Bulletins and News Discussion from March 24th to March 30th, 2025 - The Genocide Continues - COTW: Qatar

1700 killed on last 72 hours. First day of the attack 400.

I will share my friend's message to me from last night:

"I don’t know, honestly, I feel like I’m going insane. Why all this injustice?! Imagine, they are entertaining themselves with our death in every possible way, trying to unleash their psychological disorders on us. Today, they are shooting at people as they are being displaced! What kind of filth is this?! They are toying with us… killing the children and leaving the mother to watch her son die without being able to do anything! We are in a cage, being hunted, starved, and subjected to experiments of all kinds of psychological and moral afflictions in a live broadcast. People are running without legs, and people are crawling, while parents watch the bodies of their children thrown on the ground, abandoned as they flee from shells. It is an absurd situation—there is no war here, no resistance; the situation can only be described as a trivialization and deliberate act of killing, and a trivialization of death. It’s all absurdity, and our blood is sure to bring a curse upon everyone."

That's Gaza for the last 500 days. And I join her in curses. Yemenis are right, Israel and USA are cursed. It's an old biblical rule "do not steal" and that's why Yemenis say death to them. It's not about wanting those nations literally dead, as those nations mean about Palestinans and Syrians, but it's a call of death if their hegemony. Curse be upon them. In last month tens of thousands of Palestinians and Syrians were slaughtered. Zionists and takfiris demonic ghouls who serve Satan himself and Netanyahu is embodiment of Satan. This is all his wicked sick plan to destroy Levant and erase thousands years old culture and people who have direct ties to that land. Curse be upon everyone. This blood is on everyone's hands.

Dear comrades, if your protest has any dudes in superhero costumes, meme signs or excessive signs in English if you're not in an English-speaking country, then I'm truly sorry, because your protest is already doomed. Look at Turkey, their protest thing felt serious for like a day, then it turned into goon material for the r/Europe cucks, and now the English signs and the superheroes have arrived. My estimation now is that Erdoğan will rule for another two decades before Allah elevates him to the seventh heaven. I'm not even praising Erdoğan here, it's just that his opponents have fatal liberal brainworms, where protests are held not as a disruptive tool to pressure the ruling government, but as an elaborate esoteric pledge of allegiance to western cultural hegemony. Georgia was the same, and it also failed.

Look at my protest dog:

Rabid settlers lynched Hamdan Ballal, Palestinian co-director of film No Other Land:
https://xcancel.com/yuval_abraham/status/1904235552620339365

https://xcancel.com/HossamShabat/status/1904219854183313461

Every Western outlet stumbling over itself to report on “anti-Hamas” protests in Gaza is some heinous shit.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/26/middleeast/why-gazans-are-protesting-hamas-now-intl-latam

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g71lk09npo.amp

A photo of it was also near the top of Reddit, and there’s dozens of top comments about “it looks like they’re all children!” and of course blaming the genocide on Hamas from their enlightened perch inside the empire that is responsible for the genocide.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1jkekcz/antihamas_protesters_in_gaza_call_for_an_end_to/

… it says a lot about Western “civilization” that witnessing a few hundred children allegedly protesting the Resistance evokes more empathy than the slaughter of tens of thousands by the empire. Complete dehumanization, until they can be straw-manned into a pro-empire position

The Constitutional Court has denied Afriforum's appeal and stated that the song "Kill the Boer" does not constitute hate speech. L bozos

Speaking of Bozo, as in the likely upcoming US ambassador, he's probably going to declare the Constitutional Court and everyone of the 200,000 people living within a kilometer of the courthouse as Hamas

Kill the Boer, Kill the Settler. BRRAAAT BRRRRAAAAAT

Death to ameriKKKa

Surprised no one else posted it yet, but the video of the Tufts University PhD student being arrested by Israel Criticism Enforcement officers is just absolutely enraging.

https://x.com/DRBoguslaw/status/1904933137328570859

https://xcancel.com/DRBoguslaw/status/1904933137328570859

Dems and Schumer are ~3x as unpopular as Elon Musk.

