensively, taking into account how to advance the peace process,” the top Japanese diplomat stated.
Earlier, Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit had called on Japan to recognize a Palestinian state.
“That is the only solution; the apartheid, annexation and oppression committed by Israel are not feasible solutions,” he said at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo, where he attended the 5th Japan-Arab Economic Forum.
Aboul Gheit said the Israeli occupation, oppression and persecution of Palestinians and Arabs since 1967 caused Hamas resistance movement to attack the Israeli regime in a large-scale offensive, dubbed Operation al-Aqsa Storm, on October 7.
“Israel has the urge and desire to suppress Palestinian hopes of independence,” he added. “We, however, are calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state.”
The Palestinians hope to establish an independent state of their own in the Gaza Strip and West Bank with East al-Quds as its capital.
Israel occupied East al-Quds during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. It annexed the entire city in 1980, claiming all of al-Quds as its “eternal and undivided” capital in a move never recognized by the international community.
I swear libs are incapable of comprehending the existence of people who are deciding between voting for Biden or not voting and that those people are what make or break Biden's campaign.
I guess that's what 8 years of "not voting is the same as voting for Trump" does to your brain. It turns out it's actually not the same.
Someone made a montage of US naval officers expressing frustration on unable to stop Ansarallah:
https://xcancel.com/Aldanmarki/status/1814086981615595797Apparently the CPUSA is expelling and dissolving clubs for black nationalism and its the reason its austin chapter is dissolving
UH OH 🥵HOE👨🏻🦳BIDEN🍆HAS DROPPED HIS ASS 🍑OUT⬇️🤤OF THE 2024 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣ ERECTION🥺😱😥🗳️🔥 THE PRESI-DICK🫡🇺🇸IS EXPERIENCING😩😲SOME 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 😏HEALTH ISSUES👨⚕️🩺🤒INCLUDING MEM-WHORE-Y LOSS🤔❓CUM-FUSION 😵💫🥛😏 AND DIFFICULTY BREATHING 😮💨🫁 DUE TO COVID SIDE EFF-UCKS😰🦠😷. VICE BITCH IN CHARGE 👩🏽💋🙏CUM-MALA 💦WHOR-ISS💅👮🏽♀️🚔WILL SQUIRT🦪💦IN HIS PLACE 🫦FOR THE UPCUMMING 🗣️ERECTION🍆🍆🍆WILL SHE FINALLY BE THE FIRST SLUT💅 TO CLAP THOSE ⚪️WHITE HOUSE🏛️ CHEEKS🍑 AND BREAK THE 🪟GL-ASS CEILING?🔨 💅OR WILL DADDY T-RUMP 🍊💁🏼👂 AND 🌈GAY-D 🍆 VANCE EAT OUT😋🍽️THE POLLS AND 🕳️HOLES ?!?!✌️👅💦
Me reading Simplicius' blog for his Russia/Ukraine analysis:
Me when he starts going on tangents about 'woke' or how Americas problems would be fixed if Texas was allowed to take illegal immigration into their own hands:
I just wanna find some good anti-imperialist or left blogs with quality analysis. I like Moon of Alabama but good lord the comments there are full of cranks, boomer brainrot, and anti-semites. Thankful for this place
“They did not just read Ibn Taymiyya. They didn't just read Sayyid Qutb. They didn't just read Hassan al-Banna. They read Lenin, they read Jean-Paul Sartre, they read Fyodor Dostoevsky. They read everything that they could come across as they tried to figure out the future and the way forward and out of that Palestinian impasse."
An interview with Dr. Mohammed Al-Hindi, one of the leaders of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
King Brandon the Feeble-minded, once thought invincible, now fell prey to the very plague and pestilence he believed he had banished years ago through sacrificial rites to appease the wrathful God of the Line. Scores of peasants had been offered, their lives extinguished in hopes of divine favor, yet the scourge had now returned with a vengeance upon the king himself.
Stricken and weakened, Brandon retreated to his chambers, leaving the court physicians to attempt their cures away from the prying eyes of the courtiers. The Throne of Skulls now stood empty, and the realm's defenses were leaderless and dispirited. The few remaining loyal captains, their hearts heavy with dread, implored their men to cling to faith despite the looming specter of certain defeat.
In the dim corners of the Great White Hall, rumours were whispered that the king's illness was feigned by a faction of nobles tied to his kingship, who feared that revealing him to the world would expose the severe decay of his mind.
As the king lay secluded, the Orange Troll King and his foul hordes drew ever nearer. The air was thick with foreboding, and the once-mighty realm teetered on the brink of collapse, its fate hanging by the thinnest of threads. The nobles, divided and fearful, plotted in the shadows, each seeking to secure their own survival in the face of impending doom.
I read a profile of Trump's campaign/managers in The Atlantic and it's insane. Trump team took over the RNC, absolutely gutted their national ground game/voter turnout engine, replaced it with a half-assed volunteer ponzi scheme in just 4 states + Ohio, and spent the rest of the money, (over half of it!!) on "election integrity."
They're also relying on TPUSA and similar orgs for the high volume voter contact, which is a Very Stupid idea because Charlie Kirk utterly failed in the 2022 Nevada midterms when he was put in charge. And they replaced most door knocking with targeted ads for Black/hispanic men ages 18 to 34.
Tbh, they badly needed the cash from Musk, and it won't even help unless they stop pissing 70% of it away on voter fraud prevention and trumo's legal bills. Musks money is also going to "a new super-PAC" so how quickly that can ramp up operations is questionable.
The only silver lining for them is that Trump has listened to reason on the voting by mail issue and has stopped trashing it publicly. As well as Trump's dominance in the polls, which may be overestimating liberal support.
Full text: https://archive.ph/IbMy1
I was on an ostensibly leftist subreddit thread about Biden stepping down, and there were liberals talking about how Kamala is too risky because she's not a white man, or because she's otherwise too progressive to appeal to undecided voters. They're wringing their hands about how even Kamala is too progressive and they should go with a conservative white guy instead.
Thousands register in Poland to join Ukrainian volunteer legion, says Polish FM [11/07/2024]
Speaking during the NATO Public Forum held in conjunction with the alliance's summit in Washington, Sikorski stated that the government is "starting to prepare the first Ukrainian brigade composed of volunteers in Poland. We have up to 1 million Ukrainians of both genders in the country, and several thousand have already registered to participate in this initiative."
"Interestingly, many of them genuinely want to serve and relieve their compatriots on the front lines, but they say they do not want to be sent into combat without proper training and equipment," Sikorski emphasized.
The minister noted that Poland will provide these volunteers with training and equipment, after which they will be sent to Ukraine with the right to return to Poland after their rotation.
"If every European country did this, Ukraine would have several brigades," Poland's chief diplomat admitted.
oh yeah uh huh all those people who fled the war, actually they all wanna go fight in Ukraine, that's why they're in Poland right now, yup most definitely
https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/POP/TOT/804
21st century Ukraine: total population collapse. I think the "without migration uncertainty" assumes a few million refugees will return soon.
I have a new 2020 dem primary theory: Biden wasn't chosen specifically to be the one to coalesce the other shitbird candidates behind, he was the pick because he was too stubborn to be willing to end his campaign. I'll bet money that those Obama calls to step out included Biden and Biden refused to throw in the towel and endorse anybody else. Since the rest of the field weren't at the ends of their lives they had the perspective for their future career, and so they were willing to bow out on the promise of future rewards.
This isn’t news, but I hope you’ll indulge me for a moment; I’m dropping a comment here because I’m currently reading Socialism Betrayed by Roger Keeran and Thomas Kenny. It’s really, really good and I wanted to mention it here because I think it’s the sort of book that is right up the News Mega-heads’ alley.
