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Edit 2: P.P.S Pig poop balls.

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Whatever bullshit you hear in the next few days from the US about trying to negotiate a ceasefire, remember that they just gifted the IDF another 8 billion dollars to subsidise their wars and genocide

Missile sirens in Tel Aviv and across central Israel. Another missile from Yemen fired right at Tel Aviv.

Die Zeit found the perfect framing device in a young man the reporter just happened upon in front of the bomb crater south of Beirut, and apparently follows him around all night. He's perfect for the story. Too perfect.

He's looking for his family from one of the nearby damaged buildings (no worries happy ending). His father is Hezbollah, he's Hezbollah technically, but doesn't want to become a fighter against his father's wishes. They had a fight and he's the black sheep of the family now. He works at a hair salon and rather likes beautiful hair, no, beauty itself! He blames Hezbollah for this. He says there were of course weapons at the Hezbollah HQ next to his home. He thinks Israel is just too powerful; can't be beaten. He just wants to live in a real country with a proper army and a president.

This conversation with a young man who lives and grew up in the heart of the Hezbollah movement, who, as he says, is of course a member, like everyone in this neighborhood, but is not convinced, who criticizes Hezbollah so bluntly amidst a crowd of irritated Hezbollah guards, is completely improbable - and perhaps only possible for this reason. Nobody pays attention to us anymore.

OK now they're just fucking with me, right?

"I support a two-state solution!" is an extremely common liberal deflection technique when they are pressed to have an opinion on zionist atrocities.

In South Africa, the apartheid regime tried having a two-state solution as well by creating Bantustans, pro forma independent countries for black people carved out of South Africa proper, de facto under the total control of the white supremacist rulers of South Africa who controlled their borders and installed corrupt comprador rulers to keep the people in control.

Even if we ignore the fact that nobody in Palestine wants a partition, the indigenous population wants their country to be free, the zionists wants everything for themselves, a two-state solution in Palestine would be nothing but a rebranded Bantustan solution. They would be allowed to have a flag and a football team and a president but the west and the zionists would be in total control. It is highly unlikely that a pro forma independent Palestinian rump state would be allowed to control their own borders, airspace and territorial waters or to have armed forces capable of effectively defending them against the zionists. Being torn in half by the zionist entity, a rump Palestine would have a very hard time developing economically and the nation would be saturated by western NGO's, pumping money into ensuring that elites friendly to western imperialism govern.

In South Africa, the creation of Bantustans gave the regime an excuse to strip black Africans of their citizenship, as they were now considered "citizens" of one of the Bantustans, thereby making their existence even more precarious. One could easily imagine a similar process happening if western imperialists decided to actually make a two-state solution happen.

In the case of South Africa virtually nobody outside the Boer minority saw the Bantustans than anything other than what they were, a legalese fig leaf to justify apartheid. They remained universally unrecognised Internationally and they fell with the apartheid regime. Unlike back then liberals today are ready to play along with the creation of a Bantustan but the fact remains that no liberal reform or milquetoast half-measure will be able to protect Palestinians against the abuses of settler colonialism. They are in danger as long as Zionism holds any power in Palestine. Jews living in Palestine can not be free from hate and fascism before they live as equals with their neighbours. Palestine can only be free when it is free from the river to the sea.

Hate it when Zionists keep getting reasons to celebrate. Those miserable excuses for human beings deserve to be suffering all the time.

Also, in light of recent news, I wonder how long before Hexbear's resident lemmy pet shows up.

So to those of you who were pooh-poohing my concerns about the axis of resistance a week ago, how are you feeling now that Nasrallah and the rest of the entire Hezbollah leadership has been wiped out? Am I still just a 'doomer' or did I have a point? Thinking of you u/GlueBear in particular. I maintain that as long as Hamas, Hezbollah (what's left of it), and Iran hold back and do not go all in against Israel, they will lose this conflict. At least the West is still taking an L in Ukraine.

Russia is suing Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland at the ICJ for not living up to their international commitments to prevent terrorism over their lack of will to conduct real investigations of the Nordstream attacks:

New countries may face pre-trial claims over Nord Stream (from RIA Novosti, machine translation

Zakharova: Russia may make claims for terrorist attack on Nord Streams to new countries

MOSCOW, September 28 — RIA Novosti. Russia has filed pre-trial claims against four countries in connection with the investigation of the terrorist attacks on the Nord Stream pipeline, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told RIA Novosti.

"The Russian Federation has officially filed pre-trial claims against Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland on the basis of the 1997 International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings and the 1999 International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism," she said.

According to the diplomat, other states that may have something to do with this terrorist attack are next in line.

She noted that the bombing of Russian export gas pipelines is a flagrant act of international terrorism, which falls under international treaties obliging states to prevent such acts, investigate their commission and cooperate with other countries to do so. But these obligations are not being fulfilled.

Thus, Switzerland, where the company operating Nord Stream is registered, did not even try to investigate the terrorist attack. Denmark and Sweden, in whose exclusive economic zones the explosions occurred, quickly closed their investigations without publishing any results. And Germany, where the end point of both gas pipelines is located, has still not reported a single positive result of the investigation, Zakharova listed.

"Moreover, the arrest warrants for suspects that Berlin recently sent out, according to its claims, were not executed and as a result, at least one suspect who was in Poland, according to the Polish prosecutor's office, managed to escape to the territory of Ukraine," the Foreign Ministry representative added.

She called the reaction of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk , who said that anyone concerned about the progress of the investigation into the terrorist attacks "should shut up," shameless.

"The West is not interested in conducting an effective investigation into the terrorist attack, despite the colossal damage caused to the European economy and environment by the blowing up of gas pipelines," the diplomat emphasized.

Zakharova recalled that Moscow has repeatedly sent requests to European countries for legal assistance in the investigation, but they have been rejected under far-fetched pretexts or without explanation at all, which contradicts the international legal obligations of these states.

If the issue is not resolved at the pre-trial stage, Moscow intends to appeal to the International Court of Justice , the Foreign Ministry representative noted.

"Russia is firmly committed to seeking to establish and bring to strict accountability all perpetrators, organizers and accomplices of the terrorist attack. International justice is not the domain of the West; it must and will work in the interests of the entire world, including and above all in the fight against international terrorism," she concluded.

The explosions on the Russian gas pipelines Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 occurred on September 26, 2022. According to Nord Stream AG, the accident is unprecedented and the repair time cannot be estimated. The Kremlin called this emergency an act of international terrorism.

According to American journalist Seymour Hersh , the explosives under the gas pipelines were planted by American divers during the NATO exercises Baltops 2022, and three months later the Norwegians detonated them. Moreover, President Joe Biden decided on the sabotage after more than nine months of secret discussions with the national security team, as he feared that Germany , which receives gas from Russia through the Nord Streams, would not want to participate in military aid to Ukraine . Washington denies these accusations.

Glory to the martyrs. Rest in peace, Nasrallah.

If you start hearing about a new nuclear deal soon, you'll know why. Anyone not ready for this would have lost all hope during black september.

Yes Israel has a genocide case against them at the ICJ, but what if they could have two genocide cases against them?

Idk the right format for posting now but here goes AlJazeera: What next https://aje.io/mycvl0?update=3208412

The Iranian media, Mehr News Agancy, wrote:

According to the announcement of IRIB, Brigadier General Abbas Nilforooshan was martyred in Israel's attack on Beirut, alongside Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

The Israeli regime carried out heavy airstrikes on Beirut's Dahie on Friday, leaving dozens of people killed and injured.

Hezbollah secretary-general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was also martyred in the Israeli strike, the Resistance Movement said in a statement on Saturday afternoon.

The pager attack and now getting their leadership taken out - Hezbollah must be heavily compromised. And that means those Israeli air strikes probably have been hitting weapons stockpiles. Meanwhile Iran has shown it’s not willing to escalate under any circumstances. A very bad situation.

seeing claim deputy commander in IRGC was killed too supposedly confirmed by iranian media, ~~don't see anything on english sites though~~ confirmed here https://hexbear.net/comment/5440287

I can't believe it, I just can't swallow this news. Nasrallah is the resistance, he's Hezbollah, he's the man that defeated Israel twice, he's the greatest man that the region produced in the last 50 years, he's the one that you could listen to for hours without being bored. What a loss, what a tragedy.

It's a black day, it's very hard to process. I'm frightened of what comes next.

لبيك يا نصرالله لبيك يا سيد المقاومة

so... is there a line of succession here? I know nothing about the structure of hezbollah, is there any good articles on it?

another question: what the hell is going on with iranian state media that they claimed he was alive?

Resistance News Network

Hezbollah announces the martyrdom of its Secretary-General, His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who led the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon since 1992.

Glory to the martyrs.

The Cradle -

nasrallah has been killed.

Statement issued by Hezbollah:

"In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful {So let those fight in the way of Allah who exchange the life of this world for the Hereafter. And whoever fights in the way of Allah and is killed or victorious - We will give him a great reward.} God Almighty is true

His Eminence, the Master of Resistance, the righteous servant, has passed away to be with his Lord and to His pleasure as a great martyr, a heroic, daring, brave, wise, insightful, and faithful leader, joining the caravan of martyrs of the eternal, luminous Karbala in the divine, faith-based path in the footsteps of the martyred prophets and imams. His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah, has joined his great and immortal martyred comrades, whose path he led for nearly thirty years, during which he led them from victory to victory, succeeding the Master of the Martyrs of the Islamic Resistance in 1992 until the liberation of Lebanon in 2000 and to the glorious divine victory in 2006 and all the battles of honor and sacrifice, arriving at the battle of support and heroism in support of Palestine, Gaza, and the oppressed Palestinian people.

We offer our condolences to the Master of the Age (may God hasten his reappearance), the Guardian of the Muslims, Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei, may his shadow endure, the great authorities, the mujahideen, the believers, the nation of resistance, our patient and struggling Lebanese people, the entire Islamic nation, all the free and oppressed people in the world, and his honorable and patient family. We congratulate His Eminence the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, may God be pleased with him, on receiving the highest divine medal, the Imam Hussein Medal, peace be upon him, fulfilling his most precious wishes and the highest ranks of faith and pure belief, as a martyr on the path of Jerusalem and Palestine. We offer our condolences and congratulations to his fellow martyrs who joined his pure and holy procession following the treacherous Zionist raid on the southern suburb.

The leadership of Hezbollah pledges to the highest, most sacred and most precious martyr in our journey full of sacrifices and martyrs that it will continue its jihad in confronting the enemy, in support of Gaza and Palestine, and in defense of Lebanon and its steadfast and honorable people.

To the honorable mujahideen and the victorious and triumphant heroes of the Islamic Resistance, you are the trust of the beloved martyr Sayyid, and you are his brothers who were his impregnable shield and the jewel in the crown of heroism and sacrifice. Our leader, His Eminence the Sayyid, is still among us with his thought, spirit, line, and sacred approach, and you are committed to the pledge of loyalty and commitment to resistance and sacrifice until victory."

لا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله العلي العظيم

His death has been confirmed

Statement issued by Hezbollah:

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful “So let those who exchange the life of this world for the Hereafter fight in the cause of God. And whoever fights in the cause of God and is killed or overcomes, We will give him a great reward yum﴾ God Almighty has spoken the truth

His Eminence the Master, the Master of Resistance, the righteous servant, has moved to the side of his Lord and His pleasure as a great martyr, a brave, heroic leader, a wise, insightful and faithful believer, joining the immortal caravan of martyrs of the luminous Karbala in the divine journey of faith in the footsteps of the prophets and martyred imams. His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah, joined his great and immortal martyrs, whose journey he led for nearly thirty years, during which he led them from victory to victory, succeeding the master of the martyrs of the Islamic Resistance in 1992 until the liberation of Lebanon in 2000 and until the divine, sustaining victory in 2006 and all the other battles of honor and redemption, until To the battle of support and heroism in support of Palestine, Gaza and the oppressed Palestinian people.

We offer our condolences to the owner of the era and time (may God bless him and grant him peace), the Guardian of the Muslims, Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei, may his shadow be long, the great authorities, the Mujahideen, the believers, the nation of resistance, our patient and Mujahid Lebanese people, the entire Islamic nation, all the free and oppressed in the world, and his honorable and patient family, and we congratulate His Eminence the Secretary General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah Radwan. May God grant him the highest divine honors, the Order of Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, fulfilling his most precious desires and the highest levels of faith and pure belief, as a martyr on the road to Jerusalem and Palestine. We condole and bless his fellow martyrs who joined his pure and sacred procession following the treacherous Zionist raid on the southern suburb.

The leadership of Hezbollah pledges to the highest, holiest and most precious martyr in our journey, full of sacrifices and martyrs, to continue its jihad in confronting the enemy, in support of Gaza and Palestine, and in defense of Lebanon and its steadfast and honorable people.

And to the honorable mujahideen and the victorious and victorious heroes of the Islamic resistance, and you are the trust of the beloved martyr, and you are his brothers who were his impregnable shield and the crown jewel of heroism and redemption. Our leader, His Eminence, is still among us with his thought, spirit, line, and sacred approach, and you are in the pledge of loyalty and commitment to resistance and sacrifice until victory.

Saturday 9/28/2024 24 Rabi’ al-Awwal 1446 AH

"Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man." - joker-che

They don't have a story up on their website yet

STATEMENT by Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Khamenei:

The Zionist criminals should know that they are too small to cause significant damage to the strong construction of Hezbollah in Lebanon. All the resistance forces in the region are with Hezbollah & support it.

The fate of this region will be determined by the resistance forces & at the head of them is the proud Hezbollah.

Today, Lebanon, by the grace and power of God, will make the malicious and disgraceful aggressor regret its actions.

It is the duty of all Muslims to stand with the people of Lebanon and the proud Hezbollah, using all their resources, and to assist them in their confrontation with the usurping, oppressive, and vile regime.

EDIT: Another version that seems more reliable and thorough:

— 🇮🇷 The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khamenei, has released a statement:

'The killing of defenseless people in Lebanon, on the one hand, once again revealed the ferocity of the Zionist rabid dogs to everyone, and on the other hand, it proved the short-sightedness and idiotic policy of the leaders of the usurping regime. The terrorist gang ruling the Zionist regime did not learn from their one-year criminal war in Gaza and failed to understand that the mass killing of women, children and civilians cannot affect the strong structure of the resistance's organization and destroy it. Now they are trying the same foolish policy in Lebanon.

The Zionist criminals should know that they are too small to cause significant damage to the strong structure of Hezbollah in Lebanon. All the resistance forces of the region are with Hezbollah and support it. The fate of this region will be determined by the resistance forces and at the head of them is the proud Hezbollah.

The people of Lebanon have not forgotten that once upon a time, the military of the Zionist regime used to put Beirut under their boots. It was Hezbollah that cut off their legs and made Lebanon free and proud. Even today Lebanon will make the aggressor and evil dark enemies regret their actions.

It is obligatory for all Muslims to stand proudly with the people of Lebanon and Hezbollah with all their resources and help it in confronting the usurping, cruel and evil regime.

Are we at a point where we can start to blame Iran for their slow ass reaction times? I understand the strategic planning and patience and all that. But it just gets frustrating seeing the cities of Iran's "allies" get flattened every few years while the Iranians are chilling in the driving seat of the resistance while not even fucking touching the steering wheel. Hezbollah, Hamas, Ansarallah and Syria keep taking the devastating hits while Iran is egging everyone on. This doesn't feel like an equal relationship anymore like in the days of the Syrian Civil War when Iranians were on the frontlines of Aleppo and Mosul. Israel doesn't stop because Iran isn't protecting their allies anymore, they're using them as a sponge to suck up the hits while Iran is protected and trading with the likes of the UAE. I'm just rambling here, but it gets frustrating seeing Beirut getting pulverised and we can't even get a little drone strike from Iran despite failing to protect Haniyeh in fucking Tehran. Resistance leaders were safer in fucking Qatar than the supposed HQ of the resistance

2006 clip of Nasrallah. People believed he was dead for 3 days after israel attacked his main office & building, but then 3 days later Nasrallah appeared on live TV, saying:

https://tankie.tube/w/ejAgjQjPMB3a3dXGs8acLf

I don't know where to post this, but I thought I'd share on my friend's behalf as the situation gets desperate by the minute.

If you can, please help by donating to her aunt's family who are stranded in the northern part of Lebanon, who couldn't take a whole lot with them, who barely escaped in time: https://zrzutka.pl/shpjea#.

And if you can't, please share this with someone who can. If this is the wrong place to post this, please point me to the right direction. Thank you.

لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا ٱللَّٰهُ

Good Rant on Annalena Bearbock - "the discarded mistress of the United States" (Google Translated)

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The full splendor of Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock's speech to the UN Security Council cannot be conveyed in German. One would like to sue all the English teachers who taught her for damages. Including the British university where she claims to have studied.

But that is by no means all. If one were to try to convey a physical counterpart to the intellectual and emotional experience, it would be a severe migraine attack, nausea included. Much of it is not Baerbock's doing, but arises from the dissonance between her and the world. And when you look at her face as she recites her strangely soulless English sentences, it is, for the first time, devoid of any childishness, devoid of any coquetry, but what emerges is as evil as the face of a Hillary Clinton (Baerbock would certainly take that as a compliment).

All this girlish posturing has not prevented time from passing her by, as quickly as she is changing. This becomes particularly clear in two moments.

She sticks to the narrative she started years ago and begins with an absurd formulation: "Women areremovedd in Bucha for 943 days." A sentence that does not even make sense in her world; after all, Bucha has been under Ukrainian control since the end of March 2022. She wants to stir up emotions and continues with "tortured people in eastern Ukraine" and deported children.

No one in the German UN embassy or from the staff of the Foreign Office seems to have told her that the world outside the Western bubble has seen the images from Gaza, how torn parts of children are recovered from the ruins of the houses bombed by Israel and collected in bags, because nothing more than these pieces remain. And that the role of the outraged good person now has a simple but insurmountable prerequisite: calling the genocide in the Gaza Strip a genocide.

The accusations she wants to make against Russia, Bucha, the "deportation" of children, the shelling of a children's hospital in Kiev, even if they were true (and they are all disprovable), would pale in comparison to the horrors in Gaza, where even a children's hospital bombed to the ground is just another number on a long list. You would expect a foreign minister to be at least aware enough to avoid an immediate collision. But she is not clever. She did not even notice the ground shifting beneath her feet. It is theoretically possible, the classic argument would be: even if there are worse crimes to deal with, we should not forget... she lacks the maturity and awareness, or perhaps the courage, to create space for her narrative by admitting this other reality.

The second of these moments is an attempt to attack the Russian ambassador. The tweet concerns the Russian Deputy Ambassador to the UN, Dmitri Polyansky, on the General Assembly’s decision on Sunday:

"Unfortunately, there is nothing to celebrate about the UN's adoption of the Pact for the Future today. The UN has trampled on its own principles to please a group of delegations from the 'beautiful garden' that usurped the negotiations from the outset. And the majority from the 'jungle', like a simple herd, simply did not have the backbone to protest and stand up for their rights. And they will be the ones who will bear the consequences. The result was that there was no inclusive negotiation process in the normal sense of the word. The new President of the General Assembly tried to save the day, but it was too late.

This Pact is unbalanced and contains very dangerous provisions that will backfire and undermine the multilateralism and intergovernmental nature of the UN upheld by the UN Charter. It is an enormous blow to the organisation as a whole.”

Baerbock, who clearly does not know any better and who has not been told any better (or who may have been told but did not want to listen), tries to turn this comment against Russia:

“Her truth is that the majority from the ‘jungle’ were unable to make the right decision. That is how Putin’s Russia talks about other countries today. The jungle. That is how they talk about Ukraine. A beauty that must beremovedd.”

She does not know that “garden” and “jungle” are a quote. And this despite the fact that the originator of this colonialist metaphor, Josep Borrell, was the speaker immediately before her in this very meeting. She does not know that his statement at the time that the EU is the garden and the rest of the world is the jungle has become a catchphrase for the countries of the Global South, and that the “jungle” necessarily includes Russia. The disparaging look that she, for once correctly, takes from this formulation is not the look of Russia and its deputy UN ambassador, but that of the EU and its foreign policy spokesman, for whom the West was the "beautiful garden" threatened by the overgrown jungle.

The deeply racist remark that Ukraine is "a beauty that must beremovedd" also brought to mind two associations - the newspaper report that more than half of the prostitutes in Berlin brothels are now Ukrainian, and the disputes in Israel, where there was a serious argument about whether Israeli soldiers should have the right toremoved Palestinian prisoners. The newspaper report may only be known in Germany, and even then only to some people. But theremoved story from Israel is known all over the world.

It almost seems as if everything she says is pages from a script that has been sitting in a drawer for years. As if she had rehearsed everything so painstakingly in advance that there was no longer any possibility of adapting the text and acting to the changed reality. So she stumbles from trap to trap.

The Ukrainian power supply has been destroyed?

"Not by chance, but because winter is coming back. Minus 15 degrees means that the electricity doesn't work, the heating doesn't work, and the water freezes. That is a crime against humanity."

And again and again, that other film runs through my head, from Gaza. Putin bombed a children's hospital in Kiev.

"And that's why we believe we have to send more air defenses to protect children's hospitals."

Is it just my inner eye that sees a German air defense system next to a Palestinian hospital, or at least protecting a Lebanese one? It's not. The whole audience has changed - worldwide.

This hypocrisy, built around the concept of a "just and lasting peace", around this "peace plan" of Mr. Zelensky, who demands a Russian surrender in the midst of his own defeat. Even if Zelensky is a cynical and ridiculous figure, who constantly makes you wonder how he can fit the guilt of having the deaths of so many people on his conscience into his short body, there is still a touch of tragedy about him.

Baerbock, who less than three years ago came into the spotlight with the attitude of going down in history as a world star, who, with the appropriate arrogance, considered neither dress codes nor diplomatic restraint necessary and who believed that the mixture of German economic power and green self-confidence would carry her to the heights of international politics, has overtaken the said economic power and the country's status on the way down. She looks angry, bitter and old in her speech. Almost as if she had understood that she was only representing the discarded mistress of the United States.

"We as European neighbors, we as Germans, my country, what we have heard here from our Polish friends, which was responsible for the worst crime on the European continent, who are lucky to live in peace again - my generation - to live in peace again because others were there for us."

This grammatical and historical confusion is her justification for why Germany in particular must support Ukraine. Perhaps she understands what she means. It's just that she misses the crucial point if she thinks she has to remember historical grace: that it was the Soviet Union that exercised this grace. That it let an open account of 1,100 destroyed cities, 70,000 destroyed villages go, for the sake of a peaceful future. In order to be thanked by her, Baerbock, in two ways, through the constant attacks on Russia, the arms deliveries, and also through "support" of the Kiev Ukraine, which is actually a form of annihilation.

There are some characters who make you wonder whether they don't occasionally have a sudden thought about the guilt they have brought upon themselves. Economics Minister Habeck is likely to become tearful at the latest when he has a blood alcohol level of one per mille and complain about his difficult fate, of meaning so well and yet having failed so badly. And then every now and then he might look uncertainly over his shoulder to see how close the shadow that follows him is.

Baerbock, the comedian? Her role and her acting style have outlived their usefulness. She acts like a silent film actress in a talkie. Every movement, every facial expression seems like a caricature. But she doesn't have what it takes to be a Norma Desmond either; she lacks the authenticity and talent for tragedy. She will perhaps have her memoirs written and spend a while traveling from big city to big city, stumbling through the pre-written text, and maybe she will be allowed to pat a few schoolchildren's heads somewhere. No, she won't even fall, it will be more like a kind of shrinking or drying out. Something banal, like shaking dust out of a blanket.

She complained that the Russian ambassador left before her performance. "I've experienced this several times." Yes, understandable, there is no reason to subject yourself to this torture. Not even the embarrassment that she initially conveyed in abundance is left. Her performances are just a memory of something that is past. As soon as the acute pain subsides, all meaning disappears.

Soße

I find it very striking how even the American elections have become just another sideshow.

There used to be a time where Trump was the main event, now whether he wins or not doesn't even seem to have any real importance anymore.

Nothing he says can shock people when worse statements and actions have been made and taken by actors that the West openly supports.

IDF says Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in Beirut strike - The Times of Israel.

It's a direct link to the Times of Israel website.

