Lol. Lmao.

the most democratic country in the middle east
- Not even, “the only democracy” ell em eff ayy oh
"gosh I guess we just have to passively accept our government's eventual fatal bombings of our captive family members in service of ethnic cleansing!"
Lmao are you fuckin kidding??? I was kind of hoping something really funny was gonna happen.
- I mean, this is funny, how completely toothless Israeli unions are.
The Israeli economy is in shambles because of the war and divestment tho, how is it not relevant, even applying their own logic?

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.

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

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

"goyim"

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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"

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.

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.

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

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

me when im in an opening up another front compitition and my opponent is israel

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.

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

How Vietnam teaches Palestine to Fight Invaders

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

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

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.

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/

It'd been a clandestine outpost for the u.s military since the 60s-70s. It's only just shedding the guise of neutrality it adopted after conditionally surrendering to the Soviet Union after ww2
It's quite a shame considering that Lenin and the Bolsheviks are an important part of Finnish independence.
- The Soviets liberated Eastern Europe and the region has never forgiven them for it
- It really is. It is one of the more angering and sad bits of the bourge rewritinh of our history. Especially how succesful it has been.
  I remember growing up people like my grandpa were proud Lenin guys, not many decades later it is a taboo. It alignes a lot with the CIA deployed "finlandization" propaganda, the fall of the Soviet and the shock therapy lite they implemented here in the 90s.
Idk they seemed heavily Americanized to begin with even before joining NATO

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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).

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.

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.

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".)

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

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

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.

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.

"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.

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

Jordanian Truck Driver mercs 3 Zionazi officers.

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.

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.

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

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.

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)

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?

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

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

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

Bolsonaro is in the hospital again lmao

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

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.

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

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.

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.

They intend to make the west bank into gaza

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

This is the news megathread capitulation to the trans megathread, the Treaty of Versailles of Hexbear.
As I said in this post's preamble, I'll start enforcing the off-topic rule more heavily in regards to the "comment war" thing so that there's more on-topic news comments and analysis and we'll hopefully be back to our regularly scheduled programming soon. Would help to kickstart things if Iran responded because right now, I'm in a situation where I don't want to commit too hard to COTW posts (which I plan and generally type out in advance) if I have to then immediately derail it all because a regional war starts and US bases start going up in smoke, so I'm getting the more entertaining stuff out of the way (like this megathread, and LargePenis's son).
- Posting about Irans retaliation is our Rhineland
Masterful gambit.
- ~~It’s a joke. The catposting was happening last mega too~~ it was not a joke pls enforce the off topic rule and don’t do funny bits to make non-news on-topic. I was chill with Hassan LargePenis, but this is a bit much

As always, death to Israel

'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.

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

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

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/

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

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.

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

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

God he's such a fuckin worm

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

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://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.

China pausing on gold buying spree 4th month

Prices at near record high.

Come on October suprise crash this baby right before the election.

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

according to russia, 50 frogs boiled

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

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.

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

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.”

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.

TURKEY HAS BETRAYED THE WHITE RACE THEY SHOULD BE KICKED OUT OF NATO IMMEDIATELY
About two weeks after Azerbaijan applied.
Same energy as convincing the little brother to do something you don't want to get in trouble for and when he doesn't get yelled at you do the same thing.

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.

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--%E2%80%98Israel-will-receive-revenge-for-its-vicious-acts%E2%80%99

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.

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.

say it with me: first President of Palestine Yahya Sinwar

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

Also I love my trans comrades

there are flameethrower drones now....

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.

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.

Another school shooting

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

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 😭 😭

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

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.

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

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.

Algerian elections tomorrow, r/Algeria is so astroturfed

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

never buy this guy's watermelons

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

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?

Hey comrades, is there any resource I can dig into to better understand the current situation in Cuba? To my uninformed knowledge, the situation appears to be rather bleak, with rising anti-government sentiment due to increased liberal reforms and economic struggles compounded by COVID and the trade embargo.

With the application to join BRICS, this should see increased trade, and tourism especially, which may pay off.

Are there any Cubans here that can offer better explanations for what I am hearing, or provide more accurate sources not infected by western bias? I support Cuba and the Revolution, of course, I just want to know more about the current situation.

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

Hezbollah targets Israeli settlements with barrages of rockets

The Hezbollah resistance movement has fired heavy barrages of rockets toward settlements in the northern part of the occupied Palestinian territories in retaliation for Israel’s deadly attacks on Lebanon.

In statements released on Sunday, Hezbollah said that it has twice targeted the settlement of Kiryat Shmona with Falaq rockets.

The resistance group also noted that it had fired Katyusha rockets toward the Shamir settlement.

Israeli media reported there were no injuries in the Hezbollah strikes, however, they said, some rockets had impacted their targets and caused damage.

Hezbollah said that it had conducted the attacks in support of “steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their brave and honorable resistance” against Israel.

The raids, it added, came in response to the enemy’s attacks on Lebanon’s “southern villages and safe homes, especially the horrific massacre in the town of Froun.”

On Saturday, an Israel airstrike killed three Lebanese emergency workers and injured two others as they tried to contain a fire in Froun.

Really fucking funny seeing Milei say something bad about Lula da Silva, when literally weeks ago he was begging Lula for gas, because no one wants to trade with Argentina because they know Milei won't pay them.

France seems like it might be headed towards a deadlock or even a constitutional crisis, with Macron and his ever-diminishing mandate trying to indefinitely postpone naming any ministers from LFI for what looks like grudge-based reasoning.

The NFP achieved a disproportionate victory, largely by tactical voting, where they pulled ahead of the RN to successfully stave off the fascists. It's pretty clear to everyone that without a major shift or series of political developments, they would struggle to pull this off again in the face of increasing turnout from the FN/RN base every election.

Maybe a year or so ago, someone posted an article/analysis piece about how instead of earnestly opposing the far-right, Macron uses the threat of it alternatingly as a cudgel and a shield, to maintain power.

Does Macron seem to have the relative weakness of the left-wing coalition as a key piece of his political strategy over the past month? Is he paving the way for the fascists to easily win next go-around, just to keep his ~~cult of personality~~ self-made party going for a few more years?

I'd really like to hear from anyone who has a better grasp of the situation than I do. (I don't peruse the news mega very often.)

It seems like it actually might be over for Ukraine as a ton of politicians are starting to jump ship most prominent one is the Foreign Minister Kuleba.

Also

"“Our position is clear. We respond as harshly as possible to any attempts to undermine the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine and we protect national interests by all available means, including on the diplomatic front,” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba emphasized.

In 2016, Ukraine closed its embassy in Damascus in connection with the crimes of the Bashar al-Assad regime against the Syrian people and ordered the closing of the Syrian Embassy in Ukraine in 2018"

I’m a fiend for the clout, so I’m reposting my reaction to isntreal

Only democracy in the Middle East making a strike illegal lmfao

In fact you will find that it would be extremely undemocratic to keep striking when the government tells you that it's illegal.

Michael Roberts- Germany: the end of EU hegemony?

What all this shows is that even German capitalism, the most successful advanced capitalist economy in Europe, cannot escape the divisive forces of the Long Depression. But it is also shows that the German coalition government’s slavish following of the interests of US imperialism in the name of ‘Western democracy’ over Ukraine and Israel is destroying the hegemony of German capital and the living standards of its poorest citizens. No wonder the voices of nationalism and reaction are gaining traction.

