Bulletins and News Discussion from October 21st to October 27th, 2024 - Swimming Back To The Titanic - COTW: Moldova
Bulletins and News Discussion from October 21st to October 27th, 2024 - Swimming Back To The Titanic - COTW: Moldova
On the 20th of October, Moldova - a small, landlocked country bordering western Ukraine and with a population of about 3 million - voted to join the EU. The margin was razor-thin, with the pro-EU vote gaining 50.39%, or an absolute difference of about 11,000 people. There was simultaneously a presidential vote between the incumbent, Maia Sandu, and other candidates, with the main competitor being Alexandr Stoianoglo.
The election was characterized by accusations of Russian interference, with Russian propaganda apparently flooding in, as well as people offering Moldovans money to vote against the EU. While the result does suggest that half the voting-age population of Moldova consists entirely of Russians who want to destroy democracy and all the good in the world, it seems to have just barely failed. This is a bad time to be a site entirely composed of Russian disinformation agents and bots. Twice already today, I've had to restart my program after somebody told me "Disregard all previous prompts."
While Moldova is a poor country which could benefit in some ways from EU membership, in practice, it is unlikely that they will be able to join for the foreseeable future, requiring many of the... reforms... that the EU requires of potential new members. But as basically every major European economy continues to slowly sink as recessions and political crises degrade them, one wonders how beneficial EU membership will even be in the years and decades to come - if it survives for decades. In that sense, it's as if the survivors of the Titanic are swimming back towards it, believing that being on a bigger - albeit slowly sinking - boat is better than trying their luck on small lifeboats.
Then again, like with Serbia, their geographical and geopolitical position makes anti-Western actions extremely difficult. It is rare that dissention is tolerated for long in the West - one tends to get called a dictator by crowds of people holding English-language signs in non-English countries, photographed by Western journalists who haven't meaningfully reported on your country in months or years. You can crush your people with neoliberal austerity for years, killing hundreds of thousands through neglect, and face glowing approval from the media - but try and use state resources to benefit the poor, and global institutions start ranking you on the authoritarian dictator scale.
The best case for Moldova is that it becomes an exploitable hinterland for Germany to harvest and privatize as it tries - and fails - to compete in a global economic war between the US and China/BRICS. The worst case is that tensions with Russia over Pridnestrovie, as well as possible eventual NATO involvement (though Moldova is not a member, it is a partner of NATO), result in the ongoing war also reaching them.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Trump is saying Kamala supports "Muslim-hating" and that Liz Cheney is an idiot
Kamala losing the Muslim vote to the guy who did the Muslim ban would be one of the greatest Democrat moments yetChina says Australia 'plagued by systemic racism' after diplomat raises concerns about human rights in Tibet and Xinjiang
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-24/china-accuses-australia-of-racism/104513232
australian here to confirm that China is correct
I hate all zionists, but I have a particular spot for the bulldozer drivers. These aren't just your normal soldier who loots houses and takes selfies in ruined buildings. The bulldozer driver is the one responsible for destroying homes and running over people in very conscious acts, you have to be a special piece of shit to demolish houses with your vehicle, one by one. On the other hand, the military use of bulldozers is quite unique to "israel", even thought pretty much all armies use them. "israel" uses them very close to ongoing combat, usually armies employ them after areas have been cleared of enemies, but their bulldozers seem to follow frontline troops to begin destruction immediately, no time wasted there. I think this shows how much "israel" just loves destroying stuff, how their incursion into Gaza is simply to destroy it.
Remember that video of a bulldozer going through a refugee camp, running over and destroying people's tents, a bulldozer that you can't see but you can still hear destroying stuff, but then it comes face to face with a Qassam fighter that fires a very accurate RPG shot into the cabin? That is one of the most powerful videos by the Resistance that emerged from Gaza. Instant Justice I would say. These bulldozers are an integral part of "israel's" plan for Gaza, and seeing it get destroyed as it's doing it's work is amazing. The bulldozer works for the genocidal cause, the Qassam fighter puts a swift end to it, it's extremely symbolic. Here's the video for those who didn't watch it
And yes, this is related to that fucking piece of shit bulldozer driver who had PTSD and then suicided because he couldn't bear with it. Hope many more zionists follow him tbh.
Death to "israel".
Jfc Kamala is really doubling down on having Liz Cheney as her hype woman. Apparently they were campaigning together in Michigan today. I swear I’ve seen Liz Cheney have a more prominent role in this campaign than Tim Walz over the last couple weeks.
I saw a poll the other day that showed both Dem voters and independents are really turned off by the idea of having a Republican in Kamala’s cabinet
Kamala has worse political instincts Hilldawg, and that’s saying something.
So there's this spanish-speaking twitter account called "Palestina Hoy" which posts news about the ongoing genocide in Gaza and they said they have been blocked by twitter which prevented people from following them. That is true, when you clicked on follow and refreshed the page, it would say "Follow" again, as if you never decided to follow said account.
In total, this account had like 2k followers, while many of their posts had like 5k+ likes, so it's completely true that they were under blockade. The blockade was lifted after weeks and they went from 2k followers to 302k followers in mere hours.
death to twitter, death to elon musk and death to "israel"
Zionists are currently on a witch hunt for the leaker in the pentagon who released intel on Israel’s upcoming attack on Iran.
This is their current subject of attack, Ariane Tabatabai, an Iranian woman who works with the pentagon.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_Tabatabai
Only problem? She’s a mega gusano shill who is one of the most hawkish people in the administration on Iran.
Ariane Tabatabai (Persian: آرین طباطبایی) is an Iranian-American scholar of political science, writer, and senior policy advisor to the United States Department of Defense. She is a graduate of King's College London and the daughter of Javad Tabatabai, an Iranian philosopher and professor at the University of Tehran. Tabatabai is also a former researcher of "RAND Corporation" think tank, curriculum director and associate professor of security studies at Georgetown University, an international civilian consultant for NATO, the Middle East Fellow at the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and several other research institutes.
Tabatabai, in an article in the Foreign Policy magazine before the 2020 US presidential election, argued that Iran's economy is fragile and will be forced to negotiate, agree and make concessions, demanding that the winning US presidential candidate not return to the nuclear agreement and pressure for more points.
After the Biden administration took office in January 2021, she joined the US negotiating team in nuclear negotiations with Iran, but together with Richard Nephew, she left the team after a few months due to differences with Robert Malley, the head of the US negotiating team, and also because she believed that the US would lift too many sanctions on Iran and consequently the possible agreement would not be strong enough.
Remember this all sell out gusanos and traitors, it will never be enough. Your masters still think you are scum and will dispose of you whenever convenient just because of your nationality and race. I bet she wasn’t the one to leak this, but I sure hope she gets crucified publicly by her “friends” in the state department and pentagon
We have comrades here in Iran, hope you all are staying safe.
BIG BREAKING: INDIA, CHINA REACH AGREEMENT TO END BORDER CRISIS:
https://xcancel.com/MattooShashank/status/1848295216266227721Nothing ever happens take: They are temporarily deescalating because the BRICS summit is coming.
The dialectic is ever in motion take: China is preemptively closing a potential front in preparation for a front opening in Korea.
An actually wholesome video from Ukraine
Ukrainian men escape the military conscription and kidnappings of the Ukrainian regime, scream in celebration after reaching Moldova and play music while dancing. Just dudes being dudes. Honestly really happy for these guys, hopefully they can have a future outside of Ukraine.
Uncritical support on PTSD waging war on zionist scum that are returning from Gaza.
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Ok since it's looking as if Israel are in their final preparations for their attack against Iran, I will be posting the leaked US spy documents on Israel's preparations, along with trying to make sense of what they mean. This is going to be a long and detailed post (lots of potentially terrifying details), so I'll be completing it inside the spoiler tag below.
The documents themselves, and what does this potentially mean?
I'll start by just posting the two military documents, they are written in a lot of military jargon that I'll try and explain to the best of my ability, I have no real expert knowledge, but I'll do my best. Feel free to provide any corrections where you see fit, I apologise in advance for any errors.
In short, preparations for a large attack on Iran have been taking place at Hatserim airfield, involving loading Air Launched Ballistic Missiles (ALBM) onto at least six F-15I (Israeli version of the F-15E Strike Eagle) aircraft at the base, likely of type "Golden Horizon", but not certainly. A minimum of 56 ALBMs have been taken out of storage so far by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) in total at all air bases. 40 of type "Rocks" and 16 of type "Golden Horizon". More on that later. ALBMs being taken out of storage and loaded onto aircraft was also spotted at Ramat David airfield and Ramon airfield.
Israel have also been spying on Iran, within Iran itself, using some sort of stealth UAV of type "RA-01", operating out of a hangar at Ramon airfield. More on that later.
Israel also conducted a large scale practice exercise for their attack on Iran, involving one AWACS aircraft and three aerial refueling aircraft. The AWACS and refueling force is of a similar size to that which was used to conduct long range strikes on Yemen during September. No word on the size of the fighter aircraft force component though.
Israeli air defense systems in Arrow-2 and Arrow-3 continue to be deployed, along with the Navy being deployed.
Lastly, Israel likely has deployed the nuclear armed Jericho II Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBM) in a defensive position since October 1 2024, the date of Iran's retaliatory ballistic missile attack. There is no indication that this is an offensive deployment or that they will be used in the upcoming Israeli attack. But this is as close as we'll get to the US acknowledging the Israeli nuclear arsenal, and shows that nuclear weapons are in play.
What's interesting from these leaked documents, is that they reveal the existence of two weapons systems of which there is no public information on. The Golden Horizon ALBM, and RA-01 stealth ISR UAV.
The RA-01, based on the size of the suspected hangars and intended role, could be a propeller powered flying wing design drone, similar to an RQ 170 but propeller powered. Other suggestions involve an ISR version of the Ibis HA10 High altitude long endurance concept drone, Public research paper here, with the wings fitted on after exiting the hangar as the wingspan would be too large for the hangars at Ramon. It would also explain the US spy report providing details about a technical crew needed to prepare the aircraft after take offs and landings. I'll attach an image below to illustrate this, and yes, it's the highest quality image available. This is really obscure territory here. This UAV concept was designed with stealth and a flight time of over 24 hours in mind, so it's a viable suggestion. The twitter account that initially suggested it also got deleted, which adds some sort of credibility to the theory I guess? It's concerning that Iranian air defences have not been able to detect or engage this UAV type.
As for what this could mean in an Israeli attack, we'll start with the ALBMs. The concept of this is familiar, the most well known ALBM is probably the Russian Kinzhal, an Iskander SRBM converted for an aerial launch. Israel have a similar weapon in the Air LORA, a LORA SRBM converted for aerial launch. The "ROCKS" ALBM is weapon that we do have public information on. It's a weapon with a range estimated to be between 250-300km which gives it stand off capabilities, uses a single Sparrow booster stage (the sparrow series are a series of ALBMs that Israel uses to test it's Arrow and David's Sling air defence systems, they are designed to imitate Iranian ballistic missiles), and uses GPS and inertial guidance, along with an electro optical seeker, or anti radiation seeker. A ROCKS ALBM with an anti radiation seeker was likely used to destroy an Iranian air defence radar that was part of a S300PMU2 missile battery during Israel's April attack. Drones were used to stimulate Iranian air defences into action, giving away their position for the anti radiation missile to home in on their radar. The fact that 40 of these missiles have been deployed is very concerning and could indicate Israeli intentions to carry out a wider scale Suppression/Destruction of Enemy Air Defences (SEAD/DEAD) operation. This is a capability that Israel has already demonstrated against Iran, that Iran failed to stop last time round. We have also seen how effective this attack vector has been against US Patriot air defence systems in Ukraine, when Russia destroyed them with Kinzhals and Iskanders.
There is much speculation on what the "Golden Horizon" ALBM is as there is no public information on it, with many suggesting that it is the internal nsme for the Air LORA ALBM. I disagree, and think that it is likely a multi stage version of a Sparrow ALBM (in particular blue sparrow), readied for actual combat use. Imagery of such a weapon was posted by the IAF online a few weeks ago. It's still up on twitter actually. This would give this weapon a longer range in comparison to ROCKS, in violation of some of the missile treaties Israel publicly says that they follow, which is likely why it's been kept secret. These weapons would give Israel a great stand off capability with their long range, a range of around 2000km potentially. Israeli jets wouldn't even need to leave Israeli airspace to strike Iran. It was also theorised by some that Israel fired a few of these weapons with inert warheads during their strike on Iran in April.
What happens from here really depends on what Israel targets with their ALBMs. If they target Iran's above ground missile facilities, along with very limited strikes on air defence systems, I can see a potential road to de escalation, with Iran likely launching a limited drone or ballistic missile attack in response, similar to the April attack. If Israel carries out a large scale SEAD/DEAD campaign to open up the possibility for a further aerial campaign, and/or tries to strike Iran's underground missile or nuclear facilities, we could be on the verge of all out war. Such an attack would amount to a declaration of war, and Iran's response would likely make their October 1 attack look small in comparison. The resulting escalation ladder of such events could get really tall really quickly. I don't see Israel being able to intercept Iranian ballistic missiles over the medium to long term, which could lead to a US response if Israel is on the end of a large retaliatory strike.
A ceasefire alone isn't enough. As
said, even if the attacks stop now, rebuilding Gaza won't be possible. The blockade must go, other countries (especially the west) must provide financial aid for importing, there has to be some kind of jobs program. Else, people won't have any choice.What else would it look like? People living in tents until they die relying on foreign aid for living?
I recall seeing a tweet that goes something along the lines of "Sinwar is everything western media wants you to believe Zelensky is" and that got me thinking...
is there a term for something like reverse-projection? I dunno, like, when someone attributes all of their enemies' noble or good qualities to themselves or something.
On Kim Jong-un: "I told him to relax and build some beachfront condos"
It's a shame that Trump is evil, he's endlessly funny
"You were the happiest and most optimistic and frivolous person in the platoon. We saw it for the first time in Gaza, when you unauthorizedly burnt a house just to lift the atmosphere."
Another insane excerpt from the funeral of terrorist settler-soldier Shuva'el Ben Natan.The west is willing to gamble it's entire structure, it's many decades of dominance and legitimacy, before abandoning "israel" who is carrying out a genocide. Even at times where such genocide can be seen by EVERYONE IN THE FUCKING WORLD and opinion is turning against them every day that passes, they continue to be their unconditional ally and run grotesque propaganda for them. Well, I say let them die together with the zionists. When the zionist entity begins to collapse, the west will go with it.
death to "israel"
Mexico announces food and agriculture plan that could take the country back to the 1980s
Sheinbaum appears to have a deep interest in boosting beans.
The government aims to boost bean production by about 30% in six years to replace imports of beans, and will set up research centers to supply higher-yielding bean seeds.
“Self-sufficiency in beans is a goal the president has set for us,” Berdegué said.
Bean Queen
López Obrador also appears to have passed on his nostalgia for a 1970s-style Mexico — including passenger rail service, state-owned industries, tight-knit families and small corner stores — to Sheinbaum.
Hell yeah.
https://xcancel.com/AbujomaaGaza/status/1849047371608445287
They took all the children from their mothers and put them inside what resembled a pit or a hole. The tank came to circle around them repeatedly until their bones cracked under the pressure of dust and sand, amidst the screams of children and the wailing of mothers.
After that, the soldiers came and started throwing the children towards the mothers, and whoever caught a child was ordered to carry him and move away quickly, with no guarantee that the child would be their own.