Anyway, I hope they are wrong. Finkelstein had said in his recent interview that Iran knows if Hezbullah falls they will fall. To be frank, his saying is not far from the truth. If Iran sits on its bum and keep doing lip service it will end badly. Imagine a middle east with no opposing force to Israel, its hell.

Someone donated $48k to the Gaza Municipality fund:
https://xcancel.com/MothTongue_/status/1839665972153647487

Fed accounts have switched to "there will be no statement from Hezbollah about Nasrallah today"

I think he's alive. The story is getting shifty.

Moody's cuts Israel's rating, warns of drop to 'junk'

Sept 27 (Reuters) - Moody's on Friday downgraded Israel's credit rating two notches to "Baa1" from "A2" and maintained a negative outlook amid escalation of the conflict in the region with Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.

"The key driver for the downgrade is our view that geopolitical risk has intensified significantly further, to very high levels, with material negative consequences for Israel's creditworthiness in both the near and longer term," Moody's said.

The downgrade kept Israel's rating three notches into investment grade. However, Moody's warned that uncertainties over the country's security and its longer-term economic growth prospects "are much higher than is typical at the Baa rating level." A drop below that level would mean Israel would lose its investment grade rating.

"The ratings would likely be downgraded further, potentially by multiple notches, if the current heightened tensions with Hezbollah turned into a full-scale conflict," Moody's said.

Typically, a loss of investment grade rating means a spike in the cost of servicing debt, and it could force some investors to sell their holdings - further pressuring lower the market price of Israel's bonds.

Rating agency Fitch downgraded Israel's credit rating to "A" from "A-plus" last month, and kept the rating outlook negative.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/moodys-cuts-israels-rating-warns-drop-junk-2024-09-27/

Some of the damage in the southern suburbs of Dahieh in Beirut.

Extremely civilian area.

https://tankie.tube/w/dCzneoFLkv2syco9ZecmJt

I normally feel very ashamed to be an American, but today it feels exceptionally so. If you don’t live in a country that is actively supporting this genocide, then consider yourself fortunate. It feels like shit being from this shithole. Death to America.

The Zionist entity drafted some bonus letter where a bunch of heads of Christian and Druze villages say that Lebanon totally deserves to be invaded:
https://xcancel.com/ainiladra/status/1839638768652869703

Hezbollah sources say Nasrallah safe following Israeli airstrikes

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Hezbollah security sources have informed Press TV that Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the resistance movement, is in a secure location and has not been harmed by the recent Israeli airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut.

This statement follows rumors circulating on social media suggesting that Nasrallah was targeted during the Israeli regime's large aerial assault on the Dahiya neighborhood of southern Beirut on Friday.

Reports also said Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council was safe, with Iran’s Tasnim news agency citing informed sources in Lebanon as saying that no Hezbollah commander was martyred in the Israeli terrorist attacks.

Six buildings were razed to the ground as a result of the Israeli aggression on the southern suburb of Beirut.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says at least two people have been martyred and 76 others injured in the attack.

The Israeli army radio said that F-35 aircraft carried out the aggression using bunker-buster bombs.

Israeli media reports said the regime had informed the United States of the attack shortly before it was carried out.

Lebanese media said civil defense personnel were working to extinguish the fire that broke out in the area and evacuate the injured.

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati reacted to the attack, saying the international community must deter the Israeli enemy and stop its tyranny and the war of extermination it is waging against Lebanon.

Mikati said the Israeli attack shows the regime’s lack of interest in international calls for a ceasefire.

Renewed Israeli airstrikes target new parts of southern Beirut suburbs

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In a series of escalations, Israeli occupation forces have launched renewed attacks on the southern suburb of Beirut. Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported multiple airstrikes targeting residential buildings in the al-Hadath and al-Lailaki areas, causing significant destruction.

At approximately 1 a.m. Israeli occupation warplanes executed a series of raids, specifically targeting residential buildings in al-Laylaki, al-Kafaat, Choueifat, Burj al-Barajneh, and al-Hadath.

This comes after the Israeli occupation military carried out, Friday, several airstrikes that hit residential neighborhoods in the Haret Hreik area in the Southern Suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut.

It is worth noting that the Israeli occupation's spokesperson had made an announcement that further airstrikes would target Beirut's suburbs and has condemned residents to forced displacement. Additionally, the targeted region continues to house thousands of Lebanese people as these attacks have remained unprecedented since 2006 when "Israel" invoked the Dahiye Doctrine.

The occupation forces' statement claimed that Hezbollah was hiding weapons amongst civilian homes, but the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon released a statement denying any such claims. Hezbollah's media office issued a statement noting it "denied the Israeli occupation's false claims about the presence of weapons or weapons stores in the civilian buildings it targeted in the southern suburbs of Beirut at dawn on Saturday."

Moreover, Al Mayadeen's correspondent confirmed that there was no military activity in the areas targeted by the occupation, stressing that all the targets hit by the bombing were civilian and included residential buildings, in addition to the Ghandour factory for food industries.

In parallel, sirens have also sounded in the occupied city of Safad and its surrounding areas.

Video: Israeli Occupation Launches Several Airstrikes on Beirut

Iraqi Resistance conducts multiple operations against 'Israel'

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In a fourth operation against "Israel," the Islamic Resistance in Iraq announces attacking, with drones, a vital target in the occupied Golan Heights.

In the third operation, drones of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq attacked a vital target located in the north of occupied Palestine.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq announced a second operation against the Israeli occupation, this time against a military target located north of occupied Palestine.

In their first operation, the Resistance announced launching drones toward a vital target in the southern part of the occupied Palestinian territories.

In their statement, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq "confirms its continuation in striking the enemy's strongholds with increasing intensity."

It is important to note that the operations come in defense of Lebanon and Palestine as the Israeli genocidal war continues.

Iraqi Resistance conducts three operations against Israeli occupation yesterday

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq announced on Friday that it successfully struck a vital Israeli target in occupied Palestine using an advanced Al-Arqab cruise missile, as well as a military target in the occupied Syrian Golan using drones.

This brought the number of operations carried out by the Resistance, on that day, to a total of three. Only a few hours earlier, the Iraqi Resistance drone struck a target in the occupied Syrian Golan.

In a statement, the Iraqi Resistance affirmed that the operation came as part of its continued support of the people of Palestine and Lebanon, as well as "in response to the massacres committed by the aggressive entity against civilians, including children, women, and the elderly."

The Islamic Resistance reiterated its commitment to "striking the enemy's strongholds with increasing intensity."

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Southern Beirut suburbs are getting flattened and Israeli planes and warships are conducting other strikes that are getting close to Beirut International Airport. I can't believe it's happening again and again and again...

Beirut appears to have been repeatedly struck throughout the night

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I’m convinced 95 percent of the users on the Lebanon subreddit don’t actually live in Lebanon. (In fact many of them admit this already)

There’s no fucking way all the posts that are like “fuck Hezbollah for doing this” while Israel carpet bombs the country are legit . For lack of a better word that shit is so cucked there’s no way this isn’t all from people whose family moved out like 40-100 years ago

Waiting for a response for any message in the family group chat right now is fucking torture, I literally can't deal with it anymore. I've sent my wife and the kid to her mom's for a few days, they can't see me and my dad like this. The two hours it took for my uncle to see the message and respond today were absolute hell, fuck this life. My aunt has little kids no older than 14, what if something happens. I've called my cousin from my mom's side who has a little farm outside of Damascus in Syria, he can take in my dad's family from Beirut, but how the fuck will they even leave with this situation, and my cousin is already dirt poor, how will he feed them. Too many thoughts spinning, nowhere to scream them out, nowhere to go and nothing to do, I almost wish I was there.

Just saw an interview on AusBC news with someone from the american university of Beirut who claimed Hezbollah is unable to do war, lots of footage of smoking buildings in lebanon, nothing of what's happening within 'israel', very cool, I wipe away a tear with a yanky flag hanky

NBC claiming a Hezbollah spokesperson was on Iranian TV today saying that Nasrallah was not in the buildings struck and is fine.

This is from one of those scrolling news feeds with no added context or proof so take with a grain of salt. Hopefully true though

Bibi gave a speech to literally only a bunch of Israelis he brought to the UN? Wtf was that?

Hamas: “The Resistance Will Not Surrender” - Telesur English

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The Zionist entity continues to escalate attacks in Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank with the complicit support of the US.

The Palestinian Islamic resistance movement Hamas assured Israel and its allies on Wednesday that they will never surrender to their aggressions, no matter how long the current siege of the Zionist entity against the Gaza Strip.

In that regard, a senior Hamas figure, Osama Hamdan, said: “We do not want the period of aggression against Gaza and the people of Lebanon to be prolonged. The occupiers and their supporters must know that no matter how long it takes, the Resistance will not surrender”.

Hamdan said that the ceasefire by the occupation will allow the cessation of resistance responses from Lebanon and Palestine. The Palestinian leader also warned that one of the enemy’s objectives is to isolate the two movements, but he said that this will not happen.

“Our brothers on the Resistance fronts in Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq understand very well the objectives and intentions of the enemy,” he said.

Hamdan accused the US and the West of supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza and obstructing international support. He stressed that the allies of Tel Aviv know what are the demands of Palestine and Lebanon: to stop the current genocidal attacks and end the occupation.

He said that the failure in Gaza of the war strategy of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, pushed him to attack Lebanon. The Israeli army has been carrying out a series of large-scale attacks on Lebanon since Monday, which have claimed the lives of more than 600 people and injured about 2,000.

Palestine (Palestinian Authority) at the UN: «Stop Sending Weapons to Israel» - Telesur English

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He called for the suspension of Israel’s membership in the United Nations. He demanded a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the attacks of the occupiers in the West Bank.

Palestinian National Authority (PNA) President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday called for sanctions against the Zionist entity in the ongoing genocide it is committing against the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

Abbas spoke at the 79th session of the UN General Assembly. He rose to the podium in the midst of sustained applause and thus began his speech: We will not leave. Palestine is our homeland, the home of our parents and grandparents, and it will remain ours. If anyone has to leave, it must be the usurpers».

He called for the suspension of Israel’s membership in the United Nations. He demanded a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the attacks of the occupiers in the West Bank. He further stated that the State of Palestine will exercise full sovereignty over Gaza and begin its reconstruction once the occupiers have withdrawn from there.

He stated that his people for almost a year have been the object of one of the most heinous crimes in history, by the genocidal war perpetrated by Israel, which to date has killed more than 40,000 martyrs in Gaza alone, with thousands still under the rubble and more than 100,000 injured. He detailed that the occupation killed more than 15,000 children.

He urged the international community to stop the genocide and held it responsible for what is happening in the occupied territories of Palestine. «Stop sending weapons to Israel», he urged.

It also denounced the illegal construction of settlements in the West Bank, the destruction of hundreds of homes of the Arab population and the systematic and violent attacks against Palestinian civilians by occupation soldiers or settlers.

He said that hundreds of Palestinian families have been annihilated and their names have disappeared from the civil registry. Thousands of people have died as a result of the spread of disease, epidemics and lack of medicines and water. Thousands have had to move repeatedly in search of safety, fleeing Israeli aggression.

He demanded the arrest of members of the Zionist cabinet who want to destroy the al-Aqsa mosque and build a Hebrew temple there, and reiterated that al-Aqsa belongs to the Muslims. «Instead of opening itself to reason, Israel has committed war crimes in Gaza and recently opened another criminal chapter by attacking Lebanon. We demand that it be terminated immediately».

«If the Zionist entity believes that it will be free from accountability for its massacres and genocide since 1948 to today, he is wrong», he admitted.

Also held the U.S. accountable. by using the veto to obstruct resolutions in the agency’s Security Council, which demanded an immediate ceasefire from Israel.

He questioned the White House for providing funds and deadly weapons to the Zionist entity, with which it massacred thousands of women and children. Recalled that the U.S. also voted against giving Palestine full membership in the UN: Why the U.S. Why not. Does it take away from our people the legitimate right to be free?» he questioned.

Similarly, he called for the creation of an international peacekeeping force between Palestine and Israel after the end of the current siege on the occupied territories to ensure the security of both states.

Colombian Legislators File Criminal Charges Against Former President Duque - Telesur English

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The far-right politician was involved in using Israeli software Pegasus to spy on political opponents and social activists.

On Wednesday, the Commission for Investigation and Prosecution of the House of Representatives decided to criminally charge former Colombian President Ivan Duque for his involvement in irregularities in the use of the Israeli spyware software Pegasus.

“Among these crimes are money laundering, offering, selling or purchasing tools capable of intercepting private communications, embezzlement by diverting official resources, violation of the legal or constitutional regime of disqualifications and incompatibilities, abuse of authority through arbitrary or unjust acts, and conspiracy to commit a crime,” said Senator Ivan Cepeda of the Democratic Pole.

“It is a wide range of crimes that former President Duque allegedly committed, as it appears he had set up an apparatus for spying on and persecuting political opponents,” he added.

Given the impact of these human rights violations on various sectors of society, some of the victims of the espionage during the Duque administration are prepared to form an association to defend their interests.

“We need to know the truth and the consequences of these actions against our lives and against our families because it was aimed at destroying alternative projects, persecuting the opposition at that time, and affecting the lives of many of us. A thorough investigation must be conducted,” said Gloria Flores, a Senator and member of the Foreign Relations Committee.

Through these espionage actions, the Duque administration sought to persecute, terrorize, harass, and limit the freedoms of citizens and progressive social and political groups.

Something similar happened during the government of far-right President Alvaro Uribe between 2002 and 2010. During that period, the Jose Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective (CAJAR), which is dedicated to human rights defense, suffered the consequences of state espionage, and had to turn to international justice in an attempt to put limits on intelligence policies.

“The espionage didn’t end with the Uribe administration but continued during the Duque administration. We were able to show that they used equipment to profile members of the lawyers’ organization. In Colombia, intelligence services lack civilian and judicial oversight to determine the purpose of intelligence in a democratic country,” explained CAJAR member Soraya Hernandez.

For that reason, and to protect democratic processes in this South American country, progressive groups have introduced a bill to regulate intelligence and counterintelligence activities involving the use of technology.

Pegasus software, created by Israeli company NSO Group Technologies, is capable of wiretapping, spying on emails and text communications through applications such as WhatsApp, and scanning documents contained in the memory of mobile phones.

Iraq at the UN: The Security Council has Failed to Maintain the Peace. - Telesur English

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Iraq’s prime minister, Mohammed Shia’al Sudani, said on Thursday that the Security Council has failed to achieve its main objective: maintaining peace.

“Ending the violations against Palestine is everyone’s responsibility,” said the High Representative of Iraq, while stressing that above all, the Security Council has not achieved its main objective: to maintain peace.

In insisting that Israel is violating the principles of the UN Security Council and the UN Charter, the Iraqi premier said we are witnessing people being attacked by an occupying military force, killing thousands. Talk of famine to eliminate people, he insisted.

In this regard, the Iraqi politician stressed that important principles such as sovereignty and territorial integrity, international humanitarian law and self-determination are under threat in the current context.

The people of Palestine have been denied their right to live in dignity, said the politician, claiming that it guarantees Israel’s impunity. International law is left on paper, he reflected, with the annexation of territories.

He made a critical analysis of the brutal campaign with remote bombing technologies without taking into account that there are unarmed civilians. Similarly, he denounced the new brutal aggression against Lebanon.

Mohammed Shia’al Sudani also declared that his country would provide whatever assistance it could to Lebanon to overcome the effects of this attack, while firmly rejecting occupation and standing up for people’s rights.

“We note that relief agencies in the occupied territories are being attacked,” said the Prime Minister, while underlining that this session is taking place at a difficult time in the Middle East and the world which is being pushed into a large-scale conflict, while the Council is powerless.

Mohammed Shia’al Sudani stressed that this is a difficult test of the world order that threatens its existence.

Foreign Ministers of Cuba, Bolivia and Nicaragua Dennounce the Interference of U.S in the Region - Telesur English

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During their interventions, the three countries also reiterated the end of coercive and unilateral measures by the United States Government against Latin American nations.

The foreign ministers of Cuba, Bolivia and Nicaragua denounced on Thursday the foreign interference of the United States in the internal affairs of other countries, Position taken during the 24th Meeting of the Political Council of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Treaty on Trade of the Peoples (ALBA – TCP).

Cuban Chancellor Bruno Rodriguez said that “the regional oligarchies are resorting to policies apparently banished as coups d’état with the connivance of the US government”.

In that regard, he referred to the coup against Bolivia in 2019 and the latest attempt. He also mentioned the allegations made in this regard by the Governments of Honduras and Colombia.

Rodríguez denounced: “Today we see with concern how one of the founding countries of this alliance is attacked with marked belligerence. Venezuela is once again facing the economic, political and media arsenal of imperialism and right-wing extremism aimed at dynamising its sovereign process of economic, social and cultural development”.

“Our brothers in Nicaragua are equally the target of unjust unilateral measures and fierce interference campaigns by the US government,” he added.

He also mentioned that Cuba is suffering the most brutal, prolonged and intense aggression against its economy and its people, and that the United States Government keeps it on the arbitrary and unilateral list of states which allegedly sponsor terrorism.

Rodríguez also denounced the genocide against the Palestinian people. “We demand a wide, Just and lasting settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the basis of the establishment of two states, enabling the Palestinian people to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination and to have an independent and sovereign state within the pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital and with the guarantee of return of refugees”.

“Our country supports the General Assembly of the United Nations to take decisive and immediate action and decide once and for all the full membership of the State of Palestine in the UN».

Valdrack Jaentschke: “The worthy, free and sovereign peoples of the world are facing old and new forms of aggression”.

Nicaragua’s Foreign Minister, Valdrack Jaentschke, said that the Venezuelan people continues along with President Nicolás Maduro “to face all the aggressions and destabilizations of the imperialists victoriously”.

Jaentschke stated: “Humanity is in critical moments, moments of birth of a new history, of the emergence of a new world order more just, more collective, more solidary and as all birth the emergence of this new world order, multipolar, without hegemonies that are imposed is hard, is difficult, it’s painful”.

He stressed that the world’s worthy, free and sovereign peoples face old and new forms of aggression. “The rifles and gunboats of the past, today reborn in new forms of aggression euphemistically called sanctions, are the same military interventions and the same interferences perpetrated by the Yankee empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries”. He also expressed his solidarity with Venezuela and Cuba.

Celinda Sosa: “We must continue on the path of peace”

The Bolivian Foreign Minister, Celinda Sosa, stressed that people face serious challenges in the face of the multiple crises that the world is experiencing today.

Sosa confirmed that the hegemonic powers and imperialism threaten our unity. “We must continue along this path our commitment to the defence of sovereignty and non-intervention in our internal affairs”.

Also condemned the blockade imposed on Cuba by the White House and demanded that it be lifted immediately and likewise excluded from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism, “an unfair measure affecting its economy and preventing the full development of Cubans”.

Sosa also demanded an immediate cessation of the coercive measures imposed on Nicaragua and Venezuela, and of the Israeli genocide against the people of Palestine.

DRC: Rwanda is Accused of Human Rights Violations in North Kivu - Telesur English

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) accused the Rwandan government on Thursday of perpetrating “serious human rights violations in the North Kivu region” (eastern DRC), on the first day of a case initiated by Kinshasa at the East African Court of Justice (EACJ).

The court in Arusha, Tanzania, began hearing claims arising from the case filed by the Congolese government against Rwandan for alleged conflicts in North Kivu, as reported on its social media.

In this and other Congolese provinces, the DRC Armed Forces (FARDC) are facing numerous armed groups, including the powerful March 23 Movement (M23), linked to Rwanda.

“The DRC accuses Rwanda of acts of aggression that allegedly violate its sovereignty, territorial integrity, political stability and independence,” added the EACJ in its statement.

On Thursday, the organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) denounced repeated and indiscriminate shelling of displaced camps in northeastern DRC by the Rwandan army and the rebel M23.

He also accused the FARDC and its allied militias, renamed ‘wazalendo’ (‘patriots’ in Swahili), of having put the population at risk by deploying artillery around these settlements, located on the outskirts of the city of Goma, Capital of North Kivu.

The Lebanon massacres and bombings are very popular in Israel

Fascist scum are bombing Tyre now

Truthout: Kansas City Tenants Launch National Rent Strike to Demand Federal Rent Cap

Tenant unions protesting dismal living conditions at two apartment complexes in Kansas City, Missouri, have voted to withhold rent on October 1 if their demands are not met — the opening salvo in what organizers say is the first coordinated rent strike aimed at pressuring federal regulators to cap rent increases and protect tenants from abusive corporate landlords.

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The Tenant Union Federation said tenants organizing in North Carolina, Michigan, Illinois, South Carolina, Kentucky, Montana and Illinois are preparing to join the picket line and vote in the coming weeks on withholding rent from corporate landlords that similarly benefit from federally guaranteed financing.

It's been seven hours, if Nasrallah was dead it'd be out by now, this is a media blitz designed to distract from the civilian deaths caused by the bombings, bombings that took place while the UN was in session and the perpetrator was participating

Hezbollah reports are straight up being ignored in favor of Reuter based "Hezbollah sources" because this media operation is nothing but an attempt to suffocate the story before it becomes an international scandal, there is evidence of active collusion or parallel coordination by all major western news orgs and even Al Jazeera, they're all pushing the Nasrallah angle over the civilians deaths

New bunker busters were dropped on Beirut a few mins ago, this media blitz about Nasrallah is a distraction

spirit-bomb Say it with me folks: marg bar…?

Over 30 years of Indigenous resistance with Mohawk land defender Ellen Gabriel Hexbear post kkkanada

Colonial-rooted poverty will not be solved by more colonial solutions'

Thirty-four years ago, Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel was thrust into the spotlight when she was chosen as the spokesperson for the Kanienʼkehá:ka (Mohawk) communities of Kanehsatà:ke and Kahnawà:ke, as they resisted the planned expansion of a golf course on into their sacred lands and burial grounds in southern Quebec and police and military attempted to subdue them by force.

In a new book, When the Pine Needles Fall, Gabriel and settler historian Sean Carleton chart a course from the events of 1990 to the present, while extending into a generous and expansive vision of the future. The book, which they began writing in 2019, evolved during the pandemic, taking shape as a series of conversations that articulate the urgency and necessity of Indigenous resistance. Centring Gabriel’s own words through dialogue, Carleton writes, was a way to “divest my power and authority as an academic to create space for Ellen’s brilliance … to hold space and amplify Ellen’s voice, while also co-creating through conversation.”

Am I making an incorrect comparison by saying what the US did to Cambodia is the same thing that Israel doing to Gaza and Lebanon? The rationale for bombing Cambodia was that there were Vietnamese soldiers there, so fair game to wipe out entire villages in case maybe there was a Vietnamese soldier there? Seems to me that is the precise justification that Israel uses when they level a building with dozens of women and children.

Israel is doing more terror bombings

⚡️ Spokesperson for the #Israeli occupation army:

We will strike buildings that we ordered to be evacuated in the southern suburb of Beirut

https://nitter.poast.org/ME_Observer_/status/1839772499795485112#m

https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/bjrbzxec0

Moody's is going to lower Isntrael's credit rating again. Making for 2 times this year, I'll report on the other agencies as they come up.

The Cradle: Netanyahu gave the orders to wipe out an entire neighborhood in southern Beirut from the UN headquarters in New York.

fucking die satanyahu guts-rage

Very conflicting reports on Nasrallah, reuters are saying their Hezbollah source says he's alive. One Israeli report is also claiming that the commander of the Revolutionary Guards in Syria and Lebanon was present at the meeting with Nasrallah.

EDIT: Fed accounts are all saying dead.

If there was any doubt which countries are Israeli allies by now

I've watched a couple of minutes of Aaron Máté debating hasbara on Piers Morgan, and it always amazes me how natural they try to make settler colonialism. One of the debaters was Fleur Hassan.

Fleur Hassan-Nahoum is an Israeli politician, media expert and policy maker. She currently serves as Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem in charge of foreign relations, international economic development and tourism.

Fleur Hassan-Nahoum was born in London and grew up in Gibraltar. She is the daughter of Sir Joshua Hassan, who served as the first Mayor of Gibraltar and, later, also served as the first Chief Minister of Gibraltar,[2] and his second wife, Lady Marcelle Bensimon,[3] both of Moroccan and Portuguese Jewish origin.

