Lol. Lmao.

From a CNN article about the school shooter

Gray’s parents’ relationship started out with promise. In July 2011, shortly after he was born, his parents bought a small farm in Barrow County, Georgia, outside of the college town of Athens. They planned to “create a non-profit, therapeutic riding school for local, under-privileged children,” his mother, Marcee Gray, who worked in industrial engineering, later wrote in a LinkedIn post. But those plans were derailed in part because her husband, Colin Gray, had at least three “major” back surgeries, she wrote. The couple, who had three children, later sold the farm in 2019, according to property records.

Bankrupted by medical debt with no support network. Turned to drugs and fascism. Horrible thinking that universal healthcare could have literally prevented this.

Not really news but still pretty funny and I just heard about it for the first time.
A different kind of blowback:

Dust from the Sahara is being blown over to France, bringing with it radiation left over from French nuclear weapons tests from the 1960s.

UK anti-terror police & intelligence services detained journalist Richard Medhurst recently and have now arrested Palestine activist and Gaza linked journalist on terrorism charges.

She gave the details of her impossible to abide by bail conditions in an interview someone else had to set up as she's forbidden from travelling, touching any electronic device.

I've had to remove the link entirely. The female journalist in question Sarah Wilkinson. Her Twitter account seems to be being run by a friend or her son now and you can search out the couple of interviews she's given so far

Sorry for the rubbish links. Xcancel just 403s for me and none of the four Hexbear recommended YouTube link alternatives work. All either don't work at all or are not allowing new users / posts. If the links are too tricky or you don't have time to watch the 30-45min interview here's the key points.

• First thing in the morning her home was raised by anti-terror police who wouldn't identify themselves, some even wearing balaclavas to hide their identities
• They claimed a warrant exists but would not show it or tell her what was contained in it as anti-terror legislation says they don't have to
• She wasn't allowed to dress, call anyone, or get her medication (she suffers from Crohn's disease).
• The tightness of the cuffs caused injuries to her hands but weren't loosened
• They ransacked her house and physically restrained her son, including throwing him up against the wall.
• They confiscated any and all electronic items, phones, and computers, as well as files, address books and more. These are the items that were on the official itemized list they provided her.
• They also stole money, personal items, and her passport, taking them without listing them.
• Taking her passport without itemising it guarantees she cannot meet the terms of her bail as she is required to turn it in on a future date. Her bail conditions also stop her applying for a replacement. The penalty for not being able to hand it in is likely to be 5 years in prison without a trial or legal representation.
• She also cannot travel, including buying any form of train or bus ticket despite living in a rural village, seeming including to her required 'check ins' on future dates.
• They deliberately desecrated her parents' ashes, spreading them so she couldn't retrieve them all, and damaged the urn.
• They loaded her into an unmarked black van, cuffed but unsecured and gave her a rough ride.
• They deliberately drove 45 minutes in the wrong direction, away from the police station they said they were taking her to. At this point she seriously considered that she might be being kidnapped as they still hadn't shown her a warrant or verifiable ID and were hiding their identities.
• While being held, they denied her any medication meaning that she also couldn't eat, essentially denying her food or drink.
• They eventually brought her a cup of tea and said she could have her meds as soon as she'd drank it. When she did, they then denied her meds again in an apparent attempt to make her ill.
• When she demanded to see a doctor they eventually sent in someone they claimed was a nurse. However, she seemed to have little to no medical knowledge, didn't seem to actually know anything about Crohn's disease despoite claiming to and couldn't even spell it when asked to. She did not appear to be a qualified medical professional and wouldn't give any details of her qualifications.
• They tried to deny her access to a lawyer, claiming she didn't have that right until she repeatedly demonstrated that she knew she did under Section 12 of the law. They eventually relented for the interrogation.
• She gave a no comment interview, but the questions they asked over several hours were apparently very interesting. They were riddled with racist comments and questions that implied Palestinian's weren't human, they repeatedly asked her "why she would value Palestinians over people like us" which she took to mean white and/or Zionist.
• She also says that her interrogators frequently used talking points, language, and tactics that organisations like the IDF and Shin-Bet do.
• Most notable was their interrogation and demand that she give details of the people in Gaza that she works with via a charity that digs wells and provides water. They wanted names, locations, contact details, phone numbers etc. Naturally she refused as she suspects they would be then given to Israel to use for targeting purposes.

France has raided the home of and arrested Imane Maarifi, a French nurse who returned from working in Gaza and has been speaking out at protests and the media about the situation there. She's supposedly charged with the crime of making public insults in relation to an Israeli investment and real estate fair being held in Paris this weekend.

China being better at capitalism than western nations will never not be funny.

Capitalists simply being incapable of improving their own game as a result of not being able to use a socialist analysis will never not be funny.

The fact that China’s socialist analysis of capitalist development is to simply throttle the capitalist system where possible before it becomes self-destructive and less efficient will never not be funny.

The quote “The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.” is being proven true by China’s path of development every single day, and the fact that capitalists just can’t stop themselves from selling ropes to China will never not be funny.

In my opinion, the best thing about this election is the permanent destruction of Joe Biden's reputation and legacy. All he had to do was not run and he could have still retired with an army of libs fawning over him.

But because of his and his family's hubris, he will be forever known as the "dementia president". Just like Taft is the "fat president who got stuck in a bathtub" and Nixon is the "corrupt crook president" Biden will forever be known for being the only nominee to be forced out by his own party due to dementia. Even ultra blueMAGA types have acknowledged this. I honestly think that in like 30 years my future children will be learning about that time we had a senile president. (Assuming the USA still even exists)

And that miserable piece of excrement deserves it 100%. I've seen a lot of leftists over the years (even some hexbear and Chapo) say things like "he should be retired and golfing". HELL NO! Joe Biden is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people at a minimum (probably millions if you include the Iraq War and Libya). He is directly responsible for genocide and has defended the most nakedly genocidal fascist state for decades. Even domestically, he was an abysmal turd who shilled for corporations his entire life and supported segregation, greatly accelerated the drug war, supported the Patriot Act, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. At a minimum he should be rotting in a dark dungeon with Hillary, Cheney, Obama, Bush, Trump, and the rest of the demons.

I genuinely hope that before he croaks, he has the final realization that all he will ever be known for is being the "dementia president".

After much campaigning, doing groundwork and burning bridges Kamala Harris has finally overcome her 'being better than Trump' status and is now polling behind the incredibly dry boy.

Something something snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Yemeni journalist writes:

A commercial ship in the Bab el-Mandeb strait, lists its identification as: "Free Palestine". Next time they should write "Commander Yahya Sinwar is everyone's uncle".

(twitter link)

Majority of Israelis think sympathy for Gaza civilians should be censored on social media | The Cradle

Nearly 60 percent of Israelis believe social media posts showing sympathy for civilians in the Gaza Strip should be restricted, according to a poll published by Haaretz newspaper on 5 September.

The poll was conducted in March by the Pew Research Center.

Fifty-nine percent of Israelis “think posts expressing sympathy for civilians in Gaza should be restricted, while 41 percent think posts criticizing the government should be censored,” according to the poll.

The poll also shows that 92 percent of Israelis believe posts inciting violence should be restricted, 87 percent say posts expressing support for Hamas must be censored, and 72 percent want graphic footage from the war removed.

https://hellgatenyc.com/trial-cuny-protests/

A white beluga, known for being accused of being a “Russian spy”, was found dead on Saturday (31) in Risavika Bay, Norway. Hvaldimir, a combination of the word “hval” (whale in Norwegian) and Vladimir Putin's name, was found in 2019 wearing a belt marked “Equipment St Petersburg”, which led to speculation about its origin and its use as a Russian spy apparatus.

WTF?