The book is about the collapse of the USSR. It focuses on Gorbachev’s actions after 1986 but links it to other, longer term phenomenon. Like, for example, the development of the underground, private economy and how that created a petite bourgeois “5th column” inside the USSR. I haven’t finished it but so far it’s jam packed with excellent info and analysis.
And if anyone here has read it, I’d love to know if you have any critiques of it.
Biden is faking COVID.
Which really means his team have decided to pivot to a “small target” strategy. To stay out of the news.
A small target strategy is a good idea when you’re winning. Its a viable political play when you’re winning because you will bleed some support due to a loss of enthusiasm but the cost / benefit is still favorable when you’re winning since you dramatically reduce your risk of a major fuck up.
That is to say, you’re trading support for risk. A “small target” strategy works by accepting the cost of losing some support in exchange for dramatically reducing the risk of losing a lot of support.
Biden is polling at George W Bush levels and he’s behind Trump. The political cost calculus doesn’t work out. He must be stepping down or simply giving up.
Or maybe he has covid and he might die.
It’s never been more Joevid
Me in the mirror:
Pelosi threatening to shoot Biden's kneecaps and toss him into the sea to sleep with the fishes if he didn't quit:
https://archive.is/20240722034509/https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/21/why-biden-dropped-out-00170106“Nancy made clear that they could do this the easy way or the hard way,” said one Democrat familiar with private conversations who was granted anonymity to speak candidly. “She gave them three weeks of the easy way. It was about to be the hard way.”
Senator Bob Menendez was convicted on 16 counts, including including bribery, extortion, honest services fraud, obstruction of justice and conspiracy (bullshit crime). This guy beat a corruption case in 2017 and apparently decided he had not yet flown close enough to the sun. His lawyers blamed his hoarding of cash and gold on the epigentic trauma of his gusano parents fleeing Cuba. He filed to run as an independent in the 2024 NJ senate race after in June after "dropping out" of the Democratic primary.
Wishing a happy "you're going to die in prison" to the most vocal pro-embargo Democrat (and probably senator, for that matter). Armenians of hexbear, sorry your guy in the Senate took the L.
The Manila Times - China-built Laos railway could be a game changer for Asean connectivity
VIENTIANE — A direct train service between the Thai capital Bangkok and Laotian capital Vientiane will begin on July 19, according to Thai Railway sources, that could herald a game changer for Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) connectivity, making the dream of a pan-Asian railway a step closer.
Once this becomes a regular service, it would be possible to travel by train from Singapore to Beijing via Malaysia, Thailand and Laos.
At Boten on the Laos-China border, when I visited an exhibition on the first floor of the multi-story headquarters of the Haicheng Development Group, a map of the planned railway connections across the Asean region caught my attention. > The exhibits are focused on how the company plans to develop Boten into a modern metropolis like Singapore or Hong Kong — not with a modern port but a railway hub for the region. It shows how the railways coming from China and going through Boten to Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore would potentially make the region a nirvana for trade, tourism and cultural interaction.
The China-built 414-kilometer-long railway across landlocked Laos, costing $5.9 billion, is the linchpin of the expanding connectivity across Southeast Asia. The Laos railway is a technological masterpiece that is becoming a major advertisement for China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) — even though it is often described as a "debt trap" by Western (and Japanese) media who point out that the project cost is about 39 percent of Laos' GDP, and that Laos will be choked with debt for at least two decades. But Laotians, who are now patronizing the trains in droves, dismiss any talk of a debt trap.
"I don't see it as a debt trap. Most Laotians don't see it that way either," said a government development economist, who does not want to be named because he has no permission to speak to the media. "China has helped us to catapult into the 21st century. It is an economic opportunity for a landlocked nation. I would like to ask the critics, would you build it for us?"
When I took the high-speed train recently from Boten — on the Chinese border — to Laos' capital Vientiane, I was greatly impressed with the efficiency of the service and the technological feat of building such a railway through some of the most rugged terrain in Asia, that included 74 tunnels. With just three stops on the way, you arrive at the Laotian capital in just over three hours, a journey that would have taken 2 to 3 days before the railway came.
rest of the article
The high-speed train is operated like an airline, with the stations in the main cities looking like airport terminals. Like at airports, passengers and baggage go through security x-ray machines, and they have to wait in a large transit hall with cafés and shops, until about five minutes before the train arrives, when their boarding tickets are checked before entering the platform. During the journey, while the train travels at between 150-160km/hr, cabin crew dressed like air hostesses go around with trolleys selling eats and drinks.
"People fail to understand that Laos is a landlocked country, and logistically, we are disadvantaged at doing business with other countries. Laos shipments were going mainly through Thailand, and the costs were very high. This rail has high potential to assist Laos exports of minerals, agriculture and manufacturing produce to China and other countries," economics professor and vice president of Laos National University, Phouphet Kyophilavong, told IDN in an interview. "It's a big opportunity for us in terms of economic development. It should attract FDIs from China and other countries."
"Before the railway, traveling to the north was very difficult. Roads were bad, too many accidents and other problems. Now even poor people can travel to Vientiane and other parts, less costly than bus and air," added Phouphet. The Laos-China Railway Company (LCR) that runs the rail system is a joint venture between three Chinese state-owned enterprises that collectively hold a 70 percent ownership stake and one Laos state-owned enterprise that owns 30 percent. The agreement was signed in 2016 as a build-operate-transfer (BOT) concession agreement with the government of Laos.
Laos — which was a French colony for almost a century in the 19th and 20th centuries — never had a railway. Thus, the Chinese have set up the Laos Railway Vocational Training College in Vientiane to train a whole team of Laotians to run their railway. Twenty-year-old Fony Sulijul, who comes from a poor northern Laos village near Boten, is training at the college to become a railway technician. He told IDN that the railway is creating opportunities for young people in those remote areas to come to Vientiane to study because it wouldn't take 2 to 3 days to go back home — it takes less than 10 hours now. Chinese experts train While he studies Chinese at a local language school here in the evenings, during the day, he trains at the college to become a railway technician. "Chinese experts train us in working in the railway electrical system and its management. They teach in Chinese language but with Laos co-trainers," he said. "After finishing the three-year diploma course, I want to work for the Laos railway. I would like to be a train driver." He said that at present, the trains are driven by Chinese with a Laotian co-driver in the cabin.
Fony said that the Chinese trainers tell them, "We want to train you and leave you to run the train system" in three years' time.
The World Bank, in a report titled "Land-locked to Land-linked," published in 2020, said that if the countries undertake complementary policy reforms, the Laos-China railway could make Laos more attractive as an investment destination and link it to major production and consumption areas in China and the Asean region, allowing firms to access global value chains.
"A number of planned export processing zones around train stations could serve as attractive investment locations, as long as they are properly equipped and effectively managed. With efficient logistics services, Laos PDR could develop into a logistics hub, while targeted investments in agriculture and tourism could result in new export opportunities," the report said, predicting that with proper government policies, trade flows between Laos and China could be increased three-fold via the rail network.
Overseas critics have pointed out that the rail stations built in cities like Boten, Luang Prabang and Vientiane are 10 km or more from the city centers. But local development planners pointed out to IDN that this is a deliberate forward-looking strategy to develop industrial zones surrounded by new "villages" to spur economic activity and spread the populations from congested city centers.
Already, container goods trains ply the rail network at regular intervals. Phouphet said he is currently doing a study on how to maximize the use of the railway and what policies the government needs to come up with.
