I hate how elections work in Canada man.

So Trudeau's been getting absolutely terrible poll numbers, but the Conservatives have basically no platform except "Trudeau bad pt. 7"...

But anyway, now that the Conservatives are gaining support federally against the Liberals, they're also gaining support provincially against the BC NDP (which by all accounts is doing a pretty great job at actually getting stuff done).

But of course, the provincial Conservatives used to be called the Liberals, but now they're the Conservatives because the provincial Liberal party imploded.

So anyway, now there's not terrible odds we'll get put under a Conservative provincial government because the federal government can't get their shit together.

Despite the "good intentions" and "positive messages", the relations between milei's Argentina and the Imperialist Monetary Fund are not good. Even they, an institution that pillaged the country over and over again, take a step back while looking at milei's policies.

Caputo meets with Georgieva, calls her ‘best IMF director ever’

The Fund’s managing director said it supports the government’s efforts to ‘turn the economy around’

Economy Minister Luis Caputo met with International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva, who called the encounter “constructive” in an X post. Georgieva, who met with Caputo during the G20 summit of finance ministers and central bank governors in Río de Janeiro, congratulated Argentina’s “strong performance in the fight against inflation, fiscal consolidation and support for vulnerable people.”

(This is exactly what they're not doing lmao)

“We are committed to support the [government’s] efforts to turn around the economy for the benefit of Argentina’s people,” she added. Caputo shared Georgieva’s message and called her the “best IMF [managing director] ever!”

The photograph that accompanied the post led to speculation in social media, as Georgieva’s right arm seems to be missing. However, an IMF spokesperson said that the picture was not digitally altered.

Yes, her arm is missing in the picture, but it is not digitally altered. Damn, I hate when my arm simply disappears.

Despite consistent praise of the administration’s austerity measures, the Fund and the Argentine government have not always seen eye to eye over the past few months.

President Javier Milei accused the lender’s Director for the Western Hemisphere, Rodrigo Valdés, of being too kind to the previous administration. Milei said he turned a blind eye to certain aspects of Argentina’s economic management because he belonged to the left-wing conference São Paulo Forum — a group Valdés is not affiliated with.

Caputo also said on June 11 that, that week, the administration would seek a new loan from the IMF the government would use to lift the country’s foreign exchange restrictions. However, In a press conference on July 11, the Fund’s spokesperson Julie Kozack backed Valdés and said there was “no specific timetable” for a new deal with Argentina.

This government is trapped in a huge problem. First, they're facing infighting between milei and his VP (congressmen close to her made official visits to imprisoned military officers that took part in disappearances, tortures and killings during the 70s), milei is kinda mad because maybe he thinks this isn't the time to reinstate former criminals or something I dunno. They're not seen together too much and it is said she hates milei's sister, Karina, who's more or less like Hitler's Martin Bormann at this point -- his personal secretary and main advisor. Those who like to throw theories around say that his VP will stage a soft coup by securing support from former president Mauricio Macri and some military officers.

Second, everything is falling apart on the economic front. This is the number 1 issue for them and for pretty much everyone else. Milei was voted into power because "he knows about economy" (he doesn't, his view is fully distorted and toxic) and therefore he should be able to fix it, but after 6 months of government it ain't looking good. Not only it's looking bad, but problems have worsened: Inflation slowed down to a single digit but at the expense of everything else, the Reserves are starved of US Dollars and so far they have secured no reliable source of foreign currency, the IMF being reluctant to give new loans is worrying to them. The economy is shrinking, productive activity is being reduced, consumption is slowing down, the buying power of the average argentinian has been demolished and poverty is well above 50%, just the other day I saw an statistic which indicates that about 300 people are pushed into homelesness each month in Buenos Aires alone. The honeymoon is over, and it's time to start showing positive results.. but they're unable to.

Ding ding! Well look at that! It turns out the economy isn't a pure mathematical thing after all. Actually, the economy is deeply embedded with society and it's material reality. Sure, you can talk about complicated issues like "fiscal deficit" all day long, but when bread skyrockets, fuel skyrockets and taxes become unpayable due to your policies, these discussions go through the window.

People will get impatient. You can't resist like this for too long. People really can't really take it anymore, with pulverized salaries, unrelenting inflation, the rent going insanely high due to deregulation and the government publicly announcing that people will have to sell their personal reserves of US Dollars just to pay taxes, for how long this madness can be sustained? It'll implode, sooner or later. Now they even announced that 12h hours work days are being discussed, they wont be able to introduce such thing but holy shit they're fucking terrible and give no hope to anyone at all lmao.