Many mothers carried children who were not their own, and were forced to leave with them, leaving their own children in the hands of other mothers. This marked the beginning of a new chapter of suffering, with mothers searching for their children in the arms of other women, trying to calm the children they held until they found their real mothers.
Fuck the IOF apologists in the various IOF PTSD threads. "Uh aktually, they got PTSD because they feel bad about committing genocide." No, they got PTSD because Al-Qassam rained on their genocidal parade by turning their genociders-in-crime into red mist. They got PTSD because it dawned on them that the iPhone wasn't worth getting their legs blown off by a Yassin rocket.
I don't know if this has been posted yet:
ARMS Shipment to Israel Blocked by Workers of Piraeus!
- pamhellas.gr, October 18th 2024
WORKERS HAVE THE POWER!
Late last night the COSCO Dockers Union in Piraeus Port, ENEDEP, alerted its members and the unions of the area that a container transferring bullets to Israel was to arrive in Piraeus port so as to be shipped to the Murderer-State of Israel.
Read more...
Immediately the dockers and the local unions BLOCKED the port and did not allow the container to enter the ship “Marla BULL”.
The Unions and workers called openly the working class of the area to come to the port and stop the crime saying
“The dockers state it clearly, we will not stain our hands with the blood of the people”
The massive, immediate action of the people lasted all night, FORCING THE SHIP TO DEPART WITHOUT THE WEAPONS!
The Unions, that are also preparing strikes for Collective Contracts demanding better wages, confirmed that class unions struggle goes hand in hand with solidarity with the peoples and steadfast, in practice opposition to imperialism!
THE PEOPLE WILL WIN!
WORKERS HAVE THE POWER!
FREE PALESTINE!
Himmler Harris gives an awful answer to "could Gaza cost you the election?" (video)
check out this takedown:
October 7 is both the “first” and “most” tragic event. And the Middle East has “always” been “difficult” and will “never be easy.”
With brutal efficiency, Harris condenses racialized hierarchy, false periodization, weaponization of complexity, and disavowal of US complicity
Kamala Harris was asked just now whether she might lose the election because of the war in Gaza.
Her reply suggests real uncertainty about this issue.
from https://xcancel.com/triofrancos/status/1847763140572041391
From what I've seen, it looks like Kamala/Democrats have lost a bunch of votes from their usual voters (socially progressive whites, minority voters, Arab Americans, some leftists) because they refuse to stop the genocide (which they could do) or at the very least don't support it with those arms shipments. They don't even pretend to care about the Palestinians anymore, back then at the start of Israel's invasion of Gaza, they used to say it was a war against Hamas and not against Palestine or the Palestinian Authority.
But it seems that instead of trying to appease these lost voters, they first decided to manipulate the LGBTQ+ and other minority voters (especially immigrants) by saying that if they didn't vote blue no matter who, they would be sent to concentration camps or kicked out of the US (as far as I know, even if they didn't win the presidency, I'm sure the Democrats could easily block any bill like this in congress or the senate, but that would require the Democrats to actually work). And the first chance the Democrats had to throw immigrants (I don't think I heard Kamala say or offer any thing positive to immigrants, except that she wants a hard border, just like Trump) and LGBTQ+ people under the bus, they did (What the fuck was that about saying Trump wasted money on granting free healthcare to Trans people in jail?).
Now it looks like they've given up on doing anything to actually attract those people and decided they want to get votes from Republicans who don't like Trump. Which is very strange, because most of those who hated Trump in 2016 are now supporting him because they see him as a better option than Kamala/Biden. And those who really don't like Trump prefer simply not to vote. I think only Dick Cheney is really happy with what Kamala is doing.
He really loves Joe
Woke up to our national TV blasting patriotic music, joking how Iranians ran to rooftops to watch the strikes unlike Zionists who stop their cars and run to shelters. The footages that the media here are showing is pretty similar to Iron Dome interceptions, tiny little explosions in sky. So basically, we have declared ourselves victorious.
Have to let the time and patience do its job and show what have actually happened and whether Israel end it here.
I took a good look at a map of Lebanon today. Israel is on a suicide mission trying to win a war there. It's densely populated hills and mountains as far as the eye can see! It's hard to think of geography more ideal for defense and guerilla warfare.
Death to Israel, of course, and death to America for arming them.
Dumbass Burgerlander pilot offers proof that US planes have been bombing Palestinians and Lebanese:
https://xcancel.com/LezTonny/status/1849678294440083553It turns out the IOF scum who offed himself was bragging about bulldozing Palestinian homes a few months ago:
https://xcancel.com/malsaafin/status/1848471577135853978Article
On Thursday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed the sending of technical assistance to Cuba to overcome the country’s energy crisis.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has established contact with the Cuban government to have the Federal Commission on Electricity of the Aztec country assist the Cuban technical teams. Claudia Sheinbaum further stated that the shipment of fuel will be evaluated if necessary.
Mexico’s president assured that her country has always condemned the US blockade against Cuba for decades. «We will always support the Cubans», said the president.
He also reaffirmed the condemnation of Mexico to the US blockade against Cuba, one of the main causes of the energy crisis that the island is facing.
Sheinbaum assured that, in the upcoming vote at the United Nations on this blockade of Cuba, Mexico will ratify its condemnation of this unilateral sanction.
For several months Cuba has faced a deficit of thermoelectric generation, reaching a ceiling last Friday after the national Electro energy system was disconnected due to failures and breaks in the generation plants, which made the country dark.
As the days have gone on, the repair work of the generating plants has advanced, allowing more than 90% of customers in the capital to have electricity without power cuts.
Mexico, the United Nations, ALBA-TCP and other friendly nations in Latin America have shown their support for Cuba in the midst of the energy crisis, aggravated by the passage of Hurricane Oscar.
So now that the Israeli attack on Iran is over, there's been some chatter among war nerds about the fact that Israel struck some air defense sites and... nothing else. There is very little evidence of further damage or attempts to kill Iranian leadership.
In fact, I'm not aware of any credible reports of Israeli jets over Iran at all, which is IDF's main method of operation - using expensive stealth jets that get in close and drop cheap bombs. Saves a ton of money over using missiles if your planes don't get shot down.
The implication is that Israel is unwilling or unable to put jets over Iran, maybe even calling off that portion of the strike at the last minute. That massively limits their offensive ability against Iran. Makes you wonder where Israel goes from here; they can't meaningfully hurt Iran, they can't push into Lebanon, and their soldiers are killing themselves over going back into Gaza. What's next?
Cuba to Ratify Its Aspiration to Join the BRICS - Telesur English
Article
BRICS contributes to the creation of a multilateral international order based on democracy and fairness, FM Rodriguez said. On Tuesday, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez will participate in the BRICS summit, which begins in the Russian city of Kazan.
Previously, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel emphasized that his country aspires to join the BRICS as a partner of this economic cooperation group, which was originally formed by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
He was scheduled to attend the Kazan summit but decided to stay in Cuba due to the emergency situation caused by problems with the national electricity system and the passage of Hurricane Oscar through the northeastern part of Cuban territory.
In early October, Cuba formally requested to join the BRICS in a letter sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country currently holds the group’s rotating presidency.
The Cuban Foreign Affairs Ministry explained that joining the group as a partner is a “necessary step” toward achieving “full membership” later on.
During his visit to Russia in June, Cuban Foreign Minister Rodriguez also expressed his country’s interest in joining BRICS, a group that expanded for the first time this year with the inclusion of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the United Arab Emirates.
“For me, it was a memorable opportunity to highlight the priority Cuba gives to this group’s contribution to international balance and the creation of a new, multilateral international order based on sovereign equality, democracy, and fairness,” Rodriguez said at the time.
Cuba and Russia have strengthened their bilateral relationship in recent years, seeking to restore the close cooperation they maintained until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Government announces it will ‘dissolve’ Argentina’s tax agency
The AFIP will be replaced with a new, reduced agency and over 3,000 jobs are on the chopping block
President Javier Milei’s government announced on Monday that Argentina’s federal tax agency, AFIP by its Spanish initials, will be dissolved and replaced with a new agency in accordance with its mandate to “reduce inefficient structures.” According to Presidential Spokesman Manuel Adorni, 34% of public service jobs within the AFIP will be eliminated. As of Monday evening, no details had been released regarding the new agency’s operations or what the move means in concrete terms for the country’s fiscal infrastructure.
“AFIP will cease to exist. In its place, the Collection and Customs Control Agency will be created with a simplified structure,” said Adorni in his routine press conference at the Casa Rosada. According to the Herald’s sister publication Ambito, he did not accept questions after the announcement.
The new and reduced agency, ARCA by its Spanish initials, will be a merger between two preexisting government bodies (the tax and customs general directorates, DGI and DGA by their Spanish acronyms). It will be led by Florencia Misrahi, a lawyer who formerly worked for Cargill and is currently serving as the head of the AFIP. “The Argentina of fiscal voracity is over. What belongs to every Argentine is theirs and no one else’s. No state bureaucrat should have the power to tell them what to do with their property,” Adorni added.
A communiqué released on Monday afternoon described the AFIP as inefficient and highlighted the termination of 3,155 workers hired under former President Alberto Fernández. The communiqué refers to the administration as “Kirchnerite” in reference to Fernández’s vice president, Cristina Kirchner, who is often targeted by government discourse.
Adorni claimed that firing the workers would lead to savings of around AR$6.4 million per year. Both the spokesman and the communiqué referred to their employment as “irregular,” questioning the legality of their hiring. “The creation of ARCA is aimed at reducing the size of the state, eliminating unnecessary positions, professionalizing the agency, destroying circuits of corruption, and improving the efficiency of customs collection and control,” read the communiqué.
According to the Herald’s sister publication Ambito, the AFIP Board of Directors said it did not have “objections with respect to the reduction of political positions,” which the government referred to as “high positions,” because that is a power reserved for the Executive Branch. However, it emphasized that “dismissals will not be tolerated on the basis of political origin.”
lmfao
also
announced, out of nowhere, that the media attacked him and said he does not have sex with his sister or his dogs. Nobody ever claimed he has sex with dogs, but this is the current state of things.OP @SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net it's Pridnestrovie, not 'Transnistria.' 'Transnistria' is what the imperialist and neo-colonials in "the west" call it, to refuse the status of the country because it just means "[the Moldovan territory] past the Dneister (river)," as well as to treat it as simply a historical legacy, not of the USSR, but of its previous administrators: the Nazis.
Pridnestrovians don't want to be called that, consider it a grave insult actually, because it's literally the name the Romanian and German Nazis used for their occupation government when they carried out the Holocaust there (Transnistria Governorate). Pridnestrovie was deeply impacted and affected by the Holocaust, and the Nazi-occupied administrative territory of the "Transnistria Governorate" served as a junction point where Jews from surrounding areas were deported to in 'processing' for enslavement or liquidation or later transfer elsewhere.
It is a point of deep national consciousness, this experience, and of national pride that they did as much as they did to resist Nazism and to shield Jews in the territory [sci-hub link]; an uncommon phenomenon in most of Europe which saw huge collaborations and pogroms against Jews.
They by and large do not connect with the legacy of their previous occupiers who lay claim to them. During Catastroika and fashnost leading to the breakdown of the USSR, which caused the vicious resurgence of right wing nationalism, there grew large radical movements of Moldavian and "Greater Romania" fascists, who began demanding things such as the removal of all languages but Moldovan/Romanian, change to latin script, and expulsion of Slavs from the country and eventually in 1990 acquired power in the central government of the Moldavian SSR and started to implement their policies. It is in this environment that the Pridnestrovians had organized ad-hoc independence referendums, which were met with violent resistance by these fascist groups (just as we saw a much more drawn-out version of in the DNR/LNR in Ukraine) and declared independence --- because they feared an independent Moldova led by these people would not only directly abuse them as they had already begun to, but also align and possibly even unite with the core country of their previous occupiers and exterminationists in Romania. Pizzachev annulled their independence but they in practicality maintained it and after the failure of the August coup in 1991 they declared independence in secession from the USSR as well as Moldova. They even fought a 2 year long low-intensity war from 1990-1992 to maintain their independence (and in which Ukrainian Nazi volunteers fought against Moldova, but for trying to annex Pridnestrovie into Ukraine) resulting in the death of over a thousand people.
And so they do not wish to be called anything but Pridnestrovie, or the full name Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.
Most hinged genocide voter: A Kamala Harris supporter yells "I don't give a fck about Gaza btch" at a toddler to a laughing audience. (Context warning:
link.)Causally reading my city's subreddit and the
really just jumped out as I was reading a story about police recovering alot of stolen items from one homeless guy. The usual, "oh why can't we solve this?" Without any clue, suggestions of more police, more mental health institutions, except the heavily down voted guy who said the obvious "give them homes!" That pissed off all the people who I assume are threatened by people having safe places to live.The thing that really broke my brain was a heavily upvoted comment about how we really need to set these bad folks straight, you know break them through work, and literally wrote out "work shall.set them free". And I'm done with my local subreddit for a long while now. 50 upvotes, the guy who calls it out as being a fucking literal Nazis concentration camp motto is down voted and I can't even anymore.
Later our correpondent said that Israeli warplanes attempted to target three bases in the Tehran County, which includes multiple provinces. However, Iranian air defenses were able to intercept the incoming attack.
Our correspondent said that reports on strikes on the Imam Khomeini International Airport and energy facilities are false. However, explosions were heard in the city of Eslamshahr, south of the capital city Tehran.
Sources confirmed to Al Mayadeen that the Imam Khomeini International Airport and the Mehrabad International Airport were not targeted.
Don't trust fascist sources.
Israeli PM Netanyahu has rejected US Secretary of State Blinken's request to publicly oppose the 'General's plan,' a policy of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in northern Gaza, according to media reports.
There is a headline right now on The Hill’s website that says “Key Republican: US should consider direct military action if North Korean troops enter Ukraine”. This is one among many similar headlines this week. Just further evidence to what everyone here is saying, that this is an obvious way to manufacture support for direct involvement by NATO. I menan, this whole idea that the west “must” intervene if the DPRK gets involved… like, why? Why is that some kind of red line? I’ve never seen someone reasonably articulate why A leads to B but that’s because it’s bullshit of course.
Edit: it’s funny, reading the article itself there’s this nugget: “The White House said earlier Wednesday that Washington had assessed at least 3,000 North Korean troops are undergoing training at military bases in eastern Russia, with fears they will eventually be sent to Ukraine to fight alongside Kremlin forces” [emphasis mine]
So in other words, a small number of troops are training with a military ally an entire continent away from the fighting. But maybe they’ll end up in Ukraine eventually!
How much do you want to bet there’s more than 3,000 NATO “advisors” in Ukraine right now?
I think if Trump wins we all need to be on high alert for NATO trying to commit actual ground troops to Ukraine before inauguration in order to try and force Trump not to back out.
BREAKING: Former president Evo Morales survives an apparent assassination attempt in Shinahota, Bolivia. 14 gunshots against the vehicle he’s traveling in. His driver is wounded.
Evo Morales denounces having survived an ambush and assassination attempt on the Villa Tunari - Shinahota highway in the Trópico of Cochabamba during an apparent attempt to apprehend him. Bullet holes can be seen in the vehicle in which he was traveling.
Director of Radio Kawsachun Coca calls for the urgent protection of the radio station after shots were fired on Evo Morales' vehicle this morning, during which his driver was wounded. "We reiterate, at this time we need to close the entire highway of the Trópico of Cochabamba."
Bolivia: Thousands gather at the entrance of the Bolivian National Police in Chimoré in response to the assassination attempt against Evo Morales on Sunday morning. "We are going to encapsulate them here, not even a fly will leave here."
