Trump's victory, and the further mass oppression of minorities, is closer than ever before. May god have mercy on our souls.
previous preamble
The totalitarian capitalist dystopia which was created by the United States in the aftermath of the Korean War has increasingly experienced problems as the multipolar world is being gradually birthed.
Due to the widespread exploitation of the population, long work weeks, and high housing prices, the population growth of South Korea has plummeted, with the lowest fertility rate on the planet, and the highest suicide rate in the OECD. While a capitalist "success story" before the 2008 recession in terms of profit accumulation for the richest at the expense of most others, conditions have grown more dire in the Long Depression since the crash. GDP growth per year has averaged out at 2-3%. For more concrete figures, labour productivity has stagnated, particularly in the service sector. The rate of profit hit a peak when the dictatorship ended in the late 1980s, but has since massively tumbled. These dynamics are not unique to South Korea; they are happening throughout the West.
While South Korea is stagnating, perhaps even falling, its northern neighbour is rising. With Russia already persona non grata to much of the developed world and yet still maintaining fairly good economic growth and continuously albeit gradually moving towards victory in Ukraine, Putin sees no reason to be intimidated by the West's shunning of the DPRK, and Russia is establishing ties as well as military and economic deals. This seems to portend an end to the post-Soviet period of forced isolation due to UN actions forbidding the people of the DPRK to leave the country (which many westerners believe is a policy originating from the Korean leadership due to their propagandized education).
Many in the West are still, regrettably, unable to properly analyze the geopolitical situation of Korea due to their government programming, leading to bizarre takes about imminent collapse, or desperation on the part of Russia or the DPRK, unable to recognize that the DPRK has a powerful military sector all its own, and decades of autarky has created a durable society where limited resources must be used efficiently and effectively. The position of the Korean Peninsula seems likely to be a critical part of the US-China conflict, whether this is an outright war or instead a series of proxy wars. Indeed, Korea's position may soon become very important in global trade routes if the US tries to cut off the Strait of Malacca to Chinese-bound cargo ships, with vital resources like oil and food potentially transported both over land and via the Arctic Route over Russia and through the DPRK to China. Russia's leadership clearly sees the importance of Korea in the future, hence their actions now; and, of course, South Korea siding with Ukraine has also forced Putin's hand to oppose them more openly.
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Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section. Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war. Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language. https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one. https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts. https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel. https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator. https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps. https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language. https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language. https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses. https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Two days ago, on the first day of the Islamic month of Muharram, my son was born. The little fucker busted out of my wife a few weeks too early, but he's finally here. We left the hospital a few hours ago after two days of medical checks and both he and my wife are now peacefully sleeping while I'm writing. I won the naming battle and we settled on a traditional, but cool name in my very biased opinion. I'm now Abu Hassan, which sounds unreal, because how the hell am I a father lol. Now the real battle starts, I cannot do the same mistakes that Pete Buttigieg's father did and accidentally make him a liberal. Maybe in 16 years or so, you'll have Hassan LargePenis posting a VR interactive three dimensional chad n cuck ranking in the news mega about the slow Russian progress in the Central European front of WW3. Thank you all in advance for the well wishes!
I gotta say, after having avoided it for years, watching the libs tear each other apart over biden on the politics subreddit is fucking cathartic right now lol
I never would've thought i'd see turbolibs throwing around "blueMAGA" at each other like this hahaha
why do I even bother touching grass when extremely funny things keep happening while I do so.
I saw this when I loaded up Hexbear and I was just like "oh fuck, has Israel invaded Lebanon or did Russia hit NATO or something?":
must once again make an effort to be 100% online at all times. put the newsmega microchip in my brain
the sheer whiplash from "WE MUST DEFEAT TRUMP AT ALL COSTS! we're so desperate that we have to consider ditching the president to do so. it's the ONLY WAY to defeat fascism and Project 2025" to "<3 get well soon, hope your hospital stay is good, xoxoxo" from liberals is going to be extremely entertaining. violence is never the answer unless it happens to be against Palestinian children.
Every westerner who has opinions for a living is going over the Trump shooting right now. "Political violence" is unacceptable, we are told. It's an attack on Our Democracy™, we are told. People who were talking about how dangerous Trump was are now wishing him well because of how beyond the pale the shooting was.
Meanwhile, in a very different instance of "political violence", the very same people are sitting on their ass doing absolutely nothing as hundred thousands of Palestinians are being murdered in the zionist genocide. That's not a big deal to western professional opinion-haverd, at least not big enough to do anything about beyond at best saying that both sides are bad and voice an uncommitting support for the general idea of a "two-state solution".
It has never been more clear that when the media- and political elite are talking about how "political violence is unacceptable" what they really mean is that it is unacceptable for the violence to affect them personally. They are clutching their pearls because the violence that they are so nonchalant about inflicting on others suddenly got too close to one of of their own.
the whole ruling class crying about "political violence" after months of manufacturing consent for the ongoing genocide of Palestine is entirely about the state reclaiming their monopoly on violence, right?
My newest flex on the libs is that the Democratic Party needs to drop out of the U.S. presidential race entirely, so that a candidate from e.g. the Green Party who actually has a chance of winning can take their place. Neither Genocide Joe nor some yutz the Democrats pick using a completely undemocratic appointment process is going to win.
Move over. Leftists are coming through. Your blue vote is just a protest/spoiler now. Sorry.
Remember in the first days of the genocide, when Israel bombed a hospital (I think it was Al-Shifa?) and killed like 400-500 people? Except Israel came out and said “oh that wasn’t us that was a wayward Hamas rocket”. And then the American media did a full court press of taking everything Israel and the US govt said at face value. And even beyond that, all the major news outlets would keep bringing on OSINT guests who would explain how it could have been a Hamas rocket, but rarely if even did they explain why it was Israel?
No one can possibly think that it was anyone other than Israel now. But that whole thing has been memory holed (like the beheaded babies) so even if you try to remind people about it, they don’t care.
The new theorized death toll numbers (from Lancet) are too much to bear. If those numbers are true, then the genocide of Gaza - in terms of a percent of the population killed and wounded - is right up there with the worst crimes of the 20th century. The Nazi invasion of the USSR, the American genocides in Korea and Vietnam, the bombing of Cambodia, etc. And all of those took place over a matter of years, not months.
Death to America and Death to Israel. Libs in the US had better pray to whatever deity might be out there that this country never gets what it actually deserves. Because Jeremiah Wright was right. We absolutely deserve hell on earth.
All the redditors who salivated 24/7 over gore footage of surrendering Russian conscripts being shot are now telling us that political violence is never acceptable.
Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20 yr old from Bethel Park, PA. He was wearing a gun youtube merch shirt and is a registered Republican for what its worth. Kind of looks like a lone crank honestly. Thank god it wasn't a leftist doing a
Bernie Sanders on Biden on Capitol Hill: “You heard him last night, he was not incoherent. Apparently this morning he was not incoherent. But you might want to rephrase [the question] and say a president who has maybe done more for the working class in the last four years than any president in modern history.
Since July 8, 2022,
Shinzo Abe has not uttered a bad word about China,
paid respects to war criminals at the Yasukuni Shrine,
involved himself in Cross-Strait Affairs,
nor has he whitewashed WWII war crimes!
Okay what the fuck, I disappear for a few days after my son's birth and I miss the assassination attempt on Big Don T. What a world, this is why one should never log off. What a moment for the dumbass undecided voter who votes on pure unfiltered vibes, one guy can barely talk while the other guy gets shot and then raises his fist in victory. Say what you want about Donny, but there hasn't been such a good showman politician in a long time. His brain scattering on the floor would've been funnier and more iconic, but this is better for the accelerationists here, a more unhinged Trump on a revenge tour might just send America deeper into the spiral. Trump dying would mean that the old party heads nominate some robot loser who wins and actually stabilises the deep brainworms.
I am really starting to think that the liberal infighting and constant media coverage about Biden's age is an attempt at hedging against any argument that his electoral failure is tied to his support for the genocide in Gaza. Biden was not going to win the election against trump before this debate, it was already assured that millions would refuse to hold their nose and vote for him regardless. But now the ruling class can ignore this sort of analysis and focus on, "Biden lost because he was too old, he couldn't connect with young people" and they will hammer that home until they can completely erase the effect of the first anti-imperialist mass movement in the USA since the Vietnam war. The death toll coming out from the Lancet article had really driven this home for me. They have fully convinced themselves they can invent their own reality. The public hand-wringing the Biden admin has done, all while being primarily responsible for the genocide continuing as it has, is just so absurd for anyone paying close attention. This is probably the worst atrocity of the 21st century (so far ) and they will try their best to erase any electoral consequences, and thus erase anti-imperialist discourse from popular understanding of history. Seems even more important now to symbolically vote for an anti-imperialist candidate like Claudia de la Cruz, because even a relatively large, but still marginal vote in a battleground state would be hard to ignore, particularly if liberals decide to demonize and blame 3rd party voters for a Trump victory. "If everyone who had voted for de la cruz in Georgia voted for Biden, he would have won" etc. etc.