He argues that the Laos Railway project would take a long time to see economic returns. "But the social and economic impact on the society is already showing positive results. Surely, we have debts. But with China, we can negotiate on that," Phouphet says confidently. "China will not allow its neighbors to fail economically. Terms are always renegotiated. They (outsiders) always criticize Chinese loans. But this is a significant loan for Laos economic development."
Bonus article by The Diplomat: Laos and China Use BRI-funded Railway to Bring Their Armies Together
Western culture, built on centuries of colonial savagery and imperial domination, is incapable of conceptualising and understanding international relations without the use of force.
They updated isitjoever.com and now it looks like the fucking NYT needle
2016 flashbacks manIlhan Omar re-affirms the fraud of the #FrauDSquAd by immediately endorsing Kopmala
without concession.The whole #FrauDSquAd really. Worthless wastes of time money and energy. I hope the DSA implodes.
Thank you, Mr. President.
This was the president’s decision to make and I’m grateful for his years of service to our country. Thrilled to support @KamalaHarrisas our Democratic nominee and remain committed to working alongside her to defeat Donald Trump in November.
Bangladesh has announced a nationwide curfew that will come into effect at midnight Friday, amid a telecommunications blackout that has cut the country of 170 million people off from the rest of the world, as clashes between students and security forces intensified.
Faisal Mahmud, reporting for Al Jazeera from Dhaka, said that the army had been deployed on the streets of the Bangladeshi capital.
Per aldanmarki on twitter:
For more than 10 years, Saudi-backed opposition to the 'Houthis' have questioned their motives on pure semantics, questioning why they say "Death to Israel" when Israel has never attacked Yemen. It was one trump card they could use over & over again.
That changed today.
By attacking Yemen directly, Israel has fallen right into the Yemen trap. Domestic alliances in Yemen reflect global & regional politics. In the coming days we will see formerly irreconcilable parties join ranks against Israel and those who helped facilitate their attacks.
There's a reason why the US only conducted limited airstrikes in Yemen in response to attacks in the Red Sea. They understand that any major aerial assault could trigger bipartisan uproar and force the creation of new alliances jeopardizing decades of US foreign policy.
The US (and the UAE for that matter too) have a vested interest in maintaining a foothold in Yemen. One way they could do so practically was to stall the political process and keep the 'civil war' frozen.
Israel just potentially ruined all of that for them.
Every objective analysis of today's Israeli strikes in Yemen will inevitably conclude it to be a major self-own and fundamentally damaging to every single party imaginable besides Yemen and the Ansarallah.
Anonymous Dem staffer: “F**k it, I’m coconut pilled. I just want this to stop”
The H5N1 bird flu that has infected 5 poultry workers in colorado (with about 50 more symptomatic but not yet confirmed positive) derived from the strain that's been infecting cows in the area.
When workers were killing the infected chickens, it was 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) in Colorado, and strong industrial fans made it hard for workers to keep protective gear on their faces, Shah said.
So most likely birds -> cattle -> birds -> human. It's becoming more adapted to being able to jump between birds and mammals. Not good. So far it's not as deadly as previous instances of humans being infected with bird flu.
https://xcancel.com/JPWeiland/status/1813055104892768327#m
CDC says risk to humans is low.
Didn't see anyone else post this, but there have been major student-led protests in Bangladesh in recent days. Many student protestors have died, and I've seen reports of state police kidnapping people. The protests stem largely from an employment quota system for veterans of the war with Pakistan and their children (and children's children), and not enough jobs for them all. The state has asked universities to close. Students are aiming for a "complete shutdown" of the country, save for emergency services.
In light of Ursula Von Der Leyen (wack name lmao) being reelected as president of the European Commission, I went digging into her past to see where in the family tree are the Nazis.
From her grandfather's wiki page:
Albrecht belonged to a family of wealthy cotton merchants; his father was the cotton merchant Carl Albrecht (1875–1952) and his mother was the American-born Mary Ladson Robertson (1883–1960), who belonged to a prominent planter family from South Carolina. His father was a grandson of Baron Ludwig Knoop, one of the leading industrialists of the Russian Empire in his lifetime.[2]
Based on my knowledge of every rich European being a Nazi, it's very strange that there's absolutely no mention of the war.
Also, isn't it just perfect that the highest ranking EU official is descended from slavers?
Obama outflanked Bernie again. 2-0
Comment from the bet used by isitjoever.com
I'm surprised the dems said nothing for years while it was clear Biden his health was declining. And now since the debate they launched a full scale attack on him. This kind of was not on my bingo list. Why say nothing for years and now go full panic?
People who have been fooling themselves for 4+ years who finally saw something that made them unable to continue fooling themselves.
I've been made some research into this JD dude since reading his name this morning (I wasn't aware of his existence until a few days ago). The conclusion that I reached is that this guy kinda of a loser. Very strong beta energy from him, completely unremarkable republican who was on Aimee Terese's podcast like three years ago lmao. He converted to Catholicism, which I lowkey respect somehow. Trump should've picked a cooler dude to match the high energy post-assassination attempt
Trump almost died? Wow. I didn’t know that. You’re telling me now for the first time. He led an amazing life. What else can you say? He was an amazing man. Whether you agreed or not, he was an amazing man who led an amazing life. I’m actually saddened to hear that. I am saddened to hear that. Thank you very much.
Video of the humble drone that Yemen sent to
is saying it "identified the drone but did not intercept due to "human error". Where's all your automated Nazified A.I. Iron Dome supremacy now?
World leaders responded with shock, widely condemning political violence and wishing Adolf Hitler a speedy recovery. The Führer may be a divisive figure, but the leaders in the Allied command — who would prefer him not to take over Europe — were unequivocal in expressing their dismay on what it means and where it could lead. Allied leaders called the attack “despicable,” and described it as “a tragedy for democracies.” "We stand in solidarity with the Führer," they continued "The attack is madness that none of us should condone"
Full indictment document: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/media/1360711/dl
For example, as described in more detail below, in or about June 2022, TERRY participated in a private, off-the-record group meeting with the U.S. Secretary of State regarding the U.S. Government's policy towards North Korea. Immediately after the meeting, TERRY met her primary ROK NIS point of contact, or "handler," and passed .him detailed handwritten notes Tr~~ " ·? that meeting. Weeks later, at the request of her handler, TERRY hosted a happy hour for Congressional staff under the auspices of the policy institute, or "think tank," where TERRY worked. 1 TERRY's handler attended the happy hour - which was paid for by the ROK NIS - posing as a diplomat, and mingling with Congressional staff without disclosing that he was a ROK intelligence officer.
Fun insight to spy work.
The ROK Government repeatedly rewarded SUE MI TERRY, the defendant, forher services. TERRY's ROK NIS handlers gifted her, among other things, a $2 , 845 Dolce & Gabbana coat, a $2 ,950 Bottega Veneta handbag, and a $3 ,450 Louis Vuitton handbag. They took TERRY to meals at upscale seafood restaurants, sushi restaurants, and multiple restaurants with Michelin stars. They also offered to provide TERRY approximately $37,000, worked with her to devise a plan to mask the true source of those funds, and deposited the funds into an unrestricted "gift" account that TERRY controlled at the think tank where she worked. And ROK Government officials paid TERRY on multiple occasions to write articles in both the U.S. and Korean press conveying ROK Government-provided positions and phrases.
Fun insight into how cheap these spies are.