I think the most infuriating thing to me about the liberal reactions to foreign students being disappeared by Israel Criticism Enforcement officers is that it's seemingly almost entirely focused on that they were in plain clothes or wearing masks, or literally a litany of other bullshit instead of the fact we are eroding probably the most unique constitutional liberty America has for the benefit of a foreign nation. If you go look at shitlib subreddits, you basically have to scroll down the bottom before you see anyone even mention Israel. Lots of talk about Nazis or gestapo or brown shirts, but absolutely no acknowledgment of the country this is being done in behalf of.

https://x.com/kenklippenstein/status/1904215179002282086

Grok's woke

https://x.com/AssLatam/status/1905054127173836848

Fuck Israel, fuck the US, free Palestine

Apparently in El Salvador Nayib Bukele did the exact same thing that got Evo Morales ousted: had the Supreme Court declare that term limits don't apply and got re-elected despite the constitution.

Weird how the US didn't coup him

Let's talk Qatar.

I have been always fascinated by Qatar. Their weird contradictory political position, together with their ruthless ambition makes them a genuinely interesting country to observe. I spent a few weeks touring the Middle East before covid and getting married and settling down. Of all the Gulf states, Qatar was the country that gave me the biggest feeling of "living here wouldn't be bad you know". The UAE is of course the posterchild of Gulf states, but everything about it felt artificial, but Qatar is authentic in a way that I can't describe. The Friday sermon in the Doha mosque that I went to talked in detail about a Muslim's duty to defend other Muslims, while the UAE mosque talked about a Muslim's duty to honor his leaders. Qatar is in some way committed to what I can only describe as Islamic populism, which doesn't put the country as a natural enemy to Iran's Islamic republicanism.

Their projects are also more successful than expected. They were the only committed Arab nation to toppling Assad by 2024, and succeeded in that. They managed to stabilise Tripoli in Libya and their areas are way more successful and stable than the UAE-backed warlord government in Benghazi. They weathered the storm from Western media and hosted a successful FIFA World Cup. They built a good metro system that doesn't just serve the Disney Land style straight line developments like the Dubai Metro. They integrated the sons of immigrants to Qatar in a way that the UAE completely failed in doing, which is why the Qatari football team is now filled with Yemenis, Egyptians and Iraqis fighting for the team and winning cups while the UAE plays Brazilian boomers and gets embarrassed. They overcame the dumbass siege that the UAE and Saudi Arabia put on them in 2017 with an incredible resilience that strengthened their national identity. Their media investments has made Al Jazeera the undisputed number one news channel in the Arab World, BeIN Sports the number one sports network in the world, and almost every good Arab journalist has spent some time in Qatar. Their only big L is perhaps losing the battle with the UAE in Egypt when they failed to protect the MB against the military coup in 2013.

I have some strange admiration for them that is completely illogical and contradictory compared to my political beliefs. They're in tune with the Arab public in a way that the UAE and Saudi could never achieve. They've leveraged their relations with Hamas, Israel, the Taliban, Iran and Hezbollah into something that generated some kind of material benefit unlike the UAE's disgusting endless cucking for American Republican and Israeli interests. In the end, yeah, they're an American client state with a massive military base in Al Udaid, but their million sins can perhaps be slightly washed away by the fact that a random Sudanese civilian can wear a Sinwar hoodie on their way to a Friday sermon about the slaughter of civilians in Gaza, while watching Al Jazeera's coverage of Israel's bombing of South Lebanon.

I'm just rambling here, so I hope it's at least semi-coherent.

In my experience, those who say Israel and Palestine are both bad tend to really fucking hate Palestine but not mind Israel all that much.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3303463/china-lays-down-law-facial-recognition-first-focus-privacy-security

SCMP – China lays down the law in facial recognition first with focus on privacy, security

...but at what cost???

New: Rubio confirmed he revoked the visa of the Tufts student and said he likely has revoked the visas of hundreds more. “We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take way their visas." The total # of revoked visas “might be more than 300 at this point." The student had co-authored an opinion column on Gaza in the student newspaper. Rubio was asked what she did to merit her visa being revoked, but did not offer specifics to her case, only suggesting that his criteria goes beyond writing columns.

https://x.com/John_Hudson/status/1905315517642281226

https://xcancel.com/John_Hudson/status/1905315517642281226

Asked if they have any intelligence to suggest foreign backing for pro-Palestinian college protests, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard tells Congress, "there are some assessments that reflect that and we can talk about that in the closed session."

https://x.com/kenklippenstein/status/1905111743711289707

https://xcancel.com/kenklippenstein/status/1905111743711289707

There is a clear moment here to cast Zionism as a direct threat to "American liberties" (I know a lot of people here won't phrase like that but it is what it is) but I highly doubt any Democrats have the spine to push it.

