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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.

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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.
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[–] [email protected] 74 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 74 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

Israel beheaded Al-Jazeera journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul with a bomb. If you see a video of a bombed car, note that it’s nsfl. Death to the occupation

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 4 months ago (19 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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?
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[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 months ago

Pack it up. Blinken said it’s a fact that Maduro rigged the election, and he has never lied.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (17 children)

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

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A top U.S. military general wants a "Marshall Plan" for Latin America but is likely more concerned about China's encroachment into America's backyard with "dual use" infrastructure than about what poor people in the Global South actually need.

But then again, Gen. Laura Richardson, SOUTHCOM commander, is a military officer,not a diplomat or humanitarian program lead at USAID. Richardson told an audience at the Aspen Security Forum last week that the U.S. has been MIA in the region while Russia and especially China has been exploiting the post-COVID economic downturn with both military outreach (Russia recently in Cuba) and development projects (Beijing's Belt and Road).

That is why Washington needs to offer its own "Marshall Plan" to Latin America, which it views as it its own sphere of influence. She said 22 of the 31 countries in the region have signed on to the Belt and Road development program.

“How are we competing Team USA and Team Democracy with the tenders that are coming out from [other] countries? How are we getting our U.S. quality investment and talking about our U.S. companies investing in the region? We have a lot of companies in the region. I don’t think we’re branding Team USA as we should. It should be better. We’ve got to be bragging about what U.S. quality investment does,” she said.

The Marshall Plan, proposed by Secretary of State George C. Marshall in a speech at Harvard University in 1947, was launched by President Harry S. Truman in 1948 to help Europe rebuild after World War II. The plan provided $13.3 billion in aid to 16 countries through 1951, about $150 billion in today's dollars.

“I really believe that economic security and national security are going hand-in-hand here in this hemisphere,” she said. Security of course, is the optimal word here. "If (Belt and Road is) for doing good in the hemisphere, then I’m all for it. But it makes me a little suspicious when it’s in the critical infrastructure … deep water ports, 5G, cybersecurity, energy, space … I worry about the dual use nature of that,” Richardson said.

“These are state-owned enterprises by a communist government and I’m worried about the flipping of that to a military application very quickly if something were to happen, maybe in the Indo-Pacom region,” she said.

Therein lies the crux of the situation. On one hand she is absolutely right. As in Africa, Global South countries are reacting to economic outreach from China and Russia because a) they need it and America (private nor public) isn't in the game and b) help from China and Russia doesn't appear to come with as many strings as U.S. assistance might demand. She may also be on point that there are a dearth of high-level visits and attention to the region, giving the very real impression that Latin America is an afterthought.

But we should also ask why the military is taking the lead on asking the real questions here. Where are the diplomats? Is this just another argument for putting more military eyes and assets in the region?

Richardson is right to raise the issue: it is past time that Washington stop whining about China's influence and apply some elbow grease to nurturing productive relations with its neighbors that aren't just about military or political ideological influence. In other words, a two-way street, that if paved well, will mean security and prosperity for everyone. But we should also ask why the military is taking the lead on asking the real questions here, and who, in the end will be providing the answers.

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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[–] [email protected] 72 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 72 points 4 months ago

Fuck Israel and fuck America. Absolute blight on humanity

[–] [email protected] 72 points 4 months ago

Authoritarian Venezuela should follow the example of democratic Ukraine by banning all opposition parties.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Chavez should have gone full Leninist with democratic centralism, the global north sanctions Venezuela anyway

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

Fash in the UK continue with their attempted pogroms. A hotel housing asylum seekers has been attacked and is currently surrounded, with police currently holding a line.

Keir Starmer has described the riots as “far right thuggery” and “racist rhetoric”, finally conceding that there might be some sort of anti-Muslim thing happening.

