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https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-kamala-harris-polls-national-1947838

Kamala Harris' Lead Over Trump Being 'Steadily Cut'—Poll

According to a new ActiVote poll, conducted between August 25 and September 2, Harris leads Trump by 1.6 points, on 50.8 percent to his 49.2 percent, a lead within the poll's margin of error of 3.1 percent.

Her lead is down from the 5-point lead she had over Trump in ActiVote's last poll, conducted among 1,000 likely voters between August 15 and 23.

"Harris' poll numbers improved steadily for about three-four weeks after Biden dropped out, followed by a period of two weeks where it hovered around a 5-point lead. In the past five days that 5-point lead has been steadily cut to just under 2 percent," ActiVote pollster Victor Allis wrote.

Nancy Pelosi killed brat and now they don’t have any messaging strategy

First US case of H5 Bird Flu with no known link to animals has been reported in Missouri.

China pausing on gold buying spree 4th month

Prices at near record high. Come on October suprise crash this baby right before the election.

I keep seeing posts about Tim Pool being a Russian asset. This combined with the resurrection of the Jill Stein smearing shows that this is the angle they’re going with once again for non-liberal dissent.

Russia just seems to stick better with more Americans than even the usual boogeymen of North Korea, China, and Iran.

I’ve only seen the most terminally online libs say that Republicans are Chinese assets along with every other voice of dissent.

Critical support to the suspected Chinese spy 🫡

Knowing how fucking stupid the US intelligence apparatus is though, I wouldn’t be surprised if she was just someone displaying anti-American sentiment. I would hope China would be more strategic.

But who fucking knows. This Godamn nation reported on Havana syndrome like it was something that actually existed for multiple years lmao

Hamas rebuilds forces in northern Gaza, recruits 3,000 fighters: Report | The Cradle

US naval forces cannot remain to protect "Israel" 'forever': Washington | The Cradle

Washington has warned "Tel Aviv" that US naval forces cannot indefinitely be deployed to the West Asia region to protect "Israel", Channel 13 reported on 6 September, amid continued fear of an expanded war between "Israel" and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The "Israeli" news channel reported a message was sent to Israel that tensions with Hezbollah and Iran need to be reduced at some stage because “the [US] aircraft carriers will not be able to stay in the area forever.”

From the Resistance News Network telegram https://t.me/PalestineResist/56729

Commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Major General Hossein Salami:

The zionist entity is besieged by Iraq, Yemen, and Lebanon. The nightmare of our response keeps the enemy on alert day and night, and we have begun to see signs of its end.

The zionist enemy will taste the flavor of Iranian revenge and will realize that it cannot toy with our red lines.

"Israel" cannot strike and run away easily; rather, it will receive a decisive response.

Certainly, they will receive a response. How and when? This time, the response will be different, and everyone will realize that.

Presstv and Al Mayadeen also cover this and some highlights from Al Mayadeen below

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/09/08/732923/IRGC-chief--%E2%80%98Israel-will-receive-revenge-for-its-vicious-acts%E2%80%99

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/irgc-chief-says--nightmare--of-retaliation-terrifying--israe

General Salami emphasized that the Israeli regime is experiencing confusion and internal unrest, with hundreds of thousands of protesters taking to the streets in the occupied territories. According to him, the Israeli occupation is trapped in a crisis with no escape.

He concluded his remarks with a stern warning to the Israeli occupation, saying: "The Israeli regime is now confined within the occupied lands, and its leaders are losing their mental stability, awaiting death at any moment. Rest assured, the response will come. When and how? This time, it will be different, and everyone will know that Israel can no longer strike and escape unscathed."

Former IRGC commander Mohsen Rezaei said in an interview with CNN released on in late August that his country's retaliation to the Israeli assassination of Hamas' politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran will be well measured so that Prime Minister Benjamin can not "save himself" from the crises he's in.

When was the last time Joe Biden appeared in public? I feel like a president shouldn't be this absent even if he is planning to cede his position after the election. On CNN, even under the "joe Biden" tag, it's all Kamala vs Trump news.

I guess the Americans got tired of embarrassing themselves parading the dusty old mummy around and pretending like he hadn't declined to the point where he can't hold on to a coherent thought.

