Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh killed in Iran

 (Israel once again doing everything they can to thwart the peace process and the return of the Israeli hostages. All they want is to steal the land from Palestine so a few of em can line their pockets with profits from it. Despicable human beings, and I use that term loosely)

from RT

The leader of the Hamas political wing, Ismail Haniyeh, has been assassinated along with one of his bodyguards in Tehran, the Palestinian group and Iranian authorities have confirmed. 

Hamas was quick to blame the killing on Israel, which has so far declined to comment.

The group said Haniyeh was killed on Tuesday morning in a “treacherous attack of the Zionists on his residence” in Tehran.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has said an investigation is ongoing. 

Haniyeh, usually based in Qatar, was in the Iranian capital for the inauguration of the new president, Masoud Pezeshkian.

The assassination of Haniyeh is a “cowardly act that will not go unpunished”, the Hamas-run channel Al-Aqsa TV quoted senior Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk as saying...

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Israeli lawmaker defends anal rape of Palestinian captives

(Hamas treats the hostages well even buying em pizzas while the IDF sodomites do this to theirs. Talk about backing the wrong horse. But we still cheer these animals whenever they show up in congress. We're on the side of the Nazis in Ukraine and the terrorists in Israel.)

from RT

Eight reservists have been accused of sodomizing a prisoner with a broomstick 

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) arrested eight reservists on Monday as part of a probe into alleged torture of a Palestinian captive, prompting rioters, including several lawmakers, to break into a military base demanding their release. One argued that nothing was off-limits when it came to dealing with Hamas.

Ten soldiers were originally caught up in the investigation. Two were released early on Wednesday, while eight were ordered to remain in custody through Sunday. According to the IDF, they have been accused of aggravated sodomy, causing bodily harm, abuse, and conduct unbecoming of a soldier.

The arrest of the reservists on Monday interrupted a meeting of the Knesset Finance Committee, as a MP of the ruling Likud party, Hanoch Milwidsky, tried to walk out in protest.

“To insert a stick in a person’s rectum, is that legitimate?” asked Ahmad Tibi, an Israeli-Arab lawmaker.

“Yes!” Milwidsky shouted back. “If he is a Nukhba, everything is legitimate to do! Everything!”...

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Venezuela Election: As Expected Western Cliched Regime Change Op Underway

They can never think of anything original. They always just dust off failed plans from yesteryear and hope they work this time. There is a word for that but right now it escapes me.

Evidence exposes Israeli violence against imprisoned Palestinians

from Daily Sabah

Concrete evidence, including court records and autopsy findings, exposed the Israeli prison authorities' violations against Palestinians, including fatal violence, a report said Monday.

Witnesses recounted the details of the prisoners' deaths, which were confirmed by doctors from Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI) who attended the autopsies, according to, the Washington Post.

According to the PHRI, three men are among at least 13 Palestinians from the West Bank and Israel who have died in Israeli jails since Oct. 7, 2023, when the Gaza conflict began.

An unspecified number of prisoners from the Gaza Strip have also died...

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Card-carrying Communist turned neo-Nazi MP: How the victim of Ukraine’s latest political murder promoted hatred in her country

from RT

Last weekend, Irina Farion, a notorious Ukrainian far-right politician and academic was shot in the head by an unidentified assassin not far from her house in the western city of Lviv. She died some time later in hospital.

The killer has not been found yet, but the main suspect is an unidentified young man who, according to the accounts of neighbors, had been watching Farion’s house for several weeks. The motives remain unknown, but it is no secret that the victim – a former MP in the national parliament for the ultra-nationalist Svoboda – had many enemies.

Farion’s scandalous, offensive, and chauvinistic views were so radical that she even became involved in a public conflict with right-wing radicals from the Ukrainian army. Now her murder has shaken the country.

In February 2010, as a deputy of the Lviv Regional Rada, Farion visited a kindergarten and insulted children whose names she considered insufficiently “Ukrainian”. The deputy claimed that a boy named Misha should be called Mykhailyk, that the name Liza comes from the word “lick”, and told girls named Alyona to “pack [their] bags and go to Moscovia (Russia).” Despite causing a public uproar, however, the incident did not affect Farion’s political career, something quite typical for modern Ukraine.

The future champion of the “purity” of the Ukrainian language was born in Lviv in 1964, to a librarian mother and machine fitter father. After graduating from school, she briefly worked in a regional library herself, and in 1982 entered Lviv’s Ivan Franko National University, where she studied at the Department of Ukrainian Philology. While at university, Farion worked as an assistant at the Department of General Linguistics and was the head of the Center for Ukrainian Studies at the Department of Folklore Studies.

Farion was definitely no dissident at the time. She was a member of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, a member of the group’s Komsomol bureau, headed the club of general linguistics and Marxist-Leninist aesthetics, and was a member of the department’s International Friendship Club, where she helped foreign students learn Russian.

Farion was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) until 1989. Later, after launching a political career with the Neo-Nazi Svoboda Party, she stubbornly denied this fact, but was later forced to admit it after the corresponding evidence was published...

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Maduro slams protesters against election results as ‘fascist, counter-revolutionary’

from PressTV

President Nicolas Maduro slammed violent protests that flooded the streets of Venezuela’s capital and other cities after he had secured a third term in the election.

Maduro said in a nationally televised ceremony that “an attempt is being made to impose a coup d’etat in Venezuela again of a fascist and counterrevolutionary nature.”

“We have never been moved by hatred. On the contrary, we have always been victims of the powerful,” Maduro said.

“We already know this movie, and this time, there will be no kind of weakness,” he added, saying that Venezuela’s “law will be respected.”

Public anger swelled after the National Electoral Council (CNE) on Monday formally confirmed that Maduro had been re-elected by a majority of Venezuelans to another six-year term as president “for the period 2025-2031.”

It maintained Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia had failed to defeat the president, earning 44 percent of the votes compared with Maduro’s 51 percent...