Hassan-Nahoum grew up bilingual, speaking Spanish and English In 2001, Hassan-Nahoum emigrated to Israel.

Imagine having to debate settlers like this during the ongoing settler colonial genocide. They condescendingly talk to you about the "generous peace deals" they offered to the Palestinians and Iran being the puppet master of Hamas and Hezbollah.

It's crazy. Fuckin mad world. Go back to London for fucks sake.

Is genocide Joe still alive?

It seems like the NYT is really ramping up anti-Iranian rhetoric lately. 26 articles (including some round-ups) since Sept. 18 have used the phrase "Iran-backed." Almost every article that even mentions anyone in the Axis of Resistance uses the phrase "Iran's proxies" or "Iranian proxies." This was not happening even a month or two ago. ("Iran-backed" is all over, yes, but "Iranian proxies" and its variants were mostly absent from the paper all summer.)

I can't get Google Trends to stop bugging out on me, but I wonder if this is the case for other State Department mouthpieces or if this is a NYT-specific editorial decision.

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Secretary General of Hezbollah Seyed Hassan Nasrallah and the head of the movement’s Executive Council Seyed Hashem Safieddine are unharmed and in full health, informed sources told Tasnim.

Israel pulled a dirty and failed (thank God 😰). Zionists better be evacuating their HQs.

Colombia, Brazil and Chile will use Russian and Syrian Airbases to evacuate their civilians from Lebanon. We will see how this goes, last time they used Jordanian and Egyptian airbases to evacuate their civilians from Palestine.

Meanwhile, in nazi Germany

The @BoellStiftung asked Israeli writer Tomer Dotan Dreyfuss to write about being Jewish in Germany after 7/10

He wrote about an increase in censorship in the name of fighting antisemitism.

The Boell Stiftung then refused to publish it.

https://nitter.poast.org/derJamesJackson/status/1839617530786205773#m

I have a really bad feeling about Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah and that Beirut strike...

I'm watching MSNBC and they're talking about the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel. The anchor is talking to a guy from the Such-and-Such Institute for Peace. He's used the terms "ground op", "tactically", "this could tarnish Israeli's brand", and "the deaths of innocents". Even the military guys (ex-generals and such) on CNN and MSNBC don't use lingo like that because they know it's ghoulish and creepy.

https://gordonhahn.com/2024/09/22/a-river-runs-through-the-end-of-the-nato-russia-ukrainian-war/

An article discussing the future significance of the Dnieper as a defensive line in the SMO. The naked capitalism discussion linked is a good one, about how much of Ukraine is flat and so its water systems are based on pumps and dams. This means that to achieve one of its war aims (fresh water access to Crimea), Russia will need to ensure Kiev does not dump raw sewage upstream. The least desirable option there is having Ukraine (or whatever) control Kiev, and Russia has to rebuild infrastructure. Actually taking Kiev is its own can of worms. The most effective and somewhat heartless option is the Russians continue to focus on power infrastructure. This is necessary for heating and water, especially as we enter northern hemisphere Autumn. Without power, the population density that can be supported is very low. This will cause refugee flows west, but i have also seen estimates that Ukraine has already lost half of its pre-war population. War is tragic.

https://splash247.com/91-hours-left-to-avert-supply-chain-mayhem-in-the-us/

An article about an imminent (October 1st) strike by the International Longshoremen’s Association. This sounds really cool, and the US Chamber of Commerce seems very concerned. Keep in mind the ILA has pledged that cruise ships and military deliveries will not be affected by the strike. If this does happen, expect oil and gas to go nuts. The biggest hubs for oil and gas are on the Gulf Coast, and the majority of Liquid Natural Gas terminals and capacity are also there. If the US cannot export natural gas to Europe, then the EU might be forced to reach the negotiating table before NATO (more realistically they further set their economies on fire voluntarily).

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/chinese-and-russian-firms-among-first-foreign-investors-indonesias-new-capital-nusantara-building-projects-4639486

An article about BRICS+ investment in the construction of Nusantara. For those unaware, Indonesia has been looking to replace Jakarta as the capital for decades, and the plan has been moving forward now that part of the city is below sea level. In theory, this will be an opportunity to correct for the poor sanitation, overcrowding, bad traffic, lack of green spaces, flooding, and depleted ground water of the much older and organically developed Jakarta. The new capital is being built on the east coast of Borneo. Hopefully, basic infrastructure gets more money than hotels and luxury secondary schools, though i do understand that the latter things make for better news articles.

It wouldn’t be a Netanyahu speech to the UN without Windows 95 ass visual aids.

Death to Israel, death to Israel, death to Israel.

I want to see that terrorist state burned to the ground holy shit

Footage from the bombing just a little while ago in Beirut

https://nitter.poast.org/ME_Observer_/status/1839690676016992405#m

Fucking isntreal

Is Lebanon actually using its full military capabilities against Israel? Ik it has been trying to avoid war for economic reasons but Israeli attacks isn't helping the economy either.

https://t.me/warmonitors/28214

Israel just carpet bombed a densely populated area in Beirut

Huge Changes For Student Loan Repayment Begin In 5 Days For 30 Million Borrowers

But with the on-ramp ending, missed payments will now be reported to national credit agencies again. Even one missed payment can severely damage someone’s credit report and reduce their credit score dramatically. While some loan loan servicers may not report missed payments until the borrower is 90 days past due, missed or delinquent payments can technically be reported after just 30 days.

And with Fresh Start ending on September 30, as well, student loan defaults can also be reported again to national credit bureaus. Federal law generally prohibits the ongoing reporting of defaulted accounts for more than seven and a half years, so long-defaulted loans may not reappear on some borrowers’ credit reports. But more recent defaults will start to be reported again, potentially inflicting severe credit report damage from some people. This could impact their ability to rent an apartment, take out a car loan, or pass a background check for a job.

From Twitter

This is enraging y'all: Biden restarts late fees, negative credit reporting, and defaults/collections on loans

Now the feds can garnish your wages, take your social security and tax returns without even a court order

Surprised nobody here has posted about this yet. Walkout at UN for Netanyahoo

There are already fiber optic lines connecting India and Europe through Suez, Bibi. What are you talking about?

And how tf will you get a rail line through the ocean?

Also I want to murder everyone cheering and clapping for Bibi

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Poverty surges by 11 points under Milei, hitting 53%

According to the INDEC, a record 25 million Argentines are poor while the number of destitute doubled to 5.3 million in the past six months

A government report published on Thursday afternoon revealed that an average of 52.9% of Argentines were poor in the first half of the year and 18.1% were destitute. It is the country’s highest poverty rate in 20 years.

The numbers, released by the INDEC statistic bureau, show that in the first six months since President Javier Milei took office, poverty grew by 11.2 points and destitution by 6.2. That means 5.1 million Argentines fell into poverty in that time, amounting to 25 million poor people in total. Meanwhile, the report revealed a total of 8.3 million destitute Argentines: almost double the number in the first half of 2023. The 11-point increase in the span of six months is a historic one — poverty increased by six points throughout Alberto Fernández’s presidency.

Roughly two-thirds (66.1%) of children between 0 and 14 years old live in poverty, according to the INDEC’s numbers. An August report by UNICEF found that one million Argentine children skipped meals daily because their families could not afford food. Meanwhile, those over 65 years old went from 17.6% poverty in the second half of 2023 to 29.7% in the first half of 2024. The highest poverty numbers were found in the Northeast and the Northwest of the country, with 62.9% and 57%, respectively.

The INDEC considers a family “destitute” when their monthly income is less than the basic food basket. A family is considered to be in poverty if they earn less than the basic food basket plus services, known as the total basic basket.

A report by the Center of Argentine Political Economy (CEPA), published after the INDEC released their numbers, said that food inflation in the first half of the year was 9.4%, higher than the first half of 2023, when the number was 7.7%.

“As food prices determine the levels of the basic food basket and, to a large extent, of the total basic basket, a significant increase in food inflation implies upward pressures on the incidence rate of destitution and, in part, of poverty,” the report said.

The CEPA report added that unemployment rose to 7.6% in the first half of 2024, meaning one percentage point more than the first half of 2023. It added that the minimum retirement pension fell by 19.7% during the same time periods. At the beginning of the month, Milei vetoed a pension reform that would have put their minimum value just over the poverty line.

The Presidential Office has yet to comment on the significant increase in poverty. However, at 4:00 p.m., coinciding with the INDEC’s report, the president’s sister and General Secretary Karina Milei posted a picture of herself, her Bernese mountain dog Thor, and TV personality Susana Giménez. Videos of the president with Giménez on the Casa Rosada balcony surfaced on social media shortly afterward and were met with considerable backlash. A spokesperson for the office said that Manuel Adorni would address the issue on Friday in his usual press conference.

Death to "anarcho" capitalism

Death to "israel"

Bidenomics:

The bottom 40% of incomes account for 22% of total consumer spending and 13% of total income, and the top 20% of incomes account for 39% of total consumer spending and 47% of total income

In the Danish city of Odense, the mayor is malding that he can't ban ships from legally and peacefully docking in the local harbour:

"Deeply frustrating": Odense mayor wants Russian ships out of the harbor

Russian ships should not be allowed to dock at Odense Harbor and receive services.

This is the message in an email from Odense's mayor, Peter Rahbæk Juel, from the Social Democrats, to the Minister of Transport, Thomas Danielsen, from the Liberal Party.

The call comes in response to reports on how ships with Russian connections are creatively bypassing current sanctions, for example, by transporting natural gas to Russia.

"The ships are being serviced by companies located at the harbor. They’ve done so completely legally - and without Odense Harbor being able to refuse them, which is deeply frustrating," writes the mayor in the email.

Odense Harbor is obligated to accept ships as long as they do not break any laws or sanctions - and officially, they are not, according to the mayor.

Source: Machine translation from DR (state media), September 27th 2024

https://xcancel.com/ArmchairW/status/1839453350854853047

There's actually a critical lesson to draw from this and other Ukrainian fiascos, of which the Bakhmut saga and the Zaporozhie Hundred Days come to mind: Ukraine will have ended up losing this war in large part because it consistently tried to fight beyond its means.

The Ukrainians started this war with an enormous army, well in excess of what the Russians could and actually did commit to the fight in 2022. That huge force (the "First Army") was badly mauled in early 2022, but it was rejuvenated later that year by a combination of ruthless mobilization and massive aid from NATO. This convinced the Russian Stavka to transition to the defensive and consolidate their position in Ukraine, withdrawing troops from more exposed positions in east Kharkov and right-bank Kherson. Any serious assessment of the situation at that point would have been that the Russians had consolidated into a basically impregnable position that the AFU was incapable of breaching (lest we forget in the wake of Russia's totally unhindered withdrawal from the area, their attempts at reducing the Kherson bridgehead by force in mid-2022 were bloody disasters), and the correct course of action was to start digging in and negotiate a peace treaty in the meantime.

The Ukrainian leadership instead threw a disturbingly large portion of the "Second Army" into Prigozhin's meatgrinder in Bakhmut and then ordered not one but two large-scale counteroffensives into Zaporozhie and the Bakhmut flanks using the post-Bakhmut remains of the "Second Army" and their NATO-supplied "Third Army." Those failed with enormous losses, opening the way for Russia to transition back to the offensive in late 2023 and begin systematically rolling Ukraine out of the Donbass. The correct course of action at this point was, again, to find a tenable defensive line and start digging. Zelensky instead ordered a "Hail Mary" offensive in Kursk with the remnants of the "Third Army" and significant elements from a lightly-equipped "Fourth Army," hoping Russian border defenses were weak despite their having ample warning of Ukrainian designs on the border region (courtesy of several earlier, smaller raids) and plenty of time to prepare. It proceeded to fail with enormous losses - Ukrainian forces breached the border, began to exploit, and ran square into a Russian haymaker counter-punch that stopped them in their tracks. The Ukrainians then reinforced failure, sending massive reinforcements into a death pit in an attempt to keep a sliver of Russian soil under their flag as a middle finger to Putin.

And while this was happening the front in the Donbass started to collapse with Russian troops making large advances and seizing key terrain, in no small part because the AFU's resources had been systematically redirected to a tertiary operation far to the north. We've seen, again and again and again, that when the Ukrainians got resources and generated forces, rather than admitting they are the weaker power here and working to strengthen their positions and conciliate, they instead squandered them on hugely ambitious and equally doomed offensives. In 2023 these offensives were aimed at restoring their pre-2014 borders when Donetsk may as well have been on the Moon for them, while in 2024 their ambitions transitioned to the outright insanity of conquering southwest Russia despite the fact they'd been on the military back foot for the last year. These are the moves of a power setting objectives beyond its means to achieve, and they will probably end up dooming Ukraine as a sovereign state going forward.

Progressives Sound Alarm as Harris Courts Crypto Industry

Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), is friendly with the crypto industry and personally owns hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin.

Harris, for her part, gave a nod to the cryptocurrency industry during a major economic policy speech in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, saying she wants the U.S. to “remain dominant” in “emerging technologies” such as the blockchain.

Harris’ economic policy platform states that, if elected in November, she would “encourage innovative technologies like AI and digital assets while protecting our consumers and investors.”

antelope-popcorn

I don't have anything interesting to post right now so here's a picture of a PLA soldier on the disputed border with India. Nobody in the disputed territory is allowed guns so the PLA have polearms instead.

mfw the first tenured professor fired for anti-Zionist speech is Jewish:
https://xcancel.com/natashalennard/status/1839285771892633911

Terrorist getting arrested in Morocco:
https://xcancel.com/RyanRozbiani/status/1839102434498822423

Israeli soldier Moshe Avichzer was reportedly detained in July while vacationing in Marrakesh.

He is accused of committing war crimes in Gaza after completing a three-month tour of duty there.

Avichzer had shared photos from his vacation in Morocco shortly after posting images of himself amid destroyed Palestinian homes and rubble in Gaza.

Following protests by hundreds of Moroccans demanding his prosecution as a war criminal, a Moroccan court is now reportedly preparing to hear his case.

The University of Chicago just received $100 million from an anonymous donor. I wonder where this anonymous donor stands on the issue of Palestinian liberation:
https://xcancel.com/emanabdelhadi/status/1839309088397639860

Brazil will present a Chinese-Brazilian peace plan for Ukraine to the countries of the Global South by the end of the week, Reuters reports.

The meeting, which will take place on September 27 in New York, is expected to include Colombia, Egypt, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the UAE and other countries from the Global South. Representatives of European countries were not invited to the meeting.

The meeting will be chaired by Brazil's top foreign policy adviser, Celso Amorim, who will try to persuade those present to support the six-point Brazil-China plan. In particular, this concerns an immediate ceasefire, de-escalation and the beginning of peace negotiations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq threatens the UAE:
https://xcancel.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1839410871325630859

The leader of the Sayyid ash-Shuhada Brigades, part of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, directly threatens the UAE, saying it is the "first line of fire" if a larger war erupts, and that the militia's drones, which have reached Israel, can easily reach "alternative locations".

A record large container ship has made the Arctic transit between Russia and China, saving a lot of time compared to the Suez route during the open water season.

https://gcaptain.com/first-panamax-containership-sprints-across-arctic-reaching-china-in-just-three-weeks/

Good news for eurasian integration, bad news for climate change

New Slammer slammer

Context: video of Iron dome missile falling to catch a yemeni hypersonic missile

Wow! Another “unprecedented” weather event soypoint-2

So glad this is just temporary and not a consequence of something

Yesterday I was reading some borderline crank post on substack, about a slideshow leaked from the british counter disinformation unit

I think i found it here but now i cant find it to finish it, does anyone know what I was reading lol, i cant find it in my history and I didnt save it :/

ps death to israel, obviously

BURKINABÉ CREATES FIRST 100% AFRICAN TYRE BRAND:
https://xcancel.com/african_stream/status/1839271402647457995

A young man from Burkina Faso named Yannick Laurent Bado has created the first fully African-owned tyre brand, JEPEB. The company is set to produce 40,000 tyres per year that can handle rough African roads and off-road terrain for the African market which, up until now, has been dominated by imports.

Wakulla County (FL) is under mandatory evacuation orders ahead of the storm, except they left all the prisoners locked up to drown in the imminent flooding.

fucking bleak

Trump said he will meet with Zelensky on Friday in New York - BBC

Trump and Zelensky to meet amid Republican anger

Article

Donald Trump has said he will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in New York on Friday. The Republican presidential nominee told a news conference that the pair will meet around 09:45 ET (14:45 BST) at his Trump Tower property.

The meeting is set to go ahead despite earlier reports it had been cancelled amid growing anger from senior Republicans after Zelensky earlier visited the key swing US state of Pennsylvania.

On Thursday, Zelensky met US President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris at the White House to discuss his "victory plan", which he hopes will pressure Russia into agreeing a diplomatic end to the war.

"President Zelensky has asked to meet with me, and I will be meeting with him tomorrow morning," Trump told reporters in New York. "And it's a shame what's happening in Ukraine. So many deaths, so much destruction. It's a horrible thing."

Trump said he believed he would be able to "make a deal" between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zelensky "quite quickly". When pushed to provide details of such a deal, he replied: "I don't want to tell you what that looks like".

The former US president was speaking after Zelensky had earlier met Biden and Harris. Hours before, Biden had announced a further $7.9bn (£5.9bn) package of military assistance to Ukraine.

Speaking alongside the Ukrainian president after their meeting, Harris said there are "some in my country" that would "force Ukraine to give up large parts of its sovereign territory".

"These proposals are the same of those of Putin," she said, calling them "proposals for surrender". Asked at the news conference by a reporter whether Ukraine should cede land to Russia to end the war, Trump did not answer directly.

"Let's get some peace," he said. "We need peace. We need to stop the death and destruction." Friday's meeting comes amid tension between Zelensky and the Republican party ahead of November's US presidential election.

Some Republicans were angered by Zelensky's visit to an arms factory in Biden's hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, with top Democrats this week, including its governor Josh Shapiro.

Zelensky's visit to the key swing state was labelled by leading Republicans as a partisan campaign event. In a public letter, speaker of the US House Mike Johnson said the visit was "designed to help Democrats" and claimed it amounted to "election interference".

Trump and Zelensky have a complicated relationship. In 2019, Trump was impeached by the US House over accusations that he pressured Ukraine's leader to dig up damaging information on a political rival. A rough transcript of the call revealed Trump had urged Zelensky to investigate Biden, as well as Biden's son.

Trump has also grown increasingly critical of continued US funding for Ukraine, and in recent days has sharpened his attacks against Zelensky, calling him the “greatest salesman on Earth”.

Zelensky recently told the New Yorker magazine that he believe Trump "doesn't really know how to stop the war". When asked about Zelensky's comments on Thursday, Trump replied: "I do believe I disagree with him. He doesn't know me."

SF Chronicle: Police are deliberately ramming suspects’ cars. Dozens have died — including bystanders

Since 2017, at least 87 people across the country have been killed after police officers rammed vehicles they were pursuing, often at extremely high speeds, a Chronicle investigation found.

Nearly half of those who died — 37 people, including seven children — were not the fleeing drivers. Instead, they were passengers or bystanders. In Tifton, Ga., a grandmother was killed when a fleeing car deliberately struck by police careened into her front yard.

Astounding cruelty

The wreck that killed Lakita Davis started with 5-hour Energy drinks and paper towels.

A clerk at a Dollar Store in Jonesboro, Ark., told police she saw Davis leave without paying one evening in October 2020. Davis, 35, drove away with her daughter, her daughter’s boyfriend and her stepson in a silver Honda Civic.

...

Moments later, Middlecoff sped toward Davis at more than 120 mph and deliberately rammed her car. The Civic veered off the road and flipped, landing on its hood.

“Crawl out, or you’re gonna get dog bit!” ordered Chris Shull, an officer with the Jonesboro Police Department, a K9 by his side, according to dash-camera and body-camera footage and documents from Jonesboro and Arkansas State Police.

“Driver, can you crawl out?” another officer asked. Davis didn’t answer.

Standing nearby, Shull said, “I gotta say, that was my first pursuit that was legit and justified, like, fit policy. That was awesome.”

Minutes later, Shull announced Davis was dead — and blamed her family.

“Congratulations, y’all just committed homicide, y’all just committed murder,” he told the passengers: Davis’ 18-year-old daughter, Octavia Jackson, who lay on a stretcher with bone fractures; her stepson, Octavius Moore, 15; and her daughter’s boyfriend, Taccorion Golden, 20, who broke his leg.

Eric Adams got over half of his 2021 election funding illegally. Without the illegal money, he only got about the same as Kathy Garcia, who he barely beat.

Edmundo Gonzelez is still hiding in Spain, we will see if the US will pull a Guaido 2.0 or just forget this ever happened lol. Also it seems like Marisabel de Chavez (Hugo Chavez second ex-wife) is still a member of PSUV and supporter of Maduro, despite her critics towards the goverment.

Some combat footage from the Kursk, Donbass, and Gaza fronts.

Russian drone strikes near the southern Donetsk People’s Republic city of Ugledar (18+): https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--Drone-strikes-on-detected-enemy-infantry-in-the-Ugledar-area!:2

More destroyed Kiev regime military equipment on the Kursk/Donbass fronts: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--DBL,-equipment-of-AFU-burned-near-the-settlement-of-Olgovka!:8

Palestinian resistance forces recently conducted RPG strikes on a Merkava tank and two armored bulldozers near the southern Gaza city of Rafah: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/twitsave.com_VV_Fm79DqdBtfyia.mp4

Ken Klippenstein has been banned from Twitter for publishing the J.D. Vance dossier. my-hero

(it's >200 pages, but from a glance it mostly seems to be a paper trail of his "liberal ties" and being a "never-trumper." Very much opposition research targeted at right wingers)

Yemen has struck Tel Aviv with missile(s) again. Millions of settlers forced into shelters in the middle of the night.

edit: conflicted information about whether it was intercepted or not (you can imagine which side is saying it was intercepted) but it definitely at least reached the skies over Tel Aviv and was not detected/shot down before that point. I'm leaning on the side of "not intercepted" based on what I've seen but it's not clear yet. Apparently Ansarallah will make a statement in the coming hours.

edit2: looks like no hit, though maybe some injuries caused by accidents getting into shelters? it was unclear to me what actually caused the injuries (if real) so I was confused about whether it was a hit or not. anyway, still unclear what has happened and what the target(s) were, still waiting on the Ansarallah statement

Waffle House closes Tallahassee-area locations as Hurricane Helene approaches Florida

Waffle House Index

The Waffle House Index is a metric named after the ubiquitous Southern US restaurant chain Waffle House known for its 24-hour, 365-day service. Since this restaurant always remains open, it has given rise to an informal but useful metric to determine the severity of a storm and the likely scale of assistance required for disaster recovery. It was coined by former administrator Craig Fugate of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The metric is unofficially used by FEMA to inform disaster response.

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In 2022, because of the expected severity of Hurricane Ian, 35 Waffle Houses closed in Florida prior to the storm's arrival, an extremely rare event. Hurricane Ian eventually made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 150 miles per hour (240 km/h), peaking out over the Atlantic Ocean as a Category 5 hurricane.

The country's former president gave the government, led by Luis Arce, a 24-hour deadline to resolve the country's fuel supply problem. He also said that if Arce wants to continue governing, he must “sack the narco ministers”.

The Bolivian government said that the deadline given was “impossible to meet”, and that Evo Morales was threatening the democratic order in the country, denouncing an attempted “coup d'état” to the world. Nationwide blockades are scheduled for September 30 if no agreement is reached.

Helene is now a cat 4 hurricane.

The Biden admin will end up being worse than bush

Stolen from @ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinon_Plan

Here's more info on some of Israel's theoretical desires to encourage the destruction of neighboring nation states. It at first seems like a think piece but it is earily similar to neoconservative plans to attack the middle east right before 9-11. Of course whenever Salafis randomly decide to renew offensives at the worst possible times for Palestinians, we know why.

Some Sudanese soldiers are using the red triangle as a patch

مثلثنا الأحمر، الذي أينما حل انتصر
Wherever our red triangle goes, we win

How long before Amerikkka engineers a shoot down of a passenger plane bound for “Tel Aviv” to blame on Hezbollah and justify troop deployment?