Tzeentch Daemon Macron got egged

https://x.com/durrutiriot/status/1832050117257408762?

Hey comrades, I've just spent the better part of my day writing a few 100 words about pubic housing where I live. I know this isn't the exciting indepth war analysis we get here, but I don't really know what else to do with it. (post it on reddit? ew) It's good practice I guess. Someone tell me if this aint the place.

PUBLIC HOUSING IN SO-CALLED AUSTRALIA
How good is renting? Does it sound familiar? It’s a one liner from what feels like another life. While many can still hear Scumo’s catchphrase echoing in the dark recesses of our minds, at this point in the show, he should have gift wrapped it and handed it to the ALP on his way out the door. How good is god? Ay, Scottie!
That's right folks, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) have finally achieved their dream. They’ve fully embraced the neoliberal policies any Red Tory party should strive for. It’s been a long time coming, and what can we say apart from: Thatcher is dead, it will happen to you.
For the second week running, we’re inundated with reports of Liberal National Party (LNP / Blue Tories) throwing out statements that make them seem almost human. Last week they were vocally supporting a more inclusive census, leaving the ALP chasing their tail, before the gallant Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese passed the buck to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. - Was it a handball? Albo’s a man's man, let's do sports analogies. - The crowd awaits with baited breath to see which ALP backbencher will be sacrificed for crossing party lines this time!
Meanwhile, Jacinta Allan’s Victorian ALP, who like their federal counterparts, are staunchly committed to supporting the Israeli (sic) state’s genocidal policies in Gaza, are predictably taking a more polite approach in their own backyard. In a move that is strikingly similar to those announced by the previous New South Wales LNP’s (now revised, and Chris Minns ALP approved) “Waterloo Estate redevelopment plan”, Public Housing estates across the country will soon be demolished and sold off to profit driven developers.
The Waterloo Estate was once considered such an achievement upon completion in 1977, Queen Elizabeth II attended the opening ceremony. Similarly aged buildings in and around Sydney’s CBD - such as the famed MLC Centre, or the now luxury ex-state-owned Sirius Apartments - have mysteriously escaped demolition, instead receiving complete refurbishments amounting to hundreds of millions. Heritage Laws in place to “protect historic significance” be damned.
Now not only will these brutal “redevelopments” displace 1,000s of people from what should be rent controlled homes, they will also transfer all assets and authority over to the “malevolent” not-for-profit sector. Though be not afraid! At the National Press Club on Wednesday 3rd September, Housing Supply and Affordability Council chair, Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz talked up the federal governments build-to-rent scheme. You can now not only look forward to the destruction of 1,000s of homes, you may also have your heart warmed that the ALP will be giving these building conglomerates tax breaks to take those pesky public assets out of our hands!
The same federal government who had a spare $60million to give the ADF for recruitment advertising, and who seek to destroy the key safeguard for workers safety in the building industry - the CFMEU - are also slashing the red tape, and washing their hands of the whole ordeal.
Federal LNP members have come forward to denounce the bill which “seeks to entrench tax advantage for institutional investors, in a thinly veiled attempt to corporatise the Australian housing market”. However, considering the tried and true tradition of locking Australian’s into home ownership, turning every family into “little capitalists”, in order to smash the labour movement, don’t be surprised when the LNP calls to scrap subsidised rentals all together.

hey it's not even that long, I gave up jamming the hyperlinks back in, they're all just msm citations anyway, who cares?

The new strategy of just charging parents of school shooters with murder is just pathetic.

Can’t stop these tragedies in any effective way. Doing good things is impossible. Sacrifice a few more people on the altar of the justice system and call it a day instead.

Drop Site News posting Matt "cops are working class" Taibbi

fuck my life

Anyway, how's everyone's week been?

damn maybe this is what i have lol
- Spiro should be OTC fr
  I have so many scars and it's going to cost, like, $1.2k to deal with all of them 😭
I'm gonna make 100 hour brownies

https://clarion.unity-struggle-unity.org/2024-09-04-navajo-nation-we-will-block-your-trucks/

Danish Minister Goes to Pacific Concentration Camp For Inspiration

Kaare Dybvad Bek, the head of Denmark's succdem-controlled ministry of foreigners and integration, is travelling to the remote Pacific island of Nauru to seek "inspiration and experience" from Australia's concentration camp for refugees there. So reports Danish government broadcaster DR.

"It is a system that has proven very effective to control who comes to Australia", Dybvad Bek says. To him the concentration camp represents "a form of success" and goes on to say that "It is something many western countries struggle with and they have succeeded in Australia. I want to see how it works in practice".

The Nauru concentration camp was created as an extraterritorial site to allow the Australian state to inflict maximal cruelty on refugees away from Australian soil. Media access to the island is tightly controlled by the regime who has also attempted to deter whistleblowers by criminalising any disclosure about the camp. The camp is notorious for high incidences of sexual abuse and the indefinite detention and lack of hope is driving inmates to alarmingly high rates of self-harm or suicide.

This does not deter the xenophobic minister however, who says that he wants to "see it for himself" before rejecting the model.

The interest in the Nauru concentration camp has been rekindled as Danish plans to set up a similar concentration camp in Rwanda has failed to materialise.

"Israeli" army hit by sudden resignation of ground forces chief | The Cradle

Major General Tamir Yadai, the commander of the "Israeli" army’s ground forces, has decided to resign for “personal reasons,” Hebrew news site Walla reported on 3 September.
Yadai “will resign from his position for personal reasons,” representing “an earthquake in the General Staff,” Walla reported, adding that the move comes after he was being prepared “as a candidate to be the next deputy chief of staff."
Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi was informed that Yadai “intends to resign in the coming weeks once a replacement officer is found.” The report adds that Halevi and "Israel’s" Defense Minister Yoav Gallant have agreed to the request.

[double quotes will be inserted around the name of the temporary entity in all excerpts]

Vodiane has fallen, and with it, Vuhledar will too. Probably within a few weeks.

It shouldn't be underestimated just how significant a development this will be. Russia has been trying and failing to take Vuhledar practically since the war began.

In german news after the AfD won big Scholz has decided to take a page of out a very successful politician,

. That's right baby 'Nothing will fundementally change' ole Scholz doesn't think he should stop any of his wildly unpopular policies of being pro-war, pro-genocide, pro-racism, pro-border, no he thinks that if they just stay the course with him as the captain they'll get a mandate for 2025 that they'll be the government without doubt. ("fest damit, dass die SPD und ich 2025 ein so starkes Mandat bekommen, dass wir auch die nächste Regierung anführen werden")

Keep in mind his coalition has been historically unpopular and almost all polls will see SPD just eat massive amounts of shit.

In short Emperor Olaf Scholz has lost the Mandate of the Holy Roman Empire his fall will soon come to pass.

PS: We need some Olaf Scholz emojis because he has just been the worst and it's surprising that there's nothing out there on him.

Like you can't tell me someone can't make an emoji out of his bond villain arc.

Just learned that the original name for the county seat in Southhampton County, VA, where Nat Turner's rebellion took place, was Jerusalem. The town name was changed Courtland after residents got sick of people in Norfolk calling them "the Arabs from Jerusalem".

I've been thinking about some the parallels between the 10/7 and Nat Turner's rebellion, specifically in the response from Zionists in comparison to the response from US slave owners (and their response to the abolition movement in general). I just got back from touching sand and if I can find the time when I'm not working, I might try to find some juicy quotes from slave owners that sound like they could have come from a Zionist.