Kinda finance news-ish:
A) intel likely about to be royally fucked (see gn video if you like, but basically there is a noticeable chance a whole generation of processors is boned)
B) gold at all time high
(likely speculation that fed will lower interest rates tbh, cause jobs don’t appear that much and debt servicing is fucked) *ah dow jones as well, definitely interest ratesC) a lot of petit video bougie are saying their videos got got by ai harvesters
Assad’s Curse is real. Whoever told me that Biden said Assad should go in 2023 the other day, thank you, I nearly went all in with Biden.
https://www.flightradar24.com/ZM300/362d4261
There is currently a UK military propeller plane flying in Ukraine along the border with Russia
AOC is such a fucking little worm. The GOP is going to sue if the Democrats don't nominate Biden?! Their is no official party nominee until the convention, and the courts have repeatedly ruled that the parties get to decide their nominee however they want. The primaries aren't fucking binding, otherwise Adlai Stevenson wouldn't have been the party nominee in 1952.
Captain of the boat goes
when houthis drop two missiles near his ship after chasing off some Somali pirates.The commanding officer of the Mason, which just returned home from a monthslong Middle East deployment, said his first combat experience with these missiles was surprising.
Cmdr. Justin Smith recalled in a recent interview with Business Insider that his first reaction was disbelief. He was shocked that someone was actually firing missiles in their direction.
Joe Biden diagnosed with Covid-19 and cancels speech in Las Vegas
US President Joe Biden was diagnosed with Covid-19 on Wednesday (17). A speech scheduled for an event in Las Vegas was canceled. The White House said that the Democrat will remain in isolation.
Earlier, in an interview broadcast by BET News, the president said he would consider abandoning his bid for re-election if his doctors indicated that a health condition was developing.
The fact that the guy’s name was “Crooks” makes me believe even more so that we are in fact trapped in a cartoon
Trump and his speeches aren’t exactly going to win over non-voters, but this could be a Hillary case where the hate for Biden is so strong that it overrides dislike of Trump.
Hate to say it but immigration and trans children are on the minds of on-the-fence voters. Hear it all the time when I’m up there, again using my time in Upstate New York as an example. People don’t exactly want trans people dead but they get disgusted at the thought of children knowing about them or having them compete in sports.
Immigration is also something more people have on their mind than they want to admit. I’m not completely in the camp of an inevitable Trump victory, but I do think he still has a very solid shot.
At the same time, Trump lacks a little of the bite he had in 2016 and his speeches aren’t nearly as populist as before. I remember talking to people who thought trump would be anti-war and push for universal healthcare.
There’s a good shot Trump pulls a Rutherford B. Hayes and ends up winning based on some technicalities. People really underestimate just how bloodthirsty Americans can be outside of liberal cities.
Let this incident be a reminder of how supremely funny it would be if we had another late 90s, early 2000s type internet worm and all it did was show a silly message and consume all available resources to spread itself
Okay I don't post in this thread often so idk the line between shitposting/goodposting here so here's an actual thing that's concerning that makes this more serious:
If we ever get into a real cyberwar, we are so immensely cooked
One company fucks up an update and this happens
Trump rewrites RNC speech after assassination attempt: ‘I’m supposed to be dead Politico
After the shooting, he scrapped his original convention speech that was going to take aim at President Joe Biden and his administration’s policies in favor of an address focused on trying to unite the nation. Trump sees his new speech as “a chance to bring the whole country, even the whole world, together,” he told the Examiner.
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Trump also addressed a widely circulated image of him raising his fist as blood trickled down his face, telling the Post “Usually you have to die to have an iconic picture.”
“The energy coming from the people there in that moment, they just stood there; it’s hard to describe what that felt like, but I knew the world was looking,” Trump said to the Examiner. “I knew that history would judge this.”
Here’s hoping that Trump doesn’t pull this off. Biden’s best bet is Trump going full fascism so he can capitalize on the terror under Trump.
Sometimes I’ll get some angry Reddit liberal talking shit at me. I decide to respond based on their posting history. I don’t bother If they’ve done nothing but obsess over NATO and “lefties” with a series of 30 posts in the last couple of hours. It shows they have no interest in a conversation.
I know straight white men are the stereotypical Reddit posters but I’ve found most of my more aggressive stalkers have been queer liberals, ex-Muslims, and bougie libs from the global south.
Biden just dropped? Wow. I didn't know that. You're telling me now for the first time. He led a genocide. What else can you say? He was genocidal. Whether you agree or not, he was genocidal. I am glad to hear that, actually. I am glad to hear that. Thank you very much.
"god damn it's like ten years went by this week"
-Vinny Soviet, inventor of the Soviet Union
President Joe Biden’s campaign released a new memo Friday saying that there “is no plan for an alternative nominee”
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/19/biden-wont-drop-out-campaign-insists-in-new-memo-.html
Please just let it be joever already. Fucking iron law of institutions ass motherfuckers. This election is gonna reach whole new levels of "nobody loses like a democrat".
How can any observers still believe they actually want to win?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpv3xk9klwzo
Senior North Korean diplomat defects to South
high-profile North Korean diplomat stationed in Cuba has defected to the South, Seoul's spy agency has confirmed to the BBC.
South Korean media reports say that the defector was a counsellor responsible for political affairs at the North Korean embassy in Cuba
His work reportedly involved stopping Havana from forging official diplomatic ties with Seoul. However, in February, the two governments did establish official relations, in what was seen as a setback for Pyongyang.
US diplomat says Georgian Dream actions put Tbilisi’s Euro-Atlantic integration hopes at risk
Following up on NATO’s rebuke of the Georgian government’s embrace of illiberal practices, a US State Department official said in a statement to Eurasianet that Tbilisi needs to show a “demonstrable commitment to democracy” or otherwise risk shutting “the door on Georgia’s European future.”
“We – and the EU and many European countries – have been clear that there would be consequences for Georgian Dream’s actions and rhetoric,” the State Department official said in a written statement, speaking on background.
“The statements and actions of the Georgian government – including its attacks against civil society and democratic norms and its promotion of disinformation about the United States, the EU, and EU member states – are incompatible with the democratic values that underpin membership in the EU and NATO and thus undermine Georgia’s path to Euro-Atlantic integration,” the official added.
my "Our NGOs are not doing anything suspicious inside Georgia" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
Just saw some post on reddit saying stuff like this:
"You do not have the privilege of getting the exact person you want in office. Accept this fact, and help us get CLOSER to where we CAN, because I can guarantee you we won’t get what we want under Trump."
Whoever the Democratic party pick as their presidential nominee, you HAVE to vote for. If it’s Joe Biden, you HAVE to vote for him. if it’s someone else, good, but you have to vote for them!!!
If we split the democratic voter base, we will lose 2024 like we lost 2016 when we joked about Hillary, and thus we WILL be killing many American women, trans, gays people!!!
Even if Biden gets nominated, elected, and is then deemed unfit to hold office, Kamala will take over
Think not about what could happen if Biden gets reelected, think about what will happen if Trump is allowed to take control of the country. People will be killed, and it will be your fault if you helped make it happen.
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Grim days for the Democrats, just made me realize how much they missed Neera Tanden - their shitposter in chief. She hasn't shitposted as hard since her shitposts tanked her nomination for the first real job she could've had in 20 years. Say what you want about her, she has a bite and venom that is lacking with the current Biden campaign.
I'm even more confident than I was previously that the Democrats force Biden out of the race before the convention. It would be a terrible look for everyone to "gang up on him" and force him out through a contested election. They're going to have his family sit him down with some ice cream and convince him he needs to drop out.
There will be tearful stories and a lot of sympathy pandering all the way up until November.
https://t.me/mintpress_news/6510
Israeli officials have issued alert for armed individuals who may have infiltrated the costal city of Eliat by sea. All main roads to Eliat have been CORDONED OFF.