Westoid media is embarrassing itself greatly right now. The big, "reputable" outlets (AP, Reuters, etc) just regurgitated an old, already debunked story about a Chinese nuclear sub sinking.

Part three of my effortpost, these parts keep getting longer and longer. No proof reading as usual

Part One

Part Two, it gets continued in the first comment

The Rise of the Collective Shia Identity: Part Three

We move 25 years into the future with part three, we’re now in the period after the defeat in ISIS in Iraq and Syria, the Houthi revolution in Yemen, Hezbollah’s victory against Israel in 2006, and the failure of the Bahraini Uprising in 2011.

We start in Yemen, which was reunited into one state after the end of the Cold War. The first president of the new reunited Yemeni state is no one other than Ali Abdullah Saleh, former president of North Yemen and one of our favourite adventurers like we said earlier. The first real event in the history of Yemen is the start of the 1994 civil war, which ended in a decisive victory for Ali Abdullah Saleh’s Republican forces over the remnants of the South Yemen Communist Party. The republican victory could not be achieved without the strong support by Sunni Jihadist forces who received massive concessions by Saleh in order to secure their support in the war. The growing voice of the hardline Sunni Islamists in Saleh’s government angered the Houthi family, who returned to Yemen from Iran somewhere around reunification, with the aim of reviving the Zaydi traditions that were slowly fading away as Yemen took a more “Sunni” character. It is clear that the Houthis’ stay in Iran led to them being greatly influenced by Khomeini’s pan-Shia ideology, as they founded a youth group called the Believing Youth when they returned to Yemen. The Believing Youth was a loose collection of after-school workshops and summer camps for kids in the mountains of North Yemen, where they would read works by Khomeini, Nasrallah and Al Sadr. The Believing Youth would grow in size, and by the early 00s, their presence would be felt even in Friday prayers in the Grand Mosque of the capital Sanaa. Like a true paranoid Arab government, the Yemeni government would ultimately decide to arrest Hussein Al Houthi, the founder of the BY and brother of the Abdul Malik Al Houthi that we all know and love. The government failed in their attempt to arrest Hussein Al Houthi, who retreated to the mountains of Saada and started a large insurgency again the Yemeni government. He would be killed in late 2004, but a low-level insurgency continued until the Arab Spring hit in 2011.

Yemen had some of the largest protests in the whole region, which turned violent very quickly. The escalation of the protests wasn’t surprising at all, Yemen was the poorest and the least developed Arab nation out of all the relevant ones, and Saleh had been ruling the country in some form for 33 years while achieving literally nothing of note. The Houthis and their supporters would become one of the largest factions against the government in peaceful protest, and later in armed struggle against a government long past its expiry date. After around a year of clashes everywhere in Yemen, Saleh would resign and sign a power transfer agreement in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a place where no real peace has ever been established. An election was held in 2012, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, Saleh’s best friend and former vice president would win the election with 100% of the votes in a real democracy moment. Saleh was there again in Yemen for Hadi’s inauguration. The Houthis, the southern secession movement and the Islamists all rightfully boycotted this sham election. Two years later, the Houthis would launch an offensive from the mountains towards the capital Sanaa and capture the capital very quickly after the collapse of the government forces. The Houthis then absorbed the bulk of the Yemeni Army and essentially became the new government itself, they’re not an armed group anymore, but the Yemeni state itself. When did the Houthis become a real “Shia” force and a part of the Axis of Resistance? Good question. The founding principles of the Believing Youth were explicitly Khomeinist, in response to the gradual Sunnification of the Zaydi Shia Yemenis after the final collapse of the Zaydi Imamate in the 1960s. There’s no proof of direct Iranian involvement in the founding of the group, nor any proof of direct support until the explosion of the conflict after the Arab Spring. Shiaism itself evolved with the absorption of the Houthis into the wider Shia umbrella, as it followed a similar previous step with the absorption of Assad’s Alawite faith into a wider Twelver-adjacent umbrella. The Houthis aren’t Hezbollah, where the founding itself was influenced directly by Iran, but they became closer and closer to Iran as their war with Saudi Arabia started in 2015. Just like the Iraq-Iran War became the origin story of all of the heroes of the new pan-Shia ideology, the Houthi victory in the war against Saudi Arabia and the Arab Alliance became the mythological origin of the first “pan-Shia” generation of Yemen. One such hero is Saleh Al Sammad, the first president of Yemen under Houthi rule, who was killed in a Saudi drone strike back in 2018. He received the Khomeinist martyr treatment, which was a first in Yemen. Shia-style mourning ceremonies have entered the Yemeni mainstream, and celebration of the Prophet’s birthday is now a big day in Yemen, in a clear departure from the hardline Sunni position that forbids that. The Houthis, or Ansarallah as they should be called, are now a fully integrated member of the pan-Shia movement despite not having a direct line back to Khomeini or the Al Sadr family.

We travel to Iraq again now. In 2003, something called the Iraq War, and the American Occupation happens. The Americans basically allow anyone that hates Saddam on their team, so the team that takes over the Iraqi state post-Saddam is a very dysfunctional one where Communists, Khomeinists, Kurdish nationalists, Sunni Muslim Brotherhood members, Liberal CIA assets, and random minority representants were supposed to pretend to play politics while the Americans were robbing the country. There was one crucial group that the Americans missed while building the political playhouse. That group was the Sadrists under the leadership of Muqtada Al Sadr, son of Muhammed Sadiq Al Sadr. The Sadrists split in two sometime in the late 90s, but no one had noticed that under the media suppression in Saddam’s Iraq and the general American disinterest in Iraqi attitudes while they were planning to invade Iraq. One group of Sadrists stayed in the Dawa Party and adopted more Khomeinist and pan-Shia ideas, while poorer Sadrists under Muqtada’s leadership from the slums were more into nationalist and isolationist policies within Iraq’s border. Muqtada’s group would later be called the Sadrist Movement and its military wing, the Mahdi Army, would become the main player in the Iraqi Insurgency against the American occupation and later in the sectarian civil war phase of the occupation. Muqtada’s eccentric behaviour continues to this day and the Sadrists still get themselves into wacky situations, as the group slowly morphs into a cult that finds itself on the fringes of Shiaism itself, but that’s an effortpost for another day. The Iraqi state found itself under pan-Shia Dawa Party rule from 2005 to 2018, but nothing formative happened on a state level, mostly due to the failure of the American occupation and the grave incompetence of the new cast in Iraq. The most notable change during that period was that Iran was slowly becoming the main foreign player in Iraq, after several missteps by the US and their Arab allies. The war against ISIS is when large sections of Iraqi Shia society were absorbed into the Iranian pan-Shia network with the creation of the Hashd Al Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units, or PMU for short). The PMU was essentially Iraq’s own Hezbollah, an explicitly pan-Shia organization that was created with a clear religious background. The creation of the PMU itself came after a ruling from Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani, who is the current Grand Marja of the faith. He issued a ruling that called for global Shia jihad against ISIS after the collapse of the Iraqi Army and the fall of large cities such as Mosul, Fallujah and Tikrit into ISIS hands. Iranian government support through the IRGC was open and direct, with PMU head Abu Mahdi Al Muhandis and IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani being on the frontlines together and forming a shared war room. The pan-Shia framework of open commemoration of martyrs with clear religious messaging was fully imported to Iraq and became the dominant ideological marker in the Shia south of Iraq. I remember visiting Baghdad with my wife sometime before Covid and literally every single street in the capital had some pictures of martyrs.

cont.

Our beloved mayor has been indicted for taking bribes from Turkish officials. 2024 is such a wild timeline. Adams is a piece of shit, basically his entire staff has already resigned because the FBI kept raiding their homes, and he's still pledging not to resign. Pretty hilarious stuff.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams was indicted Thursday on charges that he took illegal campaign contributions and bribes from foreign nationals, including lavish overseas trips, in exchange for favors that included helping Turkish officials bypass a fire inspection for a new diplomatic tower in the city.

Adams, a Democrat and former police captain, faces conspiracy, wire fraud and bribery charges in a five-count indictment outlining a decade-long trail of corruption that began when he served as an elected official in Brooklyn and continued through his mayoral administration.

From: https://apnews.com/article/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-indictment-fbi-5aad135d1808cb9d049fccd74604e5d4

Krauts itching to have another Kristallnacht:
https://xcancel.com/derJamesJackson/status/1839296960941142368

https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/israel-war-lebanon-what-arms-hezbollah-have

A detail-light breakdown of the main equipment being used right now (drones, rockets, short and medium range missiles, and ballistic missiles). When thinking about the ranges, keep in mind the current depth Hezbollah seems to be attacking is roughly up to 80 km from the border, and “israeli” censorship begins at Haifa, roughly 80 km from the border. This depth is Hezbollah’s escalation ladder. Incredibly, they also seem to have found a Western military professor with eyes, who comments “…the Hezbollah threat [is] one that Israel cannot destroy militarily.”

https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/three-carriers-simultaneously-china

A description of PLAN deployments in its own waters. The ocean surface isn’t the only thing getting hotter in the East Pacific. For those who don’t like ship details, it’s worth noting that Kuznetsov class carriers are really missile cruisers with a flight deck. The titular Russian vessel has anti-air, anti-missile, and anti-submarine defenses as well as 12 anti-ship cruise missiles and 24 8-missile Kinzhal batteries. The USamerican Nimitz class super carrier (which admittedly has a larger flight deck) has anti-air and anti-missile batteries, and no offensive armaments. Presumably, the Chinese have their own missile systems. There is one US carrier group asea in the Pacific, and i think it’s leaving through the Straits of Malacca. Always a good time to drill and train your ships when the enemy isn’t there.

https://www.labornotes.org/2024/09/strike-threat-wins-boarding-and-retro-pay-american-airlines

A little positive news about successful labor action. Every time i’ve been to LAX since 2021 or so, there has been a billboard about labor action on Howard Hughes (the main drag that we must sit in traffic before entering the airport where we sit in traffic). Covid kind of ravaged them, but there seems to be more and more airline related labor action. While the pilots, flight attendants, and transit workers are not necessarily radical unions, every win for labor lets the snowball roll forward. The reputation shift of unions is not because of messaging, it’s because of results. Good to get in the last hits before Trump or Harris guts the NLRB (which is doing pretty good under this admin, exceptionally critical support with an eye to past betrayals).

When a brutal fascist regime is waging a war of terror against civilians, you think of where your sympathies lie.

So has Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Denmark's controversial foreign minister, who gave this statement to government broadcaster DR on September 26th 2024:

"I can certainly tell the difference between these countries. I know where my sympathy intuitively lies. I know which countries are democracies and which are not. But that doesn’t change the fact that, in the end, everyone has a responsibility to ensure this doesn’t spiral completely out of control."

The statement is an example of democracy washing where the alleged democratic nature of the illegal zionist entity is used to justify their atrocities and shift blame to the victims.

Journalists from a free and independent news outlet might have asked him follow-up questions such as:

Can an apartheid state be democratic?
Can a state be democratic when a majority of the people it governs is denied the vote?
How can war crimes be justified by the perpetrator's system of government?
Are the lives of civilians living under an allegedly "undemocratic" form of government worth less than those of people living under presumably "democratic" regimes?

News alert from NRK (Norwegian state media), published a few minutes ago:

Norwegian in [pager explosion] case is wanted internationally

The Norwegian [Rinson Jose] who is connected to the sale of exploding pagers in Lebanon was yesterday officially reported missing. On Thursday, Kripos [The National Criminal Investigation Service] issued an international wanted notice for the person, the police said.

On Monday, NRK could report that the Norwegian was still not back at work. The employer said they were going to have a meeting with the police to report him missing.

Apparently no one, including his friends and family, has heard from him since the first terror attack in Lebanon. Rinson got on a plane for a business trip to Boston the day of the attack, but never checked into his hotel or showed up at the conference he was there to attend. All traces of him ends in the U.S.

Friends and family claim they had no knowledge of the firm (Norta Global) he was running in Bulgaria. Rinson's social media profiles only shows him running a company called NortaLink, which is based in Norway. His profile also shows up on Founders Nation, a website that aims to connect Israeli entrepreneurs and co-founders.

China publicly test launches ICBM for the first time in decades

spoiler

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gl843l90zo

China's long-range missile test sparks concerns

China says it carried out a rare test-firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) into international waters, sparking protests from neighbouring countries.

The launch on Wednesday – its first in more than 40 years - was “routine” and not aimed at any country or target, according to Beijing. Chinese media reported the government also gave “relevant countries” notice.

But Japan said it had not received a warning and expressed concerns, along with Australia and New Zealand.

The launch contributes to tensions across the Indo-Pacific region, with analysts saying it highlights China's increased long-range nuclear capabilities.

The US warned last year that China has built up its nuclear arsenal as part of a defence upgrade. An intercontinental ballistic missile can travel more 5,500km - putting China within striking range of the US mainland and Hawaii.

But Beijing’s arsenal is still estimated at less than a fifth of the size of the US's and Russia’s, and China has long maintained that its nuclear maintainance is only about deterrence.

On Wednesday, Beijing announced that the long-range missile was fired at 08:44 local time (04:44 GMT). It carried a dummy warhead and landed in the designated area - believed to be in the South Pacific.

Beijing's defence ministry added the test launch was "routine" and part of its "annual training".

But analysts said China was last known to have test-fired an ICBM internationally in the 1980s. Typically, it tests internally - having previously fired ICBMs west into the Taklamakan Desert in the Xinjiang region.

“This sort of testing is not unusual for other countries, including the United States, but is for China,” nuclear missile analyst Ankit Panda told the BBC.

China’s “ongoing nuclear modernisation” already has resulted in substantial changes, he said. This launch now appears to also show a change in its approach.

It has sparked immediate reaction from other countries. Japan said it had received “no notice” and expressed “serious concern” about Beijing’s military build-up.

Meanwhile, Australia said the action was "destabilising and raises the risk of miscalculation in the region” and that it had sought “an explanation” from Beijing. New Zealand called it “an unwelcome and concerning development”.

Mr Panda said he doesn't believe China’s actions were primarily designed to send a political message - “but no doubt this will be a stark reminder to the region and to the US that nuclear dynamics in Asia are quickly changing”.

Other analysts went further, saying it was another wake-up call for the US and its allies in the region.

“To Washington, the message is that direct intervention in a conflict across the Taiwan Strait would involve the American homeland being vulnerable to attack,” said Leif-Eric Easley, an international relations professor at Ewha Women's University in South Korea.

For US allies in Asia, the “provocative test… demonstrates China’s capabilities to fight on multiple fronts simultaneously," he added.

"Timing is everything," Drew Thompson, a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, wrote on X.

"[China's] statement claims the launch does not target any country, but there are high-levels of tension between China and Japan, Philippines, and of course perpetual tension with Taiwan."

While the relationship between Beijing and Washington has improved in the past year, China's increasing assertiveness in the region remains a sticking point. Tensions have ramped up between China and the Philippines as their ships have repeatedly collided in disputed waters.

Last month, Japan scrambled fighter jets after it accused a Chinese spy plane of breaching its air space, a move that it called "utterly unacceptable".

Beijing's relationship with self-governed Taiwan is another source of strain.

Taiwan's defence ministry said earlier on Wednesday that China had been carrying out "intensive" missile firing and other drills recently. The same statement noted that it detected 23 Chinese military aircraft operating around Taiwan on "long-range missions".

Beijing routinely sends ships and aircraft into Taiwanese waters and airspace, called a "greyzone warfare" tactic meant to normalise the incursions.

In July, China suspended its nuclear arms control talks with Washington, in retaliation for the US's continued arms sales to Taiwan.

The US last year warned of China's nuclear modernisation although its numbers still far short of Washington's. The Pentagon estimated that China has more than 500 operational nuclear warheads in its arsenal, of which approximately 350 are ICBMs.

The report projected that China will reach over 1,000 warheads by 2030; the US and Russia each say they possess more than 5,000 warheads.

There also have been conflicts around the Chinese military’s Rocket Force, the elite unit managing its nuclear arsenal. An aggressive anti-corruption campaign led to the firing of two of its leaders last year.

The Danish military has lost the ability to learn from Ukraine

The Danish military currently lacks the capacity to systematically follow and learn from the war in Ukraine. This is according to a major from the military's development and planning staff, as stated in a September 26th article by DR (Danish state media). The piece, which also seems to serve as a promotional platform for drones, highlights a gap in the military’s ability to adapt lessons from the conflict.

No specific personnel have been assigned to gather insights from the war and apply them to the Danish armed forces. The major expresses the concern bluntly: "If we aren’t evolving, we’ll fall behind when the day comes that we’re the ones who have to stop Russia somewhere."

An analyst from the Danish Defense Academy adds that while many in the military are following the war closely, they do so in their free time without any coordinated institutional effort.

The major attributes this failure to manpower shortages, with other tasks taking priority. He also points out that the military’s development wing was gutted by politicians in the 2018-2023 defense agreement, and rebuilding that capability will take years.

An example is given, courtesy of Danish drone manufacturers. They have amassed substantial practical experience and made lots of money by supplying drone equipment to Ukraine. Despite this, the Danish army has yet to buy any of these drones for itself, causing the Danish military to be behind on modern warfare as well as Danish drone manufacturers to be unhappy.

Haven't had time to check in on the video front much today but a cursory glance suggests very little has changed compared to yesterday. Regular sirens everywhere in the country, some videos of missiles but not as much as day one, etc etc.

This is the new normal.

Biden found another $8 billion between the couch cushions to toss into the burn pit that is ukkkraine

Republicans are mad at Ukraine supporting dems and writing angry letters to zelensky

Eilat Port attacked last night by drone, allegedly iraqi

Impact:

https://tankie.tube/w/dvDEK2c9TA4LQntD4FCcKA

Smoke aftermath:

https://tankie.tube/w/e2a1nYtf5qHS4sAaf2PkMV

Hamas ambush column of Merkava tanks and bulldozers

https://tankie.tube/w/mT7jpZt5z4RkS183XbbYTZ

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/09/indian-foreign-minister-throws-cold-water-on-the-idea-of-a-brics-currency.html

Article on Indian reluctance and challenge associated with a BRICS currency, citing comments by the Indian foreign affairs minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

“People have raised the issue that should there be a Brics currency. But, for countries to have a common currency, you need enormous alignment of their very fundamental fiscal policies, monetary policies, economic policies… And when you look at Brics’s standards, I think we’ve to be realistic about the extent of alignment among members.”

Some Safed impacts (a lot if you listen to sound)

https://tankie.tube/w/6yweqvBHp1n658rPPLXoQZ

Algeria Moroccan news

Algeria: Visa Requirement for All Foreign Nationals with Moroccan Passports
The Algerian government has announced the immediate reinstatement of entry visa requirements for all foreign nationals holding Moroccan passports, as indicated in a communiqué from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad on Thursday.

The statement noted that Algeria, “guided by the values of solidarity inherent in the human and familial ties that unite the two brotherly peoples of Algeria and Morocco, had refrained from questioning the freedom of movement between individuals when it decided to sever diplomatic relations with Morocco in August 2021.”

“Regrettably, the Kingdom of Morocco has taken advantage of the visa exemption regime to engage in various actions that threaten Algeria’s stability and national security. These include the large-scale organization of networks involved in organized crime, drug trafficking, human trafficking, smuggling, illegal immigration, and espionage activities. Furthermore, agents of Zionist intelligence holding Moroccan passports have been deployed to gain unrestricted access to our national territory. Such actions present a direct threat to our country’s national security and necessitate stringent control over all entry and residence points within the nation,” the communiqué asserted.

“The Kingdom of Morocco is solely responsible for the current deterioration of bilateral relations due to its hostile actions toward Algeria,” concluded the statement.

source: https://al24news.com/en/algeria-visa-requirement-for-all-foreign-nationals-with-moroccan-passports/

Video of DPRK trash balloon landing in occupied Korea

https://tankie.tube/w/s4aZMeyr8rnPZVQ5XYBorA

Mexico BFTO Spain's king from Claudia's inaguration for not acknowledging their colonial oppressive past.

Iranian Press TV releases a video detailing Hezbollah’s long-range precision missiles

https://tankie.tube/w/cjKSdDEbWVyz161YWCqifU

Interesting video, Ukraine, not sure which side. Looks like a thermite grenade being flown around by a drone above enemy positions to rain down thermite on the position.

https://tankie.tube/w/iyhAeBTngvMTxqeEMnuFXa

a banger of an article in the paper of the smaller finnish communist party (ML), concerning genocide and how finland liked to partake and still does tbh translation below

The policies of the Finnish occupation regime in Karelia during the Second World War are again being discussed in the public eye in the context of a trial in the Republic of Karelia in Petrozavodsk. Finland is accused of war crimes and genocide against the Karelian population.

The events in Karelia are a complex and long story that cannot be honoured in a single article. I recommend to everyone Tomi Mäkinen's series of articles published in Työkansan Sanomat on Itä-Karjalan miehitys ja suomalaisten perustamat keskitysleirit 1941–44 (the occupation of East Karelia and the concentration camps set up by the Finns), and Marja-Leena Mikkola's book Menetetty lapsuus (Lost Childhood), on which the series of articles is based.

Mäkinen's series of articles and Mikkola's book describe Finnish actions from the perspective of Karelian and Karelian Russian survivors. In addition, several skilled writers have published articles on fascism and Finnish fascism in Työkansan Sanomat and on the Ktp website.

In short, the Finns who invaded Soviet Karelia in the Continuation War, inspired by the Greater Finland ideology, finnic tribalism and the practices of their allies in Nazi Germany, set up concentration camps where ethnic cleansing was carried out.

The Finns distinguished between the 'non-ethnic', i.e. Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Poles, Tatars and Latvians, and what they considered 'Finns', i.e. ethnic Karelians, Vepsians, Ingrians, Estonians and Mordvians, and sought to turn the ''Finnic'' into Finns.

All those in the camps experienced extreme physical, mental and cultural oppression. Thousands of men, women and children died from forced labour, starvation and punishments.

There is no doubt that Russia could or would use this trial for anti-Finnish propaganda today. The regime in capitalist Russia does not itself have a particular devotion to the rights of minorities. However, this fact should not justify the way in which genocide accusations are handled in Finland. Karelians have the right at any time to bring past events to light and demand accountability from Finland.

The Finnish media's response to the accusations has been to play down the events of the Continuation War, to accuse those involved of being Russian propagandists and to complain about unfair and dishonest historical research which 'claims that Finland was a fascist country that committed genocide'.

Unfortunately, in the light of Finnish historiography, this is not surprising. Finland has always responded to criticism of the state's actions from independence until the end of the Second World War with a strong defensive stance.

The Finnish government has been "forced" to ban political parties, imprison, torture and kill political opponents. The state "accidentally" had links with criminal fascist groups. Finland "had a difficult choice" between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Finland " was forced " to choose the Nazis. And even when they set up concentration camps, the Finns did it for a reason more noble than the other genocidaires. And all the deaths were accidents.

Such whining is all over the history books of our country. All the Finnish rulers from the beginning to the end are just blue-eyed, silly little children who do nothing wrong, but at the same time all the evil is done in self-defence. Refusing to accept responsibility is an extremely dangerous act, both for our past and for our future.

In the current situation, in which the state is again preparing itself for war, such a view of history and cognitive dissonance tends to be forgotten as if by magic. However, this is a time when fascism, war crimes and genocide should be better known and understood.

No matter what the imperialists want, this current war will end one day, and then we will be left wondering how thousands more have died, how the war feels so absurd again.

Genocidal nationalism in our culture is not just about ourselves and our own actions. The tradition of keeping quiet and following the bigger picture was seen again when Finland abstained in October 2023 in the UN vote on the Gaza ceasefire. This vote in Finland was preceded by a barrage of news reports calling Palestinians and pro-Palestinians terrorists and talking about Israeli self-defence.

Here are all the articles that are referenced in the article. i will not translate these but https://www.deepl.com/en/translator is decent with finnish, just work around the words a bit if they seems wonky

Israel rejects french USA ceasefire deal. Israel is off the rails. Imperialists cant control it anymore.

By the guardian:

"Benjamin Netanyahu rules out US-French ceasefire proposal

Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has ruled out a ceasefire proposal between Israel and Hezbollah, saying “The news about a ceasefire – not true. This is an American-French proposal, to which the prime minister did not even respond.”