Unless they pull an absolute miracle, or the IMF gives in and begins to rescue Argentina's economy by sheer force of gigantic loans, there's no way out. They have showed positive attitudes towards the deregulation policies, but they have also warned about the boiling social panorama. They want to pillage the country for sure, but they don't want their people to get beheaded one after the other because they went a little too overdrive.

POV of Hezbollah drone blowing up shit. It does an uncharacteristic turn towards the end to hit the target:
https://xcancel.com/TVFreePalestine/status/1817310932822819141

Rare footage within the tunnels:
https://xcancel.com/TVFreePalestine/status/1816221304216825955

Al Qassam Brigade baiting IOF goons to come out of their vehicles with a decoy IED before detonating the real IEDs designed to kill:
https://xcancel.com/TVFreePalestine/status/1817318155242315932

Israeli Occupation Blames Hezbollah After Iron Dome Interceptor Strikes Occupied Syrian Golan

Excerpt:

In an effort to combat the zionist propaganda, Syrian social media accounts posted footage showing that the zionist occupation’s iron dome interceptors had previously struck their village in March of this year and caused significant damage.

Sama TV journalist Mohamad Douba quoted Ghaleb Saif, the head of the Druze Initiative in occupied Golan, “The missiles that fall on Druze villages in the Golan and Galilee are Israeli interceptor missiles, and they always cause severe damage to places and lives. Every day, we see Iron Dome missiles miss their target and fall on us.”

Military expert Omar Marbouni provided his analysis: Israeli websites are circulating information that the resistance bombed the town of Majdal Shams in the occupied Syrian Golan, and on this subject it is necessary to clarify the following : "First: The Resistance has no targets in Majdal Shams, and if there are any, there has not been any decision by the resistance to target civilian targets until the moment, so why would they now target our Syrian Arab people? Secondly, the nearest Israeli military target is seven kilometers away from Majdal Shams, and there is no way for professional resistance rocket operatives to make a mistake by missing by this much distance. Thirdly, it is very likely that the explosion was caused by an interceptor missile from the Israeli Iron Dome, or that the enemy itself deliberately bombed the place, and in the history of this enemy there are many similar practices to exploit the issue for escalation. Fourth, regardless of what happened, the enemy will exploit what happened, which means that in the coming days we may see an escalation of the conflict."

Corroborating this analysis, a journalist from Al-Arabi in Majdal Shams reported, “One of the Israeli ambulance personnel heard from eyewitnesses in Majdal Shams that the missile that fell was an Iron Dome missile, and he does not dare to register to authenticate the testimony, and he will be imprisoned if he makes any statement.”

It is unlikely that official reports from Majdal Shams will confirm this information as the chief of staff of the occupation army was deployed to meet with local leaders of the village to make sure they comply with the official occupation narrative.

RT Arabic cited Lebanese journalist Salem Zahran who pointed out, “Hezbollah’s shooters are skilled, and since the beginning of the battles they have been careful not to target civilians. How is it the case that the civilians targeted are the people of Syrian Majdal Shams who are disobedient to ‘Judaization’!… Yes, what happened was either a Zionist mistake with Israeli missiles from the Iron Dome, or a deliberate act carried out simultaneously with Netanyahu’s presence in Washington.”

This would not be the first time that a US-backed proxy military used this lie to cover for failing air defenses. Earlier this month, a US Patriot Missile struck a hospital in Kiev while attempting to intercept Russian cruise missiles. Video evidence and analysis proved that the missile that struck the hospital was indeed an interceptor, however that did not stop imperialist media from blaming Russia for “attacking hospitals.” This event was even cited at the recent NATO conference as a reason for the EU increasing its “aid” to Ukraine.

What were the most unhinged moments of Netanyahu's speech?

Rumors of - 2024 being reported by MSNBC

So.uhhh.. maybe too soon but what goul do you all think is going to choose as her VP candidate?

Please be someone connected to limes somehow. I really want to have a Coconut with Lime joke write itself.

coconut..,,lime.....curry.....Indian......no! NOOOOOOO! Ro Khanna!

KHAAAAAAN!