EDIT EDIT: https://xcancel.com/idfonline/status/1813145881182446077
"The suspicion of a security incident in the area of Highway 12 near the city of Eilat has been removed.
The access roads to and from the city are open to traffic, there is no change in the directives of the Home Front Command" - IOF twitter
Robert Kennedy Jr, independent candidate, said he would be open to "accepting an invitation" from the Democratic Party to participate in an Open Convention to define the party's candidate for the November elections. Kennedy also says that, if it doesn't happen, he's fine running as an independent because "he's the only one who can win."
The chair of the DNC doesn’t understand how turnout works.
I really hate to think of myself as smarter than people in high up positions in a field I have no real experience in, but wtf.
Edit: Here’s the screenshot
But, I thought Biden was the only one capable of defeating Trump and anyone who disagreed was a secret Republican who wanted Trump to win?
Well, don't worry, Biden supporters. I've taken your arguments to heart, and you can rest assured that I'll write in Biden this fall, no matter who the Democrats decide to run. It's the only way to defeat Trump.
joe 'the butcher of gaza' biden rip 1942 - 2024
his long reign of terror is joever
Y2K came 24 years late in reduced impact format, smdh my damn head American inefficiency
You can't write comedy like this. 15 seconds of nonsense and then BAM the wide shot takes your breath away. 10/10.
Remember how Trump and Biden were arguing about their golf game?
Well, Trump just pulled his ace: He chose the one and only Bagger Vance as his VP.
It's so Joever.
Planes from United, Delta, and AA all grounded. Seems to be an issue from the cyber security company Crowdstrike, also shut down some news outlets and Google Cloud.
Why on earth do people still think that they faked Covid to give Biden an excuse. Who would buy it? Covid is over. It’s not a big deal. You can’t get time off of work for Covid anymore, why would people accept it for the president? This thought does not make any sense. It is the most transmissible virus in the books and is passed thru the fucking air y’all have been raw dogging every day since 2021. Like be real. Use your brain power. He almost certainly did get it. You’ve probably got it right now.
If you are ever wondering why the US puts so much money and effort into propping up comprador dictatorships in Southwest Asia (Egypt, KSA, Jordan, some of the Gulf States) or keeps others in constant states of collapse and dysfunction (Syria, Iraq, Lebanon)... just look at what Yemen is able to do. They are very poor, they have been subjected to a brutal war for a decade+, and Ansar Allah doesn't even control the whole country. And just look what they are able to do! I don't think the bombing of the oil depot was "just" about the drone strike, but rather "israel" lashing out that Ansar Allah has done so much damage to their economy as well.
If a movement like Ansar Allah were to ever overthrow the current regimes in a place like Egypt or Jordan, the Zionist entity would undoubtedly be 100% cooked.
🚨🇾🇪 Ansarallah Political Bureau member, Ali Al-Qahoum:
Yemen the Great, with its greatness, the greatness of its brave and wise leader, its generous people, national consensus, solid state, armed and security forces, its growing military capabilities and advanced industries, its continuous support and advocacy for Palestine and Gaza, and its honorable declared positions, has the upper hand and the capability to change the balance of power and achieve victory.
Here, we affirm that action is met with equivalent action, which is a fixed equation in the rules of engagement. With it, the conflict will expand, and the results will be dire for the enemies.
The actions will be notable, and its military and strategic operations will be painful, impactful, and effective. It will be an earthquake for the aggressors, and with it, "israel" will be eliminated. The response will be inevitable, strong, and crushing, and it will not be delayed. There are many surprises.
To the zionists, we say: Do not rejoice too much, for Yemen's response is coming and will be painful and agonizing. You will not escape punishment; you will regret and lament, and your cries will rise. Your choices will be either migration and return to where you came from or to stay in shelters. American and British protection will not help you, and the hand that violates Yemen's sovereignty and attacks its resources and people will be cut off.
The battle is long, and the zionists must pay a heavy price and endure the strikes. The hand is on the trigger. Yemen does have the word "overlook" in its dictionary, nor does it stand idly by in the face of any criminal aggression. Rather, it is present in the field, and its military actions are painful, notable, impactful, and strategic. The target list will be extensive, covering the entire geography of occupied Palestine.
Therefore, the zionists must understand that Yemen the Great is unlike any other. Rather, it is the breaker of enemies and the drowner of empires and the "israeli," British, and American colonial projects from the region. With it, unipolarity will fall, and "israel" will be eliminated, Allah willing.
What is coming is greater, the oppressor will face the consequences, and the future is full of surprises.
Per Al-Jazeera (live updates, so no link):
Israel’s strike Hodeidah marks ‘beginning of new stage’
Israel’s attacks on the Yemeni port of Hodeidah mark the beginning of a new stage that has the potential of spiralling out of control, military and political analyst Elijah Magnier has told Al Jazeera.
While the statement made by Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant’s indicates Israel intended its strike as a deterrent, it is unlikely it will have such an effect, Magnier said.
“Is this going to change the course of action of a non-state actor that is motivated to support the people of Gaza? Certainly not,” Magnier said. “They’ve been given a perfect reason to increase the attacks.”
The analyst added that the fact the Houthi drone that struck Tel Aviv on Friday went undetected shows that Iran has progressively been providing its allies with more sophisticated weapons and will continue to do so.
“We have not seen the end of it – far from it,” he said.
The former president (and dictator) of Peru, Alberto Fujimori (Age 85), will be the candidate of Popular Force, a right-wing nationalist party, for the Presidential elections in the country, in 2026. The announcement was made by his daughter, Keiko Fujimori, party leader.
Peruvian Joe Biden, both took part in genocides.
According to Vanity Fair, Tucker Carlson warned Trump that he had to pick JD Vance because if he chose a neocon VP, the Deep State would have incentive to assassinate him to get a neocon in the Presidency. Incredibly tortured logic from
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/tucker-carlson-warning-to-trump-jd-vance
Excited to see
completely destroy whatever semblance of sentience is left in Genocide Joe’s brainDemocratic sources said Biden plans to make an announcement about his political future in the coming days, shortly after the end of the Republican National Convention. Kamala Harris is expected to be the candidate's successor if Biden drops out.
Talking to strategists, the list of possible Vice Presidents on the ticket, should Kamala Harris run for president, boils down to 3 names:
- Mark Kelly (Senator/Arizona)
- Roy Cooper (Governor of North Carolina)
- Andy Beshear (Governor of Kentucky)
GOD saved Trump. He redirected the bullet that was meant for him to one of the hogs behind.
a third senator has hit the BrandonLet's talk macro for a little bit: with the JD Vance pick (and assuming the Democrats can't fix their campaign), are we not seeing the balance of power in DC shift from New York & finance to San Francisco & tech?
That shift in power lends far more credence to reindustrialization and a change in the US Treasury than anything else. A weak dollar is far less important to the Silicon Valley elite than it is to the New York elite. Is it unreasonable to expect a weakening dollar emerge over the next four years, bringing with it a rise in onshoring, a rise in real incomes (which are overwhelmingly from domestic consumption), and a fall in purchasing power abroad?