The senator who brought a snowball into Congress to prove that climate change is a hoax is dead. They're calling it a "sudden, unexpected illness" but I think we should decide it was heat stroke.
the frantic text polling of "Will you vote for Joe Biden to save democracy?" has now changed. this morning I got a spam poll asking me if I would accept Kamala Harris as the democratic nominee
is full of feckless losers. Trump, good sir, I apologize wholeheartedly for any danger that came your way! Alas, we will beat you in a fair competition in November, or else our democracy will be destroyed by your victory.
been listening to a lot recently and I love how the libs in the chat are getting more annoying by the day. They make a big talk about "pushing the democrats left", but when someone actually tries to do something akin to that they flip their fucking shit with:
Why are you always only critiquing only the democraaaaaaaaaats!!!
Somewhat noteworthy given he's probably the highest profile non-politician to speak out, but the real juice is this:
It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe “big F-ing deal” Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.
I think that's the first time someone is going on the record to say they've seen him go doo-doo brain in another instance. Of course it was known that's been happening at least 15-20 times thanks to Carl Bernstein and co., but that was all on background or deep background.
Everyone knows that large amounts of new comments means something happened, but when the title and preamble get edited, that’s when you know something really happened
I’ve posted this multiple times before, but I’m going to say it again as my mind is still blasted from knowing this:
Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff took a “career break” in the 1980s to run a pub in South Armagh (which to the unfamiliar was an area of, shall we say, “active community involvement” in the fight for Irish freedom)
Keir Starmer defended Berlusconi as part of his legal team during his appeal at the European Court of Human Rights
Keir Starmer was part of the legal team that got the murder conviction of Sergeant Lee Clegg quashed
Keir Starmer played with the Parachute Regiment in an 11-a-side football “grudge” match against the Royal Military Police
Keir Starmer decided as Director of Public Prosecutions that an MI5 agent should not face torture charges for participating in interrogation at Guantanamo Bay. Starmer then attended the leaving party of the head of MI5 a year later
Keir Starmer was Director of Public Prosecutions when the Criminal Prosecution Service decided not to prosecute Jimmy Savile in 2009
Keir Starmer is advised by Peter Mandelson, who according to an internal report by JP Morgan had “a particularly close relationship” with Jeffrey Epstein
Keir Starmer served on the Trilateral Commission
Keir Starmer secretly assembled a leadership campaign team days after Mike Pompeo’s private comments were “leaked” to the press wherein Pompeo pledged to “do [his] level best” to prevent a Corbyn premiership
Keir Starmer’s campaign instructed its candidate running against Nigel Farage to leave the constituency, banned from printing leaflets, blocked from using campaigning software and had access to the campaign’s social media overridden. This happened after the candidate started being a threat to Farage. Farage’s party’s vote share drove Labour’s victory, in a reversal of what happened in 2019.
But reassured, Keith is a normal, regular guy who doesn’t work after 6pm on a Friday.
Cpusa, who have spent the past decade pissing their pants and crying that Trump is a fascist says violence against fascism is wrong and we gotta follow Biden to victory over fascism
Liberals have completely lost their minds saying that the Trump shooting is fake. Really going full BlueMAGA now. Spectators died and there's videos of the shooter's body on a rooftop. It happened.
Qassam sniper: I keep looking for Yair [Netanyahu] to put a bullet in his head. But Netanyahu won’t send his son to fight, just these morons. (He then shoots an Israeli soldier).
“The idea that there’s political violence … in America like this, is just unheard of, it’s just not appropriate,” said President Joe Biden, the backer of Israel’s genocidal war against Palestine, with a death toll that researchers believe could reach 186,000 Palestinians. Biden’s narrower point was correct, though: Deadly attacks on the American ruling class are vanishingly rare these days. Political violence that is not “like this” — the political violence of organized abandonment, poverty, militarized borders, police brutality, incarceration, and deportation — is commonplace.
It’s over. We’re talking about one of the most ruthless US presidents out there. Dude just destroyed Europe, started wars that killed hundreds of thousands with Russia and in the Middle East. These people don’t know who they’re up against.
I think I'm going to deny that Trump got shot. Like, if anyone brings it up to me, I'm just going to say it's an internet hoax. Same I do with the cicada broods.
It was during the twilight of King Brandon the Feeble-minded's reign, back when the realm still struck terror across the seas with fire and steel. The corridors of Brandon's Great White Hall were teeming with whispers of plots by illoyal jarls to dethrone the aging and inept monarch. Yet, these murmurings fell silent when bards delivered grim tidings: a mere peasant had dared to take the life of the Orange Troll King. Though the attempt failed through what was believed to be divine intervention, it was deemed a dire omen, foretelling great calamity.
Despite his trollish nature, the Orange Troll King was of royal blood, and the attempt on his life was seen as a sacrilege, angering the ancestral spirits who founded the kingdom in ancient times. Throughout the realm, priests and nobles gathered, publicly beseeching the heavens to show mercy and spare the kingdom from divine wrath.
In a rare moment of lucidity, King Brandon commanded all forces defending the realm against the raiders of the Orange Troll King to stand down. He feared the spirits might interpret resistance as an endorsement of the sacrilegious act, thus inviting their vengeance upon the land.
Remember when Shinzo "Have Sex" Abe died, and his supporters started blaming the JCP, CDP and Reiwa for "inciting" people to kill the former prime minister?
The Republicans are literally doing the same thing to the Democrats. While the Democrats are being polite to a guy who has said several times that he wants to arrest them all and send them to Guantanamo Bay, lol.
In news on Burkina Faso, the country is set to pass a new Code of Persons and Family, which criminalises homosexuality, only recognises religious and customary marriages, and allows for the "loss of nationality" for those that have acted against the interest of the country, whereas previously only desnaturalisation was the consequence of that. The transitional government has also been extended by five years, now that the initial two years will be over in September.
Burkina Faso's decision to outlaw homosexual relations is part of an overhaul of its marriage laws.
The new legislation, which still needs to be passed by the military-controlled parliament and signed off by junta leader Ibrahim Traoré, only recognises religious and customary marriages.
"Henceforth homosexuality and associated practices will be punished by the law," the justice minister was quoted by AFP news agency as saying.
No mention of the rest of the changes to the code or the plan to extend military rule by the BBC, which is interesting. This is still very bad news.
New theory: The MAGA guy that got ventilated was an assassin sent by Killary to kill Trump. The shooter on the Roof was Biden's guy sent to stop Killary's assassin to protect democracy. Biden's guy whacked Killary's guy, saving trump, then got taken out.
I was surely a fool to think that the Biden campaign wouldn't collapse under its own weight long before October, and now Trump has just cinched it by taking fire from some great man theory dipshit
Now netanyahu doesn't even have to bother leaking audio from calls with Biden in October. I still hope he does though. I want democrats to be forced to stare directly into their complicity.
I'm watching a longer video of the stage and the SS really look like chumps. they let trump up, no bulletproof blankets, the cameraman has a clear view of trumps head. I thought these guys were supposed to be competent?
eSStonian Supreme Court ruled the phrase "from the river to the sea" to be "pro-Hamas, pro-genocide, pro-war crime" just on Thursday. One person has to pay not only €120 in fines, but €10,000 (€830 pm) within a year for "expertise fees".
People are being so conspiracy-brained about this. Many people seem to think a nice photo with an American flag coming from a rally is somehow so unlikely that it has to be staged. I saw someone claim the whole crowd was paid actors but they were also not trained to react like how a crowd reacts when there is a shooter, for some reason. And for what, it's not obvious this will even help him that much.
Unironically, Biden’s numbers could be boosted if Trump doesn’t play his card right and the Democrats capitalize on the threat of a new wave of Republican terror during Trump’s second term.
If Trump is as politically astute as he thinks he is, he will back off from the more aggressive fascist rhetoric and even switch to a more reconciliatory tone. He’s practically won at this point, and it would’t hurt his numbers to campaign on a softer tone.
On the other hand, if Trump does not hide his streak for vengeance, then it might re-mobilize voters to vote for the Democrats to prevent Trump’s second term again. Biden might squeeze out a win from this if Trump makes the wrong move.
So, one wildcard assassination incident has changed completely the electoral calculus.
Biden is no longer facing the heat of having to step down from being the Democratic nominee (all the criticisms about his poor debate performance are now thrown out of the window), the attention has successfully been diverted away from the genocide in Gaza, and instead he can now fully capitalize on the perceived terror of Trump’s revenge if he gets into office once again.
People who said they would not vote for Genocide Joe, are now having second thoughts about whether handing the presidency to Trump is truly worth it. In fact, we are already seeing an underlying current of this thought on Hexbear based on the comments I’ve read.
The Russian government has made an official reaction to the failed Trump assassination. Spokesman Peskov starts by stating that Putin has no plans to call Trump and goes on to say:
It was obvious to all outside observers that the life of former US President and new presidential candidate Donald Trump was in jeopardy, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
"After numerous attempts to remove candidate Trump from the political arena using legal instruments at first, courts, the prosecutor’s office, attempts to politically discredit and compromise the candidate it was obvious to all outside observers that his life was in jeopardy," he said.
In a grainy video posted by the gossip site TMZ, Mr. Stephanopoulos can be seen in workout clothes walking on a sidewalk in Midtown Manhattan. An unseen stranger approaches the anchor but keeps his phone camera angled away; Mr. Stephanopoulos was presumably unaware that the person was recording him.
“Do you think Biden should step down?” the stranger asks. “You’ve talked to him more than anybody else has lately.”
“I don’t think he can serve four more years,” Mr. Stephanopoulos replies.
Gee I don't know, my Leader doesn't get shot at by random people at speeches... , tells you a lot about the differences between China and the sick man of the world.
