Episode 932 – They Had a Pretty Good Day!

Israel had a very good day yesterday.

I have another example of Leftist intolerance.

And civil war could be heading to Venezuela.

News

Here is some news:

  • The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed late on Tuesday night that a targeted strike it launched earlier in the day in Lebanon killed Hezbollah’s top military commander.
    • Israeli Air Force fighter jets conducted the strike on Fuad Shukr in Beirut after the Iranian-backed terrorist group murdered 12 children in northern Israel over the weekend in a rocket attack.
    • The IDF said that Shukr was Hezbollah’s “most senior military commander and the head of its Strategic Unit” and Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah’s “right-hand man” and was his “adviser for planning and directing wartime operations.”
    • Shukr was responsible for directing all of Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel since Hamas’ unprecedented October 7 terrorist attack
  • The Islamic Republic of Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, announced on Tuesday night that Ismail Haniyeh, the top leader of Hamas, was targeted and killed inside of Iran.
    • Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said that Haniyeh was killed in the country’s capital city of Tehran, where he was attending the inauguration ceremony of Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian.
    • While it’s not immediately clear who killed Haniyeh, it was publicly known that Israel was hunting down all Hamas officials, including its top leaders who live on foreign soil, following the October 7 massacre.
  • Criticism is mounting against Venezuela’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro after protests erupted across the country on Monday over this weekend’s disputed presidential election.
    • At least six people died during the protests against the presidential election results, where Maduro was announced the winner by the country’s electoral commission.
    • Venezuelan authorities say more than 700 people were detained in the protests. An important opposition figure was allegedly kidnapped, according to his supporters, while the country’s army, which has long backed Maduro, reaffirmed their support of the strongman.
  • Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) confronted acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe on Tuesday about firing personnel over the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
  • Facebook acknowledged that it mistakenly censored the iconic image of former President Donald Trump with his fist raised in the immediate aftermath of the July 13 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania.
    • A post on Mark Zuckerberg’s social media site by a user with the handle End Wokeness that showed the Republican presidential candidate defiantly pumping his fist in the air while blood streams down his face had initially been flagged as misinformation.
    • The user was threatened with being deplatformed.
    • However, on Monday, Dani Lever, a spokesperson for the social network’s parent company, Meta, admitted the tech giant made a “mistake.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/israel-kills-hezbollahs-most-senior-military-commander-after-terror-group-killed-12-children
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/30/americas/venezuela-protests-election-explainer-intl-hnk/index.html
https://www.dailywire.com/news/fire-somebody-hawley-clashes-with-acting-secret-service-director-over-trump-rally-shooting?topStoryPosition=4
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-top-hamas-leader-ismail-haniyeh-killed-inside-iran?topStoryPosition=1
https://nypost.com/2024/07/29/business/facebook-admits-it-wrongly-censored-iconic-photo-of-bleeding-trump/

It IS a Communist Song

According to the Daily Wire:

Polish journalist and sports commentator Przemyslaw Babiarz has been suspended from the Paris Olympics after labeling John Lennon’s “Imagine” a “vision of communism.”

During the 2024 Olympics, the famed song — written by the late Beatle — was sung by French singer Juliette Armanet at the opening ceremony that took place on the Seine River in Paris on Friday.

While it was playing, the Polish state broadcaster said on air, “This is a vision of communism, unfortunately,” 

The comments immediately triggered a reaction for those watching in Poland, ABC News reported.

The public broadcaster Babiarz works for in Warsaw, TVP, later issued a statement that made it clear the well known commentator would not be commenting on air from Paris about any more from the summer Olympic games.

“Mutual understanding, tolerance, reconciliation — these are not only the basic Olympic ideas, they are also the basis for the standards that guide the new Telewizja Polska (Polish Television),’” the statement read, per ABC News.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk removed the former TVP management after he took power in December, and replaced it, Yahoo.com noted. Prior to Tusk’ the TVP was criticized as the mouthpiece of the national-conservative PiS government, 

Conservative President Andrzej Duda and former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki blasted the move by TVP, the outlet noted.

