Bulletins and News Discussion from November 4th to November 10th, 2024 - This is a Giant Problem
Bulletins and News Discussion from November 4th to November 10th, 2024 - This is a Giant Problem
Image is from this article on the excellent Canadian environmental journalism outlet, The Narwhal.
The Giant Mine just outside of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada is one of the country's largest recognized environmental liabilities. The mine's 100 plus year history illustrates the continuity between resource colonialism in the late 19th/early 20th century and neoliberalism at the turn of the millennium.
There were several gold rushes in northern Canada/US in the late 19th century, such as the Klondike. The Giant gold strike on was first discovered by settlers about the same time as the Klondike, but as Giant is on Great Slave Lake (named for an Anglicization of the name of local peoples, not after slavery) instead of the Pacific Ocean, it is much less accessible and didn't take off like the Klondike. Parallel with displacement of local Yellowknives Dene people https://ykdene.com/, the town of Yellowknife sprung up around small mining operations through the 30s. It wasn't until after WW2 that the mine was developed at a large scale. Starting operation in 1948, Giant was owned by a Canadian mining conglomerate through the 80s, then some Australians, and for the last ten years of its operating life, by Americans, who went bankrupt and abandoned the property in 1999. The Canadian federal government is responsible for the site and its remediation now, similar to the way the EPA has Superfund sites in the USA.
The project is infamous for poisoning the people and environment of the surrounding area through arsenic poisoning. The ore at giant is arsenopyrite, an arsenic sulphide mineral that often contains gold. Roasting it in large furnaces or kilns releases the gold as well as fine arsenic trioxide dust. The most infamous arsenic poisoning incident was in 1951 when a Yellowknives Dene toddler in died after eating contaminated snow in the fallout area, 2 kilometers from the processing mill's smokestack. Over the years, improvements to the mill reduced the amount of toxic dust released to the environment. This is better than blasting it into the air wildly, but meant that the site accumulated hundreds of thousands of tonnes of arsenic trioxide dust that they chucked in empty mine workings underground. Unfortunately, arsenic trioxide dissolves in water as easily as sugar and so represents a tremendous risk to groundwater and waterbodies nearby, like Great Slave Lake and Yellowknife's water supply.
Arsenic issues contributed to labour disputes as well. In 1991 the union workers of the plant went on strike, refusing management's demand to reduce their salary and wanting better safety measures for workers . The company brought in Pinkertons and strikebreakers, backed by RCMP thugs. The situation escalated, culminating in a bomb planted on a train track deep in the mine. When it was triggered, it killed 6 scabs and 3 Pinkertons. For the next year, the RCMP interrogated mine workers, their family and community without determining who did it, supporting the company in their refusal to sign a new contract until an arrest was made. Finally a worker named Roger Warren confessed to doing it alone and was sentenced to life in prison. He was released in 2014 and died in 2017.
Since 1999, the site has been the responsibility of the Canadian federal government and is being every so gradually remediated. Operated through what are effectively private-public partnership contracts, environmental engineering companies are attempting to clean up and isolate the huge amounts of arsenic trioxide dust. The concept is move the dust into specially ventilated chambers of the underground mine, where it is frozen in place and thus prevented from leaching into groundwater. Active remediation is supposed to be finished in about 15 years at a cost of $1 billion CAD, but will surely take longer and cost more than this. Also, freezing material in place will definitely work because the climate isn't changing, and the Canadian north is definitely not seeing extreme levels of temperature rise.
After active works are complete, the site will require perpetual care.
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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.
I understand everyone is excited that chairman 72T isn't home but that's no reason to track american electoralism all over this thread
take it to the containment thread or c/electoralism . you don't have to go home but you can't stay here
Edit: I've been informed that a second ban has hit the containment thread and it is now closed. I have also been requested by 1% of the hexbear electorate to maintain the red terror on low effort electoralism posts.
For the rest of the week, high effort electoralism posts are allowed but low effort posting will be deleted and you will never reach Valhalla.
@carpoftruth@hexbear.net is hosting the news megathread this week while I'm busy irl!
Make sure to head to the US electoral containment thread for everything to do with the election on a domestic level, as we don't want too much US-centric news to flood this thread. Discussion of Harris' or Trump's potential geopolitical impacts is still perfectly fine here.
https://xcancel.com/TameeOliveFern/status/1853136289144459387
Remember all that talk about Hamas “stealing aid”?
As it turned out & via Israeli media: Hamas chief Sinwar didn’t eat anything in his last three days alive.
An American soldier has died in Israel. US military won't say how he was killed other than that it was non-combat related, which sure is interesting.
Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico's first Jewish president: “I'd like to thank Jesus for accompanying me.” The co-chair of @DemMaj4Israel tried to smear the incoming Mexican president by implying she isn't Jewish enough. He said she even "thanked Jesus for her victory." There was just one catch. She was thanking her HUSBAND, whose NAME is Jesús María Tarriba.
The onion is on top of the hexbear mass line
Neo-Nazi Pulls Off Surprise Victory In Long-Held KKK District | Onion News Network
This US election outcome seems to be testing the resolve of a lot of leftists who were earlier discussing how both parties served the same masters and change wouldn’t be that different under either one. A lot of them have quickly turned to doomerism after years of seemingly expecting this outcome.
In Guatemala it’s more of a shoulder shrug. We weren’t expecting much from Kamala and Trump didn’t really have any major impact on us. No more than every other President that’s been increasingly anti-immigrant
They took down Palestine’s flag and then it all started.
An eyewitness stated: “It all kicked off when they pulled a Palestinian flag off a facade. Then they started provoking and destroyed a taxi driver's car and beat up the driver themselves.”
Some Maccabi fans were seen with metal chains, ready to attack.
Also during tonight’s match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv, the Israeli supporters refused to hold a minute of silence for Valencia flood victims. They even started illegal fireworks.
They sang racist extermination songs
“Let the IDF win to Fuck the Arabs”
Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans chant their genocidal song while being protected by the police in Amsterdam, this song they’re chanting has a part that says “there are no schools in Gaza because there are no children left”.
The decision to include the Gaza genocide in the list followed Wikipedia’s formal Request for Comment process, which began in July. Editors supporting the inclusion argued that it met the page’s criteria of events “classified by significant scholarship” as genocide. They also pointed out that the Gaza situation had stronger scholarly consensus than some existing entries on the list, such as the Darfur and Rohingya genocides.
Even
pedia has agreed that it is genocide, in case any libs in your life still have doubts they love Wikipedia don't they?US officially announced donald trump as the next elected president, all the news sites from CNN to FOX have called it for trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/11/06/trump-harris-presidential-election-live-updates/ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/11/5/us-election-results-live-polls-shut-in-trump-harris-indiana-kentucky-race https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/2024-presidential-election-results-news https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/election-trump-harris-11-06-24/index.html
it seems kamala's strategy of not trying fucking flopped, who knew?
It also seems that republicans have gained a majority in every branch of government. the senate and the governors have a republican majority, while the house is still heavily contested, but leaning towards republicans.
what does this change? nothing. America is descending towards fascism either way.
The events in Amsterdam were totally like the Kristallnacht!
... except that it was a gang of fascist hooligan tourists and not a persecuted minority that got beat up.
... and except that the people who got beat up were not innocent but had spent their entire time there provoking locals and starting fights.
... and except that no buildings were burned down and nobody was killed.
... and except that the authorities were attempting to stop it from happening instead of actively participating.
But other than that, it was totally like the Kristallnacht.
https://xcancel.com/AryJeay/status/1854662797185188348#m
Ansarallah took down another US Reaper drone.
What's the count at now? 13? Why do they just keep sending them???
BRICS need to start pushing de-dollarisation urgently given the current geopolitical situation. They had a golden opportunity in 2022-2023, and decided not to. That decison could bite us in the ass...
Hopefully Trump winning will kill the liberal delusion that we in the global south can reconciliate and negotiate with the imperial triad of the USA, Western Europe and Japan. Especially the USA of course. Fear of Trump seems to mobilise the liberals in situations where they'd otherwise stay quiet.
On this sad day the Lenin museum in Finland is closed.
The warmongering nation and it's revisionist bourgeoisie will reopen the museum at a later date as "the museum of eastern relations", the name will be Nootti which refers to the diplomatic note the Soviet Union sent Finland that was used heavily as an anti-communist propaganda tool that coloured for example my childhood and the discussions around finlandization (the CIA term that is now being plastered on Ukraine and Georgia, searcing for this term nowadays is eye-opening)
The museum was the birthplace of the Soviet Union.
Edit. Adding that the statement of the new museum (that you can find in the link) claims that there was no external influence in this decision. This is absolutely not true. There has been media discourse, opinion pieces and the curator of the museum is a turbolib who was first in line to say sorry about the museums name when the ukraine crisis started. They have also removed statues of Lenin and renamed places with his name in them in the country in the last few years.
The word "nuance" is used a lot in this explainer of the new museum, it doesn't take a genius to see this for what it is.
JERUSALEM POST - "Just in case: Mossad agents to join Maccabi Tel Aviv FC trip to Amsterdam"
spoiler
In the first year of a revamped format, the yellow-and-blue currently sit in 34th place out of 36 teams in the Europa League, with three losses from three games.
After a disappointing 1-0 league loss to Ironi Kiryat Shmona, Maccabi Tel Aviv is refocusing on European competition, set to face Ajax in Amsterdam on Thursday night. The yellow-and-blue will aim to secure its first points in the UEFA Europa League group stage.
As with all Israeli teams playing in Europe over the past year, security concerns are paramount. On Tuesday, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported that, in addition to Maccabi’s regular security personnel, Mossad agents will join the team in Amsterdam to provide maximum protection.
On Monday, Spain’s AS newspaper reported that a pro-Palestinian group is planning a major protest outside the stadium targeting the Israeli team and its fans, with an estimated 2,600 supporters expected from Israel.
Calls for the match's cancellation
Throughout Amsterdam, posters have appeared calling for the match’s cancellation and demanding Israel’s removal from UEFA. Notably, Ajax, often recognized as a club with Jewish ties, is widely considered pro-Israel.
Throughout Amsterdam, posters have appeared calling for the match’s cancellation and demanding Israel’s removal from UEFA. Notably, Ajax, often recognized as a club with Jewish ties, is widely considered pro-Israel. Just this past Saturday, a pro-Palestinian protester was reportedly attacked by Ajax fans before its recent game.
In the first year of a revamped format, the yellow-and-blue currently sit in 34th place out of 36 teams in the Europa League, with three losses from three games.
lmfao. So Mossad agents travelled to another country to "provide protection"... more like agitators to me. Anyways, there's a fair chance that Mossad agents were beaten that night lol, awesome.
Death to "israel"
Was just driving down the street and a couple folks probably mid 20s were at the corner of a stoplight, one holding a big Palestinian flag, going to rally I’m about to swing by. These two probably like mid 50s liberals ride by them on those very expensive $5000 low to the ground seated bicycle things, one of them says “oh ok, well it’s not over yet, you should have voted Kamala!” In the most rich, condescending, sneering liberal way. It encapsulated so much in just a single moment
"israel" Ministry of "Justice" is proposing a prison sentence up to 20 years for anyone advocating for boycotts or sanctions against the Reich.
Sources: Africa4Palestine, JNS, Mondoweiss
Infinite red triangles on "israel"
This bears repeating: Western states cannot sustain support for Israel's carnage in Gaza unless they compromise democracy and the rights of their citizens.
Here's Prof. Haim Bresheeth, a child of Holocaust survivors, getting arrested in the UK for speaking against Israel's war.
Arrested under the terrorism act btw
I hope this won't run afoul the containment of burgerland-election-related posts, but this is more an observation/analysis of the media and the bourgeoisie's response to it in relation to foreign policy...
I have heard my whole life, and in the news mega, that burgerland-subjects don't actually care about foreign policy and that it had no effect on the election. And although I think there were plenty of other considerations, I think the fallout from this particular election has really solidified in my mind that that meme is another product of the empire's superstructure imparting its own ideological conformity onto the minds of its subjects. In almost every swing-state, over 30% of voters said they would have been more likely to vote for Harris if she had put an arms embargo on Israel (without a correspondingly high number of people saying it would make them less likely to vote for her). Harris also didn't really run a primary, and objectively ran on platform very similar to Trump's 2016 platform sans the performative talk about abortion. 16 million fewer people voted for Harris than Biden in 2020, which suggests a deep disaffection with the Democrats themselves. Other evidence is that the two politicians who were for an arms embargo against the apartheid state won handily in districts Harris loss. And Muslim voters voting in large percentages for Stein and Trump (I think this isn't a shift to the right, but people playing the logic of the two-party system, punish Harris by not only withholding your vote but giving her "only" opponent a vote too.)