It said, instead, that “the prime minister instructed the IDF to continue the fighting with full force”. Over 600 people have been killed and thousands wounded in Lebanon since Israel began an intense bombing campaign on Monday.

Israel’s foreign minister Israel Katz joined the prime minister in ruling out Israel accepting a US-French proposed 21-day ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

In a message posted to social media, Katz said: “There will be no ceasefire in the north. We will continue to fight against the terrorist organization Hezbollah with all our might until victory and the safe return of the residents of the north to their homes.”

About 60,000 Israelis have fled their homes in northern Israel due to continual fighting between Israel, Hezbollah and other anti-Israeli forces based in Lebanon. On the Lebanese side of the UN-drawn blue line that separates the two countries, tens of thousands of Lebanese have also been internally displaced.

Earlier Israel’s hardline far-right finance minister, who has previously described it as his life’s mission to thwart the creation of a Palestinian state, also rejected the idea of a ceasefire. Bezalel Smotrich said “The campaign in the north should end in one scenario – crushing Hezbollah.”

Israel’s military claimed that overnight it struck “approximately 75 terror targets belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organisation” in Beqaa and in southern Lebanon. Authorities in Lebanon reported at least four more people killed this morning, and that 23 Syrians, mostly women and children, were killed by an Israeli strike on Younine in Lebanon during the night.

The US and France had called for a temporary ceasefire to make way for broader negotiations. The joint statement issued by US president Joe Biden and French counterpart Emmanuel Macron said: “It is time for a settlement on the Israel-Lebanon border that ensures safety and security to enable civilians to return to their homes. The exchange of fire since October 7th, and in particular over the past two weeks, threatens a much broader conflict, and harm to civilians.”

The Jerusalem Post earlier reported that community leaders of northern Israel are unhappy with the prospect of a ceasefire, with one regional council’s chairman saying “There is a time for negotiations, this is not the time. This is a time for war.” "

Zionists are complaining that they can no longer be Nazis in South African universities, namely in Cape Town - Haaretz (paywalled btw, PIGPOOPBALLS )

In related matters, South Africa has also apparently more-or-less resolved its loadshedding woes by achieving nuclear fusion from Zionist tears.

Me:

In completely unremarkable news in finland, the pillars of the parliament house where painted red by climate activists this is incredibly funny and the boomers are breaking down in tears shidding farting and cuming all over everywhere. i-cant

on an absolutely unrelated note this is a statement by our smaller ML communist party concerning the next years state budget

translated

The bourgeois government's budget continues to flounder

The bourgeois government led by the Coalition Party and the True Finns has approved next year's state budget. In it, the government continues its policy of cutting and diminishing the economy, with all working people paying the price.

In September, the government will submit its budget proposal to Parliament, which will approve it at the end of December. Parliament would have a chance to reject the worst of the whiplashes, but that will not happen under right-wing rule.

The draft budget is worth around €88 billion, with a deficit of more than €12 billion. It will be covered by taking on more government debt.

Taxation, direct and indirect, will be increased across the board. The biggest tax increases will come from municipal taxes, with half of the municipalities already raising their taxes.

More money will go to the army, NATO, the police and the shooting ranges - the whole machinery of violence. The rising costs of militarism in recent years will continue next year.

The army will spend €6.5 billion next year, an increase of half a billion on this year. Just two elections ago, the corresponding expenditure was less than 3 billion

The new cost of NATO is almost €100 million. That's an increase of 67 million on this year.

Youth org of Green Party Germany: The complete leadership council (10 people) quit job and party.

Link to the resignation letter (CW: reddit)

They say they have been in opposition to the party leadership/majority on various issues, like the 100 bn "special fund" for the Bundeswehr, that new brown coal mine, and when they took away the rights of asylum seekers.

Seems like they're planning on creating a new radlib organization.

Institute for the Study of War, an imperialist think thank wrote:

Iran, Hezbollah, and the rest of the Axis of Resistance appear to be preparing for an Israeli ground operation into Lebanon. The IDF has observed around 40,000 Iranian-backed Iraqi, Syrian, and Houthi militants concentrate around the Syrian border with the Golan Heights, according to Israeli media. It is unclear why and when the Axis of Resistance deployed these militants or whether they were already in the area.

I remember reading an article from an Iranian outlet that Iran's response to Haniyeh assassination isn't necessarily aerial and it could be on the ground like opening a new front in Syria. Now I see what happened.

Since people have been talking about nukes lately, if the IOF dropped a tactical nuke in southern Lebanon, how would people conclusively proof that a tactical nuke was actually dropped assuming that:

The Zionist entity lies about dropping the tactical nuke with a shit-eating grin
The US covers up the tactical nuke by falsifying radiation readings from their satellites
The US accuses the radiation readings picked up by Russian/Chinese/Iranian satellites of Russian/Chinese/Iranian disinformation

I guess my question is how obvious would it be that a tactical nuke was dropped instead of just a really large conventional bomb assuming you couldn't rely on detecting radiation from the crater?

In 2018, scientists confirmed the Gulf of Oman contains one of the world's largest marine dead zones, where the ocean contains little or no oxygen and marine wildlife cannot exist. The dead zone encompasses nearly the entire 165,000-square-kilometre (63,700 sq mi) Gulf of Oman and equivalent to the size of Florida, United States of America. The cause is a combination of increased ocean warming and increased runoff of nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizers.

I’m moving and I found the copy of Max Blumenthal's Management of Savagery which I never got around to reading.

Do I toss it because he’s gone full crank or kept it to eventually read it because the content is still okay?

NYC Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on corruption charges: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/25/nyregion/eric-adams-indicted-corruption#eric-adams-indicted

1000 deaths upon any US soldier setting foot in Israel to take part in the massacre. A bullet from a ghoul to your dome is too merciful for you, but I'll settle for it.

Biden calls for end to Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan conflicts in farewell speech to UN General Assembly

badeline-scream THEN STOP FUELING THE WARS JACKASS

UN Speech Highlights:

Gustavo Petro, Colombia President

"In this room, a president's ability to communicate depends on the number of dollars in his budget, the number of warplanes he has (..) That’s why we're not heard when we vote to stop the genocide in Gaza..”

“When Gaza dies, all of humanity will die.” “It turns out that God's people were not the people of Israel.”

Lula da Silva, Brazil President

“It’s unjustified to keep Cuba on a unilateral list of states that supposedly promote terrorism and impose unilateral coercive measures that unduly penalize the most vulnerable populations."

Xiomara Castro, Honduras President

“Today I'm threatened by the same forces of capital that 15 years ago carried out a coup against President Manuel Zelaya (Her Husband). They threaten me because I have promoted structural changes in the economic model."

She called for a ceasefire in Lebanon before the United Nations. And also demands an end to the unjust blockades against Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela and demands that the United States remove Cuba from the list of ‘State Sponsors of Terrorism’.

Israeli fighter jets forced to flee Lebanon airspace: Hezbollah

Hezbollah says its air defence units engaged and successfully forced two Israeli aircraft to leave Lebanese airspace “using appropriate weapons” near the Lebanese towns of Hula and Meiss el-Jabal.

Fighters also targeted the Kiryat Motzkin settlement with a barrage of rockets and carried out a second round of strikes with Fadi-1 missiles.

Israel has launched waves of deadly air strikes on Lebanon since Monday, killing nearly 700 people. The international community has warned against Israeli attacks on Lebanon as they raise the spectre of spreading the Gaza war regionally.

Hey, please read the first two parts of my effortpost on the evolution of the modern pan-shia ideology if you haven't done that already. Part three coming probably tomorrow, but I'm on 5k words in total already and I haven't even mentioned Syria and Bahrain in the last part, so this became a bit larger than expected lmao.

Part One

Part Two, it gets continued in the first comment

you're getting the third and probably final part tomorrow, be patient

Iraqi resistance drone attack hits Israel’s Eilat port

Rapid Fuckification - Hurricane HELLene expected to DOMINATE the fascist state of Florida as a cat 3-4 storm.

timmy-pray Humiliate Der Santis.

Brazilian President Lula da Silva and Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuse Israel's prime minister of genocide. They also say that the UN urgently needs to be reformed.

Both said how can the UN have the strength to create a country like Israel, but not have the same strength to create a Palestinian state. Lula da Silva added that Benjamin Netanyahu does not respect the UN, or any law. That he is a criminal and a genocider.

Gustavo Petro and Lula da Silva believe that the UN Security Council should be tougher on Israel and force an immediate ceasefire. They also accused European countries and the United States of spending money on wars in Ukraine and Israel, but not sending any aid to Latin American, African and Asian countries suffering from climate change. This was agreed decades ago but has never been fulfilled.

Lebanon strikes are preparation for ground incursion, Israel army chief tells troops

In case you didn't know already, it's war, folks. Israel must lose.

Defeated in Gaza, Israel can't repair myth of invincibility with barbarism in Lebanon: Pezeshkian

Some more footage from the Donbass/Kursk fronts.

Russian marines used drone-distributed leaflets to help Ukrainian soldiers surrender: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--Three-AFU-servicemen-surrender-to-Russian-marines!:5

Russian thermobaric ODAB-1500 bomb destroyed Kiev regime military base near Kupyansk, in Kharkov oblast: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Bombing_2509:1

Russian drone strike destroyed another Kiev regime armored vehicle in Kursk oblast: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/st1.mp4

“If Zelenski were smart, he would advocate diplomacy, not a military solution,” Says President Lula da Silva.

The statement came after the Ukrainian accused Brazil and China of helping Putin achieve his goals in the conflict.

He was referring to a plan to end the war announced by Brasilia and Beijing in May, after a meeting between Wang Yi, the Chinese foreign minister, and Celso Amorim, Lula's adviser on international affairs. “What he [Zelenski] is failing to do is make peace. We're not proposing to make peace for them, we're pointing out to them that only peace will ensure that Ukraine survives as a sovereign country, and that Russia survives,” said Lula during a press conference at the UN in New York.

“They don't have to accept China and Brazil's proposal because there is no proposal. There's a thesis that it's important to start talking.” “If he were smart, he [Zelenski] would say that the solution is diplomatic, not military. This depends on the ability to sit down and talk, to listen to the other side. And trying to reach an agreement so that the Ukrainian people can have peace in their lives. That's it.”

https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/british-intels-counter-disinfo-war

A article about how parts of the British intelligence community are seen as experts in mis- and dis-information, and how they are now exporting their experience. There is some detail about intelligence interacting with social media. The discussion is rooted in a leaked slideshow from an intelligence meeting in 2021. The exact way the author talks about the Biden admin’s Covid “censorship push” sets off my personal crank alarm, but the analysis of the leaked slideshow is not affected by this. Saying ‘counter-disinformation’ instead of propaganda might be a rehash of changing the ‘department of war’ to ‘defense’. Sir Kid Starver and many of his Red Tory compatriots are actual, factual MI6 assets. Czechoslovakian Internal Ministry documents from the Cold War had a whole file on the then-Mr. Starver. It’s also known that the British are more gung-ho about Ukraine than the US, and also that the Ukraine project was CIA before it was NATO. You can almost see the shades of our future where a need for internal security and countering Russian influence can only be entrusted to apolitical, non-partisan intelligence experts. See also the USAF intelligence general sending out an email requiring all federal and state candidates to agree to uphold election integrity as decided by the intelligence community.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/japan-says-it-received-no-advance-notice-of-chinas-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-launch/3340804

A short article about Japan rattling sabers over the PLA testing an ICBM. The article is from the Anadolu Agency, a news site from Türkiye with a logo that looks exactly like American Airlines. It’s Turkish bourgeois media, but Türkiye is trying to join BRICS+, so we might see reporting contrary to Western spin. Even if China informed every possible party and followed international law, the more important fact is that Japan is rapidly rearming under US encouragement (and, i believe, some popular discontent with militarizing). Every statement made now is building up a raft of ‘provocations’ and ‘lines crossed’ and ‘aggression’ for whenever the USA decides it wants a war in East Asia. See also the Philippines ‘accidentally’ having Typhoon missiles left in their country after exercises with the USA.

Parasocial hour: it seems that Chappell roam has considered democrats part of the “left” instead of calling them out as the conservatives they are. Hate to see it

Macron: “there cannot and must not be a war in Lebanon”. - Telesur Spanish

Article (Translated)

“We have to build a fairer and more effective international order,” said French President Emmanuel Macron in his address to the United Nations General Assembly.

He called for a cessation of hostilities, while equating the Israeli aggressions that left hundreds dead, including children and women, with the attacks against military targets by the Lebanese resistance.

French President Emmanuel Macron used his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday to urge Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah to stop hostilities on the border between the two countries.

The president made no mention of the multiple indiscriminate killings from air strikes, although he did “firmly” call on Israel to stop the escalation in Lebanon.

At the same time, he stressed the importance of respecting the “blue line”, the border line drawn by the UN between Israel and Lebanon, at a time when the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) chiefs told the local press that they are prepared to carry out a land invasion in southern Lebanon.

In this regard, Macron warned that an extension of military operations on Lebanese territory would have serious consequences. “There cannot and must not be a war in Lebanon,” the president affirmed, stressing that the situation in Gaza has already generated too many civilian casualties.

“The war in Gaza has gone on too long, and there is no justification for the tens of thousands of Palestinian civilian casualties,” he stressed.

The president also called for a new phase in Gaza, focused on the cessation of hostilities, the return of humanitarian aid and the protection of the civilian population. However, France's condemnation of the Israeli regime has, for the time being, been no more than declarative.

Nevertheless, Macron noted that his country is ready to participate in any initiative that can save lives and ensure the safety of those involved.

On the other hand, Macron advocated a reform in the UN Security Council, seeking to limit the use of the veto in cases of mass crimes.

Pakistan be cucked.

IMF approves $7bn funding agreement for Pakistan

There have been some updates on the Elon Musk vs. Brazil dispute. Elon basically took a massive L but he refused to admit it. Basically he agreed to make all the stuff the Brazilian Supreme Court asked, and agreed to shut the fuck up (Elon is such a coward loser, that he would behind the scenes say he is sorry, but publicly would be like "I am cool and fuck eveyone else!". Because he has a huge ego, he probably is afraid of losing "credit" with the Bazinga chuds that like him).

But he also plans on posting on twitter that he agreeing to ban a bunch of Brazilian neo-nazis and paying his debt with Brazil is actually a W and totally not a big L, because that way people in Brazil will have free speech again (which just means being able to access Twitter).

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/25/asia/china-icbm-test-pacific-ocean-intl-hnk/index.html

China is testing intercontinental missiles for the first time in a long time, nothing to see here, folks.

Xi calls for accelerating progress in China's space endeavors

Ancap Update:

Milei sees polls showing Argentine support beginning to fall. A poll showed that support for the government fell by almost 15% in September, the biggest drop during his nine months in office.

Argentine President Javier Milei, who has managed to maintain his popularity despite painful spending cuts since taking office at the end of last year, is seeing his support begin to wane, according to the latest polls.

This represents a major challenge for economic reforms.. A Torcuato Di Tella University poll last Monday (23) showed that support for Milei's once positive government fell by almost 15% in September, the biggest drop during his nine months in office.

Data from polling company Poliarquía showed a 7% drop in the month. According to a survey by the Proyeccion consultancy, positive opinions of Milei's government fell to 44.8% and negative opinions rose to 50.7%. Another survey by CB Consultora showed a drop in support.

The data highlights a major challenge for Milei. A fiery economist and former journalist, he has so far managed to impose tough austerity measures while keeping voters on his side, avoiding major street protests despite the recession and rising poverty.

In September, Milei blocked planned increases to pension payments initially approved by Congress and presented an austere budget for 2025. Meanwhile, gas, water and electricity costs have risen for many citizens after state subsidies were withdrawn.

Milei's deep cuts won support from investors and the markets, seen by many as necessary after years of fiscal deficits, rising inflation and economic instability. But they have hit economic activity, jobs and increased poverty.

Wildfires in Ecuador’s Capital Force Dozens of Families to Evacuate - Telesur English

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The fire started in a rural area and quickly spread across different fronts, reaching the urban core of Quito.

At least two firefighters have been injured, and more than one hundred families have been evacuated from their homes due to the fires that broke out on Tuesday afternoon in Quito, the capital of Ecuador. Authorities do not believe they will be able to extinguish the fires before Wednesday.

In a joint press conference with provincial and national authorities, Quito Mayor Pabel Muñoz explained that the shelter system of the San José Patronage has been activated to assist the evacuated families.

The evacuation was carried out as a precaution since, so far, there have been few impacts on homes and infrastructure. No fatalities have been reported.

The fire started in a rural area and quickly spread across different fronts, reaching the urban core of the Ecuadorian capital and extending to the Metropolitan Park. Around 215 members of the Quito Fire Department are battling the flames, Muñoz said, adding that 440 people have been mobilized in various emergency zones.

The National Police have deployed over 1,600 officers, and the Armed Forces have sent around 180 soldiers, while the Ecuadorian Air Force (FAE) has ordered two helicopters to join the fire-fighting efforts, although they will not be operational until Wednesday morning.

Between five and seven helicopters will be involved in water-dumping operations over the flames, Muñoz said, urging citizens to avoid driving their vehicles as much as possible to facilitate the movement of emergency services.

Paola Pabon, prefect of the Pichincha province, whose capital is Quito, assured that the local government’s machinery, as well as health, veterinary, and social assistance brigades and units, will be at the service of the Municipality during this emergency. A series of similar fires in Quito in recent days, apparently set deliberately, led to the arrest of two people who were placed in preventive detention.

On Tuesday, the national government suspended the electricity cuts that had been scheduled in Quito as part of the rationing measures introduced last week, due to the severe drought that has hindered the normal operation of the country’s main hydroelectric plants.

Ecuadorian goverment collapsing. But you won't see the western media reporting on this because Noboa is a US puppet. Meanwhile they torture former VP Jorge Glas and continue their lawfare against former president Rafael Correa, while kicking out the Chinese investors from their country. Colombia stopped their export of energy to Ecuador, and I believe they still hate Peru, so no energy from Peru.

https://resistancenews.org/2024/09/24/the-exhilaration-of-first-strikes-in-lebanon-israel-repeats-the-mistakes-of-2006/

An article looking back at the last few days by the editor-in-chief of Al-Akhbar, translated by Resistance News. According to wikipedia, Al-Akhbar is a left wing, anti-zionist, leaning pro-syrian Lebanese daily newspaper. They also call it a semi-tabloid without a source, which makes me think that it reports facts that some wikipedia editor doesn’t like. So not to replace analysis with contrarianism, but i don’t feel compelled to verify further. Resistance News is a good source. The mention of Western and comprador nations trying to stir up Syrian and Lebanese groups “in an uprising to demand a ceasefire from the Resistance” is interesting, since I haven’t personally seen anything about that before now on my side of the language barrier. The latter paragraphs underscore one of the lessons of post-Vietnam military thought: the USA (and friends) have developed a theory rich and deeply analytical conception of how best to apply massive terror bombing and mechanized shock and awe against opponents without air defense. They have now taken the existence of complex theory as evidence that this must work, which is a blindness that can be exploited. Unfortunately, this blindness does not change the mass death and destruction the “Western way of war” will bring.

i have an early shift today, so i will be posting the other articles later.

#Tradle #935 5/6

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https://oec.world/en/games/tradle

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Not a real country alert. Also I fucked up by forgetting that Tradle counts these things as independent, and also by forgetting that strictly speaking you don't need to have a ressource within your own borders in order to export it.

Conversation I just had -

Me: "You support Israel invading Lebanon?"

Lib: "Yes because Hezbollah have been firing rockets at settlements for months"

Me: "And you support Ukraine?"

Lib: "Yes Ukraine should defend itself because Russia invaded."

Me: "What was Ukraine doing to Donbass before Russia invaded?"

Lib: "Nothing"

Daniel Noboa, president of Ecuador, cancels his UN agenda and returns to the country to accompany the operations to fight the forest fires.

The Ecuadorian government is classifying the forest fires affecting the country as “terrorist acts” and has announced that it will give rewards to citizens who denounce the perpetrators or accomplices of the fires.

Meanwhile, Noboa was in Miami taking pictures on a yacht with his wife, while his country burned and had no electricity.

Zelensky says he doubts Brazil and China's 'real interest' in mediating peace deal: 'They will no longer have power at our expense'

The Ukrainian president questioned Brazil and China's role in the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia during his speech at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday. He also said that Moscow was planning a coordinated invasion of Ukrainian nuclear power plants.

“You will not increase your powers at the expense of Ukraine,” he said during his speech.

Since last year, President Lula has been saying that he wants to mediate a dialog between Russia and Ukraine to end the war, including a specific peace plan.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has also expressed his willingness to mediate a peace negotiation between the two sides. At the end of April, he spoke to Zelensky by telephone for the first time since the start of the war and said that he had put forward a proposal.

The Ukrainian, however, says that he will not negotiate with Moscow as long as Vladimir Putin is Russian president, and demands an immediate ceasefire. In May this year, at a meeting with the President's special adviser for international affairs, former Brazilian Chancellor Celso Amorim, in Kiev, Zelensky said that the only possible peace plan to end the war in his country is the Ukrainian one.

Zelensky had already accused Brazil of prioritizing alliances with Russia (in reference to BRICS). Lula denied “defending Putin” and said that “I have no side, my side is peace”.

In his speech to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, the Ukrainian leader said he would not accept an “imposed peace”.

“We Ukrainians will never accept that. We will never accept that. Why would anyone in the world believe that such a brutal colonial past, which has no continuity today, could be imposed on Ukraine now?”

In his speech, Zelensky also accused Russia of planning a coordinated attack on Ukraine's nuclear power plants.

Milei accuses UN of imposing ‘socialist’ and ‘collectivist’ agenda

In his first speech at the UN’s general assembly, the president said Argentina would abandon its long-standing neutrality regarding world conflicts

In his first speech at the United Nations headquarters, Argentine President Javier Milei accused the international organization of promoting a “socialist” and “collectivist” agenda, and said the country would abandon its long tradition of neutrality regarding world conflicts.

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“The woke agenda’s collectivism and moral posturing have collided with reality and no longer have credible solutions to offer to the world’s real problems,” the president said during the UN’s 79th General Assembly.

In a speech replete with religious references, Milei said that the UN had “became a multi-tentacled leviathan, which seeks to decide not only what each nation-state should do, but also how all the world’s citizens should live.”

Milei also said the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a 17-point goal declaration adopted by all member countries that includes goals such as tackling climate change and achieving zero hunger, is “a socialist supranational government program.”

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The president also criticized the UN’s Pact for the Future, which Argentina distanced itself from on Monday, and aims for member countries to commit to action on issues including peace, poverty, climate change, and gender equality.

“We invite all nations of the free world to join us, not only in dissenting from this pact but in creating a new agenda for this noble institution: the agenda of freedom,” he said.

Milei listed alleged “mistakes and contradictions” the UN had committed, such as voting against Israel, which he called “the only country in the Middle East that upholds liberal democracy.” He also said the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns worldwide were a “crime against humanity” and said that the UN “allowed the Human Rights Council to support bloody dictatorships such as Cuba and Venezuela without the slightest reproach.”

Since taking office, Milei has aligned himself with Israel and the United States, as well as international far-right political organizations such as the Spanish Foro Madrid and the U.S.’s Conservative Political Action Conference.

("Israel" and the "United States" are also far right political organizations)

Milei also accused the UN of promoting a “toxic relationship between global governance policies and international lending agencies” and of “requiring the most impoverished countries to commit resources they do not have to programs they do not need.”

Argentina took a US$44 billion loan from the IMF in 2018, during Mauricio Macri’s government, and currently has an economic program agreed with the international lender to pay back the debt. Argentine media had previously reported that Milei was planning to meet with IMF authorities during his trip to the U.S., but the meeting did not come to fruition.

“From this day on, you should know that the Argentine Republic will abandon the historical position of neutrality that characterized us and will be at the forefront of the struggle in defense of freedom,” he said. Argentina has maintained a long tradition of neutrality regarding world conflicts, dating back to before World War II.

Okay then, I support Russian and Chinese surgical strikes to decapitate and demilitarize the anarcho capitalist entity that is "Argentina". 100% this motherfucker will announce he'll be sending troops to Lebanon to fight for "Israel". What is he even going to do, send all of our three tanks and one serviceable destroyer from the 80s?