So when Sweden joined NATO, did all of NATO's maps suddenly become interactive?

Grand Rapids, Mi mistakenly collected $81K in holiday parking fees. It won’t issue refunds

This is on top of the city destorying a block with a massive water main break and not covering any of the damage their neglected infrastructure caused saying they are "immune".

Most moral army/only democracy in the Middle East siccing dogs on hostages

https://t.me/RNN_Prisoners/2103

Elon Musk's X is having trouble finding an executive to represent the company in Brazil. After Musk's announcement about closing the office in the country, executives who had been approached turned down the offer, fearing that they would be arrested for disobeying court orders.

The concern of potential representatives is due to the decisions of Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes, who has already signaled the possibility of imprisonment if X does not comply with orders to remove profiles.

The Zionist entity really treats their Mizrahi population with complete contempt. Imagine losing your legs to a Yasin rocket only to have doctors make you a foot shorter.

https://xcancel.com/HananyaNaftali/status/1831694235151540330

Algerian elections: Ballot closing has been delayed to 20:00 instead of 19:00
Turnout rate in 17:00 was 26.46% out of 23.486.061.
updat: 48.06% at 20:00

Court orders Kennedy’s name removed from Michigan ballots

N.Y. Official Charged With Taking Money, Travel and Poultry to Aid China

Prosecutors say that Ms. Sun blocked Taiwanese officials from having access to the governor’s office, eliminated references to Taiwan from state communications and quashed meetings between Taiwanese officials and state leaders, including Ms. Hochul. She also ensured that state officials did not publicly address the persecution of Uyghurs, a primarily Muslim ethnic group that for more than a thousand years has lived in a region of what is now China, prosecutors said.

Taiwan, the "country" that the U.S. government does not recognize.

(I have nothing funny to say about this. I think the article and milei do a fine job by themselves)

Milei: ‘I am today the most relevant politician on Earth’ – bar Trump

Javier Milei has declared himself to be one of the two most important politicians in the world today, naming the other as former US president Donald Trump.

Javier Milei has declared himself to be one of the two most important politicians in the world today, naming the other as former US president Donald Trump. Argentina’s head of state made the remarks in the television interview, during which he lashed out at his critics, describing them as “Lilliputians.”

“It hurts them that I am today one of the two most relevant politicians on planet Earth. One is Trump and the other is me,” Milei boasted in an interview with the LN+ television news channel on Sunday night.

Milei, 53, declared that is considered to be “maximum exponent and defender of the ideas of freedom in the world’, highlighting his meetings with top Silicon Valley minds like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

Slamming his critics as “inconsequential,” he argued that they were simply jealous of his success.

Milei mocked the “the Lilliputian agenda of inconsequential Argentine politicians, invisible rats, who will never be able to aspire” to his level of importance.

Painting himself a modern Gulliver freeing himself from the shackles of his adversaries, he asked of the opposition: ”What vision can a rat have of a giant? Nothing.”

Milei has repeatedly expressed his administration for Trump, who he met for the first at conservative summit in Washington back in February.

Visibly delighted at meeting the US Republican leader, the Argentine leader broke with diplomatic tradition to state that he hoped Trump is re-elected in November’s US election.

"President! How nice to meet you. It's a great pleasure to meet you, President. It is a great honour for me. Thank you for your words to me. I am very happy, it is very generous. Thank you very much, thank you very much, I mean it. You are a great president and I hope you win. I hope to see you again. Next time, as president,” said Milei as he shook Trump’s hand.

Trump, in turn, has praised Milei, not quite as vociferously. In August, during a public conversation with X owner Elon Musk on the social network, the US leader said that he was doing “a great job.”

Milei is in the process of beefing up his public image. Last week, he published a teaser trailer from a new six-part documentary series that will tell the tale of his rise to the Presidency. The doc will be published on Musk’s X network and – in the words of its promoters – will draw back the curtain on “the phenomenon that’s captivating the world.”

“I am not famous as an economist, but like a rockstar,” Milei says in one piece of footage released to promote the documentary about “the most epic campaign in history.”

Russia has taken out enough offensive Ukrainian Air Defence platforms to deploy "Orion" medium altitude drones in the Kursk region. The drones have been filmed using the Kh-BPLA missile to take out armoured targets, such as Ukrainian tanks, on the ground. This the first recorded use of this weapon, and this is apparently the second. The Kh-BPLA missile is a 9M133M Kornet-M anti tank missile that has been modified to be launched by a drone or helicopter (it is usually launched from the Kornet-D platform, a ground vehicle), with a range of 8km with the tandem-HEAT warhead, and 10km with the thermobaric warhead. It uses laser designation for guidance. The drone operator only has to designate a target once, and the drone's computer will automatically track the target as the missile flies towards it. A big improvement over systems that require the target to be designated manually by the operator throughout the entire flight.

AMLO gave his last goverment report yesterday

{Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has defended his legacy in the final state-of-the-nation address – an annual report on his government – a month before he is set to leave office and be replaced by his close ally Claudia Sheinbaum.

Speaking for two hours in Mexico City’s sprawling Zocalo Square, Lopez Obrador bade farewell to enthusiastic followers on Sunday as he seeks to advance a major overhaul of the country’s courts.

On October 1, Lopez Obrador will hand power to a fellow member of his Morena party, Sheinbaum, who was elected in June to be the country’s first woman president.

Presidents in Mexico are limited to a single six-year term, so Lopez Obrador could not seek re-election.

Sheinbaum will also inherit a package of constitutional reforms initiated under Lopez Obrador, including the judicial overhaul plan

At the core of the proposal is a plan to elect federal judges – including Supreme Court appointees – by popular vote. Lopez Obrador has said the change is needed to root out corruption.

How many Zionazis got killed recently? Could do with some uplifting news.

Jenin lives and settlers are furious

https://t.me/jeninnews1/114015

Turkey applied for BRICS membership and immediately became based? They just beat up a US Marine lol.

Nazionists failed to consider it is so easy to make insulting puns about israhell

It looks like Ukraine committed the last of its strategic reserve to Pokrovsk last week and it's already expended. Russia took fairly moderate losses given it was at least 5 extra fresh brigades

Running the numbers, they might have 2 full brigades left in reserve, total, and it's far from clear if they're in flighting condition.

I'm not optimistic about Pokrovsk being taken this year, but then it doesn't need to be to force the south east flank collapse Russia has wanted for 2 years now

In Ireland, the Catholic Church is at it again:

Oh hey, it's just some bit of small news that are news nevertheless. Bit of a longpost too.

So my University will be holding elections throughout this week

We all know universities have always been heated political battlegrounds. In some countries, under authoritarian regimes, political activity and formation in universities is heavily restricted and is almost illegal, like in the United States

. In other countries, like in the hellhole that is Argentina (MY HELLHOLE), surprisingly it's allowed for a wide range of political parties and organisations to participate in democratic elections to elect representatives and authorities whitin their respective universities. Of course, it goes without saying that elections never take place in universities of authoritarian nature like those which are deemed "private institutions". It seems that Capital ain't interested in democracy after all.