Radlib cope moment: Maybe the real reason AOC and Bernie are stanning Biden so hard isn't because they think Biden will win or that'll he'll give concessions, but because they've caught wind of a massive planned campaign to blame "the left" for Biden losing
If Biden loses, the media and the DNC will absolutely try to redirect blame from the neolib faction and the nebulous non-entity of the American "left" is always at the top of the list, so one can assume the groundwork for this future media blitz is already being laid and considering all those "we're resigned to a second Trump term" leaks, its a safe bet the new anti-left talking points are being brainstormed as we speak
ok according to democratic party rules its an open primary amongst all the many people who want to tank their careers now and forever and also Kamala Harris
what a competition
good game, news mega, good gameAlso, I guess Max Boot's wife got indicted for acting as an unregistered foreign agent on behalf of Cringe Korea.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/17/asia/sue-mi-terry-us-south-korea-intl-hnk
New sixty million years old demon candidate for president with dementia just dropped:
FRANCE 24: Alberto Fujimori, former Peruvian leader, to run for presidency in 2026, daughter says
Fighting ongoing health issues and a checkered past, former president Alberto Fujimori will run for office in Peru's 2026 elections, his daughter said Sunday. Fujimori has three convictions on corruption charges and owes about $15 million to the Treasury, according to the Attorney General.
Former President Alberto Fujimori, who was pardoned in December from his convictions for corruption and responsibility for the murder of 25 people, plans to run for Peru's presidency for the fourth time in 2026, his eldest daughter said Sunday. “My father and I have talked and decided together that he will be the presidential candidate,” Keiko Fujimori, leader of the right-wing Fuerza Popular party, said on social networks.
Despite the announcement, Peruvian law says anyone found guilty of acts of corruption cannot run for the office of president or vice president.
(Not that this ever matters lmao)
Fujimori, who was convicted in 2009 of involvement in the killing of 25 Peruvians during his administration in 1992, has three convictions on corruption charges and owes about $15 million to the Treasury, according to the Attorney General’s Office specializing in corruption crimes. The former president was extradited from Chile in 2007 and was in a Peruvian prison until last December.
Fujimori, 85, joined his daughter's party in June, posting a video of the event in which he is seen with Keiko Fujimori along with the phrase: “The founding leader of Fujimorism takes his place in Fuerza Popular.”
Keiko Fujimori, 49, has herself run for president three times unsuccessfully. On July 1, a trial began against her on allegations of money laundering for which the prosecution is seeking a sentence of 30 years in prison.
Alberto Fujimori, who governed with an increasingly authoritarian hand in 1990-2000, has begun to rebuild his image on social networks since being released from prison in December under a 2017 presidential pardon that was revived by Peru's Constitutional Court.
Fujimori reported in May that he had been diagnosed with a new tumor on his tongue that was considered malignant. In July, he underwent hip replacement surgery after a fall, his daughter said.
We in South America are trapped in a perpetual nightmare we can't seem to wake up from.
African Christian Democratic Party and the South African Friends of Israel getting appropriately humiliated in observance of Nelson Mandela Day
100% packet loss dropped harder than the Twin Towers
Can someone good at Photoshop do one of Richard Nixon, Edward VIII, Benedict XVI, and Emperor Akihito in the clouds telling Biden to "Come join us!" ?
Great quote from an article on the air war in Ukraine:
The Russian air forces have underwhelmed over the past 2 ½ years of war, but they also have rapidly adapted and scored wins through tactics such as stand-off bombing and synchronized drone and missile barrages. Other elements of the aerospace forces have also effectively denied Ukraine the chance to shift the battlefield from the skies.
"It's been surprising they're adapting over time through trial and error," Justin Bronk, an airpower expert at the UK's Royal United Services Institute, said.IOF goons vandalizing Palestinian homes with their "art":
https://xcancel.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1813300580196245721🧵"After a long time in Gaza, in Khan Younis... it started to get really boring. As an artist, it was natural for me to take a marker and just start drawing on the walls."
In last April Shomrim, "The Center for Media and Democracy", that does so-called investigative journalism, collaborated with popular mainstream news outlet Mako/N12 to do an article about the different graffiti writings and paintings left by Israeli soldiers on the walls of homes in the Gaza Strip.
It wasn't a critical piece, but sort of a feel-good patriotic piece, or as the writer called it, "an authentic glimpse into the state of mind of IDF soldiers active on the front".
The only (very subtle) critique in the article is regarding how little graffiti relates to the hostages, the potential damage to Israel's image in the world, and the use of soldiers as tools for spreading political messages (because as every Israeli "knows" - the army is "above politics").
The most nauseating part was the story of a soldier named Ram, whose quote is at the beginning of this tweet, and his so-called "artwork" (a wall defaced at the home of displaced or murdered Palestinians) is attached to this tweet.
In the following tweets are a few excerpts from the article regarding this artistic soul taking part in a genocide.
🥥🌴The old candidate is dying, and the new candidate struggles to be born: now is the time of coconut trees🥥🌴
occams razor says this computer update mess was the result of a (relatively) new start up being dumb and cutting corners, ignoring accepted procedure
but at the same time, there's something so so poignant about the name being CrowdSTRIKE. It's like they were begging the cosmos for a globe spanning error
After the selection of J.D. Vance as VP, the influential Silicon Valley VC firm Andreessen-Horowitz (a.k.a. a16z) is all aboard the Trump Train.
Trump’s numbers are static but will Biden’s drop even further as his dementia worsens? I saw an image of him recently and good god he’s like Feinstein before her brain went to the backseat.
Thoughts on Heritage foundation Project 2025? All the wrong people I hate (annoying, terminally online lib commentators) are hysterical, they said Trump gonna shut down NOAA, EPA, become dictator and ends democracy. Is it UN Agenda 21 (Hobbit homes, eat bugs) panic for Blue MAGA, or fascists telling us exactly what they are gonna do?
Crafting a conspiracy theory of how all the secret service agents got hit with the havana syndrome ray gun moments before the shooting by Crook's handler the Iranian secret spy known as "white shadow".
Gonna have to relisten to all the chapo and trillbillies JD Vance episodes.
Former Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou supports peaceful reunification, Lai Ching-teh's "Taiwan independence" idea is naive.
https://www.singtaousa.com/2024-07-13/馬英九指兩岸動武概率低-形容賴清德「台獨」想法/4924479
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In a recent exclusive interview with the Malaysian media, former Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou said that neither China nor the United States wants a war, and the possibility of cross-strait violence is low. He also teased the current Taiwan leader Lai Ching-te who often regards himself as a "pragmatic Taiwan independence worker," saying "No matter what, It is impossible to achieve (Taiwan independence) pragmatically, and sometimes I think he is a bit naive.”
Malaysia's "Sin Chew Daily" published a relevant long interview yesterday. Ma Ying-jeou said that he is very concerned about the current situation in the Taiwan Strait, but he is not worried because neither China nor the United States wants to see a war in the Taiwan Strait. He believes that the mainland has achieved good results in development, especially in economic and technological aspects, and it has made rapid progress. "They must also cherish it and do not want to be harmed."
Ma Ying-jeou emphasized that the Kuomintang's position on peaceful reunification has not changed and cannot be changed. The Kuomintang's views are basically in line with China's historical traditions, support peace, and oppose Taiwan independence. "This is consistent with the views of the vast majority of Taiwanese people. There are not many people in Taiwan who truly support Taiwan independence."
In the interview, Ma Ying-jeou also compared the differences between the two leaders of the Democratic Progressive Party, Tsai Ing-wen and Lai Ching-te, and said with a smile: "Most people still think that President Tsai is more moderate, while Lai Ching-de often says that he is a 'pragmatic Taiwan independence worker,' but No matter how pragmatic he is, this is impossible to achieve. This is definitely not a very pragmatic thing, so sometimes he feels a bit naive."
Joevid 24
The only sliver of hope I'm holding on to for actual COVID vs melty-brained president delay, is that the 90 min could be a delay from a rapid antigen + tabletop PCR. Because since COVID is over they really wouldn't want to announce presinaldal COVID unless they were quite sure.