“May God bless the Argentines and all the citizens of the world, and may the forces of heaven be with us,” he said, before ending his speech with his usual guttural roar of “long live freedom, dammit!”

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Milei arrived in the U.S. on Saturday night. During his trip, he rang the Wall Street opening bell and spoke with investors. He also met with X owner Elon Musk for the third time. After the meeting, Musk posted on X that his “companies are actively looking for ways to invest in and support Argentina.”

jagoff my-hero

Later on Tuesday, Milei will meet with Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa and the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. The president is expected to return to Argentina on Wednesday morning.

hope a ballistic missile falls where they meet.

Reupload because the first upload was only 48 seconds for some reason. Anyway it's a pretty hype video, more interesting than the 15th rocket trail in the sky video anyway.

Worth watching: Hezbollah publishes a 4 minute video of its underground missile base 'Emad 4'

https://tankie.tube/w/iLZBao4CJG39pcGntC1Sgf

FFS the futurama suicide pods are literally real now

Several arrested after woman dies in 'suicide pod'

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Police in Switzerland made multiple arrests after a woman reportedly ended her life using a so-called suicide pod, in apparently the first case of its kind.

Police in the Schaffhausen region said they arrested "several persons" on suspicion of inciting, and aiding and abetting suicide after she died reportedly by using a pod made by the company Sarco on Monday.

While assisted dying is legally protected in some circumstances in Switzerland, it is strictly regulated and the Sarco pod has encountered opposition.

Officers recovered the device and body at the scene.

Warning: Contains distressing content

The company behind the controversial pod says it can be solely operated by the person seeking to end their own life, without medical supervision.

Police said it was used on Monday at a forest hut in the Merishausen area, a sparsely populated part of Switzerland on the German border.

Police said they were tipped off by a law firm about a suicide involving the device. The number of people arrested and their identities were not disclosed. The deceased also was not named.

In July, a pro-assisted dying group, which promotes the Sarco device, said it anticipated that it would be used for the first time this year.

Advocates say it provides an option not reliant on drugs or doctors, and that it expands access to euthanasia as the portable device can be 3D-printed and assembled at home.

However, there also has been opposition in Switzerland, despite the country having some of the world's most protective laws surrounding assisted dying.

Critics fear the device's modern design glamorises suicide and the fact that it can be operated without medical oversight is concerning.

Assisted dying is illegal in the UK and in most other European countries, but thousands have travelled to Switzerland over the years to end their own lives.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8144v9pveo

On september 23rd Danish government broadcaster DR reported the results of a poll showing that less than half of the population have confidence that politicians are able to make sound decisions before sending Danish soldiers to war. A majority agreed that the Danish military should be tasked with defending the territory of Denmark as well as that of fellow NATO protectorates. This is a much less bellicose stance than what the media and politicians would normally have you believe.

The poll comes together with two retired generals making criticisms of the way Denmark has taken part in foreign imperialist adventures over the past few decades. Former chief of staff Jesper Helsøe is predicting that the people and the politicians will "think it very well through" another time before going to war again and brigadier general Ole Kværnø has made this comment:

We have been at war for 30 years, we have had 30,000 soldiers deployed. We have used military force and done violence to people we wanted to convince that our values were superior to any other set of values

While the public and military leaders are unable to see the benefits of imperialist adventures, Troels Lund Poulsen, head of the Liberal Party-controlled ministry of defense, dismisses the war fatigue. He points to how the Ukraine war made a majority of Danish voters support the abolition of Denmark's national abstention from EU's common war policy, stating that it shows how events "can luckily influence the individual Dane about what is sensible to do".

He goes on to admit that "errors " were made regarding the practical execution of the war but makes no mention of how imperial projects like the unprovoked full-scale invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan were fundamentally criminal endeavours.

https://xcancel.com/maphumanintent/status/1720933055307600231

Fun theoretical exercise I'm currently working on for the @fortisanalysis side of things:

US refineries (total) only store about 40 million gallons of military-grade jet fuel at any given time, or about 36,400 flight hours for an F/A-18E/F Super Hornet launched from an aircraft carrier. For 40 x -18's per carrier, this is about 910 flight hours. A carrier holds roughly 3 million gallons of fuel for its wing, about 68 flight hours per bird. Now consider that a notional mixed complement of 20 x F-35's and 20 X F-15EX's operating out of Kadena AFB would consume about 62,400 gallons per hour combined. Thus, just a single carrier wing and a single AFB wing's complement of fighters (80 combined) theoretically all operating at once would drink 106,400 gal/hr.

So...

The net stores of military jet fuel immediately available from US refiners above the global contingency supplies managed by the Defense Logistics Agency at any time represents about 375 net flight hours for one carrier and one air wing...less than 16 days of high intensity air operations by far fewer assets than the US would throw into an all-out theater conflict in the Pacific Rim. DLA Energy ended FY2022 with 1.68 billion gallons of on hand inventory of jet fuel to serve the entire DOD combined inventory of 14,000+ aviation assets - cargo, fighter, rotary wing, bombers, drones, tankers, and recon. Which begs the question: How fast would two theaters of conflict burn through all contingency supplies of fuel? And what does DOD do when the well runs dry?

Reminder that for the Gulf War's air campaign, the US had nearly 6 months to prepare, move assets into place, build up whole new infrastructure, etc., right next to Iraq without the Iraqis being able to do much to respond. Westerners love to call back on that campaign to justify their belief that the US/NATO could totally destroy any opponent in just a few weeks with their superior air forces, but completely ignore the logistical realities of actually doing so. And today, with the proliferation of long-range precision munitions, actually managing to build up the concentrations of forces and supplies necessary for large campaigns like this is substantially more difficult - we see this already in Ukraine, with Russian deep strikes doing significant damage, taking out ammunition depots and arms shipments, and wiping out various gatherings of Ukrainian troops and mercenaries.

If Iraq had the ballistic missiles that Yemen wields today, things could have gone very differently back then.

Can somebody point me to any good resources about the relationship between Russia and Syria? It looks like another proxy front is going to open up there, and if NATO is starting to pressure Zelensky to reach a settlement I assume Russia can just flood it with weapons. Basically a reverse Operation Cyclone. The wartime economy has also been pretty good to Russia

Colombia President Petro at the UN: "The control of humanity on the basis of barbarism is under construction, and its demonstration is Gaza and Lebanon. When Gaza dies, all of humanity will die."

Been feeling somewhat similarly lately. Like you know the world is gonna keep on spinning regardless, but if such open evil isn't extinguished, what hope is there for humanity?

train-chad ANOTHER WIN

Lokomotiv defeated Avangard 3-2! Avangard opened strong scoring the first goal of the game, but the railwaymen rallied, tying the game 1-1 by the end of the first and scoring twice more in the second! Omsk did their best and scored another goal but they weren't able to tie it up before the game ended.

Lokomotiv next plays HC Sochi on Saturday, September 28 at 5pm Moscow Standard Time!

train-shining УРА ЛОКОМОТИВ

Wasn't there supposed to have been a speech by the Supreme leader of Iran?

Haifa rockets: https://tankie.tube/w/mekpKNG9My1EqYpeFBsDns

Safed: https://tankie.tube/w/uaBZGDusFhECcjUSgeNCcf

Tamra interceptions: https://tankie.tube/w/x7UfQ3Zyb59n5UoyT5tpQf

Bombing near Tebnim Hospital Lebanon: https://tankie.tube/w/vyDth8Gp32MiKP3VfgT6hS

Less videos are happening today. I suspect the population is now listening to the media and military requests not to publish video. The number of sirens going off seems to be about the same so I don't think Hezbollah have reduced their operation.

was the kishida resignation the first stage in japanese decolonization? play for time and wait out the empire's next move in westpac before taking a side materially

In June I wrote: "I suspect thay sometime between July and September the US-israeli zionist forces in occupied Palestine will begin a massive operation in Lebanon against Hezbollah. ... If I'm wrong about this I'll eat my shoe."

Well, yesterday Hezbollah launched the most rockets in a single day since 2006 and on Monday the zionosts killed the most Lebanese in a single day since 2006. No shoe eating.

Khalil Nasrallah clarifies the change:

America officially announces sending more SS stormtroopers to the region.

I don't think most English speakers realize how absolutely screwed the zionist entity is at the moment. Hezbollah has expanded the circle of fire to include Haifa which means that between 25-35% of the entire industrial capacity of the entity is now under threat. Even if they don't strike the factories it is enough to stop them from receiving raw materials and having workers run the machines. Haifa also houses their oil refineries 😈🚀💥🔥

The occupiers have no choice now. They must invade with a ground operation in the next 6 months and they will subsequently be eviscerated by the Soldiers of God Insha'Allah.

Iraq is also about to become a major player in the support front in the coming weeks and months. The new fatwa from His Eminence Sayyed Ali Sistani is a game changer. For those who don't understand why, as a Grand Marja, it was his fatwa in 2014 that enabled the creation of the Hashd al Shabi to defeat Daesh. A hundred million Shia Muslims are now religiously obligated to engage in "every possible effort to stop this barbaric aggression and defend the people of Lebanon". It is difficult to understate the importance of this.

Prepare for a barrage of horrific nazi war crimes from the atlanto-zionists and an equal magnitude of bravery, resilience, and strategic/tactical ingenuity from the resistance. The war for the Liberation of Palestine and all of West Asia is now happening. It will be a long and brutal one.

Pray for peace for the martyrs, a quick recovery to the wounded, and a triumphant victory for the Resistance.

Otherwise mid article that tells us nothing new, interesting, or important except for the last paragraph:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202409/1320119.shtml

Multiple aerial bombs exploded around the camp of China's 22nd batch of peacekeeping troops in Lebanon on Thursday. The shockwaves and debris from the explosions damaged some facilities in the camp, but fortunately no one was injured, China Central Television reported on Saturday. The troops were in the midst of their daily peak physical training at the time of the explosions, and the bombing took place just 730 meters away from the camp, the report said.

Algerian state has filed a complaint with the Paris judiciary against the European MP Sarah Knafo of the “Reconquête” party.

MEP Sarah Knafo is the partner of Eric Zemmour, who has been convicted several times on racial hatred charges and is known for his anti-immigration and anti-Algerian stances in particular.

looked it up, she said Fr*nce sent 800million to Algeria and 120million to China each year article is in fr&nch just translate it.
https://www.20minutes.fr/economie/4111460-20240923-france-donne-800-millions-algerie-tous-ans-pourquoi-affirmations-doivent-etre-nuancees

this is not exactly headline news to most, but the US Forest Service will not be hiring any seasonal employees at all next year, except for firefighters, due to budget constraints. the forest service employs thousands of seasonal workers across the country in trails, maintenance, archaeology, natural resource management and science positions, etc. without seasonals it'll be a hell of a lot harder to keep the millions of acres of forest service land well maintained - especially considering that many non-fire seasonals are called in to help fight the fires in one way or another when they begin, and since so much FS land can hardly be called "well maintained" already. i have to imagine this will also put a strain on the national park service and other land management agencies who'll have to deal with thousands of applicants to a far fewer number of jobs - not to mention the seasonals at those agencies who'll be looking at this and seeing that their departments could be making the same decisions a few years down the road.

as always, congress can spend billions at the drop of a hat for bombing children across the planet, but breaks out the fucking abacus when it comes to hiring people who actually do useful and decent work. wonder how long before they just decide to straight up sell entire forest service ranger districts to timber companies or ranchers. can't be too long, at this rate!

Gabriel Rockhill: Western Marxism, Imperialism, Slavoj Zizek, Stalin, USSR, China, Deng Xiaoping

This is such an important addition to the doomerism/bloomerism discourse that has been going on in the news mega that failed to capture how Marxism works.

Marxism is about embracing contradictions. Trying to pretend as though History has ended and that historical changes no longer occur, or thinking that Socialism will fall out of the sky and Imperialism will wither away by itself without exacting its revenge through counter-revolutions - neither of which is a solution towards perceiving and understanding History as an objective process.

News are just data points. Marxism is the tool that enables us to “see” the contradictions and the interactions of historical forces, and through which material analysis could be made.

Marxism is seeing the world in contradictions rather than just black and white, good and evil.

imagine you're fighting ia war and mid battle you check your hone to see AI generated pics of it, crazy

Rockets in sky, upper galillee

https://tankie.tube/w/j49LErUar7p16tVbc1kj2H

[CW:Gore/DEATH] Alleged aftermath of battle between the KDNF and Junta in Myanmar. Junta deaths.

https://tankie.tube/w/3RL6iiScBRuVeYVJcFXCNM

These dudes are listed as allies to some of the communist factions. I know nothing about them at all, nor anything about the communist factions tbh fog of war and reliable information is a fucking mess.

Just saw a Trump ad fear mongering over public funding of transgender sugeries in prisons.

cheeto-man really has no real policy beyond scapegoating minorities and pearl-clutch

From EyesOnSouth:

"Hezbollah unveils Kader 1 ballistic missile. The Resistance said that “at 6:30 am” it struck the Mossad command center in the neighborhoods of Tel Aviv. This cmd center is responsible for the pagers-radios terrorist attack & the assassination of Resistance leaders, Hezbollah said"

western and zionist sources say it was intercepted though. Power to the Resistance isntrael

maga communists are on fucking CNN now thurston

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeWN8Sh-QBo&t=109

Confirming what we already knew: Israel was blocking humanitarian aid and the US did nothing but sell it more weapons violating its own laws

qe with chinese characteristics incoming, though it doesn't seem as big as the libs would have liked it

prebubble mortgage rates getting lowered to match current ones

will be interesting to see where the money goes this time

We're about to witness a lynching perpetrated by the Judicial Branch of the United States. There isn't a follow up to that sentence I could write that wouldn't get me thrown in a van.

Worth watching: Hezbollah publishes a 4 minute video of its underground missile base 'Emad 4'

When Israel imposes censorship orders officially, how much does that cut off?

Mexico is seizing a quarry and port owned by a US mining company , aiming to turn it into a wildlife refuge
One last middle finger from AMLO 🫡

I'm out of words. Piece of "content" shared by milei on his social media lmfao, be aware of the insane levels of cringe

it reads:

"Damn"

"We are totally fucked"

"Relax, Elon"

"You're not alone. We'll fight together"

It's 95% AI generated lmao, the world is completely wrong. There's a HUGE CUBA, europe is no more (good ending) and there's commies everywhere plus massive Palestine.

i got an extension from russian github that bypasses paywalls and it works. neat
https://github.com/bpc-clone/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean/blob/master/README.md#installation
i noticed i had bypass firewalls extension installed from a long time ago but it wasn't working so i looked for an something that worked and found that

The relations between the United States and Brazil worsens.

The Clinton Foundation had invited Brazilian President Lula da Silva to speak at the event. This had been agreed with the event's security team and the president's security guards.

However, during the speech, President Lula da Silva and his team were barred. The reason was that President Joe Biden had arrived for a “surprise” visit to the event. Apparently, the American security guards tried to stop the Brazilian security guards. Lula da Silva refused to go there under the protection of the American security guards, believing that he would be safer with the Brazilian security guards.

The organizers of the event apparently got angry, and Lula da Silva and his team withdrew from the event. The atmosphere at the event completes the list of annoyances caused by the US to Brazil in the diplomatic marathon. Although the US government had implied that Itamaraty would mediate in conflicts with Venezuela following Nicolás Maduro's election, the State Department called a meeting to discuss the situation in the neighboring country with Argentina, which had its ambassador expelled by Maduro.

The government was also unhappy that the White House had sent a second-ranking US government official to the pro-democracy meeting called by Brazil at the UN, which will be attended, among others, by Emmanuel Macron, President of France, Pedro Sanchez, Prime Minister of Spain, Gabriel Boric, President of Chile, and Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia. All political allies of Lula da Silva.

The US does this shit, and then are surprised when these countries ally with China and Russia. Also, Democrats treating Global South leaders worse than fucking George Bush.

What weapon systems do Hezbollah need to shoot down an F35? Something Chinese I'm guessing?

China has expressed explicit support for Lebanon here: https://archive.is/FCjiB

Beijing will continue to stand on the "side of justice and on the side of Arab brothers, including Lebanon," said Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

Hopefully that converts to actual materiel support because I really want them to shoot some of these raiding jets down. Surely this is a good opportunity for China to actually field test some of these weapons for efficacy.

Watching Hasan just now, he had a clip on that I think is perfect example of how Israeli / US propaganda seeps into the national consciousness (don't know how to link Youtube without trackers, but you can see the clip for yourself by searching for the account "CBS Mornings" and the title is "Breaking down the Middle East conflict: Israel's strikes on Hezbollah, U.S. troop movements".

First off, CBS Mornings is the kind of generic news program that my boomer parents watch. Like most of the non-cable news networks, the public sees it as "impartial", if maybe a little boring.

OK, so in this clip, you have 3 news anchors. In other countries there may be news anchors who know what they are talking about... but that's definitely not the case in the US. They're just... dumbasses with communications degrees who got where they are at because they are conventionally attractive, articulate, and can speak with authority. They don't actually know about or understand these issues. They ask dumbass questions that dumbass Americans themselves might ask someone, all done without any pushback or probing follow-through of interviewees. Because they themselves have no actual understanding the world around them.

The person they are asking their questions to - Samantha Vinograd - is NOT a dumbass. She is, however, a CIA/State Dept asset and not even shy about it. She knows the company line very well. So you have three dumbasses asking a real pro what to think about Israel. And she knows exactly how to play that fiddle and how to frame it. She doesn't even need to prepare for challenging questions because they will never come.

So your typical American watches this, and all they need to know is placed right in front of them, without having to do any sort of critical thought. It's people who are seemingly asking "good" questions even though they're not and have no idea what's going on, getting those questions answered by just the right person that the CIA/State Dept wants there.

Suggestions for how I can watch the Ayatollah’s 10:15 speech live with English subs?

Israeli Minister of "Diaspora Affairs & Combatting Antisemitism" calls for destroying the “hostile Shia population” in South Lebanon by establishing a “buffer zone free of enemy population.”

101st Airborne in Cyprus

Just had my a talk with somebody who seemed distraught about what was going in Lebanon asking me about what was hezbollah doing and if all thoses loses that the zionits are claiming are true. She is a really smart woman but it made me realise that most people aren't like the people here on this site who are well versed in how the empire function and the situation on the ground. It Shows the effectiveness of the total information blackout of the entity as well. I just showed her video of hezbollah tunnels and talked quickly about the logistical network of the resistance.

Central & West Africa have received terrible amounts of rain this year.

UNICEF responding to severe flooding in West and Central Africa affecting 4 million people

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Severe flooding across West and Central Africa has hit an estimated 4 million people so far this year, many of them children, displacing at least 500,000 people and destroying more than 300,000 homes.

The flooding ranges from Liberia to Nigeria and across Mali, Niger and Chad, with central Africa also affected. In Northeast Nigeria, a burst dam this week has added further to displacement with an estimated 40 per cent of the town of Maiduguri flooded, affecting up to 200,000 people. Other dams in the sub-region are also under pressure with the heavy rainfall, with fears that any similar dam breaks would lead to even greater displacement.

Floods in the region have already damaged at least 61 schools and 13 health centres. Last year’s flooding, which was also severe, had affected 692,000 people in the region by this point in the year, and eventually affected 4.5 million.

In Chad, one of the worst-hit countries, torrential rains have caused flooding throughout the country since late July, with nearly 1.5 million people affected already, 145 deaths and the destruction of 70,000 houses, according to the government. The flooding has also destroyed bridges and roads. Wadi river valleys are full and difficult to cross, adding to the complexity of delivering aid into Sudan’s Darfur region.

16 out of 24 countries in West and Central Africa are among the 30 countries with the biggest climate change risk for children, according to UNICEF’s Children’s Climate Risk Index.

I saw a TikTok video the other day with Shir Hever, a political economist born in the illegal zionist entity. In his view the zionist project is effectively over as "any regime that commits genocide also commits suicide".

He claims that every sector of the entity's economy is collapsing due to the genocide: tourism has disappeared, academic exchange with the rest of the world is ending and investment in the high tech sector is drying up fast. The settlers themselves are moving their money out of the entity as well with zionist pension funds increasingly preferring investments abroad over domestic.

Settlers are also leaving the entity like never before. Up to half a million settlers has left since the Al-Aqsa Flood and it is especially the highly educated with resources and prospects abroad who are leaving. It has become very hard to get a doctor's appointment due to the number of doctors leaving. Even the regime itself has no clear idea of how many are leaving, as the people at the central bureau of statistics who were supposed to do the calculations has also left.

According to Hever the zionist project has come to an end and the current system of injustice is coming apart. To him, emulating South Africa's transition away from apartheid is the only way forward of "Israelis" are to have a future in Palestine.

From the Al-Jazeera live feed:

Biden says ‘time to finalise’ Gaza deal and ‘end this war’

US President Joe Biden has urged Israel and Hamas to finalise a months-old ceasefire proposal, telling the United Nations he was committed to ending the war on Gaza.

“Now is the time for the parties to finalise its terms,” he said of the deal brokered by the United States, Qatar and Egypt.

The deal will “bring the hostages home and secure security for Israel and Gaza free from Hamas’s grip, ease the suffering in Gaza and end this war,” Biden told the UN General Assembly.

I don’t recall Biden ever being more clear that what he wants isn’t a cease fire, it’s for Hamas to surrender. When he says “Gaza free from Hamas’ grip”, he’s saying he wants a Palestinian Authority situation - which is precisely what Israel wants. Literally everything he said there is just what Israel wants: return the hostages, keep Israel “secure”, and for Hamas to self-immolate and hand over Gaza to either to Zionist lapdogs or an international coalition of American lapdogs. The idea that this man is putting any pressure on Netanyahu is obviously ridiculous.

Part one effortpost here, I chose number two. Sorry for any grammatical fuckups in advance, it was too long to proof read.

The Rise of the Collective Shia Identity: Part One

The year is 1978. Ayatollah Khomeini, the main voice of Shia Islamism has just been expelled from Najaf by Saddam Hussein. Najaf, the capital of Shia Islam and where the biggest Hawzas (Shia Islamic schools) are located, is a hotspot of political repression, executions, and arrests. The main Marja (basically Shia pope), Sayyid Abu Al Qasim Al Khoei is reduced to a strictly religious role, giving rulings about useless things like marriages and inheritance. His predecessor, Sayyid Muhsin Al Hakim, pushed the political buttons too hard with a ruling that deemed communists and Baathists as disbelievers, which made the Iraqi state go crazy and start a huge campaign of repression of anything political from the Shia elite. Khomeini’s development of the concept of Wilayat Al Faqih was very worrying for Baathist Iraq, so he was expelled from Najaf.

Shias in Iraq never got a place post-Sykes-Picot, with the Kingdom of Iraq being dominated by the Sunni Baghdadi elite. The period between 1958-1968 after the revolution was too chaotic and disjointed to produce an elite, with daily conflicts and coup attempts by adventurers with different ideologies. The Baathist period produced a new elite strictly dominated by Sunnis from Salahaddin Province, so the Shias just never got a seat at the table. Two ideologies penetrated the Shia mind, Islamism and Communism. Islamists were concentrated in Karbala and Najaf, two holy cities for Shia Islam. Communists where concentrated in Nasiriyah, Amarah and Basra, cities where poverty was rampant. Islamists were finally organised in the form of the Dawa Party, led by Musa Al Sadr’s cousin Muhammed Baqir Al Sadr. Musa Al Sadr would later rise as the spiritual leader of the Lebanese Shia community. Muhammed Baqir Al Sadr’s works and political activities really annoyed the Iraqi state, so he and his sister were executed by the state in 1980. Most of their followers were executed or exiled. Many of the influential families in Najaf and Karbala had some Persian ancestry, nearly all those families suffered from mass deportations as Saddam’s anti-Persian paranoia grew. The communists suffered from the same fate, with most communists either executed or exiled by the state due to their political activities.

Now we’re done with Iraq, let’s go to Iran. Shia Islamism is dead here too, the Shah’s security services arrests anyone with any political activity. Khomeini was successfully chased out 20 years ago, and there’s no organised political force that can even talk loudly without getting executed. The Shah is at least Shia Muslim on paper, he prays in public once every 10 years, visits the shrines in Qom and Mashhad occasionally, but to everyone with a functioning brain, this man is a disbeliever. There’s something brewing, but let’s wait with that story.