Edit: video of fascists trying to break into a hotel to attack asylum seekers

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

meet the hand-picked successor, same as the old boss

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Finally got around to watching that AOC stream about Biden and she legitimately looks and sounds like she took a whole line of coke before crafting her master theory.

January 6th seemed to have really shaken her and she’s one of those libs thinking a Trump victory will awaken Brownshirt sleeper cells to commit mass genocide upon his inauguration.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 4 months ago (7 children)

The guy who invested 700K in Intel yesterday lost 200K in one day lol

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The US State Department, which has backed several coup attempts in Venezuela, claimed opposition candidate Edmundo González won the presidential election. But as supposed “evidence”, it cited unverifiable accusations by groups funded by the US government. - Ben Norton

His Thread showing how the opposition documents are fake

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The biggest lose of this election was Boric, congratulations, truly fighting all the leftist in Latin America, and isolating yourself from your own voters was a very good thing for your goverment and country. Truly a follower of the Democratic Party of the USA.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. has “serious concerns” over the veracity of presidential election results in Venezuela on Sunday, after President Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner by the country’s elections council.

The US is only pro-democracy when it’s convenient to their foreign policy goals.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Supreme Leader of Iran, Sayyed Ali Khamenei:

The criminal, terrorist zionist entity has brought upon itself the severest punishment with this attack.

Avenging the blood of Haniyeh is Iran's duty because he was martyred on our land.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Maduro government expels ALL diplomatic staff from embassies in Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, Dominican Republic and Uruguay. The Venezuelan government has reinforced that it will also withdraw its diplomatic corps from all the countries mentioned.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Mali tells the Ukronazis to kiss their Malian asses:
https://xcancel.com/marcus_herve/status/1820219050594652360

🚨🇲🇱- Just in: Mali cut diplomatic ties with Ukraine 🇺🇦 with immediate effect, and promises to seize the competent judicial authorities, following the statements made by Mr Andriy Yusov and Yurii Pyvovarov which constitute acts of terrorism and apology for terrorism.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 months ago (11 children)

President Maduro of Venezuela has agreed to fight Elon Musk in Poliedro Sports Arena in Caracas. He also said he will accept Elon’s trip to Mars, so long as they travel together.

I hope Elon goes to Caracas and immediatly gets arrested and killed live on Venezuelan TV. I think everyone would pretty much be happy with that.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oh here comes the United States to lecture Venezuela (and the rest of the non enlightened world) on "popular will" when it comes to voting. You know, the country that elected presidents that didn't even win the popular vote and the country that can't get 70% of it's population out to vote, oh, it's also the country that systematically carries out voter suppression and makes changes to the demographics just to get [GENERIC WHITE GUY WHO IS A MASSIVE FASCIST] elected.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 months ago (12 children)

Defeated candidate in Venezuela was CIA operative in Operation Condor in El Salvador

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A far-right candidate, González Urrutia, now portrayed as a 'democrat' by certain media, was in the 1980s an operative in El Salvador of Operation Condor, under the command of the CIA, torturing and murdering in favor of US intervention, denounces former MP Nidia Díaz.

"We can't forget the nefarious role played by Edmundo González Urrutia (the current far-right candidate for the presidency of Venezuela) in El Salvador when he was the second-in-command at the Venezuelan embassy, together with Ambassador Leopoldo Castillo, known as El Mata Curas (The Priest Killer)," said Salvadoran lawyer and leader Nidia Díaz, in an article reproduced by several websites on the continent.

According to the former member of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) and member of the Central American Parliament, "the hidden face of Edmundo González" needs to be illuminated so that we know who he is.

"This happened between 1979-1985, as part of the Condor Plan in El Salvador, the counter-insurgency project that Republican Ronald Reagan pushed against the people of El Salvador to prevent the revolutionary forces from advancing, since the factor that prolonged the civil war was the US intervention."