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Venezuela: Gov’t, Hardline Opposition Call for Mobilizations in Tense Election Aftermath

from Venezuelan Analysis

Caracas, July 30, 2024 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuela’s post-electoral scene has been marked by anti-government mobilizations and confrontations with security corps.

The unrest has followed the July 28 presidential elections that saw incumbent Nicolás Maduro secure a third term while the hardline opposition refused to accept the results.

Since late Sunday, there have been multiple reports of street barricades in different cities, with burnt tires or other debris used to block major roads and highways. Transit between Caracas and the country’s main airport in La Guaira was interrupted on Monday morning.

In the early afternoon, a group of protesters attempted to advance to Miraflores Presidential Palace through the central Urdaneta Avenue before being stopped by a police cordon. Social media videos showed armed civilians appearing to fire live rounds at the opposition crowd to disperse it.

Other social media footage showed protesters with weapons as well as attacking bystanders or security officers.

Later in the afternoon, another group of masked activists clashed with the National Guard in El Silencio, close to another access to the presidential palace. A large pro-opposition contingent likewise attempted to march from Eastern Caracas but was stopped by police cordons and eventually dispersed.

Social media users reported on mobilizations in a number of Venezuelan cities as well. A mob in the Lara state town of Jiménez set the local city hall on fire on Monday evening. There were unconfirmed reports of three people dead and more than forty wounded. For his part, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino spoke of 23 wounded servicemen and called on the Venezuelan people to remain calm...

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Nicaraguan government denounces destabilizing actions against Venezuela

from TeleSur English

The Nicaraguan government denounced this Monday to the international community the destabilizing actions against the Venezuelan nation.

We denounce to the world that the people of Bolivar, Chavez, Nicolas, who has resisted and defeated all attempts to humiliate and destroy their rights, by winning once again in these elections, he has defeated the Empires and their impertinence, and is already facing a new attempt of Coup d’état», said the statement that was initialled by President Daniel Ortega and Vice-President Rosario Murillo.

The European Commission has also «in the pride and permanent zeal for domination and plunder of our Peoples and our Resources, (…) to continue exercising all forms of hatred against that Admirable Venezuela, of Great Battles and Endless Victories».

The government of the Central American country assured that «fascism that today again intends to be rampant in Venezuelan lands, of course it will not pass»...

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Venezuelan Government Withdraws the Diplomatic Personnel from Seven Latin American Nations

from TeleSur English

The Government of Venezuela ordered on Monday all its diplomatic personnel from Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay to withdraw and demanded the immediate expulsion of representatives from these countries from Venezuela, after they refused to accept the victory of President Nicolás Maduro in the elections on July 28.

Through an official statement, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry stated that this decision was taken in view of the «disastrous precedent which undermines our national sovereignty»while he stressed that the nation expresses its strongest rejection of the interventionist actions and statements of the group of right-wing governments, subordinated to Washington.

These governments, the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry emphasized, are openly committed “with the sordidest ideological postulates of international fascism, trying to republish the failed and defeated Lima Group, they claim to ignore the electoral results of the presidential elections held this Sunday, July 28».

“The Bolivarian Government has stressed that it will confront all actions that undermine the climate of peace and coexistence that so many efforts have demanded from the Venezuelan people, we are therefore opposed to all interventionist and siege pronouncements with which, repeatedly, the will of the Venezuelan people is being ignored”, said the Foreign Ministry...

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‘They Bought Me Pizza’ – Freed Israeli Captive Contradicts Official Account on Gaza

from Uprooted Palestinians 

Former Israeli captive in Gaza Liat Atzili spoke with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. In her extraordinary account of what had taken place, Atzili said that the civilian home in which she was held had neither control over their captivity nor release.

An Israeli-American formerly held captive by the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that she was treated humanely – which is in sharp contrast to how Palestinian prisoners are treated by Israeli authorities.

Liat Atzili was released on November 29, during the one-week ceasefire between Hamas and the Israeli government.

She spent a total of 54 days in Gaza where she was reportedly held in an apartment in the city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip...

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And the Lies Begin

 CNN 

With 80% of votes counted, Maduro won more than 51% of the vote, besting the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, who gained more than 44%, according to a statement by the National Electoral Council (CNE).

But the opposition painted a very different picture of the results. Opposition leader María Corina Machado said in a news conference that their own records showed their candidate Edmundo González Urrutia had received 70% of the vote against Maduro’s 30%.

“We won, and everyone knows it,” Machado said, adding that the opposition would “defend the truth.”

“The entire international community knows what happened in Venezuela and how people voted for change,” she said. 

 ABC

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States has ‘serious concerns’ about the announced result of Venezuela’s hotly contested presidential election that authorities say was won by incumbent Nicolas Maduro.  

Venezuela: Maduro Wins Presidential Elections

“Fascism shall not pass in the land of Bolívar and Chávez, This is a triumph for peace, for stability and for our Republic.” Maduro

from Venezuelan Analysis

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has secured a third term in office after triumphing in the July 28 presidential vote.

The first bulletin published by the country’s National Electoral Council (CNE) announced an “irreversible trend” in favor of Maduro, with 51.2 percent of the vote compared to 44.2 percent for his main rival, opposition candidate Edmundo González.

The presidential contest had a turnout of 59 percent. The first bulletin was delivered with 80 percent of voting centers tallied.

“We call on everyone to respect the Constitution and the laws, and to respect the will of the people,” stated CNE President Elvis Amoroso in a press conference on Sunday at midnight. He added that results were delayed by an “attack on the transmission system” and urged authorities to investigate.

The detailed results broken down by voting center are expected in the coming hours...

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Nicolás Maduro Wins in Venezuelan Presidential Elections with 51,20% of the Votes

from TeleSur English

With more than 51% of the votes, the candidate of the Great Patriotic Pole Simon Bolivar, Nicolás Maduro, is re-elected after elections that took place in a peaceful atmosphere, The National Electoral Council (CNE) reported.