Imma be honest, courts in developing countries have more teeth than this.

https://x.com/ryangrim/status/1905604580957729119

In the Netherlands (ruled by a fascist coalition government) a bill sponsored by the neolib social democrat leader of the biggest opposition party (GL-PvdA) to help fund Radio Free Europe to make up for the loss of US funds was passed. Even the Socialist Party voted in favor. The only parties who opposed it were the CDA (right-wing Christian democrats), FVD (fascists), and PVV (fascists).

The website for the Alliance of Sahel States is at https://aes.ml/, which is just an amazing URL.

In some Lemmyverse news, Hexbear is now refed'd with lemmygrad.ml, with lemmygrad.ml users and posts showing up on embassy of Hexbear on Lemmygrad comm

OG post: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7382514

Renowned Japanese video game designer Hideki Kamiya has reflected on the recent Assassin's Creed Shadows controversies by asserting that "normal people" don't care about them. His remarks were offered alongside some high praise for the Assassin's Creed Shadows development team.

The latest entry in Ubisoft's long-running series has been mired in controversy since its May 2024 reveal, which confirmed that the game would have a black protagonist, based on a real historical figure known as Yasuke. This fueled a lot of online vitriol, including cases of people vandalizing Yasuke's Wikipedia page and Elon Musk declaring "DEI kills art" while referencing Assassin's Creed Shadows.

Famous Japanese game designer Hideki Kamiya has recently reflected on this state of affairs by stating that "a few super-intense people" made "a big fuss" about Assassin's Creed Shadows. At the same time, the creator of Okami and Bayonetta believes that these detractors are simply a loud minority, having said as much in a March 24 tweet. Elaborating on this notion, Kamiya asserted that most "normal people" adopt an "it's fine" stance when it comes to things like video game-related drama, noting that this phenomenon isn't exclusive to the Assassin's Creed Shadows controversies.

It really tells you how things are going when Ukraine/Reddit is bringing back classics like "Putin fell down the stairs, pooped himself, and will die soon".

Meanwhile Putin is bringing back his own greatest hits: "all goals of the SMO will be achieved"

These are the most incompetent idiots that the US has ever had.

Trump administration accidentally texted secret bombing plans to a reporter

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-secret-bombing-plans-to-a-reporter/

“Kidnapped”: 1,000+ Protest After Masked ICE Agents Abduct Tufts Ph.D. Student Rumeysa Ozturk - Democracy Now

London without Ninjas will not be the same..

Chat, is America cooked? This doesn't seem good

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00938-y

"A huge oil spill in Ecuador turned rivers black, leaving 80,000+ families and 400,000+ people without water. Extracting oil in tropical forests ensures more disasters—no 'net zero' policy can offset this."

https://x.com/PGDynes/status/1904650079450886532

Per Reuters: "CK Hutchison will not sign deal to sell strategic Panama ports next week, sources say"

Looks like the Chinese threats against CK Hutchinson, and their directives to state owned enterprises to cease business with CK Hutchinson in response to them potentially signing this deal, might have worked their magic.

Azov Brigade: Introducing our Asian comrade named [racial slur against Asians] (CW: racial slur against Asians):
https://xcancel.com/azov_media/status/1906029395501875242

https://www.yahoo.com/news/poland-withstand-invasion-2-weeks-123604109.html Poland can withstand invasion for 2 weeks before NATO steps in, security chief says

Been saying people really underestimate the logistics of a total war.

https://xcancel.com/cecild84/status/1904129263759974639:

🇳🇪🇨🇳Niger-China Relations- No Break, But a Necessary Readjustment:

The Minister of Petroleum, Dr. Sahabi Oumarou, reassured the public: "This is not a break in technical cooperation between the State of Niger and China, nor a denunciation of the contracts binding Niger to Chinese companies." However, he highlighted persistent imbalances in the distribution of wealth generated by oil exploitation. "The strength of a partnership rests above all on respect for the laws and commitments of the parties. However, we are not satisfied with the distribution of wealth, particularly with regard to the salaries of Nigerien employees compared to those of expatriates, the Nigerization of key positions, the transfer of technology, and the market share allocated to local companies," he declared.