That story about Venezuelan gangs in Colorado seems to have been fabricated by a slumlord facing 80+ housing violations
Specifically, he appears to have hired a PR firm run by a former AIPAC guy to make up a story that would explain the horrific living conditions at his apartments. Not sure how he expected that to work but y'know

"goyim"

https://x.com/davidsheen/status/1832362225052307581

"Israel" withholds troop testimonies on 7 Oct from US investigators | The Cradle

You could not make this shit up. The US is a parody of itself

"The international world order is “under threat in a way we haven’t seen since the Cold War”, the heads of the UK and US foreign intelligence services have warned." BBC News

Good.

This is high tier tweet.

Also the settlers fighting each other is hilarious

Settlers

It’s cute watching liberals lose their minds over Putin formerly saying he preferred Biden and now saying he prefers Kamala as president. They act like he’s an agent of chaos, a spoiled birthday boy.

Liberals fetishize normality and procedure. Any smart politician would prefer this in their opponent than some wildcard like the republicans. The reps act like they’re counterculture, and while they ultimately fall back in line when time comes, they still prioritize a bunch of stupid policies in the meantime. Mercenaries like that are good for having as assets, but not as someone you deal with politically.

Dick Cheney will vote for Harris

What a stunningly progressive endorsement

All Harris supporters are now Russian bots

"Firstly, (US President Joe) Biden recommended all his supporters support Ms. Harris," Putin said during a question and answer session at Russia's Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. "Here, we are going to do that too, we're going to support her," he added, with a wry smile.

"She laughs so contagiously that it shows that everything is fine with her," the Russian leader said. "(Former US President Donald) Trump has imposed as many sanctions on Russia as any president has ever imposed before, and if Harris is doing well, perhaps she will refrain from such actions."

Brazilian Judge Alexandre de Moraes orders seizure Elon Musk's cars and aircraft in Brazil

Starlink missed the deadline for appeals. The purpose of the order is to secure funds to pay X fines. In his decision to block Starlink's bank accounts in Brazil, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes authorizes the seizure of the company's cars and aircraft in the country. Starlink is one of the companies in which billionaire Elon Musk, owner of X (formerly Twitter), is a partner.

Starlink missed the deadline to appeal against the blockades. According to the Supreme Court, the deadline for challenging the order was Monday (2/9). As a result, the Supreme Court's technical department followed up on the decision and informed the Central Bank about the blocking of the company's funds in the banking system.

In addition, the order to block vehicles was communicated through the National System for the Unavailability of Assets. The National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) and the Port Authority were informed about the blocking of Starlink's aircraft and vessels.

The magistrate also ordered the blocking of real estate, which could affect the company's operations, affecting gateways, which are physical structures needed to allow customers to surf the internet via satellite. The company currently has around 10 gateways across the country.

The government's of the three biggest european economies are shaky as at the moment.

Starmer in the UK is already deeply unpopular, less than two months after winning his mile wide, inch deep victory.

The Scholz coalition in Germany continues eroding to the benefit of the Afd and to a lesser extent the wagenknecht party, boding poorly for the cdu and sdp in federal elections.

And today in France, macron installs a right wing successor as president in what sure seems like a deal with Le pen, after campaigning on exactly the opposite.

It just kind hit me, that the reality of what's happened over the last couple years could be summed up as "the US has suicide bombed Ukraine into Russia"

Putin’s meeting with Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh:

Weird how school shooters are always on the "FBI's radar", but are left alone yet they always seem to catch all these lone wolf ISIS operatives planning attacks before they actually carry them out.

Also seems like convenient timing. School shooting and Israel kills an American citizen in the West Bank. What better time for the "good guys" to score a victory against ISIS.

Sam Altman (OpenAI), Marc Andreessen (Meta), and Peter Thiel (Palantir) are about to bankrupt the entire country of Honduras.

The entire thread unrolled is worth a read, as is this article about the local resistance to it but the basics are this...

• In 2009 the democratically elected government is overthrown in a violent coup, backed by American business and the Obama administration. Hilary Clinton in particular insisted it couldn't be called a coup in the media and was accused of actively supporting it by groups in Honduras.
• The coup government introduced special enterprise zones known as ZEDEs, a kind of ultra-extreme freeborn where private companies could have their own laws, courts, police, and military with zero oversight or taxation.
• In return for bribes, the oppressive coup government signed proposals and deals for more and more of these until they could potentially cover a massive amount of the country. And cracked down hard on political opponents and people the companies wanted gone - making Honduras the most violent place on the planet at the time.
• These deals clearly weren't legal, so the coup government just started the courts with corrupt judges.
• When the new, elected government got back in during 2021 they naturally passed a law repealling the ZEDEs. The votes were unanimous.
• Now this group of billionaires is suing Honduras for breaking the agreements, despite the fact that these companies were likely supporting the coup, and many of the coup government members have been invited on not just corruption, but murder and drug trafficking charges.
• They want $11bn, more than a third of Honduras' GDP.
• And worst of all, they're probably going to win, bankrupting the country.

As an additional remember when here's coverage of leading environmental activist Berta Cáceres speaking out about Hilary Clinton's coup backing before she was assassinated.

Starlink once again asks the Brazilian Suopreme Court to unblock its bank accounts, after their appeal was denied. The company filed a new request arguing that the restriction on the amounts was imposed without the company having a full right of defense.

When will Elon Musk learn that the entire Supreme Court of Brazil hates him. They are not going to return anything to him, he is literally in debt with the Brazilian goverment.

I have already heard no less than 3 talking heads imply or flat out say “could have been worse/at least only 4 died” in regards to the Georgia shooting

Good shit. Palestinian journalist goes to Vietnam and learns about history, liberation, and ideology. Featuring tunnels!

How Vietnam teaches Palestine to Fight Invaders

Israeli minister calls for 'declaration of war' on Palestinians in West Bank | The Cradle

Minister of Settlement Orit Strock also called for a war to ethnically cleanse Gaza before 7 October

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-soldiers-attacked-turkey-port-izmir

US soldiers attacked in Turkish port of Izmir

Turkey has arrested 15 members of a radical nationalist youth movement after they were accused of assaulting two US military personnel in the western city of Izmir, authorities said on Monday.

On Monday, a video circulated on social media showing alleged members of the anti-American Turkish Youth Union (TGB) attacking American service members.

One US serviceman tries to free himself from the gang but is unable to break their grip.

"Yankee go home! Yankee go home!” The men scream in English.

Several people are seen forcing a bag over the head of a person dressed in civilian clothes. One man unfurls a flag with TGB initials and a picture of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern-day Turkey.

"American soldiers who carry the blood of our soldiers and thousands of Palestinians on their hands cannot defile our country," the TGB said in an X post sharing the video.

The bag over the head referred to an incident from the 2003 Iraq war when US forces in northern Iraq arrested a group of Turkish soldiers, forced hoods over their heads, and held them for three days. The incident outraged many in Turkey and across the Muslim world.

“We can confirm reports that US service members embarked aboard the USS Wasp were the victims of an assault in İzmir today, and are now safe,” the US embassy to Turkey said on X. “We thank Turkish authorities for their rapid response and ongoing investigation.”

'Hamas defends Anatolia'

Erdogan says Turkey 'might enter Israel' as it did Karabakh and Libya

The attack came after the USS Wasp carried out joint training exercises with Turkish military vessels in the Mediterranean.

The drills drew criticism from some in Turkish media close to the opposition, which saw the American ship's deployment as part of the United States' support for Israel.

Since suffering significant losses in Turkey's local elections in March, the Turkish government has intensified its criticism of Israel and taken a series of steps against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed Hamas is defending Turkish lands against Israel, and that Israel - a close US ally - could attack Turkey if its not stopped in Gaza.

“Israel is not only attacking Palestinians in Gaza; [it is] attacking us. Hamas is the forward line defense of Anatolia in Gaza," he said.

The statement came as bilateral relations hit a new low after Ankara completely halted trade with Israel earlier this month, demanding an unhindered flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza Strip and a ceasefire.

"Israel will answer for the 35,000 Palestinians they murdered and the 85,000 people they injured. We will be on their backs," Erdogan said.

