They loathe to admit it...

‘Not just a cyclical recovery, but a boom.’ BofA says a ‘key tail risk’ is that the Trump economy will actually start to take off
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So many nay-sayers want Trump, and in turn the US, to fail.. Just so they can rub our noses in it to 'teach us a lesson'..

Unfortunately, for them, the MAGA-King has some lessons of his own that he's teaching..

‘Not just a cyclical recovery, but a boom.’ BofA says a ‘key tail risk’ is that the Trump economy will actually start to take off

“Today a confluence of factors argue that the key tail risk that may not be priced in is not just a cyclical recovery, but a boom,” BofA Research analysts write.

^{Nick Lichtenberg (Fortune)}

“We’re going to go pretty aggressively and try and collapse it all”

Yep, asshole, you fuckers are doing a great job there, that’s for sure.

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#Deutschland ist mitschuldig am #Völkermord in #Palästina

30% der Israelischen #Rüstung kommen aus Deutschland!

Germany is partially responsible for the #Genocide in #Palestine

30% of Israeli weapons/armor comes from #Germany

Σε γήπεδο που είχε γεμίσει από ισραηλινές σημαίες κρίθηκε παράνομη η ανάρτηση παλαιστινιακής σημαίας

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Τραγικό! Σε γήπεδο που είχε γεμίσει από ισραηλινές σημαίες κρίθηκε παράνομη η ανάρτηση παλαιστινιακής σημαίας

Τι σημαίνει για μια χώρα με δική της εμπειρία κατοχής να ποινικοποιεί το σύμβολο ενός άλλου λαού που βιώνει στρατιωτική καταπίεση;

^{Χρήστος Κάτσικας (AlfaVita)}

Nissan racks up red ink, but the Japanese automaker promises a return to profit later this year
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Dildo on the court. WNBA

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European economy sees growth of only 0.1% as scramble to get ahead of US tariffs goes into reverse
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China promises to help companies slammed by tariffs, as talks with the US left in limbo
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Gentrification, Another Face of Dispossession

Comandante Antonio García

A large part of public opinion was astonished at the beginning of July when the first march against gentrification was convened and carried out in Mexico City, the astonishment is partly because the majority of the population had never heard such a term before, much less knew its meaning. although they are largely affected by this phenomenon.

With slogans such as: “Gringo go home”, “Here we speak Spanish”, “Dignified housing for Mexicans” or “Your comfort gentrifies, our struggle dignifies”, the demonstrators advanced towards the Paseo de la Reforma. This was a march called by the Lindbergh Forum of the Condesa neighborhood, one of the most affected by this social phenomenon. As they passed, the demonstrators expressed their rage, which they unleashed against commercial establishments and large financial capital with a presence in the city.

Gentrification refers to an urban process where traditionally popular neighborhoods experience the arrival of new inhabitants, most often from Europe or the United States with high purchasing power. This phenomenon is usually accompanied by investments in infrastructure, improvements in services, an increase in the value of properties and therefore an increase in the cost of living for residents. By formidably increasing the prices of housing, rents, services, food and transportation, among others, this causes the displacement of original families, who cannot afford the increase in rents and the general increase in the cost of living.

These displacements occur after a process of preparation, basically because when a territory has tourist attractions, or simply has some value for investment, it can be coveted by tourists who visit it or by investors to inhabit, rent or buy a property. To do this, they resort to financial strategies and pressures to get hold of most of the homes, with this they force residents to move to peripheral neighborhoods or to other cities or towns, thus generating and deepening all kinds of exclusion and social asymmetries. In general, the neighbourhoods in which the displaced settle are peripheral to urban centres and do not have basic public services or are not planned.

According to the opinion of experts on the subject, they warn that the phenomenon contributes to urban segmentation and inequality, which in Colombia is known as stratification. While privileged sectors have access to better services, availability and access to entertainment and leisure alternatives, others, the vulnerable and impoverished sectors see their possibilities of remaining in the area limited. Therefore, gentrification in the Mexican capital means a profound change both in the physical configuration and in the daily life of its inhabitants, uprooting, loss of cultural and social identity, and rupture in the social fabric of settlers who have historically inhabited a territory, have related to it and their fellow citizens and have built community from uses, ancestral customs and knowledge that has allowed them to adapt to the environment in which they live.

Gentrification goes hand in hand with the discourse of development, since under the promise of modernization of infrastructure, improvement in services, quality of life, the supply of housing aimed at international tourism and the proliferation of exclusive commercial spaces, an idea of collaborative economy is created, which has as its purpose the formation of a social economy, but in the end it ends up in for-profit business models, so for example digital platforms such as Airbnb are created.