Anyways, my university in particular belongs to the much larger University of Buenos Aires, which has a lot of ups and downs. Our elections are celebrated among students to elect other students into three different bodies, all fully validated by the State and the University itself. So, one of the elections will send student representatives to a Junta which itself is made up with said students, professors and other academics. There's one Junta specifically for each career, in my case, and since I'm studying History, my vote goes for the representatives in the History Junta. Others will emit a vote for their representatives in the Anthropology Junta, the Philosophy Junta and so on. These Juntas deal with everything related to their careers. The other body is the Board of Directors, once again a number of students (often a minority) is sent in representation and will be able to cast a vote during the internal elections they have to choose the University's main authorities.

None of that is interesting. The real battleground is the third body that is up for grabs: the Student's Centre. Basically, it's a student-driven government body that is tasked with defending the interests of all students. Historically it has been a very contested battleground for many parties, lots of militants everywhere (from all parties) began their careers in their Student Centres (if they even attended to a State University). It's an important body, during heated political moments it becomes the framework for mobilisation and organisation. For example, pre-COVID years saw several attempts to reduce "costs" in education, as a response, quite a lot of student centres took their universities literally by storm, declared them "Tomadas" (Taken) and ran the entire thing by themselves. Sounds familiar?

At the same time, the Centre offers services like operating the university's buffet, support for students, study groups, etc. Not a lot, but can have an impact in the students day to day life.

So the elections for the Centre always get spicy. This time around, the Centre is under control by the Peronist coalition, which groups several peronist, kirchnerist (soccdems) and some like-minded independent groups. Like all peronists they suck massive amounts of ass, because they negotiate with power, not fight it. First, they're ideologically aligned with the authorities. Second, they've been around since like 2022 or so and so far their management has been bad. We've lost hours from our schedule thanks to their passiveness, meaning that the university opens later (from 7am to 8am) and closes earlier (from 23pm to 22pm), everything had to be modified to fall into this new scheme and many students got fucked, because almost everyone who studies here is a student AND a worker at the same time. They also allowed for the History program to get butchered by removing certain subjects (made them optional) and replacing them with pseudoscientific shite like psychoanalysis

. So, I will not vote for these fucking losers.

As for the opposition, it's made up of about three Trot orgs (Because OF COURSE IT IS LIKE THAT

) and one or two extra orgs I don't know. As for the Trots, one has absolutely no chances (In typical Trot fashion it used to belong to a much larger party, but their sixty five million years old leader broke away from them and formed their own marginal group), the other has little chances (It's filled with TERFs, or at least, used to. Regardless they're all 100% insufferable) but this one has some national projection (They even participate in national elections as Nuevo MAS). Finally, there's the big Trot front that is Frente de Izquierda (good Trots) which, in itself, is made up by four Trot parties. I know quite some people who their militant life for them and they're pretty cool, I have a lot of respect for some of them.

So yeah, I'll be voting for the good Trots. Still, I consider myself to be a Communist yeah but also Independent as I don't campaign for a party. Therefore, I am not a Trot. I also know some of their candidates in the ticket and I get along with them well.

If you guessed that most of the political struggle comes from the Trots infighting you'd be right. There was a pretty big incident years ago where a group of Nuevo MAS militants got involved in a massive brawl with militants from the Frente de Izquierda that even got nationwide TV coverage. It's still spoken about after all these years, it constituted a monumental moment in our University's lore lmao. Still, it's pretty emabarrasing. These days this kind of shit doesn't happen, but there's always heated discussions between the two as both are apparently interested in forming a single ticket, but Trots be Trotinn', they never agree on anything and go separate ways (then they get eaten by the Peronists).

The University is also filled with political propaganda, mostly coming from Nuevo MAS militancy. All walls, and I mean ALL WALLS have political ads. It's almost unbearable to watch. I've included an example in the spoiler below. Also, as soon as you come in from the main entrance you get jumped on by militants asking you questions and trying to convice you to vote for them lol. It's very amusing for me, others feel really threatened about all this. ::: spoiler spoiler

And this is nothing, it gets worse in other places. Also it's the same ad repeated over and over again.

::: I wish the good Trots win (they have a good chance), I'd rather have them instead of the bootlickers in power. I want them to be completely insufferable to those in power.

And though defending democracy was a dominant theme of the Democratic National Convention last month, in the 2022 midterms, Democrats failed to field a single candidate for fully half of all partisan offices — well over three times the rate of Republican no-shows.

NYT

In other

news...

The UK has suspended some arms licenses. 30 out of 350 to be exact. They do not cover the major components for things like F-35s however - one of the bigger volume items made here.

The rationale given is one of explicit legalese over "uncertainty" about whether they "could" be used in Gaza in capacities that violate international law, while making it very clear that they are not claiming Israel has, will, or is doing that.

In other words, it seems that the leaks from the end of the previous government saying that legal advisers had explicitly told the government they were in violation of international law and could potentially be named in international arrest warrants were accurate. And now that the new Labour government has checked that too, they're crossing off the items that potentially already have a strong potential against them in order to try and keep themselves off an potential legal action that might bar them from international travel.

Any idea that they seem to be softening their position on military and intelligence support of Israel seems to be countered by the fact that there's been a notable, aggressive push of anti-terror legislation use against pro-Palestine journalists and Palestine Action who (as well as securing many acquittals under traditional law) have actively been targeting some of the arms companies exporting the very items that the UK will now suspend export of.

BBC source article here

Some more news and videos from the front (and rear).

Ukrainian anti-fascist partisans of the Opir resistance movement set fire to a large warehouse of the Danish entity “Autukrania biler til Ukraine” in Copenhagen that had been supplying military equipment to the Kiev regime and Western mercenaries for over two years: https://southfront.press/ukrainian-resistance-movement-starts-fires-across-europe/

RT video report on the recent liberation of the southern DPR town of Konstantinovka: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/strategic-city:f

Kiev regime invaders of Kursk oblast forgot to shut the door… (18+): https://lostarmour.info/media/videos/news/22180.mp4

https://xcancel.com/JoshEakle/status/1831420035413299250 Russiagate is back.

Do you think kamala will start a war with iran? She blamed Trump for not starting it and she is endorsed by neocons. What do you guys think?

i just saw on intel slava v that the US is covering up a death in Ukraine by saying he was stationed in Poland and died from "unintentional manslaughter"

Foreign Policy - Ukraine Needs a New Storyline

But as important as the messaging, Ukraine also had a clear—if simple—theory for how it would win the war. First, it stopped the Russian offensive in Kyiv. Next it broke Russian forces around Kharkiv and retook Kherson. Finally, as Western-made arms poured into the country, a final counteroffensive in the spring of 2023 would at the very least push Russia back closer to its borders, if not finish the war entirely.

Unfortunately for Ukraine, the latter step never materialized, not least because months of Western hesitation to deliver critical weapons such as tanks and aircraft gave Russia the time it needed to complete extensive fortifications along the front. When the 2023 counteroffensive petered out, Kyiv lost more than troops and equipment. It also lost a compelling argument for how it intends to win.

Arguably, the accusation that the Russia-Ukraine war was stalemated was never entirely accurate [lol. lmao]. While much of the Western media attention focused on the stagnant front lines, Ukraine notched a series of less headline-grabbing but arguably equally important achievements, including pushing Russia’s once vaunted Black Sea fleet out of its Crimean ports and the western Black Sea—a significant feat for country without a navy. Moreover, the lack of Ukrainian military progress was at least partially due to monthslong holdups in U.S. and European aid deliveries, as well as strict red lines limiting the use of any Western weapon to attack airfields, bases, and other military assets on Russian territory.