"Israel" shells Lebanon with white phosphorus bombs as top official claims 'no choice' but war | The Cradle

News related, mainly highlights how Finland is sliding more and more to the side of US imperialism and how history gets rewritten in real time.

https://mltheory.wordpress.com/2024/09/01/the-lenin-museum-in-finland-will-be-closed-down-in-2024/

Israel knows 'nothing' about tunnels in Gaza, says released captive

Adina Moshe, an Israeli woman formerly held captive by Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza, stated that the Israeli military knows nothing about Hamas' underground tunnel network, Channel 12 reported on 8 September.

Moshe was taken captive by Hamas on 7 October and released on 24 November as part of a temporary ceasefire deal brokered by Qatar and the US between Hamas and Israel.

Moshe said that after her release, she was debriefed by the Shin Bet ('Shabak'), Israel's internal security service.

"The internal security service asked me to draw a map of the tunnels in Gaza because they know nothing about them," Israel's Channel 12 quoted her as saying.

In UK policing news the Liberty organisation got its hands on an (albiet redacted) copy of the National Police Chiefs’ Council's (NPCC) risk assesments, which prove what anyone paying attention in activist circles already knew - that police chiefs consistantly downplayed the possibility and seriousness of racist groups and rioting, while focussing their efforts on peaceful pro-Palestine protest, the likes of Palestine Action, and environmental groups. Right up to the race riots and pogroms that still haven't been sufficiently dealt with.

A few choice quotes...

The paper said of disparate groups making up the extreme far right: “It is also probable that events will be organised by a small cohort of dedicated members, attendance will be at low levels and disruption minimal.”

Police believed that the disparate nature of the far right reduced the risk it posed. “The lack of cohesion and fractious nature of the groups … has highly likely lessened the impact of events,” the document’s authors said.

Police referred to the far right in the internal documents produced for the NPCC as “cultural nationalists”.

This bit hasn't gotten much play, but I think is important if you read between the lines and have been paying attention to state opposition to protests...

In a document from two years earlier, the far right was listed as a priority potential threat.

...it seems pretty clear that what changed over the last two years was increasing protest that the police and state felt they could use the far right to combat it. We saw police protecting fash groups violently attacking drag queen story time events, including police intelligence officers having a friendly chat in a cafe with senior members of Turning Point UK who were regularly given special treatment and had access to senior officers via their friends in the Tory party. We saw memebers of the far right and sympathisers increasingly violently assault peaceful Just Stop Oil demonstrators with little or no legal consequence. And we saw the Tory government publicly call for far right street thugs to attack and disrupt the peaceful pro-Palestine demonstrations in 2023, but all they ended up doing was getting drunk and fighting police at the cenotaph. And because it's disorganised and so much of it's makeup is basically just coked up alcoholics, it once again came back to bite them in the arse.

There's also a few interesting examples of what the police see as being their role in preventing, especially after they've routinely underestimated or handwaved away the possibility of fash violence despite numerous incidents of them fighting the police and of course the petrol bombing of a refugee detention centre that the state and media outright refused to call terrorism.

Here, for example, are their concerns about Palestine Action:

Here's a link to the liberty page and the related (loathed as I am to do it) Guadian article.

China Opens Market Wider for 33 Least Developed African Countries - 100% Tax Free Status

https://allafrica.com/stories/202409050237.html

4 day old news
Muslim voters evenly split between Jill Stein and Kamala Harris, new poll finds
Link to the actual survey and CAIR report

A new poll conducted this week shows that the majority of Muslim voters in the United States are evenly split on who they plan to vote for as president in the upcoming November election, with roughly 60 percent planning to choose either third-party candidate Jill Stein or Vice President Kamala Harris.

The new survey, part of a report published on Thursday by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair), shows that the majority of Muslim-American voters have decided against voting for either Republican candidate Donald Trump or the Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris.

Twenty-nine percent of those Muslim voters polled said they were planning to cast their votes for Stein, leader of the Green Party who has made ending Israel's war on Gaza and its occupation of the West Bank a key policy priority.

"We're grateful for the strong support of Muslim voters who share with us an ironclad determination to end genocide in Gaza, as well as the endless wars in the Middle East, and the discrimination and injustice faced by our Muslim neighbours, immigrants and refugees," Stein said in a statement provided to Middle East Eye.

"We urge all people of conscience to resist the propaganda telling you to hold your nose and vote for genocide. If you vote for genocide, you are actively consenting to it and enabling it. Don’t let them talk you out of your humanity. Stopping genocide is the moral imperative of our time."

Another 29 percent said they are planning to vote for Harris, who some Muslims and pro-Palestinians have claimed has been more sympathetic to Palestinians but has so far said she would maintain support for Israel and has rebuffed demands for an arms embargo on Israel.

The poll also showed that around 11 percent of Muslim voters surveyed are planning to vote for Donald Trump, while four percent are choosing third-party candidate Cornel West and 16 percent are still undecided.

The survey consisted of responses from more than 1,000 registered Muslim voters and was conducted after the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last week. The survey is part of a larger Cair report chronicling the political attitudes of Muslim voters. This report included an additional survey that polled 2,850 Muslim voters between May and July, prior to Biden dropping out of the race.

"Our latest survey reveals that American Muslim voters are highly engaged in the upcoming presidential election, open to supporting a diverse range of candidates and political parties, and deeply dissatisfied with the current state of the nation, particularly US support for the war on Gaza," Cair national director Nihad Awad said in a statement.

Side note: Quote from the CAIR survey report

HIGHLIGHTS & IMPLICATIONS
...

Strong Stance of Human Rights: Respondents showed strong support for global human rights issues, such as the situation of Rohingya and Uyghur Muslims and the genocide occurring in Gaza. This strong support indicates a high level of awareness and concern for international human rights among the Muslim community in the U.S.

OPPORTUNITY: Advocacy groups should leverage this support to push for more robust U.S. foreign policies that address human rights abuses globally [emphasis mine]

Is this a spin to get Muslim outrage over Gaza to feed into more support for Imperialist policy? Does this work out, or is it too transparently cynical?

https://archive.ph/jELdo

A Russian missile exploded near the F-16 shortly before it disappeared off the radar, a U.S. official said, leading to one theory that the explosion either damaged the aircraft or led the pilot to maneuver too low to the ground, contributing to the crash, according to the U.S. official. While Ukraine is leading the investigation, U.S. advisers based in other parts of Europe are advising, defense officials said.

There it is. And still they still try to blame the pilot. It wouldn't have been nearly as bad if they just acknowledged up-front that the plane got shot down by Russia. Instead they put out like five different stories first...

Heard some 40k Ork won Pennsylvania, big if true

Rediscovered an old take of mine from two years ago when Fetterman won his election, always trust your gut folks

Brazil wins against Elon Musk

Starlink Tweeted this:

To our customers in Brazil (who may not be able to read this as a result of X being blocked by @alexandre): The Starlink team is doing everything possible to keep you connected.

Following last week’s order from @alexandre that froze Starlink’s finances and prevents Starlink from conducting financial transactions in Brazil, we immediately initiated legal proceedings in the Brazilian Supreme Court explaining the gross illegality of this order and asking the Court to unfreeze our assets. Regardless of the illegal treatment of Starlink in freezing of our assets, we are complying with the order to block access to X in Brazil.

We continue to pursue all legal avenues, as are others who agree that @alexandre’s recent orders violate the Brazilian constitution.

By the way, the time for actually fighting in the courts to recover the frozen assets and regain access to X is over. They can't do anything because they've actually sent the wrong document.

Swedish Foreign Minster "suddenly and shockingly" resigned today according to Eurofreak and American media today. To the westoid reader, of course it's weird that the foreign minister of the newest NATO member suddenly resigns without any deeper context. But to us news enjoyers, it's very interesting that he resigns just one day after the deadly Poltava strike by the Russians, where Swedish personnel were hanging out according to reports and there was also a Facebook post by some Swedish ghoul that was mourning a dead friend in Ukraine. It wouldn't be the first time Swedes eat shit in Poltava, history is basically a circle. Media are talking about staff disagreements or whatever, but I'm noooooooticing something very fishy here. The true story about the scope of NATO's involvement in Ukraine will be fascinating when it slowly bubbles up in a few years after they throw the corpse of Ukraine to the wolves.

