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Bulletins and News Discussion from July 29th to August 4th, 2024 - Haters Stay Mad(uro) - COTW: Venezuela

Image is of a colectivo: an armed group, usually operating in impoverished areas, which act to support and defend the socialist government of Venezuela. They are often derided as vigilante terrorist groups which prop up the government, because cops are only bad when they are socialist and not murdering minorities, I suppose.

Maduro's party, the PSUV, has won the election after a staggering amount of propaganda by the opposition, who said their polls suggested they were going to win and that Maduro's loss was inevitable. The reaction across Latin America is what one would expect. Left-leaning leaders are generally respecting the results and congratulating Maduro, while those on the right and/or are US puppets (such as in semirecently-couped Peru) are calling for recounts, or even that the election was illegitimate. The US itself is also unhappy about the results. We shall soon see if their unhappiness boils over into yet another coup attempt.

Personally, I think they should have ran Guaido again.

Thank you to @Redcuban1959@hexbear.net for the election coverage here, and everything else they do in the news megathread.

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  • Israel bombed my hometown Beirut. Very strange feeling, because I'm not sad nor angry. The feeling in shia and revolutionary circles is more "thank you Israel", because we want this war. We want to have a direct reason to hit Tel Aviv, we want our troops to burn the occupied Golan, we want our missiles to fill the settlers with fear and panic. Alhamdullilah and may Allah accept the martyrs. My eyes will not be filled with the sight of Beirut for a long time, which really pains my heart, but if our collective sacrifices result in even one hour of pain for the zionists, then it was worth it.

    فَٱرْتَقِبْ يَوْمَ تَأْتِى ٱلسَّمَآءُ بِدُخَانٍۢ مُّبِينٍۢ

    "Then watch for the Day when the sky will bring a visible smoke"

    Quran - Surat Al Dukhan - 10

  • this isn't them "going all out", it's not them casting off their self-imposed shackles and fighting their enemies with all their previously undisplayed strength, they're just pissing everybody off and losing as fascist regimes always do before they fall

  • "Different parts of the IDF are fighting each other, IDF can't coordinate w/ the police, lawmakers are fighting the army & each other, there is attempted violent takeover of military property underway & big (select) groups of citizens are armed.

    Closest i've ever experienced to state breakdown. It has all the ingredients for the gov't to try & justify imposing martial law on citizens - unprecedented

    Hamas, Hezbollah could never have imagined how much they would succeed. This is better than they even dreamed."

  • Recently released classified documents show that claims of Soviet "brainwashing" during the 1950's were run to counter claims of US biological warfare in Korea


    This isn't really new information, but it's interesting that the feds just admit it now

  • No political death has ever hit me as hard as the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh did today. What a catastrophe. I have been legitimately feeling paralysed today, could barely eat the whole day. I have much to say about this, but we all need to process this tragedy first. God give us all strength and power, these last two days have been draining emotionally and it will only get worse and worse. As for the man himself, our history when we're victorious will be very kind on him, may Allah grant him the highest ranks of Paradise. They killed his children, his grandchildren and then killed him.

    I'd like to leave this here, the Martyr Ismail Haniyeh leading friday prayers in Qatar:

    https://youtu.be/nxDGQvuQh1Q

  • It took 19 days for the US to announce the final results of it's 2000 presidential elections, in which the loser of the popular vote was declared President. But after 4 days, members of Congress have decided the oil-rich nation of Venezuela is moving too slow.

  • Reddit is so astroturfed these days it's insane. The broadcast local news my parents watch has stories about the riots in Britain but r/news and r/worldnews has almost nothing

  • Holy fucking shit, the Venezuela opposition sucks at this. They are posting the so called "leaked" "real" results, but the text is all in english. WHY THE FUCK WOULD VENEZUELA USE ENGLISH ON THEIR ELECTORAL SYSTEM?

  • Well it turns out the italian boxer who got wrecked by the algerian boxer lady in the olympic games is actually a cop lmfao

    She also retired from boxing after her defeat. ACAB lmao.

  • Lmao Joe's big supreme court reveal is just some proposals for Congress to pass. Term limits (of 18 years) and a "stricter code of conduct" (lol). He's not even doing anything, just meekly asking Congress to pass this for him.

  • The Gaza Ministry of Health has declared a polio epidemic in the Strip.

    The WHO spokeswoman says a variant of polio is spreading rapidly in Gaza due to lack of access to vaccination:

    It is actually a variant that originally developed a long time ago. … Wherever we see it appearing, we give it a big vaccination response, and that usually stops it.

    But we have to have the security. We have to have the means to get the vaccine to Gaza and to the children. Vaccines are of no use if they are in a vial or on a truck. So there is an answer, but the answer is that we need a ceasefire.

  • Nicolas Maduro: "Social media creates a virtual reality controlled by our new archenemy, Elon Musk, who'd like to come with an army to invade Venezuela. Thank god you showed your face. We knew you were behind all the bots with your money, with your satellite."

    "He intends to control the world. Elon Musk already controls Argentina. He's after your lithium, people of Argentina. He already controls Ecuador. He's the representation of fascist ideology in the world. Economic power supporting the fascist ideology of extreme right"

  • I am astounded by the nationwide white nationalist riots in the UK. Is there a modern antecedent in the imperial core for these types of riots? Things don't feel this terrible in the US or France, countries that until now I considered significantly more racist than the UK.