While practically every one of the dozens of Ukrainians whom I interviewed—at different levels of seniority, both inside and outside of government—recognized the need for victory and the existential stakes at hand, few were able to articulate just how Ukraine would come out victorious.

In this respect, the Kursk counteroffensive arrived not a moment too soon.

While the counteroffensive came as a surprise to many—including officials in the U.S. Defense Department—the push into Kursk makes perfect sense. Ukraine, after all, needed to do something big. It needed to show that while the Russian military may be vast, it is still uneven and, in places, brittle.

Inferring from Ukraine’s actions, the country’s new, if still unstated, strategic tagline seems to have three relatively well-defined parts: survive, strike, and seize. The first—survive—focuses on withstanding Russia’s punishing assaults against Ukrainian energy infrastructure and halting Russia’s slowly advancing offensive in the Donbas. The second—strike—seems to revolve around hitting military and industrial targets deeper inside Russia, not only in order to wear down Russian military capabilities, but also to increase the economic and political costs of the war for the Putin regime.

The third and final part—seize—is where Kursk fits in. This action emphasizes capturing Russian territory along the border, presumably both as a buffer to protect Ukrainian territory from Russian aggression and as a potential bargaining chip further down the road.

Ultimately, all three elements are necessary but likely not sufficient [lol. lmao.] in constructing a new theory of victory for Ukraine. While the survive, strike, and seize elements of Kyiv’s nascent strategy will undoubtedly ramp up the pressure on Moscow, they probably will not, by themselves, allow Ukraine to retake its lost territory. Indeed, Russia has continued to advance in eastern Ukraine, despite the Ukrainian offensive in Kursk. Nor will future strikes and seizures dramatically ramp up domestic pressure on Putin to the point where he will end the conflict. Most Ukrainian analysts whom I interviewed admitted that most Russians—particularly those who actually have influence in Putin’s autocracy—simply don’t care enough about Kursk to force Putin to abandon his war aims.

Thus, the question that remains is what the next and final element of Ukraine’s theory of victory might be, if it exists at all. Essentially, Ukraine has two basic choices—supplant or settle.

But with U.S. elections on the horizon and growing challenges around the world competing for scarce attention and resources, Ukraine’s leadership owes its partners and allies—as well as its own public—its theory of how it will win.

The authors thesis is fundamentally contradictory.

The author argues that Ukraine’s theory of victory is to survive and seize bargaining chips, but also that these seizures of strategically unimportant areas obviously don’t affect the war in a meaningful military sense.

And so the author concludes by admitting Ukraine has no theory of victory.

Even in the best case scenario that Ukraine can horse trade Kursk for a bit of territory, Ukraine has fundamentally lost the war.

The question not being addressed is post-war neutrality. It seems the deep state are now fully engaged in preserving a rump Ukraine that is NATO-aligned and hostile to Russia so we’ve entered the true negotiations here of drawing permanent spheres of influence.

By Raphael S. Cohen, the director of the Strategy and Doctrine Program at the Rand Corporation’s Project Air Force.

WSWS - 84 years since the assassination of Leon Trotsky

Map stans, did Russia's offensive on Pokrovsk finally stall or are they just prepping for the big push?

Honduras Not To Allow Pressure From Washington: Vice Chancellor Torres - Telesur

i just came across this article from mintpressnews about tucker carlson's CIA connections https://www.mintpressnews.com/tucker-carlson-biography-nicaragua-cia/279782/

Based on Iran’s focus on the F-35I, the James Martin analysts assumed the likely target point for the Iranian fire would be a cluster of aircraft hangars. The position also serves as a near-central point within the Nevatim base itself.

That offers “a much more valuable target” than just “poking holes in the runway,” Lair said. But none of the Iranian missiles directly hit those hangars.

Assuming Iran targeted the hangars, the James Martin analysts measured the distance between the hangars and the impact zones of the missiles. That gave an average of about 1.2 kilometers (0.75 miles) for the “circular error probable” — a measurement used by experts to determine a weapon’s accuracy based on the radius of a circle that encompasses 50% of where the missiles landed.

what is this shit? (linky to ap) we estimated the target to be hangars and thus the missiles are shit, deeply unserious analysts (unless they are doing shenanigans, in that case carry on

)

Evidence #481 Why germany cannot be trusted with a state

https://x.com/Pohl_MdB/status/1830275632884035753

Again I told you dawg I fucking told you

In their biannual count of homeless people, Denmark's national welfare research institution VIVE has registered 5.989 unhoused people out of a total population of six million. This is an increase by 200 individuals since 2022. VIVE points to changes in legislation making municipal authorities more aware of homelessness as well as homeless shelters still seeing less usage due to COVID restrictions in 2022 as reasons for the increase.

The largest increase has been in the age group 30-39 while the number of younger unhoused persons is unchanged. The Copenhagen area saw the largest increase.

Only a third of the registered individuals are on a waiting list to social housing. VIVE is critical of this as the "housing first" approach is proven to be the most effective strategy of remedying homelessness.

Responsible Statecraft - When Will The War In Ukraine End?

There has long been a growing recognition in private among Western experts and officials that it is in reality impossible for Ukraine to recover its lost territories through victory on the battlefield. However this has not so far led — even strictly in private — to suggestions that Ukraine and the West might propose terms that the Russian people (let alone the government) could accept as a basis for negotiations.

In the meantime, the evidence suggests that it is Russia, not Ukraine, that is strengthening its military position for eventual negotiations; and it is not at all clear that Ukrainian strikes deep into Russia would significantly change this trend.

There is no reason therefore to think that time is on Ukraine’s side in this conflict, and that it makes sense to delay the start of negotiations. That however does not mean that all the cards are in Russia’s hands, and all the Kremlin has to do is wait for Ukrainian collapse. The economy has performed far better than the West hoped, but the Russian Central Bank itself is warning of serious problems next year. As for the situation on the battlefield, while Ukrainian soldiers are exhausted, that also appears true of many Russian troops.

… As Russian establishment interlocutors acknowledged to me, Russia probably does not have the troops to capture major Ukrainian cities, unless President Putin launches an intensified wave of conscription — something he is clearly unwilling to do.

This means that if given a clear choice between what they could regard as a reasonable peace and a continuation of war to complete victory, it seems probable that a majority of Russians would opt for peace; and that it would therefore be very difficult for Putin to continue the war, if to do so meant the conscription of many more Russian sons and husbands. Such a compromise peace would be very far from what the Ukrainian and Western governments hope. It would also be very far from what Putin hoped for when he launched this war in February 2022.

I claim this post in the name of the New General Megathread

First too

Megasettler-colonialthreadism
- Termites shall colonize the world!! Or at least your wood furniture

Kittenposting in a new mega

Over the last 12 hours, the Democratic Kittens Republic of My House has successfully repelled invasions by a raccoon in the backyard and the neighbor's dog

Chairman Goggles touts the efficiency of the "jet" setting on the garden hose to deter raccoon lumpenprole subversion

They are cute and already here, but please limit random non-news in the news mega
- excuse me I consider this to be news

Just came across these 3 things about the recent german regional elections.

"Most BSW voters come from former Linke voters, non-voters or CDU. Minimal weakening of the AfD", also minimal weakening of the SPD, the question may still be open as to how the party will fare in other regional elections where Die Linke already barely exists.