I really think we are witnessing in real time the invention of reality about the election, and how the media perpetuates this meme that burger-landers don't care about the outside world. Pundits are saying the Harris ran a "flawless" campaign (she only ran for a few months), that she was defeated due to racism and misogyny alone, with the most sanctioned "outsider" opinions (Sanders) being that 22% inflation and no plan to help struggling people may have led to her defeat. (by "coming from" Sanders this serves a dual purpose of marginalizing the idea that the DNC ignored working-class issues and also allows the DNC to forcefully object to it without acknowledging the movement on the left which has been making a much stronger case for this, all along, than Sanders who is essentially part of the DNC and campaigned for Harris) So now we see articles talking about the "secret gen-z men who hate women and are MAGA" which I think is a real thing, but isn't a particularly significant phenomenon, but plays into the ruling-classes desire to reproduce the ideological conflicts of previous generations in the young-- to make that particular thing more prevelant via the Baader-Meinhof illusion. -- My point isn't to dive deep into the election itself, but I think we can all see the willful ignorance that foreign policy played in spoiling Harris' image, tying her to Biden's unpopularity, and making a lot of people sit the election out (why vote if the outcome is the same either way?). I think this is a ruling-class meme that reinforces itself, because if there is no democratic choice on foreign policy, then people who play the voting game have no need to pay attention to or consider foreign policy. There is no social pressure to educate yourself or create a moral red-line about murdering people abroad because everyone in the media says nobody gives a shit about it and you are stupid if you give a shit about it too.
So even though the media will replicate this idea that burgerland-subjects, particularly young men, are actually becoming more right-wing, that they don't care about Gaza or the outside world, I think what you are actually seeing is the aspirations of the ruling class in finding an analysis that will uphold the status quo and placate as many people as possible. They don't want to acknowledge that there has been a mass movement for Palestinian liberation, and when leftists repeat that yankees don't give a fuck about foreign policy I think it plays right into the hands of the ruling class.
Fucking lol, European lapdogs rush to congratulate
in a stunning display of performative civility.Putin, who is in the minds of liberals Trumps greatest ally, will not congratulate him since the US is a hostile country and will instead judge him on his deeds.
https://en.irna.ir/news/85648949/Sinwar-his-men-had-not-eaten-for-3-days-before-assassination
Sinwar and his men had not eaten for 3 days before falling in battle
Been reading a lot more about his history lately, he wasn't as much of an omnipresent voice for me as Nasrallah was. These people are legends.
Ah I see this was already posted. Good, I will add something else.
https://en.irna.ir/news/85648898/Israel-arrests-4-regime-staffers-over-leaking-secret-information
4 Zionists arrested over leaks
https://x.com/WVanwagenen/status/1855366838437150767
YNet says Netanyahu, Smotrich, Ben Gvir are waiting for the hostages to die. The issue of the hostages in Gaza will be solved 'naturally and tragically.'
They will then use these deaths as further pretext to permanently occupy and establish Jewish settlements in Gaza, YNet says.
Netanyahu's cabinet has always wanted the hostages dead after the plan to kill them all with helicopters before they reached Gaza on 7 October was not entirely successful.
Hezbollah celebrates Trump's win by launching celebratory rockets at a settlement in the Golan Heights called Trump Heights:
https://xcancel.com/MenchOsint/status/1854091963701604636The re-election of Donald Trump is a decisive rejection of liberalism, writes Francis Fukuyama:
https://www.ft.com/content/f4dbc0df-ab0d-431e-9886-44acd4236922
What's the best paywall bypass nowadays? Ft does that shit thing where it loads once and then forces a paywall if you reload or whateverthanks, now I can add this wild quote:The second distortion was the rise of identity politics or what one might call “woke liberalism”, in which progressive concern for the working class was replaced by targeted protections for a narrower set of marginalised groups: racial minorities, immigrants, sexual minorities and the like. State power was increasingly used not in the service of impartial justice, but rather to promote specific social outcomes for these groups.
Does capital cynically employ identity politics as a veil? No, the state is woke now.
POV you just called gamers a bunch of gammons in a mod sticky:
https://xcancel.com/AryJeay/status/1853484155834679509
⚡️|🇵🇸 MUST WATCH: The Al-Qassam Brigades published a magnificent footage showing the total destruction of a Merkava tank with a powerful explosive device, in the Qasasib neighborhood, Jabalia.
4 Israeli soldiers were observed getting into the tank, they were all killed.
Israeli tourist arrested for racially insulting a worker on Boipeba Island, Brazil. The tourist called the porter a “monkey” and was arrested by the Military Police on Tuesday.
An Israeli tourist was arrested on Tuesday (05) on the island of Boipeba for racially insulting a local worker. According to initial reports, the foreigner had offended a man carrying suitcases on the island by calling him a “monkey”, which caused outrage among the people present. Military police officers were called and took the tourist to Boipeba police station, where he will be charged with the crime.
Racial insult has been considered a non-bailable and imprescriptible crime in Brazil since January 2023, when President Lula sanctioned new legislation equating racial insult with the crime of racism. The penalty for racial insult ranges from two to five years in prison and includes a fine. According to the legislation, any action that causes embarrassment, humiliation or undue exposure on the grounds of color, ethnicity, religion or origin is characterized as racial insult, especially when the discriminatory treatment is not meted out to other groups.
They come to South America (Specially Bolivia and Peru), commit crimes and are surprised when local police or population arrest/attack them.
The Ukraine War is Lost. Three Options Remain
- WW3
- Ukraine as a failed state
- Negotiate
Beebe says the West has an erroneous idea as to the very nature of the conflict. The US and the Europeans defined the Russian invasion as a “deterrence model problem” rather than a “spiral model problem”. In the former, the adversary is a kind of Hitler that must be stopped at all costs.
“We have internalised that model as a universal truth in international relations. We believe every problem that we’re facing is that deterrence model problem and we can’t possibly negotiate.”
In reality, Beebe says, the conflict conforms to what Robert Jervis defined back in the 1970s as a “spiral model problem” – where you have one state that attempts to enhance its own security by taking measures (for example, Ukraine joining NATO) that another state (Russia) believes are threatening. You get into a dynamic of action and reaction that can spiral to the point where you get into a conflict.
“When you attempt to deal with a spiral problem by refusing to negotiate, you make the problem worse on both sides. It’s like pouring gasoline on a fire,” Beebe says.
The former head of the CIA’s Russia desk argues that if we are to think our way out of the disaster that is Ukraine, the West needs to rediscover diplomacy and the ability to negotiate with geostrategic opponents. US triumphalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall led, he says, to the US feeling it could abandon statecraft.
“We no longer felt that we had to engage in normal diplomatic give-and-take, attempting to balance interests as well as balance power – the kinds of things that statecraft has involved for thousands of years. We thought that wasn’t necessary. Number one: we know we’re right.
And number two: US power was just so disproportionately greater than any other country’s power, we could simply impose our views, whether they liked it or not.”
The Ukrainians face a terrible dilemma. Most seem to realize the war is lost. Any attempt at negotiation with the Russians, however, would unleash internal pressures inside Ukraine that could lead to a coup, assassinations or other upheaval. The US won’t want the war to end before President Biden leaves office in January 2025 – and may prolong the agony, loss of life and the ceding of yet more territory to Russia for US domestic reasons rather than the best interests of Ukraine. Where is all this leading?
George Beebe sees three options. NATO escalates and becomes directly involved in the fighting – action that could have unspeakable consequences. More likely, Ukraine could suffer a collapse – a combination of military and political failure as the ability to put an effective army in the field is lost.
“If I am wearing my analyst hat, I would say the more likely scenario is Ukraine collapses and becomes some sort of dysfunctional ward of the West. We then have more or less a security black hole in the middle of Europe that causes real problems.”
Absent an agreed framework, other hot spots could flare at any time – including Georgia, Moldova, Belarus, Kaliningrad.
The third option, and clearly the preferable one for Beebe, is that the West changes course and “picks up the phone”, ending its refusal to negotiate.
“The West has got to recognize that it is important for us to find a negotiated settlement,” Beebe says.
“We can’t simply say to the Russians, let’s freeze the conflict in Ukraine, and someday we’ll get down to talking about broader European security – ‘trust us’. That’s not going to work. We’re going to have to indicate that we understand that these issues are important and that it is in our self-interest to address them in a way that accommodates Russia’s core security interests. The Russians are not going to get everything they want out of this. Neither will we. Both sides are going to have to get their most vital interests protected in all of this. That’s a truism in diplomatic agreements.”
And that is how grown-ups talk.
My Copium analysis:
Harris losing 15m votes since biden (trump losing 3m votes) shows that american people are moving to the left in general. The only issue is the democratic party itself is moving farther to the right.
Harris offered nothing but more genocide; wouldn't even hammer on abortion and offer a plan to reinstate roe v wade. Democrat voters just stayed home.
Western news media is pushing the angle of “anti-Semitic attacks” in Amsterdam, leaving out the actual truth.
This narrative in this situation is so dangerous for fomenting actual anti-semitism. Long before this match, soccer fans in Europe knew that one Tel Aviv club and their supporters are total fascists, they have an infamous reputation. Anyone with a phone can see the videos of them disrespecting the Spanish flood victims and all the violence they initiated. The fact that the Israeli fans are in no way “victims” is obvious to everyone, including those who haven’t really followed what’s happening in Gaza and the West Bank over the last year.
So, what happens to your average European soccer fan who’s disinterested in politics and world events, when they see what happened last night and then see how the media in their country is covering it? They can see who the actual perpetrators are and who the actual victims are, and then see that their news media and governments are spinning it the other way. All it takes then is for these same people to get exposed to the actually anti-Semitic “Jews control the media and Western governments” ideas and down the neo-Nazi pipeline they go…
Maccabi hooligans in Tel Aviv airport
They’re singing the same song as in Amsterdam and now I finally have a good source on the translation:
Let the IDF win and fuck the arabs
Why is school out in Gaza? There are no children left there.
Trudeau bans Tiktok from operating in Canada, but not banning Canadians from using it? Essentially just forcing Tiktok to close their Canadian offices and lay off their employees.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tiktok-canada-review-1.7375965
I've seen people suggest that the failed zionist hooligan riot in Amsterdam was not just horrible people being horrible but was a deliberate false flag operation carried out by the illegal zionist entity. What do people in this site think about that theory? Some points made in support of the theory:
- Prior news reports stated that operatives of the terrorist organisation Mossad would be sent to Amsterdam to protect the hooligans
- The incidents happened on the anniversary of the Kristallnacht, the best time for this to happen from the viewpoint of zionist propagandists
- Amsterdam's green party mayor has a history of being more permissive towards anti-genocide and pro-liberation protests than the zionist entity and the far-right Duty regime likes. The entity is petty enough to ger her blamed for "antisemitic pogroms" as revenge.
- The western consent manufacturing machine was in full swing right away, with every mainstream media outlet and professional opinion-haver parroting the same lines about "antisemitic" violence.
Against this theory speaks:
- Zionist hooligans are this horrible.
- Nobody could have predicted that the locals would defend themselves this decisively. There would have been no media outrage if the hooligans had just done their racist violence unopposed.
- The zionist entity does not control scheduling of European football matches, UEFA does. Although UEFA is corrupt and liberal I somehow feel that the idea of the terrorist organisation Mossad dictating the match schedule to be too conspiratorial to seem plausible.
- Western liberals do not need a conspiracy to be racist against Arabs and assume the worst about their intentions. They will uncritically believe any zionist claim of "antisemitism" as they have done every time until now.
Apparently the IDF had to delay their initial ground invasion into Gaza because some random guy was in their control center for all the planning
Source (Hebrew)The last Kufiya factory in Palestine (west bank), Hirbawi, sells Kufiyas on kufiya.org again. So if you want one and simultaneously support Palestinians you can order them there
https://tankie.tube/w/uMKWioFdcD9wNbG2hnKQY2
Hezbollah released a video comparing Israeli advances in past conflicts — reaching Beirut in 7 days in 1982 and Wadi al-Hujeir in 33 days in 2006 — with the current situation, where after 40 days, Israeli forces are still fighting on the outskirts of the border villages.
It is striking to me to see the differences in reaction to the last Trump victory in corporate tech land. I’m not at the same company, so there is variability, but the last time this happened there was a very clear sense of liberal outrage and despair, with company leadership speaking of how they will stand up for company values etc etc. This time, despite it being a “mission-led” company (lib code for conning its employees that it does social good), the message is simply “do not talk about politics”. The reaction of people is largely “let’s see what happens” or “it’s all out of my control anyway”. This time around, brunch isn’t gonna be cancelled folks.
Edit: I also wonder if once Thiel decides it’s time to get rid of our big wet boy, centrist wine libs will feel calmed by the emergence of President Vance.