Would it be prudent for the Russians to sharply escalate pressure in the SMO right now? Ukraine seems to be buckling under pressure and perhaps they could end this atrocious war quicker by acting in a decisive manner.

The major risk I foresee is NATO freak out and reaction, possibly causing them to escalate more directly and draw us into even wider war. However, won’t they still do this anyway as they cling to their imperial ambitions? Does increasing the rate of victory actually change the political calculations of the Western leaders in any way?

The inevitable outcome is of course a white peace where any de facto Russian controlled territory becomes de jure. The longer Ukraine waits to surrender, the more they will lose. First the entirety of the Donbas, then Zaporizhzhya oblast, then Odessa, then Kharkiv, etc. etc. Ukraine’s remaining rump will never be allowed to join NATO, it will have to put that into its constitution to remain neutral. Those are just hard realities the West will have to accept, but the thing is, it shouldn’t be that hard to accept for Western leaders - none of that stuff is really that important for their material interests. What’s harder for the imperialists to accept is that they spent trillions of dollars to destroy Russia to cannibalize and party again like it’s ‘92 but get nothing back. 0% return on investment, the big tempting feast was snatched away and they are in denial about it

I will not post about Amerikkkan political theatre. I will not post. I will not post. I will not-

no one saying anything about sinaloa's cartel leader getting busted in fucking Texas?

kenyan protestor with the uno reverse card cw: reddit link

Trump is going to kill all Christians if he wins??

Who is Israel targeting in its attacks on the West Bank?

Israel plays up the threat of ‘terrorism’ in the occupied West Bank to justify collective punishment, Palestinians say.

The Israeli army killed three Palestinian military commanders – including one from Hamas’s Qassam Brigades and two from Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades – and a mother and her child during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Monday, according to Palestinian and Israeli officials.

Activists and experts believe that Israel is playing up the threat of what it calls “terrorism” to justify the increasing violence, which leads to mass displacement and the expansion of illegal settlements.

Full article

Hexbear post

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said the country has "serious concerns" that the results presented by the CNE do not reflect the popular will. He asked for international verification and data transparency.

Then when the Carter Center or the Un or whatever say the elections were free and fair, the US simply ignores.

Panama criticizes the results presented by the Venezuelan Electoral Council. Foreign Affairs Minister Javier Martinez said that "the will of the Venezuelan people must be respected." "More than announcing the winner, the numbers need to show this."

PANAMA LITERALLY ELECTED A GUY WHO WAS HIDDING INSIDE AN EMBASSY.

How do you guys think Brandon is dealing with having met the lord almighty?

Matt Walsh put out a trailer for a new pathic hate film "Am I a racist?"

Yes Matt you are a fucking racist.

Paul Cockshott's latest video is pretty good. Basically covers what's the same and different between now and pre-WW1 world politics. Covers how the US is trying to divide the world into NATO vs. BRICS, etc. etc. Food dependency is less of a factory nowadays, but oil dependency is a big driver of scrambles for resources; US obviously bombed Nordstream 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWrgN33ZOQQ

How do you cope with seeing Zionist dismissals of genocide accusations, using October 7th victims as , or trying to obfuscate the ICJ's decision like Joan Donaghue with "we didn't mean what we said" to underplay accusations of genocide.

I believe on some level it is brainwashing but it is heartbreaking that there are so many outside of people in orgs like JVP that buy into Zionism.

Correct Korea introduced at Paris olympics

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/07/23/729890/Hezbollah-rockets-rain-down-on-Israeli-Tzuriel-moshav-over-southern-Lebanon-attacks-

This is the first time that Tzuriel moshav, with a population of just 400 illegal settlers, has been hit. The community is not among those at the northern side of the occupied lands that have been evacuated by an official order from the Israeli regime.

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The content of the "leaked" Beijing agreement was denied by PIJ as they have said they would never agree to something that recognizes the legitimacy of "israel" which is what resolution 181 is.

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/palestinian-factions-sign--beijing-declaration

Rabid Baltic states + Poland keep closing borders with Belarus and introduce various restrictions. As a response, Belarus introduces a visa-free regime to 35 more (mostly European) countries (Lituanians, Latvians, and Poles could already come visa-free for over two years). It's funny how the Iron Wall turntables have trurnabled.

Western soldier: Hey, check out my string of ears.

IOF soldier: shows body bags of civilians he murdered

https://xcancel.com/RamAbdu/status/1816105951209910375