Plurality of young germans in Thuringia supported the AfD

According to Adam Tooze the Thuringian branch of the AfD is its most radical branch

It seems like the repression and unhinged reaction to Serbian protests against foreign lithium mining for Europe's 'green revolution' is continuing to escalate.

Here's a thread unroll of some of the details from the last week or so but it includes...

Serious death threats and intimidation campaigns against activists by state intelligence and likely Rio Tinto too
Arrests and border detentions based on what appear to be terror and treason charges
Police violence against protestors
A media blackout despite protests happening outside the buildings of media organisations
State friendly newspapers printing threats of 'nasty surprises' at protests
A fake public pressure group that's pro-Euro private capital asset stripping Serbia for the lithium has appeared over night. They do get on media though.
The fake pressure group, likely created by the government, has created a website where anyone can report anyone else for investigation as an "eco terrorist" as well as post their information publicly including everything from their addresses to their supposed sexuality.
European leaders, intelligence, and thr CIA flocking to the country
The president has shared concerns about a potential colour revolution

Algerian elctions:
temporary results were announced:
2.16% for Youcef Aouchiche (FFS)
94.65% for Tebboune (Independent)
3.17% for Hassani Cherif (Hamas)
Now I wasn't surprised for the current president who's supported by the biggest political party in the country with 1 million members and 4 other parties to win, but 94% 💀💀💀??? anyhow the results aren't perminent and can be changed later.

BASHAR

update:

🔴 The campaign directorates of the three candidates for the September 7 presidential elections issue a joint statement.
📍 The directorates inform the national public opinion of the ambiguity, contradiction and ambiguity of the numbers recorded with the announcement of the provisional results of the presidential elections by the President of the National Independent Election Authority, especially:
📍 The contradiction of the numbers announced by the President of the Authority with the content of the minutes of sorting and concentrating the votes submitted by the municipal and state electoral committees.
📍 The ambiguity of the statement announcing the provisional results of the presidential elections, in which most of the basic data covered by the statement announcing the results were absent, as is customary in all important national elections.
📍 The defect recorded in the announcement of the percentages of each candidate.

Question for smarter people in the news-mega: If israel succeeded in triggering a regional war and drew the US into some direct conflict, would that be a good or bad time for China and DPRK to make some extremely strong (aggressive, maybe even invasive) moves regarding Taiwan and South Korea? US empire spreading thin, y'know ...

Really enjoying the output of this channel. High quality in-depth video essays.

Here is a recent video about how Iran's missile program was built: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfuq-HvZLaI

The Venezuelan Public Prosecutor's Office, led by Nicolás Maduro's regime, has asked the country's courts to arrest the opposition candidate of the Unity platform, Edmundo Gonzalez, for crimes of usurpation and falsification of documents.

WE DID A SYNTHESIS

Motorcade accompanying Walz involved in crash in Wisconsin

Does anyone have anything good to read about the bullshit "Venezuela emptying its prisons" story? It's ridiculous enough to dismiss out of hand but I'd like to have something more to back it up.

Critical support for GOP network props up liberal third-party candidates in key states, hoping to siphon off Harris votes

weekly icc update:

still on the 🙈 grindset

Israel Hayom - Israel to classify West Bank as 'combat zone'

Recent events have triggered a major policy shift in Israel's approach to the West Bank, Israel Hayom has learned. Previously designated as a "secondary arena" requiring stable maintenance since the war's onset, recent attacks have convinced top officials that this stance is no longer tenable. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) now operate under a new paradigm, viewing the West Bank as the second most critical front, immediately after Gaza.

While this directive is still in its initial stages, with substantial changes on the ground expected to take time, a series of operations across the West Bank are imminent. "The Jenin operation is just the beginning," security officials emphasize.

Palestinian security mechanisms, driven by self-interest rather than goodwill towards Israel, have been cooperating substantially with Israeli forces, including during Sunday's attack. A heavy-handed operation risks triggering a broader escalation, which Israel seeks to avoid. However, there's a growing consensus that aggressive action against the severe terrorism emanating from the city is necessary. As a result, we may see large-scale, intelligence-driven operations, coupled with encirclements around the city, a strategy already in play.

The prevailing assumption is that a major attack could be imminent. While last week's incident occurred in Gush Etzion, security officials warn that future attacks could target Jerusalem, Beersheba, or Tel Aviv.

First they came for Gaza, then for the West Bank, later they’ll go for Hezbollah, pam pam pam one by one they’ll mow the grass.

The axis of resistance should have functioned in a NATO-like fashion. All-in, one for all and all for one. Instead they’re allowing Israel to cycle over them one by one yet again.

Some more combat footage from the front.

Russian strikes continue obliterating Kiev regime military equipment in Kursk oblast: https://lostarmour.info/media/videos/news/22025.mp4

Russian drone shows blown-up, burnt-out Kiev regime military column along a highway in Kursk oblast: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/%F0%9F%93%BD%EF%B8%8F-A-%F0%9F%87%AC%F0%9F%87%A7-%F0%9F%87%AB%F0%9F%87%B7,-Video-of-a-broken-Ukrainian-Armed-Forces-convoy!:8

Brazilians calling Elon Musk the Kiko de los cohetes

I love gooooooold....edging

Persistent Market Crashes.

Today's failed Bolsonaro protes:

Btw, Bolsonaro also said that he should get his passport and political rights back, because he didn't totally abuse his powers. And he didn't break the law by having a meltdown in front of all the diplomats in 2022. And that, unlike Lula da Silva, he only meets with powerful and honest people, unlike Lula, who meets with drug dealers and lowlifes (during the 2022 election, Lula visited Rio's favelas, where he took photos with people and talked to local musicians, artists and community leaders, whom Bolsonaro calls drug dealers).

I saw a video of a Russian soldier headbutting a suicide drone and surviving. How does that work exactly?

The Associated Press got a cherry picked sample from the opposition to cry about

being a meanie for issueing an arrest warrent for the gusano opposition.

REGINA GARCIA CANO and JORGE RUEDA, Associated Press

Ukraine strikes Russian lines with thermite-loaded ‘dragon drones’

Its been a while since i saw anyone rabidly stanning Galloway in the UK, but i just saw A tweeter highlighting that someanti NATO thing in glasgow that the for realsies not a national socialist workers party party will be speaking at on sep 14th, will also feature some other nazis, shocking

Some more news and videos from the front.

Recent Russian missile strikes have eliminated large numbers of Western mercenaries: https://sputnikglobe.com/20240906/russian-strike-on-training-center-in-poltava-killed-and-wounded-about-500-mercs-from-europe-1120059774.html

A Russian Iskander-M missile strike destroyed a US-built M270 MLRS launcher in Sumy oblast (near Kursk): https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/mlrs.mp4

A separate Russian strike destroyed a French-built “CAESAR” self-propelled howitzer in Kursk oblast: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Caesar1.mp4

Chile Hosts Military Exercises of the U.S. Southern Command - Telesur

In KHL news Lokomotiv Yaroslavl beat Lada Togliatti 3-0! With two wins under their belt Lokomotiv is having a great start to their season! Lokomotiv for the Gagarin Cup!