'Nothing left for "Israel's" army to do inside Gaza': Outgoing war chief | The Cradle
"Mr. Gallant, what about the tunnels? I thought the objective was to destroy Hamas?"
So, there seems to be a lot of speculation over the Trump admin and how it will handle Ukraine, the war in Western Asia and China going forward. I think these are interrelated and I feel like a lot of people are missing the point, or maybe I am just off base…. But I think that there isn’t going to be all that much room for Trump to delay US decline or even challenge China in a way it could arguably win.
1)Ukraine won’t have a quick ending: Despite the political will among some right-wing policymakers, it is up to Russia and Ukraine whether the conflict will end anytime soon. This might fly in the face of a lot of historical decisions by Russia, but why would Russia take a big L for almost no long-term material gains? At this point, they are probably better off taking most of Ukraine and leaving a rump-state or a puppet government that will eventually allow for some level of normalization. It doesn’t make sense for Russia to stop until it can have a reasonable guarantee for its own war aims. (no NATO, demilitarized ukraine).
2)Trump likely won’t be able to disengage from the genocide in Gaza or the war in west asia either. His attitude of “I will let them finish it. Vote for me and I will be the peace candidate by ‘ending’ the war. “ Really stinks of the same attitude that Nixon had during Viet Nam. If he really is sincere about that, ultimately he will facilitate the expansion of the conflict through his proxy at a point where Hamas is still operational and Hezbollah has prevented any kind of victory for the Zionist state. The idea that Israel would stop, when their current political class’ survival depends on the continued expansion of the war, doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Trump might be less of a psycho than Biden, but he won’t want to “lose” and the resistance will likely win as the conflict is prolonged, as nearly every asymmetric national liberation struggle has ever proceeded. There is a chance he could threaten an arms embargo to force Israel to disengage, but I think that would be treated like a betrayal after Biden allowed all of this to go on unabated for over a year.
3)Trump’s China policy is probably going to be mediated by the above two points. At one point last year the US couldn’t spare an aircraft carrier in the SCS because of the other conflicts… Any continuity in Europe or west asia is going to continue to build that pressure. The other side of the coin here is that Trump has traditionally been really transactional with China and as long as they roll out the red carpet and he can tell his fans that he got the “best deal” he can continue to delay any sort of meaningful conflict. So if China only needs more time, it seems like they still have years to find some sort of settlement or prepare for the kind of highly aggressive moves everyone seems to expect. This is really what prevented “major power conflict” from taking off back in the 2000’s. The US got bogged down in two wars and didn’t revisit the idea until 2014…
The US decline seems inevitable, I think it doesn’t matter who is in office at this point
Trump just publicly ruled out Nikki Haley and Mike Pompeo serving in his administration. Haley's no surprise, but Pompeo is. First actual indication that the advertised anti-neocon turn in his second administration might be legit.
Following recent electoral developments in Burgerland, Euro libs are shitting and pissing themselves over how the Ukraine war will proceed.
Michael Aastrup Jensen, Liberal Party chair of the foreign policy committee of the f Danish Parliament has reacted to said electoral developments by posting the following on X, the everything app (formerly Twitter):
The EU and the rest of NATO must make sure to shoulder the necessary responsibility, for this war must not be lost. This is really a fateful hour for it the EU can put action behind the pretty words about unity.
Seeing their tears already makes me happy.
Imagine being tricked into giving the government you're trying to coup free money:
https://xcancel.com/marcus_herve/status/1855393318701539836🚨🇧🇫- Another coup plan foiled.
An individual was arrested yesterday, Friday in Ouagadougou, at the time he was handing over five billion FCFA ($8.2M) in cash to soldiers who pretended to accept his coup plan.
By the time he realized that he was being deceived, it was too late. The money was taken to the Treasury Department as you can see it. The State says that he is in their custody while they will investigate the source of the funds.
https://xcancel.com/provisionalidea/status/1855000101866938848
Kristallnacht commemorations in Amsterdam have been cancelled over fears of violent Israelis.
Robinhood stock trading app now offering election gambling seems a bit on the nose. Reuters
New
just dropped:"In South Africa, the government forces you to buy Halal-certified meat. The SANDF just raided my flat, armed with Vektor R4 rifles, going through my freezer."
going to apply for the SANDF's "Halal Enforcement Brigades", who wants to join
Cuba was just hit with a 6.8 magnitude earthquake. They can't catch a break it seems...
It may be too early to tell, but there appears to be a massive grassroots social media backlash against liberals developing, in response to the last four days of unrestrained racism and blame shifting
The liberal left hand doesn't seem to know what it's right hand is doing, one faction of liberals want to primarily blame Arabs/Muslims, another wants to go after Black men, others think posting pro-deportation posts in somehow gonna result in sympathy for their politics
The end result seems to be a lot of rightly pissed off POCs and racist republicans and democrats using this as an opportunity to launder their racism, straight up this could have a snowball effect that permanently sees the democratic base fall apart
Racism isn't one of those bigotries you can just dip in and then dip back out, in 4 years these racist liberal posts are gonna be plastered everywhere and in the meanwhile the resentment is gonna solidify
Hezbollah propaganda directed at Israelis regarding how little progress has been made in this offensive
full text
Between us and you is the battlefield.- בינינו שדה הקרב
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Notes:
0:02 - In 1982, you reached to Beirut in 7 days.
0:14 - In 2006, you reached Wadi Al-Hjeir in 33 days.
0:31 - As for today..
0:34 - Day 1, 2, 3, 4 - 0 kilometers away from the borders
0:55 - Day 20 - 0 kilometers away from the borders
0:48 - A gathering of enemy soldiers
1:00 - Day 26 - 0 kilometers away from the borders
1:12 - The escaping of the soldiers from the targeting site
1:16 - Retreat of the forces after retrieving the casualties.
1:17 - Day 40 - You are still fighting on the outskirts of the border villages.
1:22 - Between us and you is the battlefield.
A Merkava tank rolls over in Lebanon
You: describe the American social-economic system in one headline
Tesla shares soar more than 14% as Trump win is seen boosting Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company
https://apnews.com/article/tesla-stock-trump-election-b54454aaabd4cbe1e1e1c9754649b869
Algerian domestic news
Over 100,000 housing units distributed nationwide https://www.aps.dz/en/economy/54914-70th-anniversary-of-revolution-outbreak-over-100-000-housing-units-distributed-nationwide
Presidential decrees granting pardon to over 4000 prisoners https://www.aps.dz/en/algeria/54847-president-abdelmadjid-tebboune-signs-two-presidential-decrees-granting-pardon-to-over-4000-prisoners
I've been permabanned from r/soccer because I approved the beating of Maccabi Tel Aviv's zionist hooligans in Amsterdam. I think it was good that a bunch of racist genocidal pieces of shit found out there is a price for genocide and their celebrations. However, this is very bad for
's moderation. Which is a shame because I'm a regular on that community.r/soccer is not a TERRIBLE place to be in tbh, there's people from all over the world and while westerners are not really outnumbered they're not super dominant. There's a lot of pro-palestinian sentiment in it as well. However, whenever someone posts news regarding Palestine and/or "Israel", things like "X Club displays tifo in support of Gaza", the thread gets IMMEDIATELY locked. Meanwhile, whenever there's something related to Ukraine or China (which doesn't get mentioned that much but it's still there), comments are allowed to flow in. This is their way of handling genocide. Peak liberalism.
And as zionists will soon find out that genocide has a price and they will pay for it with their own society, those who support it from elsewhere will also suffer the consequences of their actions. Their support comes in the form of trying to keep people quiet, to silence the screams coming from Gaza. Such act of cowardice, of compliance, will not go unpunished. This stands true not only for those losers who moderate communities that don't really matter but also for those who run media companies, who run articles calling the Amsterdam beating of zionists a "pogrom" and create a false equivalency between that and the Holocaust.
https://archive.ph/nwW3B North Korean soldiers hooked on porn after getting internet access for first time while helping Russia fight Ukraine: report
NYpost quality reporting. Bravo
The possibilities of a US civil war lies in one place only, the factional rifts (potential and actual) among armed Federal agencies and the true identities of their capitalist suppliers, backers, investors and patrons; the 18 intelligence agencies of the United States would obviously form the nexuses of new leadership castes, absorbing or leveraging the 3,000 or so private intelligence companies active in the US
It's a path of least resistance that flows towards whatever government entities has the most guns, and these new power blocs will scramble to absorb the various branches of the US military (assuming of course the various officer corps of the US military don't somehow overcome the combined pull of 18 intelligence agencies)
The police will obey, or they'll be branded foreign infiltrated rogues and destroyed (this may have the unfortunate effect of confusing certain leftist radicals who may form incorrect assumptions about the new "cop-killing federal government")
Militias will either be absorbed a la Azov battalion-style or suffer a similar fate to the more uppity pigs
This picture is likely to emerge by the mid 2040s
NYT - Antisemitic Attacks Prompt Emergency Flights for Israeli Soccer Fans
On game day, the tension and violence continued. Videos showed Israeli fans on their way to the match shouting an anti-Arab chant as they were escorted by the police near Amsterdam’s central train station. At the stadium, the police said, riot police units and mounted officers were required to keep pro-Palestinian groups and Israeli fans apart.
More than 800 police officers had been mobilized throughout the city in anticipation of the game, the Dutch authorities said, an extraordinarily large number that reflected trepidation about the potential collision of Israeli fans and supporters of the Palestinian cause in a city with a significant Muslim population.
“Because of an announced pro-Palestinian demonstration, in combination with the commemoration of Kristallnacht, we foresaw risks to public order,” said Peter Holla, Amsterdam’s police chief, in a reference to a 1938 anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany.
Oh my God what the fuck is this. Amsterdam are you doing OK? Why are your cops escorting Nazis around the streets? Especially around the commemoration of Kristallnacht?
And obligatory
to the New York Crimes
via Resistance News Network Telegram🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: — Trump’s victory will reinforce the American anti-Palestinian approach, and the Democratic Party’s loss is a natural result of its direct involvement in the zionist war of genocide.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine affirms that Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s victory in the U.S. elections does not, in any way, signify a real change in the hostile approach that successive American administrations have pursued against our Palestinian people and their just cause. There is no fundamental difference between the Republican and Democratic parties; both have contributed to supporting the zionist entity and participated in the war of genocide against our people, whether through policies or unlimited military and diplomatic support.
Our people have never placed their hopes on any candidate from either the Democratic or Republican parties, as we have never witnessed any positive change in U.S. administration policies, which have consistently aligned fully with the zionist entity, providing it with military funding and all forms of political, legal, and diplomatic protection.
The Democratic Party’s loss is a logical result of its complicity with the zionist entity; it rejected calls from supporters of the Palestinian people, the Palestinian community, and Arab and Muslim communities in the United States to pressure for an end to the war of genocide in Gaza, continuing its support for aggression against our people. Today, the Democrats are paying the price for ignoring these demands at the ballot box.
We in the Popular Front do not expect any positive development from a Donald Trump administration; rather, we anticipate an escalation in hostile policies against our people, fully biased in favor of the zionist entity.
We call on supporters of the Palestinian people, as well as movements, organizations, and groups that stand with our cause in the United States, to intensify pressure on the new U.S. administration to end its support for the zionist entity.
We see in the popular and student movements that stand in solidarity with Gaza, along with the emergence of small, free voices and parties, a glimmer of hope that could contribute to even a slight change in the U.S. stance on our cause.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
November 6, 2024
Wastewater in Los Angeles, Marina, Ontario, Redwood City, Sacramento, San Jose and Turlock tested positive for H5 bird flu virus in their latest samples.
This is fine
After getting owned in the Amsterdam front, the IOF takes it out on Gazans per usual:
https://xcancel.com/ytirawi/status/1854840901580861451Just shuffling chairs on the sinking Titanic:
https://xcancel.com/AryJeay/status/1853859521565004053BREAKING: Netanyahu fired War Minister Yoav Gallant.
Netanyahu nominated Yisrael Katz as the new War Minister.
He was the, until now, foreign minister.
"Joy" and "You won't have to think about politics" does not a vision make. Your average voter wants a vision for the future, even though they know it's a lie. Wheeling out establisment republicans ( of whom most liberals viscerally hated in the 00's) doesn't get out the vote? Who could have guessed? Why vote for republican lite when you can vote for the "real" thing? Misogyny and racism also played a role, no doubt about that.
The US is escalating its attempts to buy itself time and slow China's ascent.
TSMC to suspend production of advanced AI chips for China from Monday, FT reports
Rabid zionist Matan Ahlfeld parks his car with a child in it to attack pro Palestine demonstrators with a bat, gets beat and disarmed and promptly arrested.
Biden rushing assistance to Ukraine, with aid uncertain under Trump
While this is breaking the containment measures a bit, it's at least news thread adjacent: I'll be quite interested to see how certain right wing anti Ukraine War commentators we occasionally source from will contort themselves to justify the reasons why Trump will (probably) just continue all the anti Russia, pro Zionist, anti China policies of the american state.