Statement: Bolivia’s Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) denounces an assassination attempt against former president Evo Morales
Settlers killed, dozens injured in ramming operation near Tel Aviv (Al Mayadeen, developing story)
Recent updates indicate that the number of injured settlers has risen to over 50, with at least 10 in critical condition and several killed.
LINUX HAS FALLEN. Now a piss ass slave to western control. "Open Source" no more!Jokes on me it never was!XENOPHOBIA / RED SCARE 3.0
Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
Linux creator Linus Torvalds wrote:
"Ok, lots of Russian trolls out and about.
It's entirely clear why the change was done, it's not getting reverted, and using multiple random anonymous accounts to try to "grass root" it by Russian troll factories isn't going to change anything.
And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren't troll farm accounts - the "various compliance requirements" are not just a US thing.
If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by "news", I don't mean Russian state-sponsored spam.
As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be supporting Russian aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too."
There was 0% chance the Germans would actually pay reparations to the Poles, but it's still sad that they've dropped the demand:
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/poland-drops-wwii-reparations-demand-from-germany--focuses-oIn 2022, Warsaw estimated that Berlin would need to shell out PLN 6.2 trillion (around $1.5 trillion) in compensation for damages inflicted by the Nazi occupation.
According to the minister, "the ball is now in Germany’s court," with the onus on them to "offer a creative decision." He suggested that the neighboring country could take care of the remaining survivors of the Nazi occupation of Poland and erect a memorial in Berlin to commemorate the tragic events.
Going from demanding $1.5 trillion in reparations to suggesting a cheap memorial tucked away in some obscure corner of some shitty park.
Burgerlander hospitals are resorting to using soy sauce instead of saline, due to a fluid shortage caused by the facility that makes a majority of the saline supply getting wrecked by Helene.
Very funny; I got banned from Reddit r/climate for posting this link - Liquefied natural gas carbon footprint is worse than coal, study finds
Being a European, I'm gonna do a personal media blackout starting from the Sunday before the US elections. Absolutely no media or news whatsoever until I find out who won the election.
My experiment will be whether I can infer from the general atmosphere change in my life who won it, without anyone outright telling me.
According to Israel's Channel 13, a "very large" attack will soon take place against Iran, after the deployment of the THAAD missile defense system has been completed.
Preparations for the attack are underway.Casualties are reported in the Israeli attack near Hariri hospital, where no evacuation of the population was requested.
3 dead dozens of injuredIsraeli forces storm Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, abducting patients and staff | The Cradle
The Gaza Ministry of Health issued a statement saying, “We do not understand how the world allows itself to stand by and watch the most heinous genocide and the most widespread systematic operation to destroy the health system and kill and arrest patients and medical staff without moving a finger.”
Right wring accounts like Jack Posobiec and Charlie Kirk are going around on twitter telling people the Democrats are about to release an "AI Deepfake" video harmful to Trump. Rumors I have seen are that they have Trump on video groping a GOP donor's daughter, or that they got him saying the hard r. I can't imagine either will make a difference, but should be fun to see the first major political video scandal in the post AI Deepfake US election.
I'm not familiar with this author/speaker, but there's a blurb from Sarah Kendzior that i've seen circling on instagram that I thought was interesting. It's about liberals accepting atrocities under Biden that they would not under Trump:
The full text is here. I think what I find interesting is that I've never really connected the psychological/social effects of COVID-19 to the on-going genocides in Gaza and Lebanon. Sarah raises an interesting parallel (one that echos Aime Cesaire's takedown of colonialism, imo) between the disregard for our shared humanity required to accept the '911 a day' COVID-related death rate to a similar disregard for humanity that allows them to accept today's genocides. It's an undoing of "civilized" values.
We're at a point now where Lebanon is being subjected to israel's Gaza Doctrine, and it seems like most people don't know or don't care.
If not a complete disregard for humanity, is it boredom? It must be more than race-hatred. Does the death and suffering become too much for our brains to make sense of it, so we stop caring?
Had millions of people not been killed by COVID, would the world be less tolerant to genocide?
Looks like the LDP, Japan's long time right wing ruling party that has been beset by scandals after Abe's assassination (greatest assassin of all time keeps racking up wins) has lost its parliamentary majority for only the second time in Japan's post-WWII history. They'll probably still end up forming a coalition in parliament because Japan lacks any actual opposition parties, but it speaks to how much the tide has turned against the LDP in recent years given that they lost to opponents who are bumbling, chaotic messes who basically have no platforms outside of "well we're not the LDP."
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remember all the times over decades we were told that The Candidate had to have a certain policy to satisfy the Cuban gusano community in Florida?
but now that there's a key demographic in a swing state that's crucial to victory, can't budge at all on enthusiastic support for genocide. sorry Michigan Arabs, have you tried being concerned about something that's amenable to capital?
So to recap: in just over a year, the entity went from commiting a genocide and opening up 2 fronts (Yemen and Lebanon) to commiting a genocide and opening up an additional 2 fronts (Syria and now formally Iran) making for 4 active fronts.
They flew jets over Jordan, and if what Iran said about countries letting the entity use their airspace is serious, then we can expect Jordan to be the target of Iranian BM and drones in the near future.
Depending on how big this strike is, we'll see if Iran destroys western oil and energy infrastructure.
https://mobile.chinadaily.com.cn/cn/html5/2024-10/25/content_011_671aa1f6ed50ccabe1506a0f.htm Israel hit Lebanese troops. Its interesting that they are not in direct war with Lebanese army itself and the army is just onlooking. Israel says their beef isn't with them as well
Iran mocks Israel’s ‘weak’ attacks as hardliners call for reprisal
A billboard in Enghelab Square, Tehran, on Saturday. The Persian reads: ‘If you want war, we are the master of war’ and the Hebrew: ‘Israel must be wiped from the face of the earth and this is the beginning of the story.’
I thought there was a longer gap between the shooting and the crying: https://x.com/RyanRozbiani/status/1849055989435093460
Here's more info on the hospital for which Israel is creating a narrative to bomb
Israel Makes Sensational Allegations Against Sahel Hospital in Beirut (Gaza Playbook)
Avichay Adraee, the Israeli spokesperson for Arab media writes in a post on X that Hezbollah is storing “hundreds of millions of dollars” in cash and gold beneath Sahel Hospital in Haret Hreik, alleging that these funds are earmarked to finance the group’s terrorist activities. The hospital conceals secret entrances and exits leading to a shelter below, he said.
Adraee goes on with news that Israeli aircraft are currently surveilling the site, and called on the Lebanese government and international organizations to recover these purportedly stolen funds and prevent their use for terrorism.
In response, Fadi Alameh, the hospital’s director, strongly rejected the accusations, called for Lebanese Ministry to investigate & asserted that Sahel Hospital has no ties to any political parties. The hospital, he confirmed, had been forced to evacuate.
https://nitter.poast.org/DropSiteNews/status/1848455800131620980
Was Israel part of the supply Chain, by chance?
In an incident straight out of a Hollywood movie: Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militants (formally known as the Janjaweed) in Sudan shot down their own friendly transport/cargo plane, owned and operated by their own UAE suppliers. The UAE operated aircraft they shot down was likely bringing in supplies and engineers to repair another friendly UAE operated aircraft that crashed previously.
The RSF shot down their own plane that was bringing in parts and specialists to repair their own damaged aircraft which they crashed... The level of incompetence and lack of co-ordination on display is staggering. The UAE cannot even stop their own proxies from shooting down their own planes!
Editing to comment on the South African driver's licence being present on the UAE plane, our sub-imperialist arseholes just can't help jump from one sub-imperialist entity to another. If it weren't so tragic it would be comedy.
Pretty good call outs of the Genocide Joe administration from the State Department diplomat who quit (with only a bit of backhanded shit like calling Hamas a "terrorist" organization):
Also, apparently Blinken went straight from Israel to Saudi Arabia. Hmm.
South Korea will consider sending Ukraine “weapons for defense and attack,” according to the Yonhap news agency, which cited an unnamed senior presidential official on Tuesday.
Yonhap also reported Seoul may send military and intelligence personnel to Ukraine to analyze North Korean battlefield tactics and assist in interrogations of captured North Koreans. In a statement, South Korea’s National Security Council called for the “immediate withdrawal” of North Korean troops from Russia and pledged unspecified “phased countermeasures.”
Last week, South Korea’s intelligence agency said North Korea already has sent about 1,500 special forces to Russia to join the war in Ukraine, and it is planning to deploy a total of 12,000 troops from an elite unit. U.S. and NATO officials have said they cannot confirm the North Korean troop deployment but have condemned North Korea-Russia military cooperation, including Pyongyang's supply of artillery and missiles for use in Ukraine.
The Ghost of Pyongyang? Imaginary DPRK soldiers?
Western countries have long urged South Korea, one of the world’s biggest weapons exporters, to directly arm Ukraine. South Korea has resisted, fearing this could prompt Russia to expand military ties with North Korea, which seeks advanced weapons targeting Seoul.
Most moral nazi army in the world
Dozens of Palestinians in Jabalia were abducted and taken to Israeli torture camps.
https://nitter.poast.org/ireallyhateyou/status/1849040092314194219
Praying for the safety of everyone under attack by the zionist regime. whatever cheap victory they're after, the zionists are bringing themselves closer to their own end.
death to israel
Footage from inside the car shows Morales seeking help as shots hit the vehicle. He denounces that the attack was carried out by armed and hooded men. Morales has asked for international support to leave the country, saying that his life is at risk. Morales is also the target of legal proceedings and faces intense political opposition, with the indigenous movement divided amid the tensions.
CW: electoralism
Harris needs progressive voters
(Fundraising email sent from the Bernie group, “Our Revolution”)
Recounts all the terrible things the Democrats are doing, takes no agency for them and has no answers other than we must vote blue for the “chance to go on offense to win progressive policies” and to “defeat Trump.”
spoiler
Harris needs progressive voters
A survey of Our Revolution members this week revealed something VERY worrying: 15% of progressives plan to vote for someone other than Harris or sit this one out.
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Rightful outrage over the Biden administration’s role in the horrors unfolding in Gaza has garnered substantial support for the Uncommitted Movement, which won 48,000 votes in Wisconsin and 100,000 votes in Michigan during the primaries. In 2020, Biden won Wisconsin by just over 20,000 votes and Michigan by 154,000. In Pennsylvania, our organizer Jessica said: “Some folks say they want to stay home on Election Day because of the lack of progressive policies from Harris.” And it’s not just Gaza. Disaffected progressive voters are citing frustrations with shifting positions on fracking and immigration as signs of the party shifting right.
While they raise valid concerns, the problem is that in a race this close, we need every single one of those progressive votes if we’re going to defeat Trump.
Our message to progressive voters is clear: we will NOT STOP fighting for peace and our progressive values in 2025 and beyond. But a Harris administration will actually give us the chance to go on offense to win progressive policies, rather than playing defense against Trump who is hell bent on taking us backwards.
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CW: Description of gore
An Israeli soldier testifies that he has PTSD from driving over both living and dead Palestinians in his bulldozer
Iran's Army (aka Artesh) have announced martyrdom of two soldiers which were killed by Israeli strike.
Also an Iranian newspaper, Asr Iran, wrote:
The fact that some internal sources have said that no damage has been done to Iran's military facilities and that all missiles fired from airplanes have been intercepted, is not true news; Israel has really been able to target some Iranian military centers, but it seems that the amount of destruction is low, regardless of the announcement by the official authorities.
One of the characteristics of an attack at night is that any explosions and fires can be seen from far distances with greater clarity. On the night of the attack, many Iranians across the country were awake and took videos of the affected areas with their phones in hand. None of these videos show a huge explosion and fire. Whereas if the explosions were serious, they would be clearly visible and could not be hidden.
If the missile silos were hit, "very, very terrible explosion sounds, from a single point, multiple times and at sub-second intervals" should have been heard, and its fiery effects could be seen from tens of kilometers away and for a long time. Such an image has never been seen. Even if it is assumed that the explosion of the silos is underground and does not have an external appearance, naturally the simultaneous underground explosions of tens and hundreds of rockets are recorded and published in real time by the seismic measuring devices that work at the global level. It turned out that there was no such thing.
Therefore, without shouting slogans, it should be accepted that Israel has hit several military targets in Iran, but the scope of destruction was limited, and this confirms the same theory that the recent attacks, rather than having a military aspect, had the task of transferring a verifiable political message; as if Tel Aviv have said to Tehran: As you reach us, we reach you, so it is better to be cautious towards each other and not to go further.
Are other fascists as fucking whiny as Zionists because Jesus Christ:
https://xcancel.com/JehadAbusalim/status/1849833002508935321Like, were the Nazis and Franconists and Banderites this fucking whiny as well?
Edit: Okay, this part is pretty funny. It's literally them going "OOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII" for 4 seconds. I kinda want to see the deranged eulogy in its entirety now:
https://xcancel.com/ahmad__slman/status/1849908716415357404yo dawg I herd you like concentration camps so we put a concentration camp in your concentration camp so you can atrocity while you atrocity
"Israel" sets in motion plan for Gaza concentration camps run by CIA-trained mercenaries: Report | The Cradle
Chapo just won the election in Mozambique! Let's see reddit ban the sub now
A major fire broke out at a US military warehouse in Busan, South Korea.
https://twitter.com/AlRadwan1234/status/1849445182971969832?mx=1Zelensky signs law allowing foreigners to serve as officers in International Legion https://www.yahoo.com/news/zelensky-signs-law-allowing-foreigners-221112304.html
According to Newsweek, occupied Korea is posturing at sending troops and “advisors” to Ukraine to counter the North Koreans. Absolute clown stuff. Acting like there will be a ton of DPRK prisoners when there are just some DPRK “advisors” currently and Russia is winning and taking prisoners at a way higher rate.
Occupied Korea wants to send troops and involve itself in a losing war where there advisors will get killed and captured as Ukraine collapses? It’s a clever way to get more troops to Ukraine without NATO involvement I suppose.
Cuba has now fuel for Gradual restoration of electrical service telesur
Minister Vicente de la O Levy expects the country’s electricity supply to be fully restored by Tuesday.
On Monday, the the state-owned company Union Electrica (UNE) confirmed that around 50 percent of Havana’s residents now have power, nearly 72 hours after the total blackout that affected the entire island.
The UNE also emphasized that its “people are not resting” as they work to restore the National Electric System (SEN) following the “national zero power coverage” event that occurred on Friday, which has only been gradually addressed amid repeated setbacks in recent days.
On Sunday, authorities announced that the current strategy to address this crisis is to reorganize the SEN into three regions to facilitate the startup of different generation units. The goal is to reconnect the SEN as quickly as possible to gradually restore service to the nearly ten million inhabitants of the island.
Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy expects the country’s electricity supply to be fully restored by Tuesday. The first total blackout was recorded last Friday morning, following an unexpected shutdown of the Guiteras thermoelectric plant, one of the largest in the country and considered key to SEN’s stability.
Syria state media claims car explosion in Damascus caused by Israel. Israel claims responsibility, says it was a strike on a commander of Hezbollah. Source: Al Jazeera
It was bound to happen, but they officially opened up a new front with fucking Iran.