The president of the electoral authority, Elvis Amoroso, details that more than 11 million votes were valid during the election day.

The candidate Nicolás Maduro was re-elected with 5,150,000 votes (51.2%) in a vote that went without incident and with an electoral turnout of 59%.

The second most voted candidate was Edmundo González with 4 million 445 thousand 978 votes, 44.2 percent of the votes...

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On My Disorganized Religion

 by Scott Creighton

The issue of organized religion is going to become more and more relevant to our lives in the coming months. 

When societies break down their leaders often turn to religion to keep the masses inline. 

We can already see this pattern emerging. Charlatans are crawling from under the rocks from which they hide trying to position themselves as spiritual gurus of one form or another. 

It doesn't matter which side of the fake political divide they dwell, the message and the agenda is always the same: take control of a flock of frightened and confused followers by giving them some sort of explanation for the misery that has suddenly befallen them. 

Kind of like what Scientology does every day.

Someone sent me an email got me thinking on the subject:

President Nicolas Maduro on Election Day

 by Scott Creighton

US sanctions on Venezuela caused crises 3x worse than Great Depression... and yet he is still going to be elected. 

Why is that?

Maybe because he is on the right side of history, the obviously right side of history, and not afraid to say so.

 

"Long Live Free Palestine" Maduro

Maybe because he's also not afraid of the people he represents.

 

Don't know why. 

We don't have politicians like him in this country. 

We have actors and whores who fear everything including the day they get found out for being nothing more than actors and whores.

Trump discussed with RFK Jr. potential role in 2nd Trump administration: Sources

from ABC News

Former President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke multiple times in the span of a few days this month, multiple people familiar with the conversations told ABC News, including an in-person meeting in Milwaukee during the Republican National Convention where the two presidential candidates discussed ways Kennedy could be involved in a second Trump administration.

At least one idea floated, according to two people with knowledge of the talks, was for Kennedy, a vaccine skeptic who speaks often about the perils of chronic disease, to oversee the Health and Human Services Department under a possible Trump administration.

According to one source, the in-person meeting, which took place the Monday of the convention, never reached a point where Trump and Kennedy had a deal in place for Kennedy to exit the race and endorse the former president in exchange for a role in the administration. Rather, it was an "informal," "free flowing" conversation, the source said.

The two men initially spoke by phone on the evening Trump survived an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally, one source told ABC News, adding that they agreed on that phone call to meet in Milwaukee the next week.

The Washington Post first reported the existence of the conversations...

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Fuck Cornel West: This is Intersectionality Once Again Being Used to Destroy a Movement

 by Scott Creighton

Watch this shit. Cornel West screeches calling Jill Stein racist and arrogant as she simply suggests our alternative parties come together like France's left did to at least get a hearing in the public sphere on the issue of Gaza and Israel's genocide. Cornel says she is only doing it for her own ambition and vanity as he tried two different alt parties to run for office, finding traction in neither of them then he went on to run as an independent. 

To him, at least in this interview, it's all about getting the race message out there and less about Palestine.

If you guys don't remember, West was all on board the ObamaWagon back in 2008 and he tells a story about how he went to see BarackGod right after his coronation expecting to be rewarded with a position in the new administration. He didn't get one and was bitter toward Obama ever since. 

Watch him rock back and forth in his chair like an unhinged LOLCOW.

This is how intersectionality cripples social movements. It's what it is made for. Cornel casts his criticisms of Stein as her being racist and not wanting to focus on black issues as if that's the most important issue facing the world or even this country today. It's not.

scott's sideshow Ep. 4 TransSupper Fallout

 

We did chat today so I thought I would record it and put it up here for you guys to enjoy.

Statement from Kamala Harris Regarding Peace Demostrations in D.C. During Netanyahu Visit

by Scott Creighton

UPDATE: Continued to watch the video with Cenk and Kyle and yes, Cenk does say at the end that he would be surprised if the graffiti and the flag burning wasn't done by some Zionists as psyops. Good for him. He should have said it right off the bat but at least he said it.

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Here is Kamala Harris' statement released on White House website:

Yesterday, at Union Station in Washington, D.C. we saw despicable acts by unpatriotic protestors and dangerous hate-fueled rhetoric.  
 
I condemn any individuals associating with the brutal terrorist organization Hamas, which has vowed to annihilate the State of Israel and kill Jews. Pro-Hamas graffiti and rhetoric is abhorrent and we must not tolerate it in our nation. 
 
I condemn the burning of the American flag. That flag is a symbol of our highest ideals as a nation and represents the promise of America. It should never be desecrated in that way. 
 
I support the right to peacefully protest, but let’s be clear: Antisemitism, hate and violence of any kind have no place in our nation.

 

My Takes on Her Statement

1. Hamas is not a 'brutal terrorist organization'. They are a political party which came to power in 2005-06 when Israel and the United States decided to ram thru an election in Palestine thinking they could shape the results of the election enough so that the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) would be controlled by Fatah, a corrupt political party with it's hands in Israeli pockets.

Didn't work out that way so we have termed Hamas as a terrorist organization ever since.

Hamas is based on the idea of Palestine run of, by and for Palestinians and they do not bend the knee to Israel like Fatah and the P.A. do.

This is why the West Bank, run by the P.A., looks like apartheid South Africa and Gaza, run by Hamas, is treated like the world's largest open air ghetto.

Israel’s war on Gaza live: Israeli attack on shelter kills at least 30

from al Jazeera

• At least 30 people, including children, have been killed and many wounded after an Israeli air attack hit a school housing injured and displaced Palestinians in Deir el-Balah, in central Gaza.
• The UN’s humanitarian aid agency says hundreds of Palestinians remain trapped in eastern Khan Younis “amid intense hostilities” and rescue teams are “unable to reach them due to the denial of access by the Israeli military”.