During the Snowden leaks, the CIA carried out an analysis to assess whether Glenn Greenwald posed a risk to US security. The conclusion was that he wasn't dangerous because he was an opportunist who would sell his services to the highest bidder.

Good News : The City of Portland, Maine (i checked its an Actuall City sized City) has divesed from Israel

so tired of british "lefties" saying that the uk government is "owned" by israel or similar. just a complete lack of thought that maybe britain's role as america's lapdog means that we're not going to do anything to meaningfully harm the usa's number one airbase (with country attached).

U.S. Charges Hamas Leaders in Oct. 7 Massacre in Israel and Other Terrorist Attacks

Federal prosecutors charged Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, and five senior members of the group with planning and carrying out years of terrorist attacks in Israel, including the Oct. 7 massacre, according to a sweeping complaint unsealed on Tuesday.

The criminal complaint, originally filed in New York in February, implicated two other senior members of Hamas not previously thought to be directly involved in the attacks. It also listed the number of Americans believed to have died at 43.

For some reason, the U.S. has never indicted anyone for Israel's murders of Shireen Abu Akleh or Tawfiq Ajaq, or for that matter their own murders of Anwar or Abdulrahman al-Awlaki.

(Why is this in the U.S. courts, anyway? If they call it terrorism, they get to indict anyone for anything no matter what jurisdiction it happened in?)

(Edit - Every count of the indictment includes the phrase "in an offense begun and committed out of the jurisdiction of any particular State or district of the United States".)

Apple apparently wants Wechat to pay them 30% of every financial transaction that takes place on the platform. So it's basically them wanting to take 30% of a huge chunk of transactions made in China.

Protestors march on Netanyahu's house meanwhile ceasefire protestors here in the states get their skulls cracked by the police.

On /r/palestine

is targeting journalists with bullets and bulldozers. They are killing people who are in line to buy bread. They are bulldozing specifically resturants. They want the West Bank to starve like Gaza.

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/releasing-names-alleged-nazi-war-criminals-canada-could-embarrass-federal-government-bureaucrats

Releasing names of 900 alleged Nazi war criminals who fled to Canada could embarrass federal government, bureaucrats told

Large numbers of soldiers from a Ukrainian Waffen SS division fled to Canada after the Second World War.

A list of 900 alleged Nazi war criminals who fled to Canada could remain secret as federal officials come under increasing pressure to censor the records because they could prove embarrassing to this country.

Those consulted included members of Canada’s Ukrainian community, records show, but Library and Archives Canada, also known as LAC, did not include Holocaust survivors nor Holocaust scholars who had advocated for a full release of the list of alleged Nazi war criminals, Jewish and Holocaust academics say.

Some of the individuals and organizations consulted by LAC argued against releasing any of the information, warning it could be embarrassing or lead to prosecutions of the alleged war criminals.

“A few stakeholders were concerned that the release of the report would result in new legal action (criminal prosecution, citizen revocation, or otherwise) being brought against the individuals named in the report,” a summary of the library’s discussions noted.

Other stakeholders who advised LAC worried the list would embarrass Canada’s Ukrainian community or be used by Russians for propaganda purposes, the records show.

Large numbers of soldiers from a Ukrainian Waffen SS division fled to Canada after the war.

Jaime Kirzner-Roberts of the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies in Toronto questioned why survivors of the Nazis’ genocide campaign were not invited by LAC to give their views on whether the list of Nazis and their collaborators should be made public.

The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies was also shut out from attending the advisory meetings and was not aware they had been conducted.

In September 2023, Immigration Minister Marc Miller acknowledged “Canada has a really dark history with Nazis in Canada.”

Come on comrades, you are missing out on juicy Ukraine news:

• A military training center in Poltava, Ukraine was struck, killing at least 40 people and injuring over 150 more, including Swedish/NATO training instructors: https://archive.is/g8EHu
• Several members of Zelensky's cabinet resigned, expecting a large reshuffle of government: https://archive.is/8rX72

Palestine Action's habit of fucking shit up has caught the attention of the Terf authorities:
https://xcancel.com/Pal_action/status/1830614899309101542

I asked the Foreign Secretary what role Britain has played in flying surveillance aircraft over Gaza, and whether the British army base in Cyprus is being used as a staging point for flights to Israel. He refused to answer.

On Al-Aqsa Flood and the Required Palestinian Discourse

Excerpt:

Today, we are not interested in supporting Hamas or Islamic Jihad because they are Islamic movements, nor are we standing in defense of the Popular and Democratic Fronts because they represent the Palestinian left. What concerns us about these factions and movements is that they are national liberation movements, growing in the eyes of the people, and their presence increases with the increase of their military activities, their military strength, their social political influence, the clarity of their political vision, the strength and solidity of their discourse, and their firmness in confronting the enemy.

It is also no longer acceptable for factions to go to Beijing or other foreign capitals and issue a statement that mimics the two-state solution and the like. It is time to tell the Chinese and others that Palestine is no less important to Palestinians and the Arab people than Taiwan is to China, and that the enmity between Palestinians and the Zionists is no different in its magnitude from the enmity that existed between the Chinese and the Japanese during the Japanese occupation of China. The Zionist massacres in Gaza are no different in their brutality from the Japanese massacres in the Chinese city of Nanjing. And the experiments conducted by the Japanese Unit 731 on Chinese civilians are no different in their brutality from the practices of the Zionist entity against Palestinians.

China’s position today towards the Palestinians’ struggle should be no less solid and supportive than China’s position with the Vietnamese. The hundreds of thousands of Arab martyrs from Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and others rose for the Arabism of Palestine and its liberation, and they did not sacrifice themselves for the two-state solution or for any other deformed agreement.

Without a doubt, the political position of the Palestinian resistance negotiators has reached unprecedented levels of strength, firmness, and commitment to core principles. This approach has earned widespread popular support. The reason for this is not, as some claim, that Gaza has nothing left to lose. Rather, it stems from the resistance’s battlefield prowess and the hard-learned lessons from a century of struggle and the failures of negotiated surrender. They have seen through every deception and ploy of the enemy. The resistance and its leaders have proven their dedication by sacrificing their families, homes, and lives for the cause.

The Palestinian resistance is an integral part of a large camp extending from Lebanon to Iraq to Syria to Yemen and Iran, to the Arab people in their various countries and places of existence, and free peoples in friendly countries in South Africa, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, and others, reaching to universities and streets of the US and Europe and elsewhere, forming in their entirety a great rising resistance camp in the face of imperialism, Zionism, and colonialism.

These days mark the anniversary of the first Zionist conference in Basel, Switzerland (August 29, 1897), where the Zionist movement began preparing and mobilizing to build its entity in Palestine. Today, after all these years of conspiracy and killing, in the battle of Al-Aqsa Flood the Palestinian resistance carried out an operation breaching one of the world’s most fortified lines, and the Lebanese resistance was able to strike the enemy’s most important military bases and remove the threat of a hundred thousand Zionists from the northern settlements. The Yemeni armed forces closed one of the most important waterways in the world, neutralizing the two most powerful naval forces in modern times.

The great victory that began on October 7, 2023, returned Palestine to its Arab, Islamic, and international roots, and shook the pillars of the Zionist project. This victory must be completed by defeating the occupation and foiling its plans. This requires us to act as victors. It is our right and duty to act as victors.

"was known to the FBI"

With the recent surge in articles about supposed Russian election interference and funding of anyone who criticizes Democrats, I decided to take a look at what the at r/politics are up to, and yep, Russiagate is back in full force.

Update on the Brazil vs. Musk situation:

Elon Musk retweeted this:

BREAKING: U.S. seizes Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro's airplane in the Dominican Republic, CNN.