These dumbasses invaded Kursk in autumn.

there are flameethrower drones now....

Egypt buys China's J-10C fighters to replace F-16s.

https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/egypt-j10c-f16s-reports

In Denmark politicians are "shocked" following a recent decision by the supreme court. The decision? That authorities are required to bring an eight year old Danish child and his mother, currently languishing in a Syrian refugee camp, back home.

The mother, who had her citizenship revoked as retaliation for joining ISIS, is claimed to extremely dangerous and "radicalised".

The extreme right is pulling out their old hobby horse of railing against "the international conventions", a dog whistle for any type of international law preventing the state from being sufficiently racist. They are joined by the governing succdems who demand that the EU appoints a commissioner tasked with nothing but "looking at" and "renegotiating" said conventions, presumably to make international law more racist.

Turkey Bids to Join BRICS in Push to Build Alliances Beyond West (Yahoo Finance / Bloomberg)

Turkey has formally asked to join the BRICS group of emerging-market nations as it seeks to bolster its global influence and forge new ties beyond its traditional Western allies, according to people familiar with the matter.

. . . Straddling Europe and Asia, Turkey submitted an application to join BRICS some months ago amid frustration over a lack of progress in its decades-old bid to join the European Union, the people added. The bid is also partly a result of rifts with fellow NATO members after Turkey maintained close links with Russia following its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the people added. Turkey’s foreign ministry and presidency declined to comment.

Western mainstream libs are mad about Putin going to Mongolia. My local media blob is claiming that Putin only went there to defy the ICC. The idea that the leaders of two neighbouring countries could have more reasons for meeting eachother besides making a spectacle for the west to get mad at is simply not entertained. Contrary, they claim that Putin is "forcing" Mongolia not to arrest him by leveraging Mongolian dependence on Russian energy.

Another air attack appears to be happening against Ukraine at the moment, air raid alarms/sirens went off 20 minutes ago. Ukraine has faced air attack after attack for over a week now. Including a missile strike against a Ukrainian Electronic Warfare and UAV learning facility full of Ukrainian armed forces personnel and NATO advisors (notably Swedish advisors likely there to teach Ukrainians how to operate their recently donated Swedish mini AWACS aircraft). The attack reportedly resulted in over 200 deaths according to a Ukrainian medic, who managed to get the information out on social media before being censored. The consequences of the Kursk gamble keep on piling on for Ukraine.

The Onion is going back to doing puff pieces for VP candidates again. They had to apologize for doing this shit for Biden...

Ben Shapiro is being even more annoying than before as a Republican fundraiser.

Also I love my trans comrades

say it with me: first President of Palestine Yahya Sinwar

I apologise for the comment in advance, but the absolute political shitshow we have witnessed in Europe over the past few years has given me a weird appreciation of Angela Merkel.

She managed to keep US influence relatively at bay, maintained good economic relations with Russia and China, knew how to throw a bone to the various anti-EU factions within Europe to keep them from gaining influence, annoyed the Brits to the point they left the union and obviously maintained the EU's imperialist projects while keeping their image and her legacy clean. Compared to her the Macron-Scholz-von der Leyen trio look like dumb, dumber, and the the dumbest. IMO she beats Obama for most competent imperialist of the past few decades.

Another school shooting

Canadian Ndp (socdem party, no prime ministers but always a strong 3rd) seems to be making moves to become the major not conservative party. Jagmeet appears to be making moves and it's a party with a chance that opposes the current time genocide policy wise. Looks like I may actually have to this election.

Edmundo Gonzalez, presidential candidate on the Unity platform, has accepted Spain's offer of political asylum and is flying to Madrid, leaving Venezuela. The exile was mediated by the former Spanish president, José Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero.

lol

Foreign Affairs - America Is Losing Southeast Asia

Yankees try to talk about Asia without making it all about “face” challenge: impossible.

Highlights from long article (summarized using HexB-AI)

Breaking down this year’s result by country shows that since the 2023 poll, the United States has lost the most ground to China among respondents in Laos (a 30 percentage point decline), Malaysia (a 20 percentage point decline), Indonesia (a 20 percentage point decline), Cambodia (an 18 percentage point decline), and Brunei (a 15 percentage point decline). The United States has also lost ground in Myanmar and Thailand (10 and 9 percentage point declines, respectively).