Likewise, as some others have mentioned - I'm looking forward to liberal opinion on the genocidal war against the gaza ghetto. Some think that Trump will give them a justification to emulate a conscience. I'm more of the opinion that they'll scapegoat muslim americans the same way they are scapegoating latinos now.
Hurricane Rafael just formed yesterday in the Caribbean. Looks like Havana will be hit tomorrow evening. Hopefully there won't be the insane quick strengthening that we saw in the last few Caribbean hurricanes.
Update, it did strengthen quickly before landfall in Cuba, going from category 1 to 3 in just hours. Weather's getting weird out there, folks. I wonder what's causing it.
Coming soon to Israel’s Hasbara channels:
Reports of babies baked in ovens and 40 beheaded babies found on the 7th of November attack in kibbutz Amsterdam, Netherlands.
North Korea “blocks” GPS signals and affects navigation near South Korea. According to information from military authorities in Seoul, the jamming attack affected several ships and dozens of civilian aircraft in the country
:troll:
https://monitoruldestiri.ro/government/idf-backtracks-on-amsterdam-rescue-mission-3601931 IDF backtracks on Amsterdam rescue mission for the football fans
This is so far the best video I can find summing up the events in Amsterdam, and it's still not very good. They at least mentioned the anti-Arab slogans chanted by the Israeli holligans, but didn't bother translating them. They are also one of the few news outlets that actually reported on the Israelis disrupting the moment of silence for Valencia. Even Al-Jazeera English didn't report on that.
Give us your take. Will Biden's masterful geopolitical and economic schemes be defeated by Trump, or will he and his disciples continue to work behind the scenes and deliver unto us a new century of American total dominance over the planet?
https://nyenr.elections.ny.gov/
Write-ins got 1.28% of the vote in New York, or 101,340 votes. I don't know what the candidate breakdown looks like, but still, the total is pretty impressive.
For context, no third party presidential candidates got ballot access due to the Democrats' voter suppression efforts.
Will Trump appoint a gold bug to the fed?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/31/business/inflation-trump-fed-judy-shelton/index.html
She also believes in having a target of zero for inflation. Which lol, Americans have too much debt for that. Maybe she wants communism, and will deflate prices to zero
[#Myanmar (#Burma) 🇲🇲: "Joker Guerrilla Army" and People's Defense Forces (#PDF) ambushed and killed Junta Officers in #Myaing, #Pakokku.
The fighters were armed with M16A1 rifles, BA-63 rifle, AR-15 rifles and Type 56 AK rifles. Also an MA-3 MK 2 carbine were captured.](https://x.com/war_noir/status/1854449423666778483)
look at this fuckin emblem lmao
I hope raising a comically large Israeli flag was worth getting BTFO by a Hezbollah ATGM:
https://xcancel.com/political_aya__/status/1853176982282158490https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fu571ehtsjzyd1.jpeg
(Image uploads don't seem to be working, sorry for reddit link)
This is the first official picture of China's J-35A stealth fighter (previously known as FC-31), from the Zhuhai airshow.
It was originally built for export, then the navy decided they wanted a version for aircraft carriers, and now the air force looks like they will adopt it as well.
It has a more focused design than its US-made counterpart, the F-35, which will likely mean it's better at its job and cheaper/easier to build in large quantities.
Some news from Lebanon and occupied Palestine.
Lebanese resistance forces pounded many Zionist targets today, including Ben-Gurion Airport: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/11/06/736747/Hezbollah-strikes-Israeli-targets
Plus, video footage showing how anti-fascist resistance forces have started burning government buildings in the Ukraine.
Anti-fascist partisans burned a Kiev regime administrative building in Odessa oblast: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--Partisans-in-Odessa-doing-their-bit-to-bring-down-Zelensky!!:c
Anti-fascist partisans have also burned Kiev regime administrative buildings in Vinnitsa and Kharkov oblasts: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--Partisans-in-Ukraine-have-strengthened-their-Forces!:1
With their reporting on the anti zionist actions in Amsterdam, western media is again showing its entire ass.
Poor zionazi 'victims'. Get outta here
So what's the over/under on Iran launching Operation True Promise 3 before the election tomorrow is called? My gut tells me they don't give a shit, and the attack will happen regardless of who's elected and neither Trump nor Harris will meaningfully change US policy in West Asia so who cares, but there is always a chance Iran decides to do something Extremely Funny, not an October surprise but a November surprise.
Moldovan elections final results: Sandu 55.33% to Stoianoglo 44.67% with a 54.34 voter turnout
Diaspora came to the "rescue" again,it seems. My initial prediction of it being a 10% diff seems to have come true, mostly based on the fact this happened last time: initial opposition lead,only for the diaspora to quash it.
So yeah, Eastern Europe is a diasporacracy,where the voices of those who don't even live there matter more than those who do. By the way,if you're tired of American electorialisn,you may have to look forward to me doing some Romanian electorialism come the 24th,seeing as we'll have our own presidential elections.
We're a semiparliamentary republic,so these don't matter as much,but the prime minister does have to be approved by the president,so it's still not insignificant. But I should warn you, it'll be a shitfest of pro-NATO bootlickers,but maybe some useful analysis will come of it,who knows?
My hope is that I'll give a good enough overview and maybe even show you all a bit of the circus going on (we had a local tv station,that was bought by CNN some years ago do "town hall" style debates with the candidates and then a debate where each contender sent two supporters to debate with the other person's picks,it was a circus,with the journos trying to mimic actual journalism but failing,the most pointless questions and more,I'll see if I can find a way to make them accessible to the English speakers here) and show you a glimpse of the hellscape that is Romanian politics
During the campaign, Trump advocated increasing protectionist tariffs to stop imports, especially from China, in order to stimulate domestic production and, consequently, the US economy.
This could have repercussions for Brazil, since the country has China as one of its main trading partners. The Republican has also threatened to retaliate against those who exchange the dollar for the Chinese currency, the yuan, in commercial transactions.
De-dollarization is one of Brazil's main flagships with the BRICS, precisely to expand trade in the local currencies of the countries in the group and, in practice, to circumvent the dollar Trump may also boycott the climate summit to be held in Brazil, which could be emptied without the presence of the United States. In addition, he has repeatedly denied certain climate consensuses, such as the effects of global warming.
The narrative building is starting. Torygraph has a long ass article out on a proposed peace plan.
spoiler
Donald Trump may call on European and British troops to enforce an 800-mile buffer zone between the Russian and Ukrainian armies as part of a plan to freeze the war between the two countries.
Details of the plan emerged as Volodymyr Zelensky warned that any attempt to make peace by appeasing Russia would mean “suicide” for Europe.
The plan is one of several being considered by Mr Trump, who said before being elected as US president that he would start peace talks before he enters office in January.
The idea, outlined by three Trump staffers, would see the current front line frozen in place and Ukraine agreeing to shelve its ambition to join Nato for 20 years.
In exchange, the US would pump Ukraine full of weapons to deter Russia from restarting the war.
The US would neither contribute troops to patrol and enforce the resulting buffer zone nor finance its mission.
What the proposed demilitarised zone could look like:
“We can do training and other support but the barrel of the gun is going to be European,” a member of Trump’s team told the Wall Street Journal.
“We are not sending American men and women to uphold peace in Ukraine. And we are not paying for it. Get the Poles, Germans, British and French to do it.”
‘It’s not our children who are dying’
On Friday, George Osborne said it was not realistic for the UK to keep backing Ukraine without US support following Trump’s victory.
“Is it realistic to expect a complete victory for Ukraine, the complete ejection of Russia from Ukrainian territory? And if it’s not, you know, it may suit our vanity in the West to say ‘plucky Ukrainians’, [but] it’s not our children who are dying,” the former chancellor said.
“It’s also totally unrealistic, in my view, to think that Europe alone, including the UK, can go on supporting Ukraine without the support of the United States, even though Joe Biden actually is rushing to spend the $61 billion that Congress recently voted in terms of American aid for Ukraine before he leaves office.”
Ukraine has signalled that it is willing to listen to Mr Trump’s plans to end the war, but has also said it will resist any deal that would look like a Russian victory.
Speaking at a summit of European Union leaders in Budapest, Mr Zelensky said: “There should be no illusions that a just peace can be bought by showing weakness. Peace is a reward only for the strong.”
“Since the July summit of the European Political Community in Great Britain, there has been much talk about giving in to Putin, retreating, and making some ‘concessions,’” he added. “This is unacceptable for Ukraine and suicide for all of Europe.”
Europe should write its ‘own history’
Several European leaders at the summit have called for immediate increases in defence spending in response to fears that Mr Trump will cut aid to Ukraine and roll back support for Nato.
“Do we want to read the history written by others – the wars launched by Vladimir Putin, the US election, China’s technological or trade choices,” said Emmanuel Macron, the president of France. “Or do we want to write our own history. I think we have the strength to write it.”
Ursula von Der Leyen, the chief of the European Commission, said Europe must pull together in the same way it did in response to the Covid pandemic, but did not mention Mr Trump directly.
Mr Trump has never explained in detail what kind of a deal he believes can end the war.
But allies have presented various plans which proceed from the idea of freezing the current frontline.
JD Vance, the vice president-elect, suggested in September that Russia would have to hold on to its current gains as a condition of peace.
The remainder of Ukraine would stay an independent sovereign state and its side of the line would be heavily fortified to prevent a second Russian attack, he said.
In exchange, Russia would get a promise of Ukrainian neutrality.
“It doesn’t join NATO, it doesn’t join some of these sort of allied institutions,” Mr. Vance said in an interview with the Shawn Ryan Show podcast in September. “I think that’s ultimately what this looks like.”
In June Keith Kellogg and Fred Fleitz, who advised Mr Trump during his first presidency, presented him with another proposal that called for America to cut aid to Ukraine unless it entered peace talks.
Mr Zelensky has previously ruled out exchanging land for peace and says Nato membership is the only way to guarantee Russia does not re-invade.
A ceasefire that leaves Russia in control of land it has captured and does not include serious security guarantees could prove unpopular and would probably trigger elections in Ukraine.
Volodymyr Fesenko, a Ukrainian political analyst, said Ukraine would not resist American pressure for talks because of the danger of a suspension of aid.
He said the Ukrainian government might accept shelving Nato membership if it can get security guarantees akin to the US agreements with South Korea and Israel.
Russia expects ‘new territorial realities’
The Kremlin has yet to comment on possible peace plans, but Russia has few incentives to make peace immediately because its forces are making steady gains on the battlefield and it believes it can sustain the economic strain of the war for at least another year.
Dmitri Trenin, a well-connected Russian political commentator and former GRU officer, said on Thursday that the Kremlin would not take seriously any plan based merely on a freezing of the current frontline.
It would also need concessions related to “the nature of the future Ukrainian regime, its military and military-economic potential, as well as the military-political status of Ukraine” as well as “new territorial realities,” he wrote in Kommersant, a Russian broadsheet.
The version of the plan Mr Trump opts for is likely to depend on his choice of cabinet.
Mike Pompeo, who served as Mr Trump’s Secretary of State during his first term and is now tipped to head the Pentagon, has criticised the Biden administration for providing too little help too slowly and is likely to resist a deal that could be interpreted as a Russian victory.
Richard Grennell, Mr Trump’s former ambassador to Berlin and envoy to the Balkans, has said he would back “autonomous” zones inside Ukraine.
That suggests a repeat of the failed Minsk agreements of 2014 and 2015, which saw Russia try to use areas of Donbas it controlled as a trojan horse for controlling Ukrainian foreign policy.
27 second compilation of zionists getting owned in amsterdam intercut with some scenes of al-aqsa flood
https://xcancel.com/SuppressedNws/status/1854873162493669570
god bless them for their spirit:
this seems like a big deal
Netanyahu sacks defense minister Gallant, says 'trust cracked' | The Cradle
US contamination news, perhaps someone should maintain a column on that here, we have surely missed some delicious muckraking
The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use any drugs made by a compounding pharmacy in California after regulators realized the pharmacy was making drugs that need to be sterile—particularly injectable drugs—without using sterile ingredients or any sterilization steps. The products made by the pharmacy, Fullerton Wellness LLC, in Ontario, California, include semaglutide, which is intended to mimic brand-name weight-loss and diabetes drugs Wegovy and Ozempic. Fullerton also made tirzepatide, which is intended to mimic weight-loss and diabetes drugs Zepbound and Mounjaro. The FDA became aware of the problem after a patient submitted a complaint to the regulator that a vial of semaglutide from Fullerton Wellness had an unidentified "black particulate" floating in it. Semaglutide, like tirzepatide, is injected under the skin and is intended to be sterile.