"The mission of Ambassador Castillo and Edmundo González was to be an agent of death. In the documents declassified by the CIA in February 2009, Castillo was mentioned as co-responsible for the intelligence services that coordinated, financed and gave the order for the execution of Operation Centaur," he denounced.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

guys, you should pick lesser evil when your options are

Genocide lovers vs Genocide lovers

you should not pick lesser evils when your options are

Genocidal apartheid state that is rioting for their soldiers rights to rape and torture vs their enemies

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Here’s the news I got laid off today

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Rumour on multiple fed telegrams is that the Iranian retaliation happens "by this Saturday".

Multiple airlines have cancelled flights to Israel as of today, some indefinite and some until October.

Lebanon airports are currently full of civilians trying to leave the country.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 months ago (11 children)
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[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 months ago (11 children)

It's so funny how the Democrats do the bare minimum of an attack campaign with this kindergarten "u guys are weird lol" angle and the Republicans immediately lose their minds

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 months ago (18 children)

This paper was published in 2023, but is popping up on Twitter for me today - I hadn’t seen the evidence of a non-Chinese origin of the virus laid out so clearly before.

Genome analysis of Covid shows that the dominant strain of Covid that spread during the pandemic neither originated in China, or was the cause of the December 2019 epidemic in China (which was due to 2 other strains).

Based on the estimated tMRCA of the non-redundant global genomes, SARS-CoV-2 appears to have already been circulating globally for at least 10 months before its first discovery in Wuhan. Therefore, focusing only on the genomes in China would make it impossible to reveal the actual origin of the pandemic.

The tMRCAs of DL and DS were in September and October, respectively. Considering the ancient status of DS and DL compared with the status of GL, these results indicate that the three haplotypes were already separated before April 2019 and have evolved in parallel since then. In other words, GL that caused the global pandemic did not originate from the viral strains that caused the epidemic in China. The ancestor strains (DS0 and DL0) of DS and DL that gave birth to GL were already extinct before the outbreak of COVID-19; therefore, much more recent tMRCAs have been estimated by using only the current genome sequences.

In contrast to the time order in China, the tMRCA of GL was considerably earlier than that of the two older haplotypes in most regions of the world, including India, Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa, the USA, and South America ( Fig. 4 ). The earliest tMRCA of GL was identified in India, which had a mean of May 9, 2019, followed by Africa, Europe, and the USA with tMRCAs in May to July, 2019, suggesting that GL had spread globally at least 6 months before its discovery.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Well, I've seen everything now...

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Idk why are people surprised that Venezuela voted for Socialists instead of psychotic neoliberal dipshits after seeing what Milei did in Argentina.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 months ago (9 children)
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[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 months ago (1 children)

bibi meets kamala 1v1, immediately opens two fronts, fellow #progressives, is she #ourgal?

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 5 months ago

Remember in 2020 when all the libs got together and pretended for a hot minute that they didn’t love election denial conspiracies?

[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 months ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 67 points 4 months ago

China supports Maduro.

China asks countries to respect the election held by the Venezuelan people.

This Tuesday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson stated that: "he people and the government are capable of managing their own internal affairs.” On Monday, the country congratulated Nicolás Maduro on his victory.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

wake up
there's Ukranian Nazis on my country's border
I live in Africa

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 4 months ago (11 children)

I think it's happening tonight folks. All flights in and out of Ben Gurion canceled, airspace is closed over all of Israel, shelters are open, Iranian media buzzing about us "witnessing interesting things" over the next few hours. We'll see, but I've a feeling it's tonight.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

That didn't take long. The most hawkish imperialists in Congress will push for a resolution "recognizing" opposition candidate Edmundo González as "president-elect" (who recognizes posts like that?) and calling for new sanctions. Guaidó 2.0 ladies and gentlemen

Leaked draft of U.S. Reps Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) & Mario Díaz-Balart (R) House resolution to recognize Edmundo González "as the president-elect of Venezuela" and to call for the "imposition of new sanctions" on the Venezuelan gov't and its foreign allies.

Tweet with the Document

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