Do you people think Trump will be emotionally scarred from this? Like will he develop a massive fear to be just randomly assasinated at any rally in the next four to five years? He will develop some paranoia?
Default sorting seems to have changed from new to popular.
This is the material condition that caused us news junkies to lose power to the trans faction and now they’re going to use the power of dialectical motion to force us to be cat girls.
Me: You can't explain Malaysia-Singapore relations in one sentence
in 1916: "It is possible that the republican movement in one country may be merely an instrument of the clerical or financial-monarchist intrigues of other countries; if so, we must not support this particular, concrete movement"
The funny (sad, not "haha") thing about the failed assasination of Trump isn't that it will galvanize supporters or make people switch their vote or vote harder for him but that it will be wasted by Dems/Biden who can't stop tripping over themselves to do things that show they really don't view Trump/Republicans/Conservatives as the existential threat they constantly are painting them as.
I'm thinking it will make it harder for fence sitters to vote for Biden or any D flavored politician.
I'm incredibly interested in the future volume of votes in the general election compared to the last few.
I'm also really interested to see if this triggers actual gunfire at polling places.
Anyone else noticed that radical liberals on Reddit are getting nervous about Trump winning, and are using bots to prop up new subreddits with the goal of posting negative news about Donald Trump and getting it to the front page of Reddit, to try somehow decrease Trump's chances? In particular the subreddits r/NewsOfTheStupid and r/AnythingGoesNews. So much inorganic activity. Most of the posts are done by the same handful of accounts. It reminds me of when radical liberals did something similar around 2020 with subreddits r/MurderedByAOC to try prop up her and Bernie Sanders. Or the current most botted subreddit, r/FluentInFinance, where the entire goal is to drive debate in the comments between radical liberals, liberals and conservatives with bait like twitter screenshots of hot takes, with the end goal being to drive traffic to the subreddit owner's website.
The reason these bot campaigns are interesting is because they're not being done by large outside influences/state actors or foreign/domestic intelligence agencies, that's on subreddits like r/WorldNews and r/Politics. These campaigns are being run by ordinary individuals, essentially Reddit "powermods" doing this out of their own volition, with their own money and resources to personally promote what they want, because they are scared of Trump winning the election. It shows just how dire it is for Biden really, that people are so scared of how good Trump's chances of winning are, that they resort to this activity. Essentially an "organic" bot campaign done by and for radical liberal redditors. Like an ostrich burying its head in the sand and encouraging all the other ostriches to do the same. With users like this, Reddit doesn't even need the three letter agencies to manage site policy. The redditors will do it themselves.
that press conference sucked so bad. he held it together during the teleprompter phase but then it was just a steady downhill walk during questions as the cocktail, including enough adrenaline to kill a blue whale, wore off. and then he fell off a canyon at the end
I really hope Putin, Xi, and Kim Jong Un were in a call together laughing at this shit
you can really tell that most of the journalists in the room were there to convey the message of "please god step down or we might lose to Trump, why not make Kamala the candidate? will you really condemn us to defeat? think of your legacy" and he was just like "listen jack, we have the best economy, the best numbers. we got putin on the ropes. we're gonna get peace in Israel. I got the best chances, nobody else can do it. vice president trump and I have got this election in the bag. the election, is uh. anyway. you know the thing. I forget. anyway, next question, please." and the journalists were getting increasingly annoyed and trying to word the question differently.
he got a few softballs but literally 90% of the questions were about whether he should maybe perhaps possibly consider stepping down and whether he's fit for office, albeit sometimes worded in oblique ways. if he wasn't a genocidal fascist madman directly responsible for millions of deaths then I might have had a tinge of sympathy for the constant questions, but he deserves all the discomfort he receives in this life and when he inevitably goes straight to the depths of hell
Just put 2 and 2 together and how wild is it that the same day Trump nearly gets domed the guy most famous for impersonating Trump gets away with killing someone
It's interesting to see a few liberal pragmatists in a sea of Neocon double-down brainworms.
I really believe NATO could reach a peace deal with "security guarantees", with the current front line locked in as the new border and still sell it as a victory (though it would have been far better to do it in 2022 despite the Boris Johnson meeting). It will only get worse for them the longer it goes on.
Seems reddit mods/admins are deleting the dumb conspiracies about it being staged. Can't believe BlueMAGA is that deep into conspiracy. Like who would stage a headshot...
عثرنا على جثامين شهداء متفحمة وبيوت أحرقت بالكامل في تل الهوا ومنطقة الصناعة
انتشلنا شهداء من عائلة واحدة ونتلقى بلاغات استغاثة متواصلة في حي تل الهوا ومنطقة الصناعة
الدفاع المدني بغزة: انتشال 3 شهداء من عائلة زيدية من مربع الصناعة.
Translation:
Civil protection in Gaza: We found the charred bodies of martyrs and completely burned homes in Tal al-Hawa and the al-Sina’a area
The occupation killed people who went to obtain food supplies in Tal al-Hawa and al-Sina’a
We expect the martyrdom of all the residents who were in the Tal al-Hawa and al-Sina’a area after the end of the military operation
The US announced on Wednesday that it will deploy missiles to Germany that would have been banned under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which the US withdrew from in 2019.
The INF prohibited land-based missile systems with a range between 310 and 3,400 miles. The planned deployment to Germany includes a land-based version of nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles, which have a range of about 1,000 miles and are primarily used by US Navy ships and submarines.
He's going to win so fucking hard now. I mean he was going to win before this but now it's 100% over. He will campaign so hard on this and he'll fucking win lmao. There's no fucking way a walking cadaver can win against Trump who just had an assasination attempt.
My conspiracy theory is that Biden ordered the hit but intentionally found the worst shot he could, knowing he'd miss, just to have a chance to demonstrate how civil he could be.
Olaf Schwanz rejects any sort of ceasefire/peace treaty between Russia and Ukraine.
The crackdown on pro-Palestine rallies in Germany still continues, with the provincial government of NRW even requesting groups such as BDS and JVJP be declared nationally as terrorist groups/Hamas intelligence. Activists have even had their homes raided, computers, smartphones and money confiscated.
The proposal to no longer capitalise "Russia" on official documents in Latvia got struck down, L
A children's hospital was hit in Kiev by a confirmed Kh-101 missile. Of course some questions and observations do arise. Does Ukraine also have Kh-101 missiles in their arsenal? If yes, is it possible that the AFU fired at the hospital as a false-flag to garner sympathy from NAFOs and the EU? The missile was not intercepted and reached its target. It also flew in from the west-northwestern direction, hitting behind the Ministry of Infrastructure's HQ, which is southeast-facing. Had it more plausibly been a Russian strike, it would have come from the north or northeast directions, unless of course Russia also launched attacks from Belarus. Or was Belarus indeed one origin point for the 8 July strikes against Kiev? If so, then there is a possibility that Russia launched this missile, either by accident, or to strike a military target allegedly operating in the children's hospital behind the Ministry of Infrastructure.The AFU (and Azov) have been known to operate in hospitals, schools or apartment towers since the conflict began, which is also a war crime. But that fact has been long dismissed as "whataboutism and Putinist/Kremlin/Russian" propaganda, with Putin and Russia being intentionally misspelled by NAFOs of course. As they scream and condemn the alleged Russian strike (even months-years later should it be found that Russia was not guilty), they will sing high praises and give unconditional support to:
The death toll in Gaza is now estimated to be as high as 186,000 according to Lancet, with the upper end estimate even exceeding half a million. National population registries have been destroyed months ago. There are no more mosques, schools or hospitals functioning and even most high-rise buildings are leveled. Humanitarian/civil/EMS services are in a terminal crisis, due to collapse at any moment. Proportionally to South Africa, this is equal to the cities of Cape Town, Mossel Bay and George all being totally destroyed, with Nelson Mandela Bay beginning to be under siege. The upper estimate makes it equivalent to the total destruction of the Gauteng Province (Pretoria and Johannesburg, 1/4ths of South Africa's population). Some yellow-ribbon boers have been actually calling for Gauteng's total destruction also. The homicide rate in Gaza would now amount to 9.9k-21.6k/100k
Hey, maybe that's the Apple Tax - all those free iPhone 15 Pro Max phones that is given to Diaper soldiers are affecting profits and losses need to be recouped somehow. Might as well come up with a justification to charge double that of what is basically a Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra, but with slightly weaker specs, 1 less camera and doesn't even include that pen.
There are at least some better news:
Roland Lamola is now the successor of Naledi Pandor ans South Africa's foreign minister. He is also a staunch supporter of Palestine and serves as one of the judges on the panel supporting South Africa at the ICJ. He has stated he will continue to support the case, as well as Naledi Pandor's positions.
The South African Friends of Israel's DDoS protection is... inadequate. We do a little trolling.
Netanyahu before you sleep, go to the toilet; Put a rubber sheet under the mattress and a pot next to the bed
And that's a wrap. The Democrats are going to commit to Biden til the very end. Barring him being publicly hospitalized or straight up dying, he's going to be the candidate. AOC might be a completely two-faced political opportunist, but she's a smart two-faced political opportunist. It's not because of loyalty that she's doing this. She knows which way the wind is blowing. Very smooth operative:
We're still in the process of contextualizing the attempted assassination but I saw something on reddit about the possible challengers to Biden stopping their movements to oust him. Someone speculated that the dnc is going to just give up on 2024. I can believe that. Who is really going to do that to Biden just to face a stronger Trump? No one can be that stupid, self centered, and arrogant right?