 

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Hamas insists on its latest Gaza ceasefire proposal: Source- Exclusive

from al Mayadeen English

Hamas refuses to accept any new proposals amid Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statements about his intention to present a new one regarding a prisoner exchange deal, a senior Palestinian source told Al Mayadeen on Saturday.

According to the source, Hamas insists on the latest proposal it submitted to the mediators regarding a ceasefire in Gaza and a prisoner exchange deal with the Israeli occupation.

The source indicated that the Palestinian Resistance group remains firm in its stance demanding a complete Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, including the Netzarim and the Philadelphi axes.

Hamas has also informed the mediators that it will not accept any new proposal that does not include a clear provision for a ceasefire, the Palestinian source added.

Moreover, the group does not oppose a temporary government administration for Gaza with national consensus in the event of a failure to agree on a national unity government, the source mentioned.

This comes after Reuters cited sources as saying that "Israel" seeks to introduce amendments that would complicate reaching a ceasefire in Gaza and a prisoner exchange deal.

These amendments relate to inspecting displaced Palestinian citizens as they return to northern areas in the Gaza Strip and controlling the borders with Egypt, among other issues.

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Israel slams UN official over Netanyahu-Hitler comparison

(Precisely what every right-thinking human being living today should have been thinking... so of course... they have to try cancel her for saying it out loud)

from RT

Israel has slammed Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, for “anti-Semitism” after she endorsed a social media post comparing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler.

On Thursday, Albanese responded to a post on X (formerly Twitter), showing Hitler surrounded by a cheering crowd, above a photo of Netanyahu being greeted in the US Congress this week.

“History is always watching,” Craig Mokhiber, a former UN human rights official, wrote in the post. Mokhiber resigned late last October, accusing the world body of failing to prevent the “genocide” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

“This is precisely what I was thinking today,” Albanese said in response on Thursday...

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UN says 90% of Gazans displaced as Guterres raps ‘utter disaster, total lawlessness’

from PressTV

The UN agency for Palestinians says nine out of every 10 people in the besieged Gaza Strip have been “forcibly displaced” during the Israeli onslaught on Gaza.

“Families seek shelter where they can: overcrowded schools, destroyed buildings, makeshift tents on the sand or amid piles of trash,” the UNRWA said on X on Friday. “None of these places are safe. People have nowhere left to go.”

The UNRWA and many other humanitarian agencies and rights organizations have repeatedly warned the world about the huge humanitarian consequences of the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza, which has reduced much of the territory to rubble.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also said the humanitarian situation in Gaza is a “total disaster,” blaming a military campaign of a “chaotic nature” and the lack of security in the strip...

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Israel issues new expulsion orders to Palestinians in Khan Yunis

from PressTV

The Israeli military has issued new expulsion orders for Palestinians residing in the besieged Gaza Strip’s southern city of Khan Yunis, as the Israeli regime continues its devastating onslaught on the besieged territory.

In a statement released on Saturday, the Israeli military ordered residents of the southern city to evacuate and march toward al-Mawasi, a town in the southern Gaza Strip, a so-called safe zone but frequently bombarded by the occupying regime.

“Remaining in this area has become dangerous” due to rocket fire from the southern area of Khan Yunis, said the statement, after the regime claimed that it had retrieved the bodies of five Israelis and warned of new military aggression.

Khan Yunis has been under heavy bombardment recently. A fresh Israeli ground aggression earlier this week claimed the lives of dozens of Palestinians there.

On Monday, the Israeli military said that it would reduce its so-called “humanitarian zone” in the eastern part of the ill-fated city, claiming that fighters of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas had been detected in the area...

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So Why Are They Using a Stand-in for DimentiaJoe?

 by Scott Creighton

 

We talked about this briefly yesterday but I had yet to see the video. Looks like they are definitely using a stand-in for Joe Biden at the White House all of a sudden. Standard practice having a lookalike or two for presidents. But the timing, right after announcing Joe's withdrawal from the race, seems pretty suspect.

Has his condition deteriorated to the point where he can't even do a walk out and say hello to the press corps anymore?

Is he throwing a tantrum about being replaced in the race?

Is he still with us?

We will probably never know the answer but I do know this... that ain't the POTUS and all his fawning family members walking behind the actor isn't fooling anyone.

 

Judge for yourself. But I can tell you this: that's not Biden which makes one wonder...

WHO THE HELL IS RUNNING THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW?!?

The Great Patriotic Pole Prepares to Close Nicolas Maduro’s Presidential Campaign

from TeleSur

“We will see rivers of people walking in different directions and on different paths. It will be a great mobilization, like never seen before,” said Nahum Fernandez, the Vice President of Mobilization of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV).

The GPP militants and supporters will remain mobilized for 12 continuous hours, also traversing other avenues such as Francisco Solano, Francisco de Miranda, and Los Caobos. Theatrical performances and circus shows will also take place in various sectors of the capital city.

“The communities of Petare, El Carpintero, La Bombilla, Catia, Nuevo Horizonte, El Onoto, Los Telares, Cinco de Marzo, and El Amparo will traverse the paths to join this great event,” Fernandez said.

So far, the GPP presidential campaign has been characterized by messages of joy and hope that seek to highlight economic reactivation and opportunities to build a new society based on the Bolivarian socialism and participatory democracy...

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What is at Stake for the Venezuelan Elections? (Yeah I know... DSA... but she is interesting)

 

scotty's sideshow Ep. 3

 July 25, 2024. Thanks to everyone who showed up and those who chimed in. Nice to hear from you all.

Unofficial death toll may be over 90,000: US medics in Gaza

from al Mayadeen English

Some 45 physicians and nurses who volunteered in Gaza have written a letter addressed to the Biden administration, which arrived on Thursday, stating that "Israel" claimed the lives of over 90,000 Palestinians during its ongoing genocide in the Strip and highlighting the occupation's war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law.