And then he said:

Unless the Brazilian government returns the illegally seized property of 𝕏 and SpaceX, we will seek reciprocal seizure of government assets too. Hope Lula enjoys flying commercial.

Dude is still pissed that the Brazilian goverment seized all the stuff he had in Brazil, since he didn't pay his debt. Lol.

Also, he said that Starlink will not block twitter in Brazil. But that is also funny because the Brazilian goverment can easily block the signal on the ground, and only 200k people use Starlink in Brazil. lol.

And now some really GENIUS move by Elon Musk, he decided to make an "expose" of conservarive judge Alexandre de Moraes, the problem is that, besides being fake news and no one in Brazil seeing it (the target audience, and he posted in English lol), is that he fucking doxxed all the people he was "trying" to protected. He literally showed where they live, their ID and full name, besides their twitter account handles.

Jordanian Truck Driver mercs 3 Zionazi officers.

Latest report from ASPI, who produced that widely talked about report early last year about how China has taken the lead in 37 out of 44 critical technologies that they track, or about 84%. They have expanded their scope this year to 64 technologies, in which China leads 57 of them, with the US leading the other 7. Just 20 years ago, the numbers were essentially reversed.

ASPI notes that, in the US, "private-sector research is increasingly concentrated in US technology giants"; back 20 years ago, the technological lead was spread across several more (typically US-based) corporations, but now only the largest corporations/monopolies truly matter when talking about the private sector. Massive Chinese corporations do not play nearly as big a role in this regard. In the public sector, US institutions like NASA still matter greatly, but the Chinese Academy of Sciences is an absolute colossus, by itself leading in 31 out of 64 technologies.

China is the top player in the following categories of technologies:

• Advanced information and communication technologies (7 technologies)
• Advanced materials and manufacturing (13 technologies)
• Energy and environment (8 technologies)
• Unique AUKUS‑relevant technologies (3 technologies)

China is only mostly the top player in the following categories of technologies:

• Artificial intelligence, computing and communications (China leads 5/6, with the US coming out ahead in Natural Language Processing, presumably due to ChatGPT)
• Defence, space, robotics and transportation (China leads 6/7, with the US coming out ahead in small satellites, presumably due to SpaceX)
• Quantum technologies (China leads 3/4, with the US coming out ahead in Quantum Computing)
• Sensing, timing and navigation (China leads 8/9, with the US coming out ahead in Atomic Clocks)

The competitive field is:

• Biotechnology, gene technologies and vaccines (4 for China, and 3 for the US; the US leads in vaccines, nuclear medicine and radiotherapy, and genetic engineering)

I count 14 technologies in which China is bigger than every other country put together.

Other findings were:

• India is gaining in a variety of fields, but is still quite far from being the top player in any particular technology; their best shot for a top spot in the next few years is biofuel research.
• The UK is falling fairly quickly, though they have made a couple gains in things like electronic warfare.
• If you consider the EU collectively (as some hilariously did for the Olympics) then they are still quite competitive and even take the lead in two technologies (small satellites and gravitational force sensors). In the EU, Germany is ranked first, then Italy, then France.
• South Korea is doing much better than Japan.
• Iran has gained significantly over the past 20 years in defence-related technologies; now in the top 5 of eight technologies, when around 2003, it struggled to reach even 17th place in a single technology.
• The combined power of AUKUS can just about match China in some technologies (like adversarial AI), but still trail China in others like advanced robotics.

U.S. Tells Allies Iran Has Sent Ballistic Missiles to Russia - Wall Street Journal, 6 September 2024

European officials say Europe and U.S. are working on a sanctions response to Iran’s move

time for your 23rd round of sanctions everyone!

The shipment involves a couple of hundred short-range ballistic missiles, according to Western officials. Iran has a variety of such weapons, with a range stretching up to around 500 miles.

As for why Iran has all these short range missiles and Russia and the US don't, it has to do with nuclear restrictions during the cold war. So research on short range ballistic missiles did not take place.

A graphic with the range of the Iranian SRBMs over Ukraine when launched from Russian territory.

Ukraine is using flamethrower drones to light up trenches now

Didn't know that was allowed but apparently it is. How long till mustard gas makes a comeback? Acid drones maybe, like those Israeli settlers used on Palestinians recently?

Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved the judicial reform proposed by the Mexican government, which proposes, among other things, the direct election of Supreme Court judges.

Yes 359 votes (MORENA, PT,PVEM)

No 135 votes (PAN, PRI, MC)

Lula da Silva: “The world is not obliged to put up with Elon Musk's extreme right-wing free-for-all” According to the President of the Republic, the Supreme Court's decision could serve as an example for other countries

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers' Party) praised the decision by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes to suspend the operation of X (formerly Twitter) in Brazil.

Bolsonaro is in the hospital again lmao

so ukraines ambassador to japan just paid his respects at the war criminal shrine the other day

idk if fake news or not but it is weird that its basically not been reported on

apparently got scrubbed from ukrainian embassys twitter right after it got posted lol

Witness the complete failure of US export controls on advanced computer chips. Not surprising, given these chips are small and easy to smuggle, but still funny to see the Financial Times admitting that US efforts to hobble China are not working in the slightest.

The cost of renting cloud services using Nvidia’s leading artificial intelligence chips is lower in China than in the US, a sign that the advanced processors are easily reaching the Chinese market despite Washington’s export restrictions.

Four small-scale Chinese cloud providers charge local tech groups roughly $6 an hour to use a server with eight Nvidia A100 processors in a base configuration, companies and customers told the Financial Times. Small cloud vendors in the US charge about $10 an hour for the same set-up.

The low prices, according to people in the AI and cloud industry, are an indication of plentiful supply of Nvidia chips in China and the circumvention of US measures designed to prevent access to cutting-edge technologies.

Per here: https://archive.is/RBpos

Transgender boy, 16, beaten by large group of teens in Massachusetts (cw bruises, description of beatings, transphobia, minor)

Putin landed in Mongolia, an ICC adhering country, and wasn't arrested. Media speaks of incredible humiliation

https://english.almasirah.net.ye/post/42335/Commander-of-USS-Eisenhower-Aircraft-Carriers-No-Longer-Safe-from-Ballistic-Missiles-and-Drones

Aircraft carriers are no longer safe from ballistic missiles and drones, following historical attacks by the Yemeni military on these carriers in the Red Sea, the commander of the USS Eisenhower, Christopher “Chowdah” Hill, has revealed.

Chowdah?

Regarding the intensity of Yemeni attacks while the carrier was stationed in the Red Sea to protect the Israeli entity, Hill explained that they had to reorganize crew schedules due to continuous fatigue and nighttime alerts.

Hill confirmed that the increasing pressure has affected crew morale amidst ongoing operations in the Red Sea.

Has anyone done a breakdown of the US DOJ indictment of Hamas leadership? The headlines talk about how sexual violence was prevalent on Oct 7th, but last I heard the UN looked into those claims and found no evidence whatsoever. So I assume the basis of the indictment is just taking everything “Israel” has said at face value and calling it evidence; but I also don’t feel like subjecting myself to reading dozens of pages of hasbara.

Anyone else just remember that Genocide Joe is still the president?

Day 6 of the zionist invasion of Jenin.

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/ukrainian-group-says-it-plans-court-challenge-to-prevent-release-of-names-of-alleged-nazi-war-criminals

The Ukrainian Canadian Congress says it plans to go to court to stop the federal government from making public the names of alleged Nazi war criminals who fled to this country.

The Ukrainian Canadian Congress or UCC is now circulating a letter asking for donations to finance the proposed legal challenge in federal court.

The organization, which states that it represents the Canadian-Ukrainian community, wants to raise $150,000, according to a copy of the Aug. 28 letter obtained by the Ottawa Citizen. Article content

“It is appalling that the Canadian government could attempt for no good reason to subject innocent Canadians, their family members and descendants to public scorn,” wrote Ihor Michalchyshyn, CEO and executive director of the UCC in his fundraising plea.