Source is Conde Nasty's AssTechnica
doesn't hit the jackpot tho
It was in these dark days, when the realm’s banners still struck fear in the hearts of the world, that Kamala the Awkward took the field against the Orange Troll King. Since deposing king Brandon the Feeble-minded, she had clung fiercely to ancient rites, hoping to summon divine favor. Her coronation in the City of Wind had been filled with incantations and prayers, and she had prostrated herself before the gods. In the Temple of the Border, she swore oaths to defend the purity of the blood against the dark hordes of the south. To the Temple of the Wailing Crusaders she offered gold and armour enabling the high priest Benyamin the Crybully to sacrifice legions of children to ward off evil spirits.
Her court sages had foretold that such piety might move the gods to bless her with victory. Yet, the heavens remained silent, unmoved by Kamala’s efforts. The peasant soldiers who made up her dwindling army were simple people unmoved by Kamala's noble piety, their spirits dulled by the endless miseries of the bad harvests that had followed in the wake of the Great Pestilence and the War of the Orcish Hordes.
Meanwhile, the Orange Troll King performed his own rites at the shelves with a fervor that outshone that of Kamala the Awkward. Hints of plunder lured many peasants to fight under his golden banner.
The final battle for the Throne of Skulls took place under a slate-gray sky. Kamala’s captains, worn and weary, struggled to rally their ranks, but the men wavered, drained of both hope and resolve. The Orange Troll King's legions swept over them like a flood, a horde fierce and unstoppable, their savage cries drowning out Kamala’s commands and scattering her knights.
It was done. Kamala the Awkward’s forces broke like a withered reed in the winter wind, and the Orange Troll King emerged triumphant. His hulking form, twisted and monstrous, towered over the battlefield and his horrid laughs rolled over the broken banners of his enemy. The Throne of Skulls, long coveted, lay open to him, and he would the Great White Hall. With him came his lieutenants: Vance of the Couch, muttering half-insane proclamations of prophecy and destiny, and Elon the Divorced, lost in his own details.
From across the Great Ocean messages arrived bearing news of foreign vassal kings—rulers who once swore fealty to the House of Brandon—now bending the knee to the Orange Troll King.
As winter tightened its icy grip, the people whispered among themselves, fearing that the ancient spirits had truly forsaken them, leaving the realm to the darkness that now reigned supreme.
I had a "Remind me" bot notification on reddit come in to gloat at a NAFO dork in one year as they were braying for blood in particularly deranged ways, and refusing to acknowledge that the privatization scheme in Ukraine was a bad thing actually, and so too was sending hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians into a meat grinder just to lose slowly anyway.
Since then, I got banned from World News in like the first few weeks of the active phase of genocidefor posting amnesty international and other humanitarian organizations assessment that Israel is an apartheid state/has committed crimes against humanity in the past (before Oct 7th) and thus violent resistance was justified, so I can't comment directly in the same chain. I went to PM the dork, but their entire account got suspended during that time lmao. #bothsides strikes again I guess.
Marching orders from the Zionists to MSM:
https://xcancel.com/marcowenjones/status/1854875737183895657Four almost identical headlines in BBC, NBC, CNN and CBS....
By August 14, 1945, the US Navy peaked at 6,768 active ships, by 1950 that number shrank to 634 ships
Later that same year in 1950 due to the Korean War the US Navy expanded back up to 980 active ships before topping out at 1,122 ships in 1953 at the end of the war and remained at a stable 900 ships for the rest of the fifties
Between 1958-1974 the US Navy slowly shrank until stabilizing again at around 550 ships until Reagan's 600 Ship-Navy Campaign Plank
The 1980s plan to rebuild the U.S. Navy, known as the 600-ship Navy, was a campaign plank of Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign. The plan included: Recommissioning Iowa-class battleships, Keeping older ships in service longer, A large new construction program, and Increasing production of Nimitz-class aircraft carriers
The 600-ship Navy was the most expensive peacetime military buildup in U.S. history, costing $1.5 trillion over five years
The US Navy peaked at 594 ships in 1987 before experiencing a sharp decline between 1989-1992
The German coalition government (socdems, greens, liberals) is over. Scholz fired finance minister Lindner (liberal) after he proposed reelections.
https://xcancel.com/cheriblossom__/status/1853903459277516942
The Chief of the Air Force is stuck in the streets of Tel Aviv due to large protests and street blockades
Branko Milanovic's take on Trump/Democrats and Russia/China
The conventional view is that Trump is good for Russia and bad for China.
The truth is the oposite. He is bad for Russia b/c he will be unable, due to general opposition to him, to end the war in Ukraine.
He is good for China b/c he will not wage a (crazy) ideological war that Biden did, but will be a transactional president.
China can live much more comfortably with a US president who insists that they should buy more soya beans than with the president who wants to overthrow their political system.
Rumours of the Trump proposal for ceasefire in Ukraine are being thrown around. Some highlights:
The proposals all break from Biden’s approach of letting Kyiv dictate when peace talks should begin. Instead, they uniformly recommend freezing the war in place—cementing Russia’s seizure of roughly 20% of Ukraine—and forcing Ukraine to temporarily suspend its quest to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
One idea proposed inside Trump’s transition office, detailed by three people close to the president-elect and not previously reported, would involve Kyiv promising not to join NATO for at least 20 years. In exchange, the U.S. would continue to pump Ukraine full of weapons to deter a future Russian attack.
Under that plan, the front line would essentially lock in place and both sides would agree to an 800-mile demilitarized zone. Who would police that territory remains unclear, but one adviser said the peacekeeping force wouldn’t involve American troops, nor come from a U.S.-funded international body, such as the United Nations.
This actually seems like a ceasefire agreement that Russia might agree to? Or at least a start to negotiations. We'll see what happens but if this is the attitude Trump is going to take with negotiations he might actually be able to deliver relatively quickly. Obviously the EU and Ukraine will not like these terms, but they're vassal states for a reason.
IOF dumbasses failed to kick down a door on their first try before magdumping an empty room:
https://xcancel.com/Lebnews2004/status/1853825699104063648Immigrants Have Become Scapegoats in U.S. Politics - Telesur English
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As politicians turn to immigration as a defining issue in the campaign, genuine solutions appear increasingly out of reach. The United States, a country built by waves of immigrants, is now grappling with a dilemma of illegal immigration, which has become both a flashpoint and a partisan weapon in American politics.
As Republicans and Democrats turn to immigration as a defining issue in the presidential election campaign, genuine solutions appear increasingly out of reach. Instead, immigration has become a high-stakes game, with each side focusing more on how to exploit the issue than addressing its complex underlying causes.
In recent months, immigration has soared to the top of voters’ concerns. A recent survey by the Pew Research Center revealed that about 60 percent of Americans now view immigration as important to their vote, up significantly from previous years.
While Republican and Democrat politicians have both responded with intensified rhetoric, they have done little to bridge their divide on how to handle the issue. Instead, state and federal authorities are caught in conflicts that reflect the country’s deepening partisan split.
Last year, Republican-led states including Texas and Florida transported undocumented immigrants to Democratic strongholds like New York, Washington, D.C. and Chicago. Early this year, in order to deter migrant crossing, Texas deployed National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, laid concertina wire border barriers and prevented federal agents from monitoring the border, highlighting the lack of a coordinated national approach.
As the presidential election looms, Democrats and Republicans are doubling down on immigration as a means to rally their bases. Democrats continue to advocate for policies that portray them as champions of immigrant rights, emphasizing humane treatment and protections. While the Democratic stance resonates with their core supporters, it also serves an electoral strategy: immigrants and their descendants represent a growing and potentially reliable base for the party.
However, with an increasing number of voters in favor of stronger immigration control, Democrats have started to shift their position. In June, President Joe Biden issued an executive order restricting asylum claims, limiting legal pathways at the U.S.-Mexico border in a rare departure from the party’s traditional stance. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has echoed this shift, advocating for both legalization pathways and stronger border enforcement.
Republicans, meanwhile, have adopted an increasingly hardline stance, framing immigration as a national security threat and opposing any form of legalization for undocumented immigrants. The Trump camp has ramped up its rhetoric, promising to conduct mass deportation if elected and blaming undocumented immigrants for issues like housing shortages and inflation, aiming to weaken support for Democrats among minority and union voters.
However, despite both parties’ claims to prioritize voter interests, neither side has developed practical, actionable solutions. Democrats and Republicans alike focus on exploiting immigration as a wedge issue, stirring up partisan animosity without tackling the root causes of the problem.
The immigration issue has exposed structural weaknesses in American governance. Historically, U.S. immigration policies were skewed in favor of Europeans, while those from Asia and Latin America faced heavy restrictions, pushing many into illegal pathways.
Undocumented immigrants have been an indispensable element in the U.S. society for decades. They have filled the need for essential yet low-paying and high-risk jobs that citizens largely passed up, promoted consumption, and brought benefits to the U.S. economy. However, the group remains marginalized and vulnerable.
A recent Pew Research Center survey revealed that three-quarters of U.S. voters believe undocumented immigrants primarily take jobs that Americans don’t want to do, with 90 percent of Harris supporters and 59 percent of Trump supporters sharing that view respectively.
Despite this wide acknowledgment of immigrants’ contributions, both legal and undocumented immigration have emerged as charged topics in the Nov. 5 election. At the forefront of the debate is a growing call for control, with some even pushing for large-scale deportations.
Why, after years of dependency on immigrant labor, has immigration become such a heated political issue in the United States? The answer lies, in part, in a shifting economic landscape that has seen newcomers painted as scapegoats.
In a time of economic uncertainties, critics argue that recent waves of undocumented immigrants now compete with low-skilled American workers, intensifying existing domestic job pressures. The decline in social mobility, as class divisions harden, compounds these anxieties.
The U.S. has seen the biggest gap between the rich and the poor since the Great Depression in 1929. As noted by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz during the 2022 James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Lecture in Economic Inequality, hosted by the Institute of Politics, the United States has “more inequality than other countries and remarkably less equality of opportunity than almost any other country.”
Locked into this tense economic environment, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle face mounting public pressure. Once willing to negotiate and collaborate on nuanced immigration reform, Republicans and Democrats now find themselves at an impasse. And miserably, immigrants have fallen victim to deepening political polarization.
Neither side can afford to alienate wealthy donors or find palatable solutions to create enough jobs, increase incomes and narrow the gap between the wealthy and the poor to alleviate voters’ frustrations. As a result, rather than seeking a bipartisan approach to address immigration constructively, they have taken to using undocumented immigrants, who cannot vote in the elections, as convenient scapegoats in the political battle.
🇫🇷⚡️🇮🇱 Diplomatic incident in Jerusalem.
As the French FM was visiting, the Israeli police entered the French-owned Eleona church compound in Jerusalem, where the consulate is located, & arrested 2 French gendarmes. (AFP)
“I will not enter the Eleona Domain today, because Israeli security forces entered with weapons, without prior French authorization, without agreeing to leave today,” Barrot said at the scene, calling the standoff “unacceptable.
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What happened in Amsterdam is just like kristallnacht but this time, violent far right racists are beaten and ridiculed. Thanks god
Russia has sent 450 goats to North Korea, I repeat, Russia has sent 450 goats to North Korea https://www.fontanka.ru/2024/08/12/73946750/
recently also 150 moar goats https://petrograd.ru/news/2024/11/8/74084
contract for 3000 goats in three years https://spb.vedomosti.ru/economics/articles/2024/08/28/1058595-lenoblast-v-techenie-treh-let-postavit-severnoi-koree-poryadka-3000-koz
Small bit of news:
, who is 
biggest fan, still hasn't been able to congratulate the former for his presidential victory by phone. All he could manage for was a very pathetic tweet where he said "We'll help you Make America Great Again", what a colonized piece of shit. Look, I fight for the liberation of colonized peoples, but not for those who willingly allowed themselves to be colonized, in this case, argentinian ancaps. Regardless of this, it seems that the orange fascist is ignoring him lmfao.However, milei will force a personal meeting in the next CPAC clownshow. Wait a fucking minute, I thought libertarians were not conservatives WHAT IS GOING ON HERE
Anyways, milei has been hoping for Trump's victory. In his mind, a Trumpian government will benefit Argentina because uh, he'll tell the IMF to release money or something. Funnily enough as the ancaps celebrated they were joined by some peronists who think Trump is Peronist and he will benefit Argentina due to his "isolationist" policy, as in he wont intervene in the region. Peronists not understanding Imperialism Episode #337176.
oh and death to "israel" btw
I’m increasingly convinced that what’s going on in Mozambique is a color revolution. A post was made on Reddit about them talking about “freedom curtailed by an oppressive government.”
I always consider certain posts on that site to be the work of feds based on the phrases used and how the scenario is framed. Mozambique has a fairly leftist (though increasingly neoliberal) government. The west never forgave them for winning their revolution.