"President Biden and Vice-President Harris, any solution to this problem must begin with an immediate and permanent ceasefire," the eight-page letter said, demanding the United States impose an arms embargo against the occupation regime, as well as withdraw its diplomatic, economic, and military support until a ceasefire is implemented...

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Amid theatrics about Gaza, Harris starts campaign with lies: Hamas

from al Mayadeen English

Izzat al-Risheq, a member of the political bureau of Hamas, considered Kamala Harris' pretensions about her concerns and sorrow regarding the humanitarian situation and human suffering in Gaza to be yet another American lie. 

He reiterated that the United States could have ended the war and blocked its military, security, political, and intelligence support to "Israel' and its occupation forces if it wanted to. 

Al-Risheq also affirmed that the presidential candidate and vice president kickstarted her presidential campaign with fabricated lies, reminding her that Gaza's martyrs are not just "deaths", but innocent civilians, elderly, women, children, and refugees, killed by the "Zionazi army" with American decisions, weapons, and political cover. 

Harris "disregards the human rights she pretends to protect, and the Resistance's right to confront an occupier protected by international law," he said, adding that her vision was biased toward the Israeli occupation and opposed the people of Palestine in Gaza. ..

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Israel war on Gaza live: Wave of air strikes hit southern, northern cities

from al Jazeera

• A new wave of air strikes by Israeli fighter jets has targeted the Gaza Strip, including Khan Younis in the south, the Bureij refugee camp in the centre, and Gaza City in the north of the enclave, Al Jazeera’s correspondent on the ground reports.
• Israeli military forces fire live rounds at an ambulance evacuating a wounded person in southern Khan Younis, where a deadly ground invasion by Israeli forces is expanding.
• Israeli PM Netanyahu met with US President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in Washington where the vice president told Netanyahu that it is “time to get this deal done” regarding a ceasefire in Gaza...

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Israel launches new Gaza attacks as Netanyahu visits Washington

from Daily Sabah

Just hours before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to address the U.S. Congress, Israeli forces launched new attacks on the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.

The latest Israeli attacks destroyed homes in towns east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza and thousands of people were forced to head west to seek shelter, residents said.

The Palestinian Civil Emergency Service said it had received distress calls from residents trapped in their homes in Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Younis, but were unable to reach the town.

Medics later said two Palestinians had been killed in an airstrike on Bani Suhaila, where the Palestinian resistance group Hamas said it had detonated a bomb against an Israeli army personnel carrier...

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'War criminal' Netanyahu misleads, outright lies to US Congress

from Daily Sabah

The U.S. Congress repeatedly stood in applause Wednesday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed American lawmakers, at times misleading, in other instances outright lying to the federal legislature.

While Netanyahu's presence drew massive protests outside the Capitol and Washington, in general, his fiery speech has been denounced by the Palestinian group Hamas.

The Israeli Prime Minister told the Congress that Israel's genocidal war on Gaza has one of the lowest ratios of combatants to non-combatant casualties in the history of urban warfare."

The claim is far from the truth in Gaza, where the confirmed Palestinian death toll sits at nearly 40,000, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.

It has repeatedly publicized lists of the dead, including their Israeli-issued identification numbers, and whose data from past conflicts the U.N. has attested as reliable.

The majority of the dead have been women and children and not every man killed has been a combatant.

Israel has largely shrugged off civilian casualties, blaming Hamas as the number has risen dramatically over the past nine months...

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On Nazi Netanyahu and the Election in Venezuela

On Nazi Netanyahu and the Election in Venezuela 

Scott Ritter addresses Netanyahu's speech at US Congress: Al Mayadeen Exclusive

from al Mayadeen English

As US Congress cheered for Netanyahu, protesters gathered to denounce him (al Jazeera English)

 from al Jazeera English

Foreign Forces Seek to Interfere in Venezuelan Presidential Elections

from Tele Sur

Over the past week, Jorge Rodriguez, the coordinator of the Our Venezuela campaign, has repeatedly claimed that the far-right opposition is setting the stage to reject the results of the Venezuelan presidential elections scheduled for Sunday, July 28.

This strategy aims to proclaim the supposed victory of the presidential candidate of the Democratic Unity Platform (PUD), who is being supported by the extremist organization Vente Venezuela.

“Without votes, they want to win the elections with bots,” Rodriguez said, explaining that far-right activists seek to manipulate public opinion through social media and digital platforms.

The campaign chief of the Great Patriotic Pole also denounced that the destabilization strategy includes the early publication of exit polls, which are not permitted in Venezuela.

Subsequently, far-right politicians will launch unfounded accusations of electoral fraud to delegitimize the official results to be issued by the National Electoral Council (CNE)...

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Maduro Campaign Chief Warns of Miami-Based Plot to Cry Election Fraud

from Venezuela Analysis

Jorge Rodríguez, head of President Nicolás Maduro’s reelection effort, spoke out against an alleged made-in-Miami plot by Venezuela’s far-right opposition to claim electoral fraud following Sunday’s presidential vote.

According to Rodríguez, who also serves as head of the country’s National Assembly, the opposition intends to run an independent vote count from an operations center in Miami, Florida. 

“It is not from the National Electoral Council (CNE), it is not even located in any city in Venezuela, but instead in Miami,” said Rodríguez in a press conference Monday.

Pointing to election polls favoring the US-backed opposition, leaders from Venezuela’s right-wing parties have been on a media tour alleging that their victory is virtually guaranteed and that only “fraud” could allow Maduro to be re-elected; a position that has been uncritically echoed in most media outlets.

Polling in Venezuela is considered unreliable, with pollsters historically showing a measurable pro-opposition bias.. Ahead of this election, opinion pollsters without a track record in past contests have offered wildly varying results, with either Maduro or his main rival, Edmundo González, holding sizable leads.

A leaked report from pro-opposition pollster Datanálisis reportedly predicted a narrow Maduro victory on July 28...