The United States still commands very high support in the Philippines (where 83 percent of respondents selected it over China) and Vietnam (where 79 percent did) and solid backing in Singapore (62 percent), Myanmar (58 percent), and Cambodia (55 percent). But only in three countries did respondents’ preference for aligning with the United States over China grow from 2023 to 2024—the Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam—and these increases were small.

The United States has lost support most dramatically in countries with Muslim majorities. The 2024 survey revealed an especially sharp hardening of sentiment from 2023. Seventy-five percent of Malaysian, 73 percent of Indonesian, and 70 percent of Bruneian respondents surveyed said they would prefer alignment with China over the United States, compared with 55 percent, 54 percent, and 55 percent in 2023, respectively. The survey did not ask respondents why they made this selection. But it is telling that when a different question asked respondents to select their top three geopolitical concerns, nearly half ranked the Israel-Hamas conflict at the very top, surpassing the 40 percent that ranked the more geographically proximate South China Sea dispute most highly.

Western media outlets often carry reports about the debt traps associated with China’s Belt and Road Initiative. But BRI projects are generally welcomed in Southeast Asia for the growth and development potential they offer the recipient country. One high-ranking diplomat from the region pronounced it a model for how to win “hearts and minds.”

The United States wants to counter Chinese disinformation. But efforts to do so must address the root causes of why they resonate. China has depicted America as a “craven warmonger” in Gaza; many Southeast Asians with whom I recently spoke, including non-Muslims, said that this characterization rang true to them. Such a depiction would hold little water, however, if not for Washington’s own response to the crisis in Gaza, which has supported or at least acquiesced in Israel’s worst excesses.

Really sucks that Chinese disinformation has so much obviously true facts to work with

we will have "it was a debate" in 5 days, and i learn this from jacobin

anyway, trump was silly to agree to it, old boy is done

Air any of these concerns, and there’s a good chance you’ll hear some version of this typical partisan response: “Well, you realize Donald Trump wouldn’t be any better.” That response implies that, for the Democratic Party, enabling the genocide of Palestinians is nonnegotiatable.

la jacobina showing its face yay

Cursed us politics question: is Harris trying to flank trump from the right?

"Chemicals of the Week" lmaoo 😭 😭

Algerian elections tomorrow, r/Algeria is so astroturfed

Record number of Indigenous land titles granted in Peru via innovative process (commentary) hexbear post

• Land titles have proven to be the most effective way to protect Indigenous peoples’ land from deforestation, with such territories experiencing a 66% decrease in deforestation, and therefore protecting these forests for generations to come.
• Recently, 37 land titles were secured in the Peruvian Amazon in record time, between June 2023 to May 2024, via a partnership between two NGOs and the Peruvian government, using an innovative, low-cost, high-impact model to expedite the process.
• “We believe this model can be replicated in other regions of the Amazon and perhaps even beyond,” the authors of a new op-ed write.
• The process of securing land titles ranges from slow and bureaucratic to extremely dangerous. In Peru, more than 30 Indigenous leaders have been murdered over the past two decades for seeking titles for their territories and the recognition of their ancestral lands.

Indigenous mothers fight to search CIA experiment site in Montreal hexbear post

A group of Indigenous women are hoping to stop the bulldozers at a former Montreal hospital which they believe could hold the truth about children still missing from a grisly half-century-old CIA experiment.

In the 1950s and 1960s, behind the austere walls of the old psychiatric institute, the US Central Intelligence Agency funded a human experiments programme called MK Ultra.

During the Cold War, the programme aimed to develop procedures and drugs to effectively brainwash people. Experiments were conducted in Britain, Canada and the United States, subjecting people — including Indigenous children in Montreal — to electroshocks, hallucinogenic drugs, and sensory deprivation. “They wanted to erase us,” said Kahentinetha.

Albanese government to pay $202m to NT’s Indigenous workers in stolen wages class action hexbear post

The federal government will pay up to $202m compensation to thousands of Indigenous workers whose wages were stolen while working in the Northern Territory last century.

The payout is part of the settlement of a class action on behalf of workers and their families who were subject to commonwealth wage control legislation between 1933 and 1971.

Israeli minister calls for 'declaration of war' on Palestinians in West Bank