A squadron of US F15-E Strike Eagle aircraft is currently on its way to Jordan from the UK, accompanied by refuelling aircraft(s).
The build up of US forces in the region is increasing, currently 6 B-52H bombers are stationed in Qatar.
I doubt that they're carrying nuclear weapons, most likely conventional weapons. But they could be carrying EMP/Microwave CHAMP cruise missiles for strikes on infrastructure sensitive to such an attack, such as power and nuclear facilities.
For Agitprop purposes, I’m asking comrades to help aggregate any and all effortpost responses, critiques, or general thoughts that you have seen or written pertaining to yesterday’s U.S. election that you think have standalone value for discussion either online or IRL.
I made a post for that purpose here, and ideally it can be used not only for general discussion, but as a reference for well thought out responses in discussions about the election to save all of us some brainpower.
No shitposts please, as we’d like to highlight some comrades’ actual effort in constructing responses or analysis, but humor is 100% welcome to help make your point!
Here is the footage of pissraeli hooligans refusing to respect Spanish flood victims. Use it with plenty of salt against libs https://fxtwitter.com/TabZLIVE/status/1854703886784708843
Enjoy this cognitohazard nerds
https://skwawkbox.org/2024/11/09/starmer-appoints-national-security-adviser-who-negotiated-secret-deal-to-free-genocider-pinochet/ Starmer appoints national security adviser who negotiated secret deal to free genocider Pinochet
BadEmpanada says it like it is, volume #475728345324:
For the idk what number of time this happened Morocco allowed a ship holding isra*li weapons to dock in its ports: https://bdsmovement.net/Morocco-Must-Ban-Docking-Of-Maersk-Denver
A few days after this interview with lepoint
Israeli fans attacked in confusion after soccer match in Holland; Netanyahu speaks of 'anti-Semitic attack'
Fans of an Israeli soccer team were attacked in Amsterdam, Holland, in a melee after the Ajax Amsterdam and Maccabi Tel Aviv teams played each other in the Europa League on Thursday night (7) in the Dutch capital. The attack left five people hospitalized, and 62 others were arrested, according to the Dutch police.
Before the match, the atmosphere was already tense, with reports of provocations on both sides. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators were in areas where fans were circulating. Videos show men with their faces covered carrying Palestinian flags around the city
Maccabi supporters, meanwhile, attacked a cab and even set fire to a Palestinian flag, according to Amsterdam police chief Peter Holla. Groups of fans also chanted in the streets in favor of Israel's attacks in the war in the Gaza Strip and tore a Palestinian flag off the front of a house, in acts condemned by Palestinian Foreign Minister Mohammed Mustafa, who cited the provocations.
“We have watched with horror the shocking images and videos that we had hoped never to see again since October 7 and which show an anti-Semitic attack against Maccabi Tel Aviv fans and Israeli citizens in the heart of Amsterdam,” Isaac Herzog wrote in a message published on the social network X.
newsheads, does anyone have that IOF photo from gaza where soldiers spray painted "Nakba 2023" or "Nakba 2024" on a wall and took a picture smiling with it
standing around waiting for copmala to concede cam
edit: chat is savage
Spanish-speaking newsheads, how terrible is AOC's Spanish? I've noticed the subtitles are in Spanish, which means her Spanish is probably not that good lol:
https://xcancel.com/AOC/status/1853294592818303174G20 parliaments release letter in defense of social inclusion and environmental protection; Argentina refuses to sign it. The final declaration was released after three days of discussions in Brasilia. The text also calls for changes in international organizations, such as the UN Security Council.
The legislative representatives of the G20 countries released on Friday (8) the final document of the 10th G20 Parliaments Summit (P20). In the document, the countries advocate the adoption of social inclusion and environmental protection measures. The 12-page declaration is entitled “Parliaments for a just world and a sustainable planet”.
Argentina, the country presided over by Javier Milei, did not sign the document. Milei's government representative said that the country did not agree with “anything” in the declaration.
in Mozambique violence is spreading across the country. Old conflict resurfaces after elections and puts Lusophone country in chaos.
Images on social media have shown scenes of violence in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, a Portuguese-speaking country located on the east coast of the African continent. Since the presidential election on October 9, the defeated far-right candidate Venâncio Mondlane has questioned the result of the election and the validity of the ballot boxes.
Frelimo (Mozambique Liberation Front), the historic organization that transformed Mozambique into an independent nation, had Daniel Chapo as its candidate, who was declared the winner with more than 70% of the votes. The opposition, especially the supporters of Venâncio Mondlane, who ran as an independent and received around 20% of the votes, accused Frelimo of manipulating the electoral process.
Mondlane is a former member of Renamo, the right-wing organization financed by apartheid in Southern Rhodesia and by the West to prevent the growth of the left in Africa during the Cold War period. Mondlane did part of his political training in the USA. Protests erupted immediately after the election results were released, intensifying after the assassination of two senior opposition figures on October 19.
These events led to a severe crackdown by the security forces, resulting in numerous casualties on both sides. Activists warn that the situation could deteriorate into a “bloodbath” if the government does not engage in a dialog or address the protesters' grievances.
Venâncio's idea is to overthrow the Mozambican democratic system: 'The fourth phase is going to be extremely painful, because we have noticed that the regime wants to arm-wrestle the people. The regime wants to use only the force of arms against the people, it wants to continue murdering the people, but as we have seen, there is a very strong determination on the part of our people to continue this struggle,” he said.
Abdelaali Hassani Cherif, the leader of Algerian Hamas the second biggest party in the People's National Assembly of Algeria posted his party's statement on the U.S. elections.
Translated by me with a headache.
"The world has followed the events of the U.S. elections and its results with great interests consider the existence and the heavy tactical weight of the United States of America in the international and domestic issues, and so the hot discussion on the issues that occupy the American society, and the leaning of its foreign affairs in the rapidly changing political economical and security issues and the American role in them, and without the official strong and ongoing support to the zionist entity Israel would've reached its end, as the Palestinian cause has witness a a strong return in international agendas and a big arrival from the holy Al-Aqsa flood battle, and it also had a giant role in the continuation of the Russo-Ukrainian war, and it's not hidden to anyone its economic and technological battle against China about Taiwan and is its situation from Iran and the Iraqi and Lebanese issues and the American intervention in the African Sahel and so the fight with North Korea and controlling its allies in the Euorpean Union and the Arab gulf and these issues have created never ending discussions about the American role and has made the elected American president the intrest and in the view of all the countries of the world.
The victory of the republicans and the return of the ex-president Donald trump brings without doubts direct changes on all the international and domestic issues and it's not just a victory of national competition, and in another hand confirms the proven principle in who has the power to conserve strategic American interests and who makes America first and who conserves the control of Uncle Sam on the world and on the resources of power wealth and control over international security, and in spite of the competition between the candidates the American foundation is the owner of the final decision of the interests of the U.S. first and conserving the interests of its allies and their leanings, and the victory of Trump in the election race has confirmed what we pointed at earlier at different events that the failures of traditional parties in the west will offer opportunities for the rise of the radical right and that the new approaches and it exceeded the prevailing norms in westerns and American societies, and with what the Biden administration left in discussions of how to manage different issues, the American society and its different institutions restrict its priorities on the success of the U.S. and the importance of the supremacy of its values that were founded on it internationally.
What has to be done in our Islamic and Arabic world has to be preserving our values and independence and unity and assisting our just causes and on top of it is our central cause, it unites us and our nations must make the liberation of Palestine and its assisting our central cause with priorities that can't be delayed, and it is what will drawn our nations' future and renaissance because fighting over multiple western leanings including American dominance doesn't care about our causes or our situation as much as it cares of its own interests with us, and it's a fault to think that Democrats or Republicans can be trusted or are trusted to change their policies towards our Islamic and Arab world, they're both of the same and they're united by the interests of America first then Israel second"Also his party drafted a new law punishing working, trading or communicating with any Israeli institute, weather in the occupied territories or out of it, the punishment being 5 to 10 years in prison, a 20 million DZD fine (150k USD) and doubling if the person is a politician, I don't expect it to be approved though (private companies being corrupt).
https://lemmy.world/post/21581078
Just a reminder of how ignorant the defederated sites actually are. Blocking is GOOD, blocking conserves your patience for people who deserve it
https://www.reddit.com/r/WarplanePorn/comments/1gm9848/j35a_at_zhuhai_airshow_album/
More pretty images of China's J-35A from the Zhuhai airshow, this time in flight.
Look how clean the underside is compared to the F-35:
Denmark's Liberal Party wants to "double the sentences" for aggravated assault. Strongman party leader Troels Lund Poulsen claims to be "indignated" about violent criminals getting off too easy. He says he wants to double the sentences. He also say that he doesn't want to change maximum sentences. When asked about how he will reconcile those two conflicting statements he deflects.
When asked whether he believes tougher sentencing would lead to less violent crime he deflects and starts to talk about how it is about being fair to victims. When asked whether the proposal is intended to reduce violent crime or to make victims feel better he says it is about both. When asked once more if he believes it will reduce violent crime he goes back to avoiding to give anything resembling an answer.
Poulsen is confronted with the fact that prisons are already lacking capacity and has a shortage of prison guards. He dismisses this with idealist slogans about how it can't be right that their pig-headed fetish for putting people in prison should be constrained by material reality. He talks about how they will just "find the money" for more prisons.
The Liberal Party makes up one third of Denmark's ruling Social Democrat-led right-wing regime. The proposed increase in sentencing is made on behalf of the Liberal Party only and has received support from the far right.
- Source DR (state media)
Some combat footage for today from Kursk, the Donbass, and Yemen.
A Russian FPV drone recently destroyed another German-built Leopard 2 tank in Kursk oblast: https://news-pravda.com/world/2024/11/08/838587.html
Russian thermobaric TOS-1A system pounds enemy position in the Donbass: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/l📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--Ours-destroy-strongholds-and-shelters-in-the-zone-West!!:1
Yesterday, Yemeni air defenses shot down another US MQ-9 Reaper drone over Yemen’s northern al-Jawf province: https://southfront.press/houthis-shot-down-another-u-s-drone-over-yemen-videos/
They targeted gamers. Gamers:
https://xcancel.com/ZhugeEX/status/1854738461745397908“The cost of video game consoles could rise around 40%, making the upcoming PS5 Pro cost almost $1,000.”
Some combat footage and news from Gaza and Kursk.
Palestinian resistance forces have conducted many operations targeting Zionist invaders in northern Gaza over the past 48 hours (at least two Merkava tanks destroyed): https://thecradle.co/articles/qassam-brigades-kill-israeli-troops-at-zero-distance-in-besieged-north-gaza
Russian forces conducted missile strikes on a Kiev regime troop concentration in Sumy oblast, near the Kursk border (destroying some US-built “Bradley” infantry fighting vehicles, among other things): https://news-pravda.com/uk/2024/11/04/825569.html
A Russian FPV drone struck another US-built “Bradley” infantry fighting vehicle in Kursk oblast: https://news-pravda.com/ukraine/2024/11/05/827826.html
Russian Senate Ratifies Military Treaty With North Korea - Telesur English
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According to Ukraine, North Korea has already deployed around 11,000 soldiers in Russia. On Wednesday, the Russian Senate ratified the “Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty” signed between Russia and North Korea in June, which includes a clause for mutual military assistance in the event of aggression.
According to this document, if one of the signatory parties is subjected to an armed attack, the other will immediately provide military and other forms of assistance.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean President Kim Jong-un signed the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty during the Kremlin leader’s first visit to Pyongyang in nearly a quarter of a century.
The ratification of the treaty by the upper chamber of the Russian Parliament comes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the first encounters between his troops and North Korean soldiers.
“The first clashes with North Korean soldiers open a new chapter of instability in the world,” Zelensky said in a message to the nation, urging the international community to “do everything possible to ensure this Russian step to expand the war fails.”
According to Ukraine and some of its allies, North Korea has already deployed around 11,000 soldiers in Russia. Some of them are said to have joined Russian troops fighting the Ukrainian Army in the Russian region of Kursk, which has been partially occupied by Ukrainian forces since August.
Russia, which has so far neither confirmed nor denied the presence of North Korean troops on its territory, maintains that the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty with North Korea is “defensive in nature and is not directed against the security of third countries.”
The Cradle - According to Israeli media, about 120 rockets have been fired from Lebanon towards Israel since this morning.
More videos of yesterday in Amsterdam
Quincy Jones passed away today, at the age of 91
On european policy continuity between Biden and trump - tit for tat being "support whatever Chinese tariffs the US imposes and in exchange you get to step up on project ukraine". It's tough being a vassal.
I think the sucking wound that is the ukrainian state is too valuable to the US to meaningfully change course, but I am nevertheless curious how trump gets along with the various euro governments and leaders. The AfD Is likely to win in Germany in the spring - will they get along with trump or will they be more pissed about flushing their economic future away over ukraine?