“The truth will defend itself! Your actions will be remembered and censorship will fail,” Morawiecki wrote on X.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/journalist-at-olympics-suspended-for-saying-john-lennons-imagine-is-a-vision-of-communism?itm_source=parsely-api

This is Coming Here

According to the Washington Examiner:

In a hotly contested and controversial presidential election in Venezuela on Sunday night, both the incumbent, Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro, and the opposition nominee, Democratic Unitary Platform candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, declared victory.

Venezuela’s National Electoral Council declared Maduro the winner on Sunday night, saying he won more than 51% of the vote, according to multiple reports. However, numerous exit polls revealed that Gonzalez should have won. The election received significant attention and scrutiny as the world’s leaders watched the South American nation’s election with great interest.

Previous communiques from the State Department labeled Maduro a corrupt dictator of an illegitimate regime in Venezuela. Many leaders expressed skepticism over Maduro’s victory, CNN reported, concerned that it was a rigged election and the latest attempt by Maduro to remain in power despite strong opposition to his administration. Moreover, the opposition party said that polls showed that Maduro should have lost the election and lost in considerable fashion.

Maria Corina Machado, a former presidential candidate disqualified for 15 years in what many considered to be a corrupt act by Maduro’s regime, is the de facto leader of Venezuela’s opposition party. In a news conference on Sunday, Machado said that the party’s records revealed Maduro losing in a landslide, with 70% of the votes supposedly going to Gonzalez and only 30% to Maduro. Recent polls before the election showed that Maduro was trailing by over 20 percentage points in the polls

Machado vowed the opposition would keep fighting and “defend the truth.”

Gonzalez echoed Machado’s sentiments, saying Maduro’s victory was fraudulent and that Maduro violated many rules. 

After declaring victory, Maduro appeared at Venezuela’s presidential palace to address supporters, Reuters reported. He denied any wrongdoing, said the country’s election process was honest and transparent, and deemed his victory “a triumph of peace and stability.”

.https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3102347/both-candidates-claim-victory-venezuela-presidential-election/

What IS Wrong with These Guys?

According to the New York Post:

Two astronauts stranded in space for 49 days — 41 days longer than their planned mission — because their Boeing-built ride home is full of leaks will have to spend at least a few more weeks aboard the International Space Station, officials said Thursday. 

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were meant to spend just eight days in space following their launch aboard the Boeing Starliner — the maiden crewed voyage for the spacecraft. 

Once in space, astronauts found a series of concerning helium leaks and have been testing whether the ship can be used to return them to Earth.

Now they’re expected to stay in orbit until sometime in August, Steve Stich, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program manager, told reporters.

Before the astronauts can come home, NASA and Boeing experts said they need to complete a final set of tests for Starliner’s thrusters scheduled for this weekend.

Should the thruster tests prove successful and the helium leaks continue to remain stable, NASA would schedule an agency review next week, which would then set an official date for Wilmore and Williams’ return. 

“The prime intent is still to return Butch and Suni aboard Starliner,” Stich added.  

Mark Nappi, manager of the Boeing Starliner program, said the company ultimately regrets announcing that Wilmore and Williams’ mission would be eight days, as the delays have garnered backlash against the troubled aerospace giant. 

“My regret is that we didn’t say we would stay up there until the mission is complete, but I’m very confident we have a good vehicle to bring the crew back,” Nappi said.  

https://nypost.com/2024/07/25/us-news/astronauts-stuck-in-space-for-49-days-by-malfunctioning-boeing-spacecraft-cant-return-home-for-weeks

Indoctrination

According tot he Daily Wire:

Harvard University has canceled a summer program with a Palestinian university whose faculty and students have endorsed and collaborated with Hamas and other terror groups, a spokesman told The Daily Wire.

Birzeit University, which called for “glory for the martyrs” after Hamas’s October 7 terrorist massacre in Israel, was slated to host Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s “Palestine Social Medicine Course” from July to August. But the school has moved the program to Jordan, a spokesman told The Daily Wire, “due to security concerns in the West Bank.”

According to the program’s website, the “three-week intensive summer course is designed to introduce students to the social, structural, political, and historical aspects that determine Palestinian health beyond the biological basis of disease.” 

The program kicks off this week and ends August 17.

Students on the trip will learn from health practitioners, academics, and activists about topics including “Settler colonialism and its manifestations in Palestine” and “Health and racism,” the website states.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-cancels-program-with-hamas-friendly-university-over-security-concerns?topStoryPosition=1