Or is it her turn? (She's probably the only person who could successfully lose every state to Trump)
Anyway, I think the dnc is considering their options and they'll probably have an understanding to let Biden fail but not tell him the plan. I can't think of anything they can do that isn't outside of their character that could win against Trump. Like they'd have to go hard on something like the Epstein connections and accusations and even then.
France has created a new military command to occupy Africa, a move that appears to follow the controversial US Africa Command (AFRICOM) established in 2008.
A French government decree announced that a commander-in-chief, Pascal Ianni, has been tapped to lead the ‘General Command for Africa’ starting on 1 August.
This comes as the European colonial power has pulled soldiers stationed on African soil. Reports say France plans to keep around 600 French soldiers across Chad, Senegal, Ivory Coast and Gabon, down from the 3,800 troops in Africa. News reports claim France plans for ‘discreet’ operations to attract little visibility.
This comes after a series of anti-imperialist revolutions in the countries of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger booted French troops, threatening France’s control over Africa’s Sahel region, which France has militarily occupied for decades through Senegal. Additionally, the Central African Republic expelled the French military in 2022.
It was a false flag folks. The "shooter" was a
Groyper connected agent. The Secret Service ignored all warnings and proper protocol, confirmed by my FBI source (a guy that worked in the Hoover Building cafeteria). Trump wasn't even hit, they smeared cranberry sauce on his ear.
I'm going to make so much money riling up the Biden diehards. But importantly I will not make any of the mistakes Alex did.
Besides myself this morning seeing all the liberal clowns tripping over their dicks to line up and kiss Trump's ass because they know what's coming in November and it's not pretty.
i'm chilling on tumblr and hear about the shooting. its 50% people being sad that the shooter missed and 50% being like "nooooo this is such a propaganda W for him, he's gonna win now :("
so obviously i have to immediately get out of bed and sprint to hexbear, where i know you nerds will have the correct take on this shooting - its fucking hilarious
Unless something wild happens, Trump is by far the lost likely winner in November. Of course all the boot-licking reactions to the assassination attempt is grounded in elite class solidarity but a lot of it can also be seen as various political actors, inside and outside the US, making sure that they are going to be on good terms with the president in waiting.
European rulers might consider Trump a vulgar burger pig that says too many of the quiet parts out loud for their comfort but no matter what he is going to be their overlord in a few months so they have to show him respect.
Imagine if Biden went full BlueMAGA. He would claim that the assassination was staged and say that they have the right to question whether the assassination was fake or not. But they will never do that, Democrats are only aggressive towards minorities and foreign nations.
A funny outcome would be if Biden croaks before election day and since no one wants to step up to eat the inevitable 50 state L, the Democrats decide to not bother fielding a presidential candidate. They'll pull some civility bullshit about not fielding a candidate for the sake of not dividing country. Another funny outcome would be the same except they get a patsy to be the sacrificial lamb as in they got some random 35-year old shmuck to be the candidate.
(US) Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines released a statement (fed site) today insinuating (without evidence) that Iran is behind the anti-genocide protests by manipulating social media, convincing people to take action, and even providing financial assistance in an effort to "stoke discord and undermine confidence in our democratic institutions." This is being boosted (twitter) by Biden campaign staffers.
Literally just Russiagate 2.0. I wonder if they are going to run with this, or if it is simply a moribund trial balloon.
"Israel's" relentless barbaric war on Gaza has led to the closure of 46,000 businesses, according to the Israeli Coface Bdi company, specialized in business information for credit risk management.
According to the company, which stated in its report the Israeli sectors that were the hardest hit, "by the end of 2024, approximately 60,000 businesses in Israel are expected to close."
The UK’s new Labour government is only six days old but its grand project to further privatise the National Health Service (NHS) is already up and running. On his first day in office, “über-Blairite” Health Secretary (and wannabe prime minister) Wes Streeting announced that the NHS was “broken,” which should give his ministry plenty of leeway to inflict further damage while blaming all the resulting chaos and destruction on the last 14 years of Tory government.
By all metrics, the Conservative Party has left the NHS in a state of rack and ruin. One of the largest employers on the planet, the NHS is suffering from crippling staff shortages, dangerously long ambulance waiting times, unprecedented waiting lists for surgery or specialist clinical care — partly due to the coronavirus pandemic but also exacerbated by years of chronic underfunding — and a buckling primary care system.
Whatever the diagnosis, the treatment is already abundantly clear: yet more privatisation. Streeting himself has repeatedly pledged to outdo Tony Blair, his mentor and idol, in deploying the private sector in the provision of NHS care. Now, to help “cure” the NHS of its ills, his Health Ministry is apparently planning to bring back Sir Tony Blair’s health secretary Alan Milburn.
A major foreign country, other than the United States, has since October 7 refused to supply "Israel" with raw materials from which ammunition can be manufactured, the Israeli news website Calcalist revealed on July 9.
Touching on the increasing number of countries that have stopped selling "simple" ammunition to "Israel" the website mentioned that the unnamed country joins Italy, Canada, and Belgium, which have announced the cessation of defense exports to "Israel".
Spain also complicated the arrival of a large arms shipment from India.
The Calcalist reported the Israeli security and military establishment's concern about the possibility of a shortage of ammunition.
The New York Times has previously highlighted that the Israeli occupation military is facing a shortage of 120mm shells for tanks to such an extent that some of the tanks stationed in Gaza are now on partial alert and carry a smaller amount of shells.
Jeon Tae-Il is a heroic figure and martyr for the South Korean Labor Rights movements. At 22, he committed suicide via self-immolation, running through the streets of Seoul screaming "Guarantee the three basic labor rights" and "We workers are human beings too." He was also seen as an instrumental figure as a martyr in sparking the advancement of the pro-democracy movement against dictator Park Chung-Hee, and later Dictator Chun Doo-Hwan following Park's assassination, who would then order the Gwang-Ju massacre in response to particualarly fierce protests there.
It is said that double the population of Gwang-Ju's worth of bullets was sent in response, and brutal anticommunist forces were sent in to murder school children, workers, university students, and elderly. Several thousands were murdered, with many bodies tossed to rot in unmarked mass graves.
Jeon Tae-Il's death led to advancements in the Labor Rights Movement and the establishment of numerous trade unions. His mother would carry on his legacy and contributed to her union until her eventual death.
NATO officials are discussing taking action to reclaim some Chinese-owned infrastructure projects in Europe should a wider conflict with Russia break out in the east of the continent, three officials involved in the discussions told CNN.
They're thinking of seizing assets to start an economic war with China while simultaneously fighting an actual war with Russia. Americans really are hellbent on trying to destroy the euro
Looks like Jez wants to start something like Extinction Rebellion's "People's Assemblies", except they'll be "People's Forums" under him. I suspect that everyone that thought that was a good idea will transfer their interest across to him, it will suck the wind out of XR and under his command. He wants it to become the foundation of an electoral movement down the line.
Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, now an independent MP, has launched a new political strategy aimed at challenging the “stale two-party system” in the UK.
In a column published in the Guardian on Friday, Corbyn said he would begin a monthly “People’s Forum” in his constituency of Islington North, which he said was a “shared, democratic space for local campaigns, trade unions, tenants’ unions, debtors’ unions and national movements to organise” for the future.
He said he believed that such forums could be replicated around the country, and form part of grass-roots campaigning which will help people to “stand up for themselves and against those who have ignored their demands for peace and humanity".
Corbyn said that the movement would not initially entail the creation of a new political party, but would eventually provide an electoral challenge.
“I have no doubt that this movement will eventually run in elections,” he wrote.
“However, to create a new, centralised party, based around the personality of one person, is to put the cart before the horse. Remember that only once strength is built from below can we challenge those at the top.”
He said the movement would grow as long as issues like child poverty, and Israel’s war on Gaza, went unaddressed by those in power in the UK.
“This is just the beginning. It is the beginning of a movement that can win with - and for - communities all over the country. People in power underestimate the power of people at their peril,” he said.
The move comes amid calls for a British left-wing alliance, akin to the New Popular Front (NPF) in France - an electoral alliance of Socialists, Greens, Communists and France Unbowed - which won the most seats in this month's French parliamentary elections.
On Thursday, the campaign group The Muslim Vote called for a political alliance between left-wing parties such as the Green Party and independent groups to challenge the Labour government in future elections.
Former independent lawmaker George Galloway, who leads the Workers Party of Britain, wrote on X last week: “Mr Corbyn must be our #Melanchon He is the best leader to unite all forces behind him in a Popular Front. We in the @WorkersPartyGB and our 210,000 voters will follow him.”
However, left-wing activists told Middle East Eye last week that Galloway's party would struggle to form part of an alliance with elements of the British left, due to socially conservative views and hostility towards the Green Party's agenda on climate change.
'Palestine was on the ballot'
Last week, Corbyn was re-elected as an MP, winning almost 50 percent of the vote in Islington North, the London constituency he has represented for more than four decades.
Corbyn led Labour from 2015 to 2020 but was barred by the party from standing as a candidate and then expelled when he announced his intention to run anyway.
He nonetheless won 49.2 percent of the votes (24,120) in Islington North to win the seat for the 11th time. Labour candidate Praful Nargund, a local councillor, was second with 34.4 percent (16,873).
