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The latest ship likely attacked by Ansarallah/Houthis in Yemen as part of the naval blockade is the Eternity C, a Liberian flagged bulk carrier, operated by Cosmoship, a company headquartered in Greece. It was on route to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. This is the second Liberian flagged, Greek owned vessel attacked, following the attack on the "Magic Seas" yesterday.

Current reporting states that unmanned surface vessels (likely rigged with explosives) and one way attack drones were used during the attack, and that there was a direct hit to the bridge, making updates and communication difficult. Two crew members were injured and two are missing as a result.

China's BYD to start assembling electric cars in Brazil Reuters

• Chinese electric vehicle maker ready to open Bahia factory
• BYD eyes Brazilian assembly of some 50,000 cars in 2025
• Executive says labor lawsuit will not derail factory timeline

SAO PAULO, July 7 (Reuters) - China's BYD (002594.SZ), opens new tab is poised to start assembling electric vehicles at a new factory in Brazil as early as this month, a top executive said, reducing imports as tariffs start to rise in its largest foreign market.

Alexandre Baldy, senior vice president for BYD in Brazil, said the goal is to assemble 50,000 cars this year at the plant in Bahia state from imported kits, adding that he is negotiating a lower tax rate on those vehicles.

"We should inaugurate in the coming days," Baldy said in an interview late on Friday, without specifying a date, as final regulatory approvals are still pending. "We've already completed this year's imports, taking advantage of the period before the import tax increase that took effect on July 1."

BYD had sent a surge of finished cars into Brazil this year to take advantage of temporarily lower tariffs, shipping some 22,000 from China in the first five months, according to Reuters calculations.

That stirred complaints in Brazil's auto industry that BYD was privileging Chinese manufacturing over production from Bahia, where a labor probe and heavy rains have disrupted plans. A state labor secretary said in May that the plant would only be "fully functional" at the end of 2026.

However, Baldy said it would begin full production in July 2026, after assembling vehicles from "complete knock down" (CKD) kits for the next 12 months.

Once fully operational, he said, the complex in Camacari is likely to generate up to 20,000 direct and indirect jobs. Expectations for the operation, on the site of a former Ford plant taken over in 2023, suffered in December when labor inspectors leveled accusations of labor abuses involving Chinese contractors hired to build the complex. Brazilian prosecutors filed a lawsuit in May holding BYD responsible for human trafficking and submitting workers to "slavery-like conditions," after talks on a settlement fell through.

"BYD has always sought to respect Brazilian law and human dignity in all operations," Baldy said, adding that the company wanted to reach a resolution. He did not say why efforts to negotiate a settlement had fallen through.

All it took was for China to halt Brazilian beef import for Brazil to cave. Amazing. Brazil has less leverage than it thinks it has.

Since chuds (and Zionist libs) have absolutely nothing better to do than desperately sifting through old Zohran tweets to find something they can make stick, they now found a tweet of him saying:

Each according to their need, each according to their ability

https://xcancel.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1265738795317673988

Which, as usual, has led to lots of angry seething replies calling him a dIrTy CoMmUnIsT.

It's not just random twitter nerds, because even Democrat politicians have joined the chuds in trying to dig up dirt. Eric Adams, which some Democrats are trying to rally behind for the general, posted about it: https://x.com/ericadamsfornyc/status/1942289955478233475

: "The defense of democracy in Brazil is a matter for Brazilians. We are a sovereign country. We do not accept interference or tutelage from anyone. We have solid and independent institutions. No one is above the law. Especially those who attack freedom and the rule of law."

Another one:

Active shooter killed in attempt to ambush Border Patrol agents in Texas

An active shooter armed with tactical gear and a rifle opened fire upon Border Patrol agents as they arrived at a Border Patrol annex facility in McAllen, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley on Monday, law enforcement sources say.

Agents and local police returned fire and killed the gunman. No federal agents were hit, but one McAllen police officer was struck. Law enforcement sources say the officer is in stable condition.

Weird shit happening, can't really believe these stenographer's reports of what law enforcement claims but I haven't seen any other information about this one or the other ICE shooting in Texas.

New concentration camp just dropped

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/katz-calls-for-plan-to-confine-all-gazans-in-humanitarian-city-to-be-built-over-ruins-of-rafah/

Trump's 90-day delay of tariffs on basically every country except China expires in two days. It looks like Trump is already issuing some kind of letters to delay tariffs yet again. Not yet clear how exactly this will look, maybe just another blanket extension. We will see soon.

Meanwhile;

Trump announces a 25% tariff on Japan and South Korea

Trump has recently proposed a 500% tariff on goods from countries that trade with Russia, including India and China (who buy ~70% of Russia's oil output), as well as a 10% additional tariff on goods from countries that "align themselves with BRICS.

this shit again

Watching Justin Podur’s sit rep from July 5 with Laith Marouf. Laith is clearly a guy who “knows things” and talks to people on the ground in Lebanon and Syria.

According to Laith, it seems like much of the “quiet” we have seen from Hezbollah in recent months is due to them preparing for an invasion both from Syria and Israel. This would seem to track at least to me in why they didn’t get involved when Iran was attacking Israel. Hezbollah is fundamentally a defensive force, and their primary objective is to keep the Israelis (or others) out of Lebanon. It’s not just their mission, it’s how their capabilities were designed.

For what it’s worth, Laith is also very bullish on how Hezbollah would handle an invasion.