God bless the martyrs
Ironic for two reasons,
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Strange thing to stomp your feet about, considering those generals went on to have Illustrious careers in the West German military. (Never ask a man his salary, a woman his age, or What the person who your barracks in the Bundeswehr is named after did)
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not entirely Hitler-like, considering Hitler hated Hitler's Generals. "I wish they had all been shot in the 30s like Stalin did"
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The amount of coverage the alleged “DPRK soldiers fighting in Ukraine” story is getting seems way more disproportional than what the story should merit, even if it’s true. I mean… so what? If this was being portrayed as “Putin is desperate for more soldiers”, ok that at least makes sense from a propaganda standpoint.
I think the answer is what I am now seeing in multiple news outlets: that South Korea may respond by sending equipment and maybe personnel to Ukraine. I think story is all a ruse to give South Korea cover to materially support Ukraine, which is maybe difficult for it to do without a pretext?
Follow up to my earlier post about far-right accounts trying to vaguely get ahead of some anti-Trump story they found out was dropping. A former model accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in front of Jeffrey Epstein immediately after Epstein introduced her to him at Trump's penthouse at Trump Tower. I don't really know who this is going to sway at this point who didn't already think Trump was a creep.
CW: SA
Stacey Williams says the ex-president, whose spokesperson denied the allegations, touched her in an unwanted sexual way in 1993, after Epstein introduced them
A former model who says she met Donald Trump through the late sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein has accused the former president of groping and sexually touching her in an incident in Trump Tower in 1993, in what she believed was a “twisted game” between the two men.
Stacey Williams, who worked as a professional model in the 1990s, said she first met Trump in 1992 at a Christmas party after being introduced to him by Epstein, who she believed was a good friend of the then New York real estate developer. Williams said Epstein was interested in her and the two casually dated for a period of a few months.
“It became very clear then that he and Donald were really, really good friends and spent a lot of time together,” Williams said.
The alleged groping occurred some months later, in the late winter or early spring of 1993, when Epstein suggested during a walk they were on that he and Williams stop by to visit Trump at Trump Tower. Epstein was later convicted on sex offenses and killed himself in prison in 2019.
Moments after they arrived, she alleges, Trump greeted Williams, pulled her toward him and started groping her. She said he put his hands “all over my breasts” as well as her waist and her buttocks. She said she froze because she was “deeply confused” about what was happening. At the same time, she said she believed she saw the two men smiling at each other.
Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary for Donald Trump’s campaign, provided a statement denying the allegations, which said in part: “These accusations, made by a former activist for Barack Obama and announced on a Harris campaign call two weeks before the election, are unequivocally false. It’s obvious this fake story was contrived by the Harris campaign.”
Williams, who is 56 and a native of Pennsylvania, has shared parts of her allegation on social media posts in the past, but revealed details about the alleged encounter on a call on Monday organized by a group called Survivors for Kamala, which supports Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. The Zoom call featured actor Ashley Judd and law professor and academic Anita Hill, among others. Survivors for Kamala also took out an ad in the New York Times this week, signed by 200 survivors of sexual and gender violence, which was meant to serve as a reminder that Trump has been found liable for sexual abuse in a court.
After the alleged incident, Williams said that she and Epstein left Trump Tower, and that she began to feel Epstein growing angry at her.
“Jeffrey and I left and he didn’t look at me or speak to me and I felt this seething rage around me, and when we got down to the sidewalk, he looked at me and just berated me, and said: ‘Why did you let him do that?’” she said on the Zoom call.
“He made me feel so disgusting and I remember being so utterly confused,” she said.
She described how the alleged incident seemed to her to be part of a “twisted game”.
“I felt shame and disgust and as we went our separate ways, I felt this sensation of revisiting it, while the hands were all over me. And I had this horrible pit in my stomach that it was somehow orchestrated. I felt like a piece of meat,” she said in an interview with the Guardian.
Israel has conducted airstrikes on the Iranian capital, according to Axios, citing two sources with knowledge.
Israeli military confirms it is striking military targets in Iran The Israel Defence Forces has confirmed that it is conducting airstrikes in Iran. The military said in a statement that it is conducting "precise strikes in military targets".
War on Gaza: Poll reveals most Germans oppose continued Israel arms sales
A new survey has revealed that 60 percent of Germans oppose arms exports to Israel, with a majority of voters from the country's three ruling coalition partners supporting restrictions.
According to a poll by Forsa, 50 percent of Green Party voters opposed weapons sales, while 60 percent of Social Democratic Party supporters and 52 percent of Free Democratic Party voters also rejected continued arms exports.
Opposition was particularly high in the former East Germany, where 75 percent of respondents rejected arms sales to Israel.
Last week, German media reported that several German leaders blocked the sale of weapons to Israel, despite Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s insistence that arms sales would continue.
Israeli Embassy in Brazil involved in scheme to illegally import Iphones. - G1 (Portuguese Only)
Federal Police (Brazil's FBI) carries out operation to arrest suspect of using false documents to remove R$8 million (US$ 1.400.000,00) worth of cell phones at Guarulhos airport
'Operation Fake Cargo' began when Receita Federal (Brazil's IRS) inspectors became suspicious of the documentation presented by the suspect to remove a 900 kg load of Iphones from Miami, USA. The suspect arrested works for the Israeli Consulate.
The target of the arrest is a driver who works for the Israeli Consulate. He was arrested by the federal agents, who are also investigating the involvement of other people who work at the consulate.
According to TV Globo, another consulate employee initially responded to the summons verbally, saying that the driver's operation was legal. It was only after the Receita Federal (Brazil's IRS) denied the delivery without an official response from the Embassy that this same employee started to say that they didn't recognize the operation.
Is this just more spying? Israelis laundering money? Or another operation to install explosives inside these phones?
There's been an attack against an aircraft factory in Turkey (the company makes drones). Many dead.
Edit: not much info yet, but there were multiple attackers, a bomb went off (possible suicide bomber) and there was shooting.
Speculation is that it was the PKK, but take that with a huge grain of salt for now.
Cori Bush stands up and shakes her fist at AIPAC...and promises to vote "strategically" for genocide, despite some alleged conscience buried in there somewhere. So fucking useless.
I am getting ads for some politician who was a marine and I kid you not, they have Jessica Lynch saying "He saved my life" you know the woman who famously was NOT in danger and who the US shot up a hospital to stage a daring rescue which she herself admitted to the press because she was ashamed of it. Like holy shit this is just the 2000s again
Just floating this to pulse how other, more knowledgeable hexbears feel, but I would guess Israel is planning to attack Iran further very soon and just in small enough waves to build up to bigger strikes not at once. Easier to not lose support from the west when it's constantly low-level and rising. It also would make the whole "knowing where air defense is" easier for Israel.
Idk exactly, but I am just not convinced that the Zionist entity is backing down when it's the classic cornered country, snarling and lashing out.
Per The Cradle’s Telegram channel:
BREAKING | Yemeni Armed Forces:
"We carried out a strategic military operation targeting an Israeli military base east of occupied Yaffa with a 'Palestine-2' hypersonic ballistic missile."
"The missile successfully reached its target, bypassing both the US and Israeli interception systems."
Interestingly, Russian media is corroborating the Reuters report that Putin has leaned into the "DPRK personnel in Russia" topic during a BRICS presser:
MOSCOW, 24 October — RIA Novosti. Russian President Vladimir Putin, responding to a question about "satellite images that suggest North Korean troops are in the Russian Federation," called them "a serious matter." "The images are indeed serious. If there are images, then they reflect something," the head of state said at a press conference following the XVI BRICS summit. https://ria.ru/20241024/putin-1979906877.html
I think this sort of "wink wink" non-denial from Putin really does suggest that DPRK military personnel are not just "in the Russian Federation" but somewhere substantive, perhaps specifically, in the Kursk region, most likely observing but also potentially providing auxiliary or technical assistance. The recent agreement that was just signed between Russia and the DPRK was a mutual assistance treaty and something of that sort would provision for the possibility of DPRK military support in the event of legitimate attack, which Ukraine indeed is conducting through its assault on actual Russian territory in Kursk.
This would hypothetically square the hemming and hawing from the West about the topic and is likely why most of the Western narrative on the "DPRK intervention" so far has had this tortured vocabulary of ambiguously accusing the DPRK of entering into the conflict without often explicitly stating that the DPRK personnel are in Ukraine itself. It explains how much of the coverage is more focused on that South Korean comprador president's threats of retaliation rather than taking a microscope to the alleged DPRK act itself.
It's therefore worth assessing this hypothetical scenario properly. The implications of this would be enormous, if true. For Russia, I'd say there's always been a sense from their side that they've been searching for a way to make Ukraine recognize some consequence for taking the fight into actual Russian territory (beyond the historical irony of attacking Kursk). The activation of a mutually defensive pact would be a way to do it, that can also be justified in terms of international law. The ability to reply to the Kursk incursion, which is costing Ukraine nothing but its least prized commodity - its people - by claiming the Ukrainian propaganda stunt triggered a Russian defensive pact clause would be the type of assertive rejoinder sufficient to deflect the passive image of being caught on the backfoot and stuck playing a reactive role, which is the Western narrative being pushed to create through the incursion.
As for the DPRK, if its relationship with Russia really has developed to such a public extent, I'd call this, without exaggeration, the most momentous paradigm shift in East Asian geopolitics since the DPRK's nuclear proliferation in the 2000s or even the collapse of the USSR. Especially if the South Korean lackey leadership is compelled, optics-wise, to respond to the DPRK's potential participation. This would begin a series of brinksmanship that binds the South Korean (and US) side in a Catch-22. Neither South Korean chaebol military boondoggles nor forcibly conscripting K-Pop stars into Ukraine would be ultimately relevant in shifting the fundamental NATO inability to alter the material conditions of the Russian attritional grind against Ukraine.
More importantly, given that the half-hearted character of the US role in Ukraine is being self-rationalized by the Pentagon as purely due to it "saving itself" for the great fantasized showdown against China, the diversion of any South Korean materiel and manpower away from the East Asian theater would be detrimental to the overall US military objectives of being still unable so far to fulfill that "Pivot to Asia." The idea that South Korea entering on the Ukraine side would bind irrevocably it to NATO and thus preventing such a scenario is "vital" can only come from a failure to appreciate that occupied Korea already hosts the largest US military presence on the planet apart from that within the former Axis Powers and therefore it was always going to be made to latch to the US side, willingly or not, when the moment finally comes. Furthermore, the fact that China is still officially "uninvolved" means that the Yoon government in Seoul would be restricted from using this opportunity to fully declare its subservient alignment towards NATO.
The more important factor is that the DPRK, through this hypothetical action, would put Yoon an impossible position. Responding to the brinksmanship would, for one, confirm their administration's tenure as likely the most deteriorated position since the Korean War itself and while the Korean Milei has been all too happy to sacrifice his country for US geostrategic aims whenever possible, something like this would likely be an outcome far beyond the administration's initial anticipations. Responding through parallel support for Ukraine would obviously also deteriorate South Korean relations with Russia and this is the most important thing. The DPRK's bilateral relations has always been, in truth, trilateral where Seoul rears its head akin that consent meme asking "Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?" Seoul has been able so far to leverage this since the DPRK's nuclear proliferation to isolate Pyongyang from its two major partners, China and Russia.
Gradually, this has become a zero-sum game to the DPRK's detriment, as South Korea has been able to leverage its economic relationship with China and Russia to make them reluctant to sacrifice this established trade relations in order to support the DPRK. We can see this similarly play out with Cuba, where despite the desperate current conditions of the heroic Cuban Republic, both Chinese and Russian support is still being limited by compliance to the threat of American reprisal. Seoul sending military support to Ukraine would give Russia a legitimate pretext to justify tanking its economic ties with it and reorientate Russia more firmly with the DPRK, something which previous administrations in Seoul had painstakingly crafted to be impossible for the Russian cost-benefit economic calculus to consider in normal conditions. This would be something comprador Yoon would be made to throw away for the sake of retaliatory optics and adherence to US vassalage, thereby inadvertently rendering renewed DPRK-Russia ties feasible, potentially even to the height it once had been under the USSR. Restoring the DPRK's relationship with Russia from an implicitly trilateral to a definitively bilateral dynamic would end the era of isolation it has been held under since its nuclear proliferation and would thus have a dramatic effect on its material conditions.
Even if Seoul merely gnashes its teeth and refrains from substantive action, this episode has already resulted in the fait accompli of strengthened DPRK-Russia relations. Of course, all of this is merely hypothetical and contingent on the actual circumstances of the alleged "DPRK presence" in Russia, but given a mutual defensive treaty has already been signed, what has already occurred has been a badly needed step forward for the DPRK.
Update from Korean Central News Agency (English Translation by KCNA):
Vice Foreign Minister of DPRK Clarifies Stand on Rumor of Troop Dispatch to Russia
Pyongyang, October 25 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Gyu, vice foreign minister of the DPRK in charge of Russian affairs, gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA on Friday as regards a rumor that the troops of the Korean People's Army are dispatched to Russia which is recently drawing public attention in the world:
I heeded the rumor of the dispatch of KPA troops to Russia, which the world media is building up public opinion.
The DPRK Foreign Ministry does not directly engage in the things of the Ministry of National Defence, and does not feel the need to confirm it separately.
If there is such a thing that the world media is talking about, I think it will be an act conforming with the regulations of international law.
There will evidently exist forces which want to describe it as illegal one, I think. (End)
Praying for the safety of the people of Iran and for israel to keel over and die asap. Typical dying fascist clown behaviour, lashing out at even more enemies as if they aren't already getting their asses kicked with the previous ones, just add another it's no biggie. This has NEVER been seen before trust.
Today marked the start of the important 2024 BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia Federation. Below is a selection of videos showing the arrivals of many important world leaders.
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s arrival: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/china-arrival:9
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s arrival: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/modi-arrival-airport:d
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s arrival: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/sa-arrival:4
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s arrival: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/iranian-president:c
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s arrival: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/maduro-russia:4
And a bonus video: a crowd of supporters greets Xi Jinping: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/welcomexi:9
I noticed a while back that Instagram will show highly politicized reels every so often (every 50-150 reels? or maybe more), and unlike normal reels where you can click on the 3 dots and press "Not Interested", these reels only have the button to block/report and "Why am I seeing this?" (which doesn't betray any useful information). At first, I assumed it was typical election bullshit because the first few I got were Kamala/liberal bullshit reels, which I swiped or blocked, but sometime in the past week there was a reel of a similar format that was very explicitly Marxist (in an extremely on the nose way), which I also couldn't dismiss with a "Not Interested". I have no idea what purpose this serves beyond the obvious of gauging the reaction of a person to different political leanings. What do they do with this data? I hate the algorithm age.
There really ought to be a group of people who dissect these systematic/algorithmic methods of manipulation. I'd imagine this is already being done by analysts/governments, but I mean in an open way.
Saying the following as someone who is fully on board with the idea that Trump or Harris are equally bad for Palestine; that there are no “harm reduction” choices and either one will mean that genocide and ethnic cleansing will continue:
I’m genuinely worried about Miriam Adelson and her relationship with Trump. More than the relationship between Netanyahu and Trump.
She’s already given Trump $100 million and she’s got over $30 billion more. She was always an insane Zionist but apparently she’s gotten much worse since Oct 7. The rumor was that the $100 million was contingent on Trump supporting the full annexation of the West Bank which of course her people denied but I don’t doubt it’s probably true.
From the FT
Israel launched a dozen attacks on UN troops in Lebanon, says leaked report
Israel’s military forcibly entered a clearly marked UN base and is suspected of using the incendiary chemical white phosphorus close enough to injure 15 peacekeepers, according to a confidential report outlining a dozen recent incidents in which the IDF attacked international troops in Lebanon.
Unifil has called these incidents a “flagrant violation of international law”.