"Palestine was on the ballot," the veteran left-winger and lifelong pro-Palestine campaigner told MEE last week after his election victory.
"And I promise to stay true to my word to stand up for the Palestinian people and their right to self-determination."
Corbyn had the parliamentary whip withdrawn by his successor Keir Starmer in October 2020 after saying that claims of antisemitism in the party during his time as leader had been "overstated" for political reasons.
Though he was readmitted to the party as a member in November 2020, it refused to let him continue as a Labour MP.
He announced he would stand as an independent when the election was called on 24 May, after which Labour expelled him from the party.
Corbyn is amongst a number of independent candidates elected in constituencies previously held by Labour, where opposition to the party has been fuelled by criticism of its failure to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza until months into the war.
Independent candidate Shockat Adam unseated Jon Ashworth, a prominent member of Labour's shadow cabinet, in the East Midlands constituency of Leicester South.
In the northwestern ex-industrial town of Blackburn, Adnan Hussain unseated Labour's Kate Hollern, while independent Ayoub Khan pulled off a shock win against Labour's long-standing parliamentarian Khalid Mahmood in Birmingham's Perry Barr.
Meanwhile, independent Iqbal Hussain Mohamed earned a resounding victory in the West Yorkshire constituency of Dewsbury and Batley against Labour’s Heather Iqbal. Mohamed won 15,641 votes compared to Iqbal’s 8,707.
Labour frontbencher Thangham Debbonaire also lost her Bristol seat to Green co-leader Carla Denyer.
Frankly infuriating for him to be invoking reproductive rights and the Supreme Court when Dems just shrugged and gave up on that fight before it even started
4:21 PM PT -- A source who has spoken with a member of the Secret Service tells TMZ, Trump was not hit by a bullet. Rather, a bullet hit his teleprompter and the glass struck him by the ear.
The more I read about the shooter, the angrier I get that this kid thought he could pull off an actual assassination.
His high school photo from two years ago makes him look like a little baby. Thanks for making it harder for professionals to take him down in the future. Biden would literally need to give the order for it to happen now.
Pro-tip for all the patsies out there: make sure you take your gun out to the range and sight it in yourself. Don't let your handler just give you a gun day of.
“Rather than verbally attacking Trump in the coming days, the White House and the Biden campaign will draw on the president's history of condemning all sorts of political violence including his sharp criticism of the "disorder" created by campus protests over the Israel-Gaza conflict, campaign officials said on condition of anonymity.”
Saudi Arabia warned it could sell off some European debt holdings in retaliation to a move by the G-7 to seize almost $300bn in frozen Russian assets, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The veiled threat was passed along from Saudi Arabia’s finance ministry earlier this year to some G-7 counterparts, as the group weighed seizing Russian assets designed to support Ukraine.
Saudi Arabia specifically signalled out the euro debt issued by France, according to Bloomberg.
Not gonna lie, watching the Americans slowly making their country collapse is entertaining. Tho I feel for the comrades and friends who will be put in dire straights because of it. Here in Europe there has (maybe? my bubble is pretty small) been a slow realization in the liberals that relying on America is kinda a shitty idea in the long term. How much do you guys think that America will change its geopolitics when trump takes over?
I haven't really been (actively) following American domestic politics the last few years, its too much of a drama fest.
Incredible video from qassam targeting IOF troops and vehicles. Another mindblowing example of guerilla tactics at the end, shocking that these have become commonplace https://streamable.com/trg6nt
Love this outlet. One of the few western left outlets that doesn't pander to anticommunist leftist ideology or cravenly blame the geopolitical opponents of the west as actually existing imperialism. My litmus test for not being ran by intelligence agencies.
All of you tankies think that the assassination attempt was "cool" and "funny" but you forgot that political violence is only justified when it is directed at children in Gaza
OMFG... these questions to Biden are obviously scripted so Biden can deliver prepared answers... and on the FIRST question, Biden responds with calling Kamala "Vice President Trump".
Trump is now getting advised by tall son Barron, whilst Biden has Hunter whispering into his ear. The two heir apparents are shadowboxing, using their rapidly ailing fathers as puppets.
Barron stood up and waved to the supporters in attendance at his father’s request, before giving a thumbs up to the crowd as they clapped and cheered. “That’s the first time he’s done it. That’s the first time, right?” Trump said. “You’re pretty popular, he might be more popular than Don and Eric, we gotta talk about this. Hey Don, we gotta talk about this.”
After the rally, Trump posted photos of Barron waving to the crowd and pumping his fist on Truth Social. Trump said earlier this year that Barron advises him on politics, noting that he is a “smart one.” “And he’s really been a great student,” Trump said in an interview on Philadelphia’s Talk Radio 1210 WPHT in May. “And he does like politics. It’s sort of funny. He’ll tell me sometimes, ‘Dad, this is what you have to do.’”
I saw some chud on Twitter say that they believe that Mossad is behind the assassination attempt. Ah yes, Israel is going to assassinate the guy they'd rather have as president because he's an even bigger Zionist than the current one.
This is a week where decades happened. America's president exposed himself as a cognitively impaired senile, and the opposition leader was just struck by a projectile in an apparent assassination attempt. Nobody will respect the country after this week.
Looks like the shooter might have been wearing a demolition ranch shirt, who is a very large (11m subs) gun youtuber. I will be interested to see what the news makes of this.
Japan (Has some of the most strict gun laws in the world): Guy makes a handmade Looney Tunes ass double barrel doohickey, successfully pulls off an assassination
America (has the most readily available guns in the world with some of the most freedom to practice using them): Can not even do one successful assassination
Saw a clip of a BBC interview with an audience member who claims he and several others saw the guy on the roof and tried to warn security but they were ignored. Interesting
I was offline yesterday training about potential hazards with a bus driver in revenue service when this trump thing happened.
This country is so cooked, the trump nuts in my family are getting absolutely uppity and are blaming gays and woke. It's genuinely depressing and overwhelming- I'm getting absolutely sick to my stomach and I don't know how to process everything happening all at once so I think I'm gonna stay offline for a bit.
Biden still seems on that (as calls it) rent-an-arab palestine occupation grindset. Shovel saudis/jordanians/egyptian army to outsource colonialism in gaza.
tomorrow is deadline of icc waffling - last day of submissions of "why israel actually is not under icc umbrella", lead by uk. Then we get list of genocide supporters and whether knighted by nazi queen keir sturmer has continued his warcrime support.
I think these current wars will possibly expose the tendency of world economy going forward.
Since WWII, american capital has developed on the destruction of lesser economies so that land, resources and labor would be taken over by american companies. This has become the condition for the maintenance and perpetuation of this specific form of capital.
But nowadays, struggling economies tend to turn towards not american companies, but Chinese ones. This means that the precondition for american capital is turning into the precondition of Chinese capital. Every time america tries to expand, it expands China instead or along with it.
The interesting thing is that the Chinese strategy for growing further is way different: being an industrial economy, it depends on the other nation being able to acquire their industrial production. In other words, it depends on that nation developing a functioning industry and economy to absorb Chinese products into it, which not only strengthens China, but further weakens the misery-dependent american capital.
On the other hand, that means america will need increasingly devastating wars and coups to keep going.
CPUSA leadership yet again endorses Democratic presidential candidate and plans to commit the Party to do everything they can in their power to ensure the genocidal bourgeoise monsters win over the bourgeoise genocidal monsters, with added bonus of this time capping for a senile, genocidal, geriatric corpse that's surrounded by yesmen
After Biden-Trump debate, the task remains: Block fascism in November
If you're still in CPUSA at this point you're either in it for the retirement community home vibes, a DNC operative/operative-in-training, in denial to the truth, or an outright traitor to the communist movement. Even the CPSU under Gorbachev fought tooth an nail against being dragged behind the barn by Yeltsin's bourgeoise with their failed "coup" before the overthrow of the Soviet Union, and the CPUSA can't even manage to vote down their leadership's "Vote blue no matter who" motion
Two things are clearer than ever after the first presidential debate. First, Trump is a fascist and a liar who can’t be allowed near the White House ever again. Second, despite Biden’s faltering performance as messenger, the task ahead of the people’s and labor movements is still the same: Block fascism in November.
Blow it out your ass CJ
Just minutes into the June 27 debate, as Biden struggled to string together coherent responses to questions and failed to push back on Trump’s falsehoods, social media was alight with speculation that the Democratic Party may now be forced to find a new candidate just 130 days before the election.
Who promised to be a one-term president CJ.
The mainstream corporate press, led by the likes of CNN and the Wall Street Journal, gave scant attention to the substantive issues at stake in this vote and concentrated almost exclusively on Biden’s “unsteady performance.” That’s no surprise, though. To be honest, “unsteady” might be an understatement. But more importantly, Trump’s lies and the threat he poses became almost a footnote in the news coverage and commentary.
Yeah who are you going to believe in regards to why we must vote for biden, the lying Communist News Network and Red Square Street Journal, or CPUSA's sterling leadership?
Thanks to the media circus and Biden’s communication failures, policy differences are not what people will be talking about when it comes to this debate.
What policy differences, CJ?
They won’t be talking about the convicted felon’s plan to pardon himself and his Jan. 6 invaders for the crimes they’ve committed, thus placing his fascist movement out of reach of the criminal justice system – which as flawed as it is, remains an essential check on power.