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US and Israel should create ‘Middle East NATO’ – Netanyahu

from RT

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed the creation of a new military bloc modeled after NATO and called the “Abraham Alliance,” aimed against Iran.

Netanyahu spoke before the joint session of the US Congress on Wednesday. It was his fourth address to American lawmakers, beating Winston Churchill’s record, although about 70 House and Senate members declined to attend for one reason or another. 

“America forged a security alliance in Europe to counter the growing Soviet threat,” Netanyahu said at one point. “Likewise, America and Israel today can forge a security alliance in the Middle East to counter the growing Iranian threat.” 

He said a “glimpse” of that alliance could be seen on April 14, when Iran launched a missile and drone attack against Israel and the US and the UK helped shoot some of them down.

Netanyahu thanked US President Joe Biden “for bringing that alliance together,” as well as his predecessor Donald Trump for brokering the ‘Abraham Accords’ between Israel and several Arab countries during his term.

“I think we should call it the Abraham Alliance,” he said of the proposed NATO-like bloc...

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NETANYAHU'S DISGUSTING LIE FILLED SPEECH (Secular Talk)

from Secular Talk

'We're Protecting YOU' full text of Netanyahu's hate-filled, lie-packed racist screed delivered yesterday in congress

Lancet study showing 186,000 dead in Gaza. Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential

Half of Democrats in congress skipped Netanyahu's hate and lie filled speech yesterday 

Thousands protested the genocidal terrorist's congressional address yesterday. Good for them. Some Americans don't have their heads up their asses at least.

H/T to Rashida Tlaib for showing up and letting Netanyahu know we aren't all servants to Zionists.

Watch the Putrid Vile Sycophants in Congress Cheer for a Ruthless Genocidal Terrorist

by Scott Creighton

It's too bad Hitler died so soon at the end of the war. He could have come to America and been treated like a hero. Or bin Laden for that matter. If he didn't die in Nov of 2001, he might have enjoyed the rock-star treatment his terrorist brother Benjamin Netanyahu just got from our AIPAC-fearing congress-critters.

This is vile. And this only happens in America.

They stand like this and applaud like this because they know AIPAC and their PAC are watching the video to see who cheered Zionism's bloody red right hand and who didn't. 

Netanyahu is a criminal and terrorist and a Jewish Supremacist. He deserves prison and a date before the world court at the ICJ or ICC not this phony bullshit self-serving adulation from cowardly congressmen seeking to keep their bloated paychecks.

How does it feel America to know your system is so fucked right now you condemn the dying children and warmly extend your hand to their racist, greedy murderer?

The 34 killed on the USS Liberty roll over in their graves in shame.

Secret Service Director Resigns After Trump Assassination Attempt

from the NYT

The director of the Secret Service, Kimberly A. Cheatle, resigned on Tuesday, after security failures surrounding the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump and calls for her to step down from lawmakers in both parties.

In an email to Secret Service employees on Tuesday, Ms. Cheatle said that one of the agency’s foremost duties is to protect the nation’s leaders and that it “fell short of that mission” in failing to secure a campaign rally from a gunman on July 13.

“I do not want my calls for resignation to be a distraction from the great work each and every one of you do towards our vital mission,” Ms. Cheatle said in the email, which was reviewed by The New York Times.

She said she was deeply committed to the agency but added that “in light of recent events, it is with a heavy heart that I have made the difficult decision to step down as your director.”...

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Iraq defines PKK as 'banned organization' in official documents

from Daily Sabah

Iraq took another step against the PKK, a terrorist group that claimed thousands of lives in its northern neighbor Türkiye. According to local media reports, the Iraqi government issued a directive for state institutions to refer to the PKK as a "banned organization" in official correspondence.

An official letter sent to the Iraqi Parliament included new instructions from Prime Minister Mohammed S. Al Sudani regarding the PKK. Al Sudani directed that the term "banned organization" be used in all official institutional correspondence when referring to the group.

In its nearly 40-year terror campaign against Türkiye, the PKK – listed as a terrorist organization by Türkiye, the U.S. and the EU – has been responsible for the deaths of over 40,000 people, including women, children and infants...

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Israeli lawmakers back declaring UN agency ‘terrorist’

from RT

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) may be declared a terrorist organization, its staff stripped of immunity and its activities inside Israel outlawed, under a series of bills that have been proposed in the Knesset.

The UNRWA was established in 1949 to deal with Palestinian refugees and has a mandate to operate in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza. Israel has accused it of aiding and abetting Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups.

“We are on the UN’s blacklist in any case. All the excessive morality ended on October 7,” MK Yulia Malinovsky of Yisrael Beitenu, who proposed to designate the UNRWA as a terrorist organization, said on Monday. She called the agency “a fifth column” within Israel...

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US police arrest hundreds of Jewish activists during Gaza war protest in Congress building

from PressTV

A US-based Jewish peace group says Capitol police have arrested hundreds of Jewish activists protesting against Washington’s military support for Israel inside a congressional office building hours before Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to deliver a speech to Congress.

The demonstrators gathered inside the Cannon House Office Building on Tuesday to urge an end to weapons transfers to Israel , as they chanted slogans and carried banners reading   "ceasefire now" and "let Gaza live.”

The protesters were dressed in red T-shirts bearing the phrases "not in our name" and "Jews say stop arming Israel."

Jewish Voice for Peace, which organized the protest, wrote on social media, "For the past 9 months, we've witnessed countless horrors in Gaza, committed in our names and funded” by our regime...

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It's Not a 'conspiracy theory' It's a Fact: Secret Service Was Complicit in Trump Shooting

Piers Morgan show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIaNbo24lCA

Ron Johnson notes lack of cooperation with Congress in its assassination attempt investigation, and issues preliminary findings and questions

(I've read the PDF. It is a damning indictment of the Secret Service. Yeah, they knew this shit was going to happen and let it if they didn't plan it in the first place.)

from Meryl Nass

https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/services/files/4E6577F1-8AD2-4CB9-9FC7-5896C27A9647

Here is page 1. Go to the link above for the rest of this report. Or go below it for the pdf.