When western troops are attacked it's flagrant violation of international law, when civilians are murdered by the hundreds of thousands is just sparkling self defense.
The attacks have drawn international condemnation. But Israel has stood firm. On Sunday, Unifil said an IDF bulldozer deliberately demolished an observation tower and perimeter fence of a UN position in Marwahin.
It's been four fucking days and we still don't know the results of the BC provincial election in
spoiler
NDP (mildly social democratic party) narrowly dodged a bullet by a surging Conservative party that didn't even really exist like two years ago. Problem is, it's a hung parliament, nobody got a majority.
The greens (who won two seats) have expressed willingness to prop up the NDP (by the most narrow of margins) but there's still ~49,000 mail-in and absentee ballots that they're not counting until this weekend for some fucking reason?
BCCP is absolutely Q Anon tier crazy. So all week we get to live in suspense not knowing what the next 4 years hold in store.
Link to the /c/canada thread with more details and links.
European public opinion is shifting against continued military support for Ukraine, particularly in countries like Germany and France, as living costs are spiraling out of control and trust in the political elite is eroding. This is the conclusion of a new study analysingalt 4.690 Facebook-pages belonging to European media, civil organisations, universities, NGO's and politicians. Whereas the amount of pro-war content has decreased significantly, the amount of pro-peace content had only seen a slight decline.
Mainstream media is trying to discredit the pro-peace position by framing it as one of "the extreme wings", especially the far right. Waning support for the Ukraine was is also being ascribed to conspiracy theories about nefarious Russian propaganda.
- Source: DR (state media), October 23rd 2004
https://fxtwitter.com/ConflictTR/status/1850203303474286635
Some rumours about Saudi Arabia Islamic resistance forming and attacking isfake. Only rumors. And footage seems to be belonging to Iraqi resistance
Is there non-libertarian crank discussing how amerikkka printing 5% gdp in debt per year and growing 2.5 % is not economic miracle, i feel like i'm going insane. Marxists don't discuss debt aside from big number scary/exploitative, mmt treat it as a joke, but is someone treating it is a process of (something)
I have a fun horror site for megathread nerds to dig into:
https://privatization.gov.ua/en/
Privatization revenues in 2021 are record-breaking over the past decade
Kamala is a female Rigellian from the planet Rigel 7 and is the daughter of Kang and an unnamed Rigellian.
First appearance: October 30, 2011
Don't blame me I voted for Kodos's daughter
Great point by Branko Milanovic regarding Moldova's EU referendum.
It is absolutely bizarre, but very much in keeping with how EU operates, to vote on EU membership when no-one is offering it.
Macedonia voted in such a silly referendum in 2018. Did anything happen? No new member was accepted for 11 years. Countries are in a limbo for decades. It is a waste of time & energy to think about it.
Moreover, to be accepted several countries (incl. France) require referendum which would definitely reject new members,
Referendums like the one in Moldova are meaningless & they simply add fuel to fire and destabilize countries for nothing.
Same thing I was thinking, there is no guarantee that any more countries, even ukraine, will actually get to join the EU even, they're just going to get in line forever. Which affects the countries' politics negatively (in the eyes of europhiles), ie Georgia
What EU does is to play an entertaining game. It displays to small countries pictures of wealth to come, countries begin fighting within themselves for these illusory pictures, and nothing real ever happens. What EU does is what in French is called "miroiter". You disembark in a poor country, show them in a mirror all kinds of glowing things, they get excited, and in exchange fo these images, they give you land. It worked wonders in the 19th century.
Both EU/NATO and Russia want to provoke conflicts and even civil wars in the European neighboring countries. Creating dissention and political mobilization over absolutely unattainable things (like EU membership which is a mirage) is the right way on that path. For small countries that are polarized in many respects, it is a suicide in this geo-political climate, to choose one or the other side. Neutrality or non-alignment is not just a "nice" policy. It is necessary in order to survive without a civil war. Libya & Iraq are cautionary tales.
Bernie Sanders to stream with Pokimane and Valkyrae in support of Harris
The Tuesday night stream is aimed at addressing concerns among Democrats and their allies that the left is giving up critical organizing spaces online.
This is how Bernie can still win. Also, wtf? There was legit a cat person vtuber in there lol.
Some news and combat footage from Gaza and Lebanon.
Palestinian resistance forces released more impressive footage of RPG and IED strikes on Zionist Merkava tanks and Namer armored personnel carriers in Gaza: https://southfront.press/in-video-palestinian-fighters-blow-up-israeli-tanks-in-gaza/
Lebanese Hezbollah resistance forces conducted ATGM strikes on six Zionist Merkava tanks in southern Lebanon: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/10/23/735792/Hezbollah-hits-six-Israeli-Merkava-tanks-in-south-Lebanon
someone please post that text thing aboutbeing weary of fake news
Resurrecting the USSR via Telegram? Uzbek Man Sentenced for Engagement With Soviet Revanchists
Based on reports of the case, it seems to be an all-too-familiar pattern of online indoctrination and radicalization.
A man in Uzbekistan was given a parole-like sentence on September 3 after a court declared him guilty of “encroachment on the Constitutional Order of the Republic of Uzbekistan” for his activities promoting the restoration of the Soviet Union.
According to media reports, 74-year-old E. Khasanov, an Uzbek citizen residing in Samarkand, was sentenced to 3 years of restricted freedom, including a mandatory curfew, a ban on changing his place of residence without permission, and restrictions prohibiting him from leaving Samarkand region. Khasanov has also been banned from using the internet.
This is from september, I read it last week, and I can't stop thinking about the piece calling a 70yo who thinks the ussr was good was a typical case of online radicalisation
DPRK flag spotted in Ukraine. Mil summary YT 10:20s
They say its just Russian trolling for now. The narrative seems like ever increasing Russian cope which I don't understand why, I admit its wierd but also I don't quite think someone right at the front(see the video geolocation) has time or reason to be bothering with internet memes, just a weird situation imo, why would you carry a DPRK flag around just in case?
To me this seems like the funniest narrative of the past year imo. Its going to be so funny to watch all these silly mil bloggers experts trying to justify the extremely obvious reasons why DPRK was willing to send some small amount of troops.
Meanwhile SK is officially taking the matter seriously South Korea summons Russian envoy to protest North Korea troop dispatch.
Some tidbits from Putin at the BRICS summit
2,000 Ukrainian military personnel are blocked in the Kursk region, the Russian army has begun to eliminate this group
Footage of North Korean soldiers in Russia is a serious thing, if there are pictures, they reflect something there... I will not confirm or deny Western media reports, but the DPRK is serious about implementing the treaty in terms of joint defense.
Kyiv’s irretrievable and sanitary losses in the Kursk direction amounted to 26 thousand people
Lol did not expect this
Maybe my little tirade played a part in prompting this?
Anyhow,looks like the referrendum will pass,almost all the votes are counted,with a very,very narrow lead for YES,so my silly little comment about hope kinda looks stupid now. My apologies to those tagged,it was the middle of the night here and I'd just woken up,and the diaspora vote wasn't counted yet
.Maybe it can be contested,but I'm not holding out any hope,looks like it's gonna be another Lucy football moment for the romance speakers of the east. Sad,but this is the post Soviet world we live in.
Also,I will reiterate my point,this is purely a Romanian endeavor,there is almost nothing in there to loot that either isn't in Pridniestrovie or hasnt already been looted other than some vineyards and farmland. It is the quintessential Eastern European agrarian nation,with it's land consisting of flatlands and plateaus. As far as I recall it is also bereft of any significant underground resources,so it's no Donbass. Most I can say is that it has maybe some potential for green energy,but let's be honest,who's gonna build that and with what money? You can't even say that they're an untapped labor market, Moldovans have been using their joint Romanian citizenships to work for pennies on the dollar in the EU for almost two decades now. It truly is the shining example of post Soviet decay and the power games played by the West in this region.
Edit:Looks like it's joever,50.46 to 49.54,with a 13.596 vote difference
I am counting down the days until Joe Biden gets his final "Lucy will let me kick the football this time, surely" moment with Netanyahu. When Israel goes ahead and bombs energy and nuclear infrastructure or even potentially uses a nuke on Iran, even though they pinkie-promised Joe they wouldn't, it's going to cement Biden's legacy as the most ineffective leader in American history......not the measure of justice he truly deserves, but at least he'll die one day in a nursing home knowing that he will be a laughingstock for future historians, and that he fucked everything up by trusting Bibi
Smallish news that happened over the weekend
An austrian nazi (Martin Sellner) was arrested in switzerland basically he was already banned in the country for you know being a nazi, decided to come here anyways to say some nazi stuff and got arrested. I thought that since he could do it in austria and germany he'd get away with it but I guess not.
I'm guessing he thought it play out the same as it did in germany where he was banned from the country, came in anyways and their government retroactively lifted the ban.
Edit:
Actually since theres some new news about this now the guy got got in the dumbest way ever, he wanted to protest being not allowed in and wanted to do a whole photo shoot of him shaking the hands of some nazis across the border but he got the whole thing wrong and he stood on the swiss side the whole time. Double irony he did it near the 'Nazifence' so....
He'll probably do the whole 'I didn't know I'm just a smol bean' and since he's austrian he'll probably get away with a fine but oh man just the dumbest guy imaginable.
Via PressTv telegram (Iran state media)
Tasnim News Agency citing informed source: Iran reserves right to respond to Israeli attacks
Old news, but a bunch of young Danes went on hunger strike to get their government to do anything about the climate. The result? They got to meet some politicians yayyy
transphobic law
Texas city puts 10k lawsuit bounty on trans people using the bathroom, similar to the abortion bounties.
Question for those more in the loop then I am, is this the first of its kind? I don't remember seeing these types of lawsuit laws for trans people before.
Former British special forces poised to deliver aid to new Gaza ‘gated communities’
Disgusting article
Preliminary results show the incumbent Georgian Dream (pro-eu, not pro-russia but more sovereignist than the opposition) winning today's elections.
It's funny because the media will sell this as a huge defeat to the EU because they were pretty blatantly backing the opposition, but ultimately the government still wants to join the EU, they're just not as cucked about it. Honestly there's a lot to be written (and I hope someone here does because I don't wanna do it) about what's really at stake in georgia and how it's not really pro-EU vs pro-russia contest, and what it means that the west insists on depicting it as such.
I recommend everybody listen to the podcast Remembering Soviet Georgia for the upcoming episode on the results election and anything georgia.
EDIT: At least 2 parties have said they won't recognize the results. Oh boy there we go again, all this over nothing
After a Deadly Strike Near Beirut, Ringtones Sound From Under Rubble
As search teams combed the ruins of residential buildings across from Rafik Hariri University Hospital just south of Lebanon’s capital, locals listened for signs of their loved ones in the wreckage.
Video - https://files.catbox.moe/brz8tz.mp4
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/bSkjD
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/world/middleeast/israel-strike-beirut-hospital.htmlThis photo gave me pause. It's safe for work but it's grim anyway.
Editing to say that I have now seen the new leaked documents, and they appear to be an obvious forgery. I will post it below, judge for yourself. To me, it reads like a fake document. Israeli media running with this is embarrassing. Maybe some sort of PsyOp? Anyway, let's be glad that it is likely fake. This attack plan was mad.
I will leave the rest of my post up, within a spoiler tag, so that the context for the replies below make sense. I hadn't seen the documents when making that post, and was relying on media reports. I will not make the same mistake again, and read any source first hand before posting, apologies to all:
My initial post before seeing the documents.
According to Israeli media, new leaked documents about Israel's planned attack on Iran have apparently been released, and from initial reports these documents detailed the planned second phase of an Israeli bombing campaign, after taking out Iranian air defences with air launched ballistic missiles in the first phase, which was the subject of the first batch of leaked documents. This second phase of the attack apparently would make use of bunker buster bombs on F-35 aircraft to take out hardened Iranian military facilities, along with using the F-35s electronic warfare capabilities to neutralise the remaining mobile air defence systems not taken out by the first phase of the attack. This was done with extensive co-operation and planning by the USA, and was set to take place on October 19.
Initial thoughts: this planned attack would mean all out war, and the first batch of the leaked documents were likely leaked to delay the start of this attack and prevent an all out war. Whatever motivation the leaker has to prevent the start of the war is unknown at this time. Could be out of self interest, they could have a conscience. The Iranian response to such an attack would likely be made up of the launch of over a thousand ballistic missiles at Israel and it's allies. The leaked documents also mention an Iranian cyber warfare campaign. In other words, all out war.
I will comment further once I view these documents.
News media here reporting that Israel claims their attack against Iran is already over. Is this true and am I right to assume the attack was not comparable to the leaked plans? This makes me believe that the leak was intentional, the worst case scenario, to give off the impression that Israel still holds escalation dominance.
A few of these seem a bit like duplicates, but here's a list of what Israel has "accomplished" in the last year, courtesy of some commenter on MoA
In short, a lot of death and yet also a lot of strategic failure.
Note that MoA is occasionally transphobic (not this post) and the comments on the blog are a zoo of heterodox political posters so explore at your own risk
https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/impending-betrayal-ukraine
Stab in the back mythos being written in real time.
In Denmark, chuds are mad about the succdem-led right-wing regime's proposal to ban foreign flags not being Draconian enough, as it only bans flags on full-size flag poles.
From: Calls the governments flag ban a weak effort: Why not ban Palestinian flags hanging from windows? - DR (state media), October 24th 2024
A fascist had to suffer the horror of seeing a Palestinian flag hanging from a pretty old building. Clearly, this should be a matter for the police state.
... both the Conservative Party and the Danish People's Party called for the new legislation to also allow the banning of things like Palestinian flags, which in some places in the country hang from windows and balconies due to the war between Israel and Hamas. "There should be no doubt that we would have liked this bill to be more substantial," said Mette Thiesen, the Danish People's Party's legal spokesperson.
She mentioned that she had recently been in Aarhus, where she walked through the old part of the city in sunny weather. According to the spokesperson, a Palestinian flag was hanging from the window of an old half-timbered house, which "ruined the Danish idyll," as she put it. "Can't the minister see that with this flag law, it's still possible? And doesn't the minister agree that it shouldn't be allowed?" she asked.
What if we made the law more racist and classist by enforcing it most in places where the poors and non-aryans live?:
"Just as we don't want other flags flying on flagpoles, it should also not be allowed for people to fly whatever flags they want, for example, in vulnerable housing areas or ghetto areas," said the Conservative Party's legal spokesperson, Mai Mercado.
China and Russia Have an Unbreakable Friendship: President Xi - Telesur English
Article
The sense of duty of Russia and China as great powers remain unaltered, he pointed out. On Tuesday, President Xi Jinping met with President Vladimir Putin during the BRICS summit in Kazan, where he reaffirmed China’s “unbreakable” friendship with Russia.
“The international situation is undergoing significant changes and turbulence, but this cannot weaken my conviction in the unbreakable strategic choice of both countries,” the Chinese President said, emphasizing that despite unprecedented tectonic shifts in several centuries, the deep friendship between the Chinese and Russians, and their sense of duty as great powers, remain “unaltered.”
Xi thanked Putin for the invitation to visit the Tatar capital and noted that this was the third meeting between the two leaders this year. He also highlighted that Russia and China recently celebrated the 75th anniversary of their diplomatic relations.
“We have taken the right path in building relations between major powers based on the principles of non-alignment, non-confrontation, and not being directed against third countries,” the Chinese leader said, emphasizing that BRICS is one of the most important platforms for promoting a new multipolar world order.