They won't be talking about the current war criminal-in-chief being given the legal stamp by Trump's supreme court to aid and abet genocide without even a slap on the wrist
They won’t be talking about the white supremacist who will deploy more racist and heavily armed police to the streets of Black and Latino neighborhoods, return to building a wall at the border, and revive the Muslim ban.
They won't talk about the white supremacists who've been dancing in the streets in support of the Biden Administration as they've poured billions of american tax dollars into fascist Ukraine and fascist Israel
They won’t be talking about the wannabe dictator’s intention to ditch democracy by carrying out further assaults on voting rights via racist gerrymandering, abolition of early and mail-in voting, and the appointment of MAGA-dominated election boards in counties across this land.
They won't talk about the literal reincarnation of Andrew Fucking Jackson ruling the USA with his own fucking kitchen cabinet of yesmen who've continued the so-called wannabe dictator's policies from day one of his administration
They won’t be talking about the bleach peddler who chose to let hundreds of thousands of his people die from coronavirus rather than listen to the advice of health professionals in the crucial early months of the pandemic.
CJ guess whats fucking going on right now again under your beloved democrat president
They won’t be talking about how the chosen candidate of the most reactionary sector of the capitalist class plans to further slash taxes on corporations and billionaires, intentionally putting Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block.
Hey CJ did you hear about all of the most reactionary sector of the capitalist class have been supporting biden all the way up until the debate? Are you gonna call them progressive because they vote blue like you? Sounds like you're also calling for class collaboration with both international and finance capitalists, CJ.
They won’t be talking about the corporate chieftain’s plan to go to war on workers by obliterating the National Labor Relations Board, putting bosses in charge of labor law enforcement, and stripping 40 million people of their health insurance.
Cj if you love feasting on the dust particles that comes off of the crumbs that the democrats let fall off the table to the point you'll clap like a seal and bob your head like a parrot for them, you fucking deserve crumbs you line of shit out of a worm's ass.
They won’t be talking about the serial rapist’s intention to permanently finish off abortion rights and women’s access to health services. His right-wing-dominated Supreme Court already crippled Roe v. Wade, and his state-level acolytes have rushed to abolish reproductive freedom wherever they have power. He’s made clear he wants to go even further.
CJ, the name Tara Reed sound familiar? Also Roe happened under Biden and he's said he will roll over and beg like a dog at whatever they rule. The anti-democratic supreme court will continue to roll back every concession we've gained until in the souls of the People the grapes of wrath are filled once more.
They won’t be talking about how the best friend of the big banks will go even further than he did before to roll back laws aimed at preventing the Wall Street gambling and speculation that incinerated jobs, pensions, and workers’ homes during the financial crisis and the Great Recession it triggered.
They aren't talking about how nothings been done under biden to prevent this, nor his roll under obungler in ensuring that wallstreet was rewarded with golden parachutes for their crimes against the american working class, who themselves were left out to dry after their livelihoods were destroyed.
They won’t be talking about how the nation’s No. 1 liar will team up with media moguls like Elon Musk to further put the squeeze on freedom of the press and elevate the power of fascist platforms like Truth Social and reactionary outlets like Fox News.
As fucking if any of the lying press is worth a wet shart
They won’t be talking about how Netanyahu’s favored nominee believes the only thing wrong with Biden’s Gaza policy is that it hasn’t helped kill enough Palestinians. “Let Israel finish the job,” he says.
YOU FUCKING GENOCIDAL FREAK
So, it falls to independent working-class outlets like People’s World to turn the spotlight back on these existential threats.
Neither independent, nor working class. My posting on hexbear's more independent and I just got off the clock from my job to ragepost about your shit genocide-supporting articles, CJ
As for Biden, well, the panic is on. Democratic Party big-shots and their big money apparatus are scrambling, convinced that finding a new nominee is imperative. From inside a meeting of donors in Atlanta, one observer summed up the feeling of the room during the debate to a Politico reporter: “Our only hope is that he bows out, we have a brokered convention, or he dies. Otherwise, we are fucking dead.”
Good.
All the talk is about Biden’s poor performance and how it might have sunk the campaign. But even if Biden performs “well”, what does that mean? A more well-executed genocide in Gaza? A more well-defined deportation policy to seal the border and shut out refugees? A more well-crafted NATO policy to provoke military conflict in eastern Europe? A more well-designed Cold War against China?
the answer is yes to all the raised questions.
Whether there is a replacement candidate or not – and honestly, such an outcome is still highly unlikely – there must be replacement policies. If everything is left to the ruling-class-aligned elements at the top of the Democratic Party, we’ll still be in trouble. For months, the democratic, peace, and labor movements have been warning that several of the administration’s policies – like Gaza and immigration – could split the coalition needed to defeat Trump.
THIS IS LITERALLY HOW THE COOKIE CRUMBLES EVERY FUCKING TIME YOU FUCKING TURKEY STARING AT THE HURRICANE
This article is palatable to a Western audience as it directly engages with Western narratives. And so the arguments presented is nothing too out of the ordinary, with most of it hopefully being common knowledge for people here.
I think a quote from the article itself provides a better summary than I myself could write:
I would expand on this to say: the Left's search for a non-Arab, non-Muslim resistance movement belies the fact that the center of the world revolution has been far from the West for a very long time. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, resistance has shifted from being interwoven into the fabric of Western society to something that predominantly comes from outside. The Western left, in its colonial arrogance, refuses to accept this fact, and even less the notion that, if there is a revolutionary center, it would be the Middle East.
Even among those who appreciate this revolutionary center, we are often treated as a kind of raging beast. We have an appreciable power to be sure but lack meaningful insights. These are the people who will watch our military exploits with great excitement but yawn at the impressive feats of coalition building, the slow rise to strategic equilibrium over decades, and the steady accumulation of resistance infrastructure in the world's most besieged and bombarded region. Only an arrogant Left that refuses to learn from those it sees as "lesser" could miss these monumental feats.
That second last question was perfect. "Would you step down if Kamal were more likely to win than you" Biden: "not unless they came back and said 'there is no way you can win.'"
In other words "I wont step down even if it gives us a better chance to beat trump."
i need someone to release an emergency podcast just to get me away from hasan's stream. i've watched the clip of trump getting shot probably hundreds of times by now. my brain is turning to mush
They should just book the DNC like WrestleMania. Show starts off with Anderson Cooper running up to Genocide Joe getting out of the presidential SUV asking him if he's going to drop oit, he says no and walks away, Anderson looks shocked into the camera. Some sort of musical numbers kicks off the DNC, we get some interesting mid card speeches, and then Joe comes out to take the nomination. He starts giving his speech, when suddenly lights go out. A creepy piano piece starts playing. After 30 seconds, it transitions into a familiar tune. The lights go up, and it's Hillary standing behind Brandon with a steel chair. She fucking swings and Brandon goes down. He's bleeding the hard way. Hillary swings again while he's down. Huma Abedin comes out and taunts a passed out Biden and then kicks him a few times for good measure. She has a second chair, and she helps Hillary give Brandon a ConChairTo. Hillary picks up the mic, says "ITS MY TURN" and then drops the mic and she and Huma do the D-Generation X "suck it" taunt.
It seems Ryan Grim's hypothesis was right. What Pelosi was hinting out was wait til the press conference then knife him. Multiple Dems have announced they want Biden to step down now.
A long read on the diplomatic, financial, public opinion aspects of the war in ukraine from Ben Aris, noted realist lib and friend of ukraine. He is worth reading as despite his reflexive dislike of Putin, he has consistently had a good read on the economic/intra-EU politics end of the war and the failures of energy sanctions on Russia
Kellogg said if Trump wins, he would likely suggest a NATO meeting in June 2025 to discuss the future of the alliance. He said NATO could subsequently become a "tiered alliance," in which some members enjoy greater protections based on their compliance with NATO's founding articles.
The full-scale invasion only strengthened Ukraine’s ambition to build a blockchain-friendly economy. As a result, two competing draft laws are currently in progress, both primarily aiming to address the tax issues in relation to virtual assets and thereby provide a basis for regulating the virtual asset market.
The assets they use to rebuild ukraine will be virtual alright
reposting because new mega was put up 2 minutes after i posted.
What happened in kyiv? Russia bombed a children's hospital? On purpose? Would like some clarity from someone who isn't a redditor
edit: for some reason fucking Sky News is the only outlet I see reporting this:
In the aftermath of the attacks, the Russian Defence Ministry claimed its forces had carried out strikes on defence industry targets and aviation bases.
They denied they had targeted civilians, and alleged Ukrainian anti-aircraft missiles, launched to repel the attack, had caused the damage instead.
Russian officials acknowledged the massive missile strike on Monday but denied, as they always do, targeting any civilian infrastructure. The Defense Ministry in Moscow, in statements reported by the country's state-run media, said the strike was a response to attempts by Ukrainian forces "to strike Russian energy and economic facilities," and it claimed it had hit Ukrainian "military industry facilities in Ukraine and aviation bases of the Ukrainian Armed Forces."
The Russian defense ministry said, without offering evidence, that the images of destruction in Kyiv were "due to the fall of a Ukrainian air defense missile."
yeah, not seeing anyone else reporting these details.