The minister announced strong measures to rebalance this cooperation. These include the dismissal of the Managing Directors of CNPCNP (China National Petroleum Corporation Niger Petroleum) and SORAZ (Société de Raffinage de Zinder), as well as the Managing Director of WAPCO (West African Gas Pipeline Company). These decisions follow several unsuccessful attempts at readjustment. "After 20 years of partnership, key positions continue to be occupied by expatriates, which demonstrates a lack of genuine willingness to transfer skills," he lamented.

Dr. Sahabi Oumarou also insisted on standardizing the salary scale within the three oil companies concerned. "Nigerians must take back control of the exploitation of their resources. We demand that salaries be aligned and that local skills be valued," he insisted. He reaffirmed the commitment of the highest authorities to implement concrete actions to improve the daily lives of Nigeriens, in accordance with the August 2, 2024, order on local content.

Damn, it took almost dying from a lynch mob of rabid Zionists for him to be properly credited:
https://xcancel.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1906129001405399463

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has apologized for excluding Palestinian co-director Hamdan Ballal’s name in its response to the Israeli settler attack and his subsequent detainment.

Following global outcry from the film industry, including 690 Academy members, among them Mark Ruffalo, Riz Ahmed, Ava DuVernay, and Alfonso Cuaron, the Academy issued a follow-up letter on Friday acknowledging its omission.

“We regret that we failed to directly acknowledge Mr. Ballal and the film by name,” read the statement from Academy CEO Bill Kramer and President Janet Yang, adding that the Academy “condemns violence of this kind anywhere in the world” and opposes the suppression of free speech "under any circumstances."

Reporter: Are you worried about stagflation?

Trump: I haven’t heard that term in years. I don’t know anything about it.. this country is going to boom. We’re going to have boomtown. We’re going to boom

its going to boom nerds

Dead Letters: Neoliberalism Kills Mail Delivery In Denmark

Postal services in the Nordic hermit kingdom will cease at the end of this year after 401 years of continuous operations. Postal operator PostNord, a neoliberal "run it like a business" abomination jointly owned by the Danish and Swedish states, has announced that it is no longer profitable to distribute letters and that they will end the service. The iconic red letterboxes will be removed from the streets, postage stamps will no longer be issued and 1.500 mail carriers will be fired.

Update from Ryan Grim on the SECDEF Signals/Groyper Group Chat/Washington WhatsApps:

So the leak was either intentional by the National Security Advisor, or he didn't realize what he was doing by sharing a Signal group chat with Goldberg. Waltz is a retired colonel who served with the Green Berets. I wonder if parts of the Pentagon are in revolt/trying to reign Trump in. Goldberg is burning a very high placed source by running this story.

A bunch of Bolivian communists (MLMs?) come out in support of Morales:
https://xcancel.com/camilapress/status/1905291303274807529

Rumor is that US Hedge Funds are already asking the federal government to prepare for a bailout. The last time that the US government bailed out hedge funds was when they bailed out basis trades. Basically, hedge funds are getting reliable profits from tiny differences between Treasuries and derivatives, but this is only profitable as long as the government bails you out when you would be taking a loss. Last time a government bailout of this sector happened was 2019/2020. Imagine playing in a casino and when you lose, the government covers that, but you are free to walk away with any winnings.

EU boots in Ukraine will only make it more likely for the ukronazis to try and pull some false flag shit in order to try and recapture the Donbass and Crimea, this time with full EU support, not only in material but also with troops. They're kicking us towards open conflict with russia and tell us its to preserve peace. Only Meloni is acting as a voice of reason (still dont have to hand it to 'em). Fuck me i hate this place.

Pretty good article. Especially the conclusion.

• Ken Klippenstein's "Iran War" by Evan Carroll

Spoiler: we're not at war with Iran, and the empire is doing nothing new... yet anyway

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I will focus on three articles as a body of work and argue that they create a false sensationalist narrative that can only exist in a vacuum devoid of context.

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What I see in the above three articles is a desire to conflate being at war, undergoing special preparations for war, and the Empire’s routine bellicose statecraft. This gives readers a near existential-threat which widens the window of acceptable non-war responses, and distracts from other material issues.