 

im Jordan Goes Absolutely Nuclear On Secret Service Director Over Trump Shooting

from Forbes Breaking News

"I can tell you for the event in Butler, there were no requests that were denied' Cheatle

45 seconds later

'A denial of a request does not equal a vulnerability' Cheatle

45 seconds later

'The Secret Service is judicious with their resources' Cheatle

FRANCE 24 exclusive report: Port-au-Prince, a capital under siege • FRANCE 24 English

 from France 24 English

Layoffs of salaried Deere employees to begin next week

from AG Daily

About eight weeks after Deere & Co. sent out a letter discussing plans to lay off global salaried employees, the company says an official layoff announcement is scheduled for July 24.

This decision also comes on the heels of an email sent to employees on July 15, indicating the upcoming workforce reductions. These layoffs, according to Deere, are part of a broader strategy the company has been implementing to adjust its workforce in recent months.

The layoffs will affect a number of salaried workers worldwide that has yet to be revealed. Deere says that the affected employees will begin receiving notifications on Wednesday, July 24. Those whose roles do not require them to be onsite have been asked to work from home from July 24 to July 26 and to postpone any business travel during this period. A global meeting will be held to provide more detailed information about the workforce changes. Employees who are being laid off will receive information regarding severance offers and other separation details...

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John Deere: Shrinking In Iowa, But Set To Grow In Mexico

from Prosperous America

John Deere will lay off or offer early retirement to over 200 workers in Iowa, while at the same time the tractor producer is gearing up to move production of mid-frame skid steer loaders and compact loaders from its plant in Dubuque, Iowa to a proposed new facility in Mexico. This is the sign of the times.

Mexico is the big winner of what Janet Yellen likes to call “friend-shoring”.  Only, the idea was to leave China and set up shop in Mexico, not leave the U.S. and manufacture there instead. This will be a new trend to watch as China, and Southeast Asia more broadly, become increasingly embroiled in trade cases and threats of new tariffs.

A Deere representative told Industrial Equipment News (IEN) on June 11 that “unrelated to the layoffs”, the company is shifting some production from its Dubuque facility to the new one they are building in Ramos, Mexico, a roughly three-and-a-half-hour drive to the Texas border.

Deere told IEN that “when the facility is operational in 2026, production of mid-frame skid steer loaders and compact track loaders will be relocated from Dubuque to Ramos.”...

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At least 27 Gazans killed in Israeli attacks on Khan Yunis minutes after evacuation order

from PressTV

The Israeli military has launched fresh deadly attacks on Khan Yunis minutes after it ordered residents to evacuate east of the southern Gaza city.

Medical sources said on Monday that at least 27 people were killed in Israeli air raids and artillery shelling in Khan Yunis’ eastern neighborhoods, which were designated a humanitarian safe zone.

The bodies of the victims are arriving at Nasser hospital, the Al Jazeera report said.

Bani Suheila, Qizan an-Najjar, Abasan al-Kabira, Khuza’a, al-Qarara were among the districts targeted by the Israeli military, it added.

The carnage came shortly after the occupation forces dropped evacuation leaflets onto Khan Yunis’ eastern neighborhoods, giving people no time to flee.

The Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee told residents that “remaining in that zone has become dangerous.”...

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Israeli airstrikes on Yemen, Lebanon leave entire Mideast reeling

from Daily Sabah

Israel struck multiple neighboring countries over the weekend, leaving the entire Middle East reeling from deadly violence Sunday.

Tel Aviv bombed Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen in quick succession in what it claimed was a response to attacks from Iran-backed armed groups across the region.

Despite Washington's top diplomat asserting a deal is near the "goal line" to end more than nine months of genocidal war on Gaza, the Israeli military said it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen, as it pressed on with its offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory...

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Joe Quits While DARPA's Moderna Exposed in Czech Republic

Joe Quits While DARPA's Moderna Exposed in Czech Republic

Biden Drops Out

 by Scott Creighton

The seclusion in Delaware ended pretty much as most thought it would, with an unhappy Crackhead Biden and Lady McBiden screaming and clawing at Joe to get up off the floor, wipe his nose and study those debate scripts.

But no. Sneaky Uncle SloJo has wandered off the track and left the race.

Moderna and the Czech FOIA Data and the Company's Deep State Background

by Scott Creighton

Via a Czech FOIA request, someone got a hold of record-level data of some 10 million citizens from the Czech Republic showing, for the first time, accurate real-world excess mortality rates for the various Covid-19 'vaccines' across the country and across all age groups.

Steve Kirsch has done an analysis of the data and his findings are quite interesting. As expected, the attacks on him have already begun. His reputational assailants seem to come from institutions with contracts with either Moderna or DARPA or both. Go figure.

Some Background

Moderna = modern...modified...RNA

In 2010 Flagship Ventures (vulture capitalist company) created Moderna with the idea to develop vaccines (and other drugs) exclusively using mRNA technology.

Between 2011 and 2017 Moderna collected 2 billion dollars from a variety of vulture capitalist In-Q-Tel-type slush-funds.

ICJ ruling recognizes the colonial nature of Zionist entity

from PressTV

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), one of the six organs of the United Nations, has declared that Israel's presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is illegal and must end "as soon as possible."

On Friday, ICJ President Nawaf Salam presented the non-binding advisory opinion of a panel of 15 judges regarding the Israeli occupation of Palestine, which was covered widely by the media.

The advisory opinion details a series of Israeli policies that, according to the court, violate international law. These include the construction and expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, the exploitation of natural resources, the annexation and prolonged control of lands, and discriminatory practices against Palestinians.