At the same time though, there's been enough "COVID is over" "it's just a cold" propaganda that the average American probably really won't give a shit if it was COVID or if they just are faking to keep the sundowning from showing more.
US monitored Brazilian President Lula da Silva for decades and produced almost a thousand reports, says Fernando Morais
The journalist, who is the president's biographer, requested access on his behalf to documents drawn up by the US government.
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Different US government agencies have monitored President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) for decades. Over the years, around 819 documents were produced about the PT president. The information was provided by the US government to journalist Fernando Morais, the president's biographer. The documents refer to the period from 1966 to 2019.
Most of the records were allegedly produced by the CIA, the US government's intelligence agency, the author told Folha de S. Paulo. The reports point out, among other things, Lula's relationship with former president Dilma Rousseff (Workers' Party, Lula's Party), authorities in the Middle East and China, as well as Brazilian military plans and the production of Petrobras.
Morais has not yet had access to all the documents. The request did not include, for example, the most recent years, after Lula's release. “The president was still in prison when I obtained powers of attorney to collect all the existing records from the agencies on his behalf,” the journalist explained to Folha de S. Paulo. “There are agencies that obviously had nothing, like the one that deals with the illegal entry of food. But I asked for all of them.”
Although the requests cover the period from 1966, still during Brazil's military dictatorship, there is no information on when the first record related to Lula was made in US agencies. A total of 613 documents were found at the CIA, 111 at the State Department, 49 at the Defense Intelligence Agency, 27 at the Department of Defense, 8 at US Army South and 1 at the Army Cyber Command. The journalist is still waiting to hear back from the FBI, the US federal police, the National Security Agency and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
BEAKING: Netanyahu/Gallant Arrest Warrants
spoiler
After the United Kingdom Germany is the second country trying to get Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defence Minister Gallant off the hook of the ICC.
While the UK argued that the case was inadmissible because Palestine itself could not exercise criminal jurisdiction over Israeli nationals pursuant to the Oslo Accords, Germany tries a different argument.
Germany submits that the case is inadmissible because the question of complimentarity cannot be decided during an ongoing armed conflict; at least not at the present stage. With regard to investigations initiated by the Israeli judiciary into attacks on schools and hospitals, the Federal Foreign Office stated: "In view of the seriousness of the allegations and the ongoing conflict, this requires time and care."
It should be noted, however, that:
🔹The Prosecutor has not sought arrest warrants for attacks on schools and hospitals, but for starvation of civilians as a method of warfare from at least 8 October 2023 a war crime 🔹Investigations into the war crime of starvation of civilians as a method of warfare seem rather straight forward (which is proabably why the Prosecutor chose to start with this crime) 🔹If the Prosecutor was able to investigate the crime and prepare a case-file, so should have been the Israeli judiciary 🔹No investigation by the Israeli judiciary into the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare has been made known to the public 🔹If such an investigation against Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defence Minister Gallant was in fact being conducted by the Israeli judiciary, this should be brought to the attention of Pre-Trial Chamber I by Israel or the accused before any decision on the arrest warrants 🔹If the question of complimentarity cannot be decided during an ongoing armed conflict, that would also apply to the arrest warrants for the Hamas leaders
In any case, Germany's submissions of amicus curiae observations will buy some more time. News reports of today, that arrest warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defence Minister Gallant are "expected within 2 weeks" are mistaken.
Under the Rules of Procedure and Evidence, the Pre-Trial Chamber must first give the Prosecutor an opportunity to respond to Germany's amicus curiae observations (and those of any other country that by 12 July 2024 had requested leave to file such observations).
It will thus be several months before the Pre-Trial Chamber will decide on the Prosecutor's application for arrest warrants for the Israeli and Hamas leaders.
Ein Fluch dem falschen Vaterlande, Wo nur gedeihen Schmach und Schande, Wo jede Blume früh geknickt, Wo Fäulnis und Moder die Würmer erquickt -
Like with trumps assassination attempt, I’m surprised at how many of my American friends didn’t even know Biden dropped out until I asked them about it.
Their responses were mostly an underwhelming, “did he really? Damn. Guess it’s his VP, right? What was her name again?”
One of them didn’t even know Kamala had been his VP for four years. These are all mostly working class people in various fields with only one who works as an accountant being the most knowledgeable about what was going on.
- a second senator has hit the Brandon
i hate how much genuine enthusiasm i've seen for kamala from a lot of gen zers today. everyone's coconut pilled and just happy the old white man's out. any criticisms are being ratio'd
my friends and mutuals who've criticized biden or even called him 'genocide joe' seem to already have some or a lot of false hope around her. are the days where young people could agree both candidates are unequivocally ass gone?
Interesting article in Canadian Dimension analyzing the UK Labour victory.
The argument presented is that the Labour win is the penultimate stage of British political collapse. After over a decade of Conservative dysfunction, Starmer has rode into power supported by most mainstream media. However, the party might be doomed:
Starmer’s “responsible” manifesto promised very little to working people, while showering generous subsidies, low taxes, lucrative contacts and permissive deregulation on big corporations and the rich, both British and foreign. Promises of increased social spending are predicated on growth that is unlikely if neoliberalism prevails, and such social spending as is undertaken will involve contracting services out to big corporations, as Wes Streeting, the new Health Secretary, has already indicated. The falsehood of both claims has been noted. What is less discussed is that together these falsehoods will prevent Starmer’s Labour from fulfilling its assigned mission and might even end the party.
... as the governments of major neoliberal financialized countries around the world—the US, France, Germany—are finding out, keeping control over state and society while implementing the neoliberal policies corporate capital, domestic and foreign, requires, is difficult, if not impossible. In Britain, with decades of neoliberalism topped with austerity, the disasters of Brexit and COVID, creaking public services administered by extortionate corporations, and the Rwanda deportation farce, the process is much further advanced.
With the Conservatives headed into disintegration or irrelevance, the incoming Labour government may prove the penultimate stage in the collapse of the UK political establishment. The brightness of its success in fashioning Starmer’s Labour into its instrument is the gaseous brilliance of the supernova, the efflorescence that precedes a star’s death. Once Starmer’s government and party start malfunctioning, as they must soon, the UK political establishment will lose its last instrument of social and political control, falling into an unprecedented and unpredictable crisis.
The article then talks about how, despite the political majority that Labour won, their actual majority is extremely fraught. Starmer's majority is less than in 1997 under Blair when the Conservatives were a more powerful force. Corbyn won 40% of the vote in 2019 with 69% turnout. Starmer won 34% of the vote this year with 60% turnout, which is almost the lowest turnout in the UK post-war period. In total, a mere 20% of Britain's voting-age population actually voted for Starmer, and an overwhelming majority of Labour voters said they only wanted to get the Conservatives out. What this indicates is that Britain is still very politically agitated and not at all unified or mollified under a Labour banner, and:
As it inevitably reneges on its few promises, the public as well as the left of the Labour Party, having lived through 45 years of neoliberalism and Labour and Conservative attempts to tart it up as somehow realizing the public interest, will only ever be a hair trigger away from protest. So, a Starmer government crisis will come sooner rather than later and, with the Tories likely to have wandered off into the farthest wilds of anti-immigrant populism, the British political establishment will be left without an instrument to control the state while keeping alive the appearance of electoral democracy. The resulting chaos could easily spin out of control unless the left organizes a political force to take control of the apparatus of the state.
The UK left is far from dead, though it is still reeling from the purges and is still largely unorganized on a national level. Corbyn won his seat as an independent and four other pro-Palestine MPs unseated Labour MPs. Others, including Galloway, were defeated but not by massive margins.
