CURRENT EVENTS July 14 - July 31

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Rubio Restricts U.S. Criticism of Tainted Foreign Elections​

A State Department cable telling officials to avoid comments on the “fairness or integrity” of most elections continues a U.S. turn away from promoting democratic values abroad.

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Rubio Restricts U.S. Criticism of Tainted Foreign Elections

A State Department cable telling officials to avoid comments on the “fairness or integrity” of most elections continues a U.S. turn away from promoting democratic values abroad.
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“… In an official cable to diplomatic and consular posts on Thursday, Mr. Rubio said that public comments on foreign elections “should be brief, focused on congratulating the winning candidate and, when appropriate, noting shared foreign policy interests.”

Such messages, the agency memo added, “should avoid opining on the fairness or integrity of an electoral process, its legitimacy, or the democratic values of the country in question.” The directive applied to the department’s domestic offices and foreign posts, Mr. Rubio said.

… the State Department under President Joseph R. Biden Jr. criticized foreign votes frequently, …So did Mr. Rubio, as a Republican senator from Florida known for his outspoken criticism of anti-democratic practices abroad.

Mr. Rubio dismissed Venezuela’s 2024 presidential election as “a complete fraud,” co-sponsored a 2020 Senate resolution demanding that President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus hold “a free, fair, and transparent election that adheres to international standards” and called Vladimir V. Putin of Russia a “tyrant” who “stole an election.”

Mr. Rubio has muted such talk since he joined the Trump administration, although in a Friday statement celebrating the release of American prisoners from Venezuela he said that the United States “continues to support the restoration of democracy in Venezuela.” …”
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Hmmm. Would slapping a 50% tariff on a country with which we have a trade surplus fit Secretary Rubio’s directive?
 
farce© said:
I’m usually pretty good with counties in NC but I can never keep it straight with Morganton, Lenoir, and Marion and which one is in McDowell, Burke, or Caldwell county. All those foothills counties just run together in my brain.
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uncjhodges said:
i’m from burke county…that’s morganton (and Valdese)
Marion is Mcdowell
Lenoir is caldwell
they all suck
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farce, in the future you can at least remember Lenoir is Caldwell b/c of the L's. Still a coin flip with Morganton and Marion, but at least that narrows it down...
 
hedge said:
farce, in the future you can at least remember Lenoir is Caldwell b/c of the L's. Still a coin flip with Morganton and Marion, but at least that narrows it down...
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Morganton is Butner West ,with all the State institutions-only prettier with the hills
 
Reports that the driver was unconscious before plowing into the crowd in LA. Crowd drags person out of the car and beats them, then someone shot them. Now the unconscious part is being disputed.

abc7.com

30 injured after car plows through crowd in East Hollywood, driver pulled from vehicle and shot

At least 30 people were injured after a car plowed through a crowd in East Hollywood. The driver was pulled from the vehicle and shot after the crash.
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At least 30 people were injured after a car plowed through a crowd in East Hollywood, authorities said, and the driver was pulled from the vehicle and shot after the crash.

The incident occurred shortly before 2 a.m. near the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Vermont Avenue. At least seven people were in critical condition, six were in serious condition and more than a dozen were treated on site, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. Twenty-three patients were transported.

Among the injured was a male with a gunshot wound, the LAFD said. Authorities said 124 fire personnel responded at the scene.

Witnesses said bystanders also took the driver of the vehicle out of his car and attacked him following the car ramming. The driver was shot during the melee, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

The shooter remained at large, and was described as a bald Hispanic man, about 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighing about 180 pounds. He was wearing a blue jersey and was possibly armed with a silver revolver, police said.


The LAFD initially said the driver had apparently lost consciousness at the time of the crash. The Fire Department later told ABC7 that despite initial reports, the agency could no longer confirm that the driver lost consciousness.
 
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For some time Poland has been warning against what it says is a Russian-Belarusian campaign to destabilise the EU and stoke the far right by incentivising irregular migration through the bloc’s eastern borders with Belarus.
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According to CRHeel, they were doing this in Central America as well, pushing migration esp. from Nicaragua.
 
Just to recap the last week or so. Trumpanzees have been SCREAMING for the Epstein files to be released. They’ve been at Trumps proverbial throat… and Trumps response was to call them stupid.

And wait.

And then he uttered two words… Obama & treason. And Epstein went straight to the back burner.

YOU’RE STUPID! He’s playing you like a little red fiddle. Dumb sons a bitches.
 
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