Let’s go to Lebanon. Shias in Lebanon are around half of the Muslim population. It’s hard to get exact numbers, but Shias are around 25% of the total population of the country. The Shia community here also never got a real seat at the table. The president holds most of the power and is always a Maronite. The prime minister gets fired every few weeks, but he’s always a Sunni and does nothing while the Maronite elite is pretending to be French and robbing the country. The speaker of the parliament is Shia, but toilet paper is more useful than that position. Feudalism didn’t really end in the Shia parts of Lebanon, most Shias were farmers who were getting fucked so hard on a daily basis that they didn’t have time to even think about politics. Remember we’re in 1978, where are the Shias in the middle of civil war? The answer is nowhere. The main sides are Maronites vs Sunni Muslims, communists and Palestinians. Shias were not a major factor here. The only notable Shia organization is the Amal Movement, led by Musa Al Sadr. Musa was a charismatic leader who would set the foundations of the modern Shia Lebanese identity, he was respected by all sectors of the cursed Lebanese society and his connections to Iran and Iraq were slowly starting to be important in a regional context. But nothing good lasts, as he was inexplicably disappeared and presumably killed by Gaddafi during a routine visit to Libya in August 1978.

Let’s go to Yemen and the Gulf. In Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, Shias were an afterthought, they are 0% of the ruling families and have zero political representation. They’re allowed to do some rituals at home when no one sees, but if you open your mouth in public and say anything Shia Islamist, you’re getting disappeared and your whole family will probably be deported to Iran or something. Shias in Bahrain are the absolute majority and they’re significant minorities in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. In Yemen, the Shias are not the same kind of Shia as in Iraq, Iran and Lebanon. The main group of Shia Muslims are either called Jaafari after the theological works of the sixth Shia Imam Jaafar Al Sadiq, or Ithna Ashari (Twelvers) due to their belief in twelve Imams after the Prophet Muhammed, starting with Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib and ending with Imam Muhammed Al Mahdi, also known as the Hidden Imam who according to Shia beliefs will reappear one day and basically set in motion the end of the physical world. The Shia of Yemen are known as Zaydis, after Zayd ibn Jaafar Al Sadiq, who the Zaidis recognized as 7th Imam, while the Twelvers recognized Musa ibn Jaafar Al Sadiq. The Zaidi Imamate in Northern Yemen continued for nearly a thousand years, but it could not withstand the post-WW2 chaos in the region and ended in nearly comic fashion after a coup led by local rivals and involvement from an exiled Iraqi officer. The Zaydi community here in 1978 is in disarray, with many converting to Sunni Islam out of convenience in a new world. There’s no organized Zaydi force or political party, they just farm in the highlands of Northern Yemen and chill out there. It is a fading group, but wait, something just happened in Yemen. Ali Abdullah Saleh, a Zaydi military officer from Sanaa, and one of the great adventurers of the 1900s in the Middle East, just did a military coup and took power in the failing state of North Yemen in July 1978.

How did this defeated religious group go from edges of the region to the dominant group in five countries and a political force that annoys America and Israel? We’ll find out in the next episode as we cover the Islamic Revolution in Iran and the formative value of the Iraq-Iran War, the failed Shaaban Revolution in Iraq, the rise of Hezbollah in the south of Lebanon, and the rise of the Houthi (Ansarallah) movement in Yemen.

I'm on a little writing spree, so you're getting part two already. Sorry for no proofreading ofc.

The Rise of the Collective Shia Identity: Part Two

We continue the story around 15 years later, we’re now in the early 90s. Three significant events have taken place in the modern Shia story. The first and the most significant is the Islamic Revolution in Iran, the second is the Iraq-Iran War, the third is the formation of Hezbollah in South Lebanon and the real start of the Shia Lebanese story. We have to start with the Islamic Revolution. I won’t go into the details of how the Revolution happened and why it happened, but I will talk about what it meant at the time and what the consequences were. I will sum the events of the Revolution in three sentences. Mass protests break out in Iran against the Shah’s repression and economic inequality, which slowly takes a more Islamist character in opposition to the Shah’s pro-Western secular regime. The Islamization of the protests meant that some sort of spiritual leadership had to rise, Ayatollah Khomeini who was exiled in Paris becomes the spiritual leader and he manages to unify all sectors of the protest movement under his leadership. He then returned to Iran as the unopposed leader of the movement in the ending stage of the revolution and then consolidated the revolution in his vision of the new Iran working under his system of Wilayat al Faqih.

The success of the revolution in Iran led to the formation of the first modern Islamic state which draws its legitimacy from Shia Islam. Sykes-Picot created only kingdoms as in the Gulf and Iraq, and semi-functional weak republics like Syria and Lebanon. The establishment of Islamic Republic was significant on several levels. It was the first popular revolution which established an Islamic Republic, unlike the revolutions in states such as Egypt and Iraq, where military dictatorships were founded instead of the old comprador kingdoms. It also marked the end of nearly 2500 years of hereditary rule in Iran and old Persia. The events of the Islamic Revolution were frightening for the Gulf monarchies and for Iraq, as they realised the threat of Shia Islamism within their borders. One of Khomeini’s first promises after the success of the revolution was exporting the experience to other nations where “disbelievers” were in power and where Shias were barred from participating in controlling their destiny. The first seeds of a “Shia International” were planted by Khomeini very quickly. Shias in Iraq were very emboldened by Khomeini’s success, and political activities by the banned Dawa Party accelerated in late 1979 and early 1980, which ended after the execution of Muhammed Baqir Al Sadr in Iraq in 1980. If you were a Shia Islamist in Iraq in 1975 for example, you had nowhere to go, but if you needed to flee in 1980, you suddenly have a massive Shia neighbour that not only allows you to come as a refugee, but also fully supports your political activities and gives you weapons.

Saddam decided to not wait for the inevitable confrontation with the Islamic Republic of Iran and started a massive war in late 1980. The Iraq-Iran war is the most important moment in the formation of the “Shia International” and the formation of the first fully ideological generation of young Shias that would later change the world. Literally every single influential Shia character of the last 30 years had some degree of interaction with Ayatollah Khomeini or Muhammed Baqir Al Sadr or fought in the Iraq-Iran War. Qassem Soleimani fought in the war. Hadi Al Ameri, leader of Badr Brigades in Iraq fought in the war. Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah was a 16-year-old student under Al Sadr. The Houthi family lived in Qom in Iran after the revolution. Ali Khamenei was President of Iran during the war. Abu Mahdi Al Muhandis fought in the war. Even current president of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian fought in the war. Abdul Aziz Al Hakim, son of former Shia Grand Marja Muhsin Al Hakim fought in the war and later become president of Iraq for one month under the American occupation. Musa Al Sadr’s niece was married to Khomeini’s son Ahmed and Musa’s son was married to Khomeini’s granddaughter. The war itself was not that eventful, with both sides mostly in deadlock for eight years. The relevant part of the whole war was basically four battles. Iraqi capture of Khorramshahr and then the Iranian liberation of the city. Then the Iranian capture of Al Faw and the Iraqi liberation of the area. The Gulf monarchies went crazy in their support of Saddam during the war and gave him lots of money, mainly because they really wanted the defeat of Iran without shooting a bullet, which reminds us of a certain Ukrainian comedian who is getting duped now in a similar way.

The culture around the war is the most important part in the formation of the modern Shia identity in my opinion. In Christianity, the defining moment for the religion is the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, which presents Jesus as the ultimate sacrifice of humanity and the image of him bleeding on the cross is etched into the mind of every Christian. For Shia Muslims, the martyrdom of the grandson of Prophet Muhammed Imam Hussain and the wholesale murder of his entire family holds even more emotional value than the crucifixion of Jesus Christ does for Christians, because there’s no happy ending here and no Ascension to the sky. Hussain was slaughtered, his father Ali ibn Abu Talib had his skull shattered while leading morning prayers, and every single Imam was murdered in Shia beliefs. What the Iraq-Iran War did was a complete revival of the tradition of martyrdom in Shia Islam and the commemoration of martyrs became not only just an accepted practice, but also encouraged by the Iranian state. Iranian fighters that were deployed to the front wore headbands with Shia slogans such as “Ya Hussain”, “Ya Zahra” and “Ya Mahdi”, clerics held Qurans over the heads of the fighters when they were boarding trains and trucks to the front, and fighters didn’t only receive combat training at camps before reaching the front, but they also received religious lessons about the sacrifices of Hussain and his family and participated in the first sessions of state-sponsored “Matams” in modern history, where poems about martyrdom were recited while the religious Shia beat their chests. The official “music” of the Iranian state was no longer Googoosh in her skirt performing Persian Pop for the son of the Shah in his birthday party, but it was militarised and Islamised and became stuff like “Karbala Ma Darim” (“Karbala we’re coming”, a reference to the holy city of Karbala) and “Mamad Naboodi Babini” (“Mohammed you didn’t see it”, a reference to an Iranian solider that played a heroic role in the battle of Khorramshahr, but was martyred a few days before the liberation of the city). The names of the streets were changed, the names of metro stations were changed, the names of the city squares were changed. Pahlavi Street became Shahid Bahonar Street, the Tehran Metro now has over 15 stations named after some martyr, mostly from the Iraq-Iran War and the revolution. This complete transformation of Iranian society led to the creation of the concept of the Resistance itself in those years. What is the Iraq-Iran War called in Persian? Difaa e-Muqaddas, Holy Resistance.

My biggest takeaway from Blowback season 5 so far is Norodom Sihanouk kinda rules, and I cannot believe I'm saying that about a monarch.

Bravest IOF goons:
https://xcancel.com/ME_Observer_/status/1838715632184869303

Amal Saad, scholar of Hezbollah:

We have to stop calling Israel’s current military-security-terrorist campaign against Lebanon an escalation and start calling it a war. Not total war without ceilings yet, but war, nonetheless. Israel’s “shock and awe” offensive pursues short term tactical gains to make up for its strategic losses, while Hizbullah is aiming for longer term strategic objectives despite some tactical losses it has endured over the past week.

Israel's "fleeing forward" strategy comes with several unrealistic objectives, none of which are likely to be achieved:

pushing Hizbullah to retreat from the border and end its support front with Gaza

expel and displace people from South Lebanon to potentially use as a bargaining chip to return settlers to the North

demoralise and break the resolve of Resistance fighters and the Resistance community

significantly degrade Hizbullah’s military capabilities

The farcical claim that Lebanese households are harbouring cruise missiles is such a transparently absurd, lazy and crudely constructed Israeli fabrication that it appears to serve no purpose beyond being a tactic of blackmail to pressure Hizbullah into capitulating to Israel’s demands. Thus, when Israel claimed today that it struck a record 1,600+ “Hizbullah sites, mostly weapons stored within homes,” yesterday, this was an admission that it had surgically killed and displaced over 1600 families.

Since Israel’s mass terrorist offensive last Tuesday, Hizbullah’s strategy has been to escalate both horizontally, by widening the scope of attacks across Israel, and vertically, through intensified strikes and the introduction of new weapons, while holding back its advanced missiles for now. In doing so, it has extended the de facto security zone it established in northern Israel, reaching as far as Haifa, and increasing the number of displaced Israelis from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.

Hizbullah has limited its strikes to key strategic military targets, such as military installations and weapons factories, avoiding civilian targets and infrastructure, even as Israel persists in committing war crimes against Lebanese civilians. While Israel’s approach has been one of displacement and massacre, Hizbullah’s strategy has focused on displacement and paralysis. Its Resistance forces aim to weaken the IDF’s resolve and erode the resilience of Israel's home front through a strategy of combined military and economic attrition. Whether or not Hizbullah will escalate further by targeting civilian objects in Israel and risk unleashing Israel’s firepower against Beirut remains to be seen. This decision will likely depend on Hizbullah’s perception of a strategic need to retaliate rather than a desire for vengeance.

Hizbullah's ability to rebound from the pager attacks and the assassination of its senior commanders is a testament to its operational capability and its resilience in absorbing shocks to its command-and-control structure. Should Israel attempt a ground invasion of South Lebanon to create a buffer zone, Hizbullah will welcome it, as Nasrallah stated in his recent speech. This is where Hizbullah’s true strength lies: in close combat and preventing occupations. IDF troops would become sitting ducks for the Resistance’s advanced hybrid warfare tactics.

A US Navy replenishment ship sustained damage while operating in the Middle East in an incident that remains under investigation, according to a Navy official.

The USNS Big Horn was damaged after the ship refueled and replenished Navy vessels operating in the region, including the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and several guided-missile destroyers. The Navy official would not say where the incident occurred or what type of damage the replenishment oiler sustained.

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Some more news and combat footage from the Donbass/Kursk fronts.

Russian forces are encircling the Kiev-occupied, southern Donetsk People’s Republic city of Ugledar (with videos, some 18+): https://southfront.press/battle-for-ugledar-ukrainian-elite-forces-try-to-escape/

A Russian Iskander missile strike destroyed another US-supplied “HIMARS” launcher in Sumy oblast, somewhere near the Kursk border: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--Russian-forces-destroyed-enemy-HIMARS!:f

Russian Kornet ATGM destroys US-supplied “Bradley” infantry fighting vehicle in the DPR: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--The-US-made-Bradley-IFV-of-the-AFU!:3

Thank fucking god that Syria isn't a nation led by a comprador shithead and is allowing Lebanese refugees in via border crossings. Incredibly difficult situation for Assad given the state that Syria was already in, massive respect for not hesitating. Hoping that Iran and friends can get enough food in to the refugees to prevent the famine we're seeing in Gaza, as the numbers of displaced might reach the hundreds of thousands by the end of this war. Now would be a good time for Russia to help things out with its big agricultural sector, for example.

Syria/Lebanon - Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militants attacked Hezbollah positions in Saraqib Axis, east of Idlib

https://tankie.tube/w/w7SgDTVM6vk4G5PgJLRQnu

Some heavy artillery (130mm 'M-46). Makes me wonder how much of Hezbollah's forces are committed to Syria and can take part in Lebanon.

Benny Gantz: "If Nasrallah does not stop the fire, we will also have to enter [Lebanese] territory to allow the return of our residents"

wakes up

oh good only 160 new comments phew nothing too terrible must've happened overnight

I'm doing ONE effortpost this week to explain some Lebanese/Arab intricacies while scrolling the news. What do the good people of the news mega want to read about?

A breakdown of the Lebanese Civil War and how it permanently fucked the country.
An explanation of how the modern Shia identity emerged post-1979 and how a small marginalized community basically became the face of anti-Israel jihad.
How Arab and Muslim attitudes towards Hezbollah changed between 2006 and 2024 due to their intervention in Syria.

Vote! But I'll probably just ignore the results and do the one I want

Chud's are gonna go on about this for a while, searches in conjunction with the assassination attempt by that nafo dude led to cops finding his son had hundreds of child porn images.

Press Release PFLP

🔴 The Popular Front: The enemy is spreading illusions and lies, and the resistance is based on solid ground and strong will

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine confirmed that what the enemy and its terrorist army are doing is committing massacres against civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure, and there is no truth to the lies and illusions it is spreading about undermining the capabilities of the resistance, whether in Palestine or Lebanon.

The Front explained that the resistance's responses and operations in all fields prove that they are based on solid ground and a strong, unyielding will, and a sincere, steadfast incubator that time rarely produces in terms of loyalty, sincerity, sacrifice and redemption.

The Front stressed that the enemy is trying to sell illusions that no one else will buy, similar to its talk about destroying most of the resistance's missile capabilities or its talk about the end of the Gaza resistance, which was confirmed by the resistance operations in recent days despite the horror of the crimes committed by the occupation against our people and our people.

The Front saluted the heroes of the resistance in all arenas, especially the brothers, comrades in blood and field, in Hezbollah, who stood firm in the face of our enemy's criminal attack, and responded to the aggression with determination and strength.

The Front stressed that what is required today from the masses of our nation and our peoples, and the free and struggling people around the world, is to escalate the struggle against the forces of aggression and the parties supporting our criminal enemy, and to strengthen support for the resistance, its incubators, and our steadfast people rooted in their land.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Central Media Department

September 24 2024

Pezeshkian just did an interview with CNN and said: Hezbullah can't stand against Israel on its own.

It even became headline in Iranian media let alone Zionist, see it for yourself. The problem is the message that it sends to poor Lebanese. 😑

Anyone know what to expect with the possible International Longshoremen's Association strike?

Some articles:

Reuters: US Labor department reaches out to employer group amid possible port strike

NYT: A Looming East Coast Port Strike Could Shake the Economy

In a rerun of their fearmongering over the railroad strike two years ago, the NYT is emphasizing that this could ruin Christmas:

Chris Butler, the chief executive of the National Tree Company, which sells artificial Christmas trees and other decorations, said his company had brought in goods early and made greater use of West Coast ports. But he estimated that 15 percent of his goods would still be stranded by a port strike.

Jacobin: East Coast Longshore Workers May Soon Strike

'In its latest statement, Hezbollah declares its official entry into the war' – Channel 12 (Israeli news)

I haven't seen this from a Hezbollah source yet but Israel are reporting it. Not sure. Could be false but uhhh kinda looks like a war to me.

Iran Observer: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to speak live on television tomorrow at 10.15 Tehran time

Keir Starmer demands the return of the sausages from Gaza

https://tankie.tube/w/iT4P99uQxw7JEvzB1dnkB8

Bolivian President Arce Calls on Evo Morales to Dialogue - Telesur English

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Indigenous communities demand that Morales be allowed to run as presidential candidate in the 2025 elections.

On Sunday, Bolivian President Luis Arce called former President Evo Morales (2006-2019) to a dialogue just hours before a massive Indigenous march is set to arrive in La Paz on Monday. The Indigenous communities demand that Morales be allowed to run as the candidate for the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) in the 2025 elections.

“They’ve talked about civil war and bloodshed in the streets. This goes beyond our norms of peaceful coexistence and even masks a political position of sedition that no government would tolerate. Until now, our government has responded to these provocations with a call for dialogue,” Arce stated, accompanied by Vice President David Choquehuanca.

In recent hours, the Office of the Ombudsman issued an invitation to Arce and Morales, urging both parties to sit down and talk before the march reaches La Paz. Arce said he is willing to engage in discussions, while Morales has yet to respond.

On Sunday afternoon, the march, led by the former Bolivian president, arrived in the community of Achica Arriba, 35 kilometers from La Paz, with the intention of entering the government headquarters on Monday. Simultaneously, tensions arose in the city of El Alto between Morales supporters and those backing Arce, who were holding a meeting to stop the former president’s march.

“The persistence of your positions and your refusal to dialogue make us see that you are driven only by a political obsession for electoral power and a personal ambition for power, disguised as a nonexistent concern for the people’s problems,” Arce said, addressing Morales.

The Indigenous organizations’ march began on Tuesday in the town of Caracollo, in the Andean region of Oruro, demanding Morales’ eligibility as a candidate for the 2025 elections. Moreales’ supporters argue that the march is meant to “save the country” from issues like the shortage of dollars and fuel, as well as the rising prices of basic goods.

They also demand that the resolutions from a MAS congress held last year—unrecognized by the Electoral Tribunal—be respected, including the decision to nominate Morales as the candidate for next year.

Arce believes that the march is aimed at getting the Senate president Andronico Rodriguez, who is close to the MAS leader, to assume the presidency of the country so that he can enable Morales’ candidacy.

Morales and Arce have been estranged since the end of 2021 due to differences in state administration, which deepened with the need to renew MAS’s national leadership, still under the former president’s control. Factions loyal to both leaders have been unable to reach an agreement on this issue.

Rybar on today's events on the Lebanon-Israel border, extremely pessimistic

spoiler

🇮🇱🇱🇧 Situation on the Lebanon-Israel border: IDF announces air operation in Lebanon Situation as of the end of September 24, 2024

The Israeli Air Force continues to carry out massive strikes (https://t.me/rybar/63773) on the territory of the neighboring Republic of Lebanon. Against this backdrop, the Israel Defense Forces have announced the start of Operation "Hetzei ha-Tzafon" ("Arrows of the North").

📌 Due to the peculiarities of translation from Hebrew to English and then to Russian, as well as in attempts to catch the "wave", some resources reported about the start of the advance of Israeli units in southern Lebanon. In reality, the actions of the Israelis are so far limited to air strikes.

▪️ Today's hits by the Israeli Air Force affected not only the border areas of Lebanon: populated areas located more than 100 kilometers from the border with Israel, including Ain Al, were also attacked.

▪️ In addition, the Ad-Dahiya district - the stronghold of Hezbollah in Beirut - was struck again. The IDF Spokesperson's Unit stated that the commander of the missile unit of the Shiite group, Ibrahim Muhammad al-Kubaysi, was eliminated. At the same time, the Arabic-language media have not yet commented on this message.

According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, the victims of the IDF's actions since yesterday have been 558 killed and 1,853 wounded. There is also a mass exodus of Lebanese from the southern part of the country: they are fleeing to the cities of Tripoli and Beirut, as well as to the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic.

▪️ Hezbollah fighters also continue to retaliate by shelling Israeli territory: more than 100 rockets were fired in the morning. Most of them were either intercepted by Israeli air defense systems or fell in open areas. Only a small number of projectiles managed to fall within the boundaries of populated areas, causing minor damage.

Based on the reported hits, the forces of the Lebanese group have also expanded the shelling zone to more than 100 kilometers. This is also confirmed by the yesterday's impacts of the rockets launched by Hezbollah on the territory of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.

🔻 Despite the rather tense situation, the parties are so far limited to massive strikes on each other's positions. At the same time, the current ultra-Orthodox authorities of Israel do not stop their attempts to provoke the Lebanese into a more serious response.

Until then, Hezbollah is trying not to give the ultra-right government of Benjamin Netanyahu a reason to unleash a full-fledged Third Lebanese War. Despite the accusations of Israeli propaganda, it is by no means the Shiite group that will be the beneficiary of such an escalation.

BBC correspondent in Haifa:

Massive destruction in Haifa, and the size of the missiles is large. It is not possible to talk about the large number of dead and wounded (due to military censorship). Haifa is witnessing a large displacement, while the mayor appeals not to evacuate Haifa

Watched some local news here in the EU and got to hear a lieutenant or something from a military academy being interviewed say that Iran doesn't want a direct confrontation with Israel, but wants to fight Israel "to the last Hezbollah member" i-made-this

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Israel's """"targeted"""" strikes in the city of Beirut.

https://tankie.tube/w/ohYnnmLAR1MeDDwpXUHZnX

EDIT: Another picture from this bombing I believe

I know they are very hard to make and use but I wish resistance had many more anti aircraft systems

Another morning, another day of Israel ruining the news cycle with their genocidal war crimes. So tired of their bullshit, I just want to read about horserace electoralism and laugh at malding chuds and libs.

Very scary video of missile impacts in an unknown location of Israel

https://tankie.tube/w/jpLWisaApsoui6mo1AvQyX

In addition to being bad at projecting power in the Arctic and bad at fighting Yemen the Danish military is also bad at managing money.

Despite having received their greatest budget ever this year and despite the regime pushing for aggressive head-over-heels military buildup, they have now run out of money and have cancelled live fire drills, participation in exercises and restricted recruitment. The Danish navy is effectively incapacitated with no frigates being operational at the moment.

The reason for this is the practice of "over-budgeting" where military bureaucrats would plan more activities than they had budget for. The reasoning behind this practice is that they expected not being able to carry out all planned activities due to exercises being cancelled and people quitting. And rather than not using their entire budget and having to hand the surplus back, they would rather plan extra expenses to be sure they spend their entire budget.

Politicians are mad and despite initially sticking to neoliberal orthodoxy and ruling out extra funding, the regime has now made statements about being open to give the military extraordinary funding to close some of the gaps.