Similarly, orban will be one to watch - he is friendly with China and trump, which may put him between scylla and charybdis. I bet Hungary gets upgraded to a turkey tier
player over the next few years.There was a youtube link in my recommendations about the beginning of the disintegration of Israel, by Ilan Pappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgkbhEzwd-8
How plausible is his argument? He seems rather certain.
Germany's governing coalition seems to break apart as Scholz ("social" lib) has fired the total neo lib finance minister.
Ukronazis when Trump won Pennsylvania (CW: gunfire, reactionary Twitter account):
https://xcancel.com/OCanonist/status/1854497181006213432Anybody got footage of those zionazi hooligans getting their shit kicked in?
JUST IN: 🇨🇳🇺🇸 China says it hopes for a "peaceful coexistence" with the United States.
"We respect the choice of the American people."
Xi Jinping took the Corn pill
Khrushchevite China time
Khrushchevite China time Actual article: Xi’s message to Trump sets tone for geopolitical rematch between powerful leaders
Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulated Donald Trump on his sweeping victory in the US presidential election, setting the tone for a geopolitical rematch between the two most powerful leaders in the world.
Xi told Trump on Thursday that China and the US would “benefit from cooperation and lose from confrontation”, official news agency Xinhua reported.
“A stable, healthy and sustainable China-US relationship is in the common interests of the two countries and the international community’s expectations,” Xi said.
because i don't understand rule changes, you'll get twitter screenshots here https://www.ft.com/content/f6589d13-6014-47d0-8cc5-e98a0b7ad0bc
A four-star general who flew Black Hawk helicopters and served in Afghanistan, Richardson has frequently warned against Chinese and Russian security threats in the region during her three-year stint at Miami-based Southern Command, which ends on November 7.In April, Richardson visited Ushuaia, Argentina’s southernmost city, where China had proposed building a port to supply the Antarctic. Following what Argentine media reported as strong lobbying from Washington, Buenos Aires opted instead for a US-led facility and also put on ice Chinese plans for a multi-use port 200km up the coast at Río Grande.
Richardson said she had been “absolutely worried” about the Chinese proposal in Ushuaia because of its strategic location close to the Strait of Magellan and the Drake Passage.
The general said she remained concerned about Chinese and Russian activity in Cuba, which has included building spy stations to eavesdrop on the US, and Russian warships visiting Havana. “It’s in the red zone for our homeland . . . We have a lot of nefarious and malign activity and we have no place for it in the Caribbean and Latin America.”She has also tried to alert Latin American governments to the security risks of adopting 5G infrastructure from Chinese companies such as Huawei, which could open “back doors” into countries’ sensitive data and facilitate hacking or the theft of military or commercial secrets.
Huawei has said there is “no comprehensible evidence or plausible scenarios” in which its technology would pose a security risk.
“Digital authoritarianism — that’s absolutely what China is doing,” she said. “You’ve got a Communist government selling these 5G solutions. They don’t respect the rights of their own people and we somehow think they will do that for [us]”.
The general accused Beijing of “holding countries at risk” in the region when they were desperate for technology, deepwater ports or energy investment. “This is how they get their hooks into the countries,” she said.
In August 2022, India and the US protested when the Yuan Wang 5, a Chinese naval vessel with antennas used for tracking and surveillance, docked at Sri Lanka’s Hambantota port. The Beijing-funded port was taken over by a Chinese company after Colombo defaulted on debt payments.
China denies the Yuan Wang 5 is a spy ship but agreed it would not conduct research while it was at Hambantota.
“The [Chinese] come in with big bags of cash and the BRI and they look like they’re saving the day because countries don’t have a choice,” she said.“Strategic competition matters. Democracy is under attack and we have to be investing and competing on critical infrastructure projects for like-minded democracies.”
Reject woke, retvrn to Wide Awakes.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4vw1l8xvdo
Real medieval 2 total war jihad failed tier news, apparently according to this fatwa, any enemy that promises disproportionate responses to being attacked can never be attacked. Also "lives are more important than mecca" is priming the populace for losing the dome of the rock.
Overall, I think ballot measures regarding abortion did… ok. I mean, 7 of 10 states voted to protect abortion access. Two states that were close but not layups (MO and AZ) went in favor of protections, which is good. The others were never really in doubt.
But tbh given how popular access to abortion seems to be, I can’t help but think it should have gone 10 for 10. Mitigating circumstances in FL and NE (Florida requires 60% to pass and it was never polling that high, NE is a basket case where there are competing ballot measures so now no one knows what’s gonna happen). But SD was a surprise to me. A conservative state for sure, but I’m personally convinced abortion rights should do better than 50% in all 50 states, so idk.
Has this been reported yet? Hadn't seen this on hexbear yet
Benjamin Netanyahu has fired Israel's defence minster Yoav Gallant
Arnaud bertrand (a good follow) on some lawfare out of the Philippines, backed up by the US, related to seizing the spratley Islands
Protests inMozambique over alleged election rigging
The opposition leader ran on reforming the public healthcare system and helping small business owners. This looks a lot like what happened in Venezuela. I’m a little hesitant to immediately call it a color revolution because I’m not that familiar with the politics of Mozambique.
https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1glv7hq/ua_pov_according_to_ua_drone_operator/
Ukrainian sources (grain of salt) say a new major Russian counteroffensive started in Kursk with many armored vehicles.
I'm inclined to believe it, because I saw some signs a month ago:
I saw a few videos recently of large train shipments of vehicles with North Group markings. Notably, there were lots of MRAPs, which I'm starting to think are a good indicator of planned offensives (both Russia and Ukraine seem to use them that way).
By the way, I bet the troops involved in this are Russians, not North Koreans. If there really are 10k soldiers from the DPRK, I suspect they'll be kept near the border as a rapid response unit in case Ukraine tries anything elsewhere.
Can anyone get past this paywall? Nothing I've tried works: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/11/irgc-begins-offensive-iran-links-sunni-militant-attacks-israeli-plot
anthropic of claudeAI is now officially evil https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1gm1m9b/anthropic_teams_up_with_palantir_and_aws_to_sell/
Evo Morales Supporters Suspend Roadblocks to Hold Talks With Bolivian Government - Telesur English
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The MAS leader went on hunger strike to pressure for the release of social activists detained during road protests. On Friday, former Bolivian President Evo Morales ended his hunger strike after his supporters announced a temporary suspension of road blockades to begin talks with President Luis Arce’s administration.
After six days, the leader of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) ended a hunger strike he had started to pressure Arce into initiating discussions on the release of nearly 100 social activists who were detained during 24 days of road protests.
Morales is also demanding that the judicial proceedings against him for alleged human trafficking and statutoryremoved be stopped, and that he be allowed to run as a presidential candidate in the 2025 elections.
Next Sunday, the Pact of Unity, a coalition of social and political organizations supporting Morales, will hold a meeting to assess the progress of the dialogue with representatives of the Arce administration.
Dieter Mendoza, secretary of the Mamore Bulo Bulo Federation, which represents coca growers, stated that the Pact of Unity will reactivate the road blockades if the detained are not immediately released.
“We have always viewed Brother Morales as a leader in the struggle since his days as an activist. And this time was no exception,” Mendoza emphasized, referring to the hunger strike upheld by the MAS leader. “If our demands are not met within the next 72 hours, we will resume the road blockades,” he added.
The dialogue between the Arce administration and Bolivian social organizations began on Friday at the offices of the Ombudsman, where representatives from both sides set up working groups to address issues related to the economic and political crisis in the Andean country.
“We will not address matters related to electoral institutions or the authorization of candidacies. Those issues fall under the jurisdiction of other institutions,” said Deputy Minister of Autonomy, Alvaro Ruiz.
It seems the American election results have knocked many of our American comrades out of commission either through fear or political burnout. In the meantime, I’m hoping those of us in the Global South and elsewhere can continue to carry on. We’re used to our elections leading to shitty politicians.
I think Arevalo is the only good candidate Guatemala has been excited for since Colóm and he was more like a Joe Biden. Our politics have always been a shitshow and I think others in the global south can relate. After a while you shrug your shoulders and life goes on. More fights needing to be fought.
Regardless, American comrades have my best wishes and condolences. I hope you can continue to carry on the good fight once the initial fatigue wears off. If it does.
Is anyone worse at posting than Washington DC? I just can't stand it. Same shit about urging Iran not to respond again. No points for guessing where this leads.
https://en.irna.ir/news/85649897/US-urges-Iran-not-to-respond-to-Israeli-aggression
Some combat footage from Kursk and the Donbass.
Russian airborne troops storm Kiev regime fortified position in Kursk oblast (18+): https://news-pravda.com/ukraine/2024/11/07/834978.html
Russian drone operators destroyed two more US-built “Bradley” infantry fighting vehicles in the DPR: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--Spectacular-destruction-of-two-AFU-Bradley:e
Russian FPV drones destroyed another US-built M113 armored personnel carrier in the DPR: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--Russian-Sudoplatov-FPV-drone:9
Seems like due to the ppd acting as a spoiler, the pnp in puerto rico won again. Can't find the assembly results.
Tervell posting, translation of caption
“ 🔷️ Old soldier, still in service
The Ministry of Defense of Russia has released a video of the activity of a mobile defense unit armed with a 23mm ZU-23-2 cannon to deal with drones. If you remember, at the beginning of the arrival of Gran 1/2 suicide drones in the Russia-Ukraine war, Ukrainian mobile defense units were formed by mounting anti-aircraft guns on tactical vehicles.
It has been some time now that the Russians have started to form such patrol units to deal with all types of Ukrainian long-range drones, which operate deep inside Russian soil and near sensitive points. Cannons like this ZU-23 with shrapnel ammunition have sufficient power to deal with the attacks of such drones, but if they are still used in almost the same way as 60 years ago, it will definitely reduce their effectiveness.
#Russia #Ukraine #Defense #UAV
NPC @Partisan2015”
Salvadoran Parliament Approves New Extension of the State of Emergency - Telesur English
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The right to legal defense for detainees and the inviolability of telecommunications will remain suspended. On Tuesday night, the Salvadoran Legislative Assembly, dominated by the ruling party Nuevas Ideas (NI), approved the thirty-second extension of the “State of Emergency.”
The extension of the state of emergency was approved without debate by 57 out of 60 legislators. It means that for another 30 days, the right to legal defense for detainees, the inviolability of telecommunications, and the maximum administrative detention of three days will remain suspended. This new extension is set to last until December 6.
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele requested a further extension of the state of emergency, justifying it by stating that the state still needs to carry out an extraordinary intervention to counter the threat of criminal groups regrouping, stemming from remaining gang members in neighborhoods and communities.
His administration claims that the states of emergency have enabled it to eradicate gangs and reduce the homicide rate in this Central American nation.
However, a group of 2,500 members of the Armed Forces and the National Police were deployed on October 28 to a densely populated neighborhood in El Salvador to implement a “security cordon” due to the alleged presence of gang members. This security cordon adds to others set up in different areas of the Central American country to fight gangs in the context of the state of emergency.
This measure was approved following the killing of about 80 people over a weekend in late March 2022. With over 83,100 detentions, the state of emergency has become the government’s primary and only approach against gangs, which also helped President Bukele secure immediate reelection, despite constitutional prohibition.
Meanwhile, various human rights organizations have received more than 6,400 reports of human rights violations, mainly due to arbitrary detentions and torture, and report over 300 deaths of detainees in state custody, most showing signs of violence.
Apparently, internal polling done by Biden's campaign team predicted Trump would've won 400 electoral votes if Biden didn't step down:
https://xcancel.com/Socdem_Michael/status/1855032681224192140DPRK Foreign Minister Meets Russian President
Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- DPRK Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui on an official visit to the Russian Federation met with Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, president of the Russian Federation, in Kremlin, Moscow on Nov. 4.
Choe Son Hui courteously conveyed warm comradely greetings of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un to Vladimir Putin.
Putin asked her to convey his warm greetings to Kim Jong Un.
They had a good talk over many undertakings for steadily developing the relations between the two countries and reaffirmed the will to further consolidate the DPRK-Russia friendship on a track of new comprehensive development. -0-
www.kcna.kp (2024.11.06.)http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/ca4322368cd7e4580fed1d67fc3b74ae.kcmsf
A post on Iran's ballistic missile test conducted on November 8th 2024. If you don't want to read this long post, just watch the cool video at the end to see for yourself how the missile works.
From footage that was widely circulated on social media at the time, viewable on twitter, and xcancel, it can be concluded that Iran carried out a ballistic missile test at their Shahroud facilities, which were also hit by Israeli airstrikes during their attack on Iran in October, in which a missile casting building/warehouse was hit, which was responsible for manufacturing the casings for Iran's solid fueled Medium Range Ballistic Missiles (MRBMs). So the facility is still operational despite the damage from the airstrikes, viewable below.