Edit: Lokomotiv next plays SKA Saint Petersburg on Monday, September 9th at 19:30 (7:30pm) Moscow Standard Time

Shitliner returns to Earth

So I guess it’s safe to say Iran just isn’t going to respond to the assassinations after all. The response being letting Israel slowly crack on its own. Doesn’t seem like the US will let it come apart though. I feel like hearing Kamala say there will be no change in policy should be good enough for them to see that writing on their own wall. Can’t lose sight that Palestinians are dying and being tortured every single day. When will it be too late to meaningfully respond regardless

I'm deciding hockey news is news until I'm told otherwise, my team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl beat Metallurg Magnitogorsk 3-2 in the KHL season opener! I'm hoping this bodes well for Lokomotiv since they last faced Metallurg in the Gagarin Cup finals where Locomotiv were swept 4-0

Lokomotiv will win the cup this year!

PCRF has evacuated 3 children for ICU to Johannesburg, with 8 of their surviving relatives

South Africa has also demanded a probe/investigation of the extradidicial assassination of Ismail Haniyeh - TRT Afrika, Al Mayadeen, DIRCO, Anadolu Ajansi. Odd that I only now hear about South Africa's demands a month after the fact

Sir Keir Starmer's plan to strip 10 million pensioners of winter fuel payments could KILL nearly 4,000 people... says LABOUR'S own research

Yesterday, Saturday, September 7, opposition citizen Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who has been a voluntary refugee in the Embassy of the Kingdom of Spain in Caracas for several days, has left the country and requested political asylum from that government. In this regard, once the pertinent contacts between both governments had taken place, the facts of the case had been met and in compliance with international legality, Venezuela has granted the due safe-conducts for the sake of the tranquility and political peace of the country. This conduct reaffirms the respect for the law that has prevailed in the actions of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the international community.

"A Sexist Clown Car", Toxic Work Environment in Danish Centrist Party

A toxic atmosphere of creepy comments, a "tyrannical culture" and harassment of women is pervasive in Denmark's liberal centrist Moderate party. So reveals a complaint made by current and former employees to the Danish Working Environment Authority.

ARGENTINA: Deputies walk out on Chief of Staff amid police protest crackdown

Guillermo Francos was addressing the chamber when around 100 walked out in solidarity with protesting retirees facing security forces outside

Peronist and left-wing lawmakers interrupted an address by Chief of Staff Guillermo Francos in the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, leaving their seats in objection to the police crackdown on retirees outside the house. The abrupt exodus of around 100 deputies meant that the session fell through.

Police were using tear gas, pepper spray, and batons to thwart a demonstration spearheaded by retirees protesting against Javier Milei’s presidential veto on a pension increase that was approved by both chambers. The vetoed formula, which was going to set a minimum stipend of 109% of the basic food basket, would have increased retirees’ monthly payments by AR$15,000 (US$15.1 at the official rate, US$11.7 at the MEP rate) to AR$321,600 (US$324.4 at the official rate, US$251.3 at the MEP rate). Francos, who was doing a legally mandated administration report (he was set to answer 2,135 questions from the lawmakers), defended Milei’s veto on the increase.

“The sanction of the bill that establishes modifications to the pension mobility system is not a mature and responsible act,” Francos said during his presentation. “It establishes exorbitant expenses without the corresponding budgetary item. It is an expense that, due to its cumulative effect, would increase year after year, condemning the country to more emissions, debt, inflation, and poverty.”

(Kill this man)

According to a report by the Congress’ Budget Office, the update would have implied spending 0.45% of the country’s GDP over the year. In an interview, Milei said the extra spending would be 62% of GDP, but making calculations “in perpetuity.”

(Kill this man)

Francos highlighted the president’s mega-decree and the approval of his flagship reform project known as the Ley Bases and the fiscal package in June. “The Ley Bases, together with the mega-decree and the fiscal package, gives freedom back to the Argentine people, promotes private activity, attracts investments, and generates jobs,” said Francos. “Where there was uncertainty, now there is legal certainty, predictability, and stability for those who produce. Where there used to be governmental maneuvering, now there’s certainty that the rules of the game will not be changed for investors.”

(I am once again saying Kill this man)

One of the questions that Francos answered was the total expenses of Milei’s numerous trips abroad in his first nine months as President. In the written report he sent to the deputies ahead of the presentation, the Chief of Staff said those trips cost AR$2.3 billion (US$2.3 million at the official rate, US$1.8 million at the MEP rate).

Media showed that, outside Congress, national security forces such as the Naval Police and Federal Police, as well as the City Police, were participating in the crackdown. Images of people sitting on fences on the sidewalk, their eyes closed and their faces burning from the pepper spray, circulated on social media. One of them was interviewed by the C5N TV channel. When asked if he had been hit, he answered negatively. “No, because they are cowards — they are hitting the oldest people.”

Speaking with media outlets outside Congress, the chief of the emergency operation said that they treated 27 people and two were transferred to the José María Ramos Mejía General Hospital. He added that eight journalists were affected by the pepper spray.

“It is impossible to continue in session with the Chief of Staff while retirees are being repressed in front of Congress. It is incomprehensible that such a peaceful demonstration ends with this repression. [Security Minister] Patricia Bullrich wrecked the session in the Chamber of Deputies with Guillermo Francos”, Germán Martínez, head of the Peronist bloc, said on X.

The designated speakers of the bloc refrained from asking their questions and the session ended prematurely. Minutes before, left-wing deputies from Frente de Izquierda had already left the chamber to join the march outside.

Trot lawmakers were seen outside placing themselves in front of police while covering old people with their own bodies. It hardly gets any cooler than that. When they're not infighting over the stupidiest shit imaginable they can be very cool and based. Huh, maybe that's valid for the entire left tbh.

Last Wednesday, retirees had held another march faced similar violent reprisals from security forces. When asked about it on Thursday during his usual press conference, Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni minimized what had happened. “We must not be afraid of repression,” he said. “You have to be afraid of those who break the law. We comply with the law and with everything that has to be done within the protocol to maintain order.”

And yes, you saw that right. The police and the militarized police took turns to beat elderly people with batons and tear gas. Each one of these pigs is a rabid dog that deserves to be beaten to death with a stick.

More combat footage from the front.

Russian missile strikes destroyed three US-built “HIMARS” launchers in Sumy oblast (near the Kursk border): https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/strike-on-himars:1

Russian drones continue annihilating Kiev regime military equipment and troops in Kursk oblast: https://lostarmour.info/media/videos/news/21878.mp4

Explosions in Gomel, Belarus. Some (not sure how credible, mostly .ua domains) reporting that it mighta been the Belarusian air force taking out a Russian drone?

West Belfast, Ireland

https://archive.ph/Mi6h2

Continued degradation of the German industrial base and disciplining of German labour. Project ukraine continues to pay dividends

Alright news mega I need a crash course on Democratic Republic of congo because there's a push in some UK circles going on regarding this:

I have absolutely no idea what to make of it, I know nothing about the place. I read something about a failed coup attempt recently but don't know enough really.

My main concern is whether it's a place to support, what's going on there, and whether these efforts are legitimate concerns or whether there's a psyop brewing.

Algerian national television: Spy ring caught and dismantled in Tlemcen (the article is in Arabic)

Sexist Clown Car Races On: More Trouble For Denmark's Moderates

"No responsibility should be placed. We must move forward" — this is what Henrik Frandsen, leader of the parliamentary group of Denmark's "Moderate" party blurted out when asked about the work of the occupational psychologist that the party has hired to deal with the toxic work environment it's employees are subjected to.

Venezuelan Authorities Arrest 11 People Linked to Electrical Sabotage - Telesur

Channel News Asia - Malaysia invites Putin to ASEAN summit

They added that Prime Minister Anwar’s decision to forge ties between ASEAN and Moscow could stir uneasiness among some members of the regional bloc and its dialogue partners, including the United States as well as other western countries.