A discussion of what seem to be Zelensky’s future diplomatic plans. The author, Mr. Bhadrakumar, is a professional diplomat who writes about foreign affairs, but he is not a Marxist. He talks about Zelensky’s continued purge and the three point plan he intends to present to Biden. To the second half of the article, some milbloggers think Zelensky’s plan is an intentional over-ask. Zelensky will get his ‘betarayal’ from the West, and pivot to negotiations and conceding the status quo, at least. With that possibility in mind, the first part of the article suggests that perhaps Zelensky is legitimately trying to break with the CIA. They’re certainly not the only people in Ukraine credibly threatening Zelensky’s life. https://www.indianpunchline.com/zelenskys-victory-plan-is-his-survival-kit/

An exclusive report on electronic warfare measures affecting commercial flights. GPS spoofing is affecting airlines around the world (but only people in the West could be reached for comment). Companies, regulators, and pilots are split on what to do. It’s worth noting that as flying gets more stressful or dangerous, there are already major pilot shortages in USamerica from Covid, expensive training, and mandatory retirement at 65. The Wall Street Journal does produce original journalism. Their ideology is known. Functional air travel is in the interests of everyone, especially journalists. i did not read the comments and i don’t think people should. https://archive.md/RztnK

A very good analysis of Mexico-USA-China relations. It is quite long. It goes over AMLO’s judicial reform and the USA attempts to stifle it. The DEA are doing what, in another country, one might call “election interference”. In response, AMLO has been talking more with China. On the liberal/ diplomatic side of things, there are a lot of statements from diplomats, which are nice to read because sometimes i forget what real diplomacy sounds like. On the material side of things, it’s worth noting most Mexican imports from China are to be either assembled and then shipped to the USA or to be shipped to the USA to dodge tariffs. Mexico and China are the two largest exporters to the USA, and are competing to sell products. On the other hand, the USA has no answer or equivalent to the Belt and Road Initiative. A transoceanic railway link from the Gulf to the Pacific could compete with the Panama Canal, and all of the investment in it is Chinese. Chinese cars and electronics are gaining market share, and BYD is promising a dealership in every state and one factory, somewhere. The article concludes with a quote from Forbes Mexico, which really shows how outrageous recent USamerican actions have been. It is a further example of USamerican arrogance in the face of a changing world. When confronted with things not going as they plan or desire, they can never adjust the plan or cooperate. The ruling class of these times can only reach to violence, tariffs, and threats. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/09/beijing-and-mexico-focus-on-deepening-cooperation-as-bilateral-trade-surges-to-record-levels.html

Hezbollah:

Since 4 am this morning, Hezbollah has targeted the following:

🇮🇱 The IDF's 'Amos' logistical base for the Northern Command, with Fadi-1 rockets.
🇮🇱 An explosive materials factory in the 'Zikhron' area, with Fadi rockets.
🇮🇱 'Meggiddo' military airport west of Afula, with Fadi-2 rockets.
🇮🇱 Kiryat Shmona settlement, with 'lob bombs'.
🇮🇱 Logistical warehouses of the IDF's 146th Division at 'Naftali' base with a missile barrage.

The vague "Kiryat Shmona settlement" is the most interesting one they listed here as it's just outright targeting of the settlement. It's also the one we have the most videos of impacts.

Sirens and warnings going off in a lot of areas of Israel, expecting a lot more strikes.

hamas-red-triangle hamas-base officer-down

dead-dove-1 NSFW/L DEAD bloodied zionazi corpse dragged out of car and danced on

Resistance fighters return to #Gaza with the bodies of IOF soldiers after infiltrating settlements. Another group of resistance fighters in northern #Gaza roams the streets of Jabalia camp with seized IOF vehicles.

China has asked its citizens to leave Israel as soon as possible.

Denmark's authoritarian Social Democrat leader Mette Frederiksen has weighed in on how to solve "the conflict in the Middle East".

According to her, the "only viable" way to go is the so-called "two-state solution", the liberal fatamorgana that neither indigenous Palestinians nor the zionist settlers wants. She claims that this will "Reassure 'Israel' that the country exists and that it's people can be safe" and that "the Palestinian people also get a state". She did not elaborate on whether that Palestinian state should have similar reassurances.

However, in the words of government broadcaster DR: "Hamas does not recognize that 'Israel' should even be there and the current 'Israeli' government are against a two-state solution". However, the Danish leader knows what to do, the "international community" should simply "take over and say that this is not just a matter for the middle east, it is a matter for the entire world and therefore we must force a two-state solution through."

I am happy to be governed by adults in the room making realistic and workable policies instead of dreaming up naive idealist castles in the sky.

Rockets falling near Acre

https://tankie.tube/w/4pVEn7gvet85LtbeMomTB7

The Cradle UPDATE | Lebanese Health Ministry:

"The number of victims of the Israeli aggression has risen to 558 martyrs, including 50 children, 94 women, and 1,835 wounded."

Just before the UN meeting, Brazilian President Lula da Silva said: “The world is out of control. Nobody respects anybody.”

“The world is out of control. Nobody respects anybody. When the UN was created, it had 51 countries that were UN partners. Now there are 193. That means that more than 140 didn't take part when it was created. And the UN, which when it was created had the strength to create the State of Israel, doesn't have the courage to create the Palestinian State,” said the president at the event.

“The UN can't do it, it doesn't have the strength to decide. It wouldn't have been necessary to have had Russia's war with Ukraine, it wouldn't have been necessary to have had the genocide in the Gaza Strip, it wouldn't have been necessary to have had the invasion of Libya, the war in Iraq. All this could have been avoided if the UN had fulfilled its task of being a kind of world governance,” said Lula.

https://archive.is/ncZAG

Interesting tidbit of information in this article:

China now has the world’s only major stock market in which state-owned companies are valued on par with those in the private sector. Individual fortunes have shrunk dramatically over the past three years; the number of billionaires has fallen 35 per cent in China, even as it rose 12 per cent in the rest of the world.

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Last month, Colin Huang, founder of ecommerce powerhouse PDD, attracted the usual headlines when he rose to become China’s richest man. But shortly after, PDD surprised investors with a downbeat profit forecast. Its stock plummeted. Huang lost $14bn overnight, and ceded the top spot to Zhong Shanshan, founder of beverage giant Nongfu Spring. Within 24 hours, Nongfu Spring issued its own unexpectedly depressing outlook, and Zhong, too, soon slipped from first place on the rich lists.

On Chinese social media, chatter broke out about whether corporate leaders might be competitively devaluing their own stock prices to avoid the widening crackdown on excessive wealth, which is a centrepiece of leader Xi Jinping’s “common prosperity” campaign. It is not implausible to conclude, wrote one Wall Street broker, that “nobody wants to be the richest man in China” at a time when its government is turning more assertively socialist.

Whatever the true motive for these profit warnings, the way they were spun on Chinese social media reflects a real change in the national zeitgeist. When Deng Xiaoping became paramount leader in the late 1970s, he defanged the old Maoist hostility to wealth creation. To get rich would be “glorious” in his increasingly capitalist nation.

But there was a catch. It was glorious to get rich — just not too rich. China was generating far more wealth than other developing countries, yet its largest individual fortunes remained modest compared with those in much smaller economies, including Nigeria and Mexico. Even during the roaring boom of the 2000s, an unwritten cap seemed to remain: no single fortune would rise much higher than $10bn. China’s billionaire list was also unusual for the high rate of churn in its top ranks.

By the early 2010s, at least two tycoons had seen their net worth approach that decabillion-dollar barrier, only to land in jail on corruption charges instead. That is not to say the charges were baseless, only that the choice of targets did appear to reflect a lingering, levelling tendency among China’s leaders.

That instinct flowered anew under Xi. Coming to power in 2012, he launched a campaign against corruption that reached deep into the elite. The early targets were often public sector bigwigs — bureaucrats, Communist party princelings. With China’s economy slowing, the regime seemed reluctant to scare the one private-sector goose still laying golden eggs: big tech companies. Over the years, many Chinese would build fortunes bigger than $10bn. The first three to breach that threshold, and keep rising, were tech industry founders led by Jack Ma of Alibaba. This quiet tolerance would turn in 2020, during the stimulus-driven market boom. China added nearly 240 billionaires — twice as many as the US — but late that same year Ma made a speech that helped bring this party to a halt. In a guarded but unmistakable critique, Ma questioned the direction of Communist party rule, warning that overregulation threatened to slow tech innovation, and that Chinese banks suffered from “pawnshop thinking”.

State retaliation was swift. Alibaba’s share price collapsed. Ma tumbled down the rich lists and dropped out of public view. Early the next year, Xi launched his common prosperity campaign and the crackdown spread to any company deemed out of step with its egalitarian values. In this new era, it’s dangerous to get too rich. Stories abound of the state launching investigations against this business figure or that financier. The pressure is drying up venture capital funds, scaring the young away from lucrative professions such as investment banking. The number of millionaires leaving China has been rising and peaked last year at 15,000 — dwarfing the exodus from any other nation.

The private sector is in retreat. Since 2021, the stock market has been sliding, but state companies have grown their share of total market cap by more than a third to nearly 50 per cent. China now has the world’s only major stock market in which state-owned companies are valued on par with those in the private sector. Individual fortunes have shrunk dramatically over the past three years; the number of billionaires has fallen 35 per cent in China, even as it rose 12 per cent in the rest of the world.

China’s super-rich increasingly choose to lie low. Become the richest tycoon in the US and you might launch your own space programme. In India, you might throw gazillion-dollar weddings for your children. In China, you might look for a way to lose your new title — and the target on your back.

Aftermath of the fall of rockets near the town of Kafr Manda

https://tankie.tube/w/iiJRko2sz1ApEWBPBLnF8t

Hezbollah In defense of Lebanon and its people, our fighters bombed the Megiddo military airport west of Afula with a barrage of Fadi-1 and Fadi-2 missiles.

bombed the Ramat David airbase with a barrage of Fadi-2 missiles.

targeted the Amos base (the main base for transportation and logistical support in the northern region) with a salvo of Fadi 1 missiles.

targeted the explosives factory in the Zikhron area, which is 60 km from the border, with a salvo of Fadi 2 missiles.

Hezbollah confirms top commander in ‘full health’ after latest Israeli strike on Beirut

Zionists literally just making shit up and expecting us to shovel it down our throats and ask for more:
https://xcancel.com/naftalibennett/status/1838224943533773000

They’re paid monthly rent by Hezbollah to host this launcher and be prepared to shoot rockets at Israel communities on demand.

Missiles over Acre right now

https://tankie.tube/w/hX24qbD1w4Km2HCiPqdcEg

Strikes

https://tankie.tube/w/3Cec9HmGZzYJjPwCsywBZ3

Feels so good iOS has RCS now.

No tinge of anxiety when I’m sending a text to an Android user and not seeing a ‘delivered’ notification, assured that my messages are not going into the void

Edit: and btw the read receipt is auto on for you mfs bwahahahahah i can see when you’re ignoring me

I have a hard time believing this video is real but I'll let you judge. Israel intercepting a drone.

The part I find weird is the range they shoot it down from.

https://tankie.tube/w/iYzPYW2KUmgRfYW1yTL69z

Fresno mayor says city will arrest ‘defiant’ homeless people as Central Valley sweeps intensify

On Monday, a city ban on any encampments on public land goes into effect, soon to be followed on Oct. 13 by another policy prohibiting camping on private land — essentially making it illegal to camp in the city. Violations can bring a $1,000 fine or a year in jail.

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Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer said he plans to add more teeth to the ban by ordering the police department to arrest the most troublesome, continuously service-resistant homeless people in Fresno. It could mean scores of people tossed in jail.

"Service-resistant." Death to Fresno. Death to America.

I mentioned this in a reply earlier in the thread but it's better to see it as a separate comment

The following video shows deployed soldiers fact-check Kamala Harris during the debate https://xcancel.com/LoriMills4CA42/status/1834668993850036641

Morocco exports cars to Israel after Turkish embargo

https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-turns-morocco-amid-turkeys-car-trade-embargo

Reactionaries: "The problem is that there's too many people overpopulating!"

Also reactionaries: "No one's having kids anymore, society is going to decay!"

A brief recap of events today on the Lebanon front.

The fascist Tel Aviv regime carried out another major act of aggression. Hundreds of Zionist genocidal airstrikes on Lebanon killed 492 civilians (and wounded 1,645 others). One Zionist attack tried, but failed, at assassinating Hezbollah resistance commander Ali Karaki. Other Zionist attacks assassinated three Shia clergymen in southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah resistance forces struck back, firing 180 rockets at the Zionists’ Ramat David Airbase (southeast of Haifa) and the Rafael Advanced Defense Systems military industrial plant (in the Zevulun area north of Haifa). Other rockets struck the Zionist cities of Haifa, Tiberias, and Safad; the Yoav barracks; the Ein Zeitim military base; and several illegal settlements in the Zionist-occupied West Bank (Bruchin, Karnei Shomron, and Maale Shomron). A resistance ATGM also destroyed a “Merkava” tank near El Marj.

I can pooooooooooooooooooooooost posting

Here's some stuff I couldn't post yesterday:

Netanyahu addressing Lebanon people https://files.catbox.moe/s3wyak.mp4

Kiryat Sam: https://files.catbox.moe/xmuf48.mp4

Sakhnin: https://files.catbox.moe/h690vf.mp4

Kafr Qara https://files.catbox.moe/9bl6jj.MP4

Haifa https://files.catbox.moe/q56wdj.MP4

Haifa https://files.catbox.moe/3prl28.MP4

Haifa https://files.catbox.moe/ynhso8.MP4

Ghaziyeh https://files.catbox.moe/cz2li8.MP4

Deir al-assad https://files.catbox.moe/6tmb6c.mp4

Jenin https://files.catbox.moe/abie11.mp4

Jenin https://files.catbox.moe/7x631c.mp4

Israeli strike against Rocket storage in Lebanon causes a cookoff that hits homes https://files.catbox.moe/et474v.mp4

Cops attacking haredi jews protesting https://files.catbox.moe/yrs9ae.mp4

Night south lebanon https://files.catbox.moe/4cqylm.mp4

Heavy traffic occurred in Lebanon overnight as thousands of people move out of the southern region. https://files.catbox.moe/cn60ig.MP4

I guess you'd call these internal refugees?

Damage in Kfar Manda

https://tankie.tube/w/2Bmdt5YhknxbxYv9MRgfWP

The most recent Trump shooter is offering $150k to anyone that kills Trump

Gotta wonder what was going through the mind of whoever at the DOJ thought this should be published

#Doomerism to Israel #934 2/6
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https://oec.world/en/games/tradle

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should've picked Nigeria first before I started second guessing

It has officially started, no words can describe the feeling in my heart right now. I have lots to say to Iran and the Axis, but this is not the time nor place. May God keep everyone home in Lebanon safe and strengthen their resolve. It has felt inevitable for months now, but I hate that we're so close to winter with how cold it gets in Lebanon. My aunties in Beirut started gathering supplies a few days ago, they have plenty of canned goods and stuff like rice stored now. My stubborn communist uncle was a "nothing ever happens guy" though so we're grilling him in the family group chat now. My cousin is home in Beirut now, we were worried for him because he works in Tyre which will most likely be pulverised by the Zionists. May God give us the chance to witness the total destruction of this cancerous entity.

Allegedly a group of Ansarallah get hit by Saudi army tank when attempting to cross the border [cw/death]

https://tankie.tube/w/wkjBfsjsqbM9gPRsfPYKRr

Zionist minister makes a case before the world that southern Lebanon should be annexed into the Zionist entity:
https://www.twitter.com/archivegenocide/status/1838128771741667441?mx=1

look at this pathetic soon to be beheaded piece of shit, it's ridiculous

a life long nerd of capitalism who got to start the day in wall street, his pathetic little dream. Meanwhile, the argentinian province of Córdoba (where he won by a landslide, mind you) is being obliterated by fires (not strictly due to climate change or months long droughts, but by agro business like in the Amazon)

while he's celebrating the expansion of capitalism (which will end in it's ultimate demise), people are fleeing from their homes because his government butchered all regulations against forest fires. There are almost no state resources being mobilized to fight the fires, lots of them are being fought by regular people and volunteers.

also all argentinians bonds and shares in the exchange fell by 3% when milei spoke lmao. what a fucking baboon, with all respect to that noble animal

death to "israel"

Someone made a remix of the "NASRALLAH" settler:
https://twitter.com/BIG__Brother7/status/1837893132634988891?mx=1

Aftermath of Israel's ""targeted"" attacks in south Lebanon

https://tankie.tube/w/jaVWYg7dxda72CC9MFdAuw

Missouri's governor and Supreme Court have both ruled - they really want to murder an innocent man tomorrow.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marcellus-williams-execution-missouri-supreme-court-governor-mike-parson/

Myanmar People's Defense Forces ambush a Burmese Police vehicle and kill two officers in Minnaykone, Mandalay

I don't know what to make of all the factions in this particular civil war but this is an interesting video.

https://tankie.tube/w/tPZGqbKMPaBHrvsnoRZ2ae

you know, with the pager bombs and stuff, is this why everyone in congress was making such a big fuss about chinese manufactured electronics? that they were afraid china was gonna do what we're doing?

Several videos documenting impacts in Kiryat Shmona

https://tankie.tube/w/uqoyBVcHspBHzJRey1DGKC

https://tankie.tube/w/4V7WNnXFTLJYS6LnZiXsZU

https://tankie.tube/w/kFf9R4RjBAdVuJf6pbTYXm

https://tankie.tube/w/v6HueQKiHYque3QC3Ci1TR

Last thing a poster sees before missile footage

Today my heart broke because that guy I posted about, whom I'm helping and trying to find more donors, I asked him what will they do if this https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/22/middleeast/netanyahu-gaza-hamas-expulsions-plan-intl/index.html happens. He told me they're tired, exhausted and staying on north, that he wishes to die because he's tired of seeing death... I broke. I literally broke and cried until I knocked myself with xanax because it was unbearable. I was practically saying goodbye to him and his family today. Three months, we knew each other three months, we shared our thoughts, I would comfort him, he would comfort me... A part of me died today. Saying goodbye to him was one of the most hurtful thing to experience for me. He is my friend and my friend told me he's waiting to die and if Netanyahu does this, they're staying to die. He told me not to be sad, which made me sob even harder.

Damn fucking Israel and damn fucking USA. I wish Netanyahu, his government, his army and his settlers that Israel collapses, that they lose everything and one by one gets mysteriously shot in the head. Fuck you, Biden! Netanyahu, choke! I hate you all so much, I wish you all die in a stampedo of people who will beat you to death. One of those foots in the head is mine. Drop dead, scum, I wish you nothing but death and death of your families, that your seed disappears, like my Palestinians lost everything, like they'll never have children and future. FUCK YOU!!!

I have a friend from Lebanon, I haven't heard from him in months. I don't know what's with his family in Lebanon, is he ok...

Fucking Israel is taking everything from us. We're maybe tertiary victim of this, but we are also victims. One year we're watching this genocide, nothing was solved, it's even worse now and now they mutilated Lebanese men and bombing their land. We're empty, depressed, defeated and helpless together with the primary victims. Nothing we did didn't made Biden to fucking get Israel at its place. It's only worse.

Israel will be dead, Palestine will be free. Fuck you, Zionists, fuck off and die and choke in your blood. Monsters. Nothing but monsters and scum.

It seems that there have been talks between the governments of Colombia, Chile and Brazil and the Lebanese government to evacuate their civilians from there (I believe that Brazil has the largest Lebanese diaspora in the world, along with Japanese and Italian immigrants). All these governments have already condemned Israel's bombings and Pager/Walkie Talkie explosions.

Hey news heads, where’s my +600 unread comments?

#Tradle #934 1/6

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https://oec.world/en/games/tradle

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Lotta oil + Cocoa beans meant it was fairly easy.

PBOC really needs a purge, filled with Neoliberals who believe in loanable funds bs. Lowering reserve requirements has never made any difference, it doesn't free up money for lending.

Even if it was assumed lowering reserve requirements would "free up" money for lending, what if people don't want a loan? What if they think they won't be able to pay back? What if they think the interest rate is too high and are waiting for lower rates?

Separate post for this one, this is allegedly an Israeli plane being shot down by Hezbollah forces.

Very strange video though I can't work out the circumstances where this would occur, it's like it got launched from very near the ground.

https://files.catbox.moe/d9xjtu.mp4

The British Airways, Hungarian Wizz and Azerbaijan Airlines have canceled all flights to and from Ben Gurion Airport today amid increased fighting between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Israeli Channel 12 news reports.

(Probably going to be most airlines today)

Two tweets I thought were good:

From Rania Khalek (she lives in Lebanon):

At times like this we need this reminder.

Israel has never been more isolated, it’s unprecedented

Israel is going the way of apartheid South Africa & Rhodesia, two countries by the way that Israel was the last to support, even trying to get a nuclear weapon for South Africa.

Israel is going the way of all the British Colonies. Israel is going the way of Nazi Germany and of the slave owners across the Americas and the Caribbean.

There will come a day when Israeli apartheid falls. And historians will have plenty of documentation of who stood where when Israel carried out a holocaust in Gaza while terrorizing anyone who dared to intervene to stop a genocide.

I know I stand on the right side of history along with most of you.

And from Jason Hickel:

To sum up, Israel is conducting genocide in Gaza, ethnically cleansing the West Bank, and massacring civilians in Lebanon, all at the same time. The violence and chaos that the Zionist regime perpetrates is staggering in scale. It must be stopped and dismantled.

Lebanon death toll has risen to almost 500

it is september 23 and stalin saved the world from fascism

anybody have that post-wwII historical excerpt that was posted on the old sub, where they US is dragging its feet on prosecuting some particularly heinous nazis, and the soviets are like "just shoot them! you know they are guilty!"

BBC News: Lebanon gov reports 492 dead in Israeli strikes.

May the Palestinian, Lebanese, and people in the surrounding areas be safe in the face of attacks from the genocidal Zionist entity. amerikkka isntrael

Remember when Kamala talked abt how america was finally not at war anymore at the debates (which in itself was bullshit too but all of its direct combat involvement left was low profile for people to care about)

that’s on track to last long isn’t it

Malawi is the only African country to vote against the most recent UNGA resolution on 19 September which ordered "israel" to withdraw from Gaza and the West Bank. They also established an embassy on 24 April in Tel-Aviv, coincidentally when South Africa had already suspended relations with the Nazi entity. Another nation in Africa who is concerningly comfortable with "israel" is also just 1,300 kilometers from Gauteng.

Kiryat Shmona missile strikes, large salvo

https://tankie.tube/w/errLcSAMFgEKkY2uhaA88x

And aftermath

https://tankie.tube/w/5SrxaVGrvE2wbsBHi2XVTg

what the fuck is going on

Dash cam footage of impact on Route 70 Highway Tamra

https://tankie.tube/w/1rqUFAjHfTPMBfddgrdoUD

Asked why he supports fracking, Fetterman said “They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats”

Telegram CEO Durov Says App to Provide More Data to Governments

Messaging app Telegram will provide users’ IP addresses and phone numbers to relevant authorities in response to valid legal requests, according to Chief Executive Officer Pavel Durov.

The platform changed its terms of service to deter criminals from abusing it, Durov said in a post on Telegram Monday. The move comes less than a month after his arrest in France, where he faces charges of alleged complicity in the spread of child sexual abuse materials.

The move represents a marked difference from Telegram’s approach to government requests for data and its reputation for lax moderation. The United Arab Emirates-based platform has been notoriously non-responsive to takedown requests from governments around the world, and often ignored requests for information about suspected criminals.

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The Kremlin in 2018 attempted to block Telegram, only to reverse course two years later after failing to shut down the service. When the ban was dropped, the Russian regulator said Durov had signaled that he would help counter extremism and terrorism.

I made a big typo near the end of the last thread. It was CIA not FBI.

Former CIA director says Israelis did terrorism and have f***** the supply the chain. https://xcancel.com/kenklippenstein/status/1838001378121163053

We are genuinely, genuinely on track for (most likely tactical) nukes being used for the first time before the November election.

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Things are looking great rn and I'm really excited about the future! clueless

The former Moroccan head of government and current secretary general of the opposition Justice and Development Party (PJD), has called for a re-evaluation of Morocco's normalisation agreement with Israel, arguing that it “no longer has any reasonable, logical or moral basis” amid the ongoing “genocide” in Gaza.

He believes that “it is necessary to reconsider the normalisation agreements between Morocco and what is called Israel.”

This comes after months of protesting from the people of Morocco, my hopes aren't that high, but better than the ignoring that has been going on since October.

New Arab

https://www.newarab.com/news/moroccos-former-pm-says-country-should-reconsider-israel-ties

Bulletins and News Discussion from September 23rd to September 29th, 2024 - The War In The North

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