The left, however, faces 1920s-scale challenges. Then as now, it can’t just “build another party.” Courageous new left forces outside the Labour Party and those inside it are both necessary to a renewed left. Only their collaborative work can turn the imminent chaos of Starmer’s failure in favour of working people.
A right wing NYC councilmember bit a cop: https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/07/18/susan-zhuang-bensonhurst-hero-cop-bite/
I genuinely do not want biden to drop out. I want to see this removed suffer
I’m listening to one of the Trump kids talk. It’s as awful and toxic as you can imagine. Playing to every right wing cliche and stereotype. Anti everything, except Israel, which is “under siege.”
Also it’s weird that he says “sorry” like he’s Canadian.
While people are making a big deal about someone not getting shot to death at one end of the Rust Belt, around the other end of it there had been another person who was actually shot to death. By police. In her own home. Apparently after placing a 911 call about an intruder.
There's this documentary by Al Jazeera about Stevan Labudovic, a Yugoslav partisan who was employed by Tito to be the camera man of Algerian guerillas during the independence war, important documentary especially right now because it touches propaganda of the colonizer.
I saw [Biden] in a small group at Normandy for the 80th anniversary of D-Day.... [H]e didn’t seem to recognize me.
In fairness to Biden, Moulton is an extremely generic looking white dude.
Fellow amerikkkans, our long national nightmare is....Joever
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HAHAHAHAHIM LAUGHING TO THE BANK
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Honestly, sort of impressive if Biden just martyred himself over the last three weeks, allowing the pressure to build such that his replacement would energize the party, denying the GOP the ability to pivot and attack Harris at their convention, eating all the ire of the Left on Gaza, leaving Bernie and AOC looking like fools and out in the cold. A doddering lib hero, who humiliated himself in service of his country and party, assuming he does step down, and Harris can pull it off.
Somewhere Joever the Rainbow
I like how these past weeks have been decades for Biden. From every democrat scolding you for not voting for him, to his debate, to every democrat deciding he must go in real time, to his follow up gaffes and interviews and sleepiness, to discussing his replacement openly, to the shooting, to getting covid. Back to back
Its happening!!! As soon as this weekend it could be joever
https://x.com/JimVandeHei/status/1813944827484254469
edit: also https://x.com/JakeWilkns/status/1813943745676730691
an update to either windows or crowdstrike software is causing global outages and BSODs https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-19/technology-shutdown-abc-media-banks-institutions/104119960
Though once holding tight to the reins of power by whispering into the ear of the infirm and aging king Brandon the Feeble-minded, the faction of Prince Hunter the Debauched was eventually outmaneuvered, its supporters either threatened or bribed into submission. The success of the schemers' treachery was made bare to the world when, one fateful day, the court heralds, dressed in tabards embroidered with the Cornpop sigil of the House of Brandon, appeared before the assembled nobles in the Great White Hall. They announced that King Brandon would resign to a convent to spend his remaining days in prayer and penance, thereby leaving the Throne of Skulls vacant.
The proclamation implored the crown council to enthrone Lady Kamala the Awkward. She was favored by many powerful nobles who hoped to control the erratic princess. However, a formidable faction also sought to elevate as king Jarl Gavin the Grease-skinned, a key schemer in old king Brandon's downfall, whose heart lusted for power.
Upon hearing the news of King Brandon's abdication, the Orange Troll King taunted the dethroned monarch, declaring he was never fit for kingship. With Brandon's fall, the realm stood more demoralized than ever. Although Brandon's days of fierce and ruthless campaigning were long past, the captains of the realm still revered him as an acclaimed warlord and doubted either pretender's ability to secure victory on the battlefield against the emboldened hordes of the Orange Troll King.
As the magnates of the realm assembled in the shadows to scheme for their preferred pretender to be placed on the Throne of Skulls, many priests feared that a monarch appointed in such a deceitful way would lack the mandate of the heavens and be unable to win the favour of the gods in battle.
‘Parks & Recreation’ star Joe Biden has announced he will no longer be running for President.
I guess he won't face 'Homealone 2' star Donald Trump anymore.
More Perfect Union has put together a pretty good roundup of billionaires known to be contributing to Donald Trump's campaign. Of the 67 names listed, the industrial breakdown is roughly as follows:
Finance: 16
Tech: 11
Real Estate: 9
Energy: 7
Entertainment: 5
Industrial supply / services: 4
Retail: 4
Shipping: 1
Agriculture: 1This is a rough analysis, as the information in this article is brief, and these fuckers have their fingers in a lot of pies. A number of them are married / endowed into wealth and I wasn't consistent about counting them (i.e. does Uline count as 2 for industrial supply because Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein both made the list?) Would be interested to see a similar profile of Democratic megadonors, for comparison.
It is also worth noting these distinctions are pourus / arbitrary in a lot of cases. Especially between finance, tech, and real estate. A lot of "tech" companies are either finance companies (e.g. PayPal) or real estate companies (e.g. AirBNB) which manage to pass themselves off as smol bean code monkies because you interact with them using an app instead driving your car to a brick-and-mortar location.
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President Maduro warned that the far-right opposition wants to provoke a tragedy to change voting intentions.
On Wednesday night, Venezuelan Interior Minister Remigio Ceballos confirmed the explosion of a gas pipeline in the state of Anzoategui.
“An explosion occurred in a gas pipeline on the old Cantaura-Anaco road. The initial investigation indicates that the incident was a result of sabotage,” he said, adding that the explosion did not cause any casualties.
Officials from the Bolivarian National Police (PNB), Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM), firefighters, and the oil company Petroleum of Venezuela (PDVSA) are at the site where the explosion occurred.
“A thorough investigation is underway to find the perpetrators,” said Ceballos, who shared a video and photographs showing the fire after the explosion.
The Venezuelan opposition began sabotage by exploding a gas pipeline in the state of Anzoategui!!!”
On Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro warned that the far-right opposition wants to provoke a tragedy to change voting intentions before the presidential elections in which he and nine other candidates are competing.
“They are looking for a catastrophe that changes the course of what will happen in Venezuela on July 28. We have to stay alert,” he said during a campaign event in the state of Bolivar, which borders Brazil.
During Brazil's January, 2023 coup attempt, allies of election loser Jair Bolsonaro knocked over 24 high tension towers in 5 states. Is it any surprise that a Colombian militia says the Venezuelan opposition tried to hire it to sabotage the electrical grid on election day.
If it is totally joever, do you break the news before, during, or after cheeto speech at the RNC tonight?
I think right before, so he doesn't have time to react, and news gets flustered during their coverage.
During would be an EXCEPTIONAL move, but I think the DNC wouldn't consider that playing fair.
Something very anachronistic about the Trump shooter. A muddled, borderline apolitical past, a white male high school rifle club reject. It's like the gags in The Simpsons when they'd show first generation Polish immigrant kids with flatcaps playing stickball in a scene set in the 1980's. Not saying it's fake or scripted, just interesting that such people still exist.
Brazilian President Lula da Silva about the elections in Venezuela:
'Let them elect the president they want', says Lula about elections in Venezuela. Lula made the statements during a ceremony to announce investments in works on Via Dutra and Rio-Santos.
Why would I want to fight with Venezuela? Why would I want to fight with Nicaragua? Why would I want to fight with Argentina? Let them elect the presidents they want. What interests me is the state-to-state relationship, which what Brazil gains and what Brazil loses in this relationship", added Lula.
not voting for a war criminal
just dropped
gun lmao