DPRK warns that Japan is dumping nuclear-polluted water into the Pacific ocean
spoiler
KCNA Commentary on Japan's Crime of Discharging "Nuclear-polluted Water" into Sea
Pyongyang, July 10 (KCNA) -- Recently the Japanese authorities started again the discharge of nuclear-polluted water into the sea despite strong opposition of the international community.
The discharge of nuclear-polluted water into the sea that started on June 28 and lasts till July 16 is the third time this year, and about 7 800 tons of nuclear-polluted water will flow into the sea in this period.
Japan, which started the discharge of nuclear-polluted water into the sea from last year, plans to discharge it seven times this year. And it will reportedly take about 30 years to discharge all nuclear-polluted water into the sea in this way.
Mankind is bound to face a horrible nuclear disaster due to Japan's shameless and irresponsible discharge of nuclear-polluted water.
This is not an empty talk but a reality that is approaching.
This is well evidenced by such facts giving rise to serious concern that the concentration of tritium (radioactive substance) in seawater near the Fukushima Atomic Power Plant has risen considerably and fishes have been killed in shoals since Japan started the discharge of nuclear-polluted water into the sea.
Nevertheless, Japan is insisting on the "safe management" and "clearly treated water". It is no more than an intolerable far-fetched sophism.
Finally, all the countries and the whole regions in the world are completely exposed to the danger of global nuclear disaster unprecedented in history by the one state Japan nowadays.
Even in the stark reality, Japan has persistently discharged the nuclear-polluted water into the sea for a long time in a bid to make its criminal moves "normal activities" by "immunizing" the international community and evade protest and denunciation focused on Japan.
Japan, which invaded and occupied other countries and nations in the past and inflicted untold misfortune on them, is now bringing another grave disaster to mankind by unhesitatingly discharging a huge amount of dangerous nuclear-polluted water into the sea.
In fact, it is the stereotyped method of the cunning Japanese reactionaries to gradually pull down the "wall" of the international community just like a mouse gnawing a hole, blur the attention of the world people and then switch to a new phase of crimes when it is committing all sorts of crimes such as denying the past history and reviving militarism.
The international community should not tolerate criminal moves seriously threatening the human existence, sharply seeing through the crafty intention of Japan to "dilute" its crimes with its shameless sophism, the "normal discharge of treated water". -0- www.kcna.kp (Juche113.7.10.)
Long term reluctance of the Democratic Party to drop Biden is something to admire. Now you see the Anti-Bidenite Clique rushing all over the place using the State Sponsored Media to promote the idea of replacing the aging Party Leader with someone else ahead of their clash against the Trumpite Clique. However, certain elements of society have been demanding for the Party to drop Biden for years now, even after he defeated Trump four years ago. Now they're running about with urgency, don't they? They played deaf ears for years now, it serves them right.
And won't they think? Dementia is not something you can cure with a pill or whatever the fuck. It stays with you and it gets worse and worse. Imagine if the Bidenite Clique wins the power struggle and he beats the Trumpite Clique in the "elections", he has to "work" for four more years as the President. Dementia will continue to degrade this person and they'll have to stick with it until the end. If Biden dies as President, he leaves a power vacuum that will be most likely filled in by zealot elements within the party like the Kamala Clique, the Clintonites or the Californian Warlord, Newsom. They're buying bread for now, starvation for later.
Like, for real, you see Biden now completely unable to string four words together. Imagine him in three years from now...
Masud Pezeshkian said that thanks to the resistance of the Palestinian people and the heroicism of its fighters victory will be for Palestine.
Iran’s president-elect Masud Pezeshkian assured the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas that his country will continue to support the Palestinian cause under his future government.
Iran “considers it its human and Islamic duty to support the Palestinian nation and its struggle against the occupation and apartheid of the Zionist regime, and will continue to support the oppressed Palestinian nation until the fulfillment of all its causes and rights and the liberation of Al-Quds”said Pezeshkian in a message to Hamas political leader Ismail Haniya.
The elected Iranian president affirmed that thanks to the resistance of the Palestinian people and the heroicism of its fighters “the divine victory will be for dear Palestine”.
Masud Pezeshkian also expressed his sincere thanks for Haniya’s message of congratulations on his election as President of Iran.
Earlier this week, the Iranian president-elect reaffirmed his support for militias in the Middle East region of the ‘Axis of Resistance’, in a letter to Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasralá.
Pezeshkian won in the second round of the presidential elections held last week in Iran, an early election after the death in a plane crash of the former president, Ebrahim Raisí.
Masud Pezeshkian will take office as president on July 30 at a ceremony before the Iranian Parliament.
I didn't watch the press conference, I'm going through this thread to try and reconstruct it and I have no idea what actually happened and what's a bit
reposting a question i asked at the end of the old thread: what is the nouveau front national's take on the sahel states? have they said anything about them?
More people need to read Human Acts, by Han Kang, in spirit of South Korea being the COTW. It is historical fiction showcasing the human impact of the very real Gwang-Ju massacre.
Edit: Should put a CW, there's SA, child murder, and grotesque depictions of torture, bodies, and mass graves.
Trump wins, US slava-USainifies itself, europe militarises, nato ends, eurasia becomes closely knit through trade, the next 10-15 years are going to be wild.
During Joe Biden’s call with the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the president said his staff passed him a note to “stay positive you are sounding defensive.” Biden read the note aloud to participants on the call.
Finland slipping further back into full blown mask off fascism with the SDP being exactly what Stalin said social democracy is in this vote. The bourge is leveraging russophobia on levels not ever before seen, because in the past there still were commies and countering politics here.
Oh how I miss our big protective neigbour in the East.
If the shooter is a minority there will be incredible amounts of chud violence (even more than there already is) ensuing. If the shooter is Arab the DNC will proclaim Trump god-emperor and swear undying fealty to him
My lib mom keeps bemoaning that they can’t run a moderate republican against Trump. (A general election with two Republicans.) She’s a Romney fan. This is what happens your politics are based in civility and aesthetics, and mostly aesthetics. She can’t wait to vote for Newsom.
Do we have a Romney emote? Walter Mondale was the best I could do.
CPUSA leadership is using the recent victory of the French Communist, Socialist, and Social democratic alliance against Le Penn's fascist and conservative bloc in their wonk-ass parliamentary system as grounds to double down on beating the Revolutionary Left over the head over not wanting to vote for President Oskar Dirlewanger over Cheeto mussolini.
France proved the popular front strategy is the way to beat fascism
Georgi Dimitrov would be smiling this morning in Marxist heaven, if such a thing existed. The Bulgarian Communist is credited with introducing the “people’s front” (or popular front) strategy of uniting labor, left, progressive, and centrist forces to block fascism back in 1935, and France – the first country to elect a popular front government almost 90 years ago, has just done it again, maybe.
My money on what the kind and benevolent uncle Georgi would say about your article is something along the lines of
The left-wing “New Popular Front” coalition defied the polls and knocked the neo-fascist National Rally (Rassemblement National) party of Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella out of first place in the final round of parliamentary elections.
yeah yeah, I'll take back maybe like 5% of the shit I say about the French over this.
The left bloc’s victory is a win not just for democracy and the working class in France; it is also proof for those of us fighting similar battles against the extreme right that broad unity, organization, and mass mobilization are the way ahead. With less than four months to go before the U.S. elections and the “Biden question” diverting attention away from the effort needed to block Trump, the popular front strategy is more relevant than ever.
SHUT THE FUCK UP THERE IS NO COMMUNIST PARTY, SOCIALIST PARTY, OR ANY SHITSUCCDEM PARTY TO FORM A POPULAR FRONT. THERE ARE ONLY DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS. MEANING IT IS STRUCTURALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO UTILIZE A POPULAR FRONT WHEN THERE IS NOTHING FUCKING THERE TO PUT UP FRONT
France’s example
That is inapplicable to the U.S's material conditions, but such marxist concepts are beyond your liberal scope.
The New Popular Front is an alliance of the French Communist Party (PCF), France Insoumise (France Unbowed, the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon), the center-left Socialist Party (PS), and Les Écologistes (a green environmentalist party).
CPUSA HAS LITERALLY CONDEMNED THE U.S GREEN PARTY OPENLY ON THE ILLOGICAL GROUNDS THAT LIBERALS USE OF 'A VOTE FOR ANYONE BUT BIDEN IS A VOTE FOR TRUMP' WHY SHOULD THE GREEN PARTY DO ANYTHING BUT SPIT IN YOUR FACE? in fact I encourage that, any members of the green party here I encourage you to embrace a strategic stance of hostility against CPUSA. Persuade any members willing to listen to abandon ship for redder communist pastures and stonewall any zealot bluMAGATS in denial.
The coalition won 182 seats in France’s 577-member National Assembly, the most seats but not an outright majority. In second place was President Emmanuel Macron’s center-right Ensemble group, with 163. National Rally captured only 143 seats, despite media predictions it was going to win.
Coming in first should give the New Popular Front the right to form a government and propose a new prime minister. But Macron, with the support of big business, continues to stoke fears of the left, just as he did in the elections. He’s looking for a way to keep New Popular Front out of power and has asked his current prime minister, Gabriel Attal, to stay on “temporarily,” even though the latter offered his resignation.
Much to nobody's surprise liberals prefer to stomp for fascism over taking their medicine and working with the Left. WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN TO YOU SHITLIBS WHEN YOU STOMP FOR BIDEN
The president’s maneuvering to block the left and working class-backed parties is no surprise, however. Macron is a former investment banker who worked for Rothschild & Cie Banque before being plucked by former President François Hollande to become finance minister ten years ago.