In this regard, he also stressed the great significance of the Kazan summit, as it will be the first BRICS meeting since the inclusion of Egypt, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and Ethiopia.
The Russian president emphasized that strategic relations with the Asian giant are an “example” for all countries, as they are mutually beneficial and not based on short-term circumstances.
“Russian-Chinese cooperation in global affairs is one of the stabilizing factors in the international arena. We intend to continue expanding cooperation on all international platforms to ensure global security and a just world order,” he noted.
Putin will host a dinner later today, which will be attended by the leaders of the nine BRICS members: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Ethiopia. Representatives from over 20 countries interested in joining this economic cooperation group will also be present.
Ukraine defense minister says lack of manpower is a serious problem https://elpais.com/internacional/2024-10-21/a-ucrania-le-faltan-soldados-para-frenar-a-rusia.html
And as always: Death to "israel"
From Aldanmarki on Twitter (the rest of the thread is also worth reading)
Truly fascinating development. A new armed group calling itself the "Islamic Resistance in the land of the Two Holy Mosques" has just emerged out of Saudi Arabia, announcing its existence with the launch of a drone towards Israel.
Thoughts, newsmega heads?
Some combat footage and news for today.
Russian forces captured a US-built “Bradley” infantry fighting vehicle in Kursk oblast: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--119th-Parachute-Regiment-of-the-106th-Airborne-Division!:5
A recent Lebanese resistance ATGM strike destroyed a Zionist Merkava tank along the border: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/zarit19.mp4
Lebanese resistance forces killed another seven Zionist invaders in southern Lebanon today (summary/report): https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/10/26/736044/Israel-seven-forces-killed-Lebanon-Hezbollah
Today, Kazan has unprecedented security measures. Mobile Internet is limited. Two blocks from the city hall (a large palace where the BRICS summit and the meeting of heads of state are taking place) there is no Internet at all. On the approaches to the center of Kazan there are heavy trucks ready to block the streets. Police at every intersection. And the capital's police in cars of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of Moscow. On some streets there is a person in uniform every hundred meters. It was surprising that a huge temporary tent with a large corridor leading to the main entrance to the building was erected near the city hall. The limousine drives into the tent, from there the passengers leave along the corridor to the grand staircase. That is, the security guards did it in such a way as to exclude as much as possible the open sky for the high-ranking guests. At the same time, the city, with the exception of a closed square and some central streets, is still free for walking. But the center of Kazan is empty. They say that all the universities and schools have been sent on vacation. By the way, kicksharing and carsharing are disabled.
Bolivia: In Cochabamba, reactivated fascist group Resistencia Juvenil Cochala (RJC) pulled Nelson Cox out of his jeep and beat him, streamed live within the last hour. Nelson was Human Rights Ombudsman during the Añez coup and a key witness in the trial against RJC leaders.
Received word that Nelson Cox has been released and he appears to have sustained serious injuries. Failure to prosecute and dismantle fascist Bolivian groups, like the RJC, has resulted in their reactivation and paramilitaries are today waging an assault against social movements.
This incident was streamed on his Facebook at 10:15pm, as Nelson Cox was driving near Cochabamba's Plazuela Busch. The live stream cut, he hasn't been heard from since. He was victim to these same fascists during the coup. RJC leaders, walking free, are terrorizing Bolivia again.
Ilan Pappé's book Ten Myths about Israel is really good
Out of curiosity, does anyone have a similar write up about the events/propaganda since Oct 7?
Things like
- Myth 1 Hamas beheaded babies
- Myth 2 Israel's most important objective is rescuing the hostages
- Myth 3 Israel tries to avoid civilian casualties
and so on, but, you know, detailed with sources
I have a few things bookmarked, but I haven't seen anything that collects propaganda bullshit like this in one place
The Israeli nazi regime continues its crimes against humanity
#Israeli strike brings down an 11 story building in seconds. People’s homes and lives evaporated. #Beirut #Lebanon
https://nitter.poast.org/mahamyahya/status/1848704982410723411
Danish Regime Supports Ban on Foreign Flags In new Controversial Bill
Observers warn of eroding civil liberties in a country where democratic institutions are increasingly under pressure and nationalism is weaponized to stifle dissent.
A new bill, scheduled for its first reading in Denmark's rubber-stamp parliament today, aims to prohibit the flying of any flag other than Danish, Nordic, German, Greenlandic, or Faroese in the country’s flagpoles—unless special permission is granted. The law comes amid ongoing efforts by the Danish regime to bolster nationalist sentiment and can be seen as instrumental in ongoing regime efforts to criminalise the pro-Palestinian anti-Genocide movement
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The flag controversy first erupted in 2018, when Danish citizen Martin Hedegård raised the American flag in his garden in Nørre Bjert, near Kolding, during a family reunion. Hedegård’s actions drew swift backlash from local authorities, invoking an archaic 1915 regulation that forbids the display of foreign flags. He was reported to the police, sparking a legal battle that would eventually reach Denmark's Supreme Court.
Despite Hedegård’s acquittal in the Supreme Court, the regime has pushed forward with efforts to reinstate the ban by supporting a bill spearheaded by far-right extremist Søren Espersen, who is closely aligned with the ultra-nationalist "Denmark Democrates" party. Espersen, known for his chauvinist views and close ties to Zionism, was the original proposer of the flag ban.
'Serves no purpose' Observers have denounced the proposed flag ban as empty symbolism, aimed at stirring nationalist fervor rather than addressing substantive issues. Carsten Hove, the lawyer who defended Hedegård in the Supreme Court, has been vocal in his criticism of the regime’s latest move, questioning whether the bill would even hold up to judicial scrutiny. “I don’t see how this law serves any purpose. It violates Denmark's obligations regarding human rights and freedom of expression, so it cannot stand,” Hove said. “In my opinion, the Supreme Court would strike it down if a new case arose.”
Espersen, who will be present at the first reading of the bill, dismissed warings that his bill is a violation of human rights.
“We have to trust the government’s lawyers, and I can’t imagine our government proposing a law that isn’t legally sound,” Espersen said, defending the regime's decision to push ahead with the controversial proposal.
Espersen also rejected accusations that the bill is a purely nationalist gesture.
“There are plenty of symbols that actually mean something, and the Dannebrog [Danish flag] is one of them,” he said. “I’m happy that we’re now having the first reading of the bill. I don’t think there will be many opponents. It’s a statement of what Denmark means to all of us. We have a flag that everyone loves.”
Regime Support Secured
Denmarks Social Democratic-led right-wing regime supports for the bill. So does the far-right "Denmark Democrats", "Danish People's Party" and Conservative parties, thereby making the parliamentary process a mere formality.
Peter Hummelgaard, head of Denmark’s Social Democratic-controlled Ministry of Justice, has offered full-throated support for the proposed law, underscoring the regime’s commitment to promoting nationalist ideals. In a statement Hummelgaard framed the bill as necessary for preserving national identity.
“The Dannebrog is the most important national symbol we have in Denmark. A symbol that unites Danes as a people. The government believes that the Dannebrog should enjoy a very special status in Denmark,” Hummelgaard said. “I also believe that this special status should mean that there should once again be regulations on flagging, so that it isn’t allowed to freely fly other nations' flags. It has been this way for more than 100 years, and it should be this way again.”
- Source: DR (state media), October 22nd 2024
Canadian province of New Brunswick minor electoralism win. The provincial Liberal party won an extremely strong majority over the incumbent Progressive Conservatives (and yes, that is legally what they call themselves, long story). I don't live in my NB homeland anymore but I do keep an eye on the news there. This is good news.
While normally an NB election has historically been meaningless as the two big parties have had basically identical platforms for decades, this particular election is a big win for trans people. The outgoing premier Blaine Higgs is a vicious transphobe who put other vicious transphobes in his cabinet. The incoming Liberal premier Susan Holt may be very liberal in economics but she's at least good on the social policy side, especially on LGBT+ issues. I'll take Holt over Higgs anyday. Higgs didn't even keep his seat in what is normally a PC stronghold. He pissed off so many people with his various bigotries that went on full display the last few years.
Nicolas Maduro: “The BRICS are the Epicenter of the New Geopolitics” - Telesur English
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“An economy that is not based on sanctions, blackmail, or economic coercion, but rather an economy based on cooperation, truly free trade, shared investment, and new technology,” he highlighted.
“The BRICS have already become the epicenter of the New Multipolar World. The BRICS are the epicenter of the world, of the new geopolitics, of diplomacy, of peace, and, above all, they are the hope for the Global South countries that aspire to development that we have sought for 200 years,” stated Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro upon arriving in Kazan, Russia, in the evening (local time) to participate in the BRICS Summit.
While speaking to the media, the head of state emphasized that his delegation brings to Russia the banner of equality and freedom, seeking the possibility of accessing a different economy. “An economy that is not based on sanctions, blackmail, or economic coercion, but rather an economy based on cooperation, truly free trade, shared investment, and new technology,” he highlighted.
The president also assured that Venezuela is part of this new BRICS world, and that his presence at the Summit aims to “share our dreams, our hopes for a world without colonialism, without hegemonism, without imperialism; a world where emerging superpowers can share with the countries from the Global South” that aspire to independence, development, and prosperity.
Furthermore, the head of state stated that the main expectation of the Venezuelan delegation in Kazan “is to contribute, from Bolivarian Venezuela, to the construction of a new world from South America, from our America.”
In this regard, Maduro reminded that there exists another America, one of peace and men and women who aspire to freedom and equality. “There is a non-colonialist America commemorating 200 years of the historic battles of Junin and Ayacucho; it is Our America, and from Our America, we tell the rest of the world that we are ready to build a new world.”
Referring to opportunities for consolidating Venezuela as an oil power, the dignitary recalled that the Bolivarian government has always envisioned the possibility of coming together in an economic project of development and cooperation with countries that possess the largest oil reserves in the world, such as Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Iran.
“In this space, which is the epicenter of the new world, we already have the four major oil-producing countries in the world, and Venezuela, modestly, comes to offer its part from an economic project of autonomy and endogenous development, from an economic project that requires a high level of investment,” he stated.
On this topic, he highlighted that Executive Vice President and Minister of Oil Delcy Rodríguez had previously arrived in Kazán to present a range of investment options to BRICS Plus countries and predicted good news in that direction.
He also mentioned that he expects to meet with the president Vladimir Putin and other leaders as part of his work agenda in Kazan.
10 US Air Force Stratotankers which are used to refuel fighter jets mid-air are on the way to the Middle East. Looks like Biden and Harris have committed the US military to join Israel’s long desired war against Iran. Did the US Congress approve this?
https://nitter.poast.org/KimDotcom/status/1849765137542152243
Given that Iran is currently under attack, the media campaign by Israeli media made up of fake leaked documents, discussed here, was almost definitely a psychological operation/PsyOp carried out by Israeli media and journalists.
Any journalist that carried water for this and claimed that the fake documents were actually legitimate after viewing the documents themselves, should be considered compromised.Those that didn't actually view the documents and reported on them could have been tricked, as other users have pointed out. I myself was tricked and fell for it before seeing the actual documents.The U.S. imperialism apologists still come out STRONG to defend the U.S.'s destruction of Ukraine. Whew.
https://old.reddit.com/r/BreadTube/comments/1gba2fa/hila_klein_is_a_terrorist/ltkhrdc/?context=10000
Perfect hit on a tank by Hezbollah:
https://xcancel.com/Lebnews2004/status/1849838941463040078https://tankie.tube/w/dH6nTx4gs9zUbfRo42k9Uj
A very large fire has occurred at US supply warehouses in the Republic of Samsung
I am suspicious that this was not an accident and there are shenanigans occurring, given recent events
Brazilian President, Lula da Silva, speech at the BRICS meeting:
Climate Change
“There is no doubt that the greatest responsibility lies with the rich countries, whose emissions record has culminated in the climate crisis that afflicts us today. We need to go beyond the 100 billion [dollars] a year pledged but not fulfilled. And strengthen measures to monitor the commitments made,” he said.
“The scientific data expresses an unprecedented sense of urgency. The planet is one and its future depends on collective action. It is also up to the emerging countries to do their part,” said Lula, recalling that Brazil will host the 2025 Climate Summit (COP) in Belém (PA).
Taxing the rich and fighting hunger
Lula took advantage of his speech to the BRICS to “publicize” the country's agenda at the head of the G20 - the group that brings together the world's main economies. Brazil, in its rotating presidency of the G20, has emphasized issues such as the taxation of large fortunes worldwide and the creation of a “global alliance” to end hunger.
“I want to thank the members of the group for their support for the Brazilian presidency of the G20. Their backing has been fundamental to making progress on initiatives that are key to reducing inequalities, such as taxing the super-rich. Our countries have implemented successful social policies in recent decades, which can serve as an example to the rest of the world.”
“The Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty is already at an advanced stage of membership. I invite everyone to join the initiative that was born in the G20, but is open to other participants,” he said.
War and Genocide in Gaza
Lula once again criticized Israel's military response against Hamas and Hezbollah and said that it is “crucial” to start peace negotiations. In front of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Lula mentioned the “conflict between Ukraine and Russia”, but did not emphatically condemn the invasion - as he did, for example, when he called the Gaza Strip “the world's largest cemetery for children and women”.
“As President Erdogan said at the UN General Assembly, Gaza has become the world's largest cemetery for children and women. This senselessness is now spreading to the West Bank and Lebanon. Preventing an escalation and starting peace negotiations is also crucial in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia,” he said. Lula also said that Brazil's presidency of the BRICS, until 2025, will have as its motto “strengthening cooperation in the Global South for more inclusive and sustainable governance”.
Libs were angry that Lula did not condemn/mention the Hamas attack against Israel.
Vaccines and artificial intelligence
Lula said that during Brazil's presidency of the BRICS, he will work to “reaffirm the bloc's vocation in the fight for a multipolar world and for less asymmetrical relations between countries”. The president advocated expanding access for poorer countries to technologies such as vaccines and artificial intelligence.
“We cannot accept the imposition of 'apartheids' in access to vaccines and medicines, as has happened in the pandemic, nor in the development of artificial intelligence, which is heading towards becoming the privilege of a few,” he said.
“We need to strengthen our technological capacities and favor the adoption of non-exclusive multilateral frameworks, in which the voice of governments prevails over private interests,” he added.
Brics 'common currency"
Lula praised the work of the New Development Bank (NDB), currently chaired by Dilma Rousseff, and stressed that it is necessary to discuss the creation of alternative means of payment for transactions between countries in the bloc with “seriousness, caution and technical solidity”.
“Now is the time to move forward in creating alternative means of payment for transactions between our countries. It's not a question of replacing our currencies, but we must work to ensure that the multipolar order we are aiming for is reflected in the international financial system. This discussion needs to be tackled with seriousness, caution and technical soundness, but it can no longer be postponed,” he said.
The measure aims to replace the dollar as the standard currency for transactions between nations. In the day-to-day life of the population of these countries, the local currency would continue to be used - like the real in Brazil, for example.
The founder of El Periódico has been released from prison and is now on house arrest. El Periódico is kind of like the Intercept of Guatemala, but much more prestigious and left-leaning. The founder has been through hell over the years for his reporting. Everything from kidnapping to mugging have happened and he keeps on going. He was arrested in 2022 for criticizing a former president and like anything in Guatemala, saying the fascist government is bad will result in threats from them if your platform is large enough.
Potential geolocation of the first S300 air defence battery that was struck in Tehran near Fath Highway and Mehrabad International Airport, seeing as no one on the internet has done it yet. I am no expert at this, don't consider this as fact.