  • 99% of colonial regimes stop killing resistance leaders just before they decide to give up and stop fighting

    Israel appears to be gunning for the world record of "how many missiles of differing nationalities can we provoke to rain down on our country," which is certainly an interesting goal. Maybe they'll hit Turkiye next. Maybe they'll get really spicy and try and get the DPRK into the game.

  • Erdogan, being Erdogan, has done a piece of political theatre to appease popular opinion and has threatened to intervene in the zionists' genocide against Palestine. The illegal zionist entity, who is not a NATO state, is now demanding that Turkey should be thrown out of NATO and has contacted the US as well as every NATO vassal state to make these demands.

  • ‘It Just Doesn’t Seem Right’: Michigan Farmer Forced to Dump 40,000 Pounds of Cherries to Make Way for Import Crops

    Santucci continued in the Facebook post aimed at unleashing his frustrations, and raising awareness about an agreement imposed by the Cheery Board that he believes is outdated and harmful.

    “I have people who would buy them if I could sell them.”.

    The type of cherries grown, and left to rot by Santucci because of the rule, are tart cherries, which have a “very short shelf life.” Santucci grows about 30 acres worth of them each year, but a marketing order passed in 1937 (after a notably tumultous up-and-down in the cherry industry left many cherry farmers out of business) imposes limitations on how much can be sold in order to make way for imports, which led to the wasting of a large portion of his cherry crop.

    The act is a “vain attempt to prop up the price of cherries,” 

    Most efficent market economy.

  • I hope Iran really goes hard after Israel's power grid / power generation. A country as small as Israel can only have so much in the way of power distribution.

    I am a bit embarrassed to admit that a decade or so ago, I got really into prepping. I wasn't a reactionary or anything, but I was fascinated by the question of what could potentially shut down society. Got really into reading about the Carrington Event and EMPs that come from launching nukes in the atmosphere.

    I think it's easy to underestimate just how much of our lives depend on electricity. If you don't have power, very few people can work or get around. You can't buy anything and stores can't open. No internet or telecommunications. Basically, society completely shuts down and shit hits the fan. People in Gaza are able to get by without electricity because they are in survival mode and they've had to build their lives around unreliable electricity anyway. But your average Israeli will have no way to cope with losing electricity.

  • There are many reasons to support Maduro regardless if he legit won, my favourite one is that most argentina-nationalized venezuelan migrants voted for Milei, so I want those dipshits to keep crying

  • What's causing the Islamophobic riots across the UK, and why now?

    1. The riots have been instigated by the Zionist asset Stephen Yaxley-Lennon ('Tommy Robinson'), who has been working for the State of Israel since 2009 as part of the so-called 'counterjihad' Islamophobia movement established by that state. When his organisation, the English Defence League, was incorporated in 2011, two years after its inception, it was named the English & Jewish Defence League. The Jewish Defence League, a Zionist terrorist organisation, has been a key part of violent Islamophobic street thuggery in the UK over the past decade.
    1. Yaxley-Lennon is one of the most high-profile actors in the State of Israel's Online Influencers Programme in response to Operation Al-Aqsa Storm. He and others, like Oli London, Noa Tishby, Hen Mazzig, Arsen Ostrovsky and Emily Schrader (and many others) are paid to distribute Zionist propaganda, of which pushing back against pro-Palestine protests and sowing Islamophobia are two important and interlinked aims.
    1. The recent Islamophobic riots in the UK should be seen as the latest phase of the State of Israel's war on British Muslims, who it sees as originating the protest movement in the UK. These riots are designed to punish Muslims for their anti-Zionist sentiment after various other methods to suppress opposition to Zionism by the State of Israel have been thwarted. The State of Israel's attempts to use its assets and operatives in the British political and media class — such as Suella Braverman and Michael Gove — to thwart pro-Palestinian protests have failed. Zionist counter-protests have failed to mobilise significant numbers. Sporadic Zionist thuggery and the use of other assets — such as Iranian secularist extremists — have also failed to intimidate Muslims. So now the State of Israel is weaponising its cannon fodder on the white nationalist far-right, who have greater numbers than either Zionist street thugs or Iranian monarchists and secularist extremists.
    1. Finally, there are also questions about which actor authored the idea that Muslims were responsible for the ostensible triggers for these events. MI6 and its assets (eg Paul Mason) are desperately trying to pretend this was a Russian disinfo op. But the original stories did not come from Russia. Where did they come from?

  • What a speech by Hassan Nasrallah.

    He confirmed that the "support front" in South Lebanon and Northern occupied Palestine is no longer a singular support front, but a front in a wider war in Palestine, Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon and Iran. He also confirmed that the normal pace of operations in the north will accelerate from tomorrow, but also that a direct response to the assassination of Fuad Shukr will be delivered independently and it will be a strong response. He directly threatened Netanyahu and his western backers in the end of the speech. Very energetic and strong speech, that was truly Sayyid Hassan in his prime.

  • Worth a read, US general wants a Marshall Plan for Latam to combat China. Mainly mentions Belt and Road as the threat they're worried about.

    https://archive.is/4oVdD

    If the US says you should be worried about Belt and Road for its military uses then you should be MORE worried about any US competitor to that given the history of the US in the region.

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