This platform is in charge of acquiring properties at a lower price, modifying them and then renting them to users who mostly come from abroad, their rental is made according to the rates that the same platform determines and can be for days or months, which causes the rentier value to increase exorbitantly. This action has an impact on the displacement of tenants who used to rent an apartment for long stays in preference for tourists who stay by the night; as a result, a problem of housing shortage is caused for the historic inhabitants.

Neoliberal governments have strongly promoted this idea of business and the organization of cities tailored to the needs of capital reproduction, however, governments that call themselves progressive, as in the case of Colombia, have also been strongly encouraging tourism and the consolidation of rental platforms with the purpose of promoting tourism. which has caused serious impacts on entire communities in large cities and places of interest to these capitalists, in this sense, it is to be expected that indignation will grow and new scenarios of struggle will be incubated in our peoples by communities that resist being displaced from their territories because of the interests of big capital.

This phenomenon has many coincidences with the extractivist economy; a discourse that promises prosperity and wealth for all, legislative and land-use changes and finally produces displacement of local communities, to hand over the territories to international capital on a silver platter.

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Gentrification, Another Face of Dispossession
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"Comandante Antonio García A large part of public opinion was astonished at the beginning of July when the first march against gentrification was convened and carried out in Mexico City,…"

DFLP: Salute to the Brotherly Yemeni People and Their Support For Our People & Resistance

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine issued a statement in which it saluted the brotherly Yemeni people, their army, and their political leadership, Ansar Allah, for their sincere support for our Palestinian people, their resistance, and their steadfastness in the Gaza Strip, thus defying the American-Israeli-Atlantic alliance, which did not hesitate to launch its barbaric war against Yemen, targeting its infrastructure in particular, believing that in doing so it would succeed in terrorizing the people, army, and leadership in Yemen so that they would stop supporting our people.

The Democratic Front added: “The Yemeni people, their army, and their leadership have provided a shining example of the meanings of brotherhood and practical and field-based solidarity, transforming words into effective action. This has contributed to opening a battlefront and exerting effective pressure on the Israeli enemy, forcing it to close the port of Eilat after the gates of the Red Sea were closed to it.”

The Democratic Front renewed its greetings to the Yemeni people, its martyrs, its wounded, its army heroes, and its political leadership, headed by the fighter Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi.

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DFLP: Salute to the Brotherly Yemeni People and Their Support For Our People & Resistance
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"The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine issued a statement in which it saluted the brotherly Yemeni people, their army, and their political leadership, Ansar Allah, for their sincere…"

Russia's floating nuclear power plant passes one billion kWh - World Nuclear News

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Russia's floating nuclear power plant passes one billion kWh

The Akademik Lomonosov floating nuclear power plant in Russia's Arctic Chukotka region has generated its first billion kilowatt hours, as it approaches five years since entering commercial operation. ;

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MLKP: Hanzala is the Conscience of the Oppressed, Genocidal Murderers Will Be Held Accountable!

Following October 7th, Zionism’s barbarity escalated to unprecedented levels, reminding the world of the Palestinians’ historic and legitimate struggle for national liberation. It is clear that the genocide targeting Palestinians in Gaza and its escalation in the West Bank is not merely a regional problem.
Palestinian freedom has become a global issue of political freedom and democracy, striking at the heart of imperialism, revealing the rottenness of the colonial bourgeois social order.

Progressive humanity is mobilizing worldwide, taking a position, and willing to make many sacrifices in the face of the Palestinian issue.

Initiatives such as the Global March to Gaza, the Convoy of Resolve, and the Freedom Flotillas are acts of brotherhood among peoples that represent the conscience of humanity.
While people in Gaza are starving daily or being massacred at aid stops, Zionism has once again attacked a ship attempting to bring urgent supplies to occupied Gaza. All activists on the Hanzala ship, including ICOR Deputy General Coordinator Hatem Laouini, who was previously one of the leaders of the Convoy of Resolve, were arrested.
The attack on the Hanzala ship is a manifestation of the quagmire of the Zionist occupation, which has been given free rein with the support of Western imperialism, especially the imperialist US, and the cooperation of reactionary Arab states, and which has far surpassed bourgeois rules of war and hypocritical morality.

Hatem Laouini and all activists on the Hanzala must be released immediately!
Let us unite our forces, upholding the finest traditions of proletarian internationalism, and let us raise the banner of freedom of Palestine, which represents our own freedom!
The Middle East belongs to free and equal peoples who build democracy and socialism.

July 27, 2025

MLKP International Bureau

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MLKP: Hanzala is the Conscience of the Oppressed, Genocidal Murderers Will Be Held Accountable!
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Major #Shipping Line #Matson Closes the Hatch on Transport of Electrical Vehicles - American Thinker

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Matson Inc., a major ocean cargo carrier in the trans-Pacific trade, announced this week that they have decided to stop carrying electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles on their ships, effective immediately.