A number of the alleged war criminals on the federal government list are believed to be originally from Ukraine or other eastern European nations.

burn this so called country to the ground

Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240906154126/https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/ukrainian-group-says-it-plans-court-challenge-to-prevent-release-of-names-of-alleged-nazi-war-criminals

If I were Elon, I would simply not owe billions of dollars to guys who famously dismembered a journalist

Ben Garrision Brazil slop

No sex appeal. Lack of labels. He's fallen off hard.

Cackling at the recruitment video "Would you rather be gay or go to war???"

Times like these I wished Russia actually funded Communist movements in the west smh.

'Investigative journalist' Sam Cooper of The Bureau - a China-obsessed, shitty Canadian news site larping as the Intercept - has been caught fabricating news stories about 'China connected Canadian figures' meeting with Chinese spies and drug traffickers in a Macau casino because people noticed that the 'leaked CCTV footage' the story was based on was in fact a scene from a 2014 HK action comedy staring Chow Yun-fat.

The Bureau have quietly removed the story from their website, but neither them nor anti-China hack Sam Cooper have acknowledged the issue.

US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin stated that greenlighting deep strikes in Russia with US weapons will not be decisive, and that the US will instead focus on helping Ukraine defend its territory.

Source: U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Discusses Weapon Use in Ukraine Conflict

Seems like Russia has a redline that the US and NATO finally won't cross. Might have to do with the fact that Russia threatened to arm Ansar Allah/The Houthis with advanced weaponry in a potential response. Export controls on advanced weaponry that have existed since the cold war are there for a reason. The US choosing to break those agreements woud have opened the doors to a new reality that they are unprepared to deal with at the moment, as there would be no reason for Russia to follow such controls if the US does not. A diplomatic win for Russia.

SeventyTwoTrillion trying to make the news mega beat the trans mega this week by turning the news mega into the trans mega

Some more news from the front.

Kursk update, Kiev regime invaders continue suffering massive losses (over 10,100 troop fatalities in the first month of the border incursion): https://southfront.press/kiev-forces-take-more-losses-during-failed-attacks-in-kursk-videos/

Belarusian air defenses have been shooting down Kiev regime drones flying over its airspace recently: https://southfront.press/long-list-of-provocations-ukrainian-drones-violated-belarusian-airspace/

The “Library and Archives Canada” is refusing to release a list of 900 Nazi war criminals hiding in Canada, because revealing this information would “help Russia”: https://www.rt.com/news/603596-canada-nazi-list-release/

This is extremely good. Two hours of documentation of Israeli lies and Palestinian resistance by a Jewish anarchist. A must-watch IMO.

The Gaza Ghetto Uprising

Israeli military vehicles close off the emergency entrance and besiege the Thabet Thabet Hospital in Tulkarem.

Cradle Telegram

Permanently Deleted

Newfoundland journo pins Trudeau with question about Palestinian genocide, Trudeau wriggles out of it

God he's such a fuckin worm

Well, Macron appointed a new prime minister. Guess which party they're not part of.

Hamas rebuilds forces in northern Gaza, recruits 3,000 fighters: Report | The Cradle

Yemen never stops!!

https://t.me/army21ye/2084?single

China pausing on gold buying spree 4th month

Prices at near record high. Come on October suprise crash this baby right before the election.

The Communist Party of Burma - People’s Liberation Army has “seized a large number of elephants” from the regime

Guys we may see the return of War Elephants :Hannibal-happy:

https://eadaily.com/en/news/2024/09/06/about-fifty-french-mercenaries-were-killed-in-konstantinovka

according to russia, 50 frogs boiled

First US case of H5 Bird Flu with no known link to animals has been reported in Missouri.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-kamala-harris-polls-national-1947838

Kamala Harris' Lead Over Trump Being 'Steadily Cut'—Poll

According to a new ActiVote poll, conducted between August 25 and September 2, Harris leads Trump by 1.6 points, on 50.8 percent to his 49.2 percent, a lead within the poll's margin of error of 3.1 percent.

Her lead is down from the 5-point lead she had over Trump in ActiVote's last poll, conducted among 1,000 likely voters between August 15 and 23.

"Harris' poll numbers improved steadily for about three-four weeks after Biden dropped out, followed by a period of two weeks where it hovered around a 5-point lead. In the past five days that 5-point lead has been steadily cut to just under 2 percent," ActiVote pollster Victor Allis wrote.

Nancy Pelosi killed brat and now they don’t have any messaging strategy

I keep seeing posts about Tim Pool being a Russian asset. This combined with the resurrection of the Jill Stein smearing shows that this is the angle they’re going with once again for non-liberal dissent.

Russia just seems to stick better with more Americans than even the usual boogeymen of North Korea, China, and Iran.

I’ve only seen the most terminally online libs say that Republicans are Chinese assets along with every other voice of dissent.

Critical support to the suspected Chinese spy 🫡

Knowing how fucking stupid the US intelligence apparatus is though, I wouldn’t be surprised if she was just someone displaying anti-American sentiment. I would hope China would be more strategic.

But who fucking knows. This Godamn nation reported on Havana syndrome like it was something that actually existed for multiple years lmao

Thought this was interesting. Idk if anyone wants to read the report and give highlights but this is so sad to me that even the Arab (Palestinian) israeli citizens are majority against Hamas. Assimilation strategies.

When was the last time Joe Biden appeared in public? I feel like a president shouldn't be this absent even if he is planning to cede his position after the election. On CNN, even under the "joe Biden" tag, it's all Kamala vs Trump news.

I guess the Americans got tired of embarrassing themselves parading the dusty old mummy around and pretending like he hadn't declined to the point where he can't hold on to a coherent thought.

US naval forces cannot remain to protect "Israel" 'forever': Washington | The Cradle

Washington has warned "Tel Aviv" that US naval forces cannot indefinitely be deployed to the West Asia region to protect "Israel", Channel 13 reported on 6 September, amid continued fear of an expanded war between "Israel" and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The "Israeli" news channel reported a message was sent to Israel that tensions with Hezbollah and Iran need to be reduced at some stage because “the [US] aircraft carriers will not be able to stay in the area forever.”

Japanese Special Forces soldier defected and joined Russia. He is now sniping for Russia in Kursk. Interview with Patrick Lancaster

His Russian isn't very good and the interview gets interrupted by drones a few times but I love seeing this stuff.

Egypt buys China's J-10C fighters to replace F-16s.

https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/egypt-j10c-f16s-reports

Turkey Bids to Join BRICS in Push to Build Alliances Beyond West (Yahoo Finance / Bloomberg)

Turkey has formally asked to join the BRICS group of emerging-market nations as it seeks to bolster its global influence and forge new ties beyond its traditional Western allies, according to people familiar with the matter.

. . . Straddling Europe and Asia, Turkey submitted an application to join BRICS some months ago amid frustration over a lack of progress in its decades-old bid to join the European Union, the people added. The bid is also partly a result of rifts with fellow NATO members after Turkey maintained close links with Russia following its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the people added. Turkey’s foreign ministry and presidency declined to comment.

there are flameethrower drones now....

From the Resistance News Network telegram https://t.me/PalestineResist/56729

Commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Major General Hossein Salami:

The zionist entity is besieged by Iraq, Yemen, and Lebanon. The nightmare of our response keeps the enemy on alert day and night, and we have begun to see signs of its end.

The zionist enemy will taste the flavor of Iranian revenge and will realize that it cannot toy with our red lines.

"Israel" cannot strike and run away easily; rather, it will receive a decisive response.

Certainly, they will receive a response. How and when? This time, the response will be different, and everyone will realize that.

Presstv and Al Mayadeen also cover this and some highlights from Al Mayadeen below

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/09/08/732923/IRGC-chief--‘Israel-will-receive-revenge-for-its-vicious-acts’

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/irgc-chief-says--nightmare--of-retaliation-terrifying--israe

General Salami emphasized that the Israeli regime is experiencing confusion and internal unrest, with hundreds of thousands of protesters taking to the streets in the occupied territories. According to him, the Israeli occupation is trapped in a crisis with no escape.