As for what missile was tested, there has been much speculation, including that of an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) test, even by Iranian member of parliament Ahmad Naderi, who also called for the testing of nuclear weapons. I doubt that, and rather think the test is being done in preparation for a future attack on Israel. As for what I believe was likely tested, my guess would be the Khorramshahr-4/Kheibar MRBM.
So what is the Khorramshahr-4 MRBM? It is part of Iran's more advanced Khoramshahr series of liquid fueled ballistic missiles, using a hypergolic (self igniting) propellant of unsymmetric dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) as the fuel, and dinitrogen tetroxide as the oxidiser. This is a significant improvement over the use of kerosene compounds as fuel, and nitric acid mixed with 27% dinitrogen tetroxide as the oxidiser, which Iran's Scud derived designs used as propellant.
The Khorramshahr-4 is a design that takes inspiration mainly from the Soviet R-27 Zyb Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM), the North Korean Hwasong-10/BM-25 Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) which is a North Korean version of the R-27 Zyb, and the North Korean Hwasong-12 IRBM. The story starts with Iran purchasing and modifying a Hwasong-10 IRBM for their own use, making the motor more fuel efficient, to allow for the use of a bigger warhead on the missile with smaller fuel tanks. The Khorramshahr-4 was unveiled in 2023, with a 1500kg warhead and 2000km maximum range. This is a fairly large warhead for an IRBM. However, there is speculation that with a lighter warhead, the range could be extended well past this, form anywhere between 3700-6000km. Tests of the Hwasong-12 IRBM have shown that a range of 4500km is possible. Iran could also be understating the range to keep relations with Europe and East Asia more amicable.
So what are the positives of this weapon, when compared to the solid fueled Fattah-1 and Kheibar Shekan IRBMs with Maneuverable Re-entry Vehicles (MaRVs) Iran used in their attack on October 1st? The first advantage is the size of the warhead, with the Khorramshahr-4 warhead weighing three times as much as those used previously. With more explosive power, less accuracy is needed. This also enables the use of submunitions and cluster bombs in the warhead, which is a capability of the Khorramshahr-4 that Iran has already made public. The 4 meter tall warhead has plenty of space for that, as pictured below. This also means accuracy is less important, as you can hit a lot more, even if overall penetration and damage goes down. Think of it as a shotgun vs sniper rifle.
As for another advantage, the guidance systems of the Khorramshahr-4 are said to be resistant to jamming. According to Iranian officials, it makes use of a mid course phase guidance correction system that operates when the missile is exoatmospheric, so it is not reliant on guidance in the terminal phase which can be jammed, such as GPS guidance. My guess on that one would be that the Khorramshahr-4 makes use of a celestial-inertial navigation system, similar to the Galileo system used in modern French SLBMs. This involves using a camera to pick up on the position of the stars, and correct errors with the gyroscopes in the Inertial system. Navigating using the stars. A lot of older SLBMs used this, as without a fixed launch point and no GPS, it was a good way to improve accuracy. The Khorramshahr-4 is derived from the R-27 Zyb SLBM after all.
As for disadvantages, for one it's a traditional ballistic missiles, and the re-entry vehicle/warhead is not fully maneuverable, there are no aerodynamic fins to change course. This makes such a weapon easier to intercept, even with its fast speed, of Mach 16 while exoatmospheric, and Mach 8 while in the atmosphere. It's just a normal, parabolic ballistic trajectory. It won't be able to perform the skip and glide trajectories that MaRV capable missiles can.
Another disadvantage could be accuracy. The original R-27 Zyb SLBM did not need to be very accurate, it carried a 1 Megaton nuclear warhead, about 62 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. It had a mean error radius of over a mile/1.6km. However, this is a problem for the conventional explosive Khorramshahr-4, and Iran has made attempts to improve the accuracy, similar to the DPRK. They have mounted four veneer rocket motors to the rear of the re-entry vehicle/warhead, similar to the Hwasong-12, to help steer and guide the warhead and improve its accuracy. Here's a video showing the operation of the veneer rocket motors. Seriously worth watching. While these can't make full manouvers, they will allow for course correction. Iran claims a sub 30m mean error radius in testing. I doubt that, and think a 100m mean error radius would actually be very good under real world conditions. Iran's attack on Nevatim had a 900m mean error radius, likely due to GNSS jamming and errors with the inertial guidance systems causing overshoots.
Overall, the missile test, Ansarallah launching Palestine-2 missiles at targets in Negev desert to probe Israeli air defenses, and the speculated use of such weapons like the Khorramshahr-4, shows that Iran is testing the waters for a potential retaliatory strike against Israel. An attack with the intent to hit more targets than the last, while still remaining efficient, and without firing thousands of missiles.
U.S. Elections Are a Democratic Sham: Atilio Boron - Telesur English
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The Democratic and Republican parties operate as ‘The Corporate Capital’s Party’, the Argentine scientist pointed out. In an interview with teleSUR, Argentine political scientist Atilio Boron analyzed the current U.S. political landscape, emphasizing that weaknesses in the electoral system could lead to presidential election results not being immediately accepted by the competing parties.
“The 82 million people who voted early could be supporters of Donald Trump,” he said, noting that many citizens are dissatisfied with President Joe Biden’s administration.
Despite Trump’s misogyny, Boron predicts the Republican candidate will likely garner significant support and highlighted that contemporary politics is heavily influenced by messages of cruelty and hatred. “There appears to be a kind of competition over who can be the most verbally violent politician, Trump or Milei,” he said, referring to Argentina’s current far-right president.
Although Trump faces criminal charges in several judicial proceedings, he has continued to receive popular support due to a shift in the public mindset. “The people are willing to vote for their own oppressors. This happened in Argentina, where 45 percent of people still support Milei, who has driven much of the Argentine population into poverty,” Boron recalled.
“The U.S. electoral system is profoundly undemocratic because elections are not won by the candidate with the most popular votes but by the candidate who obtains the most electoral votes,” Boron said.
Since the electoral vote is determined by the institutional system, when U.S. citizens cast their ballots, they are actually selecting a slate of electors tied to the candidate who wins the popular vote in each state. On Dec. 17, the Electoral College will meet to formally choose the president and vice president of the United States.
Boron also explained that the Democratic and Republican parties do not represent fundamentally different national projects, as both operate as “The Corporate Capital’s Party” and both support our time’s the most “scandalous genocide” of our times, which is carried out by Israel against Palestinians in Gaza.
The Argentine political scientist believes that the 2024 presidential election will not end in a tie, as states with greater political weight could determine the next president.
Fascist Provocateur Rasmus Paludan Sentenced to Four Months in Swedish Prison for Hate Speech
Rasmus Paludan, the leader of Denmark's crackpot fascist "Hard Line" party, has been sentenced to four months in prison by a Swedish court for inciting hatred against Muslims. This marks his third conviction for racist hate speech and the his first unsuspended prison sentence.
Read more... (CW: Racism, mentions of possible CSA)
The Malmö District Court found that Paludan’s derogatory comments, which included claims that Arabs and Africans are violent, unintelligent and lazy and that Muslims are "really good at killing", went beyond permissible criticism of religion and amounted to racial incitement.
Paludan, 42, who has gained notoriety for his inflammatory Quran burnings and islamophobic hate propaganda that at one point angered Turkey enough to block Swedish , appeared via videolink during the trial, insisting he was merely expressing his political views. However, the court dismissed his defense, emphasizing that his remarks were intended to degrade Muslims and not foster any legitimate discussion. The court pointed out Paludan's blatant disregard for previous rulings, leading to a rejection of a suspended sentence.
Paludan, who holds dual Swedish and Danish citizenship, has decided to appeal the sentence and has stated that he is now "done with Sweden" and will focus his attention on Denmark where he feels "more safe".
Adding to his legal troubles, Paludan is also set to face trial in Denmark later this month for racist remarks against African's and Muslims that includes comparing the intelligence of Somalis to that of orangutans.
Paludan, a lawyer by profession, has been in trouble with the law several times and has a rap sheet that includes convictions for racist hate speech, defamation and reckless driving as well as fines from the Bar Association for violating good legal practice and a restraining order against a man who Paludan stalked and harassed for years.
In the 2019 Danish general election Paludan's "Hard Line" party ran on a platform of imposing a beefed-up version of the Nuremberg laws for Muslims and won 1.8 percent of the vote, falling short of the two percent threshold for receiving seats in parliament. The deputy leader of the party was Uwe Max Jensen, a far-right artist whose art mostly consists of defecating and urinating where he is not supposed to. Paludan has since attempted various grifts with little luck, including a football team named "The Soldiers of the Danes" and founding an explicitly islamophobic church with himself as archbishop.
Before devoting himself to the fascist cause he ran several blogs, one of which consisted of photos of pedestrians and cyclists who in Paludan's view were committing minor traffic offences. Another blog consisted of deeply creepy but technically legal comments on "beautiful" underage boys.
- Source: TV 2 (state media), November 5th 2024
Monarchist Far-Right Brazilian leader Antônio de Orleans e Bragança dies. Self-styled Prince Imperial of Brazil, Dom Antônio died at the age of 74 in Rio de Janeiro.
Dom Antônio de Orleans e Bragança, the Prince Imperial of Brazil, died on Friday (8), at the age of 74, in Rio de Janeiro, as a result of respiratory failure. He was second in the line of succession if Brazil were still a monarchy.
An extremely irrelevant movement that has become a minority within Bolsonarista far-right ideology, the only relevance they had was the election of just a single deputy for the Liberal Party (Bolsonaro's party, Far Right). In 1993, the results of the Plebiscite on the form of government that the Brazilian people wanted, the monarchy received only 10%, while the presidential republic received 70%, and the parliamentary republic 20%.
Man trapped in a hole continues to dig an even bigger hole:
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1855683817496780842BREAKING | Israeli Broadcasting Corporation:
"Israeli army chief of staff approves expansion of ground operations in southern Lebanon."
Some combat footage from the special military operation.
Russian sniper shoots down Kiev regime drone with one shot: https://news-pravda.com/russia/2024/11/09/840073.html
Russian defenders continue striking Kiev regime invaders in Kursk oblast (18+): https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--active-offensive-by-Russian-troops-continues-near-Sudzha!:5
Russian drone operators destroyed another Canadian-supplied Roshel Senator armored vehicle in the DPR: https://news-pravda.com/russia/2024/11/10/842822.html
Anti-fascist partisans burned another Kiev regime government building in Vinnitsa oblast: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--Partisans-continue-their-struggle-against-the-Zelensky-regime!:f
https://roape.net/2024/11/06/when-the-imf-and-world-bank-visited-my-father/
In memory of his father, who passed away earlier in October, Yusuf Serunkuma offers a heartfelt political reflection on his father’s unfulfilled dreams since Uganda’s independence in 1962. Recounting the story of his father’s dismissal from a textile factory in the early 1990s, he illustrates the devastating impact of the neoliberal austerity policies imposed by the World Bank and the IMF on the lives of ordinary Ugandans. These imperialist interventions dismantled the material progress and aspirations of the generation that won independence, and continue to suppress the hopes of both present and future generations.
W00T
Iraqi resistance forces fire drones into the occupied territories, video from yesterday. Bonus points for naming the faces.
The gigachad has a Twitter account now:
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those poor schmucks waited an hour for
my hope is biden dies and kamala has to act as president for next couple of months
I HATE IDEALISM I HATE IDEALISM I HATE IDEALISM I HATE IDEALISM I HATE IDEALISM I HATE IDEALISM I HATE IDEALISM I HATE IDEALISM I HATE IDEALISM
once there were democrats in the streams in the mountains
If I am understanding Trump's argument against birthright citizenship (utter weasel word shit that can only exist in countries that abuse common law to revert to precedent created before constitutional amendments despite making the argument based on the minutiae of said amendment) it seems that his abuse of "subject to the jurisdiction of" will lead to the de facto expulsion of dual citizens. Technically due to Obama making American drone strike victims unpersons, Trump will probably win this case too. Basically the travel ban is the first step to returning to the laws that expelled anarchists during the long 19th century.
GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
It's such a shame we're not getting Biden's concession speech.
It would have been hilarious.
kamala IS brat
hopefully I get to not see this piece of shit ever again
You heard that? Sounds like the german government collapsing
Pompeo is coming back right?
Guy came into my gym today wearing a MAGA hat and shirt. He did three of the worst dumbbell bench reps I have ever seen with weight he clearly couldn't handle. Must've hurt his shoulder because he spent the rest of the time talking to his friend while he worked out lmao.
So uhhhh fash worked out today, but I think y'all can do better than that.
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Here is another iconic image
Zelensky is about to have an awful morning.