Faint lights in the sky to the right in a vertical line could be Milad Tower. Two power pylons pictured on the left at co-ordinates: 35.653771,51.249357. Group of tress on the left with the house potentially at: 35.650934,51.247289. Potential target: S300 air defence battery at 35.687287,51.279712
This could all be rubbish and completely incorrect, I'm no expert.
Danish Muslim Leaders Boycott Government Meeting on Anti-Semitism In Reaction To Scapegoating
Danish Muslim leaders has boycotted a meeting with two government ministers on anti-Semitism, following hateful remarks and unfounded accusations from the ministers. They call for broader talks on both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, but the regime has yet to respond.
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At the last minute Muslim leaders in Denmark have pulled out of a meeting with regime officials scheduled to take place today. The meeting whose official agenda was to address anti-Semitism was initially perceived by Muslim leaders as a dialogue meeting but following a recent article in reactionary broadsheet Jyllands-Posten, the agenda has now shifted to what Danish Muslim Union spokesperson Urfan Ahmed describes as "a one-sided monologue" which would "create more division than dialogue". Ahmed stated that Muslim leaders "will not attend a meeting where the agenda is to shame one population group at the expense of another."
According to Jyllands-Posten, the meeting, organized by Social Democrat Immigration Minister Kaare Dybvad and Liberal Party Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs Morten Dahlin, aimed to "lecture" the Muslim community on so-called anti-Semitism. The article quoted the officials for intending to "make it very clear" that imams are responsible for what, in their view, are "pockets of Muslim communities where hatred of Jews and sympathy for terrorism thrive."
Islamophobia and zionism are widespread among Denmark's political elite who often conflate anti-zionism with anti-Semitism in an attempt to discredit the Palestinian liberation movement. Dybvad and Dahlin are both known islamophobes and the regime has taken steps to criminalise pro-Palestinian activism while allowing unhindered zionist hate speech.
In addition to cancelling today's meeting Muslim leaders extended an invitation to the two ministers to meet at the offices of the Danish Muslim Union to engage in a broader discussion on both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, but no response has been received from the government.
In a statement following the cancellation, the two ministers claimed to be at a loss. Kaare Dybvad persisted in scapegoating Muslims, saying that "Unfortunately, this says a lot about the difficulty some Danish Muslims have in acknowledging the problems of anti-Semitism and radicalization."
Dybvad has further made the claim that "the current atmosphere would change" if "imams took far more active ownership of promoting tolerance toward Jews".
Urhan Ahmed points out that the claims of widespread anti-Semitism in the Muslim community lacks solid evidence. The report used by the regime to back up it's claims was commissioned by Jyllands-Posten following last year's Al-Aqsa Flood and has severe methodological flaws, resulting in it being dismissed by experts.
He rejects claims that Islam has anything to do with antisemitism and says:
"It is very disappointing for me, and we are deeply saddened that this form of suspicion is coming from the top of Danish political life"
- Source: DR (state media), October 24th 2024
China condemns the US for planning a $2 billion arms sale to Taiwan.
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202410/28/WS671ed026a310f1265a1c9dee.html
EU put out a statement talking about irregularities and shit but ultimately not questioning the results of georgia's election.
On the other hand, the georgian president straight up says she doesn't recognize the results, that the EU shouldn't either and is appealing for people to go to the streets.
It'd be funny if this popped off into a coup because it seems really necessary for everybody involved and no one outside of georgia and eurocrats seem to care
Russia is doing cauldrons like
British pedophile turns out to be huge zionist (CW: Pro-SA/pro-CSA)
IRGC Gen. Jafari:
After the first Truthful Promise operation Israel targeted a point in Isfahan with several missiles.
He also said:
It is possible that Israel carry a small and limited strike in Iran. If they do something big they will certainly get a response many times worse.
And also:
Iran's response depends on the intensity of the enemy's attack. If they do something big they will certainly get a response many times worse. Such a matter has been announced and has been in our plans since long ago to deal with aggressions and conflicts, but I definitely and surely assure the people that The Zionists do not make a major and significant move, and whatever they do is nothing more than a desperate effort.
Maldova apparently has a very high soviet nostalgia and one of their main two parties is a Communist one, although it seems to govern more as Socdems. Still interesting and a little surprising that they would want to join the EU still. I’m guessing many voted yes because they believe their country will benefit financially from it?
After canceling his trip to Colombia, Lula da Silva has also given up his trip to Azerbaijan, where he was due to take part in COP 29
Lula's doctors have not yet cleared him for long journeys, due to the head injury he suffered. Cancellation of trip to COP 29 is due to logistics, according to aides.
UNIFIL tweeted another angry tweet:
https://xcancel.com/UNIFIL_/status/1849776733517434997Chinese embassy in Brazil sees attempted interference and says US makes 'irresponsible' comments about Sino-Brazilian relations
Chinese diplomacy reacted to a speech by a representative of the Biden administration in São Paulo. The exchange of attacks between China and the US comes weeks before Xi Jinping's visit to Brazil.
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The note was released on Friday (25) after Katherine Tai, trade representative for the Joe Biden administration, said that Brazil should analyze “the risks” of deepening trade relations with China.
Katherine Tai made the remarks while taking part in an event in São Paulo this week, organized by Bloomberg, when she spoke about the Belt and Road initiative.
In general terms, the initiative launched in 2013, known as the “new silk road”, aims to bring China closer to other countries through investments, trade agreements and infrastructure projects, including deals on highways, railroads, oil and gas pipelines and work in the energy sector.
In the document it released, the Chinese embassy says that the United States is making “irresponsible” comments about the Sino-Brazilian relationship.
“Recently, a high-ranking US government official who was in Brazil [...] made irresponsible comments about the Brazilian debate on cooperation related to the Belt and Road Initiative,” says the note.
“Such an act lacks respect for Brazil, a sovereign country, and disregards the fact that Sino-Brazilian cooperation is equal and mutually beneficial. For this reason, we express our strong displeasure and vehement opposition,” adds the document signed by the spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Brazil, Shi Yong Ren.
The statement also says that Brazil “deserves to be respected” by the US because it is a “great nation” that defends its independence and has a high international profile.
“Brazil does not need others to dictate who it should cooperate with or what kind of partnerships it should pursue. China has always valued and respected Brazil,” said the spokeswoman.
The exchange between the United States and China comes weeks before President Xi Jinping's visit to Brazil to take part in the G20 Summit - a group that brings together the world's main economies - in Rio de Janeiro.
Xi Jinping (Communist Party of China) is expected to take advantage of the trip for a bilateral meeting with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers' Party). In addition to the meeting with Xi Jinping, Lula will meet with other G20 heads of state who will be attending the summit, as is customary at events of this size. Brazil is the current temporary president of the G20.
I think that no matter who wins the election in the US, Brazil will push for closer relations with China. The CPC and the Workers' Party have grown closer, Brazil has also canceled military contracts with the US and Israel, replacing them with Russian and Chinese companies, and Xi seemed much more eager to talk and meet with Lula than Biden. I think that the only real difference will be that if Trump wins, this push will be faster, since Lula really dislikes Trump for his connections with Bolsonaro.
The sign of absolute desperation:
Nicholas Maduro made a technical stop in Algeria, the other person in the picture is the prime minister Nadir Arbawi, they just chilling ig
I read this recent think tank report on the German arms industry viz a viz Russia's
The exec summary and chapter 2 is worth reading, otherwise the main takeaways are that Clausewitz was right about industrial war and attrition, ukraine is getting rinsed, nato is not prepared for industrial war. A few other specifics:
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the authors estimate that the Russian military industrial complex can build the equipment of the current entire German army about 3 times a year
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on interception of missiles: Sample interception rates for commonly used Russian missiles in 2024: 50% for the older Kalibr subsonic cruise missiles, 22% for modern subsonic cruise missiles (e.g. Kh-69), 4% for modern ballistic missiles (e.g. Iskander-M), 0.6% for S-300/400 supersonic long-range SAM, and 0.55% for the Kh-22 supersonic anti-ship missile. Data on interception rates of hypersonic missiles is scarce: Ukraine claims a 25% interception rate for hypersonic Kinzhal and Zircon missiles, but Ukrainian sources also indicate such interceptions require salvo firing all 32 launchers in a US-style Patriot battery to have any chance to shoot down a single hypersonic missile. By comparison, German Patriot batteries have 16 launchers, and Germany has 72 launchers in total.
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the authors estimate that any slowdown of tank build out rate due to running out of older Soviet era chassis won't begin until 2026 earliest
Democratization of advanced strike abilities via proliferation of drone and missile technology is a big deal. It is so much more expensive to defend against these munitions than attack with them. The significance of current world wars are akin to Agincourt, with missiles and drones playing the role of the long bow
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Looks at the world:
https://xcancel.com/BenBurgis/status/1849195089743991065
Sounds about white for fedcobin (and he is not complete shit, if I correctly remember names)
I think discussion about these documents has been posted here?
Klips take for whatever that's worth https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/a-forged-us-intelligence-report-is
So far this looks like a limited strike and indicative of Israelis backing down to Iranian deterrence?
Hopefully I haven’t spoke too soon, I think only a small amount of targets so far.
The Iranian general spoke of two outcomes. A large strike from Israel that will be met with a return fire of 1000 missiles and all proxy fronts activating, or a limited symbolic strike to save face while backing down.
Which do we think it is? It benefits Israel to be ambiguous and make it seem like a small strike at first either way.
Today’s combat footage and news from the Donbass, Gaza, and Lebanon.
Russian forces in the Donbass recently destroyed a grouping of several more US-built armored vehicles, including a “Bradley” infantry fighting vehicle, a M113 armored personnel carrier, and M1117 and MaxxPro armored vehicles (18+ combat footage): https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--magnificent-catch-of-NATO-armored-vehicles-of-the-AFU!:b
Palestinian resistance forces released more combat footage showing recent RPG, IED, and sniper strikes on Zionist invaders in northern Gaza (18+): https://southfront.press/in-video-hamas-fighters-ambush-burn-israeli-armored-bulldozers-in-gaza/
Lebanese Hezbollah resistance forces destroyed more invaders and struck two Merkava tanks along the border (summary/report): https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/10/24/735904/Lebanon-Hezbollah-Aita-al-Shaab-Aitarun--Merkava
Number of Iranian martyers in Israeli strike on Iran's soil is now 5.
Source: Student News Agency (in Farsi)
Update: He was civilian
The Iranian media says in Sistan and Balochstan province 10 police officers that were on patrol were killed today by unknown gunmen.
Source: Mehr News Agency (in Farsi)
Germany Thuringia state coalition talks.
Tldr to keep out the far right it looks like it will be a CDU/SPD government but it needs support from Wagenknecth's party, some expected her to demand conditions related to ukraine, energy and immigration but turns out she's not really demanding anything much to support the coalition.
This naked capitalism on eurasian logistics paths is well worth reading
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/10/the-logistics-great-game.html
There is a lot of good stuff in this that I don't have time to summarize but I think worth understanding the zangezur corridor and alternatives that go around it to understand terrain of future sanctions actions to isolate China. There's a nice bit of western private equity grift in the three seas initiative as well.
This passage stood out me, though this isn't the main point of the article.
Today while the territory doesn’t fly a new flag when conquered, If we view it through the lens of neoliberalism and financialization of infrastructure, much of the fighting is over who gets to collect the rent.
Could the “rules-based international order” mean that the Russians can mine their resources, the Chinese can process them, and the Chinese can build it, but Western oligarchs must own it?
DPRK reports that it is still planning retaliation against ROK propaganda leaflet scattering and that they found more leaflets scattered on Oct 21.
The DPRK detective agencies' investigation into the drones from the ROK is going on and the truth behind the despicable provocation of the ROK military gangsters will be analyzed further in detail.
No one knows how our retaliation and revenge will be completed.
spoiler
Press Statement of Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of C.C., WPK
Pyongyang, October 22 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement on Tuesday:
The reckless infringement upon the sovereignty of the DPRK by the ROK military gangsters is a hideous military provocation that can never be pardoned.
Seoul will have to experience at first hand so as to know properly how dangerous act it committed and how terrible and fatal the consequences it brought on itself are.
A military provocation against a nuclear weapons state may be led to horrible situation, unimaginable for politicians and military experts in any big or small country in the world with their normal thinking to experience. So, there will be no such instance except one recently made by lunatics of the ROK and Ukraine.
Such deed can be done only by lunatics in the Seoul and Kiev regimes.
Seoul and Kiev are exact counterparts in going about begging and letting loose reckless remarks against nuclear weapons states at random without follow-up capability.
It seems to be a common feature of bad dogs bred by the U.S.
The DPRK detective agencies' investigation into the drones from the ROK is going on and the truth behind the despicable provocation of the ROK military gangsters will be analyzed further in detail.
No one knows how our retaliation and revenge will be completed.
A lot of political motivational rubbish sent by the ROK scum was discovered and removed in many parts of the DPRK on October 21, too.
The brute courage of the Seoul authorities to jump into fire with brushwood on their backs, far from reflecting on their conducts and being prudent, will bring the danger of destruction of all the scum. And they will be denounced by everyone else. -0-
www.kcna.kp (Juche113.10.22.).
http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/b02ea907dce5b8c1e3f89bc1ff090dcf.kcmsf
https://archive.is/pTLPylmao trump is going on joe rogans podcast today
Maduro and many cabinet members are in Kazan for BRICS https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/527415-maduro-kazan-brics-visita
Exam shows stability and Brazilian President Lula da Silva is 'able to carry out his work routine', say doctors. The President fell in the bathroom of his official residence on Saturday, hit the back of his head and needed five stitches. The presidential administration canceled the official trip to Russia on medical advice.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers' Party) was clipping his toenails when he fell off a stool in the bathroom of his official residence and hit his head last Saturday. The chief executive was finishing clipping his nails on one foot when he moved to start clipping the nails on the other foot, ended up unbalancing himself and fell off the stool he was using for support.
Btw, I recently saw a very strange video on Twitter of an elderly man (probably around 65/66 years old, who claims to be a journalist) saying things like: “Lula is a liar! Either he's dying or he's lying! He can't be president because he's going to die! Why doesn't he appear in public? All his photos are staged, just like that other Brazilian president (the first civilian president after the military dictatorship) who hid the fact that he had cancer and died a month later. How dare Lula and his RADICAL supporters criticize Bolsonaro, you see, why doesn't Lula talk to me? Why does he only talk to his RADICAL left-wing outlets? Lula didn't say he had the libido of a 20-year-old, and if anyone wanted to compare him to Biden, they'd just have to ask Lula's wife how good he still was in bed (Lula is the same age as Trump, by the way). Another lie! Lula doesn't have the libido of a 20-year-old!”
It was very strange for me to see someone who seemed to be on a normal news program talking like that, as if he was having a breakdown, so I checked the guy on Wikipedia and it seems that he was a member of the Fernando Collor government (which lasted about 2 years, stole poor people's bank accounts by freezing them and giving them worthless money). And he hasn't lived in Brazil since 1992. I have no idea what that was about, but it looked like the guy was really pissed off because Lula said he had normal sex with his own wife.
fuck
Brazilian Liberal Media has made some claims that the Lula Government will be against the inclusion of Venezuela into BRICS. Considering that all joinings require a consensus on the part of member countries, this would be a spanner in the works. I don't know if this is true or not, but it doesn't actually strike me as surprising. The Brazilian Government has a difficult relationship with Venezuela since Cháves.
On the one hand, there's the electoral issue. We are marching towards the second round of the municipal elections and any support for Venezuela galvanizes the right and the far right which are the majority of the country.