He concluded his remarks with a stern warning to the Israeli occupation, saying: "The Israeli regime is now confined within the occupied lands, and its leaders are losing their mental stability, awaiting death at any moment. Rest assured, the response will come. When and how? This time, it will be different, and everyone will know that Israel can no longer strike and escape unscathed."

Former IRGC commander Mohsen Rezaei said in an interview with CNN released on in late August that his country's retaliation to the Israeli assassination of Hamas' politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran will be well measured so that Prime Minister Benjamin can not "save himself" from the crises he's in.

Ben Shapiro is being even more annoying than before as a Republican fundraiser.

Also I love my trans comrades

Western mainstream libs are mad about Putin going to Mongolia. My local media blob is claiming that Putin only went there to defy the ICC. The idea that the leaders of two neighbouring countries could have more reasons for meeting eachother besides making a spectacle for the west to get mad at is simply not entertained. Contrary, they claim that Putin is "forcing" Mongolia not to arrest him by leveraging Mongolian dependence on Russian energy.

In Denmark politicians are "shocked" following a recent decision by the supreme court. The decision? That authorities are required to bring an eight year old Danish child and his mother, currently languishing in a Syrian refugee camp, back home.

The mother, who had her citizenship revoked as retaliation for joining ISIS, is claimed to extremely dangerous and "radicalised".

The extreme right is pulling out their old hobby horse of railing against "the international conventions", a dog whistle for any type of international law preventing the state from being sufficiently racist. They are joined by the governing succdems who demand that the EU appoints a commissioner tasked with nothing but "looking at" and "renegotiating" said conventions, presumably to make international law more racist.

Another air attack appears to be happening against Ukraine at the moment, air raid alarms/sirens went off 20 minutes ago. Ukraine has faced air attack after attack for over a week now. Including a missile strike against a Ukrainian Electronic Warfare and UAV learning facility full of Ukrainian armed forces personnel and NATO advisors (notably Swedish advisors likely there to teach Ukrainians how to operate their recently donated Swedish mini AWACS aircraft). The attack reportedly resulted in over 200 deaths according to a Ukrainian medic, who managed to get the information out on social media before being censored. The consequences of the Kursk gamble keep on piling on for Ukraine.

say it with me: first President of Palestine Yahya Sinwar

1.5 hour lecture by Cradle head editor Sharmine Narwani on the strategy of asymmetrical warfare by the resistance. Delivered at the American University of Beirut, September 2, 2024 .

“Despite Israel's genocidal killing of tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, the occupation state is facing a resounding strategic defeat. A loss that big will collapse Israel. Why is this a forgone conclusion? Because the Axis of Resistance has put into place a protracted strategy of "boiling the frog," incrementally depleting Israel's economic, political, military, and diplomatic options.”

(Youtube)

These dumbasses invaded Kursk in autumn.

Canadian Ndp (socdem party, no prime ministers but always a strong 3rd) seems to be making moves to become the major not conservative party. Jagmeet appears to be making moves and it's a party with a chance that opposes the current time genocide policy wise. Looks like I may actually have to this election.

Foreign Affairs - America Is Losing Southeast Asia

Yankees try to talk about Asia without making it all about “face” challenge: impossible.

Highlights from long article (summarized using HexB-AI)

Breaking down this year’s result by country shows that since the 2023 poll, the United States has lost the most ground to China among respondents in Laos (a 30 percentage point decline), Malaysia (a 20 percentage point decline), Indonesia (a 20 percentage point decline), Cambodia (an 18 percentage point decline), and Brunei (a 15 percentage point decline). The United States has also lost ground in Myanmar and Thailand (10 and 9 percentage point declines, respectively).

The United States still commands very high support in the Philippines (where 83 percent of respondents selected it over China) and Vietnam (where 79 percent did) and solid backing in Singapore (62 percent), Myanmar (58 percent), and Cambodia (55 percent). But only in three countries did respondents’ preference for aligning with the United States over China grow from 2023 to 2024—the Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam—and these increases were small.

The United States has lost support most dramatically in countries with Muslim majorities. The 2024 survey revealed an especially sharp hardening of sentiment from 2023. Seventy-five percent of Malaysian, 73 percent of Indonesian, and 70 percent of Bruneian respondents surveyed said they would prefer alignment with China over the United States, compared with 55 percent, 54 percent, and 55 percent in 2023, respectively. The survey did not ask respondents why they made this selection. But it is telling that when a different question asked respondents to select their top three geopolitical concerns, nearly half ranked the Israel-Hamas conflict at the very top, surpassing the 40 percent that ranked the more geographically proximate South China Sea dispute most highly.

Western media outlets often carry reports about the debt traps associated with China’s Belt and Road Initiative. But BRI projects are generally welcomed in Southeast Asia for the growth and development potential they offer the recipient country. One high-ranking diplomat from the region pronounced it a model for how to win “hearts and minds.”

The United States wants to counter Chinese disinformation. But efforts to do so must address the root causes of why they resonate. China has depicted America as a “craven warmonger” in Gaza; many Southeast Asians with whom I recently spoke, including non-Muslims, said that this characterization rang true to them. Such a depiction would hold little water, however, if not for Washington’s own response to the crisis in Gaza, which has supported or at least acquiesced in Israel’s worst excesses.

Really sucks that Chinese disinformation has so much obviously true facts to work with

Another school shooting

I apologise for the comment in advance, but the absolute political shitshow we have witnessed in Europe over the past few years has given me a weird appreciation of Angela Merkel.

She managed to keep US influence relatively at bay, maintained good economic relations with Russia and China, knew how to throw a bone to the various anti-EU factions within Europe to keep them from gaining influence, annoyed the Brits to the point they left the union and obviously maintained the EU's imperialist projects while keeping their image and her legacy clean. Compared to her the Macron-Scholz-von der Leyen trio look like dumb, dumber, and the the dumbest. IMO she beats Obama for most competent imperialist of the past few decades.

we will have "it was a debate" in 5 days, and i learn this from jacobin

anyway, trump was silly to agree to it, old boy is done

Air any of these concerns, and there’s a good chance you’ll hear some version of this typical partisan response: “Well, you realize Donald Trump wouldn’t be any better.” That response implies that, for the Democratic Party, enabling the genocide of Palestinians is nonnegotiatable.

la jacobina showing its face yay

The Onion is going back to doing puff pieces for VP candidates again. They had to apologize for doing this shit for Biden...

"Chemicals of the Week" lmaoo 😭 😭

The Brazilian goverment wants to set up a “national WhatsApp” The project comes in the midst of a conflict between the Supreme Court and the social network X

The Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI) is about to launch a tender to hire a new cell phone messaging service. The agency's aim is to develop its own model for internal communication. According to information in Veja magazine, this is a pilot project, but it could be expanded to other federal agencies in the future.

The system will be similar to WhatsApp, but the president of ABDI, Ricardo Cappelli, has already made it clear that it is not a question of “banning” the messaging app or any other, as it will not extend to ordinary users. "What we will do is protect the information of our agency, corporate communication. Does anyone think that the German or French government communicates via WhatsApp? We don't want to ban anyone, just protect our sovereignty,” Cappelli said.

According to Capelli, there is no “paranoia or conspiracy theory”, but rather a guarantee of the security of communications, since there have already been several cases of messages being breached. He mentioned that federal police officers and members of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (Abin) use foreign platforms to communicate, but that he considers it a risk. So far, at least ten Brazilian companies have shown interest in developing the new messaging platform.

Ricardo Cappelli, former member of the Communist Party of Brazil and the secretary that led the police forces against the Coup Attempt in 2023, he currently is the president of the Brazilian Industrial Development Agency. He was appointed to the post by President Lula on February 2 for a four-year term, taking office on February 22.