And Biden doesn't need any of that fancy finance capitalist background because he'll fucking do it for free like he's done his entire career
In that role and later as president, he pursued policies that privatized or deregulated major sections of the French economy, made lay-offs easier, raised the retirement age for workers, and pursued other capitalist class priorities.
Sounds like the shit both u.s parties want to do
He faced brutal criticism from all sides throughout the election campaign; most people think he essentially helped the fascists nearly take over the country by calling for the vote in the first place. Even Attal criticized his boss.
yeah yeah fuck macaroni salad
Macron plunged the country into the snap election following the National Rally’s runaway win in EU parliamentary elections in early June. He gambled that fear of the right would help him steal voters away from the left and strengthen his control of parliament.
did he actually say that? if so he's a fucking clown
National Rally—formerly known as the National Front—was founded in 1972 by anti-Semite and Holocaust denier Jean-Marie Le Pen to unite the extreme nationalist right. Among its founders were veterans of the French division of Hitler’s Waffen-SS and supporters of the collaborationist Vichy regime of World War II, which helped the Nazis rule France after they invaded the country.
sounds like fine friends to the biden adminstration. better check if they're getting any of that sweet CIA funding.
Now led by Jean-Marie Le Pen’s daughter, Marine Le Pen, the party has tried to paper over its fascist roots, but it maintains the same toxic anti-immigrant positions, and members are frequently outed as racists in the press. But like many neo-fascist parties, National Rally has also taken steps to make itself amenable to the neoliberal ideology of the capitalist ruling class, accepting the euro currency and promising to follow the budget demands of the big banks.
damn they sound pretty fucking american politically
The Communist Party (PCF) warned that “the noose is tightening” on democracy in France following the National Rally’s string of advances. To block the descent into far-right rule, it took the lead in initiating the New Popular Front.
Now I'll normally criticize the PCF for being eurocom parliamentarian dorks but they've done more in just a few weeks than CPUSA has done in 24 years.
Rather than competing and splitting the votes of the left, the parties of the New Popular Front ran a block of common candidates in France’s 577 constituencies, dividing the seats among themselves. After the first round on June 30, in any constituency where it looked like National Rally might win, the coalition stuck to its united front tactics and backed whomever had the best chance of beating the right, whether they were a New Popular Front candidate or not.
I can see what you're trying to angle at CJ, and you're a fucking clown if you're gonna say what I think you're gonna say a few lines later.
Macron’s forces cooperated in several districts, but in others, they clung on, even if it meant fracturing the anti-fascist vote and handing the seat to National Rally. If he had ordered his party to cooperate more closely with the left and pro-republican forces, the scale of the National Rally’s defeat might have been even greater.
<insert line about loading the gun and handing it to the fascists to own the commies>
Trade unions, mass organizations, environmental advocates, and other citizen groups, however, did rally to the New Popular Front’s message of unity. The Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT, France’s largest union federation) gave the bloc its “full support.” The situation was reminiscent of the original Popular Front victory in the 1936 elections, which saw the Communist Party, the Socialist Party, and the CGT all unite to stop fascism.
Good for the French. Totally fucking inapplicable here.
People’s Front USA
JUMP UP YOUR OWN ASS AND DIE
Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen are expressions of the same far-right, racist, corporate-backed trend. In France’s 2017 presidential election, Trump gave her a strong endorsement, calling her the “strongest candidate,” while his now-imprisoned adviser Steve Bannon offered his services to her party.
It took broad unity to block Le Pen and the National Rally this weekend in France. Though the political institutions and voting systems in the U.S. are very different, a similar strategic approach is required to block Trump and the MAGA Republicans here.
If everything is fucking different from what we saw in France, that means its very unlikely towards impossible to utilize a similar approach in the U.S. Also remember when I said "I can see what you're trying to angle at CJ," a few lines up? FUCKING CALLED IT
A spokesman for Gaza’s Civil Defence tells Al Jazeera that 60 bodies have so far been found in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa area, after Israeli troops pulled out this morning. He said that dozens more are feared to be under rubble, and that Israeli troop activity is interrupting rescue efforts.
Four aid workers from UK humanitarian organisation Al-Khair Foundation were killed in an Israeli strike near Khan Younis, our correspondents report, citing medical sources.
I’ll admit it’s a little odd hearing Americans talk like Trump winning will turn their country into something out of a dystopian novel. As someone from a country that more closely resembles one it would take more than his victory to have paramilitaries on the streets. It took us CIA, Mossad, and KMT backing plus a 50+ civil war to reach that state.
Your best bet would be the entire country looking more like a deep red state. So yeah, pretty shitty. Just not Handmaiden’s Tale level of shitty.
The New York Times creates a score of Democrats who are calling for Biden to leave the presidential race. So far, 13 Deputies and one Senator have openly called for Biden to leave. Earlier, the Governor of North Carolina welcomed Vice President Kamala Harris saying that she "will defeat Trump in November".
Joe Biden's advisors and advisors are already discussing how to convince him to give up the presidential race. The White House denies the story. “Unequivocally, that is not true,” said White House spokesman Andrew Bates. “President Biden’s team strongly supports him.”
Congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington suggests that United States President Joe Biden not only give up his re-election bid, but also that he resign as president in favor of Kamala Harris.
US President Joe Biden, in a speech at the NATO summit, introduced Ukraine's President Zelensky as "President Putin".
Biden confuses Kamala Harris with Trump “I would not have chosen Vice President Trump to be vice president if I didn’t think she was qualified.”
"I'm following the advice of my commander in chief," Biden said before correcting himself. Detail, he is the commander in chief of the United States.
A few seconds later he corrects himself. "He's going to defeat President Putin..."
Biden goes "aggressive" at his press conference. An AFP journalist asked about Biden exchanging the names of Zelensky and Putin and what he thinks about those who talk about his decline. Biden canned back if the NATO meeting was the disaster they're talking about.
And Biden says he's not in the presidential race "for my legacy", but to "finish the job I started". Dozens of Democratic congressmen are expected to take a stand in the next 48 hours calling for Joe Biden to drop out of the race for the White House, reports CBS News.
Gonna post another DNCPUSA tirade in like the next few hours, I've been stewing all day to go ragepost about CJ Atkins rightist-capitulationist articles he's been posting in defense of the Biden administration again
Bloomberg: Singapore container ship logjam spills over to Malaysian port
(July 9): Container ship congestion in Singapore, one of Asia’s busiest ports, is spreading to neighbouring Malaysia, snarling supply chains and causing delays in the movement of consumer goods.
Around 20 container vessels are anchored in a cluster off Port Klang, on the western coast of Malaysia, near Kuala Lumpur. Both Klang and Singapore sit on the Straits of Malacca, a vital waterway that links Europe and the Middle East to East Asia.
The maritime logjam is being caused by ships avoiding the Suez Canal and Red Sea due to attacks by [Ansarallah], who support Hamas in the war with Israel. Many vessels heading towards Asia are opting to travel around the southern tip of Africa, meaning they’re not able to refuel or unload cargo in the Middle East.
Port Klang is an important terminal, given its proximity to Kuala Lumpur, but a queue of this magnitude is rare, with ship-tracking images showing many vessels unloading at its berths. Slots at Singapore and Tanjong Pelepas, a Malaysian port just across the border from the city-state, also appear to be full, but there are fewer ships waiting off those terminals.
Congestion at the shipping terminals could last through August, analysts have said. Container vessel rates have surged as a result of the delays and rerouting.
Did he just say “after the attacks I united all the countries and no one was hurt”? How about 180,000 Palestinians?? Fucking hell someone put him out of our misery already
OK, new funniest possible outcome: Biden technically wins, but the electoral college collectively negotiates to elect a different Democrat who is more palatable to the GOP electors and also not senile.
Did a liberal pumped full of msnbc great man theory just light the American reichstag fire, or was it a Trump supporter with terrible gun safety habits?
How long before Blue MAGA creates its own Blue Qanon? I mean, they already have the whole "Russian KGB interfered in the 2016 elections!!!" thing, which was pretty funny.
Been meaning to get a copy of This Monstrous War by acclaimed journalist Wilfred Burchett who covered just about every major conflict of the 20th century. This book is about the west’s and South Korea’s genocidal war against North Korea. Supposedly, a few hundred books were imported to the US, but when the government found out they seized the shipment and destroyed it by dumping it in the ocean
Also, a few months ago a user mentioned a south korean-produced and korean-language documentary about the genocide in the north, but it was an exclusive for film festivals it seemed. Does anyone remember this documentary’s name? I believe it was recently made within the past few years.
This article technically follows Betteridge's Law on the barest of terms, but the fact it exists in the first place is quite surprising (and also funny).
Poland will not comply with Ukraine’s request to shoot down missiles over its territory if NATO does not support this, said the head of the Republic’s Ministry of Defense, Vladislav Kosinyak-Kamysh, who is at the alliance summit in Washington.
“If NATO does not make such a decision, then Poland will not make it on its own,” said the head of the Polish defense department to the Polskie Radio radio station.
Anyone else find the flase flag theories a bit hard to swallow? I mean. I wouldnt put it past Trump to orchestrate a failed assasination, but this worked out too well for him. I find it hard to beleive this was scripted. One slight mishap or second earlier and hes legit dead....