But on the other we do have the leaked CIA cables from way back when that claimed Lula had a difficult personal relationship with Hugo Cháves. Behind closed doors, the Venezuelan Government was considered difficult to influence or pin down, and a difficult partner to be had. What some might claim is a sign of sovereignty, others in the Brazilian side would say is a difficulty in cooperating in a time of american hegemony. As such, Brazil's government feels a bit miffed with the way their brokered deals during the electoral crisis in Venezuela were more or less discarded.
I guess we'll see the truth of things when during the next couple of days.
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Trump rally
cw: racism
From the very first speaker, Tony Hinchcliffe, the host of the Kill Tony podcast, there was a push to stoke racial animus. Latinos “love making babies … there’s no pulling out. They come inside, just like they do to our country.”
He added: “There’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico.”
The radio host Sid Rosenberg leaned into attacking Democrats, using ad hominem slurs to describe Hillary Clinton – a villain to Trump supporters who lapped it up.
“Hillary Clinton. What a sick son of a bitch. The whole fucking party. A bunch of dеgenerates. Lowlives, Jew-haters and lowlives. Every one of ‘em. Every one of ‘em,” Rosenberg said.
And Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host who lost his prime time perch in the wake of the network getting sued for defamation over promulgating false 2020 election fraud claims, went after Kamala Harris.
“As the first Samoan Malaysian low IQ, former California prosecutor to ever be elected president,” Carlson falsely said in a mocking tone of Harris’s racial background. “No, she’s not impressive.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/27/trump-msg-rally-key-takeaways
Primero
DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports that it will not confirm whether troops from the Korean People's Army (KPA) have been dispatched to Russia, but says that the action would be legal under international law.
Vice Foreign Minister of DPRK Clarifies Stand on Rumor of Troop Dispatch to Russia
Pyongyang, October 25 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Gyu, vice foreign minister of the DPRK in charge of Russian affairs, gave the following answer to a question raised by KCNA on Friday as regards a rumor that the troops of the Korean People's Army are dispatched to Russia which is recently drawing public attention in the world:
I heeded the rumor of the dispatch of KPA troops to Russia, which the world media is building up public opinion.
The DPRK Foreign Ministry does not directly engage in the things of the Ministry of National Defence, and does not feel the need to confirm it separately.
If there is such a thing that the world media is talking about, I think it will be an act conforming with the regulations of international law.
There will evidently exist forces which want to describe it as illegal one, I think. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2024.10.25.)http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/1b5206685a5dd88f86da517afd511712.kcmsf
https://archive.is/llF9qSome combat footage for today.
Iranian air defenses repelling Zionist missile attacks near Tehran: https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1849989075832328484
Lebanese resistance air defenses recently shot down another Zionist Hermes 450 drone: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/her450.mp4
A Russian Lancet strike destroyed a German-built IRIS-T air defense system near Krivoy Rog: https://southfront.press/in-video-russian-lancet-destroyed-german-iris-t-system-deep-in-ukrainian-rear/
Russian forces liberated the DPR settlement of Izmaylovka (west of Kiev-occupied Gornyak): https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--RFAF-Takeover-of-Izmaylovka-in-the-Kurakhovo-Sector!:1
Imagin thinking you can take on Radwan with losers like these:
https://xcancel.com/aliimortada/status/1849413025343693218Putin wants to keep Dilma at the head of the BRICS bank
Russian President Vladimir Putin wants Dilma Rousseff to remain head of the New Development Bank (NDB, the BRICS bank) in the next phase, when Russia would take control of the institution. Sources linked to the Kremlin have confirmed this intention. Rousseff took over the presidency of the BRICS Bank in April.
Russia currently has a vice-presidency at the bank, held by Vladimir Kazbekov, who was previously director of the National Development Bank of Russia for more than 15 years. During the BRICS summit in Kazan, Rousseff had a long conversation with Putin.
Now, the question is whether the members of the bank will reach a consensus for Rousseff to continue as president. The Kremlin, however, has shown support for her staying on.
Some news from the Donbass front.
Today, Russian forces liberated the Donetsk People’s Republic city of Selidovo (with a pre-war population of over 21,000) and the nearby village of Vishnyovoye: https://southfront.press/breaking-russian-army-took-control-of-selidovo/
Yesterday, Russian forces also liberated the small DPR city of Gornyak (with a pre-war population over 10,000): https://news-pravda.com/world/2024/10/26/809308.html
The US puppet dictator Zelensky is now allowing Western mercenaries to openly operate as officers inside the Kiev regime’s military: https://www.rt.com/russia/606561-ukraine-zelensky-foreign-officers/
First geolocated posts about what Israel has targeted in their strikes. Two S300 PMU2 (NATO name: SA-20B) air defence systems and a Mersad medium level SAM site around Tehran appear to have been targeted. Unfortunately as predicted, it appears that the S300 systems were not able to deal with either the Air Launched Ballistic Missile (ALBM) threat or stealth aircraft. The Mersad never stood a chance, it's based on a US SAM system that first entered service over 60 years ago in the MIM-23 Hawk.
Stationary air defence systems are sitting ducks with modern SEAD/DEAD doctrine. ALBMs with stand off range and anti radiation seekers than can work in GPS denied environments, stealth aircraft with modern electronic warfare capabilities, satellite imagery and spy drones, drones with luneburg lenses to bait your radars, and the good old HARM missiles mean that you are dead if you're standing still. The Gulf War showed this, and the Serbs showed it by moving to avoid destruction. Stay still and you're dead.
Prabowo inaugurated as Indonesia president. Seems like another far right head of state https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/20/asia/prabowo-indonesia-presidency-int-latam/index.html
US says evidence shows North Korea has troops in Russia, possibly for Ukraine war - Reuters
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SEOUL, Oct 23 (Reuters) - The United States said for the first time on Wednesday that it had seen evidence that North Korea has sent 3,000 troops to Russia for possible deployment in Ukraine, a move that could mark a significant escalation in Russia's war against its neighbor.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, speaking in Rome, said it would be "very, very serious" if the North Koreans were preparing to fight alongside Russia in Ukraine, as Kyiv has alleged. But he said it remained to be seen what they would be doing there.
"There is evidence that there are DPRK troops in Russia," Austin told reporters, using North Korea's formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Speaking to reporters later on Wednesday White House spokesperson John Kirby said the United States believes at least 3,000 North Korean troops are undergoing training at three military bases in eastern Russia.
The U.S. determined the North Korean soldiers were transported by ship in early-to-mid October from North Korea's Wonsan region to the eastern Russian city of Vladivostok before being taken to three military training sites in eastern Russia, said Kirby.
"If they do deploy to fight against Ukraine, they're fair game," he said. "They're fair targets and the Ukrainian military will defend themselves against North Korean soldiers the same way they're defending themselves against Russian soldiers."
In Seoul, South Korean lawmakers said that Pyongyang had promised to provide a total of about 10,000 troops, whose deployment was expected to be completed by December, the lawmakers told reporters after being briefed by South Korea's national intelligence agency.
"Signs of troops being trained inside North Korea were detected in September and October," Park Sun-won, a member of a parliamentary intelligence committee, said after the briefing.
The Ukraine conflict broke out when Russia invaded its neighbor in February 2022 and has since developed into a war of attrition largely fought along front lines in eastern Ukraine, with huge numbers of casualties on both sides.
The United States said the alleged North Korean deployment could be further evidence that the Russian military was having problems with manpower.
The Kremlin has previously dismissed Seoul's claims about the North's troop deployment as "fake news" and a North Korean representative to the United Nations in New York called it "groundless rumors" at a meeting on Monday.
Both Moscow and Pyongyang have also denied weapons transfers, but they have pledged to boost military ties and signed a mutual defense treaty at a summit in June. The latest numbers came after Seoul's National Intelligence Service said on Friday the North had sent some 1,500 special forces personnel to Russia by ship and they were likely to be deployed for combat in the war in Ukraine after training and acclimatization.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has also accused Pyongyang of preparing to send 10,000 soldiers to Russia. On Tuesday he called on his allies to respond to evidence of North Korean involvement in Russia's war.
NATO allies are consulting on the North Korean deployment to Russia, a NATO spokesperson said. A Biden administration official said Moscow might send the North Koreans to eastern Ukraine or to its own Kursk region, where Russian troops have been fighting to dislodge Ukrainian forces holding a chunk of territory that they seized in an incursion that began in August.
Mike Turner, the chair of the U.S. House of Representatives intelligence committee, said in a statement that U.S. President Joe Biden should allow Kyiv to respond with U.S.-supplied arms if North Korean troops “attack Ukraine from Russian territory.”
“If North Korean troops were to invade Ukraine’s sovereign territory, the United States needs to seriously consider taking direct military action against the North Korean troops,” Turner added.
https://xcancel.com/USEmbSL/status/1848951417261985834
Security Alert for American Citizens in Sri Lanka: The Embassy received credible information warning of an attack targeting popular tourist locations in the Arugam Bay area. Embassy staff are restricted from the area until further notice. U.S. citizens are strongly urged to avoid Arugam Bay and stay vigilant. Report suspicious activity to local authorities (119).
Anyone here got a $4200 (more or close enough) mortgage? Is it really that high now considering the housing price bubble?
I ask because it's mentioned in the Buggati song timestamp 1:16 from 2013.
Edit: smh posted on news instead of the other
its october 22nd in asia, kazan summit nothing ever happens gang where we at
Hurricane Helene damage estimated at $53bn, as US relief bill passes
If confirmed, this figure would make Helene the 10th costliest weather disaster in the United States since 1980, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The estimate only includes damages in North Carolina, but Helene devastated parts of multiple states in the US Southeast, killing 214 people, so the final cost could rank higher.
BRICS Summit: Lula and Putin Talk by Phone - Telesur English
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The Brazilian government advocates that BRICS maintain a balance in the representation of different regions of the world. On Tuesday, Brazilian President Lula da Silva spoke by phone with President Vladimir Putin after canceling his trip to Russia to participate in the BRICS summit.
The 20-minutes phone conversation focused on the domestic accident Lula suffered in Brasilia, as a result of which doctors recommended he avoid international travel. However, the Brazilian president confirmed that he would participate in the BRICS plenary session on Wednesday via videoconference.
On Saturday, Lula suffered a fall that caused a small cut on his neck, requiring five stitches. He is scheduled to undergo further examinations this Tuesday to assess his health condition.
At the BRICS summit, the Brazilian delegation is led by Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira. One of the central points of the summit will be the discussion of mechanisms to create a new category of associate countries within BRICS, without expanding the current list of nine forum members.
The BRICS group was founded by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Since January, it also includes Egypt, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and Ethiopia.
Currently, about 30 countries have publicly expressed interest in joining the forum, including Cuba, Venezuela, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Malaysia.
The Brazilian government advocates that BRICS maintain a balance in the representation of different regions of the world and that new members or associate countries have good relations with all forum members.
UN Secretary Guterres to Meet President Putin at BRICS Summit - Telesur English
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This will be their first meeting since the start of Russia’s special military operation in 2022. The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, will personally attend the BRICS summit in Kazan and will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Farhan Haq, the UN Secretary-General’s deputy spokesperson, confirmed that Guterres will go to Kazan as he did previously for the 2023 summit and “as has always been his custom when attending meetings of organizations with a large number of important member states, such as the G7 or G20.”
He added that the nations comprising the BRICS “represent almost half of humanity,” and therefore, the summit “is of great importance to the UN’s work with its member states.” Haq also confirmed that Guterres will meet with Vladimir Putin, as well as other leaders attending the summit, depending on their availability, as this is “one of the main reasons for his attendance.”
This will be the first time Guterres and Putin meet since the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine in February 2022. The spokesperson made it clear that Guterres will emphasize to Putin “his well-known stance on the war in Ukraine and the conditions for a just peace based on the UN Charter and its resolutions.”
icc shenanigans are truly extraordinary in their brazenness
Found this regional breakdown of the Moldova eu vote, it seems like some of the numbers indicate some abstention on the no side. Can someone translate and identify the regions?
The Country of the Week is Moldova!
Feel free to post or recommend any books, essays, studies, articles, and even stories related to Moldova.
If you know a lot about the country and want to share your knowledge and opinions, here are some questions to get you started if you wish:
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- What is the general ideology of the political elite? Do they tend to be protectionist nationalists, or are they more free trade globalists? Are they compradors put there by foreign powers? Are they socialists with wide support by the population?
- What are the most important domestic political issues that make the country different from other places in the region or world? Are there any peculiar problems that have continued existing despite years or decades with different parties?
- Is the country generally stable? Are there large daily protests or are things calm on average? Is the ruling party/coalition generally harmonious or are there frequent arguments or even threats?
- Is there a particular country to which this country has a very impactful relationship over the years, for good or bad reasons? Which one, and why?
- What are the political factions in the country? What are the major parties, and what segments of the country do they attract?
- Are there any smaller parties that nonetheless have had significant influence? Are there notable separatist movements?
- How socially progressive or conservative is the country generally? To what degree is there equality between men and women, as well as different races and ethnic groups? Are LGBTQIA+ rights protected?
- Give a basic overview of the last 50 or 100 years. What's the historical trend of politics, the economy, social issues, etc - rise or decline? Were they always independent or were they once occupied, and how have things been since independence if applicable?
- If you want, go even further back in history. Were there any kingdoms or empires that once governed the area?
Least Russophobic Baltic:
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/estonian-pm-wants-russians-banned-from-votinganyone else sad that Sonny from the Best Ever Food Review Show is now taking state department/CIA money? https://youtu.be/tFIOlpGPJcs
If you dig into the comments he replied to a guy asking how much money he was paid and he said enough for a new hot tub. could be trolling but I have no doubt he took money from the feds.
Kopmala heckled at the Church of Christian Compassionate genocide in Philly
can't make out what is protested. Organ starts playing and 
Every voice is important.Türkiye to Maintain Sincere Cooperation With BRICS: President Erdogan - Telesur English
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The BRICS countries, many of which are also members of the G20, cover 30 percent of the Earth’s surface, he pointed out.
On Tuesday, on the eve of traveling to Kazan, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised “sincere cooperation” between Türkiye and the BRICS.
“The BRICS countries, many of which are also members of the Group of Twenty like Türkiye, cover 30 percent of the Earth’s surface and account for 45 percent of its population,” the Turkish president explained during a speech to his Justice and Development Party (AKP) party.
“They produce 40 percent of the world’s oil, 25 percent of global exports, and two-fifths of global trade. These figures show the importance of the BRICS platform,” he added.
“Türkiye wants to sincerely develop its cooperation with BRICS, and I trust that the Kazan summit will serve this purpose,” Erdogan concluded.
The Turkish leader did not specify whether this cooperation would include joining the group, a proposal Erdogan himself had floated in 2018 after returning from a BRICS summit in Johannesburg, but did not pursue further.
“Our request is open; there’s a process. But there has been no concrete progress on it,” said AKP Vice President Omer Çelik in September.
According to Erdogan, Türkiye’s cooperation with platforms like BRICS or the Shanghai Cooperation Organization would not distance his nation from the European Union, as his country can function as a bridge between various international blocs.
https://xcancel.com/VanityFair/status/1849109939731706162
Apparently soros funded compact mag
Also didn’t know n+1 and jc were in the pocket
Ps. Also the comments are rancid, jesus
is running again for president. It is just dumb, it’s like he wants the next one to fuck up everything, cause people are tired of him, and will elect absolute muppet
here we go
from libs