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Team of the President-Elect Claudia Sheinbaum Suffers a Car Accident

The accident left one dead and two injured, State Civil Protection reported

On Friday, the team of Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum suffered a car crash on the Sabinas-Monclova highway as they were heading to the event of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

The accident left one dead and two injured, State Civil Protection reported. According to statements, the jeep carrying Sheinbaum´s team hit a van, which triggered a second impact with another vehicle.

The victim was an elderly woman who was in one of the hit vehicles.

So far the name of the deceased and the two others who were injured, who were transferred to the nearest hospital, is unknown.

“We deeply regret that one person died in the other vehicle. Those who came in the two impacted vehicles are receiving attention from the federal, state, and Sheinbaum’s own team,” the president’s team said.

This Friday, Claudia Sheinbaum started a work tour through Durango, Coahuila and Tamaulipas, in which she will be accompanied by López Obrador.

I hope the author of moonofalabama, b, is doing ok. He had some kind of medical thing a couple weeks ago and it's now a few days past his expected return without posts. The MoA twitter account was a little active about a week ago though

I love when I got an email from my boss telling me "Hey I broke this thing and can't fix it, it's your responsibility now, good luck"

At least this one was easy

my favorite NGO is called "Hezbollah" ...

Edit: okay i didnt expect IDF to answer with trebuchets

I don't really want to read the new Christian Parenti article, but I am curious how many times he uses the word "woke" in it, because between the title, the summary, and the first 2.1 sentences before the paywall, we're already at 8.

https://catalyst-journal.com/2024/06/the-cargo-cult-of-woke

https://www.mintpressnews.com/gaza-aid-leader-melanie-ward-labour-party/287603/#

A CEO of a pro-Palestine charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) is running for an election under the anti-Palestinian Labour party. This will leave the charity without leadership and volunteers are upset and are asking her to resign.

Melanie Ward, CEO of the Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) charity, faces major backlash from volunteers and workers after deciding to run as a Labour Party candidate in Scotland. Some 2,250 healthcare workers, medical volunteers, supporters, and donors signed a letter expressing concern.

On June 5, a protest letter was filed by workers and volunteers at MAP, expressing their dismay to the board over Ward’s candidacy with the UK Labour Party. To run for the position of MP in Scotland’s Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath constituency, Ward has taken a leave of absence but has not stepped down from her position.

And you bet she hates

Ward also supported the anti-Semitism “witch hunt” during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, which purged much of Labour’s pro-Palestinian base, including many Jewish anti-Zionists. She tweeted, “Farewell to Jeremy Corbyn, who really was a truly terrible Labour Party Leader. He will be missed not one little bit by those of us who want to see Labour in government again.”

In 2016, she signed a letter calling for Corbyn’s resignation, shared an article urging the public not to vote for him and tweeted the former Labour leader in 2015, “Corbyn unable to think of situation where he’d commit Forces to military action. Should think a bit harder if he wants to be PM,” in response to his anti-war stance.

I've always been worried about the leadership behind some of these charities since they take in a ton of money these days and they seem to be based in Western countries. Now my worries have been justified.

Edit: read more here: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-elections-2024-palestinian-charity-ceo-standing-labour-candidate-faces-calls-resign

Just learned that one of the Workers Party of Britain candidates in this election ran as a Conservative (Tory) candidate in a previous election. Radicalized or opportunist? Lol. Think I'm over the Workers Party of Britain.

I’m continuously impressed at how influential Bukele has been for Central America and the rest of Latin America. I don’t think any other politician from that country has been as influential. Every election in Central America brought him up in regards to how crime should be dealt with. Even Castro in Honduras imposed harsher anti-crime laws.

He’s a young guy too so chances are that he’ll continue to have influence over the region even after his terms are over.

Here are some quotes from my country's government broadcaster about the west's Ukraine summit in Switzerland:

... large parts of the word stands behind Ukraine in the war against Russia while Russia today looks even more isolated

Even though several important countries made themselves noticed by not being present the summit has shown a solid global support for Ukraine

That [the absence of BRICS] doesn't change that a massive number of the world's countries has now sent a clear message that they back Ukraine in the struggle that once a peace agreement is to be signed it should be based on Russian withdrawal and that Ukraine's terrirtory should be what it was before Russia attacked

The purpose of the summit was to begin a proper peace process where all participating nations could present ideas on how to work towards a lasting peace in Ukraine.

About the Russia peace offer:

But his [Putin's] criteria for peace can best be described as an insult to the Ukrainians and the proposal was also blankly rejected by the summit's participants.

