🚨| URGENTE: Kapersky una de las compañías de ciberseguridad más importantes del mundo desmiente al tirano de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro “Venezuela no registra ciberataques en los monitoreos globales más recientes”. 🇻🇪
🚨.@NicolasMaduro, Anonymous has observed the undeniable evidence of your manipulation and rigging of #Venezuela's presidential election. Through violence and brutality, you have silenced the voices of the Venezuelan people and stolen their democracy.
This tyrannical grip on power will not go unchallenged.
Know this: your actions have consequences. The world is watching, and so are we. You will pay a price for undermining democracy and perpetuating suffering in Venezuela.
We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.
#OpVenezuela #VenezuelaLibre #VenezuelaVOTA #MaduroTiranoDictador #MaduroDictador #Anonymous #FreeVenezuela
✊️🇻🇪 To all Venezuelans rising against tyranny, know that you are not alone. The world watches in awe of your bravery and stands with you in solidarity. Your struggle is a powerful reminder that even in the darkest of times, hope and freedom can and will prevail.
¡Viva Venezuela Libre! ✌️🇻🇪
#VenezuelaLibre #FreeVenezuela
Atención. Anonymous acaba de hackear y publicar la base de datos de la DGCIM (Dirección de Contrainteligencia Militar) de la dictadura de Maduro, el grupo encargado de las torturas a civiles en Venezuela.
🚨When an illegitimate country's dictator can watch his people starve while overseeing a government stealing $70 billion a year and his family deals drugs, it's a special kind of evil.
Nicolás Maduro must know that his murderous regime is coming to an end! ❌️
The revolution has begun! ⚡️🔥
¡Viva Venezuela libre! 🇻🇪✌️
🚨| URGENTE: En Guárico funcionarios de la Guardia Nacional se niegan a reprimir a la población y se unen a las manifestaciones. Los militares y policías están oyendo el clamor del pueblo venezolano de que se pasen al lado de la libertad. 🇻🇪 #Venezuela
Off Leash Update 30 July
Commodity Prices
•Aluminum: $2,289/ton
•Antimony (ingot min. 99.65% fob China): $23,100/ton
•Cobalt: $26,625/ton
•Copper: $9,111/ton
•Gold: $2,374/toz
•Lead: $2,068/ton
•Natural Gas (Nymex): $1.94/MMbtu
•WTI Crude Oil (Nymex): $75.86/barrel
•Zinc: $2,669/ton
Venezuela
•Pres. Maduro declared victory in yesterday's election. So did his opposition opponent, Edmundo González.
•This time, Maduro claimed just 51.2% of the vote - just enough to avoid a runoff, but (Maduro probably hopes) not egregiously incredible enough to spark a revolution.
•Many would-be observers boycotted the poll because Maduro tainted it from the start by bullying the opposition ( @MariaCorinaYA ) out of a fair race. And the few observers who participated cited widespread irregularities.
•Electoral authorities also prevented the public from fact-checking its count by refusing to release paper tallies printed by voting machines at key polling places.
Israel
•On Saturday, a Hezbollah rocket killed at least 12 kids and teens on a soccer (football) field in the Golan Heights, a sliver of Syria that Israel occupied in 1967 and annexed in 1981.
•Israel's security cabinet authorized PM Netanyahu to decide on the "manner and timing" of a response - likely involving counterstrikes in Lebanon.
•One such counterstrike already took place: an Israeli drone strike killed two people and wounded three - including a child - in the southern Lebanese town of Shaqra.
China
•SecState Blinken criticized China's "escalating" and "unlawful actions" in the South China Sea during a trip to Laos - where he will meet Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
•Blinken will also visit Vietnam, Japan, and the Philippines in an effort to befriend Southeast Asian countries that are feeling threatened by an increasingly bellicose China.
North Korea
•Saturday was North Korea's Victory Day - commemorating the 70th anniversary of the truce that paused (but didn't end) the Korean War.
•Kim Jong Un invited a special guest for the occasion: Russian Defense Minister Shoigu. His presence at the Victory Day festivities serves as a reminder of the increasingly close ties between Russia and North Korea, which were further solidified by Pres. Putin's second visit to the Hermit Kingdom last month.
Sahel
•Tuareg separatists engaged Malian soldiers backed by Russian Wagner troops near Mali's border with Algeria and - according to the Tuaregs - "decisively obliterated these enemy columns" over three days of fighting.
•The Tuareg have been fighting for independence since 2012, but they started this latest round of fighting in response to recent military offensives that recaptured formerly rebel-held territory.
•The rebels say they seized "a large amount of equipment and weapons" and took "dozens" of Wagner fighters captive.
•The Malian army says two soldiers died and also acknowledged losing a helicopter in another nearby rebel stronghold, but said nothing about Wagner involvement in the fighting...officially, Wagner personnel are only in Mali to train local troops and shouldn't be fighting alongside their "trainees."
Libya
•Libya convicted 12 current and former officials for their negligence in managing dams near Derna that collapsed last year, killing at least 4,300 - and possibly over 12,000. Several were ordered to repay funds obtained through "illicit means," suggesting that the court blamed their misdeeds (at least in part) on corruption.
Other News
•French authorities are blaming the far-left for last week's organized attacks on French train lines. Today they arrested a far-left activist in Normandy in connection with the incidents.
•Meanwhile, a new coordinated infrastructure attack affected fiberoptic telecom networks throughout France (though Paris was not affected).
Illegal immigration needs to stop, but I’m super in favor of greatly expanding and simplifying legal immigration.
Anyone who proves themself to be hard-working, talented and honest should be allowed to become an American. Period.
Aaliyah dodged a big bullet. The manipulation radiating off every word coming out of this man's mouth is crazy. Lydia gave off weird vibes and she sensed the crazy. I'm glad you feel dumb Uche, you did it all to yourself. Aaliyah deserves more. #LoveIsBlind#LoveIsBlindS5
JP really said that he struggled to communicate with Taylor because she wears makeup and called her FAKE?????
Taylor, if you don't LEAVE THIS MAN!! #LoveIsBlind