Edmundo Gonzalez, presidential candidate on the Unity platform, has accepted Spain's offer of political asylum and is flying to Madrid, leaving Venezuela. The exile was mediated by the former Spanish president, José Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero.

lol

Record number of Indigenous land titles granted in Peru via innovative process (commentary) hexbear post

• Land titles have proven to be the most effective way to protect Indigenous peoples’ land from deforestation, with such territories experiencing a 66% decrease in deforestation, and therefore protecting these forests for generations to come.
• Recently, 37 land titles were secured in the Peruvian Amazon in record time, between June 2023 to May 2024, via a partnership between two NGOs and the Peruvian government, using an innovative, low-cost, high-impact model to expedite the process.
• “We believe this model can be replicated in other regions of the Amazon and perhaps even beyond,” the authors of a new op-ed write.
• The process of securing land titles ranges from slow and bureaucratic to extremely dangerous. In Peru, more than 30 Indigenous leaders have been murdered over the past two decades for seeking titles for their territories and the recognition of their ancestral lands.

Indigenous mothers fight to search CIA experiment site in Montreal hexbear post

A group of Indigenous women are hoping to stop the bulldozers at a former Montreal hospital which they believe could hold the truth about children still missing from a grisly half-century-old CIA experiment.

In the 1950s and 1960s, behind the austere walls of the old psychiatric institute, the US Central Intelligence Agency funded a human experiments programme called MK Ultra.

During the Cold War, the programme aimed to develop procedures and drugs to effectively brainwash people. Experiments were conducted in Britain, Canada and the United States, subjecting people — including Indigenous children in Montreal — to electroshocks, hallucinogenic drugs, and sensory deprivation. “They wanted to erase us,” said Kahentinetha.

Albanese government to pay $202m to NT’s Indigenous workers in stolen wages class action hexbear post

The federal government will pay up to $202m compensation to thousands of Indigenous workers whose wages were stolen while working in the Northern Territory last century.

The payout is part of the settlement of a class action on behalf of workers and their families who were subject to commonwealth wage control legislation between 1933 and 1971.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro requested to open an investigation into the purchase of the Israeli software 'Pegasus,' used by the previous goverment to spy on public officials, including himself.

Algerian elections tomorrow, r/Algeria is so astroturfed

Looks like Russia is finally destroying dense NATO personnel infestations in Ukraine.

Tim Walz has a chance to do something bold | Drop Site News

During the week of the DNC we reported on the unusual case of a wrongful conviction in northern Minnesota that the state’s attorney general, Keith Ellison, was attempting to make right in the face of intransigence from the local prosecutor and sheriff. What makes it unusual is that the state’s governor, Tim Walz, does not have the unilateral ability to pardon the wrongfully convicted Native American man, but he can step in and take the case away from the local prosecutor and give it to AG Ellison. With that one, small bureaucratic move, Walz can give Ellison the chance to set him free.

Cursed us politics question: is Harris trying to flank trump from the right?

Israeli minister calls for 'declaration of war' on Palestinians in West Bank

Mossad financier arrested by Turkish police in Istanbul | The Cradle

Turkish security officials announced on 3 September the arrest of Liridon Rexhepi, a Kosovan national identified by the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) as the head of Mossad’s financial network in Turkiye.

Citing security sources, Turkish media revealed Rexhepi “was transferring money to Mossad’s field agents in Turkiye who filmed Mossad targets with drones, led psychological operations against Palestinian politicians, and gathered intelligence about the Syrian field.”

https://x.com/ArmchairW/status/1831176695589618060

Could [the Europeans] reopen the Bab al-Mandeb without US assistance?

After all, right now the Western mission in the Bab al-Mandeb is run by the EU as EUNAVFOR Aspides, so they're already in charge of the area of operations. Reopening the straits will require ground troops to land and occupy enough currently Houthi-held territory to prevent drone and missile launches at maritime traffic transiting the strait. Can the EU muster the force? Power projection requires amphibious assault ships and aircraft carriers. Four European navies operate these capital ships: the UK, France, Italy and Spain. Between them they have four aircraft carriers worth the name (Cavour, Charles de Gaulle, Queen Elizabeth, and Prince of Wales) and eight amphibious assault ships of note (Giuseppe Garibaldi, Juan Carlos I, Galicia, Castilla, Mistral, Tonnere, Dixmude, Albion, and Bulwark). The Italians additionally operate three very small amphibs of the San Giorgio-class. Many of these ships are in some kind of reduced readiness or maintenance status. Realistically the European Union could deploy on a "surge" basis two carriers (with a weaker combined air wing than a single USN carrier) and a single amphibious group comparable to a USN Amphibious Ready Group. This sealift capability would support landing a brigade-size element in Yemen.

The Europeans also maintain a sizable number of airborne formations (Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain all have brigade-plus or -minus elements standing and aren't faced with fighting Russia on short notice), and can field about 100 heavy transport aircraft, mostly A400s. Based on RAND corporation analysis (link in the first post) it would take approximately 105 C-17 sorties to deliver one US infantry brigade with appropriate enablers for a high-end battle. Yemen will be a high-end battle. Although an A400 can jump about the same number of paratroopers as a C-17, it can carry only about half the cargo. Ergo, something like 150 A400 sorties would be required to deliver one brigade, not to mention ongoing sustainment requirements. As it's doubtful more than 30 or so aircraft would be (or even could be, I'm not going to try to analyze ramp space in Djibouti) committed to the operation, the EU task force could realistically only jump a single fully-equipped brigade into Yemen alongside the amphibious landing.

Barring military access from Saudi Arabia or Oman, these two European brigades are going to have to hit the dirt and seize a seaport (perhaps the city of Al Hudaydah, shown) to allow conventional shipping to come in and "administratively" deliver what's going to be a pretty meager follow-on force. That entails a city fight. Even with a seized airport and light reinforcements beyond the initial brigade flowing in by air (alongside much of their logistical requirements!), that's a tall order - particularly given the Houthis have real anti-access/area-denial capabilities and a reasonably competent army. Two or three European brigades in the Middle East, with a mission to seize a major urban area, relying on sketchy air support and tenuous supply lines, can get into a lot of trouble in 2024. Al Hudaydah, for instance, is a Houthi stronghold with a population of close to three-quarters of a million. A smarter course of action may be to enter in non-Houthi controlled eastern Yemen, establish logistics and attack from the east - but it'll be much slower to open the straits and oh, by the way, will require those aforementioned logistics to travel around the Horn of Africa because the Bab al-Mandeb will remain closed in the interim. So the indirect approach is fraught with its own, very significant, issues.

Which brings me to the crux of the problem - Yemen is a big country. It's somewhat larger than Iraq and has about 3/4 the population. The vast majority of that population lives in areas controlled by the Houthis. And, most importantly, the Houthis are very competent fighters. Ergo, even a minimal operation to reopen the Bab al-Mandeb should be expected to be something more on the scale of the 2003 invasion of Iraq than the sort of African bandit-chasing expedition we've seen European forces actually perform in recent memory. And the EU doesn't remotely have the capability to deploy and sustain forces at that level. The force that overthrew Saddam Hussein in 2003 was 200,000-strong - an order of magnitude or more larger than what I've described above.

So to answer my starting question: No. Not a chance. In fact it would be a significant operation even for the United States - certainly not something that could be done quickly, easily, or with the commitment of minimal forces.

Laughing my ass off at the fact that Bolsanaro is cursed to have the most disgusting ailments over and over again and be in hospital constantly. Didn't he have to shit out of his nose for a little while?

never buy this guy's watermelons

Turkish firms use Palestinian customs as loophole to bypass "Israel" trade ban | The Cradle

Number of rockets and drones launched by Hezbollah into Occupied Palestine by month. From Al Ahed News

Latest school shooter was named “Colt Gray”.

Reality has got to be a joke when school shooters start having names like a Gundam villain who dies after one episode.

"hello my username is adjective_noun#### and i'm posting something unhinged that completely happened on reddit.com"