No wonder westoids think like they do when this is the reality that is presented to them.

https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-azov-brigade-us-arms-ban-lifted-russia-1913372

Nazi commander tells journalists they will use U.S provided weapons effectively.

Ukraine's Azov Brigade Sends Direct Message to US After Arms Ban Lifted

Ukraine's Azov Brigade will "prove the effectiveness" of the U.S.' decision to lift a long-standing ban on providing weapons to the unit, according to the brigade's commander.

See, I wasn't lying

"We will justify the responsibility entrusted to us, and with our discipline, resilience and bravery in battle, we will prove the effectiveness of this decision," Colonel Denys Prokopenko said in a statement posted to social media on Saturday.

Earlier this week, the U.S. State Department reversed a decision made back in 2014 to stop the Ukrainian brigade receiving American weapons.

Hmm I wonder what happened back in 2014

The move comes as Ukraine, despite a number of successes in the Black Sea against Moscow's naval fleet, struggles to hold off incremental but steady Russian advances in eastern Ukraine.

Lol they gotta fit in some cope somewhere to deal with the constant stream of Ls from the frontlines.

As military aid from Washington dried up earlier this year, deep anxieties settled in over the supply of weapons and ammunition to the Ukrainian front lines. The U.S. then passed a long-awaited military aid package in late April.

Jerk-offs not even mentioning all that sweet genocide material's being redirected to the fascists in Israel so they can be used on people that can't defend themselves, as the bombs and guns were designed to be used for.

The Azov Brigade rose out of the volunteer Azov Battalion, with its roots in far-right and ultranationalist ideology. The fighters were on the front lines fighting pro-Moscow separatists in Ukraine from 2014; the battalion's founders were accused of having neo-Nazi sentiments.

Bite your tongue and drown in your own blood.

The brigade's current members have rejected these ties, distancing themselves from the battalion's reputation since the outbreak of full-scale war in Ukraine in February 2022. The brigade is now a part of Ukraine's National Guard, and has been lauded as one of the most effective fighting forces, noted particularly for its role in battling Russian forces in the Moscow-controlled southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol.

Their virulence has spread through the entire state.

Also they're the most effective nazi brigade in eating shit since ww2.

The Kremlin has repeatedly attempted to justify its invasion by claiming a "neo-Nazi regime" is in charge in Kyiv. This has been emphatically rejected by Ukraine and the international community.

"Such a sudden change in Washington's positions shows that they stop at nothing in their attempts to suppress Russia, using Ukraine and the Ukrainian people as a tool in their hands," Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said in remarks referring to the State Department's decision, as reported by Russian state media earlier this week. The U.S. is "ready even to flirt with neo-Nazis," he added.

I wonder how the journos were reporting on Ukraine prior to the war. They certainly weren't saying Ukraine had a nazi problem, nosiree.

"I would like to congratulate all the soldiers of the 12th Special Forces Brigade Azov and the entire civilized world on the victory over Russian propaganda," Prokopenko said on Saturday.

I guess everyone that says otherwise are uncivilized. Something something Garden and jungle.

An unnamed State Department spokesperson told the BBC that "Russian disinformation" had tried to "conflate" the current Azov Brigade with "a militia formed to defend Ukraine against Russia's invasion in 2014," or the Azov Battalion.

Didn't know reality was Russian disinformation. But what do I know, it isn't as if me and my party hasn't been keeping close tabs on this for over a decade now.

Under the U.S.' "Leahy Law," the Washington government cannot use funds to help foreign security forces when there is "credible information" suggesting the unit has committed gross violations of human rights.

Publicly.

"Eligibility for U.S. assistance will not only increase Azov's combat effectiveness, but, most importantly, will help save the lives and health of the brigade's personnel," the brigade said in a statement on Tuesday.

At the cost of Ukrainian and Russian conscripts and civilians of both countries. Giving nazis arms historically is a very bad idea.

"This is a new page in the history of our unit," the unit added. "Azov is becoming more professional and more effective in defending Ukraine against the invaders."

God willing, a page shy of a bitter and conclusive end to your unit.

The Azov Brigade has not yet received U.S. weapons, Azov's deputy commander, Lieutenant Colonel Sviatoslav Palamar, told The Washington Post on Tuesday.

And may they continue to not receive any and continue to die violent and painful deaths

No, a remote village in the Amazon has not become addicted to pornography

A New York Times report on the arrival of high-speed internet in a remote village in the Amazon ended up bringing a warning about the dark side of the web itself.

The Russian submarine "Kazan" is still in the port of Havana, Cuba.