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The goal here isn’t to defend Trump. It’s to refocus liberals that I feel would otherwise run around pretending like they’re hippie pacifists, all while defending a genocide in Palestine. If you don’t want a War with Iran, and you want an explicit and principled anti-war peace ticket, you need to look at least as far left as the Green Party. Rest assured, the GOP’s rhetoric is always going to be threats and chest pounding. The Democratic rhetoric is always going to trail the GOP by a single hair.

This USA is in bed with Israel and Saudi Arabia both of which view Iran as an existential threat. If The Empire continues to exist in its current form, war will never be off the table and there will always be well maintained plans for a nuclear strike on Iran. A strike which will result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands with an invasion that will easily kill a million. At least until a Mullah figures out how to refine enough Uranium to secure the regime.

If you think Trump is the worst president ever, you’re wrong. George W. Bush ran circles around Trump. I remember George W. Bush. When we’re seriously considering a war with Iran, they’ll bring back Section 9528 of No Child Left Behind (2002) or some similar Obama-era nonsense with a nicer veneer. Then we will again have military recruiters at our high school lunch tables. I remember those days. Iran won’t be a cake walk. If and when we get serious, we’ll give high school kids invitations to the imperial meat grinder.

Good stuff on the rhetoric, nuclear doctrine, etc. in the elided sections. But this summarizes the essence of the message, I think.

US airstrikes on Yemen continue for the 13th night in a row, with multiple rounds of airstrikes, with multiple strikes each, targeting various areas of the capital city Sana'a, including the leadership centre and airport, along with various strikes in different areas in the Sana'a, Saada and Hodeidah Governorates.

Strikes reported in Al Jawf Governorate.

Strikes targeting mountains in Amran Governorate. 8 airstrikes reported.

Total of 19 airstrikes targeting Arman Governorate, including communications networks.

Very intense rounds of airstrikes currently taking place.

More airstrikes in Marib Governorate.

Over 45 total airstrikes reported tonight, this is the most intense round of airstrikes since the beginning of the current campaign against Ansarallah in Yemen.

Al Masirah TV twitter

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Prosecutor accidentally plays porn clip at trial of far-right former president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe.

The criminal trial of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was bizarrely derailed by a prosecutor who mistakenly played a porn video of a woman stripping naked and a dwarf dancing with a bottle of booze. Marlene Orjuela, the lead prosecutor for Attorney General's Office, was searching through an archive of folders to present evidence submitted by Uribe's lawyer, Dr. Diego Cadena, during the March 7 virtual court hearing.

In the first video, a man could be seen dancing in front of a parked vehicle and drinking out of a can before the 35-second clip was cut off by Marlene, who laughed and apologized to Judge Sandra Heredia. Uribe stared at the camera and kept a straight face while a member of his legal team giggled. 'What a pity, your honor, we wanted to show everything that Dr. Cadena ordered and there was no foresight that one issue was that,' Orjuela said.

Orjuela proceeded to click on one of the other 57 files that she had on her screen when she brought up a video of a woman posing in swimming attire. The video quickly shifted to the woman removing her one-piece swimsuit. 'What a shame, Madam Judge,' Orjuela said as she immediately cut off the video.

Uribe is the first former president in the history of Colombia to be put under trial as he is facing bribery and witness tampering charges. The government alleges that Uribe attempted to influence witnesses after leftist senator Iván Cepeda accused him being tied to a paramilitary group founded by ranchers in the 1990s to fight rebel groups.

The case dates back to 2012, when Uribe filed a libel suit against Cepeda with the Supreme Court, the entity charged with investigating elected officials. However, the court dropped charges against Cepeda and began to investigated Uribe in 2018. Uribe, who governed from 2002 to 2010, was formally charged in May 2024 and could face up to 12 years in prison if he is convicted.

"A temporary administration could be introduced in Ukraine, under the supervision of the UN, the US, European countries and our partners. This would serve to hold democratic elections and bring to power a capable government that enjoys the trust of the people. And then start negotiations with them on a peace treaty." Putin on Zelensky and the end of the Ukrainian war.

“Putin will die soon, that's a fact, and it will come to an end” Zelesnky on Putin and the end of the war.

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Apparently Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa is in Florida to beg for US troops to be sent to Ecuador. Ostensibly to help in their “drug war”, but conveniently only two weeks before the runoff of their presidential election where Noboa was only 0.17pp above the center-left Correist candidate in the first round and is currently polling 7pp below her in the runoff.

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