#news #delete #EV #fires

Major Shipping Line Matson Closes the Hatch on Transport of Electrical Vehicles

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Russian missiles hit a Ukrainian army training ground, killing at least 3 soldiers
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The FBI took her $40,000 without explaining why. She fought back—and lost.

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So who has jurisdiction then? The FBI here has to be accountable to some court somewhere.

The FBI took her $40,000 without explaining why. She fought back—and lost.

There is little accountability in civil forfeiture, which allows law enforcement to seize assets without charging the owner with a crime.

^{Billy Binion (Reason.com)}

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The Many Triumphs of Georges Abdallah’s Liberation
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"It was a principled struggle years in the making. Europe’s longest-held prisoner, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, became an icon of unmitigated resistance when he returned to join the Popular Front for…"

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The Many Triumphs of Georges Abdallah’s Liberation

It was a principled struggle years in the making.

Europe’s longest-held prisoner, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, became an icon of unmitigated resistance when he returned to join the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, using his anti-colonial worldviews to align with the subjugated and send a clear message to US and Israeli conspirators: enough is enough.

Now, after France kept the resistance figure locked up for four decades without due process, his anticipated release makes some fundamental realities clear. First, it shows that Israeli and US designs to keep Abdallah out of public sight remain self-destructive, after the latter spent considerable diplomatic and intelligence capital to prevent his release, despite meeting all legal conditionalities for an early release over two decades ago. Second, his release makes it increasingly clear that resistance can trump repression. Third, it exposes the truth about France’s hypocrisy.

Abdallah’s liberation should be seen as a hole in the US efforts to wage war on resistance figures. This is a US regime that spared no effort to willingly obstruct the legal process of his case, deliberately skirting realities around a truly judicial process, and instead choosing to put political clothing on the process. It sends a powerful message to all the unlawfully detained resistance figures, from Lebanese heroes to scores of Palestinian fighters, that Abdallah refused to extend any form of compensation to secure his release.

This sentiment echoes principles of integrity, anti-colonial resistance, and genuine human dignity that are the lifeblood of perseverance. One of Washington and Tel Aviv’s fundamental objectives was to undercut momentum from international rights organizations and press for Abdallah’s retention behind bars through covert maneuvering. This has been demonstrated through their continued oversight of lax French judicial proceedings, including the reluctance of former French Interior Minister Manuel Valls to free Abdallah from prison. Abdallah, who enjoys considerable support from his base as part of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions, may view his long-sought break from prison as a measure of what solidarity can deliver.

As Jacques Attali, senior advisor to then-French President François Mitterrand, made clear, there was hardly any actionable evidence against Abdallah for his charges. For a figure to have resisted direct US influence in shaping French prospects on his parole, it is a heartening sight for Abdallah to embrace liberation on the back of grassroots pressure. Lebanese rights groups, for instance, were instrumental in establishing that Abdallah’s imprisonment was politically motivated as opposed to a true measure of legal justice. The pains of waiting through decades, despite significant reservations over the impartiality of French judicial conduct, send a powerful message on perseverance, revealing Paris’ hypocrisy on actual and fabricated offenses. As Abdallah’s lawyer at the time of his widely controversial ‘life sentence’ made certain, the move – and its condemnable political motivations – were tantamount to a “declaration of war.”

Grass-roots mobilization wasn’t simply a fact evident in parts of the Arab world. In France alone, Abdallah was celebrated as a symbol of freedom that is worthy of liberation. Look no further than the yearly demonstrations outside Lannemezan Prison in the south: such activism provided solid proof that Abdallah wasn’t only embedded within the Lebanese political discourse, courtesy of his resilience, dedication to the Palestinian cause, and other attributes of braving colonial influence. Instead, Abdallah was a recurring theme of resistance strength in the face of a lax diplomatic movement on his decades-old case in France. By refusing to own grassroots momentum on Abdallah’s rights and long overdue justice, France reveals its striking double standards on entertaining freedoms.

For all the talk about upholding a rules-based system where shared values strike at the core of stability, Abdallah’s status as Europe’s longest-serving political prisoner puts a blemish on those claims. Palestine’s undying determination to withstand criminal Zionist aggression is proof that the weight of genuine values, morality, and justice needs to focus on the repressed, not those who facilitate Zionist aggression.

Abdallah’s firm conviction for that cause marks a natural point of friction with Paris, which has endorsed “Israel’s” genocidal crimes, its so-called “right to defend itself,” and is, among other Western states, complicit in atrocities to this day. With French misconduct and Abdallah’s activism on two different sides of the pole, his release becomes all the more noteworthy. “We’re delighted. I didn’t expect the French judiciary to make such a decision nor for him to ever be freed, especially after so many failed requests for release,” said Robert Abdallah, his brother. “For once, the French authorities have freed themselves from Israeli and US pressures.”