The top UN court concluded that Israel has no right to exercise sovereignty over these territories, emphasizing that the entity is violating international laws that prohibit the acquisition of land by force and obstructing the Palestinians' right to self-determination.

"The construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, as well as the regime associated with them, has been established and maintained in violation of international law," it stated...

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So Just How Bad is the J.D. Vance Pick? 'My God. They'll Kill Us All'

Trump answered the door and invited Vlad the Impaler into his trust. This could be a very bad career decision for the former/future president. Now all of a sudden, the whole of silicon valley In-Q-Tel power is seemingly backing Trump's election. I wonder what Vlad's mentor has in mind next.

The Man Behind Trump’s VP Pick: It’s Worse Than You Think

from Whitney Webb

After the recent revelation that Donald Trump had selected J.D. Vance as his Vice President, public attention not only turned toward Vance, but also to the billionaire Peter Thiel. Vance has been one of several prominent Thiel protégés whose profile has risen in recent years, with other protégés of the PayPal co-founder including OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey.

Recent reports have also noted that Thiel first recruited Vance into his circle while Vance was still a student at Yale Law School. Shortly thereafter, Vance joined Thiel’s investment firm Mithril Capital, where he worked for two years before joining Revolution Ventures. Vance played a major role in Revolution’s “Rise of the Rest” seed fund whose major investors included Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and the Walton family of WalMart, who boast long-standing deep ties to the Clinton family. Vance later launched his own venture capital firm Narya Capital in 2020, which was heavily funded by Thiel as well as former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

Schmidt, a major Democrat donor, has been the guiding hand behind the Biden administration’s science and technology policy and has dominated the development of the AI policies of the US military and intelligence communities, largely through his leadership of the National Security Commission on AI (NSCAI). As Unlimited Hangout previously reported, the Schmidt-led NSCAI promoted policies like the end of private car ownership and in-person shopping in the United States to advance Americans’ adoption of AI as supposed national security imperative in the lead-up to the Covid-era lockdowns.Both Schmidt and Thiel are key members of the steering committee of the controversial, closed-door and overtly globalist Bilderberg conference. Newsweek once called Schmidt and Thiel the two most influential figures at Bilderberg...

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Peter Thiel and J.D. Vance Notes for Video

by Scott Creighton

 'The twenty first century started with a bang September 11 2001. In those shocking hours the entire political and military framework of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and indeed of the modern age, with its emphasis on deterrent armies rational nation states public debates and international diplomacy was called into question. For how could mere talking or even great force deter a handful of crazy, determined and suicidal persons who seemingly operated outside of all the norms of the liberal west?...

The awareness of the West's vulnerability called for a new compromise and this new compromise inexorably demanded more security at the expense of less freedom... 

America's antiquated military was not suited to fight such an enemy for the enemy needed to be pursued not only in America or in a handful of terrorist camps in Afghanistan, but to the very ends of the earth... 

On the broader level of international cooperation and development Sept 11 called for wholly different arrangements. The issue of unilateralism and of the institutions designed to provide cover for unilateralism could be raised publicly by serious people for the first time since 1945' Peter Thiel The Straussian Moment (Leo Strauss, father of neoconservatism)

Thiel is a neocon and globalist who detests our system of government and like the other neocons from PNAC, wanted to use 9/11 to bring about a transition to something a bit more in line with what Carl Schmitt designed way back in the Nazi days.

The Comp - Folks Should Really Think About This

by Scott Creighton

Just sayin...

What does Peter Thiel want? He's building the right-wing future, piece by piece (In the Carl Schmitt Model)

from Salon (in red added by me)

... He has backed or bankrolled a number of far-right Republican candidates, including newly-elected Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio (to the record tune of $15 million) and losing Senate candidate Blake Masters in Arizona. He supported Donald Trump conspicuously in 2016, and then much more quietly, and perhaps hesitantly, in 2020 (and after patching things up with Trump, he brought JD Vance to his home for a meet-up and make-up session)

... Then there was the $500,000 "angel investment" he gave Mark Zuckerberg in 2005. That 10.2% stake in Facebook (also funded by CIA investment firm In-Q-Tel) turned into more than $1 billion in 2012. 

After a few successful bets in 2004 on tech-industry bubbles — and a few critical failures — Thiel launched Palatir, a massive data-analytics firm whose first backer was none other than the CIA. 

A boon to the burgeoning surveillance state, Palantir helped the Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection track and surveil immigrants using a combination of biometric and non-public databases (no wonder he wrote we have to give up freedoms for security after 9/11 just like all the neocons wanted), wielding an analytical superstructure whose power matched Google's. Palantir's exploits are too numerous to detail here, but went far beyond policing, and included plans for corporate cyberattacks and private espionage offensives, as well as helping another notorious firm, Cambridge Analytica, parse Facebook user data as it drew up the blueprint for Donald Trump's 2016 election victory.

By 2015, Palantir was already worth $20 billion. 

Thiel's taste for data-tracking continued. In 2017, he became one of the first outside investors in Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition software (spying on your protests just like they accuse China of doing) often used by law enforcement agencies to monitor protests...

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JD Vance And Peter Thiel: What To Know About The Relationship Between Trump’s VP Pick And The Billionaire

from Forbes

• Vance and Thiel’s relationship dates back to 2011, when the senator met Thiel following a talk the venture capitalist gave at Yale Law School that Vance has characterized as “the most significant moment of my time” at the institution, according to a blog post he wrote for Catholic magazine The Lamp.
• Vance began planning for a career pivot outside of law following the talk, noting Thiel was “possibly the smartest person” he ever met and that Thiel’s Christian faith “defied the social template I had constructed—that dumb people were Christians and smart ones atheists,” according to the post.
• Thiel later became a “pretty good mentor” to Vance, according to The Washington Post, with Vance making the switch to venture capital and joining the Thiel-co-founded Mithril Capital in 2015 as a partner, according to Politico.

 

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