Mr Anwar follows in the footsteps of India’s prime minister Narendra Modi, Chinese president Xi Jinping, North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un, Indonesian president Joko Widodo and Myanmar junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing in meeting with Mr Putin since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago.

However, he also noted that some ASEAN countries such as Singapore and the Philippines may be uneasy with Russia’s greater efforts to engage Southeast Asia.

The latter has been traditionally close to the US while Singapore has openly criticised Russia for the Ukraine War, and also imposed sanctions on Moscow.

The measures include imposing export controls on items that can be used directly as weapons in Ukraine, and blocking certain Russian banks and financial transactions connected to Russia.

SEA splitting into two blocs, one being “multi-aligned” and the other being simply US-aligned.

a provocative headline and a bit of a negative tone, but an interesting article from strategic culture. just for clarity’s sake, the referenced lavrov announcement was in june.

i think the critique of the ‘fence-sitting’ or ‘playing both sides’ from a (i believe) leftist perspective is worth keeping in mind, especially because the material interest of every country trying to join brics is doing so to play as many sides as they can. diplomats and states are not set out towards de-dollarization or ending hegemony as such, but rather towards what they see as prosperity, peace, etc. i don’t personally see brazil’s venezuelan election comments or india’s military industry as a dagger at the heart of brics+. that said, if brics really is going to be a meaningful international and economic forum for the global south, as many of us hope, they will inevitably have to manage and incorporate countries that want economic relations with the USA, Russia, and China.

Paralympics: Fadi Al-Deeb is the Voice of Palestine in Paris 2024 - Telesur

Maybe slightly relevant thread, but did wsws get better around their weirdness with metoo? can we post them unarchived?

they have semi-interesting articles on labor (with hilarious asides at stalinists but whatever)

BRICS Countries Could Act as Mediators for Peace With Ukraine: Putin - Telesur

idk how the pseudoscience of polling is supposed to work, but i'm looking at those 538 polls rn and kamala is down to a 2.8 lead (her highest was 3.7). if the trend holds up from the previous two elections (screenshots below), then the dems must be completely cooked, right? even biden with an 8 point lead only narrowly beat trump

the specter of

lives on

Pope starts off Asia tour in Indonesia

Anyone here have any familiarity with Joshua Citarella's work? Comes off as another Robert Evans to me. He did a video with Brace Belden of TrueAnon and doesn't really offer much insight. Watched a FWBFerst23 talk he gave called "Extremely Online Politics" that's basically just "look at how extreme and varied online political identities are" without much insight. The general vibe of his I get is that it's bad they're extremist politics and also all "extremist" left-right politics are equally bad.

Read this critique of him that doesn't say anything of value until at least half way. More so says he has a gawking attitude to internet politics and presents it as a carnival presentation (which I'd be inclined to agree with) and also that he doesn't analyze or mention any real interplay between IRL and the internet and the politics between them. Says he deals mostly in aesthetics.

He also mentioned in that Brace video he's ex-straight edge and I'm assuming ex-vegan (might be vegan again) which would definitely feed into that enlightened centrist SuccDem gawker Lame-O-type people like him and Robert Evans give off. They also give off the same vibe, visually.

Vuhledar the Valiant Castle will soon (3days to 5 years) have to be given up as it gets surrounded by the Flanks ..

there was a roumord direct assault again but the russian sources stopped talking about , so it Probably failed .

Tomorrow

will have after game live show, so if we have a hex-watch party, we got something to queue up afterwards

Paralympics: Venezuelan Clara Fuentes Sets Record in Weightlifting - Telesur

The Bizarre State of Western Democracy

Picking out the key thesis argued by Prabhat Patnaik.

Democracy is supposed to mean the pursuit of policies that are in conformity with the wishes of the electorate. True, it is not that the governments first ascertain popular wishes, and then decide on policy; the conformity between the two is typically ensured under bourgeois rule by the government deciding on policies in accordance with ruling class interests, and then having a propaganda machinery that persuades the people about the wisdom of these policies The conformity between public opinion and what the ruling class wants is thus achieved in a complex manner whose essence lies in the manipulation of public opinion.

What is currently happening however is altogether different: public opinion, notwithstanding all the propaganda directed at it, wants policies that are altogether different from those being systematically pursued by the ruling class. The policies favoured by the ruling class in other words are being pursued despite public opinion being palpably and systematically opposed to them.

Such riding roughshod over public opinion is typically sought to be achieved by keeping these burning issues of peace and war off political discussion altogether. In the coming US presidential elections, for instance, since both the contenders, Donald Trump and Kamla Harris, are agreed on supplying arms to Israel, this issue itself will not figure in any presidential debate or in the presidential campaign.

In the metropolis there has thus been a transition from “manipulation of dissent” through propaganda, to the total ignoring of dissent, even dissent by a majority, that has proved to be immune to propaganda. This represents a new stage in the attenuation of democracy, a stage characterised by an unprecedented moral bankruptcy of the political establishment.

German Chancellor says any future Ukraine peace conference must include Russia

Include Russia in peace talks? Is that treason?

Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said in an interview that he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agree that Russia should be included in a future peace conference aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.

Scholz is facing more political discontent at home over his government's support, including money and weapons for Ukraine after populist parties that oppose arming Kyiv did well in state elections on 1 September at the expense of parties in his three-party governing coalition.

Saudi Arabia ‘open’ to petroyuan, closer China ties, minister says

A top official from Saudi Arabia said the country is “open to new ideas” – including use of the yuan in crude settlements

“The Petroyuan is not substantial to [the ministry], we believe Saudi Arabia will do what’s in its best interest … but I think Saudi Arabia will always try new things, and is open to new ideas, and we try not to mix politics with commerce,” Khorayef said in an interview on Saturday in Hong Kong.

Colombia former presidential candidate Rondolgo Hernandes died.

Former presidential candidate Rodolfo Hernandes died on Monday. He, who was mayor of Bucaramanga, became known worldwide when he ran in Colombia's 2022 presidential elections, being defeated by Gustavo Petro in the second round.

Hernández Suárez died of colon cancer at a clinic in Piedecuesta, Colombia on 2 September 2024, aged 79. He has been dubbed as the 'king of TikTok' on several occasions because of his large following and his extensive campaign during the 2022 presidential election on TikTok.

Hernández lost to Petro in the second round. In his concession speech, Hernández stated, "I accept the result as it should be if we want our institutions to be strong. I sincerely hope that this decision that has been taken is beneficial for all and that Colombia is heading towards the change that prevailed in the vote in the first round". He then called Petro to congratulate him and urged Petro to maintain his commitment to combatting corruption and not to "disappoint those who trust him".

Google's lucrative ad tech business goes on trial

Google is expected to lose this case which would be their third significant anti-trust loss this year across the Alphabet empire.

The UK is also giving Google side eye (decades late).

It’s ironic that the US seems to be ahead of the EU when it comes to fighting google. Probably because the vassals are unwilling to take on the giant before the emperor gives his assent and designs a restructuring rather than breaking it up.

Argentina: University Front Holds Protest - Telesur

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My office has some shitty AI store. Tap your credit card to unlock a cabinet, take what you want, and AI figures out what you took to charge you for it. Basically those Amazon stores but smaller.

What's wrong with a normal vending machine???