Thus understood, Abdallah’s hard-fought liberation should be seen as a telling defeat of Zionist-US pressure campaigning and evidence that focused support for resistance figures can bear fruit. As “Israel’s” raging genocide in Gaza shows, efforts to take out political prisoners, or even silence them, cannot succeed.

Abdallah’s transition from repression to liberty, increasingly on the back of grassroots rights momentum, makes clear that those vying for freedom and rights advocacy need to take matters into their own hands.

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Ansarallah Announces Stage Four of Naval Blockade: Total Blockade of Shipping

The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) announced late on 27 July that it has launched a “fourth phase” of its naval blockade against the Zionist occupation in support of Gaza.

In the statement, the YAF vowed to target the ships of any company that deals with Zionist ports, “regardless of its nationality” or destination, and in “any location.”

YAF spokesperson Yahya Saree warned the directive is effective from the moment of the announcement.

He stressed that ships belonging to violating companies will be targeted wherever Yemeni missiles and drones can reach, regardless of their destination.

Saree added that if countries wish to avoid further escalation, they must pressure the Zionist enemy to end its aggression and lift the siege on the Gaza Strip.

The spokesperson said that what the forces are doing expresses their moral and humanitarian commitment to the injustice suffered by the brotherly Palestinian people.

The statement reads in full:

Given the rapid developments in occupied Palestine, specifically in the Gaza Strip, including the continuation of the war of genocide and the martyrdom of thousands of our brotherly Palestinian people as a result of the aggression and siege that has been ongoing for months, and amid shameful Arab, Islamic, and international silence.

Yemen, in the face of the continuation of these horrific, brutal, and unprecedented massacres in our contemporary history, finds itself faces a religious, moral, and humanitarian responsibility toward the oppressed who are subjected daily and around-the-clock, to killing and destruction by air, land, and sea bombardment, as well as to starvation and thirst due to the stifling and severe siege on steadfast and proud Gaza, which is unacceptable to any human being, let alone Arabs and Muslims.

Accordingly, the Yemeni Armed Forces, relying on Allah Almighty and trusting in Allah, have decided to escalate their military support operations and begin implementing the fourth phase of the naval blockade against the enemy.

This phase includes targeting all ships belonging to any company that deals with the ports of the Israeli enemy, regardless of the nationality of that company, and in any location within the reach of our armed forces.

The Yemeni Armed Forces warn all companies to cease their dealings with Israeli enemy ports starting from the moment this statement is announced. Otherwise, their ships, regardless of their destination, will be targeted anywhere that can be reached or within the reach of our missiles and drones.

The Yemeni Armed Forces call on all countries, if they want to avoid this escalation, to pressure the enemy to halt its aggression and lift the blockade on the Gaza Strip.
There is no free person on this earth who can accept what is happening.

The actions of the Yemeni Armed Forces express our moral and humanitarian commitment to the injustice against the brotherly Palestinian people, and all our military operations will be ceased immediately upon the cessation of aggression against Gaza and the lifting of the blockade.

Yemen began its maritime blockade operation on the occupation in November 2023. Since then, it has attacked scores of vessels sailing toward Zionist ports, significantly impacting the occupation’s economy and forcing the shutdown of the southern port of Eilat.

Earlier this month, the Yemeni army sank two Greek-owned, Liberian-flagged vessels that were heading to or dealing with Zionist ports.

The YAF has also continued to target the occupation with ballistic missiles. The regime carried out a massive attack on Yemen in early July.

According to Zionist Channel 12, Tel Aviv is planning a “major offensive” against Yemen and is waiting for a green light from the occupation’s political echelon.

Other Zionist reports said recently that Tel Aviv has been lobbying Washington to restart its campaign against Yemen and form a broad coalition to end the threat posed by the YAF. A deadly US campaign against Yemen that was launched in March came to an end in May after Washington burned through around $1 billion in munitions, failing to impact Sanaa’s military capabilities.

Yemen’s announcement late on Sunday comes as the regime’s siege has created catastrophic levels of famine in the Gaza Strip.

Dozens, including children, have died of starvation over the past week.

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Ansarallah Announces Stage Four of Naval Blockade: Total Blockade of Shipping
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The goal of this Arab regime-backed “two-state diplomacy” is to achieve for “Israel” what its baby-killer gangs could not achieve on the ground: disarmament of all resistance and total submission of whichever Palestinians are left alive to the genocidal Zionist regime

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#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten #SettlerColonialism
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